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PREFACE

This edition of the Sacred Scriptures is called the
Douay Bible, since it is substantially the translation of
the Latin Vulgate made toward the end of the six-
teenth century by Gregory Martin of the English Col-
lege of Douay, with the assistance of fellow exiles in
France. The revision of Bishop Challoner in the middle
of the eighteenth century and later minor changes,
while adapting it to the needs of its modern readers,
have not fundamentally affected its character. Its own
excellent qualities and the authority of ecclesiastical
superiors, continue to maintain its position as the Bible
of English-speaking Catholics the world over.

The present issue contains the same text as its
predecessors. The principal changes in the notes are in
the matter of chronology. Recent discoveries in Bible
lands and study of the Bible itself have led to new
conclusions about some of the dates of the events of
sacred history. The conclusions herein embodied are
based on the authority of the best Catholic scholars.

THE NAMES AND ORDER

OF ALL THE

BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

' PAOE

S^enesfs , • • 5

Exodus 61

Leviticus 107

Numbers 139

Deuteronomy , , . . .... 184

Josue 324

Judges 250

Buth 278

1 Kings 282

2 Kings 319

3 Kings 349

4 Kings 385

1 Paralipomenon . . .' .^ ^ji^i^^j . 418

3 Paralipomenon . . ^- ^h^'^'^^^. 449

1 Esdras ^ .^J'^. ^ 486

2 Esdras, alias Nehemias . ^U^^^'^r'-^ 498
Tobias ^'

Judith ^524

Esther 538

lob 551

Psalms 581

Proverbs .... 658

Ccclesiastep < . . ^ . . 683

Canticle of Canticles
Wisdom . . . .
Ecclesiasticus .

Isaias ,

Jeremias . . . . .
Lamentations . .
Baruch . , . . ,
Ezechiel . . . . ,
Daniel . , . . ,

Osee ,

Joel ,

Amos ,

Abdias ....

Jonas

Micheas

Nahum ....
Habacuc . , . .
Sophbnias . . . .
Aggeus ....
Zacharias . . .
Malachias . . . .

1 Machabees . ,

2 Machabees . .

WAm

713—

761

816

878
J83_

891'

949

973

982

985

993

996
1002
1004
1007
1016
1013
1033
1030
1061

The beginning of creation

GENESIS God makes the lights of heaven

THE

.iS

BOOK OF GENESIS.

This book is so called from its treativ.g of the Generation, that is, of the creation
and the beginning of the world. The Hebrews call it Bereshith, from the Word
with which it begins. It contains not only the history of the Creation of the
world; but also an account of its progress until the death of Joseph.

CHAPTER 1.

Ood createth Heaven and Earth, and, all things
therein.

XN the beginning God created heaven,
and earth.

2 ^ And the earth was void and empty,
and darkness was upon the face of the
deep ; and the spirit of God moved over
the waters.

3 And God said : ° Be light made. And
light was made.

4 And God saw the light that it was
good ; and he divided the light from the
darkness.

5 And he called the light Day, and the
darkness Night ; and therejwas eyjBfling
and morning one day.

6 And God said : Let there be a firma-
ment made amidst the waters : and let
it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And ^ God made a firmament, and di-
vided the waters that were under the
firmament, from those that were above
the firmament, and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament, Hea-
ven ; and the evening and morning were
the second day.

9 God also said ; Let the waters that are
under the heaven, be gathered together
into one place : and let ^^he dry land ap-
pear. And it was so done.

10 And God called the dry land, * Earth ;
ind the gathering together of the waters,
he called Seas. And God saw that it was
good.

b Acts 14. 14, and 17. 24 ;
Fs. 32. 6, and 135 5 ; Eccli. 18. L
c Heb. 11. 3.

Chap. 1. Ver. 6. Afirmament. By this name is
aere understood the whole space between the earth,
and the highest stars. The lower part of which
divideth the waters that are upon the earth, from
those that are above in the clouds.

11 And he said : Let the earth bring
forth the green herb, and such as may
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after its kind, which may have seed in
itself upon the earth. And it was so
done.

12 And the earth brought forth tht
green herb, and such as yieldeth seed ac-
cording to its kind, and the tree that
beareth fruit, having seed each one ac-
cording to its kind. And God saw that it
was good.

13 And the evening and the morning
were the third day.

14 And God said: Let there be lights
made in the firmament of heaven, to
divide the day and the night, /and let
them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days and years;

15 To shine in the firmament of heaven,
and to give light upon the earth. And
it was so done.

16 And God made two great lights : a
greater light to rule the day ; and a
lesser light to rule the night : and the
stars.

17 And he set them in the firmament or
heaven to shine upon the earth.

18 And to rule the day and the night,
and to divide the light and the darkness-
And God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and morning were
the fourth day. ^^^ — — -^-

2a God also said : Let the waters bring
forth the creeping creature having life,

d Ps. 135. 5, and 148. 4; Jer. 10. 12, and 51. 15.

e Job 38. 4 ; Ps. 32. 7, and 88. 12, and 135. 7.

/ Ps. 135. 7.

Ver. 16. The moon, though much less than the
stars, is here called a great light, from its giving
a far greater light to the earth than any of them.

The creation of Adam

GENESIS

The garden of Paradise

and the fowl that may fly over the earth
under the firmament of heaven.

21 And God created the great whales,
and every living and moving creature,
which the waters brought forth,, accord-
ing to their kinds, and every winged fowl
according to its kind. And Qod saw that
it was good.

22 And he blessed them, saying : In-
crease and multiply, and fill the waters
of the sea r and let the birds be multi-
plied upon the earth.

23 And the evening and morning were
thejaith^day. "^ ~^

24 And Ood said : Let the earth bring
forth the living creatui'e in its kind, cat-
tle and creeping things^ and beasts of the
earth, according to their kinds. And it
was so done.

25 And God made the beasts of the
earth according to their kinds, and cat-
tle, and every thing that creepeth on
the earth after its kind. And God saw
that it was good.

26 Axid he said : ^Let us make man to
our image and likeness : and let him have
dominion over the fishes of the sea, and
the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and
the whole earth, and every creeping
creature that moveth upon the earth.

27 And God created man to his own im-
age : ^ to the image of God he created
him : male and female he created them. *

28 And God blessed them, saying : ^ In-
crease and multiply, and fill the earth,
and subdue it, and rule over the fishes
of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and
all living creatures that movp upon the
earth.

29 And God said : Behold I have given
you every herb bearing seed upon the
earth, and all trees that have in them-
selves seed of their own kind, to be your
meat : ^

30 And to all beasts of the earth, and

<7 Infra 5. 1, and 9. 6 ; l Cor. 11. 7 ; CoK 3. 10.
AWisd. 2. 23; Eccli. 17. I. — i Matt. 19. 4.
j Infra 8. 17, and 9. l. — A; Infra 9. 3.

Ver. 26. Let iis make man to our image. This
image of God in man, is not in the body, but in the
soul ; which is a spiritual substance, endued with
understanding and free will

Ver. 28. Increase and m,ultiply. This is not a
precept, as some Protestant controvertists would
nave it, but a blessing, rendering them fruitful ; for
God had said the same words to the fishes, and birds,
(ver. 22) who were incapable of receiving a precept.

ChaK 2. Ver. 2. Me rested^ &c That is, be

to every fowl cf the. air, and to all that

move upon the earth, and wherein there

is life, that they may have to feed upon.

And it was so done.
31 'And God saw all the things that

h^ had made, and they were very good.

And the evening and morning were the

sixth day.

^- .CHAPTER 2.

God resteth on the seventh day and llesseth it. The
earthly paradise, in which God placeth man. He
com,m,andeth him not to eat of the tree of know-
ledge. And formeth a woman of his rib.

SO the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the furniture of them.
2yAnd on the seventh day God ended
his work which he had made : "* and he
rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had done, t

3 And he blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it : because in it he had rested
from all his work which God created and
made.

4 These are the generations of the
heaven and the earth, when they were
created, in the day that the Lord God
made the heaven and the earth :

5 And every plant of the field before it
sprung up in the earth, and every- herb
of the grouijid before it grew : • for the
Lord God had not rained upon the earth ;
and there was not a man to till the
earth.

6 But a spring rose out of the earth, wa
tering all the surface of the earth.

7 And the Lord God formed man of the
slime of the earth : and breathed into his
face the breath of life, and man became
a living soul. **

8 And the Lord God had planted a para-
dise of pleasure from the beginning:
wherein he placed man whom he had
formed.'

9 And the Lord God brought forth of
the ground all manner of trees, fair to
behold, and pleasant to eat of : the tree

I Eccli 39. 21; Mark 7. 37.

m Ex. 20. 11, and 31. 17 ; Deut 5. 14 ; fleb. 4. i.

n 1 Cor. 16. 45.

ceased to make or create any new kinds of thinfei*
Though, as our Lord tells us, John 6. 17, He still
worketh, viz., by conserving and governing all things,
and creating souls.

Ver. 9. The tree of life. So called because it had
that quality, that by eating of the fruit of it, man
would have been preserved in a constant state of
health, vigour, and strength, and would not have
died at alL The tree of knowledge. To which the
deceitful serpent falsely attributed the power of
imparting a superior kind of knowledge, beyoud UiaX
whicb God was pleased to giv^

Eve made from the rib of Adam GENESIS

The fall

cf life also in the midst of paradise : and
the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of the place of
pleasure to water paradise, which from
thence is divided into four heads.

11 °The name of the one is Phison: that
is it which compasseth all the land of
HevUath, where gold groweth.

12 And the gold of that land is very-
good : there is found bdellium, and the
onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is
Gehon: the same is it that compasseth
all the land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is
Tigris: the same passeth along by the
Assyrians. And the fourth river is Eu-
phrates.

15 And the Lord God took man, and put
him into the paradise of pleasure, to
dress it, and to keep it.

16 And he commanded him, saying : Of
every tree of paradise thou shalt eat :

17 But of the tree of knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what
day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt
die the death.

18 And the Lord God said: It is not
good for man to be alone: let us make
him a help like unto himself.

19 And the Lord God having formed out
of the ground all the beasts of the earth,
and all the fowls of the air, brought them
to Adam to see what he would call them :
P for whatsoever Adam called any living
creature the same is its name.

20 And Adam called all the beasts by
their names, and all the fowls of the air,
and all the cattle of the field: but for
Adam there was not found a helper like
himself.

21 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep
upon Adam: and when he was fast
asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled
up flesh for it.

22 And the Lord God built the rib which
he took from Adam into a woman : and
brought her to Adam.

23 And Adam said : ^ This now is bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh ; she

O Eccli. 24. 35. — p Ps. 146. 4.
q 1 Cor. 11. 9 ; Eph. 5. 31. — r Matt 19. 5 ; Mark 10. 7.

Chap. 3. Ver. 7. And the eyes, &c. Not that
they were blind before, (for the woman saw that the
tree was fair to the eyes, ver. 6,) nor yet that their
eyes were opened to any more perfect knowledge of
good ; but only to the unhappy experience of having
lost the ffood of original grace and innocence, and

shall be called woman, because she was
taken out of man.

24 ** Wherefore a man shall leave father
and mother, and shall cleave to his wife :

* and they shall be two in one flesh.

25 And they were both naked : to wit,
Adam and his wife : and were not
ashamed.

CHAPTER 3.

77i« serpenVs craft. The fall of our first pa', ^ent».
Their punishment. The promise of a Redeemer.

I^OW the serpent was more subtle
JJl than any of the beasts of the earth
which the Lord God had made. And he
said to the woman : Why hath God com-
manded you, that you should not eat of
every tree of paradise ?

2 And the woman answered him, saying:
Of the fruit of the trees that are in para-
dise we do eat :

3 But of the fruit of the tree which ia
in the midst of paradise, God hath com-
manded us that we should not eat ; and
that we should not touch it, lest perhaps
we die.

4 And the serpent said to the woman :

* No, you shall not die the death.

5 For God doth know that in what day
soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes
shall be opened : and you shall be as
Gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And the woman saw that the tree was
good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and de-
lightful to behold : " and she took of the
fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to
her husband who did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were
opened : and when they perceived them-
selves to be naked, they sewed together
fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.

8 And when they heard the voice of the
Lord God walking in paradise at the
afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the face of the Lord
God, amidst the trees of paradise.

9 And the Lord God called Adam, and
said to him : Where art thou ?

10 And he said: I heard thy voice in
paradise ; and I was afraid, because I
was naked, and I hid myself.

s 1 Cor. 6. 16.— 1 2 Cor. 11. 3.
u EcclL 25. 33 ; 1 Tim. 2. 14.

incurred the dreadful evil of sin. From whence fol-
lowed a shame of their being naked; which they
minded not before ; because being now stript of
original grace, thej quickly began to be subject to
the shameful rebellions oX the flesli.

The punishment

GENESIS

Cain murders Abel

11 And he said to him : And who hath
told thee that thou wast naked, but that
thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I
conunanded thee that thou shouldst not
eat?

12 And Adam said : The woman, whom
thou gavest me to be my companion,
gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the Lord God said to the woman :
Why hast thou done this ? And she an-
swered : The serpent deceived me, and I
did eat.

14 And the Lord God said to the ser-
pent : Because thou hast done this thing,
thou art cursed among all cattle, and
beasts of the earth: upon thy breast
ehalt thou go, ^ and earth shalt thou eat
all the days of thy life.

15 I will put enmities between thee and
the woman, and thy seed and her seed :
she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt
lie in wait for her heel. ^

16 To the woman also he said: I will
multiply thy sorrows, and thy concep-
tions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth
children, and thou shalt be under thy
husband's power, and he shall have do-
minion over thee.

17 And to Adam he said: Because thou
hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife,
and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I
commanded thee that thou shouldst not
eat, cursed is the earth in thy work;
with labour and toil shalt thou eat there-
of all the days of thy life.

18 Thorns and thistles shall it bring
forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the
herbs of the earth.

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread till thou return to the earth,
out of which thou wast taken : for dust
thou art, and into dust thou shalt return. *

20 y And Adam called the name of his
wife Eve : because she was the mother
of all the living.

21 And the Lord God made for Adam
and his wife, garments of skins, and
clothed them.

22 And he said: Behold Adam is be-

V Isa. 49. 23 ; 65. 25 ; Micll. 7. 17 ; Ps. 72. 9.

w Apoc. 12. ; Infra 49. 17 ; 1 Cor. 14. 34.

X Infra 18. 21. — y Ps. 102. 14, and 22. 6 ; Eccli. 7. 12.

Ver. 15. She shall crush. So divers of the fathers
read this place, conformably to the Latin : others
read it ipsum, viz., the seed. It is by her seed,
Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent's
head.

Ver. 22. Behold Adam, &c. Tb^'s was spoken by

come as one of us, knowing good and
evil : now, therefore, lest perhaps he put
forth his hand, and take also of the tree
of life, and eat, and live for ever.

23 And the Lord God sent him out of
the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth
from which he was taken.

24 And he cast out Adam; and placed
before the paradise of pleasure Cheru-
bims, and a flaming sword, turning every
way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

CHAPTER 4.

The history of Cain and Abel.

AND Adam knew Eve his wife: who
JLjL conceived and brought forth Cain,
saying: I have gotten a man through
God.

2 And again she brought forth his bro-
ther Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and
Cain a husbandman.

3 And it came to pass after many days,
that Cain offered, of the fruits of the
earth, gifts to the Lord.

4 ** Abel also offered of the firstlings of
his flock, and of their fat: and the Lord
had respect to Abel, and to his offerings.

6 But to Cain and his offerings he had
no respect: and Cain was exceedingly
angry, and his countenance fell.

6 And the Lord said to him* Why art
thou angry? and why is jhy counte-
nance fallen?

7 If thou do well, shalt thon not re-
ceive ? but if ill, shall not sin forthwith
be present at the door? but the lust
thereof shall be under thee, and thou
shalt have dominion over it.

8 And Cain said to Abel his brother :
Let us go forth abroad. And when they
were in the field, Cain rose up against
his brother Abel, and slew him. ^

9 And the Lord said to Cain : Where is
thy brother Abel? And he answered, I
know not: am I my brother's keeper?

10 And he said to him: What hast thou
done? the voice of thy brother^s blood
crieth to me from the earth.

11 Now, therefore, cursed shalt thou be

a Heb. 11. 4.
e Wisd. 10.3;
Matt. 23. 35 ; 1 John 3. 12 ; Jude 11.

way of reproaching him with his pride, in affecting
a knowledge that might make him like to God.

Chap. 4. Ver. 4. Had respect. That is, shewed
his acceptance of his sacrifice (as coming from a
heart full of devotion) : and that, as we may sup.
pose, by some visible token, such as sending fire
from heaven upon his offerings.

The descendants of Cain

GENESIS

Genealogy of the patriarchs

apon the earth, which hath opened her
mouth and received the blood of thy
brother at thy hand.

12 When thou shalt till it, it shall not
yield to thee its fruit : a fugitive and a
vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

13 And Cain said to the Lord : My in-
iquity is greater than that I may deserve
pardon.

14 Behold thou dost cast me out this
day from the face of the earth, and I
shall be hidden from thy face, and I shall
be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth :
every one, therefore, that findeth me,
shall kill me.

15 And the Lord said to him: No, it
shall not be so : but whosoever shall kill
Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And
the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that who-
soever found him should not kill him.

16 And Cain went out from the face of
the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the
earth, at the east side of Eden.

17 And Cain knew his wife, and she con-
ceived, and brought forth Henoch: and
he built a city, and called the name
thereof by the name of his son Henoch.

18 And Henoch begot Irad, and Irad be-
got Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathu-
saei, and Mathusael begot Lamech *

19 Who took two wives: the name of
the one was Ada, and the name of the
other Sella.

20 And Ada brought forth Jabel : who
was the father of such as dwell in tents,
and of herdsmen.

21 And his brother's name was Jubal;
he was the father of them that play upon
the harp and the organs.

22 Sella also brought forth Tubalcain,
who was a hammerer and artificer in
every work of brass and iron. And the
sister of Tubalcain was Noema.

23 And Lamech said to his wives Ada

d Matt. 18. 22.
/ Wisd. 2. 23 ; Eccli. 17. 1 ; Infra 9. 6.

Ver. 14. Every one that findeth me shall kill
me. His guilty conscience made him fear his own
brothers and nephews ; of whom, by this time,
there might be a good number upon the earth ;
though in the compendious account given in the
Bcriptures, only Cain and Abel are mentioned.

Ver. 17. His wife. She was the daughter of
Adam, and Cain's own sister ; God dispensing with
such marriages in the beginning of the world, as

and Sella: Hear my voice, ye wives of
Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I
have slain a man to the wounding of my-
self, and a stripling to my own bruising.

24 Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken
for Cain : but for Lamech seventy times
sevenfold. *^

25 Adam also knew his wife again : and
she brought forth a son, and called his
name Seth,eaying: God hath given me
another seed, for Abel whom Cain slew,;

26 But to Seth also was born a son,
whom he called Enos ; this man began to
call upon the name of the Lord.

CHAPTER 5. u

The genealogy, age, and death of the Patriarchs^
from Adam to Noe. The translation of Henoch.

THIS is the book of the generation of
Adam. In the day that God created
man, -^he made him to the likeness of
God.

2 He created them male and female ; and
blessed them: and called their name
Adam, in the day when they were created.

3 ^ And Adam hved a hundred and
thirty years, and begot a son to his own
image and likeness, and called his name
Seth.

4 And the days of Adam, after he begot
Seth, were eight hundred years : and he
begot sons and daughters.

5 And all the time that Adam lived came
to nine hundred and thirty years, and he
died. .

6 Seth also lived a hundred and five
years, and begot Enos.

7 And Seth lived after he begot Enos,
eight hundred and seven years, and begot
sons and daughters.

8 And all the days of Seth were nine
hundred and twelve years, and he died.

9 And Enos lived ninety years, and be-
got Cainan.

10 After whose birth he lived eight hun-

g 1 Par. 1. 1.

mankind couid not otherwise be propagated. He
built a city, viz.. In process of time, when his race
was multiplied, so as to be numerous enough to
people it. For in the many hundred years he lived,
his race might be multiplied even to millions.

Ver. 26. Began to call upon, &c. Not that
Adam and Seth had not called upon God, before
the bjrth of Enos ; but that Enos used more solem*
nity in the worship and invocation of God. '

ffeiwch taken up by God

GENESIS

dred and fifteen yeaxs, and begot sons
and daughters.

11 And all the days of Enos were nine
hundred and five years, and he died.

12 And Cainan hved seventy years, and
begot Malaleel.

13 And Cainan lived after he begot
Malaleel, eight himdred and forty years,
and begot sons and daughters.

14 And all the days of Cainan were nine
hundred and ten years, and he died.

15 And Malaleel lived sixty-five years,
and begot Jared.

16 And Malaleel lived after he begot
Jared, eight hundred and thirty years,
and begot sons and daughters.

17 And all the days of Malaleel were
eight hundred and ninety-five years, and
be died.

18 And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-
two years, and begot Henoch.

19 And Jared hved after he begot He-
noch, eight hundred years, and begot sons
and daughters.

20 And all the days of Jared were nine
hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

21 And Henoch lived sixty-five years,
and begot Mathusala.

22 And Henoch walked with God : and
lived after he begot Mathusala, three
hundred years, and begot sons and daugh-
ters.

23 And all the days of Henoch were
three hundred and sixty- five years.

24 And he walked with God, and was
seen no more : because God took him.

25 And Mathusala lived a hundred and
eighty-seven years, and begot Lamech.

26 And Mathusala lived after he begot
Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two
years, and begot sons and daughters.

27 And all the days of Mathusala were
nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and
he died.

Chap. 6. Ver. 2. The sons of God. The descend-
ants of Seth and Enos are here called sons of God
from their religion and piety : whereas the ungodly
race of Cain, who by their carnal affections lay gro-
velling upon the earth, are called the children of
men. The unhappy consequence of the formermar-
rying with the latter, ought to be a warning to Chris-
tians to be very circumspect in their marriages ; and
not to suffer themselves to be determined in their
choice by their carnal passion, to the prejudice of
virtue or religion.

Wickedness of the world

28 And Lamech lived a hundred and
eighty- two years, and begot a son.

29 And he called his name Noe, saying :
This same shall comfort us from the works
and labours of our hands on the earth,
which the Lord hath cursed.

30 And Lamech lived after he begot Noe,
five hundred and ninety-five years, and
begot sons and daughters.

31 And all the days of Lamech came to
seven hundred and seventy-seven years^
and he died. And Noe, when he was five
hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and
Japheth.

CHAPTER 6.

Man^s sin is the cause of the deluge. Noe is com-
manded to build the ark.

A NT) after that men began to be multi-
Jl\. plied upon the earth, and daughters
were born to them,

2 The sons of God seeing the daughters
of men, that they were fair, took to them-
sel\es wives of all which they chose.

3 And God said: My spirit shall not
remain in man for ever, because he is
flesh, and his days shall be a hundred
and twenty years.

4 Now giants were upon the earth in
those days. For after the sons of God
went in to the daughters of men, and
they brought forth children, these are
the mighty men of old, men of renown. '

6 And God seeing that the wickedness
of men was great on the earth, and
that all the thought of their heart was»
bent upon evil at all times, "*

6 It repented him that he had made
man on the earth. And being touched
inwardly with sorrow of heart,

7 He said : I will destroy man, whom I
have created, from the face of the earth,
from man even to beasts, from the creep-
ing thing even to the fowls of the air, lor
it repenteth me that I have made them.

I Bar. 3. 26 ; Amos 2. 9 ; Wisd. 14. 6 ;
Eccli. 16. 8. — m Infra 8. 21 ; Matt. 15. 19.

Ver. 3. His days shall be, &c. The meaning Is.
that God would allow men this term of 120 years,
for their repentance and conversion, before he
would send the deluge.

Ver. 6. It repented him, &c. God, who is un
changeable, is not capable of repentance, grief, or
any other passion. But these expressions are used
to declare the enormity of the sins of men, which
was so provoking as to determine their Creator to
destroy these his creatures, whom before he had so
.much favoured.

Noe commanded to huild the arh GENESIS

Noe enters the ark

8 But Noe found grace before the
Lord.

9 These are the generations of Noe:"^
Noe was a just and perfect man in his
generations, he walked with God.

10 And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham,
and Japheth.

11 And the earth was corrupted before
God, and was filled with iniquity.

12 And when God had seen that the
earth was corrupted (for all flesh had
corrupted its way upon the earth,)

13 He said to Noe: The end of all flesh
is come before me, the earth is filled
with iniquity through them, and I will
destroy them with the earth, o

14 Make thee an ark of timber planks:
thou shalt make little rooms in the ark,
and thou shalt pitch it within and with-
out.

15 And thus shalt thou make it: The
length of the ark shall be three hundred
cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and
the height of it thirty cubits.

16 Thou shalt make a window in the
ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the
top or it: and the door of the ark thou
shalt set in the side: with lower, middle
chambers, and third stories shalt thou
make it.

17 Behold I will bring the waters of a
great flood upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life, under
heaven. All things that are in the earth
shall be consumed.

18 And I will establish my covenant
with thee, and thou shalt enter into the
ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and
the wives of thy sons with thee.

19 And of every living creature of all
flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into
the ark, that they may live with thee:
of the male sex, and the female.

20 Of fowls according to their kind, and
of beasts in their kind, and of every
thing that creepeth on the earth accord-
ing to its kind; two of every sort shall
go in with thee, that they may live,

21 Thou shalt take unto thee of all food
that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it

n Eccli. 44. 17. — o 1 Peter 3. 20 ; 2 Peter 2. 5.
p Heb. 11. 7 ; 2 Peter 2. 5.

up with thee: and it shall be food for
thee and them.

22 And Noe did all things which God
commanded him.

CHAPTER 7.

Xoe toith his family go into the ark. The deluge
overflows the earth.

AND the Lord said to him: Go in thou

-^^ and all thy house into the ark: for

thee I have seen just before me in this

generation. P

2 Of all clean beasts take seven and
seven, the male and the female.

3 But of the beasts that are unclean two
and two, the male and the female. Of
the fowls also of the air seven and seven,
the male and the female: that seed may
be saved upon the face of the whole
earth.

4 For yet a while, and after seven days,
I will rain upon the earth forty days and
forty nights; and I will destroy every
substance that I have made, from the
face of the earth.

5 And Noe did all things which the Lord
had commanded him.

6 And he was six hundred years old,
when the waters of the flood overflowed
the earth.

7 «'And Noe went in and his sons, his
wife and the wives of his sons with him
into the ark, because of the waters of
the flood.

8 And of beasts clean and unclean, and
of fowls, and of every thing that moveth
upon the earth,

9 Two and two went in to Noe into the
ark, male and female, as the Lord had
commanded Noe.

10 And after the seven days were
passed, the waters of the flood over-
flowed the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of the life
of Noe, in the second month, in the
seventeenth day of the month, all the
fountains of the great deep were broken
up, and the flood gates of heaven were
opened:

12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty
days and forty nights.

Ver. 15. Three hundred cubits, &c. The ark, ac-
cording to the dimensions here set down, contained
feur hundred and fifty thovisand square cubits.

g Matt. 24. 37 ; Luke 17. 26 ; 1 Peter 3. 20.

Chap. 7. Ver. 2. Of all clean. The distinction
of clean and unclean beasts appears to have been
made before the law of Moses.

The deluge

GENESIS

The waters diminish

13 In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem,
and Cham, and Japheth his sons: his
wife, and the three wives of his sons with
them, went into the ark :

14 They and every beast according to
its kind, and all the cattle in their kind,
and every thing that moveth upon the
earth according to its kind, and every
fowl according to its kind, all birds, and
all that fly,

15 Went in to Noe into the ark, two and
two of all flesh, wherein was the breath
of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male
and female of all flesh, as God had com-
manded him : and the Lord shut him in
on the outside.

17 And the flood was forty days upon
the earth, and the waters increased, and
lifted up the ark on high from the
earth.

18 For they overflowed exceedingly :
and filled all on the face of the earth : and
the ark was carried upon the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed beyond
measure upon the earth : and all the high
^Ouiitains under the whole heaven were
covered.

20 The water was fifteen cubits higher
than the mountains which it covered.

21 * And all flesh was destroyed that
moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and
of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creep-
ing things that creep upon the earth :
and all men.

22 And all things wherein there is the
breath of life on the earth, died.

23 And he destroyed all the substance
that was upon the earth, from man even
to beast, and the creeping things and
fowk A the air : and they were destroyed
from the earth : and Noe only remained,
and they that were with him in the ark.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the
earth a hundred and fifty days.

CHAPTER 8.

The deluge ceaseth. Noe goeth out of the ark, and
offereth a sacrifice. God's covenant to him.

, ] AND God remembered Noe, and all
jl\ the living creatures, and all the
cattle which were with him in the ark,
and brought a wind upon the earth, and
the waters were abated.

s Wisd. 10. 4 ; Eccli. 39. 28 ; 1 Peter 3. 20.

2 The fountains also of the deep, and
the flood gates of heaven were shut up,
and the rain from heaven was re-
strained.

3 And the waters returned from off the
earth going and coming : and they began
to be abated after a hundred and fifty

days. ■■dr^],.

4 And the ark rested in the seventh
month, the seven and twentieth day of
the month, upon the mountains of
Armenia.

5 And the waters were going and de-
creasing until the tenth month : for in
the tenth month, the first day of the
month, the tops of the mountains ap-
peared.

6 And after that forty days were passed,
Noe, opening the window of the ark
which he had made, sent forth a raven :

7 Which went forth and did not return,
till the waters were dried up upon the
earth.

8 He sent forth also a dove after him,
to see if the waters had now ceased upon
the face of the earth.

9 But she, not finding where her foot
might rest, returned to him into the ark :
for the waters were upon the whole
earth: and he put forth his hand, and
caught her, and brought her into the ark.

10 And having waited yet seven other
days, he again sent forth the dove out
of the ark.

11 And she came to him in the evening,
carrying a bough of an olive tree, with
green leaves, in her mouth. Noe there-
fore understood that the waters were
ceased upon the earth.

12 And he stayed yet other seven days:
and he sent forth the dove, which re-
turned not any more unto him.

13 Therefore in the six hundredth and
first year, the first month, the first day
of the month, the waters were lessened
upon the earth, and Noe opening the
covering of the ark, looked, and saw that
the face of the earth was dried.

14 In the second month, the seven and
twentieth day of the month, the earth
was dried.

15 And God spoke to Noe, saying :

16 Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife,

t^oe leaves the ark

GENESIS

GoiTs promise to Noe

ihy sons, and the wives of thy sons with
thee.

17 All living things that are with thee
of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts,
and all creeping things that creep upon
the earth, bring out with thee, and go
ye upon the earth ; * increase and multi-
ply upon it.

18 So Noe went out, he and his sons : his
wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

19 And all living things, and cattle, and
creeping things that creep upon the
earth, according to their kinds, went out
of the ark.

20 And Noe built an altar unto the
Lord : and taking of all cattle and fowls
that were clean, offered holocausts upon
the altar.

21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour,
and said : I will no more curse the earth
for the sake of man : ^ for the imagi-
nation and thought of man's heart are
prone to evil from his youth : therefore
I will no more destroy every living soul
as I have done.

22 All the days of the earth, seedtime
and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
winter, night and day, shall not cease.

CHAPTER 9.

ijfod blesSeth Noe : forbiddeth blood, and promiseth
never more to destroy the world by water. The
blessing of Sera and Japheth.

AND God blessed Noe and his sons.
J\. And he said to them : ^ Increase and
multiply, and fill the earth.

2 And let the fear and dread of you be
upon all the beasts of the earth, and
upon all the fowls of the air, and all that
move upon the earth : all the fishes of
the sea are delivered into your hand.

8 And every thing that moveth and
liveth shall be meat for you : even as the
green herbs have I delivered them all to
you:^

4 Saving that flesh with blood you shall
not eat. ^

5 For I will require the blood of your
lives at the hand of every beast, and at
the hand of man^ at the hand of every
man, and of his brother, will I require the
life of man.

t Supra 1. 28; Infra 9. 1. — ?« Supra 6. 5;

Matt. 15. 19... v Supra 1. 22, and 8. 17.

w Supra 1. 29.

Ver. 20. Holocausts^ or whole burnt offerings. In
which the whole victim was consumed by fire upon
God's altar, and no part was reserved lor Ibe use of
priest or people.

6 y Whosoever shall shed man's blood,
his blood shall be shed : for man was
made to the image of God.^

7 " But increase you and multiply, and
go upon the earth, and fill it.

8 Thus also said God to Noe, and to his
sons with him,

9 Behold I will establish my covenant
with you, and with your seed after you :

10 And with every living soul that is
with you, as well in all birds as in cattle
and beasts of the earth, that are come
forth out of the ark, and in all the beasts
of the earth.

11^1 will establish my covenant with
you, and all flesh shall be no more de-
stroyed with the waters of a flood, nei-
ther shall there be from henceforth a
flood to waste the earth.

12 And God said : This is the sign of
the covenant which I give between me
and you, and to every living soul that
is with you, for perpetual generations.

13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and
it shall be the sign of a covenant be-
tween me, and between the earth.

14 ^And when I shall cover the sky
with clouds, my bow shall appear in the
clouds :

16 And I will remember my covenant
with you, and with every living soul
that beareth flesh : and there shall no
more be waters of a flood to destroy all
flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the clouds,
and I shall see it, and shall remember
the everlasting covenant, that was made
between God and every living soul of
all flesh which is upon the earth.

17 And God said to Noe : This shall be
the sign of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh
upon the earth.

18 And the sons «f Noe who came out
of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Ja-
pheth: and Cham is the father of Cha-
naan.

19 These three are the sons of Noe :
and from these was all mankind spread
over the whole earth.

20 And Noe, a husbandman, began to

X Lev. 17. 14 ; Acts 15. 29. — y Matt. 26. 52.

2 Apoc. 13. 19. — a Supra 1. 28 and 8. 17.

6 Isa. 54. 2. — c Eccli. 43. 12.

Ver. 21. Smelted, &c. A figurative expression,
denoting that God was well pleased with the sacri
fices which his servant offered.

The conduct of Noe*s sons

GENESIS

The descendants of Noe

till the ground, and planted a vine-
yard,

21 And drinking of the wine was made
drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

22 Which when Cham the father of
Ohanaan had seen, to wit, that his
father's nakedness was uncovered, he
told it to his two brethren without.

23 But Sem and Japheth put a cloak
upon their shoulders, and going back-
ward, covered the nakedness of their
father: and their faces were turned
away, and they saw not their father's
nakedness.

24 And Noe awaking from the wine,
when he had learned what his younger
8on had done to him,

25 He said : Cursed be Chanaan, a ser-
vant of servants shall he be unto his
brethren.

26 And he said : Blessed be the Lord
God of Sem, be Chanaan his servant.

27 May God enlarge Japheth, and may
he dwell in the tents of Sem, and Cha-
naan be his servantc

28 And Noe lived after the flood three
hundred and fifty years :

29 And all his days were in the whole
nine hundred and fifty years : and he died.

CHAPTER 10.

The genealogy of the children of Noe, by whom the
world was peopled after the flood.

rriHESE are the generations of the sons

1 of Noe : Sem, Cham, and Japheth :
and unto them sons were born after the
flood. ^

2 The sons of Japheth : Gomer, and Ma-
gog, and Madai, and Javan, and Thubal,
and Mosoch, and Thiras.

3 And the sons of Gomer : Ascenez and
Hiphath and Thogorma.

4 And the sons of Javan: Elisa and
Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

5 By these were divided the islands of
the Gentiles in their lands, every one

d 1 Par. 3. 5.

Chap. 9. Ver. 21. Drunk. Noe by the judg-
ment of the fathers was not guilty of sin, in being
overcome by wine : because he knew n»t the strength
of it.

Ver. 23. Covered the nakedness. Thus, as St
Gregory takes notice L. 35 ; Moral, c. 22, we ought to
cover the nakedness, that is, the sins, of our spiritual
parents and superiors.

Ver. 25. Cursed be Chanaan. The curses, as well
as the blessings, of the patriarchs, were prophetical :
And this in particular is here recorded by Moses, for
the children of Israel, who were to possess the land
of Chanaan.

according to his tongue and their fami-
lies in their nations.

6 And the sons of Cham - Chus, and
Mesram, and Phuth, and Chanaan.

7 And the sons of Chus : Saba, and He-
vila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sa-
batacha. The sons of Regma : Saba and
Dadan.

8 Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began
to be mighty on the earth.

9 And he was a stout hunter before the
Lord. Hence came a proverb : Even as
Nemrod the stout hunter before the
Lord.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom
was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and
Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

11 Out of that land came forth Assur,
and built Ninive, and the streets of the
city, and Chale.

12 Resen also between Ninive and Chale :
this is the great city.

13 And Mesraim begot Ludim, and Ana-
mim, and Laabim, Nepthuim,

14 And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of
whom came forth the Phihstines, and
the Capthorim.

15 And Chanaan begot Sidon, his first-
born, the Hethite,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite,
and the Gergesite,

17 The Hevite and the Aracite : the
Sinite,

18 And the Aradian, the Samarite, and
the Hamathite : and afterwards the fami-
lies of the Chanaanites were spread
abroad.

19 And the limits of Chanaan were
from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even
to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and
Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even
to Lesa.

20 These are the children of Cham in
their kindreds, and tongues, and genera-
tions, and lands, and nations.

Chap. 10. Ver. 5. The islands. So the Hebrews
called all the remote countries, to which they went
by ships from Judea, to Greece, Italy, Spain, &c.

The tower of Babel

GENESIS

The genealogy of Sem

21 Of Sem also, the father of all the
children of Heber, the elder brother of
Japheth, sons were bom.

22 The sons of Sem : ^ Elam and Assur,
and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

23 The sons of Aram : Us and Hull, and
Gether : and Mess.

24 But Arphaxad begot Sale, of whom
was born Heber.

25 And to Heber were born two sons :
the name of the one was Phaleg, because
in his days the earth was divided : and
his brother's name Jectan.

26 Which Jectan begot Elmodad, and
Saleph, and Asarmoth, Jare,

27 And Aduram, and Uzal, and Decla,

28 And Ebal, and Abimael, Saba,

29 And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab.
All these were the sons of Jectan.

30 And their dwelling was from Messa
as we go on as far as Sephar, a moun-
tain in the east.

31 These are the children of Sem ac-
^X>rding to their kindreds and tongues,
and countries in their nations.

32 These are the families of Noe, ac-
cording to their peoples and nations.
By these were the nations divided on
the earth after the flood.

CHAPTER 11.

The tower of Babel. The confusion of tonffues.
The genealogy of Sent down to Abram.

AND the earth was of one tongue,
xTl ^ and of the same speech.

2 And when they removed from the
east, they found a plain in the land of
Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

3 And each one said to his neighbour :
Come, let us make brick, and bake them
with fire. And they had brick instead
of stones, and slime instead of mortar.

4 And they said : Come, let us make a
city and a tower, the top whereof may
reach to heaven: and let us make our
name famous before we be scattered
abroad into all lands.

5 And the Lord came down to see the
city and the tower, which the children
of Adam were building.

6 And he said : Behold, it is one people
and all have one tongue : and they have
begun to do this, neither will they leave
off from their designs, till they accom-
plish them in deed.

e 1 Par. 1. 17. — / Wisd. 10. 5.

7 Come ye, therefore, let us go down,
and there confound their tongue, that
they may not understand one another's
speech.

8 And so the Lord scattered them from
that place into all lands, and they ceased
to build the city.

9 And therefore the name thereof was
called Babel, because there the language
of the whole earth was confounded : and
from thence the Lord scattered them
abroad upon the face of all countries.

10 These are the generations of Sem:*
Sem was a hundred years old when he
begot Arphaxad, two years after the
flood.

11 And Sem lived after he begot Ar-
phaxad, five hundred years, and begot
sons and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived thirty-five
years, and begot Sale.

13 Ajid Arphaxad lived after he begot
Sale, three hundred and three years;
and begot sons and daughters.

14 Sale also lived thirty years, and begot
Heber.

15 And Sale lived after he begot Heber,
four hundred and three years ; and be-
got sons and daughters.

16 And Heber lived thirty- four years,
and begot Phaleg.

17 And Heber lived after he begot Pha-
leg, four hundred and thirty years : and
begot sons and daughters.

18 Phaleg also lived thirty years, and
begot Reu.

19 * And Phaleg lived after he begot
Reu, two hundred and nine years, and
begot sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived thirty-two years, and
begot Sarug.

21 And Reu lived after he begot Sarug,
two hundred and seven years, and begot
sons and daughters.

22 And Sarug lived thirty years, and
begot Nachor.

23 And Sarug lived after he begot Na-
chor, two hundred years : and begot sons
and daughters.

24 And Nachor lived nine and twenty
years, and begot Thare.

25 ^ And Nachor lived after he begot
Thare, a hundred and nineteen years:
and begot sons and daughters.

1 Par. 1. 17. — i 1 Par 1. 19.
j I Par. 1. 26.

Chap. il Ver.».

BabeL

That ia^ confusion.

The call of Abram

GENESIS

Abram goes down to Egypt

26 '^ And Thare lived seventy years, and
begot Abram, and Nachor, and Aran.

27 And these are the generations of
Thare : Thare begot Abram, Nachor, and
Aran. And Aran begot Lot.

28 And Aran died before Thare his
father, in the land of his nativity in Ur
of the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nachor married
wives: the name of Abram's wife was
Sarai: and the name of Nachor's wife,
Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of
Melcha, and father of Jescha.

30 And Sarai was barren, and had no
children.

31 ^And Thare took Abram, his son,
and Lot the son of Aran, his son's son,
and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife
of Abram his son, and brought them out
of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the
land of Chanaan: and they came as far
as Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Thare were two
hundred and five years, and he died in
Haran.

CHAPTER 12.

'The call of Abram, and the prornise made to him,.
He sojourneth in Chanaan^ and then by occasion
ofafamjine, goeth down to Egypt.

AND the Lord said to Abram: "*Go
x\. forth out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and out of thy father's
House, and come into the land which I
shall shew thee.

2 And I will make of thee a great na-
tion, and I will bless thee, and magnify
thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

3 I will bless them that bless thee, and
curse them that curse thee, and "in
THEE shall all the kindred of the earth
be blessed :

4 So Abram went out as the Lord had
commanded him, and Lot went with
him : Abram was seventy-five years old
when he went forth from Haran.

6 And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot
his brother's son, and all the substance
which they had gathered, and the souls
which they had gotten in Haran: and
they went out to go into the land of
Chanaan. And when they were come
into it,

k Jos. 24. 2 ; Neh. 9. 7. — i Judith 5. 6 ; Acts 7. 2.
m Acts 7.3. — n Infra 18. 18, and 22. 18, and 26. 4 ;
GaL3. 8; Heb. 11. 8.

6 Abram passed through the country
into the place of Sichem, as far as the
noble vale : now the Chanaanite was at
that time in the land.

7 And the Lord appeared to Abram,
and said to him : p To thy seed will I give
this land. And he built there an altar
to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 And passing on from thence to a
mountain, that was on the east side of
Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having
Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east ;
he built there also an altar to the Lord,
and called upon his name.

9 And Abram went forward, going, and
proceeding on to the south.

10 And there came a famine in the
country; and Abram wen^. down into
Egypt, to sojourn there : for the famine
was very grievous in the land.

11 And when he was near to enter into
Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife : I know
that thou art a beautiful woman :

12 And that when the Egyptians shall
see thee, they will say : She is his wife :
and they will kill me, and keep thee.

13 ** Say, therefore, I pray thee, that
thou art my sister: that I may be well
used for thee, and that my soul may live
for thy sake.

14 And when Abram was come into
Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman
thaj she was very beautiful.

16 And the princes told Pharao, and
praised her before him : and the woman
was taken into the house of Pharao.

16 And they used Abram well for her
sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and
he asses, and menservants and maid-
servants, and she asses, and camels.

17 But the Lord scourged Pharao and
his house with most grievous stripes for
Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 And Pharao called Abram, and said
to him : What is this that thou hast done
to me? Why didst thou not tell me that
she was thy wife ?

19 For what cause didst thou say, she
was thy sister, that I might take her to
my wife ? Now, therefore, there is thy
wife, take her, and go thy way.

20 And Pharao gav<^ his men orders

p Gal. 3. 17 ; Infra 13. 14,.. nd 15. 18, and 26. 2 ;
Deut. 34. 4.

rTnfra20l !,

Chap. 12. Ver. 13. My sister. This was no lie ;
because she was his niece, being daughter to his bro-
ther Aran, and therefore, in tne style ot the Hebrews,

she might truly be called h... a ter, as Lot is called
Abram's brother ^ Geo. ^v. 14» gee Gea ^X 12.

Abram and Lot separate GENESIS

concerning Abram: and they led him
away, and his wife, and all that he had.

CHAPTER 13.

Abram and Lot part from each other. God's pro-
mise to Abram,

AND Abram went up out of Egypt, he
. and his wife, and all that he had,
and Lot with him, into the south.

2 And he was very rich in possession
of gold and silver.

3 And he returned by the way that he
came, from the south to Bethel, to the
place where before he had pitched his
tent between Bethel and Hai :

4* In the place of the altar which he
had made before; and there he called
upon the name of the Lord.

5 But Lot also, who was with Abram,
had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts,
and tents.

6 Neither was the land able to bear
them, that they might dwell together:
* for their substance was great, and they
could not dwell together.

7 Whereupon also there arose a strife
between the herdsmen of Abram and of
Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite
and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.

8 Abram therefore said to Lot: Let
there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, be-
tween me and thee, and between my
herdsmen and thy herdsmen : for we are
brethren.

9 Behold the whole land is before thee :
depart from me I pray thee : if thou wilt
go to the left hand, I will take the right :
if thou choose the right hand, I will pass
to the left.

10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all
the courtry about the Jordan, which was
watered throughout, before the Lord de-
stroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the
paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as
one comes to Segor.

11 And Lot chose to himself the country
about the Jordan, and he departed from
the east: and they were separated one
brother from the other.

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan ;
and Lot abode in the towns that were
about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.

13 And the men of Sodom were very
wicked, and sinners before the face of
the Lord, beyond measure.

14 And the Lord said to Abram, after

The battle of the kings

$ Supra 12. 7. — t Infra 36. 7. — u Supra 12. 7 ;
Infra 15. 18, and 26. 4; Deut.34. 4.

Lot was aeparated from him: '^Lift up
thy eyes, and look from the place wherein
thou now art, to the north and to the
south, to the east and to the west.

15 All the land which thou seest, I wiR
give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

16 And I will make thy seed as the dust
of the earth : if any man be able to num-
ber the dust of the earth, he shall be
able to number thy seed also.

17 Arise and walk through the land in
the length, and in the breadth thereof:
for I will give it to thee.

18 So Abram removing his tent came
and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which
is in Hebron : and he built there an altar
to the Lord.

CHAPTER 14.

The expedition of the four kings ; the victory »f
Abram ; he is blessed by Melchisedech.

A ND it came tc pass at that time, that
XJL Amraphel king of Sennaar, and Ari-
och king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor
king of the Elamites, and Thadal king
of nations,

2 Made war against Bara king of Sodom,
and against Bersa king of Gomorrha, and
against Sennaab king of Adama, and
against Semeber king of Seboim, and
against the king of Bala, which is Segor.

3 All these came together into the
woodland vale, which now is the salt sea. ^

4 For they had served Chodorlahomor
twelve years, and in the thirteenth year
they revolted from him.

5 And in the fourteenth year '^came
Chodorlahomor, and the kings that were
with him : and they smote the Raphaim
in Astarothcarnaim, and the Zuzim with
them, and the Emim in Save of Caria-
thaim.

6 And the Chorreans in the mountains
of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan,
which is in the wilderness.

7 And they returned, and came to the
fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades :
and they smote all the country of the
Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that
dwelt in Asasonthamar.

8 And the king of Sodom, and the king
of Gomorrha, and the king of Adama,
and the king of Seboim, and the king or
Bala, which is Segor, went out : and they
set themselves against them in battle
array in the woodland vale :

V Infra 19. 24.
w About B. C. 1920, probably.

Melchisedech blesses Ahram

GENESIS

Ahram* s faith

9 To wit, against Chodorlahomor king
of the Elamites, and Thadal king of na-
tions, and Amraphel king of Sennaar,
and Arioch king of Pontus: four kings
against five.

10 Now the woodland vale had many
pits of slime. And the king of Sodom,
and the king of Gomorrha turned their
backs and were overthrown there : and
they that remained fled to the moun-
tain.

11 And they took all the substance of
the Sodomites, and Gomorrhites, and all
their victuals, and went their way :

12 And Lot also, the son of Abram's
brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his
substance.

13 And behold one that had escaped
told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in
the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the
brother of Escol, and the brother of
Aner: for these had made league with
Abram.

14 Which when Abram had heard, to
wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he
numbered of the servants born in his
house, three hundred and eighteen well
appointed : and pursued them to Dan.

15 And dividing his company, he rushed
upon them in the night: and defeated
them, and pursued them as far as Hoba,
which is on the left hand of Damascus.

16 And he brought back all the sub-
stance, and Lot his brother, with his sub-
stance, the women also and the people.

17 And the king of Sodom went out to
meet him, after he returned from the
slaughter of Chodorlahomor, and of the
kings that were with him in the vale of
Save, which is the king's vale.

18 ^ But Melchisedech the king of Salem,
bringing forth bread and wine, for he
was the priest of the most high God,

19 Blessed him, and said : Blessed be
Abram by the most high God, who cre-
ated heaven and earth.

20 And blessed be the most high God,
by whose protection the enemies are in
thy hands. And he gave him the tithes
of all.

21 And the king of Sodom said to
Abram: Give me the persons, and the
rest take to thyself.

22 And he answered him : I lift up my

X Heb. 1. 1.

2 Rom. 4. 18.

Chap. 14. Ver. 10. Of slime. Jlituminis. This
was a kind of pitch, which served for mortar in the

hand to the Lord God the most high, the
possessor of heaven and earth,

23 That from the very woof thread unto
the shoe latchet, I will not take of any
things that are thine, lest thou say I
have enriched Abram :

24 Except such things as the young
men have eaten, and the shares of the
men that came with me, Aner, Escol,
and Mambre : these shall take their
shares.

CHAPTER 15.

God promiseth seed to Abram. His faith, sacrifice
and vision,

1^ OW when these things were done,
JLN the word of the Lord came to
Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not,
Abram, I am thy protector, and thy re-
ward exceeding great.

2 And Abram said : Lord God, what wilt
thou give me ? I shall go without chil-
dren : and the son of the steward of my
house is this Damascus Eliezer.

3 And Abram added: But to me thou
hast not given seed : and lo my servant,
born in my house, shall be my heir.

4 And immediately the word of the Lord
came to him, saying : He shall not be thy
heir : but he that shall come out of thy
bowels, him shalt thou have for thy
heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and
said to him: ^Look up to heaven and
number the stars, if thou canst. And he
said to him : So shall thy seed be.

6 " Abram believed God, and it was re-
puted to him unto justice.

7 And he said to him: I am the Lord
who brought thee out from Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that
thou mightest possess it.

8 But he said : Lord God, whereby may
I know that I shall possess it ? ,

9 And the Lord answered, and said:
Take me a cow of three years old, and a
she goat of three years, and a ram ot
three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.

10 ^ And he took all these, and divided
them in the midst, and laid the two
pieces of each one against the other ; but
the birds he divided not.

11 And the fowls came down upon the
carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12 And when the sun was setting h,

a Rom. 4. 3 ; Gal. 3. 6 ; James 2. 23. — h Jer. 34. 18.

building of BabeU Geo. xL 3, and was U8a4 by l^oe in
pitching the ark.

The covenant vnth Abram

GENESIS

Agar and Ismael

deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great
and darksome horror seized upon him.

13 And it was said unto him : ^ Know
thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land not their own, and
they shall bring them imder bondage,
and afflict them four hundred years.

14 But I will judge the nation which
they shall serve, and after this they shall
come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fatherc in
peace, and be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the fourth generation they
shall return hither : for as yet the iniqui-
ties of the Amorrhites are not at the full
until this present time.

17 And when the sun was set, there
arose a dark mist, and there appeared a
smoking furnace and a lamp of fire pass-
ing between those divisions.

18 ^That day God made a covenant
with Abram, saying : To thy seed will I
give this land, from the river of Egypt
even to the great river Euphrates.

19 The dneans and Cenezites, the Ced-
monites,

20 And the Hethites, and the Pherez
ites, the Raphaim also,

21 And the Amorrhites, and the Cha-
naanites, and the Qergesites, and the Je-
busites.

CHAPTER 16.
Abram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael.
"VTOW Sarai the wife of Abram, had
J^ brought forth no children ; but
having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named
Agar,

2 She said to her husband : Behold, the
Lord hath restrained me from bearing :
go in unto my handmaid, it may be I
may have children of her at least. And
when he agreed to her request,

3 She took Agar the Egyptian her
handmaid, ten years after they first
dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave
her to her husband to wife.

4 And he went in to her. But she, per-
ceiving that she was with child, despised
her mistress.

5 And Sarai said to Abram : Thou dost
unjustly with me : I gave my handmaid
into thy bosom, and she perceiving her-

c Acts 7. 6. — d Supra 12. 7, and 13. 15 ; Infra 26. 4 ;
Deut. 34. 4 ; 2 Par. 9. 26 ; 1 Kings 4. 20, and 3 Kings 4. 21.

Chap. 16. Ver. 3. To wife. Plurality of wives,
though contrary to the primitive institution of mar-
riage. Gen. 2. 24, was by dMoe dispsnsation allowed
to the paMu'chs : whrck allowance seems to bave

self to be with child, despiseth me. The
Lord judge between me and thee.

6 And Abram made answer, and said to
her : Behold thy handmaid is in thy own
hand, use her as it pleaseth thee. And
when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.

7 And the angel of the Lord having
found her, by a fountain of water in the
wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in
the desert,

8 He said to her : Agar, handmaid of
Sarai, whence comest thou ? and whither
goest thou ? And she answered : I flee
from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

9 And the angel of the Lord said to
her : Return to thy mistress, and humble
thyself under her hand.

10 And again he said : I will multiply
thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be
numbered for multitude.

11 And again: Behold, said he, thou
art with child, and thou shalt bring forth
a son: and thou shalt call his name
Ismael, because the Lord hath heard
thy affliction.

12 He shall be a wild man : his hand
will be against all men, and all men's
hands against him : and he shall pitch
his tents over against all his brethren.

13 And she called the name of the
Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the
God who hast seen me. For she said i
Verily here have I seen the hinder parts
of him that seeth me. ^

14 Therefore she called that well. The
well of him that liveth and seeth me.
The same is between Cades and Barad.

15 And Agar brought forth a son to
Abram : who called his name Ismael.

16 Abram was fourscore and six years
old when Agar brought him forth Is-
mael.

CHAPTER 17.

The Covenant of circumcision.

A ND after he began to be ninety and
XjL nine years old, the Lord appeared
to him : and said unto him : I am the
Almighty God : walk before me, and be
perfect.

2 And I will make my covenant be-
tween me and thee : and I will multiply
thee exceedingly.

/ Ex. 33. 20 and 23. Infra 24. 62.

continued during the time of the law of Moses. But
Christ our Lord reduced marriage to Its primitive
iDstitutioQ. Matt. 19.

The covenant of circumcision

GENESIS

3 Abram fell flat on his face.

4 And God said to him : I am, and my
covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be
a father of many nations.

5 Neither shall thy name be called any
more Abram: but thou shalt be called
Abraham: because I have made thee a
father of many nations.

6 And I will make thee increase, ex-
ceedingly, and I will make nations of
fchee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant
between me and thee, and between thy
seed after thee in their generations, by
a perpetual covenant; to be a God to
thee, and to thy ceed after thee.

8 And I will give to thee, and to thy
seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the
land of Chanaan for a perpetual pos-
session, and I will be their God.

9 Again God said to Abraham : ^ And
thou therefore shalt keep my covenant,
and thy seed after thee in their genera-
tions.

10 This is my covenant which you shall
observe, between me and you, and thy
seed after thee : All the male kind of
you shall be circumcised :

11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of
your foreskin, that it may be for a ^ sign
of the covenant between me and you.

12 An infant of eight days old shall be
circumcised among you, every man child
in your generations: he that is born in
the house, as well as the bought servant
shall be circumcised, and whosoever is
not of your stock :

13 And my covenant shall be in your
flesh for a perpetual covenant.

14 The male, whose flesh of his foreskin
shall not be circumcised, that soul shall
be destroyed out of his people : because
he hath broken my covenant.

15 God said also to Abraham : Sarai
thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but
Sara.

16 And I will bless her, and of her I will
give thee a son, whom I will bless, and
he shall become nations, and kings of
people shall spring from him.

17 Abraham fell upon his face, and
laughed, saying in his heart : Shall a
son, thinkest thou, be born to him that

g Acts l.S. — h Rom. 4. 11 ; Lev. 12. 3 ;
Luke 2. 21.

Chap. 17. Ver. 5. Abram, in the Hebrew, sig-
Oifies a high father but Abraham^ the father of the

Isaac is promised

is a hundred years old ? and shall Sara
that is ninety years old bring forth ?

18 And he said to God : O that Ismael
may live before thee.

19 And God said to Abraham : * Sara
thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou
shalt call his name Isaac, and I will
estabhsh my covenant with him for a
perpetual covenant, and with his seed
after him.

20 And as for Ismael I have also heard
thee. Behold, I will bless him, and
increase, and multiply him exceedingly :
he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will
make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant I will establish
with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth
to thee at this time in the next year.

22 And when he had left off speaking
with him, God went up from Abraham.

23 And Abraham took Ismael his son,
and all that were born in his house : and
all whom he had bought, every male
among the men ot his house : and he
circumcised the flesh of their foreskin
forthwith the very same day, as God
had commanded him.

24 Abraham was ninety and nine years
old, when he circumcised the fleeh of hie
foreskin.

25 And Ismael his son was full thirteen
years old at the time of his circumcision.

26 The selfsame day was Abraham cir-
cumcised and Ismael his son.

27 And all the men of his house, as
well they that were born in his house, as
the bought servants and strangers were
circumcised with him.

CHAPTER 18.

Angels are entertained by Abraham. They fore-
tell the birth of Isaac. Abraham^s prayer for the
men of Sodom,

AND •? the Lord appeared to him in the
_ vale of Mambre as he was sitting
at the door of his tent, in the very heat
of the day.

2 And when he had lifted up his eyes,
there appeared to him three men stand-
ing near him : and as soon as he saw
them he ran to meet them from the door
of his tent, and adored down to the
ground.

3 And he said : Lord, if I have found

t Infra 18. IQ. and 21. 2.—j Heb. 18. 2.

multitude ; Sarai signifies my Lady^ but Sara abso
lutely Lady,

Sara*8 unbelief

GENESIS

Abraham's prayer for Sodom

avour in thy sight, pass not away from
tny servant :

4 But I will fetch a little water, and
wash ye your feet, and rest ye under the
tree.

5 And I will set a morsel of bread, and
strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you
shall pass on: for therefore are you
come aside to your servant. And they
said : Do as thou hast spoken.

6 Abraham made haste into the tent to
Sara, and said to her : Make haste, -tem-
per together three measures of flour, and
make cakes upon the hearth.

7 And he himself ran to the herd, and
took from thence a calf very tender and
very good, and gave it to a young man :
who made haste and boiled it.

8 He took also butter and milk, and the
calf which he had boiled, and set before
them : but he stood by them under the
tree.

9 And when they had eaten, they said
to him : Where is Sara thy wife ? He
answered: Lo, she is in the tent.

10 And he said to him: *I will return
and come to thee at this time, life ac-
companying, and Sara thy wife shall have
a son. Which when Sara heard, she
laughed behind the door of the tent.

11 Now they were both old, and far
advanced in years, and it had ceased to
be with Sara after the manner of women.

12 And she laughed secretly, saying:
After I am grown old ^ and my lord is an
old man, shall I give myself to pleasure ?

13 And the Lord said to Abraham : Why
did Sara laugh, saying : Shall I who am
an old woman bear a child indeed ?

14 Is there any thing hard to God?
according to appointment I will return
\jO thee at this same time, life accom-
panying, and Sara shall have a son.

15 Sara denied, saying : I did not
laugh: for she was afraid. But the
Lord said. Nay : but thou didst laugh :

16 And when the men rose up from
thence, they turned their eyes towards
Sodom : and Abraham walked with them,
bringing them on the way. . ?' *"

17 And the Lord said : Can I hide from
Abraham what I am about to do :

k Supra 17. 19 ; Infra 21. 1 ; Rom. 9. 9.

Chap. 18. Ver. 21. / will go dovm, &c. The
Lord here accommodates his discourse to the way of
speaking and acting amongst men ; for he knoweth
ell things, and ueedetli not to go anywhere for io*

18 '^ Seeing he shall become a great
and mighty nation, and in him all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed ?

19 For I know that he will command
his children, and his household after
him to keep the way of the Lord, and
do judgment and justice : that for Abra-
ham's sake the Lord may bring to effect
all the things he hath spoken unto him.

20 And the Lord said : The cry of
Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and
their sin is become exceedingly grievous.

21 I will go down and see whether they
have done according to the cry that is
come to me : or whether it be not so,
that I may know.

22 And they turned themselves from
thence, and went their way to Sodom : but
Abraham as yet stood before the Lord.

23 And drawing nigh he said : Wilt
thou destroy the just with the wicked ?

24 If there be fifty just men in the city,
shall they perish withal ? and wilt thou
not spare that place for the sake of the
fifty just, if they be therein ?

25 Far be it from thee to do this thing,
and to slay the just with the wicked, and
for the just to be in like case as the
wicked, this is not beseeming thee :
thou who judgost all the earth, wilt not
make this judgment.

26 And the Lord said to him: If I find
in Sodom fifty just within the city, I
will spare the whole place for thoir sake.

27 And Abraham answered, and said :
Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to
my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.

28 What if there be five less than fifty
just persons? wilt thou for five and
forty destroy the whole city ? And he
said : I will not destroy it, if I find five
and forty.

29 And again he said to him: But if
forty be found there, what wilt thou do?
He said: I will not destroy it for the
sake of forty.

30 Lord, saith he, be not angry, I be-
seech thee, if I speak: What if thirty
^hall be found there? He answered: I
will not do it, if I find thirty there.

31 Seeing, saith he, I have once begun,
I will speak to my Lord. What if

1 1 Peter 3. 6. — m Supra 12. 3 ; Infra 22. 18.

formation. Note here, that two of the three angels
went away immediately for Sodom ; whilst the third,
who represented tlia Lord, remained with Abra>

Lot receives the angels

twenty be found there ? He said : I will
not destroy it for the sake of twenty.

32 I beseech thee, saith he, be not
angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more :
What if ten should be found there ? And
he said : I will not destroy it for the
sake of ten.

33 And the Lord departed, after he had
left speaking to Abraham : and Abraham
returned to his place.

CHAPTER 19.

Lot, entertaining Angels in his house, is delivered
from Sodom, which is destroyed : his wife for
looking back is turned into a statue of salt.

A ND ^ the two angels came to Sodom
J\ in the evening, and Lot was sitting
in the gate of the city. And seeing them,
he rose up and went to meet them : and
Worshipped prostrate to the ground,

2 And said : I beseech you, my lords,
turn in to the house of your servant, and
lodge there : wash your feet, and in the
morning you shall go on your way. And
they said : No, but we will abide in the
street.

3 He pressed them very much to turn in
unto him : and when they were come in
to his house, he made them a feast, and
baked unleavened bread and they ate :

4 But before they went to bed, the men
of the city beset the house both young
and old, all the people together.

5 And they called Lot, and said to him :
Where are the men that came in to thee
at night? bring them out hither that we
may know them :

6 Lot went out to them, and shut the
door after him, and said :

7 Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren,
do not commit this evil.

8 I have two daughters who as yet have
not known man : I will bring them out to
you, and abuse you them as it shall please
you, so that you do no evil to these men,
because they are come in under the
shadow of my roof.

9 But they said : Get thee back thither.
And again : Thou camest in, said they,
as a stranger, was it to be a judge?
therefore we will afflict thee more than
them. ° And they pressed very violently
upon Lot: and they were even at the
point of breaking open the doors.

10 And behold the men put out their

GENESIS Lot saved from Sodom

hand, and drew in Lot unto them, and
shut the door :

11 And them that were without, ^ they
struck with blindness from the least to
the greatest, so that they could not find
the door.

12 And they said to Lot : Hast thou here
any of thine? son in law, or sons, or
daughters, all that are thine bring them
out of this city :

13 For we will destroy this place, because
their cry is grown loud before the Lord,
who hath sent us to destroy them.

14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his
sons in law that were to have his daugh-
ters, and said : Arise : get you out of this
place, because the Lord will destroy this
city. And he seemed to them to speak
as it were in jest.

15 And when it was morning, the angels
pressed him, saying : Arise, take thy wife,
and the two daughters which thou hast :
lest thou also perish in the wickedness of
the city.

16 And as he lingered, they took his hand,
and the hand of his wife, and of hie two
daughters, because the Lord spared him.

17 5 And they brought him forth, and set
him without the city : and there they
spoke to him, saying : Save thy life : look
not back, neither stay thou in all the
country about: but save thyself in the
mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

18 And Lot said to them : I beseech thee
my Lord,

19 Because thy servant hath found grace
before thee, and thou hast magnified thy
mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in
saving my life, and I cannot escape to the
mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I
die :

20 There is this city here at hand, to
which I may flee, it is a little one, and I
shall be saved in it : is it not a little one,
and my soul shall Uve ?

21 And he said to him: Behold also in
this, I have heard thy prayers, not to de-
stroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

22 '"Make haste and be saved there, be-
cause I cannot do any thing till thou go
in thither. Therefore the name of that
city was called Segor.

23 The sun was risen upon the earth,
and Lot entered into Segor.

n Heb. 13. 2.
o 2 Peter 2. 8.

p WJsd. 19. 16 ;

2 Kings 18. 6.
r Wisd. 10. 6.

q Wisd. 10. 6,

Chap. 19. Yer. 22. Segor. ThaX is, a little one,
22

Destruction of the cities

GENESIS

God warns Ahimelech

24 * And the Lord rained upon Sodom
and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from
the Lord out of heaven.

25 And he destroyed these cities, and all
the country about, all the inhabitants of
the cities, and all things that spring from
the earth.

26 *And his wife looking behind her,
was turned into a statue of salt.

27 And Abraham got up early in the
morning, and in the place where he had
stood before with the Lord, "

28 He looked towards Sodom and Go-
morrha, and the whole land of that
country : and he saw the ashes rise up
from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.

29 Now when God destroyed the cities
of that country, remembering Abraham,
he deUvered Lot out of the destruction
of the cities wherein he had dwelt.

30 And Lot went up out of Segor, and
abode in the mountain, and his two daugh-
ters with him, (for he was afraid to stay
in Segor, ) and he dwelt in a cave, he and
his two daughters with him.

31 And the elder said to the younger :
Our father is old, and there is no man left
on the earth, to come in unto us after the
manner of the whole earth.

32 Come, let us make him drunk with
wine, and let us lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.

33 And they made their father drink
wine that night : and the elder went in
and lay with her father : but he perceived
not neither when his daughter lay down,
nor when she rose up.

34 And the next day the elder said to
the younger : Behold I lay last night with
my father, let us make him drink wine
also to night, and thou shalt lie with him,
that we may save seed of our father.

35 They made their father drink wine
that night also, and the younger daugh-
ter went in, and lay with him : and neither
then did he perceive when she lay down,
nor when she rose up.

36 So the two daughters of Lot were
with child by their father.

37 And the elder bore a son, and she
called his name Moab : he is the father
of the Moabites unto this day.

38 The younger also bore a son, and she

s Dent. 29. 23 ; Isa. 13. 19; Jer. 50. 40 ;
Ezech. 16. 49 ; Osee 11. 8 ; Amos 4. 11 ;

called his name Ammon, that is, the son
of my people : he is the father of the
Ammonites unto this day.

CHAPTER 20.

Abraham sojourned in Gerara : Sara is taken into
king Abimelech^s house, but by God's command'
ment is restored untouched.

A BRAHAM removed from thence to
XJL the south country, and dwelt be-
tween Cades and Sur, and sojourned in
Gerara.

2 And he said of Sara his wife : She is
my sister. So Abimelech the king of
Gerara sent, and took her.

3 And God came to Abimelech in a
dream by night, and he said to him;
Lo thou shalt die for the woman thou
hast taken : for she hath a husband.

4 Now Abimelech had not touched her,
and he said : Lord, wilt thou slay a nation,
that ic ignorant and just ?

5 Did not he say to me : She is my sister :
and she say, He is my brother? in the
simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of
my hands have I done this.

6 And God said to him ; And I know
that thou didst it with a sincere heart :
and therefore I withheld thee from sin-
ning against me, and I suffered thee not
to touch her.

7 Now therefore restore the man his
wife, for he is a prophet : and he shall pray
for thee, and thou shalt live : but if thou
wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt
surely die, thou and all that are thine.

8 And Abimelech forthwith rising up in
the night, called all his servants : and
spoke all these words in their hearing,
and all the men were exceedingly afraid

9 And Abimelech called also for Abra-
ham, and said to him : What hast thou
done to us ? what have we offended thee
in, that thou hast brought upon me and
upon my kingdom a great sin? thou
hast done to us what thou oughtest not
to do.

10 And again he expostulated with him,
and said, What sawest thou, that thou
hast done this?

11 Abraham answered: i thought with
myself, saying : Perhaps there is not the
fear of God in this place : and they will
kill me for the sake of my wife :

Luke 17. 29; Jude 1. 7. — t Luke 17.32.
u Supra 18. 1.

Yer. 2& And Ms vri/e. As a standing memorial to tlie servants of God to proceed in virtue, and not

to look back to vice or its aUuremeuts.

Isaac is horn

GENESIS

Agar and Ismael cast forth

12 Howbeit, otherwise aloo she is truly
iny sister, "^ tho daughter of my father,
and not the daughter of my mother, and
I took her to wife.

13 And after God brought me out of my
father's house, I said to her : ^ Thou shalt
do me this kindness : In every place, to
which we shall come, thou shalt say that
I am thy brother.

14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen,
and servants and handmaids, and gave to
Abraham : and restored to him Sara, his
wife.

15 And said: The land is before you,
dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

16 And to Sara he said: Behold I have
given thy brother a thousand pieces of
silver : this shall serve thee for a cover-
ing of thy eyes to all that are with thee,
and whithersoever thou shalt go : and
remember thou wast taken.

17 And when Abraham prayed, God
healed Abimelech and his wife, and his
handmaids, and they bore children :

18 For the Lord had closed up every
womb of the house of Abimelech on ac-
coimt of Sara, Abraham's wife.

CHAPTER 21.

Isaac is born. Agar and Ismael are cast forth.

AND the Lord visited ^ Sara, as he had
_ promised : and fulfilled what he had
spoken.

2 * And she conceived and bore a son
in her old age, at the time that God had
foretold her.

3 And Abraham called the name of his
son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.

4 And he circumcised him the eighth
day, ^ as God had commanded him,

5 When he was a hundred years old :
for at this age of his father was Isaac
born.

6 And Sara said : God hath made a laugh-
ter for me : whosoever shall hear of it
will laugh with me.

7 And again she said: Who would be-
lieve that Abraham should hear that
Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore
to him in his old age.

8 And the child grew and was weaned :
and Abraham made a great feast on the
day of his weaning.

w Supra 12. 13, and 11. 29. — x Infra 21. 23.
y Supra 17. 19, and 18. 10. — s Gal 4. 23 ; Heb. 11. 11.

9 And when Sara had seen the son of
Agar the Egyptian playing with Isaac
her son, she said to Abraham :

10 Cast out this bondwoman, and her
son : for the son of the bondwoman shall
not be heir with my son Isaac.

11 Abraham took this grievously for his
son.

12 And God said to him : Let it not seem
grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy
bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said
to thee, hearken to her voice : ^ for in
Isaac shall thy seed be called.

13 But I will make the son also of the
bondwoman a great nation, because he
is thy seed.

14 So Abraham rose up in the morning,
and taking bread and a bottle of water,
put it upon her shoulder, and dehvered
the boy, and sent her away. And she
departed, and wandered in the wilder-
ness of Bersabee.

15 And when the water in the bottle
was spent, she cast the boy under one of
the trees that were there.

16 And she went her way, and sat over
against him a great way off as far as a
bow can carry, for she said : I will not
see the boy die : and sitting over against,
she lifted up her voice and wept.

17 And God heard the voice of the boy :
and an angel of God called to Agar from
heaven, saying: What art thou doing,
Agar ? fear not : for God hath heard the
voice of the boy, from the place wherein
he is.

18 Arise, take up the boy, and hold him
by the hand : for I will make him a great
nation.

19 And God opened her eyes : and she
saw a well of water, and went and filled
the bottle, and gave the boy to drink.

20 And God was with him : and he grew,
and dwelt in the wilderness, and became
a young man, an archer.

21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of
Pharan, and his mother took a wife foi
him out of the land of Egypt.

22 At the same time Abimelech, and
Phicol the general of his army said to
Abraham: God is with thee in all that
thou dost.

23 Swear therefore by God, that thou

b Supra 17. 10; Matt. 1. 2.
c Rom. 9. 7; Heb. 11. 18.

Chap. 21. Ver. ^

isaac This word signifies iaiigMer,
94

Abraham and Abimelech

GENESIS

God tries Abraham

wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor
my stock : but according to the kindness
^ that I have done to thee, thou shalt do
to me, and to the land wherein thou hast
lived a stranger.

24 And Abraham said : I will swear.

25 And he reproved Abimelech for a well
of water, which his servants had taken
away by force.

26 And Abimelech answered : I knew not
who did this thing: and thou didst not
tell me, and I heard not of it till to day.
r27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen,
and gave them to Abimelech ; and both of
them made a league.

28 And Abraham set apart seven ewe
lambs of the flock.

29 And Abimelech said to him : What
mean these seven ewe lambs which thou
hast set apart ?

30 But he said : Thou shalt take seven
ewe lambs at my hand : that they may
be a testimony for me, that I dug this
well.

31 Therefore that place was called Ber-
sabee : because there both of them did
swear.

32 And they made a league for the well
of oath.

» 33 And Abimelech, and Phicol the gen-
eral of his army arose and returned to
the land of the Palestines. But Abra-
ham planted a grove in Bersabee, and
there called upon the name of the Lord
God eternal.

34 And he was a sojourner in the land
of the Palestines many days.

CHAPTER 22.

The faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in
his readiness to sacrifiee his son Isaac. He is
stayed from the act by an angel. Former pro-
m,ises are renewed to him. His brother Nachor^s
issue.

AFTER these things, -^God tempted
XjL Abraham, and said to him : Abra-
ham, Abraham. And he answered •- Here
I am.

2 He said to him : Take thy only begot-
ten eon Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go
into the land of vision : and there thou
shalt offer him for ar holocaust upon one
of the mountains which I will shew thee.

3 So Abraham rising up in the night,

e Supra 20. 13.
/ Judith 8. 22 ; Heb. 11. 17.

Ver. 31. Bersabee. That is, the well of oath.

Chap. 22. Ver. l. God tempted, &c. God tempt-
eth no man to evil, James 1. 13 ; but by trial and
experiment maketh known to the world, and to

saddled his ass : and took with him two
young men, and Isaac his son : and when
he had cut wood for the holocaust he
went his way to the place which God had
commanded him.

4 And on the third day, lifting up his
eyes, he saw the place afar off.

5 Aiid he said to his young men : Stay
you here with the ass : I and the boy will
go with speed as far as yonder, and after
we have worshipped, will return to you.

6 And he took the wood for the holo-
caust, and laid it upon Isaac his son:
and he himself carried in his hands fire
and a sword. And as they two went on
together,

7 Isaac said to his father: My father.
And he answered : What wilt thou, son ?
Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where
is the victim for the holocaust ?

8 And Abraham said : God will provide
himself a victim for an holocaust, my
son. So they went on together.

9 And they came to the place which
God had shewn him, where he built an
altar, and laid the wood in order upon it:
and when he had bound Isaac his son, he
laid him on the altar upon the pile of
wood.

10 '^ And he put forth his hand and took
the sword, to sacrifice his son.

11 And behold an angel of the Lord
from heaven called to him, saying : Abra-
ham, Abraham. And he answered : Here
I am.

12 And he said to him : Lay not thy
hand upon the boy, neither do thou any
thing to him : now I know that thou
fearest God, and hast not spared thy
only begotten son for my sake.

13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw
behind his back a ram amongst the briers
sticking fast by the horns, which he took
and offered for a holocaust instead of his
son.

14 And he called the name of that place,
The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to
this day it is said : In the mountain the
Lord will see.

15 And the angel of the Lord called to
Abraham a second time from heaven,
saying :

h James 2. 21.

ourselves, what we are, as here by this trial the sin
gular faith and obedience of Abraham was made
manifest.

God blesses Abraham

GENESIS

Burial of Sara

16 *By my own self have I sworn, saith
the Lord : because thou hast done this
thing, and hast not spared thy only be-
gotten son for my sake :

17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply
thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as
the sand that is by the sea shore : thy
seed shall possess the gates of their ene-
mies.

18 «^ And in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed, because thou hast
obeyed my voice.

19 Abraham returned to his young men,
and they went to Bersabee together, and
he dwelt there.

20 After these things, it was told Abra-
ham that Melcha also had borne children
to Nachor his brother.

21 Hub the firstborn, and Buz his bro-
ther, and Camuel the father of the Syri-
ans,

22 And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas,
and Jedlaph,

23 And Bathuel, of whom was born Re-
becca: These eight did Melcha bear to
Nachor Abraham's brother.

24 And his concubine, named Roma,
bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and
Maacha.

CHAPTER 23.

Sarahs death and burial in the field bought of
Ephron.

A ND Sara lived a hundred and twenty-
J\, seven years.

2 And she died in the city of Arbee
^hich is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan :
and Abraham came to mourn and weep
for her.

3 And after he rose up from the funeral
obsequies, he spoke to the children of
Heth, saying:

4 I am a stranger and sojourner among
you : give me the right of a burying-
place with you, that I may bm:y my dead.

5 The children of Heth answered, say-
ing:

6 My Lord, hear us, thou art a prince of
God among us : bury thy dead in our
principal sepulchres : and no man shall
have power to hinder thee from burying
thy dead in his sepulchre»

7 Abraham rose up, and bowed down to

i Ps. 104. 9 ; Eccli. 44. 21 ; 1 Mac. 2. 52 ;

Luke 1. 73 ; Heb. 6. 13 and 17.
j Supra 12. 3, and 18. 18 ; Infra 26. 4 ;

Chap. 23. Ver. 7. Bowed down to the people.
Adoravit, literally adored. But this word here, as
well as in many other places in the Latin scriptures,

the people of the land, to wit the chil-
dren of Heth :

8 And said to them: If it please your
soul that I should bury my dead, hear
me, and intercede for me to Ephron the
son of Seor.

9 That he may give me the double cave,
which he hath in the end of his field:
for as much money as it is worth he shall
give it me before you, for a possession of
a buryingplace.

10 Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of
the children of Heth. And Ephron made
answer to Abraham in the hearing of all
that went in at the gate of the city, say-
ing:

11 Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou
rather hearken to what I say : The field
I deliver to thee, and the cave that is
therein, in the presence of the children
of my people, bury thy dead.

12 Abraham bowed down before the
people of the land,

13 And he spoke to Ephron, in the pre-
sence of the people : I beseech thee to
hear me : I will give money for the
field : take it, and so I will bury my dead
in it.

14 And Ephron answered :

15 My lord, hear me. The ground
which thou desirest, is worth four hun-
dred sides of silver: this is the price
between me and thee : but what is this ?
bury thy dead.

16 And when Abraham had heard this,
he weighed out the money that Ephron
had asked, in the hearing of the children
of Heth, four hundred sides of silver of
common current money.

17 And the field that before was
Ephron's, wherein was the double cave,
looking towards Mambre, both it and
the cave, and all the trees thereof in all
its limits round about,

18 Was made sure to Abraham for a
possession, in the sight of the children
of Heth, and of all that went in at the
gate of his city.

19 And so Abraham buried Sara his
wife, in a double cave of the field, that
looked towards ' Mambre, this is Hebron
in the land of Chanaan.

Eccli. 44. 25; Acts 3. 25.
I Infra 35. 27.

is used to signify only an inferior honour and rever-
ence paid to men, expressed by a bowing down ol
the body.

Abraham seeks a wife for Isaac GENESIS

The servant meets Rebecca

20 And the field was made sure to Abra-
ham, and the cave that was in it, for a
possession to bury in, by the children of
Heth.

CHAPTER 24.

Abraham's servant, sent by him into Mesopotam,ia,
hringeth from, thence Rebecca, who is married to
Isaac.

NOW Abraham was old; and ad-
vanced in age : and the Lord had
blessed him in all things.

2 And he said to the elder servant of
his house, who was ruler over all he had :
° Put thy hand under my thigh,

3 That I may make thee sw3ar by the
Lord the God of heaven and earth, that
thou take not a wife for my son, of
the daughters of the Chanaanites, among
whom I dwell :

4 But that thou go to my own country
and kindred, and take a wife from thence
for my son Isaac.

5 The servant answered : If the woman
will not come with me into this land,
must I bring thy son back again to the
place, from whence thou camest out?

6 And Abraham said : Beware thou
never bring my son back again thither.

7 The Lord God of heaven, who took
me out of my father's house, and out of
my native country, who spoke to me,
and swore to me, saying: ^To thy seed
will I give this land : he will send his
angel before thee, and thou shalt take
from thence a wife for my son. ^

8 But if the woman will not follow
thee, thou shalt not be bound by the
oath ; only bring not my son back thither
again.

9 The servant therefore put his hand
under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and
swore to him upon this word.

10 And he took ten camels of his mas-
ter's herd, and departed, carrying some-
thing of all his goods with him, and he
set forward and went on to Mesopotamia
to the city of Nachor.

11 And when he had made the camels
lie down without the town near a well of
water in the evening, at the time when
women are wont to come out to draw
water, he said :

12 O Lord the God of my master Abra-

o Infra 47. 29.

Chap. 24. Ver. 7. He v-ill send his ancjel be-
fore thee. This shows that the Hebrews believed

ham, meet me to day, I beseech thee,
and shew kindness to my master Abra-
ham.

13 Behold I stand nigh the spring of
water, and the daughters of the inhabit-
ants of this city will come out to draw
water.

14 Now, therefore, the maid to whom I
shall say : Let down thy pitcher that I
may drink : and she shall answer. Drink,
and I will give thy camels drink also:
let it be the same whom thou hast pro-
vided for thy servant Isaac : and by this
I shall understand, that thou hast shewn
kindness to my master.

15 He had not yet ended these words
within himself, and behold Rebecca came
out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Mel-
cha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abra-
ham, having a pitcher on her shoulder : ^

16 An exceeding comely maid, and a
most beautiful virgin, and not known to
man : and she went down to the spring,
and filled her pitcher and was coming
back.

17 And the servant ran to meet her, and
said : Give me a little water to drink of
thy pitcher. ,

18 And she answered : Drink, my lord.
And quickly she let down the pitcher
upon her arm, and gave him drink.

19 And when he had drunk, she said : I
will draw water for thy camels also, till
they all drink.

20 And pouring out the pitcher into the
troughs, she ran back to the well to draw
water : and having drawn she gave to all
the camels.

21 But he musing beheld her with
silence, desirous to know whether the
Lord had made his journey prosDcrous
or not.

22 And after that the camels had drunk,
the man took out golden earrings, weigh-
ing two sides : and as many bracelets of
ten sides weight.

23 And he said to her : Whose daughter
art thou ? tell me : is there any place in
thy father's house to lodge ?

24 And she answered : I am the daugh-
ter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom
she bore to Nachor.

25 And she said moreover to him : We

p Supra 12. 7, and 13. 15, and 15. 8.
q Infra 26. 2. — r Ex. 11*16; Infra 29. 8.

that God gave them guardiao angels lor their pro
tectioQ.

The servanfs message

GENESIS

Bathuel lets Rebecca go

have good store of both straw and hay,
and a large place to lodge in.

26 The man bowed himself down, and
adored the Lord,

27 Saying : Blessed be the Lord God of
uy master Abraham, who hath not taken
away Ais mercy and truth from my mas-
ter, and hath brought me the straight
way into the house of my master's bro-
ther.

28 Then the maid ran, and told in her
mother's house, all that she had heard.

29 And Rebecca had a brother named
Laban, who went out in haste to the
man, to the well.

30 And when he had seen the earrings
and bracelets in his sister's hands, and
had heard all that she related, saying :
Thus and thus the man spoke to me :
he came to the man who stood by the
camels, and near to the spring of water,

31 And said to him: Come in, thou
blessed of the Lord : why standest thou
without ? I have prepared the house, and
a place for the camels.

32 And he brought him in into his lodg-
ing : and he unharnessed the camels and
gave straw and hay, and water to wash
his feet, and the feet of the men that
were come with him.

33 And bread was set before him. But
he said : I will not eat, till I tell my mes-
sage. He answered him : Speak.

34 And he said: I am the servant of
Abraham :

35 And the Lord hath blessed /ny mas-
ter wonderfully, and he is become
great : and he hath given him sheep and
oxen, silver and gold, menservants and
V^omenservants, camels and asses.

36 And Sara my master's wife hath
borne my master a son in her old age, and
he hath given him all that he had.

37 And my master made me swear, say-
ing : Thou Shalt not take a wife for my
son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I
dwell :

38 But thou Shalt go to my father's
house, and shalt take a wife of my own
kindred for my son :

39 But I answered my master : What if
the woman will not come with me ?

40 The Lord, said he, in whose sight I
walk, will send his angel with thee, and
will direct thy way ; and thou shalt take
a wife for my son of my own kindred,
and of my father's house.

41 But thou shalt be clear from my
curse, when thou shalt come to my kin-
dred, if they will not give thee one.

42 And I came to day to the well ot
water, and said : O Lord God of my mas-
ter Abraham, if thou hast prospered my
way, wherein I now walk,

43 Behold I stand by the well of wa-
ter, and the virgin, that shall come out
to draw water, who shall hear me say :
Give me a little water to drink of thy
pitcher :

44 And shall say to me: Both drink
thou, and I will also draw for thy camels :
let the same be the woman, whom the
Lord hath prepared for my master's
son.

45 And whilst I pondered these things
secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared
coming with a pitcher, which she carried
on her shoulder : and she went down to
the well and drew water. And I said to
her : Give me a little to drink.

46 And she speedily let down the
pitcher from her shoulder, and said to
me ! Both drink thou, and to thy camels
I will give drink. I drank, and she wa-
tered the camels.

47 And I asked her, and said : Whose
daughter art thou? And she answered:
I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of
Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. So I
put earrings on her to adorn her face,
and I put bracelets on her hands.

48 And falling down I adored the Lord,
blessing the Lord God of my master Abra-
ham, who hath brought me the straight
way to take the daughter of my master's
brother for his son.

49 Wherefore if you do according to
mercy and truth with my master, tel!
me : but if it please you otherwise, tell
me that also, that I may go to the right
hand, or to the left.

60 And Laban and Bathuel answered:
The word hath proceeded from the Lord,
we cannot speak any other thing to thee
but his pleasure.

51 Behold Rebecca is before thee, take
her and go thy way, and let her be the
wife of thy master's son, as the Lord hath
spoken.

52 Which when Abraham's servant
heard, falling down to the ground he
adored the Lord.

53 And bringing forth vessels of silver
and gold, and garments, he gave them

Isofic and Rebecca meet

GENESIS

4928Q

eaih of Abraham

to Rebecca for a present. He offered
gifts also to her brothers, and to her mo-
ther.

54 And a banquet was made, and tney
ate and drank together, and lodged there.
And in the morning, the servant arose,
and said : Let me depart, that I may go
to my master.

55 And her brother and mother an-
swered : Let the maid stay at least ten
days with us, and afterwards she shall
depart.

56 Stay me not, said he, because the
Lord hath prospered my way : send me
away, that I may go to my master.

57 And they said : Let us call the maid,
and ask her will.

58 And they called her, and when she
was come, they asked : Wilt thou go
with this man ? She said : I will go.

59 So they sent her away, and her
nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his
company,

60 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and
saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou
increase to thousands of thousands, and
may thy seed possess the gates of their
enemies.

61 So Rebecca and her maids, being set
upon camels, followed the man : who with
speed returned to his master.

62 At the same time Isaac was walking
along the way to the well * which is called
Of the living and the seeing : for he dwelt
in the souiih country.

63 And he was gone forth to meditate
in the field, the day being now well
spent : and when he had lifted up his
eyes, he saw camels coming afar off.

64 Rebecca also, when she saw Isaac,
lighted off the camel,

65 And said to the servant : Who is
that man who cometh towards us along
the field ? And he said to her : That man
is my master. But she quickly took her
cloak, and covered herself.

66 And the servant told Isaac all that
he had done.

67 Who brought her into the tent of
Sara his mother, and took her to wife :
and he loved her so much, that it moder-

1 1 Par. 1. 32,

s Supra 16. 14.

Ver. 57. Let us call the maid, and ask her will.
Not as to her marriage, as she had already con-
sented, but of her quitting her parents and going to
her husband.

ated the sorrow which was occasioned by
his mother's death.

CHAPTER 26.

AhraharrCs children by Cetura ; his death and that
of Ismael. Isaac hath Esau and Jacob twins.
Esau selleth his first birthright to Jacob.

A ND Abraham married another wife
XJL named Cetura : *

2 Who bore him Zamran, and Jecsan,
and Madan, and Madian, and Jesboc, and
Sue.

3 Jecsan also begot Saba and Dadan.
The children of Dadan were Assurim, and
Latusim and Loomin.

4 But of Madian was born Epha, and
Opher, and Henoch, and Abida, and
Eldaa: all these were the children of
Cetura.

5 And Abraham gave aU his possessions
to Isaac.

6 And to the children of the concubines
he gave gifts, and separated them from
Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the
east country.

7 And the days of Abraham's life were
a hundred and seventy-five years.

8 And decaying he died in a good old
age, and having lived a long time, and
being full of days : and was gathered to
his people.

9 And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried
him in the double cave, which was sit-
uated in the field of Ephron the son of
Seor the Hethite, over against Mambre ;

10 Which he had bought of the chil-
dren of Heth : there was he buried, and
Sara his wife.

11 And after his death, God blessed
Isaac his son, who dwelt by the 'Tell
named Of the living and seeing.

12 These are the generations of Ismael
the son of Abraham, whom Agar the
Egyptian, Sara's servant, bore unto him :

13 And these are the names of his chil-
dren according to their calling and gen-
erations. ^The firstborn of Ismael was
Nabajoth, then Cedar, and Adbeel, and
Mabsam.

14 And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,

15 Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and
Naphis, and Cedma.

V 1 Par. 1. 29.

Chap. 25. Ver. 6. Concubines. Agar and Cetura
are here called concubines^ (though they were law-
ful wives, and in other places are so called,) because
they were of an inferior degree, and such in scrip-
ture are usually called concubines.

Birth of Esau and Jacob

GENESIS

Isaac sojourns in Gerara

16 These are the sons of Ismael: and
these are their names by their castles and
fcowns, twelve princes of their tribes. ^

17 And the years of Ismael's life were
a hundred and thirty-seven, and decaying
he died, and was gathered unto his
people.

18 And he dwelt from Hevila as far as
Sur, which looketh towards Egypt, to
them that go towards the Assyrians. He
died in the presence of all his brethren.

19 These also are the generations of
Isaac the son of Abraham ; Abraham be-
got Isaac :

20 Who when he was forty years old,
took to wife Rebecca the daughter of

Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister
to Laban.

21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his
wife, because she was barren , and he
heard him, and made Rebecca to con-
ceive.

22 But the children struggled in her
womb : and she said : If it were to be so
with me, what need was there to con-
ceive ? And she went fco consult the Lord.

23 Anu he answeriJig said: ^Two na-
tions are in thy womb, and two peoples
shall be divided out of thy womb, and
one people shall overcome the other,
and the elder shall serve the younger.

24 And when her time was come to be
delivered, behold twins were found in
her womb.

25 " He that came rorth rirsD was red,
and hairy like a skin : and his name was
called Esau. ^ Immediately the other
coming forth, held his brother's foot in
his hand, and therefore he was called
Jacob.

26 Isaac wa^ threescore years old when
the children were born unto him.

%7 And when they were grown up, Esau
became a skilful hunter, and a husband-
man: but Jacob a plain man dwelt in
tents.

28 Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of
his hunting : and Rebecca loved Jacob.

29 And Jacob boiled pottage : to whom
Esau, coming faint out of the field,

30 Said: Give me of this red pottage,
for I am exceeding faint. For which rea-
son his name was called Edom. **

w Supra 17. 20.

z Rom. 9. 10.
a Osee 12. 13. — b Matt. 1. 2.

31 And Jacob said to him: Sell me thy
first birthright.

32 He answered : Lo I die, what will the
first birthright avail me.

33 Jacob said: Swear therefore to me.
Esau swore to him, and sold his first
birthright.

34 And so taking bread and the pottage
of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went
his way ; making little account of having
sold his first birthright.

CHAPTER 26.

Isaac sojoumeth in Gerara, where God reneiveth to
him the promise m,ade to Abraham,. King AM-
m,elech m,aketh league vrith him.

A ND when a famine came in the land,
J\. after that barrenness which had
happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac
went to Abimelech king of the Pales-
tines to Gerara.

2 And the Lord appeared to him and
said : Go not down into Egypt, but stay
in the land that I shall tell thee.

3 And sojourn in it, and I will be with
thee, and will bless thee : for to thee and
to thy seed I will give all these countries,
•^to fulfil the oath which I swore to Abra-
ham thy father.

4 And I will multiply thy seed like the
stars of heaven : and I will give to thy
posterity all these countries : and in thy
seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed. ^

5 Because Abraham obeyed my voice,
and kept my precepts and command-
ments, and observed my ceremonies and
laws.

6 So Isaac abode in Gerara.

7 And when he was asked by the men
of that place, concerning his wife, he
answered : She is my sister ; for he was
afraid to confess that she was his wife,
thinking lest perhaps they would kill
him because of her beauty.

8 And when very many days were
passed, and he abode there, Abimelech
king of the Palestines looking out through
a window, saw him playing with Rebecca
his wife.

9 And calling for him, he said : It is evi*
dent she is thy wife : why didst thou feign
her to be thy sister? He answered: I
feared lest I should die for her sake.

d Heb. 12. 16 ; Abd, 1. 1.

/ Supra 12. 7, and 15. 18.

g Supra 12. 3, and 18. 18, and 22. 18;

Infra 28. 14.

The Pcdestines envy Isaac

GENESIS

Abimelech and Isaac

iO And Abimelech said : Why hast thou
deceived us? Some man of the people
might have lain with thy wife, and thou
hadst brought upon us a great sin. And
he commanded all the people, saying :

11 He that shall touch this man's wife,
shall surely be put to death.

12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and
he found that same year a hundredfold :
and the Lord blessed him.

13 And the man was enriched, and he
went on prospering and increasing, till
be became exceeding great:

14 And he had possessions of sheep
and of herds, and a very great family.
Wherefore the Palestines envying him,

15 Stopped up at that time all the wells,
that the servants of his father Abraham
had digged, filling them up with earth:

16 Iiuaomuch that Abimelech himself
said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou
art become much mightier than we.

17 So he departed and came to the tor-
rent of Gerara, to dwell there :

18 And he digged again other wells,
which the servants of his father Abraham
had digged, and which, after his death,
the Palestines had of old stopped up:
and he called them by the same names
by which his father before had called
thenu

19 And they digged in the torrent, and
found living water.

20 But there also the herdsmen of Ge-
rara strove against the herdsmen of
Isaac, saying: It is our water. Where-
fore he called the name of the well, on
occasion of that which had happened.
Calumny.

21 And they digged also another ; and
for that they quarrelled likewise, and he
called the name of it, Enmity.

22 Going forward from thence, he digged
another well, for which they contended
liot: therefore he called the name thereof,
Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord
given us room, and made us to increase
upon the earth,*

23 And he went up from that place to
Bersabee,

24 Where the Lord appeared to him
that same night, saying : I am the God
of Abraham thy father ; do not fear, for I
am with thee : I will hless thee, and mul-

/i Ps. 4. 1.

Chap. 26. Ver. 19. Torrent. That Is, a channel
jrher* sometimes a torrent or violent stream had run.

tiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's
sake.

25 And he built there an altar: and
called upon the name of the Lord, and
pitched his tent: and commanded hie
servants to dig a welL

26 To which place when Abimelech, and
Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief
captain of his soldiers came from Gerara,

27 Isaac said to them : Why are ye come
to me, a man whom you hate, and have
thrust out from you?

28 And they answered : We saw that
the Lord is with thee, and therefore we
said : Let there be an oath between us,
and let us make a covenant,

29 That thou do us no harm, as we on
our part have touched nothing of thine,
nor have done any thing to hurt thee:
but with peace have sent thee away in-
creased with the blessing of the Lord.

30 And he made them a feast, and after
they had eaten and drunk :

31 Arising in the morning, they swore
one to another: and Isaac sent them
away peaceably to their own home.

32 And behold the same day the ser-
vants of Isaac came, telling him of a well
which they had digged, *nd saying: We
have found water.

33 Whereupon he called it Abundance :
and the name of the city was called Ber-
sabee, even to this day.

34 And Esau being forty years ol^
married wives, Judith the daughter of
Beeri the Hethite, and Basemath the
daughter of Elon of the same place.

35^ And they both offended the mind
of Isaac and Rebecca.

CHAPTER 27.

Jacob, by his mother^s counsel^ obtaineth his father^
blessing instead of Esau. And by her is advised
to fly to his uncle ^jaban.

"VrOW Isaac was old, and his eyes were
XM dim, and he could not see : and he
called Esau, his elder son, and said bo
him: My son? And he answered : Here
I am.

2 And his father said to him: Thou
seest that I am old, and know not the
day of my death.

3 Take thy arms, thy quiver, and bow,
and go abroad: and when thou hast
taken some thing by hunting,

0 Infra 27. 46.

Ver. 22 Latitude. That is, wilderness, or room.

Jacob deceives Isaac

GENESIS

Jacob receives the blessing

± Make me savoury meat thereof, as
thou knowest I like, and bring it, that I
may eat: and my soul may bless thee
before I die.

6 And when Rebecca had heard this,
and he was gone into the field to fulfil
bis father's commandment,

6 She said to her son Jacob : I heard
thy father talking with Esau thy brother,
and saying to him :

7 Bring me of thy hunting, and make
me meats that I may eat, and bless thee
in the sight of the Lord, before I die.

8 Now, therefore, my eon, follow my
counsel :

9 And go thy way to the flock, bring
me two kids of the best, that I may
make of them meat for thy father, such
as he gladly eateth:

10 Which when thou hast brought in,
and he hath eaten, he may bless thee
before he die.

11 And he answered her : Thou knowest
Shat Esau my brother is a hairy man,
And I am smooth.

,12 ](J2 my father shaK feel me, and per-
ceive it, I fear lest he will think I would
have mocked himv and I shall bring upon
me a curse instead of a blessing.

13 And his mother said to him: Upon
me be this curse, my son : only hear thou
my voice, and go, fetch me the things
which I have said.

14 He went, and brought, and gave them
to his mother. She dressed meats, such
as she knew his father liked.

15 And she put on him very good gar-
ments of Esau, which she had at home
with her :

16 And the little skins of the kids she
put about his hands, and covered the
bare of his neck.

17 And she gave him the savoury meat,
and delivered him bread th^-t she had
baked.

18 Which when he had carried in, he
said: My father? But he answered: I
hear. Who art thou, my son ?

19 And Jacob said : I am Esau thy first-
born: I have done as thou didst com-
mand me : arise, sit, and eat of my veni-
son, that thy soul may bless me.

Chap. 27. Ver. 19. / am Esau thy firstborn.
Bt. Augustine (L. Contra mendacium, c. 10), treat-
ing at large upon this place excuseth Jacob from
a lie, because this whole passage was mysteri.
ous, as relating to the preference which was after-
wards to be given to the Gentiles before the carnal

20 And Isaac said to his son : Koii
couldst thou find it so quickly, my son?
He answered: It was the will of God that
what I sought came quickly in my way.

21 And Isaac said: Come hither, that 1
may feel thee, my son, and may prove
whether thou be my son Esau, or not.

22 He came near to his father, and when
he had felt him, Isaac said: The voice
indeed is the voice of Jacob; but the
hands are the hands of Esau.

23 And he knew him not, because his
hairy hands made him like to the elder.
Then blessing him,

24 He said : Art thoa my ton Esant H0
answered : I am.

25 Then he said : Bring me the meats of
thy hunting, my son, that my soul may
bless thee. And when they were brought,
and he had eaten, he offered him wine
also^ which after he had drunk,

26 He said to him : Come near me, and
give me a kiss, my son,

27 He came near, and kissed him. And
immediately as he smelled the fragrant
smell of his garments, blessing him, he
said: Behold the smell of my son is as
the smell of a plentiful field, which the
Lord hath blessed.

28 God give thee the dew of heaven,
and of the fatness of the earth, abun*
dance of com and wine, v/»i<'J hiif.

29 And let peoples serve thee, and tribes
worship thee: be thou lord of thy bre
thren, and let thy mother's children bow
down before thee. Cursed be he that
curseth thee * and let him that blesseth
thee be filled with blessings.

30 Isaac had scarce ended his words,
when Jacob being now gone out abroad,
Esau came,

31 And brought in to his father meate
made of what he had taken in hunting^
saying: Arise, my father, and eat of thy
son's venison; that thy soul may blesa
me. Ji'-i

32 And Isaac said to him: Why! whd
art thou? He answered: I am thy first-
bom son Esau.

33 Isaac was struck with fear, and aston-
ished exceedingly: and wondering be-
yond what can be beheved, said: Who is

Jews, which Jacob by prophetic light might under-
stand. So far Is certain» that the first birthright,
both by divine election and by Esau* free cession
belonged to Jacob : so that if there were any lie in
the case, it could be mm> more tbao an officiouc and
venial one.

2»

Esau intends to kill Jacob

GENESIS Jacob journeys to Mesopotamia

he then that even now brought me veni-
son that he had taken, and I ate of all
before thou earnest? and I have blessed
him, and he shall be blessed.

34 Esau having heard his father's words,
roared out with a great cry : and being
in a great consternation, said : Bless me
also, my father.

36 And he said : Thy brother came de-
ceitfully and got thy blessing.

36 But he said again : Rightly is his
name called Jacob; for he hath sup-
planted me lo this second time : * my first
birthright he took away before, and now
this second time he hath stolen away
toy blessing. And again he said to his
father : Hast thou not reserved me also
a blessing ?

37 Isaac answered: I have appointed
him thy lord, and have made all his bre-
thren his servants: I have established
him with corn and wine, and after this,
what shall I do more for thee, my son?

38 And Esau said to him: Hast thou
only one blessing, father? I beseech
thee bless me also. And when he wept
With a loud cry, "*

39 Isaac being moved, said to him : In
the fat of the eaxth, and in the dew of
heaven from above,

40 Shall thy blessing be. Thou shalt
live by the sword and shalt serve thy
brother : and the time shall come, when
thou shalt shake o& and loose his yoke
from thy neck.

41 Esau therefore always hated Jacob
for the blessing wherewith his father had
blessed him: and he said in his heart:
'^The days will come of the mourning
of my father, and I will kill my brother
Jacob.

42 These things were told to Rebecca :
and she sent and called Jacob her son,
and said to him: Behold Esau thy bro-
ther threateneth to kill thee.

43 Now therefore, my son, hear my
«roice : arise and flee to Laban my bro-
iiher to Haran :

44 And thou shalt dwell with him a few
days, till the wrath of thy brother be as-
suaged,

45 And his indignation cease, and he
torget the things thou hast done to him :
afterwards I will send, and bring thee

I Supra 25. 34. — m Heb. 1\. 20.
n Abd. 1. 10.

from thence hither. Why shall I be de-
prived of both my sons in one day?

46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: °I am
weary of my life because of the daugh-
ters of Heth : if Jacob take a wife of the
stock of this land, I choose not to live.

CHAPTER 28.

Jacobus journey to Mesopotamia : his vision and v&w,

ND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed
him, and charged him, saying : Take
not a wife of the stook of Chanaan :

2 But go, and take a journey to Meso-
potamia of Syria, to \he house of Bathuei
thy mother's fathei, and take thee a wife
thence of the daughters of Laban thy
uncle.

3 And God almighty bless thee, and
make thee to increase, and multiply
thee: that thou mayst be a multitude
of people.

4 And give the blessings of Abraham
to iihee, and to thy seed after thee : that
thou mayst possess the land of thy so-
journment, which he promised to thy
grandfather.

5 ^ And when Isaac had sent him away,
he took his journey and went to Meso-
potamia of Syria to Laban the son of
Bathuei the Syrian, brother to Rebecca
his mother.

6 And Esau seeing that his father had
blessed Jacob, and had sent him into
Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife
thence ; and that after the blessing he
had charged him, saying : Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan :

7 And that Jacob obeying his parents
was gone into Syria :

8 Experiencing also that his father was
not well pleased with the daughters of
Chanaan :

9 He went to Ismael, and took to wife,
besides them he had before, Maheleth
the daughter of Ismael, Abraham's son,
the sister of Nabajoth.

10 But Jacob being departed from Ber-
sabee, went on to Haran. .

11 And when he was come to a certain
place, and would rest in it after sunset,
he took of the stones that lay there, and
putting under his head, slept in the
same place.

12 And be saw in his sleep a laddei
standing upon the earth, and the top

o Si:pra 26. 35.

q Osee 12.

12.

Ver. 36. Jacob.

That Is, a sujpplanter,
33

Vision of Jacobus ladder

GENESIS

Jacob serves Laban

tuereof touching heaven: the angels
also of God ascending and descending by
it;

13 And the Lord leaning upon the lad-
der, saying to him: ''I am the Ix>rd God
of Abraham thy father, and the God of
Isaac; the land, wherein thou sleepest,
I will give to thee and to thy seed.

14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of,
the earth : * thou shalt spread abroad to
the west, and to the east, and to the
north, and to the south: and en thee
and thy seed all the tribes of the earth

SHATJi BE BLESSED.

16 And I will be thy keeper whither-
soever thou goest, and will bring thee
back into this land : neither will I leave
thee, till I «hall have accomplished all
that I have said.

16 And when Jacob awaked out of
Bleep, he said : Indeed the Lord is in
this place, and I knew it noti

17 And trembhng he said : How terrible
is this place! this is no other but the
house of God, and the gate of heaven.

18 And Jacob, arising in the morning,
took the stone, which he had laid under
bis head, and set it up for a title, pour-
ing oil upon the top of it. '

19 And he called the name of the city
Bethel, which before was called Luza.

20 And he made a vow, saying : If God
shall be with me, and shall keep me in
the way by which I walk, and shall give
me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

21 -And I shall return prosperously to
my father's house : the Lord shall be my
God:

22 And this stone, which I have set up
for a title, shall be called the house of
God : and of aU things that thou shalt
give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.

CHAPTER 29.

Jacob gerveth Laban seven years for Rachel : but
is deceived vrith Lia : he afterwards marrieth
Rachfi-l. Lia bears him four sons.

THEN Jacob went on in his Journey,
and came into the east country.

2 And he saw a well in the field, and
three flocks of sheep lying by it : for the
beasts were watered out of it, and the
mouth thereof was closed with a great
stone.

3 And the custom was, when all the

r Infra 35. 1, and 48. a — s Deut. 12. 20. and 19. 8 ;

sheep were gathered together, to roll
away the stone, and after the sheep
were watered, to put it on the mouth of
the Well again.

4 And he said to the shepherds : Bre-
thren, whence are you ? They answered :
Of Haran.

6 And he asked them, saying: Enow
you Laban the son of Nachor? They
said : We know him.

6 He said : Is he in health ? He is in
health, say they : and behold Rachel his
daughter cometh with his flock.

7 And Jacob said: There is yet much
day remaining, neither is it time to

l)ring the flocks into the folds again:
first give the sheep drink, and so lead
them back to feed.

8 They answered:- We cannot, till all
the cattle be gathered together, and we
remove the stone from the well's mouth,
that we may water the flocks.

9 They were yet speaking, and behold
Rachel came with her f ather''s 'sheep : for
she fed the flock.

10 -And when Jacob saw her, and knew
her to be his cousin- german, and that
they were the sheep of Laban, his uncle :
he removed the stone wherewith the
well was closed.

11 And having watered the flock, he
kissed her: and lifting up his voice^
wept.

12 And he told her that he was her
father's brother, and the son of Rebecca:
but she ' went in haste and told her
father.

13 Who, when he heard that Jacob his
sister's son was come, ran forth to meet
him; and embracing him, and heartily
kissing him, brought him into his house.
And when he had heard the caused of
his journey,

14 He answered: Thou art my bone
and my flesh. And after the days of one
month were e;xpired,

15 He said to him: Because thou art
my brother, shalt thou serve me without
wages ? Tell me what wages thou wilt
have.

16 Now he had two daughters, tho
name of the elder was Lia: and the
younger was called Rachel.

17 But Lia was blear eyed : Rachel was

Supra 26w 4. — f Infra 31. 13.

QsLkx, 2& Yer. 18. BeiikU. This name signifies tbe bouse of God.

Hejnarries Lia and Rachel

well favoured, and of a beautiful counte-
nance.

18 And Jacob being in love with her,
Baid: I will serve thee seven years for
Rachel thy younger daughter.

19 Laban answered: It is better that I
give her to thee than to another man ;
stay with' me.

20 So Jacob served seven years for
Rachel : and they , seemed but a few
days, because of the greatness of his
love.

21 And he said to Laban : Give me my
wife ; for noV the time is fulfilled, that I
may go in unto "her.

22 And he, having invited a great num-
ber of his friends to the feast, mada the
marriage.

23 And at night he brought in Lia his
daughter to him,

24 Giving his daughter a handmaid,
named Zelpha. Now when Jacob had
gone in to her according to custom,
when morning was come he saw it was
Lia:

25 And he said to his father in law:
What is it that thou didst mean to do ?
did not I serve thee for Rachel? why
hast thou deceived me ?

26 Laban answered : It is not the cus-
tom in this place, to give the younger in
marriage first.

27 Make up the week of days of this
match : and I will give thee her also,
for the service that thou shalt render
me other seven 3'^ears.

2d He yielded to his pleasure : and
after the week was past, he married
Rachel:

29 To whom her father gave Bala for
her servant.

30 And having at length obtained the
marriage he wished for, he preferred
the love of the latter before the former,
and served with him other seven years.

31 And the Lord seeing that'he despised
Lia, opened her womb, but her sister re-
mained barren.

32 And she conceived and bore a son,
and called his name Ruben, saying : The
Lord saw my affliction: now my hus-
band will love me.

33 And again she conceived and bore a
son, and said : Because the Lord heard
that I was despised, he hath given this

GENESlS Jacob*s sons by the handmaids

also to mei and she called his name
Simeon.

34 And she conceived the third time,
and bc"3 another son: and said: Now
also my husband will be joined to me,
because I have borne him three sons:
and therefore she called his name Levi.

35 The fourth time she conceived and
bore a son, and said : now will I praise
the Lord : and for this she called him
Juda. ^ And she left bearing.

CHAPTER 30.

Rachel, being barren, delivereth her handmaid to
Jacob ; she beareth two sons. Lia ceasing to 6ear,
giveth also her handmaid, and she beareth two
more. Then Lia beareth other two sons and one
daughter. Racliel beareth Joseph. Jacob, desir-
ous to return home, is hir^ed to stay for a certnitt
part of the flock^s increase^ whereby he becometh
exceeding rich.

AND Rachel, seeing herself without
. children, envied ner sister, and said
to her husband : Give me children,
otherwise I shall die.

2 And Jacob being angry with her, an-
swered: Am I as God, who hath de-
prived thee of the fruit of thy womb ?

3 But she said : I have here my ser-
vant Bala : go in unto her, that she may
bear upon my knees, and I may have
children by her.

4, And she gave him Bala in marriage:
who,

6 When her husband had gone in unto
her, conceived and bore a son.

6 And Rachel said : The Lord hath
judged for me, and hath heard my voice,
giving me a son, and therefore she
called his name Dan.

7 And again Bala, conceived and bore
another,

8 For whom Rachel said : God hath
compared me with my sister, and I have
prevailed : and she called him Nephtali.

9 Lia, perceiving that she had left oflf
bearing, gave Zelpha her handmaid to
her husband.

10 And when she had conceived and
brought forth a son,

11 She said: Happily. And therefore
called his name Gad.

12 Zelpha also bore another.

13 And Lia said : This is for my happi-
ness: for women will call me blessed.
Therefore she called him Aser.

14 And Ruben, going out in the time of
the wheat harvest into the field, found

•M«»ti. 2.

The children of Lia and Rachel GENESIS

mandrakes : whicli he brought to his
mother Lia. And Rachel said : Give me
part of thy son's mandrakes.

15 She answered : Dost thou think it a
small matter, that thou hast taken my
husband from me, unless thou take also
my son's mandrakes ? Rachel said ; He
shall sleep with thee this night, for thy
son's mandrakes.

16 And when Jacob returned at even
from the field, Lia went out to meet
him, and said : Thou shalt come in unto
me, because I have hired thee for my
son's mandrakes. And he slept with
her that night.

17 And God heard her prayers ; and
she conceived and bore the fifth son,

18 And said : God hath given me a re-
ward, because I gave my handmaid to
my husband. And she called his name
Issachar.

19 And Lia conceived again, and bore
the sixth son,

20 And said : God hath endowed me
with a good dowry: this turn also my
husband will be with me, because I have
borne him six sons : and therefore she
called his name Zabulon.

21 After whom she bore a daughter,
Darned Dina.

22 The Lord also remembering Rachel,
^eard her, and opened her womb.

23 And she conceived, and bore a son,
saying i God hath taken away my re-
proach.

24 And she called his name Joseph,
saying : The Lord give me also another
son.

25 And when Joseph was born, Jacob
said to his father in law : Send me away
that I may return into my country, and
to my land.

26 Give me my wives, and my children,
for whom I have served thee, that I may
depart : thou knowest the service that I
have rendered thee.

27 Laban said to him: Let mc find
favour in thy sight : I have learned by
experience, that God hath blessed me
tor thy sake :

28 Appoint thy wages which I shall
give thee.

29 But he answered : Thou knowest
how I have served thee, and how great
thy possession hath been in my hands.

Jacob* s wages

30 Thou hadst but little before I came
to thee, and now thou art become rich :
and the Lord hath blessed thee at my
coming. It is reasonable therefore that
I should now provide also for my own
house.

31 And Laban said : What shall I give
thee ? But he said : I require nothing :
but if thou wilt do what I demand, I will
feed, and keep thy sheep again.

32 Go round through all thy flocks, and
separate all the sheep of divers colours,
and speckled ; and all that is brown and
spotted, and of divers colours, as well
among the sheep, as among the goats,
shall be my wages.

33 And my justice shall answer for me
to morrow before thee when the time
of the bargain shall come : and all that
is not of divers colours, and spotted,
and brown, as well among the sheep
as among the goats, shall accuse me of
theft.

34 And Laban said : I like well what
thou demandest.

35 And he separated the same day the
she goats, and the sheep, and the he
goats, and the rams of divers colours,
and spotted : and all the flock of one
colour, that is, of white and black fleece,
he delivered into the hands of his sons.

36 And he set the space of three days*
journey betwixt himself and his son in
law, who fed the rest of his flock.

37 And Jacob took green rods of pop-
lar, and of almond, and of plane trees,
and pilled them in part : so when the
bark was taken off, in the parts that
were pilled, there appeared whiteness:
but the parts that were whole remained
green: and by this means the colour
was divers.

38 And he put them in the troughs,
where the water was poured out: that
when the flocks should come to drink,
they might have the rods before their
eyes, and in the sight of them might
conceive.

39 And it came to pass that in the very
heat of coition, the sheep beheld the
rods, and brought forth spotted, and of
divers colours, and speckled.

40 And Jacob separated the flock, and
put the rods in the troughs before the
eyes of the rams : and all the white and

3»

Jacob seeks to leave Lahan

GENESIS

His departure

the black were Laban's : and the rest were
Jacob's, when the flocks were separated
one from the other.

41 So when the ewes went first to ram,
Jacob put the rods in the troughs of
water before the eyes of the rams, and
of the ewes, that they might conceive
while they were looking upon them :

42 But when the latter coming was, and
the last conceiving, he did not put them.
And those that were lateward, became
Laban's : and they of the first time,
Jacob's.

43 And the man was enriched exceed-
ingly, and he had many flocks, maid-
servants and menservants, camels and
asses.

CHAPTER 31.

Jacobus departure : he is pursued and overtaken by
Laban. They make a covenant.

BUT after that he heard the words of
the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob
hath taken away all that was our father's,
and being enriched by his substance is
become great:

2 And perceiving also that Laban's
countenance was not towards him as
yesterday and the other day,

3 Especially the Lord saying to him :
Return into the land of thy fathers, and
to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

4 He sent, and called Rachel and Lia
into the field, where he fed the flocks,

5 And said to them : I see your father's
countenance is not towards me as yes-
terday and the other day : but the God
of my father hath been with me.

6 And you know that I have served
your father to the uttermost of my
power.

7 Yea, your father also hath over-
reached me, and hath changed my wages
ten times : and yet God hath not suffered
him to hurt me.

8 If at any time he said : The speckled
shall be thy wages : all the sheep brought
forth speckled : but when he said on the
contrary: Thou shalt take all the white
ones for thy wages : all the flocks brought
forth white ones.

9 And God hath taken your father's
substance, and given it to me.

10 For after that time came of the

Chap. 31. Ver. 19. Her father's idols. By this
it appears that Laban was an idolater; and some
of the fathers are of opinion that Bachel stole away

ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes,
and saw in my sleep that the males
which leaped upon the females were of
divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

11 And the angel of God said to me in
my sleep : Jacob ? And I answered :
Here I am.

12 And he said : Lift up thy eyes, and
see that all the males leaping upon the
females, are of divers colours, spotted,
and speckled. For I have seen all that
Laban hath done to thee.

13 I am the God of Bethel, ^ where thou
didst anoint the stone, and make a vow
to me. Now therefore arise, and go out
of this land, and return into thy native
country.

14 And Rachel and Lia answered:
Have we any thing left among the goods
and inheritance of our father's house ?

15 Hath he not counted us as stran-
gers and sold us, and eaten up the price
of us?

16 But God hath taken our father's
riches, and delivered them to us, and to
our children : wherefore do all that God
hath commanded thee.

17 Then Jacob rose up, and having set
his children and wives upon camels,
went his way,

18 And he took all his substance, and
flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in
Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaao
his father to the land of Chanaan.

19 At that time Laban was gone to
shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away
her father's idols.

20 And Jacob would not confess to his
father in law that he was flying away.

21 And when he was gone, together
with all that belonged to him, and
having passed the river, was going on
towards mount Galaad,

22 It was told Laban on the third day
that Jacob fled.

23 And he took his brethren with him,
and pursued after him seven days ; and
overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

24 And he saw in a dream God saying
to him : Take heed thou speak not any
thing harshly against Jacob.

25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the mountain : and when he with his

c Supra 28. 18.

these idols to withdraw him from idolatry, remoy-
ing the occasion of his sin.

Lahan pursues Jacob

GENESIS

They make a leagu$

orethren had overtaken him, he pitched
his tent in the same mount of Galaad.

26 And he said to Jacob : Why hast
thou done thus, to carry away, without
my knowledge, my daughters, as captives
taken with the sword.

27 Why would 8 1 thou run away privately
and not acquaint me, that I might have
brought thee on the way with joy, and
with songs, and with timbrels, and with
harps?

28 Thou hast not suffered me to kiss
my sons and daughters : thou hast done
foolishly : and now, indeed,

29 It is in my power to return thee
evil : but the God of your father said to
me yesterday: *^Take heed thou speak
not any thing harshly against Jacob.

30 Suppose thou didst desire to go to
thy friends, and hadst a longing after
thy father's house : why hast thou stolen
away my gods?

31 Jacob answered: That I departed
unknown to thee, it was for fear lest
thou wouldst take away thy daughters
by force.

32 But whereas thou chargest me with
theft : with whomsoever thou shalt find
thy gods, let him be slain before our
brethren. Search, and if fchou find any
of thy things with me, take them away.
Now when he said this, he knew not that
Rachel had stolen the idols.

33 So Laban went into the tent of Jacob,
and of Lia, and of both the handmaids,
and found them not. And when he was
entered into Rachel's tent,

34 She in haste hid the idols under the
camel's furniture, and sat upon them:
and when he had searched all the tent,
and found nothing,

35 She said : Let not my lord be angry
that I cannot rise up before thee, because
It has now happened to me, according
to the custom of women. So his careful
search was in vain.

36 And Jacob being angry, said in a
chiding manner : For what fault of mine,
and for what offence on my part hast
thou so hotly pursued me,

37 And searched all my household stuff ?
What hast thou found of all the substance
of thy house? lay it here before my
brethren, and thy brethren, and let them
judge between me and thee.

38 Have I therefore been with thee
twenty years ? thy ewes and goats were
not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did
not eat :

39 Neither did I shew thee that which
the beast had torn, I made good all the
damage : whatsoever was lost by theft,
thou didst exact it of me :

40 Day and night was I parched with
heat, and with frosty and sleep departed
from my eyes.

41 And in this manner have I served
thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen
for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks :
thou hast changed also my wages ten
times.

42 Unless the God of my father Abra-
ham, and the fear of Isaac had stood b;
me, peradventure now thou hadst sent
me away naked : God beheld my afflic-
tion and the labour of my hands, and
rebuked thee yesterday.

43 Laban answered him : The daughters
are mine and the children, and thy flocks,
and all things that thou seest are mine :
what can I do to my children, and grand-
children?

44 Come therefore, let us enter into a
league : that it may be for a testimony
between me and thee.

45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it
up for a title :

46 And he said to his brethren : Bring
hither stones. And they gathering stones
together, made a heap, and they ate upon
it.

47 And Laban called it The witness
heap: and Jacob, The hillock of tes-
timony ; each of them according to the
propriety of his language.

48 And Laban said : This heap shall be
a witness between me and thee this day,
and therefore the name thereof was
called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

49 The Lord behold and judge between
us when we shall be gone one from the
other.

50 If thou afflict my daughters, and if
thou bring in other wives over tnem:
none is witness of our speech but God,
who is present and beholdeth.

61 And he said again to Jacob: Behold,
this heap, and the stone which I have
set up between me and thee,

52 Shall be a witness : this heap, I say,

Jacob sends messengers to Esau GENESIS

and the stone, be they for a testimony,
if either I shall pass beyond it going
towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond
it, thinking harm to me.

63 The God of Abraham, and the God of
Nachor, the God of their father, judge
between us. And Jacob swore by the
fear of his father Isaac.

54 And after he had offered sacrifices in
the mountain, he called his brethren to
eat bread. And when they had eaten,
they lodged there :

55 But Laban arose in the night, and
kissed his sons, and daughters, and
blessed them : and returned to his place.

CHAPTER 32.

Jacobus vision of angels ; his message and presents
to Esau ; his wrestling with an angel.

JACOB * also went on the journey he
had begun: and the angels of God
met him.

2 And when he saw them, he said :
These are the camps of God, and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim,
that is. Camps.

3 And he sent messengers before him to
Esau his brother to the land of Seir to
the country of Edom :

4 And he commanded
Thus shall ye speak to
Thus saith thy brother
sojourned with Laban,
with him until this day.

5 I have oxen, and asses, and sheep, and
menservants, and womenservants : and
now I send a message to my lord, that I
may find favour in thy sight.

6 And the messengers returned to Ja-
cob, saying : We came to Esau thy bro-
ther, and behold he cometh with speed
to meet thee with four hundred men.

7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid ; and
in his fear divided the people that was
with him, and the flocks, and the sheep,
and the oxen, and the camels, into two
companies,

8 Saying : If Esau come to one company
and destroy it, the other company that
is left shall escape.

9 And Jacob said : O God of my father
Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O
Lord, who saidst to me : Return to thy
land and to the place of thy birth, and I
will do well for thee,

them, saying :

my lord Esau:

Jacob : I have

and have been

e Infra 48. 16.

Chap. 32. Ver. 24. A man, &c. This was an
liDgel in bumau shape, as we learn from Osee 12. 4.

He divides Ms company

10 I am not worthy of the least of all
thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou
hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my
staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now
I return with two companies.

11 Deliver me from the hand of my bro-
ther Esau, for I am greatly afraid of
him : lest perhaps he come, and kill the
mother with the children.

12 Thou didst say that thou wouldst do
well by me, and multiply my seed like
the sand of the sea, which cannot be
numbered for multitude.

13 And when he had slept there that
night, he set apart, of the things which
he had, presents for his brother Esau,

14 Two hundred she goats, twenty he
goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty
rams,

15 Thirty milch camels with their colts,
forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she
asses, and ten of their foals.

16 And he sent them by the hands of
his servants, every drove by itself, and
he said to his servants: Go before me,
and let there be a space between drove
and drove.

17 And he commanded the first, saying:
If thou meet my brother Esau, and he
ask thee: Whose art thou? or whither
goest thou? or whose are these before
thee?

18 Thou snalt answer: Thy servant Ja-
cob's : he hath sent them as a present to
my lord Esau : and he cometh after us.

19 In like manner he commanded the
second and the third, and all that followed
the droves, saying: Speak ye the same
words to Esau, when ye find him.

20 And ye shall add : Thy servant Jacob
himself also folio weth after us; for he
said : I will appease him with the presents
that go before, and afterwards I will see
him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

21 So the presents went before him, but
himself lodged that night in the camp.

22 And rising early he took his two
wives, and his two handmaids, with his
eleven sons, and passed over the ford of
Jaboc.

23 And when all things were brought
over that belonged to him,

24 He remained alone : and behold a
man wrestled with him till morning.

He is called God ver. 28 and 30, because he repre-
seated the person of the Soa ol God. This wres*

Jacob wrestles vrith an angel GENESIS The meeting of Jacob and Esau

25 And when he saw that he could not
overcome him, he touched the sinew of
his thigh, and forthwith it shrank.

26 And he said to him : Let me go, for it
is break of day. He answered: I will
not let thee go except thou bless me.

27 And he said : What is thy name ? He
answered: Jacob.

28 But he said : Thy name shall not be
called Jacob, but Israel : for if thou hast
been strong against God, how much more
ehalt thou prevail against men ?

29 Jacob asked him. Tell me by what
name art thou called ? He answered :
Why dost thou ask my name ? And he
blessed him in the same place.

30 And Jacob called the name of the
place Phanuel, saying : I have seen God
face to face, and my soul has been saved.

31 And immediately the sun rose upon
him, after he was past Phanuel ; but he
halted on his foot.

32 Therefore the children of Israel, unto
*ihis day, eat not the sinew, that shrank
in Jacob's thigh : because he touched the
sinew of his thigh and it shrank.

CHAPTER 33.

Jacob and Esau meet: Jacob goeth to Salem, where
he raiseth an altar,

A ND Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw
J\ Esau coming, and with him four
hundred men; and he divided the chil-
dren of Lia, and of Rachel, and of the
two handmaids :

2 i^ nd he put both the handmaids and
theii children foremost: and Lia and her
children in the second place : and Rachel
and Joseph last.

3 And he went forward and bowed down
with his face to the ground seven times
until his brother came near.

4 Then Esau ran to meet his brother,
and embraced him : and clasping him fast
about the neck, and kissing him, wept.

5 And lifting up his eyes, he saw the
women and their children, and said:
What mean these? And do they belong
to thee ? He answered : They are the
children which God hath given to me
thy servant.

6 Then the handmaids and their children
came near, and bowed themselves.

tling:, in which Jacob, assisted by God, was a match
for an angrel, was so ordered (ver. 28,) that he might
learn by this experiment of the divine assistance,
that neither Esau nor any other man, should have
power to hurt him — It was also spiritual, as appear-

7 Lia aloo with her children came near,
and bowed dowr ir like manner, and las',
of all Joseph and Rachel bowed down.

8 And Esau said : What are the droves
that I met ? He answered : That I might
find favour before my lord.

9 But he said : I have plenty, my brother,
keep what is thine for thyself.

10 And Jacob said: Do not sol beseech
thee, but if I have found favour in thy
eyes, receive a little present at my hands :
for I have seen thy face, as if I should
have seen the countenance of God: be
gracious to me,

11 And take the blessing, which I have
brought thee, and which God hath given
me, who giveth all things. He took it
with much ado at his brother's earnest
pressing him,

12 And said: Let us go on together,
and I will accompany thee in thy journey.

13 And Jacob said : My lord, thou know-
est that I have with me tender children,
and sheep, and kine with young : which
if I should cause to be overdriven, in
one day all the flocks will die.

14 May it please my lord to go before
his servant : and I will follow softly after
him, as I shall see my children to be able,
until I come to my lord in Seir.

15 Esau answered : I beseech thee., xhat
some of the people at least, who are with
me, may stay to accompany thee in the
way. And he said: There is no neces-
sity : I want nothing else but only to find
favour, my lord, in thy sight.

16 So Esau returned, that day, the way
that he came, to Seir.

17 And Jacob came to Socoth: where
having built a house, and pitched tents,
he called the name of the place Socoth,
that is. Tents.

18 And he passed over to Salem, a city
of the Sichemites, which is in the land of
Chanaan, after he returned from Meso-
potamia of Syria : and he dwelt by the
town:

19 And he bought that part of the field,
in which he pitched his tents, of the
children of Hemor, the father of Sichem
for a hundred lambs.

20 And raising an altar there, he in»

eth by his earnest prayer, urging and at last obtain
ing the angel's blessing,

Ver. 30. PfianueL This word signifies the face of
Oodt or the sight, or seeing o/ God.

Dina is ravished

GENESIS

The Sichemiies punished

voked upon it ^he most mighty God of

Israel.

CHAPTER 34.

Dina U ravished, for which the Sichemites are
destroyed.

AND Dina the daughter of Lia went
x\. out to see the women of that
country.

2 And when Sichem the son of Hemor
the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw
her, he was in love with her: and took
her away, and lay with her, ravishing the
virgin.

3 And his soul was fast knit unto her,
and whereas she was sad, he comforted
her with sweet words.

4 And going to Hemor his father, he
said : Get me this damsel to wife.

5 But when Jacob had heard this, his
sons being absent, and employed in feed-
ing the cattle, he held his peace till they
came back.

6 And when Hemor the father of Sichem
was come out to speak to Jacob,

7 Behold his sons came from the field •
and hearing what had passed, they were
exceeding angry, because he had done
a foul thing in Israel, and committed an
unlawful act, in ravishing Jacobus daugh-
ter.

8 And Hemor spoke to them : The soul
of my son Sichem has a longing for your
daughter : give her him to wifo :

9 And let us contract marriages one
with another: give us your daughters
and take you our daughters,

10 And dwell with us : the land is at
your command, till, trade, and possess
it.

11 Sichem also said to her father and to
her brethren : Let me find favour in your
sight : and whatsoever you shall appoint
I will give.

12 Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and
1 will gladly give what you shall demand :
only give me this damsel to wife

13 The sons of Jacob answered Sichem
and his father deceitfully, being enraged
at the deflowering of their sister :

14 We cannot do what you demand, nor
give our sister to one that is uncircum-
cised, which with as is unlawful and
abominable.

15 But in this we may be allied with
you, if you will be like us, and all tin?
male sex among you be circumcised :

16 Then will we mutually give and take
your daughters, and ours: and we will
dwell with you, and will be one people :

17 But if you will not be circumcised,
we will take our daughter and depart :

18 Their offer pleased Hemor, and Si-
chem his son :

19 And the young man made no delay,
but forthwith fulfilled what was required,
for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and
he was the greatest man in all his father's
house.

20 And going into the gate of the city
they spoke to the people :

21 These men are peaceable and willing
to dwell with us: let them trade in the
land, and till it, which being large and
wide wanteth men to till it .* we shall take
their daughters foi wives, and we will
give them ours.

22 One thing there is for which so great
a good is deferred : We must circumcise
every male among ue, following the man-
ner of the nation.

23 And their substance, and cattle, and
all that they possess, shall be ours : only
in this let us condescend, and by dwell-
ing together, we shall make one people.

24 And they all agreed, and circumcised
all the males.

25 And behold the third day, when the
pain of the wound was greatest, two of
the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the
brothers ot Dina, taking their swords,
entered boldly into the city, and slew all
the men : *

26 And they killed also Hemor and Si-
chem, and took away their sister Dina^
out of Sichem's house.

27 And when they were gone out, the
other sons of Jacob came upon the slain j
and plundered the city in revenge of the
rape.

28 And they took their sheep and their
herds and their asses, wasting all they
had in their houses and in the fields.

29 And their children and wives they
took captive,

30 And when they had boldly perpe-
trated these things, Jacob said to Simeon

?■ Infra 49 6

Chap. 34. Ver. 13. Deceitfully. The sons of Ja-
cob, on this occasion, were guilty of a grievous sin, as
well by falsely preteading religion, as by excess ot

revenge though otherwise their zeal against so too!
a crime was commendable.

Jacob goes to Bethel

GENESIS

The death of Rachel

and Levi: You have troubled me, and
made me hateful to the Chanaanites and
Plaerezites, the inhabitants of this land :
we are few : they will gather themselves
together and kill me ; and both I, and my
house, shall be destroyed.

31 They answered : Should they abuse
our sister as a strumpet?

CHAPTER 35.

Jacob purgeth his family from, Idols : goethby God^s
com,m,andment to Bethel^ and there buUdeth an
altar. God appearing again to Jacob blesseth
him, and changeth his name into Israel. Jl?xhel
dieth in childbirth. Isaac also dieth.

IN the mean time God said to Jacob:
Arise, and go up to Bethel, and dwell
there, and make there an altar to God,
^who appeared to thee when thou didst
flee from Esau thy brother.

2 And Jacob having called together all
his household, said : Cast away the
strange gods that are among you, and be
cleansed and change your garments.

3 Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that
we may make there an altar to God :
who heard me in the day of my afliiction,
and accompanied me in my journey.

4 So they gave him all the strange gods
ihey had, and the earrings which were
in their ears : ^ and he buried them under
the turpentine tree, that is behind the
city of Sichem.

5 And when they were departed, the
terror of God fell upon all the cities
round about, and they durst not pursue
after them as they went away.

6 And Jacob came to Luza, which is in
the land of Chanaan, surnamed Bethel ;
he and all the people that were with
him.

7 And he built there an altar, and called
the name of that place. The house of
God : ' for there God appeared to him
when he fled from his brother.

8 At the same time Debora the nurse of
Rebecca died, and was buried at the foot
of Bethel under an oak : and the name
of that place was called. The oak of
weeping.

9 And God appeared again to Jacob,
after he returned from Mesopotamia of
Syria, and he blessed him,

10 Saying: ^Thou shalt not be called

j Supra 28. 13.

* Ex. 32. 20; 4 Kings 18. 4.

Chap. 36. Ver. 10. Israel. This name siguitieta
one tha^' prevaileth with God.

any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy
name. And he called him Israel.

11 And said to him : I am God Almighty,
increase thou and be multiplied. Na-
tions and peoples of nations shall be
from thee, and kings shall come out of
thy loins.

12 And the land which I gave to Abra-
ham and Isaac, I will give to thee, and
to thy seed after thee.

13 And he departed from him.

14 But he set up a monument of stone,
in the place where God had spoken to
him : pouring drink offerings upon it,
and pouring oil thereon :

15 And calling the name of that place
Bethel.

16 And going forth from thence, he
came in the springtime to the land which
leadeth to Ephrata : wherein when Ra-
chel was in travail,

17 By reason of her hard labour she
began to be ii danger, and the midwife
said to her : Fear not, for thou shalt have
this son also.

18 And when her soul was departing
for pain, and death was now at hand,
she called the name of her son Benoni,
that is. The son of my pain: but his
father called him Benjamin, that is, The.
son of the right hand.

19 So Rachel died, and was buried in
the highway that leadeth to Ephrata,
this is Bethlehem.

20 And Jacob erected a pillar over her
sepulchre : ° this is the pillar of Rachel's
monument, to this day,

21 Departing thence, he pitched his
tent beyond the Flock tower.

22 P And when he dwelt in that country,
Ruben went, and slept with Bala, the
concubine of his father: which he was
not ignorant of. Now the sons of Jacob
were twelve.

23 The sons of Lia : Ruhen the first-
born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda,
and Issachar, and Zabuion.

24 The sons of Rachel : Joseph and
Benjamin.

25 The sons of Bala, Rachel's hand-
maid : Dan and Nephtali.

26 The sons of Zelpha, Lia's handmaid :

I Supra 28. 18. — m Supra 32. 28.

o Infra 48, 7.—p Infra 49. 4.

Ver. 22. The concubine. She was his lawful wife:
but, according to the style of the Hebrews, is called
concubine, becauM o£ ber servile extracti( a.

[saac dies

GENESIS

The descendants of Esau

Gad and Aser: these are the sons of
Jacob, that were born to him in Mesopo-
tamia of Syria.

27 And he came to Isaac his father
in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is
Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac
sojourned.

28 And the days of Isaac were a hun-
dred and eighty years.

f 9 And being spent with age he died,
and was gathered to his people, being
old and full of days : and his sons Esau
and Jacob buried him»

CHAPTER 36.

Esau with Ms wives and children parteth from
Jacob. An account of his descendants^ and of the
first kings of Edom.

A ND these are the generations of Esau,
XX. the same is Edom.

2 Esau took wives of the daughters of
Chanaan : Ada the daughter of Elon the
Hethite, and Oolibama the daughter of
Ana, the daughter of Sebeon the Hevite :

3 And Basemath the daughter of Is-
mael, sister of Nabajoth.

4 * And Ada bore Eliphaz : Basemati)
bore Rahuel:

5 Oolibama bore Jehus and Ihelon and
Core. These are the sons of Esau, that
were born to him in the land of Chanaan.

6 And Esau took his wives and his sons
and daughters, and every soul of his
house, and his substance, and cattle, and
all that he was able to acquire in the
land of Chanaan : and went into another
country, and departed from his brother
Jacob.

7 'For they were exceeding rich, and
could not dwell together: neither was
the land in which they sojourned able
to bear them, for the multitude of their
flocks,

8 " And Esau dwelt in mount Seir : he
Is Edom.

9 And these are the generations of
Esau the father of Edom in mount Seir,

IQ And these the names of his sons :
^'EUphaz the son of Ada the wife of
Esau : and Rahuel the son of Basemath
his wife.

11 And Eliphaz had sons: Theman,
Omar, Sepho, and Gatham, and Cenez.

1 Par. 1. 35.

Chap. 36. Ver. 2. Ada. These wives of Esau
are called by other names, Gen. 26. But it was
verf common amongst the ancients for the same

12 And Thamna was the concubine of
Eliphaz the son of Esau: and she bore
him Amalech. These are the sons of
Ada the wife of Esau.

13 And the sons of Rahuel wenre Nahath
and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were
the sons of Basemath the wife of Esau.

14 And these were the sons of Ooli-
bama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter
of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, whom she
bore to him, Jehus, and Ihelon, and
Core.

15 These were dukes of the sons ol
Esau : the sons of Ehphaz the fir^itboru
of Esau : duke Theman, duke Omar,
duke Sepho, duke Cenez,

16 Duke Core, duke Gatham, duke Ama-
lech: these are the sons of Eliphaz in
the land of Edom, and these the sons of
Ada.

17 And these were the sons of RahueL
the son of Esau: duke Nahath, duke
Zara, duke Samma, duke Meza. And
these are the dukes of Rahuel, in the
land of Edom : these the sons of Base-
math the wife of Esau.

18 And these the sons of Oolibama the
wife of Esau : duke Jehus, duke Ihelon,
duke Core. These are the dukes of
Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, and wife
of Esauo

19 These are the sons of Esau, and
these the dukes of them : the same is
Edom.

20 ^ These are the sons of Seir the
Horrite, the inhabitants of the land;
Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,

21 And Dison, and Eser, and Disan.
These are dukes of the Horrites, the sons
of Seir in the land of Edom.

22 And Lotan had sons : Hori and
Heman. And the sister of Lotan was
Thamna.

23 And these the sons of Sobal : Alvan
and Manahat, and Ebal, and Sepho, and
Oman.

24 And these the sons of Sebeon : Aia
and Ana. This is Ana that found the
hot waters in the wilderness, when he
fed the asses of Sebeon his father: ,,.j

25 And he had a son Dison, and a
daughter Oolibama.

t Supra 13. 6. — w Jos. 24. 4. -
?y' 1 Par. 1. 38.

v\ Par. 1.35.

persons to have two names» as £sau himself wai
also called Edom. ,.. ,

The dukes of Edam

GENESIS

Joseph*s dreams

26 And these were the sons of Dison:
Hamdan, and Eseban, and Jethram, and
Charan.

27 These also were the sons of Eser:
Balaan, and Zavan, and Acan.

28 And Disan had sons : Hus, and Aram.

29 These were dukes of the Horrites :
duke Lotan, duke Sobal, duke Sebeon,
duke Ana,

30 Duke Dison, duke Bser, duke Disan :
these were dukes of the Horrites that
ruled in the land of Seir.

31 And the kings that ruled in the land
of Edom, before the children of Israel
had a king, were these :

32 Bela the son of Beor, and the name
of his city Denaba.

33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of
Zara of Bosra reigned in his stead.

34 And when Jobab was dead, Husam
of the land of the Themanites reigned in
his stead.

36 And after his death, Adad the son
of Badad reigned in his stead, who de-
feated the Madianites in the country of
Moab : and the name of his city was
Avith.

36 And when Adad was dead, there
reigned in his stead, Semla of Masreca.

37 And he being dead, Saul of the river
Eohoboth, reigned in his stead.

38 And when he also was dead, Balanan
the son of Achobor succeeded to the
kingdom.

39 This man also being dead, Adar
reigned in his place, and the name of his
city was Phau : and his wife was called
Meetabel, the daughter of Matred, daugh-
ter of Mezaab.

40 And these are the names of the dukes
of Esau in their kindreds, and places, and
callings : duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke
Jetheth,

41 Duke OoUbama, duke Ela, duke
Phinon,

42 Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke
Habsar,

43 Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram : these
are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the
land of their government; the same is
Esau the father of the Edomites.

Chap. 37. Ver. 5. A dream. These dream»
of Joseph were prophetical, and sent from God ; as
were also those which he interpreted. Gen. 40. and
41. ; otherwise generally speaking, the observing of
dreams is condemned in the Scripture, as supersti-
tious and sinful. See Deut. 18 : Eccli. 34. 2. 3.

CHAPTEii 37.

Joseph's dreams : he is sold by his brethrerit o,nd
carried into Egypt.

A ND Jacob dwelt in the land of Cha-
XX naan wherein his father sojourned.

2 And these are his generations : ^ Jo-
seph, when he was sixteen years old, was
feeding the flock with his brethren, being
but a boy : and he was with the sons of
Bala and of Zelphahis father's wives : and
he accused his brethren to his father of a
most wicked crime.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph above all
his sons, beca^ise he had him in his old
age : and he made him a coat of divers
colours.

4 And his brethren seeing that he was
loved by his father, more than all his
sons, hated him, and could not speak
peaceably to him.

5 Now it fell out also that he told his
brethren a dream, that he had dreamed :
which occasioned them to hate him the
more.

6 And he said to them : Hear my dream
which I dreamed.

7 I thought we were binding sheaves in
the field : and my shejif arose as it were,
and stood, and your sheaves standing
about, bowed down before my sheaf.

8 His brethren answered : Shalt thou be
our king? or shall we be subject to thy
dominion? Therefore this matter of his
dreams and words ministered nourish-
ment to their envy and hatred.

9 He dreamed also another dream, whiclj
he told his brethren, saying : I saw in a
dream, as it were the sun, and the moon,
and eleven stars ^worshipping me.

10 And when he nad told this to his
father and brethren, his father rebuked
him, and said : What meaneth this dream
that thou hast dreamed ? shall I and thy
mother, and thy brethren worship thee
upon the earth ?

11 His brethren therefore envied him:
but his father considered the thing with
himself.

12 And when his brethren abode in
Sichem feeding their father's flocks,

13 Israel said to him : Thy brethren feed

y Supra 35. 25 and 26.

Ver. 10. Worship. This word is not used here to
signify divine worship, but an inferior veneration^
expressed by the bowing of the body, and that, ac-
cording to the manner of the eastern nations, down
to the ground.

Joseph sold to the Madianites GENESIS

Jacob mourns for Joseph

the sheep in Sichem : come, I will send
thee to them. And when he answered :

14 I am ready : he said to him : Go, and
see if all things be well with thy brethren,
and the cattle : and bring me word again
what is doing. So being sent from the
vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem :

15 And a man found him there wander-
ing in the field, and asked what he sought.

16 But he answered: I seek my brethren;
tell me where they feed the flocks.

17 And the man said to him : They are
departed from this place: for I heard
them say: Let us go to Dothain. And
Joseph went forward after his brethren,
and found them in Dothain.

18 And when they saw him afar off, be-
fore he came nigh them, they thought to
kill him.

19 And said one to another: Behold the
dreamer cometh.

20 Come, let us kill him, and cast him
into some old pit : and we will say : Some
evil beast hath devoured him : and then
it shall appear what his dreams avail him :

21 ^ And Ruben hearing this, endeav-
oured to deliver him out of their hands,
and said :

22 Do not take away his life, nor shed
his blood : but cast him into this pit, that
is in the wilderness, and keep your hands
harmless : now he said this, being desirous
^3 deUver him out of their hands and to
restore him to his father.

23 And as soon as he came to bis bre-
thren, they forthwith stript him of his
outside coat, that was of divers colours :

24 And cast him into an old pit, where
there was no water.

25 And sitting down to eat bread, they
saw some Ismaelites on their way coming
from Galaad, with their camels, carrying
spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt.

26 And Juda said to his brethren : What
will it profit us to kill our brother, and
conceal his blood?

27 It is better that he be sold to the
Ismaelites, and that our hands be not de-
filed : for he is our brother and our flesh.
His brethren agreed to his words.

z Infra 42. 22.— a Wisd. 10. 13.

Ver 35. Into hell. That is, into limbo, the place
where the souls of the just were received before the
death of our Kedeemer. For allowing that the word
hell sometimes is taken for the grave, it cannot be
so taken in this place ; since Jacob did not believe
his SOD to be in the grave^ (whc«u be supposed to be

28 ^* And when the Madianite merchants
passed by, they drew him out of the pit,
and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty
pieces of silver: and they led him into
Egypt.

29 And Ruben, returning to tho pit,
found not the boy :

30 And rending his garments he went
to his brethren, and said : The boy doth
not appear and whither shall I go?

31 And they took his coat, and dipped
it in the blood of a kid, which they had
killed :

32 Sending some to carry it to their
father, and to say : This we have found :
see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.

33 And the father acknowledging it,
said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild
beast hath eaten him, a beast hath de-
voured Joseph.

34 And tearing his garments, he put on
sackcloth, mourning for his son a long
time.

35 And all his children being gathered
together to comfort their father in his
sorrow, he would not receive comfort,
but said : I will go down to my son into
hell, mourning. And whilst he contin-
ued weeping,

36 The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt
to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, cap-
tain of the soldiers.

CHAPTER 38.

The sons of Juda the death of Her and Onan : the
birth of Phares and Zara.

T that time Juda went down from his
brethren, and turned in to a certain
Odollamite, named Hiras.

2 ^' And he saw there the daughter of a
man of Chanaan, called Sue : and taking
her to wife, he went in unto her.

3 And she conceived, and bore a son,
and called his name Her.

4 ^ And conceiving again, she bore a
son, and called him Onan.

5 She bore also a third : whom she
called Sela. After whose birth, she ceased
to bear any more.

6 And Juda took a wife for Her his
firstborn, whose name was Thamar.

c 1 Par. 2. 3.
d Num. 26. 19.

devoured by a wild beast,) and therefore could not
mean to go down to him thither but certainly meant
the place of rest where he believed his soul to be.

Ver. 36. An eunuch. This word sometimes sig-
nifies a chamberlain, courtier, or officer of the kiof:
and so it is taken iu this place.

The sin of Onan

GENESIS

Birth of Phares and Zara

7 * And Her, the firstborn of Juda, was
wicked in the sight of the Lord ; and
\7Sl8 slain by him.

8 Juda therefore said to Onan his son :
Go in to thy brother's wife and marry
her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy
brother.

9 He knowing that the children should-
not be his, when he went in to his bro-
ther's wife, spilled his seed upon the
ground, lest children should be born in
his brother's name.

10 And therefore the Lord slew him, be-
cause he did a detestable thing.

11 Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his
daughter in law: Remain a widow in
thy father's house, till Sela my son grow
up : for he was afraid lest he also might
die, as his brethren did. She went her
way and dwelt in her father's house.

12 And after many days were past, the
daughter of Sue the wife of Juda died :
and when he had taken comfort after
his mourning, he went up to Thamnas, to
the shearers of his sheep, he and Hiras
the Odollamite the shepherd of his flock.

13 And it was told Thamar that her
father in law was come up to Thamnas
to shear his sheep.

14 And she put oif the garments of her
widowhood, and took a veil : and chan-
ging her dress, sat in the cross way, that
led^deth to Thamnas ; because Sela was
grown up, and she had not been married
to him.

.16 When Juda saw her, he thought she
was a harlot : for she had covered her
face, lest she should be known.

16 And going to her, he said : Suffer me
to lie with thee : for he knew her not to
be his daughter in law. And she an-
swered : What wilt thou give me to en-
joy my company ?

17 He said : I will send thee a kid out
of the flock. And when she said again :
I will suffer what thou wilt, if thou give a
pledge, till thou send what thou promisest,

18 Juda said : What wilt thou have for
a pledge ? She answered : Thy ring and
bracelet, and the staff which thou bold-
est in thy hand. The woman therefore
at one sopalation conceived.

19 And she arose and went her way :
toad putting off the apparel which she

had taken, put on the garments of her
widowhood.

20 And Juda sent a kid by his shepherd,
the Odollamite, that he might receive
the pledge again, which he had given to
the woman : but he, not finding her,

21 Asked the men of that place : Where
is the woman that sat in the cross way?
And when they all made answer : There
was no harlot in this place,

22 He returned to Juda, and said to him :
I have not found her ; moreover the men
of that place said to me, that there never
sat a harlot there.

23 Juda said : Let her take it to herself;
surely she cannot charge us with a lie : I
sent the kid which I promised : and thou
didst not find hey,

24 And behold after three months they
told Juda, saying : Thamar, thy daughter
in law hath played the harlot, and she ap-
peareth to have a big belly And Juda
said : Bring her out that she may be burnt.

26 But when she was led to execution,
she sent to her father in law, saying : By
the man, to whom these things belong,
I am with child. See whose ring, and
bracelet, and staff this is.

26 But he acknowledging the gifts,
said : She is juster than I : because I did
not give her to Sela my son. However,
he knew her no more.

27 -^And when she was ready to be
brought to bed, there appeared twins in
her womb : and in the very deUvery of
the infants, one put forth a hand, where-
on the midwife tied a scarlet thread,
saying :

28 This shall come forth the first.

29 But he drawing back his hand, the
other came forth : and the woman said :
Why is tbe partition divided for thee*?
and therefore called his name Phares.

30 ^ Afterwards his brother came out,
on whose hand was the scarlet thread :
and she called him Zara.

CHAPTER 39.

Joseph hath charge of his master''s house: rejecteth
his mistresses solicitations: is falsely accused by
her, and cast into prison,where he hath the charge
of all the prisoners.

AND Joseph was brought into Egypt,
. and Putiphar an eunuch of Pharao,
chief captain of the army, an Egyptian,

e Num. 26. 19. — / Matt 1. 3.

g 1 Par. 2. 4.

CBAf.3& Yer.29. J*harea. Iiiftti9,abreac^orclivisloQ.

4»

Joseph tempted by Putiphar*s tvife GENESIS

bought bim of tho lomaelites, by whom
he was brought.

. 2 And the Lord was with him, and he
was a prosperous man in all things : and
he dwelt in his master's house^

3 Who knew very well that the Lord
was with him, and made all that he did
to pro8j>er in his hand.

4 And Joseph found favour in the sight
of his master, and ministered to him:
and being set over all by him, hb gov-
erned the house committed to him, and
all things that were delivered to him :

5 And the uord blessed the house of
the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and mul-
tiplied all his substance, both at home,
and in the fields.

6 Neither knew he any other thing, but
the bread which he ate. And Joseph was
of a beautiful countenance, and comely
to behold.

7 And after many days his mistress
cast her eyes on Joseph, and said: Lie
with me.

8 But he, In no wise consenting to that
wicked act, said to her : Behold, my mas-
ter hath delivered all things to me, and
knoweth not what he hath in his own
house :

9 Neither is there any thing which is
not in my power, or that he hath not de-
livef ed to me, but thee, whaart his wife :
hbw then can I do this wicked thing, and
Bin against mv Ood?

10 With such words as these day by
day, both the woman was importunate
with the young man, and he refused the
adultery.

11 Now it happened on a certain day,
that Joseph went into the house, and
was doing some business without any
man with him :

12 And she catching the skirt of his
garment, said: Lie with me. But he
leaving the garment in her hand, fled,
and went "but.

13 And when the woman saw the gar-
ment in her hands, and herself disre-
garded,

14 She called to her the' men of her
house, and said to them: See, he hath
brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us : he
^ame in to me, to lie with me : and when
I cried out.

Joseph cast into prison

16- And he heard my voice, he left the
garment that I held, and got him out,

16 For a proof therefore of her fidelity,
she kept the garment, and shewed it to
her husband when he returned home :

17 And said:. The Hebrew servant,
whom thou hast brought, came to me to
abuse me.

18 And when he heard me cry, he left
the garment which I held, and fied out.

19 His master hearing these things, and
giving too much credit to his wife's
words, was very angry.

20 *And cast Joseph into the prison,
where the king's prisoners were kept,
and he was there shut up.

21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and
having mercy upon him gave him favour
in the sight of the chief keeper of the
prison :

22 Who delivered into his hand all the
prisoners that were kept in custody : and
whatsoever was done was under him,

23 Neither did he himself know any
thing, having committed all things to
him : for the Lord was with him, and
made all that he did to prosper.

CHAPTER 40.

Joseph interpreteth the dreams of two of Phatao*B
servants in prison: the event declareth the inter*
' pretations to be true, but Joseph is forgotten.

AFTER this, it came to pass, that two
. eunuchs, the butler and the baker
of the king of Egypt, offended their
lord.

2 And Pharao being angry with them
(now the one was chief butler, the other
chief baker)

3 He sent them to the prison of the
coDimander of the soldiers, in which
Joseph also was prisoner,

4 But the keeper of the prison delivered
them to Joseph, and he served them.
Some little time passed, and they were
kept in custody.

5 And they both dreamed a dream the
same night, according to the interpreta*
tion agreeing to themselves :

6 And when Joseph was come in to them
in the morning, and saw them sad,

7 He asked them, saying : Why is your
countenance sadder to day than usual?

8 They answered : We have drean^ed a
dream, and there is nobody to interpret

Chap. 39. Ver. 16. A proof of her fidelity, or an
MVrffumenl to gain credit^ argumentum fULeL

i Ps. 104. 18.

Chap. 40. Ver.
to Oodf Wbeu

8. Doth not interpretation belong
dreams are from God. as these

The butler's and the haker*s dream GENESIS

Pharaohs dreams

it to TIB. And Joseph said to them : Doth
not interpretation belong to jod? Tell
me what you have dreamed.

9 The chief butler first told his dream :
I saw before me a vine,

10 On which were three branches, which
by little and little sent out buds, and
after the bWssoms brought forth ripe
grapes :

11 And the cup of Pharao was in my
hand : and I took the grapes, and pressed
them into the cup which I held, and I
gave the cup to Pharao.

12 Joseph answered: This is the in-
terpretation of the dream: The three
branches are yet three days :

13 After which Pharao will remember
thy service, and will restore thee to thy
former place : and thou shalt present
him the cup according to thy office, as
before thou wast wont to do.

14 Only remember me, when it shall be
well with thee, and do me this kindness :
to put Pharao in mind to take me out of
tills prison :

15 For I was stolen away out of the land
of the Hebrews, and here without any
fault was cast into the dungeon.

16 The chief baker seeing that he had
wisely interpreted the dream, said : I also
dreamed a dream. That I had three bas-
kets of meal upon my head :

17 And that in one basket which was
uppermost, I carried all meats that are
made by the art of baking, and that the
birds ate out of it.

18 Joseph answered: This is the inter-
pretation of the dream: The three bas-
kets are yet three days :

19 After which Pharao will take thy
head from thee, and hang thee on a
cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.

20 The third day after this was the
birthday •£ Pharao : and he made a great
feast for hie servants, and at the banquet
remembered the chief butler, and the
chief baker.

21 And he restored the one to his place
to present him the cup :

22 The other he hanged on a gibbet,

were, the interpretation of them is a gift of God.
But the generality of dreams are not of this sort ;
but either proceed from the natural complexions and
dispositions of persons, or the roving of their imagi-
Dations in the day on such objects as they are much
affected with, or from their mind being disturbed
with caies aod troubles, and oppressed with bodUi^

that the truth of the interpreter might
be shewn.

23 But the chief butler, when things pro-
spered with him, forgot his interpreter.

CHAPTER 41.

Joseph interpreteth the two dreams of Pharao : he

is made ruler over all Egypt.

A FTER two years Pharao had a dream.
J\. He thought he stood by the river,

2 Out of which came up seven kine,
very beautiful and fat : and they fed in
marshy places.

3 Other seven also came up out of the
river, ill favoured, and leanfleshed : and
they fed on the very bank of the river,
in green places :

4 And they devoured them, whose bod*
ies were very beautiful and well condi-
tioned. So Pharao awoke.

6 He slept again, and dreamed another
dream : Seven ears of corn came up upon
one stalk full and fair:

6 Then seven other ears sprung up thin
and blasted,

7 And devoured all the beauty of the
former. Pharao awaked after his rest:

8 And when morning was come, being
struck with fear, he sent to all the inter-
preters of Egypt, and to all the wise
men : and they being called for, he told
them his dream, and there was not any
one that could interpret it.

9 Then at length the chief butler re-
membering, said : I confess my sin :

10 The king being angry with his ser-
vants, commanded me and the chief baker
to be cast into the prison of the captain
of the soldiers :

11 Where in one night both of us
dreamed a dream foreboding things to
come.

12 There was there a young man a
Hebrew, servant to the same captain
of the soldiers: to whom we told our
dreams,

13 And we heard what afterwards the
event of the thing proved to be so. For
I was restored to my office : and he was
hanged upon a gibbet.

14 Forthwith at the king's command.

infirmities : or they are suggested by evil spirits, to
flatter, or to terrify wealc minds, in order to gain
belief, and so draw them into error or superstition ;
or at least to trouble them in their sleep, whom they
eannot move when they are awake : so that the gen-
eral rule, with regard to dreams, is not to observe
kbem, nor to give any ere^ to thecs.

Joseph interprets them

Joseph was brought out of the prison,
and they shaved him, and changing his
apparel, brought him in to him.

15 And he said to him : I have dreamed
dreams, and there is no one that can
expound them: now I have heard that
thou art very wise at interpreting them.

16 Joseph answered : Without me, 'God
shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.

17 So Pharao told what he had dreamed :
Methought I stood upon the bank of the
river,

18 And seven kine came up out of the
river exceeding beautiful and full of
flesh: and they grazed on green places
in a marshy pasture.

19 And behold, there followed these,
other seven kine, so very ill favoured
and lean, that I never saw the Uke in
the land of Egypt :

20 And they devoured and consumed
the former,

21 And yet gave no mark of their being
full : but were as lean and ill favoured as
before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,

22 And dreamed a dream: Seven ears
of corn grew upon one stalk, full and
very fair.

23 Other seven also thin and blasted,
sprung of the stock :

24 And they devoured the beauty of
the former: I told this dream to the con-
Jecturers, and there is no man that can
expound it.

25 Joseph answered : The king's dream
is one : God hath shewn to Pharao what
he is about to do.

26 The seven beautiful kine, and the
seven full ears, are seven years of
plenty : and both contain the same mean-
ing of the dream.

27 And the seven lean and thin kine
that came up after them, and the seven
Chin ears that were blasted with the
biu-ning wind, are seven years of famine
to come :

28 Which shall be fulfilled in this order :

29 Behold, there shall come seven years
of great plenty in the whole land of
Egypt:

30 After which shall follow other seven
years of so great scarcity, that all the
abundance before shall be forgotten : for
the famine shall consume all the land.

GENESIS Joseph made ruler over Egypt

I Matt 10. 20.

31 And the greatness of the scarcity
shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.

32 And for that thou didst see the sec-
ond time a dream pertaining to the
same thing : it is a token of the certainty,
and that the word of God cometh to
pass, and is fulfilled speedily.

33 Now therefore let the king provide
a wise and industrious man, and make
him ruler over the land of Egypt :

34 That he may appoint overseers over
all the countries : and gather into barns
the fifth part of the fruits, during the
seven fruitful years,

35 That shall now presently ensue : and
let all the com be laid up under Pharao's
hands, and be reserved in the cities.

36 And let it be in readiness, against
the famine of seven years to come,
which shall oppress Egypt, and the land
shall not be consumed with scarcity.

37 The counsel pleased Pharao and al}
his servants.

38 And he said to them: Can we find
such another man, that is full of the
spirit of God?

39 He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing
God hath shewn thee all that thou hast
said, can I find one wiser and one like
unto thee?

40 "* Thou shalt be over my house, and
xb the commandment of thy mouth all
the people shall obey : only in the kingly
throne will I be above thee.

41 And again Pharao said to Joseph:
Behold, I have appointed thee over the
whole land of Egypt.

42 And he took his ring from his own
hand, and gave it into his hand : and he
put upon him a robe of silk, and put a
chain of gold about his neck.

43 And he made him go up into his
second chariot, the crier proclaiming
that all should bow their knee before
him, and that they should know he was
made governor over the whole land of
Egypt.

44 And the king said to Joseph: I am
Pharao; without thy commandment no
man shall move hand or foot in all the
land of Egypt.

45 And he turned his name, and called
him in the Egyptian tongue. The saviour
of the world. And he gave him to wife

r,i, i*s. 104, 21 ; 1 Mac. 2. 53 ; Acts 7. 10.

CiBAr.41. Ver.4&. Tti$ saviour o/ t?i6 wortO, Zaphuab paaneab.

The sons of Joseph

GENESIS

Jacobus sons go to Egypt

Aseneth the daughter of Putiphare priest
of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to
the land of Egypt:

46 (Now he was thirty years old when
he stood before king Pharao) and he
went round all the countries of Egypt.

47 And the fruitfulness of the seven
years came : and the corn being bound
up into sheaves was gathered together
into the barns of Egypt.

48 And all the abundance of grain was
laid up in every city.

49 And there was so great abundance
of wheat, that it was equal to the sand
of the sea, and the plenty exceeded mea-
sure.

50 "" And before the famine came, Jo-
seph had two sons born : whom Aseneth
the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heli-
opolis bore unto him.

51 And he called the name of the first-
born Manasses, saying : God hath made
me to forget all my labours, and my
father's house.

t 52 And he named the second Ephraim,
saying: God hath made me to grow in
the land of my poverty.

63 Now when the seven years of the
plenty that had been in Egypt were
past :

64 The seven years of scarcity, which
Joseph had foretold, began to come :
and the famine prevailed in the whole
world, but there was bread in all the land
of Egypt.

^ 55 And when there also they began to
be famished, the people cried to Pharao
for food. And he said to them : Go to
Joseph : and do all that he shall say to
you.

56 And the famine increased daily in
all the land : and Joseph opened all the
barns, and sold to the Egyptians : for
the famine had oppressed them also.

57 And all provinces came into Egypt,
to buy food, and to seek some relief of
their want.

CHAPTER 42.

Jacob sendeth his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt.
Their treatment by Joseph.

n Infra 46. 20, and 48. 20.

Ver. 51. Manasses. That is, oblivion^ or forget-
ting.

Ver. 52. Ephraim. That is, fruitful^ or grow-
ing.

Chap. 42. Ver. 9. You are spies. This he said
by way of examining them, to see what tbey would
aotw«r.

A ND Jacob hearing that food was sold
XA. in Egypt, said to his sons : Why are
ye careless ?

2 I have heard that wheat is sold in
Egypt : go ye down, and buy us neces-
saries, that we may live, and not be con«>
sumed with want.

3 So the ten brethren of Joseph went
down, to buy corn in Egypt:

4 Whilst Benjamin was kept at home by
Jacob, who said to his brethren: Lest
perhaps he take any harm in the journey.

5 And they entered into the land of
Egypt with others that went to buy.
For the famine was in the land of Cha-
naan.

6 And Joseph was governor in the land
of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direc-
tion to the people. And when his bre-
thren had bowed down to him,

7 And he knew them, he spoke as it
v/ere to strangers somewhat roughly,
asking them : Whence came you ? They
answered : From the land of Chanaan, t#
buy necessaries of life.

8 And though he knew his brethren, he
was not known by them.

9 And remembering the dreams, which
formerly he had dreamed, he said to
them : You are spies. You are come to
view the weaker parts of the land.

10 But they said : It is not so, my lord,
but thy servants are come to buy food.

11 We are all the sons of one man : we
are come as peaceable men, neither do
thy servants go about any evil.

12 And he answered them : It is other-
wise : you are come to consider the un-
fenced parts of this land.

13 But they said: We thy servants are
twelve brethren, the sons of one man in
the land of Chanaan: the youngest ig
with our father, the other is not living.

14 He saith : This is it that I said : You
are spies.

16 I shall now presently try what you
are : by the health of Pharao you shall
not depart hence, until your youngest
brother come.

16 Send one of you to fetch him: and

Ver. 16. Or else by the health of Pharao you are
spies. That is, if these things you sayJDC proveij
false, you are to be held for spies for youiMying, and
shall be treated as such. Joseph dealt inxthis mat
ner with his brethren, to bring them by the means ot
afdiction to a sense of their former sin, and a sincere
repentance for iU

Simeon kept hack by Joseph

GENESIS

The brethren return to Jacol

you shall be in prison, till what you have
said be proved, whether it be true or
false: or else by the health of Pharao
you are spies.

17 So he put them in prison three days.

18 And the third day he brought them
out of prison, and said: Do as I have
said, and you shall live : for I fear God.

19 If yoTffi be peaceable men, let one of
your brethien be bound in prison: and
go ye your ways and carry the corn that
you have boughtj unto your houses.

20 2 And bring your youngest brother
to me^ that I may find your words to be
truej and you may not die. They did as
he had saido

21 And they talked one to another :
We deserve to suffer these things, be-
cause we have sinned against our bro-
ther, seeing the anguish of his soul,
when he besought us. and we would not
hear: therefore is this affliction come
upon us.

22 And Ruben, one of them, said: Did
not 1 say to you: '"Do not sin against
the boy: and you would not hear me?
Behold hife blood is required.

23 And they knew not that Joseph
understood, because he spoke to them
by an interpreter.

24 And he turned himself away a little
while, and wept: and returning he spoke
to them.

25 And taking Simeon, and binding him
in their presence, he commanded his ser-
vants to fill their sacks with wheat, and
to put every man's money again in their
sacks, and to give them besides pro-
visions for the way : and they did so.

26 But they having loaded their asses
with the corn, went their way.

27 And one of them opening his sack,
to give his beast provender in the inn,
saw the money in the sack's mouth ;

28 And said to his brethren : My money
is given me again, behold it is in the
sack. And they were astonished, and
troubled, and said to one another : What
is this that God hath done unto us ?

29 And they came to Jacob their father
in the land of Chanaan, and they told
him all things that had befallen them,
saying:

30 The lord of the land spoke roughly

q Infra 43. 3 and 5.— r Supra 37. 21.

to us, and took us to be spies of the
country.

31 And we answered him: We are
peaceable men, and we mean no plot.

32 We are twelve brethren born of one
father: one is not living, the youngest
is with our father in the land of Ghana \n.

33 And he said to us : Hereby shall I
know that you are peaceable men:
Leave one of your brethren with me,
and take ye necessary provision for
your houses, and go your ways.

34 And bring your youngest brother to
me, that I may know you are not spies :
and you may receive this man again,
that is kept in prison: and afterwards
may have leave to buy what you will.

35 When they had told this, they
poured out their corn, and every man
found his money tied in the mouth of
his sack: and all being astonished to-
gether,

36 Their father Jacob said : You have
made me to be without children : Joseph
is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds,
and Benjamin you will take away: all
these evils are fallen upon me.

37 And Ruben answered him : Kill my
two sons, if I bx'ing him not again to
thee: deliver him into my hand, and I
will restore him to thee.

38 But he said: My son shall not go
down with you : his brother is dead, and
he is left alone: if any mischief befall
him in the land to which you go, you
will bring down my gray hairs with sor-
row to hell.

CHAPTER 43.

The sons of Jacob go again into Egypt with Ben-
jamin. They are entertained by Joseph.

N the mean time the famine was
heavy upon all the land.

2 And when they had eaten up all the
corn, which they had brought out of
Egypt, Jacob said to his sons : Go again
and buy us a little food.

3 Juda answered: The man declared
unto us with the attestation of an oath,
saying : You shall not see my face, un-
less you bring your youngest brother
with you.

4 If therefore thou wilt send him with
us, we will set out together, and will buy
necessaries for thee.

Ver. 38. Tq AeM. VaaX is» to tliat place, where the souls tlien remameo, as above, chapter 37. ver. 35.

Oacoh^s sons go again to Egypt GENESIS

Joseph meets Benjamin

6 But if thou wilt not, we will not go :
for the man, as we have often said, de-
clared unto us, saying ; * You shall not see
my face without your youngest brother.

6 Israel said to them: You have done
this for my misery in that you told him
you had also another brother.

7 But they answered : The man asked
us in order concerning our kindred: if
our father lived : if we had a brother :
and we answered him regularly, accord-
ing to what he demanded: could we
know that he would say : Bring hither
your brother with you ?

8 And Juda said to his father: Send
the boy with me, that we may set for-
ward, and may live : lest both we and
our children perish.

9 " I take the boy upon me, require him
at my hand: unless I bring him again,
and restore him to thee, I will be guilty
of sin against thee for ever.

10 If delay had not been made, we had
been here again the second time.

11 Then Israel said to them : If it must
needs be so, do what you will : take of
the best fruits of the land in your ves-
sels, and carry down presents to the
man, a little balm, and honey, and sto-
rax, myrrh, turpentine, and almonds.

12 And take with you double money,
and carry back what you found in your
sacks, lest perhaps it was done by mis-
take.

13 And take also your brother, and go
to the man.

14 And may my almighty God make
him favourable to you; and send back
with you your brother, whom he keep-
eth, and this Benjamin : and as for me I
shall be desolate without children.

15 So the men took the presents, and
double money, and Benjamin : and went
down into Egypt, and stood before Jo-
seph.

16 And when he had seen them, and
Benjamin with them, he commanded the
steward of his house, saying : Bring in
the men into the house, and kill victims,
and prepare a feast : because they shall
eat with me at noon.

17 He did as he was commanded, and
brought the men into the house.

18 And they being much afraid, said

t Supra 42. 20. — u Infra 44. 32.

tnere one to another : Because of the
money, which we carried back the first
time in our sacks, we are brought in:
that he may bring upon us a false accu-
sation, and by violence make slaves of
us and our asses.

19 Wherefore going up to the steward
of the house, at the door,

20 They said: Sir, we desire thee to
hear us : ^ We came down once before to
buy food :

21 And when we had bought, and come
to the inn, we opened our sacks, and
found our money in the mouths of the
sacks : which we have now brought again
in the same weight.

22 And we have brought other money
besides, to buy what we want : we can-
not tell who put it in our bags.

23 But he answered : Peace be with
you, fear not : your God, and the God of
your father hath given you treasure in
your sacks. For the money, which you
gave me, I have for good. And he
brought Simeon out to them.

24 And having brought them into the
house, he fetched water, and they
washed their feet, and he gave proven-
der to their asses.

25 But they made ready the presents,
against Joseph came at noon : for they
had heard that they should eat bread
there.

26 Then Joseph came into his house,
and they offered him the presents hold-
ing them in their hands, and they bowed
down with their face to the ground.

27 But he, courteously saluting them
again, asked them, saying: Is the old
man your father in health, of whom you
told me ? Is he yet living ?

28 And they answered : Thy servant
our father is in health, he is yet living.
And bowing themselves they made obei-
sance to him.

29 And Joseph lifting up his eyes, saw
Benjamin his brother, by the same mo-
ther, and said : Is this your young bro-
ther, of whom you told me ? And he
said : God be gracious to thee, my son.

30 And he made haste because his heart
was moved upon his brother, and tears
gushed out : and going into his chamber
he wept.

V Supra 42. 3.

CuAP. 43. Ver. 11. Balm, Literally rosin, resince ; but here by that name is meant balm.

JosefKs silver cup

GENESIS The brethren return to Joseph

31 And when he had washed his face,
coming out again, he refrained himself,
and said : Set bread on the table.

32 And when it was set on, for Joseph
apart, and for his brethren apart, for the
Egyptians also that ate with him, apart,
(for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to
eat with the Hebrews, and they think
such a feast profane :)

33 They sat before him, the firstborn ac-
cording to his birthright, and the young-
est according to his age. And they won-
dered very much :

34 Taking the messes which they re-
ceived of him: and the greater mess
came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded
by five parts. And they drank, and were
merry with him.

CHAPTER 44.

Joseph's contrivance to stop his brethren. The
humble supplication of Juda.

AND Joseph commanded the steward
J\. of his house, saying : Fill their sacks
with corn, as much as they can hold : and
put the money of every one in the top of
his sack.

2 And in the mouth of the younger's
sack put my silver cup, and the price
which he gave for the wheat. And it
was so done.

3 And when the morning arose, they
were sent away with their asses.

4 And when they were now departed
out of the city, and had gone forward a
little way; Joseph sending for the stew-
ard of his house, said : Arise, and pursue
after the men : and when thou hast over-
taken them, say to them : Why have
you returned evil for good ?

5 The cup which you have stolen is
that in which my lord drinketh, and in
which he is wont to divine : you have
done a very evil thing.

6 He did as he had commanded him.
And having overtaken them, he spoke
to them the same words.

7 And they answered: Why doth our
lord speak so, as though thy servants
had committed so heinous a fact ?

8 The money, that we found in the top
of our sacks, we brought back to thee
from the land of Chanaan: how then

Chap. 44. Ver. 15. The science of divining. He
speaks of himself according to what he was es-
teemed in that kingdom. And indeed, he being truly

should it be that we should steal out of
thy lord's house, gold or silver ?

9 With whomsoever of thy servants
shall be found that which thou seekest,
let him die, and we will be the bondmen
of my lord.

10 And he said to them : Let it be ac-
cording to your sentence *. with whom-
soever it shall be found, let him be my
servant, and you shall be blameless.

21 Then they speedily took down their
sacks to the ground, and every man
opened his sack.

12 Which when he had searched, begin-
ning at the eldest and ending at the
youngest, he found the cup in Benjamin's
sack.

13 Then they rent their garments, and
loading their asses again, returned into
the town.

14 And Juda at the head of his brethren
went in to Joseph, (for he was not yet
gone out of the place,) and they alto-
gether fell down before him on the
ground.

15 And he said to them: Why would
you do so ? know you not that there is no
one like me in the science of divining.

16 And Juda said to him: What shall
we answer my lord? or what shall we
say, or be able justly to allege? God hath
found out the iniquity of thy servants :
behold, we are all bondmen to my lord,
both we, and he with whom the cup was
found.

17 Joseph answered : God forbid that I
should do so : he that stole the cup, he
shall be my bondman : and go you away
free to your father.

18 Then Juda coming nearer, said
boldly : I beseech thee, my lord, let thy
servant speak a word in thy ears, and
be not angry with thy servant : for after
Pharao thou art,

19 My lord. ^ Thou didst ask thy ser-
vants the first time : Have you a father
or a brother ?

20 And we answered thee, my lord:
We have a father an old man, and a
young boy, that was born in his old age ;
whose brother by the mother is dead :
and he alone is left of his mother, and
his father loveth him tenderly.

w Supra 42. 13.

a prophet, knew more without comparison than any
of the Egyptian sorcerers.

Judges 'prayer to Joseph

21 And thou eaidst to thy servants:
Bring him hither to me, and I will set
my eyes on him.

22 We suggested to my lord : The boy
cannot leave his father : for if he leave
him, he will die.

23 * And thou saidst to thy servants :
Except your youngest brother come with
you, you shall see my face no more.

24 Therefore when we were gone up to
thy servant our father, we told him all
that my lord had said.

25 And our father said : Go again, and
buy us a little wheat.

26 And we said to him : "We cannot go :
if our youngest brother go down with
us, we will set out together : otherwise,
without him we dare not see the man's
face.

27 Whereunto he answered : You know
that my wife bore me two.

28 One went out, and you said : ^ A
beast devoured him: and hitherto he
appeareth not.

29 If you take this also, and any thing
befall him in the way, you will bring
down my gray hairs with sorrow unto hell.

30 Therefore if I shall go to thy ser-
vant our father, and the boy be want-
ing, (whereas his life dependeth upon
th^ life of him,)

31 And he shall see that he is not with
us, he will die, and thy servants shall
bring down his gray hairs with sorrow
unto hell.

32 Let me be thy proper servant, who
took him into my trust, and promised,
saying : ^ If I bring him not again, I
will be guilty of sin against my father
for ever.

33 Therefore I thy servant will stay
instead of the boy in the service of

ny lord, and let the boy go up with his
orethren.

34 For I cannot return to my father
without the boy, lest I be a witness of
the calamity that will oppress my father.

CHAPTER 45.

Joseph maketh himself known to his brethren : and

sendethfor his father.

JOSEPH could no longer refrain him-
self before many that stood by :

GENESIS Joseph makes himself known

X Supra 43. 3 and 5. — y Supra 37. 20 and 33.

Ver. 31. Jlis gray hairs. That is, his person, now
far advanced in years. — With sorrow unto hell.
The Hebrew word for hell is here sheol, the Greek
\ades t it is not taken for the hel^ 9f the damned;

whereupon he commanded that all should
go out, and no stranger be present at
their knowing one another. ^

2 And he Ufted up his voice with weep
ing, which the Egyptians and all the
house of Pharao heard.

3 And he said to his brethren: I am
Joseph : is my father yet living ? His
brethren could not answer him, being
struck with exceeding great fear.

4 And he said mildly to them: Come
nearer to me. And when they were come
near him, he said : " I am Joseph, your
brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

5 Be not afraid, and let it not seem to
you a hard case that you sold me into
these countries : ^ for God sent me before
you into Egypt for your preservation.

6 For it is two years since the famine
began to be upon the land, and five years
more remain, wherein there can be nei-
ther ploughing nor reaping.

7 And God sent me before, that you
may be preserved upon the earth, and
may have food to live.

8 Not by your counsel was I sent hither,
but by the will of God : who hath made
me as it were a father to Pharao, and
lord of his whole house^ and governor in
all the land of Egypt.

9 Make haste, and go ye up to my father,
and say to him: Thus saith thy son
Joseph : God *lath made mf^ lord of the
whole land of Egypt : come down to me
linger not.

10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of
Gessen : and thou shalt be near me, thou
and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy
sheep, and thy herds, and all things that
thou hast.

11 And there I will feed thee, (for there
are yet five years of famine remaining,)
lest both thou perish, and thy house, and
all things that thou hast.

12 Behold, your eyes, and the eyes of
my brother Benjamin see that it is my
mouth that speaketh to you.

13 You shall tell my father of all my
glory, and all things that you have seen
in Egypt : make haste and bring him to
me.

14 And falling upon the neck of hie

e Supra 43. 9. — a Acts 7. 13. — h Infra 50. 20.

but for that place of souls below where the ser.
vants of God were kept before the coming of Christ.
Which place, both in the Scripture and in the -reed,
is name^ *«W.

He sends for his father

GENESIS Israel sets out on his journey

urother Benjamin, he embraced him and
wept : and Benjamin in like manner wept
also on his neck.

15 And Joseph kissed all his brethren,
and wept upon every one of them:
after which they were emboldened to
Bpeak to him.

16 And it was heard, and the fame was
abroad in the king's court : The brethren
of Joseph are come : and Pharao with
all his family was glad.

17 And he spoke to Joseph that he should
give orders to his brethren, saying : Load
your beasts, and go into the land of
Chanaan.

18 And bring away from thence your
father and kindred, and come to me : and
I will give you all the good things of
Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of
the land.

19 Give orders also that they take
wagons out of the land of Egypt, for
the carriage of their children and their
wives : and say : Take up your father,
anc make haste to come with all speed :

20 And leave nothing of your house-
hold stuff : for all the riches of Egypt
shall be yours.

21 And the sons of Israel did as they
were bid. And Joseph gave them wagons
according to Pharao's commandment:
and provisions for the way.

22 He ordered also to be brought out
for every one of them two robes : but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces
of silver with five robes of the best :

23 Sending to his father as much money
and raiment, adding besides ten he asses
to carry off all the riches of Egypt, and
as many she asses, carrying wheat and
bread for the journey.

24 So he sent away his brethren, and at
their departing said to them : Be not
angry in the way.

25 And they went up out of Egypt, and
came into the land of Chana£'.n to their
father Jacob.

26 And they told him, saying : Joseph
thy son is living : and he is ruler in all
the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob
heard, he awaked as it were out of a
deep sleep, yet did not believe them.

27 They, on the other side, told the

d Acts 7. 15,
e Jos. 24. 4 ; Ps. 101. 23 ; Isa. 52. 4.
/Ex. 1. 2, and 6. 14 ; Num. 26. 5 ; 1 Par. 5. 1 and 3.

whole order of the thing. And when he
saw the wagons and all that he had sent,
his spirit revived.

28 And he said : It is enough for me, if
Joseph my son be yet living i I will go
and see him before I die.

CHAPTER 46.

Israel, warranted by a vision from God,goethdoiifn
into Egypt with all his family.

AND Israel taking his journey, with
jljL all that he had, came to the well of
the oath, and killing victims there to the
God of his father Isaac,

2 He heard him by a vision in the night
calUng him, and saying to him: Jacob,
Jacob. And he answered him : Lo, here
I am.

3 God said to him : I am the most mighty
God of thy father: fear not, go down
into Egypt, for I will make a great nation
of thee there.

4 I will go down with thee thither, and
will bring thee back again from thence :
Joseph ai'^o shall put his hands upon thy
eyes.

5 And Jacob rose up from the well of
the oath: *^and his sons took him up,
with their children and wives in the
wagons, which Pharao had sent to carry
the old man,

6 And all that he had in the land of
Chanaan, and he came into Egypt with
all his seed : *

7 His sons, and grandsons, daughters,
and all his offspring together.

8 And these are the names of the chil-
dren of Israel, that entered into Egypt, he
and his children. -^ His firstborn Ruben,

9 The sons of Ruben : Henoch and
Phallu, and Hesron and Charmi.

10 ^The sons of Simeon: Jamuel and
Jamin and Ahod, and Jachin and Sohar,
and Saul the son of a woman of Cha-
naan.

11 '^The sons of Levi: Gerson and
Caath and Merari.

12 *The sons of Juda: Her and Onan
and Sela and Phares and Zara. And Her
and Onan died in the land of Chanaan.
And sons were born to Phares : Hesron
and Hamul.

13 -^The sons of Issachar: Thola and
Phua and Job and Semron.

grEx.6. 15; 1 Par. 4. 24.
h 1 Par. 6. 1.— i 1 Par. 2. 3, and 4. 21.
j 1 Par. 7. 1.

i;BAf.4i». Y«s.l.

The weU qf the oath» BersabMi
66

Jacobus family go into Egypt

GENESIS Jacob and his sons before Pharao

14 The sons of Zabulon : Sared and Elon
and Jahelel.

15 These are the sons of Lia, whom she
bore in Mesopotamia of Syria, with Dina
his daughter. All the souls of her sons
and daughters, thirty-three.

16 The sons of Gad : Sephian and Haggi
and Suni and Esebon and Heri and Arodi
and Areli.

17 ^' The sons of Aser : Jamne and Jesua
and Jessuri and Beria, and Sara their
sister. The sons of Beria: Heber and
Melchiel.

18 These are the sons of Zelpha, whom
Laban gave to Lia his daughter. And
these she bore to Jacob, sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife :
Joseph and Benjamin.

20 * And sons were born to Joseph, in
the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth the
daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopo-
lis bore him : Manasses and Ephraim.

21 The sons of Benjamin : ^ Bela and
Bechor and Asbel and Gera and Naaman
and Echi and Ros and Mophim and
Ophim and Ared.

22 These are the sons of Rachel, whom
■he bore to Jacob: all the souls, four-
teen.

23 The sons of Dan : Husim.

24 The sons of Nephtali: Jaziel and
Quni and Jeser and Sallem.

25 These are the sons of Bala, whom
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter: and
these she bore to Jacob: all the eouls,
seven.

26 All the souls that went with Jacob
Into Egypt, and that came out of his
ttiigh, besides his sons' wives, sixty-six.

27 And the sons of Joseph, that were
born to him in the land of Egypt, two
souls. ** All the souls of the house of
Jacob, that entered into Egypt, were
seventy.

28 And he sent Juda before him to Jo-
seph, to tell him; and that he should
meet him in Gessen.

29 And when he was come thither, Jo-
seph made ready his chariot, and went
up to meet his father, in the same place :
and seeing him, he fell upon his neck,
and embracing him wept.

30 And the father said to Joseph : Now

^— ^M^— ^»^M^— ■! ■ 11 I II 111!» I ■■ I II m

k 1 Par. 7. 30. — I Supra 41. 50.

Chap. 47. Ver. 2. The last. Extremos. Some
nterpret this word of the chief est^ and mo.s< rightly:
but Joseph seems ratlier to liave chosen out such as

shall I die with ^oy, because I have seen
thy face, and leave thee alive.

31 And Joseph said to his brethren, and
to all his father's house : I will go up,
and will tell Pharao, and will say to him :
My brethren and my father's house, that
were in the land of Chanaan, are come
to me:

32 And the men are shepherds, and
their occupation is to feed cattle : their
flocks and herds, and all they have, they
have brought with them.

33 And when he shall call you, and shall
say : What is your occupation ?

34 You shall answer : We thy servants
are shepherds, from our infancy until
now, both we and our fathers. And this
you shall say, that you may dwell in the
land of Gessen, because the Egyptians
have all shepherds in abomination.

CHAPTER 47.

Jacob and his sons are presented before Pharao:
he giveth them the land of Gessen. The famine
forceth the Egyptians to sell all their possessions
to the king.

THEN Joseph went in and told Pharao,
saying: My father and brethren,
their sheep and their herds, and all that
they possess, are come out of the land of
Chanaan: and behold they stay in the
land of Gessen.

2 Five men also the last of his brethren,
he presented before the king :

3 And he asked them : What is your
occupation? They answered: We thy
servants are shepherds, both we, and our
fathers.

4 We are come to sojourn In thy land,
because there is no grass for the flocks
of thy servants, the famine being very
grievous in the land of Chanaan: and
we pray thee to give orders that we thy
servants may be in the land of Gessen.

5 The king therefore said to Joseph :
Thy father and thy brethren are come to
thee.

6 The land of Egypt is before thee :
make them dwell in the best place, and
give them the land of Gessen. And if
thou knowest that there are industrious
men among them, make them rulers over
my cattle.

7 After this Joseph brought in his father

m 1 Par. 7. 6, and 8. l. — w Deut. 10. 22.

had the meanest appearance, that Pharao might nci
think of employing them at court, with danger «f
tneir morals and religion. ^- —

£6

The famine continues GENESIS

to the king, and presented him before
him : and he blessed him.

8 And being asked by him : How many
are the days of the years of thy life ?

9 He answered : The days of my pil-
grimage are a hundred and thirty years,
few, and evil, and they are not come
up to the days of the pilgrimage of my
fathers.

10 And blessing the king, he went out.

11 But Joseph gave a possession to his
father and his brethren in Egypt, in the
best place of the land, in Ramesses, as
Pharao had commanded.

12 And he nourished them, and all his
father's house, allowing food to every
one.

13 For in the whole world there was
want of bread, and a famine had op-
pressed the land: more especially of
Egypt and Chanaan.

14 Out of which he gathered up all the
money for the corn which they bought,
and brought it into the king's treasure.

15 And when the buyers wanted money,
all Egypt came to Joseph saying j Give
us bread: why should we die in thy
presence, having now no money.

16 And he answered them : Bring me
your cattle, and for them I will give you
food, if you have no money.

17 And when they had brought them,
he gave them food in exchange for their
horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses ;
and he maintained them that year for the
exchange of their cattle.

18 And they came the second year, and
said to him : We will not hide from our
lord, how that our money is spent, and
our cattle also are gone: neither art
thou ignorant that we have nothing now
left but our bodies and our lands.

19 Why therefore shall we die before
thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and
our lands : buy us to be the king's ser-
vants, and give us seed, lest for want of
tillers the land be turned into a wilder-
ness.

20 So Joseph bought all the land of
Egypt, every man selling his possessions.

Jacob calls for Joseph

Ver. 31. To the bed's head. St. Paul, Heb. 11. 21,
following the Greek translation of the Septuagint,
reads adored the top of his rod. Where note, that
the same word in the Hebrew, according to the dif-
ferent pointing of it, signifies both a bed and a rod.
And to verify both these sentences, we must under-
■tacd tluit Jacob leaning on Joseph's rod adored,

because of the greatness of iM9 famine.
And he brought it into Pharao's hands :

21 And all its people from one end of
the borders of Egypt, even to the other
end thereof,

22 Except the land of the priests,
which had been given them by the
king: to whom also a certain allowance
of food was given out of the publio stores»
and therefore they were not forced to
sell their possessions.

23 Then Joseph said to i^ie people : Be-
hold as you see, both you .md your lands
belong to Pharao : take seed and sow the
fields,

24 That you may have corn. The fifth
part you shall give to the king: the
other four you shall have for seed, and
for food for your families and children.

25 And they answered: Our life is in
thy hand : only let my lord look favour-
ably upon us, and we will gladly serve the
king.

26 From that time unto this day, in the
whole land of Egypt, the fifth part is
paid to the king, and it is become as a
law, except the land of the priests, which
was free from this covenant.

27 So lorael dwelt in Egypt, that is, in
the land of Gessen, and possessed it:
and grew, and was multiphed exceed-
ingly.

28 And he lived in it seventeen years .
and all the days of his life came to a
hundred and forty-seven years.

29 And when he saw that the day of
his death drew nigh, he called his son
Joseph, and said to him ; If I have found
favour in thy sight, ^put thy hand under
my thigh ; and thou shalt shew me this
kindness and truth, not to bury me in
Egypt:

30 But I will sleep with my fathers, and
thou shalt take me away out of this land,
and bury me in the buryingplace of my
ancestors. ^" A nd Joseph answered him :
I will do what thou hast commanded.

31 And he said: Swear then to me.
And as he was swearing, Israel adored
God, turning to the bed's head.

q Supra 24. 2. — r Supra 23. 17.

turning towards the head of his bed : which adora>
tion, inasmuch as it was referred to God, was an
absolute and sovereign worship: but inasmuch as
it was referred to the rod of Joseph, as a figure of
the sceptre, that is, of the royal dignity of Christ
was only an inferior and relative hoMour.

Joseph visits his Jathe

GKNESIS Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph

CHAPTER 48.

Joseph visiteth his father in his sickness, who
adopteth Itis two sous Manasses and Ephrabn ,
and blesseth them^ preferring the younger before
the elder.

AFTER these things, it was told Jo-
. seph that his father was sick : and
he set out to go to him, taking his two
sons Manasses and Ephraim.

2 And it was told the old man: Behold
thy son Joseph cometh to thee. And
being strengthened he sat on his bed.

3 And when Joseph was come in to him,
he said : * God Almighty appeared to me
at Luza^ which is in the land of Cha-
x>sKQ.a : And he blessed me,

4 And he said : I will cause thee to in-
frease and multiply, and I will make of
thee a multitude of people : and I will
give this land to thee, and to thy seed
after thee for an everlasting possession.

5 **So thy two sons who were born to
thee in the land of Egypt before I came
hither to thee, shall be mine : ^ Ephraim
and Manasses shall be reputed to me as
Ruben and Simeon.

6 But the rest whom thou shalt have
after them, shall be thine, and shal? be
called by the name of their brethren in
their possessions.

7 For, when I came out of Mesopotamia,
^ Rachel died from me in the land of
Chanaan in the very journey, and it was
springtime : and I was going to Ephrata,
and I buried her near the way of Eph-
rata, which by another name is called
Bethlehem.

8 Then seeing his sons, he said to him :
Who are these ?

9 He answered : They are my sons,
Whom God hath given me in this place.
And he said : Bring them to me that I
may bless them.

10 For Israel's eyes were dim by reason
of his great age, and he could not see
clearly. And when they were brought
to him, he kissed and embraced them.

11 And said to his son: I am not de-
prived of seeing thee: moreover God
hath shewed me thy seed.

12 And when Joseph had taken them
from his father's lap, he bowed down
with his face to the ground.

13 And he set Ephraim on his right
hand, that is, towards the left hand of
Israel ; but Manasses on his left hand, to

t Supra 28. 13.-1« Supra 41. 60.
V Jos. 13. 7 and 2Q,—w Supra 35. 19.

and

wit, towards his father's right hand,
brought them near to him.

14 But he stretching forth his right hand,
put it upon the head of Ephraim the
younger brother ; and the left upon the
head of Manasses who was the elder,
changing his hands.

15 ^ And Jacob blessed the sons of Jo-
seph, and said : God, in whose sight my
fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, God
that feedeth me from my youth until
this day ;

16 2/ The angel that delivereth me from
all evils, bless these boys : and let my
name be called upon them, and the names
of my fathers Abraham, and Isaac, and
may they grow into a multitude upon
the earth.

17 And Joseph seeing that his father
had put his right hand upon the head
of Ephraim, was much displeased: and
taking his father's hand he tried to lift
it from Ephraim's head, and to remove
it to the head of Manasses.

18 And he said to his father : It should
not be so, my father : for this is the first-
born, put thy right hand upon his head.

19 But he refusing, said: I know, my
son, I know : and this also shall become
peoples, and shall be multiplied : but
this younger brother shall be greatej
than he: and his seed shall gi'ow into
nations.

20 And he blessed them at that time,
saying: In thee shall Israel be blessed,
and it shall be said : God do to thee as
to Ephraim, and as to Manasses. And
he set Ephraim before Manasses.

21 And he said to Joseph his son : Be-
hold I die. and God will be with you,
and v/ill bring you back into the land of
your fathers.

22 ^ I give thee a portion above thy
brethren, which I took out of the hand of
the Amorrhite " with my sword and bow.

CHAPTER 49.

Jacobus prophetical blessings of his twelve sons his
death.

ND Jacob called his sons, and said to
them: Gather yourselves together
that T may tell you the things that shall
befall you in the last days.

2 Gather yourselves together, and hear,
O ye sons of Jacob, hearken to Israel
your father :

X Heb. 11. 21. —y Supra 31. 29 and 32.
s Matt. 18. 10. — a Jos. 16. l, and 16. 7. ^.

The promise to Juda GENESIS

3 Ruben, my firstborn, thou art my
strength, and the beginning of my sor-
row : excelling in gifts, greater in com-
mand.

4 Thou art poured out as water, grow
thou not : ^because thou wentest up to thy
father's bed, and didst defile his couch.

5 Simeon and Levi brethren : vessels of
iniquity, waging war.

6 Let not my soul go into their counsel,
nor my glory be in their assembly : ^ be-
cause in their fury they slew a man, and
in their selfwill they undermined a wall.

7 Cursed be their fury, because it was
stubborn : and their wrath because it
was cruel : ^ I will divide them in Jacob,
and will scatter them in Israel.

8 Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise :
thy hands shall be on the necks of thy
enemies : the sons of thy father shall bow
down to thee.

9 * Juda is a lion's whelp : to the prey,
my son, thou art gone up : resting thou
bast couched as a lion, and as a lioness,
who shall rouse him ?

10 -^The sceptre shall not be taken away
from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till
be come that is to be sent, and he shall
be the expectation of nations.

11 Tying his foal to the vineyard, and
>is ass, O my son, to the vine. He shall
wash his robe in wine, and his garment
in the blood of the grape.

12 His eyes are more beautiful than
wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

13 Zabulon shall dwell on the sea shore,

6 Jos. 24. 8 ; Deut. 13. 6. — c Supra 34. 25.
d Jos. 19. 1. — el Par. 5. 2.

Jacob blesses his sons

Chap. 49. Ver. 3. My strength, Sia. He calls him
his strength^ as being boru whilst his father was in
his full strength and vigour: he calls him the be-
giny\ing of his sorrow, because cares and sorrows
usually come on with the birth of children. Excel-
ling in gifts, (fee, because the firstborn had a title to
a double portion, and to have the command over his
brethren, which Ruben forfeited by his sin; being
ponred out as water, that is, spilt and lost.

Ver. 4. Grow thou not. This was not meant by
way of a curse or imprecation; but by way of a pro-
phecy foretelling that the tribe of Ruben should not
mherit the pre-eminences usually annexed to the
flrst birthright, viz., the double portion, the being
prince or lord over the other brethren, and the
priesthood : of which the double portion was given
to Joseph, the princely office to Juda, and the priest-
hood to Levi.

Ver. 6. Slew a man, viz., Sichem the son o2 He-
mor, with all his people. Gen. 34.

Ver. 9. A lion''s whelp, &c. This blessing of Juda
foretelleth the strength of his tribe, the fertility of
his inheritance ; and principnlly that the sceptre and
leglslatlTe power should not be utterly taken away

and in the road of eMpe, reaching as far
as Sidon.

14 Issachar shall be a strong ass lying
down between the borders.

15 He saw rest that it was good : an(J
the land that it was excellent: and h6
bowed his shoulder to carry, and became
a servant under tribute.

16 Dan shall judge his people like an-
other tribe in Israel.

17 Let Dan be a snake in the way, a ser-
pent in the path, that biteth the horse's
heels that his rider may fall backward.

18 1 will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

19 Gad, being girded, shall fight before
him: and he himself shall be girded
backward.

20 Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he
shall yield dainties to kings.

21 Nephtali, a hart let loose, and giving
words of beauty.

22 ^ Joseph is a growing son, a growing
son and comely to behold ; the daughters
run to and fro upon the wall.

23 But they that held darts provoked
him, and quarrelled with him, and envied
him.

24 His bo-,/ rested upon the strong, and
the bands of his arms and his hands were
loosed, by the hands of the mighty one
of Jacob : thence he came forth a pastor,
the stone of Israel.

25 The God of thy father shall be thy
helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee
with the blessings of heaven above, with
the blessings of the deep that lieth be*

/Matt. 2. 6; Johns. 45.
g 1 Par. 5. 1.

from his race till about the time of the coming of
Christ: as in effect it never was : which is a demon-
stration against the modern Jews, that the Messiah
is long since come; for the sceptre has long since
been utterly taken away from Juda.

Ver. 16. Dan shall judge, &c. This was verified
in Samson, who was of the tribe of Dan, and began
to deliver Israel. Judges 13. 5. But as this deliver,
ance was but temporal and very imperfect, the holy
patriarch (v3r. 18) aspires after another kind of
deliverer, saying: / will look for thy salvation^ O
Lord.

Ver. 19. Gad being girded, &c. It seems to allude
to the tribe of Gad ; when after they had received
for their lot the land of Galaad, they marched in
arms before the rest of the Israelites, to the con-
quest of the land of Chanaan: from whence they
afterwards returned loaded with spoils. See Jos. 4.
and 12.

Ver. 22. Bun to and fro^ &c. To behold his
beauty; whilst his envious brethren turned their
darts against him, &c.

Ver. 24. His bow rested upon the strong, &c. That
is, upon God, who was his strength: who also Zoosed
his bands, and brought him out of prison to be the
pastor, that is, the feeder and ruler of Egypt, antf
the stone, that is, the rock and support of IsraeL

The death of Jacob GENESIS

neath, with the blessings of the breasts
and of the womb.

26 The blessings of thy father are
strengthened with the blessings of his
fathers: until the desire of the everlast-
ing hills should come ; may they be upon
the head of Joseph, and upon the crown
of the Nazarite among his brethren.

27 Benjamin a ravenous wolf, in the
morning shall eat the prey, and in the
evening shall divide the spoil.

28 All these are the twelve tribes of
Israel : these things their father spoke
to them, and he blessed every one, with
their proper blessings.

29 And he' charged them, saying: 1 am
now going to be gathered to my people :
bury me with my fathers in the double
cave, which is in the field of Ephron the
Hethite,

30 Over against Mambre in the land of
Chanaan, ^ which Abraham bought to-
gether with the field of Ephron the
Hethite for a possession to bury in.

31 There they buried him, and Sara his
wife! there was Isaac buried with Re-
becca hia wife : there also Lia doth lie
buried.

32 And when he had ended the com-
mandments, wherewith he instructed his
sons, he drew up his feet upon the bed,
and died; and he was gathered to his
people.

CHAPTER 60.

The mourninrf for Jacob, and his interment.
Joseph's kindness towards his brethren. His
death.

AND when Joseph saw this, he fell
XjL upon his father's face weeping and
kissing him.

2 And he commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father.

3 And while they were fulfilling his
commands, there passed forty days : foi
this was the manner with bodies that
were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for
him seventy days.

4 And the time of the mourning being

The burial of Jacob

expiredj Joseph spoke to the family oi
Pharao ; If I have found favour in your
sight, speak in the ears of Pharao :

5 For my father made me swear to him,
saying: Behold I die: thou shalt bury
me in my sepulchre ^ which I have digged
for myself in the land of Chanaan. So
I will go up and bury my father, and
return.

6 And Pharao said to him : Go up and
bury thy father according as he made
thee swear.

7 So he went up, and there went with
him all the ancients of Pharao's house,
and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And the house of Joseph with his
brethren, except their children, and their
flocks and herds, which they left in the
land of Gessen.

9 He had also in his train chariots and
horsemen : and it was a great company.

10 And they came to the threshingfloor
of Atad, which is situated beyond the
Jordan : where celebrating the exequies
with a great and vehement lamentation,
they spent full seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of Cha-
naan saw this, they said : This is a great
mourning to the Egyptians. And there-
fore the name of that place was called.
The mourning of Egypt.

12 So the sons of Jacob did as he had
commanded them.

13 And carrying him into the land of
Chanaan, * they buried him in the doubLe
cave which Abraham had bought to-
gether with the field for a possession of
a buryingplace, of Ephron the Hethite
over against Mambre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt
with his brethren, and all that were in
his company, after he had buried his fa-
ther.

15 Now he being dead, his brethren
were afraid, and talked one with another :
Lest perhaps he should remember the
wrong he suffered, and requite us all the
evil that we did to him.

h Supra 23. 17.

Ver. 26. The blessings of thy father, &c. That is,
thy father's blessings are made more prevalent and
effectual in thy regard, by tlie additional strength
they receive from his inheriting the blessings of his
progenitors Abraham and Isaac. The desire of the
everlasting hills, &c These blessings all looked for-
ward towards Christ, called the desire of the ever-
lasting hills, as being longed for, as it were, by the
whole creation. Mystically, the patriarchs and pro-
phets are called the everlasting hills, by reason of the

j Supra 47. 29. — k Acts 7. 16 ; Supra 23. 17.

eminence of their wisdom and holiness. The Naza-
rite. This word signifies one separated ; and agrees
to Joseph, as being separated from, and more emi-
nent than, his brethren. As the ancient Nazorites
were so called from their being set aside for God,
and vowed to him.

Ver. 29. To be gathered to my people. That is, 1
am going to die, and so to follow my ancestors that
are gone before cae, and to join their company in
another world.

The death

EXODUS'

of Joseph

10 And they sent a messagr^ to him, say-
ing: Thy father commanded us before
he died,

17 That we should say thus much to
thee from him : I beseech thee to forget
the wickedness of thy brethren, and the
sin and malice they practised against
thee : we also pray thee, to forgive the
servants of the God of thy father this
wickedness. And when Joseph • heard
chis, he wept.

18 And his brethren came to him : and
worshipping prostrate on the ground
they »aid : We are thy servants.

19 And he answered them: Fear not:
can we resist the will of God ?

20 'You thought evil against me: but
God turned it into good, that he might
exalt me, as at present you see, and
might save many people.

21 m Feaj. not : I will feed you and youi
children. And he comforted them, and
spoke gently and mildly.

22 And he dwelt in Egypt with all his
father's house : and lived a hundred and
ten years. And he saw the children of
Ephraim to the third generation. "The
children also of Machir the son of Ma-
nasses were born on Joseph's knees.

23 After which he told his brethren:
° God will visit you after my death, and
will make you go up out of this land, to
the land which he swore to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.

24 And he made them swear to him,
saying : God will visit you, ^ carry my
bones with you out of this place :

25 And he died being a hundred and
ten years old. And being embalmed he
was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

THE

BOOK OP EXODUS.

Th^ Second Book of Moses is called Exodus, from the Greek word Exodos, which signifies
going out : because it contains the history of the going out of tht childreriof Israel out oj
Egypt. The Hebrews, from the words uith which it begins, call it Veelle Semoth : These
are the names It contains transaction, for 145 years; that is, from the death of Joseph to
the erecting of the tabernacle.

CHAPTER 1.

The Israelites are multiplied in Egypt They are
oppressed by a new king, who eommandeth all
their male children to be killed.

THESE are the names of the children
of Israel, that went into Egypt with
Jacob : they went in, every man with his
household : ^

2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,

3 Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,

4 Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.

5 And all the souls that came out of Ja-
cob's thigh, were seventy : * but Joseph
was in Egypt.

6 After he was dead, and all his bre-
thren, and all that generation,

7 *The children of Israel increased, and
sprung up into multitudes, and growing
exceedingly strong they filled the land.

I Supra 45. 5. — m Supra 47. 12.

n Num. 32. 39. — a Heb. IL 22,

p Ex. 13. 19 , .TOS. 24. 32.

8 In the mean time there arose a new
king over Egypt, that knew not Jo-
seph:

9 And he said to his people : Behold
the people of the children of Israel are
numerous and stronger than we.

10 Come, let us wisely oppress them,
lest they multiply : and if any war shall
rise against us, join with our enemies,
and having overcome us, depart out of
the land.

11 Therefore he set over them masters
of the works, to afflict them with bur-
dens, and they built for Pharao cities oi
tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.

12 But the more they oppressed them,
the more they were multipKed, and in-
creased :

13 And the Egyptians hated the chil

r Gen. 46. 8.—« Gen. 46. 27.
t Acts 7. 17.

Chap. l. Ver. ll, Q/ tabernacles^ or of storehouses.

The male infants are killed

EXODUS Moses found hy Pharaohs daughter

dren of Israel, and afflicted them and
mocked them :

14 And they made their Hfe bitter with
hard works in clay, and brick, and with
all manner of service, wherewith they
were overcharged in the works of the
earth.

15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the
midwives of the Hebrews : of whom one
was called Sephora, the other Phua,

16 Commanding them : When you shall
do the office of midwives to the Hebrew ;
women, and the time of delivery is
come : if it be a man child, kill it : if a
woman, keep it alive.

17 But the midwives feared God, and
did not do as the king of Egypt had
commanded, but saved the men chil-
dren.

18 And the king called for them and
said : What is that you meant to do, that
you would save the men children ?

19 They answered: The Hebrew women
are not as the Egyptian women : for they
themselves are skilful in the office of a
midwife ; and they are delivered before
we come to them.

20 Therefore God dealt well with the
midwives : and the people multiplied and
grew exceedingly strong.

21 And because the midwives feared
God, he built them houses.

22 Pharao therefore charged all his
people, saying: Whatsoever shall be
born of the male sex, ye shall cast into
the river : whatsoever of the female, ye
shall save alive.

CHAPTER 2.
Moses is bom and exposed on the bank of the river ;
where he is taken up by the daughter of Pharao,
and adopted for her son. He killeth an Egyptian,
and Jieeth into Madian; where he marrieth a
wife.

A FTER this there went a man of the
J\. house of Levi ; " and took a wife of
ais own kindred.

2 And she conceived, and bore a son;
^ and seeing him a goodly child, hid him
three months.

u Infra 6. 20.— v Heb. 11. 23.

Ver. 21. Because the midwives feared God, &c.
The midwives were rewarded, not for their lie, which
was a venial sin ; but for their fear of God, and their
humanity: but this reward was only temporal, in
building them houses, that is, in establishing and
enriching their families.

Chap. 2. Ver. 10. Moses or Moyses, in the Egyp-
tian tongue, signifies one taken or saved out of the
water.

3 And when she could hide him no
longer, she took a basket made of bul-
rushes, and daubed it with slime and
pitch: and put the little babe therein,
and laid him in the cedges by the river's
brink,

4 His sister standing afar off, and tak-
ing notice what would be done

5 And behold the daughter ot Phar«.o
came down to wash herself in the river:
and her maids walked by the river's
brink. And when she saw the basket in
the sedges, she sent one of her maids for
it : and when it was brought,

6 She opened it and seeing within it an
infant crying, having compassion on it
she said : This is one of the babes of the
Hebrews.

7 And the child's sister said to her!
Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew wo-
man, to nurse the babe?

8 She answered: Go. The maid went
and called her mother.

9 And Pharao's daughter said to her:
Take this child and nurse him for me : I
will give thee thy wages. The woman
took, and nursed the child : and when he
was grown up, she delivered him to
Pharao's daughter.

10 And she adopted him for a son, and
called him Moses, saying : Because I took
him out of the water.

11 ^In those days after Moses was
grown up, ^he went out to his brethren:
and saw their affliction, and an Egyp-
tian striking one of the Hebrews his bre-
thren.

12 And when he had looked about this
way and that way, and saw no one there,
he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the
sand.

13 And going out the next day, he saw
two Hebrews quarrelling : and he said to
him that did the wrong: Why strikest
thou thy neighbour ?

14 But he answered : Who hath ap-
pointed thee prince and judge over us :
wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yester-

X B. C. 1486.
y Heb. 11. 24.

Ver. 12. He slew the Egyptia,n. This he did by a
particular inspiration of God ; as a prelude to his
delivering the people from their oppression and
bondage. He thought, says St. Stephen, Acts 7. 25,
that his brethren understood that God by his hand
would save them. But such particular and eztraor*
dinary examples are not to be imitatecu

Moses flees to Madian

EXODUS

day kill the Egyptian? Mosea feared,
and said : Howls tiiis come to be known?

15 And Pharao heard of this word and
sought to kill Moses : but he fled from
his sight, and abode in the land of Madian,
and he sat down by a well.

16 And the priest of Madian had seven
daughters, who came to draw water :
and when the troughs were filled, de-
sired to water their father's flocks.

17 And the shepherds came and drove
them away: and Moses arose, and de-
fending the maids, watered their sheep.

18 And when they returned to Raguel
their father, he said to them : Why are
ye come sooner than usual ?

19 They answered : A man of Egypt de-
livered us from the hands of the shep-
herds : and he drew water also with us,
and gave the sheep to drirk,

20 But he said : Where is he ? why have
you let the man go ? call him that he may
eat bread.

21 And Moses swore that he would
Iwell with him. ^ And he took Sephora
ais daughter to wife :

22 And she bore him a son, whom he
called Gersam, saying : I have been a
stranger in a foreign country. And she
bore another, whom he called Eliezer,
saying: For the God of my father, my
helper hath delivered me out of the
hand of Pharao.

23 Now after a long time the king of
Egypt died: and the children of Israel
groaning, cried out because of the works :
and their cry went up unto God from the
works.

24 And he heard their groaning, and
remembered the covenant which he
made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

25 And the Lord looked upon the chil-
dren of Israel, and he knew them.

CHAPTER 3.

God ajypeareth to Moses in a bush, and sendeth him
to deliver Israel.

"VrOW l^Ioses fed the sheep of Jethro
Jji his father in law, the priest of Ma-
dian : and he drove the flock to the in-

z Infra 18. 2 and 3 j 1 Par. 23. 15.
a About B.C. 1445.

Ver. 15. Madian, A city and country of Arabia,
which took its name from Madian the son of Abra-
\am, by Cetura, and was peopled by his posterity.

Ver. 18. Raguel. He had two names, being also
called Jethro, as appears from the first verse of the
following chapter.

Ver. 22. Oersam^ or Oershom. This name '^'-nil.

The burning bush

ner parts of ^he desert, and came to the
mountain of God, Horeb. "

2 ^ And the Lord appeared to him in a
flame of fire out of the midst of a bush :
and he saw that the bush was on fire and
was not burnt.

3 And Moses said : I will go and see
this great sight, why the bush is not
burnt.

4 And when the Lord saw that he went
forward to see, he called to him out of
the midst of the bush, and said : Moses,
Moses. And he answered : Here I am.

6 And he said : Come not nigh hither
put off the shoes from thy feet: foi
the place whereon thou standest is hol>
ground.

6 And he said : ^ I am the God of thy
father, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid
his face : for he durst not look at God.

7 And the Lord said to him : I have
seen the affliction of my people in Egypt,
and I have heard their cry because of
the rigour of them that are over the
works :

8 And knowing their sorrow, I am come
down to deliver them out of the hands
of the Egyptians, and to bring them out
of that land into a good and spacioua
lanJ, into a land that floweth with milk
and honey, to the places of the Chanaan-
ite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and
Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

9 For the cry of the children of Israel
is come unto me : and I have seen their
affliction, wherewith they are oppressed
by the Egyptians.

10 But come, and I will send thee to
Pharao, that thou mayst bring forth
my people, the children of Israel out of
Egypt.

11 And Moses said to God: Who am I
that I should go to Pharao, and should
bring forth the children of Israel out of
Egypt?

12 And he said to him : I will be with
thee : and this thou shalt have for a sign,
that I have sent thee ; When fchou shalt

b Acts 7. 30.
c Matt, 22. 32 ; Mark 12. 26 ; Luke 20. 37.

fies a stranger there : as Eliezer signifies the help oj
God.

Ver. 25. Knew them ; that is, he had respect to
them, he cast a merciful eye upon them.

Chap. 3. Ver. 2. The Lord appeared. That is,
an angel representing God, and speaking iu hit
name.

Qod sends Moses to deliver Israel EXODUS The rod and the leprous hand

have brought my people out of Egypt,
bhou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon
this mountain.

13 Moses said to God : Lo, I shall go to
the children of Israel, and say to them :
The God of your fathers hath sent me to
you. If they should say to me : What is
his name ? what shall I say to them ?

14 God said to Moses : I am who am.
He said : Thus shalt thou say to the chil-
dren of Israel : He who is, hath sent me
to you.

15 And God said again to Moses : Thus
shalt thou say to the children of Israel :
The Lord God of your fathers, the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob, hath sent me to you ; This
is my name for ever, and this is my
memorial unto all generations.

16 Go, gather together the ancients of
Israel, and thou shalt say to them : The
Lord God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying .
Visiting I have visited you : and I have
seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.

17 And I have said the word to bring
you forth out of the aflliction of Egypt,
into the land of the Chanaanite, the Heth-
ite, and the Amorrhite, and Pherezite,
and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that
floweth with milk and honey.

18 And they shall hear thy voice : and
thou shalt go in, thou and the ancients
of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou
shalt say to him : The Lord God of the
Hebrews hath called us : we will go three
days' journey Into the wilderness, to
sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

19 But I know that the king of Egypt
will not let you go, but by a mighty
hand.

20 For I will stretch forth my hand,
and will strike Egypt with all my won-
ders which I will do in the midst of
them : after these he will let you go.

21 And I will give favom* to this peo-
ple, in the sight of the Egyptians : ^ and
when you go forth, you shall not depart
empty :

22 But every woman shall ask of her

d Infra 11. 2, and 12. 35.

Ver. 14. / avi who am. That is, I am being itself,
eternal, self-existent, independent, infinite ; without
beginning, end, or change; and the source of all
otlier beings.

Ver. 22. Shall spoil, &c. That is, you shall strip.
and take away the goods at the £gyptiaus. This wag

What is that
He answered :

neighbour, and of her that is in her
house, vessels of silver and of gold, and
raiment : and you shall put them on
your sons and daughters, and shall spoil
Egypt.

CHAPTER 4.

Moses is empowered to confirm his m,ission with
miracles : his brother Aaron is appointed to assist
him,.

MOSES answered and said : They will
not believe me, nor hear my voice,
but they will say: The Lord hath not
appeared to thee.

2 Then he said to him :
thou boldest in thy hand ?
A rod.

3 And the Lord said : Cast it down upon
the ground. He cast it down, and it was
turned into a serpent : so that Moses fled
from it.

4 And the Lord said : Put out thy hand
and take it by the tail. He put forth his
hand, and took hold of it, and it was
turned into a rod.

5 That they may believe, saith he, that
the Lord God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath appeared to thee.

6 And the Lord said again: Put thy
hand into thy bosom. And when he had
put it into his bosom, he brought it forth
leprous as snow.

7 And he said : Put back thy hand into
thy bosom. He put it back, and brought
it out again, and it was like the other
flesh.

8 If they will not believe thee, saith he,
nor hear the voice of the former sign,
they will believe the word of the latter
sign.

9 But if they will not even believe these
two signs, nor hear thy voice : take of
the river water, and pour it out upon
the dry land, and whatsoever thou draw-
est out of the river shall be turned into
blood.

10 Moses said : I beseech thee. Lord, I
am not eloquent from yesterday and the
day before : and since thou hast spoken
to thy servant, I have more impediment
and slowness of tongue.

not authorizing theft or injustice; but was a just
disposal made by Him, who is the great lord and
master of all things, in order to pay the children of
Israel some part of what was due to them from tbe
Egyptians for their labours.

Aaron chosen to assist Moses

EXODUS

Moses returns to Egypt

11 The Lord said to him: Who made
man's mouth? or who made the dumb
and the deaf, the seeing and the blind?
did not I?

12 Go therefore, «and I will be in thy
mouth: and I will teach thee what thou
shalt speak.

13 But he said: I beseech thee. Lord,
send whom thou wilt send.

14 The Lord being angry at Moses, said :
Aaron the Levite is thy brother, I know
that he is eloquent: behold he cometh
forth to meet thee, and seeing thee shall
be glad at heart.

15 Speak to him, and put my words in
his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth,
and in his mouth, / and will shew you
what you must do.

16 He shall speak in thy stead to the
people, and shall be thy mouth: but thou
shalt be to him in those things that per-
tain to God.

17 And take this rod in thy hand, where-
with thou shalt do the signs.

18 Moses went his way, and returned to
Jethro his father in law and said to him :
I will go and return to my brethren into
Egypt, that I may see if they be yet
alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in
peace.

19 And the Lord said to Moses, in Ma-
dian: Go, and return into Egypt: for
they are all dead that sought thy life.

20 Moses therefore took his wife, and
his sons, and set them upon an ass: and
returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of
God in his hand.

21 And the Lord said to him as he was
returning into Egypt: See that thou do
all the wonders before Pharao, which I
have put in thy hand: I shall harden
his heart, and he will not let the people
go.

22 And thou shalt say to him: Thus
saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my
firstborn.

23 I have said to thee: Let my son go,
that he may serve me, and thou wouldst
not let him go : behold I will kill thy son,
thy firstborn.

24 And when he was in his journey, in

e Matt. 10. 20—/ Infra 7. 2.

Chap. 4. Ver. 21. / shall harden, &c. Not by be-
ing the efficient cause of his sin ; but by withdraw-
ing from him, for his just punishment, the dew of
grace that might have softened his heart, and so
suffering him to grow harder and harder.

Ver. 24 The Lord met him, and would have killed

the inn, the Lord met him, and would
have killed him.

25 Immediately Sephora took a very
sharp stone, and circumcised the fore-
skin of her son, and touched his feet,
and said: A bloody spouse art thou to
me.

26 And he let him go after she had said :
A bloody spouse art thou to me, because
of the circumcision,

27 And the Lord said to Aaron : Go into
the desert to meet Moses. And he went
forth to meet him in the mountain of
God, and kissed him.

28 And Moses told Aaron all the words
of the Lord, by which he had sent him,
and the signs that he had commanded.

29 And they came together, and they
assembled all the ancients of the children
of Israel.

30 And Aaron spoke all the words which
the Lord had said to Moses: and he
wrought the signs before the people.

31 And the people believed. And they
heard that the Lord had visited the chil-
dren of Israel: and that he had looked
upon their affliction: and falling down
they adored.

CHAPTER 5.

Pharao refuseth to let the people go. They are
more oppressed.

AFTER these things Moses and Aaron
went in, and said to Pharao:
9 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel :
Let my people go that they may sacri-
fice to me in the desert.

2 But he answered: Who is the Lord,
that I should hear his voice, and let
Israel go? I know not the Lord, nei-
ther will I let Israel go.

3 And they said: The God of the He-
brews hath called us, to go three days*
journey into the wilderness and to sacri-
fice to the Lord our God: lest a pesti-
lence or the sword fall upon us.

4 The King of Egypt said to them:
Why do you Moses and Aaron draw off
the people from their works? Get you
gone to your burdens.

5 And Pharao said: The people of
the land is numerous: you see that the

g About B. C. 1445.

him. This was an angel representing the Lord, who
treated Moses in this manner, for having neglected
the circumcision of his younger son ; which his wife
understanding, circumcised her child upon the spot,
upon which the angel let Moses go.

The Hebretotf are more oppressed EXODUS

multitude is increased : how mnch more
if you give them rest from their works ?

6 Therefore ho commanded the same
day the overseers of the works, and the
taskmasters of the people, saying :

7 You shall give straw no more to the
people to make brick, as before : but let
them go and gather straw.

8 And you shall lay upon them the task
of bricks, which they did before, neither
shall you diminish any thing thereof:
for they are idle, and therefore they
cry, saying : Let us go and sacrifice to
our God.

9 Let them be oppressed, with works,
and let them fulfil them : that they may
not regard lying words.

10 And the overseers of the works and
the taskmasters went out and said to
the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow
you no straw :

11 Go, and gather it where you can find
It : neither shall any thing of your work
be diminished.

12 And the people was scattered
through all the land of Egypt to gather
etraw.

13 And the overseers of the works
pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work
every day as before you were wont to
do when straw was given you.

14 Aiiid they that were over the works
of the children of Israel were scourged
by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why
have you not made up the task of bricks
both yesterday and to day as before ?

15 And the officers of tlie children of
Israel came, and cried out to Pharao,
saying: Why dealest thou so with thy
servants ?

16 Straw is not given us, and bricks are
required of us as before : behold we thy
servants are beaten with whips, and thy
people is unjustly dealt withal.

17 And he said: You are idle, and
therefore you say : Let us (50 and sacri-
fice to the Lord.

18 Go therefore, and work : straw shall
not be given you, and you shall deUver
the accustomed number of bricks.

Chap. 6. Ver. 3. My name Ada lai. The name,
which is in the Hebrew text, is t lat most proper
name of God, which signifieth his e> emal, self-exist-
ent beinQy Ex. 3. 14, which the Jei /s out of rever-
ence never pronounce ; but, instead of it, whenever
It occurs in the Bible, they read Ad ^nai, which sig-
nifies the Lord; ap<l« tiierefore. thex put th& points

_ God renews His promise

19 And the officers of the children of
Israel saw that they were in evil case,
because it was said to them : There shall
not a whit be diminished of the bricks
for every day.

20 And they met Moses and Aar^*^
who stood over against them at Aey
came out from Pharao :

21 And they said to them: The Lord
see and judge, because you have made
our savour to stink before Pharao and
his servants, and you have given him a
sword to kill us.

22 And Moses returned to the Lord
and said : Lord, why hast thou afflicted
this people? wherefore hast thou sent
me ?

23 For since the time that I went in to
Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath
afflicted thy people: and thou hast not
delivered them.

CHAPTER 6.

God reneweth his ■promise. The genealogies of Bt»
ben, Simeon and Levi, down to Moses and Aaron.

AKD the Lord eaii feo Moses: Now
. thou Shalt see what I will d<Q to
Pharao : for by a mighty hand shall he
let them go, and with a strong han<?
shall he cast them out of his land.

2 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying ;
I am the Lord,

3 That appeared to Abraham, to Isaac,
and to Jacob, by the name of God Al-
mighty ; and my name Adonai I did not
shew them.

4 And I made a covenant with them, to
give them the land of Chanaan, the land
of their pilgrimage wherein they were
strangers.

6 I have heard the groaning of the
children of Israel, wherewith the Egyp
tians have oppressed them : and I have
remembered my covenant.

6 Therefore say to the children of Is
rael: I am the Lord who will bring you
out from the work prison of the Egyp-
tians, and will deliver you from bond
age : and redeem you with a high arm,
and great judgments.

7 And I wiU take you to myself for my

or vowels, which belong to the name Adonai, to the
four letters of that other ineffable name Jod, Ee,
Vau, He. Hence some moderns have franwd the
name Jehovah, unknown to all the ancients, whethei
Jews or Christians; for the true pronunciation of
the name, which is in the Hebrew text, by lOOg ^»
US&- is Qow quit'^ lost

The descendants of Ruben, etc. EXODUS Genealogy of Moses and Aaron

people, I will be your God: and you
shall know that I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out from the work
prison of the Egyptians.

8 And brought you into the land, con-
cerning which I lifted up my hand to
give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:
and I will give it you to possess, I am
the Lord.

9 And Moses told all this to the chil-
dren of Israel: but they did not hearken
to him, for anguish of spirit, and most
painful work.

10 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

11 Go in, and speak to Pharao king of
Egypt, that he let the children of Israel
go out of his land.

12 Moses answered before the Lord:
Behold the children of Israel do not
hearken to me; and how will Pharao
hear me, especially as I am of uncircum-
cised lips?

13 And the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, and he gave them a charge unto
the children of Israel, and unto Pharao
the king of Egypt, that they should
bring forth the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt.

14 *These are the heads of their houses
by their families. The sons of Ruben
the firstborn of Israel. Henoch and
Phallu, Hesron and Charmi.

15 These are the kindreds of Ruben.
/The sons of Simeon: Jamuel, and Jamin,
and Ahod, and Jachin, and Soar, and Saul
the son of a Chanaanitess: these are
the families of Simeon.

16 And these are the names of the sons
of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and
Caath, and Merari. And the years of the
life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-
seven.

17 ^The sons of Gerson: Lobni and Se-
mei, by their kindreds.

18 ^The sons of Caath: Amram, and
Isaar, and Hebron, and Oziel. And the
years of Caath's life were a hundred and
thirty-three.

19 The sons of Merari: Moholi and
Musi. These are the kindreds of Levi
by their families.

i Gen. 46 9 : Num. 26 5 ; 1 Par. 5. 1.
; 1 Par. 4. 24. — k 1 Par. 6. 1, and 23. 6.

Ver. 12 Uncircumcised lips. So he calls the
defect he had in his words, or utterance.

Chap 7. Ver. 1. The Ood of Pharao, viz., to
be his judge ; and to exercise a divine power, as
God's instrument, over him and his people.

20 And Amram took to wife Jochabed
his aunt by the father's side: and she
bore him Aaron and Moses. And the
years of Amram's life were a hundred
and thirty-seven.

21 The sons also of Isaar: Core, and
Nepheg, and Zechri.

22 The sons also of Oziel: Mizael, and
Elizaphan, and Sethri.

23 And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth
the daughter of Aminadab, sister of
Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu,
and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

24 The sons also of Core: Aser, and
Elcana, and Abiasaph. These are the
kindreds of the Corites.

25 But Eleazar the son of Aaron took
a wife of the daughters of Phutiel: and
she bore him Phinees. These are the
heads of the Levitical families by their
kindreds.

26 These are Aaron and Moses, whom
the Lord commanded to bring forth the
children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt by their companies.

27 These are they that speak to Pharao
king of Egypt, in order to bring out the
children of Israel from Egypt: these are
that Moses and Aaron,

28 In the day when the Lord spoke to
Moses in the land of Egypt.

29 And the Lord Spoke to Moses, saying:
I am the Lord: speak thou to Pharao
king of Egypt all that I say to thee.

30 And Moses said before the Lord: Lo
I am of uncircumcised lips, how will
Pharao hear me?

CHAPTER 7.
Moses and Aaron go in to Pharao: they turn the
rod into a serpent; and the waters of Egypt
into hlood, which was the first plague. The ma-
gicians do the like, and Pharao's heart is hard-
ened.

AND the Lord said to Moses: Behold
- I have appointed thee the God of
Pharao: and Aaron thy brother shall be
thy prophet.

2 wThou shalt speak to him all that I
command thee; and he shall speak to
Pharao, that he let the children of Israel
go out of his land.

3 But I shall harden his heart, and shall

I Num. 3. 19, and 26. 57, 58 ; 1 Par. 6. 2, and

n Supra 4.15.

Ver. 3. I shall harden, &o. Not by being the
efficient cause of his hardness of heart, but by
permitting it ; and by withdrawing grace from
him, in punishment of his malice ; which alone
was the proper cause of his being hardened.

Moses and Aaron before Pharao EXODUS

The first plague, of blood

multiply my wgnt mnA "^onderk in the
land of Egypt,

4 And he will not heur you : and I will
lay my hand upon Egypt, and will bring
forth my army and my people the chil-
dren ct Israel out of thy land of Egypt,
by very great judgments.

6 And the Egyptians shall know that I
am the Lord, who have stretched forth
my hand upon Egypt, and have brought
forth the children of Israel out of the
midst of them.

6 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord
had commanded : so did they.

7 And Moses was eighty years old, and
Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to
pharao.

8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron :

9 When Pharao shall say to you. Shew
eigns : thou shalt say to Aaron : Take
fchy rod, and cast it down before Pharao,
and it shall be turned into a serpent.

10 So Moses and Aaron went in unto
pharao, and did as the Lord had com-
manded. And Aaron took the rod before
pharao, and his servants, and it was
turned into a serpent.

11 **And Pharao called the wise men
and the magicians : and they also by
Egyptian enchantments and certain se-
crets did in like manner.

12 And they every one cast down their
pods, and they were turned into serpents :
but Aaron's rod devoured their rods.

13 And Pharaohs heart was hardened,
and he did not hearken to them, as the
Lord had commanded.

14 And the Lord said to Moses i Pharao's
heart is hardened^ he will not let the
people go,

15 Go to him in the morning, behold
he will go out to the waters : and thou
shalt stand to meet him on the bank of
the river: and thou shalt take in thy
hand the rod that was turned into a
serpent.

16 And thou shalt say to him: The Lord
God of the Hebrews sent me to thee,
saying : Let my people go to sacriuce to
me in the desert: and hitherto thou
wouldst not hear.

17 Thus therefore saith the Lord: In
this thou shalt know that I am the Lord :
behold I will strike with the rod, that is

o 2 Tim. a &

in my hand, the water of the river, and
it shall be turned into blood.

18 And the fishes that are in the river
shall die, and the waters shall be cor-
rupted, and the Egyptians shall be af-
flicted when they drink the water of the
river.

19 The Lord also said to Moses : Say to
Aaron, Take thy > rod, and stretch forth
thy hand upon the waters of Egypt, and
upon their rivers, and streams and pools,
and all the ponds of waters, that they
may be turned into blood : and let blood
be in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels
of wood and of stone.

20 And Moses and Aaron did as the
Lord had commanded:^ and lifting up
the rod he struck the water of the river
before Pharao and his servants : and it
was turned into blood.

21 And the fishes that were in the river
died : and the river corrupted, and the
Egyptians could not drink the water of
the river, and there was blood in all the
land of Egypt.

22 3 And the magicians of the Egyptians
with their enchantments did in like
manner : and Pharao's heart was hard-
ened, neither did he hear them, as the
Lord had commanded.

23 And he turned himself away and
went into his house, neither did he set
his heart to it this time also.

24 And all the Egyptians dug round
about the river for water to drink : for
they could not drink of the water of the
river.

25 And seven days were fully ended,
after that the Lord struck the river.

CHAPTER 8.

The second plague is of frogs : Pharao promiseth to
let the Israelites go, but breaketh his promise. The
third plague is of sciniphs. The fourth is of flies.
Pharao again promiseth to dismiss the people^
but doth it not.

AND the Lord said to Moses: Go in
J\. to Pharao, and thou shalt say to
him : Thus saith the Xx)rd : Let my peo-
ple go to sacrifice to me.

2 But if thou wilt not let them ga
behold I will strike all thy coasts with
frogs.

3 And the river shall bring forth an
abundance of frogs : which shall come
up, and enter into thy house, and thy

p Infra 17 5 ; Ps. 77. 44. — ^ Wisd, 17. 7.

Ver IX, Atofficians, Jannes, and Mambres^ or Jambres 2 TiCi. 3, 8.

The second plague^ of frogs

EXODUS The third plagtie, of sciniphs

bedchamber, and npon thy bed, and into
the houses of thy servants, and to thy
people, and into itorj ovens, and into the
remains of thy meats ;

4 And the frogs shall come in to thee,
and to thy people, and to all thy ser-
vants.

5 And the Lord said to Moses : Say to
Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand upon the
streams and upon the rivers and the
pools, and bring forth frogs upon the
land of Egypt.

6 And Aaron stretched forth his hand
upon the waters of Egypt, and the
frogs came up, and covered the land of
Egypt.

7 And the magicians also by their en-
chantments did in like manner, and they
brought forth frogs upon the land of
Egypt.

8 But Pharao called Moses and Aaron,
and said to them : Pray ye to the Lord
to take away the frogs from me and
from my people ; and I will let the peo-
ple go to sacrifice to the Lord.

9 And Moses said to Pharao : Set me a
time when I shall pray for thee, and for
thy servants, and for thy people, that the
frogs may be driven away from thee and
from thy house, and from thy servants,
and from thy people: and may remain
only in the river.

10 And he answered : To morrow. But
he said : I will do according to thy word ;
that thou mayst know that there is none
like to the Lord our God.

11 And the frogs shall depart from thee,
and from thy house, and from thy ser-
vants, and from thy people; and shall
remain only in the river.

12 And Moses and Aaron went forth
from Pharao : and Moses cried to the
Lord for the promise, which he had made
to Pharao concerning the frogs.

13 And the Lord did according to the
word of Moses : and the frogs died out
of the houses, and out of the villages,
and out of the fields :

14 And they gathered them together

Chap. 8. Ver. 8. Pray ye to the Lord, &c. By
this it appears, that though the magicians, by the
help of the devil, could bring frogs, yet they conld
not take them away: God beiuf; pleased to abridge
In this the power of Satan. So we see they could
Dot afterwards produce the lesser Insects; and in
this restraint of the power of the devil, were forced
to acknowledge the finger of God.

Ver- 1& Pharao hardened his own heart. By Uiis

into immense heaps, and the land was
corrupted.

15 And Pharac seeing that rest was
given, hardened his own heart, and did
not hear them, as the Lord had com-
manded.

16 And the Lord said to Moses : Say to
Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod, and strike
the dust of the earth : and may there be
sciniphs in all the land of Egypt.

17 And they did so. And Aaron stretch-
ed forth his hand, holding the rod i and
he struck the dust of the earth, and there
came sciniphs on men and on beasts : all
the dust of the earth was turned into
sciniphs through all the land of Egypt.

18 And the magicians with their en-
chantments practised in like manner, to
bring forth sciniphs, and they could not :
and there were sciniphs as well on men
as on beasts.

19 And the magicians said to Pharao:
ITiis is the finger of God. And Pharao's
heart was hardened, and he hearkened
not unto them, as the Lord had com-
manded.

20 The Lord also said to Moses : Arise
early, and stand before Pharao: for he
will go forth to the waters: and thou
shalt say to him : Thus saith the Lord :
Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

21 But if thou wilt not let them go, be-
hold I will send in upon thee, and upon
thy servants, and upon thy houses all
kind of flies : and the houses of the Egyp-
tians shall be filled with flies of divers
kinds, and the whole land wherein they
shall be.

22 And I will make the land of Gessen
wherein my people is, wonderful in that
day, so that flies shall not be there : and
thou shalt know that I am the Lord in
the midst of the earth. -^

23 And I will put a division between
my people and thy people : to morrow
shall this sign be.

24 And the Lord did so. '' And there
came a very grievous swarm of flies into
the houses of Pharao and of his ser-

r Wisd. 16. 9.

we see that Pharao was himself the efficient cause
of his heart being hardened, and not God. — See the
same repeated in ver. 32. Pharao hardened his heart
at this time also : likewise chap. 9. 7, 35, and chap.
13. 15.

Ver. 16. Scinipfis, or dnifs, Hebrew Chinnim,
small flying insects, very troublesome botb to meo
and beasts.

The fourth 'plague, of flies

EXODUS

The fifth and sixth plagues

vants, and into all the land of Egypt:
and the land was corrupted by this kind
of flies.

25 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron,
and said to them: Go, and sacrifice to
your God in this land.

26 And Moses said : It cannot be so : for
we shall sacrifice the abominations of
the Egyptians to the Lord oar God : now
if we Idll those things which the Egyp-
tians worship, in their presence, they
will stone us.

27 We will go three days' journey into
the wilderness : and we will sacrifice to
th*? Lord our God, ^ as he hath command-
fvd us.

28 And Pharao said : I will let you go
to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the
wilderness : but go no farther : pray for
me.

29 And Moses said : I will go out from
thee, and will pray to the Lord : and the
flies shall depart from Pharao, and from
his servants, and from his people to
morrow : but do not deceive any more,
in not letting the people go to sacrifice
to the Lord.

30 So Moses went out from Pharao, and
prayed to the Lord.

31 And he did according to his word :
and he took away the flies from Pharao,
and from his servants, and from his peo-
ple : there was not left so much as one.

32 And Pharaohs heart was hardened,
so that neither this time would he let
the people go.

CHAPTER 9.

The fifth plague is a murrain among the cattle.
The sixth, of boils in men and beasts. The sev-
enth, of hail. Pharao promiseth again to let the
•people go, and breaketh his word.

AND the Lord said to Moses: Go in
XX to Pharao, and speak to him : Thus
Baith the Lord God of the Hebrews : Let
my people go to sacrifice to me.

2 But if thou refuse, and withhold them
still:

3 Behold my hand shall be upon thy
fields: and a very grievous murrain
upon thy horses, and asses, and camels,
and oxen, and sheep.

4 And the Lord will make a wonderful

s Supra 3. 18.

Ver. 26. The abominations, &c. That is, the thmgs
they worship for Gods: oxen, rams, &c. It is the
usual style of the scriptures to call all idols and
false gods, abominations, to siguify how much the
people of God ought to detest aod abhor them.

difference between the possessions of
L'-^raol and the possessions of the Egyp-
tians, that nothing at all shall die of
those tilings that belong to the children
of Israel.

5 And the Lord appointed a time, say-
ing: To morrow will the Lord do this
thing in the land.

6 The Lord therefore did this thing the
next day : and all the beasts of the Egyp-
tians died, but of the beasts of the chil-
dren of Israel there died not one.

7 And Pharao sent to see : and there
was not any thing dead of that which
Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart
was hardened, and he did not let the
people go.

8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aar-
on : Take to you handfuls of ashes out
of the chimney, and let Moses sprinkle
it in the air in the presence of Pharao.

9 And be there dust upon all the land
of Egypt : for there shall be boils and
swelling blains both in men and beasts,
in the whole land of Egypt.

10 And they took ashes out of the chim-
ney, and stood before Pharao, and Moses
sprinkled it in the air: and there came
boils with swelling blains in men and
beasts.

11 Neither could the magicians stand
before Moses for the boils that were upon
them, and in all the land of Egypt.

12 And the Lord hardened Pharao's
heart, and he hearkened not unto them,
as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

13 And the Lord said to Moses : Arise
in the morning, and stand before Pharao,
and thou shalt say to him : Thus "saith
the Lord the God of the Hebrews : Let
my people go to sacrifice to me.

14 For I will at this time send all my
plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people : that thou
mayst know there is none like me in all
the earth.

15 For now I will stretch out my hand
to strike thee, and thy people with pes-
tilence, and thou shalt perish from the
earth.

16 *And therefore have I raised thee,
that I may shew my power in thee, and

t Rom, 9. r

Chai». 9. Ver. 6. All the beasts. That is, many
of all kinds.

Ver. 12. Hardened, &c. See the annotations above,
chap, 4. 21, cliap> 7. 3, and chap. 8. l&

Seventh plague, lightning and hail EXODUS

Pharaohs heart is hardened

my uame may b*^ spoken of throughout
all the earth.

17 Dost thou yet hold back my people :
and wilt thou not let them go ?

18 Behold I will cause it to rain to mor-
row at this same hour, an exceeding great
hail: such as hath not been in Egypt
from the day that it was founded, until
this present time.

19 Send therefore now presently, and
gather together thy cattle, and all that
thou hast in the field : for men and
beasts, and all things that shall be found
abroad, and not gathered together out of
the fields, which the hail shall fall upon,
shall die.

20 He that feared the word of the Lord
among Pharao's servants, made his ser-
vants and his cattle flee into houses :

21 But he that regarded not the word of
the Lord, left his servants and his cattle
in the fields :

22 And the Lord said to Moses : Stretch
forth thy hand towards heaven, that
there may be hail in the whole land of
Egypt, upon men, and upon beasts, and
upon every herb of the field in the land
of Egypt.

23 ^ And Moses stretched forth his rod
towards heaven, and the Lord sent thun-
der and hail, and lightning running along
the ground: and the Lord rained hail
upon the land of Egypt.

24 And the hail and fire mixed with it
drove on together: and it was of so
great bigness, as never before was seen
in the whole land of Egypt since that
nation was founded»

25 And the hail destroyed through all
the land of Egypt all things that were in
the fields, both man and beast : and the
hail smote every herb of the field, and it
broke every tree of the country.

26 Only in the land of Gessen, where
the children of Israel were, the hail fell
not,

27 And Pharao sent and called Moses
and Aaron, saying to them; I have
sinned this time also ; the Lord is just :
I and my people are wicked.

28 Pray ye to the Lord, that the thun-
derings of God and the hail may cease :
that I may let you go, and that you may
stay here no longer.

29 Moses said : As soon as I am gone

u Wisd. 16. 16, and 19. la

out of the city, I will stretch forth my
hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall
cease, and the hail shall be no more :
that thou mayst know that the earth is
the Lord's.

30 But I know that neither thou, nor
thy servants do yet fear the Lord God.

31 The flax therefore and the barley were
hurt, because the barley was green, and
the flax was now boiled :

32 But the wheat, and other winter corn
were not hurt, because they were late-
ward.

33 And when Moses was gone from Pha-
rao out of the city, he stretched forth his
hands to the Lord: and the thunders and
the hail ceased, neither did there drop
any more rain upon the earth.

34 And Pharao seeing that the rain and
the hail, and the thunders were ceased,
increased hig sin.

35 And his heart was hardened, and the
heart of his servants, and it was made
exceeding hard: neither did he let the
children of Israel go, as the Lord had
commanded by the hand of Moses.

CHAPTER 10.

The eighth plague of the locusts. The ninths o/
darkness: Pharao is still hardened.

ND the Lord said to Moses: Go in

to Pharao ; for I have hardened his
heart, and the heart of his servants : that
I may work these my signs in him.

2 And thou mayest tell in the ears ol
thy sons, and of thy grandsons, how
often I have plagued the Egyptians, and
wrought my signs amongst them: and
^^m, may know that I am the Lord :
I 3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in
toPharao, and said to him: Thus saith
the Lord God of the Hebrews: How
long ref usest thou to submit to me ? let
my people go, to sacrifice to me.

4 ^ But if thou resist, and wilt not let
them go, behold I will bring in to mor-
row the locust into thy coasts :

5 To cover the face of the earth that
nothing thereof may appear, but that
which the hail hath left may be eaten :
for they shall feed upon all the ,ti:ejBS
that spring in the fields. ,.,•,'

6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the
houses of thy servants, and of all the
Egyptians : such a number as thy fathers
have not seen, nor thy grandfathers.

V Wisd. 16. 9l

•.luiA;

^~ «^-twU-

The eighth plague, of locusts

EXODUS The ninth plague, of darkness

from the time they were first upon the I also, and pray to the Lord your God, that
earth, until this present day. And he \ he take away from me this death.

turned himself away, and went forth from
Pharao.

7 And Pharao's servants said to him:
How long shall we endure this scandal?
let the men go to sacrifice to the Lord
their God. Dost thou not see that Egypt
is imdone?

8 And they called back Moses and Aaron
to Pharao: and he said to them: Go,
sacrifice to the Lord your God: who are
they that shall go?

9 Moses said: We will go with our
young and old, with our sons and daugh-
ters, with our sheep and herds: for it is
the solemnity of the Lord our God.

10 And Pharao answered: So be the
Lord with you, as I shall let you and
your children go: who can doubt but
that you intend some great evil?

11 It shall not be so: but go ye men
only, and sacrifice to the Lord: for this
yourselves also desired. And immedi-
ately they were cast out from Pharao's
presence.

12 And the Lord said to Moses : Stretch
forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt
unto the locust, that it come upon it,
and devour every herb that is left after
the hail.

13 And Moses stretched forth his rod
upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord
brought a burning wind all that day, and
night: and when it was morning, the
burning wind raised the locusts.

14 And they came up over the whole
land of Egypt: and rested in all the
coasts of the Egyptians innumerable, the
like as had not been before that time,
nor shall be hereafter.

15 And they covered the whole face of
the earth, wasting all things. And the
grass of the earth was devoured, and
what fruits soever were on the trees,
which the hail had left: and there re-
mained not any thing that was green on
the trees, or in the herbs of the earth in
all Egypt.

16 Wherefore Pharao in haste called
Moses and Aaron, and said to them: I
have sinned against the Lord your God,
and against you.

17 But now forgive me my sin this time

w Wisd. 17. 2.—X Wisd. 18. 1.

18 And Moses going forth from the pre-
sence of Pharao, prayed to the Lord. J

19 And he made a very strong wind to
blow from the west, and it took the lo-
custs and cast them into the Red Sea;
there remained not so much as one in all
the coasts of Egypt.

20 And the Lord hardened Pharao's
heart, neither did he let the children of
Israel go.

21 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch
out thy hand towards heaven: and may
there be darkness upon the land oflEgypt,
so thick that it may be felt.

22 And Moses stretched forth his hand
towards heaven: and there came horri-
ble darkness in all the land of Egypt for
three days.

23 ^ No man saw his brother, nor moved
himself out of the place where he was:
« but wheresoever the children of Israel
dwelt there was light.

24 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron,
and said to them: Go sacrifice to the
Lord: let your sheep only, and herds
remain; let your children go with you.

25 Moses said: Thou shalt give us also
sacrifices and burnt offerings, to the
Lord our God.

26 All the flocks shall go with us : there
shall not a hoof remain of them, for
they are necessary for the service of the
Lord our God: especially as we know
not what must be offered, till we come
to the very place.

27 And the Lord hardened Pharao's
heart, and he would not let them go.

28 And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee
from me, and beware thou see not my
face any more: in what day soever thou
shalt come in my sight, thou shalt die.

29 Moses answered: So shall it be as
thou hast spoken, I will not see thy face
any more.

CHAPTER 11.

Pharao and his people are threatened with the
death of their firstborn.

AND the Lord said to Moses: Yet one
plague more will I bring upon Pha-
rao and Egypt, and after that he shall let
you go and thrust you out.
2 y Therefore thou shalt tell all the peo-

y Supra 3. 22, Infra 12. 35.

Chap. 10. Ver. 21. Darkness upon the land of
Egypt, 80 thick that it may be felt. By means of the

gross exhalations, which were to cause and accom-
pany the darkness.

Death of firstborn threatened

EXODUS

The Passover

pie that every man ask of his friend,
and every woman of her neighbour, ves-
sels of silver, and of gold.

3 And the Lord will give favour to his
people in the sight of the Egyptians.
* And Moses was a very great man in the
land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharao's
servants, and of all the people.

4 And he said : Thus said the Lord : At
midnight I will enter into Egypt.

6 And every firstborn in the land of
the Egyptians shall die, from the first-
born of Pharao who sitteth on his throne,
even to the firstborn of the handmaid
that is at the mill, and all the firstborn
of beasts.

6 And there shall be a great cry in all
the land of Egypt, such as neither hath
been before, nor shall be hereafter.

7 But with all the children of Israel
there shall not a dog make the least
noise, from man even to beast : that you
may know how wonderful a difference the
Lord maketh between the Egyptians and
Israel.

8 And all these thy servants shall come
down to me, and shall worship me, say-
ing : Go forth thou, and all the people that
is under thee : after that we will go out.

9 And he went out from Pharao exceed-
ing angry. But the Lord said to Moses :
Pharao will not hear you, that many
eigns may be done in the land of Egypt.

10 And Moses and Aaron did all the
wonders that are written, before Pharao.
And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart,
neither did he let the children of Israel
go out of his land.

CHAPTER 12.

Tfu manner of preparing^ and eating the paschal
lamb the firstborn of Egypt are all slain ^ the
Israelites depart.

AND the Lord said to Moses and
^ Aaron in the land of Egypt :

2 This month shall be to you the begin-
ning of months : it shall be the first in
cbe months of the year.

3 Speak ye to the whole assembly ot
the children of Israel, and say to them ;
On the tenth day of this month let every
man take a lamb by their familicL and
houses.

4 But if the number be less than may

t EcclL 45. 1.

Chap. IL Ver. 10. The Lord hardened, &c. See
tlie annotations above, chap. 4. 21, and chap. 7. 3.
CUAP. 12. Ver. 6b :.l kid. The "ohase might be

suflBce to eat the lamb, he shall take unto
him his neighbour that joineth to hia
house, according to the number of souls
which may be enough to eat the lamb.
6 And it shall be a lamb without blem-
ish, a male, of one year: according to
which rite also you shall take a kid.

6 And you shall keep it until the four-
teenth day of this month : and the whole
multitude of the children of Israel shaU
sacrifice it in tha evening.

7 And they shall take of the blood
thereof, and put it upon both the side
posts, and on the upper door posts of the
houses, wherein they shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the flesh that night
roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread
with wild lettuce.

9 You shall not eat thereof any thing
raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted
at the fire : you shall eat the head with
the feet and entrails thereof

10 Neither shall there remain any thing
of it until morning. ^If there be any
thing left, you shall burn it with fire.

11 And thus you shall eat it: you shall
gird your reins, and you shall have shoeg
on your feet, holding staves in your
hands, and you shall eat in haste : for it
is the Phpse (that ir the Passage) of the
Lord.

12 And i will pass through the land ol
Egypt that night, and will kill every
firstborn in the land of Egypt both man
and beast: and against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgments. I am
the Lord.

13 And the blood shall be unto yon for
a sign in the houses where you shall be :
and I shall see the blood, and shall paas
ever you : and the plague shall not be
upon you to destroy you, when 1 shall
strike the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall be for a memorial
to you: and you shall keep it a feast
to the Lord in your generations with an
everlasting observance.

16 Seven days shall you eat unleavened
bread : in the first day there shall be no
leaven in your houses: whosoever shall
eat any thing leavened, from the first
day until the seventh day, that soul
shall perish out of Israel

r. Lev. 7. 15^

performed, either with a lamb or with i. kid : and aU
the same rites and ceremoniej were to be used
the one aa wiUi ti>e otber.

The doors to be marked with blood EXODUS

The firstborn of Egypt slain

16 The first day shall be holy and
solemn, and the seventh day shall be
kept with the like solemnity : you shall
do no work in them, except those things
that belong to eating.

17 Ard you shall observe the fea^t of the
unleavened bread : for in this same day
I will bring forth your army out of the
land of Egypt, and you shall keep this
day in your generations by a perpetual
pbservance.

18 ^The first morth, the fourteenth
day of the month ixi the evening, you
shall eat unleavened bread, until the one
and twentieth day of the same month in
the evening.

19 Seven days there shall not be found
any leaven in your houses : he that shall
eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish
out of the assembly of Israel, whether
he be a stranger or bom in the land.

20 You shall not eat any thing leavened :
in all your habitations you shall eat un-
leavened bread.

21 And Moses called all the ancients of
the children of Israel, and said to them :
Go take a lamb by your families, and
sacrifice the Phase.

22 ^And dip a bunch of hyssop in the
blood that is at the door, and sprinkle
the transom of the door therewith, and
both the door cheeks : let none of you go
out of the door of his house till morning.

23 For the Lord will pass through strik-
ing the Egyptians : and when he shall see
the blood on the transom, and on both
the posts, he will pass over the door of
the house, and not suffer the destroyer
to come into your houses and to hurt you.

24 Thou ohalt keep this thing as a law
for thee and thy children for ever.

26 And when you have entered into the
land which the Lord will give you as he
hath promised, you shall observe these
ceremonies.

26 And when your children shall say to
you: What is the meaning of this ser-
vice?

27 Yon shall say to them. It is the vic-
tim of the passage of the Lord when he

b Lev. 23. 5i Nma 28. :3. - Heb. IL 28.
d Supra XL 5. — Wisd. 18. 5.

Ver. 18. Unleavened bread. E this it appears,
ihat our Saviour made use of nlGavencd bread, in
the institution of the blessed sacrament, 'vhlch was
on the evening of the paschal solemnity, r*^ v/hich
tuBO ^ore was no Inaveued bread to be iound ti
iHraei.

passed ovei* the tonses of the elalfiiTe
Israel in Egypt, .striking the
and saving our houses. And the p^iu
pie bowing themselves, adored.

28 And the children of Israel going
forth did as the Lord had commanded
Moses and Aaron.

29 And it came to pr^s at midnight,
''the Lord slew every firstborn in the
land of Egypt, from the firstborn of
Pharao, who sat on his throne, ® unto the
firstborn of the captive woman that was
in the prison, and aU the firstborn of
cattle,

30 And Pharao arose in the night, and
all his servants, and all Egypt ; and there
arose a great cry in Egypt : for there wa^
not a houde wherein there lay not one
dead.

31 And Pharao calling Mosec and Aar-
on, in the night, said : Arise and go forth
from among my people, you and the chil-
dren of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord
as you say.

32 Your sheep and herds take along
with y">!ii, as you demanded, and depart-
ing, bless me.

33 And the Egyptians pressed the peo-
ple to go forth out of the land speedily,
saying : We shall all die,

34 The people therefore took dough
before it was leavened : and tying it in
their cloaks^ put it on their shoulderc.

35-^ And the children of Israel did as
Moses had commanded ; and they asked
Dt the Egyptians vessels of silver and
gold, and very much raiment.

36 And the Lord gave favour to the
people in the sight of the Egyptians, so
that they lent unto them: and they
stripped the Egyptians.

37 ^ And the children of Israel set for-
ward from Ramesse to Socoth, being
about six hundred thousand men on foot,
beside children.

35 And a mixed multitude without
number went up also with them, sheep
and herds and beasts of divers kindSr ex
ceeding many.

39 And they baked the meal, which a

/SupraS. 22, and 11,2.
g About B. C. 1445.

Ver. 22. Sprinkle, &c. This sprinkling the doors
of the Israelites with the blood of the paschal lamb,
in order to their being delivered from the sword of
the destroying angel, was a lively figure of ■"
redemption by the blood of Christ.

•w

The Israelites depart from Egypt EXODUS Paschal solemnity to he observed

little before they had brought out of
Egypt, in dough : and they made earth
cake unleavened : for it could not be
leavened, the Egyptians pressing them
to depart, and not suffering them to
make any stay : neither did they think
of preparing any meat.

40 And the abode of the children of
Israel that they made in Egypt, was four
hundred and thirty years.

41 Which being expired, the same day
all the army of the Lord went forth out
of the land of Egypt.

42 This is the observable night of the
Lord, when he brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt: this night all the
children of Israel must observe in their
generations.

43 And the Lord said to Moses and
Aaron : This is the service of the Phase :
No foreigner shall eat of it.

14 But every bought servant s^iiail be
oircumcised, and so shall eat.

45 The stranger and the hireling shall
not eat thereof,

46 ^ In one house shall it be eaten, nei-
ther shall you carry forth of the flesh
thereof out of the house, neither shall
you break a bone thereof.

47 All the assembly of the children of
Israel shall keep it.

48 And if any stranger be willing to
dwell among you, and to keep the Phase
of the Lord, all his males shall first be
circumcised, and then shall he celebrate
it according to the manner : and he shall
be as he that is born in the land : but if
any man be uncircumcised, he shall not
eat thereof.

49 The same law shall be to him that is
born in the land, and to the proselyte
that sojourneth with you.

60 And all the children of Israel did
as the Lord had commanded Moses and
Aaron.

51 And the same day the Lord brought
forth the children of Israel oat of the
land of Egypt by their companies.

CHAPTER 13.

'^he paschal solemnity is to be observed ; and the
firstborn are to be consecrated to God. The peo-
ple are conducted through the desert by a pillar
offiM'e in the nighty and a clovjd in the day.

h Num. 9. 12 ; John 19. 36.
i lufra 34. 19 ; Lev. 27. 26 ; Num, 8. 16 ; Luke 2. 23.

Chap. is. Ver. 2. Sanctify unto me every first-
bom. Sanctification in this placxi means that the
firstborn males of tbe Hebrew» «bould be deputed

A "ND thri Lord epokf^ to Moses, say-
-jLjL ing:

2 Sanotiiy unto me every firstborn
that openeth the womb among the chil-
dren of Ljrael, as well of men as . of
beasts : fo/ they are all mine.

3 And Moses said to the people : Re-
member this day in which you came
forth out of Egypt, and out of the house
of bondage, for with a strong hand hath
the Lord brought you forth out of this
place : that you eat no leavened bread.

4 This day you go forth in the month of
new com.

5 And when the Lord shall have brought
thee into the land of the Chanaanite, and
the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the
Hevito, and the Jebusite, which he swore
to thy fathers that he would give thee
a land that floweth with miik and honey,
thoa shalt celebrate this laaaner of sa^
cred rites in this month »

6 Seven days shalt fchou e9> anieavened
bread : and on the seventh day shall be
the solemnity of the Lord,

7 Unleavened bread shall you eat seven
days: there shall not be seen any thing
leavened with thee, nor iu all thy
coasts.

8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that
day, saying : This is what the Lord did
to me when I came forth out of Egypt.

9 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand,
and as a memorial before thy eyes : and
that the law of the Lord be always in
thy mouth, for with a strong hand the
Lord hath brought thee out of the land
of Egypt.

10 Thou shalt keep this observance at
the set time from days to days.

11 And when the Lord shall have brought
thee into the land of the Chanaanite^ as
he swore to thee and thy father?; and
shall give it thee :

12 ^ Thou shalt set apart all that cpen-
eth the womb for the Lord, and all that
is first brought forth ci thy sattle : what-
soever thou shalt have of she male sex,
thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.

13 The firstborn of an ass thou shalt
change for a sheep : and if thou do not
redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every

i Infra 22. 29, and 34. 19; ;'-*
Ezech. 44. 30.

to the ministry in the divine worship ; and the first
born of beasts to be given for a sacrifice.

The Hebrews guided on the way EXODUS

Pharao pursues them

firstborn of men thou shalt redeem with
a price.

14 And when thy son shall ask thee to
morrow, saying: What is this? thou
shalt answer him: With a strong hand
did the Lord bring us forth out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bond-
age.

15 For when Pharao was hardened, and
would not let us go, the Lord slew every
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the
firstborn of man to the firstborn of
beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord
all that openeth the womb of the male
sex, and all the firstborn of my sons I
redeem.

16 *And it shall be as a sign in thy
hand, and as a thing hung between thy
eyes, for a remembrance: because the
Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt
by a strong hand. f

17 And when Pharao had sent out the
people, the Lord led them not by the
way of the land of the Philistines which
is near: thinking lest perhaps they
would repent, if they should see wars
arise against them, and would return
into Egypt.

18 But he led them about by the way
of the desert, which is by the Red Sea:
and the children of Israel went up armed
out of the land of Egypt.

19 And Moses took Joseph's bones
with him: because he had adjured the
children of Israel, saying: ^God shall
visit you, carry out my bones from
hence with you.

20 And marching from Socoth they en-
camped in Etham in the utmost coasts
of the wilderness.

21 «^And the Lord went before them
to shew the way by day in a pillar of a
cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire:
that he might be the guide of their jour-
ney at both times.

22 There never failed the pillar of the
cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by
night, before the people.

CHAPTER 14.
Pharao puraueth the children of Israel. They
murmur against Moses, hut are encouraged hy
him, and pass through the Red Sea. Pharao
and his army foll9xoing them are drowned,

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
- ing:
2 Speak to the children of Israel: Let

h Dtut. 6. 8.
I Qmu 60 24.

them turn and encamp over against
Phihahiroth which is between Magdal
and the sea over against Beelsephon:
you shall encamp before it upon the
sea.

3 And Pharao will say of the children
of Israel: They are straitened in the
land, the desert hath shut them in,

4 And I shall harden his heart, and he
will pursue you: and I shall be glorified
in Pharao, and in all his army: and
the Egyptians shall know that I am the
Lord. And they did so.

5 And it was told the king of the Egyp-
tians that the people was fled: and the
heart of Pharao and of his servants was
changed with regard to the people, and
'they said: What meant we to do, that
we let Israel go from serving us ?

6 So he made ready his chariot, and
took all his people with him.

7 And he took six hundred chosen
chariots, and all the chariots that were
in Egypt: and the captains of the whole
army.

8 And the Lord hardened the heart of
Pharao king of Egypt, and he pursued
the children of Israel: but they were
gone forth in a mighty hand.

9 "And when the Egyptians followed
the steps of them who were gone before,
they found them encamped at the sea
side: all Pharao*s horse and chariots,
and the whole army were in Phihahi-
roth before Beelsephon.

10 And when Pharao drew near, the
children of Israel, lifting up their eyes,
saw the Egyptians behind them: and
they feared exceedingly, and cried to
the Lord.

11 And they said to Moses: Perhaps
there were no graves in Egypt, there-
fore thou hast brought us to die in the
wilderness: why wouldst thou do this,
to lead us out of Egypt ?

12 Is not this the word that we spoke
to thee in Egypt, saying: Depart from
us that we may serve the Egyptians?
for it was much better to serve them,
than to die in the wilderness.

13 And Moses said to the people: Fear
not: stand and see the great wonders of
the Lord, which he will do this day: for
the Egyptians, whom you see now, you
shall see no more for ever.

m Num. 14. 14 ; 2 Esd. 9. 12 and 19 ; 1 Cor. 10. 1.
n Jos. 24. 0 ; 1 Mac 4. 9.

Israelites pass through Bed Sea EXODUS

The Egyptians are drowned

14 The Lord will fight for you, and you
shall hold your peace.

15 And the Lord said to Moses: Why
criest thou to me? Speak to the chil-
dren of Israel to go forward.

16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch
forth thy hands over the sea, and divide
it: that the children of Israel may go
through the midst of the sea on dry
ground.

17 And I will harden the heart of the
Egyptians to pursue you: and I will be
glorified in Pharao, and in all his host,
and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

18 And the Egyptians shall know that
I am the Lord, when I shall be glorified
in Pharao, and in his chariots and in his
horsemen.

19 And the angel of God, who went be-
fore the camp of Israel, removing, went
behind them: and together with him
the pillar of the cloud, leaving the fore-
part,

20 Stood behind, between the Egyp-
tians* camp and the camp of Israel: and
it was a dark cloud, and enlightening
the night, so that they could not come
at one another all the night.

21 oAnd when Moses had stretched
forth his hand over the sea, the Lord
took it away by a strong and burning
wind blowing all the night, and turned
it into dry g^round: and the water was
divided.

22 And the children of Israel went in
through the midst of the sea dried up:
for the water was as a wall on their
right hand and on their left.

23 And the Egyptians pursuing went
in after them, and all Pharao's horses,
his chariots and horsemen through the
midst of the sea,

24 And now the morning watch was
come, Pand behold the Lord looking
upon the Egyption army through the
pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their
host.

25 And overthrew the wheels of the
chariots, and they were carried into the
deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us
flee from Israel: for the Lord fighteth
for them against us.

26 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch

• P». 77. 13, and 104. 37, and 113. 3 ; Heb. 11.2».
p Wisd. 18. 15.

Chap. 14. Ver. 20. A dark cloud, and enlight-
ening the night. It wag a dark cloud to the

forth thy hand over the sea, that the
waters may come again upon the Egyp-
tians, upon their chariots and horsemen.

27 And when Moses had stretched forth
his hand towards the sea, it returned at
the first break of day to the former
place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing
away, the waters came upon them, and
the Lord shut them up in the middle of
the waves.

28 And the waters returned, and cov-
ered the chariots and the horsemen of
all the army of Pharao, who had come
into the sea after them, neither did there
so much as one of them remain.

29 But the children of Israel marched
through the midst of the sea upon dry
land, and the waters were to them as a
wall on the right hand and on the left:

30 And the Lord delivered Israel on that
day out of the hands of the Egyptians.

31 And they saw the Egyptians dead
upon the sea shore, and the mighty hand
that the Lord had used against them:
and the people feared the Lord, and they
believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.

CHAPTER 15.

The canticle of Moses. The hitter waters of
Mara are made stoeet.

THEN «'Moses and the children of Is-
rael sung this canticle to the Lord:
and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he
is gloriously magnified, the horse and
the rider he hath thrown into the sea.

2 ** The Lord is my strength and my
praise, and he is become salvation to
me : he ts my God and I will glorify him :
the God of my father, and I will exalt
him.

3 The Lord ^s as a man of war, Almighty
is his name.

4 Pharao's chariots and his army he
hath cast into the sea: his chosen cap-
tains are drowned in the Red Sea.

5 The depths have covered them, they
are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

6 Thy right hand, 0 Lord, is magnified
in strength: thy right hand, 0 Lord,
hath slain the enemy.

7 And in the multitude of thy glory
thou hast put down thy adversaries:
thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath
devoured them like stubble.

g Wisd. 10. 20.
r Ps. 117. 14 ; Isa. 12. 2.

Egyptians ; but enlightened the night to the
Israelites, by giyinsr them a great light.

The canticle of Moses

8 And with the blast of thy anger the
waters were gathered together: the flow-
ing water stood, the depths were gath-
ered together in the midst of the sea.

S The enemy said : I will pursue and
overtake, I will divide the spoils, my
Boul shall hr.ve its fill: I will draw my
sword, my hand shall slay thsm,

10 Thy wind blew and the sea covered
them : they sunk oe lead in the mighty
waters.

11 Who is like to thee, among the
strong, O Lord ? who is like to thee, glo-
rious in holiness, terrible and praise-
worthy, doing wonders?

12 Thou stretchedst forth thy hand,
and the earth swallowed them.

13 In thy mercy thou hast been a leader
to the people which thou bast ledeemod .
and in thy strength thou hast oartied
them to tby holy nabltationc

14 Nations rose up. and were cngiy :
sorrows <-ocfe l?cld on the inhabitants of
PhilistMm.

15 Ihen were Ihe prince«s of B;dom trou-
oled, trem^iing teized on th3 stout men
of Moab. all the inhabitants cf Chanaan
became rtiff.

16 Let fear and dread fall wpon them,
in the greatness jf thy arm: let them
become immoveable as e, stone, until thy
people, O Lord, pass b> : until this thy
people pass by, whieh thou hast pos-
sessed.

17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant
them in the mountain of thy inheritance,
in thy most firm habitation which thou
hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O
Lord, which thy hands have established.

18 The Lord shall reign for ever and
ever.

18 For Pharao went in on horseback
With his chariots and horsemen into the
sea: and the Lord brought back upon
them the waters of the sea : but the chi'-
dren of Israel walked on dry ground '••
the midst thereof.

20 So Mary the prophetess, the sister oj
Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and
all the women went forth after her with
timbrels and with dances:

21 And she began the song to them,
saying: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is
gloriously magnified, the horse and his
rider he hath thrown into the sea.

EXODUS The hitter iraters made sweet

! 22 And Moses brought Israel from the
Red Sea, and they went forth into the
wilderness of Sur and they marched
three days through the wilderness and
found no water.

23 And they came into Mara, ani fche3*
could not drink the wa-ters of Mara, be-
cause they were bitter: v/hereupon he
gave a name also agreeable to the placej
calling it Mara, that Is, bitterness.

24 And the people murmured against
I Moses, saying: What shall we drink?
I 25 But he cried to the Lord, and he
i shewed him a tree, * which when he bad
I cast into the waters, they were turned
' into sweetness. There he appointed him

ordinances, and judgments, and there he
proved him,

26 Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice
of the Lord thy God, and do what ip
right before him, and obey his com-
mandments, and keep all his precepts,
none of the evils that I Im?? upon Egypt,
will I bring upon thee: for I am the
Lord thy healer.

27 ' And the children of Israel came
into Elim, where the?e were twelve
fountains of water, and seventy palm
trees: and tney encamned by the waters.

CHAFrER 16.

The people mut^mur for want of meat: God giveth
them quails and manna.

A NB tuey set forward from Eiim, and
Jl\. all the multitude of the children of
Israel came into the desert 3f Sin, which
is between Elim and Sinai: ^ the fifteenth
day of the second month, after they
came out of the land of Egypt. ^

2 And all the congregation of the chil-
dren of Israel murmured against Moses
and Aaron in the wilderness.

3 And the children of Israel said to
them: Would to God we had died by the
hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt,
when we sat over the flesh pots, and ate
bread to the full. Why have you brought
us into this desert, that you might de*
stroy all the multitude with famine?

4 And the Lord said to Moses : Behold
I will rain bread from heaven for you:

' let the people go forth, and gather what
! is sufficient fur every day: that I may
! prove them whethor they wiU walk in
my law, or not.

5 But the sixth day let them provide

§ JodithOb I6i Eccli ^ & — t Num. 33. 9.

u Wisd. 11. 2. — V B. C. 1445.

The people murmur

EXODUS

The manna

for to bring to ! and !©t ffc be double to
that they were wont to gather every day.

6 And Moses and Aaron said to the
children of Israel: In the evening you
shall know that the Lord hath brought
you forth out of the land of Egypt :

7 And in the morning you shall see the
glory of the Lord: for he hath heard
your murmuring against the Lord : but
as for us, what are we, that you mutter
agiinst us ?

8 And Moses said : In the evening the
Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in
the morning bread to the full: for he
hath heard your murmurings, with which
yoa have murmured against him, for
what are we? your murmuring is not
against us, but against the Lord.

9 Moses also said to Aaron : Say to the
whole congregation of the children of
Israel : Come before the Lord : for he
hath heard your murmuring.

10 And when Aaron spoke to all the
assembly of the children of Israel, they
looked towards the wilderness: '^and
behold the glory of the Lord appeared in
a cloud.

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

12 I have heard the murmuring of
the children of Israel: say to them: In
the evening you shall eat flesh, and in
the morning you shall have your fill of
bre id : and you shall know that I am the
Lord your God.

13 So it came to pass in the evening, ^
that quails coming up, covered the camp :
and in the morning a dew lay round
about the camp.

14 And when it had covered the face of
the earth, ^it appeared in the wilder-
ness small, and as it were beaten with
a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the
ground,

15 And when the children of Israel saw
it, they said one to another: Manhu!
which signifieth : What is this ! for they
knew not what it was. And Moses said
to them : ^ This is the bread, which the
Lord hath given you to eat.

16 This is the word, that the Lord hath
commanded : Let every one gather of it
as much as is enough to eat : a gomor
for every man, according to the number

of your souls that dwell in a tent, so

shall you take of it.

17 And the children of Israel did so:
and they gathered, one more, another
less.

18 A.nd they measured by the measure
of a gomor : " neither had he more that
had gathered more : nor did he find less
that had provided less : but every one
had gathered, according to what they
were able to eat.

19 And Moses said to them : Let no
man leave thereof till the morning.

20 And they hearkened not to him, but
some of them left until the morning,
and it began to be full of worms, and it
putrefied, and Moses was angry with
them.

21 Now every one of them gathered in
the morning, as much as might suffice
to eat : and after the sun grew hot, it
melted.

22 But on the sixth day they gathered
twice as much, that is, two gomors every
man: and all the rulers of the multi-
tude came, and told Moses.

23 And he said to them: This is what
the Lord hath spoken : To morrow is the
rest of the sabbath sanctified to the
Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done,
do it: and the meats that are to be
dressed, dress them: and whatsoever
shall remain, lay it up until the morning,

24 And they did so as Moses had com-
manded, and it did not putrefy, neither
was there worm found in it.

26 And Moses said : Eat it to day, be»
cause it is the sabbath of the Lord : to
day it shall not be found in the field.

26 Gather it six days : but on the seventh
day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore
it shall not be found.

27 And the seventh day came: and
some of the people going forth to gather,
found none.

28 And the Lord said to Moses : How
long will you refuse to keep my com-
mandments, and my law?

29 See that the Lord hath given you the
sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth
day he giveth you a double provision:
let each man stay at home, and let none
go forth out of his place the seventh
day.

V) Eccli. 45. 3 —X Num. IL 31.
» «^iT?» le. 20i Nuiik t . Pa 71. 24 J John s. 31.

eiOor. las.
a80or.&i&

The people murmur for water EXODUS

'Amalec is overcome

30 And the people kept the sabbath on
the seventh day.

31 And the house of Israel called the
name thereof Manna: and it was like
coriander seed white, and the taste
thereof like to flour with honey.

32 And Moses said: This is the word,
which the Lord hath commanded: Fill a
gomor of it, and let it be kept unto
generations to come hereafter, that they
may know the bread, wherewith I fed
you in the wilderness, when you were
brought forth out of the land of Egypt.

33 And Moses said to Aaron: Take a
vessel, and put manna into it, as much
as a gomor can hold: and lay it up
before the Lord to keep unto your gener-
ations.

34 As the Lord commanded Moses. And
Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be
kept.

35 ^And the children of Israel ate manna
forty years, till they came to a habitable
land: with this meat were they fed,
until they reached the borders of the
land of Chanaan.

36 Now a gomor is the tenth part of an
ephi.

CHAPTER 17.

The people murmur again for want of drink; the
Lord giveth them water out of a rock. Moses
lifting up his hand in prayer. Amalec is over-
come.

THEN all the multitude of the children
of Israel setting forward from the
desert of Sin, by their mansions, accord-
ing to the word of the Lord, encamped
in Raphidim, where there was no water
for the people to drink. ^

2 <* And they chode with Moses, and
said: Give us water, that we may drink.
And Moses answered them: Why chide
you with me? Wherefore do you tempt
the Lord?

3 So the people were thirsty there for
want of water, and murmured against
Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us
go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our
children, and our beasts with thirst?

4 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying:
What shall I do to this people? Yet a
little more and they will stone me.

5 And the Lord said to Moses: Go be-
fore the people, and take with thee of
the ancients of Israel: and take in thy

6 2 Esd. 9. 21 ; Judith 5. 15.
c A. M. 2513.
* d Num. 20. 41.

hand the rod wherewith thou didst strike
the river, «and go.

6 Behold I will stand there before thee,
upon the rock Horeb: and thou shalt
strike the rock, and water shall come out
of it that the people may drink. Moses
did so before the ancients of Israel:

7 And he called the name of that place
Temptation, because of the chiding of
the children of Israel, and for that they
tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord
amongst us or not?

8 /And Amalec came, and fought against
Israel in Raphidim.

9 And Moses said to Josue: Choose out
men: and go out and fight against
Amalec: to morrow I will stand on the
top of the hill having the rod of God in
my hand.

10 Josue did as Moses had spoken, and
he fought against Amalec; but Moses,
and Aaron, and Hur went up upon the
top of the hill.

11 And when Moses lifted up his hands,
Israel overcame : but if he let them down
a little, Amalec overcame.

12 And Moses' hands were heavy: so
they took a stone, and put under him,
and he sat on it: and Aaron and Hur
stayed up his hands on both sides. And
it came to pass that his hands were not
weary until sunset.

13 And Josue put Amalec and his people
to flight, by the edge of the sword.

14 And the Lord said to Moses: Write
this for a memorial in a book, and deliver
it to the ears of Josue: for I will destroy
the memory of Amalec from under
heaven.

15 And Moses built an altar: and called
the name thereof, The Lord my exalta-
tion, saying:

16 Because the hand of the throne of
the Lord and the war of the Lord shall
be against Amalec, from generation to
generation.

CHAPTER 18.

Jethro bringeth to Moses his wife and children. His
counsel.

AND when Jethro s the priest of Ma- i
dian, the kinsman of Moses, had '
heard all the things that God had done
to Moses, and to Israel his people, and

e Supra 14. 21 ; Ps. 77. 15 ; 1 Cor. 10. 4.

/ Deut. 25. 17 ; Judith 4. 13 ; Wisd. 11. 3.

g B. C. 1444.

The meeting of Jethro and Moses EXODUS

Jethro's counsel

that the Lord had brought forth Israel
out of Egypt,

2 He took Sephora the wife of Moses
whom he had sent back:

3 And her two sons, of whom one was
called Gersam, his father saying: '^I have
been a stranger in a foreign country.

4 And the other Eliezer : For the God
of my father, said he, is my helper, and
hath delivered me from the sword of
Pharao.

5 And Jethro the kinsman of Moses
came with his sons and his wife, to Moses
into the desert, where he was camped by
the mountain of God.

6 And he sent word to Moses, saying:
I Jethro thy kinsman come to thee, and
thy wife, and thy two sons with her.

7 And he went out to meet his kinsman,
and worshipped and kissed him : and they
saluted one another with words of peace.
And when he was oome into the tent,

8 Moses told bis kinsman all that the
Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyp-
tians, in favour of Israel: and ail the
labour which had befalien them in the
journey, and that the Lord had delivered
uhem.

9 And Jethro rejoieed for all the good
things that the Lord had done to Israel,
because he had delivered them oat of
the hands of the Egyptians.

10 And he said ; Blessed Is the Lord,
who hath delivered you out of the hand
of Pharao, and out of the band ot the
Egyptians, who hath delivered his people
out of the hand of Egypt

11 Now 1 know that the Lord ts great
above all gods - ' because they dealt
proudly against them.

12 So Jethro the kinsman of Moses of-
fered holocausts and sacrifices to God :
and Aaron and all ^he ancients of Israel
came, to eat bread with them before
God.

13 And the next day Moses sat, to judge
the people, who stood by Moses from
morning until night.

14 And when his kinsman had seen all
things that he did among the people, he
gaid: What is it that thou dost among
the people ? Why sittest thou alone, and
all the people wait from morning till
night.

15 And Moses answered him : The peo-

h Supra 2. 22.
1 Supra 1. 14, and 6. 7. and la 10, and 14. 8.

pie come to me to seek the judgment of
God.

16 And when any controversy falleth
out among them, they come to me to
judge between them, and to shew the
precepts of God, and his laws.

17 But he said ; The thing thou dost is
not good.

18 Thou art spent with foolish labour,
both thou and this people that is with
thee : the business is above thy strength,
^ thou alone canst not bear it.

19 But hear my words and counsels, and
God shall be with thee. Be thou to the
people in those things that pertain to
God, to bring their words to him :

20 And to shew the people the cere-
monies and the manner of worshipping,
and the way wherein they ought to walk,
and the work that they ought to do.

21 And provide out of all the people
able men, such as fear God, in whom
there is truth, and that hate avarice, and
appoint of them rulers of thousands,
and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.

22 Who may judge the people at all
times: and when any great matter so-
ever shall fall out, let them refer it to
thee, and let them judge the lesser
matters only : that so it may be lighter
for thee, the burden being shared out
tuito others.

23 If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the
commandment of God, and shalt be able
to bear his precepts : and all this people
shall return to their places with peace.

24 And when Moses heard this, he did
all things that he had suggested unto him.

25 And choosing able men out of all
Israel, he appointed them rulers of the
people, rulers over thousands, and over
hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.

26 And they judged the people at all
times: and whatsoever was of greater
diflaculty they referred to him, and they
judged the easier cases only.

27 And he let his kinsman depart : and
he returned and went into his own
country.*'

CHAPTER 19.

They come to Sinai : the people are commanded to
be sanctified. The Dord, coming in thunder and,
lightning, apeakUh with Moses,

IN the third month of the departura of
Israel ' out of the land of E^/pt, on

j Deut 1. 12. — A- Num. 2a 29.
i Hum. 33. 15.

The people are to he sanctified EXODUS

God speaks from Sinai

tins day they came into the wilderness
of Sinai :

2 For departing out of Raphidim, and
coming to the desert of Sinai, they
camped in the same place, and there
Israel pitched their tents over against
the mountain.

3 "^ And Moses went up to God . and
the Lord called unto him from the moun-
tain, and said : Thus shalt thou say to the
house of Jacob, and tell the children of
Israel :

4 ^ You have seen what I have done to
the Egyptians, how I have carried you
upon the wings of eagles, and have taken
you to myself.

5 If therefore you will hear my voice,
and keep my covenant, you shall be my
peculiar possession above all people :
® for all the earth is mine.

6 P And you shall be to me a priestly
kingdom, and a holy nation. These are
the words thou shalt speak to the chil-
dren of Israel.

7 Moses came, and calling together the
elders of the people, he declared all the
words which the Lord had commanded.

8 And all the people answered together :
All that the Lord hath spoken, we will
do. And when Moses had related the
people^s words to the Lord,

9 The Lord said to him : Lo, now will I
come to thee in the darkness of a cloud,
that the people may hear me speaking
to thee, and may believe thee for ever.
And Moses told the words of the people
to the Lord.

10 And he said to him : Go to the peo-
ple, and sanctify them to day, and to
morrow, and let them wash their gar-
ments.

11 And let them be ready against the
third day : for on the third day the Lord
will come down in the sight of all the
people upon mount Sinai.

12 And thou shalt appoint certain limits
to the people round about, and thou
shalt say to them: ^Take heed you go
not up into the mount, and that ye
touch not the borders thereof: every
one that toucheth the mount dying he
shall die.

13 No hands shall touch him, but he
shall be stoned to death, or shall be shot

Acts 7. 38. — n Deut. 29. 2.— o Ps. 23. L

through with arrows i whether it be
beast, or man, he shall not live. When
the trumpet shall begin to sound, then
let them go up into the mount.

14 And Moses came down from the
mount to the people, and sanctified
them. And when they had washed their
garments,

15 He said to them : Be ready against the
third day, and come not near your wives.

16 And now the third day was come,
and the morning appeared : and behold
thunders began to be heard, and light-
ning to flash, and a very thick cloud to
cover the mount, and the noise of the
trumpet sounded exceeding loud, and
the people that was in the camp, feared.

17 And when Moses had brought them
forth to meet God from the place of the
camp, they stood at the bottom of the
mount.

18 ''And all mount Sinai was on a
smoke : because the Lord was come
down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose
from it as out of a furnace : and all the
mount was terrible.

19 And the sound of the trumpet grew
by degrees louder and louder, and was
drawn out to a greater length: Moses
spoke, and God answered him.

20 And the Lord came down upon mount
Sinai, in the very top of the mount, and
he called Moses unto the top there ofc
And when he was gone up thither,

21 He said unto him: Go down, and
charge the people : lest they should
have a mind to pass the limits to see the
Lord, and a very great multitude of
them should perish.

22 The priests also that come to the
Lord, let them be sanctified, lest he
strike them.

23 And Moses said to the Lord : The
people cannot come up to mount Sinai :
for thou didst charge, and command,
saying: Set limits about the mount, and
sanctify it.

24 And the Lord said to him : Go, get
thee down : and thou shalt come up, thou
and Aaron with thee: but let not the
priests and the people pass the limits, nor
come up to the Lord, lest he kill them.

25 And Moses went down to the people
and told them all.

p 1 Pet. 2. 9. — 7 Heb. 12. 18. — r Deut. 4. 11.

Chat. 19. Yer. 3. And Moses went wa to Qod. Moses went up to mount Sinai, wbere God spoke

to him.

8$t

The ten commandments

EXODUS

Moses reassures the people

CHAPTER 20.

The ten commandments.

A ND the Lord spoke all these words :*
JLA. 2 I am the Lord thy God, who
brought thee out of the land of Egypt.,
out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt not have strange gods be-
fore me.

4 *Thou shalt not make to thyself a
graven thing, nor the likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or in the
earth beneath, nor of those things that
are in the waters under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve
them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty,
jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me :

6 And shewing mercy unto thousands
to them that love me, and keep my com-
mandments.

7 " Thou shalt not take the name of the
Lord thy God in vain : for the Lord will
not hold him guiltless that shall take the
name of the Lord his God in vain.

8 ^ Remember that thou keep holy the
sabbath day.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do
all thy works.

10 But on the seventh day is the sab-
bath of the Lord thy God : thou shalt do
no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the
stranger that is within thy gates.

11 ^ For in six days the Lord made hea-
ven and earth, and the sea, and all things
that are in them, and rested on the sev-
enth day : therefore the Lord blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it.

12 * Honour thy father and thy mother,
that thou mayest be longlived upon the
land which the Lord thy God will give
thee.

13 y Thou Shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

s Deut. 5. 6 ; Ps. 80. 11.
t Lev. 26, 1 ; Deut. 4. 15 ; Jos. 24. 14 ; Fs. 96. 7.
u Lev. 19. 12 ; Deut. 5. 11 ; Matt. 5. 33.
V Infra 31. 13 ; Deut. 5. 14 ; Ezech. 20. 12.

Chap. 20. Ver. 4. A graven thing, nor the like-
ness of any thing, &c. All such images, or like-
nesses, are forbidden by this commandment, as are
made to be adored and served; according to that
which immediately follows, thou shalt not adore

them, nor serve them. That is, all such as are de- 1 alip. 28. 18, 19 ;'2 Chron. or Paralip. 3. 10.
tigned for idols or image-gods^ or are worshipped *

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour.

17^ Thou shalt not covet thy neigh-
bour's house : neither shalt thou desire
his wife, nor his servant, nor his hand-
maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any
thing that is his.

18 And all the people saw the voices
and the flames, and the sound of the
trumpet, and the mount smoking: and
being terrified and struck with fear, they
stood afar off,

19 Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us,
and we will hear: let not the Lord speak
to us, lest we die.

20 And Moses said to the people: Fear
not: for God is come to prove you, and
that the dread of him might be in you.
and you should not sin.

21 And the people stood afar off. °^But
Moses went to the dark cloud wherein
God was.

22 And the Lord said to Moses : Thus
shalt thou say to the children of Israel :
You have seen that I have spoken to you
from heaven.

23 You shall not make gods of silver, nor
shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

24 ^ You shall make an altar of earth
unto me, and you shall offer upon it your
holocausts and peace offerings, your
sheep and oxen, in every place where the
memory of my name shall be : I will come
to thee, and will bless thee.

25 ^ And if thou make an altar of stone
unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn
stones : for if thou lift up a tool upon it,
it shall be defiled.

26 Thou shalt not go up by steps unto my
altar, lest thy nakedness be discovered.

CHAPTER 21.

Laws relating to Justice

THESE are the judgments which Ubioa
shalt set before them.
2 '^ If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six
years shall he serve thee : in the seventh
he shall go out free for nothing.

w Gen. 2. 2. — X Deut. 5. 16 ; Matt. 15. 4 ; Eph. 6. 2.

y Matt. 5. 21. — 2 Kom. 7. 7, and 13. 9.
a Deut. 18. 16 ; Heb. 12. IS. — b Infra 27. 8, and 38. 7.
c Deut. 27. 5 ; Jos. 8. 31. — rf Deut. 15. 12 ; Jer 34. 14.

with divine honour. But otherwise images, pictures,
or representations, even in the house of God, and in
the very sanctuary so far from being forbidden, are
express ty authorized by the word of God. See Ex.
25. 15, &c. ; chap. 3«. 7 ; Nutn. 21. 8, 9 ; 1 Chron. or Par.

The laio of slaves

3 With what raiment he came in, with
the like let him go out: if having a wife,
his wife also shall go out with him.

4 But if his master gave him a wife,
and she hath borne sons and daughters:
the woman and her children shall be her
master's: but he himself shall go out
with his raiment.

5 And if the servant shall say : I love
my master and my wife and children, I
will not go out free :

6 His master shall bring him to the gods,
and he shall be set to the door and the
posts, and he shall bore his ear through
with an awl : and he shall be his servant
for ever.

7 If any man sell bis daughter to be a
servant, she shall not go out as bond-
women are wont to go out.

8 If she displease the eyes of her mas-
ter to whom she was delivered, he shall
let her go : but he shall have no power
to sell her to a foreign nation, if he de-
spise her.

9 But if 1 e have betrothed her to his
son, he shall deal with her after the man-
ner of daughters.

10 And if he take another wife for him,
he shall provide her a marriage, and rai-
ment, neither shall he refuse the price of
her chastity.

11 If he do not these three things, she
shall go out free without money.

12 ® He that strike th a man with a will
to kill him, shall be put to death.

13 But he that did not lie in wait for
him, but God delivered him into his
hands : ^I will appoint thee a place to
which he must flee.

14 If a man kill his neighbour on set
purpose and by lying in wait for him :
thou shalt take him away from my al-
tar, that he may die.

15 He that strike th his father or mo-
ther, shall be put to death.

16 He that shall steal a man, and sell
him, being convicted of the guilt, shall
be put to death.

17 fl' He that curse th his father, or mo-
ther, shall die the death.

18 If men quarrel, and the one strike
his neighbour with a stone or with his
fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed :

19 If he rise again and walk abroad

EXODUS The law of retaliation

upon his staff, he that struck him shall
be quit, yet so that he make restitution
for his work, and for his expenses upon
the physician.

20 He that striketh his bondman or
bondwoman with a rod, and they die
under his hands, shall be guilty of the
crime.

21 But if the party remain alive a day
or two, he shall not be subject to the
punishment, because it is his money.

22 If men quarrel, and one strike a wo-
man with child, and she miscarry indeed,
but live herseli : he shall be answerable
for so much damage as the woman's hus-
band shall require, and as arbiters shall
award.

23 But if her death ensue thereupon, he
shall render liie for life.

24 ^ Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hai)d
for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for
woijid, stripe for stripe.

26 If any man strike the eye of his man-
servant or maidservant, and leave them
but one eye, he shall let them go free for
the eye which he put out.

27 Also if he strike out a tooth of hie
manservant or maidservant, he shall in
like manner make them free.

28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, and
they die, he shall be stoned: and his
flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner ol
the ox shall be quit.

29 But if the ox was wont to push with
his horn yesterday and the day before,
and they warned his master, and he did
not shut him up, and he shall kill a man
or a woman : then the ox shall be stoned,
and his owner also shall be put to
death.

30 And if they set a price upon him, h^
shall give for his life whatsoever is laid
upon him.

31 If he have gored a son, or a daughter,
he shall fall under the like sentence.

32 If he assault a bondman or a bond
woman, he shall give thirty sides of
silver to theii master, and the ox shall
be stoned.

33 If a man open a pit, and dig one,
and cover it not, and an ox or an ass ^11
into it,

34 The owner of the pit shall pay the

e Lev. 24. 17.
/ Deut. 19. 2.

Lev. 20. 9 ; Prov. 20. 20 ;
h Lev. 24. 20 ; Deut.

Matt 15. 4 ; Mark 7.

19. 21 . Matt. 5. 38.

10.

Chap« 2L Ver. 6. To the -^da Elohim. Tka,t is, to tlie juuges, or fiaagistrates, autliorized by Go<L

Punishment of theft

EXODUS

The law of restitution

price of the beasts: and that which is
dead shall be his own.

35 If one man's ox gore another man's
ox, and he die: they shall sell the live
ox, and shall divide the price, and the
carcass of that which died they shall
part between them:

36 But if he knew that his ox was wont
to push yesterday and the day before,
and his master did not keep him in: he
shall pay ox for ox, and shall take the
whole carcass.

CHAPTER 22.

The punishment of theft, andother trespasses. The
law of lending without usury, of taking pledges
of reverences toi superiors, and of paying tithes.

IF any man steal an ox or a sheep, and
kill or sell it: he shall restore five
oxen for one ox, *and four sheep for one
sheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking open a
house or undermining it, and be wounded
so as to die: he that slew him shall not
be guilty of blood.

5 But if he did this when the sun is
risen, he hath committed murder, and he
shall die. If he have not wherewith to
make restitution for the theft, he shall
be sold.

4 If that which he stole be found with
him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep:
he shall restore double.

5 If any man hurt a field or a vineyard,
and put in his beast to feed upon that
which is other men's: he shall restore
the best of whatsoever he hath in his
own field, or in his vineyard, according
to the estimation of the damage.

6 If a fire breaking out light upon
thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn
standing in the fields, he that kindled
the fire shall make good the loss.

7 If a man deliver money, or any vessel
-unto his friend to keep, and they be
«tolen away from him that received
ihem: if the thief be found he shall re-
store double:

8 If the thief be not known, the master
of the house shall be brought to the
ffods, and shall swear that he did not lay
liis hand upon his neighbour's goods,

9 To do any fraud, either in ox, or in
mss, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing
that may bring damage: the cause of
hoth parties shall come to the gods: and

i 2 Kings 12. 6. — j Gen. 31. 39. — k Deut. 22.28

if they give judgment, he shall restore
double to his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or
any beast, to his neighbour's custody,
and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by
enemies, and no man saw it:

11 There shall be an oath between
them, that he did not put forth his hand
to his neighbour's goods: and the owner
shall accept of the oath; and he shall not
be compelled to make restitution.

12 /But if it were taken away by stealth,
he shall make the loss good to the owner.

13 If it were eaten by a beast, let him
bring to him that which was slain, and he
shall not make restitution.

14 If a man borrow of his neighbour
any of these things, and it be hurt or
die, the owner not bemg present, he
shall be obliged to make restitution.

15 But if the owner be present, he shall
not make restitution, especially if it
were hired and came for the hire of his
work.

16 ^If a man seduce a virgin not yet
espoused, and lie with her: he shall en-
dow her, and have her to wife.

17 If the maid's father will not give
her to him, he shall give money accord-
ing to the dowry, which virgins are wont
to receive.

18 Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.

19 Whosoever copulateth with a beast
shall be put to death.

20 ^He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be
put to death, save only to the Lord.

21 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor
afflict him: for yourselves also were
strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 ««-You shall not hurt a widow or an
orphan.

23 If you hurt them they will cry out to
me, and I will hear their cry:

24 And my rage shall be enkindled, and
I will strike you with the sword, and
your wives shall be widows, and your
children fatherless.

25 If thou lend money to any of my
people that is poor, that dwelleth with
thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them
as an extortioner, nor oppress them with
usuries.

26 wif thou take of thy neighbour a
garment in pledge, thou shalt give it
him again before sunset.

I Lev. 19. 4.—«» Zach. 7. 10. — n Deut. 24. 13.

Laws for judges

27 For that same is the only thing-
wherewith he is covered, the clothing of
his body, neither hath he any other to
sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear
him, because I am compassionate.

28 Thou shalt not speak ill of the gods,
and «the prince of thy people thou shalt
not curse.

29 Thou shalt not delay to pay thy
tithes and thy firstfruits: Pthou shalt
give the first bom of thy sons to me.

30 Thou shalt do the same with the
firstborn of thy oxen also and sheep:
seven days let it be with its dam, the
eighth day thou shalt give it to me.

31 You shall be holy men to me: a the
flesh that beasts have tasted of before,
you shall not eat, but shall cast it ta the
dogs.

CHAPTER 23.

Laws for judges; the rest of the seventh year, and
day; three principal feasts to 6e solemnized
every year; the promise of an angel, to conduct
and protect them; idols are to he destroyed.

THOU shalt not receive the voice of a
lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand
to bear false witness for a wicked person.

2 Thou shalt not follow the multitude to
do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judg-
ment, to the opinion of the most part, to
stray from the truth.

3 Neither shalt thou favour a poor man
in judgment.

4 '"If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass
going astray, bring it back to him.

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth
thee lie underneath his burden, thou
shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up
with him.

6 Thou shalt not go aside in the poor
man's judgment.

7 Thou shalt fly lying. «The innocent
and just person thou shalt not put to
death: because I abhor the wicked.

8 * Neither shalt thou take bribes, which
even blind the wise, and pervert the
words of the just.

9 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for
you know the hearts of strangers: <*for
you also were strangers in the land of
Egypt.

10 Six years thou shalt sow thy ground,
and shalt gather the corn thereof.

11 ^But the seventh year thou shalt

EXODUS The feasts to he observed

let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the
poor of thy people may eat, and what-
soever shall be left, let the beasts of the
field eat it: so shalt thou do with thy
vineyard and thy oliveyard.

12 Six days thou shalt work: the sev-
enth day thou shalt cease, that thy ox
and thy ass may rest: and the son of
thy handmaid and the stranger may be
refreshed.

13 Keep all things that I have said to
you. And by the name of strange gods
you shall not swear, neither shall it be
heard out of your mouth.

14 Three times every year you shall
celebrate feasts to me.

15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unlea-
vened bread. '«'Seven days shalt thou
eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
thee, in the time of the month of new
corn, when thou didst come forth out of
Egypt: a^thou shalt not appear empty
before me.

16 And the feast of the harvest of the
firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou
hast sown in the field. The feast also
in the end of the year, when thou hast
gathered in all thy corn out of the field.

17 2/ Thrice a year shall all thy males
appear before the Lord thy God.

18 Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood
of my victim upon leaven, neither shall
the fat of my solemnity remain until the
morning.

19 ^Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of
the corn of thy ground to the house of
the Lord thy God. «Thou shalt not
boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

20 Behold I will send my angel, who
shall go before thee, and keep thee in
thy journey, and bring thee into the
place that I have prepared.

21 Take notice of him, and hear his
voice, and do not think him one to be
contemned: for he will not forgive when
thou hast sinned, and my name is in him.

22 &But if thou wilt hear his voice, and
do all that I speak, I will be an enemy
to thy enemies, and will afflict them
that afflict thee.

23 cAnd my angel shall go before thee,
and shall bring thee in unto the Amor-
rhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherez-

o Acts 23. 5. — p Supra 13. 2 and 12 ; Infra 34. 19 ;

Ezech. 44. 30 — q Lev. 22. 8. — r Deut. 22. 1.

8 Dan. 13. 53. — t Deut. 16.19 ; Eccli. 20. 31,

1* Gen. 46. 6. — v Lev. 25. 4.

w Supra 13. 3 and 4 ; Infra 34. 22.

w Deut. 16. 16 ; Eccli. 35. 6.
y Infra. 34. 23 ; Deut. 16. 16.

z Infra 34. 26.
o Deut. 14. 21. — 6 Deut. 7. 11.
0 Infra 33. 2 ; Jos. 24. 11 ; Deut. 7. 22.

God*s promise to the Israelites EXODUS

The Mood of the covenant

ite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite,
and the Jebusite, whom I will destroy.

24 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor
serve them. Thou shalt not do their
works, but shalt destroy them, and
break their statues.

25 And you shall serve the Lord your
God, that I may bless your bread and
your waters, and may take away sick-
ness from the midst of thee.

26 There shall not be one fruitless nor
barren in thy land: I will fill the num-
ber of thy days.

27 I will send my fear before thee, and
will destroy all the people to whom
thou shalt come: and will turn the
backs of all thy enemies before thee.

28 ** Sending out hornets before, that
shall drive away the Hevite, and the
Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before
thou come in.

29 I will not cast them out from thy face
in one year: lest the land be brought
into a wilderness, and the beasts multi-
ply against thee.

30 By little and little I will drive them
out from before thee, till thou be in-
creased, and dost possess the land.

31 And I will set thy bounds from the
Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines,
and from the desert to the river : I will
deliver the inhabitants of the land into
your hands, and will drive them out
from before you.

32 ^ Thou shalt not enter into league
With them, nor with their gods.

33 Let them not dwell in thy land, lest
perhaps they make thee sin against me,
if thou serve their gods: which un-
doubtedly will be a scandal to thee.

CHAPTER 24.

Mose3 writefh Ms laio: and after offerinrf sacrifices^
spHnkleth the blood of the testament upon the
people: then goeth np the mountain which God
covereth with a fiery cloud.

AND he said to Moses: Come up to
J\. the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab,
and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of
Israel, and you shall adore afar off.

2 And Moses alone shall come up to
the Lord, but they shall not come nigh :
neither shall the people come up with
him.

3 So Moses came and told the people

d Deut 7. 20. — c Infra 34. 15 ; Deut. 7. 2.

Chap. 24. Ver. 4. Titles. That is, pillars.
. Yw. 6. Holocausts: whole burnt ofEeringa, in

all the words of the Lord, and all the
judgments : and all the people answered
with one voice : We will do all the words
of the Lord, which he hath spoken.

4 Anc Moses wrote all the words of the
Lord and risiug in the morning he
built an altar at the foot of the mount,
and twelve titles according to the twelve
tribes of Israel.

5 And he sent young men of the chil-
dren of Israel, and they offered holo-
causts, and sacrificed pacific victims of
calves to the Lord.

6 Then Moses took half of the blood,
and put it into bowls: and the rest he
poured upon the altar.

7 And taking the book of the covenant,
he read it in the hearing of the people:
and they said : All things that the Lord
hath spoken we will do, we will be obe-
dient.

8 And he took the blood and sprinkled
it upon the people, and he said: •'^This
is the blood of the covenant which the
Lord hath made with you concerning all
these words.

9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and
Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of
Israel went up :

10 And they saw the God of Israel:
and under his feet as it were a work of
sapphire stone, and as the heaven, when
clear.

11 Neither did he lay his hand upoc
those of the children of Israel, that re-
tired afar off, and they saw God, and
they did eat and drink.

12 And the Lord said to Moses : Come
up to me into the mount, and be there :
and I will give thee tables of stone, and
the law, and the commandments which
I have written: that thou mayst teach
them.

13 Moses rose up, and his minister
Josue: and Moses going up into the
mount of God,

14 Said to the ancients : Wait ye here
till we return to you. You have Aaron
and Hm* with you: if any question shall
arise, you shall refer it to them.

15 And when Moses was gone up, a
cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the Lord dwelt
upon Sinai, covering it with a cloud sis

/Heb. 9.20.

which the whole sacrifice was coiuumed with fix»
upon the altar.

The ark of the covenant

EXODUS

TTie propitiatory

days: and the seventh day he called him
out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the sight of the glory of the
Lord was like a burning fire upon the
top of the mount, in the eyes of the
children of Israel.

18 And Moses, entering into the midst
of the cloud, went up into the moun-
tain: S'and he was there forty days, and
forty nights.

CHAPTER 25.

Offerings prescribed for making the tabernacle,
the ark^ the candlestick, etc»

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
- 2 Speak to the children of Israel,
'i that they bring firstf ruits to me : of
every man that offereth of his own
accord, you shall take them.

3 And these are the things you must
take: gold, and silver, and brass.

4 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice
dyed, and fine linen, and goat's hair,

5 And rams' skins dyed red, and violet
skins, and setim wood:

6 Oil to make lights: spices for oint-
ment, and for sweetsmelling incense:

7 Onyx stones, and precious stones to
adorn the ephod and the rational.

8 And they shall make me a sanctuary,
and I will dwell in the midst of them:

9 ^According to all the likeness of the
tabernacle which I will shew thee, and
of all the vessels for the service thereof:
and thus you shall make it:

10 Frame an ark of setim wood, the
length whereof shall be of two cubits and
a half: the breadth, a cubit and a half:
the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.

11 And thou shalt overlay it with the
purest gold within and without: and
over it thou shalt make a golden crown
round about:

12 And four golden rings, which thou
shalt put at the four corners of the ark:
let two rings be on the one side, and two
on the other.

g Deut. 9. 9. — h Infra 35. 5.

Chap. 25. Ver. 2. First fruits: offerings of
some of the best and choicest of their goods.

Ver. 5. Setim wood. The wood of a tree that
grows in the wilderness, which is said to be in-
corruptible.

Ver. 7. The ephod and the rational. The
ephod was the high priest's upper vestment ;
and the rational his breastplate, in which were
twelve gems, &c.

Ver. 17. A propitiatory: a covering for the
ark : called a propitiatory, or mercy seat, be-

13 Thou shalt make bars also of setim
wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt put them in through
the rings that are in the sides of the ark,
that it may be carried on them.

15 And they shall be always in the rings,
neither shall they at any time be drawn
out of them.

16 And thou shalt put in the ark the
testimony which I will give thee.

17 Thou shalt make also a propitiatory
of the purest gold: the length thereof
shall be two cubits and a half, and the
breadth a cubit and a half.

18 Thou shalt make also two cherubims
of beaten gold, on the two sides of the
oracle.

19 Let one cherub be on the one side,
and the other on the other.

20 Let them cover both sides of the
propitiatory, spreading their wings, and
covering the oracle, and let them look
one towards the other, their faces being
turned towards the propitiatory where-
with the ark is to be covered.

21 In which thou shalt put the testi-
mony that I will give thee.

22 Thence will I give orders, and will
speak to thee over the propitiatory, and
from the midst of the two cherubims,
which shall be upon the ark of the tes-
timony, all things which I will command-
the children of Israel by thee.

23 Thou shalt make a table also of setim
wood, of two cubits in length, and a cubit
in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.

24 And thou shalt overlay it with the
purest gold: and thou shalt make to it
a golden ledge round about.

25 And to the ledge itself a polished
crown, four inches high: and over the
same another little golden crown.

26 Thou shalt prepare also four golden
rings, and shalt put them in the four
corners of the same table over each foot.

27 Under the crown shall the golden

i Heb. 9. 2.

cause the Lord, who was supposed to sit there
upon the wings of the cherubims, with the ark
for his footstool, from thence shewed mercy. It
is also called the oracle, ver. 18 and 20 ; because
from thence God gave his orders and his answers.
Ver. 23. A table: on which were to be placed
the twelve loaves of proposition: or, as they are
called in the Hebrew, the fa^e bread, because
they were always to stand before the face of the
Lord in his temple : as a figure of the eucharis-
tic sacrifice and sacrament, in the Church ofl
Christ

Tke candlestick

EXODUS

The tabernacle

rings be, that the bars may be put through
them, and the table may be carried.

28 The bars also themselves thou shalt
make of setim wood, and shalt overlay
them with gold to bear up the table.

29 Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and
bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the
libations are to be offered of the purest
gold.

30 And thou shalt set upon the table
loaves of proposition in my sight always.

31 Thou shalt make also a candlestick
of beaten work of the finest gold, the
shaft thereof, and the branches, the cups,
and the bowls, and the lilies going forth
from it.

32 Six branches shall come out of the
sides, three out of the one side, and
three out of the other.

33 Three cups as it were nuts to every
branch, and a bowl withal, and a lily;
and three cups, likewise of the fashion
of nuDS in the other branch, and a bowl
withal, and a lily. Such shall be the
work of the six branches, that are to
come out from the shaft :

34 And in the candlestick itself shall be
four cups in the manner of a nut, and at
every one, bowls and lilies.

35 Bowls under two branches in three
places, which together make six coming
forth out of one shaft.

36 And both the bowls and the branches
shall be of the same beaten work of the
purest gold.

37 Thou shalt make also seven lamps,
and shalt set them upon the candlestick,
to give light over against.

38 The snuffers also and where the
snuffings shall be put out, shall be made
of the purest gold.

39 The whole weight of the candlestick
"With all the furniture thereof shall be a
talent of the purest gold.

40 ^ Look and make it according to the
pattern, that was shewn thee in the
mount.

CHAPTER 26.

The form of the tabernacle with its appurtenances.

A ND thou shalt make the tabernacle
XA. in this manner: Thou shalt make
ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and

^ j Heb. 8. 5 ; Acts 7. 44.

Ver. 29. Libations. That is, drink oiterings.
Ver. 31. A candlestick. This candlestick, with its
«eyeu lamj^ wliicli was always to give light iu the

violet and purple, and scarlet twice
dyed, diversified with embroidery.

2 The length of one curtain shall be
twenty-eight cubits, the breadth shall be
four cubits. All the curtains shall be of
one measure.

3 Five curtains shall be joined one to
another, and the other five shall be cou-
pled together in like manner.

4 Thou shalt make loops of violet in
the sides and tops of the curtains, that
they may be joined one to another.

6 Every curtain shall have fifty loops
on both sides, so set on, that one loop
may be against another loop, and one
may be fitted to the other.

6 Thou shalt make also fifty rings of
gold wherewith the veils of the curtains
are to be joined, that it may be made
one tabernacle.

7 Thou shalt make also eleven curtains
of goats' hair, to cover the top of the
tabernacle.

8 The length of one hair curtain shall be
thirty cubits : and the breadth four : the
measure of all the curtains shall be equal.

9 Five of which thou shalt couple by
themselves, and the six others thou shalt
couple one to another, so as to double
the sixth curtain in the front of the roof,

10 Thou shalt make also fifty loops in
the edge of one curtain, that it may be
joined with the other: and fifty loops in
the edge of the other curtain, that it
may be coupled with its fellov».

11 Thou shalt make also fifty buckles
of brass, wherewith the loops may be
joined, that of all there may be made
one covering.

12 And that which shall remain of the
curtains, that are prepared for the roof,
to wit, one curtain that is over and
above, with the half thereof thou shalt
cover the back parts of the tabernacle.

13 And there shall hang down a cubit
on the one side, and another on the
other side, which is over and above in
the length of the curtains, fencing both
sides of the tabernacle.

14 Thou shalt make also another cover
to the roof, of rams' skins dyed red ; and
over that again another cover of violet
coloured skins.

house of God, was a figure of tlie light of the Holy
Ghost, and his sevenfold grace, in the sanctuary cw
the churcli oi Christ.

The tabernacle

EXODUS

The altar

15 Tliou shalt make also the boards of
the tabernacle standing upright of setim
wood.

16 Let every one of them be ten cubits
in length, and in breadth one cubit and
a half.

17 In the sides of the boards shall be
made two mortises, whereby one board
.ttiay be joined to another board : and
after this manner shall all the boards be
prepared.

18 Of which twenty shall be in the
south side southward.

19 For which thou shalt cast forty
sockets of silver, that under every board
may be put two sockets at the two cor-
ners.

20 In the second side also the taberna-
cle that looketh to the north, there shall
be twenty boards,

21 Having forty sockets of silver, two
sockets shall be put under each board.

22 But on the west side of the taberna-
cle thou shalt make six boards.

23 And again other two which shall be
erected in the corners at the back of the
tabernacle,

24 And they shall be joined together
from beneath unto the top, and one joint
shall hold them alL The like joining
shall be observec* for the two boards
also that are to b put in uh corners.

25 And they sha'l be in all eight boards,
and their silver ^ocl^.ets sixteen, reckon-
ing two sockets iTcr cr.ch board.

26 Thou shalt make also five bars of
setim wood, to hold together the boards
on one side of the tabernacle.

27 And five others on the other side,
and as many at the west side :

28 And they shall be put along by the
midst of the boards from one end to the
other.

29 The boards also themselves thou shalt
overlay with gold, and shall cast rings of
gold to be set upon them, for places for
the bars to hold together the board-
work : which bars thou shalt cover with
plates of gold.

30 And thou shalt rear up the taberna-
cle according to the pattern that was
^ shewn thee in the mount.

k Supra 25. 40.

Chap. 26. Ver. 33. The sanctuary, &c. That part
Of the tabernacle, which was without the veil, into
which the priests daily entered, is here called the
ianctuary, or holy place; that part which was

31 Thou shalt make also a veil of violet
and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and
fine twisted linen, wrought with em-
broidered work, and goodly variety :

32 And thou shalt hang it up before
four pillars of setim wood, which them-
selves also shall be overlaid with gold,
and shall have heads of gold, but sockets
of silver.

33 And the veils shall be hanged on
with rings, and within it thou siialt put
the ark of the testimony, and the sanc-
tuary, and the holy of holies shall be di-
vided with it.

34 And thou shalt set the propitiatory
upon the ark of the testimony in the
holy of holies.

35 And the table without the veil : and
over against the table the candlestick in
the south side of the tabernacle ? for the
table shall stand in the north side.

36 Thou shalt make also a hanging in
the entrance of the tabernacle of violet
and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and
fine twisted linen with embroidered work.

37 And thou shalt overlay with gold five
pillars of setim wood, before which the
hanging shall be drawn: their heads
shall be of gold, and the sockets of brass.

CHAPTER 27.

The altar ; and the court of the tabernacle with its
hangings and pillars. Provision of oil for lamps.

rpHOU shalt make also an altar of setim
i wood, which shall be five cubits long
and as many broad, that is, foursquare,
and three cubits high. ^

2 And there shall be horns at the four
corners of the same: and thou shalt
cover it with brass.

3 And thou shalt make for the uses
thereof pans to receive the ashes, and
tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all
its vessels thou shalt make of brass.

4 And a grate of brass in manner of a
net: at the four corners of which shall
be four rings of brass,

5 Which thou shalt put under the hearth
of the altar : and the grate shall be even
to the midst of the altar.

6 Thou shalt make also two bars for the
altar of setim wood, which thou shalt
cover with plates of brass :

I Infra 38. 6.

within the veil, into which no one but the high priest
ever went, and he but once a year, is called the holy
of holies, (literally, the sanctuary of the sanctuaries,)
as being the most holy of all holy places.

The court of the tabernacle EXODUS The vestments of the priest

7 And thotii shalt draw thetn through
rings, and they shall be on both sides of
the altar to carry It.

8 "* Thou shaJt not make it solid, but
empty and hollow in the inside, as it was
shewn thee in the mount.

9 Thou shalt make also the court of the
tabernacle, in the south side whereof
southward there shall be hangings of
fine twisted linen of a hundred cubits
long for one side.

10 And twenty pillars with as many
sockets of brass, the heads of which with
their engraving shall be of silver.

11 In like manner also on the north side
there shall be hangings of a hundred
cubits long, twenty pillars, and as many
sockets of brass, and their heads with
their engraving of silver.

12 But in the breadth of the court, that
looketh to the west, there shall be hang-
ings of fifty cubits, and ten pillars, and
as many sockets.

13 In that breadth also of the court,
which looketh to the east, there shall be
fifty cubits.

14 In which there shall be for one side
hangings of fifteen cubits, and three pil-
lars and as many sockets.

15 And in the other side there shall be
hangings of fifteen cubits, with three
pillars and as many sockets.

16 And in the entrance of the court
there shall be made a hanging of twenty
cubits of violet and purple, and scarlet
twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, with
embroidered work : it shall have four pil-
lars with as many sockets.

17 All the pillars of the court round
about shall be garnished with plates of
silver, silver heads and sockets of brass.

18 In length the court shall take up a
hundred cubits, in breadth fifty, the
height shall be of five cubits, and it shall
be made of fine twisted linen, and shall
have sockets of brass.

19 All the vessels of the tabernacle for
all uses and ceremonies, and the pins
both of it, and of the court, thou shalt
make of brass.

20 Command the children of Israel that
they bring thee the purest oil of the
ohves, and beaten with a pestle : that a
lamp may burn always,

21 In the tabernacle of the testimony.

without the veil that hangs before the
testimony. And Aaron and his sons
shall order it, that it may give hght be-
fore the Lord until the morning. It
shall be a perpetual observance through-
out their successions among the children
of Israel.

CHAPTER 28.
The holy vestments for Aaron and his sons.

TAKE unto thee also Aaron thy bro-
ther with his sons, from among the
children of Israel, that they may minister
to me in the priest's office : Aaron, Nadab,
and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

2 And thou shalt make a holy vesture
for Aaron thy brother for glory and for
beauty.

3 And thou shalt speak to all the wise
of heart, whom I have filled with the
spirit of wisdom, that they may make
Aaron's vestments, in which he being con-
secrated may minister to me.

4 And these shall be the vestments that
they shall make : A rational and an
ephod, a tunick and a strait linen gar-
ment, a mitre and a girdle. They shall
make the holy vestments for thy brother
Aaron and his sons, that they may do
the office of priesthood unto me.

5 And they shall take gold, and violet,
and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and
fine linen.

6 And they shall make the ephod of
gold, and violet, and purple, and scarlet
twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, em-
broidered with divers colours.

7 It shall have the two edges joined in
the top on both sides, that they may be
closed together.

8 The very workmanship also and all
the variety of the work shall be of gold,
and violet, and purple, and scarlet twice
dyed, and fine twisted linen.

9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones,
and shalt grave on them the names of
the children of Israel :

10 Six names on one stone, and the
other six on the other, according to the
order of their birth.

11 With the work of an engraver and
the graving of a jeweller, thou shalt en-
grave them with the names of the chil-
dren of Israel, set in gold and compassed
about :

12 And thou shalt put them in both

X» Supra 20. 8Ai
91

The rational of judgment

EXODUS

The tunic and the hells

sides of the ephod, a memorial for the
children of Israel. And Aaron shall
bear their names before the Lord upon
both shoulders for a remembrance.

13 Thou shalt make also hooks of gold.

14 And two little chains of the purest
gold linked one to another, which thou
shalt put into the hooks.

15 And thou shalt make the rational of
judgment with embroidered work of
divers colours, according to the work-
manship of the ephod, of gold, violet,
and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and
fine twisted linen.

16 It shall be foursquare and doubled:
it shall be the measure of a span both in
length and in breadth.

17 And thou shalt set in it four rows of
stones: in the first row shall be a sardius
stone, and a topaz, and an emerald:

18 In the second a carbuncle, a sap-
phire and a jasper.

19 In the third a ligurius, an agate, and
an amethyst:

20 In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx,
and a beryl. They shall be set in geld
by their rows.

21 And they shall have the names of
the children of Israel: with twelve
names shall they be engraved, each stone
with the name of one according to the
twelve tribes.

22 And thou shalt make on the rational
chains linked one to another of the purest
gold:

23 And two rings of gold, which thou
shalt put in the two ends at the top of
the rational.

24 And the golden chains thou shalt
join to the rings, that are in the ends
thereof:

25 And the ends of the chains them-
selves thou shalt join together with two
hooks on both sides of the ephod, which
is towards the rational.

26 Thou shalt make also two rings of
gold which thou shalt put in the top
parts of the rational, in the borders that
are over against the ephod, and look
towards the back parts thereof.

Chap. 28. Ver. 15. The rational of judg-
ment. This part of the priest's attire, which he
wore at his breast, was called the rational of judg-
ment; partly because it admonished both priest
and people of their duty to God, by carrying the
names of all their tribes in his presence ; and by
the Urim and Thummim, that is, doctrine and
truth, which were written upon it ; and partly ( approach to him.

27 Moreover also other two rings of
gold, which are to be set on each side of
the ephod beneath, that looketh towards
the nether joining, that the rational may
be fitted with the ephod.

28 And may be fastened by the rings
thereof unto the rings of the ephod with
a violet fillet, that the joining artificially
wrought may continue, and the rational
and the ephod may not be loosed one
from the other.

29 And Aaron shall bear the names of
the children of Israel in the rational of
judgment upon his breast, when he shall
enter into the sanctuary, a memorial be-
fore the Lord for ever.

30 And thou shalt put in the rational of
judgment doctrine and truth, which shall
be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go
in before the Lord: and he shall bear
the judgment of the children of Israel
on his breast, in the sight of the Lord
always.

31 And thou shalt make the tunick of
the ephod all of violet,

32 In the midst whereof above shall be
a hole for the head, and a border round
about it woven, as is wont to be made in
the outmost parts of garments, that it
maye not easily be broken.

33 And beneath at the feet of the same
tunick round about, thou shalt make as ^
it were pomegranates, of violet, and
purple, and scarlet twice dyed, with little
bells set between:

34 So that there shall be a golden bell
and a pomegranate, and again another
golden bell and a pomegranate.

35 wAnd Aaron shall be vested with it
in the office of his ministry, that the
sound may be heard, when he goeth in
and Cometh out of the sanctuary, in the
sight of the Lord, and that he may not
die.

36 Thou shalt make also a plate of the
purest gold: wherein thou shalt grave
with engraver's work. Holy to the Lord.

37 And thou shalt tie it with a violet
fillet, and it shall be upon the mitre,

38 Hanging over the forehead of the

n Eccli. 45. 11.

because it gave divine answers and oracles, as
if it were rational and endowed with judgment.
Ver. 30. Doctrine and truth. Hebrew, Urim
and Thummim: illuminations and perfections.
These words, written on the rational, seem to
signify the light of doctrine and the integrity of
life, with which the priests of God ougllt to

The mitre and the girdle EXODUS Consecration of Aaron and his sons

high priest. And Aaron shall bear the
Iniquities of those things, which the chil-
dren of Israel have offered and sanctified,
in all their gifts and offerings. And the
plate shall be always on his forehead,
that the Lord may be well pleased with
them.

39 And thou shalt gird the tunick with
fine linen, and thou shalt make a fine
linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered
work.

40 Moreover for the oooBOii Aaron thou
shalt prepare linen tunicks, and girdles
and mitres for glory and beauty :

41 And with all these things thou shalt
vest Aaron thy brother, and his sons with
him. And thou shalt consecrate the
hands of them all, and shalt sanctify
them, that they may do the office of
priesthood unto me.

42 Thou shalt make also linen breeches,
to cover the flesh of their nakedness
from the reins to the thighs :

43 And Aaron and his sons shall use
hiem when they shall go in to the taber-
nacle of the testimony, or when they
approach to the altar to l dnister in the
sanctuary, lest being guiV.y of iniquity
they die. It shall be a Ilw for ever to
Aaron, and to his seed after him.

CHAPTER 29.

The manner of consecrating Aaron and other
priests ; the institution of the daily sacrifice of
two lambs, one in the Tnoming^ the other at
evening.

A ND thou shalt also do this, that they
XJL may be consecrated to me in priest-
hood. °Take a calf from the herd, and
two rams without blemish,

2 And unleavened bread, and a cake
without leaven, tempered with oil, wafers
also unleavened anointed with oil : thou
shalt make them at of wheaten flour.

3 And thou snalt put them in a basket
and offer them: and the calf and the
two rams.

4 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his
sons to the door of the tabernacle of the
testimony. And when thou hast washed
the father and his sons with water,

5 Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vest-
aients, that is, with the linen garment
and the tunick, and the ephod and the
rational, which thou shalt gird with the
girdle.

6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon

his head, and the holy plate upon the
mitre,

7 And thou shalt pour the oil of unc-
tion upon his head : and by this rite shall
he be consecrated.

8 Thou shalt bring his sons also and
shalt put on them the linen tunicks,
and gird them with a girdle:

9 To wit, Aaron and his children, and
thou shalt put mitres upon them: and
they shall be priests to me by a perpet-
ual ordhmnce. After thou shaJt nave
consecrated their hands,

10 ^Thou shalt present also the ca?t
before the tabernacle of the testimony.
And Aaron and his sons shall lay their
hands upon his head,

11 And thou shalt kill him in the sight
of the Lord, beside the door of the taber-
nacle of the testimony.

12 And taking some of the blood of the
calf, thou shalt put it upon the horns of
the altar with thy finger, and the rest of
the blood thou shalt pour at the bottom
thereof.

13 5 Thou shalt take also all the fat that
covereth the entrails, and the caul of the
Uver, and the two kidneys, and the fat
that is upon them, and shalt offer ^
burnt offering upon the alfiar :

14 But the flesh of the calf and the hide
and the dung, thou shalt burn abroad,
without the camp, because it is for sin.

15 Thou shalt take also one ram upon
the head whereof Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands.

16 And when thou hast killed him, thou
shalt take of the blood thereof, and pour
round about the altar :

17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces,
and having washed his entrails and feet,
thou shalt put them upon the flesh that
is cut in pieces, and upon his head.

18 And thou shalt offer the whole ram
for a burnt offering upon the altar : it is
an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet
savour of the victim of the Lord.

19 Thou shalt take also the other ram,
upon whose head Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands.

20 And when thou hast sacrificed him,
thou shalt take of his blood, and put
upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron
and of his sons, and upon the thumbs
and great toes of their right hand and

« bev a%

p Lev. 1. 3. — « lAv 9. %

The sacrifices of the consecration EXODUS

The daily sacrifices

foot, and thou shalt pour the blood upon
the altar round about.

21 And when thou hast taken of the
blood, that is upon the altar, and of the
oil of unction, thou shalt sprinkle Aaron
and his vesture, his sons and their vest-
ments. And after they and their vest-
ments are consecrated,

22 Thou shalt take the fat of the ram,
and the rump, and the fat that covereth
the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and
the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon
them, and the right shoulder, because it
is the ram of consecration.

23 And one roll of bread, a cake tem-
pered with oil, a wafer out of the basket
of unleavened bread, which is set in the
eight of the Lord.

24 And thou shalt put all upon the hands
of Aaron and of his sons, and shalt sanc-
tify them elevating before the Lord.

25 And thou shalt take all from their
hands, and shalt burn them upon the al-
tar for a holocaust, a most sweet savour
in the sight of the Lord, because it is his
oblation.

26 Thou shalt take also the breast of
the ram, wherewith Aaron was conse-
crated, and elevating it thou shalt sanc-
tify it before the Lord, and it shall fall to
thy share.

27 And thou shalt sanctify both the
consecrated breast, and the shoulder that
thou didst separate of the ram,

28 Wherewith Aaron was consecrated
and his sons, and they shall fall to Aar-
on's share and his sons' by a perpetual
right from the children of Israel : be-
cause they are the choicest and the be-
ginnings of their peace victims which
they offer to the Lord.

29 And the holy vesture, which Aaron
shall use, his sons shall have after him,
that they may be anointed, and their
hands consecrated in it,

30 He of his sons that shall be appointed
high priest in his stead, and that shall
enter into the tabernacle of the testi-
mony to minister in the sanctuary, shall
wear it seven days.

31 And thou shalt take the ram of the
consecration, and shalt boil the flesh
thereof in the holy place :

32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
^ The loaves also, that are in the basket,

they shall eat in the entry of the taber*

nacle of the testimony,

33 That it may be an atoning sacrifice,
and the hands of the offerers may be
sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of
them, because they are holy.

34 And if there remain of the conse-
crated flesh, or of the bread till the
morning, thou shalt burn the remainder
with fire : they shall not be eaten, be-
cause they are sanctified.

35 All that I have commanded thee, thou
shalt do unto Aaron and his sons. Seven
days shalt thou consecrate their hands :

36 And thou shalt offer a calf for sin
every day for expiation. And thou shalt
cleanse the altar when thou hast offered
the victim of expiation, and shalt anoint
it to sanctify it.

37 Seven days shalt thou expiate the
altar and sanctify it, and it shall be most
holy. Every one that shall touch it
shall be holy.

38 This is what thou shalt sacrifice upon
the altar: Two lambs of a year old every
day continually.

39 One lamb in the morning and an-
other in the evening,

40 With one lamb a tenth part of flour
tempered with beaten oil, of the fourth
part of a hin, and wine for Ubation of the
same measure.

41 And the other lamb thou snalt offer
in the evening, according to tne rite of
the morning oblation, and according to
what we have said, for a savour of sweet-
ness:

42 It is a sacrifice to the Lord by per-
petual oblation unto your generations,
at the door of the tabernacle of the tes-
timony before the Lord, where I will
appoint to speak unto thee.

43 And there will I command the chil-
dren of Israel, and the altar shall be
sanctified by my glory.

44 I will sanctify also the tabernacle of
the testimony with the altar, and Aaron
with his sons, to do the office of priest-
hood unto me.

45 And I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel, and will be their God:

46 And they shall know that I am the
Lord their God, who have brought them
out of the land of Egypt, that I might
abide among them, I the Lord their God.

I/ev. 8. 31, and 24. 8 ; Biatt 12. 4.
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The altar of incense

EXODUS Brazen laver, and oil of unction

CHAPTER 30.

The altar of inct^uce : money to be gathered for the
use of the taberruicle : the brazen laver : the holy
oil of unction^ and the composition of the per-

fume.

rPHOU shalt make also an altar to
JL burn incense, of setim wood.

2 It shall be a cubit in length, and an-
other in breadth, that is, foursquare, and
two in height. Horns shall go out of the
same.

3 And thou shalt overlay it with the
purest gold, as well as the grate thereof,
as the walls round about and the horns.
And thou shalt make to it a crown of
gold round about,

4 And two golden rings under the crown
on either side, that the bars may be put
into them, and the altar be carried,

6 And thou shalt make the bars also of
setim wood, and shalt overlay them with
gold.

6 And thou shalt set the altar over
against the veil, that hangeth before the
ark of the testimony before the propitia-
tory wherewith the testimony is covered,
where I will speak to thee.

7 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling
incense upon it in the morning. When
he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it :

8 And when he shall place them in the
evening, he shall burn an everlasting in-
cense before the Lord throughout your
generations.

9 You shall not offer upon it incense of
another composition nor oblation, and
victim, neither shall you offer libations.

10 And Aaron shall pray upon the horns
thereof once a year, with the blood of
that which was offered for sin, and shall
make atonement upon it in your genera-
tions. It shall be most holy to the Lord.

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

12 ■ When thou shalt take the sum of
the children of Israel according to their
number, every one of them shall give a
price for their souls to the Lord, and
there shall be no scourge among them,
when they shall be reckoned.

13 And this shall every one give that
passeth at the naming, half a side ac-
cording to the standard of the temple.

s Num. 1. 2,

Chap. 30. Ver. 1. An altar to fmrn incense.
Tbis burning of incense was an enibieni of prayer,
ascending to God from an inflamed lieart. See
Ps. 140. 2; Apoc. 6. 8, and 8. 4.
\ Ver. t& Ba>ff aside, A side or shekel of silver.

' A side hath twenty obols. Half a side
shall be offered to the Lord.

14 He that is counted in the number
from twenty years and upwards, shall
give the price.

15 The rich man shall not add to half a
side, and the poor man shall diminish
nothing.

16 And the money received which was
contributed by the children of Israel,
thou shalt deliver unto the uses of the
tabernacle of the testimony, that it may
be a memorial of them before the Lord,
and he may be merciful to their souls.

17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say*
ing:

18 Thou shalt make also a brazen laver
with its foot, to wash in : and thou shalt
set it between the tabernacle of the
testimony and the altar. And water being
put into it,

19 Aaron and his sons shall wash theif
hands and feet in it :

20 When they are going into the taber-
nacle of the testimony, and when they
are to come to the altar, to offer on it
incense to the Lord,

21 Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an
everlasting law to him, and to his seed
by successions.

22 And the Lord spoke to Moses,

23 Saying ; Take spices, of principal and
chosen myrrh five hundred sides, and
of cinnamon half so much, that is, two
hundred and fifty sides, of calamus in
Uke manner two hundred and fifty.

24 And of cassia five hundred sides by
the weight of the sanctuary, of oil of
olives the measure hin:

25 And thou shalt make the holy oil of
unction, an ointment compounded after
the art of the perfumer,

26 And therewith thou shalt anoint the
tabernacle of the testimony, and the ark
of the testament,

27 And the table with the vessels there-
of, the candlestick and furniture there-
of, the altars of incense,

28 And of holocaust, and all the furni-
ture that belongeth to the service of
them.

29 And thou shalt sanctify all, and they

t Lev. 27. 25 ; Num. 3. 47 ; Ezeeli. 45. 12.

(wliicli was also called a stater,) according to the
standard or weight of the sanctuary, whicli was the
most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver, thai
is, about half a crown of English money. The ot)ol
or geraht was about tliree halfpence.

The incense

EXODUS

ciiiall be most holy: lie that shall touch
uhom hall be sanctified.

30 Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons,
ana chalt sanctify them, that they may
:lo the office of priesthood unto me.

31 And thou shalt say to the children of
Israel : This oil of unction shall be holy
unto me throughout your generations.

32 The flesh of man shall not be anoint-
ed therewith, and you shall make none
other of the same composition, because
it is sanctified, and shall be holy unto
you.

33 What man soever shall compound
such, and shall give thereof to a stran-
ger, he 3hall be cut off from his people.

34 And the Lord said to Moses ; Take
unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha,
galbanum of sweet savour, and the clear-
est frankincense, all shall be of equal
weight.

36 And thou shalt make incense com-
pounded by the work of the perfumer,
well tempered together, and pure, and
most worthy of sanctification.

36 And when thou hast beaten all into
very small powder, thou shalt set of it
before the tabernacle of the testimony,
in the place where I will appear to thee.
Most holy shall this incense be unto you.

37 You shall not make such a composi-
tion for your own uses, because it is holy
to the Lord.

38 What man soever shall make the
like, to onjoy the smell thereof, he shall
perish out of his people.

CHAPTER 31.

Beseleel and Ooliab are appointed by the Lord to
make the tabernacle, and the things belonging
thereto. The observation of the scbbath day is
again commanded. And the Lord delivereth to
Moses two tables written with the finger of God.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
X3- ing:

2 Behold, I have called by name Beseleel
the son of Uri the son of Hur of the
tribe of Juda,

0 And I have filled him with the spirit
of God, with wisdom and understanding,
and knowledge in all manner of work.

4 To devise whatsoever may be artifi-
cially made of gold, and silver, and
brass,

6 Of marble, and precious stones, and
variety of wood.

6 And I have given him for his com-

Ohserving the Sabbath

u Suprr. ?0. o ; Ezecli. 20c 13,

panion Ooliab the son of Achisamech cl
the tribe of Dan. And I have put wis-
dom in the heart of every skilful man,
that they may make all things which I
have commanded thee,

7 The tabernacle of the covenant, and
the ark of the testimony, and the pro-
pitiatory that is over it, and all the
vessels of the tabernacle,

8 And the table and the vessels thereof,
the most pure candlestick with the ves-
sels thereof, and the altars of incense,

9 And of holocaust, and all their vessels,
the laver with its foot,

10 The holy vestments in the ministry
for Aaron the priest, and for his sons,
that they may execute their office about
the sacred things :

11 The oil of unction, and the incense
of spices in the sanctuary, all things
which I have commanded thee, shall they
make.

12 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

13 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them : ^ See that thou
keep my sabbath: because it is a sign
between me and you in your generations :
that you may know that I am the Lord,
who sanctify you.

14 Keep you my sabbath : for it is holy
unto you : he that shall profane it, shall
be put to death : he that shall do any
work in it, his soul shall perish out of the
midst of his people.

16 Six days shall you do work: in the
seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy
to the Lord. Every one that shall do
any work on this day, shall die.

16 Let the children of Israel keep the
sabbath, and celebrate it in their gener-
ations. It is an everlasting covenant

17 Between me and the children of Israel,
and a perpetual sign. ^ For in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, and in
the seventh he ceased from work.

18 And the Lord, when he had ended
these words in mount Sinai, *^gave to
Moses two stone tables of testimony,
written with the finger of God.

CHAPTER 32.

The people fall into idolatry. Moses prayeth for
them,. He breaketh the tables: destroyeth the
idol : blameth Aaron, and causeth m,any of the
idolaters to be slain.

ND the people seeing that Mosee
delayed to come down from the >

V ixen. 1. 31. aua 2,2,— w Deut. d. lo,

The people fall into idolatry EXODUS Moses breaks the tables of the law

iiount, gathering together against Aaron,
iaid . * Arise, make us gods, that may go
before us : for as to this Moses, the man
that brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we know not what has befallen him.

2 And Aaron said to them: Take the
golden earrings from the ears of your
wives, and your sons and daughters, and
bring them to me.

3 And the people did what he had com-
manded, bringing the earrings to Aaron.

4 y And when he had received them, he
fashioned them by founders' work, and
made of them a molten calf. And they
said ; These are thy gods, O Israel, that
have brought thee out of the land of
Egypt.

6 And when Aaron saw this, he built an
altar before it, and made proclamation
by a crier's voice, saying ? To morrow is
the solemnity of the Lord.

6 And rising in the morning, they of-
fered holocausts, and peace victims,
'and the people sat down to eat, and
irink, and they rose up to play.

7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
'Go, get thee down: thy people, which
^hou hast brought out of the land of
Egypt, hath sinned.

8 They have quickly strayed from the
vay which thou didst shew ^^hem: and
;h6y have made to themselves a molten
jalf, and have adored it, and sacrificing
victims to it, have said : * These are thy
^ods, O Israel, that have brought thee
)ut of the land of Egypt.

9 And again the Lord said to Moses :
'See that this people is stiffnecked :
IC Let me alone, that my wrath may be
tindled against them, and that i may
lestroy them, and I will make of thee a
p-eat nation.

11 But Moses besought the Lord his
5od, saying : ^ Why, O Lord, is thy in-
lignation enkindled against thy people,
v^hom thou hast brought out of the land
>f Egypt, with great power, and with c
nighty hand?

12 Le^ not the Egyptians say, i beseech
hee : He craftily brought them out, that
le might kill them in the mountains, and
lestroy them from the earth: let chy

X Acts 7. 40. — y Ps. 105. 19. — zl Cor. 10. 7, ~

a Pent. C. 22. — 6 3 Kings 12. 28. ~ c Infra 33. 3 ^

Chap 32. Ver. 25. Naked. Having lost not

nly their gold, and their honour, but what was worst

f hU. iieins: stripped alsc of the grace of God, and

aving lost hini.— The shame of the filth. That is,

7 81

anger cease, and be appeased upon the
wickedness of thy people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Is-
rael, thy servants, to whom thou sworest
by thy own self, saying: ''I will multiply
your seed as the stars of heaven: and
this whole land that I have spoken of, I
will give to your seed, and you shall
possess it for ever.

14 And the Lord was appeased from
doing the evil which he had spoken
against hi3 people.

15 And Moses returned from the mount,
carrying the two tables of the testimony
in his hand, written on both sides,

16 And made by the work of God: :he
writing also of God was graven in the
tables.

17 And Josue hearing the noise of the
people shouting, said to Moses: The
noise of battle is heard in the camp.

18 But he answered : It is not the cry of
n.en encouraging to fight, nor the shout
of men compelling to flee : but I hear the
voice of singers.

19 And when he came nigh to the camp,
he saw the calf, and the dances : and
being very angry, he threw the tables
out of his hand, and broke them at the
foot of the mount :

20 And laying hold of the calf which
they had made, he burnt it, -^and beat
it to powder, which he strewed into
water, and gave thereof to the children
of Israel to drink.

21 And he said to Aaron : What has this
I people done to thee, that thou shouldst
I Dring upon them a most heinous sin ?

22 And he answered him i Let not my
lord be offended : for thou knowest this
people, ^ that they are prone to evil.

23 They said to me : Mrke us gods, that
may go befce us: for as to this Moses,
who brought us lOrth out of the (and of
Egypt, we know not what is befallen
him.

24 And I said \>o them : Which of you
hath any gold? and they took and
brought it to me : and I cast it> into the
fire, and this calf came out.

25 And when Moses saw that the people
were naked, (for Aaron had stripped

Dent. 9. 13. -- d Num. 14. 13 Ps. 105. 40. — ' Gen. 12. ",
and 15. 7. and 48, 16.—/ Deut. 9. 21,— :7 1 John 5. 19.

of the idol, ;vhich they had taken for their god. It
is the usual ohrase of tbe scripture t» ^■aiXi idols JUtk
and abonu7uition3.

The guilty are slain

EXODUS The tabernacle removed from camp

bhem by occasion of the ahame of the filth,
and had set them naked among their
enemies,)

26 Then standing in the gate of the
camp, he saids If any man be on the
Lord's side let him join with me. And
all the sons of Levi gathered themselves
together unto him :

27 And he said to them : Thus saith the
Lord God of Israel : Put every man his
Bword upon his thigh: go, and return
from gate to gate through the midst of
the camp, and let every man kill his
orother, ^ and friend, and neighbour.

28 And the sons of Levi did according
to the words of Moses, and there were
3lain that day about three and twenty
thousand men.

29 And Moses said: You have conse-
crated your hands this day to the Lord,
every man in his son and in his brother,
that a blessing may be given to you.

80 And when the next day was come,
Hoses spoke to the people : You have
ginned a very great sin : I will go up to
tihe Lord, if by any means I may be able
to entreat him for your crime.

31 And returning to the Lord, he said :
1 beseech thee : this people hath sinned
a heinous 3in, and they have made to
themselves gods of gold : either forgive
them this trespass,

32 Or if thou do not, strike me out of
the book that thou hast written.

33 And the Lord answered him: He
that hath sinned against me, him will I
strike out of my book :

34 But go thou, and lead this people
whither I have told thee: my angel
shall go before thee. And I in the day
of revenge will visit this sin also of
theirs.

35 The Lord iiherefore struck the peo-
ple ior the guilt on occasion of the calf
which Aaron had made.

CHAPTER 33.

Th6 people mourn for their sin. Moses pitcheth the
tabernacle without the camp. He converse^h fa-
miliarly with God. Desireth to see his glory.

A ND the Lord spoke to Mose^ saying :
J\. Go, get thee up from this place,
thou and thy people which thou hast

brought out of the land of Egypt, into
the land concerning which I swore tc
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: *To
thy seed I will give it.

2 ^ And I will send an angel before thee,
that I may cast out the '^ Chanaanite,
and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, «ind
the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the
Jebusite,

3 That thou mayst enter into the land
that floweth with milk and honey. For
I will not go up with thee, * because
thou art a stiffnecked people : lest I de-
stroy thee in the way.

4 And the people hearing these very
bad tidings, mourned: and no man put
on his ornaments according to custom.

S> \nd the I*ord said to Moses : Say to
th^v ch'Wren of Israel: Thou art a stiff-
necked peoplr ; once I shall come up ii
the midst of thos., an^ shall destroy thf)(
Now presently lay aside thy ornaments,!
that I may know what to do to thee.

6 So the children of Israel laid aside
their ornaments by mount Horeb.

7 Moses also taking the tabernacle,
pitched it without the camp afar off, and
called the name thereof. The tabernacle
of the covenant. And all the people
that had any question, went forth to the
tabernacle of the covenant, without the
camp.

8 And when Moses went forth to the
tabernacle, all the people rose up, and
every one stood in the door of his pavil-
ion, and they beheld the back of Moses,
till he went into the tabernacle.

9 And when he was gone into the taber-
nacle of the covenant, the pillar of the
cloud came down, and stood at the door,
and he spoke with Moses.

10 And alf saw that the pillar of the
cloud stoo4 at the door of the taber-
nacle. And they stood, and worshipped
at the doors of their tents.

il And the Lord spoke to M jses face
to face, as a man is wont to speak to his
friend. And when he returned into
the camp, hin servant Josue the son of

h Deut. 33. 9.— i Gen. 12 7. —j Supra 32. 34.

Chap. 33. Ver. ll. Face to face. That is, in a
Host tamiliar manner. Though as we learn from
thii very chapter, Moses could not see the fcu:e of
^JleLord. ^ ^^ , ,

Vor 12. Iknawtlieebyruimt, IatUelanfiuii£eox

Nun, a youni'
the tabernacle
12 And Moses

man, departed not from

said to the Lord: Thou

k Deut. 7. 22 ; Jos. 24. 11. — I Supra 32. 9 ; Deut. 9. 13.
the scriptures, God is said to know such as he ap-
proves and loves -• and to kvow by name, those whotn
he favours In a most singular mamier, as iic did a^
servant Moses.

O&J

Moses prays to see God

EXODUS

The tables are renewed

commandest me to lead forth this peo-
ple : and thou dost not let me know
whom thou wilt send with me, especially
whereas thou hast said : I know thee by
name, and thou hast found favour in my
pight.

13 If therefore I have found favour in
thy sight, shew me thy face, that I may
know theo, and may find grace before
thy eyes: look upon thy people this
nation.

14 And the Lord said : My face shall go
before thee, and I will give thee rest.

15 And Moses said : If thou thyself
dost not go before, bring us not out of
this place.

16 For how shall we be able to know,
I and thy people, that we have found
grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with
us, that we may be glorified by all peo-
ple that dwell upon the earth ?

17 And the Lord said to Moses: This
word also, which thou hast spoken, will
I do : for thou hast found grace before
me, and thee I have known by name.

18 And he said i Shew me thy glory.

19 He answered : I will shew thee all
good, and I will proclaim in the name of
the Lord before thee : ^ and I will have
mercy on whom I will, and I will be mer-
ciful to whom it shall please me.

20 And again he said : Thou canst not
see my face : for man shall not see me
and live.

21 And again he said: Behold there is a
place with me, and thou shalt stand upon
the rock.

22 And when ray glory shall pass, I will
set thee in a hole of the rock, and pro-
tect thee with my right hand, till I pass :

23 And I wiU take away my hand, and
thou shalt see my back parts : but my face
thou canst not see.

CHAPTER 34.

The tables are renewed: all society with the Cha-
naanites is forbid : some precepts concerning the
firstborn, the sabbath, and other feasts : after forty
days'* fast, Moses retumeth to the people with the
commandments, and his face appearing homed
with rays of light, he covereth it, whensoever he
speaketh to the people.

^ND after this he said : ** Hew thee

J\. two tables of stone like unto the

m Rom. 9. 15. — n Deut 10. 1.
o Dent. 5. 10 ; Jer. 32. 18.— p Ps. 142. 2.

Ver. 23. See my back parts. The Lord by his
angel, usually spoke to Moses in the pillar of the
cloud ; so that he could not see the glory of him that
spoke familiarly with him. In the vision here men-
tioned he was allowed to see something of him. in an

former, and I will write npon them tL3
words which were in the tables, which
thou brokest.

2 Be ready in the morning, that thou
mayst forthwith go up into mount Sinai,
and thou shalt stand with me upon the
top of the mount.

3 Let no man go up with thee : and let
not any man be seen throughout all the
mount: neither let the oxen nor the
sheep feed over against it.

4 Then he cut out two tables of stone,
such as had been before : and rising very
early he went up into the mount Sinai
as the Lord had commanded him, carry
ing with him the tables.

5 And when the Lord was come down
in a cloud, Mosc^ stood with him, calhng
upon the name of the Lord.

6 And when he passed before him, he
said : O the Lord, the Lord God, merci-
ful and gracious, patient and of much
compassion, and true,

7 ° Who keepest mercy unto thousands :
who takest away iniquity, and v/icked-
ness, and sin, P and no man of himself is
innocent before thee. ' Who renderest
the iniquity of the fathers to the 3hil-
dren, and to the grandchildren, unto the
third and fourth generation.

8 And Moses making haste, bowed
down prostrate unto the earth, and
adoring,

9 Said : If I have found grace in thy
sight : O Lord, I beseech thee, that thou
wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked
people,) and take away our iniquities
and sin, and possess us.

10 The Lord answered: *"! will make a
covenant in the sight of all. I will do
signs such as were never seen upon the
earth, nor in any nations : that this peo-
ple, in the midst of whom thou art, may
see the terrible work of the Lord which
I will do.

11 Observe all things which this day I
command thee: I myself will drive out
before thy face the Amorrhite, and the
Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the
Pherezite, apd the He 7ite, and the Jebu-
site.

q D.eutj 5. 9 ; Jec. S2. 18.
,r J)fcUt. 3. 2; JeuiiZ. IC.

assumed ooiporeil form I not in the face, the rays of
which were too bright lor morta' «iye to boar^ bat to
vJe\ hi'rh ijislt'wcre beliind, wheQli^face vps turned
from n ID, ' '

Precepts to he observed

EXODUS Moses comes down from the mount

12 Beware thon ne^e^ jofai in friend-
sliip with the inhabitants ot ttiat land,

which may be thy ruin :

13 But destroy their altars, break their
statues, and cut down their groves ;

14 Adore not any strange god. The Lord
his name it Jealous, he i£ a jealous Godc

15 " Make no covenant with the men
Oi those countries lest, when they have
committed fornication with their gods,
and have adored their idols, some one
call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

16 Neither shalt thou take of their
daughters a wife for thy son, lest after
they themselves have committed forni-
cation, they make thy sons also to com-
mit fornication with their gods.

17 Thou ehalt not make to thyself any
molten gods.

18 Thou shalt keep the feast of the un-
leavened bread. Seven days shalt thou
eat unleavened bread, as I commanded
thee m the time of the month of the new
cont ? for in the month of the spring-
time thou cameet out from Egypt.

19 "^ All of the male kind, that openeth
the womb, shall be mine. Of all beasts.,
both of oxen and of sheep, it shall be
mine.

20 The firstling of an ass thou shalt re-
deem with a sheep : but if thou wiit not
give a price for it, it shall be slain. The
firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem :
neither shalt thou appear before me
empty.

21 Six days shalt thou work, the sev-
enth day thou shalt cease to plough, and
to reap.

22 '^Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks
with the firstfruits of the corn of thy
wheat harvest, and the feast when the
time of the year retumeth that all things
are laid in.

23 '^ Three times in the year all thy | spoke to them,
males shall appear in the sight of the
Almighty Lord the God of IsraeL

24 For when I shall have taken away
the nations from thy face, and shall have
enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in
wait against thy land when thou shalt go
up, and appear iij the sight of the Lord
thy God thrice in a year.

iS * fHiou shalt not offer the blood of
my sacrifice upon leaven : neither shall
there remain in the morning any thing
of the victim of the solemnity of the
Phase,

26 The first of the fruits of thy ground
thou shalt offer in the house of the Lord
thy God. y Thou shalt not boil a kid in
the milk of his dam.

27 And the Lord said to Moses : Write
thee these words by which I have made a
covenant both with thee and with IsraeL

28 And he was there with the Lord
^ forty days and forty nights : he neither
ate bread nor drank water, and he wrote
upon the tables " the ten words of the
covenant.

29 And when Moses came down from
the mount Sinai, he held the two tables
of the testimony, and he knew not that
his face was horned from the conversa-
tion of the Lord.

30 And Aaron and the children of Is-
rael seeing the face of Moses horned,
were afraid to come near.

31 And being called by him, they re-
turned, both Aaron and the rulers of the
congregation. And after that he spoke
to them.

32 And all the children of Israel came
to him : and he gave them in command-
ment all that he had heard of the Lord
in mount Sinai.

33 And having done speaking, ''he put
a veil upon his face.

34 But when he went in to the Lord,
and spoke with him, he took it away
until he came forth, and then he spoke
to the children of Israel all things that
had been commanded him.

35 And they saw that the face of Mosee
when he came out was horned, but he

i covered his face again, if at any time he

8 Snpwi 2a 32 ; Deuit 7. 2=

1 3 Kings 11« 2 v Deut 7. i

tc Supra 13. 2, 12 and 22, 29^ — r Supra 3S. tft.

'X' Supra 23 17 ; Deut 16. 16.

CHAPTER 85.

The sabbath. Offerings for making the tabernacle
Beseleel ana Ooliab are called to the work.

ND all the multitude of the children

of Israel being gathered together^

he said to them: These are the thing»

which the Lord hath commanded to be

done.

X Supra 23 18 and 19.
y Supra 23. 18 % DeuL 14. 21.
z Supra "1. 18 i Deut 9. 9 and 18.
c Deut 4. 13 — 6 2 Cor. 3. 13.

Chat. 3^ Ver. 23l liomod. Tbat Is. siiimn^, and sending fortb rays oi llgtit like uoro».

100

Offerings for the tabernacle

EXODUS

Beseleel and OoUab

2 Six days yon shall do work : the sev-
enth day shall be holy unto you, the sab-
bath, and the rest of the Lord : he that
shall do any work on it, shall be put to
death.

3 You shall kindle no fire in any of
your habitations on the sabbath day,

4 And Moses said to all the assembly
of the children of Israel : This is the
word the Lord hath commanded, saying :

5 Set aside with you firstfruits to the
Lordo ^ Let every one that is willing
and hath a ready heart, offer them to the
Lord : gold, and silver, and brass,

6 Violet and purple, and scarlet twice
dyed, and fine linen, goats' hair,

7 And rams' skins dyed red, and violet
coloured skins, setim wood,

8 And oil to maintain lights, and tc
make ointment, and most sweet incensOc

9 Onyx stones, and precious stones, for
the adorning of the ephod and the ra-
tional.

10 Whosoever of you is wise, let him
come, and make that which the Lord
hath commanded :

11 To wit, the tabernacle and the roof
thereof, and the cover, the rings, and
the board work with the oars, the pillars,
and the sockets :

12 The ark and the staves, the propitia-
tory, and the veil that is drawn before
it:

13 The table with the bars and the ves-
sels, and the loaves of proposition :

14 The candlestick to bear up the lights,
the vessels thereof and the lamps, and
the oil for the nourishing of fires :

15 The altar of incense, and the bars,
and the oil of unction and the incense of
spices : the hanging at the door of the
tabernacle :

16 The altar of holocaust, and its grate
of brass, with the bars and vessels there-
of; the laver and its foot:

17 The curtains of the court with the
pillars and the sockets, the hanging in
the doors of the entry,

18 The pins of the tabernacle and of
the court with their little cords :

19 The vestments that are to be used
in the ministry of the sanctuary, the
vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of
his sons, to do the office of priesthood to
me.

20 And all the multitude of the chil-
dren of Israel going out from the pre-
sence of Moses,

21 Offered firstfruits to the Lord with
a most ready and devout mind, to make
the work of the tabernacle of the testi-
mony. Whatsoever was necessary to the
service, and to the holy vestments,

22 Both men and women gave bracelets
and earrings, rings and tablets: every
vessel of gold was set aside to be offered
to the Lord.

23 If any man had violet, and purple,
and scarlet twice dyed, fine linen and
goats' hair, rams' skins dyed red, and
violet coloured skins,

24 Metal of silver and brass, they offered
it to the Lord, and setim wood for divers
uses.

25 The skilful women also gave such
things as they had spun, violet, purple,
and scarlet, and fine linen,

26 And goats' hair, giving all of their
own accord.

27 But the princes offered onyx stones,
and precious stones, for the ephod and
the rational,

28 And spiceo and oil for the lights,
and for the preparing of ointment, and
to make the incense of most sweet sa-
vour.

29 All both men and women with de-
vout mind offered gifts, that the works
might be done which the Lord had com-
manded by the hand of Moses. All the
children of Israel dedicated voluntary
offerings to the Lord.

30 And Moses said to the children of
Israel : ^ Behold the Lord hath called by
name Beseleel the son of Uri the son of
Hur of the tribe of Juda.

31 And hath filled him with the spirit
of God, with wisdom and understanding
and knowledge and all learning.

32 To devise and to work in gold and
silver and brass,

33 And in engraving stones, and in car-
penters' work. Whatsoever can be de-
vised artificially,

34 He hath given in his heart : Ooliab
also the son of Achisamech of the tribe
of Dan:

35 Both of them hath he instructed
with wisdom, to do carpenters' work, and
tapestry, and embroidery in blue and

<K Supra 8&t

101

• Sii|«a8i.it

Liberality of the people

EXODUS

Making the tabernacle

purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine
linen, and to weave all things, and to
invent all new things.

CHAPTER 36.

The offerings are delivered to the workmen^ the cur-
tains, coverings, boards, bars, veil, pillars, and
*? hanging are made.

BESELEEL, therefore, and Ooliab,
and every wise man, to whom the
Lord gave wisdom and understanding, to
know how to work artificially, made ^ the
things that are necessary for the uses of
the sanctuary, and which the Lord com-
n.anded.

2 ^ And when Moses had called them, and
every skilful man, to whom the Lord had
given wisdom, and such as of their own
accord had offered themselves to the
making of the work,

3 He delivered all the offerings of the
children of Israel unto them. And while
they were earnest about the work, the
people daily in the morning offered their
vows.

4 Whereupon the workmen being con-
strained to come,

5 Said to Moses : The people offereth
more than is necessary.

6 Moses therefore commanded procla-
mation to be made by the crier's voice :
Let neither man nor woman offer any
more for the work of the sanctuary.
And so they ceased from offering gifts,

7 Because the things that were offered
did suffice, and were too much.

8 And all the men that were wise of
heart, to accomplish the work of the tab-
ernacle, made ten curtains of twisted
fine linen, and violet, and purple, and
scarlet twice dyed, with varied work,
and the art of embroidering :

' 9 The length of one curtain was twenty-
eight cubits, and the breadth four: all
the curtains were of the same size.

10 And he joined five curtains, one to
another, and the other five he coupled
one to another.

11 He made also loops of violet in the
edge of one curtain on both sides, and in
the edge of the other curtain in like
manner,

12 That the loops might meet one
against another, and might be joined

^each with the other.

• 13 Whereupon also he cast fifty rings

g Supra 26- ],

of gold, that might catch the loops of
the curtains, and they might be made
one tabernacle.

14 He made also eleven curtains of
goats' hair, to cover the roof of the tab-
ernacle :

15 One curtain was thirty cubits long
and four cubits broad: all the curtains
were of one measure.

16 Five of which he joined apart, and
the other six apart.

17 And he made fifty loops in the edge
of one curtain, and fifty in the edge
of another curtain, that they might be
joined one to another.

18 And fifty buckles of brass wherewith
the roof might be knit together, that of
all the curtains there might be made
one covering.

19 He made also a cover for the taber-
nacle of rams' skins dyed red: and an-
other cover over that of violet skins.

20 He made also the boards of the tab-
ernacle of setim wood standing.

21 The length of one board was ten
cubits: and the breadth was one cubit
and a half.

22 There were two mortises throughout
every board, that one might be joined to
the other. And in this manner he made
for all the boards of the tabernacle.

23 Of which twenty were at the south
side southward,

24 With forty sockets of silver, two
sockets were put under one board on
the two sides of the corners, where the
mortises of the sides end in the corners.

25 At that side also of the tabernacle,
that looketh toward the north, he made
twenty boards.

26 With forty sockets of silver, two
sockets for every board.

27 But against the west, to wit, at that
side of the tabernacle, which looketh to
the sea, he made six boards,

28 And two others at each corner of
the tabernacle behind :

29 Which were also joined from beneath
unto the top, and went together into
one joint. Thus he did on both sides at
the corners :

30 So there were in all eight boards,
and they had sixteen sockets of silver,
to wit, two sockets under every board.

31 He made also bars of setim wood,

h 1 Par. 21. 29.

102

The ark and the propitiatory EXODUS

The candlestick

five to hold together
side of the tabernacle,

32 And five others to join together the
boards of the other side: and besides
these, five other bars at the west side of
the tabernacle towards the sea.

33 He made also another bar, that
might come by the midst of the boards
from corner to corner.

34 And the board works themselves
he overlaid with gold, casting for them
sockets of silver. And their rings he
made of gold, through which the bars
might be drawn: and he covered the
bars themselves with plates of gold.

35 He made also a veil of violet, and
purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen,
varied and distinguished with embroid-
ery:

36 And four pillars of setim wood, which
with their heads he overlaid with gold,
casting for them sockets of silver.

37 He made also a hanging in the entry
of the tabernacle of violet, purple, scar-
let, and fine twisted linen, with the work
of an embroiderer.

38 And five pillars with their heads,
which he covered with gold, and their
sockets he cast of braas.

CHAPTER 37.

Beseleel maketh the ark : the propitiatory, and cher-
ubims, the table, the candlestick, the lamps, and
the altar of incense, and compoundeth the incense.

AND Beseleel made also the ark of
. setim wood: it was two cubits and
a half in length, and a cubit and a half
in breadth, and the height was of one
cubit and a half : and he overlaid it with
the purest gold within and without.

2 And he made to it a crown of gold
round about,

3 Casting four rings of gold at the four
corners thereof: two rings in one side,
and two in the other.

4 And he made bars of setim wood,
which he overlaid with gold,

6 And he put them into the rings that
were at the sides of the ark to carry it.

6 He made also the propitiatory, that
Is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two
cubits and a half in length, and a cubit
and a half in breadth.

7 Two cherubims also of beaten gold,
prhich he set on the two sides of the pro-
;)itiatory :

the boards of one ' 8 One cherub in the top of one side,
and the other cherub in the top of the
other side: two cherubims at the two
ends of the propitiatory,

9 Spreading their wings, and covering
the propitiatory, and looking one to
wards th« other, and towards it.

10 He made also the table of setim
wood, in length two cubits, and in
breadth one cubit, and in height it was
a cubit and a half.

11 And he overlaid it with the finest
gold, and he made to it a golden ledge
round about.

12 And to the ledge itself he made a
polished crown of gold, of four fingers*
breadth, and upon the same another
golden crown.

13 And he cast four rings of gold, which
he put in the four corners at each foot
of the table,

14 Over against the crown: and he put
the bare into them, that the table might
be carried.

15 And the bars also themselves he
made of setim wood, and overlaid them
with gold,

16 And the vessels for the divers uses
of the table, dishes, bowls, and cups, and
censers of pure gold, wherein the liba-
tions are to be ofiPered.

17 He made also the candlestick of
beaten work of the finest gold. From
the shaft whereof its branches, its cups,
and bowls, and lilies came out :

18 Six on the two sides: three branches
on one side, and three on the other.

19 Three cups in manner of a nut on
each branch, and bowls withal and lilies ;
and three cups of the fashion of a nut in
another branch, and bowls withal and
lilies. The work of the six branches
that went out from tho shaft of the can-
dlestick was equal.

20 And in the shaft itself were four
cups after the manner of a nut, and
bowls withal at every one, and lilies :

21 And bowls under two branches in
three places, which together make six
branchea going out from «ne shaft.

22 So both the bowls, and the branches
were of the same, all beaten work of
the purest gold.

23 He made also the seven lamps with
their snaffers, and the vessels where the

103

The altar of holocaust

EXODUS

The court of the tahemacle

it with the purest
and the sides, and

it a crown of gold

two golden rings

each side, that the

into them, and the

enuflangs were to be pat out, of the pur-
est gold.

24 The candlestick with all the vessels
thereof weighed a talent of gold.

26 He made also the altar of incense of
setim wood, being a cubit on every side
foursquare, and in height two cubits:
from the corners of which went out
boms.

26 And he overlaid
gold, with its grate
the horns.

27 And he made to
round about, and
under the crown at
bars might be put
altar be carried.

28 And the bars themselves he made
also of setim wood, and overlaid them
with plates of gold.

29 He compounded also the oil for the
ointment of sanctification, and incense
of the purest spices, according to the
work of a perfumer.

CHAPTER 38.

He maketh the altar of holocaust. The brazen
laver. The court with its pillars and hangings.
The sum of what the people offered.

HE made «^also the altar *of holo-
caust of setim wood, five cubits
square, and three in height :

2 The horns whereof went out from the
corners, and be overlaid it with plates of
brass.

3 And for the uses thereof, he prepared
divers vessels of brass, cauldrons, tongs,
fleshhooks, pothooks, and firepans.

4 And he made the grate thereof of
brass, in manner of a net, and under it
in the midst of the altar a hearth,

5 Casting four rings at the four ends
of the net at the top, to put in bars to
carry it.

6 And he made the bars of setim wood,
and overlaid them with plates of brass :

7 And he drew them through the rings
that stood out in the sides of the altar.
'And the altar itself was not solid, but
hollow, of boards, and empty within.

8 He made also the laver of brass, with
the foot thereof, of the mirrors of the
women that watched at the door of the
tabernacle.

9 He made also the court, in the south

3 B. C. 1444. — Ic2 Par. 1. 5.

fine

side whereof were hangings of
twisted linen, of a hundred cubits,

10 Twenty pillars of brass with their
sockets, the heads of the pillars, and the
whole graving of the work, of silver.

11 In like manner at the north side the
hangings, the pillars, and the sockets
and heads of the pillars were of the
same measure, and work and metal.

12 But on that side that looketh to the
west, there were hangings of fifty cubits,
ten pillars of brass with their sockets,
and the heads of the pillars, and all the
graving of the work, of silver.

13 Moreover towards the east he pre-
pared hangings of fiffcy cubits :

14 Fifteen cubits of which were on one
side with three pillars, and their sockets :

15 And on the other side (for between
the two he made the entry of the tab-
ernacle) there were hangings equally of
fifteen cubits, and three pillars, and as
many sockets.

16 All the hangings of the court were
woven with twisted linen.

17 The sockets of the pillars were of
brass, and their heads with all their
gravings of silver : and he overlaid the
pillars of the court also with silver.

18 And he made in the entry thereof
an embroidered hanging of violet, pur-
ple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, that
was twenty cubits long, and five cubits
high according to the measure of all the
hangings of the court.

19 And the pillars in the entry were
four with sockets of brass, and their
heads and gravings of silver.

20 The pins also of the tabernacle and of
the court round about he made of brass.

21 These are the instruments of the
tabernacle of the testimony, which were
counted according to the commandment
of Moses, in the ceremonies of the Le-
vites, by the hand of Ithamar son of
Aaron the priest :

22 Which Beseleel the son of Uri the
son of Hur of the tribe of Juda had
made as the Lord commanded by Moses,

23 Having for his companion Ooliab
the son of Achisamech of the tribe of
Dan : who also was an excellent artificer
in wood, and worker in tapestry and
embroidery in violet, purple, scarlet,^
and fine linen.

I Oupra 27. 8.

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The amount of the offerings

EXODUS Vesture of Aaron and his sons

24 All the gold that was spent in the
work of the sanctuary, and that was
offered in gifts was nine and twenty
talents, and seven hundred and thirty
sides according to the standard of the
sanctuary.

25 And it was offered by them that
went to be numbered, from twenty years
old and upwards, of six hundred and
three thousand five hundred and fifty
men able to bear arms.

26 There were moreover a hundred tal-
ents of silver, whereof were cast the
sockets of the sanctuary, and of the
entry where the veil hangeth.

27 A hundred sockets were made of a
hundred talents, one talent being reck-
oned for every socket.

28 And of the thousand seven hundred
and seventy- five he made the heads of
the pillars, which also he overlaid with
silver.

29 And there were offered of brass
also seventy-two thousand talents, and
four hundred sides besides.

30 Of which were cast the sockets in
the entry of the tabernacle of the testi-
mony, and the altar of brass with the
grate thereof, and all the vessels that
belong to the use thereof.

31 And the sockets of the court as well
'ound about as in the entry thereof, and

the pins of the tabernacle and of the
court round about.

CHAPTER 39.

All the ornaments of Aaron and his sons are
made. And the whole work of the tabernacle is
finished.

A ND he made, ^ of violet and purple,
XX scarlet and fine linen, the vest-
ments for Aaron to wear when he min-
istered in the holy places, as the Lord
commanded MoseSe

2 So he made an ephod of gold, violet,
and purple, a^i scarlet twice dyed, and
fine twisted linen.

3 With embroidered work : and he cut
thin plates of gold, and drew them small
into threads, that they might be twisted
with the woof of the aforesaid colours,

4 And two borders coupled one to the
other in the top on either side,

5 And a girdle of the same colours, as
the Lord had commanded Moses.

6 He prepared also two onyx stones,

faeti set and closed in gold, and graven
by the art of a lapidary, with the namec
of the children of Israel :

7 And he set them in the sides of the
ephod for a memorial of the children
of Israel, as the Lord had commanded
Moses.

8 He made also a rational with embroid-
ered work, according to the work of
the ephod, of gold, violet, purple, and
scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted
linen,

9 Foursquare, double, ol the measure of
a span.

10 And he set four rows of precious
stones in it. In the first row was a
sardius, a topaz, an emerald.

11 In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire,
and a jasper.

12 In the third, a ligurius, an agate, and
an amethyst.

13 In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx,
and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by
their rows.

14 And the twelve stones were engraved
with the names of the twelve tribes of
Israel, each one with its several name.

15 They made also in the rational little
chains lirked one to another of the
purest gold,

16 And two hooks, and as many rings of
gold. And they set the rings on either
side of the rational,

17 On which rings the two golden chains
should hang, which they put into the
hooks that stood out in the corners of
the ephod.

18 These both before and behind so an-
swered one another, that the ephod and
the rational were bound together,

19 Being fastened to the girdle and
strongly coupled with rings, which a
violet fillet joined, lest they should flag
loose, and be moved one from the other,
as the Lord commanded Moses.

20 They made also the tunick of the
ephod all of violet,

21 And a hole for the head in the upper
part at the middle, and a woven border
round about the hole :

22 And beneath at the feet pomegran-
ates of violet, purple, scarlet, and fine
twisted linen :

23 And little bells of the purest gold,
which they put between the pomegran-

m Supra 28. 6.

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The work completed

EXODUS

The tabernacle to be set up

ates at the bottom of the tunick round
about :

24 To wit, a bell of gold, and a pome-
granate, wherewith the high priest went
adorned, when he discharged his minis-
try, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

25 They made also fine linen tunicks
with woven work for Aaron and his
sons:

26 And mitres with their little crowns
of fine linen :

27 And Unen breeches of fine linen :

28 And a girdle of fine twisted linen,
violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of
embroidery work, as the Lord had com-
manded Moses.

29 They made also the plate of sacred
veneration of the purest gold, and they
wrote on it with the engraving of a lapi-
dary, The Holy of the Lord :

30 And they fastened it to the mitre
with a violet fillet, as the Lord had com-
manded Moses.

31 So all the work of the tabernacle and
of the roof of the testimony was finished:
and the children of Israel did all things
which the Lord had commanded Moses.

32 And they offered the tabernacle and
the roof and the whole furniture, the
rings, the boards, the bars, the pillars,
and their sockets,

33 The cover of rams' skins dyed red,
and the other cover of violet skins,

34 The veil, the ark, the bars, the pro-
pitiatory,

• 35 The table, with the vessels thereof,
and the loaves of proposition*

36 The candlestick, the lamps, and the
furniture of them with the oil :

37 The altar of gold, and the ointment,
and the incense of spices :

38 And the hanging in the entry of the
tabernacle :

39 The altar of brass, the grate, the
bars, and all the vessels thereof: the
laver with the foot thereof : the hang-
ings of the court, and the pillars with
their sockets :

40 The hanging in the entry of the
court, and the little cords, and the pins
thereof. Nothing was wanting of the
vessels, that were commanded to be
made for the ministry of the tabernacle,
and for the roof of the covenant.

41 The vestments also, which the priests,

n bupra 2& 36 ; Lev. «. 2.

to wit, Aaron and his sona, used in the
sanctuary,

42 The children of Israel offered as the
Lord had commanded.

43 And when Moses saw all things
finished, he blessed them.

CHAPTER 40.

The tabernacle is commanded to be set up and
anointed. Godfilleth it with his majesty,

ND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

2 The first month, the first day of the
month, thou shalt set up the tabernacle
of the testimony,

3 And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt
let down the veil before it :

4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and
set upon it the things that are command-
ed according to the rite. The candle-
stick shall stand with its lamps,

6 And the altar of gold whereon the
incense is burnt, before the ark of the
testimony. Thou shalt put the hanging
in the entry of the tabernacle,

6 And before it the altar of holocaust :

7 The laver between the altar and the
tabernacle, and thou shalt fill it with
water.

8 And thou shalt encompass the court
with hangings, and the entry thereof.

9 And thou shalt take the oil of unction
and anoint the tabernacle with its vessels,
that they may be sanctified :

10 The altar of holocaust and all its
vessels :

11 The laver with its foot: thou shalt
consecrate all with the oil of unction,
that they may be most holy.

12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his
sons to the door of the tabernacle of the
testimony, and having washed them with
water,

13 ^Thou shalt put on them the holy
vestments, that they may minister to
me, and that the unction of them may
prosper to an everlasting priesthood.

14 And Moses did all that the Lord had
commanded.

15 So in the first month of the second
year, the first day of the month, the
tabernacle was set up.

16 P And Moses reared it up, and placed
the boards and the sockets and the bars,
and set up the pillars,

17 And spread the roof over the taber-

j> JMuiu. 2^JL

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All things are set in place

LEVITICUS The cloud covers the tabernacle

nacle, putting over it a cover, as the
Lord had commanded.

18 And he put the testimony in the ark,
thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle
above.

19 And when he had brought the ark
into the tabernacle, he drew the veil be-
fore it to fulfil the commandment of the
Lord.

20 And he set the table in the taber-
nacle of the testintony at the north side
without the veil,

21 Setting there in order the loaves of
proposition, as the Lord had commanded
Moses.

22 He set the candlestick also in the
tabernacle of the testimony over against
the table on the south side,

23 Placing the lamps in order, accord-
ing to the precept of the Lord.

24 He set also the altar of gold under
the roof of the testimony over against
the veil,

26 And burnt upon it the incense of
spices, as the Lord had commanded
Moses.

26 And he put also the hanging in the
entry of the tabernacle of the testi-
mony,

27 And the altar of holocaust of tke
entry of the testimony, offering the holo-

caust, and the sacrifices upon it, as the
Lord had commanded.

28 And he set the laver between the
tabernacle of the testimony and the altar,
filling it with water.

29 And Moses and Aaron, and his sons
washed their hands and feet,

30 When they went into the tabernacle
of the covenant, and went to the altar,
as the Lord had commanded Moses.

31 He set up also the court round about
the tabernacle and the altar, drawing
the hanging in the entry thereof. After
all things were perfected,

32 5 The cloud covered the tabernacle
of the testimony, and the glory of the
Lord filled it.

33 Neither could Moses go into the
tabernacle of the covenant, the cloud
covering all things and the majesty of
the Lord shining, for the cloud had cov-
ered all.

34 If at any time the cloud removed
from the tabernacle, the children of
Israel went forward by their troops :

36 If it hung over, they remained in the
same place.

36 For the cloud of the Lord hung
over the tabernacle by day, and a fire by
night, in the sight of all the children of
Israel throughout all their mansions.

THE

BOOK OF LEVITICUS.

This Book is calledLEYiTicvs, because it treats of the Offices, Ministries, Rites and Ceremoniet
of the Priests and Levites. The Hebrews call it Vaicra, from the word with which it begins.

CHAPTER 1.

Of holocausts or burnt offerings,
A ND the Lord called Moses, and spoke

jLX to him from the tabernacle of the

testimony, saying : ^*
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and

q Num. 9. 15 ; 3 Kings 8. 10.

Chap, l. Ver. 3. A holocaust, that is, a whole
burnt offering {olokauston), so called, because the
whole victim was consumed with fire ; and given in
such manner to God as wholly to evaporate, as it
were, for his honour and glory : without having any
part of it reserved for the use of man. The other
sacrifices of the Old Testament were either offerings
for sin, or peace offerings : and these latter again
were either offered in thanksgiving for blessings

thou shalt say to them: The man among
you that shall offer to the Lord a sacri-
fice of the cattle, that is, offering victims
of oxen and sheep,

3 * If his offering be a holocaust, and of
the herd, he shall offer a male without

r B. C. 1445. — a Ex. 29. 10.

graces. So that sacrifices were then offered to God
for four different ends or intentions, answerable to
the different obligations which man has to God : l.
By way of adoration, homage, praise and glory due
to his divine majesty. 2. By way of thanksgiving for
all benefits received from him. 3. By way of confess-
ing and craving pardon for sins. 4. By way of prayer
and petition for grace and relief in all necessities.
In the New Law we have but one sacrifice, viz., that

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received! or by way of jtnt^t&r tor new favours or I of tbe body and blood of Clirist ; but this one sacrt

107

The holocaust or burnt offering LEVITICUS

i)lemish, at the door of the testimony, to
make the Lord favourable to him:

4 And he shall put his hand upon the
head of the victim, and it shall be ac-
ceptable, and help to its expiation.

6 And he shall immolate the calf before
the Lord, and the priests the sons of
Aaron shall ofifer the blood thereof, pour-
ing it round about the altar, which is
before the door of the tabernacle.

6 And when they have flayed the victim,
they shall cut the joints into pieces,

7 And shall put fire on the altar, having
before laid in order a pile of wood:

8 And they shall lay the parts that are
cut out in order thereupon, to wit, the
head, and all things that cleave to the liver,

9 The entrails and feet being washed
with water : and the priest shall burn
them upon the altar for a holocaust, and
a sweet savour to the Lord.

10 And if the offering be of the flocks,
a holocaust of sheep or of goats, he shall
offer a male without blemish :

11 And he shall immolate it at the side
of the altar that looketh to the north,
before the Lord : but the sons of Aaron
shall pour the blood thereof upon the
altar round about :

12 And they shall divide the joints, the
head, and all that cleave to the Hver :
and shall lay them upon the wood, under
^hich the fire is to be put :

13 But the entrails and the feet they
shall wash with water. And the priest
shall offer it all and burn it all upon the
altar for a holocaust, and most sweet
savour to the Lord.

14 But if the oblation of a holocaust to
the Lord be of birds, of turtles, or of
young pigeons,

15 The priest shall offer it at the altar :
and twisting back the neck, and breaking
the place of the wound, he shall make
the blood run down upon the brim of the
altar.

16 But the crop of the throat, and the
feathers he shall cast beside the altar at
the east side, in the place where the
ashes are wont to be poured out,

Bee oi the New Testament perfectly answers all
these four ends ; and both priest and people, as often
as it is celebrated, ought to join in offering it up for
these four ends.

Chap. 2. Ver. 3. Holy of holies, that is, most
holy, as being dedicated to God, and set aside by his
ordinance tor the use of his priests.

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Offerings of flour

17 And he dhall break tnc pinions there-
of, and shall not cut, nor divide it with a
knife, and shall burn it upon the altar,
putting fire under the wood. It is a
holocaust and oblation of most sweet
savour to the Lord.

CHAPTER 2.

Of offerings ofji our, and Jirstfruits.

WHEN any one shall offer an oblation
of sacrifice to the Lord, his offering
shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour
oil upon it, and put frankincense,

2 And shall bring it to the sons of Aaron
the priests : and one of them shall take
a handful of the flour and oil, and all the
frankincense, and shall put it a memorial
upon the altar for a most sweet savour
to the Lord.

3 " And the remnant of the sacrifice
shall be Aaron's, and his sons', holy of
hoUes of the offerings of the Lord.

4 But when thou offerest a sacrifice
baked in the oven of flour, to wit, loaves
without leaven, tempered with oil, and
unleavened wafers, anointed with oil :

5 If thy oblation be from the fryingpan,
of flour tempered with oil, and without
leaven,

6 Thou shalt divide it into little pieces,
and shalt pour oil upon it.

7 And if the sacrifice be from the grid-
iron, in like manner the flour shall be
tempered with oil :

8 And when thou offerest it to the Lord,
thou shalt deliver it to the hands of the
priest.

9 And when he hath offered it, he shall
take a memorial out of the sacrifice, and
burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour
to the Lord.

10 And whatsoever is left, shall be
Aaron's, and his sons', holy of hohes of
the offerings of the Lord.

11 Every oblation that is offered to the
Lord shall be made without leaven,
neither shall any leaven or honey be
burnt in the sacrifice to the Lord.

12 You shall offer only the firstfruits of
them and gifts : but they shall not be put
upon the altar, for a savour of sweetness.

u Eccli. 7. 34.

Ver. 11. Without 1eaven,or honey. No Zeavcn nor
honey was to be used in the sacrifice offered to God :
to signify that we are to exclude from the pure wor-
ship of the gospel, all double dealing and affectiOD
to caroal pleasures.

Peace offerings

LEVITICUS

Peace offerings

13 Wiiatsoever sacrifice thou offerest,
*' thou shalt season it with salt, neither
shalt thou take away the salt of the
covenant of thy God from thy sacrifice.
In all thy oblations thou shalt offer salt.

14 But if thou offer a gift of the first-
fruits of thy com to the Lord, of the ears
yet green, thou shalt dry it at the fire, and
break it small like meal, and so shalt thou
offer thy firstfruits to the Lord,

15 Pouring oil upon it and putting on
frankincense, because it is the oblation
of the Lord.

16 Whereof the priest shall burn for a
memorial of the gift, part of the corn
broken small and of the oil, and all the
frankincense.

CHAPTER 3.

Of peace offerings,
AND if his oblation be a sacrifice of
J\. peace offerings, and he will offer of
the herd, whether male or female, he
shall offer them without blemish before
the Lord.

2 And he shall lay his hand upon the
head of his victim, which shall be slain in
the entry of the tabernacle of the testi-
mony, and the sons of Aaron the priests
shall pour the blood round about upon
the altar.

3 And they shall offer of the sacrifice
of peace offerings, for an oblation to the
Lord, ^ the fat that covereth the entrails,
and all the fat that is within.

4 The two kidneys with the fat where-
with tne flanks are covered, and the caul
of the liver with the two little kidneys.

5 And they shall burn them upon the
altar, for a holocaust, putting fire under
the wood : for an oblation of most sweet
savour to the Lord.

6 But if his oblation and the sacrifice
of peace offering be of the flock, whether
he offer male or female, they shall be
without blemish.

7 If he offer a lamb before the Lord,

8 He shall put his hand upon the head

V Mark 9. 48.

Ver. 13. Salt. In every sacrifice salt was to be
used, which is an emblem of tvisdom and discretion,
without which none of our performances are agree-
able to God.

Chap. 3. Ver. 1. Peace offerings. Peace, in the
scripture language, signifies happiness, welfare or
prosperity ; in a word, all kind of blessings, — Such
sacrifices, therefore, as were offered either on occa-
sion of blessings received, or to obtain new favours,
were called pacific or peace offerings. In these,
soma part of the vletliu was consumed witb fiLre on

of his victim ! and it shall be slain in the
entry of the tabernacle of the testimony:
and the sons of Aaron shall pour the
blood thereof round about upon the
altar.

9 And they shall offer of the victim of
peace offerings a sacrifice to the Lord:
the fat and the whole rump,

10 With the kidneys, and the fat that
covereth the belly and all the vitals and
both the little kidneys, with the fat that
is about the flanks, and the caul of th©
liver with the little kidneys.

11 And the priest shall burn them upon
the altar, for the food of the fire, and of
the oblation of the Lord.

12 If his offering be a goat, and he offer
it to the Lord,

13 He shall put his hand upon the head
thereof : and shall immolate it in the en-
try of the tabernacle of the testimony.
And the sons of Aaron shall pom* the
blood thereof round about upon the altar.

14 And they shall take of it for the food
of the Lord's fire, the fat that covereth
the belly, and that covereth all the vital
parts :

15 The two little kidneys with the caul
that is upon them which is by the flanks,
and the fat of the liver with the little
kidneys :

16 And the priest shall bum them upon
the altar, for the food of the fire, and of
a most sweet savour. All the fat shall
be the Lord's.

17 By a perpetual law for your genera-
tions, and in all your habitations : neither
blood nor fat shall you eat at alL

CHAPTER 4.

Cf offerings for sins of ignorance.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
- ing:
2 Say to the children of Israel : The soul
that sinneth through ignorance, and doth
any thing concerning any of the com-
mandments of the Lord, which he com-
manded not to be done :

X Ex. 29. 13.

the altar of God; other parts were eaten by the
priests and by the persons for whom the sacrifice
was offered.

Ver. 17. Fat. It is meant of the fat, which by the
prescription of the law was to be offered on God's
altar ; not of the fat of meat, such as we commonly
eat.

Chap. 4. Ver. 2. Ignorance. To be ignorant ol
what we are bound to know is sinful ; and for such
culpable ignorance, these sacrifices, prescribed io
this and tbe following chapter, were appointed.

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Sin offerings

LEVITICUS

Sin offerings

3 If the priest that is anointed shall sin,
making the people to offend, he shall
offer to the Lord for his sin a calf with-
out blemish.

4 And he shall bring it to the door of
the testimony before the Loid, and shall
put his hand upon the head thereof, and
shall sacrifice it to the Lord.

6 He shall take also of the blood of the
calf, and carry it into the tabernacle of
the testimony.

6 And having dipped his finger in the
blood, he shall sprinkle with it seven
times before the Lord, before the veil of
the sanctuary.

7 And he shall put some of the same
blood upon the horns of the altar of the
sweet incense most acceptable to the
Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the
testimony. And he shall pour all the
rest of the blood at the foot of the altar
of holocaust in the entry of the taber-
nacle.

8 And he shall take off the fat of the
calf for the sin offering, as well that
which covereth the entrails, as all the
inwards :

9 The two little kidneys, and the caul
that is upon them, which is by the flanks,
and the fat of the liver with the little
kidneys,

10 As it is taken off from the calf of the
sacrifice of peace offerings, and he shall
burn them upon the altar of holocaust.

11 But the skin and all the flesh with
the head and the feet and the bowels and
the dung,

12 And the rest of the body he shall
carry forth without the camp into a clean
place where the ashes are wont to be
poured out, and he shall burn them upon
a pile of wood, they shall be burnt in the
place where the ashes are poured out.

13 And if all the multitude of Israel
shall be ignorant, and through ignorance
shall do that which is against the com-
mandment of the Lord,

14 And afterwards shall understand
their sin, they shall offer for their sin a
calf, and shall bring it to the door of the
labernacle.

15 And the ancients of the people shall
put their hands upon the head thereof
before the Lord. And the calf being im-
molated in the sight of the Lord,

16 The priest that is anointed shall
carry of the blood into the tabernacle of
the testimony.

17 And shall dip his finger in it .nd
sprinkle it seven times before the veil.

18 And he shall put of the same blood
on the horns of the altar that is before
the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testi-
mony : and the rest of the blood he shall
pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust,
which is at the door of the tabernacle of
the testimony.

19 And all the fat thereof he shall take
off, and shall burn it upon the altar :

20 Doing so with this calf, as he did
also with that before : and the priest
praying for them, the Lord will be mer-
ciful unto them.

21 But the calf itself he shall carry
forth without the camp, and shall burn
it as he did the former calf: because it is
for the sin of the multitude.

22 If a prince shall sin, and through
ignorance do any one of the things that
the law of the Lord forbiddeth,

23 And afterwards shall come to know
his sin, he shall offer a buck goat with-
out blemish, a sacrifice to the Lord.

24 And he shall put his hand upon
the head thereof: and when he hath
immolated it in the place where the holo-
caust is wont to be slain before the Lord,
because it is for sin,

25 The priest shall dip his finger in the
blood of the victim for sin, touching
therewith the horns of the altar of holo-
caust, and pouring out the rest at the
foot thereof.

26 But the fat he shall burn upon it,
as is wont to be done with the victims
of peace offerings : and the priest shall
pray for him, and for his sin, and it
shall be forgiven him.

27 And if any one of the people of the
land shall sin through ignorance, doing
any of those things that by the law of
the Lord are forbidden, and offending,

28 And shall come to know his sin, he
shall offer a she goat without blemish.

29 And he shall put his hand upon the
head of the victim that is for sin, and
shall immolate it in the place of the holo-
caust.

30 And the priest shall take of the
blood with his finger, and shall touch the

Ver. 0. The blood. As the figure of the blood of Christ shed for the remission of our sius»and carried

by him into the sanctuary of heaven.

Other sacrifices for sins

LEVITICUS

Other sacrifices for sins

horns of the altar of holocaust, and shall
pour out the rest at the foot thereof.

31 But taking off all the fat, as is wont
to be taken away of the victims of peace
offerings, he shall burn it upon the altar,
for a sweet savour to the Lord : and he
shall pray for him, and it shall be for-
given him.

32 But if he offer of the flock a victim
for his sin, to wit, an ewe without blem-
ish:

33 He shall put his hand upon the head
thereof, and shall immolate it in the
place where the victims of holocausts are
wont to be slain.

34 And the priest shall take of the
blood thereof with his finger, and shall
touch the horns of the altar of holocaust,
and the rest he shall pour out at the foot
thereof.

35 All the fat also he shall take off, as
the fat of the ram that is offered for
peace offerings is wont to be taken away :
and shall burn it upon the altar, for a
burnt sacrifice of the Lord : and he shall
pray for him and for his sin, and it shall
be forgiven him.

CHAPTER 5.

Of other sacrifices for sins.

IF any one sin, and hear the voice of
one swearing, and is a witness either
because he himself hath seen, or is privy
to it : if he do not utter it, he shall bear
his iniquity.

2 Whosoever toucheth any unclean
thing, either that which hath been killed
by a beast, or died of itself, or any other
creeping thing: and forgetteth his un-
deanness, he is guilty, and hath offended :

3 And if he touch any thing of the un-
cleanness of man, according to any un-
cleanness wherewith he is yont to be
defiled, and having forgotten it, come
afterwards to know it, he shall be guilty
of an offence.

4 The person that sweareth, and utter-
eth with his lips, that he would do either
evil or good, and bindeth the same with
an oath, and his word, and having for-
g":)tten it afterwards understandeth his
offence,

5 Let him do penance for his sin,

6 And offer of the flocks an ewe lamb,
or a she goat, and the priest shall pray
for him and for his sin :

7 But if he be not able to offer a beact,
let him offer two turtles, " or two younnj
pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the
other for a holocaust,

8 And he shall give them to the priest:
who shall offer the first for sin, and twist
back the head of it to the little pinions,
so that it stick to the neck, and be not
altogether broken off.

9 And of its blood he shall sprinkle the
side of the altar, and whatsoever is left,
he shall let it drop at the bottom there-
of, because it is for sin.

10 And the other he shall burn for a
holocaust, as is wont to be done : and
the priest shall pray for him, and for his
sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

11 And if his hand be not able to offer
two turtles, or two young pigeons, he
shall offer for his sin the tenth part of
an ephi of flour. He shall not put oil
upon it, nor put any frankincense there-
on, because it is for sin :

12 And he shall deliver it to the priest :
who shall take a handful thereof, and
shall burn it upon the altar for a memo-
rial of him that offered it :

13 Praying for him and making atone-
ment : but the part that is left, he him-
self shall have for a gift.

14 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

15 If any one shall sin through mistake,
transgressing the ceremonies in those
things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he
shall offer for his offence a ram without
blemish out of the flocks, that may be
bought for two sides, according to the
weight of the sanctuary :

16 And he shall make good the damage
itself which he hath done, and shall add
the fifth part besides, delivering it to the
priest, who shall pray for him, offering
the ram, and it shall be forgiven him.

17 If any one sin through ignorance,
and do one of those things which by the
law of the Lord are forbidden, and being
guilty of sin, understand his iniquity,

18 He shall offer of the flocks a ram
without blemish to the priest, according
to the measure and estimation of the
sin : and the priest shall pray for him,
because he did it ignorantly : and it
shall be forgiven him,

19 Because by mistake he trespassed
against the Lord.

a Infra 12. 8 : Luke 2. 24.

Ill

The law of holocaust

LEVITICUS The sacrifices of the priest

CHAPTER 6.

Oblation for sins of injustice: ordinances concern-
ing the holocausts and the perpetual fire: the
sacrifices of the priests, and the sin offerings.

THE Lord spoke to Moses, saying;
2 Whosoever shall sin, and de-
spising the Lord, shall deny to his neigh-
bour the thing delivered to his keeping,
which was committed to his trust; or
shall by force extort any thing, or com-
mit oppression;

3 Or shall find a thing lost, and deny-
ing it, shall also swear falsely, or shall
do any other of the many things, where-
in men are wont to sin :

4 Being convicted of the offence, he
shall restore

5 All that he would have gotten by
fraud, in the principal, « and the fifth
part besides to the owner, whom he
wronged.

6 Moreover for his sin he shall offer a
ram without blemish out of the flock,
and shall give it to the priest, according
to the estimation and measure of the
offence :

7 And he shall pray for him before the
Lord, and he shall have forgiveness for
every thing in doing of which he hath
sinned.

8 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

9 Command Aaron and his sons: This
is the law of a holocaust: It shall be
burnt upon the altar, all night until
morning: the fire shall be of the same
altar.

10 The priest shall be vested with the
tunick and the - linen breeches, and he
shall take up the ashes of that which the
devouring fire hath burnt, and putting
them beside the altar.

11 Shall put off his former vestments,
and being clothed with others, shall
carry them forth without the camp, and
shall cause them to be consumed to dust
in a very clean place,

12 And the fire on the altar shall always
bum, and the priest shall feed it, putting
wood on it every day in the morning,
and laying on the holocaust, shall burn
thereupon the fat of the peace offerings.

13 This is the perpetual fire which shall
never go out on the altar.

14 This is the law of the sacrifice and
libations, which the children of Aaron
shall offer before the Lord, and before
the altar.

15 The priest shall take a handful of
the flour that is tempered with oil, and
all the frankincense that is put upon the
flour: and he shall burn it on the altar
for a memorial of most sweet odour to
the Lordt

16 And the part of the flour that is left,
Aaron and his sons shall eat, without
leaven: and he shall eat it in the holy
place of the court of the tabernacle.

17 And therefore it shall not be leav-
ened, because part thereof is offered for
the burnt sacrifice of the Lord. It shall
be most holy, as that which is offered
for sin and for trespass.

18 The males only of the race of Aaron
shall eat it. It shall be an ordinance
everlasting in your generations concern-
ing the sacrifices of the Lord: Every
one that toucheth them shall be sancti-
fied.

19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

20 This is the oblation of Aaron, and of
his sons, which they must offer to the
Lord, in the day of their anointing:
They shall offer the tenth part of an
ephi of flour for a perpetual sacrifice,
half of it in the morning, and half of it
in the evening:

21 It shall be tempered with oil, and
shall be fried in a fryingpan.

22 And the priest that rightfully suc-
ceedeth his father, shall offer it hot, for
a most sweet odour to the Lord, and it
shall be wholly burnt on the altar.

23 For every sacrifice of the priest shall
be consumed with fire, neither shall any
man eat thereof.

24 And the Lord spoke to Moses saying :

25 Say to Aaron and his sons: This is
the law of the victim for sin: in the
place where the holocaust is offered, it
shall be immolated before the Lord. It
is holy of holies.

26 The priest that offereth it, shall eat
it in a holy place, in the court of the
tabernacle.

27 whatsoever shall . touch the flesh

c Num. 5. 7.

Chap. 6. Ver. 13. The perpetual fire. This fire the heavenly fire of divine love, which ought to be
came from heaven, (infra chap. 9. 24.) and was always burning in the heart of a Christian,
always kept burning on the altar, as a figure of [

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The sacrifice for tresspass

LEVITICUS No fat or blood to be eaten

thereof, shall be aanctified. If a gar-
ment be sprinkled with the blood there-
of, it shall be washed in a holy place.

28 And the earthen vessel, wherein it
was sodden, shall be broken, but if the
vessel be of brass, it shall be scoured, and
washed with water.

29 Every male of the priestly race shall
eat of the flesh thereof, because it is holy
of holies.

30 For the victim that is slain for sin, ^
the blood of which is carried into the
tabernacle of the testimony to make
atonement in the sanctuary, shall not be
eaten, but shall be burnt with fire.

CHAPTER 7.

O/ sacrifices for trespasses and thanks offerings.
No fat nor blood is to he eaten,

THIS also is the law of the sacrifice
for a trespass, it is most holy :

2 Therefore where the holocaust is im-
molated, the victim also for a trespass
shall be slain : the blood thereof shall be
poured round about the altar.

3 They shall offer thereof the rump and
the fat that covereth the entrails :

4 The two little kidneys, and the fat
which is by the flanks, and the caul of
the liver with the little kidneys.

5 And the priest shall b^irn them upon
the altar : it is the burnt sacrifice of the
Lord for a trespasSo

6 Every male of the priestly race, shall
eat this flesh in a holy place, because it
is most holy.

7 As the sacrifice for sin is offered, so is
also that for a trespass : the same shall
be the law of both these sacrifices: it
shall belong to the priest that offereth it.

8 The priest that offereth the victim of
holocaust, shall have the skin thereof.

9 And every sacrifice of flour that is
baked in the oven, and whatsoever is
dressed on the gridiron, or in the frying-
pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it :

10 Whether they be tempered with oil,
or dry, all the sons of Aaron shall have
one as much as another.

11 This is the law of the sacrifice of
peace offerings that is offered to the
Lord.

12 If the oblation be for thanksgiving,
they shall offer loaves without leaven
tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers

-,' Supra 4 5; Heb. 13.11.

Chap. 7. Vei. 1. Trespass. Trespasses, for
wtiicli these ofl^eriueK ' /ere to be made, were iesser

ft IIB

anointed with oil, and fine flour fried, and
cakes tempered and mingled with oil :

13 Moreover loaves of leavened bread
with the sacrifice of thanks, which is
offered for peace offerings :

14 Of which one shall be offered to the
Lord for firstfruits, and shall be the
priest's that shall pour out the blood of
the victim.

15 And the flesh of it shall be eaten the
same day, neither shall any of it remain
until the morning.

16 If any man by vow, or of his own
accord offer a sacrifice, it shall in like
manner be eaten the same day : and if
any of it remain until the morrow, it is
lawful to eat it :

17 But whatsoever shall be found on
the third day shall be consumed with
fire.

18 If any man eat of the flesh of the
victim of peace offerings on the third
day, the oblation shall be of no effect,
neither shall it profit the offerer : yea
rather whatsoever soul shall defile itself
with such meat, shall be guilty of trans-
gression.

19 The flesh that hath touched any un-
clean thing, shall not be eaten, but shall
be burnt with fire: he that is clean shall
eat of it.

20 If any one that is defiled shall eat of
the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offer-
ings, which is offered to the Lord, he
shall be cut off from his people.

21 And he that hath touched the un-
cleanness of man, or of beast, or of any
thing that can defile, and shall eat of
such kind of flesh, shall be cut off from
his people.

22 And the Lord spoke to Mosen, saying:

23 Say to the children of Israeli The fat
of a sheep, and of an ox, and of a goat
you shall not eat.

24 The fat of a carcass that hath died
of itself, and of a beast that was caught
by another beast, you shall have for
divers uses.

25 If any man eat the fat that should be
offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord,
he shall perish out of his people.

26 Moreover you shall not eat the blood
of any creature whatsoever, whether of
birds or beasts.

offences than tliose tor v/hioU tiie sin ofieiiugs were
appointecL

The priest's portion

LEVITICUS Aaron and his sons consecrated

27 Every one that eateth blood, shall
perish from among the people.

28 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

29 Speak to the children of Israel, say-
ing : He that offereth a victim of peace
offerings to the Lord, let him offer
therewith a sacrifice also, that is, the
libations thereof.

30 He shall hold in his hands the fat of
the victim, and the breast : and when he
hath offered and consecrated both to the
Lord, he shall deliver them to the priest,

31 Who shall burn the fat upon the
altar, but the breast shall be Aaron's and
his sons'.

32 The right shoulder also of the vic-
tims of peace offerings shall fall to the
priest for firstfruits.

33 He among the sons of Aaron, that
offereth the blood, and the fat, he shall
have the right shoulder also for his por-
tion.

34 For the breast that is elevated and
the shoulder that is separated I have
taken of the children of Israel, from off
their victims of peace offerings, and
have given them to Aaron the priest,
and to his sons, by a law for ever, from
all the people of Israel.

35 This is the anointing of Aaron and
his sons, in the ceremonies of the Lord,
in the day when Moses offered them,
that they might do the office of priest-
hood,

36 And the things that the Lord com-
manded to be given them by the children
of Israel, by a perpetual observance in
their generations.

37 This is the law of holocaust, and of
the sacrifice for sin, and for trespass, and
for consecration, and the victims of
peace offerings :

38 Which the Lord appointed to Moses
in mount Sinai, when he commanded
the children of Israel, that they should
offer their oblations to the Lord in the
desert of Sinai.

CHAPTER 8.
Moses consecrnteth Aaron and his sons.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
J\ ing:

2 ^Take Aaron with his sons, their
vestments, and the oil of unction, a calf
for sin, two rams, a basket with unleav-
ened bread.

3 And thou shalt gather together all
the congregation to the door of the tab-
ernacle.

4 And Moses did as the Lord had com-
manded. And all the multitude being
gathered together before the door of
the tabernacle,

5 He said: This is the word that the
Lord hath commanded to be done.

6 And immediately he offered Aaron
and his sons : and when he had washed
them,

7 He vested the high priest with the
strait linen garment, girding him with
the girdle, and putting on him the violet
tunick, and over it he put the ephod,

8 And binding it with the girdle, he
fitted it to the rational, on which was
Doctrine and Truth.

9 He put also the mitre upon his head :
and upon the mitre over the forehead,
he put the plate of gold, consecrated
with sanctification, as the Lord had com-
manded him.

10 He took also the oil of unction,
with which he anointed the tabernacle,
with all the furniture thereof.

11 And when he had sanctified and
sprinkled the altar seven times, he an-
ointed it, and all the vessels thereof,
and the laver with the foot thereof, he
sanctified with the oil.

12 '^And he poured it upon Aaron's
head, and he anointed and consecrated
him:

13 And after he had offered his sons,
he vested them with linen tunicks, and
girded them with girdles, and put mitres
on them as the Lord had commanded.

14 He offered also the calf for sin: and
when Aaron and his sons had put their
hands upon the head thereof,

15 He immolated it: and took the
blood, and dipping his finger in it, he
touched the horns of the altar round
about. Which being expiated, and sanc-
tified, he poured the rest of the blood
at the bottom thereof.

16 But the fat that was upon the en-
trails, and the caul of the liver, and the
two little kidneys, with their fat, he
burnt upon the altar :

17 And the calf with the skin, and the
flesh and the dung, he burnt without the
camp, as the Lord had commanded.

g Ex. 29. 3&» and 40c 13.

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A EccU. 4& 18»

The sacrifices of the consecration LEVITICUS They remain in the tabernacle

18 He offered also a ram for a holo-
caust: and when Aaron and his sons had
put their hands upon its head,

19 He immolated it, and poured the
blood thereof round about upon the
altar.

20 And cutting the ram into pieces,
the head thereof, and the joints, and
the fat he burnt in the fire,

21 Having first washed the entrails, and
the feet, and the whole ram together he
burnt upon the altar, because it was
a holocaust of most sweet odour to the
Lord, as he had commanded him.

22 He offered also the second ram, in
the consecration of priests : and Aaron,
and his sons put their hands upon the
head thereof:

23 And when Moses had immolated it,
he took of the blood thereof, and touched
the tip of Aaron's right ear, and the
thumb of his right hand, and in like
manner also the great toe of his right
foot,

24 He offered also thie sons of Aaron:
and when with the blood of the ram that
was immolated, he had touched the tip
of the right ear of every one of them,
and the thumbs of their right hands, and
the great toes of their right feet, the
rest he poured on the altar round about:

25 But the fat, and the rump, and all
the fat that covereth the entrails, and
the caul of the liver, and the two kid-
neys with their fat, and with the right
shoulder, he separated.

26 And taking out of the basket of un-
leavened bread, which was before the
Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a cake
tempered with oil and a wafer, he put
them, upon the fat, and the right shoul-
der,

27 Delivering all to Aaron, and to his
Bons: who having hfted them up before
the Lord,

28 He took them again from their hands,
and burnt them upon the altar of holo-
caust, because it was the oblation of
consecration, for a sweet odour of sacri-
fice to the Lord.

29 And he took of the ram of consecra-
tion, the breast for his portion, elevating
it before the Lord, as the Lord had com-
manded him.

30 And taking the ointment, and the

% Ex. 2». 32, and 30. 22, and 40. 9. Infra 2A. 9.

blood that was upon the altar, he
sprinkled Aaron, and his vestments, and
his sons, and their vestments with it.

31 And when he had sanctified them in
their vestments, he commanded them,
saying: Boil the flesh before the door of
the tabernacle, and there eat it. Eat
ye also the loaves of consecration, that
are laid in the basket, as the Lord com-
manded me, saying : * Aaron and his son»
shall eat them:

32 And whatsoever shall be left of the
flesh and the loaves, shall be consumed
with fire.

33 And you shall not go out of the door
of the tabernacle for seven days, until
the day wherein the time of your conse-
cration shall be expired. For in seven
days the consecration is finished :

34 As at this present it hath been done,
that the rite of the sacrifice might be
accomplished.

35 Day and night shall you remain in
the tabernacle observing the watches of
the Lord, lest you die : for so it hath
been commanded me.

36 And Aaron and his sons did all things
which the Lord spoke by the hand of
Moses.

CHAPTER 9.

Aaron offereth sacrifice for himself and the people.
Fire cometh from, the Lord upon the altar.

A ND when the eighth day was come,
XX Moses called Aaron and his sons,
and the ancients of Israel, and said to
Aaron : ^

2 Take of the herd a calf for sin, and a
ram for a holocaust, both without blem-
ish, and offer them before the Lord.

3 And to the children of Israel thou
shalt say: Take ye a he goat for sin,
and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year
old, and without blemish for a holocaust,

4 Also a bullock and a ram for peaco
offerings : and immolate them before the
Lord, offering for the sacrifice of overy
one of them flour tempered with oil;
for to day the Lord will appear to you.

5 They brought therefore all things that
Moses had commanded before the door
of the tabernacle : where when all the
multitude stood,

6 Moses said : This is the word, which
the Lord hath commanded : do it, and his
glory will appear to you.

115

3 Ex. 29. 1.

Aaron offers sacrifice

LEVITICUS

Nadah and Abiu slain

7 And he said to Aaron : Approach to
the altar, and offer sacrifice for thy sin:
offer the holocaust, and pray for thyself
and for the people : and when thou hast
slain the people's victim, pray for them,
as the Lord hath commanded.

8 And forthwith Aaron, approaching to
the altar, immolated the calf for his sin :

9 And his sons brought him the blood
of it : and he dipped his finger therein,
and touched the horns of the altar, and
poured the rest at the foot thereof.

10 And the fat, and the little kidneys,
and the caul of the liver, which are for
sin, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord
had commanded Moses :

11 But the flesh and skins thereof he
burnt with fire without the camp.

12 He immolated also the victim of
holocaust : and his sons brought him the
blood thereof, which he poured round
about on the altar.

13 And the victim being cut into pieces,
they brought to him the head and all the
members, all which he burnt with fire
upon the altar,

14 Having first washed the entrails and
the feet with water.

15 Then offering for the sin of the peo-
ple, he slew the he goat : and expiating
the altar^

16 He offered the holocaust:

17 Adding in the sacrifice the libations,
which are offered withal, and burning
them upon the altar, besides the cere-
monies of the morning holocaust.

18 He immolated also the bullock and
the ram, the peace offerings of the peo-
ple : and his sons brought him the blood,
which he poured upon the altar round
about.

19 The fat also of the bullock, and the
rump of the ram, and the two little kid-
neys, with their fat, and the caul of the
liver,

20 They put upon the breasts. And
after the fat was burnt upon the altar,

21 Aaron separated their breasts, and
the light shoulders, elevating them be-
fore the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

22 And stretching forth his hands to
the people, he blessed them. And so
the victims for sin, and the holocausts,
and the peace offerings being finished, he
came down.

k 2 Mac. 2. 10.

23 And Moses and Aaron went into the
tabernacle of the testimony, and after'
wards came forth and blessed the people.
^ And the glory of the Lord appeared to
all the multitude:

24 And behold a fire, coming forth from
the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and J
the fat that was upon the altar : which 1
when the multitude saw, they praised
the Lord, falUng on their faces.

CHAPTER 10.

Nadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt
by fire. Priests are forbidden to drink wine,
when they enter into the tabernacle. The law of
eating the holy things.

A ND Nadab and Abiu, the sons of

JLA_ Aaron, taking their censers, put fire

therein, and incense on it, offering before

the Lord strange fire: which was not

commanded them. *

2 And fire coming out from the Lord j
destroyed them, and they died before
the Lord.

3 And Moses said to Aaron : This is
what the Lord hath spoken: I will be
sanctified in thenl that approach to me,
and I will be glorified in the sight of all
the people. And when Aaron heard this,
he held his peace.

4 And Moses called Misael and Elisa-
phan, the sons of Oziel, the uncle of
Aaron, and said to them: Go and take
away your brethren from before the
sanctuary, and carry them without the
camp.

6 And they went forthwith and took
them as they lay, vested with linen tu-
nicks, and cast them forth, as had been
commanded them.

6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to
Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons: Uncover
not your heads, and rend not your gar-
ments, lest perhaps you die, and indig-
nation come upon all the congregation.
Let your brethren, and all the house of
Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord
has kindled:

7 But you shall not go out of the door
of the tabernacle, otherwise you shall
perish, for the oil of the holy unction is
on you. And they did all things accord-
ing to the precept of Moses.

8 The Lord a,lso said to Aaron:

9 You shall not drink wine nor any
thing that may make drunk, thou nor
thy sons, when you enter into the taber-

I Num. 3. 4, and 26. 61 ; 1 Par. 24. 2.

116

Law of eating the holy things LEVITICUS Clean and unclean animals

nacle of the testimony, lest you die :
because it is an everlasting precept
♦through your generations :

10 And that you may have knowledge
to discern between holy and unholy, be-
tween unclean and clean :

11 And may teach the children of Israel
all my ordinances which the Lord hath
spoken to them by the hand of Moses.

12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to
Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were
left: Take the sacrifice that is remain-
ing of the oblation of the Lord, and eat
it without leaven beside the altar, be-
cause it is holy of holies.

13 And you shall eat it in a holy place :
which is given to thee and thy sons of
the oblations of the Lord, as it hath been
commanded me.

14 The breast also that is offered, and
the shoulder that is separated, you shall
eat in a most clean place, thou and thy
eons, and thy daughters with thee. For
they are set aside for thee and thy chil-
dren, of the victims of peace offerings of
the children of Israel:

15 Because they have elevated before
the Lord the shoulder and the breast,
and the fat that is burnt on the altar,
and they belong to thee and to thy sons
by a perpetual law, as the Lord hath
commanded.

16 "^ While these things were a doing,
when Moses sought for the buck goat, that
had been offered for sin, he found it
burnt : and being angry with Eleazar
and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that
were left, he said :

17 Why did you not eat in the holy
place the sacrifice for sin, which is most
holy, and given to you, that you may
bear the iniquity of the people, and may
pray for them in the sight of the Lord,

18 Especially whereas none of the blood
thereof hath been carried within the

m 2 Mac. 2. 11.

Chap. 11. Ver. 2. Animals which y&u are to
eat, &c. The prohibition of so many kinds of beasts,
birds, and fishes, in tlie law, was ordered, 1st, to
exercise the people in obedience, and temperance ;
2ndly, to restrain them from the vices of which these
animals were symbols; 3rdly, because the things
bere forbidden were for the most part unwholesome,
and not proper to be eaten ; 4thly, that the people of
God, by being obliged to abstain from things corpo-
rally unclean^ might be trained up to seek a spiritual
cleanness*

Ver. 3, Hoof divided, and cheweth the end. The
dividmg of the hoof ana chewing of the cud, signify
discretioQ between good and eviUaDd medUattiig oo

holy places, and you ought to have eaten
it in the sanctuary, as was commanded
me?

19 Aaron answered : This day hath
been offered the victim for sin, and the
holocaust before the Lord : and to me
what thou seest has happened : how
could I eat it, or please the Lord in the
ceremonies, having a sorrowful heart?

20 Which when Moses had heard he
was satisfied.

CHAPTER 11.
The distinction of clean and unclean animals.
AND the Lord spoke to Moses and
jLJL- Aaron, saying :

2 Say to the children of Israel : ° These
are the animals which you are to eat of
all the living things of the earth.

3 Whatsoever hath the hoof divided,
and cheweth the cud among the beasts,
you shall eat.

4 But whatsoever cheweth indeed the
cud, and hath a hoof, but divideth it not,
as the camel, and others, that you shall
not eat, but shall reckon it among the
unclean.

5 The cherogrillus which cheweth the
cud, but divideth not the hoof, is unclean.

6 The hare also : for that too cheweth
the cud, but divideth not the hoof.

7 P And the swine, which, though it di-
videth the hoof, cheweth not the cud.

8 The flesh of these you shall not eat,
nor shall you touch their carcasses, be-
cause they are unclean to you.

9 These are the things that breed in the
waters, and which it is lawful to eat. All
that hath fins, and scales, as well in the
sea, as in the rivers, and the pools, you
shall eat.

10 But whatsoever hath not fins and
scales, of those things that move and
live in the waters, shall be an abomina-
tion to you,

11 And detestable : their flesh you shall

o Deut. 14. 3,— p 2 Mac. f>. 18.

the law of God ; and where either of these ic want,
ing a man is unclean. In like manner fishes were
reputed unclean that had not fins and scales : that
is, souls that did not raise themselves up by prayer
and cover themselves with the scales of virtues.

Ver. 5. The cherogrillus. Some suppose it to be
the rabbit, others the hedgehog. St. Jerome inti.
mates that it is another kind of animal common in
Palestine, which lives in the holes of rocks or in the
earth. "We choose bere, as also in the names of sev-
eral other creatures that follow, (which are little
known in this part ol the world.) to keep the Greek
or Latin names.

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Clean and unclean birds

LEVITICUS Creeping things are unclean

not eat, and their carcasses you shall
avoid.

12 All that have not fins and scales, in
the waters, shall be unclean.

13 Of birds these are they which you
must not eat, and which are to be
avoided by you : The eagle, and the
griffon, and the osprey,

14 And the kite, and the vulture, ac-
cording to their kind,

15 And all that is of the raven kind,
according to their likeness.

16 The ostrich, and the owl, and the
larus, and the hawk according to its
kind.

17 The screech owl, and the cormorant,
and the ibis,

18 And the swan, and the bittern, and
the porphyrion,

19 The heron, and the charadrion ac-
cording to its kind, the houp also, and
the bat.

20 Of things that fly, whatsoever goeth
upon four feet, shall be abominable to
you.

21 But whatsoever walketh upon four
feet, but hath the legs behind longer,
wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth,

22 That you shall eat, as the bruchus in
its kind, the attacus, and ophlomachus,
and the locust, every one according to
their kind.

23 But of flying things whatsoever hath
four feet only, shall be an abomination
to you:

24 And whosoever shall touch the car-
casses of them, shall be defiled, and shall
be unclean until the evening:

25 And if it be necessary that he carry
any of these things when they are dead,
he shall wash his clothes, and shall be
unclean until the sun set.

26 Every beast that hath a hoof, but
divideth it not, nor cheweth the cud,
shall be unclean: and he that toucheth
it, shall be defiled.

27 That which walketh upon hands of
all animals which go on all four, shall be
unclean: he that shall touch their car-
casses shall be defiled until evening.

28 And he that shall carry such car-
casses, shall wash his clothes, and shall
be unclean until evening: because all
these things are unclean to you.

29 These also shall be reckoned among

Ver. 13. The nriffon. Not the monster which the
painters represent, whicb liath do being upon earth;

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unclean things, of all that move upon
the earth, the weasel, and the mouse,
and the crocodile, every one according
to their kind :

30 The shrew, and the chameleon, and
the stello, and the lizard, and the mole :

31 All these are unclean. He that
toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean
until the evening.

32 And upon what thing soever any
of their carcasses shall fall, it shall be
defiled, whether it be a vessel of wood,
or a garment, or skins or haircloths ; or
any thing in which work is done, they
shall be dipped in water, and shall be
unclean until the evening, and so after-
wards shall be clean.

33 But an earthen vessel, into which
any of these shall fall, shall be defiled,
and therefore is to be broken.

34 Any meat which you eat, if water
^rofm such a vessel be poured upon it,
shall be unclean ; and every liquor that
is drunk out of any such vessel, shall be
unclean.

35 And upon whatsoever thing any of
these dead beasts shall fall, it shall be
unclean: whether it be oven, or pots
with feet, they shall be destroyed, and
shall be unclean.

36 But fountains and cisterns, and a^i
gatherings together of waters shall be
clean. He that toucheth their carcasses
shall be defiled.

37 If it fall upon seed com, it shall not
defile it.

38 But if any man pour water upon the
seed, and afterwards it be touched by
the carcasses, it shall be forthwith defiled.

39 If any beast die, of which it is lawful
for you to eat, he that toucheth the car-
cass thereof, shall be unclean until the
evening :

40 And he that eateth or carrieth any
thing thereof, shall wash his clothes, and
shall be unclean until the evening.

41 All that creepeth upon the earth
shall be abominable, neither shall it be
taken for meat.

42 Whatsoever goeth upon the breast
on four feet, or hath many feet, or trail-
eth on the earth, you shall not eat, be-
cause it is abominable.

43 Do not defile your souls, nor touch
aught thereof, lest you be unclean.

but a bird of the eagle iuixu, iaiger uuui ma comr
men.

Purification after childbirth LEVITICUS The law for discovering leprosy

44 For I am the Lord your God: 9 be
boly because I am holy. Defile not your
souls by any creeping thing, that moveth
upon the earth.

45 For I am the Lord, who brought you
out of the land of Egypt, that I might
be your God.

46 You shall be holy, because I am holy.
This is the law of beasts and fowls, and
of every living creature that moveth in
the waters, and creepeth on the earth :

47 That you may know the differences
of the clean, and unclean, and know
what you ought to eat, and what to re-
fuse.

CHAPTER 12.
The purification of women after childbirth.
AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
J\ ing:

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them: *If a woman
having received seed shall bear a man
child, she shall be unclean seven days,
according to the days of the separation
of her flowers.

3 * And on the eighth day the infant
shall be circumcised :

4 But she shall remain three and thirty
days in the blood of her purification.
She shall touch no holy thing, neither
shall she enter into the sanctuary, until
the days of her purification be fulfilled.

5 But if she shall bear a maid child, she
shall be unclean two weeks, according
to the custom of her monthly courses,
and she shall remain in the blood of her
purification sixty-six days.

6 And when the days of her purification
are expired, for a son, or for a daughter,
she shall bring to the door of the taber-
nacle of the testimony, a lamb of a year
old for a holocaust, and a young pigeon
or a turtle for sin, and shall deliver them
to the priest:

7 Who shall offer them before the Lord,
and shall pray for her, and so she shall
be cleansed from the issue of her blood.
This is the law for her that beareth a
man child or a maid child.

8 And if her hand find not sufficiency,
and she is not able to offer a lamb, she
shall take two turtles, ^or two young
pigeons, one for a holocaust, and another
for sin: and the priest shall pray for her,
and so she shall be cleansed.

« 1 Peter 1 1&

(Jotiol.sa^

• Luke 2. 22

CHAPTER 13.

Th6 taw eonceminff leprosy in men, and in ffcvr
m,ents.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses and
. Aaron, saying:

2 The man in whose skin or flesh shall
arise a different colour or a blister, or as
it were something shining, that is, the
stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought to
Aaron the priest, or any one of his sons.

3 And if he see the leprosy in his skin,
and the hair turned white, and the place
where the leprosy appears lower than
the skin and the rest of the flesh: it is
the stroke of the leprosy, and upoD '^^
judgment he shall be separated.

4 But if there be a shining whiteness in
the skin, and not lower than the other
flesh, and the hair be of the former col-
our, the priest shall shut him up seven
days.

5 And the seventh day he shall look on
him: and if the leprosy be grown no far-
ther, and hath not spread itself in the
skin, he shall shut him up again other
seven dav3,

6 And on the seventh day, he shall look
on him : if the leprosy be somewhat
obscure, and not spread in the skin, he
shall declare him clean, because it is hut
a scab: and the man shall wash his
clothes, and shall be clean.

7 But if the leprosy grow again, after
he was seen by the priest and restored
to cleanness, he shall be brought to him,

8 And shall be condemned of unclean-
ness.

9 If the stroke of the leprosy be in a
man, he shall be brought to the priest,

10 And he shall view him. And when
there shall be a whito colour in the skin,
and it shall have changed the look of
the hair, and the living flesh itself shall
appear :

11 It shall be judged an inveterate lep-
rosy, and grown into the skin. The priest
therefore shall declare him unclean, and
shall not shut him up, because he is evi-
dently unclean.

12 But if the leprosy spring out running
about in the skin, and cover all the skin
from the head to the feet, whatsoever
falleth under the sight of the eyes,

13 The priest shall view him, and shall
judge that th3 leprosy which he has is

tt Supra 5. 7 and 11 : Luke S-. •i^

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very clean : because it is all turned into
whiteness, and therefore the man shall
be clean.

14 But when the live flesh shall appear
in him,

15 Then by the judgment of the priest
he shall be defiled, and shall be reckoned
among the unclean : for live flesh, if it be
spotted with leprosy, is unclean.

16 And if again it be turned into white-
ness, and cover all the man,

17 The priest shall view him, and shall
judge him to be clean.

18 When also there has been an ulcer
in the flesh and the skin, and it has been
healed,

19 And in the place of the ulcer, there
appeareth a white scar, or somewhat
red, the man shall be brought to the
priest :

20 And when he shall see the place of
the leprosy lower than the other flesh,
and the hair turned white, he shall de-
clare him unclean, for the plague of
leprosy is broken out in the ulcer.

21 But if the hair be of the former
colour, and the scar somewhat obscure,
and be not lower than the flesh that is
near it, he shall shut him up seven
days.

22 And if it spread, he shall judge him
to have the leprosy :

23 But if it stay in its place, it is hut
ftie scar of an ulcer, and the man shall
be clean.

24 The flesh also and skin that hath
been burnt, and after it is healed hath a
white or a red scar,

25 The priest shall view it, and if he see
it turned white, and the place thereof
is lower than the other skin : he shall
declare him unclean, because the evil of
leprosy is broken out in the scar.

26 But if the colour of the hair be not
changed, nor the blemish lower than the
other flesh, and the appearance of the
leprosy be somewhat obscure, he shall
shut him up seven days,

27 And on the seventh day he shall view
him: if the leprosy be grown farther in
the skin, he shall declare him unclean.

28 Eat if the whiteness stay in its place,
and be not very clear, it is the sore of
a burning, and therefore he shall be
cleansed, because it is only the scar of a
burning.

29 II the leprosy break out in the head [

or the beard of a man or woman, bhe
priest shall see them,

30 And if the place be lower than the
other flesh, and the hair yellow, and
thinner than usual : he shall declare
them unclean, because it is the leprosy
of the head and the beard ;

31 But if he perceive the place of the
spot is equal with the flesh that is near
it, and the hair black: he shall shut him
up seven days,

32 And on the seventh day he shall
look upon it. If the spot be not grown,
and the hair keep its colour, and the
place of the blemish be even with the
other flesh:

33 The man shall be shaven all but the
place of the spot, and he shall be shut up
other seven days:

34 If on the seventh day the evil seem
to have stayed in its place, and not lower
than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him,
and his clothes being washed he shall be
clean.

35 But if after his cleansing the spot
spread again in the skin,

36 He shall seek no more whether the
hair be turned yellow, because he is evi-
dently unclean.

37 But if the spot be stayed, and the hair
be black, let him know that the man is
healed, and let him confidently pronounce
him clean.

38 If a whiteness appear in the skin of
a man or a woman,

39 The priest shall view them. If he find
that a darkish whiteness shineth in the
skin, let him know that it is not the lep-
rosy, but a white blemish, and that the
man is clean.

40 The man whose hair falleth off from
his head, he is bald and clean:

41 And if thohair fall from his forehead,
he is bald before and clean.

42 But if in the bald head or in the bald
forehead there be risen a white or reddish
colour,

43 And the priest perceive this, he shall
condemn him undoubtedly of leprosy
which is risen in the bald part.

44 Now whosoever shall be defiled with
the leprosy, and is separated by the
judgment of the priest,

45 Shall have his clothes hanging loose,
his head bare, his mouth covered with
a cloth, and he shall cry out that lie i«
defiled and oncleaik

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Unclean garynents

LEVITICUS Sacrifices in cleansing a leper

46 All the time that he is a leper and
unclean, he shall dwell alone without the
camp.

47 A woollen or linen garment that shall
have the leprosy

48 In the warp, and the woof , or a skin,
or whatsoever is made of a skin,

49 If it be infected with a white or red
spot, it shall be accounted the leprosy,
and shall be shewn to the priest.

50 And he shall look upon it and shall
shut it up seven days :

51 And on the seventh day when he
looketh on it again, if he find that it is
grown, it is a fixed leprosy: he shall
judge the garment unclean, and every
thing wherein it shall be found:

52 And therefore it shall be burnt with

fire.

53 But if he see that it is not grown,

54 He shall give orders, and they shall
wash that part wherein the leprosy is,
and he shall shut it up other seven days.

55 And when he shall see that the former
colour is not returned, nor yet the lep-
rosy spread, he shall judge it unclean,
and shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy
has taken hold of the outside of the gar«
ment, or through the whole.

56 But if the place of the leprosy be
somewhat dark, after the garment is
washed, he shall tear it off, and divide it
from that which is sound.

57 And if after this there appear in
those places that before were without
spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it
must be burnt with fire.

58 If it cease, he shall wash with water
the parts that are pure, the second time,
and they shall be clean.

59 This is the law touching the leprosy
of any woollen or linen garment, either
in the warp or woof, or any thing of
skins, how it ought to be cleansed, or pro-
nounced unclean.

CHAPTER 14.

The rites of sacrifices in cleansing the leprosy.
Leprosy in houses.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
. ing:
2 This is the rite of a leper, when he

is to be cleansed: he shall be brought to
the priest:

3 X Who going out of the camp when he
shall find that the leprosy is cleansed,

4 y Shall command him that is to be
purified, to offer for himself two living
sparrows, which it is lawful to eat, and
cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

5 And he shall command one of the
sparrows to be immolated in an earthen
vessel over living waters:

6 But the other that is alive he shall
dip, with the cedar wood, and the scarlet
and the hyssop, in the blood of the spar-
row that is immolated :

7 Wherewith he shall sprinkle him that
is to be cleansed seven times, that he
may be rightly purified : and he shall let
go the living sparrow, that it may fly into
the field.

8 And when the man hath washed his
clothes, he shall shave all the hair of his
body, and shall be washed with water:
and being purified, he shall enter into
the camp, yet so that he tarry without
his own tent seven days:

9 And on the seventh day he shall shave
the hair of his head, and his beard and
his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body.
And having washed again his clothes, and
his body,

10 On the eighth day he shall take two
lambs without blemish, and an ewe of
a year old without blemish, and three
tenths of flour tempered with oil for a
sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.

11 And when the priest that purifieth
the man, hath presented him, and all
these things before the Lord, at the door
of the tabernacle of the testimony,

12 He shall take a lamb, and offer it for
a trespass offering with the sextary of oil :
and having offered all before the Lord,

13 He shall immolate the lamb, where
the victim for sin is wont to be immo-
lated, and the holocaust, that is in the
holy place: for as that which is for sin,
so also the victim for a trespass offering
pertaineth to the priest: it is holy of
holies.

14 And the priest taking of the blood of

X Matt. 8. 4. — y Mark 1. 44 ; Luke 5. 14.

Chap. 14. Ver. 5. Living waters. That is,
waters taken from a spring, brook, or river.

Ver. 10. A sextary. Heb. log: a measure of li-
quids, which was the twelfth part of a hin: and
held about as much as six eggs,

Ver. 14. Taking of the blood, &c. These cere

monies used in the cleansing of a leper, were mj'ste-
rious and very significative. The sprinkling seven
times with the blood of the little bird, the washiner
himself and his clothes, the shaving his hair and his
beard, signify the means which are to be used in the
reconciliation of a sinner, and the steps by which he

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Sacrifices in cleansing a lejper LEVITICUS

Signs of leprosy in a house

the victim that was immolated for tres-
pass, shall put it upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is cleansed, and
vpon the thumb of his right hand and
the great toe of his right foot:

16 And he shall pour of the sextary of
oil into his own left hand,

16 And shall dip his right finger in it,
and sprinkle it before the Lord seven
times.

17 And the rest of the oil in his left
band, he shall pour upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is cleansed, and
upon the thumb of his right hand and the
great toe of his right foot, and upon the
blood that was shed for trespass,

18 And upon his head.

19 And he shall pray for him before the
Lord, and shall offer the sacrifice for sin :
then shall he immolate the holocaust,

20 And put it on the altar with the Hba-
tions thereof, and the man shall be rightly
cleansed.

21 But if he be poor, and his hand can-
not find the things aforesaid : he shall
take a lamb for an offering for trespass,
that the priest may pray for him, and a
tenth part of flour tempered with oil for
a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil,

22 *And two turtles or two young
pigeons, of which one may be for sin, and
the other for a holocaust:

23 And he shall offer them on the eighth
day of his purification to the priest, at
the door of the tabernacle of the testi-
mony before the Lord.

24 And the priest receiving the lamb for
trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall
elevate them together.

25 And the lamb being immolated, he
shall put of the blood thereof upon the
tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed,
and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and the great toe of his right foot:

26 But he shall pour part of the oil into
his own lef 0 hand,

27 And dipping the finger of Ms right

2 Supra 5. 7, 11, and 12. 8 , Luke 2. 24.

is to return to Ged, viz., by the repeated application
of the blood of Christ: the washing his conscience
with the waters of compunction : and retrenching all
vanities and superfluities, by employing all that is
over and above what is necessary in alms deeds.
The sin offering, and the holocaust or burnt offering,
which he was to offer at his cleansing, signify the
sacrifice of a contrite and humble heart, and that of
adoration in spirit and truth, with gratitude and
thankfulness, for the forgiveness of sins, with which
we are ever to appear before the Almighty Tbe

hand in it, he shall sprinkle it seven times
before the Lord •

28 And ho shall touch the tip of the
right ear of him that is cleansed, and the J
thumb of his right hand and the great i
toe of Ms right foot, in the place of the
blood that was shed for trespass.

29 And the other part of the oil that is
in his left hand, he shall pour upon the
head of the purified person, that he may
appease the Lord for him.

30 And he shall offer a turtle, or young i
pigeon, ■

31 One for trespass, and the other for a
holocaust, with their libations.

32 This is the sacrifice of a leper, that
is not able to have all things that apper-
tain to his cleansing.

33 And the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying:

34 When you shall be come into the land
of Chanaan, which I will give you for
a possession, if there be the plague of
leprosy in a house,

35 He whose house it is, shall go and
tell the priest, saying : It seemeth to me,
that there is the plague of leprosy in my
house,

36 And he shall command, that they
carry forth all things out of the house,
before he go into it, and see whether it
have the leprosy, lest all things become
unclean that are in the house. And after-
wards he shall go in to view the leprosy
of the house.

37 And if he see in the walls thereof as
it were little dints, disfigured with pale-
ness or redness, and lower than all the
rest,

38 He shall go out of the door of the
house, and forthwith shut it up seven
days,

39 And returning on the seventh day,
he shall look upon it. If he find that
the leprosy is spread,

40 He shall command, that the stones
wherein the leprosy is, be taken out, and

touching the right ear, the thumb of the right hand,
and the great toe of the right foot, first with the blood
of the victim, and then with the remainder of the oil,
which had been sprinkled seven times before the
Lord, signify the application of the blood of Christ,
and the unction of the sevenfold grace of the Holy
Ghost; to the sinner's right ear, that he may duly
hearken to and obey the law of God ; and to his right
hand and foot, that the works of his hands, and all
the steps or affections of his soul, sigoifled by tbt
feet, mz^Y ^ rjglitly directed to God.

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Purifying the house

LEVITICUS

Other uncleanlines/*

cadt without the city into an unclean
place :

41 And that the house be scraped on
the inside round about, and the dust of
the scraping be scattered without the
city into an unclean place :

42 And that other stones be laid in the
place of them that were taken away, and
the house be plastered with other mor-

43 But if, after the stones be taken out,
and the dust scraped off, and it be plas-
tered with other earth,

44 The priest going in perceive that the
leprosy is returned, and the walls full of
spots, it is a lasting leprosy, and the
house is unclean :

45 And they shall destroy it forthwith,
and shall cast the stones and timber
thereof, and all the dust without the
town into an unclean place.

46 He that entereth into the house
when it is shut, shall be unclean until
evening,

47 And he that sleepeth in it, and eat-
eth any thing, shall wash his clothes.

43 But if the priest going in perceive
that the leprosy is not spread in the
house, after it was plastered again, he
shall purify it, it being cured,

49 And for the purification thereof he
shall take two sparrows, and cedar
wood, and scarlet, and hyssop :

50 And having immolated one sparrow
in an earthen vessel over living waters,

61 He shall take the cedar wood, and
the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the liv-
ing sparrow, and shall dip all in the blood
of the sparrow that is immolated, and in
the living water, and he shall sprinkle
the house seven times :

52 And shall purify it as well with the
blood of the sparrow, as with the living
water, and with the living sparrow, and
with the cedar wood, and the hyssop,
and the scarlet.

53 And when he hath let go the spar-
row to fly freely away into the field, he
shall pray for the house, and it shall be
rightly cleansed.

54 This is the law of every kind of
leprosy and stroke.

55 Of the leprosy of garments and
houses,

56 Of a scar and of blisters breaking

out, of a shining spot, and when thf
colours are diversely changed :

57 That it may be known when a thing
is clean or unclean.

CHAPTER 15.

Other legal ancleannesses.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses and Aar-
J\. on, saying :

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say
to them : The man that hath an issue of
seed, shall be unclean.

3 And then shall he be judged subject to
this evil, when a filthy humour, at every
moment, cleaveth to his flesh, and gath-
ereth there.

4 Every bed on which he sleepeth, shall
be unclean, and every place on which he
sitteth.

5 If any man touch his bed, he shall
wash his clothes : and being washed with
water, he shall be unclean until the even-
ing.

6 If a man sit where that man hath
sitten, he also shall wash his clothes:
and being washed with water, shall be
unclean until the evening.

7 He that touch eth his flesh, shall wash
his clothes : and being himself washed
with water shall be unclean until the
evening.

8 If such a man cast his spittle upon
him that is clean, he shall wash his
clothes : and being washed with water,
he shall be unclean until the evening.

9 The saddle on which he hath sitten
shall be unclean.

10 And whatsoever has been under him
that hath the issue of seed, shall be un*
clean until the evening. He that car-
rieth any of these things, shall wash his
clothes : and being washed with water,
he shall be unclean until the evening.

11 Every person whom such a one shall
touch, not having washed his hands be-
fore, shall wash his clothes: and being
washed with water, shall be unclean un-
til the evening.

12 If he touch a vessel of earth, it shall
be broken: but if a vessel of wood, it
shall be washed with water.

13 If he who suffereth this disease be
healed, he shall number seven days after
his cleansing, and having washed his
clothes, and all his body in living water,
he shall be clean.

CUAT. 16. Ver-a. Issueo/ seed shnll be unclean. These legal uncleannesses were instituted in order

to give tbe people a horror of carnal Impurities.

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Other uncleanliness

14 And on the eighth day he shall take
two turtles, or two young pigeons, and
he shall come before the Lord, to the
door of the tabernacle of the testimony,
and shall give them to the priest :

15 Who shall offer one for sin, and the
other for a holocaust : and he shall pray
for Iiim before the Lord, that he may be
cleansed of the issue of his seed.

16 The man from whom the seed of
copulation goeth out, shall wash all his
body with water; and he shall be un-
clean until the evening.

17 The garment or skin that he wear-
eth, he shall wash with water, and it
shall be unclean until the evening.

18 The woman, with whom he copulat-
eth, shall be washed with water, and shall
be unclean until the evening.

19 The woman, who at the return of
the month, hath her issue of blood, shall
be separated seven days.

20 Every one that toucheth her, shall
be unclean until the evening.

21 And every thing that she sleepeth
on, or that she sitteth on in the days of
her separation, shall be defiled.

22 He that toucheth her bed shall wash
his clothes; and being himself washed
with water, shall be unclean until the
evening.

23 Whosoever shall touch any vessel on
which she sitteth, shall wash his clothes:
and himself being washed with water,
shall be defiled until the evening.

24 If a man copulateth with her in the
time of her flowers, he shall be unclean
seven days : and every bed on which he
shall sleep shall be defiled.

25 The woman that hath an issue of
blood many days out of her ordinary
time, or that ceaseth not to flow after
the monthly courses, as long as she is
subject to this disease, shall be unclean,
in the same manner as if she were in
her flowers.

26 Every bed on wi/ich she sleepeth,
and every vessel on which she sitteth,
shall be defiled.

27 Whosoever toucheth them shall wash
his clothes : and himself being washed
with water, shall be unclean until the
evening.

LEVITICUS Before entering the sanctuary

Chap, 16, Ver. 2. Enter not. ^o one but the
high priest, and he but once a year, could enter Into
Ibe sanctuary i to signify ttiat no one could enter into

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28 If the blood stop and cease to run,
she shall count seven days of her puri-
fication :

29 And on the eighth day she shall offef
for herself to the priest, two turtles, oi-
two young pigeons, at the door of the
tabernacle of the testimony :

30 And he shall offer one for sin, and
the other for a holocaust, and he shall
pray for her before the Lord, and for
the issue of her uncleanness.

31 You shall teach therefore the chil-
dren of Israel to take heed of unclean-
ness, that they may not die in their filth,
when they shall have defiled my taber-
nacle that is among them.

32 This is the law of him that hath the
issue of seed, and that is defiled by
copulation.

33 And of the woman that is separated
in her monthly times, or that hath a
continual issue of blood, and of the man
that sleepeth with her.

CHAPTER 16.

When and how the high priest must enter into the
sanctuary. The feast of expiation.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, after
J\. the death of the two sons of Aaron,
when they were slain upon their offering
strange fire : ^

2 And he commanded him, saying:
Speak to Aaron thy brother, ^'that he
enter not at all into the sanctuary,
which is within the veil before the pro-
pitiatory, with which the ark is covered,
lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud
over the oracle,)

3 Unless he first do these things : He
shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram for a
holocaust.

4 He shall be vested with a linen tunick,
he shall cover his nakedness with linen
breeches : he shall be girded with a linen
girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre
upon his head : for these are holy vest-
ments: all which he shall put on, aftcx'
he is washed.

5 And he shall receive from the whole
multitude of the children of Israel two
buck goats for sin, and one ram Tor a
holocaust.

6 And when he hath offered the calf

b Supra 10. \. — c Ex. 30. 10 ; Heb. 9. 7.

the sanctuary of heaven, till Christ our high prief*
opened it by his passion. Heb. 10. 9.

The sin offering

LEVITICUS

The scape goat

and prayed for himself, and for his owr
house,

7 He shall make the two buck goats to
stand before the Lord in the door of the
tabernacle of the testimony :

8 And casting lots upon them both, one
to be offered to the Lord, and the other
to be the emissary goat :

9 That whose lot fell to be offered to
the Lord, he shall offer for sin :

10 But that whose lot was to be the
emissary goat, he shall present alive be-
fore the Lord, that he may pour out
prayers upon him, and let him go into
the wilderness.

11 After these things are duly cele-
brated, he shall offer the calf, and pray-
ing for himself and for his own house, he
shall immolate it :

12 And taking the censer, which he
hath filled with the burning coals of the
altar, and taking up with his hand the
compounded perfume for incense, he
shall go in within the veil into the holy
place:

13 That when the perfumes are put
upon the fire, ohe cloud and vapour
thereof may ^j\^v the oracle, which is
over the testimouy, and he may not die.

14 He shall take also of the blood of
the calf, and sprinkle with his finger
seven times towards the propitiatory to
the east.

15 And when he hath killed the buck
goat for the Bin of the people, he shall
carry in the blood thereof within the
veil, as he was commanded to do with
the blood of the calf, that he may sprin-
kle it over against the oracle,

16 And may expiate the sanctuary from
the uncleanness of the children of Israel,
and from their transgressions, and all their
sins. According to this rite shall he do
to the tabernacle of the testimony, which
is fixed among them in the midst of the
filth of their habitation.

17 ** Let no man be in the tabernacle
when the high priest goeth into the
sanctuary, to pray for himself and his
house, and for the whole congregation
of Israel, until he come out.

18 And when he is come out to the
altar that is before the Lord, let him
pray for himself, and taking the blood of
the calf, and of the buck goat, let him

pour it upon the horns thereof round
about :

19 And sprinkling with his finger seven
times, let him expiate, and sanctify it
from the uncleanness of the children of
Israel.

20 After he hath cleansed the sanctuary,
and the tabernacle, and the altar, then
let him offer the living goat :

21 And putting both hands upon his
head, let him confess aU the iniquities of
the children of Israel, and all their of-
fences and sins : and praying that they
may light on his head, he shall turn him
out by a man ready for it, iQto the desert.

22 And when the goat hath carried all
their iniquities into an uninhabited land,
and shall be let go into the desert,

23 Aaron shall return into the taber-
nacle of the testimony, and putting off
the vestments, which he had on him be-
fore when he entered into the sanctuary,
and leaving them there,

24 He shall wash his flesh in the holy
place, and shall put on his own garments.
And after that he has come out and hath
offered his own holocaust, and that o^
the people, he shall pray both for him-
self, and for the people :

25 And the fat that is offered for sinft»
he shall burn upon the altar.

26 But he that hath let go the emissary
goat, shall wash his clothes, and his body
with water, and so shall enter into the
camp.

27 But the calf and the buck goat, that
were sacrificed for sin, and whose blood
was carried into the sanctuary, to accom-
plish the atonement, they shall carry
forth without the camp, ^ and shall burn
with fire, their skins and their flesh, and
their dung :

28 And whosoever burneth them shall
wash his clothes, and flesh with water,
and so shall enter into the camp.

29 And this shall be to you an everlast-
ing ordinance : -^The seventh month, the
tenth day of the month, you shall afflict
your souls, and shall do no work, whether
it be one of your own country, or a
stranger that sojourneth among you.

30 Upon this day shall be the expiation
for you, and the cleansing from all your
sins: you shall be cleansed before the
Lord,

d Luke 1. la

e Heb. 13. II. — / Infra 23. 27. 28.

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The door of the tabernacle

LEVITICUS

No blood to be eaten

6i For it 'g a sabbath of rest, and you
shall afflict your souls by a perpetual
religion.

32 And the priest that is anointed, and
whose hands are consecrated to do the
office of the priesthood in his father's
stead, shall make atonement; and he
shall be vested with the linen robe and
the holy vestments,

33 And he shall expiate the sanctuary
and the tabernacle of the testimony and
the altar, the priest also and all the
people.

34 And this shall be an ordinance for
ever, that you pray for the children of
Israel, and for all their sins once in a
year. He did therefore as the Lord had
commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 17.

Ko sacrifices to be offered but at the door of the taber-
nacle: a prohibition of blood.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :
. 2 Speak to Aaron and his sons, and
to all the children of Israel, saying to
them I This is the word, which the Lord
hath commanded, saying:

3 Any man whosoever of the house of
Israel if he kill an ox, or a sheep, or a
goat in the camp, or without the camp,

4 And offer it not at the door of the
tabernacle an oblation to the Lord, shall
be guilty of blood : as if he had shed
blood, so shall he perish from the midst
of his people.

6 Therefore the children of Israel shall
bring to the priest their victims, which
"shey kill in the field, that they may be
sanctified to the Lord before the door
of the tabernacle of the testimony, and
they may sacrifice them for peace offer-
ings to the Lord.

6 And the priest shall pour the blood
upon the altar of the Lord, at the door
of the tabernacle of the testimony, and
shall burn the fat for a sweet odour to
the Lord.

7 And they shall no more sacrifice their
victims to devils, with whom they have
committed fornication. It shall be an
ordinance for ever to them and to their
posterity.

Chap. 17. Ver. 3. If he kill, &c. That is, in
order to sacrifH^e. The law of God forbids sacrifices
to be offered in any other place but at the tabernacle
or temple of the Lord; to signify that no sacrifice
v'ould be acceptable to God, out of his true temple,
^•ue uue, ixoly, catholic, apostolic chuich.

8 And thou shalt say to them: The man
of the house of Israel, and of the strangers
who sojourn among you, that offereth d
holocaust or a victim,

9 And bringeth it not to the door of the
tabernacle of the testimony, that it may
be offered to the Lord, shall perish from
among his people.

10 If any man whosoever of the house
of Israel, and of the strangers that so-
journ among them, eat blood, I will set
my face against his soul, and will cut him
off from among his people:

11 Because the life of the flesh is in the
blood: and I have given it to you, that
you may make atonement with it upon
the altar for your souls, and the blood
may be for an expiation of the soul.

12 Therefore I have said to the children
of Israel: No soul of you, nor of the
strangers that sojourn among you, shall
eat blood.

13 Any man whosoever of the children
of Israel, and of the strangers that so-
journ among you, if by hunting or fowl-
ing, he take a wild beast or a bird, which
is lawful to eat, let him pour out its blood,
and cover it with earth.

14 ^* For the life of all flesh is in the
blood: therefore I said to the children
of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of
any flesh at all, because the life of the
flesh is in the blood, and whosoever eat-
eth it, shall be cut off.

15 The soul that eateth that which died
of itself, or has been caught by a beast,
whether he be one of your own country
or a stranger, shall wash his clothes and
himself with water, and shall be defiled
until the evening: and in this manner
he shall be made clean.

16 But if he do not wash his clotKee,
and his body, he shall bear his iniquity.

CHAPTER 18.

Marriage is prohibited in certain degrees of kit^
dred: and all unnatural lusts,

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
XX ing:

2 Speak to fche children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord
your God.

h Gen. 9. 4 ; Supra 7. 26.

Ver. 10. Eat blood. To eat blood was forbidden
in tYf. law; partly, because God reserved It to him-
self, to be offered in sacrifices on the altar, as to the
Lord of life and death; and as a figure of the blood
of Christ ; and partly, to give men a iiorror ol slMd
ding ifloocL Geo. 9. 4» 6b 6,

t»

Certain marriages unlawful LEVITICUS

Unlawful lusts

3 You shall not do according to the
custom of the land of Egypt, in which
you dwelt: neither shall you act accord-
ing to the manner of the country of
Chanaan, into which I will bring you,
nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

4 You shall do my judgments, and shall
observe my precepts, and shall walk in
them. I am the Lord your God.

5-^' Keep my laws and my judgments,
which if a man do, he shall live in them.
I am the Lord.

6 No man shall approach to her that is
near of kin to him, to uncover her naked-
ness. I am the Lord.

7 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy father, or the nakedness of thy
mother: she is thy mother, thou shalt
not uncover her nakedness.

8 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness
of thy father^s wife: for it is the naked-
ness of thy father.

9 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy sister by father or by mother,
Sjrhether born at home or abroad.

10 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy son's daughter, or thy daugh-
ter's daughter : because it is thy own
nakedness.

11 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy father's wife's daughter, whom
she bore to thy father, and who is thy
sister.

12 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy father's sister : because she
is the flesh of thy father.

13 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy mother's sister : because she
is thy mother's flesh.

14 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ftess of thy father's brother: neither
ehalt thou approach to his wife, who is
joined to thee by affinity.

15 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy daughter in law : because
she is thy son's wife, neither shalt thou
discover her shame.

16 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy brother's wife : because it is
^he nakedness of thy brother.

17 Thou shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy wife and her daughter.
Thou shalt not take her son's daughter
or her daughter's daughter, to discover

j Ezech. 20. 11 ; Rom. 10. 6 ; Gal. 3. 12.

Chap. 18. Ver. 23. Because it is a heinous
riffne, Ib Hebrew, this word heinous crime is ex>

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her shame : because they are her flesh,
and such copulation is incest.

18 Thou shalt not take thy wife's sister
for a harlot, to rival her, neither shalt
thou discover her nakedness, while she
is yet living.

19 Thou shalt not approach to a woman
having her flowers, neither shalt thou
uncover her nakedness.

20 Thou shalt not lie with thy neigh-
bour's wife, nor be defiled with mingling
of seed.

21 ^Thou shalt not give any of thy
seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch,
nor defile the name of thy God : I am the
Lord.

22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind aa
with womankind, because it is an abomi-
nation.

23 Thou shalt not copulate with any
beast, neither shalt thou be defiled with
it. * A woman shall not lie down to a
beast, nor copulate with it : because it is
a heinous crime.

24 Defile not yourselves with any of
these things with which all the nations
have been defiled, which I will cast out
before you,

25 And with which the land is defiled :
the abominations of which I will visit,
that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

26 Keep ye my ordinances and my
judgments, and do not any of these
abominations : neither any of your own
nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth
among you.

27 For all these detestable things th©
inhabitants of the land have done, that
were before you, and have defiled it.

28 Beware then, lest in like manner, it
vomit you also out, if you do the like
things, as it vomited out the nation that
was before you.

29 Every soul that shall commit any of
these abominations, shall perish from
the midst of his people.

30 Keep my commandments. Do not
the things which they have done, that
have been before you, and be not defiled
therein. I am the Lord your God.

CHAPTER 19.

Divers ordinances, partly moral, partly ceremo-
nial or judicial.

k Infra 20. 2. — I Infra 20. 16.

pressed by the word confusion, signifying the shame*
fulness and baseness ol this abominable sin.

Various ordinances

LEVITICUS

Various ordinances

THE Lord spoke to Moses, saying :
2 Speak to all the congregatlou of
the children of Israel, and thou shalt say
to them: '^Be ye holy, because I the
Lord your God am holy.

3 Let every one fear his father, and his
mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the
Lord your God.

4 Turn ye not to idols, nor make to
yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord
your God.

5 If ye offer in sacrifice a peace offering
to the Lord, that he may be favourable,

6 You shall eat it on the same day it was
offered, and the next day : and whatso-
ever shall be left until the third day, you
shall burn with fire.

7 If after two days any man eat there-
of, he shall be profane and guilty of im-
piety :

8 And shall bear his iniquity, because
he hath defiled the holy thing of the
Lord, and that soul shall perish from
among his people.

9 ° When thou reapest the corn of thy
land, thou shalt not cut down all that is
on the face of the earth to the very
ground : nor shalt thon njather the ears
that remain.

to Neither shalt thou gather the bunch-
es and grapes that fall down in thy
vineyard, but shalt leave them to the
poor and the strangers to take. I am
the Lord your God.

11 You shall not steaL You shall not
lie, neither shall any man deceive his
neighbour.

12 ^Thou shalt not swear falsely by my
name, nor profane the name of thy God.
I am the Lord.

13 ^Thou shalt not calumniate thy
neighbour, nor oppress him by violence.
•"The wages of him that hath been hired
by thee shall not abide with thee until
the morning.

14 Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf,
nor put a stumblingblock before the
blind : but thou shalt fear the Lord thy
God, because I am the Lord.

n Supra 11. 44 ; 1 Peter 1. 16.
o Infra 23. 22. —p Ex. 20. i. — q Eccli. 10. 6.
r Deut. 24. 14 ; Tob. 4. 15.
5 Deut. 1, 17, and 16. 19 ; Prov. 24. 23 ; Eccli. 42. 1 ;

Chap. 19. Ver 19. inherent seeds, &c. This
law tends to recornmend simplicity and plain deal-
ing in all things, and to teach the people not to join
any false worship or heresy with the worship of the
kue God.

Ver. 23. The firstfruits. PrcepuHa^ literally,

15 Thou shalt not do that which is un-
just, nor judge unjustly. ^ Respect not
the person of the poor, nor honour the
countenance of the mighty. But judge
thy neighbour according to justice.

16 Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a
whisperer among the people. Thou shalt
not stand against the blood of thy neigh-
bour. I am the Lord.

17 * Thou shalt not hate thy brother in
thy heart, ** but reprove him openly, lest
thou incur sin through him.

18 Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of
the injury of thy citizens. ^Thou shalt
love thy friend as thyself. I am the
Lord.

19 Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not
make thy cattle to gender with beasts of
any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy
field with different seeds. Thou shalt
not wear a garment that is woven of two
sorts.

20 If a man carnally lie witti a woman
that is a bondservant and marriageable,
and yet not redeemed with a price, nor
made free : they both shall be scourged,
and they shall not be put to death, be-
cause she was not a free woman.

21 And for his trespass he shall offer a
ram to the Lord, at the door of the tab-
ernacle of the testimony :

22 And the priest shall pray for him
and for his sin before the Lord, and he
shall have mercy on him, and the sin
shall be forgiven.

23 When you shall be come into the
land, and shall have planted in it fruit
trees, you shall take away the firstfruits
of them : the fruit that comes forth shall
be unclean to you, neither shall you eat
of them.

24 But in the fourth year, aU their fruit
shall be sanctified, to the praise of the
Lord.

25 And in the fifth year you shall eat
the fruits thereof, gathering the increase
thereof. I am the Lord your God.

26 You shall not oat with blood. You
shall not divine nor observe dreams.

James 2. 2.

1 1 John 2. 11, and 3. 14.

u Eccli. 19. 13, Matt. 18. 15; Luke 17.3.

V Matt 5. 43, and 22. 39 ; Luke 6. 27 ; Rom. 13. 9.

their foreskins ; it alludes to circumcision, and sig-
nifies that for the first three years the trees were
to be as uncircumcised, and their fruit unclean : till
in the fourth year their increase was sanctified and
given to the Lord, that is, to the priests.

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The law of just dealings

LEVITICUS Crimes punished with death

27 Nor shaU you cut your hair round-
wise : nor shave your beard.

28 You shall not make anj'' cuttings in
your flesh, for the dead, neither shall
you make in yourselves any figures or
marks : I am the Lord.

29 Make not thy daughter a common
strumpet, lest the land be defiled, and
filled with wickedness.

30 Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence
my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

31 Go not aside after wizards, neither
ask any thing of soothsayers, to b© de-

I filed by them : I am the Lord your God.
1 32 Rise up before the hoary head, and
honour the person of the aged man : and
fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.
i 33 ^ If a stranger dwell in youi' land,
and abide among you, do not upbraid him :
, 34 But let him be among you as one of
ithe same country: and you shall love
i him as yourselves : for you were stran-
gers in the land of Egypt. I am the
jLord your God.

! 35 Do not any unjust thing in judg-
ment, in rule, in weight, or in measure.

36 Let the balance be just and the
weights equal, the bushel jast, and the
sextary equal. I am the Lord your God,
that brought you out of the laud of

1 Egypt.

37 Keep all my precepts, and all my
judgments, and do them. I am the
Lord.

CHAPTEK 20.

Divers crimes to be punished tvith death,

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
^ ing:

2 Thus shalt thou say to the children
of Israel : ^ If any man of the children of
Israel, or of the strangers, that dwell in
Israel, give of his seed to the idol Mo-
loch, dying let him die: the people of
the land shall stone him.

3 And I will set my face against him:
and I will cut him off from the midst of
his people, because he hath given of his
seed to Moloch, and hath defiled my
sanctuary, and profaned ray holy name.

4 And if the people of the land neglect-
ing, and as it were little regarding my
commandment, let alone the man that

W Ex. 22. 21.

2 1 Peter 1. 16.

y Supra 18. 21.

Chap. 20. Ver. 15. The beast also ye shall kill.
The killing of the beast was for the greater horror of

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hath given of his seed to Moloch, and
will not kill him :

5 I will set my face against that man^
and his kindred, and will cut off both
him and all that consented with him, to
commit fornication with Moloch, out of
the midst of their people.

6 The soul that shall go aside after
magicians, and soothsayers, and shall
commit fornication with them, I will set
my face against that soul, and destroy it
out of the midst of its people.

7 ^ Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy
because I am the Lord your God.

8 Keep my precepts, and do them. 1
am the Lord that sanctify you.

9 " He that curseth his father, or mother,
dying let him die: he hath cursed his
father, and mother, let his blood be upon
him.

10 ^ If any man commit adultery with
the wife of another, and defile his neigh-
bour's wife, let them be put to death
both the adulterer and the adulteress.

11 If a man lie with his stepmother, and
discover the nakedness of his father, let
them both be put to death : their blood
be upon them.

12 If any man lie with his daughter in
law, let both die, because they have done
a heinous crime : their blood be upon
them.

13 If any one lie with a man as with a
woman, both have committed an abomi-
nation, let them be put to death : their
blood be upon them.

14 If any man after marrying the daugh-
ter, marry her mother, he hath done a
heinous crime : he shall be burnt alive
with them: neither shall so great an
abomination remain in the midst of you.

15 He that shall copulate with any
beast or cattle, dying let him die? the
beast also ye shall kill.

16 ^The woman that shall lie under any
beast, shall be killed together with the
same : their blood be upon them.

17 If any man take his sister, the daugh-
ter of his father, or the daughter of his
mother, and see her nakedness, and she
behold her brother's shame : they have
committed a crime : they shall be slain,
in the sight of their people, because they

a Ex. 21. 17 ; Prov. 20. 20 ; IVIatt. 15. 4 ; Mark 7. 10.
b Deut. 22. 22 ; John 8. 5. — c Supra 18. 23.

the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such
abomination.

Crimes punished with death LEVITICUS

Laws relating to priests

have discovered one another's naked-
ness, and they shall bear their iniquity.

18 If any man lie with a woman in her
flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and
she open the fountain of her blood, both
shall be destroyed out of the midst of
their people.

19 Thov shalt not uncover the naked-
ness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of
thy aunt by thy father: he that doth
this, hath uncovered the shame of his
own flesh, both shall bear their iniquity.

20 If any man lie with the wife of his
uncle by the father, or of his uncle by
the mother, and uncover the shame of
his near akin, both shall bear their sin:
they shall die without children.

21 He that marrieth his brother's wife,
doth an unlawful thing, he hath uncov-
ered his brother's nakedness : they shall
be without children.

22 Keep my laws and my judgments,
and do them: lest the land into which
you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit
you also out.

23 Walk not after the laws of the na-
tions, which I will cast out before you.
For they have done all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them.

24 But to you I say: Possess their land
which I will give you for an inheritance,
a land flowing with milk and honey. I
am the Lord your God, who have sepa-
rated you from other people.

25 Therefore do you also separate the
clean beast from the unclean, and the
clean fowl from the unclean : defile not
your souls with beasts, or birds, or any
things that move on the earth, and which
I have shewn you to be unclean.

26 ^ You shall be holy unto me, because
I the Lord am holy, and I have separated
you from other people, that you should
be mine.

27 ® A man, or woman, in whom there is
a pythonical or divining spirit, dying let
them die : they shall stone them: their
blood be upon them.

CHAPTER 21.

Ordinances relating to the priests.

THE Lord said also to Moses : Speak
to the priests the sons of Aaron, and

» ■ ■ ■■■■■■ .-I... .— I ■ .■,..,. — ■ .

d 1 Peter 1. 16. —e Dent. 18. 11 ; 1 Kings 28. 7.

thou shalt say to them : Let not a priest
incur an uncleanness at the death of his
citizens :

2 But only for his kin, such as are near -
in blood, that is to say, for his father and \
for his mother, and for his son, and for
his daughter, for his brother also,

3 And for a maiden sister, who hath had
no husband :

4 But not even for the prince of his peo-
ple shall he do any thing that may make
him unclean.

5 ^ Neither shall they shave their head,
nor their beard, nor make incisions in
their flesh.

6 They shall be holy to their God, and
shall not profane his name : for they offer
the burnt offering of the Lord, and the
bread of their God, and therefore they
shall be holy.

7 ^ They shall not take to wife a harlot
or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been
put away from her husband: because
they are consecrated to their God,

8 And offer the loaves of proposition.
Let them therefore be holy, because I also
am holy, the Lord, who sanctify them.

9 If the daughter of a priest be taken ir
whoredom, and dishonour the name of
her father, she shall be burnt with fire.

10 The high priest, that is to say, thJ
priest, is the greatest among his brethren
upon whose head the oil of unction hatL
been poured, and whose hands have been
consecrated for the priesthood, and who
hath been vested with the holy vestments,
shall not uncover his head, he shall not
rend his garments :

11 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead
person : not even for his father, or his
mother, shall he be defiled :

12 Neither shall he go out of the holy
places, lest he defile the sanctuary of the
Lord, because the oil of the holy unction
of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.

13 * He shall take a virgin unto his wife !

14 But a widow or one that is divorced,
or defiled, or a harlot, he shall not take,
but a maid of his own people :

15 He shall not mingle the stock of his
kindred with the common people of his
nation: for I am the Lord who sanctify
him.

Chap. 21. Ver. l. An uncleanness, viz., such as
was contracted in laying out the dead body, or touch-

o Suora 19. 27 ; Ezech. 44. 20.
h Supra 19. 29. — i Ezech. 44. 22.

ing it ; or in going into the bouse, or assisting at the
funeral, &c.

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Laws relating to priests

LEVITICUS Who may eat the holy things

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

17 Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy
seed throughout their famihes, hath a
blemish, he shall not offer bread to his
God.

18 Neither shall he approach to minister
to him : If he be blind, if he be lame, if
he have a little, or a great, or a crooked
nose,

19 If his foot, or if his hand be broken,

20 If he be crookbacked, or blear eyed,
or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual
scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rup-
ture :

21 Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the
priest hath a blemish, he shall not ap-
proach to offer sacrifices to the Lord,
nor \)read to his God.

22 He shall eat nevertheless of the
loaves, that are offered in the sanctuary,

23 Yet so that he enter not within the
veil, nor approach to the altar, because
he hath a blemish, and he must not de-
file my sanctuary. I am the Lord who
sanctify them.

24 Moses therefore spoke to Aaron, and
to his sons and to all Israel, all the things
that had been commanded him.

CHAPTER 22.

WTio may eat the holy things : and what things may
be offered.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
XTL ing:

2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that
they beware of those things that are con-
lecrated of the children of Israel, and
iefile not the name of the things sancti-
fied to me, which they offer. I am the
Lord.

3 Say to them and to their posterity :
Every man of your race, that approacheth
to those things that are consecrated, and
which the children of Israel have offered
to the Lord, in whom there is unclean-
ness, shall perish before the Lord. I am
the Lord.

4 The man of the seed of Aaron, that is
a leper, or that suffereth a running of the
seed, shall not eat of those things that
are sanctified to me, until he be healed.
He that toucheth any thing unclean by
occasion of the dead, and he whose seed
goeth from him as in generation.

k Supra 17. 15 ; Ex. 22. 31 ;

Chap. 22. Ver. 3. Approo.cheth, &c. This is to
give us to understand, with what purity of soul we
are to approach to the blessed sacrament of which

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6 And he that toucheth a creeping
thing, or any unclean thing, the touching
of which is defiling,

6 Shall be unclean until the evening,
and shall not eat those things that are
sanctified: but when he hath washed his
flesh with water,

7 And the sun is down, then being puri-
fied, he shall eat of the sanctified things,
because it is his meat.

8 ^ That which dieth of itself, and that
which was taken by a beast, they shall
not eat, nor be defiled therewith. I am
the Lord.

9 Let them keep my precepts, that they
may not fall into sin, and die in the
sanctuary, when they shall have defiled
it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

10 No stranger shall eat of the sancti-
fied things: a sojourner of the priests,
or a hired servant, shall not eat of them.

11 But he whom the priest hath bought,
and he that is his servant, born in his
house, these shall eat of them.

12 If the daughter of a priest be mar-
ried to any of the people, she shall not
eat of those things that are sanctified,
nor of the firstfruits.

13 But if she be a widow, or divorced,
and having no children return to her fa-
ther's house, she shall eat of her father's
meats, as she was wont to do when shtf
was a maid, no stranger hath leave to
eat of them.

14 He that eateth of the sanctified things
through ignorance, shall add the fifth
part with that which he ate, and shall
give it to the priest into the sanctuary.

15 And they shall not pr^^fqne the sanc-
tified things of the chiiaren ot Israel,
which they offer to the Lord ?

16 Lest perhaps they bear the iniquity
of their trespass, when tney shall have
eaten the sanctified things. I am the
Lord who sanctify them.

17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

18 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and
to all the children of Israel, and thou
shalt say to them : The man of the house
of Israel, and of the strangers who dwell
with you, that offereth his oblation, either
paying his vows, or offering of his own

Deut. 14. 21 ; Ezech. 4. 14.

these meats tliat had heeu o£[ered in sacrifice were

a ligure.

What things may he offered

LEVITICUS

The holy days

accord, whatsoever it be which he pre-
senteth for a holocaust of the Lord,

19 To be offered by you, it shall be a
male without blemish of the beeves, or
of the sheep, or of the goats.

20 If it have a blemish you shall not
offer it, neither shall it be acceptable.

21 *The man that off ere th a victim of
peace offerings to the Lord, either pay-
ing his vows, or offering of his own ac-
cord, whether of beeves or of sheep,
shall offer it without blemish, that it
may be acceptable; there shall be no
blemish in it.

22 If it be blind, or broken, or have a
scar or blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf :
you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor
burn any thing of them upon the Lord's
altar.

23 An ox or a sheep, that hath the ear
and the tail cut off, thou mayst offer
voluntarily: but a vow may not be paid
with them.

24 You shall not offer to the Lord any
beast that hath the testicles bruised, or
crushed, or cut and taken away: neither
shall you do any such thing in your land.

25 You shall not offer bread to your
God, from the hand of a stranger, nor
any other thing that he would give : be-
cause they are all corrupted, and defiled :
you shall not receive them.

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a
goat, is brought forth, they shall be
seven days under the udder of their
dam: but the eighth day, and thence-
forth, they may be offered to the Lord.

28 Whether it be a cow, or a sheep,
they shall not be sacrificed the same day
with their young ones.

29 If you immolate a victim for thanks-
giving to the Lord, that he may be fa-
vourable,

30 You shall eat it the same day, thrre
shall not any of it remain until the
morning of the next day. I am the Lord.

31 Keep my commandments, and do
them. I am the Lord.

32 Profane not my holy name, that I
may be sanctified in the midst of the
children of Israel. I am the Lord who
sanctify you,

33 And who brought you out of the

land of Egypt, that I might be your God i
I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 23.

Holy days to be kept
Lord spoke to

Moses^ say-

I Deut 15. 21 1 EcclL 3d. 14.

ND the

ing:

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou
shalt say to them : These are the feasts
of the Lord, which you shall call holy.

3 Six days shall ye do work : the seventh
day, because it is the rest of the sabbath,
shall be called holy. You shall do no
work on that day: it is the sabbath of
the Lord in all your habitations.

4 These also are the holy days of the
Lord, which you must celebrate in theii
seasons.

5 "^ The first month, the fourteenth day
of the month at evening, is the phase of
the Lord:

6 And the fifteenth day of the same
month is the solemnity of the unleavened
bread of the Lord. Seven days shall you
eat unleavened bread.

7 The first day shall be most solemn
unto you, and holy : you shall do no ser-
vile work therein :

8 But you shall offer sacrifice in fire to
the Lord seven days. And the seventh
day shall be more solemn, and more
holy : and you shall do no servile work/'
therein.

9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

10 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them : When you shall
have entered into the land which I will
give you, and shall reap your corn, you
shall bring sheaves of ears, the firstfruits
of your harvest to the priest :

11 Who shall hft up the sheaf before
the Lord, the next day after the sabbath,
that it may be acceptable for you, and
shall sanctify it.

12 And on the same day that the sheaf
is consecrated, a lamb without blemish
of the first year shall be killed for a'
holocaust of the Lord.

13 And the libations shall be offered
with it, two tenths of flour tempered
with oil, for a burnt offering of the Lord,
and a most sweet odour: libations als<
of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

14 You shall not eat either bread, oi
parched corn, or frumenty of the hai

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n Ex. 12. 18; Num. 2& 16,

The first fruits

LEVITICUS

The feast of tabernacles

vest, until the day that you shall offer
thereof to your God. It is a precept for
ever throughout your generations, and
all your dwellings.

15 ''You shall count therefore from the
morrow after the sabbath, wherein you
offered the sheaf of the firstfruits, seven
full weeks.

16 Even unto the morrow after the
seventh week be expired, that is to say,
fifty days, and so you shall offer a new
sacrifice to the Lord.

17 Out of all your dwelHngs, two loaves
of the firstfruits, of two tenths of flour
leavened, which you shall bake for the
firstfruits of "tiie l^ord.

ir And fOM sha/1 offer with the loaves
fle\ en lambs without blemish of the first
/ear, and one calf from the herd, and
two rams, and they shall be for a holo-
caust with their libations for a most
sweet odour to the Lord,

19 You shall offer also a buck goat for
sin, and two lambs of the first year for
sacrifices of peace offerings.

20 And when the priest hath lifted them
up with the loaves of the firstfruits be-
fore the Lord, they shall fall to his use.

21 And you shall call this day most
solemn, and most holy. You shall do
no servile work therein. It shall be an
everlasting ordinance in all your dwell-
ings and generations.

22 P And when you reap the corn of
your land, you shall not cut it to the
very ground: neither shall you gather
the ears that remain ; but you shall leave
them for the poor and for the strangers.
I am the Lord your God.

23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

24 5 Say to the children of Israel : The
seventh month, on the first day of the
month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memo-
rial, with the sound of trumpets, and it
shall be called holyc

25 You shall do no servile work there-
in, and you shall offer a holocaust to the
Lord.

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

27 *■ Upon the tenth day of this seventh
month shall be the day of atonement, it
shall be most solemn, and shall be called
holy : and you shall afllict your souls on
that day, and shall offer a holocaust to
the Lord.

0 Deut 16. 9. — p Supra 19. 9.—q Num. 29. L

28 You shall do no servile work in the
time of this day : because it is a day ol
propitiation, that the Lord your God
may be merciful unto you.

29 Every soul that is not afflicted on this
day, shall perish from among his peopl :

30 And every soul that shall do any
work, the same will I destroy from
among his people.

31 You shall do no work therefore on
that day : it shall be an everlasting ordi-
nance unto you in all your generations,
and dwelhngs.

32 It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall
afflict your souls beginning on the ninth
day of the month: from evening until
evening you shall celebrate your sab-
baths.

33 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

34 Say to the children of Israel : From
the fifteenth day of this same seventh
month, shall be kept the feast of taber-
nacles seven days to the Lord.

35 The first day shall be called most
solemn and most holy : you shall do no
servile work therein. And seven day»
you 3hall offer holocausts to the Lord.

36 The eighth day also shall be most sol-
emn and most holy, and you shall offer
holocausts to the Lord : for it is the day
of assembly and congregation: you shall
do no servile work therein.

37 These are the feasts of the Lord,
which you shall call most solemn and
most hcly, and shall offer on them obla-
tions to the Lord, holocausts and liba-
tions according to the rite of every day,

38 Besides the sabbaths of the Lord,
and your gifts, and those things that you
offer by vow, or which you shall give to
the Lord voluntarily.

39 So from the fifteenth day of the sev-
enth month, when you shall have gath-
ered in all the fruits of your land, you
shall celebrate the feast of the Lord seven
days: on the first day and the eighth
shall be a sabbath, that is a day of rest.

40 And you shall take to you on the
first day the fruits of the fairest tree.
and branches of palm trees, and boughs
of thick trees, and willows of the brook,
and you shall rejoice before the Lord
your God.

41 And you shall keep the solemnity
thereof seven days in the year. It shall

13.3

r Supra 16. 29 ; Num. 29. 7 ; John 7. 37.

The loaves of proposition LEVITICUS The punishment of blasphemy

be an everlasting ordinance in your gen-
erations. In the seventh month shall
you celebrate this feast.

42 And yod shall dwell in bowers seven
days: every one that is of the race of
Israel, shall dwell in tabernacles :

43 That your posterity may know, that
I made the children of Israel to dwell
in tabernacles, when I brought them out
of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord
your God.

44 And Moses spoke concerning the
feasts of the Lord to the children of
Israel.

CHAPTER 24.

The oil for the lamps. The loaves of proposition.
The punishment of blasphemy.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :
JLjL 2 Command the children of Israel,
that they bring unto thee the finest and
clearest oil of olives, to furnish the lamps
continually,

3 Without the veil of the testimony in
the tabernacle of the cov»enant. And
Aaron shall set them from evening until
morning before the Lord, by a perpetual
service and rite in your generations.

4 They shall be set upon the most pure
candlestick before the Lord continually.

5 Thou shalt take also fine flour, and
shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two
tenths shall be in every loaf :

6 And thou shalt set them six and six
one against another upon the most clean
table before the Lord :

7 And thou shalt put upon them the
clearest frankincense, that the bread
may be for a memorial of the oblation of
the Lord.

8 Every sabbath they shall be changed
''efore the Lord, being received of the
^bildren of Israel by an everlasting cove-
nant:

9 And they shall be Aaron's and his
sons^ that they may eat them in the holy
place : because it is most holy of the sac-
rifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.

10 And behold there went out the son
of a woman of Israel, whom she had of an
Egyptian, among the children of Israel,
and fell at words in the camp with a
man of Israel.

11 And when he had blasphemed the
name, and had cursed it, he was brought
t,o Moses : (now his mother was called

« £Z. 21. VL^U Ex. 21. 24;

Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the
tribe of Dan:)

12 And they put him into prison, till
they might know what the Lord would
command.

13 And the Lord spoke to Moses;

14 Saying : Bring forth the blasphemer
without the camp, and let them that
heard him, put their hands upon his head,
and let all the people stone him.

15 And thou shalt speak to the children
of Israel : the man that curseth his God,
shall bear his sin :

16 And he that blasphemeth the name
of the Lord, dying let him die : all the
multitude shall stone him, whether he be
a native or a stranger. He that blas-
phemeth the name of the Lord, dying
let him die.

17 * He that strike th and killeth a man,
dying let him die.

18 He that killeth a beast, shall make it
good, that is to say, shall give beast for
beast.

19 He that giveth a blemish to any of
his neighbours : as he hath done, so shall
it be done to him:

20 ^ Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth
for tooth, shall he restore. What blemish
he gave, the hke shall he be compelled
to suffer.

21 He that striketh a beast, shall render
another. He that striketh a man shall
be punished.

22 Let there be equal judgment among
you, whether he be a stranger, or a na-
tive that offends : because I am the Lord
your God.

23 And Moses spoke to the children of
Israel : and they brought forth him that
had blasphemed, without the camp, and
they stoned him. And the children of
Israel did as the Lord had commanded
Moses.

CHAPTER 25.

The law of the seventh and of the fiftieth yea,r of
jubilee.

ND the Lord spoke to Moses in
mount Sinai, saying:

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them : When you shall
have entered into the land which I will
give you, observe the rest of the sabbath
to the Lord.

3 '^ Six years thou shalt sow thy field

Deut.l9.21;Matt.5.38.

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K;£z.23.ia

The year of jubilee

LEVITICUS

Redemption of land

and six years thou shalt prune thy vine-
yard, and shalt gather the fruits there-
of:

4 But in the seventh year there shall be
a sabbath to the land, of the resting of
the Lord : thou shalt not sow thy field,
nor prune thy vineyard.

5 What the ground shall bring forth of
itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt
thou gather the grapes of the firstfruits
as a vintage: for it is a year of rest to
the land :

6 But they shall be unto you for meat,
to thee and to thy manservant, to thy
maidservant and thy hireling, and to the
strangers that sojourn with thee:

7 All things that grow shall be meat to
thy beasts and to thy cattlOo

8 Thou shalt also number to thee seven
weeks of years, that is to say, seven
times seven, which together make forty-
nine years :

9 And thou shalt sound the trumpet in
the seventh month, the tenth day of the
month, in the time of the expiation in all
your land.

10 And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth
fear, and shalt proclaim remission to all
the inhabitants of thy land : for it is the
year of jubilee. Every man shall return
to his possession, and every one shall go
back to his former family :

11 Because it is the jubilee and the fif-
tieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap
the things that grow in the field of their
own accord, neither shall you gather the
firstfruits of the vines,

12 Because of the sanctification of the
jubilee : but as they grow you shall pre-
sently eat them.

13 In the year of the jubilee all shall
return to their possessions.

14 When thou shalt sell any thing to thy
neighbour, or shalt buy of him ; grieve not
thy brother : but thou shalt buy of him
according to the number of years from
the jubilee.

15 And he shall sell to thee according to
the computation of the fruits.

16 The more years remain after the
jubilee, the more shall the price increase :
and the less time is counted, so much the
less shall the purchase cost. For he
shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.

17 Do not afflict your countrymen, but

let every one fear his God : because I am
the Lord your God.

18 Do my precepts, and keep my judg-
ments, and fulfil them: that you may
dwell in the land without any fear,

19 And the ground may yield you its
fruits, of which you may eat your fill,
fearing no man's invasion.

20 But if you say : What shall we eat
the seventh year, if we sow not, nor
gather our fruits ?

21 I will give you my blessing the sixth
year, and it shall yield the fruits of three
years :

22 And the eighth year you shall sow,
and shall eat of the old fruits, until the
ninth year: till new grow up, you shall
eat the old store.

23 The land also shall not be sold for
ever: because it is mine, and you are
strangers and sojourners with me.

24 For which cause all the country of
your possession shall be under the condi-
tion of redemption.

25 If thy brother being impoverished
sell his little possession, and his kinsman
will, he may redeem what he had sold.

26 But if he have no kinsman, and he
himself can find the price to redeem it :

27 The value of the fruits shall be
counted from that time when he sold it :
and the overplus he shall restore to the
buyer, and so shall receive his possession
again.

28 But if his hands find not the means
to repay the price, the buyer shall have
what he bought, until the year of the
jubilee. For in that year all that is sold
shall return to the owner, and to the
ancient possessor.

29 He that selleth a house within the
walls of a city, shall have the liberty to
redeem it, until one year be expired :

30 If he redeem it not, and the whole
year be fully out, the buyer shall possess
it, and his posterity for ever, and it can-
not be redeemed, not even in the jubi-
lee.

31 But if the house be in a village, that
hath no walls, it shall be sold according
to the same law as the fields : if it be not
redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall
return to the owner.

32 The houses of Levites, which are in
cities, may always be redeemed :

Chap. 25. Ver. 10. Remission. That is, a gen-
eral release and discharge from debts and bondage,

135

and a reinstating ol every man in liis lormer posseft^
sions. - . ,

Redemption of Hebreio slaves LEVITICUS God's promises to the obedient

33 If they be not redeemed, in the jubi-
lee they shall all return to the owners,
because the houses of the cities of the
Levites are for their possessions among
the children of Israel.

34 But let not their suburbs be sold,
because it is a perpetual possession.

3'^ If thy brother be impoverished, and
weak of hand, and thou receive him as
a stranger and sojourner, and nc live
with thee,

36 Take not usury of him nor more than
thou gavest : fear thy God, that thy bro-
ther may live with thee.

37 Thou shalt not give him thy money
upon usury, nor exact of him any increase
of fruits.

38 I am the Lord your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, that I might
give you the land of Chanaan, and might
be your God.

39 If thy brother constrained by poverty,
sell himself to thee, thou ohalt not oppr'^se
him witn the service of bondservants :

40 But he shall bo as a hireling, and a
sojourner: he shall work with thee until
the year of the jubilee,

41 And afterwards he shall go out with
his children, and shall return to his kin-
dred and to the possession of his fathers,

42 For they are my servants, and I
brought them out of the land of Egypt:
let them not be sold as bondmen:

43 Afflict him not by might, but fear
thy Godo

44 Let your bondmen, and your bond-
women, be of the nations that are round
about you.

45 And of the strangers thaj sojourn
among you, or that were born of them
in your land, these you shall have for
servants :

46 And by right of inheritance shall
leave them to your posterity, and shall
possess them for ever. But oppress not
your brethren the children of Israel by
might.

47 If the hand of a stranger or a so-
journer grow strong among you, and thy
brother being impoverished sell himself
to him, or to any of his race :

48 After the sale he may be redeemed.
He that will of his brethren shall redeem
him :

49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son.

Ex. 20. 4 : Deut 6. 3 $ Ps. 96. 7.

or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity.
But if he himself be able also, he shali
redeem himself,

50 Counting only the years from thei
time of his selling unto the year of the
jubilee : and counting the money that he
was sold for, according to the number of
the years and the reckoning of a hired
servant,

51 If there be many years that remain
until the jubilee, according to them shall
he also repay the price.

52 If few, he shall make the reckoning
with him according to the number of the
years, and shall repay to the buyer of
what remaineth of the years,

53 His wages being allowed for which
he served before : he shall not afflict him
violently in thy sight.

54 And if by these means he cannot be
redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he
shall go out with his children.

55 For the children of Israel are my
servants, whom I brought forth out of
the land of Egypt.

CHAPTER 26.

God^s promises to them that keep his com,m,and.
ments. And the m,any punishments with which
he threatens trayisgressors.

AM the Lord your God : you shall
not make to yourselves any idol or
graven thing, neither shall you erect
pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in
your land, to adore it : for I am the Lord
your God.

2 Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary : I am the Lord.

3 ^ If you walk in my precepts, and keep
my commandments, and do them, I will
give you rain in due seasons.

4 And the ground shall bring forth its
increase, and the trees shall be filled
with fruit.

5 The threshing of your harvest shall
reach unto the vintage, and the vintage
shall reach unto the sowing time : and
you shall eat your bread to the full, and
dwell in your land without fear.

6 I will give peace in your coasts : you
shall sleep, and there shall be none to
make you afraid. I will take away evil
beasts: and the sword shall not pass
through your quarters.

7 You shall pursue your enemies, and
they shall fall before you.

y Deut. 2& 1.

136

Punishment of disobedience

LEVITICUS

Punishment of disobedience

8 Five of yours shall pursue r^ hundred
others, and a hundred of you ten thou-
sand : your enemies shall fall before you
by the sword.

9 I will look on you, and make you in-
crease : you shall be multiplied, and I
will establish my covenant with you.

10 You shall eat the oldest of the old
store, and, new coming on, you shall cast
away the old.

11 I will set my tabernacle in the midst
of you, and my soul shall not cast you
off.

12^1 will walk among you, and will be
your God, and you shall be my people.

13 1 am the Lord your God : who have
brought you out of the land of the Egyp-
tians, that you should not serve them,
and who have broken the chains of your
necks, that you might go upright.

14 " But if you will not hear mo, nor do
all my commandments,

15 If you despise my laws, and contemn
my judgments so as not to do those things
which are appointed by me, and to make
void my covenant :

16 I also will do these things to you : I
will quickly visit you with poverty, and
burning heat, which shall waste your
eyes, and consume your lives. You shall
BOW your seed in vain, which shall be
devoured by your enemies.

17 I will set my face against you, and
you shall fall down before your enemies,
and shall be made subject to them that
hate you, you shall flee when no man
pursueth you.

18 But if you will not yet for all this
obey me : I will chastise you seven times
more iox» your sins,

19 And I will break the pride of your
stubbornness, and I will make to you the
heaven above as iron, and the earth as
brass :

20 Your labour shall be spent in vain,
the ground shall not bring forth her in-
crease, nor the trees yield their fruit

21 If you walk contrary to me, and will
not hearken to me, I will bring seven
times more plagues upon you for jovo
sins:

22 And I will send in upon you the
beasts of the field, to destroy you and
your cattle, and make you few in number,
and that your highways may be desolate.

s 2 Ck>r. 6. 16,

23 And if even so you will not amend,
but will walk contrary to me :

24 I also will walk contrary to you, and
will strike you seven times for your sins.

25 And I will bring in upon you the
evvord that shall avenge my covenant.
And when you shall flee into the cities,
I will send the pestilence in the midst of
you, and you shall be delivered into the
hands of your enemies,

26 After I shall have broken the staff
of your bread : so that ten women shall
bake your bread in one oven, and give it
out by weight: and you shall eat, and
shall not be filled.

27 But if you will not for all this
hearken to me, but will walk against me:

28 I will also go against you -^ith oppo-
site fury, and 1 will chastise you with
seven plagues for your sins,

29 So that you shall oat the flesh of
your sons and of your daughters.

30 I will destroy yoin* high places, and
break your idols. You shall frJ! among
the ruins of your idols, and my soul shaU
abhor you.

31 Insomuch that I will bring your
cities to be a wilderness, and I will make
your sanctuaries desolate, and will re-
ceive no more your sweet odours.

32 And I will destroy your land, and
your enemies shall be astonished at it,
when they shall be the inhabitants
thereof.

33 And I win scatter you among the
Gentiles, and I will draw out the sword
after you, and your land shall be desert,
and your cities destroyed.

34 Then shall the land enjoy her sab-
baths all the days of her desolation:
when you shall be

35 In the enemy's land, she shall keep
a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her
desolation, because she did not rest in
your sabbaths when you dwelt therein.

36 And as to them that shall remain of
you I will send fear in their hearts in
the countries o^ their enemies, the sound
of Vj Hying leaf shall terrify them, and
they shall flee ac it were from the sword :
they shall fall, when no man pursueth
them,

37 And they shall every one fall upon
their brethren as fleeing from wars, none
of you shall dare to resist your enemiea

137

aOeut2&l6i Mat 2^ 2.

Mercy to the repentant

LEVITICUS

Vows

38 You shall perish among the Gentiles,
and an enemy's land shall consume you.

39 And if of them also some remain,
they shall pine away in their iniquities,
in the land of their enemies, and they
ohall be afflicted for the sins of their
fathers, and their own :

40 Until they confess their iniquities
and the iniquities of their ancestors,
whereby they have transgressed against
me, and walked contrary unto me.

41 Therefore I also will walk against
them, and bring them into their enemies'
land until their uncircumcised mind be
ashamed ; then shall they pray for their
Bins.

42 And I will remember my covenant,
that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and
Abraham. I will remember also the land:

43 Which when she shall be left by
them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being
desolate for them. But they shall pray
for their sins, because they rejected my
judgments, and despised my laws.

44 And yet for all that when they were
in the land of their enemies, I did not
ca^t them off altogether, neither did I so
despise them that they should be quite
consumed, and I should make void my
covenant with them. For I am the Lord
their God.

45 And I will remember my former
covenant, when I brought them out of
the land of Egypt, in the sight of the
Gentiles, to be their God. I am, the
Lord. These are the judgments, and pre-
cepts, and laws, which the Lord gave
between him and the children of Israel
in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

CHAPTER 27.
Of VOW8 and tithes,
AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
J\ ing:

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and
fchou shalt say to them: The man that
shall have made a vow, and promised his
soul to God, shall give the price accord-
ing to estimation.

3 If it be a man from twenty years old
unto sixty years old, he shall give fifty
sides of silver, after the weight of the
sanctuary :

4 If a woman, thirty.

5 But from the fifth year until the twen-

tieth, a man shall give twenty sides : a
woman ten.

6 From one month until the fifth year,
for a male shall be given five sides : fojf
a female three.

7 A man that is sixty years old or up-
ward, shall give fifteen sides : a woman
ten.

8 If he be poor, and not able to pay the
estimation, he shall stand before the
priest : and as much as he shall value
him at, and see him able to pay, so much
shall he give.

9 But a beast that may be sacrificed to
the Lord, if any one shall vow, shall be
holy,

10 And cannot be changed, that is to
say, neither a better for a worse, nor a
worse for a better. And if he shall
change it : both that which was changed,
and that for which it was changed, shall
be consecrated to the Lord.

11 An unclean beast, which cannot be
sacrificed to the Lord, if any man shall
vow, shall be brought before the priest :

12 Who judging whether it be good or
bad, shall set the price:

13 Which if he that offereth it will give,
he shall add above the estimation the
fifth part.

14 If a man shall vow his house, and
sanctify it to the Lord, the priest shall
consider it, whether it be good or bad,
and it shall be sold according to the
price, which he shall appoint.

15 But if he that vowed, will redeem it,
he shall give the fifth part of the estima-
tion over and above, and shall have the
house.

16 And if he vow the field of his pos-
session, and consecrate it to the Lord,
the price shall be rated according to the
measure of the seed. If the ground be
sowed with thirty bushels of barley, let
it be sold for fifty sides of silver.

17 If he vow his field immediately from
the year of jubilee that is beginning, as
much as it may be worth, at so much it
shall be rated.

18 But if some time after, the priest
shall reckon the money according to the
number of years that remain until the
jubilee, and the price shall be abated.

19 And if he that had vowed, will redeem
his field, he shall add the fifth part of the

138

Redemption of vows

NUMBERS

Tithes

money of the estimation, and shall pos-
sess it.

20 And il he will not redeem it, but it
be sold to any other man, he that vowed
it, may not redeem it any more:

21 For when the day of jubilee cometh,
it shall be sanctified to the Lord, and as
a possession consecrated, pertaineth to
the right of the priests.

22 If a field that was bought, and not
of a man's ancestors' possession, be sanc-
tified to the Lord,

23 The priest shall reckon the price
according to the number of years : unto
the jubilee : and he that had vowed, shall
give that to the Lord.

24 But in the jubilee, it shall return to
the former owner, who had sold it, and
had it in the lot of his possession.

25 All estimation shall be made accord-
ing to the side of the sanctuary. '^ A
side hath twenty obols.

26 The firstborn, which belong to the
Lord, no man may sanctify and vowi
whether it be bullock, or sheep, they are
the Lord's.

27 And if it be an unclean beast, he that
offereth it shall redeem it, according to
thy estimation, and shall add the fifth

part of the price. If he will not redeem
it, it shall be sold to another for how
much soever it was estimated by thee.

28 ^ Any thing that is devoted to the
Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or
field, shall not be sold, neither may it be
redeemed. Whatsoever is once conse-
crated shall be holy of holies to the Lord.

29 And any consecration that is offered
by man, shall not be redeemed, but dying
shall die.

30 All tithes of the land, whether of corn,
or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's,
and are sanctified to him.

31 And if any man will redeem his tithes,
he shall add the fifth part of them.

32 Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep,
and goats, that pass under the shepherd's
rod, every tenth that cometh shall be
sanctified to the Lord.

33 It shall not be chosen neither good
nor bad, neither shall it be changed for
another. If any man change it : both
that which was changed, and that for
which it was changed, shall be sanctified
to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed.

34 These are the precepts which the
Lord commanded Moses for the children
of Israel in mount Sinai.

THE

BOOK OF NUMBERS.

This fourth Book of Moses is called Numbers, because it begins with the numbering of the
people. The Hebrews, from its first words, call it Vaiedabber. It contains the transactions
of the Israelites from the second month of the second year after their going out of Egypt, until
the beginning of the eleventh month of tlie fortieth year ; that is, a history almost of thirty-
nine years.

CHAPTER 1.

The children of Israel are numbered : the Levites
are designed to serve the tabernacle.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses in the
XX desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of
the covenant, the first day of the second
month, the second year of their going
out of Egypt, saying : ^

2 -^Take the sum of all the congregation
of the children of Israel by their families,
and houses, and the names of every one,
as many as are of the male sex,

3 From twenty years old and upwards,
of all the men of Israel fit for war, and
you shall number them by their troops,
thou and Aaron.

4 And there shall be with you the princes
of the tribes, and of the houses in their
kindreds,

5 Whose names are these: Of Ruben,
Elisur the son of Sedeur.

6 Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Su-
risaddai.

7 Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

( Ex. 30. 13; Num. 3. 47{ EzeclL 46. 12.— d Jos. 6. 19.

139

e B. C. 1444. — / Ex. 80. 12.

The princes of Israel

NUMBERS

Every tribe is numbered

8 Of Issachar, Kathanael the son of
3uar.
3 Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.

10 And of the sons of Joseph : of Ephra-
im, Elisama the son of Ammiud : of
Manasses, Gamahel the son of Phadassur.

11 Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of
Gedeon.

12 Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisad-
dai.

13 Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.

14 Of Gad, Ehasaph the son of Duel.

15 Of Nephtah, Ahira the son of Enan.

16 These are the most noble princes of
the multitude by their tribes and kin-
dreds, and the chiefs of the army of
Israel :

17 Whom Moses and Aaron took with
all the multitude of the common people :

18 And assembled them on the first day
of the second month, reckoning them up
by the kindreds, and houses, and families,
and heads, and names of every one from
twenty years old and upward,

19 As the Lord had commanded Moses.
And they were numbered in the desert
of Sinai.

20 Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by
their generations and families and houses
and names of every head, all that were
of the male sex, from twenty years old
and upward, that were able to go forth
to war,

21 Were forty- six thousand five hun-
dred.

22 Of the sons of Simeon by their gener-
ations and families, and houses of their
kindreds, were reckoned up by the names
and heads of every one, all that were of
the male sex, from twenty years old and
upward, that were able to go forth to war,

23 Fifty- nine thousand three hundred.

24 Of the sons of Gad, by their genera-
tions and families and houses of their
kindreds were reckoned up by the names
of every one from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to
war,

25 Forty-five thousand six hundred and
fifty.

26 Of the sons of Juda, by their gener-
a^tions and families and houses of their
kindreds, by the names of every one
from twenty years old and upward, all
that were able to go forth to war,

27 Were reckoned up seventy-four thou-
sand six hundred.

28 Of the sons of Issachar, by their
generations and families and houses of
their kindreds, by the names of every
one from twenty years old and upward,
all that could go forth to war,

29 Were reckoned up fifty-four thou-
sand four hundred.

30 Of the sons of Zabulon, by the gen-
erations and families and houses of
their kindreds, were reckoned up by the
names of every one from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war,

31 Fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

32 Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of
the sons of Ephraim, by the generations
and families and houses of their kin-
dreds, were reckoned up by the names
of every one, from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to
war,

33 Forty thousand five hundred.

34 Moreover of the sons of Manasses,
by the generations and families and
houses of their kindreds, were reckoned
up by the names of every one from
twenty years old and upward, all that
could go forth to war,

35 Thirty- two thousand two hundred.

36 Of the sons of Benjamin, by their
generations and families and houses ol
their kindreds, were reckoned up by the
names of every one from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war,

37 Thirty- five thousand four nundred.

38 Of the sons of Dan, by their genera-
tions and families and houses of their
kindreds, were reckoned up by the
names of every one from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war,

39 Sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

40 Of the sons of Aser, by their genera-
tions and families and houses of their
kindreds, were reckoned up by the
names of every one from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war,

41 Forty-one thousand and five hun-
dred.

42 Of the sons of Nephtali, by their
generations and families and houses of
their kindreds, were reckoned up by the
names of every one from twenty years
old and upward, all that were able to go
forth to war.

140

The Levites not numbered

NUMBERS The grmr.gement of the tribes

43 Fifty-three thousand four hundred.

44 These are they who were numbered
by Moses and Aaron, and the twelve
princes of Israel, every one by the
houses of their kindreds.

45 And the whole number of the chil-
dren of Israel by their houses and fami-

1 lies, from twenty years old and upward,
i that were able to go to war,

46 Were six hundred and three thou-
sand five hundred and fifty men.

47 But the Levites in the tribes of their
families were not numbered with them.

48 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

49 Number not the tribe of Levi, neither
Bhalt thou put down the sum of them
with the children of Israel ;

50 But appoint them over the taber-
nacle of the testimony, and all the ves-
sels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth
to the ceremonies. They shall carry the
tabernacle and all the furniture thereof :
and they shall minister, and shall encamp
round about the tabernacle.

51 When you are to go forward, the
Levites shall take down the tabernacle :
when you are to camp, they shall set it
up. What stranger soever cometh to it,
shall be slain.

52 And the children of Israel shall camp
every man by his troops and bands and
army.

53 But the Levites shall pitch their
cents round about the tabernacle, lest
there come indignation upon the multi-
tude of the children of Israel, and they
shall keep watch, and guard the taber-
nacle of the testimony.

54 And the children of Israel did ac-
cording to all things which the Lord had
commanded Moses.

CHAPTER 2.

The order of the tribes in their camp.
AND the Lord spoke to Moses and
XjL Aaron, saying i^*

2 All the children of Israel shall camp
by their troops, ensigns, and standards,
and the houses of their kindreds, round
about the tabernacle of the covenant.

3 On the east Juda shall pitch his tents
by the bands of his army : and the prince
of his sons shall be Nahasson the son of
Aminadab.

4 And the whole sum of the fighting

men of his stock, were seventy-four

thousand six hundred,

5 Next unto him they of the tribe of
Issachar encamped, whose prince was
Nathanael, the son of Suar.

6 And the whole number of his fighting
men were fifty -four thousand four hun-
dred.

7 In the tribe of Zabulon the prince
was EUab the son of Helen.

8 And all the army of fighting men of
his stock, were fifty-seven thousand four
hundred.

9 All that were numbered in the camp
of Juda, were a hundred and eighty- six
thousand four hundred : and they by
their troops shall march first.

10 In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on
the south side, the prince shall be Eiisur
the son of Sedeur :

11 And the whole army of his fighting
men, that were numbered, were forty-
six thousand five hundred.

12 Beside him camped they of the tribe
of Simeon : whose prince was Salamiel
the son of Surisaddai.

13 And the whole army of his fighting
men, that were numbered, were fifty-
nine thousand three hundred.

14 In the tribe of Gad the prince was
Eliasaph the son of Duel.

15 And the whole army of his fighting
men that were numbered, were forty-
five thousand six hundred and fifty.

16 All that were reckoned up in the
camp of Ruben, were a hundred and
fifty-one thousand four hundred and
fifty, by their troops ; they shall march
in the second place.

17 And the tabernacle of the testimony
shall be carried by the officers of tho
Levites and their troops. As it shall be
set up, so shall it be taken down. Every
one shall march according to their
places, and ranks.

18 On the west side shall be the camp
of the sons of Ephraim, whose prince
was Elisama the son of Ammiud.

19 The whole army of his fighting men,
that were numbered, were forty thousand
five hundred.

20 And with them the tribe of the sons
of Manasses, whose prince was Gamaliel
the son of Phadassur.

21 And the whole army of hie fighting

g B. C. 1444.

141

The arrangement of the tribes NUMBERS

The Lemtes are numbered

men. that were numbered, were thirty-
two thousand two hundred.

22 In the tribe of the sons of Benja-
min the prince was Abidan the son of
Gedeon.

23 And the whole army of his fighting
men, that were reckoned up, were thirty-
five thousand four hundred.

24 All that were numbered in the camp
of Ephraim, were a hundred and eight
thousand one hundred by their troops:
they shall march in the third place.

26 On the north side camped the sons
of Dan: whose prince was Ahiezar the
son of Ammisaddai.

26 The whole army of his fighting men,
that were numbered, were sixty-two
thousand seven hundred.

27 Beside him they of the tribe of Aser
pitched their tents: whose prince was
Phegiel the son of Ochran.

28 The whole army of his fighting men,
that were numbered, were forty-one
thousand five hundred.

29 Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali
the prince was Ahira the son of Enan.

30 The whole army of his fighting men,
were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

31 All that were numbered in the camp
of Dan, were a hundred and fifty-seven
thousand six hundred : and they shall
march last.

32 This is the number of the children
of Israel, of their army divided according
to the houses of their kindreds and their
troops, six hundred and three thousand
five hundred and fifty.

33 And the Levites were not numbered
among the children of Israel : for so the
Lord had commanded Moses.

34 And the children of Israel did accord-
ing to all things that the Lord had com-
manded. They camped by their troops,
and marched by the families and houses
of their fathers.

CHAPTER 3.

The Levites are numbered and their offices distin-
guished. They are taken in the place of the first-
born of the children of Israel.

THESE are the generations of Aaron
and Moses in the day that the Lord
spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.

2 ^ And these the names of the sons of
Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then Abiu,
and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

A Ex. 6. 23.— i Le?. 10. 1 and 2 ; 1 Far. 24. 3.

3 These the names of the sons of Aaroi?
the priests that were anointed, and
whose hands were filled and consecrated,
to do the functions of priesthood.

4 * Now Nadab and Abiu died, without
children, when they offered strange fire
before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai:
and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the
priestly oflBce in the presence oi Aaron
their father.

6 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

6 Bring the tribe of Levi, and make
them stand in the sight of Aaron the
priest to minister to him, and let them
watch,

7 And observe whatsoever appertaineth
to the service of the multitude before
the tabernacle of the testimony,

8 And let them keep the vessels of the
tabernacle, serving in the ministry
thereof.

9 And thou shalt give the Levites for 9
gift,

10 To Aaron and to his sons, to whom
they are delivered by the children of
Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron
and his sons over the service of priest-
hood. The stranger that approacheth to
minister, shall be put to death.

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

12 I have taken the Levites from tHe
children of Israel, for every firstborn
that openeth the womb among the chil-
dren of Israel, and the Levites shall be
mine.

13 -^For every firstborn is mine: since
I struck the firstborn in the land of
Egypt : I have sanctified to myself what-
soever is firstborn in Israel both of man
and beast, they are mine : I atn the
Lord.

14 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the
desert of Sinai, saying:

15 Number the sons of Levi by the
houses of their fathers and their families,
every male from one month and upward.

16 Moses numbered them as the Lord
had commanded.

17 ^ And there were found sons of Levi
by their names, Gerson and Caath and
Merari.

18 The sons of Gerson : Lebni and
Semei.

19 The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jes-
aar, Hebron and Oziel :

14?*

4 Ex. 13. 2 ; Infra 8. 16.— A Ex. «. 16.

The charge of the Levites

NUMBERS Taken in 'place of the firstborn

20 The sons of Merar!. Moholi and
Musi.

21 Of Gerson were two families, the
Lebnites, and the Semeites :

22 Of which were numbered, people of
the male sex from one month and up-
ward, seven thousand five hundred.

23 These shall pitch behind the taber-
nacle on the west,

24 Under their prince Eliasaph the son
of Lael.

25 And their charge shall be in the tab-
ernacle of the covenant :

26 The tabernacle itself and the cover
thereof, the hanging that is drawn before
the doors of the tabernacle of the cove-
nant, and the curtains of the court : the
hanging also that is hanged in the entry
of the court of the tabernacle, and what-
soever belongeth to the rite of the altar,
the cords of the tabernacle, and all the
furniture thereof.

27 Of the kindred of Caath come the
families of the Amramites and Jesaarites
and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are
the families of the Caathites reckoned up
by their names :

28 All of the male sex from one month
and upward, eight thousand six hundred :
they shall have the guard of the sanc-
tuary,

29 And shall camp on the south side.

30 And their prince shall be Elisaphan
the son of Oziel :

31 And they shall keep the ark, and the
table and the candlestick, the altars, and
the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith
they minister, and the veil, and all the
furniture of this kind.

32 And the prince of the princes of the
Levites, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, shall be over them that watch for
the guard of the sanctuary.

33 And of Merari are the families of the
Moholites, and Musites, reckoned up by
their names :

34 All of the male kind from one month
and upward, six thousand two hundred.

36 Their prince Suriel the son of Abi-
haiel : they shall camp on the north side.

36 Under their custody shall be the
boards of the tabernacle, and the bars,
and the pillars and their sockets, and all
things that pertain to this kind of ser-
vice:

37 And the pillars of the court round
about with their sockets, and the pins
with their cords.

38 Before the tabernacle of the cove-
nant, that is to say on the east side,
shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their
sons, having the custody of the sanc-
tuary, in the midst of the children of
Israel. What stranger soever cometh
unto it, shall be put to death.

39 All the Levites, that ^ Moses and Aar-
on numbered according to the precept
of the Lord, by their families, of the
male kind from one month and upward,
were twenty-two thousand.

40 And the Lord said to Moses : Num-
ber the firstborn of the male sex of the
children of Israel, from one month and
upward, and thou shalt take the sum of
them.

41 And thou shalt take the Levites to
me for all the firstborn of the children
of Israel, I am the Lord : and their cattle
for all the firstborn of the cattle of th6
children of Israel :

42 Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had
commanded, the firstborn of the children
of Israel :

43 And the males by their names, from
one month and upward, were twenty-
two thousand two hundred and seventy-
three.

44 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

45 Take the Levites for the firstborn
of the children of Israel, and the cattle
of the Levites for their cattle, and the
Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

46 But for the price of the two hundred
and seventy-three, of the firstborn of the
children of Israel, that exceed the num-
ber of the Levites,

47 Thou shalt take five sides for every
head, according to the weight of the
sanctuary. "* A side hath twenty obols.

48 And thou shalt give the money to
Aaron and his sons, the price of them
that are above.

49 Moses therefore took the money of
them that were above, and whom they
had redeemed from the Levites,

60 For the firstborn of the children of
Israel, one thousand three hundred and
sixty-five sides, according to the weight
of the sanctuary,

51 And gave it to Aaron and his sons.

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113

Service of the sons of Caath

NUMBERS

according to the word that the Lord had
commanded him.

CHAPTER 4.

The age and time of the Levites* service : their of-

fices and burdens.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, and
JlL Aaron, saying : "

2 Take the sum of the sons of Caath
from the midst of the Levites, by their
houses and families.

3 From thirty years old and upward, to
fifty years old, of all that go in to stand
and to minister in the tabernacle of the
covenant.

4 This is the service of the sons of
Caath:

6 When the camp is to set forward,
Aaron and his sons shall go into the tab-
ernacle of the covenant, and the holy of
hohes, and shall take down the veil that
hangeth before the door, and shall wrap
up the ark of the testimony in it,

6 And shall cover it again with a cover
of violet skins, and shall spread over it a
cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.

7 They shall wrap up also the table of
proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall
put with it the censers and little mortars,
the cups and bowls to pour out the liba-
tions : the loaves shall be always on it :

8 And they shall spread over it a cloth
of scarlet, which again they shall cover
with a covering of violet skins, and shall
put in the bars.

9 They shall take also a cloth of violet
wherewith they shall cover the candle-
stick with the lamps and tongs thereof
and the snuffers and all the oil vessels,
which are necessary ior the dressing of
the lamps:

10 And over all they shall put a cover
of violet skins and put in the bars.

11 And they shall wrap up the golden
altar also in a cloth of violet, and shall
spread over it a cover of violet skins,
and put in the bars.

12 All the vessels wherewith they min-
ister in the sanctuary, they shall wrap
up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread
over it a cover of violet skins, and put
in the bars.

13 They shall cleanse the altar also from
the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a pur-
ple cloth,

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Service of the sons of Gerson

14 And shall put it with all the vessels
that they use in the ministry thereof,
that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and
forks, pothooks and shovels. They
shall cover all the vessels of the altar
together with a covering of violet skins,
and shall put in the bars.

15 And when Aaron and his sons have
wrapped up the sanctuary and the ves-
sels thereof at the removing of the
camp, then shall the ° sons of Caath en-
ter in to carry the things wrapped up :
and they shall not touch the vessels of
the sanctuary, lest they die. These are
the burdens of the sons of Caath : in the
tabernacle of the covenant :

16 And over them shall be Eleazar the
son of Aaron the priest, to whose charge
pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and
the sweet incense, and the sacrifice, that
is always offered, and the oil of unction,
and whatsoever pertaineth to the ser*
vice of the tabernacle, and of all the ves*
sels that are in the sanctuary.

17 And the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying:

18 Destroy not the people of Caath
from the midst of the l/cvites :

19 But do this to them, that they may
live, and not die, by touching the hohes
of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go
in, and they shall appoint every man his
work, and shall divide the burdens that
every man is to carry.

20 Let not others by any curiosity see
the things that are in the sanctuary be-
fore they be wrapped up, otherwise they
shall die.

21 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

22 Take the sum of the sons of Gerson
also by their houses and famihes and
kindreds.

23 From thirty years old and upward,
unto fifty years old. Number them all
that go in and minister in the tabernacle
of the covenant.

24 This is the office of the family of the
Gersonites :

25 To carry the curtains of the taber-
nacle and the roof of the covenant, the
other covering, and the violet covering
over all, and the hanging that hangeth
in the entry of the tabernacle of the
covenant,

26 The curtains of the court, and the

o 1 Par. 15. 15.

144

Service of the sons of Merari NUMBERS The unclean removed from camp

veil in the entry that is before the taber-
nacle. All things that pertain to the
altar, the cords and the vessels of the
ministry,

27 The sons of Gerson shall carry, by
the commandment of Aaron and his sons :
and each man shall know to what burden
he must be assigned.

28 This is the service of the family of
the Gersonites in the tabernacle of the
covenant, and they shall be under the
hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the
priest.

29 Thou shalt reckon up the sons of
Merari also by the families and houses
of their fathers,

30 From thirty years old and upward,
unto fifty years old, all that go in to the
office of their ministry, and to the service
of the covenant of the testimony.

31 These are their burdens: They shall
carry the boards of the tabernacle and the
bars thereof, the pillars and their sockets,

32 The pillars also of the court round
about, with their sockets and pins and
cords. They shall receive by account
all the vessels and furniture, and so shall
carry them.

33 This is the office of the family of the
Merarites, and their ministry in the taber-
nacle of the covenant : and they shall be
under the hand of Ithamar the son of
Aaron the priest.

34 So Moses and Aaron and the princes
of the synagogue reckoned up the sons
of Caath, by their kindreds and the
houses of their fathers,

35 From thirty years old and upward,
unto fifty years old, all that go in to the
ministry of the tabernacle of the cove-
nant:

36 And they were found two thousand
seven hundred and fifty,

37 This is the number of the people of
Caath that go in to the tabernacle of the
covenant : these did Moses and Aaron
number according to the word of the
Lord by the hand of Moses.

38 The sons of Gerson also were num-
bered by the kindreds and houses of
their fathers,

39 From, thirty years old and upward,
unto fifty years old, all that go in to
minister in the tabernacle of the cove-
nant:

40 And they were found two thousanc?
six hundred and thirty.

41 This is the people of the GersoniteSj
whom Moses and Aaron numbered accord-
ing to the word of the Lord.

42 The sons of Merari also were num-
bered by the kindreds and houses o*
their fathers,

43 From thirty years old and upward,
unto fifty years old, all that go in to
fulfil the rites of the tabernacle of the
covenant :

44 And they were found three thousand
two hundred.

45 This is the number of the sons of
Merari, whom Moses and Aaron reckoned
up according to the commandment of
the Lord by the hand of Moses.

46 All that were reckoned up of the
Levites, and whom Moses and Aaron and
the princes of Israel took by name, by
the kindreds and houses of their fathers,

47 From thirty years old and upward,
until fifty years old, that go into the
ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry
the burdens,

48 Were in all eight thousand five hun-.
dred and eighty,

49 Moses reckoned them up according
to the word of the Lord, every one ac-
cording to their office and burdens, as
the Lord had commanded him.

CHAPTER 5.

The unclean are removed out of the eamp: con-
fession of sins, and satisfaction firstfruits and
oblations belonging to the priests: trial of jealousy,

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say
x\. ing:^

2 Command the children of Israel, that
they cast out of the camp every leper,
and whosoever hath an issue of seed, or
is defiled by the dead :

3 Whetlier it be man or woman, cast ye
them out of the camp, lest they defile it
when I shall dwell with you.

4 And the children of Israel did so, and
they cast them forth without the camp,
as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying .

6 Say to the children of Israel : When a
man or woman shall have committed any
of all the sins that men are wont to
commit, and by negligence shall have
transgressed the commandment of the
Lord, and offended,

p B. C. 1444.
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The trial of jealousy

NUMBERS

The trial of jealousy

store the principal itself, and the fifth
part over and above, to him against
whom they have sinned.

8 But if there be no one to receive it,
they shall give it to the Lord, and it shall
be the priest's, besides the ram that is
offered for expiation, to be an atoning
sacrifice.

9 All the firstfruits also, which the chil-
dren of Israel offer, belong to the priest :

10 And whatsoever is offered into the
sanctuary by every one, and is delivered
into the hands of the priest, it shall be
his.

11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

12 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them : The man whose
v^f e shall have gone astray, and contemn-
ing her husband,

13 Shall have slept with another man,
and her husband cannot discover it, but
the adultery is secret, and cannot be
proved by witnesses, because she was
not found in the adultery :

14 If the spirit of jealousy stir up the
husband against his wife, who either is
defiled, or is charged with false suspicion,

15 He shall bring her to the priest, and
shall offer an oblation for her, the tenth
part of a measure of barley meal: he
shall not pour oil thereon, nor put frank-
incense upon it : because it is a sacrifice
of jealousy, and an oblation searching
out adultery.

16 The priest therefore shall offer it, and
set it before the Lord.

17 And he shall take holy water in an
earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little
earth of the pavement of the tabernacle
into it.

18 And when the woman shall stand be-
fore the Lord, he shall uncover her head,
and shall put on her hands the sacrifice
of remembrance, and the oblation of
jealousy : and he himself shall hold the
most bitter waters, whereon he hath
heaped curses with execration.

19 And he shall adjure her, and shall
say : If another man hath not slept with
thee, and if thou be not defiled by for-
saking thy husband's bed, these most

7 They shall confess their sin, and re- bitter waters, on which I have heaped

curses, shall not hurt thee.

20 But if thou hast gone aside from thy
husband, and art defiled, and hast lain
with another man :

21 These curses shall light upon thee :
The Lord make thee a curse, and an ex-
ample for all among his people: aiay
he make thy thigh to rot, and may th^
belly swell and burst asunder.

22 Let the cursed waters enter into thy
belly, and may thy womb swell and thy
thigh rot. And the woman fihall answer,
Amen, amen.

23 And the priest shall write these curses
in a book, and shall wash them out with
the most bitter waters, upon which he
hath heaped the curses,

24 And he shall give them her to drink.
And when she hath drunk them up,

25 The priest shall take from her hand
the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall ele
vate it before the Lord, and shall put it
upon the altar : yet so as first,

26 To take a handful of the sacrifice of
that which is offered, and burn it upon
the altar : and so give the most bitter
waters to the woman to drink.

27 And when she hath drunk them, if
she be defiled, and having despised her
husband be guilty of adultery, the male-
diction shall go through her, and her
belly swelling, her thigh shall rot: and
the woman shall be a curse, and an ex-
ample to all the people.

28 But if she be not defiled, she shall
not be hurt, and shall bear children.

29 This is the law of jealousy. If a wo-
man hath gone aside from her husband,
and be defiled,

30 And the husband stirred up by the
spirit of jealousy bring her before th*
Lord, and the priest do to her according
to all things that are here written :

31 The husband shall be blameless, and
she shall bear her iniquity.

CHAPTER 6.

The law of the Nazarites : the form of blessing the
people.

ND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

Chap. 5. Ver. 7. Shall confess. This confession
and satisfaction, ordained in the Old Law, was a fig-
ure of the sacrament of penance.

Ver.?.'!. The spirit of Jealousy, Sid» This ordinance

was designed to clear the innocent, and to prevent
jealous husbands from doing mischief to their wives i
as likewise to give all a horror of adultery, by puDr
ishing it in so remarkable a manner.

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The law of the Nazarites

NUMBERS

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou Shalt say to them ; When a man,
or woman, shall make a vow to be sanc-
tified, and will consecrate themselves to
the Lord :

3 They shall abstain from wine, and
from every thing that may make a man
drunk. They shall not drink vinegar of
wine, or of any other drink, nor any
thing that is pressed out of the grape :
nor shall they eat grapes either fresh
or dried.

4 All the days that they are consecrated
to the Lord by vow : they shall eat no-
thing that cometh of the vineyard, from
the raisin even to the kernel.

6 All the time of his separation ^ no
razor shall pass over his head, until the
day be fulfilled of his consecration to the
Lord. He shall be holy, and shall let
the hair of his head grow.

6 All the time of his consecration he
shall not go in to any dead,

7 Neither shall he make himself un-
clean, even for his father, or for his mo-
ther, or for his brother, or for his sister,
when they die, because the consecration
of his God is upon his head.

8 All the days of his separation he shall
be holy to the Lord.

9 But if any man die suddenly before
him : the head of his consecration shall
be defiled : and he shall shave it forth-
with on the same day of his purification,
and again on the seventh day.

10 And on the eighth day he shall bring
two turtles, or two young pigeons to the
priest in the entry of the covenant of the
testimony.

11 And the priest shall offer one for sin,
and the other for a holocaust, and shall
pray for him, for that he hath sinned by
the dead : and he shall sanctify his head
that day :

12 And shall consecrate to the Lord the
days of his separation, offering a lamb of
one year for sin : yet so that the former
days be made void, because his sanctifi-
cation was profaned.

13 This is the law of consecration.
When the days which he had determined
by vow shall be expired, he shall bring
him to the door of the tabernacle of the
covenant,

14 And shall offer his oblation to the

Blessing the people

r Judges 13. 6w

Lord : one he lamb of a year old with-
out blemish for a holocaust, and one
ewe lamb of a year old without blemish
for a sin offering, and one ram without
blemish for a victim of peace offering,

15 A basket also of unleavened bread,
tempered with oil, and wafers without
leaven anointed with oil, and the liba-
tions of each :

16 And the priest shall present them
before the Lord, and shall offer both the
sin offering and the holocaust.

17 But the ram he shall immolate for a
sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord,
offering at the same time the basket of
unleavened bread, and the libations that
are due by custom.

18 *Then shall the hair of the conse-
cration of the Nazarite, be shaved off
before the door of the tabernacle of the
covenant : and he shall take his hair, and
lay it upon the fire, which is under the
sacrifice of the peace offerings.

19 And shall take the boiled shoulder
of the ram, and one unleavened cake
out of the basket, and one unleavened
wafer, and he shall deliver them into the
hands oi the Nazarite, after his head is
shaven.

20 And receiving them again from him,
he shall elevate them in the sight of the
Lord : and they being sanctified shall be-
long to the priest, as the breast, which
was commanded to be separated, and
the shoulder. After this the Nazarite
may drink wine.

21 This is the law of the Nazarite, when
he hath vowed his oblation to the Lord
in the time of his consecration, besides
those things which his hand shall find,
according to that which he had vowed in
his mind, so shall he do for the fulfilling
of his sanctification.

22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

23 Say to Aaron and his sons : Thus
shall you bless the children of Israel,
and you shall say to them :

24 * The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.

25 The Lord shew his face to thee, and
have mercy on thee.

26 The Lord turn his countenance to
thee, and give thee peace.

27 And they shall invoke my name upon
the children of Israel, and I will bless
them.

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Offerings of the princes

NUMBERS

Offerings of the princes

CHAPTER 7.

The offerings of the princes at the dedication of the
tabernacle: God speaketh to Moses from the pro-
pitiatory.

ND it came to pass in the day that
Moses had finished the tabernacle,
**and set it up, and had anointed and
sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar
likewise and all the vessels thereof,

2 The princes of Israel and the heads of
the families, in every tribe, who were
the rulers of them who had been num-
bered, offered"

3 Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons
covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes
offered one wagon, and each one an ox,
and they offered them before the taber-
nacle.

I And the Lord said to Moses :

5 Receive them from them to s<^rve in
tho ministry of the tabernacle, and thou
Shalt deliver them to the Levites accord-
ing to the order of their ministry.

6 Moses therefore receiving the wagons
and the oxen, delivered them to the Le-
vites.

7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave
to the sons of Gerson, according to their
necessity.

8 The other four wagons, and eight oxen
he gave to the sons of Merari, according
to their offices and service, under the
hand of Itbamar the son of Aaron the
priest.

9 But to the sons of Caath he gave no
wagons or oxen : because they serve in
the sanctuary and carry their burdens
upon their own shoulders.

10 And the princes offered for the dedi-
cation of the altar on the day when it was
anointed, their oblation before the altar.

II And the Lord said to Moses: Let
each of the princes one day after another
offer their gifts for the dedication of the
altar.

12 The first day Nahasson the son of
Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered
his offering:

13 And his offering was a silver dish
weighing one hundred and thirty sides,
a silver bowl of seventy sides according
to the weight of the sanctuary, both full
of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice :

14 A little mortar of ten sides of gold
full of incense :

15 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

16 And a buck goat for sin :

17 And for the sacrifice of peace offer-
ings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats,
five lambs of a year old. This was the
offering of Nahasson the son of Amina-
dab.

18 The second day Nathanael the son
of Suar, prince of the tribe of Issachar,
made his offering,

19 A silver dish weighing one hundred
and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy
sides, according to the weight of the
sanctuary, both full of flour tempered
with oil for a sacrifice :

20 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

21 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

22 And a buck goat for sin:

23 And for the sacrifice of peace offer-
ings, two oxen, five rams, five buck
goats, five lambs of a year old. This was
the offering of Nathanael the son of Suar.

24 The third day the prince of the sons
of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon,

25 Offered a silver dish weighing one
hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl
of seventy sides by the weight of the
sanctuary, both full of flour tempered
with oil for a sacrifice :

26 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

27 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

28 And a buck goat for sin:

29 And for the sacrifice of peace offer-
ings, two oxen, five rams, five buck
goats, five lambs of a year old. This is
the oblation of EHab the son of Helon.

30 The fourth day the prince of the
sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur,

31 Offered a silver dish weighing one
hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl
of seventy sides according to the weight
of the sanctuary, both full of flour tem-
pered with oil for a sacrifice :

?.2 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

33 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old, for a holocaust :

34 And a buck goat for sin :

35 And for victims of peace offerings
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats,

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y B. C. 1444.

Offerings of the "princes NUMBERS Offerings of the 'princes

five lambs of a year old. This was the
offering of Elisur the son of Sedeur.

36 The fifth day the prince of the sons
of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai,

37 Offered a silver dish weighing one
hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl
of seventy sides after the weight of the
sanctuary, both full of flour tempered
with oil for a sacrifice :

38 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
nicies full of incense :

89 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

40 And a buck goat for sin :

41 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five
lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

42 The sixth day the prince of the sons
of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel,

43 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun-
dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of
seventy sides by the weight of the sanc-
tuary, both full of flour tempered with
oil for a sacrifice ;

44 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

45 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust ;

46 And a buck goat for sin :

47 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five
lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Eliasaph the son of Duel.

48 The seventh day the prince of the
sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son of
Ammiud,

49 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun-
dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of
seventy sides according to the weight
of the sanctuary, both full of flour tem-
pered with oil for a sacrifice :

50 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

51 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

52 And a buck goat for sin :

53 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five
lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Elisama the son of Ammiud.

54 The eighth day the prince of the
sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of
Phadassur,

55 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun-
dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of
seventy sides, according to the weight

of the sanctuary, both full of flour tem-
pered with oil for a sacrifice :

56 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

57 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

58 And a buck goat for sin :

59 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five
lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

60 The ninth day the prince of the sons
of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon,

61 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun-
dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of
seventy sides by the weight of the sanc-
tuary, both full of flour tempered with
oil for a sacrifice :

62 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

63 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

64 And a buck goat for sin :

65 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five
lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Abidan the son of Gedeon.

66 The tenth day the prince of the sons
of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai,

67 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun-
dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of
seventy sides, according to the weight
of the sanctuary, both full of flour tem-
pered with oil for a sacrifice :

68 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

69 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

70 And a buck goat for sin :

71 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five
lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

72 The eleventh day the prince of the
sons of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran,

73 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun-
dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of
seventy sides, according to the weight
of the sanctuary, both full of flour tem-
pered with oil for a sacrifice :

74 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incenso :

75 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and
a lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

76 And a buck goat for sin :

77 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, fivis

149

God speaks from the propitiatory NUMBERS

Ordination of the Levites

lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Phegiel the son of Ochran.

78 The twelfth day the prince of the
sons of NephtaU, Ahira the son of Enan,

79 Offered a silver dish weighing a hun-
dred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of
seventy sides, according to the weight
of the sanctuary, both full of flour tem-
pered with oil for a sacrifice :

80 A little mortar of gold weighing ten
sides full of incense :

8 1 An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a
lamb of a year old for a holocaust :

82 And a buck goat for sin :

83 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five
lambs of a year old. This was the offer-
ing of Ahira the son of Enan.

84 These were the offerings made by the
princes of Israel in the dedication of the
altar, in the day wherein it was conse-
crated. Twelve dishes of silver : twelve sil-
ver bowls : twelve little mortars of gold :

85 Each dish weighing a hundred and
thirty sides of silver, and each bowl
seventy sides: that is, putting all the
vessels of silver together, two thousand
four hundred sides, by the weight of the
sanctuary.

86 Twelve little mortars of gold full of
incense, weighing ten sides apiece, by
the weight of the sanctuary : that is, in
all a hundred and twenty sides of gold.

87 Twelve oxen out of the herd for a
holocaust, twelve rams, twelve lambs of
a year old, and their libations : twelve
buck goats for sin.

88 And for sacrifices of peace offerings,
oxen twenty- four, rams sixty, buck goats
sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These
things were offered in the dedication of
the altar, when it was anointed.

89 And when Moses entered into the
tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the
oracle, he heard the voice of one speak-
ing to him from the propitiatory, that
was over the ark between the two cheru-
bims, and from this place he spoke to him.

CHAPTER 8.

The seven lamps are placed on the golden candle-
stick, to shine towards the loaves of proposition •
the ordination of the Levites : and to what age
they shall serve in the tabernacle.

Chap. 8. Ver. 7. Let them be sprinkled with
the irater of ^purification. This was the holy water
mixed with the ashes of the red cow, Num. 19.,

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
J\. ing:«'

2 Speak to Aaron, and thou shalt say to
him: When thou shalt place the seven
lamps, let the candlestick be set up on
the south side. Give orders therefore that
the lamps look ovei against the north,
towards the table of the loaves of propo-
sition, over against that part shall they
give light, towards which the candlestick
looketh.

3 And Aaron did so, and he put the
lamps upon the candlestick, as the Lord
had commanded Moses. j

4 Now this was the work of the candle- ^
stick, it was of beaten gold, both the
shaft in the middle, and all that came out
of both sides of the branches : according
to the pattern which the Lord had shewn
to Moses, so he made the candlestick.

6 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

6 Take the Levites out of the midst of
the children of Israel, and thou shalt
purify them,

7 According to this rite : Let them be
sprinkled with the water of purification,
and let them shave all the hairs of their
flesh. And when they shall have washed
their garments, and are cleansed,

8 They shall take an ox of the herd,
and for the offering thereof fine fiour
tempered with oil : and thou shalt take
another ox of the herd for a sin offering :

9 And thou shalt bring the Levites be-
fore the tabernacle of the covenant, call-
ing together all the multitude of the
children of Israel :

10 And when the Levites are before the
Lord, the children of Israel shall put
their hands upon them:

11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites, as
a gift in the sight of the Lord from the
children of Israel, that they may serve
in his ministry.

12 The Levites also shall put their hands
upon the heads of the oxen, of which
thou shalt sacrifice one for sin, and the
other for a holocaust to the Lord, to
pray for them.

13 And thou shalt set the Levites in the
sight of Aaron and of his sons, and shaltj
consecrate them being offered to th<
Lord,

to B. C. 1444.

appointed for purifying all that were unclean. It
was a figure of the blood of Christ, applied to oul
souls by his holy sacraments.

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TheLevites taken for the firstborn NUMBERS Precept of the pasch renewed

14 And Shalt separate them from the
midst of the children of Israel, to be
mine.

15 And afterwards they shall enter into
the tabernacle of the covenant, to serve
me. And thus shalt thou purify and
consecrate them for an oblation of the
Lord: for as a gift they were given me
by the children of Israel.

16^1 have taken them instead of the
firstborn that open every womb in Is-
rael,

17 For all the firstborn of the children
of Israel, both of men and of beasts, are
mine. From the day that I slew every
firstborn in the land of Egypt, have I
sanctified them to myself:

18 And I have taken the Levites for all
the firstborn of the children of Israel:

19 And have delivered them for a gift
to Aaron and his sons out of the midst
of the people, to serve me for Israel in
the tabernacle of the covenant, and to
pray for them, lest there should be a
plague among the people, if they should
presume to approach unto my sanctuary.

20 And Moses and Aaron and all the
multitude of the children of Israel did
with the Levites all that the Lord had
commanded Moses:

21 And they were purified, and washed
their garments. And Aaron lifted them
up in the sight of the Lord, and prayed
for them,

22 That being purified they might go
into the tabernacle of the covenant to
do their services before Aaron and his
sons. As the Lord had commanded Mo-
ses touching the Levites, so was it done.

23 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

24 This is the law oi the Levites : Prom
twenty-five years old and upwards, they
shall go in to minister in the tabernacle
of the covenant.

25 And when they shall have accom-
plished the fiftieth year of their age,
they shall cease to serve :

26 And they shall be the ministers of
bheir brethren in the tabernacle of the
jovenant, to keep the things that are
^.ommitted to their care, but not to do

X Ex. 13. 2 : Supra 3. 13 ; Luke 2. 23.
y B. C. 1444.

Chap.9. Ver.2. Make the phase. That is, keep
ne paschal solemnity, and eat the paschal lamb.
Ver. 8. Behold some who were uncleca^ by occa»

the works. Thus shalt thou order the
Levites touching their charge.

CHAPTER 9.

The precept of the pasch is renewed : the unclean
and travellers are to observe it the second month .
the camp is guided by the pillar of the cloud.

THE Lord spoke to Moses in the des-
ert of Sinai, the second year after
they were come out of the land of Egypt,
in the first month, saying : v

2 ^ Let the children of Israel make the
phase in its due time,

3 The fourteenth day of this month in
the evening, according to all the cere-
monies and justifications thereof.

4 And Moses commanded the children
of Israel that they should make the phase.

6 And they made it in its proper time:
the fourteenth day of the month at even-
ing, in mount Sinai. The children of
Israel did according to all things that
the Lord had commanded Moses.

6 But behold some who were unclean
by occasion of the soul of a man, who
could not make the phase on that day,
coming to Moses and Aaron,

7 Said to them : We are unclean by oc-
casion of the soul of a man. Why are
we kept back that we may not offer in
its season the offering to the Lord among
the children of Israel?

8 And Moses answered them : Stay that
I may consult the Lord what he will or-
dain concerning you.

9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

10 Say to the children of Israel: The
man that shall be unclean by occasion
of one that is dead, or shall be in a jour-
ney afar off in your nation, let him make
the phase to the Lord.

11 In the second month, on the four-
teenth day of the month in the evening,
they shall eat it with unleavened bread
and wild lettuce :

12 They shall not leave any thing thereof
until morning, " nor break a bone thereof,
they shall observe all the ceremonies of
the phase.

13 But if any man is clean, and was not
on a journey, and did not make the
phase, that soul shall be cut off from
among his people, because he offered

2 Ex. 12 3
a Ex. 12.46*; John 19. 36.

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sion of the soul of a maau, &c. That ia, by navme

The pillar of the cloud

NUMBERS

The silver trumpets

not sacrifice to the Lord in due season :
he shall bear his sin.

14 The sojourner also and the stranger
if they be among you, shall make the
phase to the Lord according to the cere-
monies and justifications thereof. The
same ordinance shall be with you both
for the stranger, and for him that was
born in the land.

1? '' Now on the day that the tabernacle
was reared up, a cloud covered it. But
from the evening there was over the
tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of
fire until the morning.

16 So it was always : by day the cloud
covered it, and by night as it were the
itppearance of fire.

17 And when the cloud that covered
the tabernacle was taken up, then the
children of Israel marched forward : and
in the place where the cloud stood still,
there they camped.

18 At the commanament of the Lord
they marched, and at his commandment
they pitched the tabernacle. ^ All the
days that the cloud abode over the taber-
nacle, they remained in the same place :

19 And if it was so that it continued
over it a long time, the children of Israel
kept the watches of the Lord, and
marched not,

20 For as many days soever as the
cloud stayed over the tabernacle. At the
commandment of the Lord they pitched
their tents, and at his commandment
they took them down.

21 If the cloud tarried from evening
until morning, and immediately at break
of day left the tabernacle, they marched
forward : and if it departed after a day
and a night, they took down their tents.

22 But if it remained over the taber-
nacle for two days or a month or a longer
time, the children of Israel remained in
the same place, and marched not: but
immediately as soon as it departed, they
removed the camp.

23 By the word of the Lord they pitched
their tents, and by his word they marched:
and kept the watches of the Lord accord-
ing to his commandment by the hand of
Moses.

CHAPTER 10.

The silver trumpets and their tLse.
from Sinai.

They march

I Ex. 40. 16 and 32 ; Supra 7. &.— cl Cor. 10. 1.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:*^
XX. 2 Make thee two trumpets of beaten
silver, wherewith thou mayest call to-
gether the multitude when the camp is
to be removed.

3 And when thou shalt sound the trum-
pets, all the multitude shall gather unto
thee to the door of the tabernacle of the
covenant.

4 If thou sound but once, the prince»
and the heads of the multitude of Israel
shall come to thee.

5 But if the sound of the trumpets be
longer, and with interruptions, they that
are on the east side, shall first go forward.

6 And at the second sounding and like
noise of the trumpet, they who lie on the
south side shall take up their tents. And
after this manner shall the rest do, when
the trumpets shall sound for a march.

7 But when the people is to be gathered
together, the sound of the trumpets shall
be plain, and they shall not make a bro-
ken sound.

8 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall
sound the trumpets : and this shall be an
ordinance for ever in your generations.

9 If you go forth to war out of your land
against the enemies that fight against you,
you shall sound aloud with the trumpets,
and there shall be a remembrance of you
before the Lord your God, that you may
be delivered out of the hands of your ene-
mies.

10 If at any time you shall have a ban-
quet, and on your festival days, and on
the first days of your months, you shall
sound the trumpets over the holocausts,
and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that
they may be to you for a remembrance
of your God. I am the Lord your God.

11 The second year, in the second
month, the twentieth day of the month,
the cloud was taken up from the taber-
nacle of the covenant.

12 And the children of Israel marched
by their troops from the desert of Sinai,
and the cloud rested in the wilderness of
Pharan.

13 And the first went forward according
to the commandment of the Lord by the.
hand of Moses.

14 ^The sons of Juda by their troops:
whose prince was Nahasson the son of
Aminadab.

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d B. C. 1444. — e Supra 1. 7.

The march from Sinai

NUMBERS

The people murmur

15 In the tribe of the sons of Issachar,
the prince wasNathanael the son of Suar.

13 In the tribe of Zabulon, the prince
was Eliab the son of Helon.

17 And the tabernacle was taken down,
and the sons of Gerson and Merari set
forward, bearing it.

18 And the sons of Ruben also marched,
by their troops and ranks, whose prince
was Helisur the son of Sedeur.

19 And in the tribe of Simeon, the prince
was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

20 And in the tribe of Gad, the prince
was Eliasaph the son of Duel.

21 Then the Caathites also marched
carrying the sanctuary. So long was the
tabernacle carried, till they came to the
place of setting it up.

22 The sons of Ephraim also moved
their camp by their troops, in whose
army the prince was Elisama the son of
Ammiud.

23 And in the tribe of the sons of Ma-
na^sses, the prince was Gamaliel the son
of Phadassur.

24 And in the tribe of Benjamin, the
prince was Abidan the son of Gedeon.

25 The last of all the camp marched the
sons of Dan by their troops, in whose
army the prince was Ahiezer the son of
Ammisaddai.

26 And in the tribe of the sons of Aser,
the prince was Phtgiel the son of Ochran.

27 And in the tribe of the sons of Neph-
tali, the prince was Ahira the son of
Enan.

28 This was the order of the camps, and
marches of the children of Israel by their
troops, when they set forward.

29 And Moses said to Hobab the son of
Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman : We
are going towards the place which the
Lord will give us : come with us, that
we may do thee good : for the Lord hath
promised good things to Israel.

30 But he answered him : I will not go
with thee, but I will return to my ^ coun-
try, wherein I was born.

31 And he said : Do not leave us : for
thou knowest in what places we should

/ Ex. 18. 27.— g Ps. 67. 2.
h Infra 33. 16 ; Ps. 77. 19 ; 1 Cor. 10. 10.

Chap. 11. Ver. 3. The burning. Hebrew, Tabe-
rah.

Ver. 4. A mixt mnltitvde. These were people that
fame with them out of Egypt, who were not of the
race of Israel: who, by their murmnring, drew also
the childreu of Israel to murmur : this should teach

encamp in the wilderness, and thou shall
be our guide.

32 And if thou comest with us, we wil*
give thee what is the best of the riches
which the Lord shall deliver to us.

33 So they marched from the mount of
the Lord three days' journey, and the
ark of the covenant of the Lord went
before thom, for three days providing a
place for the camp.

34 The cloud also of the Lord was over
them by day when they marched.

35 And when the ark was lifted up, Mo-
ses said : ^ Arise, O Lord, and let thy ene
mies be scattered, and let them that hate
thee, flee from before thy face.

36 And when it was set down, he said :
Return, O Lord, tc the multitude of the
host of Israel.

CHAPTER 11.

The jjeozjle irnurniur, and are jjunished with fire,

God appointeth seventy ancients for assistants to

Moses. They prophesy. The people have their

fill of flesh, butforthivith many die of the j)lague.

17 the mean time there arose a mur-

muring of the people against the
Lord, as it were repining at their fa-
tigue. And when the Lord heard it he
was angry. *And the fire of the Lord
being kindled against them, devoured
them that were at the uttermost part of
the camp.

2 And when the people cried to Moses,
Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire
was swallowed up.

3 And he called the name of that place,
The burning: for that the fire of the
Lord had been kindled against them.

4 For a mixt multitude, of people, that
came up with them, burned with desire,
sitting and weeping, the children of Isra-
el also being joined with them, and said :
^ Who shall give us flesh to eat?

5 We remember the fish that we ate in
Egypt free cost: the cucumbers come
into our mind, and the melons, and the
leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

6 Our soul is dry, our eyes behold no-
thing else but manna.

7 ^ Now the manna was like coriander
seed, of the colour of bdellium.

i Ps. 77. 21. — ?1 Cor. 10.3.
k Ex. 16. 14; Ps. 77. 24; Wisd. 16. 20 ; John 6. 31

US the danger of associating ourselves with the chil-
dren of Egypt, that is, with the lovers and admirers
of this wicked world.

Ver. 7. Bdelliutn. Bdellium, according to Pliny,,
1. 21, c. 9, was of the colour of a man's nail, white
and brigbtc

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Moses 'prays for relief

NUMBERS

The seventy ancients

8 And the people went about, and gath-
ering it, ground it in a mill, or beat it
in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and
made cakes thereof of the taste of bread
tempered with oil.

9 And when the dew fell in the night
upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.

10 Now Moses heard the people weep-
ing by their families, every one at the
door of his tent. And the wrath of the
Lord was exceedingly enkindled : to
Moses also the thing seemed insupport-
able.

11 And he said to the Lord: Why hast
thou afflicted thy servant ? wherefore do
I not find favour before thee ? and why
hast thou laid the weight of all this peo-
ple upon me ?

12 Have I conceived all this multitude,
or begotten them, that thou shouldst say
to me : Carry them in thy bosom as the
nurse is wont to carry the little infant,
and bear them into the land, for which
thou hast sworn to their fathers ?

13 Whence should I have flesh to give
to so great a multitude ? they weep
against me, saying : Give us flesh that
we may eat.

14 I am not able alone to bear all this
people, because it is too heavy for me.

15 But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I
beseech thee to kill me, and let me find
grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted
with so great evils.

16 And the Lord said to Moses : Gather
unto me seventy men of the ancients of
Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients
and masters of the people: and thou
shalt bring them to the door of the tab-
ernacle of the covenant, and shalt make
them stand there with thee,

17 That I may come down and speak
with thee : and I will take of thy spirit,
and will give to them, that they may
bear with thee the burden of the people,
and thou mayest not be burthened alone.

18 And thou shalt say to the people:
Be ye sanctified : to morrow you shall eat
flesh : for I have heard you say : Who
will give us flesh to eat ? it was well with
us in Egypt. That the Lord may give
you flesh, and you may eat :

19 Not for one day, nor two, nor five,
nor ten, no nor for twenty.

I John 6. 10.

Ver. 16.
ttODOf t'

Seventy men. This was the first institu-
"ouDcil cr senate, called the Sanhedrim^

20 But even for a month of days, till it
come out at your nostrils, and become
loathsome to you, because you have cast
off the Lord, who is in the midst of you,
and have wept before him, saying : Why
came we out of Egypt ?

21 And Moses said : There are six hun-
dred thousand footmen of this people,
and sayest thou : I will give them flesh
to eat a whole month ?

22 ^ Shall then a multitude of sheep and
oxen be killed, that it may suffice for
their food ? or shall the flshes of the sea
be gathered together to fill them ?

23 And the Lord answered him : "* Is
the hand of the Lord unable ? Thou shalt
presently see whether my word shall
come to pass or no.

24 Moses therefore came, and told the
people the words of the Lord, and as-
sembled seventy men of the ancients of
Israel, and made them to stand about the
tabernacle.

25 And the Lord came down in a cloud,
and spoke to him, taking away of the
spirit that was in Moses, and giving to
the seventy men. And when the spirit
had rested on them they prophesied,
nor did they cease afterwards.

26 Now there remained in the camp two
of the men, of whom one was called El-
dad, and the other Medad, upon whom
the spirit rested ; for they also had been
enrolled, but were not gone forth to the
tabernacle.

27 And when they prophesied in the
camp, there ran a young man, and told
Moses, saying: Eldad and Medad pro-
phesy in the camp.

28 Forthwith Josue the son of Nun,
the minister of Moses, and chosen out
of many, said: My lord Moses forbid
them.

29 But he said : Why hast thou emula-
tion for me ? O that all the people might
prophesy, and that the Lord would give
them his spirit !

30 And Moses returned, with the an-
cients of Israel, into the camp.

31 ^ And a wind going out from the
Lord, taking quails up beyond the sea
brought them, and cast them into the
camp for the space of one day's journey,
on every side of the camp round about,

m Isa. 59. 1. — n Ps. 77. 26 and 27.

consisting of seventy or seventy-two senators oi
counsellors.

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Mary and Aaron murmur

NUMBERS

Mary stricken with leprosy

and they flew in the air "^i; cubits high
above the ground.

32 The people therefore rising up all
that day, and night, and the next day,
gathered together of quails, he that did
least, ten cores: and they dried them
round about the camp.

33 ° As yet the flesh was between their
teeth, neither had that kind of meat
failed : when behold the wrath of the
Lord being provoked against the people,
struck them with an exceeding great
plague.

34 And that place was called. The graves
of lust : for there they buried the people
that had lusted. And departing from the
graves of lust, they came unto Haseroth,
and abode there.

CHAPTER 12.

Mary and Aaron murmnr against Moses, whom
God praiseth above other prophets. Mary being
struck with leprosy, Aaron confesseth his fault.
Moses prayeth for her, and after seven days'* sepa-
ration from the camp, she is restored.

AND Mary and Aaron spoke against
J\ Moses, because of his wife the Ethio-
pian,

2 And they said : Hath the Lord spoken
by Moses only ? hath he not also spoken
to us in like manner? And when the
Lord heard this,

3 (For Moses was a man exceeding meek
above all men that dwelt upon earth)

4 Immediately he spoke to him, and to
Aaron and Mary: Come out you three
only to the tabernacle of the covenant.
And when they were come out,

5 The Lord came down in a pillar of the
cloud, and stood in the entry of the
tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary.
And when they were come,

6 He said to them : Hear my words : if
there be among you a prophet of the
Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or
I will speak to him in a dream.

7 But it is not so with my servant Mo-
ses ^ who is most faithful in all my house :

8 ^ For I speak to him mouth to mouth :
and plainly, and not by riddles and
figures doth he see the Lord. Why then

o Ps. 77. 30.

q Heb. 3. 2.

Ver. 34. The graves of lust ; or, the sepulchres of
concupiscence : so called from their irregular desire
of flesh. In Hebrew, Kibroth. ffattaavah.

Chap. 12. Ver. 1. Ethiopian. Sephora the wife
of Moses was of Madian, which bordered upon the
land of Chus or Ethiopia : and therefore she is called
an Ethiopian : where note, that the Ethiopia here
•poken of is not that of Africa but that of Arabia. I

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were you not afraid to speak ill of my
servant Moses ?

9 And being angry with them he went
away:

10 The cloud also that was over the
tabernacle departed : ® and behold Mary
appeared white as snow with a leprosy.
And when Aaron had looked on her, and
saw her all covered with leprosy,

11 He said to Moses: I beseech thee,
my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which
we have foolishly committed :

12 Let her not be as one dead, and as
an abortive that is cast forth from the
mother's womb. Lo, now one half of
her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.

13 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying
O God, I beseech thee heal her.

14 And the Lord answered him : If her
father had spitten upon her face, ought
she not to have been ashamed for seven
days at least? Let her be separated
seven days without the camp, and after-
wards she shall be called again.

15 Mary therefore was put out of the
camp seven days : and the people moved
not from that place until Mary was called
again.

CHAPTER 13.

The twelve spies are sent to view the land. The
relation they make of it.

A ND the people marched from Hase-
xjL roth, and pitched their tents in the
desert of Pharan. *

2 And there the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying -,

3 Send men to view the land of Cha-
naan, which I will give to the children
of Israel, one of every tribe, of the
rulers.

4 Moses did what the Lord had com-
manded, sending from the desert of
Pharan, principal men, whose names are
these :

5 Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the
son of Zechur.

6 Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the
son of Huri.

7 Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of
Jephone.

r Ex. 33. 11. — s Deut. 24. 9. — < B. C. 1444.

Ver. 3. Exceeding meek. Moses being the meek-
est of men, would hot contend for himself; there-
fore, God inspired him to write here his own defence :
and the Holy Spirit, wliose dictate he wrote, obliged
him to declare the truth, though it was so much to
his own praise.

The twelve .977?'/'.?

NUMBERS

8 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son
of Joseph.

9 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son
of Nun.

10 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Phalti the
son of Raphu.

11 Of the tribe of Zabulon, Geddiel the
son of Sodi.

12 Of the tribe of Joseph, of the sceptre
of Manasses, Gaddi the son of Susi.

13 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son
of Gemalli.

14 Of the tribe of Aser, Sthur the son of
Michael.

15 Of the tribe of Nephtali, Nahabi the
son of Vapsi.

16 Of the tribe of Gad, Guel the son of
Machi.

17 These are the names of the men,
whom Moses sent to view the land : and
he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue. "

18 And Moses sent them to view the
land of Chanaan, and said to them : Go
you up by the south side. And when
you shall come to the mountains,

19 View the land, of what sort it is : and
the people that are the inhabitants there-
of, whether they be strong or weak : few
in number or many :

20 The land itself, whether it be good

The spies discourage ike people

to say, the torrent of the cluster of
grapes, because from thence the childrei
of Israel had carried a cluster of grapes.

26 And they that went to spy out the
land returned after forty days, having
gone round all the country,

27 And came to Moses and Aaron and to
all the assembly of the children of Israel
to the desert of Pharan, which is in
Cades. And speaking to them and to all
the multitude, they shewed them the
fruits of the land :

28 And they related and said : We came
into the land to which thou sentest us,
which in very deed floweth with milk
and honey as may be known by these
fruits :

29 But it hath very strong inhabitants,
and the cities are great and walled. We
saw there the race of Enac.

30 Amalec dwelleth in the south, the
Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amor-
rhite in the mountains: but the Chanaan-
ite abideth by the sea and near the
streams of the Jordan.

31 In the mean time Caleb, to still the
murmuring of the people that rose
against Moses, said: Let us go up and
possess the land, for we shall be able to
conquer it.

32 But the others, that had been with

or bad : what manner of cities, walled or

without walls : \ him, said : No, we are not able to go up

21 The ground, fat or barren, woody or to this people, because they are stronger

without trees. Be of good courage, and
bring us of the fruits of the land. Now
it was the time when the firstripe grapes
are fit to be eaten.

22 And when they were gone up, they
viewed the land from the desert of Sin,
unto Rohob as you enter into Emath.

23 And they went up at the south side,
and came to Hebron, where were '^ Achi-
man and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of
Enac. For Hebron was built seven years
before Tanis the city of Egypt.

24 '^ And going forward as far as the
torrent of the cluster of grapes, they cut
off a branch with its cluster of grapes,
which two men carried upon a lever.
They took also of the pomegranates and
of the figs of that place :

25 Which was called Nehelescol, that is

u Acts 7. 45, and Heb. 4. 8. — v Jos. 15. 14.

Chap 13. Ver. 33. Spoke ill, &c. These men,
who by their misrepresentations of the land of pro-
mise, discouraged the Israelites from attempting tiie
conquest of it, were a figure of worldliuefs, who, by

than we.

33 And they spoke ill of the land, which
they had viewed, before the children of
Israel, saying: The land which we have
viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the
people, that we beheld, are of a tall
stature.

34 There we saw certain monsters of
the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in
comparison of whom, we seemed like
locusts.

CHAPTER 14.

The people murm'^.r. God threateneth to destroy
them. He is appeased by Moses, yet so as to exclude
the mxirmurers from entering the promised land.
The authors of the seMtion are sti^ick dead. The
rest going to fight against the will of God are
beaten.

rpHEREFOEE the whole multitude cry-
A. ing wept that night.

IV Deut. 1. 24.

decrying or misrepresenting true devotion, discour-
age Christians from seeking in earnest and acquiring
so great a good, and thereby securing to themselves
a happy eternity.

156

The people murmur

NUMBERS GocVs anger appeased hy'Moses

2 And all the children of Israel mur-
mured against Moses and Aaron, say-
ing:

3 Would God that we had died in Egypt :
and would God we may die in this vast
wilderness, and that the Lord may not
bring us into this land, lest we fall by the
sword, and our wives and children be led
away captives. Is it not better to return
into Egypt?

4 And they said one to another : Let us
appoint a captain, and let us return into
Egypt.

5 And when Moses anc^ Aaron heard
this, they fell down flat upon the ground
before the multitude of the children of
Israel.

6 * But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb
the son of Jephone, who themselves also
had viewed the land, rent their garments,

7 And said to all the multitude of the
children of Israel : The land which we
have gone round is very good :

8 If the Lord be favourable, he will bring
us into it, and give us a land flowing with
milk and honey.

9 Be not rebellious against the Lord:
and fear ye not the people of this land,
for we are able to eat them up as bread.
All aid is gone from them : the Lord is
with us, fear ye not.

10 And when all the multitude cried out,
and would have stoned them, the glory
of the Lord appeared over the tabernacle
of the covenant to all the children of
Israel.

11 And the Lord said to Moses: How
long will this people detract me ? how
long will they not believe me for all the
signs that I have wrought before them ?

12 I will strike them therefore with
pestilence, and will consume them : but
thee I will make a ruler over a great na-
tion, and a mightier than this is.

13 And Moses said to the Lord : That
the Egyptians, from the midst of whom
thou hast brought forth this people,

14 And the inhabitants of this land, (who
have heard that thou, O Lord, art among
this people, and art seen face to face,
y and thy cloud protecteth them, and thou
goest before them in a pillar of a cloud by
day, and in a pillar of fire by night, )

15 May hear that thou hast killed dO

X Eccli. 46. 9 ; 1 Mac. 2. 55 and 56. — y Ex. 13. 21.
z Ex. .32. 28. — a Ps. 102. 8. — h Ex. 34. 7.

great a multitude as it were one man an '
may say :

16 He could not bring the people into
the land for which he had sworn, ^ there-
fore did he kill them in the wilderness.

17 Let then the strength of the Lord bo
magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying :

18 "The Lord is patient and full of
mercy, ^ taking away iniquity and wick-
edness, and leaving no man clear, ^ who
visitest the sins of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth gen-
eration.

19 Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of
this people, according to the greatness
of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful
to them from their going out of Egypt
unto this place.

20 And the Lord said: I have forgiven
according to thy word.

21 As I live : and the whole earth shall
be filled with the glory of the Lord.

22 But yet all the men that have seen
my majesty, and the signs that I have done
in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have
tempted me now ten times, and have not
obeyed my voice,

23 ^ Shall not see the land for which I
swore to their fathers, neither shall any
one of them that hath detracted me be-
hold it.

24 * My servant Caleb, who being full of
another spirit hath followed me, I will
bring into this land which he hath gone
round : and his seed shall possess it.

25 For the Amalecite and the Chanaanite
dwell in the valleys. To morrow remove
the camp, and return into the wilderness
by the way of the Red Sea.

26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying:

27 How long doth this wicked multitude
murmur against me? I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel.

28 Say therefore to them: As I live,
saith the Lord : According as you have
spoken in my hearing, so will I do to
you.

29 -^In the wilderness shall your car-
casses lie. All you that were numbered
from twenty years old and upward, and
have murmured against me,

30 ^ Shall not enter into the land, over
which I lifted up my hand to make you

c Ex. 20. b. — d Deut. 1. 35. — e Jos. 14. 6.
/ Ps. i05. 26. ~ g Deut. i. 35^

UnAi*. 14. Ver. 18.

Clear, i. e., who deserves punisbment.
157

Authors of the sedition punished NUMBERS

Laws concerning sacrifices

Jwell therein, except Caleb the son of
Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

31 But your children, of whom you said,
that they should be a prey to the enemies,
will I bring in : that they may see the
land which you have despised.

32 Your carcasses shall lie in the wilder-
ness.

33 Your children shall wander in the
desert forty years, and shall bear your
fornication, until the carcasses of their
fathers be consumed in the desert,

34 According to the number of the forty
days, wherein you viewed the land : ^ a
year, shall be counted for a day. * And
forty years you shall receive your iniqri-
ties, and shall know my revenge :

35 For as I have spoken, so will I do to
all this wicked multitude, that hath risen
up together against me : in this wilderness
shall it faint away and die.

36 ^ Therefore all the men, whom Moses
had sent to view the land, and who at
their return had made the whole multi-
tude to murmur against him, speaking ill
of the land that it was naught,

37 Died and were struck in the sight of
the Lord.

38 But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb
the son of Jephone lived, of all them that
had gone to view the land.

39 And Moses spoke all these words to
all the children of Israel, and the people
mourned exceedingly.

40 And behold rising up very early in
the morning, they went up to the top of
the mountain, and said : We are ready
to go up to the place, of which the Lord
hath spoken : for we have sinned.

41 And Moses said to them: Why trans-
gress you the word of the Lord, which
shall not succeed prosperously with you?

42 '^ Go not up, for the Lord is not with
you: lest you fall before your enemies.

43 The Amalecite and the Chanaanite
are before you, and by their sword you
shall fall, because you would not consent
to the Lord, neither will the Lord be with
you.

44 But they being blinded went up to
the top of the mountain. But the ark of
the testament of the Lord and Moses de-
parted not from the camp.

45 And the Amalecite came down, and

the Chanaanite that dwelt in the mouuv-
tain : and smiting and slaying them pui-
sued them as far as Horma.

CHAPTER 15.

Certain laws concerning sacrifices. Sabbath break-
ing is punished with death. The law of fringei
on their garmeyits.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
XX 2 Speak to the children of Israel,
and thou shalt say to them : When you
shall be come into the land of your habi-
tation, which I will give you,

3 And shall make an offering to the
Lord, for a holocaust, or a victim, paying
your vows, or voluntarily offering gifts,
or in your solemnities burning a sweet
savour unto the Lord, of oxen or of
sheep :

4 Whosoever immolateth the victim,
shall offer a sacrifice of fine flour, the
tenth part of an ephi, tempered with the
fourth part of a bin of oil :

5 And he shall give the same measure of
wine to pom* out in libations for the holo-
caust or for the victim. For every lamb,

6 And for every ram there shall be
sacrifice of flour of two tenths, which
shall be tempered with the third part o1
a hin of oil :

7 And he shall offer the third part v^i
the same measure of wine for the liba-
tion, for a sweet savour to the Lord.

8 But when thou offerest a holocaust oi
sacrifice of oxen, to fulfil thy vow or foi
victims of peace offerings,

9 Thou shalt give for every ox three
tenths of flour tempered with half a hin
of oil,

10 And wine for libations of the same
measure, for an offering of most sweet
savour to the Lord.

11 Thus shalt thou do

12 For every ox and ram and lamb and
kid.

13 Both they that are born in the land,
and the strangers

14 Shall offer sacrifices after the same
rite.

15 There shall be all one law and judg-
ment both for you and for them who are
strangers in the land.

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them :

h Ezech. 4. 6. — t Ps. 94. 10. —j Judith 8. 24 ;

Ver. 33. Shall bear your fornication. That is,
shall bear the punishment o£ i'oui disloyalty to God,

1 Cor. 10. 10 ; Heb. 3. 17 ; Jude 1. 5. — fc Pent. 1. 42.

which in the scripture language is here called a/OP
nication, ia a spiritual seuse.

158

Laws concerning sacrifices

NUMBERS The sahhath-hreaher 'punished

18 When you are come into the land
which I will give you,

19 And shall eat of the bread of that
country, you shall separate firstfruits to
the Lord,

20 Of the things you eat. As you sepa-
rate firstfruits of your barnfloors :

21 So also shall you give firstfruits of
your dough to the Lord.

22 And if through ignorance you omit
any of these things, which the Lord hath
spoken to Moses,

23 And by him hath commanded you,
from the day that he began to command
and thenceforward,

24 And the multitude have forgotten to
do it : they shall offer a calf out of the
herd, a holocaust for a most sweet savour
to the Lord, and the sacrifice and liba-
tions thereof, as the ceremonies require,
and a buck goat for sin :

25 And the priest shall pray for all
the multitude of the children of Israel :
and it shall be forgiven them, because
they sinned ignorantly, offering notwith-
standing a burnt offering to the Lord for
themselves and for their sm and their
ignorance :

26 And it shall be forgiven all the people
of the children of Israel : and the stran-
gers that sojourn among them: because
it is the fault of all the people through
Ignorance.

27 But if one soul shall sin ignorantly,
he shall offer a she goat of a year old for
his sin.

28 And the priest shall pray for him,
oecause he sinned ignorantly before the
Lord: and he shall obtain his pardon,
and it shall be forgiven him.

29 The same law shall be for all that sin
by ignorance, whether they be natives
or strangers.

30 But the soul that committeth any
thing through pride, whether he be born
in the land or a stranger (because he
hath been rebellious against the Lord)
shall be cut off from among his peo-
ple :

31 For he hath contemned the word of
the Lord, and made void his precept :

I Deut. 22. 12 ; Matt. 23. 5.

Chap. 15. Ver. 38. Fringes. Tlie Pharisees en-
larged these fringes through hypocrisy, Matt. 23. 5,
to appear more zealous than other men for the law
of God.

Chap. 16. Ver. 2. Rose up. The crime of these
men. which was punished m so remarkable a man-

therefore shall he be destroyed, and shall
bear his iniquity.

32 And it came to pass, when the chil-
dren of Israel were in the wilderness,
and had found a man gathering sticks
on the sabbath day,

33 That they brought him to Moses and
Aaron and the whole multitude.

34 And they put him into prison, not
knowing what they should do with him.

35 And the Lord said to Moses : Let
that man die, let all the multitude stone
him without the camp.

36 And when they had brought him out,
they stoned him, and he died as the Lord
had commanded.

37 The Lord also said to Moses :

38 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou Shalt tell them ^ to make to them-
selves fringes in the corners of their gar-
ments, putting in them ribands of blue :

39 That when they shall see them, they
may remember all the commandments
of the Lord, and not follow their own
thoughts and eyes going astray after di-
vers things,

40 But rather being mindful of the pre-
cepts of the Lord, may do them and be
holy to their God.

41 I am the Lord your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, that I might
be your God.

CHAPTER 16.

The schism of Core and his adherents : their pun-
ishment.

AND behold Core the son of Isaar, the
. son of Caath, the son of Levi, and
Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab,
and Hon the son of Pheleth of the chil-
dren of Ruben,

2 Rose up against Moses, and with them
two hundred and fifty others of the chil-
dren of Israel, leading men of the syna-
gogue, and who in the time of assembly
were called by name.

3 ^ And when they had stood up against
Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be
enough for you, that all the multitude
consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is
among them : Why lift you up your-
selves above the people of the Lord ?

m Eccli. 45. 22 ; 1 Cor. 10. 10 ; Jude 1. 12.

ner, was that of schism, and of rebellion against the
authority established by God in the church ; and
their pretending to the priesthood without bping
lawfully called and sent: the same is the ease of aU
modern sectaries.

159

Schism of Corey Dathan^ Ahiron NUMBERS The people sej^aratefroin them

4 vV'hen MoBes heard this, he feH flat on
his face :

5 And speaking to Core and all the mul-
titude, he said : In the morning the Lord
will make known who belong to him,
and the holy he will join to himself : and
whom he shall choose, they shall ap-
proach to him.

6 Do this therefore : Take every man of
you your censers, thou Core, and all thy
company.

7 And putting fire in them to morrow,
put incense upon it before the Lord : and
whomsoever he shall choose, the same
shall be holy : you take too much upon
you, ye sons of Levi.

8 And he said again to Core : Hear ye
sons of Levi.

9 Is it a small thing unto you, that the
God of Israel hath spared you from all
the people, and joined you to himself,
that you should serve him in the service
of the tabernacle, and should stand be-
fore the congregation of the people, and
should minister to him ?

10 Did he therefore make thee and all
thy brethren the sons of Levi to ap-
proach unto him, that you should chal-
lenge to yourselves the priesthood also,

11 And that all thy company should
Btand against the Lord ? for what is Aar-
on that you murmur against him ?

12 Then Moses sent to call Dathan and
Abiron the sons of Eliabo But they an-
swered : We will not come.

13 Is it a small matter to thee, that thou
hast brought us out of a land that flowed
with milk and honey, to kill us in the
desert, except thou rule also like a lord
over us?

14 Thou hast brought us indeed into a
land that floweth with rivers of inilk and
honey, and hast given us possessions of
fields and vineyards ; wilt thou also pull
out our eyes? We will not come.

15 Moses therefore being very angry,
said to the Lord : Respect not their sac-
rifices : thou knowest that I have not
taken of them so much as a young ass at
any time, nor have injured any of them.

16 And he said to Core : Do thou and
thy congregation stand apart before the
Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart.

17 Take every one of you censers, and

Ver. 15. Very avqry. This anjrer was a zeal
against sin; and an indignatiou aL llie affront oSeied

put incense upon them, offering to the
Lord two hundred and fifty censers : let
Aaron also hold his censer.

18 When they had done this, Moses and
Aaron standing,

19 And had drawn up all the multitude
against them to the door of the taber-
nacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to
them all.

20 And the Lord speaking to Moses and
Aaron, said :

21 Separate yourselves from among this
congregation, that I may presently de-
stroy them.

22 They fell flat on their face, and said :
O most mighty, the God of the spirits of
all flesh, for one man's sin shall thy wrath
rage against all?

23 And the Lord said to Moses :

24 Command the whole people to sepa-
rate themselves from the tents of Core
and Dathan and Abiron.

25 And Moses arose, and went to Da-
than and Abiron: and the ancients of
Israel following him,

26 He said to the multitude: Depart
from the tents of these wicked men, and
touch nothing of theirs, lest you be in-
volved in their sins.

27 And when they were departed from
their tents round about, Dathan and Abi-
ron coming out stood in the entry of
their paviUons with their wives and chil-
dren, and all the people.

28 And Moses said : By this you shall
know that the Lord hath sent me to do
all things that you see, and that I have
not forged them of my own head :

29 If these men die the common death
of men, and if they be visited with a
plague, wherewith others also are wont
to be visited, the Lord did not send me.

30 But if the Lord do a new thing, and
the earth opening her mouth swallow
them down, and all things that belong
to them, and they go down alive into
hell, you shall know that they have blas-
phemed the Lord.

31 ^And immediately as he had made
an end of speaking, the earth broke
asunder under their feet :

32 And opening her mouth, devoured
them with their tents and all their sub-
stance.

n Dent. 11. fi ; Ps. 105. 17 and 18.

to God; like that which the same holy prophet coa
ceived upon the sight of the golden calf. £x. 32. id,

160

Their punishment

NUMBERS

The rod of Aaron

33 And they went down alive into hell,
the ground closing upon them, and they
perished from among the people.

34 But all Israel, that was standing
round about, fled at the cry of them that
were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps
the earth swallow us up also.

35 And a fire coming out from the Lord,
destroyed the two hundred and fifty
men that offered the incense.

36 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

37 Command Eleazar the son of Aaron
the priest to take up the censers that lie
in the burning, and to scatter the fire of
one side and the other: because they
are sanctified

38 In the deaths of the sinners : and let
Mm beat them into plates, and fasten
them to the altar, because incense hath
been offered in them to the Lord, and
they are sanctified, that the children of
Israel may see them for a sign and a
memorial.

39 Then Eleazar the priest took the
brazen censers, wherein they had offered,
whom the burning fire had devoured,
and beat them into plates, fastening
them to the altar :

40 That the children of Israel might
have for the time to come wherewith
they should be admonished, that no
stranger or any one that is not of the
seed of Aaron should come near to offer
incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer
as Core suffered, and all his congregation,
according as the Lord spoke to Moses.

41 The following day aU the multitude
of the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and Aaron, saying: You
hav e killed the people of the Lord.

42 And when there arose a sedition,
and the tumult increased,

43 Moses and Aaron fled to the taber-
nacle of the covenant. And when they
were gone into it, the cloud covered it,
and the glory of the Lord appeared.

44 And the Lord said to Moses :

45 Get you out from the midst of this
multitude, this moment will I destroy
them. And as they were lying on the
ground,

46 Moses said to Aaron: Take the cen-
ter, and putting fire in it from the altar.

Chap. it. Ver. 8. The rod of Aaron for the
hoMse of Levi, was budded, &c. This rod of Aaron
which thus miraculously brought lorth fruit, was a

put incense upon it, and go quickly to
the people to pray for them: for already
wrath is gone out from the Lord, and
the plague rageth.

47 When Aaron had done this, and had
run to the midst of the multitude which
the burning fire was now destroying, he
offered the incense :

48 And standing between the dead and
the living, he prayed for the people, and
the plague ceased.

49 And the number of them that were
slain was fourteen thousand and seven
hundred men, besides them that had
perished in the sedition of Core.

50 And Aaron returned to Moses to the
door of the tabernacle of the covenant
after the destruction was over,

CHAPTER 17.

The priesthood is confirmed to Aaron by the mira-
cle of the blooming of his rod, which is kept for a
monument in the tabernacle.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
. 2 Speak to the children of Israel,
and take of every one of them a rod by
their kindreds, of all the princes of the
tribes, twelve rods, and write the name
of every man upon his rod.

3 And the name of Aaron shall be fop
the tribe of Levi, and one rod shall con-
tain all their families :

4 And thou shalt lay them up in the
tabernacle of the covenant before the
testimony, where I will speak to thee.

5 Whomsoever of these I shall choose,
his rod shall blossom: and I will make
to cease from me the munaurings of the
children of Israel, wherewith they mur-
mur against you.

6 And Moses spoke to the children of
Israel : and all the princes gave him rods
one for every tribe : and there were
twelve rods besides the rod of Aaron,

7 And when Moses had laid them up
before the Lord ir the tabernacle of the
testimony :

8 He returned on the following day,
and found that the rod of Aaron for the
house of Levi, was budded : and that the
buds swelling it had bloomed blossoms,
which spreading the leaves, were formed
into almonds.

9 Moses therefore brought out all the
rods from before the Lord to all the

figure of the blessed Virgin conceiving and bring
ing forth her Son without any prejudice to her vlr
giuity.

161

Charge of the priests and Leviies N UMBERS

The priests* portion

children of Israel: and they r.aw, and
every one received their ^'ods.

10 And the Lord said to Moses : Carry
back the rod of Aaron into the taber-
nacle of the testimony, ''that it may be
kept there for a token of the rebellious
children of Israel, and that their com-
plaints may cease from me lest they die.

11 And Moses did as the Lord had com-
manded.

12 And the children of Israel said to
Moses : Behold we are consumed, we all
perish.

13 Whosoever approacheth to the tab-
ernacle of the Lord, he dieth. Are we
all to a man to be utterly destroyed ?

CHAPTER 18.

The charge of the priests and of the Levites, and
their portion.

AND the Lord said to Aaron: Thou,
XjL and thy sons, and thy father's house
with thee shall bear the iniquity of the
sanctuary : and thou and thy sons with
thee shall bear the sins of your priest-
hood.

2 And take with thee thy brethren also
of the tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of
thy father, and let them be ready in
hand, and minister to thee : out thou
and thy sons shall minister in tne taber-
nacle of the testimony.

3 And the Levites shall watch to do thy
commands, and about all the works of
the tabernacle : only they shall not come
nigh the vessels of the sanctuary nor the
altar, lest both they die, and you also
perish with them.

4 But let them be with thee, an^ watch
in the charge of the tabernacle, and in
all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger
shall not join himself with you.

5 Watch ye in the charge of the sanctu-
ary, and in the ministry of the altar : lest
indignation rise upon the children of
Israel.

6 I have given you your brethren the
Levites from among the children of Is-
rael, and have delivered them for a gift
to the Lord, to serve in the ministries of
the tabernacle.

7 But thou and thy sons look ye to the
priesthood: and all things tha^ pertain

o Heb. 9. 4.

Chap. 18. Vcr. 1. Thou, and thy father^s house
with thee, shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary.
That is, you shall be punished if. through negligence

to the service of the altar, and that are
within the veil, shall be executed by th«
priests. If any stranger shall approacij,
he shall be slain.

8 And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I
have given thee the charge of my first-
fruits. All things that are sanctified by
the children of Israel, I have delivered
to thee and to thy sons for the priestly
oflBce, by everlasting ordinances.

9 These therefore shalt thou take of
the things that are sanctified, and are
offered to the Lord. Every offering, and
sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to
me for sin and for trespass, and becom-
eth holy of holies, shall be for thee and
thy sons.

10 Thou shalt eat it in the sanctuary:
the males only shall eat thereof, because
it is a consecrated thing to thee.

11 But the firstfruits, which the chil-
dren of Israel shall vow and offer, I have
given to thee, and to thy sons, and to
thy daughters, by a perpetual law. He
that is clean in thy house, shall eat them.

12 All the best of the oil, and of the
wine, and of the corn, whatsoever first-
fruits they offer to the Lord, I have
given them to thee.

13 All the firs tripe of the fruits, that
the ground bringeth forth, and which
are brought to the Lord, shall be for thy
use : he that is clean in thy house, shall
eat them.

14 Every thing that the children of Is-
rael shall give by vow, shall be thine.

15 Whatsoever is firstborn of all flesh,
which they offer to the Lord, whether it
be of men, or of beasts, shall belong to
thee : only for the firstborn of man thou
shalt take a price, and every beast that is
unclean thou shalt cause to be redeemed,

16 And the redemption of it shall be
after one month, for five sides of silver,
by the weight of the sanctuary. ^A
side bath twenty obols.

17 But the firstling of a cow and of a
sheep and of a goat thou shalt not cause
to be redeemed, because they are sancti-
fied to the Lord. Their blood only thoul
shalt pour upon the altar, and their fat |
thou shalt burn for a most sweet odour
to the Lord.

p Ex. 30. 13 ; Lev. 27. 25 ; Supra 3. 47 : Ezech. 45. 12.

or want of due attention, you err in the discharge
of the sacred fiuictions for which you were or»
dained.

Portion of the Levites

18 But the flesh shall fall to thy use, as
the consecrated breast, and the right
shoulder shall be thine.

19 All the firstfruits of the sanctuary
which the children of Israel offer to the
Lord, I have given to thee and to thy
sons and daughters, by a perpetual ordi-
nance. It is a covenant of salt for ever
before the Lord, to thee and to thy sons.

20 And the Lord said to Aaron: You
shall possess nothing in their land, nei-
ther shall you have a portion among
them : I am thy portion and inheritance
in the midst of the children of Israel.

21 And I have given to the sons of Levi
aU the tithes of Israel for a possession,
for the ministry wherewith they serve
me in the tabernacle of the covenant :

22 That the children of Israel may not
Epproach any more to the tabernacle,
nor commit deadly sin,

23 But only the sons of Levi may serve
me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins
of the people. It shall be an everlasting
ordinance in your generations. ^They
shall not possess any other thing,

24 But be content with the oblation or
tithes, which I have separated for their
uses and necessities.

25 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say-
ing:

26 Command the Levites, and declare
ante them : When you shall receive of
the children of Israel the tithes, which Z
have given you, offer the firstfruits >*
fchem to the Lord, that is to say, the
tenth part of the tenth :

27 That it may be reckoned to you as
an oblation of firstfruits, as well of the
barnfloors as of the winepresses :

28 And of all the things of which you
receive tithes, offer the firstfruits to the
Lord, and give them to Aaron the priest.

29 All the things that you shall offer of
the tithes, and shall separate for the gifts
of the Lord, shall be the best and choi-
%est things.

30 And thou shalt say to them : If you
offer all the goodly and the better things
Df the tithes, it shall be reckoned to you

q Deut. 18. 1.

Ver. 19. A covenant of salt. It is a proverbial
expression, signifying a covenant not to be altered
or corrupted ; as salt is used to keep things from
corruption ; a covenant perpetual, like that by which
it was appointed, that salt should be used in every
sacrifice. Lev. 2.

Ver. 22. Deadly sin. That is, sin which will bring
death after it

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Sacrifice of the red cow

as if you had given the firstfruits of the
barnfloor and the winepress :

31 And you shall eat them in all your
places, both you and your families : be-
cause it is your reward for the ministry,
wherewith you serve in the tabernacle
of the testimony.

32 And you shall not sin in this point,
by reserving the choicest and fat things
to yourselves, lest you profane the obla-
tions of the children of Israel, and die.

CHAPTER 19.

The law of the sacrifice of the red cow^ and the
water of expiation.

ND the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron, saying;

2 This is the observance of the victim,
which the Lord hath ordained. Com-
mand the children of Israel, that they
bring unto thee a red cow of full age,
in which there is no blemish, and which
hath not carried the yoke :

3 And you shall deliver her to Eleazar
the priest, ''who shall bring her forth
without the camp, and shall immolate
her in the sight of all :

4 And dipping his finger in her blood,
shall sprinkle it over against the door of
the tabernacle seven times,

5 And shall burn her in the sight of all,
delivering up to the fire her skin, and
her flesh, and her blood, and her dung.

d The priest shall also take cedar wood,
and hyssop, and scarlet twice dyed, and
jast it into the flame, with which the cow
is consumed.

7 And then after washing his garments,
and body, he shall enter 'r»^o the camp,
and shall be unclean until i.ne evening.

8 He also that hath burned her, shall
wash his garments, and his body, and
shall be unclean until the evening.

9 And a man that is clean shall gather
up the ashes of the cow, and shall pour
them forth without the camp in a most
clean place, that they may be reserved
for the multitude of the children of Israel,
and for a water of aspersion: because
the cow was burnt for sin.

r Heb. 18. 11.

Chap. 19. Ver. 2. A red coir, &c. This red cow,
offered in sacrifice for sin, and consumed with fir©
without the camp, with the ashes of which, mingled
with water, the unclean were to be expiated and
purified; was a figure of the passion of Christ, by
whose precious blood applied to our souls in the holy
sacraments, we are cleansed from our sins.

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The water of expiation

NUMBERS

The death of Mary

10 And when he that carried the ashes
©f the cow, hath washed his garments, he
«hall be unclean until the evening. The
children of Israel, and the strangers that
dwell among them, shall observe this for
a holy thing by a perpetual ordinance.

11 He that toucheth the corpse of a man,
and is therefore unclean seven days,

12 Shall be sprinkled with this water on
the third day, and on the seventh, and
so shall be cleansed. If he were not
sprinkled on the third day, he cannot be
cleansed on the seventh.

13 Every one that toucheth the corpse
of a man, and is not sprinkled with this
mixture, shall profane the tabernacle of
the Lord, and shall perish out of Israel :
because he was not sprinkled with the wa-
ter of expiation, he shall be unclean, and
his uncleanness shall remain upon him.

14 This is the law of a man that dieth
in a tent : All that go into his tent and
all the vessels that are there, shall be
unclean seven days.

15 The vessel that hath no cover, nor
binding over it, shall be unclean.

16 If any man in the field touch the
corpse of a man that was slain, or that
died of himself, or his bone, or his grave,
he shall be unclean seven days.

17 And they shall take of the ashes of
the burning and of the sin offering, and
shall pour living waters upon them into
a vessel.

18 And a man that is clean shall dip
hyssop in them, and shall sprinkle there-
with all the tent, and all the furniture,
and the men that are defiled with touch-
ing any such thing :

19 And in this manner he that is clean
shall purify the unclean on the third and
on the seventh day. And being expi-
ated the seventh day, he shall wash both
himself and his garments, and be unclean
until the evening.

20 If any man be not expiated after this
rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst
of the church : because he hath profaned
the sanctuary of the Lord, and was not
sprinkled with the water of purification.

21 This precept shall be an ordinance
for ever. He also that sprinkled the
water, shall wash hi8 garments. Every
one that shall touch the waters of expia-
tion, shall be unclean until the evening.

tU%»VL1k

22 Whatsoever a person toucheth who
is unclean, he shall make it unclean : and
the person that toucheth any of these
things, shall be unclean until the even-
ing.

CHAPTER 20.

TJie death of Mary the sister of Moses. The people
murmur for want of water: God giveth it them
from the rock. The death of Aaron.

ND the children of Israel, and all the
multitude came into the desert of
Sin, in the first month : and the people
abode in Cades. And Mary died there,
and was buried in the same place.

2 And the people wanting water, came
together against Moses and Aaron :

3 And making a sedition, they said :
Would God we had perished among our
brethren before the Lord.

4 ' Why have you brought out the
church of the Lord into the wilderness,
that both we and our cattle should die ?

5 Why have you made us come up out
of Egypt, and have brought us into this
wretched place which cannot be sowed,
nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines, nor
pomegranates, neither is there any water
to drink?

6 And Moses and Aaron leaving the
multitude, went into the tabernacle of
the covenant, and fell flat upon the
ground, and cried to the Lord, and said ;
O Lord God, hear the cry of this people,
and open to them thy treasure, a foun-
tain of living water, that being satisfied,
they may cease to murmur. And the
glory of the Lord appeared over them.

7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say*
ing:

8 Take the rod, and assemble the peo-
ple together, thou and Aaron thy brother,
and speak to the rock before them, and
it shall yield waters. And when thou
hast brought forth water out of the rock,
all the multitude and their cattle shall
drink.

9 ** Moses therefore took the rod, which
was before the Lord, as he had com-
manded him,

10 And having gathered together the
multitude before the rock, he said to
them: Hear, ye rebellious and incredu-
lous : ^ Can we bring you forth water out
of this rock ?

11 And when Moses had lifted up hie

u Ex. 17. 5 and 6 ; Wisd. 11. 4.
V Pf. 77. 16 and 20i i Cor. la 4»

The water of contradiction

NUMBERS

The death of Aaron

hand, and struck the rock twice with the
rod, there came forth water in great
abundance, so that the people and their
cattle drank,

12 And the Lord said to Moses and
Aaron: ^Because you have not believed
me, to sanctify me before the children of
Israel, you shall not bring these people
into the land, which I will give them.

13 This is the Water of contradiction,
where the children of Israel strove with
words against the Lord, and he was sanc-
tified in them.

14 In the mean time Moses sent messen-
gers from Cades to the king of Edom, to
say: Thus saith thy brother Israel : Thoa
knowest all the labour that hath come
upon us :

15 In what manner our fathers went
down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a
long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us
and our fathers.

16 And how we cried to the Lord, and
he hoard us, and sent an angel, who hath
brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are
now in the city of Cades, which is in the
uttermost of thy borders,

17 And we beseech thee that we may
have leave to pass through thy country.
We will not go through the fields, nor
through the vineyards, we will not drink
the waters of thy wells, but we wiU go
by the common highway, neither turning
aside to the right hand, nor to the left,
till we are past thy borders.

18 And Edom answered them : Thou
shalt not pass by me : if thou dost I will
come out armed against thee.

19 And the children of Israel said : We
will go by the beaten way : and if we and
our cattle drink of thy waters, we will
give thee what is just : there shall be no
difficulty in the price, only let us pass
speedily.

20 But he answered : Thou shalt not
pass. And immediately he came forth
to meet them with an infinite multitude,
and a strong hand,

21 Neither would he condescend to their
desire to grant them passage through his

w Deut. 1. 37. — X Infra 33. 38 ; Deut. 32. 50.

Chap. 20. Ver. 11. The rock. This rock was a
figure of Christ, and the water that issued out from
the rock, of his precious blood, the source of all our
good.

Ver. 12. You have not believed, &g. The fault of
Moses and Aaron, on this occasion, was a certain
diflSdence and weakness of faith; not doubfug of

borders. Wherefore Israel turned an-
other way from him.

22 And when they had removed the
camp from Cades, they came to mount
Hor, which is in the borders of the land
of Edom :

23 Where the Lord spoke to Moses :

24 Let Aaron, saith he, go to his people :
for he shall not go into the land which I
have given the children of Israel, because
he was incredulous to my words, at the
waters of contradiction.

25 * Take Aaron and his son with him,
and bring them up into mount Hor :

26 And when thou hast stripped the
father of his vesture, thou shalt vest
therewith Eleazar his son: Aaron shall
be gathered to his people, and die there.

27 Moses did as the Lord had command-
ed: and they went up into mount Hor
before all the multitude.

28 And when he had stripped Aaron of
his vestments, he vested Eleazar his son
with them.

29 And Aaron being dead in the top of
the mountain, he came down with Eleazar.

30 And all the multitude seeing that
Aaron was dead, mourned for him thirty
days throughout all their families.

CHAPTER 21.

King Arad is overcome. The people murmur and
are punished with fiery serpents : they are healed
by the brazen serpent. They conquer the kings
Sehon and Og.

A ND when king Arad the Chanaanite,
x\_ who dwelt towards the south, had
heard this, to wit, that Israel was come
by the way of the spies, he fought against
them, and overcoming them carried off
their spoils.

2 But Israel binding himself by vow to
the Lord, ^ said : If thou wilt deliver this
people into my hand, I will utterly de-
stroy their cities.

3 And the Lord heard the prayers of
Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite,
and they cut them off and destroyed
their cities : and they called the name
of that place Horma, that is to say. Ana-
thema.

2 Infra 33. 40.

God's power or veracity; but apprehending the urv
worthiness of that rebellious and incredulous people,
and therefore speaking with some ambiguity,

Ver. 13. The Water of contradiction or strife.
Hebrew. Meribah.

Chap. 21. Ver. 3. Anathema, That is, a thing
devoted to utter destruction.

16S

The fiery serpents

NUMBERS Journeyings of the Israelites

4 And they marched from mount Hor,
by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea,
to compass the land of Edom. And the
people began to be weary of their journey
and labour :

5 And speaking against God and Moses,
fchey said : Why didst thou bring us out
of Egypt, to die in the wilderness?
There is no bread, nor have we any
waters : our soul now loatheth this very
light food.

6 " Wherefore the Lord sent among the
people fiery serpents, which bit them
and killed many of them.

7 Upon which they came to Moses, and
said : We have sinned, because we have
spoken against the Lord and thee : pray
that he may take away these serpents
from us. And Moses prayed for the
people.

8 And the Lord said to him: Make a
brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign :
whosoever being struck shall look on it,
shall hve.

9 ^ Moses therefore made a brazen ser-
pent, and set it up for a sign: which
when they that were bitten looked upon,
they were healed.

10 And the children of Israel setting
forwards camped in Oboth.

11 And departing thence they pitched
their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness,
that faceth Moab toward the east.

12 And removing from thence, they
came to the torrent Zared :

13 ^' Which they left and encamped over
against Arnon, which is in the desert
and standeth out on the borders of the
Amorrhite. '^ For Arnon is the border of
Moab, dividing the Moabites and the
Amorrhites.

14 Wherefore it is said in the book of
the wars of the Lord : As he did in the
Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of
Arnon.

15 The rocks of the torrents were bowed
down that they might rest in Ar, and
lie down in the borders of the Moab-
ites.

16 When they went from that place, the

a Judith 8. 25 ; Wif d. 16. 5 ; 1 Cor. 10. 9.

b John 3. 14,- c Deut 2. 13.

Ver. 5. Very light food. So they call tho heavenly
manna : thns worldlings loathe the things of heaven,
for which they have no relish.

Ver. 6. Fiery serpents. They are so called, because
they that were bitten by them were burnt with a
Violent heat

Ver. 9. A brazen serpent. This was a figure of

well appeared whereof the Lord said to
Moses : Gather the people togetuer, and
I will give them water.

17 Then Israel sung this song : Let the
well spring up. They sung thereto :

18 The well, which the princes dug, and
the chiefs of the people prepared by the
direction of the lawgiver, and with their
staves. And they marched from the wil-
derness to Mathana.

19 From Mathana unto NahaUel : from
Nahaliel unto Bamoth.

20 From Bamoth, is a valley in the coun-
try of Moab, to the top of Phasga, whic\
looked towards the desert.

21 -^ And Israel sent messengers to Sehon
king of the Amorrhites, saying :

22 1 beseech thee that I may have leave
to pass through thy land : we will not go
aside into the fields or the vineyards, we
will not drink waters of the wells, we will
go the king's highway, till we be past thy
borders.

23 And he would not grant that Israel
should pass by his borders : but rather
gathering an army, went forth to meet
them in the desert, and came to Jasa,
and fought against them.

24 ^ And he was slain by them with the
edge of the sword, and they possessed his
land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and
to the confines of the children of Ammon :
for the borders of the Ammonites, were
kept with a strong garrison.

25 So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt
in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in
Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.

26 Hesebon was the city of Sehon the
king of the Amorrhites, who fought
against the king of Moab : and took all
the land, that had been of his dominions,
as far as the Arnon.

27 Therefore it is said in the proverb:
Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon
be built and set up :

28 A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a

flame from the city of Sehon, and hath

consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the

inhabitants of the high places of the

Arnon.

e Judges 11. 18 ; Deut. 2. 24.
/ Deut. 2. 26 ; Judges 11. 19. — g Ps. 134. 11 ; Amos 2. 9.

Christ crucified, and of the eflficacy of a lively faith
in him, against the bites of the hellish serpent. John
3. 14.

Ver. 14. The book of the wars, &c. An ancient
book, which, like several others quoted Id scrlpturOi
has been lost

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The king of Basan slain

NUMBERS

Balac sends for Balaam

29 ^ Woe to thee Moab : thou art un-
done, O people of Chamos. He hath
given his sons to flight, and his daughters
into captivity to Sehon the king of the
Amorrhites.

30 Their yoke is perished from Hesebon
unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe,
and unto Medaba.

31 So Israel dwelt in the land of the
Amorrhite.

32 And Moses sent some to take a view
of Jazer : and they took the villages of
it, and conquered the inhabitants.

33 * And they turned themselves, and
went up by the way of Basan, and Og
the king of Basan came against them
with all his people, to fight in Edrai.

34 And the Lord said to Moses : Fear
him not, for I have delivered him and all
his people, and his country into thy hand :
and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to
Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, the
Inhabitant of Hesebon.

35 So they slew him also with his sons,
and all his people, not letting any one
escape, and they possessed his land.

CHAPTER 22.

Balac y king of Moab, sendeth twice for Balaam to
curse Israel. In his way Balaam is rebuked by an
angel.

A ND they went forward and encamped
a\. in the plains of Moab, over against
where Jericho is situate beyond the Jor-
dan.

2 And Balac the son of Sephor, seeing
all that Israel had done to the Amor-
rhite,

3 And that the Moabites were in great
fear of him, and were not able to sustain
his assault,

4 He said to the elders of Madian: So
will this people destroy all that dwell in
our borders, as the ox is wont to eat the
grass to the very roots. Now he was at
that time king in Moab.

5 ^ He sent therefore messengers to Ba-
laam the son of Beor, a soothsayer, who
dwelt by the river of the land of the
children of Ammon, to call him, and to
say: Behold a people is come out of

h Judges 11. 24 ; 3 Kings 11.
i Dent. 3. 3, and 29. 7.

Chap. 22. Ver. 19. To stay. His desiring them to
stay, after he had been fully informed already that
it was not God's will he should go, came from the
Inclination he had to gratify Balac, for the sake of
worldly gain. And this perverse disposition God
punished by permitting liim to go (though DOt to

Egypt, that hath covered the face of th#
earth, sitting over against me.

6 Come therefore, and cui'se this peo
pie, because it is mightier than I : if by
any means I may beat them and drive
them out of my land : for I know that he
whom thou shalt bless is blessed, and hi
whom thou shalt curse is cursed.

7 And the ancients of Moab, and the
elders of Madian, went with the price oJ
divination in their hands. And whei
they were come to Balaam, and had tolp
him all the words of Balac :

8 He answered : Tarry here this nigll i
and I will answer whatsoever the Lor<i
shall say to me. And while they stayed
with Balaam, God came and said to him

9 What mean these men that are witl
thee?

10 He answered: Balac the son of Se-
phor king of the Moabites hath sent to me,

11 Saying: Behold a people that is come
out of Egypt, hath covered the face oi
the land : come and curse them, if by
any means I may fight with them and
drive them away.

12 And God said to Balaam : Thou shalt
not go with them, nor shalt thou curse
the people : because it is blessed.

13 And he rose in the morning and said
to the princes: Go into your country,
because the Lord hath forbid me to come
with you.

14 The princes returning, said to Balac:
Balaam would not come with us.

15 Then he sent many more and more
noble than he had sent before :

16 Who, when they were come to Ba-
laam, said: Thus saith Balac the son of
Sephor, Delay not to come to me :

17 For I am ready to honour thee, and
will give thee whatsoever thou wilt:
come and curse this people.

18 Balaam answered : ^ If Balac would
give me his house full of silver and gold,
I cannot alter the word of the Lord my
God, to speak either more or less.

19 1 pray you to stay here this night also,
that I may know what the Lord will
answer me once more.

I Jos. 24. 9. — m Infra 24. 13.

curse the people as he would willingly have done),
and suffering liim to fall still deeper and deeper into
sin, till he came at last to give that abominable coun.
sel against the people of God, which ended in his
own destruction. So sad a thmg it is to indulge a
passioD tor money.

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Balaam rebuked by an angel NUMBERS Balaam sees the camp of Israel

20 God therefore came to Balaam in the
night, and said to him : If these men be
come to call thee, arise and go with tliem :
yet so, that thou do what I shall com-
mand thee.

21 Balaam arose in the morning, and
saddling his ass went with them.

22 '^ And God was angry. And an angel
of the Lord stood in the way against
Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two
servants with him.

23 The ass seeing the angel standing in
the way, with a drawn sword, turned
herself out of the way, and went into the
field. And when Balaam beat her, and
had a mind to bring her again to the way,

24 The angel stood in a narrow place
between two walls, wherewith the vine-
yards were enclosed.

25 And the ass seeing him, thrust her-
self close to the wall, and bruised the foot
of the rider. But he beat her again ;

26 And nevertheless the angel going on
to a narrow place, where there was no
way to turn aside either to the right
hand or to the left, stood to meet him.

27 And when the ass saw the angel
standing, she fell under the feet of the
rider: who being angry beat her sides
more vehemently with a staff.

28 And the Lord opened the mouth of
the ass, and she said : What have I done
to thee ? Why strikest thou me, lo, now
this third time?

29 Balaam answered : Because thou hast
deserved it, and hast served me ill: I
would I had a sword that I might kill
thee.

30 The ass said : Am not I thy beast, on
which thou hast been always accustomed
to ride until this present day ? tell me if
I ever did the like thing to thee. But he
said: Never.

31 Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes
of Balaam, and he saw the angel stand-
ing in the way with a drawn sword, and
he worshipped him falling flat on the
ground.

32 And the angel said to him : Why
beatest thou thy ass these three times ?
I am come to withstand thee, because thy
way is perverse, and contrary to me :

n 2 Peter 2. 15.

Ver. 28. Opened the mo-nth, &c. The angel moved
the tongue of the ass, to utter these speeches, to re-
buke, by the mouth of a brute beast, the brutal fury
\D(1 folly of Balaam.

33 And unless the ass had turned out of
the way, giving place to me who stood
against thee, I had slain thee, and she
should have lived.

34 Balaam said : I have sinned, not
knowing that thou didst stand against
me : and now if it displease thee that I
go, I will return.

35 The angel said : Go with these men,
and see thou speak no other thing than
what I shall command thee. He went
therefore with the princes.

36 And when Balac heard it he came
forth to meet him in a town of the Moab-
ites, that is situate in the uttermost
borders of Arnon.

37 And he said to Balaam : I sent mes-
sengers to call thee, why didst thou not
come immediately to me ? was it because
I am not able to reward thy coming ?

38 He answered him: Lo, here I am:
shall I have power to speak any other
thing but that which God shall put in
my mouth?

39 So they went on together, and came
into a city, that was in the uttermost
borders of his kingdom.

40 And when Balac had killed oxen and
sheep, he sent presents to Balaam, and
to the princes that were with him.

41 And when morning was come, he
brought him to the high places of Baal,
and he beheld the uttermost part of the
people.

CHAPTER 23.

Balaam, instead of cursing Israel, is obliged to bless
them,, and prophesy good tilings of them,.

AND Balaam said to Balac : Build me
. here seven altars, and prepare as
many calves, and the same number of
rams.

2 And when he had done according to
the word of Balaam, they laid together
a calf and a ram upon every altar.

3 And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a
while by thy burnt offering, until I go,
to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me,
and whatsoever he shall command, I will
speak to thee.

4 And when he was gone with speed,
God met him. And Balaam speaking to
him, said : I have erected seven altars.

Ver. 32. Perverse. Because thy inclinations are
wicked in being willing for the sake of gain to curse
the people of whom I am the guardian.

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He refuses to curse Israel

NUMBERS

and have laid on every one a calf and a
ram.

5 And the Lord put the word in his
mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and
thus shalt thou speak.

6 Returning he found Balac standing by
his burnt offering, with all the princes of
the Moabites :

7 And taking up his parable, he said :
Balac king of the Moabites hath brought
me from Aram, from the mountains of
the east : Come, said he, and curse Jacob :
make haste and detest Israel.

8 How shall I curse him, whom God hath
not cursed? By what means should I
detest /lim, whom the Lord detesteth
not?

9 I shall see him from the tops of the
rocks, and shall consider him from the
hills. This people shall dwell alone, and
shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and
know the number of the stock of Israel ?
Let my soul die the death of the just, and
my last end be like to them.

11 And Balac said to Balaam : What is
this that thou dost? I sent for thee to
curse my enemies: and thou contrari-
wise blessest them.

12 He answered him : Can I speak any
thing else but what the Lord command-
eth?

13 Balac therefore said : Come with me
to another place from whence thou may-
est see part of Israel, and canst not see
them all : curse them from thence.

14 And when he had brought him to
a high place, upon the top of mount
Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and
laying ^n every one a calf and a ram,

15 He said to Balac : Stand here by thy
burnt offering while I go to meet him.

16 And when the Lord had met him,
and had put the word in his mouth, he
said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt
thou say to him.

17 Returning he found him standing by
his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the
Moabites with him. And Balac said to
him : What hath the Lord spoken?

18 But he taking up his parable, said :
Stand, 0 Balac, and give ear : hear, thou
son of Sephor ;

19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor ag the son of man, that he should

He blesses Israel

be changed. Hath he said then, and
will he not do ? hath he spoken, and will
he not fulfil?

20 1 was brought to bless, the blessing 1
am not able to hinder.

21 There is no idol in Jacob, neither is
there an image god to be seen in IsraeL
The Lord his God is with him, and the
sound of the victory of the king in him.

22 ° God hath brought him out of Egypt,
whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

23 There is no soothsaying in Jacob,
nor divination in Israel. In their times
it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel
what God hath wrought.

24 Behold the people shall rise up as a
lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion :
it shall not lie down till it devour the
prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

25 And Balac said to Balaam : Neither
curse, nor bless him.

26 And he said : Did I not tell thee, that
whatsoever God should command me,
that I would do ?

27 And Balac said to him : Come and I
will bring thee to another place ; if perad-
venture it please God that thou mayest
curse them from thence.

28 And when he had brought him upon
the top of mount Phogor, which looketh
towards the wilderness,

29 Balaam said to him : Build me here
seven altars, and prepare as many calves,
and the same number of rams.

30 Balac did as Balaam had said : and he
laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.

CHAPTER 24.

Balaam still continues to prophesy good things in
favour of Israel.

NT) when Balaam saw that it pleased

the Lord that he should bless Israel,

he went not as he had gone before, to seek

divination : but setting his face towards

the desert,

2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel
abiding in their tents by their tribes:
and the spirit of God rushing upon him, '

3 He took up his parable and said : Ba-
laam the son of Beor hath said : The
man hath said, whose eye is stopped up :

4 The hearer of the words of God hath
said, he that hath beheld the vision of the
Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes
are opened :

# lofra 24 S.

Balaam^ s prophesy

NUMBERS

The people sin

5 How beautiful are thy tabernacles, O
Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel !

6 As woody valleys, as watered gardens
near the rivers, as tabernacles which the
Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the water-
side.

7 Water shall flow out of his bucket, and
his seed shall be in many waters. For
Aga^ his king shall be removed, and his
kingdom shall be taken away.

8 God hath brought him out of Egypt,
P whose strength is like to the rhino-
ceros. They shall devour the nations
that are his enemies, and break their
bones, and pierce them with arrows.

9 Lying down he hath slept as a lion,
and as a Uoness, whom none shall dare to
rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also
himself be blessed : he that curseth thee
shall be reckoned accursed.

10 And Balac being angry against Ba-
laam, clapped his hands together and
said : I called thee to curse my enemies,
and thou on the contrary hast blessed
them three times.

11 Return to thy place. I had deter-
mined indeed greatly to honour thee, but
the Lord hath deprived thee of the hon-
our designed for thee.

12 Balaam made answer to Balac: Did
I not say to thy messengers, whom thou
sentest to me :

13 ^ If Balac would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I cannot go be-
yond the word of the Lord my God, to
utter any thing of my own head either
good or evil : but whatsoever the Lord
shall saj?, that I will speak?

14 But yet going to my people, I will
give thee counsel, what this people shall
do to thy people in the latter days.

15 Therefore taking up his parable,
again he said : Balaam the son of Beor
hath said : The man whose eye is stopped
up, hath said :

16 The hearer of the words of God hath
said, who knoweth the doctrine of the

•Highest, and seeth the visions of the
Almighty, who falling hath his eyes
opened :

17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall
behold him, but not near. ^" A star shall
RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall

p Supra 23. 22. — Q Supra 22. 18. — r Matt. 2. 2.
s Dan. 11. 30.

Chap. 25. Ver. 3. Initiated to Beelphegor, That
IS, they took to the worship of Beelphegor, an ob-

170

spring up from Israel : and shall strike
the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all
the children of Seth.

18 And he shall possess Idumea: the
inheritance of Seir shall come to their
enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.

19 Out of Jacob shall he come that shall
rule, and shall destroy the remains of the
city.

20 And when he saw Amalec, he took
up his parable, and said : Amalec the
beginning of nations, whose latter ends
shall be destroyed.

21 He saw also the Cinite : and took up
his parable, and said : Thy habitation in-
deed is strong: but though thou build
thy nest in a rock,

22 And thou be chosen of the stock of
Cin, how long shalt thou be able to con-
tinue ? For Assur shall take thee captive.

23 And taking up his parable, again he
said : Alas, who shall live when God shall
do these things ?

24 * They shall come in galleys from
Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians,
and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the
last they themselves also shall perish.

25 And Balaam rose, and returned to his
place : Balac also returned the way that
he came.

CHAPTER 25.

The people fall into fornication and idolatry g for
which twentyfour tlioiisand are slain. The zeal
of Phinees.

ND Israel at that time ^* abode in
Settim, and the people committed
fornication with the daughters of Moab,

2 Who called them to their sacrifices.
And they ate of them, and adored their
gods.

3 ^ And Israel was initiated to Beelphe-
gor : upon which the Lord being angry,

4 Said to Moses : '^ Take all the princes
of the people, and hang them up on gib-
bets against the sun : that my fury may
be turned away from Israel.

5 And Moses said to the judges of Is-
rael : ^ Let every man kill his neighbours,
that have been initiated to Beelphegor.

6 And behold one of the children of Is-
rael went in before his brethren to a
harlot of Madian, in the sight of Mosest
and of all the children of Israel, who

U Jos. 3. 1. — V Jos. 22. IT,
w Deut. 4. 3. — a; Ex. 32. 27.

scene idol of the Moabites,aiMi were consecrated, ai
it were, to him.

The zeal of Phmees

NUMBEKS The people are numbered again

were weeping before the door of the
tabernacle.

7 vAnd when Phinees the son of Eleazar
the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he
rose up from the midst of the multitude,
and taking" a dagger,

8 Went in after the Israelite into the
brothel house, and thrust both of them
through together, to wit, the man and
the woman in the genital parts. And
the scourge ceased from the children of
Israel.

9 And there were slain four and twenty
thousand men.

10 And the Lord said to Moses:

11 Phinees the son of Eleazar the son
of Aaron the priest, hath turned away
my wrath from the children of Israel:
because he was moved with my zeal
against them, that I myself might not
destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.

12 Therefore say to him: ^; Behold I give
him the peace of my covenant,

13 And the covenant of the priesthood
for ever shall be both to him and his
seed, because he hath been zealous for
his God, and hath made atonement for
the wickedness of the children of Israel.

14 And the name of the Israelite, that
was slain with the woman of Madian,
was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of
the kindred and tribe of Simeon.

15 And the Madianite woman, that was
slain with him, was called Cozbi the
daughter of Sur, a most noble prince
among the Madianites.

16 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

17 «Let the Madianites find you their
enemies, and slay you them:

18 Because they also have acted like
enemies against you, and have guilefully
deceived you by the idol Phogor, and
Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince
of Madian, who was slain in the day of
the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.

CHAPTER 26.

The people are again numbered hy their tribes
and families.

A FTER the blood of the guilty was
-l\. shed, the Lord said to Moses and
to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:

2 c Number the whole sum of the chil-
dren of Israel from twenty years old and

y Ps. 105. 30 ; 1 Mac. 2. 26 ; 1 Cor, 10. 8.

z BccU. 45. 30 ; 1 Mac. 2. 54.

a Infra 31. 2.

upward, by their houses and kindreds,
all that are able to go forth to war.

3 Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest,
being in the plains of Moab upon the Jor-
dan over against Jericho, spoke to them
that were

4 From twenty years old and upward,
as the Lord had commanded: and this is
the number of them :

5 Ruben the firstborn of Israel. ^ His
sons were Henoch, of whom is the family
of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom
is the family of the Phalluites :

6 And Hesron, of whom is the family of
the Hesronites : and Charmi, of whom is
the family of the Charmites.

7 These are the families of the stock of
Ruben: whose number was found to be
forty-three thousand seven hundred and
thirty.

8 The son of Phallu was Eliab.

9 His sons, were Namuel and Dathan
and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abi-
ron the princes of the people, «that rose
against Moses and Aaron in the sedition
of Core, when they rebelled against the
Lord:

10 And the earth opening her mouth
swallowed up Core, many others dying,
when the fire burned two hundred and
fifty men. And there was a great mira-
cle wrought,

11 That when Core perished, his sons
did not perish.

12 The sons of Simeon by their kin-
dreds: Namuel, of him is the family of
the Namuelites: Jamin, of hini is the
family of the Jaminites: Jachim, of him
is the family of the Jachimites:

13 Zare, of him is the family of the Zar-
ites: Saul, of him is the family of the
Saulites.

14 These are the families of the stock
of Simeon, of which the whole number
was twenty-two thousand two hundred.

15 The sons of Gad by their kindreds:
Sephon, of him is the family of the Se-
phonites: Aggi, of him is the family of
the Aggites: Suni, of him is the family
of the Sunites:

16 Ozni, of him is the family of the Oz-
nites: Her, of him is the family of the
Herites:

17 Arod, of him is the family of the

171

e Supra 1. 2 and 3.
d Gen. 46. 9 ; Ex. 6. 14 ; 1 Par. 5. 3.
e Supra 16. 1 and 2.

The tribes and families of Israel

Arodites : Ariel, of him is the family of
the Arielites.

18 These are the families of Gad, of
which the whole number was forty thou-
sand five hundred.

19 «^The sons of Juda, Her and Onan,
who both died in the land of Chanaan.

20 And the sons of Juda by their kin-
dreds we-re: Sela, of whom is the family
of the Selaites : Phares, of whom is the
family of the Pharesites : Zare, of whom
is the family of the Zarites.

21 Moreover the sons of Phares were:
Hesron, of whom is the family of the
Hesronites : and Hamul, of whom is the
family of the Hamulites.

22 These are the families of Juda, of
which the whole number was seventy-
six thousand five hundred.

23 The sons of Issachar, by their kin-
dreds: Thola, of whom is the family of
the Tholaites: Phua, of whom is the
family of the Phuaites:

24 Jasub, of whom is the family of the
Jasubites: Semran, of whom is the family
of the Semranites.

25 These are the kindreds of Issachar,
whose number was sixty-four thousand
three hundred.

26 The sons of Zabulon by their kin-
dreds : Sared, of whom is the family of
the Saredites : Elon, of whom is the fam-
ily of the Elonites : Jalel, of whom is the
family of the Jalelites.

27 These are the kindreds of Zabulon,
whose number was sixty thousand five
hundred.

28 The sons of Joseph by their kindred,
Manasses and Ephraim.

29 Of Manasses was born Machir, of
whom is the family of the Machirites.
CMachir begot Galaad, of whom is the
family of the Galaadites.

30 Galaad had sons : Jezer, of whom is
the family of the Jezerites : and Helec,
of whom is the family of the Helecites :

31 And Asriel, of whom is the family
of the Asrielites : and Sechem, of whom
is the family of the Sechemites :

32 And Semida, of whom is the family
of the Semidaites : ^ and Hepher, of whom
is the family of the Hepherites.

33 And Hepher was the father of Sal-
phaad, who had no sons, but only daugh-
ters, whose names are these: *Maala,

NUMBERS

/ Gen. 38. 3 and 4.— sr Jos. 17. 1.

The tribes and families of Israel

and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and
Thersa.

34 These are the families of Manasses,
and the number of them fifty-two thou-
sand seven hundred.

35 And the sons of Ephraim by their
kindreds were these: Suthala, of whom
is the family of the Suthalaites : Becher,
of whom is the family of the Becherites :
Thehen, of whom is the family ©f the
Thehenites.

36 Now the son of Suthala was Heran,
of whom is the family of the Heran-
ites.

37 These are the kindreds of the sons
of Ephraim : whose number was thirty-
two thousand five hundred.

38 These are the sons of Joseph by their
families. The sons of Benjamin in their
kindreds : Bela, of whom is the family of
the Belaites : Asbel, of whom is the family
of the Asbelites : Ahiram, of whom is the
family of the Ahiramites :

39 Supham, of whom is the family of
the Suphamites : Hupham, of whom is
the family of the Huphamites.

40 The sons of Bela : Hered, and Noe-
man. Of Hered, is the family of the
Heredites : of Noeman, the family of the
Noemanites.

41 These are the sons of Benjamin by
their kindreds, whose number was forty-
five thousand six hundred.

42 The sons of Dan by their kindreds:
Suham, of whom is the family of the Su-
hamites : These are the kindreds of Dan
by their families.

43 All were Suhamites, whose number
was sixty- four thousand four hundred.

44 The sons of Aser by their kindreds :
Jemna, of whom is the family of the
Jemnaites : Jessui, of whom is the familj
of the Jessuites : Brie, of whom is the
family of the Brieites.

45 The sons of Brie : Heber, of whom is
the family of the Heberites : and Mel-
chiel, of whom is the family of the
Melchielites.

46 And the name of the daughter of Aser,
was Sara.

47 These are the kindreds of the sons of
Aser, and their number fifty-three thou-
sand four hundred.

48 The sons of Nephtali by their kin-
dreds : Jesiel, of whom is the family of

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AInfra27. X.— ilbid.

The families of the Levites

NUMBERS

The law of inheritance

the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the
family of the Gunites :

49 Jeser, of whom is the family of the
Jeserites : Sellem, of whom is the family
of the Sellemites.

50 These are the kindreds of the sons of
Nephtali by their families : whose num-
ber was forty-five thousand four hundred.

61 This is the sum of the children of
Israel, that were reckoned up, six hun-
dred and one thousand seven hundred
and thirty.

52 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :

53 To these shall the land be divided
for their possessions according to the
number of names.

54 To the greater number thou shalt
give a greater portion, and to the fewer
a less : to every one, as they have now
been reckoned up, shall a possession be
delivered :

55 Yet so that by lot the land be divided
to the tribe and families.

56 Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that
shall be taken by the more, or the fewer.

57 ^ This also is the number of the sons
of Levi by their families : Gerson, of
whom is the family of the Gersonites;
Caath, of whom is the family of the
Caathites : Merari, of whom is the family
of the Merarites.

58 These are the families of Levi : The
family of Lobni, the family of Hebroni,
the family of Moholi, the family of Musi,
the family of Core. Now Caath begot
Araram:

59 Who had to wife Jochabed the daugh-
ter of Levi, who was born to him in
Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram
sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their
Bister.

60 Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu,
and Eleazar and Ithamar :

61 ^Of whom Nadab and Abiu died,
when they had offered the strange fire
before the Lord.

62 And all that were numbered, were
twenty- three thousand males from one
month old and upward : for they were not
reckoned up among the children of
Israel, neither was a possession given to
them with the rest.

63 This is the number of the children of
Israel, that were enrolled by Moses and

j Ex. 6. 16. — k Lev. 10. 1 ; Supra 3. 4 ; l Par. 24. 2.

1 1 Cor. 10. 5. — m Supra 14. 23 and 24.

n Supra 26. 32 and 33 ; Infra 36. 1 ; Jos. 17. 1»

Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab
upon the Jordan, over against Jericho.

64 * Among whom there was not one of
them that were numbered before by
Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.

65 '^ For the Lord had foretold that they
should die in the wilderness. And none
remained of them, but Caleb the son of
Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

CHAPTER 27.

The law of inheritance. Josue is appointed to suo
ceed Moses.

THEN '^came the daughters of Sal-
phaad, the son of Hepher, the son of
Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasses, who was the son of Joseph:
and their names are Maala, and Noa, and
Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa.

2 And they stood before Moses and
Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of
the people at the door of the tabernacle
of the covenant, and said :

3 Our father died in the desert, and was
not in the sedition, ^that was raised
against the Lord under Core, but he died
in his own sin : and he had no male chil-
dren. Why is his name taken away out
of his family, because he had no son?
Give us a possession among the kinsmen
of our father.

4 And Moses referred their cause to the
judgment of the Lord.

5 And the Lord said to him :

6 The daughters of Salphaad demand a
just thing : Give them a possession among
their father's kindred, and let them suc^
ceed him in his inheritance.

7 And to the children of Israel thou
shalt speak these things *.

8 When a man dieth without a son, his
inheritance shall pass to his daughter.

9 If he have no daughter, his brethren
shall succeed him.

10 And if he have no brethren, you
shall give the inheritance to his father's
brethren.

11 But if he have no uncles by the fa-
ther, the inheritance shall be given to
them that are the next akin. And this
shall be to the children of Israel sacred
by a perpetual laWj as the Lord hath
commanded MoseSo

12 9 The Lord also said to Moses: ^Qo

p Supra 16. 1.
q A. M. 2553.
r Deut 32. 49.

ITS

Josue appointed to succeed Moses NUMBERS

up into this mountain Abarim, and view
from thence the land which I will give to
the children of Israel.

13 And when thou shalt have seen it,
thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy
brother Aaron is gone :

14 * Because you offended me in the
desert of Sin in the contradiction of the
multitude, neither would you sanctify
me before them at the waters. These
are the waters of contradiction in Cades
of the desert of Sin.

15 And Moses answered him :

16 May the Lord the God of the spirits
of all flesh provide a man, that may be
over this multitude :

17 And may go out and in before them,
and may lead them out, or bring them
in : lest the people of the Lord be as
sheep without a shepherd.

18 And the Lord said to him: 'Take
Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is
the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him.

19 And he shall stand before Eleazar
the priest and all the multitude :

20 And thou shalt give him precepts in
the sight of all, and part of thy glory,
that all the congregation of the children
of Israel may hear him.

21 If any thing be to be done, Eleazar
the priest shall consult the Lord for him.
He and all the children of Israel with
him, and the rest of the multitude shall
go out and go in at his word.

22 Moses did as the Lord had com-
manded. And when he had taken Josue,
he set him before Eleazar the priest, and
all the assembly of the people,

23 And laying his hands on his head, he
repeated all things that the Lord had
commanded.

CHAPTER 28.

Sacrifices are appointed as well for every day as for
sabbaths, and other festivals.

THE Lord also said to Moses :
2 Command the children of Israel,
and thou shalt say to them : Offer ye my
oblation and my bread, and burnt sacri-
fice of most sweet odour, in their due
seasons.

3 These are the sacrifices which you
shall offer: '^Two lambs of a year old
without blemish every day for the per-
petual holocaust:

s Supra 20. 12 ; Deut. 32. 51.
t Deut. 3. 21. — w Ex. 29. 38.

Sacrifices for various feasts

4 One you shall offer in the morninpjp
and the other in the evening :

5 And the tenth part of an ephi of
flour, which shall be tempered with thv
purest oil, of the measure of the fourth
part of a hin.

6 It is the continual holocaust which you
offered in mount Sinai for a most sweet
odour of a sacrifice by fire to the Lord.

7 And for a libation you shall offer of
wine the fourth part of a hin for every
lamb in the sanctuary of the Lord.

8 And you shall offer the other lamb in
like manner in the evening according to
all the rites of the morning sacrifice, and
of the libations thereof, an oblation of
most sweet odour to the Lord.

9 ^ And on the sabbath day you shall offer
two lambs of a year old without blemish,
and two tenths of flour tempered with
oil in sacrifice, and the libations,

10 Which regularly are poured out every
sabbath for the perpetual holocaust.

11 And on the first day of the month you
shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, two
calves of the herd, one ram, and seven
lambs of a year old, without blemish,

12 And three tenths of flour tempered
with oil in sacrifice for every calf : and
two tenths of flour tempered with oil for
every ram :

13 And the tenth of a tenth of flour
tempered with oil in sacrifice for every
lamb. It is a holocaust of most sweet
odour and an offering by fire to the Lord.

14 And these shall be the libations of
wine that are to be poured out for every
victim : Half a hin for every calf, a third
for a ram, and a fourth for a lamb. This
shall be the holocaust for every month,
as they succeed one another in the course
of the year.

15 A buck goat also shall be offered to
the Lord for a sin offering over and
above the perpetual holocaust with its
libations.

16 ^ And in the first month, on the four-
teenth day of the month, shall be the
phase of the Lord,

17 And on the fifteenth day the solemn
feast : seven days shall they eat unleav-
ened bread.

18 And the first day of them shall be
venerable and holy: you shall not do
any servile work therein.

V Matt. 12. 5.
w Kx. 12. 18 ; Lev. 23. o.

174

Sacrifices for various feasts

NUMBERS Sacrifices for the seventh month

19 And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice
a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of
the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year
old, without blemish :

20 And for the sacrifices of every one
three tenths of flour which shall be
tempered with oil to every calf, and two
tenths to every ram,

21 And the tenth of a tenth, to every
lamb, that is to say, to all the seven
lambs :

22 And one buck goat for sin, to make
atonement for you,

23 Besides the morning holocaust which
you shall always offer.

24 So shall you do every day of the
seven days for the food of the fire, and
for a most sweet odour to the Lord,
which shall rise from the holocaust, and
from the libations of each.

25 The seventh day also shall be most
solemn and holy unto you : you shall do
no servile work therein.

26 The day also of firstfruits, when after
the weeks are accomplished, you shall
offer new fruits to the Lord, shall be ven-
erable and holy i you shall do no servile
work therein.

27 And you shall offer a holocaust for a
most sweet odour to the Lord, two calves
of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a
year old, without blemish :

28 And in the sacrifices of them three
tenths of flour tempered with oil to every
calf, two to every ram,

29 The tenth of a tenth to every lamb,
which in all are seven lambs: a buck
goat also,

30 Which is slain for expiation : besides
the perpetual holocaust and the libations
thereof.

31 You shall offer them all without
blemish with their libations.

CHAPTER 29.

Sacrifices for the festivals of the seventh month.

THE first day also of the seventh
month shall be venerable and holy
unto you ; you shall do no servile work
therein, because it is the day of the
Bounding and of trumpets.

2 And you shall offer a holocaust for a
most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf
of the herd, one ram and seven lambs of
a year old, without blemish.

3 And for their sacrifices, three tenths!
of flour tempered with oil to every calf,,
two tenths to a ram,

4 One tenth to a lamb, which in all are
seven lambs :

5 And a buck goat for sin, which is
offered for the expiation of the peo-
ple,

6 Besides the holocaust of the first day
of the month with the sacrifices thereof,
and the perpetual holocaust with the
accustomed libations. With the same
ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacri-
fice for a most sweet odour to the Lord.

7 ^ The tenth day also of this seventh
month shall be holy and venerable unto
you, and you shall afflict your souls i you
shall do no servile work therein.

8 And you shall offer a holocaust to the
Lord for a most sweet odour, one calf of
the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a
year old, without blemish :

9 And for their sacrifices, three tenths
of flour tempered with oil to every calf,
two tenths to a ram,

10 The tenth of a tenth to every lamb,
which are in all seven lambs :

11 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
things that are wont to be offered for sin,
for expiation, and for the perpetual holo-
caust with their sacrifice and libations.

12 And on the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, which shall be unto yoa
holy and venerable, you shall do nc ser-
vile work, but shall celebrate a solemnity
to the Lord seven days.

13 And you shall offer a holocaust for a
most sweet odour to the Lord, thirteen
calves of the herd, two rams, and four-
teen lambs of a year old, without blemish :

14 And for their libations three tenths
of flour tempered with oil to every calf,
being in all thirteen calves: and two
tenths to each ram, being two rams,

15 And the tenth of a tenth to every
lamb, being in all fourteen lambs :

16 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice
and the libation thereof.

17 On the second day you shall offer
twelve calves of the herd, two rams and
fourteen lambs of a year old, without
blemish :

18 And the sacrifices and the libations
for every one, for the calves and for the

X Lev. 16. 29, and 23. 27.

Sacrifices for the seventh month NUMBERS

Vows and oaths

rams and for the lambs you shall duly
celebrate :

19 And a buck goat for a sin offering
besides the perpetual holocaust, and the
sacrifice and the libation thereof.

20 The third day you shall offer eleven
calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of
a year old, without blemish :

21 And the sacrifices and the libations
of every one for the calves and for the
rams and for the lambs you shall offer
according to the rite ;

22 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice,
and the libation thereof.

23 The fourth day you shall offer ten
calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of
a year old, without blemish :

24 And the sacrifices and the libations
of every one for the calves and for the
rams and for the lambs you shall cele-
brate in right manner :

25 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice
and the libation thereof.

26 The fifth day you shall offer nine
calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of
a year old, without blemish :

27 And the sacrifices and the libations
of every one for the calves and for the
rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate
according to the rite :

28 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice
and the libation thereof.

29 The sixth day you shall offer eight
calves, two rams, and fourteen lambs of
a year old, without blemish :

30 And the sacrifices and the libations
of every one for the calves and for the
rams and for the lambs you shall cele-
brate according to the rite :

31 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice
and the libation thereof.

32 The seventh day you shall offer
seven calves and two rams, and fourteen
lambs of a year old, without blemish :

33 And the sacrifices and the libations
of every one for the calves and for the
rams and for the lambs you shall cele-
brate according to the rite :

34 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice
and the libation thereof.

35 On the eighth day, which is most
solemn, you shall do no servile work :

36 But you shall offer a holocaust for a
most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf,
one ram, and seven lambs of a year old,
without blemish:

37 And the sacrifices and the libations
of every one for the calves and for the
rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate
according to the rite :

38 And a buck goat for sin, besides the
perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice
and the libation thereof.

39 These things shall you offer to the
Lord in your solemnities: besides your
vows and voluntary oblations f©r holo-
caust, for sacrifice, for libation, and for
victims of peace offerings.

CHAPTER 30.
Of vows and oaths : and their obligation.
ND Moses told the children of Isra >1
all that the Lord had commander '
him:

2 And he said to the princes of the
tribes of the children of Israel : This is
the word that the Lord hath commanded :

3 If any man make a vow to the Lord,
or bind himself by an oath : he shall not
make his word void but shall fulfil all
that he promised.

4 If a woman vow any thing, and bind
herself by an oath, being in her father's
house, and but yet a girl in age : if her
father knew the \ ow that she hath pro-
mised, and the oath wherewith she hath
bound her soul, and held his peace, she
shall be bound by the vow :

5 Whatsoever she promised and swore,
she shall fulfil in deed.

6 But if her father, immediately as soon
as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her
vows and her oaths shall be void, nei-
ther shall she be bound to what she pro-
mised, because her father hath gainsaid it.

7 If she have a husband, and shall vow
any thing, and the word once going out of
her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath :

8 The day that her husband shall hear
it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound
to the vow, and shall give whatsoever
she promised.

9 But if as soon as he heareth he gain-
say it, and make her promises and the
words wherewith she had bound her soul
of no effect : the Lord will forgive her.

10 The widow, and she that is divorced,
shall fulfil whatsoever they vow.

11 If the wife in the house of her hus«

176

The Madianites are slain

NUMBERS Moses angry with the officers

band, hath bound herself by vow and by-
oath,

12 If her husband hear, and hold his
peace, and doth not disallow the promise,
she shall accomplish whatsoever she had
promised.

13 But if forthwith he gainsay it, she
shall not be bound by the promise: be-
cause her husband gainsaid it, and the
Lord will be merciful to her.

14 If she vow and bind herself by oath,
to afflict her soul by fasting, or abstinence
from other things, it shall depend on the
will of her husband, whether she shall do
it, or not do it.

15 But if the husband hearing it hold his
peace, and defer the declaring his mind
till another day: whatsoever she had
vowed and promised, she shall fulfil : be-
cause immediately as he heard it, he held
his peace.

16 But if he gainsay it after that he
knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.

17 These are the laws which the Lord
appointed to Moses between the husband
and the wife, between the father and the
daughter that is as yet but a girl in age,
or that abideth in her father's house.

CHAPTER 31.

The Madianites are slain for having dravm the peo-
ple of Israel into sin. The dividing of the booty.

A ND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :
j\. 2 Revenge first the children of Is-
rael on the Madianites, and so thou shalt
be gathered to thy people.

3 And Moses forthwith said : ^ Arm of
you men to fight, who may take the
revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.

4 Let a thousand men be chosen out of
every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

5 And they gave a thousand of every
tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand
men well appointed for battle.

6 And Moses sent them with Phinees the
son of Eleazar the priest, and he de-
livered to him the holy vessels, and the
trumpets to sound.

7 And when they had fought against
the Madianites and had overcome them,
they slew all the men.

z Supra 2517. — a Jos. 13. 21.

The sin

Chap. 31. Ver. 16. The sin of Phogor.
committed in the worship of Beelphegor.

Ver. 17. Of children. Women and children, ordi-

I narily speaking, were not to be killed in war, Deut

ao. 14. But the great Lord of life and de'>th was

IS A77

8 " And their kings Evi, and Recem, an^
Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of
the nation : Balaam also the son of Beor
they killed with the sword.

9 And they took their women, and their
children captives, and all their cattle, and
all their goods: and all their posses-
sions they plundered :

10 And all their cities, and their vil-
lages, and castles, they burned.

11 And they carried away the booty,
and all that they had taken both of men
and of beasts.

12 And they brought them to Moses, and
Eleazar the priest, and to all the multi-
tude of the children of Israel. But the
rest of the things for use they carried to
the camp on the plains of Moab, beside
the Jordan over against Jericho.

13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
and all the princes of the synagogue
went forth to> meet them without the
camp.

14 And Moses being angry with the
chief officers of the army, the tribunes,
and the centurions that were come from
the battle,

15 Said : Why have you saved the
women?

16 ^* Are not these they, that deceived
the children of Israel by the counsel of
Balaam, and made you transgress against
the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which
also the people was punished ?

17 ^Therefore kill all that are of the
male sex, even of the children : and put
to death the women, that have carnally
known men.

18 But the girls, and all the women that
are virgins save for yourselves :

19 And stay without the camp seven
days. He that hath killed a man, or
touched one that is killed, shall be puri-
fied the third day and the seventh day.

20 And of all the spoil, every garment,
or vessel, or any thing made for use, of
the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood,
shall be purified.

21 Eleazar also the priest spoke to the
men of the army, that had fought, in this
manner: This is the ordinance of the

b Supra 25. 18.
c Judges 21. 11.

pleased to order it otherwise in the present case, in
detestation of the wickedness of this people, who
by the counsel of Balaam, had sent their women
among the Israelites on purpose to draw them from
God.

The spoils are divided

NUMBERS

The gold is ofered to God

law, ^ which the Lord hath commanded
Moses :

22 Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron,
and lead, and tin,

23 And all that may pass through the
fire, shall be purified by fire, but whatso-
ever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanc-
tified with the wateV of expiation :

24 And you shall wash your garments
the seventh day, and being purified, you
shall afterwards enter into the camp.

25 And the Lord said to Moses :

26 Take the sum of the things that were
taken both of man and beast, thou and
Eleazar the priest and the princes of the
multitude :

27 And thou shalt divide the spoil
equally, between them that fought and
went out to the war, and between the
rest of the multitude.

28 And thou shalt separate a portion to
the Lord from them that fought and were
in the battle, one soul of five hundred as
well of persons as of oxen and asses and
sheep.

29 And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the
priest, because they are the firstfruits of
the Lord.

30 Out of the moiety also of the chil-
dren of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth
head of persons, and of oxen, and asses,
and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou
shalt give them to the Levites that watch
in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

31 And Moses and Eleazar did as the
Lord had commanded.

32 And the spoil which the army had
taken, was six hundred seventy- five
thousand sheep,

33 Seventy-two thousand oxen,

34 Sixty-one thousand asses :

35 And thirty-two thousand persons of
the female sex, that had not known men.

36 And one half was given to them that
had been in the battle, to wit, three hun-
dred thirty-seven thousand five hundred
sheep :

37 Out of which, for the portion of the
Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy-
five sheep.

38 And out of the thirty-six thousand
oxen, seventy- two oxen:

39 Out of the thirty thousand five hun-
dred asses, sixty-one asses :

40 Out of the sixteen thousand persons.

d Lev. 6. 28. and 11. 33. and 15. 11.

there fell to the portion of the Lord,
thirty-two souls.

41 And Moses delivered the number of
the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the
priest, as had been commanded him,

42 Out of the half of the children of Is-
rael, which he had separated for them
that had been in the battle.

43 But out of the half that fell to the
rest of the multitude, that is to say, out
of the three hundred thirty-seven thou^
sand five hundred sheep,

44 And out of the thirty-six thousand
oxen,

45 And out of the thirty thousand five
hundred asses,

46 And out of the sixteen thousand per-
sons,

47 Moses took the fiftieth head, and
gave it to the Levites that watched in
the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord
had commanded.

48 And when the commanders of the
army, and the tribunes and centurions
were come to Moses, they said :

49 We thy servants have reckoned up
the number of the fighting men, whom
we had under our hand, and not so much
as one was wanting.

50 Therefore we offer as gifts to the
Lord what gold every one of us could
find in the booty, in garters and tablets,
rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou
mayst pray to the Lord for us.

51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
received all the gold in divers kinds,

52 In weight sixteen thousand seven
hundred and fifty sides, from the tri-
bunes and from the centurions.

53 For that which every one had taken
in the booty was his own.

54 And that which was received they
brought into the tabernacle of the testi-
mony, for a memorial of the children of
Israel before the Lord.

CHAPTER 32.

The tribes of Riihen and Gad, and half of the tribe
of Manasses, receive their inheritance on the east
side of Jordan^ upon coiiditions approved of by

Moses.

ND ^ the sons of Ruben and Gad had
many flocks of cattle, and their sub-
stance in beasts was infinite. And when
they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad
fit for feeding cattle.

e Deut. 3. 12.

178

Reuben and Gad ask to dwell NUMBERS on the east side of Jordan

2 They came to Moses and Eleazar the
priest, and the princes of the multitude,
and said :

3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and
Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban,
and Nebo, and Been,

4 The land, which the Lord hath con-
quered in the sight of the children of
^rael, is a very fertile soil for the feed-
ing of beasts : and we thy servants have
very much cattle :

6 And we pray thee, if we have found
favour in thy sight, that thou give it to
us thy servants in possession, and make
us not pass over the Jordan.

6 And Moses answered them: What,
shall your brethren go to fight, and will
you sit here ?

7 Why do ye overturn the minds of the
children of Israel, that they may not dare
to pass into the place which the Lord
hath given them ?

8 Was it not thus your fathers did, when
I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land ?

9 ^ And when they were come as far as
the valley of tlie cluster, having viewed
all the country, they overturned the
hearts of the children of Israel, that they
should not enter into the coasts, which
the Lord gave them.

10 ^ And he swore in his anger, saying :

11 If these men, that came up out of
Egypt, from twenty years old and upward,
shall see the land, which I promised with
an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:

; because they would not follow me,

12 Except Caleb the son of Jephone the
Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun:
these have fulfilled my will.

13 And the Lord being angry against
Israel, led them about through the desert
forty years, until the whole generation,
that had done evil in his sight, was con-
sumed.

14 And behold, said he, you are risen
I up instead of your fathers, the increase

and offspring of sinful men, to augment
! the fury of the Lord against Israel.

15 For if you will not follow him, he
will leave the people in the wilderness,
and you shall be the cause of the destruc-
tion of all.

j 16 But they coming near, said: We will
make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle,
and strong cities for our children :

a Supra 13. 'i-*
A Supra 14. 29.— i Jos. 1. 14.

17 And we ourselves will go armed and
ready for battle before the children of
Israel, until we bring them in unto their
places. Our little ones, and all we have,
shall be in walled cities, for fear of the
ambushes of the inhabitants.

18 We will not return into our houses
until the children of Israel possess their
inheritance :

19 Neither will we seek any thing be-
yond the Jordan, because we have already
our possession on the east side thereof,

20 And Moses said to them : * If you do
what you promise, go on well appointed
for war before the Lord :

21 And let every fighting man pass over
the Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his
enemies :

22 And all the land be brought under
him, then shall you be blameless before
the Lord and before Israel, and you shall
obtain the countries that you desire, be-
fore the Lord.

23 But if you do not what you say, no
man can doubt but you sin against God :
and know ye, that your sin shall overtake
you.

24 Build therefore cities for your chil-
dren, and folds and stalls for your sheep
and beasts, and accomplish what you
have promised.

25 J And the children of Gad and Ruben
said to Moses : We are thy servants, we
will do what my lord commandeth.

26 We will leave our children, and our
wives and sheep and cattle, in the cities
of Galaad :

27 And we thy servants all well ap-
pointed will march on to the war, as
thou, my lord, speakest.

28 Moses therefore commanded Eleazar
the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and
the princes of the families of all the tribes
of Israel, and said to them :

29 '^ If the children of Gad, and the
children of Ruben pass with you over
the Jordan, all armed for war before the
Lord, and the land be made subject to
you : give them Galaad in possession.

30 But if they will not pass armed with
you into the land of Chanaan, let them
receive places to dwell in among you.

31 And the children of Gad, and the
children of Ruben answered : As the Lord
hath spoken to his servants, so will we do :

j Jos. 4. 12.
k Deut 3. 12 : Jos. 13. 8, and 22. 4.

179

Moses consents

NUMBERS Journeyings of the Israelites

32 We will go armed before the Lord
into the land of Chanaan, and we confess
that we have already received our pos-
session beyond the Jordan.

33 Moses therefore gave to the children
of Gad and of Ruben, and to the half
tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the
kingdom of Sehon king of the Amor-
rhites, and the kingdom of Og king of
Basan, and their land and the cities
thereof and round about.

84 And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and
Ataroth, and Aroer,

35 And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer,
and Jegbaa,

36 And Bethnemra, and Betharan,
fenced cities, and folds for their cattle.

37 But the children of Ruben built
Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim,

38 And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their
names being changed) and Sabama: giv-
ing names to the cities which they had
built.

39 ^ Moreover the children of Machir,
the son of Manasses, went into Galaad,
and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites,
the inhabitants thereof.

40 And Moses gave the land of Galaad
to Machir the son of Manasses, and he
dwelt in it.

41 And Jair the son of Manasses went,
and took the villages thereof, and he
called them Havoth Jair, that is to say,
the villages of Jair.

42 Nobe also went, and took Canath
with the villages thereof: and he called
it by his own name, Nobe.

CHAPTER 33.

The mansions or journeys of the children of
Israel towards the land of promise.

THESE are the mansions of the chil-
dren of Israel, who went out of
Egypt by their troops under the conduct
of Moses and Aaron,

2 Which Moses wrote down according
to the places of their encamping, which
they changed by the commandment of
the Lord.

3 Now the children of Israel departed
from Ramesses the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month, the day

I Gen, 50. 22 — m Ex. 12. 12.
n Ex. 14. 2. — 0 Ex. 15. 22.

Chap. 33. Ver. 1. The mansions. These man-
sions, or joiirneys of the children of Israel from
Egrypt to the land of promise, were figures, accord-
ing to the fathers, of the 8tep« and degrees by

180

after the phase, with a mighty hand, in
the sight of all the Egyptians,

4 ^ Who were burying their firstborn,
whom the Lord had slain (upon their
gods also he had executed vengeance,)

5 And they camped in Soccoth.

6 And from Soccoth they came into
Ethiam, which is in the uttermost borders
of the wilderness.

7 ** Departing from thence they came
over against Phihahiroth, which looketh
towards Beelsephon, and they camped
before Magdalum.

8 And departing from Phihahiroth, they
passed through the midst of the sea into
the wilderness : o and having marched
three days through the desert of Etham,
they camped in Mara.

9 P And departing from Mara, they
came into Elim, where there were twelve
fountains of water, and seventy palm
trees: and there they camped.

10 But departing from thence also, they
pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And
departing from the Red ^ea,

11 They camped in the desert of Sin.

12 And they removed from thence, and
came to Daphca.

13 And departing from Daphca, they
camped in Alus.

14 And departing from Alus, they
pitched their tents in Raphidim, « where
the people wanted water to drink.

15 And departing from Raphidim, they
camped in the desert of Sinai.

16 But departing also from the desert
^of Sinai, they came to the graves of
lust.

17 And departing from the graves of
lust, they camped in Haseroth.

18 s And from Haseroth they came to
Rethma.

19 And departing from Rethma, they
camped in Remmomphares.

20 And they departed from thence and
came to Lebna.

21 Removing from Lebna they camped
in Ressa.

22 And departing from Ressa, they
came to Ceelatha.

23 And they removed from thence and
camped in the mountain Sepher.

p Ex. 15. 27. — g Ex. 17. 1.
r Ex. 19. 2 ; Supra 11. 34. — s Supra 13. 1.

which Christians leaving sin are to advance from
virtue to virtue, till they come to the heavenly
mansions, after this life, to see and enjoy God.

Journeyings of the Israelites NUMBERS The Chanaanites are to be slain

24 Departing from the mountain Sepher,
they came to Arada.

25 From thence they went and camped
in Maceloth.

26 And departing from Maceloth, they
came to Thahath.

27 Removing from Thahath they camp-
ed in Thare.

28 And they departed from thence, and
pitched their tents in Methca.

29 And removing from Methca, they
camped in Hesmona.

30 And departing from Hesmona, they
Dame to Moseroth.

31 And removing from Moseroth, they
Damped in Benejaacan.

32 *And departing from Benejaacan,
they came to mount Gadgad.

33 From thence they went and camped
In Jetebatha.

34 And from Jetebatha they came' to
Hebrona.

35 And departing from Hebrona, they
camped in Asiongaber.

36 " They removed from thence and
came into the desert of Sin, which is
Cades.

37 And departing from Cades, they
camped in mount Hor, in the uttermost
borders of the land of Edom.

38 ^And Aaron the priest went up into
mount Hor at the commandment of the
Lord : and there he died in the fortieth
year of the coming forth of the children
of Israel out of Egypt, the fifth month,
the first day of the month,

39 When he was a hundred and twenty-
three years old.

40 And king Arad the Chanaanite, who
dwelt towards the south, heard that the
children of Israel were come to the land
of Chanaan.

41 And they departed from mount Hor,
and camped in Salmona.

42 From whence they removed and
came to Phvnon.

43 And departing from Phunon, they
camped in Oboth.

44 And from Oboth they came to Ije-
abarim, which is in the borders of the
Moabites.

45 And departing from Ijeabarim they
pitched their tents in Dibongab.

t Deut. 10. 7. — u Supra 20. 1.
V Supra 20. 25 ; Deut. 32. 50.

46 From thence they went and camped
in Helmondeblathaim.

47 And departing from Helmondebla-
thaim, they came to the mountains of
Abarim over against Nabo.

48 And departing from the mountains
of Abarim, they passed to the plains of
Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jeri-
cho.

49 And there they camped from Bethsi-
moth even to Ablesatim in the plains of
the Moabites,

50 Where the Lord said to Moses:

51 Command the children of Israel, and
say to them : When you shall have passed
over the Jordan, entering into the land
of Chanaan,

52 Destroy all the inhabitants of that
land : ^ beat down their pillars, and
break in pieces their statues, and waste
all their high places,

63 Cleansing the land, and dwelhng in
it. For I have given it you for a pos-
session.

54 And you shall divide it among you
by lot. To the more you shall give a
larger part, and to the fewer a lesser.
To every one as the lot shall fall, so shall
the inheritance be given. The posses-
sion shall be divided by the tribes and
the families.

55 But if you will not kill the inhab-
itants of the land : they that remain,
shall be unto you as nails in your eyes,
and spears in your sides, and they shall
be your adversaries in the land of your
habitation.

56 And whatsoever I had thought to do
to them, I wiU do to you.

CHAPTER 34.

The limits of Chanaan ; with the names of the men
that make the division of it.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying :
. 2 Command the children of Israel,
and thou shalt say to them : When you
are entered into the land of Chanaan,
and it shall be fallen into your possession
by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits :
3 " The south side shall begin from the
wilderness of Sin, which is by Edom : and
shall have the most salt sea for its fur-
thest hmits eastward :

V Deut. 7. 5 ; Judges 2. 2.
a Jos. 15. 1.

Jhap. 34. Ver.3. The m^st salt sea.

The lake of Sodom, otherwise called tlie Dead Sea.
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The limits of Chanaan

NUMBERS

Cities to he given the Levites

4 Which limits shall go round on the
south side by the ascent of the Scorpion
and so into Senna, and reach toward the
south as far as Cadesbarne, from whence
the frontiers shall go out to the town
called Adar, and shall reach as far as
Asemona.

5 And the limits shall fetch a compass
from Asemona to the torrent of Egypt,
and shall end in the shore of the great sea.

6 And the west side shall begin from the
great sea, and the same shall be the end
thereof.

7 But toward the north side the borders
shall begin from the great sea, reaching
to the most high mountain,

8 From which they shall come to Emath,
as far as the borders of Sedada :

9 And the limits shall go as far as Ze-
phrona, and the village of Enan. These
shall be the borders on the north side.

10 From thence they shall mark out the
bounds toward the east side from the
village of Enan unto Sephama.

11 And from Sephama the bounds shall
go down to Rebla over against the foun-
tain of Daphnis : from thence they shall
come eastward to the sea of Cenereth,

12 And shall reach as far as the Jordan,
and at the last shall be closed in by the
most salt sea. This shall be your land
with its borders round about.

13 And Moses commanded the children
of Israel, saying : This shall be the land
which you shall possess by lot, and which
the Lord hath commanded to be given
to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

14 For the tribe of the children of Ruben
by their families, and the tribe of the
children of Gad according to the number
of their kindreds, and half of the tribe of
Manasses,

15 That is, two tribes and a half, have
received their portion beyond the Jor-
dan over against Jericho at the east side.

16 And the Lord said to Moses:

17 These are the names of the men,
that shall divide the land unto you:
Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of
Nun,

18 And one prince of every tribe,

19 Whose names are these : Of the tribe
of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.

& Jos. 14. 1 and 2.

Ver. 4. The Scorpion. A mountain so called
from having a great number of scorpions.
Ver. 5. The great sea. The Mediterranean.

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20 Of the tribe of Simeon, Samuel the
son of Ammiud.

21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the
son of Chaselon.

22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan,
Bocci the son of Jogli.

23 Of the children of Joseph of the tribe
of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

24 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Camuel the
son of Sephtan.

25 Of the tribe of Zabulon, Elisaphan
the son of Pharnach.

26 Of the tribe of Issachar, Phaltiel the
prince, the son of Ozan.

27 Of the tribe of Aser, Ahiud the son
of Salomi.

28 Of the tribe of Nephtali : Phedael
the son of Ammiud.

29 These are they whom the Lord hath
commanded to divide the land of Cha-
naan to the children of Israel-

CHAPTER 35.

Cities are appointed for the Levites. Of which six
are to be the cities of refuge.

ND the Lord spoke these things also

to Moses in the plains of Moab by

the Jordan, over against Jericho :

2 ^ Command the children of Israel that
they give to the Levites out of their pos-
sessions,

3 Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs
round about: that they may abide in the
towns, and the suburbs may be for their
cattle and beasts :

4 Which suburbs shall reach from the
walls of the cities outward, a thousand
paces on every side :

5 Toward the east shall be two thou-
sand cubits: and toward the south in
like manner shall be two thousand cubits :
toward the sea also, which looketh to
the west, shall be the same extent : and
the north side shall be bounded with the
like limits. And the cities shall be in
the midst, and the suburbs without.

6 «And among the cities, which you
shall give to the Levites, six shall be
separated for refuge to fugitives, that he
who hath shed blood may flee to them:
and besides these there shall be other
forty- two cities,

7 That is, in all forty-eight with their
suburbs.

d Jos. 21. 2. — eDeut. 19. 2; Jos. 20. 1.

Ver. 7. The most high mountain. Libanus.
Ver. 11. Sea of Cenereth. This is the sea of
Galilee, illustrated by the miracles of our Lord.

The cities of refuge

NUMBERS

The law of refuge

Z And of these cities which shall be
given out of the possessions of the chil-
dren of Israel, from them that have more,
more shall be taken : and from them that
have less, fewer. Each shall give towns
to the Levites according to the extent of
their inheritance.

9 The Lord said to Moses :

10 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them : When you shall
have passed over the Jordan into the
land of Chanaan,

11 Determine what cities shall be for
the refuge of fugitives, who have shed
blood against their will.

12 And when the fugitive shall be in
them, the kinsman of him that is slain
may not have power to kill him, until he
stand before the multitude, and his cause
be judged.

13' And of those cities, that are sepa-
rated for the refuge of fugitives,

14 Three shall be beyond the Jordan,
^nd three in the land of Chanaan,

15 As well for the children of Israel as
for strangers and sojourners, that he may
flee to them, who hath shed blood against
his will.

16 If any man strike with iron, and he
die that was struck : he shall be guilty of
murder, and he himself shall die.

17 If he throw a stone, and he that is
struck die : he shall be punished in the
jame manner.

18 If he that is struck with wood die;
he shall be revenged by the blood of him
that struck him.

19 The kinsman of him that was slain,
shall kill the murderer: as soon as he
apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.

20 ^ If through hatred any one push a
man, or fling any thing at him with ill
design :

21 Or being his enemy, strike him with
his hand, and he die : the striker shall be
guilty of murder: the kinsman of him
that was slain as soon as he findeth him,
shall kill him.

22 But if by chance medley, and without
hatred,

23 And enmity, he do any of these
things,

24 And this be proved in the hearing of
the people, and the cause be debated

/ Deut. 4. 41 ; Jos. 20. 7 and 8.

Chap. 35. Ver. 25. Until the death, &c. This
mystically signitiea tliat our deliverance was to be

between him that struck, and the nexl
of kin :

25 The innocent shall be delivered from
the hand of the revenger, and shall be
brought back by sentence into the city,
to which he had fled, and he shall abide
there until the death of the high priest,
that is anointed with the holy oil.

26 If the murderer be found without the
limits of the cities that are appointed for
the banished,

27 And be struck by him that is the
avenger of blood : he shall not be guilty
that killed him.

28 For the fugitive ought to have stayed
in the city until the death of the high
priest : and after he is dead, then shall the
manslayer return to his own country.

29 These things shall be perpetual, and
for an ordinance in all your dwellings.

30 The murderer shall be punished by
witnesses: none shall be condemned
upon the evidence of one man.

31 You shall not take money of him
that is guilty of blood, hut he shall die
forthwith.

32 The banished and fugitives before
the death of the high priest may by no
means return into their own cities.

33 Defile not the land of your habitation,
which is stained with the blood of the
innocent : neither can it otherwise be
expiated, but by his blood that hath shed
the blood of another.

34 And thus shall your possession be
cleansed, myself abiding with you. For
I am the Lord that dwell among the
children of Israel.

CHAPTER 36.

That the inheritances may not be alienated from
one tribe to another, all are to marry within
their own tribes.

AND the princes of the families of Ga-
„ laad, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasses, of the stock of the children
of Joseph, came and spoke to Moses bo-
fore the princes of Israel, and said : ^

2 The Lord hath commanded thee, my
lord, that thou shouldst divide the land
by lot to the children of Israel, and that
thou shouldst give to the daughters of
Salphaad our brother the possession duo
to their father:

g Deut. 19. 11. — /i Supra 27. 1.

effected by the death of Christ, the high priest and
the anointed of God.

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All must marry within

DEUTERONOMY

their own tribes

3 Now if men of another tribe take
them to wives, their possession will fol-
low them, and being transferred to an-
other tribe, will be a diminishing of our
inheritance.

4' And so it shall come to pass, that
when the jubilee, that is, the fiftieth
year of remission, is come, the distribu-
tion made by the lots shall be con-
founded, and the possession of the one
shall pass to the others.

6 Moses answered the children of Israel,
and said by the command of the Lord :
The tribe of the children of Joseph hath
spoken rightly.

6 And this is the law promulgated by
the Lord touching the daughters of Sal-
phaad : ^ Let them marry to whom they
will, only so that it be to men of their
own tribe.

7 Lest the possession of the children of
Israel be mingled from tribe to tribe.

For all men shall marry wives of their
own tribe and kindred :

8 And all women shall take husbands
of the same tribe : that the inheritance
may remain in the families,

9 And that the tribes be not mingled
one with another, but remain so

10 As they were separated by the Lord.
And the daughters of Salphaad did as
was commanded:

11 And Maala, and Thersa, and Hegla,
and Melcha, and Noa were married to
the sons of their uncle by their father

12 Of the family of Manasses, who was
the son of Joseph: and the possession
that had been allotted to them, remained
in the tribe and family of their father.

13 These are the commandments and
judgments, which the' Lord commanded
by the hand of Moses to the children of
Israel, in the plains of Moab upon the
Jordan over against Jericho.

THE

BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY.

This Book is called Deuteronomy, wJiich signifies a second law, because it repeats and
inculcates the ordinances formerly given on mount Sinai, with other pr-ecepts not expressed
before. The Hebrews, from the first words in the book, call it Elle Haddebarim.

CHAPTER 1.

A repetition of what passed at Sinai and Cades-
barne ; and of the peopWs murmuring and their
punishment.

THESE are the words, which Moses
spoke to all Israel beyond the Jor-
dan, in the plain wilderness, over against
the Red Sea, between Pharan and Tho-
phel and Laban and Haseroth, where
there is very much gold :

2 Eleven days' journey from Horeb by
the way of mount Seir to Cadesbarne.

3«^ In the fortieth year, the eleventh
month, the first day of the month, Mo-
ses spoke to the children of Israel all
that the Lord had commanded him to
say to them :

4 ^ After that he had slain Sehon king
of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hese-
bon: and Og king of Basan who abode
in Astaroth, and in Edrai,

i Tob. 7. 14. — 3 B. C. 1405-

6 Beyond the Jordan in the land of
Moab. And Moses began to expound
the law, and to say :

6 The Lord our God spoke to us in
Horeb, saying: You have stayed long
enough in this mountain :

7 Turn you, and come to the mountain
of the Amorrhites, and to the other
places that are next to it, the plains and
the hills and the vales towards the south,
and by the sea shore, the land of the
Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as
the great river Euphrates.

8 Behold, said he, I have delivered it to
you: go in and possess it, concerning
which the Lord swore to your fathers
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he
would give it to them, and to their seed
after them,

9 And I said to you at that timo :

10 ^ I alone am not able to bear

you

<^ Num. 2L 24. ^ i Ex. 1&. 18«

Ancients to assist Moses DEUTERONOMY The murmuring of the Jews

for the Lord your God hath multiplied
you, and you are this day as the stars of
heaven, for multitude.

11 (The Lord God of your fathers add
to this number many thousands, and
bless you as he hath spoken.)

12 I alone am not able to bear your
business, and the charge of you and your
differences.

13 Let me have from among you wise
and understanding men, and such whose
conversation is approved among your
tribes, that I may appoint them your
rulers.

14 Then you answered me : The thing
is good which thou meanest to do.

15 And I took out of your tribes men
wise and honourable, and appointed them
rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and
officers over fifties, and over tens, who
might teach you all things.

16 And I commanded them, saying :
Hear them, and judge that which is just :
^ whether he be one of your country, or
a stranger.

27 n There shall be no difference of per-
sons, you shall hear the little as well as
the great : neither shall you respect any
man's person, because it is the judgment
of God. And if any thing seem hard to
you, refer it to me, and T will hear it.

18 And I commanded you all things
that you were to do.

19 And departing from Horeb, we passed
through the terrible and vast wilderness,
which you saw, by the way of the moun-
tain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our
God had commanded us. And when we
were come into Cadesbarne,

20 I said to you : You are come to the
mountain of the Amorrhite, which the
Lord our God will give to us.

21 See the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee ; go up and possess it, as the
Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers :
fear not, nor be any way discouraged.

22 ** And you came all to me, and said:
Let us send men who may view the
land, and bring us word what way we
shall go up, and to what cities we shall

go-

23 And because the saying pleased me,

m John 7. 24.

n Lev. 19. 15 ; Infra 16. 19 ; Prov. 24. 23 ;

Eccli. 42. 1 ; James 2. 1.

I sent of you twelve men, one of every
tribe :

24 Who, when they had set forward and
had gone up to the mountains, came as
far as the valley of the cluster : and hav-
ing viewed the land,

25 Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew
its fertility, they brought them to us,
and said : The land is good, which the
Lord our God will give us.

26 And you would not go up, but being
incredulous to the word of the Lord our
God,

27 You murmured in your tents, and
said : The Lard hateth us, and therefore
he hath brought us out of the land of
Egypt, that he might deliver us into the
hand of the Amorrhite, and destroy us.

28 Whither shall we go up ? the mes-
sengers have terrified our hearts, saying :
The multitude is very great, and taller
than we : the cities are great, and walled
up to the sky, we have seen the sons of
the Enacims there.

29 And I said to you : Fear not, neither
be ye afraid of them :

30 The Lord God, who is your leader,
himself will fight for you, as he did in
Egypt in the sight of all.

31 And in the wilderness (as thou hast
seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee,
as a man is wont to carry his little son,
all the way that you have come, until
you came to this place.

32 And yet for all this you did not be-
lieve the Lord your God,

33 P Who went before you in the way,
and marked out the place, wherein you
should pitch your tents, in the night
shewing you the way by fire, and in the
day by the pillar of a cloud.

34 And when the Lord had heard the
voice of your words, he was angry and
swore, and said :

35 ^Not one of the men of this wicked
generation shall see the good land, which
I promised with an oath to your fathers :

36 Except Caleb the son of Jephone :
for he shall see it, and to him I will give
the land that he hath trodden upon, and
to his children, because he hath followed
the Lord.

o Num. 13. 3, and 32. 8.
p Ex. 13. 21 ; Num. 14. 14.
q Num. 14. 23 ; Ps. 94. 11.

Chat. L Yer. 28. JVaUed up to the sky. A figurative expression, signifying the walls to be

very high.

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Overcome by the Aniorrkites DEUTERONOMY

Edom and Moah

37 Neither is his indignation against the
people to be wondered at, since the Lord
was angry with me also on your account,
and said : Neither shalt thou go in thither.

38 But Josue the son of Nun, thy minis-
ter, he shall go in for thee : exhort and
encourage him, and he shall divide the
land by lot to Israel.

39 Your children, of whom you said that
they should be led away captives, and
your sons who know not this day the
difference of good and evil, they shall go
in : and to them I will give the land, and
they shall possess it.

40 But return you and go into the wil-
ierness by the way of the Red Sea.

41 ** And you answered me : We have
* sinned against the Lord : we will go up

and fight, as the Lord our God hath com-
manded. And when you went ready
^rmed unto the mountain,

42 The Lord said to me : Say to them:
* Go not up, and fight not, for I am not
with you : lest you fall before your ene-
mies.

43 I spoke, and you hearkened not : but
resisting the commandment of the Lord,
and swelling with pride, you went up
into the mountain.

44 And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the
mountains coming out, and meeting you,
chased you, as bees do : and made slaugh-
ter of you from Seir as far as Horma.

45 And when you returned and wept
oefore the Lord, he heard you not, nei-
ther would he yield to your voice.

46 So you abode in Cadesbarne a long
time.

CHAPTER 2.

They are forbid to fight against the Edomites,
Moabites, and Ammonites, Their victory over
Sehon king of Hesebon.

AND departing from thence we came
S\. into the wilderness that leadeth to
the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to
me ; and we compassed mount Seir a
long time.

2 And the Lord said to me :

3 You have compassed this mountain
long enough : go toward the north :

4 And command thou the people, say-
ing: You shall pass by the borders of
your brethren the children of Esau, who
dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of
you.

r Num. 14. 40. —8 Num. 1-4. 42.

5 Take ye then good heed that you stir
not against them. For I will not give
you of their land so much as the step of
one foot can tread upon, because I have
given mount Seir to Esau, for a posses-
sion.

6 You shall buy meats of them for money
and shall eat : you shall draw waters for
money, and shall drink.

7 The Lord thy God hath blessed thee
in every work of thy hands : the Lord
thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy
journey, how thou hast passed through
this great wilderness, for forty years, and
thou hast wanted nothing.

8 And when we had passed by our bre-
thren the children of Esau, that dwelt in
Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath
and from Asiongaber, we came to the
way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.

9 And the Lord said to me : * Fight
not against the Moabites, neither go to
battle against them : for I will not give
thee any of their land, because I have
given Ar to the children of Lot in pos-
session.

10 The Emims first were the inhabit-
ants thereof, a people great, and strong,
and so tall, that like the race of the
Enacims,

11 They were esteemed as giants, and
were like the sons of the Enacims. But
the Moabites call them Emims.

12 The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in
Seir: who being driven out and de-
stroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there,
as Israel did in the land of his possession,
which the Lord gave him.

13 Then rising up to pass the torrent
Zared, we came to it.

14 And the time that we journeyed from
Cadesbarne till we passed over the tor-
rent Zared, was thirty-eight years : until
all the generation of the men that were
fit for war was consumed out of the
camp, as the Lord had sworn :

15 For his hand was against them, that
they should perish from the midst of the
camp.

16 And after all the fighting men were
dead,

17 The Lord spoke to me, saying :

18 Thou shalt pass this day the borders
of Moab, " the city named Ar :

19 And when thou comest nigh the fron-

t Num. 21. 15. — u B. C. 1405.

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Sehon delivered to them

DEUTERONOMY They overcome Mng of Basan

tiers of the children of Ammon, take
heed thou fight not against them nor
once move to battle : for I will not give
thee of the land of the children of Am-
nion, because I have given it to the chil-
dren of Lot for a possession.

20 It was accounted a land ot giants :
and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom
the Ammonites call Zomzommims,

21 A people great and many, and of tall
stature, like the Enacims whom the Lord
destroyed before their face : and he made
them to dwell in their stead,

22 As he had done in favour of the chil-
dren of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroy-
ing the Horrhites, and delivering their
land to them, which they possess to this
day.

23 The Hevites also, that dwelt in Ha-
serim as far as Gaza, were expelled by
the Cappadocians: who came out of Cap-
padocia, and destroyed them, and dwelt
in their stead.

24 Arise ye, and pass the torrent Ar-
non : ^ Behold I have delivered into thy
hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amor-
rhite, and begin thou to possess his land
and make war against him.

25 This day will I begin to send the
dread and fear of thee upon the nations
that dwell under the whole heaven :
that when they hear thy name they may
fear and tremble, and be in pain like
women in travail.

26 ^ So I sent messengers from the wil-
derness of Cademoth to Sehon the king
of Hesebon with peaceable words, say-
ing:

27 We will pass through thy land, we
will go along by the highway : we will
not turn aside neither to the right hand
nor to the left.

28 Sell us meat for money, that we may
Bat : give us water for money and so we
will drink. We only ask that thou wilt
let us pass through,

29 As the children of Esau have done,
that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that
abide in Ar : until we come to the Jor-
dan, and pass to the land which the Lord
our God will give us.

30 And Sehon the king of Hesebon
would not let us pass : because the Lord
thy God had hardened his spirit, and

V B. C. 1405. — ?/• Num. 21. 21. —rr Amos 2. 9.

Chap. 2. Ver. 30. Hardened, &c. That is, in
punishment of bis past sins be left bim to bis own

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fixed his heart, that he might be deliv-
ered into thy hands, as row thou seest.

31 And the Lord said to me : "^ Behold I
have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon
and his land, begin to possess it.

32 And Sehon came out to meet us with
all his people to fight at Jasa.

33 And the Lord our God delivered him
to us : and we slew him with his sons and
all his people.

34 And we took all his cities at that
time, kilUng the inhabitants of them, men
and women and children. We left no-
thing of them :

35 Except the cattle which came to the
share of them that took them : and the
spoils of the cities, which we took :

36 From Aroer, which is upon the bank
of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situ-
ate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There
was not a village or city, that escaped
our hands : the Lord our God delivered
all unto us:

37 Except the land of the children of
Ammon, to which we approached not:
and all that border upon the torrent Je-
boc, and the cities in the mountains, and
all the places which the Lord our God
forbade us.

CHAPTER 3.

The victory over Og king of Basan. Ruben, Gad,
and half the tribe of Manasses receive their pos-
session on the other side of Jordan.

THEN y we turned and went by the way
of Basan : ^ and Og the king of Basan
came out to meet us with his people to
fight in Edrai.

2 And the Lord said to me : Fear him
not : because he is delivered into thy
hand, with all his people and his land:
and thou shalt do to him as thou hast
done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites,
that dwelt in Hesebon.

3 " So the Lord our God delivered into
our hands, Og also the king of Basan,
and all his people : and we utterly de-
stroyed them,

4 Wasting all his cities at one time,
there was not a town that escaped us :
sixty cities, all the country of Argob the
kingdom of Og in Basan.

5 All the cities were fenced with very
high walls, and with gates and bars, be-
sides innumerable towns that had no walls.

y B. C. 1405. — 2 Num. 21. 34. — a Num. 21. 35.

stubborn and perverse disposition, vbicb drew bim
to bis ruin. See tbe note on £x. 7. 3.

Reuben , Gad and Manasses DEUTERONOMY given the east side of Jordan

6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we
had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon,
destroying every city, men and women
and children :

7 But the cattle and the spoils of the
cities we took for our prey.

8 And we took at that time the land out
of the hand of the two kings of the
Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jor-
dan : from the torrent Arnon unto the
mount Hermon,

9 Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and
the Amorrhites Sanir : ^

10 All the cities that are situate in the
plain, and all the land of Galaad and
Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities
of the kingdom of Og in Basan.

11 For only Og king of Basan remained
of the race of the giants. His bed of
iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of
the children of Ammon, being nine cubits
long, and four broad after the measure
of the cubit of a man's hand.

12 And we possessed the land at that
time from Aroer, which is upon the bank
of the torrent Arnon, unto the half of
mount Galaad : ^ and I gave the cities
thereof to Ruben and Gad.

13 And I delivered the other part of
©alaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og
to the half tribe of Manasses, all the
country of Argob : and all Basan is called
the Land of giants.

14 Jair the son of Manasses possessed
all the country of ^ Argob unto the bor-
ders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he
called Basan by his own name, Havoth
Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair,
until this present day.

15 To Machir also I gave Galaad.

16 And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad
I gave of the land of Galaad as far as the
torrent Arnon, half the torrent, and the
confines even unto the torrent Jeboc,
which is the border of the children of
Ammon :

17 And the plain of the wilderness, and
the Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth
unto the sea of the desert, which is the
most salt sea, to the foot of mount Phasga
eastward.

18 And I commanded you at that time,
saying : The Lord your God giveth you
this land for an inheritance, go ye well
appointed before your brethren the chil-

b Infra 4. 48.— c Num. 32. 29. — d Num. 21. 34.

dren of Israel, all the strong men of
you,

19 Leaving your wives and children and
cattle. For I know you have much cat-
tle, and they must remain in the cities,
which I have delivered to you.

20 Until the Lord give rest to your
brethren, as he hath given to you : and
they also possess the land, which he will
give them beyond the Jordan : then shall
every man return to his possession, which
I have given you.

21 ^ I commanded Josue also at that
time, saying; Thy eyes have seen what
the Lord your God hath done to these
two kings : so will he do to all the king-
doms to which thou shalt pass.

22 Fear them not: for the Lord your
God will fight for you.

23 And I besought the Lord at that
time, saying:

24 Lord God, thou hast begun to shew
unto thy servant thy greatness, and most
mighty hand, for there is no other God
either in heaven or earth, that is able to
do thy works, or to be compared to thy
strength.

25 I will pass over therefore, and will
see this excellent land beyond the Jordan,
and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.

26 And the Lord was angry with me on
your account and heard me not, but said
to me : It is enough : speak no more to
me of this matter.

27 Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast
thy eyes round about to the west, and to
the north, and to the south, and to the
east, and behold it, ^ for thou shalt not
pass this Jordan.

28 Command Josue, and encourage and
strengthen him: for he shall go before
this people, and shall divide unto them
the land which thou shalt see.

29 And we abode in the valley over
against the temple of Phogor.

CHAPTER 4.

Moses exhorteth the people to keep God's command-
ments : particularly to fly idolatry. Appointeth
three cities of refuge, on that side of the Jordan.

A ND now, O Israel, hear the command-
jLA. ments and judgments which I teach
thee : that doing them, thou mayst live,
and entering in mayst possess the land
which the Lord the God of your fathers
will give you.

e Num. 27. 18, — / Infra 31. 2, and 34. 4.

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.. ^^^

2 You shall not add to the word that I
speak to you, neither shall you take away
from it : keep the commandments of the
Lord your God which I command you.

3 ^ Your eyes have seen all that the
Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how
he hath destroyed all his worshippers
from among you.

4 But you that adhere to the Lord your
God, are all alive until this present day.

5 You know that I have taught you
statutes and justices, as the Lord my
God hath commanded me : so shall you
do them in the land which you shall
possess ;

6 And you shall observe, and fulfil them
in practice. For this is your wisdom, and
understanding in the sight of nations,

j that hearing all these precepts, they may
jsay: Behold a wise and understanding
people, a great nation.

7 Neither is there any other nation so
great, that hath gods so nigh them, as
our God is present to all our petitions.

8 For what other nation is there so re-
nowned that hath ceremonies, and just
judgments, and all the law, which I will
set forth this day before your eyes ?

9 Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul
carefully. Forget not the words that thy
eyes have seen, and let them not go out
of thy heart all the days of thy life.
Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and
to thy grandsons,

10 From the day in which thou didst
stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb,
when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call
together the people unto me, that they
may hear my words, and may learn to
fear me all the time that they live on the
earth, and may teach their children.

11 ^* And you came to the foot of the
mount, which burned even unto heaven :
and there was darkness, and a cloud and
obscurity in it.

12 And the Lord spoke to you from the
midst of the fire. You heard the voice
of his words, but you saw not any form
at all.

13 And he shewed you his covenant,
which he commanded you to do, and the
* ten words that he wrote in two tables
of stone.

14 And he commanded me at that time
that I should teach you the ceremonies

DFUTERONOMY

The Jews threatened

g Num. 25. 4; Jos. 22. 17. — /i Ex. 19. 18.
i £x. 20., 21., 22., aud 23., cap.

and judgments which you shall do in the
land, that you shall possess.

15 Keep therefore your souls carefully. ^
You saw not any similitude in the day
that the Lord God spoke to you i-n Ho-
reb from the midst of the fire :

16 Lest perhaps being deceived you
might make you a graven similitude, or
image of male or female,

17 The similitude of any beasts, that
are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly
under heaven,

18 Or of creeping things, that move on
the earth, or of fishes, that abide in the
waters under the earth :

19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to
heaven, thou see the sun and the moon,
and all the stars of heaven, and being
deceived by error thou adore and serve
them, which the Lord thy God created
for the service of all the nations, that
are under heaven.

20 But the Lord hath taken you and
brought you out of the iron furnace of
Egypt, to make you his people of inher-
itance, as it is this present day.

21 '^ And the Lord was angry with me
for your words, and he swore that I
should not pass over the Jordan, nor
enter into the excellent land, which he
will give you.

22 Behold I die in this land, I shall not
pass over the Jordan: you shall pass,
and possess the goodly land.

23 Beware lest thou ever forget the
covenant of the Lord thy God, which he
hath made with thee : and make to thy-
self a graven likeness of those things
which the Lord hath forbid to be made :

24 ^ Because the Lord thy God is a con-
suming fire, a jealous God.

25 If you shall beget sons and grand-
sons, and abide in the land, and being
deceived, make to yourselves any simili-
tude, committing evil before the Lord
your God, to provoke him to wrath :

26 I call this day heaven and earth to
witness, that you shall quickly perish
out of the land, which, when you have
passed over the Jordan, you shall pos-
sess. You shall not dwell therein long,
but the Lord will destroy you,

27 And scatter you among all nations,
and you shall remain a few among the
nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

i Ex. 24. 10. — k Supra 1. 37,
i Qeb. 12. 29.

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The cities of refuge

28 And there you shall serve gods, that
were framed with men's hands: wood
and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor
eat, nor smell.

29 And when thou shalt seek there the
Lord thy God, thou shalt find him : yet
so, if thou seek him with all thy heart,
and all the aflfliction of thy soul.

30 After ail the things aforesaid shall
find thee, in the latter time thou shalt
return to the Lord thy God, and shalt
hear his voice.

31 Because the Lord thy God is a mer-
ciful God: he will not leave thee, nor
altogether destroy thee, nor forget the
covenant, by which he swore to thy
fathers.

32 Ask of the days of old, that have
been before thy time from the day that
God created man upon the earth, from
one end of heaven to the other end
thereof, if ever there was done the like
thing, or it hath been known at any time,

33 That a people should hear the voice
of God speaking out of the midst of fire,
as thou hast heard, and lived:

34 If God ever did so as to go, and take
to himself a nation out of the midst of
nations by temptations, signs, and won-
ders, by fight, and a strong hand, and
stretched out arm, and horrible visions
according to all the things that the Lord
your God did for you in Egypt, before
thy eyes.

35 That thou mightest know that the
Lord he is God, and there is no other
besides him.

36 From heaven he made thee to hear
his voice, that he might teach thee. And
upon earth he shewed thee his exceed-
ing great fire, and thou didst hear his
words out of the midst of the fire,

37 Because he loved thy fathers, and
chose their seed after them. "* And he
brought thee out of Egypt, going before
thee with his great power,

38 To destroy at thy coming very great
nations, and stronger than thou art, and
to bring thee in, and give thee their land
for a possession, as thou seest at this
present day.

39 Know therefore this day, and think
in thy heart that the Lord he is God in
heaven above, and in the earth beneath,
and there is no other.

m Ex. 13. 21.— n Num. 25. 14.

40 Keep his precepts and command-
ments, which I command thee: that it
may be well with thee, and thy children
after thee, and thou mayst remain a long
time upon the land, which the Lord thy
God will give thee.

41 '^Then Moses set aside three cities
beyond the Jordan at the east side,

42 That any one might flee to them who
should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and
was not his enemy a day or two before,
and that he might escape to some one of
these cities:

43 ^'Bosor in the wilderness, which is
situate in the plains of the tribe of Ru-
ben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in
the tribe of Gad: and Golan in Basan,
which is in the tribe of Manasses.

44 This is the law, that Moses set before
the children of Israel,

45 And these are the testimonies and
ceremonies and judgments, which he
spoke to the children of Israel, when
they came out of Egypt,

46 Beyond the Jordan in the valley
over against the temple of Phogor, in
the land of Sehon king of the Amor-
rhites, that dwelt in Hesebon, whom Mo-
ses slew. And the children of Israel
coming out of Egypt,

47 Possessed his land, and the land of
Og king of Basan, of the two kings of
the Amorrhites, who were beyond the
Jordan towards the rising of the sun :

48 From Aroer, which is situate upon
the bank of the torrent Arnon, unto
mount Sion, which is also called Her-
mon,

49 All the plain beyond the Jordan at
thp east side, unto the sea of the wil
d rness, and unto the foot of mount
I - asga.

CHAPTER 5.

The ten commandments are repeated and explained.

A ND Moses called all Israel, and said
J\. to them : P Hear, O Israel, the cere-
monies and judgments, which I speak in
your ears this day : learn them, and ful-
fil them in work.

2 The Lord our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb.

3 He made not the covenant with our
fathers, but with us, who are now preseni
and living.

O Jos. 20. 3.

1405.

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The len commandments

DEUTERONOMY

The people are afraid

4 He spoke to us face to face in the
mount out of the midst of fire.

5 I was the mediator and stood between
the Lord and you at that time, to shew
you his words, for you feared the fire,
and went not up into the mountain, and
he said :

6^1 am the Lord thy God, who brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage.

7 ^ Thou shalt not have strange gods in
my sight.

8 * Thou shalt not make to thyself a
graven thing, nor the likeness of any
things, that are in heaven above, or that
are in the earth beneath, or that abide in
the waters under the earth.

9 * Thou shalt not adore them, and thou
shalt not serve thera. For I am the Lord
thy God, a jealous God, visiting the in-
iquity of the fathers upon their children
unto the third and fourth generation, to
them that hate me,

10 And shewing mercy unto many thou-
sands, to them that love me, and keep my
commandments.

11 ^ Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain : for he shall
not be unpunished that taketh his name
upon a vain thing.

12 Observe the day of the sabbath, to
sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath
commanded thee.

13 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt
do all thy works.

14 ^ The seventh is the day of the sab-
bath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy
God. Thou shalt not do any work there-
in, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter,
nor thy manservant nor thy maidser-
vant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of
thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within
thy gates : that thy manservant and thy
maidservant may rest, even as thyself.

15 Remember that thou also didst serve
in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought
thee out from thence with a strong hand,
and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath
he commanded thee that thou shouldst
observe the sabbath day.

If* ^ Honour thy father and mother, as
the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,
that thou mayst live a long time, and it

q Ex. 20. 2 ; Lev. 26. 1 ; Ps. 80. 11. — r Ex. 20. 3 ;

Ps. 80. 10. — s Ex. 20. 4 ; Lev. 26. 1 ; Ps. 96. 7.

t Ex. 34. 14.

u Ex. 20. 7 ; Lev. 19. 12; Matt. 5. 33.

may be well with thee in the land, which
the Lord thy God will give thee.

17 Thou shalt not kill.

18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

19 And thou shalt not steal.

20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness
against thy neighbour.

21 * Thou shalt not covet thy neigh-
hour's wife : nor his house, nor his field,
nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,
nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that
is his.

22 These words the Lord spoke to all the
multitude of you in the mountain, out of
the midst of the fire and the cloud, and
the darkness, with a loud voice, adding
nothing more : and he wrote them in two
tables of stone, which he delivered unto
me.

23 But you, after you heard the voice
out of the midst of the darkness, and saw
the mountain burn, came to me, all the
princes of the tribes and the elders, and
you said :

24 Behold the Lord our God hath shewn
us his majesty and his greatness, we have
heard his voice out of the midst of the
fire, and have proved this day that God
speaking with man, man hath lived.

25 Why shall we die therefore, and why
shall this exceeding great fire consume
us : for if we hear the voice of the Lord
our God any more, we shall die.

26 What is all flesh, that it should hear
the voice of the living God, who speak»^
eth out of the midst of the fire, as we
have heard, and be able to live ?

27 Approach thou rather : and hear all
things that the Lord our God shall say
to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and
we will hear and will do them.

28 And when the Lord had heard this,
he said to me : I have heard the voice of
the words of this people, which they
spoke to thee : they have spoken all
things well.

29 Who shall give them to have such a
mind, to fear me, and to keep all my
commandments at all times, that it may
be well with them and with their chil-
dren for ever ?

30 Go and say to them: Return into
your tents.

V Gen. 2. 2 ; Ex. 20. 10 ; Heb. 4. 4.

W Ex. 20. 12 ; Eccli. 3. 9 ; Matt. 15. 4 ; Mark 7. 10 ;

Eph. 6. 2.

X Matt. 5. 28 ; Bom. 7. 7.

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Exhortation to love God

DEUTERONOMY

Exhortation to obey Goct

31 But stand thou here with me, and I will
3peak to thee all my commandments, and
ceremonies and judgments: which thou
Shalt teach them, that they may do them
in the land, which I will give them for a
possession.

32 Keep therefore and do the things
which the Lord God hath commanded
you : you shall not go aside neither to
the right hand, nor to the left.

33 But you shall walk in the way that
the Lord your God hath commanded, that
you may live, and It may be well with
you, and your days may be long in the
land of your possession.

CHAPTER 6.

An exhortation to the love of God^ and obedience to
his law.

THESE are the precepts, and ceremo-
nies, and judgments, which the Lord
your God commanded that I should teach
you, and that you should do them in the
land into which you pass over to possess
it:^

2 That thou mayst fear the Lord thy
God, and keep all his commandments and
precepts, which I command thee, and thy
sons, and thy grandsons, all the days of
thy life, that thy days may be prolonged.

3 Hear, O Israel, and observe to do the
things which the Lord hath commanded
thee, that it may be well with thee, and
thou mayst be greatly multiplied, as the
Lord the God of thy fathers hath pro-
mised thee a land flowing with milk and
honey.

4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is
one Lord.

5 ^ Thou Shalt love the Lord thy God
with thy whole heart, and with thy whole
Boul, and with thy whole strength.

6 And these words which I command
thee this day, shall be in thy heart :

7 And thou shalt tell them to thy chil-
dren, and thou shalt meditate upon them
sitting in thy house, and walking on thy
journey, sleeping and rising.

8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign
on thy hand, and they shall be and shall
move between thy eyes.

9 And thou shalt write them in the
4ntry,and on the doors of thy house.

10 And when the Lord thy God shall
fiave brought thee into the land, for

y B. C. 1405.
«Infra 11. 13 ; Matt. 22. 37 ; Mark 12.30 ; Luke 10. 27.

which he swore to thy fathers Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given
thee great and goodly cities, which thou
didst not build,

11 Houses full of riches, which thou
didst not set up, cisterns which thou
didst not dig, vineyards and oUveyards,
which thou didst not plant,

12 And thou shalt have eaten and be
full:

13 Take heed diligently lest thou forget
the Lord, who brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bond-
age. " Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God,
and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt
swear by his name.

14 You shall not go after the strange
gods of all the nations, that are round
about you:

15 Because the Lord thy God is a jealous
God in the midst of thee: lest at any time
the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled
against thee and take thee away from
the face of the earth.

16 ''Thou shalt not. bempt the Lord thy
God, as thou temptedst him in the place
of temptation.

17 Keep the precepts of the Lord thy
God, and the testimonies and ceremonies
which he hath commanded thee.

18 And do that which is pleasing and
good in the sight of the Lord, that it may
be well with thee : and going in thou
mayst possess the goodly land, concern-
ing which the Lord swore to thy fathers,

19 That he would destroy all thy enen7ie8
before thee, as he hath spoken.

20 And when thy son shall ask thee to
morrow, saying: What mean these testi-
monies, and ceremonies and judgments,
which the Lord our God hath commanded
us?

21 Thou shalt say to him: We were
bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the
Lord brought us out of Egypt with a
strong hand.

22 And he wrought signs and wonders
great and very grievous in Egypt against
Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,

23 And he brought us out from thence,
that he might bring us in and give us the
land, concerning which he swore to our
fathers.

24 And the Lord commanded that W6
should do all these ordinances, and should

a Infra lo. 20 ; Matt. 4. 10 ; Luke 4. t.
b Matt 4. 7 ) Luke 4. 12.

192

No league vnth Chanaanites DEUTERONOMY God promises his blessing

fear the Lord onr God, that it might be
?vell with us all the days of our life, as it
is at this day.

25 And he will be merciful to us, if we
keep and do all his precepts before the
Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

CHAPTER 7.

Wo league nor fellowship to be made with the Cha-
naanites : God promiseth his people his blessing
and assistance, if they keep his commandments,

ITTHEN «^ the Lord thy God shall have
W brought thee into the land, which
:hou art going in to possess, and shall
lave destroyed many nations before thee,
* the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the
^morrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the
Pherezite, and tho Hevite, and the Jebu-
}ite, seven nations much more numerous
jihan thou art, and stronger than thou:

2 And th3 Lord thy God shall have de-
c'vered them to thee, thou shalt utterly
iestroy them. ^Thou shalt make no
eague with them, nor shew mercy to
)hem ;

3 Neither shalt thou make marriages
rith them. Tho a shalt not give thy
laughter to his son, nor take his daugh-
ier for thy son:

4 For she will turn away thy son from
ollowing me, that he may rather serve
trange gods, and the wrath of the Lord
?ill be kindled, and will quickly destroy
hee.

5 But thus rather shall you deal with
hem: -^Destroy their altars, and break
heir statues, and cut down their groves,
nd burn their graven things.

6 ^ Because thou art a holy people to
he Lord thy God. ^ The Lord thy God
lath chosen thee, to be his peculiar
»eople of all peoples that are upon the
arth.

7 Not because you surpass all nations in
Lumber, is the Lord joined unto you, and
iath chosen you, for you jjxe the fewest
f any people:

8 But because the Lord hath loved you,
nd hath kept his oath, which he swore
0 your fathers: and hath brought you
ut with a strong hand, and redeemed
ou from the house of bondage, out of
he hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.

9 And thou shalt know that the Lord
liy God, he is a strong and faithful God,

C. 1405. — d Ex. 23. 23, and 33. 2.
e Ex. 23. 32, and 34. 15, 16.
/ Ex. 23. 24 ; Infra 12. 3, and 16. 22.

keeping his covenant and mercy to them
that love him, and to them that keep his
commandments, unto a thousand gener-
ations :

10 And repaying forthwith them that
hate him, so as to destroy them, without
further delay immediately rendering to
them what they deserve.

11 Keep therefore the precepts and
ceremonies and judgments, which I com-
mand thee this day to do.

12 If after thou hast heard these judg-
ments, thou keep and do them, the Lord
thy God will also keep his covenant to
thee, and the mercy which he swore to
thy fathers :

13 And he will love thee and multiply
thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb,
and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and
thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and
the flocks of thy sheep upon the land,
for which he swore to thy fathers that he
would give it thee.

14 Blessed shalt thou be among all peo-
ple. ^No one shall be barren among
you of either sex, neither of men nor
cattle.

15 The Lord will take away from thee
all sickness : and the grievous infirmities
of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will
not bring upon thee, but upon thy
enemies.

16 Thou shalt consume all the people,
which the Lord thy God will dehver to
thee. Thy eye shall not spare them,
neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest
they be thy ruin.

17 If thou say in thy heart : These
nations are more than I, how shall I be
able to destroy them ?

18 Fear not, but remember what the
Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all
the Egyptians,

19 The exceeding great plagues, which
thy eyes saw, and the signs and wonders,
and the strong hand, and the stretched
out arm, with which the Lord thy God
brought thee out : so will he do to all iihe
people, whom thou fearest.

20 ^ Moreover the Lord thy God will
send also hornets among them, until he
destroy and consume all that have es-
caped thee, and could hide themselves.

21 Thou shalt iiot fear them, because

103

g lufra 14. 2.— h Infra 26, la.

i Ex. 23. 26.

J£x. 23. 28; Jos. 24. 12.

He will destroy the enemies DEUTERONOMY God's dealings with Israel

the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee,
a God mighty and terrible :

22 He will consume these nations in thy
sight by little and little and by degrees.
Thou wilt not be able to destroy them
altogether : lest perhaps the beasts of
the earth should increase upon thee.

23 But the Lord thy God shall dehver
them in thy sight : and shall slay them
Until they be utterly destroyed.

24 And he shall deliver their kings into
thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their
names from under Heaven: no man shall
be able to resist thee, until thou destroy
them.

25 '^ Their graven things thou 8 halt bum
with fire : thou shalt not covet the silver
and gold of which they are made, neither
Shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof,
lest thou offend, because it is an abomi-
nation to the Lord thy God.

26 Neither shalt thou bring any thing of
the idol into thy house, lest thou become
an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest
it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as
uncleanness and fiithf because it is an
anathema.

CHAPTER 8.

The people is ptct in mind of Gcd*s dealings vith
them^ to the end that they may love him and serve
him.

LL ' the commandments, that I com-
mand thee this day, take great oare
to observe : that you may livej and be
multiplied, and going in may possoss the
land, for which the Lord swore to your
fathers.

2 And thou shalt remember all the way
through which the Lord thy God hath
brought thee for forty years through the
desert, to aflElict thee and to prove thee,
and that the things that were in thy
heart might be made known, whether
thou would&t keep his commandments or
no.

3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave
thee manna for thy food, which neither
thou nor thy fathers knew : to shew that
•^ not in bread alone doth man live, but

k 2 Mac. 12. 40. — I A. M. 2553.
m Matt 4. 4 ; Luke 4- 4.

Chap. 7. Ver. 25. Graven things. Idols, so
called by contempt.

Ver. 26. An anathema. That is, a thing devoted
**o destruction; and which carriea along with it a
eurse.

Oha]^ ft. V«t S. xvot m ttrsoAi altme &c That

in every word that proceedeth from the
mou^>h of God.

4 Thy raiment, with which thou wast
covered, hath not decayed for age, and
thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth
year.

5 That thou mayest consider in thy
heart, that as a man traineth up his son,
so the Lord thy God hath trained thee
up.

6 That thou shouldst keep the com-
mandments of the Lord thy God, and
walk in his ways, and fear him.

7 For the Lord thy God will bring thee
into a good land, of brooks and of waters,
and of fountains: in the plains of which
and the hills deep rivers break out:

8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vine-
yards, wherein fig trees and pomegran-
ates, and oliveyards grow : a land of oil
and honey.

9 Where without any want thou shalt
eat thy bread, and enjoy abundance of
all things : where the stones are iron,
and out of its hills are dug mines of brass :

10 That when thou hast eaten, and art
Vtil, thou mayst bless the Lord thy God
for the excellent land which he hath
given thee.

11 Take heed, and beware lest at any
time thou forget the Lord thy God, and
neglect his commandments and judg-
ments and ceremonies, which I command
thee this day :

12 Lest after thou hast eaten and art
filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt
in them,

13 And shalt have herds of oxen and
flocks of sheep, and plenty of gold and
of silver, and of all things,

14 Thy heart be lifted up, and thou re-
member not the Lord thy God, who
brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage :

15 And was thy leader in the great and
terrible wilderness, " wherein there was
the serpent burning with his breath, and
the scorpion and the dipsas, and no wa-
ters at all: *^who brought forth streamf
out of the hardest rock,

n Num. 20. 9, and 21. 6.
o Ex. 17. 6.

is, that God is able to make food of what he pleasei
for the support of man.

Ver. 15. The Dipsas. A serpent whose bite
causeth a violent thirst; from whence it hns it.-»
name, for in Greek dipsa {&C\i/a) signifies thcoi..

194

Victories not due to their merit DEUTERONOMY

The rebellions of Israel

16 P And fed thee in the wilderness with
manna which thy fathers knew not. And
after he had afflicted and proved thee,
ai the Inst he had mercy on thee,

17 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart :
My own might, and the strength of my
own hand have achieved all these things
lor me.

18 But remember the Lord thy God,
that he hath given thee strength, that he
^ '^ht fulfil his covenant, concerning
which he swore to thy fathers, as this
present day sheweth.

19 But if thou forget the Lord thy God,
and follow strange gods, and serve and
adore them: behold now I foretell thee
that thou Shalt utterly perish.

20 As the nations, which the Lord de-
Btrc^ed at thy entrance, so shall you
alf perish, if you be disobedient to the
voice of the Lord your God.

CHAPTER 9.

Lest they should impute their victories to their oum
merits, they are put in mind of their manifold re-
hellions and other sins, for which they should have
been destroyed, but God spared them for his pro-
mise made to Abraham. Isaac, and Jacob.

HEAR, O Israel: « Thou shalt go over
the Jordan this day ; to possess na-
tions very great, and stronger than thy-
self, cities great, and walled up to the sky,

2 A people great and tall, the sons of
the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and
heard of, against whom no man is able to
Btand.

3 Thou shalt know therefore this day
that the Lord thy God himself will pass
over before thee, a devouring and con-
suming fire, to destroy and extirpate and
bring them to nothing before thy face
qiiickly, as he hath spoken to thee.

4 Say not in thy heart, when the Lord
Chy God shall have destroyed them in
thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord
brought me in to possess this land, where-
as these nations are destroyed for their
wickedness.

6 For it is not for thy justices, and the
uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt
go in to possess their lands: but because
they have done wickedly, they are de-
stroyed at thy coming in: and that the
Lord might accomplish his wori, which
he promised by oath to thy fathers Abra-
ham, Isaac, and Jacob.

p Ex. 16. 14. — Q B. C. 1405.
r Ex. 17. 6, and 19. 3.

6 Know therefore that the Lord tny
God giveth thee not this excellent land
in possession for thy justices, for thou
art a very stiffnecked people.

7 Remember, and forget not how thou
provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath
in the wilderness. From the day that
thou earnest out of Egypt unto this
place, thou hast always strove against
the Lord.

8 '"For in Horeb also thou didst pro-
voke him, and he was angry, and would
have destroyed thee,

9 * When I went up into the mount to
receive the tables of stone, the tables of
the covenant which the Lord made with
you: and I continued in the mount forty
days and nights, neither eating bread,
nor drinking water.

10 'And the Lord gave me two tables
of stone written with the finger of God,
and containing all the words that he
spoke to you in the mount from the
midst of the fire, when the people were
assembled together.

11 And when forty days were passed,
and as many nights, the Lord gave me
the two tables of stone, the tables of the
covenant,

12 And said to me: ** Arise, and go
down from hence quickly : for thy people,
which thou hast brought out of Egypt,
have quickly forsaken the way that thou
hast shewn them, and have made to them*
selves a molten idoL

13 And again the Lord said to me: I
see that this people is stiffnecked :

14 Let me alone that I may destroy
them, and abolish their name from under
heaven, and set thee over a nation, that
is greater and stronger than this.

15 And when I came down from the
burning mount, and held the two tables
of the covenant with both hands,

16 And saw that you had sinned against
the Lord your God, and had made to
yourselves a molten calf, and had quickly
forsaken his way, which he had shewn
you:

17 I cast the tables out of my hands,
and broke them in your sight.

18 And I fell down before the Lord as
before, forty days and nights neither
eating bread, nor drinking water, for all
your sins, which you had committed

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S Ex 24 18
t Ex. 31. 18, and 32. id. ^u £2. 32. 4

Moses prayed for the people DEUTERONOMY The tables given a second time

against the Lord, and had provoked him
to wrath :

19 For I feared his indignation and an-
ger, wherewith being moved against you,
he would have destroyed you. And the
Lord heard me this time also.

20 And he was exceeding angry against
Aaron also, and would have destroyed
him, and I prayed in like manner for him.

21 And your sin that you had committed,
that is, the calf, I took, and burned it
with fire, and breaking it into pieces,
until it was as small as dust, I threw it
into the torrent, which cometh down
from the mountain.

22 ^ At the burning also, and at the
place of temptation, and at the graves
of lust you provoked the Lord :

23 And when he sent you from Cades-
barne, saying: Go up, and possess the
land that I have given you, and you
slighted the commandment of the Lord
your God, and did not believe him, nei-
ther would you hearken to his voice :

24 But were always rebellious from the
day that I began to know you.

25 And I lay prostrate before the Lord
forty days and nights, in which I humbly
besought him, that he would not destroy
you as he had threatened :

26 And praying, I said : O Lord God, de-
stroy not thy people, and thy inheritance,
which thou hast redeemed in thy great-
ness, whom thou hast brought out of
Egypt with a strong hand.

27 Remember thy servants Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob: look not on the stub-
bornness of this people, nor on their
wickedness and sin :

28 Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the
land, out of which thou hast brought us,
say : The Lord could not bring them into
the land that he promised them, and he
hated them: therefore he brought them
out, that he might kill them in the wil-
derness,

29 Who are thy people and thy inher-
itance, whom thou hast brought out by
thy great strength, and in thy stretched
out arm.

CHAPTER 10.

God giveth the second tables of the law : a further
exhortation to fear and serve the Lord.

V Num. 11. 1, and 16. 35, and 21. 6.
w A. M. 2553. — X Ex. 34. 1.

that time *^the Lord said to me:
* Hew thee two tables of stone like
the former, and come up to me into the
mount: and thou shalt make an ark of
wood,

2 And I will write on the tables the
words that were in them, which thou
brokest before, and thou shalt put them
in the ark.

3 And I made an ark of setim wood.
And when I had hewn two tables of
stone hke the former, I went up into the
mount, having them in my hands.

4 And he wrote in the tables, according
as he had written before, the ten words,
which the Lord spoke to you in the
mount from the midst of the fire, when
the people were assembled : and he gave
them to me.

6 And returning from the mount, I
came down, and put the tables into the
ark, that I had made, and they are there
till this present, as the Lord commanded
me.

6 y And the children of Israel removed
their camp from Beroth of the children
of Jacan into Mosera, where ^ Aaron died
and was buried, and Eleazar his son sue
ceeded him in the priestly ofiice.

7 From thence they came to Gadgad
from which place they departed, and
camped in Jetebatha, in a land of waters
and torrents.

8 At that time he separated the tribe
of Levi, to carry the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, and to stand before him in
the ministry, and to bless in his name
until this present day.

9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor pos-
session with his brethren: because the
Lord himself is his possession, as the
Lord thy God promised him.

10 And I stood in the mount, as before,
forty days and nights: and the Lord
heard me this time also, and would not
destroy thee.

11 And he said to me: Go, and walk
before the people, that they may enter,
and possess the land, which I swore to
their fathers that I would give them.

12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord
thy God require of thee, but that thou
fear the Lord thy God, and walk in hie

y Num. 33. 31.
2 Num. 20. 28 and 29.

Chap. 10. Ver. 6. Mosera. By mount Hor, for there Aaron died, Num. 20. This and tbe following
verses seem to be inserted by way of parenthesis.

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Exhortation to serve God

DEUTERONOMY The reward of obedience

ways, and love him, and serve the Lord
thy God, with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul :

13 And k^ep the commandments of the
Lord, and his ceremonies, which I com-
mand thee this day, that it may be well
with thee?

14 Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God,
and the heaven of heaven, the earth and
all things that are therein.

15 And yet the Lord hath been closely
Joined to thy fathers, and loved them
and chose their seed after them, that is
to say, you, out of all nations, as this day
it is proved.

16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

17 Because the Lord your God he is the
God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a
great God and mighty and terrible, " who
accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.

18 He doth judgment to the fatherless
and the widow, loveth the stranger, and
giveth him food and raiment.

19 And do you therefore love strangers,
because you also were strangers in the
!and of Egypt.

20 ^ Thou Shalt fear the Lord thy God,
and serve him only : to him thou shalt
adhere, and shalt swear by his name.

21 He is thy praise, and thy God, that
hath done for thee these great and
tierrible things, which thy eyes have seen.

22 In seventy souls thy fathers went
down into Egypt: and behold now the
Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the
stars of heaven.

CHAPTER 11.

T%e love and service of God are still inculcated,wiih
a blessing to them, that serve him, and threats of
punishment if they forsake his law.

THEREFORE love the Lord thy God
and observe his precepts and cere-
monies, his judgments and command-
ments at all times. ^

2 Know this day the things that your
children know not, who saw not the
chastisements of the Lord your God,
his great doings and strong hand, and
stretched out arm,

3 The signs and works which he did in
the midst of Egjrpt to king Pharao, and
to all his land,

4 And to all the host of the Egyptians,

and to their horses and chariots: how
the waters of the Red Sea covered them,
when they pursued you, and how the Lord
destroyed them until this present day:

5 And what he hath done to you in the
wilderness, till you came to this place :

6 ^ And to Dathan and Abiron the sons
of Eliab, who was the son of Ruben : *
whom the earth, opening her mouth
swallowed up with their households and
tents, and all their substance, which they
had in the midst of Israel.

7 Your eyes have seen all the great
works of the Lord, that he hath done,

8 That you may keep all his command-
ments, which I command you this day,
and may go in, and possess the land, to
which you are entering,

9 And may live in it a long time : which
the Lord promised by oath to your
fathers, and to their seed, a land which
floweth with milk and honey.

10 For the land, which thou goest to
possess, is not like the land of Egypt,^
from whence thou camest out, where,
when the seed is sown, waters are
brought in to water it after the manner
of gardens.

11 But it is a land of hills and plains,
expecting rain from heaven.

12 And the Lord thy God doth always
visit it, and his eyes are on it from the
beginning of the year unto the end
thereof.

13 -^If then you obey my command-
ments, which I command you this day,
that you love the Lord your God, and
serve him with all your heart, and with
all your soul :

14 He will give to your land the early
rain and the latter rain, that you may
gather in your corn, and your wine, and
your oil,

15 And your hay out of the fields to
feed your cattle, and that you may eat
and be filled.

16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be
deceived, and you depart from the Lord,
and serve strange gods, and adore them:

17 And the Lord being angry shut up
heaven, that the rain come not down,
nor the earth yield her fruit, and you
perish quickly from the excellent land,
which the Lord will give you.

a 2 Par. 19. 7; Job 34. 19; Wisd.6. 8; Eccli.35.15;

Acts 10. 34 ; Rom. 2. 11 ; Gal. 2. 6.

b Supra 6. 13 ; Matt. 4. 10 ; Luke 4. 8.

c B. C. 1405. — d Num. 16.
e Num. 16. 32.
/ Supra 10. 12.

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The blessing and the curse DEUTERONOMY

Idolatry to he extirpated

18 ^Lay up these my words in your
hearts and minds, and hang them for a
sign on your hands, and place them be-
tween your eyes.

19 Teach your children that they medi-
tate on them, when thou sittest in thy
house, and when thou walkest on the way,
and when thou liest down and risest up.

20 Thou shalt write them upon the posts
and the doors of thy house :

21 That thy days may be multiplied,
and the days of thy children in the land
which the Lord swore to thy fathers,
that he would give them as long as the
heaven hangeth over the earth.

22 For if you keep the commandments
which I command you, and do them, to
love the Lord your God, and walk in all
■" is ways, cleaving unto him,

23 The Lord will destroy all these na-
tions before your face, and you shall
possess them, which are greater and
stronger than you.

24 ^" Every place, that your foot shall
tread upon, shall be yours. From the
desert, and from Libanus, from the great
river Euphrates unto the western sea
shall be your borders.

25 None shall stand against you : the
Lord your God shall lay the dread and
fear of you upon all the land that you
shall tread upon, as he hath spoken to
you.

26 Behold I set forth in your sight this
day a blessing and a curse :

27 A blessing, if you obey the command-
ments of the Lord your God, which I
command you this day :

28 A curse, if you obey not the com-
mandments of the Lord your God, but
revolt from the way which now I shew
you, and walk after strange gods which
you know not.

29 And when the Lord thy God shall
have brought thee into the land, whither
thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the
blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse
upon mount Hebal:

30 Which are beyond the Jordan, behind
the way that goeth to the setting of the
sun, in the land of the Chanaanite who
dwelleth in the plain country over against
Galgala, which is near the valley that
reacheth and entereth far.

g Supra 6.6. — h Jos. 1. 3. — i B. C. 1406.

31 For you shall pass over the Jordan,
to possess the land, which the Lord youi
God will give you, that you may have it
and possess it.

32 See therefore that yoa fulfil the cere-
monies and judgments, which I shall set
this day before you.

CHAPTER 12.

All idolatry must be extirpated : sacrifices, tithes,
and first/ ruits mvst be offered in one only place:
all eating of blood is prohibited.

ri^HESE are the precepts and judg-
X ments, that you must do in the land,
* which the Lord the God of thy fathers
will give thee, to possess it all the days
that thou shalt walk upon the earth.

2 Destroy all the places in which the
nations, that you shall possess, wor-
shipped their gods upon high mountains,
and hills, and under every shady tree :

3 ^ Overthrow their altars, and break
down their statues, burn their groves
with fire, and break their idols in pieces ;
destroy their names out of those places.

4 You shall not do so to the Lord your
God:

5 But you shall come to the place, which
the Lord your God shall choose out of all
your tribes, to put his name there, and to
dwell in it :

6 And you shall offer in that place your
holocausts and victims, the tithes and
firstfruits of your hands and your vows
and gifts, the firstborn of your herds and
your sheep.

7 And you shall eat there in the sight of
the Lord your God : and you shall rejoice
in all things, whereunto you shall put
your hand, you and your houses wherein
the Lord your God hath blessed you.

8 You shall not do there the things we
do here this day, every man that which
seemeth good to himself.

9 For until this present time you are
not come to rest, and to the possession,
which the Lord your God will give you.

10 You shall pass over the Jordan, and
shall dwell in the land which the Lord
your God will give you, that you may
have rest from all enemies round about ;
and may dwell without any fear,

11 In the place, which the Lord your
God shall choose, that his name may be
therein. Thither shall you bring all the

j Supra 7. 25 ; 2 Mac. 12. 40.

Chat. IL yer.29. Fut the blessing, &o. See Deut 27. 12, &c andJosue 8. 33, A^

193

The place of sacrifice

DEUTERONOMY

The 'prohibition of blood

things that I command you, holocausts,
and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits
of your hands : and whatsoever is the
choicest in the gifts which you shall vow
to the Lord.

12 There shall you feast before the Lord
your God, you and your sons and your
daughters, your menservants and maid-
servants, and the Levite that dwelleth in
your cities. For he hath no other part
and possession among you.

13 Beware lest thou offer thy holocausts
in every place that thou shalt see :

14 But in the place which the Lord shall
choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou
offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I
command thee.

15 But if thou desirest to eat, and the
eating of flesh delight thee, kill, and eat
according to the blessing of the Lord thy
God, which he hath given thee, in thy
cities : whether it be unclean, that is to
say, having blemish or defect: or clean,
that is to say, sound and without blemish,
such as may be offered, as the roe, and
the hart, shalt thou eat it :

16 Only the blood thou shalt not eat, but
thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as
water.

17 Thou mayst not eat in thy towns the
tithes of thy corn, and thy wine, and thy
oil, the firstborn of thy herds and thy
cattle, nor any thing that thou vowest,
and that thou wilt offer voluntarily, and
the firstfruits of thy hands:

18 But thou shalt eat them before the
Lord thy God in the place which the
Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy
son aD'^ thy daughter, and thy manser-

lant, and maidservant, and the Levite
that dwelleth in thy cities: and thou
shalt rejoice and be refreshed before the
Lord thy God in all things, whereunto
thou shalt put thy hand.

19 Take heed thou forsake not the Le-
vite all the time that thou livest in the '
Ltnd.

20 ^ When the Lord thy God shall have
enlarged thy borders, as he hath spoken
to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that
thy soul desireth:

21 And if the place which the Lord thy
God shall choose, that his name should be
there, be far off, thou shalt kill of thy

k Gen. 28. 14; Ex. 34. 24; Infra 19. 8.

Chap. 12. Ver. 32. That only do thou, &c. They
are forbid bere to follow the ceremonies of the hea-

199

herds and of thy flocks, as I have com-
manded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns,
as it pleaseth thee.

22 Even as the roe and the hart is eaten,
so shalt thou eat them: both the clean
and unclean shall eat of them alike.

23 Only beware of this, that thou eat not
the blood, for the blood is for the soul:
and therefore thou must not eat the soul
with the flesh:

24 But thou^halt pour it upon the earth
as water,

25 That it may be well with thee and
thy children after thee, when thou shalt
do that which is pleasing in the sight of
the Lord.

26 But the things which thou hast sanc-
tified and vowed to the Lord, thou shalt
take, and shalt come to the place which
the Lord shall choose :

27 And shalt offer thy oblations the flesh
and the blood upon the altar of the Lord
thy God: the blood of thy victims thou
shalt pour on the altar: and the flesh
thou thyself shalt eat.

28 Observe and hear all the things that
I command thee, that it may be well with
thee and thy children after thee for ever,
when thou shalt do what is good and
pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy
God.

29 ^ When the Lord thy God shall have
destroyed before thy face the nations,
which thou shalt go in to possess, and
when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in
their land :

30 Beware lest thou imitate them, after
they are destroyed at thy coming in, and
lest thou seek after their ceremonies, say-
ing: As these nations have worshipped
their gods, so will I also worship.

31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to
the Lord thy God. For they have done
to their gods all the abominations which
the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons
and daughters,and burning them with fire.

32 What I command thee, that only do
thou to the Lord : neither add any thing,
nor diminish.

CHAPTER 13.

False prophets must be slain, and idolatrous cities
destroyed.

IF there rise in the midst of thee a
prophet or one that saith he hath

I Infra 19. 8.

thens; or to make any alterations in the divine
ordinances.

False prophets are to be slain DEUTERONOMY Idolatrous cities to he destroyed

dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign
and a wonder,

2 And that come to pass which he spoke,
and he say to thee : Let us go and follow
strange gods, which thou knowest not,
and let us serve them :

3 Thou shalt not hear the words of that
prophet or dreamer : for the Lord your
God trieth you, that it may appear
whether you love him with all your
heart, and with all your soul, or not.

4 Follow the Lord your God, and fear
him, and keep his commandments, and
hear his voice : him you shall serve, and
to him you shall cleave.

5 And that prophet or forger of dreams
shall be slain : because he spoke to draw
you away from the Lord your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you from the house of
bondage : to make thee go out of the
way, which the Lord thy God com-
manded thee : and thou shalt take away
the evil out of the midst of thee.

6 If thy brother the son of thy mother,
or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that
is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou
lovest as thy own soul, would persuade
thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and
serve strange gods, which thou knowest
not, nor thy fathers,

7 Of all the nations round about, that
are near or afar off, from one end of the
earth to the other,

8 Consent not to him, hear him not,
neither let thy eye spare him to pity and
conceal him,

9 But thou shalt presently put him to
death. '"' Let thy hand be first upon him,
and afterwards the hands of all the
people.

10 With stones shall he be stoned to
death: because he would have with-
drawn thee from the Lord thy God, who
brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage :

11 That all Israel hearing may fear, and
may do no more any thing like this.

12 If in one of thy cities, which the Lord
thy God shall give thee to dwell in, thou
hear some say :

13 Children of Belial are gone out of

n Infra 17. l. — o B. C. 1405.

Chap. 13. Ver. 9. Presently put him to death.
Not by killing him by private authority, but by
informing the magistrate, and proceeding by order
of justice.

Yer 13. Belial That is. without yoke. Hence

the midst of thee, and have withdrawn
the inhabitants of their city, and have
said: Let us go, and serve strange gods
which you know not :

14 Inquire carefully and diligently, the
truth of the thing by looking well into
it, and if thou find that which is said to
be certain, and that this abomination
hath been really committed,

15 Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabit-
ants of that city with the edge of the
sword, and shalt destroy it and all things
that are in it, even the cattle.

16 And all the household goods that are
there, thou shalt gather together in the
midst of the streets thereof, and shalt
burn them with the city itself, so as to
consume all for the Lord thy God, and
that it be a heap for ever: it shall be
built no more.

17 And there shall nothing of that ana-
thema stick to thy hand : that the Lord
may turn from the wrath of his fury, and
may have mercy on thee, and multiply
thee as he swore to thy fathers,

18 When thou shalt hear the voice of
the Lord thy God, keeping all his pre-
cepts, which I command thee this day,
that thou mayst do what is pleasing in
the sight of the Lord thy God.

CHAPTER 14.

In mourning for the dead they are not to follow the
ways of the Gentiles : the distinction of clean and
unclean meats : ordinances concerning tithes^ and
firstfruits.

BE ye children of the Lord your God : •
you shall not cut yourselves, nor
make any baldness for the dead ;

2 i^ Because thou art a holy people to,
the Lord thy God : and he chose thee to
be his peculiar people of all nations that |
are upon the earth.

3 ^ Eat not the things that are unclean.

4 These are the beasts that you shall j
eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

5 The hart and the roe, the buflle, the ;
chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the \
camelopardalus.

6 Every beast that divideth the hoof in
two parts, and cheweth the cud, you
shall eat.

7 But of them that chew the cud, buti

p Supra 7. 6; Infra 26. 18. — g Lev. 11. 4.

the wicked, who refuse to be subject to the divine
law, are called in scripture the children of Belial.

Chap. 14. Ver. 3. Unclean. See the aunotatiouJ
on Lev. 11.

200

Clean and unclean meats DEUTERONOMY The Levites to he remembered

divide not the hoof, you shall not eat,
Buch as the camel, ^jhe hare, and the
cherogril: because chey chew the cud,
but divide not the hoof, they shall be
unclean to you.

8 The swine also, because it divideth the
hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be
unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and
♦iheir carcasses you shall not touch.

9 These shall you eat of all that abide
in the waters : All that have fins and
scales, you shall eat.

10 Such as are without fins and scales,
you shall not eat, because they are un-
clean.

11 All birds that are clean you shall eat.

12 The unclean eat not: to wit, the
eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

13 The ringtail, and the vulture, and the
kite according to their kind :

14 And all of the raven's kind:

16 And the ostrich, and the owl, and the
larus, and the hawk according to its kind :

16 The heron, and the swan, and the
stork,

17 And the cormorant, the porphirion,
and the night crow,

18 The bittern, and the charadrion,
avery one in their kind: the hoop also
and the bat.

19 Evcx-y uhing that creepeth, and hath
little wings, shall be unclean, and shall
not be eaten.

20 All that is clean, you shall eat.

21 But whatsoever is dead of itself, eat
not thereof. Give it to the stranger,
that is within thy gates, to eat, or jell it
to him: because thou art the holy people
of the Lord thy *" God. Th^u shalt not
boil a kid in the milk of his dam.

22 Every year thou shalt set aside the
tithes of all thy fruits that -he earth
bringeth forth,

23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord
thy God in the place which he shall
choose, that his name may be called
upon therein, the tithe of thy corn, and
thy wine, and thy oil, and the firstborn
of thy herds and thy sheep: that thou
mayst learn to fear the Lord thy God at
all times.

'24 But when the way and the place

r Ex. 23. 19, and 34. 26.

Chap. 15. Ver. 4. There shall be no poor, &c. It
ts not to be understood as a promise, that there
should be no poor in Israel, as appears from ver, 11,
". bere we leara that God's people would never be at

which the Lord thy God shall choose, are
far off, and he hath blessed thee, and thou
canst not carry all these things thither,

25 Thou shalt sell them all, and turn
them into money, and shalt carry it in
thy hand, and shalt go to the place which
the Lord shall choose :

26 And thou shalt buy with the same
money whatsoever pleaseth thee, either
of the herds or of sheep, wine also and
strong drink, and all that thy soul de-
sireth: and thou shalt eat before the
Lord thy God, and shalt feast, thou and
thy house:

27 And the Levite that is within thy
gates, beware thou forsake him not, be-
cause he hath no other part in thy pos-
session.

28 The third year thou shalt separate
another tithe of all things that grow to
thee at that time, and shalt lay it up
within thy gates.

29 And the Levite that hath no other
part nor possession with thee, and the
stranger and the fatherless and the
widow, that are within thy gates, shall
come and shall eat and be filled : that
the Lord thy God may bless thee in all
the works of thy hands that thou shalt
do.

CHAPTER 15.

The taw of the seventh year of rem isslon. The first-
lings of cattle are to be sanctified to the Lord.

IN the seventh year thou shalt make a
remission, ^

2 Which shall be celebrated in this or-
der- He to whom any thing is owing
from his friend or neighbour or brother,
cannot demand it again, because it is the
year of remission of the Lord,

3 Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst
exact it: of thy countryman and neigh-
bour thou shalt not have power to de-
mand it again.

4 And there shall be no poor nor beg-
gar among you : that the Lord thy God
may bless thee in the land which he will
give thee in possession.

5 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the
Lord thy God, and keep all things that
he hath ordained, and which I command

8 B.C. 1405.

a loss to nnd obiects for their charity: but .t is an
ordinance that ah should do their best endeavours
to prov^nt any of Mipjr brethren from suffering the
hardships of poveity and want.

201

Charity to the brethren

DEUTERONOMY

thee this day, he will bless thee, as he
hath promised.

6 ThovL Shalt lend to many nations, and
thou shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt
have dominion over very many nations,
and no one shall have dominion over thee.

7 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth
within the gates of thy city in the land
which the Lord thy God will give thee,
come to poverty: thou shalt not harden
thy heart, nor close thy hand,

8 But shalt open it to the poor man,
' thou shalt lend him, that which thou
perceivest he hath need of.

9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought
steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy
heart : '"' The seventh year of remission
draweth nigh ; and thou turn away thy
eyes from thy poor brother, denying to
lend him that which he asketh : lest he
cry against thee to the Lord, and it be-
come a sin unto thee.

10 But thou shalt give to himr neither
shalt thou do any thing craftily in re-
Heving his necessities : that the Lord thy
God may bless thee at all times, and in
all things to which thou shalt put thy
hand.

11 ^ There ^ill not be wanting poor in
the land of thy habitation: therefore I
command thee to open thy hand to thy
needy and poor brother, that liveth in
the land.

12 ^ When thy brother a Hebrew man,
or Hebrew woman is sold to thee, and
hath served thee six years, in the seventh
year thou shalt let him go free :

13 And when thou sendest him out free,
thou shalt not let him go away empty :

14 But shalt give him for his way out of
thy flocks, and out of thy barnfloor, and
thy winepress, wherewith the Lord thy
God shall bless thee.

15 Remember that thou also wast a
bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the
Lord thy God made thee free, and there-
fore I now command thee thiSo

16 But if he say : I will not depart : be-
cause he loveth thee, and thy house, and
findeth that he is well with thee :

17 Thou shalt take an awl, and bore
through his ear in the door of thy house,
and he shall serve thee for ever : thou
ehalt do in like manner to thy woman-
servant also.

i Matt 5. 42 ; Luke 6. 34. — w Ex, 23. 11 ; Le\
V Matt. 26. 11. — w Ex. 21. 2 ; Jer. 34 14.

25.2.

The firstborn of cattle

18 Turn not away thy eyes from them
when thou makest them free : because
he hath served thee six years according
to the wages of a hireling : that the Lord
thy God may bless thee in all the works
that thou dost.

19 Of the firstlings, that come of thy
herds and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify
to the Lord thy God whatsoever is of the
male sex. Thou shalt not work with the
firstling of a bullock, and thou shalt not
shear the firstlings of thy sheep.

20 In the sight of the Lord thy God
shalt thou eat them every year, in the
place that the Lord shall choose, thou
and thy house.

21 * But if it have a blemish, or be lame,
or blind, or in any part disfigured or
feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the
Lord thy God.

22 But thou shalt eat it within the gates
of thy city : the clean and the unclean
shall eat them alike, as the roe and as
the hart.

23 Only thou shalt take heed not to eat
their blood, but pour it out on the earth
as water.

CHAPTER 16.

The three principal solemnities to be observed: just
judges to be appointed in every city : all occasions
of idolatry to be avoided,

OBSERVE the month of new corn,^
which is the first of the spring, that
thou mayst celebrate the phase to the
Lord thy God : because in this month
the Lord thy God brought thee out of
Egypt by night.

2 And thou shalt sacrifice the phase to
the Lord thy God, of sheep, and of oxen,
in the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose, that his name may dwell
there.

3 Thou shalt not eat with it leavened
bread: seven days shalt thou eat without
leaven, the braad of affliction, because
thou camest out of Egypt in fear : that
thou mayst remember the day of thy
coming out of Egypt, all the days of thy
life.

4 No leaven shall be seen in all thy
coasts for seven days, neither shall any
of the flesh of that which was sacrificed
the first day in the evening remain until
morningo

6 Thou mayst not immolate the phase

X Lev. 22. 20 and 21 ; Eccli. 35. 14.
y B. C. 1405.

202

Feast days to he observed DEUTERONOIVIY Judges to he just

in any one of thy cities, which the Lord [ the place which he shall choosfe : in

thy God will give thee :

6 But in the place which the Lord thy
God shall choose, that his name may
dwell there : thou shalt immolate the
phase in the evening, at the going down
of the sun, at which time thou camest
out of Egypt.

7 And thou shalt dress, and eat it in the
place which the Lord thy God shall
choose, and in the morning rising up
thou shalt go into thy dwellings.

8 Six days shalt thou eat unleavened
bread : and on the seventh day, because
it is the assembly of the Lord thy God,
^hou shalt do no work.

9 Thou shalt number unto thee seven
weeks from that day, wherein thou didst
put the sickle to the corn.

10 And thou shalt celebrate the festival
of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary
oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt
offer according to the blessing of the
Lord thy God.

11 And thou shalt feast before the Lord
thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy
maidservant, and the Levite that is within
thy gates, and the stranger and the father-
less, and the widow, who abide with you :
in the place which the Lord thy God shall
choose, that his name may dwell there :

12 And thou shalt remember that thou
wast a servant in Egypt : and thou
shalt keep and do the things that are
commanded.

13 Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity
also of tabernacles seven days, when
thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the
barnfloor and of the winepress.

14 And thou shalt make merry in thy
festival time, thou, thy son, and thy
daughter, thy manservant, and thy maid-
servant, the Levite also and the stranger,
and the fatherless and the widow that
are within thy gates.

15 Seven days shalt thou celebrate
feasts to the Lord thy God in the place
which the Lord shall choose : and the
Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy
fruits, and in every work of thy hands,
and thou shalt be in joy.

16 Three times in a year shall all thy
males appear before the Lord thy God in

z Ex. 23. 15, and 34. 20 ; Eccli. 35. 6.
a Ex. 23. 8 ; Lev. 19. 15 ; Supra 1. 17 ; Eccli. 20. 31.

the

feast of unleavened bread, in the feast ot
weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
^No one shall appear with his hands
empty before the Lord :

17 But every one shall offer according to
what he hath, according to the blessing of
the Lord his God, which he shall give him.

18 Thou shalt appoint judges and magis-
trates in all thy gates, which the Lord
thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes :
that they may judge the people with just
judgment,

19 And not go aside to either part
^ Thou shalt not accept person nor gifts :
for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and
change the words of the just.

20 Thou shalt follow justly after that
which is just : that thou mayst live and
possess the land, which the Lord thy God
shall give thee.

21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any
tree near the altar of the Lord thy God :

22 Neither shalt thou make nor set up
to thyself a statue : which things the
Lord thy God hateth.

CHAPTER 17.

Victims must be without blem,ish. Idolaten, are t%
be slain. Controversies are to be decided by the
high priest and council, whose sentence must be
obey ed under pain of death. The duty of a king,
who is to receive the law of God at the priesVs
hands.

rriHOU * shalt not sacrifice to the Lord
JL thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein
there is blemish, or any fault : for that is
an abomination to the Lord thy God.

2 When there shall be found among yon
within any of thy gates, which the Lord
thy God shall give thee, man or woman
that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy
God, and transgress his covenant,

3 So as to go and serve strange gods,
and adore them, the sun and the moon,
and all the host of heaven* which 1 have
not commanded :

4 And this is told thee, and hearing it
thou hast inquired diligently, and found
it to be true, and that the abomination is
committed in Israel:

5 Thou shalt bring forth the man or the
woman, who have committed that most
wicked thing, to the gates of thy city^
and they shall be stoned.

6 ^ By the mouth of two or three wit*

c Infra 19. 15

b B. C. 1405.
: Matt. 18. 16

2 Cor. 13. 1.

Chat. 17. Ver.3.

The host of heaven.
203

Tbati8,tliestara»

Their decisions to he observed DEUTERONOMY

The priesfs share

nesses shall he die that is to be slain.
Let no man be put to death, when only
one beareth witness against him.

7 The hands of the witnesses shall be
first upon him to kill him, ** and after-
wards the hands of the rest of the people .
that thou mayst take away the evil out
of the midst of thee.

8 If thou perceive that there be among
you a hard and doubtful matter in judg-
ment between blood and blood, cause
and cause, leprosy and leprosy : and thou
see that the words of the judges within
thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to
the place, which the Lord thy God shall
choose.

9 ^ And thou shalt come to the priests
of the Levitical race, and to the judge,
that shall be at that time: and thou
shalt ask of them, and they shall shew
thee the truth of the judgment.

10 And thou shalt do whatsoever they
shall say, that preside in the place, which
the Lord shall choose, and what they
shall teach thee,

11 According to his law ; and thou shalt
follow their sentence : neither shalt thou
decline to the right hand nor to the left
hand.

12 But he that will be proud, and refuse
to obey the commandment of the priest,
who ministereth at what time to the Lord
thy God, and the Ov^cree of the judge,
that man shall die, sluC thou shalt take
away the evil from Israel :

13 And all the people hearing it shall
fear, that no one afterwards swell with
pride.

14 When thou art come into the land,
which the Lord thy God will give thee,
and possessest it, and shalt say: I will
set a king over me, as all nations have
that are round about :

15 Thou shalt set him whom the Lord
thy God shall choose out of the number
of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make
a man of another nation king, that is not
thy brother.

16 And when he is made king, he shall
not multiply horses to himself, nor lead
back the people into Egypt, being lifted
up with the number of his horsemen,

d Supra i'6. y. — e ^ I'ar. 19, 8,
/B. C. 140?;.

Ver. 8. If thou perceive, &c. Here we see what
authority God was pleased to give to the church
guides of the Old Testament, in deciding, without
appealf all controversies relating to the law; promis*

especially since the Lord h^th com-
manded you to return no more the same
way.

17 He shall not have many wives ^ that
may allure his mind, nor immense sums
of silver and gold.

18 But after he is raised to the throne
of his kingdom, he shall copy out to him-
self the Deuteronomy of this law in a
volume, taking the copy of the priests
of the Levitical tribe^

19 And he shall have it with him, and
shall read it all the days of his life, that
he may learn to fear the Lord his God,
and keep his words and ceremonies, that
are commanded in the law ;

20 And that his heart be not lifted up
with pride over his brethren, nor decline
to the right or to the left, that he and
his sons may reign a long time over
Israel.

CHAPTER 18.

The Lord is the iriheritance of the priests and Lt,
vites. Heathenish abominations are to be avoided.
The great prophet Christ is promised. False
prophets must be slain.

rriHE «^priests and Levites, S'and all
_L that are of the same tribe, shall have
no part nor inheritance with the rest of
Israel, because they shall eat the sacri-
fices of the Lord, and his oblations,

2 And they shall receive nothing else
of the possession of their brethren : for
the Lord himt elf is their inheritance, as
he hath said to them.

3 This shall be the priest's due from the
people, and from them that offer vic-
tims: whether they sacrifice an ox, or a
sheep, they shall give to the priest the
shoulder and the breast :

4 ''^The firstfruits also of corn, of wine,
and of oil, and a part of the wool from
the shearing of their sheep.

5 For the Lord thy God hath chosen
him of all thy tribes, to stand and to
minister to the name of the Lord, him
and his sons for ever.

6 If a Levite go out of any one of the
cities throughout all Israel, in which he
dwelleth, and have a longing mind to
come to the place which the Lord shall
choose,

g Num. 18. 20 and 23 ; Supra 10. 9 ; 1 Cor. 9. 13.
h Num. 18. 21. ^

ing that they should not err therein ; and surely he
has not done less for the church guides of the Nevf
Testament.

204

Against pagan practices

DEUTERONOMY

Cities of refuge

7 He shall minister in the name of the
Lord his God, as all his brethren the Le-
vites do, that shall stand at that time
before the Lord.

8 He shall receive the same portion of
food that the rest do : besides that which
is due to him in his own city, by succes-
sion from his fathers.

9 When thou art come into the land
which the Lord thy God shall give thee,
beware lest thou have a mind to imitate
tiie abominations of those nations.

10 * Neither let there be found among
you any one that shall expiate his
son or daughter, making them to pass
through the fire: or that consulteth
soothsayers, or observeth dreams and
omens, neither let there be any wizard,

11 Nor charmer, nor any one that con-
Bulteth pythonic spirits, or fortune tell-
ers, ^ or that seeketh the truth from the
dead.

12 For the Lord abhorreth all these
things, and for these abominations he
will destroy them at thy coming.

13 Thou shalt be perfect, and without
spot before the Lord thy God.

14 These nations, whose land thou shalt
possess, hearken to soothsayers and di-
viners : but thou art otherwise instructed
by the Lord thy God.

15 ^ The Lord thy God will raise up to
thee a prophet of thy nation and of thy
brethren like unto me: him thou shalt
hear:

16 As thou desiredst of the Lord thy
God in * Horeb, when the assembly was
gathered together, and saidst: Let me
not hear any more the voice of the
Lord my God, neither let me see any
more this exceeding great fire, lest I
die.

17 And the Lord said to me : They have
spoken all things welL

18 *^ I will raise them up a prophet out
of the midst of their brethren like to
thee : and I will put my words in his
mouth, and he shall speak to them all
that I shall command Mm.

IS And he that will not hear his words,
which he shall speak in my name, I will
be the revenger.

20 But the prophet, who being cor-
rupted with pride, shall speak in my
name things that I did not command

t Lev. 20. 27.— j 1 Kings 28. 7. — fc John 1. 45 ;
Acts 3. 22. — J Ex. 20. 2L — m Jolm 1. 4&.

him to say, or in the name of strange
gods, shall be slain.

21 And if in silent thought thou an-
swer : How shall I know the word that
the Lord hath not spoken ?

22 Thou shalt have this sign : Whatso-
ever that same prophet foretelleth in
the name of the Lord, and it cometh not
to pass: that thing the Lord hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath forged it
by the pride of his mind : and therefore
thou shalt not fear him.

CHAPTER 19.

The cities of refuge. Wilful murder, and false wU-
nesses must be punished.

WHEN '^the Lord thy God hath de-
stroyed the nations, whose land
he will deliver to thee, and thou shalt
possess it, and shalt dwell in the cities
and houses thereof :

2 ® Thou shalt separate to thee three
cities in the midst of the land, which the
Lord will give thee in possession,

3 Paving diligently the way: and thou
shalt divide the whole province of thy
land equally into three parts: that he
who is forced to flee for manslaughter,
may have near at hand whither to es-
cape.

4 This shall be the law of the slayer that
fleeth, whose life is to be saved : He that
Mlleth his neighbour ignorantly, and who
is proved to have had no hatred against
him yesterday and the day before :

6 But to have gone with him to the wood
to hew wood, and in cutting down the
tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and
the iron slipping from the handle struck
his friend, and killed him : he shall flee
to one of the cities aforesaid, and live:

6 Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him
whose blood was shed, pushed on by his
grief should pursue, and apprehend him,
if the way be too long, and take away
the life of him who is not guilty of death,
because he is proved to have had no
hatred before against him that was slain.

7 Therefore I command thee, that thou
separate three cities at equal distance
one from another.

8 PAnd when the Lord thy God shall
have enlarged thy borders, as he swore
to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the
land that he promised them,

nB. c.
p Gen.

1405.-
28. 14

o Num. 35. 11 ; Jos. 20. 2.
Ex. 34. 24 ; Supra 12. 20.

2dS

Punishment of murder

DEUTERONOMY

9 (Yet so, if thon keep his command-
ments, and do the things which I com-
mand thee this day, that thou love the
Lord thy God, and walk in his ways at
all times) thou shalt add to thee other
three cities, and shalt double the number
of the three cities aforesaid :

10 That innocent blood may not be shed
in the midst of the land which the Lord
thy God will give thee to possess, lest
thou be guilty of blood.

115 But if any man hating his neighbour,
lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike
him, and he die, and he flee to one of the
cities aforesaid,

12 The ancients of his city shall send,
and take him out of the place of refuge,
and shall deliver him into the hand of the
kinsman of him whose blood was shed,
and he shall die,

13 Thou shalt not pity him, and thou
shalt take away the guilt of innocent
61ood out oi Israel, that it may be well
with thee.

14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy
aeighbour-E landmark, which thy prede-
cessors have set in thy possession, which
the Lord thy God will give thee in the
land that thou shalt receive to possess.

15 '^ One witness shall not rise up against
any man, whatsoever the sin or wicked-
ness be: but in the mouth of two or
three witnesses every word shall stand.

16 If a lying witness stand against a
man, accusing him of transgression,

17 Both of them, between whom the
controversy is, shall stand before the
Lord in the sight of the priests and the
judges that shall be in those days.

18 * And when after most diligent in-
quisition, they shall find that the false
witness hath told a lie against his brother:

19 They shall render to him as he meant
to do to his brother, and thou shalt take
away the evil out of the midst of thee :

20 That others hearing may fear» and
may not dare to do such things.

21 Thou shalt not pity him, *but shalt
require life for life, eye for eye, tooth
for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

CHAPTER 20.
Laws relating to wa/r»

IF** thou go out to war against thy
enemies, and see horsemen and char-

Laws relating to war

iots, and the numberp of the enemy's
army greater than thine, thou shalt not
fear them : because the Lord thy God is
with thee, whp brought thee out of the
land of Egypt

2 And when the battle is now a\ _and,
the priest shall stand before the army,
and shall speak to the people in this
manner :

3 Hear, O Israel, you join battle this
day against your enemies, let not your
heart be dismayed, be not afraid^ do not
give back, fear ye them not :

4 Because the Lord your God is in the
midst of you, and wUl fight for you
against your enemies, to deliver you
from danger.

6 And the captains shall proclaim through
every band in the hearing of the army :
^What man is there, that hath built a
new house, and hath not dedicated it?
let him go and return to his house, lest
he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it.

6 What man is there, that hath planted
a vineyard, and hath not as yet made it
to be common, whereof all men may eat?
let him go, and return to his house, lest
he die in the battle, and another man
execute his oflBce.

7 What man is there, that hath espoused
a wife, and not taken her ? let him go,
and return to his house, lest he die in the
war, and another man take her.

8 After these things are declared they
shall add the rest, and shall speak to the
people : ^ What man is there that is fear-
ful, and faint hearted? let him go, and
return to his house, lest he make the
hearts of his brethren to fear, as he him-
self is possessed with fear.

9 And when the captains of the army
shall hold their peace, and have made an
end of speaking, every man shall pre-
pare their bands to fight.

10 If at any time thou come to fight
against a city, thou shalt first offer it
peace.

11 If they receive it, and open the gates
to thee, all the people that are therein,
shall be saved, and shall serve thee pay-
ing tribute.

12 But if they will not make peace, and
shall begin war against thee, thou shalt
besiege it,

Q Num. 85. 20. — r Supra 17. 6 ; Matt. 18. 16
2 Cor. 13. 1. — s Dan. 13. 62.

t Ex. 21. 23 and 24 ; Lev. 24. 20 ; Matt. 5. 38.
u B. C. 1405. — v 1 Mac. 3 56. — w Judges 7. 3.

206

Certain people to be destroyed DEUTERONOMY Expiation of a secret murder

3 And the ancients of that city which
they shall perceive to be nearer than the
rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that
hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed
the ground,

4 And they shall bring her into a
rough and stony valley, that never was
ploughed, nor sown : and there they shall
strike off the head of the heifer :

5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall
come, whom the Lord thy God hath
chosen to minister to him, and to bless
in his name, and that by their word every
matter should be decided, and whatsoever
is clean or unclean should be judged.

6 And the ancients of that city shall
come to the person slain, and shall wash
their hands over the heifer that was
killed in the valley,

7 And shall say : Our hands did not shed
this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

8 Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom
thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay
not innocent blood to their charge,, in
the midst of thy people Israel. And the
guilt of blood shall be taken from them :

9 And thou shalt be free from the inno-
cent's blood, that was shed, when thou
shalt have done what the Lord hath com-
manded thee.

10 If thou go out to fight against thy
enemies, and the Lord thy God deliver
them into thy hand, and thou lead them
away captives,

11 And seest in the number of the cap-
tives a beautiful woman, and lovest her,
and wilt have her to wife,

12 Thou shalt bring her into thy house:
and she shall shave her hair, and pare
her nailSy

13 And shall put off the raiment, wherein
she was taken : and shall remain in thy
house, and mourn for her father and mo-
ther one month: and after that thou shalt
go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her,
and she shall be thy wife.

14 But if afterwards she please thee
not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou
mayst not sell her for money nor oppress
her by might because thou hast humbled
her.

15 If a man have two wives, one be-
loved, and the other hated, and they have
had children by him, and the son of the
hated be the firstborn^

13 And when the Lord thy God shall
deHver it into thy hands, thou shalt slay
all that are therein of the male seXj with
the edge of the sword,

14 Excepting women and children, cat-
tle and other things, that are in the city.
And thou shalt divide all the prey to the
army, and thou shalt eat the spoils of thy
enemies, which the Lord thy God shall

^ve thee.

15 So shalt thou do to all cities that are
at a great distance from thee, and are
not of these cities which thou shalt re-
ceive in possession.

16 But of those cities that shall be given
thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

17 But shalt kill them with the edge of
the sword, to wit, the Hethite, and the
Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the
Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebu-
site. as the Lord thy God hath commanded
thee:

18 Lest they teach you to do all the
abominations which they have done to
vheir gods: and you should sin against
the Lord your God.

19 When thou hast besieged a city a
long time, and hath compassed it with
bulwarks to take it, thou shalt not cut
down the trees that may be eaten of,
neither shalt thou spoil the country
round about with axes : for ?t is a tree,
and not a man, neither can it increase
the number or them that fight against
thee.

20 But it there be any treet that are not
fruitful, but wild, and fit for other uses,
cut them down and make engines, until
thoD take the city, whiciJ tigbteth against
thee.

OHAprER n.

The expiation oj a secret murder. The marrying a
captive. The eldest son must not be deprloed of
his birthright for hatred of his mother. A stubborn
son is to be stoned to death. When one is hanged
on a gibbet, he musx be taken down the same day
and buried.

TTTHElSf '» there shall be found in the
VV land^ which the Lord thy God will

give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and

it is not known who is guilty of the

murder,
2 Thy ancients and judges shall go out,

and shall measure from the place where

the body lieth the distance of every city

round about:

X B. C. 1405.

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Punishment of a stubborn son DEUTERONOMY

le And he meaneth to divide his sub-
stance among his sons: he may not make
the son of the beloved the firstborn, and
prefer him before the son of the hated.

17 ^ But he shall acknowledge the son of
the hated for the firstborn, and shall give
him a double portion of all he hath : for
this is the first of his children, and to
him are due the first birthrights.

18 If a man have a stubborn and unruly-
son, who will not hear the command-
ments of his father or mother, and being
corrected, slighteth obedience :

19 They shall take him and bring him
to the ancients of his city, and to the
gate of judgment,

20 And shall say to them : This our son
is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth
hearing our admonitions, he giveth him-
self to revelling, and to debauchery and
banque tings:

21 The people of the city shall stone
him: and he shall die, that you may take
away the evil out of the midst of you,
and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

22 When a man hath committed a crime
for which he is to be punished with death,
and being condemned to die is hanged on
a gibbet :

23 His body shall not remain upon the
tree, but shall be bmied the same day :
• for he is accursed of God that hangeth
on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy
land, which the Lord thy God shall give
thee in possession.

CHAPTER 22.

Bumanity towards neighbours. Keither sex may
use the apparel of the other. Cruelty to be avoided
even to birds. Battlements about the roof of a
house. Things of divers kinds not to be mixed.
The punishment of him that slandereth his wife^
as also of adultery and rape.

HOU " shalt not pass by if thou seest
thy brother's ox, ^or his sheep go
astray: but thou shalt bring them back to
thy brother.

2 And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou
know him not : thou shalt bring them to
thy house, and they shall be with thee
Until thy brother seek them, and receive
them.

3 Thou shalt do in like manner with his
ass, and with his raiment, and with every

y 1 Par. 5.1. — z Gal. 3. 13. — a B. C. 1405.

Chap. 22. Ver. 6. Thou shalt not take, &c. This
was to shew them to exercise a certain mercy even
to irrational creatures ; and by that means to train
them up to a horror of cruelty j and to the exercise
of Iiumaoity and mutual charity one to another.

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Various laws

thing that is thy brother's, which is lost:
if thou find it, neglect it not as pertain-
ing to another.

4 If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox
to be fallen down in the way, thou shalt
not slight it, but shalt hf t it up with him.

5 A woman shall not be clothed with
man's apparel, neither shall a man use
woman's apparel : for he that doeth these
things is abominable before God.

6 If thou find as thou walkest by bne
way, a bird's nest in a tree, or on the
ground, and the dam sitting upon the
young or upon the eggs : thou shalt not
take her with her young :

7 But shalt let her go, keeping the
young which thou hast caught: that it
may be well with thee, and thou mayst
live a long time.

8 When thou buildest a new house, thou
shalt make a battlement to the roof
round about : lest blood be shed in thy
house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip,
and fall down headlong.

9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with
divers seeds : lest both the seed which
thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vine-
yard, be sanctified together.

10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox
and an ass together.

11 Thou shalt not wear a garment that
is woven of woollen and linen together.

12 ^ Thou shalt make strings in the hem
at the four corners of thy cloak, where-
with thou shalt be covered.

13 If a man marry a wife, and after-
wards hate her,

14 And seek occasions to put her away,
laying to her charge a very ill name, and
say : I took this woman to wife, and go-
ing in to her. I found her not a virgin:

16 Her father and mother shall take
her, and shall bring with them the to-
kens of her virginity to the ancients of
the city that are in the gate :

16 And the father shall say t I gave my
daughter unto this man to wife : and be-
cause he hateth her,

17 He layeth to her charge a very ill
name, so as to say: I found not thy
daughter a virgin : and behold these are
the tokens of my daughter's virginity.

b Ex. 23. 4. — c Num. 15. 38.

Ver. 8. Battlement. This precaution was neces-
sary, because all their houses had flat tops, and it
was usual to walk and to converse together upoo
them.

Punishment of adultery DEUTERONOMY Who may not enter the church

And they shall spread the cloth before
the ancients of the city:

18 And the ancients of that city shall
take that man, and beat him,

19 Condemning him besides in a hun-
dred sides of silver, which he shall give
to the damsel's father, because he hath
defamed by a very ill name a virgin^ of
Israel: and he shall have her to wife,
and may not put her away all the days
of his life.

20 But if what he charged her with be
true, and virginity be not found in the
damsel:

21 They shall cast her out of the doors
of her father's house, and the men of the
city shall stone her to death, and she
shall die : because she hath done a wick-
ed thing in Israel, to play the whore in
her father's house: and thou shalt take
away the evil out of the midst of thee.

22 <*If a man lie with another man's
wife, they shall both die, that is to say,
the adulterer and the adulteress; and
thou shalt take away the evil out of
Israel.

23 If a man have espoused a damsel
that is a virgin, and some one find her
in the city, and lie with her,

24 Thou shalt bring them both out to
the gate of that city, and they shall be
stoned : the damsel, because she cried not
out, being in the city: the man, because
he hath humbled his neighbour's wife.
And thou shalt take away the evil from
the midst of thee.

25 But if a man find a damsel that is
betrothed, in the field, and taking hold
of her, lie with her, he alone shall die:

26 The damsel shall suffer nothing, nei-
ther is she guilty of death: for as a
robber riseth against his brother, and
taketh away his life, so also did the
damsel suffer:

27 She was alone in the field : she cried,
and there was no man to help her.

28 If a man find a damsel that is a vir-
gin, who is not espoused, and taking her,
lie with her, and the matter come to
judgment:

29 « He that lay with her shall give to
the father of the maid fifty sides of sil-
ver, and shall have her to wife, because

d Lev. 20. 10. — e Ex. 22. 16. — / B. C. 1405.

Chap. 23. Ver. 1. Eunuch. By these are meant,
in the spiritual sense, such as are barren in good
works. Ibid. Into the church. That is, into the

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he hath humbled her: he may not put
her away all the days of his life.
30 No man shall take his father's wife,
nor remove his covering.

CHAPTER 23.

Who may and who may not enter into the
church: uncleanness to &e avoided: other pre-
cepts concerning fugitives, fornication, usury
vows, and eating other men's grapes and corn.

AN /eunuch, whose testicles are broken
J\. or cut away, or yard cut off, shall
not enter into the church of the Lord.

2 A mamzer, that is to say, one born
of a prostitute, shall not enter into the
church of the Lord, until the tenth gen-
eration.

3 ff The Ammonite and the Moabite,
even after the tenth generation shall not
enter into the church of the Lord for
ever:

4 Because they would not meet you
with bread and water in the way, when
you came out of Egypt : ^ and because
they hired against thee Balaam, the son
of Beor, from Mesopotamia in Syria, to
curse thee.

5 And the Lord thy God would not hear
Balaam, and he turned his cursing into
thy blessing, because he loved thee.

6 Thou shalt not make peace with them,
neither shalt thou seek their prosperity
all the days of thy life for ever.

7 Thou shalt not abhor the Edomite, be-
cause he is thy brother: nor the Egyp-
tian, because thou wast a stranger in his
land.

8 They that are born of them, in the
third generation shall enter into the
church of the Lord.

9 When thou goest out to war against
thy enemies, thou shalt keep thyself
from every evil thing.

10 If there be among you any man, that
is defiled in a dream by night, he shall go
forth out of the camp.

11 And shall not return, before he be
washed with water in the evening: and
after sunset he shall return into the
camp.

12 Thou shalt have a place without the
camp, to which thou mayst go for the
necessities of nature,

13 Carrying a paddle at thy girdle. And

g 2 Esd. 13. 1. — ^ Num. 22. 5 ; Jos. 24. 9.

assembly or congregation of Israel, so as to have
the privilege of an Israelite, or to be capable of
any place or office among the people of God. -•

Vows are to he observed

DEUTERONOMY

Divorce permitted

when thou sittest down, thou shalt dig
round about, and with the earth that is
dug up thou shalt cover

14 That which thou art eased of: (for
the Lord thy God walketh in the midst
of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give
up thy enemies to thee:) and let thy
camp be holy, and let no uncleanness
appear therein, lest he go away from thee.

15 Thou shalt not deliver to his master
the servant that is fled to thee.

16 He shall dwell with thee in the place
that shall please him, and shall rest in
one of thy cities: give him no trouble.

17 There shall be no whore among the
daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger
among the sons of Israel.

18 Thou shalt not offer the hire of a
strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the
house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever
it be that thou hast vowed : because both
these are an abomination to the Lord
thy God.

19 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother
money to usury, nor corn, nor any other
thing:

20 But to the stranger. To thy brother
thou shalt lend that which he wanteth,
without usury: that the Lord thy God
may bless thee in all thy works in the
land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

21 When thou hast made a vow to the
Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to
pay it: because the Lord thy God will
require it. And if thou delay, it shall be
imputed to thee for a sin.

22 If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt
be without sin.

23 But that which is once gone out of
thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do
as thou hast promised to the Lord thy
God, and hast spoken with thy own will
and with thy own mouth.

24 Going into thy neighbour's vineyard,
thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou
pleasest: but must carry none out with
thee:

25 If thou go into thy friend's corn,
thou mayst break the ears, and rub them
in thy hand: but not reap them with a
sickle.

% B. C. 1405. — i Matt. 5. 31, and 19. 7 ; Mark 10. 4.

Ver. 14. No uncleanness. This caution against
suffering any jGilth in the camp, was to teach them
to fly the filth of sin, which driveth God away
from the soul.

Ver. 20. To the stranger. This was a dispensa-
tion granted by God to his people* who being the

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CHAPTER 24.

Divorce permitted to avoid greater evil: the
newly married munt not go to war: of men
stealers, of leprosy, of pledges, of labourers*
hire, of justice and of charity to the poor.

IF * a man take a wife, J and have her,
and she find not favour in his eyes,
for some uncleanness: he shall write a
bill of divorce, and shall give it in her
hand, and send her out of his house.

2 And when she is departed, and marri-
eth another husband,

3 And he also hateth her, and hath given
her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her
out of his house or is dead:

4 The former husband cannot take her
again to wife: becaue she is defiled, and
is become abominable before the Lord:
lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the
Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.

5 When a man hath lately taken a wife,
he shall not go out to war, neither shall
any public business be enjoined him, but
he shall be free at home without fault,
that for one year he may rejoice with his
wife.

6 Thou shalt not take the nether, nor
the upper millstone to pledge: for he
hath pledged his life to thee.

7 If any man be found soliciting his
brother of the children of Israel, and'
selling him shall take a price, he shall
be put to death, and thou shalt take
away the evil from the midst of thee.

8 Observe diligently that thou incur not
the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt
do whatsoever the priests of the Leviti-
cal race shall teach thee, according to
what I have commanded them, and fulfil
thou it carefully.

9 ^ Remember what the Lord your God
did to Mary, in the way when you came
out of Egypt.

10 When thou shalt demand of thy
neighbour any thing that he oweth thee,^
thou shalt not go into his house to tak<
away a pledge:

11 But thou shalt stand without, and h<
shall bring out to thee what he hath.

12 But if he be poor, the pledge shall
not lodge with thee that night.

A; Num. 12. 10.

Lord of all things, can give a right and title to one
upon the goods of another. Otherwise the scripture
everywhere condemns usury, as contrary to the la\
of God, and a crying sin. See Ex. 22. 25 ; Lev. 25J
36. 37 ; 2 £^d. 6. 7 ; Fs. 14. 6 ; Esech. 18. 8, 13, &cJ

DEUTERONOMY The ox not to he muzzled

13 But thou Shalt restore it to him pre-
jently before the going down of the sun :
jhat he may sleep in his own raiment
jnd bless thee, and thou mayst have jus-
ice before the Lord thy God.

14 * Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the
aeedy, and the poor, whether he be thy
jrother, or a stranger that dwelleth with
ihee in the land, and is within thy gates :

15 But thou Shalt pay him the price of
his labour the same day, before the going
Sown of the sun, because he is poor, and
^vith it maintaineth his life : lest he cry
against thee to the Lord, and it be re-
puted to thee for a sin.

16 "*The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, nor the children
tor the fathers, but every one shall die
\,T his own sin.

17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment
of the stranger nor of the fatherless,
neither shalt thou take away the widow's
raiment for a pledge.

18 Remember that thou wast a slave in
Egypt, and the Lord thy God delivered
ihee from thence. Therefore I command
5hee to do this thing.

19 When thou hast reaped the corn in
thy *jeld, and hast forgot and left a sheaf,
thou shalt not return to take it away:
but thou shalt suffer the stranger, and
the fatherless and the widow to take it
away : that the Lord thy God may bless
thee in all the works of thy hands.

20 If thou have gathered the fruit of
thy olive trees, thou shalt not return to
gather whatsoever remaineth on the
Vees : but shalt leave it for the stranger,
liOr the ratneness, ana the Tidow.

21 If thou make the vintage ^f thy
vineyard, thou shalt not gather the clus-
ters that remain, but they shall be for
the stranger, the fatherless, and the

widow.

22 Remember that thou also wast ci
bondman in Egypt, and therefore I com-
mand thee to do this thing.

CHAPTER 26.

Stripes must not exceed forty. The ox is not to he
muzzled. Of raising seed to the brother. Of the
ivLTnodest woman. Of unjust weight. Of destroy^
ing the Amalecites,

IF "there be p controversy between
men, and they caK upon the judges:
they shall give the prize of justice to
him whom they perceive to be just: and
him whom they find to be wicked, they
shall condemn of wickedness.

2 And if they see that the offender be
worthy of stripes: they shall lay him
down, and shall cause him to be beaten
before them» According to the measure
of the sin shall the measure also of the
stripes be:

3 Yet so, ^ that they exceed not tt.e
number of forty • lest thy brother depart
shamefully torn before thy eyes.

4 PThou shalt not muzzle the ox that
treadeth out thy corn on the floor-

5 5 When brethren dwell together, and
one of them dieth without children, the
wife of the deceased shall not marry to
another: but his brother shall take her^
and raise up seed for his brother :

6 And the first son he shall have of her
he shall call by his name, that his name
be not abolished out of Israel.

7 But if he will not take his brother^s
wife, who by law belongeth to him, the
woman shall go to the gate of the city,
and call upon the ancients, and say:
^My husband's brother refuseth to raise
up his brother's name in Israel: and will
not take me to wife.

8 And they shall cause him to be sent
for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he
answer : I wiU not take her to wife :

9 The woman shall come to him before
the ancients, and shall take off his shoe
from his foot, and spit in his face, and
say: So shall it be done to the man
that will not build up his brother's
house :

10 And his name shall be called in Is-
rael, the house of the unshod.

11 If two men have words together,
and one begin to fight against the othei,
and the other's wife willing to deliver
her husband out of the hand of the
stronger, shall put forth her hand, and
take him by the secrets,

12 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither
shalt thou be moved with any pity in
her regard.

fLev. 19. 13; Tob. 4. 15.

m 4 Kings 14. 6 ; 2 Par. 25. 4 ; Ezech. 18. 20.

n B. C. 1405. — o 2 Cor. 11. 24.

Crap. 25. Ver. 4. Not muzzle, &c. St. Paul
DDderstandis thict of the spiritual lal>ourer in the

311

V 1 Cor. 9. 9 ; 1 Tim. 5. 18.

Q Matt 12. 24 ; Mark 12. 19 j Luke 20. 28.

f Ruth 4. 5.

okurch of God, who is not to be denied his mainte-
naaee. 1 Cor. 9. 8, 9, 10.

Unjust weights condemned DEUTERONOMY Offering of first fruits andtiike

13 Thou Shalt not have divers weights
in thy bag, a greater and a less :

14 Neither shall there be in thy house a
greater bushel and a less.

15 Thou shalt have a just and a true
weight, and thy bushel shall be equal
and true : that thou mayest hve a long
time upon the land which the Lord thy
God shall give thee.

16 For the Lord thy God abhorreth him
that doth these things, and he hateth all
injustice.

17 ^ Remember what Amalec did to thee
in the way when thou camest out of
Egypt:

18 How he met thee: and slew the
hindmost of the army, who sat down,
being weary, when thou wast spent with
hunger and labour, and he feared not
God.

19 Therefore when the Lord thy God
shall give thee rest, and shall have sub-
dued all the nations round about in the
land which he hath promised thee : thou
8halt blot out his name from under hea-
ven. See thou forget it not.

CHAPTER 26.

J%e form of words with which the firstfruits and
tithes are to be offered. God^s covenant.

A ND when thou art come into the land
J\. which the Lord thy God will give
thee to posscL., and hast conquered it,
and dwellest in it :

2 Thou Shalt take the first of all thy
fruits, and put them in a basket, and
shalt go to the place which the Lord thy
God shall choose, that his name may be
invocated there :

3 And thou shalt go to the priest that
shall be in those days, and say to him :
I profess this day before the Lord thy
God, that I am come into the land, for
which he swore to our fathers, that he
would give it us.

4 And the priest taking the basket at
thy hand, shall set it before the altar of
the Lord thy God :

5 And thou shalt speak thus in the sight
of the Lord thy God : The Syrian pursued
my father, who went down into Egypt,
and sojourned there in a very small

s Ex. 17. 8.

Ver. 17. Amalec. This order for destroying the
Amalecites, in the mystical sense, sheweth how hate-
ful they are to God, and what punishments they are
to look for from his justice, who attack and dis-
courage bis servants wheu Uiey are but just come

niunber, and grew into a nation great
and strong and of an infinite multitude.

6 And the Egyptians afflicted us, and
persecuted us, laying on us most grievous
burdens :

7 And we cried to the Lord God of our
fathers : who heard us, and looked down
upon our affliction, and labour, and dis-
tress:

8 And brought us out of Egypt with a
strong hand, and a stretched out arm,
with great terror, with signs and won-
ders:

9 And brought us into this place, and
gave us this land flowing with milk and
honey.

10 And therefore now I offer the first-
fruits of the land which the Lord hath
given me. And thou shalt leave them
in the sight of the Lord thy God, adoring
the Lord thy God.

11 And thou shalt feast in all the good
things which the Lord thy God hath
given thee, and thy house, thou and the
Levite, and the stranger that is with thee.

12 When thou hast made an end of tith-
ing all thy fruits, in the third year of
tithes thou shalt give it \o the Levite,
and to the stranger, and to the father-
less, and to the widow, that they may
eat within thy gates, and be filled :

13 And thou shalt speak thus in the
sight of the Lord thy God : * I have taken
that which was sanctified out of my
house, and I have given it to the Levite,
and to the stranger, and to the father-
less, and to the widow, as thou hast
commanded me : I have not transgressed
thy commandments nor forgotten thy
precepts.

14 I have not eaten of them in my
mourning, nor separated them for any
uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them
in funerals. I have obeyed the voice of
the Lord my God, and have done all
things as thou hast commanded me.

15 " Look from thy sanctuary, and thy
high habitation of heaven, and bless thy
people Israel, and the land which thou
hast given us, as thou didst swear to our
fathers, a land flowing with milk and
honey.

t Supra 14. 29.— u Isa. 63. 15 ; Bar. 2. 16.

out, as it were, of the Egypt of this wicked world
and being yet weak and fainthearted, are but begiu
ning their journey to the land of promise.

Chap. 26. Ver. 6. The Syrian, Laban. SM
Geu.27.

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Law to he written on stones DEUTERONOMY The blessing and the curse

16 This day the Lord thy God hath com-
manded thee to do these commandments
and judgments : and to keep and fulfil
them with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul.

17 Thou hast chosen the Lord this day
to be thy God, and to walk in his ways
and keep his ceremonies, and precepts,
and judgments, and obey his command.

18 ^ And the Lord hath chosen thee this
day, to be his peculiar people, as he hath
spoken to thee, and to keep all his com-
mandments :

19 And to make thee higher than all
nations which he hath created, to his
own praise, and name, and glory: that
thou mayst be a holy people of the Lord
thy God, as he hath spoken.

CHAPTER 27.

The commandments micst be written on stones : and
an altar erected, and sacrifices offered. The ob-
servers of the com,m,andments are to be blessed,
and the transgressors cursed.

AND "* Moses with the ancients of Is-
XA- rael commanded the people, saying :
Keep every commandment that 1 com-
mand you this day.

2 And when you are passed over the
Jordan into the land which the Lord thy
God will give thee, thou shalt set up
great stones, and shalt plaster them over
with plaster,

3 That thou mayst write on them all
the words of this law, when thou art
passed over the Jordan : that thou mayst
enter into the land which the Lord thy
God will give thee, a land flowing with
milk and honey, as he cwore to thy
fathers.

4 Therefore when you are passed over
the Jordan, set up the stones which I
command you this day, in mount Hebal,
and thou shalt plaster them with plaster :

5 And thou shalt build there an altar to
the Lord thy God, ^ of stones which iron
hath not touched,

6 And of stones not fashioned nor
polished: and thou shalt offer upon it
holocausts to the Lord thy God :

7 And shalt immolate peace victims, and
eat there, and feast before the Lord thy
God.

8 And thou shalt write upon the stones
all the words of this law plainly and
clearly.

V Supra 7. 6. — w B. C. 1406.

9 And Moses and the priests of the
race of Levi said to all Israel : Attend,
and hear, O Israel : This day thou art
made the people of the Lord thy God.

10 Thou shalt hear his voice, and do
the commandments and justices which I
command thee.

11 And Moses commanded the people
in that day, saying :

12 These shall stand upon mount Gari-
zim to bless the people, when you are
passed the Jordan : Simeon, Levi, Juda,
Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

13 And over against them shall stand
on mount Hebal to curse : Ruben, Gad,
and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan, and Neph-
tali.

14 y And the Levites shall pronounce,
and say to all the men of Israel with a
loud voice :

15 Cursed be the man that maketh a
graven and molten thing, the abomina-
tion of the Lord, the work of the hands
of artificers, and shall put it in a secret
place: and all the people shall answer,
and say : Amen.

16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his
father and mother : and all the people
shall say : Amen.

17 Cursed be he that remove th his
neighbour's landmarks : and all the peo-
ple shall say : Amen.

18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind
to wander out of his way : and all the
people shall say : Amen.

19 Cursed be he that perverteth the
judgment of the stranger, of the father-
less and the widow : and all the people
shall say : Amen.

20 Cursed be he that lieth with his
father's wife, and uncovereth his bed :
and all the people shall say : Amen.

21 Cursed be he that lieth with any
beast : and all the people shall say :
Amen.

22 Ciu'sed be he that lieth with his
sister, the daughter of his father, or ol
his mother : and all the people shall say :
Amen.

23 Cursed be he that lieth with his
mother in law : and all the people shall
say : Amen.

24 Cursed be he that secretly killeth his
neighbour : and all the people shall say ;
Amen.

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X Ex. 20. 26; Jos. 8. 3L— ]/ Dan. 9. IL

The blessing of obedience DEUTERONOMY The curse of disobedience

25 Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to
3lay an innocent person : and all the
people shall say : Amen.

26 Cursed be he that abideth not in the
words of this law, and f ulflUeth them not
in work : and all the people shall say :
Amen.

CHAPTER 28c

Many blessings are promised to the observers of
God^s commandments : and curses threatened to
transgressors.

"VJ OW * if thou wilt hear the voice of
Xl the Lord thy God, to do and keep
all his commandments, which I command
Dhee this day, the Lord thy God will
make thee higher than all the nations
that are on the earth.

2 And all these blessings shall come
upon thee and overtake thee : yet so if
thou hear his precepts,

3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and
blessed in the field.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb,
and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit
of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds,
and the folds of thy sheep.

5 Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed
thy stores.

6 Blessed shalt thou be coming in and
going out.

7 The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that
rise up against thee, to fall down before
thy face: one way shall they come out
against thee, and seven ways shall they
flee before thee.

8 The Lord will send forth a blessing
upon thy storehouses, and upon all the
works of thy hands : and will bless thee
in the land that thou shalt receive.

9 The Lord will raise thee up to be a
holy people to himself, as he swore to
thee : if thou keep the commandments
of the Lord thy God, and walk in his
ways.

10 And all the people of the earth shall
see that the name of the Lord is invo-
cated upon thee, and they shall fear thee.

11 The Lord will make thee abound with
all goods, with the fruit of thy womb,
and the fruit of thy cattle, with the fruit

z B. C. 14b6.

Chap. 2«. Ver. 2, All these blessings, &c. In the
Old Testament, God promised temporal blessings to
the l<eepers of his law, heaven not being opened as
yet; and that gross and sensual peop-le being more
moved with present and sensible things. But in the
New Testament the goods that are promised us are
spiritual and eternal ; and temporal evils are turned
into blessing.

of thy land, which the Lord swore to thy
fathers that he would give thee.

12 The Lord will open his excellent
treasure, the heaven, that it may give
rain in due season : and he will bless all
the works of thy hands. And thou shalt
lend to many nations, and shalt not bor-
row of any one.

13 And the Lord shall make thee the
head and not the tail : and thou shalt be
always above, and not beneath : yet so if
thou wilt hear the commanliments of tt.e
Lord thy God which I command thee this
day, and keep and do them,

14 And turn not away from them neither
to the right hand, nor to the left, nor
follow strange gods, nor worship them.

15 " But if thou wilt not hear the voice
of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all
his commandments and ceremonies,which
1 command thee this day, all these curses
shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city,
cursed in the field.

17 Cursed shall be thy barn, and cursed
thy stores.

18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb,
and the fruit of thy ground, the herds of
thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

19 Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and
cursed going out.

20 The Lord shall send upon thee famine
and hunp:er, and a rebuke upon all the
works which thou shalt do : until he con-
sume and destroy thee quickly, for thy
most wicked inventions, by which thou
hast forsaken me.

21 May the Lord set the pestilence upon
thee, until he consume thee out of the
land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

22 May the Lord afllict thee with miser-
able want, with the fever and with cold,
with burning and with heat, and with
corrupted air and with blasting, and pur-
sue thee till thou perish.

23 Be the heaven, that is over thee, of
brass : and the ground thou treadest on,
of iron.

24 The Lord give thee dust for rain upoi.
thy land, and let ashes come down from

a Lev. 26. 14; Lam. 2. 17 ; Bar. 1. 20; Mai. 2. 2.

Ver. 15. All these curses, &c. Thus God dealt
with the transgressors of his law in the Old Testa-
ment: but now he often suffers sinners to prosper in
this world, rewarding them for some little good they
have done, and reserving their punishment for th«
other worldU

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beavon upon thee, till thou be con-
sumed.

25 The Lord make thee to fall down be-
fore thy enemies, one way mayst thou
go out against them, and flee seven waya^
and be scattered throughout all the king-
doms of the earth.

26 And be thy carcass meat for all the
'fowls of the air, and the beasts of the

earth, and be there none to drive them
away.

27 The Lord strike thee with the ulcer
lof Egypt, and the part of thy body, by
which the dung is cast out, with the scab
and with the itch ; so that thou canst not
be healed.

28 The Lord strike thee with madness
and blindness and fury of mind.

29 And mayst thou grope at midday as
che blind is wont to grope in the dark,
and not make straight thy ways. And
mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and
be oppressed with violence, and mayst
thou have no one to deliver thee.

30 Mayst thou take a wife, and another
sleep with her. Mayst thou build a
house, and not dwell therein. May est
'^ou plant a vineyard and not gather
the vintage thereof.

31 May thy ox be slain before thee, and
thou not eat thereof. May thy ass be
taken away in thy sight, and not restored
to thee. May thy sheep be given to thy
enemies, and may there be none to help
fchee.

32 May thy sons and thy daughters be
given to another people, thy eyes looking
on, and languishing at the sight of them
all the day, and may there be no strength
in thy hand.

33 May a people which thou knowest
not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all
thy labours i and mayst thou always
suffer oppression, and be crushed at all
times.

34 And be astonished at the terror of
those things which thy eyes shall see :

35 May the Lord strike thee with a vei-y
sore ulcer in the knees and in the legs,
and be thou incurable from the sole of
the foot to the top of the head.

36 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy
king, whom thou shalt have appointed
over thee, into a nation which thou and
thy fathers know not: and there thou

shalt serve strange gods, wood and
stone.

37 And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb
and a byword to all people, among whom
the Lord shall bring thee in.

38 ^ Thou shalt cast much seed into the
ground, and gather little; because the
locusts shall consume all.

39 Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig
it, and shalt not drink the wine, ncr
gather any thing thereof: because it
shall be wasted with worms.

40 Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy
borders, and shalt not be anointed with
the oil : for the olives shall fall off and
perish.

41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters,
and shalt not enjoy them : because they
shall be led into captivity.

42 The blas'o shall consume all the trees
and the fruits of thy ground.

43 The stranger that liveth with thee in
the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall
be higher: and thou shalt go down, and
be lower.

44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt
not lend to him. He shall be as the
head, and thou shalt be the tail.

45 And all these curses shall come upon
thee, and shall pvu'sue and overtake thee,
till thou perish: because thou heardst
not the voice of the Lord thy God, and
didst not keep his commandments and
ceremonies which he commanded thee.

46 And they shall be as signs and won-
ders on thee, and on thy seed for ever.

47 Because thou didst not serve the
Lord thy God with joy and gladness of
heart, for the abundance of all things :

48 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom
the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger,
and thirst, and nakedness, and in want
of all things: and he shall put an iron
yoke upon thy neck, till he consume
thee.

49 The Lord will bring upon thee a na-
tion from afar, and from the uttermost
ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth
swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not
understand,

50 A most insolent nation, that will
shew no regard to the ancients, nor have
pity on the infant,

51 And will devour the fruit of thy cat-
tle, and the fruits of thy land : until thou

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be destroyed, and will leave thee no
wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of
oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he de-
stroy thee.

52 And consume thee in all thy cities,
and thy strong and high walls be brought
down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy
land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy
gater in all thy land which the Lord
thy God will give thee :

63 '^ And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy
womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of
thy daughters, which the Lord thy God
shall give thee, in the distress and ex-
tremity wherewith thy enemy shall op-
preoB thee.

64 The man that is nice among you,
and very delicate, shall envy his own
brother, and his wife, that lieth in his
bosom,

66 Co that he will not give them of the
flesh of his children, which he shall eat :
because he hath nothing else in the siege
and the want, wherewith thy enemies
shall distress thee within all thy gates.

56 The tender and delicate woman, that
could not go upon the ground, nor set
down her foot for over much niceness
and tenderness, will envy her husband
who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her
son, and of her daughter,

67 And the filth of the afterbirths, that
come forth from between her thighs, and
the children that are born the same hour.
For they shall eat them secretly for the
want of :ill things, in the siege and dis-
tress, wherewith thy enemy shall oppress
theo within thy gates.

58 If thou wilt not keep, and fulfil all
(he words of this law, that are written in
Ibis volume, and fear his glorious and
torrible name : that is, The Lord thy
God:

59 The Lord shall increase thy plagues,
and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great
and lasting, infirmities grievous and per-
1 etual.

00 And he shall bring back on thee all
I lie afflictions of Egypt, which thou wast
afraid of, and they shall stick fast to
thee.

Gl Moreover the Lord will bring upon
thee all the diseases, and plagues, that
are not written in the volume of this law
ti-1 he consume thee :

€ Lara 4. 10 ; Bar. ". 9 and •*,

62 And you shall remain few in number,
who before were as the stars of heaven
for multitude, because thou heardst not
the voice of the Lord thy God.

63 And as the Lord rejoiced upon you
before doing good to you, and multiply-
ing you: so he shall rejoice destroying
and bringing you to nought, so that you
shall be taken away from the land which
thou shalt go in to possess.

64 The Lord shall scatter thee among all
people, from the farthest parts of the
earth to the ends thereof : and there
thou shalt serve strange gods, which both
thou art ignorant of and thy fathers,
wood and stone.

66 Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in
those nations, nor shall there be any rest
for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord
will give thee a fearful heart, and lan-
guishing eyes, and a soul consumed with
pensiveness :

66 And thy life shall be as it were hang-
ing before thee. Thou shalt fear night
and day, neither shalt thou trust thy
life.

67 In the morning thou shalt say: Who
will grant me evening ? and at evening :
Who will grant me morning? for the
fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou
shalt be terrified, and for those things
which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

68 The Lord shall bring thee again with
ships into Egypt, by the way whereof he
said to thee that thou shouldst see it no
more. There shalt thou be set to sale
to thy enemies for bondmen and bond-
women, and no man shall buy you.

CHAPTER 29.

The covenant is solemnly confirmed between God
and his people. T'hreats against those that shall
break it.

rpHESE ^ are the words of the covenant
JL which the Lord commanded Moseo
to make with the children of Israel in th3
land of Moab : beside that covenant which
he made with them in Horeb.

2 And Moses called all Israel, and said
to them: ^ You have seen all the things
that the Lord did before you in the land
of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his ser-
vants, and to his whole land.

3 The great temptations, which thy eyes
have seen, those mighty signs and won-
ders.

d B. C. 1405. — e Ex. 19. 4.

2ie

Exhortation to obedience DEUTERONOMY Threats a p am si disobedience

4 And the Lord hath not given yoii u
leart to understand, and eyes to see, and
3ars that may hear, unto this present
lay.

5 -^He hath brought you forty years
through the desert: your garments are
act worn out, neither are the shoes of
y^our feet consumed with age.

6 You have not eaten bread, nor have
>^ou drunk wine or strong drink: that
>rou might know that I am the Lord your
3od.

7 And you came to this place: ^and
3ehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of
Basan, came out against us to fight. And
we slew them.

8 And took their land, and delivered it
for a possession to ^ Ruben and Gad, and
bhe half tribe of Manasses.

9 Keep therefore the words of this cov-
enant, and fulfil them: that you may
understand all that you do.

10 You all stand this day before the
Lord your God, your princes, and tribes,
and ancients, and doctors, all the people
of Israel,

11 Your children and your wives, and
bhe stranger that abideth with thee in
the camp, besides the hewers of wood,
and them ohat bring water :

12 That thou mayst pass in the cove-
nant of the Lord thy God, and in the
oath which this day the Lord thy God
maketh with thee.

13 That he may raise thee up a people
bo himself, and he may be thy God as he
hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to
thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

14 Neither with you only do I make this
covenant, and confirm these oaths,

15 But with all that are present and
that are absent.

16 For you know how we dwelt in the
jland of Egypt, and how we have passed
through the midst of nations, and passing
through them,

17 You have seen their abominations

and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood

and stone, silver and gold, which they

worshipped.

/ Supra 8. 2. — <7 Supra 3. 1.
h Supra 3. 16 ; Num. 32. ; Jos. 13. 8, and 22. 4.

18 Lest perhaps there should be among
you a man or a woman, a family or a
tribe, whose heart is turned away this
day from the Lord our God, to go and
serve the gods of those nations: anl
there should be among you a root brinf^-
ing forth gall and bitterness.

19 And when he shall hear the words of
this oath, he should bless himself in hia
heart saying: I shall have peace, and
will walk on in the naughtiness of my
heart: and the drunken may consume
the thirsty,

20 And the Lord should not forgive him:
but his wrath and jealousy against that
man should be exceedingly enkindled at
that time, and all the curses that are writ-
ten in this volume should light upon him :
and the Lord should blot out his name
from under heaven,

21 And utterly destroy him out of all
the tribes of Israel, according to the
curses that are contained in the book of
this law and covenant :

22 And the following generation shall
say, and the children that shall be born
hereafter, and the strangers that shall
come from afar, seeing the plagues of
that land and the evils wherewith the
Lord hath afflicted it,

23 Burning it with brimstone, and the
heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown
any more, * nor any green thing grow
therein, after the example of the destruc-
tion of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and
Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his
wrath and indignation :

24 And all the nations shall say : J Why
hath the Lord done thus to this land?
what meaneth this exceeding great heat
of his wrath?

25 And they shall answer : Because they
forsook the covenant of the Lord, which
he made with their fathers, when he
brought them out of the land of Egypt :

26 And they have served strange gods,
and adored them, whom they knew not,
and for whom they had not been assigned :

27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was
kindled against this land, to bring upon

Chap. 29. Ver. 4. Hath not given you, &c.
Through your own fault and because you resisted
bis grace.

Ver. 19. The drunken, &c., absumat ebria sitien-
tern. It is a proverbial expression, which may either
be understood, as spoken by the sinner, blessing, that
is» flattering himself in his sins with the imagination

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i Gen. 19. 24.
j 3 Kings 9. 8 ; Jer. 22. 8.

of peace, and so great an abundance as may satisfy,
and as it were, consume all thirst and want : or it
may be referred to the root of bitterness, spoken of
before, which being drunken with sin may attract,
and by that means consume^ such as thirst after the
like evils.

Mercy to the repentant

DEUTERONOMY Life and death set before people

it all the curses that are written in this
volume :

28 And he hath cast them out of their
land, in anger and in wrath, and in very all good things, as he rejoiced in thy

thy cattle, in the fruitf ulness of thy land,
and in the plenty of all things. For the
Lord will return to rejoice over thee in

great indignation, and hath thrown them
into a strange land, as it is seen this day.
29 Secret things to the Lord our God :
things that are manifest, to us and to our
children for ever, that we may do all the
words of this law.

CHAPTER 30.

Great mercies ore promised to the penitent : God's
commandment is feasible. Life and death are set
before them.

'VTO W ^ when all these things shall be
JJM come upon thee, the blessing or the
curse, which I have set forth before thee,
and thou shalt be touched with repent-
ance of thy heart among all the nations,
into which the Lord thy God shall have
scattered thee,

2 And shalt return to him, and obey his
commandments, as I command thee this
day, thou and thy children, with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul :

3 The Lord thy God will bring back
again thy captivity, and will have mercy
on thee, and gather thee again out of all
the nations, into which he scattered thee
before.

4 If thou be driven as far as the poles
of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch
thee back from thence,

6 ^ And will take thee to himself, and
bring thee into the land which thy fathers
possessed, and thou shalt possess it : and
blessing thee, he will make thee more
numerous than were thy fathers.

6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy
heart, and the heart of thy seed: that
thou mayst love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart and with all thy soul, that
thou mayst live.

7 And he will turn all these curses upon
thy enemies, and upon them that hate
and persecute thee.

8 But thou shalt return, and hear the
voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do
all the commandments which I command
thee this day :

9 And the Lord thy God will make thee
abound in all the works of thy hands, in
the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of

k B. C. 1405. — Z 2 Mac. 1. 29.

Ver. 29. Secret things, &c. As much as to say,
secret things belong to, and are known to, God
alone ; our business must be to observe what be tias

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fathers :

10 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the
Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and
ceremonies, which are written in this law :
and return to the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul.

11 This commandment, that I command
thee this day is not abovg thee, nor far
off from thee :

12 Nor is it in heaven, that thou siiouldst
say : Which of us can go up to heaven t(
bring it unto us, and we may hear and
fulfil it in work ?

13 Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou
mayst excuse thyself, and say : "^ Which
of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto
us : that we may hear, and do that which
is commanded?

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee,
in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou
mayst do it.

15 Consider that I have set before thee
this day life and good, and on the other
hand death and evil :

16 That thou mayst love the Lord thy
God, and walk in his ways, and keep his
commandments and ceremonies and
judgments, and thou mayst live, and he
may multiply thee, and bless thee in the
land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

17 But if thy heart be turned away, so
that thou wilt not hear, and being de-
ceived with error thou adore strange
gods, and serve them :

18 I foretell thee this day that thou
shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short
time in the land, to which thou shalt pass
over the Jordan, and shalt go in to pos-
sess it.

19 I call heaven and earth to witness
this day, that I have set before you life
and death, blessing and cursing. Choose
therefore life, that both thou and thy
seed may hve :

20 And that thou mayst love the Lord
thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere
to him (for he is thy life, and the length
of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in
the land, for which the Lord swore to thy

m Rom. 10. 6.

revealed and marv^ested to ua, and to direct our livei
accordingly.

Moses encourages Josve

DEUTERONOMY

Disobedience of people

fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that
he would give it them.

CHAPTER 31.

Moses encoiirageth the people, and Josue, who is ap-
pointed to succeed him. He delivereth the law to
the priests. God forettlleth that the people will
often forsake him, and that he will puicinh them.

I He commandeth Moses to write a canticle, as a

1 constant remembrancer of the law,

j A ND " Moses went, and spoke all these
XA. words to all Israel^
I 2 And he said to them : I am this day a
i hundred and twenty years old, I can no
I longer go out and come in, especially as
the Lord also hath said to me : ^ Thou
; shalt not pass over this Jordan.
! 3 The Lord thy God then will pass over
before thee : he will destroy all these na-
tions in thy sight, and thou shalt possess
them : and this Josue shall go over be-
fore thee, as the Lord hath spoken.

4 And the Lord shall do to them P as he
did to Sehon and Og the kings of the
Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall
destroy them.

5 Therefore when the Lord shall have
delivered these also to you, ^you shall
do in like manner to them as I have com-
manded you.

6 Do manfully and be of good heart:
fear not, nor be ye dismayed at their
sight : for the Lord thy God he himself
is thy leader, and will not leave thee nor
forsake thee.

7 And Moses called Josue, and said to
him before all Israel : ^ Take courage, and
be valiant : for thou shalt bring this peo-
ple into the land which the Lord swore
he would give to their fathers, and thou
shalt divide it by lot.

8 And the Lord who is your leader, he
himself will be with thee : he will not
leave thee, nor forsake thee: fear not,
neither be dismayed.

9 And Moses wrote this law, and deliv-
ered it to the priests the sons of Levi,
who carried the ark of the covenant of
the Lord, and to all the ancients of Israel.

10 And he commanded them, saying:
After seven years, in the year of remis-
sion, in the feast of tabernacles,

11 When all Israel come together, to
appear in the fe'ght of the Lord thy God
in the place which the Lord shall choose,
thou shalt read the words of this law
before all Israel, in their hearing.

n B. C. 1405. — o Supra 3. 27 ; Num. 27. 13.
p Num. 21. 24.

12 And the people being all assembled
together, both men and women, children
and strangers, that are within thy gates :
that hearing they may learn, and fear
the Lord your God, and keep, and fulfil
all the words of this law :

13 That their children also, who now
are ignorant, may hear, and fear the
Lord their God, all the days that they
live in the land whither you are going
over the Jordan to possess it.

14 And the Lord said to Moses : Behold
the days of thy death are nigh : call
Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of
the testimony, that I may give him a
charge. So Moses and Josue went and
stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:

15 And the Lord appeared there in the
pillar of a cloud, which stood in the en-
try of the tabernacle.

16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold
thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and
this people rising up will go a fornicating
after strange gods in the land, to which
it goeth in to dwell : there will they for-
sake me, and will make void the cove-
nant, which I have made with them,

17 And my wrath shall be kindled
against them in that day : and I will for-
sake them, and will hide my face from
them, and they shall be devoured: all
evils and afflictions shall find them, so
that they shall say in that day : In truth
it is because God is not with me, that
these evils have found me.

18 But I will hide, and cover my face in
that day, for all the evils which they
have done, because they have followed
strange gods.

19 Now therefore write you this canti-
cle, and teach the children of Israel:
that they may know it by heart, and
sing it by mouth, and this song may
be unto me for a testimony among the
children of Israel.

20 For I will bring them into the land,
for which I swore to their fathers, that
floweth with milk and honey. And when
they have eaten, and are full and fat,
they will turn away after strange gods,
and will serve them: and will despise
me, and make void my covenant.

21 And after many evils and afflictions
shall have come upon them, this canticle
shall answer them for a testimony, which

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q Supra 7. 2.
r Jos. 1. 6 ; 3 Kings 2. S.

Book of law given to Levites DEUTERONOMY

Canticle of Moses

no oblivion shall take away out of the
mouth of their seed. For I know their
thoughts, and what they are about to do
this day, before that I bring them into
the land which I have promised them.

22 Moses therefore wrote the canticle,
and taught it to the children of Israel.

23 And the Lord commanded Josue the
son of Nun, and said ; Take courage, and
be valiant : for thou shalt bring the chil-
dren of Israel into the land which I have
promised, and I will be with thee.

24 Therefore after Moses had wrote the
words of this law in a volume, and finished
it:

25 He commanded the Levites, who car-
ried the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
saying :

26 Take this book, and put it in the side
of the ark of the covenant of the Lord
your God : that it may be there for a
testimony against thee.

27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy
most stiff neck. While I am yet living,
and going in with you, you have always
been rebelhous against the Lord: how
much more when I shall be dead ?

28 Gather unto me all the ancients of
your tribes, and your doctors, and I will
speak these words in their hearing, and
will call heaven and earth to witness
against them.

29 For I know that, after my death, you
will do wickedly, and will quickly turn
aside from the way that I have com-
manded you : and evils shall come upon
you in the latter times, when you shall
do evil in the sight of the Lord, to pro-
voke him by the works of your hands.

30 Moses therefore spoke, in the hear-
ing of the whole assembly of Israel, the
words of this canticle, and finished it
even to the end,

CHAPTER 32.

A canticle for the remembrance of the law. Moses
is com^manded to go up into a mountain^ from,
whence he shall see the promised land but not
enter into it.

HEAR, *0 ye heavens, the things I
speak, let the earth give ear to the
words of my mouth.

2 Let my doctrine gather as the rain,
let my speech distil as the dew, as a
shower upon the herb, and as drops
upon the grass.

8 B. C. 1405.

3 Because I will invoke the name of the
Lord : give ye magnificence to our God.

4 The works of God are perfect, and all
his ways are judgments : God is faithful
and without any iniquity, he is just and
right.

5 They have sinned against him, and
are none of his children in their filth:
they are a wicked and perverse genera-
tion.

6 Is this the return thou makest to the
Lord, O foolish and senseless people ? Is
not he thy father, that hath possessed
thee, and made thee, and created thee ?

7 ' Remember the days of old, think
upon every generation: ask thy father,
and he will declare to thee : thy elders
and they will tell thee.

8 When the Most High divided the
nations : when he separated the sons of
Adam, he appointed the bounds of people
according to the number of the children
of Israel.

9 But the Lord's portion is his people :
Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, in a
place of horror, and of vast wilderness :
he led him about, and taught him : and
he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As the eagle enticing her young to
fiy, and hovering over them, he spread
his wings, and hath taken him and carried
him on his shoulders.

12 The Lord alone was his leader: and
there was no strange god with him.

13 He set him upon high land : that he
might eat the fruits of the fields, that he
might suck honey out of the rock, and
oil out of the hardest stone,

14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the
sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the
rams of the breed of Basan : and goats
with the marrow of wheat, and might
drink the purest blood of the grape.

16 The beloved grew fat, and kicked :
he grew fat, and thick and gross, he for-
sook God who made him, and departed
from God his saviour.

16 They provoked him by strange gods,
and stirred him up to anger, with their
abominations.

17 They sacrificed to devils and not to
God : to gods whom they knew not : that
were newly come up, whom their fathers
worshipped not.

«Job. 8. 8,

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DEUTERONOMY

Canticle of Moses

10 Thou hast forsaken the God that
jegot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord
ihat created thee.

19 The Lord saw, and was moved to
inrath : because his own sons and daugh-
iere provoked him.

20 And he said : I will hide my face
!rom them, and will consider what their
Ast end shall be: for it is a perverse
generation, and unfaithful children.

21 They have provoked me with that
which was no god, and have angered me
«rith their vanities : ^ and I will provoke
:hem with that which is no people, and
«rill vex them with a foolish nation.

22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and
}hall burn even to the lowest hell : and
jhall devour the earth with her increase,
md shall burn the foundations of the
nountains.

23 I will heap evils upon them, and will
jpend my arrows among them.

24 They shall be consumed with famine,
ind birds shall devour them with a most
jitter bite : I will send the teeth of beasts
apon them, with the fury of creatures that
Tail upon the ground, and of serpents.

25 Without, the sword shall lay them
^aste, and terror within, both the young
nan and the virgin, the sucking child
jvith the man in years.

26 I said: Where are they? I will make
ii:he memory of them to cease from among
linen.

' 27 But for the wrath of the enemies
|[ have deferred it: lest perhaps their
imemies might be proud, and should say:
iDur mighty hand, and not the Lord,
lath done all these things.
i 28 They are a nation without counsel,
tind without wisdom.

29 ^0 that they would be wise and would
inderstand, and would provide for their
ast end.

30 How should one pursue after a thou-
sand, and two chase ten thousand? Was
it not, because their God had sold them,
md the Lord had shut them up?

31 For our God is not as their gods : our
jnemies themselves are judges.

32 Their vines are of the vineyard of
3odom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha:
their grapes are grapes of gall, and their
clusters most bitter.

tt Jer. 15. 14 ; Rom. 10. 19. — v Jer. 9. 12.

w Eccli. 28. 1 ; Rom. 12. 19 ; Heb. 10. 30.

x% liac 7. 6.— 'V Jer. 2. 28.

33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and
the venom of asps, which is incurable.

34 Are not these things stored up with
me, and sealed up in my treasures ?

35 ^ Revenge is mine, and I will repay
them in due time, that their foot may
slide : the day of destruction is at hand,
and the time makes haste to come.

36 The Lord will judge his people, ^ and
will have mercy on his servants : he shall
see that their hand is weakened, and that
they who were shut up have also failed,
and they that remained are consumed.

37 And he shall say : v Where are their
gods, in whom they trusted?

38 Of whose victims they ate the fat,
and drank the wine of their drink offer-
ings : let them arise and help you, and
protect you in your distress.

39 See ye that I alone am, and there is
no other God besides me : ^ I will kill and
I will make to live : I will strike, and 1
will heal, ** and there is none that can
deliver out of my hand.

40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and
I will say : I live for ever.

41 If I shall whet my sword as the light-
ning, and my hand take hold on judg-
ment: I will render vengeance to my
enemies, and repay them that hate me.

42 I will make my arrows drunk with
blood, and my sword shall devour flesh,
of the blood of the slain and of the cap-
tivity, of the bare head of the enemies.

43 ° Praise his people, ye nations, for he
will revenge the blood of his servants :
and will render vengeance to their ene-
mies, and he will be merciful to the land
of his people.

44 So Moses came and spoke all the
words of this canticle in the ears of the
people, and Josue the son of Nun.

45 And he ended all these words, speak-
ing to all Israel.

46 And he said to them : Set your hearts
on all the words, which I testify to you
this day : which you shall command your
children to observe and to do, and to fulfil
all that is written in this law :

47 For they are not commanded you in
vain, but that every one should live in
them, and that doing them you may con-
tinue a long time in the land whither you
are going over the Jordan to possess it.

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« 1 Kings 2. 6 ; Tob. 13. 2 ; Wisd. 16. !&

a Job 10. 7 ; Wisd. 16. lA.

6^ Mac 7.6.

View of the Premised Land DEUTERONOMY Moses blesses tribes of Israel

48 And the Lord spoke to Moses the
same day, saying:

49 Go up into this mountain Abarim,
(that is to say, of passages,) unto mount
Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over
against Jericho: and see the land of
Ohanaan, which I will deliver to the
children of Israel to possess, and die
thou in the mountain.

60 When thou art gone up into it thou
shalt be gathered to thy people, ^' as
Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor,
and was gathered to his people :

51 ^ Because you trespassed against me
in the midst of the children of Israel, at
the waters of contradiction in Cades of
the desert of Sin : and you did not sanc-
tify me among the children of Israel.

52 Thou shalt see the land before thee,
which I will give to the children of Israel,
but thou shalt not enter into it.

CHAPTER 33.

Moses before his death blesseth the tribes of Israel.

THIS is the blessing, wherewith the
man of God Moses blessed the chil-
dren of Israel, before his death.

2 And he said: The Lord came from
Sinai, and from Seir he rose up to us:
he hath appeared from mount Pharan,
and with him thousands of saints. In
his right hand a fiery law.

3 He hath loved the people, * all the
saints are in his hand : and they that
approach to his feet, shall receive of his
doctrine.

4 Moses commanded us a law, the inher-
itance of the multitude of Jacob.

5 He shall be king with the most right,
the princes of the people being assembled
with the tribes of IsraeL

6 Let Ruben live, and not die, and be he
small in number.

7 This is the blessing of Juda. Hear, O
Lord, the voice of Juda, and bring him in
unto his people : his hands shall fight for
him, and he shall be his helper against
his enemies.

8 To Levi also he said : Thy perfection,
and thy doctrine he to thy holy man.

c Num. 20. 26, and 27. 13.
d Num. 20. 12, and 27. 13.

Chap. 33. Ver. 8. Holy man. Aaron and his
successors in the priesthood.

Ver. 9. Who hath said, &c. It is the duty of the
priestly tribe to prefer God's honour and service
before all considerations of flesh and blood : in such
manner as to behave as strangers to their nearest

whom thou hast proved in the tempta-
tion, and judged at the waters of contra-
diction :

9 -^Who hath said to his father, and to
his mother : I do not know you ; and to
his brethren : I know you not : and their
own children they have not known.
These have kept thy word, and observed
thy covenant,

10 Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy
law, O Israel : they shall put incense in
thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar

11 Bless, O Lord, his strength, and re-
ceive the works of his hands. Strike the
backs of his enemies, and let not them
that hate him rise.

12 And to Benjamin he said : The best
beloved of the Lord shall dwell confi-
dently in him: as in a bride chamber
shall he abide all the day long, and be-
tween his shoulders shall be rest.

13 To Joseph also he said : Of the bless-
ing of the Lord be his land, of the fruits
of heaven, and of the dew, and of the
deep that lieth beneath.

14 Of the fruits brought forth by the
sun and by the moon.

15 Of the tops of the ancient mountains,
of the fruits of the everlasting hills :

16 And of the fruits of the earth, and of
the fulness thereof. The blessing of him ^
that appeared in the bush, come upon the
head of Joseph, and upon the crown of
the Nazarite among his brethren.

17 His beauty as of the firstling of a
bullock, his horns as the horns of a rhi-
noceros : with them shall he push the
nations even to the ends of the earth.
These are the multitudes of Ephraim,
and these the thousands of Manasses.

18 And to Zabulon he said : Rejoice, O
Zabulon, in thy going out ; and Issachar
in thy tabernacles.

19 They shall call the people to the
mountain : there shall they sacrifice the
victims of justice. Who shall suck as
milk the abundance of the sea, and the
hidden treasures of the sands.

20 And to Gad he said : Blessed be Gad
in his breadth : he hath rested as a lion,

e Wisd. 3.
/ Ex. 32. 27 ; Lev,

1, and 5. 5.

10. 5. — grEx.

3.2.

akin, when these would withdraw them from the
business of their calling.

Ver. 12. Shall dv>eii, &e. This seems to allude to
the temple being built in the confines of the tribe of
Benjamin.

Ver. 16. The Nazarite, See the note on Gen. 4i

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Moses blesses tribes of Israel DEUTERONOMY Moses dies on Mount Neho

and hath seized upon the arm and the nHHEN'* Moses* went up from the plains
top of the head. | JL of Moab upon mount Nebo, to the

21 And he saw his pre-eminence, that top of Phasga over against Jericho : and
in his portion the teacher was laid up : the Lord shewed him all the land of Ga*
who was with the princes of the people, laad as far as Dan.

and did the justices of the Lord, and his
judgment with Israel.

22 To Dan also he said : Dan is a young
lion, he shall flow plentifully from Basan.

23 And to Nephtali he said: Nephtali
shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full
of the blessings of the Lord; he shall
possess the sea and the south.

24 To Aser also he said: Let Aser be
blessed with children, let him be accept-
able to his brethren, and let him dip his
foot in oiL

25 His shoe shall be iron and brass. As
the days of thy youth, so also shall thy
old age be.

26 There is no other God like the God
of the rightest : he that is mounted upon
the heaven is thy helper. By his magnifi-
cence the clouds run hither and thither.

27 His dwelling is above, and under-
neath are the everlasting arms : he shall
cast out the enemy from before thee, and
shall say : Be thou brought to nought.

28 Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone.
The eye of Jacob in a land of corn and
wine, and the heavens shall be misty with
dew.

29 Blessed art thou, Israel : who is like
to thee, O people, that art saved by the
Lord ? the shield of thy help, and the
Bword of thy glory: thy enemies shall
deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their
necks.

CHAPTER 34.

Moses seeth the promised land, but is not suffered to
go into it. He dieth at the age of 120 years. God
burieth his body secretly, and all Israel mourn for
him thirty days. Josue, replenished {by imposition
of Moseses hands) with the spirit of God, succeed-
eth. Bid Moses, for his special familiarity with
God, and for most wonderful miracles, is com'
mended above all other prophets.

h A. M. 2553.-1 Supra 3. 27, and 32. 49; 2 Mac. 2. 4.

Ver. 21. He saw, &c. The pre-eminence of the
tribe of Gad, to which this alludeth, was their hav-
ing the lawgiver Moses buried in their borders;
though the particular place was not known.

Ver. 23. The sea. The lake of Genesareth.

Ver. 27. Underneath are the everlasting arms.
Though the dwelling of God be above in heaven, his
trms are always stretched out to help us here below.

2 And all Nephtali, and the land ot
Ephraim and Manasses, and all the land
of Juda unto the furthermost sea,

3 And the south part, and the breadth
of the plain of Jericho the city of palm
trees as far as Segor.

4 And the Lord said to him : ^ This is the
land, for which I swore to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, saying : I will give it to
thy seed. Thou hast seen it with thy
eyes, and shalt not pass over to it.

5 And Moses the servant of the Lord
died there, in the land of Moab, by the
commandment of the Lord :

6 And he buried him in the valley of
the land of Moab over against Phogor :
and no man hath known of his sepulchre
until this present day.

7 Moses was a hundred and twenty yeare
old when he died : his eye was not dim,
neither were his teeth moved.

8 And the children of Israel mourned
for him in the plains of Moab thirty days :
and the days of their mourning in which
they mourned for Moses were ended.

9 And Josue the son of Nun was filled
with the spirit of wisdom, because Moses
had laid his hands upon him. And the
children of Israel obeyed him, and did as
the Lord commanded Moses.

10 And there arose no more a prophet
in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord
knew face to face,

11 In all the signs and wonders, which
he sent by him, to do in the land of Egypt
to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to
his whole land,

12 And all the mighty hand, and great
miracles, which Moses did before all
Israel.

j Gen. 12. 7, and 15. 18.

Chap. 34. Ver. 5. Died there. This last chapter
of Deuteronomy, in which the death of Moses is
related, was written by Josue, or by some of the
prophets.

Ver. 6. H*> buried him, viz., by the ministry ol
angels, and would have the place of his burial to be
unknown, lest the Israelites, who were so prone tc
idolatry, miglit worship him with divine houourSr

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^ ^^g J^rd charges Josue

JOSUE

Josue admonishes the people

THE

BOOK OP JOSUE,

This Book 18 called Josue, because it contains the history of what passed under him^ and
according to the common opinion was written by him. The Greeks call him Jesus : for Josvs
and Jesus in the Hebrew, are the same name, and have the same signification, viz., A
Saviour. And it was not without a mystery that he who was to bring the people into tJie
land of promise should have his name changed from Osee {for so he was called before. Num.
13. 17,) to Josue or Jesus, to give us to understand, that Moses by his law could only bring
the people within sight of the promised inheritance, but that our Saviour Jesus was to bring
us into it.

CHAPTER 1.

Toaue^ encouraged by the Lord^ admonUheth the
people to prepare themselves to pass over the Jor-
dan,

NOW ^ it came to pass after the death
of Moses the servant of the Lord,
that the Lord spoke to Josue the son of
Nun, the minister of Moses, and said to
him :

2 Moses my servant is dead : arise, and
pass over this Jordan, thou and thy peo-
ple with thee, into the land which I will
give to the children of Israel.

3 * I will deliver to you every place that
the sole of your foot shall tread upon,
as I have said to Moses.

4 From the desert and from Libanus
unto the great river Euphrates, all the
land of the Hethites unto the great sea
toward the going down of the sun, shall
be your border.

5 No man shall be able to resist you all
the days of thy life: "*as I have been
with Moses, so will I be with thee : I will
not leave thee, nor forsake thee.

6 ** Take courage, and be strong : for
thou Shalt divide by lot to this people
the land, for which I swore to their
fathers, that I would deliver it to them.

7 Take courage therefore, and be very
valiant : that thou mayst observe and do
all the law, which Moses my servant hath
commanded thee : turn not from it to
the right hand or to the left, that thou
mayst understand all things which thou
dost.

8 Let not the book of this law depart
from thy mouth: but thou shalt medi-
tate on it day and night, that thou mayst

k B. C. 1405.
I Deut. 11. 24.— m Infra 3. 7 ; Heb. 13. 5.

observe and do all things that are writ-
ten in it: then shalt thou direct thy way,
and understand it.

9 Behold I command thee, take courage,
and be strong. Fear not and be not dis-
mayed: because the Lord thy God is
with thee in all things whatsoever thou
shalt go to.

10 And Josue commanded the princes
of the people, saying : Pass through the
midst of the camp, and command the peo-
ple, and say :

11 Prepare you victuals: for after the
third day you shall pass over the Jordan
and shall go in to possess the land, whicl)
the Lord your God will give you.

12 And he said to the Rubenites, and
the Gadites, and the half tribe of Ma-
nasses :

13 Remember the word, which Moses
the servant of the Lord commanded you,
saying : The Lord your God hath given
you rest, and all this land.

14 ° Your wives, and children, and caih
tle shall remain in the land which Moses
gave you on this side of the Jordan: but
pass you over armed before your bre-
thren, all of you that are strong of hand,
and fight for them,

15 Until the Lord give rest to your bre-
thren as he hath given you, and they also
possess the land which the Lord your
God will give them : and so you shall re-
turn into the land of your possession, and
you shall dwell in it, which Moses the
servant of the Lord gave you beyond the
Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.

16 And they made answer to Josue, and
said : All that thou hast commanded us we

n Deut. 31. 7 and 23 ; 3 Kings 2. 2.
0 Num. 32. 26.

'iahab harbors the spies

JOSUE

Their convenant zvith her

NiW do; and whithersoever thou shalt
jend us, we will go.

17 As we obeyed Moses in all things, so
vill we obey thee also: only be the Lord
|;hy God with thee, as he was with Moses.

18 He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and
lot obey all thy words, that thou shalt
ommand him, let him die: only take
hou courage, and do manfully.

CHAPTER 2.

'wo spies are sent to Jericho, who are received and
concealed by Rahab.

A ND p Josue the son of Nun sent from
lV. Setim two men, to spy secretly:
,nd said to them: Go, and view the land
nd the city of Jericho. Q They went and
ntered into the house of a woman that
7as a harlot named Rahab, and lodged
ath her.

2 And it was told the king of Jericho,
nd was said: Behold there are men
ome in hither, by night, of the children
f Israel, to spy the land.

3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab,
a,ying: Bring forth the men that came
) thee, and are entered into thy house:
Dr they are spies, and are come to view
11 the land.

4 f And the woman taking the men, hid
lem, and said: I confess they came to
le, but I knew not whence they were:

5 And at the time of shutting the gate
1 the dark, they also went out together.

know not whither they are gone: pur-
le after them quickly, and you will
/ertake them.

3 But she made the men go up to the
)p of her house, and covered them with
le stalks of flax, which was there.

J Now they that were sent, pursued
fter them, by the way that leadeth to
le fords of the Jordan : and as soon as
ley were gone out, the gate was
:'esently shut.

I The men that were hidden were not
}t asleep, when behold the woman went
3 to them, and said:
^ I know that the Lord hath given this
nd to you : for the dread of you is fall-
i upon us, and all the inhabitants of the
nd have lost all strength.

.0 We have heard that » the Lord dried
) the water of the Red Sea at your go-
ig in, when you came out of Egypt:

p B. C. 1405.— <7 Heb. 11. 31 ; James 2. 25.
r Infra 6. 17.— s Ex. 14. 21.
15

^ and what things you did to the two kings
of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the
Jordan: Sehon and Og whom you slew.

11 And hearing these things we were
affrighted, and our heart fainted away,
neither did there remain any spirit in us
at your coming in : for the Lord your God
he is God in heaven above, and in the
earth beneath.

12 u Now therefore swear ye to me by
the Lord, that as I have shewn mercy to
you, so you also will shew mercy to my
father's house : and give me a true token,

13 That you will save my father and
mother, my brethren and sisters, and all
things that are theirs, and deliver our
souls from death.

14 They answered her: Be our lives for
you unto death, only if thou betray us
not. And when the Lord shall have de-
livered us the land, we will shew thee
mercy and truth.

15 Then she let them down with a cord
out of a window: for her house joined
close to the wall.

16 And she said to them: Get ye up to
the mountains, lest perhaps they meet
you as they return: and there lie ye hid
three days, till they come back, and so
you shall go on your way.

17 And they said to her: We shall be
bla^meless of this oath, which thou hast
made us swear:

18 If when we come into the land, this
scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in
the window, by which thou hast let us
down: and gather together thy father
and mother, and brethren and all thy
kindred into thy house.

19 Whosoever shall go out of the door
of thy house, his blood shall be upon his
own head, and we shall be quit. But the
blood of all that shall be with thee in
the house, shall light upon our head, if
any man touch them.

20 But if thou wilt betray us, and utter
this word abroad, we shall be quit of this
oath which thou hast made us swear.

21 And she answered: As you have
spoken, so be it done. And sending
them on their way, she hung the scarlet
cord in the window.

22 But they went and came to the
mountains, and stayed there three days
till they that pursued them were returned.

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t Num. 21. 24.
tt Infra 6. 22.

Josue yreyares to cross the Jordan JOSUE The people pass over dry shod

For having sought them through all the | the midst of you, and that he shall de-

way, they found them not.

23 And when they were gone back into
the city, the spies returned, and came
down from the mountain: and passing
over the Jordan, they came to Josue the
son of Nun, and told him all that befel
them.

24 And said: The Lord hath delivered
all this land into our hands, and all the
inhabitants thereof are overthrown with
fear.

CHAPTER 3.

The river Jordan is miraculously dried up for the
passage of the children of Israel.

A ND ^ Josue rose before daylight, and
J\. removed the camp: and they de-
parted from Setim, and came to the Jor-
dan, he, and all the children of Israel,
and they abode there for three days.

2 After which, the heralds went through
the midst of the camp,

3 And began to proclaim : When you
shall see the ark of the covenant of the
Lord your God, and the priests of the
race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also,
and follow them as they go before :

4 And let there be between you and
jhe ark the space of two thousand cubits :
that you may see it afar off, and know
^hich way you must go: for you have
not gone this way before : and take care
;^'ou come not near the ark.

5 And Josue said to the people: Be ye
sanctified : for to morrow the Lord will
do wonders among you.

6 And he said to the priests : Take up
the ark of the covenant, and go before
the people. And they obeyed his com-
mands, and took it up and walked before
them.

7 And the Lord said to Josue : This day
will I begin to exalt thee before Israel :
that they may know that as I was with

'Moses, so I am with thee also.

8 And do thou command the priests
that carry the ark of the covenant, and
say to theoi: When you shall have en-
tered into part of the water of the Jor-
dan, stand in it.

9 And Josue said to the children of
Israel: Come hither and hear the word
of the Lord your God.

10 And again he said: By this you shall
'mow that the Lord the Uving God is in

stroy before your sight the Chanaanite
and the Hethite, the Hevite and the
Pherezite, the Gergesite also and the
Jebusite, and the Amcrrhite.

11 ^' Behold the ark of the covenant or
the Lord of all the earth shall go before
you into the Jordan.

12 Prepare ye twelve men of the tribee
of Israel, one of every tribe.

13 And when the priests, that carry the
ark of the Lord the God of the whole
earth, shall set the soles of their feet in
the waters of the Jordan, the waters that
are beneath shall run down and go off:
and those that come from above, shall
stand together upon a heap.

14 So the people went out of their tents,
to pass over the Jordan : and the priests
that carried the ark of the covenant,
went on before them.

15 And as soon as they came into the
Jordan, and their feet were dipped in
part of the water, (now the Jordan, ^it
being harvest time, had filled the bankp
of its channel,)

16 The waters that came down from
above stood in one place, and swelling
up like a mountain, were seen afar off
from the city that is called Adorn, to the
place of Sarthan: but those that were
beneath, ran down into the sea of the
wilderness (which now is called the Dead
Sea) until they wholly failed.

17 And the people marched over against
Jericho : and the priests that carried the
ark of the covenant of the Lord, stooc
girded upon the dry ground in the mids^
of the Jordan, and all the people passec
over through the channel that was driec
up.

CHAPTER 4.

Twelve stones are taken out of the rivei to he set u]
for a monument of the miracle; and mother twelv
are placed in the midst of the river.

ND when they were passed over, th(
Lord said to Josue :

2 Choose twelve men, one of ever;
tribe :

3 And command them to take out o
the midst of the Jordan, where the fee
of the priests stood, twelve very liar»
stones, which you shall se' In the plac
of the camp, where you sh^U pitch you
tents this night. |

V B. C. 1405. — ?« Supra 1. 6^

« Acts 7. 4&->tf £ccli. 24. 36.

22G

The twelve stones

I 4 Aug Josue called twelve men, whom
le had chosen out of the children of
rsrael, one out of every tribe,

6 And he said to them : Go before the
^l^k of the Lord your God to the midst
of the Jordan, and carry from thence
every man a stone on your shoulders,
according to the number of the children
of Israel,

6 That it may be a sign among you:
and when your children shall ask you
to morrow, saying: What mean these
atones?

7 You shall answer them : The waters
of the Jordan ran off before the ark of
Che covenant of the Lord, when it passed
over the same: therefore were these
stones set for a monument of the chil-
dren of Israel for ever.

8 The children of Israel therefore did
as Josue commanded them, carrying out
Df the channel of the Jordan twelve
stones, as the Lord had commanded him,
iceording to the number of the children
)f Israel, unto the place wherein they
jamped, and there they set them.

9 And Josue put other twelve stones in
:he midst of the channel of the Jordan,
vhere the priests stood that canied the
irk of the covenant : and they are there
mtil this present day.

10 Now the priests that carried the ark,
itood in the midst of the Jordan till all
hings were accomplished which the Lord
lad commanded Josue to speak to the
)eople, and Moses had said to him. And
he people made haste and passed over.

II And when they had all passed over,
he ark also of the Lord passed over, and
he priests went before the people.

12 The children of Ruben also and Gad,
.nd half the tribe of Manasses, went
Jmed before the children of Israel ^ as
'loses had commanded them.

13 And forty thousand fighting men by
heir troops, and bands, marched through
he plains and fields of the city of Jericho.

14 In that day the Lord magnified Josue
a the sight of all Israel, that they should
ear him, as they had feared Moses, while
e lived.

15 And he said to him:

JOSUE Israel camps near Jericho

16 Command the priests, that carry the
ark of the covenant, to come up out of
the Jordan.

17 And he commanded them, saying:
Come ye up out of the Jordan.

18 And when they that carried the ark
of the covenant of the Lord, were come
up, and began to tread on the dry ground,
the waters returned into the channel, and
ran as they were wont before.

19 And the people came up out of the
Jordan, the tenth day of the first month,
and camped in Galgal, over against the
east side of the city of Jericho.

20 And the twelve stones which they
had taken out of the channel of the Jor-
dan, Josue pitched in Galgal,

21 And said to the children of Israel:
When your children shall ask their
fathers, to morrow, and shall say to
them: What mean these stones?

22 You shall teach them and say : Israel
passed over this Jordan through the dry
channeL

23 The Lord your God drying up the
waters thereof in your sight, until you
passed over :

24 « As he had done before in the Red
Sea, which he dried up till we passed
through :

25 That all the people of the earth may
learn the most mighty hand of the Lord,
that you also may fear the Lord your God
for ever.

CHAPTER 6.

The people are circumcised: they keep the pascK,
The manna ceaseth. An angel appeareth to Josue.

NOW when all the kings of the Amor-
rhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan

2 Num. 32. 28.

westward, and all the kings of Chanaan,
who possessed the places near the great
sea, had heard that the Lord had dried
up the waters of the Jordan before the
children of Israel, till they passed over,
their heart failed them, and there re-
mained no spirit in them, fearing the
coming in of the children of IsraeL

2 At that time the Lord said to Josue'.
Make thee knives of stone, and circum^
cise the second time the children of Is-
rael.

3 He did what the Lord had commanded.

a Ex. 14. 21.

ich as had b?en c rcumciseTb^ore^^reS^be^Hr* T.^l'^ ^^^ been omitted during their forty years'
Incised again; but tSt they werlS^w^^^^ '" ^'^^ wlderness; by reason Jf'^their

Qvi take up again the pS^SS^.^Sni to

227

The people are circumcised

JOSUE

Israel marches around Jericho

and he circumcised the children of Israel
in the hill of the foreskins.

4 Now this is the cause of the second
circumcision: All the people that came
out of Egypt that were males, all the men
fit for war, died in the desert, during the
time of the long going about in the way.

5 Now these were all circumcised. But
the people that were bom in the desert,

6 During the forty years of the journey
in the wide wilderness, were uncircum-
cised: till all they were consumed that
had not heard the voice of the Lord, and
to whom he had sworn before, that he
would not shew them the land flowing
with milk and honey.

7 The children of these succeeded in the
place of their fathers, and were circum-
cised by Josue: for they were uncircum-
cised even as they were born, and no one
had circumcised them in the way.

8 Now after they were all circumcised,
they remained in the same place of the
camp, until they were healed.

9 And the Lord said to Josue: This day
have I taken away from you the reproach
of Egypt. And the name of that place
was called Galgal, until this present day.

10 And the children of Israel abode in
Galgal, and they kept the phase on the
fourteenth day of the month, at evening,
in the plains of Jericho:

11 And they ate on the next day un-
leavened bread of the corn of the land,
and frumenty of the same year.

12 & And the manna ceased after they
ate of the corn of the land, neither did
the children of Israel use that food any
more, but they ate of the corn of the
present year of the land of Chanaan.

13 And when Josue was in the field of
the city of Jericho, he lifted up his eyes,
and saw a man standing over against
him, holding a drawn sword, and he went
to him, and said: Art thou one of ours,
or of our adversaries?

14 And he answered: No: but T am
prince of the host of the Lord, and now
I am come.

15 Josue fell on his face to the ground.
And worshipping, said: What saith my
lord to his servant?

16 c Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off

h B. C. 1405.— c Ex. 3. 5 ; Acts 7. 33.

Ver. 14. Prince of the host of the Lord, &c. St.
Michael, who is called prince of the people of Israel,
Dan. 10. 21.

thy feet: for the place whereon thou
standest is holy. And Josue did as was
commanded him,

CHAPTER 6.

After seven days* processions, the priests sounding
the trumpets, the walls of Jericho fall down: and
the city is taken and destroyed,

NOW ^ Jericho was close shut up and
fenced, for fear of the children of
Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.

2 And the Lord said to Josue: Behold I
have given into thy hands Jericho, and
the king thereof, and all the valiant men.

3 Go round about the city, all ye fight-
ing men, once a day: so shall ye do for
six days.

4 And on the seventh day the priests
shall take the seven trumpets, which are
used in the jubilee, and shall go before
the ark of the covenant: and you shall
go about the city seven times, and the
priests shall sound the trumpets.

5 And when the voice of the trumpet
shall give a longer and broken tune, and
shall sound in your ears, all the peo-
ple shall shout together with a very great
shout, and the walls of the city shall fall
to the ground, and they shall enter in
every one at the place against which
they shall stand.

6 Then Josue the son of Nun called the
priests, and said to them: Take the ark
of the covenant: and let seven other
priests take the seven trumpets of the
jubilee, and march before the ark of thie
Lord.

7 And he said to the people: Go, and
compass the city, armed, marching be-
fore the ark of the Lord.

8 And when Josue had ended his words,
and the seven priests blew the seven
trumpets before the ark of the covenant
of the Lord,

9 And all the armed men went before,
the rest of the common people followed
the ark, and the sound of the trumpets
was heard on all sides.

10 But Josue had commanded the peo-
ple, saying: You shall not shout, nor
shall your voice be heard, nor any word
go out of your mouth : until the day come
wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and
shout.

dB. C. 1405.

228

Ver. 15. Worshipping. Not with divine honour,
but with a religious veneration of an inferior kind,
suitable to the dignity of his person.

Jericho is captured

11 Sc the ark of the Lord! went about
tiie city once a day, and returning into
the camp, abodo thereo

12 And Josue rising before day^ the
priests took the ark of the Lord,

13 And seven of them seven trumpets,
which are used in the Jubilee; and they
wenib before the ark of the Lord walking
and sounding the trumpets c and the
armed men went before them, and the
rest of the common people followed the
lark, and they blew the trumpets.

i 14 And they went round about the city
the second day once, and returned into
the camp» So they did six days»

15 But the seventh day^ rising up early,
they went about the city^ as it was
ordered, seven times»

1 6 And when in the seventh going about
tl e priests sounded with the trumpets,
Josue said to all Israel s Shout s for the
Lord hath delivered the city to you:

17 And let this city be an anathema,
and all things that are in it, to the Lord.
Let only Rahab the harlot live, with all
Dhat are with her in the house ? ® for she
Ibid the messengers whom we sent.

18 But beware ye lest you touch ought
3f those things that are forbidden, and
yon be guilty of transgression, and all
:he camp of Israel be under sin, and be
iroubledc

19 But whatsoever gold oi silver there
jhall be, or vessels of brass and iron, let

' be consecrated k) the Lord^ laid up in
ii<3 treasures»

, 20 ^So all the people making a shout,
md the trumpets sounding, when the
roice and the sound thundered in the
)ars of the multitude, the walls forth-
vith fell down ? and every man went up
)y the place that was over against him :
' and they took the city,

21 And killed all that were in it, man
ind woman, young and oldc The oxen
iilso and the sheep, and the asses, they
lew with the edge of the sword.

22 ^ But Josue said to the two men that
'»ad been sent for spies ? Go into the

arlot's house, and bring her out, and all

JOSUE

23 *'And the

Rahah is saved

hings that are hers,
>y oatho

as you assured her

e Supra 2«
2 Mac. 12. 15o -

4 ; Heb. 11. 31. =-/ Hebo 11. 30.

'h Supra 2. 1 and 14. — i Heb, 11. 31.

Chap. 6. Ver. 26, Cursed^ &c. Jericho, in the
lysticaS sense, signifies iniquity.' the sounding of
tie trumpets by the priests, the preaching of the
rord of Ck)d by wliicli) the walls of Jericho are

young men went in and
brought out Rahab, and her parents, her
brethren also and all her goods and her
kindred, and made them to stay without
the campo

24 -^ But they burned the city, and all
things that were therein; except the
gold and silver, and vessels of brass and
iron, which they consecrated into the
treasury of the Lord.

25 But Josue saved Rahab the harlot
and her father's house, and all she had,
and they dwelt in the midst of Israel
until this present day : because she hid
the messengers whom he had sent to spy
out JerichOo At that time, Josue made
an imprecation, saying i

26 '^ Cursed be the man before the Lord,
that shall raise up and build the city of
Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the
foundation thereof, and in the last of his
children set up its gates.

27 And the Lord was with Josue, and
his name was noised throughout all the
land.

CHAPTER 7o

For the sin of Achan, the Israelites are defeated at
Hai. The offender is found out ; and stoned to
death, and God^s wrath is turned from them.

UT " the children of Israel ^ trans-
gressed the commandment, and took
to their own use of the anathema. ''^ For
Achan the son of Oharmi, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of
Juda, took something of the anathema:
and the Lord was angry against the
children of Israel.

2 And when Josue sent men from Jeri-
cho against Hai, which is beside Beth-
aven, on the east side of the town of

and

Bethel, he said to them: Go up,
view the country j and they fulfilled his
command, and viewed Hai.

3 And returning they said to him? Let
not all the people go up, but let two
or three thousand men go and destroy
the city : why should all the people be
troubled in vain against enemies that
are very few?

4 There went up therefore three thou-
sand fighting men: who immediately
turned their backs,

j Infra 8. 2. — kS Kings 16. 34.— I B. C. 1405.
m Infra 22, 20. — n 1 Par. 2, 7.

thrown down, when sinners are converted; and a
dreadful curse will light on them who build then?
up again.

229

The sin of Achan

JOSUE

Achan is stoned to death

5 And were defeated by the men of the
city of Hai, and there fell of them six
and thirty men t and the enemies pursued
them from the gate as far as Sabarim
and they slew them as they fled by the
descent.^ and the heart of the people
was struck with fear, and melted Uke
water,

6 But Josue rent his garments, and fell
flat on the ground before the ark of the
Lord until the evening, both he and all
the ancients of Israel ; and they put dust
upon their heads.

7 And Josue said^ Alas, O Lord God,
why wouldst thou bring this people over
the river Jordan, to deUver us into the
hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy
us? would God, we had stayed beyond the
Jordan as we began,

8 My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing
Israel turning their backs to their ene-
mies ?

9 The Chanaanites, and all the inhabit-
ants of the land will hear of it, and be-
ing gathered together will surround us
and cut off our name from the earth i and
what wilt thou do to thy great name ?

10 And the Lord said to Josue : Arise,
why liest thou flat on the ground?

11 Israel hath sinned, and transgressed
my covenant: and they have taken of
the anathema, and have stolen and lied,
and have hidden it among their goods.

12 Neither can Israel stand before his
enemies, but he shall flee from them
because he is defiled with the anathema»
I will be no more with you, till you de-
stroy him that is guilty of this wicked-
ness.

13 Arise, ^sanctify the people, and say
to them: Be ye sanctified against to
morrow i for thus saith the Lord God of
Israel : The anathema is in the midst of
thee, O Israel : thou canst not stand be-
fore thy enemies, till he be destroyed
out of thee that is defiled with this wick-
edness.

14 And you shall come in the morning
every one by your tribes : and what tribe
soever the lot shall find, it shall come by
its kindreds and the kindred by its houses,
and the house by the men.

15 And whosoever he be that shall be
found guilty of this fact, he shall be

o Lev. 20. 7 ; Num. 11. 18 ; Supra 3. 5 ; 1 Kings 16. 5.

burnt with fire with all his substance,
because he hath transgressed the cove-
nant of the Lord, and hath done wicked
ness in IsraeL

16 Josue, therefore, when he rose in the
morning, made Israel to come by their
tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found,

17 Which being brought by its families,
it was found to be the family of Zare
Bringing ^^hat also by the houses, he found
it to be Zabdi.

18 And bringing his house man by man,
he found Achan the son of Charmi, the
son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe
of Juda.

19 And Josue said to Achan: My sod
give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and
confess, and tell me what thou hast done,
hide it not.

20 And Achan answered Josue, and said
to him : Indeed I have sinned against the
Lord the God of Israel, and thus and
thus have I done,

21 For I saw among the spoils a scarlo*.
garment exceeding good, and two hun-
dred sides of silver, and a golden rule of
fifty sides : and I coveted them, and I
took them away, and hid them in the
ground in the midst of my tent, and the
silver I covered with the earth that I
dug up.

22 Josue therefore sent ministers i who
running to his tent, found all hidden in
the same place, together with the silver,

23 And taking them away out of the
tent, they brought them to Josue, and to
all the children of Israel, and threw them
down before the Lord.

24 Then Josue and all Israel with him
took Achan the son of Zare, and the
silver and the garments, and the golden
rule, his sons also and his daughters, his
oxen and asses and sheep, the tent also,
and all the goods : and brought them to
the valley of Achor :

25 Where Josue said i Because thou hast
troubled us, the Lord trouble thee this
day. And all Israel stoned him : and all
things that were his, were consumed with
fire.

26 ^ And they gathered together upon
him a great heap of stones, which re-
maineth until this present day. And the
wrath of the Lord was turned away from

p 2 Kings 18. 17.

Obat. 7. Ver« 24» Mi$ sons, &c. Probably conscious to, or accomplices of, the crime of their father.
Ver. 26. Achor. That is, trouble.

330

Josue marches against Hai

JOSUE

The ambush

them. And the name of that place was

called the Valley of Achor, until thifi

day.

CHAPTER 8.

Hai is taken and burnt, ana all the inhabitants
slain. An altar is built, and sacrifices offered.
The law is written on stones,, and the blessings and
cursings are read before all the people.

A ND the Lord said to Josue i ^ Fear

XX not, nor be thou dismayed: take

with thee all the multitude of fighting

men, arise and go up to the town ot Hai»

Behold I have delivered into thy hand

the king thereof, and the people, and the

city^ and the land,

2 And thou shalt do to the city of Hai,
and to the king thereof, *" as thou hast
I done to Jericho, and to the king thereof
but the spoils and all the cattle you shall
take for a prey to yourselves ; lay an
ambush for the city behind it.

3 And Josue arose, and all the army of
the fighting men with him, to go up
against Hai : and he sent thirty thousand
shosen valiant men in the night,

4 And commanded them, saying : Lay
in ambush behind the city : and go not
very far from it : and be ye all ready.

6 But I and the rest of the multitude
^hich is with me, will approach on the
contrary side against the city. And when
:hey shall come out against us, * we will
lee, and turn our backs, as we did be-
fore:

6 Till they pursuing us be drawn farther
rem the city : for they will think that
NB flee as before.

7 And whilst we are fleeing, and they
Dursuing, you shall arise out of the am-
)U8h, and shall destroy the city : and the
^iOrd your God will deliver it into our
lands.

8 And when you shall have taken it, set
t on fire, and you shall do all things so
18 I have commanded.

9 And he sent them away, and they
i^ent on to the place of the ambush, and
ibode between Bethel and Hai, on the
s^est side of the city of Hai. But Josue
tayed that night in the midst of thepeople,

10 And rising early in the morning, he
Qustered nis soldiers, and went up with
he ancients in the front of the army
nvironed with the aid of the fighting
aen.

q B. C. 1405.— r Supra 6c 24.

11 And vben they were come, and were
gone up over against the city, they stood
on the north side of the city, between
which and them there was a valley in the
midsto

12 And he had chosen five thousand men,
and set them to Me in ambush between
Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the
same city :

13 But all the rest of the army went in
battle array on the north side, so that
the last of that multitude reached to the
west side of the city. So Josue went
that night, and stood in the midst of the
valley,

14 And when the king of Hai saw this,
he made haste in the morning, and went
out with all the army of the city, and set
it in battle array toward the desert, not
knowing that there lay an ambush behind
his back.

15 But Josue, and all Israel gave back,
making as if they were afraid, and flee-
ing by the way of the wilderness.

16 But they shouting together, and en-
couraging one another, pursued them.
And when they were come from the city,

17 And not one remained in the city of
Hai and of Bethel, that did not pursue
after Israel, leaving the towns open as
they had rushed out,

18 The Lord said to Josue : Lift up the
shield that is in thy hand, towards the
city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.

19 And when he had lifted up his shield
towards the city, the ambush that lay hid,
rose up immediately: and going to the
city, took it and set it on fire.

20 And the men of the city, that pursued
after Josue, looking back and seeing the
smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had
no more power to flee this way or that
way : especially as they that had counter-
feited flight, and were going toward the
wilderness, turned back most valiantly
against them that pursued.

21 So Josue and all Israel seeing that
the city was taken, and that the smoke
of the city rose up, returned and slew
the men of Hai.

22 And they also that had taken and set
the city on fire, issuing out of the city to
meet their own men, began to cut off the
enemies who were surrounded by them.

s Supra 7. 4.

Chap. 8. Ver. 12. Five thousand. These were part ot the thirty thousand mentioned »b«?8i» v«& I»

331

Ilai is taken and destroyed

JOSUE Josue deceived hy the Gahaonites

So that fche enemies being cut off on both
sides, not one of so great a multitude
was saved.

23 And they took the king of the city of
Hai alive, and brought him to Josue.

24 So all being slain that had pursued
after Israel in his flight to the wilderness,
and falling by the sword in the same place,
the children of Israel returned and laid
waste the city.

25 And the number of them that fell
that day, both of men and women, was
twelve thousand persons all of the city
of Hai.

26 But Josue drew not back his hand,
which he had stretched out on high, hold-
ing the shield, till all the inhabitants of
Hai were slain.

27 And the children of Israel divided
am jng them the cattle and the prey of the
city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.

28 And he burned the city, and made it
a heap for ever :

29 And he hung the king thereof on a
gibbet until the evening and the going
down of the sun. Then Josue command-
ed, and they took down his carcass from
the gibbet : and threw it in the very en-
trance of the city, heaping upon it a great
heap of stones, which remaineth until
this present day.

30 Then Josue built an altar to the Lord
the God of Israel in mount Hebal,

31 'As Moses the servant of the Lord
had commanded the children of Israel,
and it is written in the book of the law
of Moses : an altar of unhewn stones
which iron had not touched : and he
offered upon it holocausts to the Lord,
and immolated victims of peace offerings.

32 And he wrote upon stones the Deuter-
onomy of the law of Moses, which he had
ordered before the children of Israel.

33 And all the people, and the ancients,
and the princes and judges stood on
both sides of the ark, before the priests
that carried the ark of the covenant of
the Lord, both the stranger and he that
was born among them, half of them by
mount Garizim, and half by mount Hebal,
as Moses the servant of the Lord had
commanded. And first he blessed the
people of Israel.

34 After this he read all the words of
the blessing and the cursing, and all

t Ex. 3a 26; Deut. 27.6b

things that were written m the book of
the law.

35 He left out nothing of those things
which Moses had commanded, but he re-
peated all before all the people of Israel,
with the women and children and stran-
gers that dwelt among them

CHAPTER 9.

Josue is deceived by the Gahaonites : who being de-
tected are condemned to be perpetual servants.

"T^OW " when these things were heard
jl\ of, all the kings beyond the Jordan,
that dwelt in the mountains and in the
plains, in the places near the sea, and on
the coasts of the great sea, they also that
dwell by Libanus, the Hethite and the
Amorrhite, the Chanaanite, the Pherezite,
and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

2 Gathered themselves together, to fight
against Josue and Israel with one mind,
and one resolution.

3 But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hear>
ing all that Josue had done to Jericho
and Hai :

4 Cunningly devising took for them-
selves provisions, laying old sacks upon
their asses, and wine bottles rent and
sewed up again,

6 And very old shoes, which for a show
of age were clouted with patches, and old
garments upon them: the loaves also,
which they carried for provisions by the
way, were hard, and broken into pieces :

6 And they went to Josue, who then
abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to
him, and to all Israel with him : We are
come from a far country, desiring to
make peace with you. And the children
of Israel answered them, and said :

7 Perhaps you dwell in the land which
falls to our lot ; if so, we can make no
league with you.

8 But they said to Josue : We are thy
servants. Josue said to them : Who are
you ? and whence came you ?

9 They answered : From a very far coun-
try thy servants are come in the name
of the Lord thy God. For we have heard
the fame of his power, all the things
that he did in Egypt.

10 ^ And to the two kings of the Amor-
rhites that were beyond the Jordan,
Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of
Basan, that was in Astaroth :

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Gabaonites made servants of Israel JOSTIE

The five kings

il And our andetite, and all the inhab-
tants of our country said to us: Take
*ith you victuals for a long way, and go
neet them, and say: We are your ser-
vants, make ye a league with us.

12 Behold, these loaves we took hot,
i^hen we set out from our houses to
tome to you, now they are become dry,
ind broken in pieces, by being exceed-
ng old.

13 These bottles of wine when we filled
hem were new, now they are rent and
^urst. These garments we have on, and
he shoes we have on our feet, by reason
)f the very long journey are worn out,
jid almost consumed.

14 They took therefore of their victuals,
,nd consulted not the mouth of the Lord.

15 "'And Josue made peace with them,
ind entering into a league promised that
hey should not be slain: the princes
-Iso of the multitude swore to them.

16 Now three days after the league was
Qade, they heard that they dwelt nigh,
nd they should be among them.

17 And the children of Israel removed
he camp, and came into their cities on
he third day, the names of which are
Jabaon, and Caphira, and Beroth, and
)ariathiarim.

18 And they slew them not, because
he princes of the multitude had sworn in
he name of the Lord the God of Israel.
iTaen all the common people murmured
.gainst the princes.

19 And they answered them: We have
worn to them in the name of the Lord
he God of Israel, and therefore we may
ot touch them.

20 But this we will do to them : Let
heir lives be saved, lest the wrath of
he Lord be stirred up against as, if we
hould be forsworn.

21 But so let them live, as to serve ihe
'^hole multitude in hewing wood, and
ringing in water. As they were speak-
ig these things,

22 Josue called the Gabaonites and said
3 them: Why would you impose upon
8, saying: We dwell far off from you,
whereas you are in the midst of us ?

•23 Therefore you shall be under a curse,
nd your race shall alwa> s bo hewers of
rood, and carriers of water unto the
ouse of my God.

' 3 Kinss 21. %

24 They answered: It was told us thy
servants, that the Lord thy God had
promised his servant Moses to give you
all the land, and to destroy all the inhab-
itants thereof. Therefore we feared ex-
ceedingly and provided for our lives,
compelled by the dread we had of you,
and we took this counsel.

25 And now we are in thy hand : deal
with us as it seemeth good and right
unto thee.

26 So Josue did as he had said, and de-
livered them from the hand of the chil-
dren of Israel, that they should not be
slain.

27 And he gave orders in that day that
they should be in the service of all the
people, and of the altar of the Lord,
hewing wood and carrying water, urtil
this present time, in the place which f/he
Lord hath chosen.

CHAPTER 10.

Five kings war against Gabaon. Josue defeateth
them: ma-ny are slain with hailstones. At the
■prayer of Josue the sun and moon stand still the
space of one day. The Jive kings are hanged.
Divers cities are taken.

WHEN ^ Adonisedec king of Jerusa-
lem had heard these things, to wit,
that Josue had taken Hai, and had de-
stroyed it, (for as he had done to Jeri-
cho and the king thereof, so did he to
Hai, and its king,) and that the Gaba-
onites were gone over to Israel, and
were their confederates,

2 He was exceedingly afraid. For Gab-
aon was a great city, and one of the royal
cities, and greater than the town of Hai,
and all its fighting men were most valiant.

3 Therefore Adonisedec king of Jerusa-
lem sent to Oham king of Hebron, and
to Pharam king of Jerimoth, and to Ja-
phia king of Lachis, and to Dabir king
of Eglon, saying:

4 Come up to me, and bring help, that
we may take Gabaon, because it hath
gone over to Josue, and to the children
of Israel.

5 So the five kings of the Amorrhites
being assembled together went up: the
king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron,
the king of Jerimoth, the king of La-
chis, the king of Eglon, they and their
armies, and camped about Gabaon, lay
ing siege to It.

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The sun and the moon stand still JOSUE

The five kings are slain

6 But the inhabitants of the city of Gab-
aon which was besieged, sent to Josue,
who then abode in the camp at Galgal,
and said to him: Withdraw not thy
handa from helping thy servants : come
up quickly and save us, and bring us
succour; for all the kings of the Amor-
:hites, who dwell in the mountains, are
;;i'athered together against us.

V And Josue went up from Galgal, and
all the army of the warriors with him,
most vahant men.

8 And the Lord said to Josue : Fear
them not: for I have delivered them
into thy hands: none of them shall be
a-ble to stand against thee.

9 So Josue going up from Galgal all the
night, came upon them suddenly.

10 ^ And the Lord troubled them at the
sight of Israel : and he slew them with
a great slaughter in Gabaon, and pur-
sued them by the way of the ascent to
Beth-horon, and cut them off all the way
to Azeca and Maceda.

11 And when they were fleeing from
the children of Israel, and were in the
descent of Beth-horon, the Lord cast
down upon them great stones from hea-
ven as far as Azeca: and many more
were killed with the hailstones than
were slain by the swords of the ch^ Iren
of Israel.

12 Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the
day that he delivered the Amorrlaite in
the sight of the children of Israel, and
he said before them : Move not, O sun,
toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, to-
ward the valley of Ajalon.

13 And the ^sun and the moon stood
still, till the people revenged themselves
of their enemies. Is not this written
in the book of the just? So the sun
stood still in the midst of heaven, and
hasted not to go down the space of one
day.

14 There was not before nor after so
long a day, the Lord obeying the voice
of a man, and fighting for Israel.

15 And Josue returned with all Israel
into the camp of Galgal.

16 For the five kings were fled, and had
hidden themselves in a cave of the city
of Maceda.

17 And it was told Josue that the five

y 1 Kings 7. 10.—« Eccli. 46. 5; Isa. 28. 2L

kings were found hidden in a oave of the
city of Maceda.

18 And he commanded them that were
with him, saying : Roll great stones to
the mouth of the cave, and set careful
men, to keep them shut up :

19 And stay you not, but pursue aftef
the enemies, and kill all the hindermost
of them as they flee, and do not suffer
them whom the Lord God hath delivered
into your hands to shelter themselves in
their cities.

20 So the enemies being slain with a
great slaughter, and almost utterly con
sumed, they that were able to escape
from Israel, entered into fenced cities.

21 And all the army returned to Josue
in Maceda, where the camp then was, in
good health and without the loss of any
one : and no man durst move his tongue
against the children of Israel,

22 And Josue gave orders, saying : Open
the mouth of the cave, and bring forth to
me the five kings that lie hid therein.

23 And the ministers did as they were
commanded: and they brought out to
him the five kings out of the cave : the
king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron
the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis
the king of Eglon.

24 And when they were brought out tc
him, he called all the men of Israel, an(
said to the chiefs of the army that wer
with him : Go, and set your feet on thi
necks of these kingSo And when they ha(
gone, and put their feet upon the necki
of them lying under them,

25 He said again to them: Fear not
neither be ye dismayed, take courage
and be strong: for so will the Lord d
to all your enemies, against whom yoc
fight.

26 And Josue struck, and slew them, anc
hanged them upon five gibbets, and the}
hung until the evening.

27 "And when the sun was down, he
commanded the soldiers to take then
down from the gibbets. And after thej
were taken down, they cast them intc
the cave where they had lain hid, anc
put great stones at the mouth thereof
which remain until this day.

28 The same day Josue took Maceda anc
destroyed it, with the edge of the sword

a Deut 21. 23.

CHiLp. 10. V^r. 13. Ths book of the^-ist. In Hebrew Jaslan an ancieat bool^ long since lost

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Many cities are taken

JOSUE

The kings of the north

ind killed the king and all the inhabit-
mts thereof : he left not in it the least
emains. And he did to the king of
^aceda, as he had done to the king of
fericho.

29 And he passed from Maceda with all
srael to Lebna, and fought against it:

30 And the Lord delivered it with the
dng thereof into the hands of Israel:
ind they destroyed the city with the
>dge of the sword, and all the inhabit-
ijits thereof. They left not in it any
•emains. And they did to the king of
jebna, ^ as they had done to the king of
Fericho.

31 From Lebna he passed unto Lachis,
vith all Israel : and investing it with his
irmy, besieged it.

32 And the Lord delivered Lachis into
he hands of Israel, and he took it the
ollowing day, and put it to the sword,
.nd every soul that waa in it, as he had
lone to Lebna.

33 At that time Horam king of Gazer,
ame up to succour Lachis: and Josue
lew him with all his people, so as to
©ave none alive.

34 And he passed from Lachis to Eglon,
imd surrounded it,

36 And took it the same day : and put
0 the sword all the souls that were in
b, according to all that he had done to
jachis.

1 36 He went up also with all Israel from
Cglon to Hebron, and fought against it :

37 Took it, and destroyed it with jhe
idge of the sword : the king also thereof,
-nd all the towns of that country, and all
'he souls that dwelt in it: he left not
Iherein any remains: as he had done to
iDglon, so did he also to Hebron, putting
0 the sword all that he found in it.

38 Returning from thence to Dabir,

39 He took it and destroyed it: the
:ing also thereof and all the towns round
-bout he destroyed with the edge of the
word : he left not in it any remains : as
!ie had done to Hebron and Lebna and to
Iheir kings, so did he to Dabir and to the
dug thereof.

40 So Josue conquered all the country

b Supra 6. 2.

sue.

' Y?^j^^* '^^^ king, viz^ the new king, who
Bedea him that was slain, ver. 26.
Ver. 40. Jny remains therein, but sle^v, &C. God
rdered these people to be utterly destroyed, in
lunishment of tbeir maniiold abominatioosi and

of the hills and of the south and of the
plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings :
he left not any remains therein, but slew
all that breathed, as the Lord the God of
Israel had commanded him,

41 From Cadesbarne even to Gaza, All
the land of Gosen even to Gabaon,

42 And all their kings, and their lands
he took and wasted at one onset : for the
Lord the God of Israel fought for him.

43 And he returned with all Israel to
the place of the camp in GalgaL

CHAFrEli 11.

TTie kings of the north are overthrown : the wr^yj^e
country is taken.

^ ND when Jabin king of Asor had heard
XjL these things, he sent to Jobab king
of Madon, and to the king of Semeron,
and to the king of Achsaph :

2 And to the kings of the north, that
dwelt in the mountains and in the plains
over against the south side of Ceneroth,
and in the levels and the countries of
Dor by the sea side :

3 To the Chanaanites also on the east
and on the west, and the Amorrhite, and
the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the
Jebusite in the mountains : to the Hevite
also who dwelt at the foot of Hermon ii
the land of Maspha.

4 And they all came out with their
troops, a people exceeding numerous as
the sand that is on the sea shore, their
horses also and chariots a very great
multitude,

5 And all these kings assembled together
at the waters of Merom, to fight against
Israel.

6 And the Lord said to Josue : Fear them
not: for to morrow at this same hour I
will deliver all thes^ to be slain in the
sight of Israel! thou shalt hamstring
their horses, and thou shalt burn their
chariots with fire.

7 And Josue came, and all the army
with him, against them to the waters of
Merom on a sudden, and fell upon them.

8 And the Lord delivered them into the
hands of Israel. And they defeated them,
and chased them as far as the great Si-

that they might not draw the Israelitej into the like
sins.

Chap. 11. Ver. 6. Hamstring their horses, and
bum their chariots with fire, &c. God so ordained-
that his people might not trust in chariots ana
1 liorses, but in him.

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Many cities are destroyed

JOSUE

The kings slain lij Moses

don, and the waters of Maserophot, and
the field of Masphe, which is on the east
side thereof. He slew them all, so as to
leave no remains of them :

9 And he did as the Lord had commanded
him, he hamstringed their horses and
burned their chariots.

10 And presently turning back he took
Asor : and slew the king thereof with the
sword. Now Asor of old was the head
of all these kingdoms.

1 1 And he cut off all the souls that abode
there: he left not in it any remains, but
utterly destroyed all, and burned the city
itself with fire.

12 And he took and put to the sword
and destroyed all the cities round about,
and their kings, ^ as Moses the servant
of God had commanded him.

13 Except the cities that were on hills
and high places, the rest Israel burned :
only Asor that was very strong he con-
sumed with fire.

14 And the children of Israel divided
among themselves all the spoil of these
cities and the cattle, killing all the men.

15 ^ As the Lord had commanded Moses
his servant, so did Moses command Josue,
and he accomplished alls he left not one
thing undone of all the commandments
which the Lord had commanded Moses.

16 So Josue took all the country of the
hills, and of the south, and the land of
Gosen, and the plains and the west coun-
try,^ and the mountain of Israel, and the
plains thereof =

17 And part of the mountain that goeth
up to Seir as far as Baalgad, by the plain
of Libanus under mount Hermon; alJ
their kings he took, smote and slew.

18 Josue made war a long time against
these kingSo

19 There was not a city that delivered
itself to the children of Israel, except the
Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon^ for he
took all by fight,

20 For it was the sentence of the Lord,
that their hearts should be hardened,
and they should fight against Israel, and
fall, and should not deserve any clem-
ency, and should be destroyed as the
Lord had commanded Moses,

c Deut 7, 1, — rf EXo 34. 11 ; Deut 7= 1«

Seven years, as appears

Ver, 18« A long time,
from chapo 14. 10.

Ver= 20. Hardened, This hardening of their
hearts was their havmg no thought Qi yielding or I

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21 Afe that time Josue came and cut off
the Enacims from the mountains, from
Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from
all the mountain of Juda and Israel, and
destroyed their citieSo

22 He left not any of the stock of the
Enacims., in the land of the children of
Israel i except the cities of Gaza, and
Geth, and Azotus, in which alone they
were left.

23 So Josue took aU the land, as the
Lord spoke to Moses, and delivered it
in possession to the children of Israel,
according to their divisions and tribes.
^ And the land rested from wars»

CHAPTER 12o
A list of the kings slain by Moses and Josue^

THESE are the kings, whom the chil-
dren of Israel slew and possessed
their land beyond the Jordan towards
the rising of the sun, from the torrent
Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the
east country that looketh towards the
wilderness.

2 Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who
dwelt in Hesebon, and had dominion
from Aroer, which is seated upon the
bank of the torrent Arnon. and of the
middle part in the valley, and of half
Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc, which
is the border of the children of Ammon.

3 And from the wilderness, to the sea
of Ceneroth towards the east, and to the
sea of the wilderness, which is the most
salt sea, on the east side by the way that
leadeth to Bethsimoth i and on the south
side that lieth under Asedoth, Phasga»

4 The border of Og the king of Basan,
of the remnant of the Raphaims who
dwelt in Astaroth, and in Edrai, and had
dominion in mount Hermon, and in Sale-
cha, and in all Basan, unto the borders

6 Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half
Galaad the borders of Sehon the king
of Hesebon.

6 Moses the servant of the Lord, and
the children of Israel slew them, and
Moses dehvered their land in possession
to the Rubenites, and Gadites, and the
half tribe of Manasses„

7 These are the kings of the land, whom

e Infra 14 15.

submitting ; which was a sentence or judgment of
God upon them in punishment of their enormous
crimes.

The kings slain by Josue

JOSUE Josue commanded to divide the land

Josue and the children of Israel slew be-
yond the Jordan on the west side from
Baalgad in the field of Libanus, unto the
mount, part of which goeth up into Seir :
and Josue delivered it in possession to
the tribes of Israel, to every one their
divisions,

8 As well in the mountains as in the
plains and the champaign countries. In
Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in
the south was the Hethite and the Amor-
rhite, the Chanaanite and the Pherezite,
the Hevite and the Jebusite.

9 The king of Jericho one: the king of
Hai, which is on the side of Bethel, one:

10 The king of Jerusalem one, the king
of Hebron one,

11 The king of Jerimoth one, the king
of Lachis one,

12 The king of Eglon one, the king of
Gazer one,

13 The king of Dabir one, the king of
Gader one,

14 The king of Herma one, the king of
Hered one,

15 The king of Lebna one, the king of
Odullam one,

16 The king of Maceda one, the king of
Bethel one,

17 The king of Taphua one, the king of
Opher one,

18 The king of Aphec one, the king of
Saron one,

19 The king of Madon one, the king of
Asor one,

20 The king of Semeron one, the king
of Achsaph one,

21 The king of Thenac one, the king of
Maggeddo one,

22 The king of Cades one, the king of
Jachanan of Carmel one,

23 The king of Dor, and of the province
of Dor one, the king of the nations of
Galgal one,

24 The king of Thersa one : all the kings
thirty and one.

CHAPTER 13.

God commandeth Josue to divide the land: the pos-
sessions of Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of Ma-
nasses, beyond the Jordan.

TOSUE was old, and far advanced in
•^ years, and the Lord said to him:

Chap. 13. Ver. 1. Josue was old, and far ad-
vanced in years. He was then about one hundred
and one years old. — And there is a very large

Thou art grown old, and advanced in age,
and there is a very large country left,
which is not yet divided by lot:

2 To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all
Gessuri.

3 From the troubled river, that watereth
Egypt, unto the borders of Accaron
northward: the land of Chanaan, which
is divided among the lords of the Phi-
listines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the
Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Ac-
cronites.

4 And on the south side are the Hevites,
all the land of Chanaan, and Maara of
the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the
borders of the Amorrhite,

5 And his confines. The coimtry also
of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad
under mount Hermon to the entering
into Emath.

6 Of all that dwell in the mountains
from Libanus, to the waters of Masere-
photh, and all the Sidonians. I am he
that will cut them off from before the
face of the children of Israel. So let
their land come in as a part of the in-
heritance of Israel, as I have commanded
thee.

7 And now divide the land in posses-
sion to the nine tribes, and to the half
tribe of Manasses,

8 With whom Ruben and Gad have
possessed the land, fl' which Moses the ser-
vant of the Lord delivered to them be-
yond the river Jordan, on the east side.

9 From Aroer, which is upon the bank
of the torrent Arnon, and in the midst of
the valley and all the plains of Medaba,
as far as Dibon:

10 And all the cities of Sehon, king of
the Amorrhites, who reigned in Hesebon,
unto the borders of the children of Am-
mon.

11 And Galaad, and the borders of Ges-
suri and Machati, and all mount Hermon,
and all Basan as far as Salecha,

12 All the kingdom of Og in Basan,
who reigned in Astaroth and Edrai, he
was of the remains of the Raphaims:
and Moses overthrew and destroyed
them.

13 And the children of Israel would not

g Num. 32. 33.

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country left, which is not yet divided by lot, not
yet possessed by the children of Israel.

Ver. 8. With whom. That is, with the other
half of that same tribe.

The lot of Ruben and Gad

JOSUE

destroy Gessuri and Machati i and they
have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until
this present day.

14 ^ But to the tribe of Levi he gave no
possession : but the sacrifices and vic-
tims of the Lord God of Israel, are his
inheritance, as he spoke to him.

15 And Moses gave a possession to the
children of Ruben according to their kin-
dreds.

16 And their border was from Aroer,
which is on the bank of the torrent Ar-
non, and in the midst of the valley of the
same torrent : all the plain, that leadeth
to Medaba,

17 And Hesebon, and all their villages,
which are in the plains. Dibon also, and
Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,

18 And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Meph-
aath,

19 And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and
Sarathasar in the mountain of the valley.

20 Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga
and Bethiesimoth,

21 And all the cities of the plain, and
all the kingdoms of Sehon king of the
Amorrhites, that reigned in Hesebon,
'whom Moses slew with the princes of
Madian : Hevi, and Recem, and Sur and
Hur, and Rebe, dukes of Sehon inhabit-
ants of the land.

22 Balaam also the son of Beor the
soothsayer, the children of Israel slew
with the sword among the rest that were
slain.

23 And the river Jordan was the border
of the children of Ruben. This is the
possession of the Rubenites, by their
kindreds, of cities and villages.

24 And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad
and to his children by their kindreds a
possession, of which this is the division.

25 The border of Jaser, and all the cities
of Galaad, and half the land of the chil-
dren of Ammon i as far as Aroer which
is over against Rabba °.

26 And from Hesebon unto Ramoth,
Masphe and Betonim i and from Manaim
unto the borders of Dabir.

27 And in the valley Betharan and Beth-
nemra, and Socoth, and Saphon the other
part of the kingdom of Sehon king of
Hesebon: the limit of this also is the
Jordan, as far as the uttermost part of

h Num. 18. 20.- i Num. 31. 8.— j Num. 18. 20.

Ver. 21. The princes of Madian. It appears from
tience that these wero subjects of king Sehon s they

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The half tribe of Manasses

the sea of Cenereth beyond the Jordan
on the east side.

28 This is the possession of the children
of Gad by their famihes, their cities, and
villages.

29 He gave also to the half tribe of
Manasses and his children possession
according to their kindreds,

30 The beginning whereof is this ; from
Manaim all Basan, and all the kingdoms
of Og king of Basan, and all the villages
of Jair, which are in Basan, threescore
towns.

31 And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and
Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Ba-
san : to the children of Machir, the son
of Mi nasses, to one half of the childreH
of Maohir according to their kindredSc

32 This possession Moses divided in
the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan,
over against Jericho on the east side»

33 ^ But to the tribe of Levi he gave no
possession : because the Lord the God of
Israel himself is their possession, as he
spoke to them.

CHAPTER 14.

Caleo^s petition. Hebron is given to him and to his

seed.

THIS is what the children of Israel
possessed in the land of Chanaan,
which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the
son of Nun, and the princes of the families
by the tribes of Israel gave to them i

2 Dividing all by lot, ^ as the Lord had
commanded by the hand of Moses, to the
nine tribes, and the half tribe.

3 For to two tribes and a half Moses had
given possession beyond the Jordan , be-
sides the Levites, who received no land
among their brethren :

4 But in their place succeeded the chil-
dren of Joseph divided into two tribes,
of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did
the Levites receive other portion of land,
but cities to dwell in, and their si burbe
to feed their beasts and flocks..

5 As the Lord had commanded Mose...
so did the children of Israel, and they
divided the land.

6 Then the children of Juda came to
Josue in Galgal,and Caleb the son of Jeph-
one the Cenezite spoke to himi ^Thou
knowest what the Lord spoke to Moses

k Num. 34. 13. — I Num, 14. 24.

are said to have been slain with him, that is, cibou'
the same time, but not in the same battle.

Caleb* s petition

JOSUE

The borders of Juda

.he man oi God concerning me and thee
n Cadesbarne.

7 I was forty years old when Moses the
lervant of the Lord sent me "* from Cades-
)arne5 to view the land, and I brought
lim word again as to me seemed true=

8 But my brethren, that had gone up
nth me, discouraged the heart of the
>eople ^ and I nevertheless followed the
ijord my God.

9 And Moses swore in that day, saying r
!Tie land which thy foot hath trodden
ipon shall be thy possession, and thy
children's for ever, because thou hast
Ollowed the Lord my God.

10 The Lord therefore hath granted me
ife, as he promised until this present
Hay. It is forty and five years since the
!iOrd spoke this word to Moses, when
jsrael journeyed through the wilderness :
ihis day I am eighty- five years old,

11 As strong as I was at that time when
was sent to view the land: '^ the strength

)f that time continueth in me until this
lay, as well to fight as to march.

12 Give me therefore this mountain,
vhich the Lord promised, in thy hearing
ilso, wherein are the Enacims, and cities
^reat and strong : if so be the Lord mill
)e with me, and I shall be able to destroy
hem, as he promised me.

13 And Josue blessed him, and gave him
ilebron in possession.

14 And from that time Hebron belonged
30 Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite,
intil this present day: because he fol-
owed the Lord the God of Israel.

15 The name of Hebron before was
called Cariath-Arbe : Adam the greatest
imong the Enacims was laid there '^ ^ and
;he land rested from wars.

CHAPTER 15

;7%e borders of the fat of Juda. Caleb^s portion and
conquest. The cities of Juda.

by their kindreds was this . ^ From
;he frontier of Edom, to the desert of
^in southward, and to the uttermost part
)f the south coast.

2 Its beginning was from the top of t.he
nost salt sea, and from the bay thereof,
i)hat looketh to the southc

m Dent 2, i4o— n Eccli. 46. 11. — o Supra 11„ 23.

Chap. 14. Ver. 14. Hebron belonged, &c. All
•he country thereabouts, depending oh Hebron, was
;iven to Caleb; but the city itself witb the suburbs,

239

3 And it goeth out towards the ascent
of the Scorpion^ and passe th on to Sina i
and ascendeth into Cadesbarne, and
re ache th into Esron, going up to Addar,
and compassing Carcaa»

4 And from thence passing along into
Asemona, and reaching the torrent of
Egypt I and the bounds thereof shall be
the great sea, this shall be the limit of
the south coast.

5 But on the east side the beginning
shah be the most salt sea even to the end
of the Jordan^ and towards the north,
from the bay of the sea unto the same
river Jordan.

6 And the border goeth up into Beth-
Hagla, and passeth by the north into
Beth- Ar aba c going up to the stone of
Been the son of Ruben.

7 And reaching as far as the borders ot
Debara from the valley of Achor, and so
northward looking towards Galgal, which
is opposite to the ascent of Adommin, on
the south side of the torrent* and the
border passeth the waters that are called
the fountain of the sun s and the goings
out thereof shall be at the fountain
Rogel.

8 And it goeth up by the valley of the
son of Ennom on the side of the Jebusite
towards the south, the same is Jeru-
salem : and thence ascending to the top
of the mountain, which is over against
Geennom to the west in the end of the
valley of Raphaim, northward.

9 And it passeth on from the top of the
mountain to the fountain of the water of
Nephtoa c and reacheth to the towns of
mount Ephron ? and it bendeth towards
Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to
say, the city of the woodso

10 A.nd it compasseth from Baala west-
ward unto mount Seir and passeth by
the side of mount Jarim to the north into
Cheslon and goeth down into Bethsames,
and passeth into Thamna.

11 And Tit reacheth northward to a part
of Accaron at the side : and bendeth to
Sechrona, and passeth mount Baala ? and
Cometh into Jebneel, and is bounded
westward with the great seao

12 These are the borders round about
of the children of Juda in their kindreds.

g Num. 34. 3.

was one of 'ohose that were given to the priesfcs CO
dwell Id.

Caleb's promise

JOSUE

The cities of Juda

13 But to Caleb the son of Jephone he
gave a portion in the midst of the chil-
dren of Juda, as the Lord had commanded
him: Cariath-Arbe the father of Enac,
which is Hebron.

14 ^ And Caleb destroyed out of it the
three sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman,
and Tholmai of the race of Enac.

15 And going up from thence he came
to the inhabitants of Dabir, which before
was called Cariath-Sepher, that is to say,
the city of letters.

16 And Caleb said: He that shall smite
Cariath-Sepher, and take it, I will give
him Axa my daughter to wife.

17 And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the
younger brother of Caleb, took it : and
he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.

18 And as they were going together, she
was moved by her husband to ask a field
of her father, and she sighed as she sat
on her ass. And Caleb said to her: What
aileth thee?

19 But she answered: Give me a bless-
ing: thou has given me a southern and
dry land, give me also a land that is
watered. And Caleb gave her the upper
and the nether, watery ground.

20 This is the possession of the tribe of
the children of Juda by their kindreds.

21 And the cities from the uttermost
parts of the children of Juda by the bor-
ders of Edom to the south, were Cabseel
and Eder and Jagur,

22 And Cina and Dimona and Adada,

23 And Cades and Asor and Jethnam,

24 Ziph and Telem and Baloth,

25 New Asor and Carioth, Hesron, which
is Asor.

26 Amam, Sama and Molada,

27 And Asergadda and Hassemon and
Bethphelet,

28 And Hasersual and Bersabee and
Baziothia,

29 And Baala and Jim and Esem,

30 And Eltholad and Cesil and Harma,

31 And Siceleg and Medemena and Sen-
senna,

32 Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and
Remmon: all the cities twenty-nine, and
their villages.

33 But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea
and Asena,

34 And Zanoe and Engannim and Taph-
ua and Enaim,

35 And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho
and Azeca,

36 And Saraim and Adithaim and Ged-
era and Gederothaim : fourteen cities, and
their villages.

37 Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,

38 Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,

39 Lachi^ and Bascath and Eglon,

40 Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis,

41 And Gideroth and Bethdagon and
Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities, and
their villages.

42 Labana and Ether and Asan,

43 Jephtha and Esna and Nesib,

44 And Celia and Achzib and Maresa:
nine cities, and their villages.

45 Accaron with the towns and villages
thereof.

46 From Accaron even to the sea: all
places that lie towards Azotus and the
villages thereof.

47 Azotus with its towns and villages.
Gaza with its towns and villages, even to
the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea
that is the border thereof.

48 And in the mountain Samir and Je-
ther and Socoth,

49 And Danna and Cariath-senna, this
is Dabir:

50 Anab and Istemo and Anim,

51 Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven
cities and their villages.

52 Arab and Ruma and Esaan,

53 And Janum and Beththaphua and
Apheca,

54 Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is
Hebron and Sior: nine cities and their
villages.

55 Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,

56 Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,

57 Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten
cities and their villages.

58 Halhul, and Bessur, and Gedor,

59 Mareth, and Bethanoth, and Eltecon:
six cities and their villages.

60 Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiar-
im, the city of woods, and Arerbba: two
cities and their villages.

61 In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and
Sachacha,

62 And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and
Engaddi: six cities and their villages.

63 But the children of Juda could not
destroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jeru-
salem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the

rJudgrea 1. 20; Num. 13. 23.

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The borders of Ephraim

JOSUE

The lot of Manasses

children of Juda in Jerusalem nntU this

present day.

CHAPTER 16.

The lot of the sons of Joseph. The borders of the
tribe of Ephraim,

A ND the lot of the sons of Joseph fell
xjL from the Jordan over against Jeri-
cho and the waters thereof, on the east:
the wilderness which goeth up from Jeri-
cho to the mountain of Bethel :

2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luza:
and passeth the border of Archi, to Ata-
roth,

3 And goeth down westward, by the
border of Jephleti, unto the borders of
Beth-horon the nether, and to Gazer : and
the countries of it axe ended by the
great sea :

4 And Manasses and Ephraim the chil-
dren of Joseph possessed it.

6 And the border of the children Of
Ephraim was according to their kin-
d)*ed8 : and their possession towards the
east was Ataroth-addar unto Beth-horon
the upper.

6 And the confines go out unto the sea :
but Machmethath looketh to the north,
and it goeth round the borders eastward
into Thanath-selo : and ^lasseth along on
the east side to Janoe.

7 And it goeth down from Janoe into
Ataroth and Naaratha: and it cometb
to Jericho, and goeth ont to the Jordan.

8 From T&phua it passeth on towards
the sea into the valley of reeds, and the
goings out thereof are at the most salt
sea. This is the possession of the tribe
of the ohildren of Ephraim by their fami-
lies.

9 And there were cities with their vil-
lages separated for the children of
Ephraim in the midst of the possession
of the children of Manasses.

10 And the children of Ephraim slew not
the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer ; and
the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of
Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.

CHAPTER 17.

The lot of the half tribe of MaruMssts.
AND Hhi8 lot fell to the tribe of Ma-
XIl nasses (for he is the firstborn of
Joseph) to Machir the firstborn of Ma-
nasses the father of Qalaad, who was a

t A. M. 2560.

Chap, 1& Vet. tl Looketh to the north, &c. The
aBeaoiDg It, ttat ttw tMirder went towards tbe north.

W 24S

warlike man, and had for possession Ga-
laad and Basan.

2 ^And to the rest of the children of
Manasses according to their families : to
the children of Abiezer, and to the chil-
dren of Helec, and to the children of Es-
riel, and to the children of Sechem, and
to the children of Hepher, and to the
children of Semida : these are the male
children of Manasses the son of Joseph,
by their kindreds.

3 ^ But Salphaad the son of Hepher the
son of Galaad the son of Machir the son
of Manasses had no sons, but only daugh-
ters : whose names are these, Maala and
Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Thersa.

4 And they came in the presence of
Eleazar the priest and of Josue the son
of Nun, and of the princes, saying : The
Lord commanded by the hand of Moses,
that a possession should be given us in
the midst of our brethren. And he gave
them according to the commandment of
the Lord a possession amongst the bre-
thren of their father.

5 And there fell ten portions to Manas-
ses, beside the land of Galaad and Basan
beyond the Jordan.

6 For the daughters of Manasses pos-
sessed inheritance in the midst of his
sons. And the land of Galaad fell to the
lot of the rest of the children of Manasses.

7 And the border of Manasses was from
Aser, Machmethath which looketh to-
wards Sichem: and it goeth out on the
right hand by the inhabitants of the
fountain of Taphua.

8 For the lot of Manasses took in the
land of Taphua, which is on the borders
of Manasses, and belongs to the children
of Ephraim.

9 And the border goeth down to the
valley of the reeds, to the south of the
torrent of the cities of Ephraim, which
are in the midst of the cities of Manasses :
the border of Manasses is on the north
side of the torrent, and the outgoings of
it are at the sea :

10 So that the possession of Ephraim is
on the south, and on the north that of
Manasses, and the sea is the border of
both, and they are joined together in the
tribe of Aser on the north, and in the
tribe of Issachar on the east.

u Num. 26. 30. —V Num. 27. 1, and 36. 11.

by Machmethath i
Thcmath-sUo,

and then turned eastward to

Children of Joseph petition Josue JOSUE

The rest of the land divided

11 And the inheritance of Manasses in
Issachar and in Aser, was Bethsan and
its villages, and Jeblaam with its villages,
and the inhabitants of Dor, with the
towns thereof: the inhabitants also of
Endor with the villages thereof : and in
like manner the inhabitants of Thenac
with the villages thereof: and the inhab-
itants of Mageddo with their villages,
and the third part of the city of No-
pheth.

12 Neither could the children of Manas-
ses overthrow these cities, but the Cha-
naanite began to dwell in his land.

13 But after that the children of Israel
were grown strong, they subdued the
Chanaanites, and made them their tribu-
taries, and they did not kill them.

14 And the children of Joseph spoke to
Josue, and said: Why hast thou given
me but one lot and one portion to pos-
sess, whereas I am of so great a multi-
tude, and the Lord hath blessed me ?

15 And Josue said to them: If thou be
a great people, go up into the woodland,
and cut down room for thyself in the
land of the Pherezite and the Raphaims :
because the possession of mount Ephraim
is too narrow for thee.

16 And the children of Joseph answered
him : We cannot go up to the mountains,
for the Chanaanites that dwell in the
low lands, wherein are situate Bethsan
with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst
of the valley, have chariots of iron.

17 And Josue said to the house of Jo-
seph, to Ephraim and Manasses: Thou
art a great people, and of great strength,
thou shalt not have one lot only :

18 But thou shalt pass to the mountain,
and shalt cut down the wood, and make
thyself room to dwell in : and mayst pro-
ceed farther, when thou ^ ast destroyed
the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have
iron chariots, and are very strong.

CHAPTER 18.

Surveyors are sent to divide the rest of the land into
seven tribes. The lot of Benjamin.

A ND all the children of Israel assem-
j\. bled together in Silo, and there
they set up the tabernacle of the testi-
mony, and the land was subdued before
them.

Chap. 18, Ver. 6. The land in the midst between
tftes« mark y€ out into seven parts, Tliat is t9 say*

2 But there remained seven tribes of
the children of Israel, which as yet had
not received their possessions.

3 And Josue said to them: How lonp
are you indolent and slack, and go not
in to possess the land which the Lord
the God of your fathers hath £:iven
you?

4 Choose of every tribe three men, that
I may send them, and they may go and
compass the land, and mark it out ac-
cording to the number of each multitude :
and bring back to me what they have
marked out.

5 Divide to yourselves the land into
seven parts: let Juda be in his bounde
on the south side, and the house of Jo-
seph on the north.

6 The land in the midst between these
mark ye out into seven parts; and yoi>
shall come hither to me, that I may cast
lots for you before the Lord your God.

7 For the Levites have no part among
you, but the priesthood of the Lord is
their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben,
and the half tribe of Manasses have al-
ready received their possessions beyond
the Jordan eastward: which Moses the
servant of the Lord gave them.

8 And when the men were risen up, to
go to mark out the land, Josue com-
manded them, saying : Go round the land
and mark it out, and return to me: that
I may cast lots for you before the Lord
in Silo.

9 So they went 5 and surveying it divided
it into seven parts, writing them down
in a book. And they returned to Josue,
to the camp in Silo.

10 And he cast lots before the Lord in
Silo, and divided the land to the children
of Israel into seven parts,

11 And first came up the lot of the chil-
dren of Benjamin by their families, to
possess the land between the children of
Juda, and the children of Joseph.

12 And their border northward was
from the Jordan: going along by the
side of Jericho on the north side, and
thence going up westward to the moun-
tains, and reaching to the wilderness of
Bethaven,

13 And passing along southward by
y Luza, the same is Bethel : and it goeth

y Gen. 28. 19.

the rest of the land, wlnQh is aot aireauy assigueit
to Juda or JosepiL

242

The lot of Benjamin

JOSUE The lot of Simeon and Zahulon

lown into Ataroth-addar to the moun-
ttin, that is on the boath of the nether
Jeth-horon.

14 And it bendeth thence going round
iowards the sea, south of the mountain
-hat looketh towards Beth-horon to the
louthwest: and the outgoings thereof
ire into Cariathbaal, which is called also
:ariathiarim, a city of the children of
iuda. Thig is their coast towards the
ea, westward.

15 But on the south side the border goeth
. »ut from part of Cariathiarim towards the
. ea, and cometh to the fountain of the

waters of Nephtoa.

16 And it goeth down to that part of the
Qountain that looketh on the valley of the
hildren of Ennom: and is over against
he north quarter in the furthermost part
»f the valley of Raphaim, and it goeth
lown into Geennom (that is the valley of
ilnnom) by the side of the Jebusite to the
outh: and cometh to the fountain of
ilogel,

il7 Passing thence to the north, and go-
Qg out to Ensemes, that is to say, the
oontain of the sun :

18 And it passeth along to the hills that
re over against the ascent of Adommim :
ind it goeth down to Abenboen, that is,
he stone of Been the son of Ruben : and
u passeth on the north side to the cham-
aign countries; and goeth do-vn into
he plain,

19 And it passeth by Bethhagla north-
7ard: and the outgoings thereof are to-
rards the north of the most salt sea at
be south end of the Jordan :

20 Which is the border of it on the east
Ide. This is the possession of the chil-
ren of Benjamin by their borders round
bout, and their families,

21 And their cities were, Jericho and
lethhagla and Vale-Casis,

22 Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,

23 And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,

24 The town Emona and Ophni and Ga-
ee : twelve cities, and their villages.

25 Gabam and Rama and Beroth,

26 And Mesphe, and Caphara, and
-mosa,

27 And Recem, Jarephel and Tharela,

28 And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is
erusalem, Gabaath and Cariath : four-
3en cities, and their villages. This is the
ossession of th6 children of Benjamin by
leir famiUea.

CHAPTER 19.

The lots of the tribes of Simeon, Zabulon, Tasa-
char, AseVt NephtaLi and Dan. A city is given to
Josue.

ND the second lot came forth for the
children of Simeon by their kin-
dreds 1 and their inheritance was

2 In the midst of the possession of the
children of Juda: Bersabee and Sabee
and Molada,

3 And Hasersual, Bala and Asem,

4 And Eltholad, Bethul and Harma,

6 And Siceleg and Bethmarchaboth and
Hasersusa,

6 And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen : thir-
teen cities, and their villages.

7 Ain and Remmon and Athor and Asan :
four cities, and their villages.

8 And all the villages round about these
cities to Baalath Beer Bamath to the
south quarter. This is the inheritanco
of the children of Simeon according to
their kindreds,

9 In the possession and lot of the chil-
dren of Juda: because it was too great,
and therefore the children of Simeon
had their possession in the midst of their
inheritance.

10 And the third lot fell to the children
of Zabulon by their kindreds: and the
border of their possession was unto Sa-
rid.

11 And it went up from the sea and
from Merala, and came to Debbaseth : as
far as the torrent, which is over agi^inst
Jeconam.

12 And it retumeth from Sarid eastward
to the borders of Ceseleththabor : and it
goeth out to Dabereth, and ascendeth
towards Japhie.

13 And it passeth along from thence to
the east side of Gethhepher and Thaca-
sin : and goeth out to Remmon, Amthar
and Noa.

14 And it turneth about to the north
of Hanathon : and the outgoings thereof
are the valley of Jephtahel,

15 And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron
and Jedala and Bethlehem : twelve cities
and their villages.

16 This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Zabulon by their kin-
dreds, the cities and their villages.

17 The fourth lot came out to Issachar
by their kindreds.

18 And his inheritance was Jezrael and
Casaloth and Sunem,

34S

Issctchar, Aser and Nephtali

JOSUE

The lot of Dan

19 And Hapharaim and Seon and Ana-
fa arath,

20 And Rabboth and Cesion, Abes,

21 And Rameth and Engannim and En-
hadda and Bethpheses.

22 And the border thereof cometh to
Thabor and Sehesima and Bethsames:
and the outgoings thereof shall be at the
Jordan : sixteen cities, and their villages.

23 This is the possession of the sons of
Issachar by their kindreds, the cities and
fcheir villages.

24 And the fifth lot fell to the tribe of
the children of Aser by their kindreds :

25 And their border was Halcath and
Chali and Beten and Axaph,

26 And Elmelech and Amaad and Mes-
sal : and it reacheth to Carmel by the
sea and Sihor and Labanath,

27 And it returneth towards the east to
Bethdagon: and passeth along to Zabu-
lon and to the valley of Jephthael to-
wards the north to Bethemec and Nehiel.
And it goeth out to the left side of Cabul,

28 And to Abaran and Rohob and Ha-
mon and Cana, as far as the great Sidon.

29 And it returneth to Horma to the
strong city of Tyre, and to Hosa : and
the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea
from the portion of Achziba :

30 And Amma and Aphec and Rohob :
twenty-two cities, and their villages.

31 This is the possession of the children
of Aser by their kindreds, and the cities
and their villages.

32 The sixth lot came out to the sons of
Nephtali by their families :

33 And the border began from Heleph
and Elon to Saananim, and Adami, which
is Neceb, and Jebnael even to Lecum:
and their outgoings unto the Jordan :

34 And the border returneth westward to
Azanotthabor, and goeth out from thence
to Hucuca, and passeth along to Zabulon
southward, and to Aser westward, and to
Juda upon the Jordan towards the rising
of the sun.

35 And the strong cities are Assedim,
Ser, and Emath, and Reccath and Cen-
ereth,

36 And Edema and Arama, Asor,

37 And Cedes and Edri, Enhasor,

38 And Jeron and Magdalel, Horem,
and Bethanath and Bethsames : nineteen
cities, and their villages.

39 This is the possession of the tribe ol
the children of Nephtali by their kin-
dreds, the cities and their villages.

40 The seventh lot came out to the tribft
of the children of Dan by their families

41 And the border of their possession
was Saraa and Esthaol, and Hirsemes^
that is, the city of the sun.

42 Selebin and Aialon and Jethela,

43 Elon and Themna and Acron.

44 Elthece, Gebbethon and Baiaath,

45 And Jud and Bane and Baracb and
Gethremmon :

46 And Mejarcon and Arecon< with the
border that looketh towards Joppe,

47 And is terminated there. And the
children of Dan went up and fought
against Lesem, and took it: and they
put it to the swordj and possessed it, and
dwelt in it, calling the name of it Lesem
Dan, by the name of Dan their father.

48 This is the possession of the tribe of
the sons of Dan, by their kindreds, the
cities and their villages.

49 And when he had made ar end of
dividing the land by lot to each one by

'their tribes, the children of Israel gave a
possession to Josue the son of Nun in the
midst of them,

50 According to the commandment of
the Lord, the city which he asked for,
Thamnath Saraa, in mount Ephraim: and
he built up the city, and dwelt in it.

51 These are the possessions which Elea-
zar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun,
and the princes of the families, and of
the tribes of the children of Israel, dis-
tributed by lot in Silo, before the Lord at
the door of the tabernacle of the testi-
mony, and they divided the land.

CHAPTER 20.

77ie cities ofr^vjge are appointed for casual maiu
slaughter.

A ND the Lord spoke to Josue, saying:
XJl Speak to the children of Israel and
say to them :

2 Appoint cities of refuge, * of which I
spoke to you by the hand of Moses :

3 That whosoever shall kill a person un-
awares may flee to them t and may escape
the wrath of the kinsman, who ie the
avenger of blood ;

4 And when he shall flee to one of these
cities : he shall stand Defore the gate of

a Num. 35. 10. Deut. 19. 2.

344

The cities of refuge

JOSUE

Cities given to the Leviies

the city, and shall speak to th*^ ancients
of that city, such things as prove him in-
nocent: and so shall they receive him,
and give him a place to dwell in.

5 And when the avenger of blood shall
pursue him, they shall not deliver him
into his hands, because he slew his neigh-
bour unawares, and is not proved to have
been his enemy two or three days before»

6 And he shall dwell in that city^ till he
stand before judgment to give an account
of his fact, and till the death of the high
priest,- who shall be at that time : then
shall the manslayer return, and go into his
own city and house from whence he fled.

7 And they appointed Cedes in G'llilee
of mount Nephtali, and Sichem in mount
Ephraim, and Cariath-Arbe, the same is
Hebron in the mountain of Juda.

8 And beyond the Jordan to the east of
Jericho, ^ they appointed Bosor, which is
upon the plain of the wilderness of ^he
tribe of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad of
the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basan of
the tribe of Manasses.

9 These cities were appointed for all the
children of Israel, and for the strangers,
that dwelt among them : that whosoever
had killed a person unawares might flee
to them, and not die by the hand of the
kinsman, coveting to revenge the blood
that was shed, until he should stand be-
fore the people to lay open his cause.

CHAPTER 21.

Cities with their suburbs are assigned for the priests
and Levites.

THEN the princes of the families of
Levi came to Eleazar the priest, and
to Josue the son of Nun, and to the
princes of the kindreds of all the tribes
of the children of Israel i

2 And they spoke to them in Silo in the
land of Chanaan, and said : ^ The Lord
commanded by the hand of Moses, that
cities should be given us to dwell in, and
their suburbs to feed our cattle.

3 And the children of Israel gave out of
their possessions according to the com-
mandment of the Lord, cities and their
suburbs,

4 And the lot came out for the family of
Caath of the children of Aaron the priest
out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon,
and of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

6 Deut 4. 4a

<INunL3S.2.

5 And to the rest of the children of
Caath, that is, to the Levites, who re-
mained, out of the tribes of Ephraim,
and of Dan, and the half tribe of Ma-
nasses, ten cities»

6 And the lot came out to the children
of Gerson, that they should take of the
tribes of Issachar and of Aser and of
Nephtali, and of the half tribe of Manas-
ses in Basan, thirteen cities,

7 And to the sons of Merari by their
kindreds, of the tribes of Ruben and of
Gad and of Zabulon. twelve cities.

8 And the children of Israel gave to the
Levites the cities and their suburbs, as
the Lord commanded by the hand of
Moses, giving to every one by lot.

9 Of the tribes of the children of Juda
and of Simeon Josue gave cities : * whose
names are these,

10 To the sons of Aaron, of the famiUes
of Caath of the race of Levi (for the first
lot came out for them)

11 The city of Arbe the father of Enac,
which is called Hebron, in the mountain
of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round
about.

12 ^But the fields and the villages
thereof he had given to Caleb the son of
Jephone for his possession.

13 He gave therefore to the children of
Aaron the priest, Hebron a city of refuge,
and the suburbs thereof . and Lobna with
the suburbs thereof,

14 And Jether and Estemo,

15 And Holon, and Dabir.

16 And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames,,
with their suburbs : nine cities out of the
two tribes, as hath been said.

17 And out of the tribe of the children
of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,

18 And Anathoth and Almon, with their
suburbs : four cities»

19 All the cities together of the children
of Aaron the priest, were thirteen, with
their subiu'bs,

20 And to the rest of the families of the
children of Caath of the race of Levi was
given this possession»

21 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one
of the cities of refuge, with the sub-
urbs thereof in mount Ephrairn, and
Gazer,

22 And Cibsaim, and Beth-horon, witb
their suburbs, four cities.

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€ I Par. 6. fc- / Supra i4 =4 , l Far c, 66.

Cities given to the Levites

JOSUE

Ruben, Gad, Manasses return

23 And of the tribe of Dan, Eltheco and
Gabathon,

24 And Aialon and Gethremmon, with
their suburbs, four cities.

25 And of the half tribe of Manasses,
Thanac and Gethremmon, with their sub-
urbs, two cities.

26 All the cities were ten, with their
suburbs, which were given to the chil-
dren of Caath, of the inferior degree.

27 To the children of Gerson also of the
race of Levi out of the half tribe of Ma-
nasses, Gaulon in Basan, one of the cities
of refuge, and Bosra, with their suburbs,
two cities.

28 And of the tribe of Issachar, Cesion,
and Dabereth,

29 And Jaramoth, and Engannim, with
their suburbs, four cities.

30 And of the tribe of Aser, Masai and
Abdon,

31 And Helcath, and Rohob, with their
suburbs, four cities.

32 Of the tribe also of Nephtali, Cedes
in Galilee, one of the cities of refuge : and
Hammoth Dor, and Carthan, with their
suburbs, three cities.

33 All the cities of the families of Ger-
son, were thirteen, with their suburbs.

34 And to the children of Merari, Le-
vites of the inferior degree, by their fami-
lies were given of the tribe of Zabulon,
Jecnam and Cartha,

35 And Damna and Naalol, four cities
with their suburbs.

36 Of the tribe of Ruben beyond the
Jordan over against Jericho, Bosor in the
wilderness, one of the cities of refuge,
Misor and Jaser and Jethson and Meph-
aath, four cities with their suburbs,

37 Of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Ga-
laad, one of the cities of refuge, and Ma-
naim and Hesebon and Jaser, four cities
with their suburbSc

38 All the cities of the children of Me-
rari by their families and kindreds, were
twelve.

39 So all the cities of the Levites within
the possession of the children of Israel
were forty-eight,

40 With their suburbs, each distributed
by the families.

41 And the Lord God gave to Israel all

Chap. 21. Ver. 36. Four cities. There are no
more, though there be five names ; for Misor is the
same city as Bosovt wblch is to be observed in some

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the land that ho had sworn to give to
thoir fathers ? and they pobsessea it an^
dwelt in it.

42 And he gave them peace from all
nations round about : and none of tbeir
enemies durst stand against them, out
were brought under their dominiouo

43 Not so much as one word, which he
had promised to perform unto them, was
made void, but all came to pass.

CHAPTER 22,

The tribes of Ruben arul Gad, and half the tribe of
Manasses return to their j)ossessions. They build
an altar by the side of the Jordan, which alarms
the other tribes. An embassage is sent to them, to
which they give a satisfactory answer.

AT the same time Josue called the
J\. Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half tribe of Manasses,

2 And said to them : You have done all
that Moses the servant of the Lord com-
manded you \ you have also obeyed me
in all things,

3 Neither have you left your brethren
this long time, until this present day,
keeping the commandment of the Lord
your God.

4 Therefore as the Lord your God hath
given your brethren rest and peace, as
he promised : return, and go to your
dwellings, and to the land of your pos-
session, ^ which Moses the servant of ohe
Lord gave you beyond the Jordan :

5 Yet so that you observe attentively,
and in work fulfil the commandment and
the law which Moses the servant of the
Lord commanded you t that you love the
Lord your God, and walk in all his ways,
and keep all his commandments, and
cleave to him, and serve him with all
your heart, and with all your soul.

6 And Josue blessed them, and sent
them away, and they returned to their
dwellings.

7 Now to half the tribe of Manasses,
Moses had given a possession in Basan :
and therefore to the half that remained,
Josue gave a lot among the rest of their
brethren beyond the Jordan to the west.
And when he sent them away to their
dwellings and had blessed them,

8 He said to them : With much substance
and riches, you return to your settle-

h Num. 32. 33 , Supra i. 13, and 13. 8.

other places, where the number oi aames exceeds
the number of cities.

They build an altar

JOSUE

Their explanation

ments, with silver and gold, brass and
iron, and variety of raiment: divide the
prey of your enemies with your brethren.

9 So the children of Ruben, and the chil-
dren of Gad, and the half tribe of Ma-
nasses returned, and parted from the
children of Israel in Silo, which is in
Chanaan, to go into Galaad the land of
their possession, which they had obtained
according to the commandment of the
Lord by the hand of Moses.

10 And when they were come to the
banks of the Jordan, in the land of Cha-
naan, they built an altar immensely great
near the Jordan.

11 And when the children of Israel had
heard of it, and certain messengers had
brought them an account that the chil-
dren of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half
tribe of Manasses had built an altar in
the land of Chanaan, upon the banks of
the Jordan, over against the children of
Israel :

12 They all assembled in Silo, to go up
and fight against them.

13 And in the mean time they sent to
them into the land of Galaad, Phinees
the son of Eleazar the priest.

14 And ten princes with him, one of
every tribe.

15 Who came to the children of Ruben,
and of Gad, and the half tribe of Ma-
nasses, into the land of Galaad, and said
to them :

16 Thus saith all the people of the Lord :
What meaneth this transgression. Why
have you forsaken the Lord the God of
Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and
revolting from the worship of him?

17 Is it a small thing to you *that you
sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of
that crime remaineth in us to this day?
and many of the people perished.

18 And you have forsaken the Lord to
day, and to morrow his wrath will rage
against all Israel.

19 But if you think the land of your pos-
session to be unclean, pass over to the
land wherein is the tabernacle of the
Lord, and dwell among us: only depart
not from the Lord, and from our society,
by building an altar beside the altar of
the Lord our God.

20 iDid not Achan the son of Zare
transgress the commandment of the Lord,

• Norn. 25. 8 ; Deut. 4. S,

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and his wrath lay upon all the people of
Israel? And he was but one man, and
would to God he alone had perished in
his wickedness.

21 And the children of Ruben, and of
Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses
answered the princes of the embassage
of Israel:

22 The Lord the most mighty God, the
Lord the most mighty God, he knoweth,
and Israel also shall understand : If with
the design of transgression we have set
up this altar, let him not save us, but
punish us immediately:

23 And if we did it with that mind, that
we might lay upon it holocausts, and
sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings,
let him require and judge:

24 And not rather with this thought
and design, that we should say: To mor-
row your children will say to our chil-
dren: What have you to do with the
Lord the God of Israel?

25 The Lord hath put the river Jordan
for a border between us and you, 0 ye
children of Ruben, and ye children of
Gad: and therefore you have no part in
the Lord. And by this occasion your
children shall turn away our children
from the fear of the Lord. We therefore
thought it best,

26 And said: Let us build us an altar,
not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,

27 But for a testimony between us and
you, and our posterity and yours, that we
may serve the Lord, and that we may
have a right to offer both holocausts, and
victims of sacrifices of peace offerings:
and that your children to morrow maj
not say to our children: You have no
part in the Lord.

28 And if they will say so, they shall
answer them: Behold the altar of the
Lord, which our fathers made, not for
holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for a
testimony between us and you.

29 God keep us from any such wicked-
ness that we should revolt from the Lord,
and leave off following his steps, by build-
ing an altar to offer holocausts, and sacri-
fices, and victims, beside the altar of the
Lord our God, which is erected before his
tabernacle.

30 And when Phinees the priest, and the
princes of the embassage, who were with

i Sapra 7. 1.

Josue exhorts the people

JOSUE

him, had heard this, they were satisfied i
and they admitted most willingly the
words of the children of Ruben, and Gad,
and of the half tribe of Manassas.

31 And Phinees the priest the son of
Bleazar said to them i Now we know that
the Lord is with us, because you are not
guilty of this revolt, and you have de-
livered the children of Israel from the
band of the Lord.

32 And he returned with the princes
from the children of Ruben and Gad, out
of the land of Galaad, into the land of
Chanaan, to the children of Israel, and
brought them word again.

33 And the saying pleased all that heard
it. And the children of Israel praised
God, and they no longer said that they
would go up against them, and fight, and
destroy the land of their possession.

34 And the children of Ruben, and the
children of Gad called the altar which
they had built, Our testimony, that the
Lord is God.

CHAPTER 23.

Josue being old admonisheth the people to keep God's
commandments . and to avoid marriages and all
society with the Gentiles for fear of being brought
to idolatry.

AND when a long time was passed,
x\ after that the Lord had given peace
to Israel, all the nations round about
being subdued, and Josue being now old,
and far advanced in years i

2 Josue called for all Israel, and for the
elders, and for the princes, and for the
judges, and for the masters, and said to
them: J am old, and far advanced 'n
years ^

3 And yon see all that the Lord your
God hath done to aU the nations round
about, how he himself hath fought for
you:

4 And now since he hath divided to you
by lot all the land, from the east of the
Jordan unto the great sea, and many
nations yet remain ;

5 The Lord your God will destroy them,
and take them away from before your
face, and you shall possess the land as he
hath promised you.

6 Only take courage, and be careful to
observe all things that are written in the
book of the law of Moses i and turn not
fiside from them neither to the right hand
nor to the left :

Mixed marriages to he avoided

7 Lest after that you are come in among
the Gentiles, who will remain among you,
you should swear by the name of their
gods, and serve them, and adore them ?

8 But cleave ye unto the Lord your Godi
as you have done until this day.

9 And then the Lord God will take away
before your eyes nations that are great
and very strong, and no man shall be
able to resist you.

10 One of you shall chase a thousand
men of the enemies : because the Lord
your God himself will fight for you, as he
hath promised.

11 This only take care of with all dil-
igence, that you love the Lord your
God.

12 But if you will embrace the errors
of these nations that dwell among you,
and make marriages with them, and join
friendships :

13 Know ye for a certainty that the
Lord your God will not destroy them be-
fore your face, but they shall be a pit and
a snare in your way, and a stumbling-
block at your side, and stakes in your
eyes, till he take you away and destroy
you from off this excellent land, which
he hath given you.

14 ^ Behold this day I am going into the
way of all the earth, and you shall know
with all your mind that of all the words
which the Lord promised to perform for
you, not one hath failedc

15 Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed,
what he promised, and all things pro-
sperous have come : so will he bring upon
you all the evils he hath threatened, till
he take you away and destroy you from
off this excellent land, which he hath
given you,

16 When you shall have transgressed the
covenant of the Lord your God, which he
hath made with you, and shall have served
strange gods, and adored them : then shall
the indignation of the Lord rise up quickly
and speedily against you, and you shall be
taken away from this excellent land, which
he hath delivered to you.

CHAPTER 24.

Josue assembleth the people, and reneweth the eove^
riant between them and God. Hig death and
bririal.

A NT) Josue gathered together all the
J\. tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called

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< » KiOgt 2, 2.

\Josue reminds the ^people

JOSUE

They 'promise to serve God

tor the ancients, and the princes, and the
idges, and the masters : and they stood
the sight of the Lord :

2 And he spoke thus to the people i
lus saith the Lord the God of Israel i

'our fathers dwelt of old on the other
ride of the river, '^ Thare the father of

Lbraham, and Nachor i and they served
itrange gods.

3 ® And I took your father Abraham
from the borders of Mesopotamia: and
brought him into the land of Chanaan :
and I multiplied his seed,

4 P And gave him Isaac: ^and to him
again I gave Jacob and Esau. '"And I
gave to Esau mount Seir for his posses-
sion : * but Jacob and his children went
down into Egypt.

5 * And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I
struck Egypt with many signs and won-
ders.

6 ^ And I brought you and your fathers
out of Egypt, and you came to the sea :
^ and the Egyptians pursued your fathers
with chariots and horsemen, as far as the
Red Sea.

7 And the children of Israel cried to the
Lord : and he put darkness between you
and the Egyptians, and brought the sea
upon them, and covered them. Your
eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you
dwelt in the wilderness a long time :

8 And I brought you into the land of the
Amorrhite, who dwelt beyond the Jor-
dan. *^ And when they fought against
you, I delivered them into your hands,
and you possessed their land, and slew
them.

9 And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab
arose and fought against Israel. * And
he sent and called for Balaam son of
Beor, to curse you i

10 And I would not hear him, but on
the contrary I blessed you by him, and I
delivered you out of his hand,

11 ^And you passed over the Jordan,
and you came to JerichOo And the men
of that city fought against you, the
Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the
Chanaanite^ and the Hethite, and the
Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebu-

n Gene IL 26, — o Gen. 11. 31. —p Gen. 21. 2.

q Gen. 25« 26. — r Gen. 36. 8. — s Gen. 46. 6.

t Ex. 3. 10. -u Ex. 12c 37. — V Ex. 14. a

Chap. 24c Ver. 2, Of the river. The Euphrates.

Ver. 19t You will not be able to serve the Lordf &Co
IThis was not said by way of discouraging them ^ but
^a^er to make them more earnest aod resolute, bj

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site» and I delivered them into yom:
hands.

12 ^ And I sent before you hornets : and
I drove them out from their places, the
two kings of the AmorrhiteSj not with
thy sword nor with thy bow»

13 And I gave you a land, in which you
had not laboured, and cities to dwell in
which you built not, vineyards and olive-
yards, which you planted not.

14 a iijow therefore fear the Lord, and
serve him with a perfect and most sin-
cere heart : and put away the gods which
your fathers served in Mesopotamia and
in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

15 But if it seem evil to you to serve the
Lord, you have your choice : choose this
day that which pleaseth you, whom you
would rather serve, whether the gods
which your fathers served in Mesopota-
mia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in
whose land you dwell : but as for me and
my house we will serve the Lord.

16 And the people answered, and said?
God forbid we should leave the Lord, and
serve strange gods.

17 The Lord our God he brought us and
our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage : and did very
great signs in our sight, and preseived
us in all the way by which we Journeyed,
and among all the people through whom
we passed.

18 And he hath cast out all the nations,
the Amorrhite the inhabitant of the land
into which we are come. Therefore we
will serve the Lord, for he is our God.

19 And Josue said to the people % You
will not be able to serve the Lord : for
he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous,
and will not forgive your wickedness
and sins.

20 If you leave the Lord, and serve
strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict
you, and will destroy you after all the good
he hath done you.

21 And the people said to Josue i No, it
shall not be so as thou sayest, but we
will serve the .Lordc

22 And Josue said to the people % You
are witnesses, that you yourselves have

w Num. 21. 24= — X Num. 22. 5.

V Supra 3. 14, and 6. l, and 11. 3, — s Ex. 23. 28 -,

Deiit. 7. 20 ? Supra 11. 20. — at Kings 7. 3 ; Tob. 14. 10.

setting before them the greatness of the undertak'
ing, and the courage and constancy necessary to go
tiirough with it

Death and burial of Josue

JUDGES

Juda leads the Israelites

chosen you the Lord to serve him. And
they answered : We are witnesses.

23 Now therefore, said he, put away
strange gods from among you, and incline
your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.

24 And the people said to Josue : We
will serve the Lord our God, and we will
be obedient to his commandments.

25 Josue therefore on that day made a
covenant, and set before the people com-
mandments and judgments in Sichem.

26 And he wrote all these things in the
volume of the law of the Lord : and he
took a great stone, and set it under the
oak that was in the sanctuary of the Lord.

27 And he said to all the people ; Be-
hold this stone shall be a testimony unto
you, that it hath heard all the words of
the Lord, which he hath spoken to you :
lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it,
and lie to the Lord your God.

28 And he sent the people away every
one to their own possessiono

29 And after these things Josue the son
of Nun the servant of the Lord died, be-
ing a hundred and ten years old ?

30 And they buried him in the border
of his possession in Thamnathsare, which
is situate in mount Ephraim, on the
north side of mount Gaas.

31 And Israel served the Lord all the
days of Josue, and of the ancients that
hvcd a long time after Josue, and that
had known all the works of the Lord
which he had done in Israel.

32 ^ And the bones of Joseph which the
children of Israel had taken out of Egypt,
they buried in Sichem, in that part of
the field ^ which Jacob had bought of the
sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for
a hundred young ewes, and it was in the
possession of the sons of Joseph.

33 Eleazar also the son of Aaron died ;
and they buried him in Gabaath that he-
longeth to Phinees his son, which was
given him in mount Ephraim.

THE

BOOK OF JUDGES

This Book is called Judges, because it contains the history of what passed under the governmeni
of the judges, who ruled Israel before they had kings. The writer of it, acco'f'ding to the more
general opinion, was the prophet Samuel.

CHAPTER i

The expedition and victory of Juda against the
Chanaanites ; who are tolerated in mavy places.

AFTER the death of Josue the chil-
. dren of Israel consulted the Lord,
saying i Who shall go up before us against
the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader
of the war ?

2 And the Lord said : Juda shall go up :
behold I have delivered the land into his
hands o

3 And Juda said to Simeon Ms brother :
Come up with me into my lot, and fight
against the Chanaanite, that I also may
go along with thee into thy loto And
Simeon went with him

b Gen. 60. 24 ; Ex. 13. 19. — c Gen. 33. 19.

Ver. 27. Jt hath heard. This is a figure of speech,
by which sensation is attributed to inanimate things ;
and they are called upon, as it were, to hear witness
in favour of the great Creatoio whom they on their
part constantly obey»

4 And Juda went up, and the Lord de-
livered the Chanaanite, and the Phere-
zite into their hands: and they slew q/
them in Bezec ten thousand men.

5 And they found Adonibezec in Bezec,
and fought against him, and they de-
feated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.

6 And Adonibezec fled : and they pur-
sued after him and took him, and cut off
his fingers and toes.

7 And Adonibezec said : Seventy kings
having their fingers and toes cut off,
gathered up the leavings of the meat
under my table i as I have done, so hatl?
God requited me. And they broughl
him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Ver. 29. And after, &c„ If Josue wrote this book
as is commonly ' believed, these last verses wer
addea by Samuel, or some other prophet,

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They fight against the Chanaaniies JUDGES

Many cities are spared

3 And the children of Juda besieging
Jerusalem, took it, and put '* *-' the
sword, and set the whole city on are.

9 And afterwards they went down and
fought against the Chanaanite, who dwelt
in the mountains, and in the south, and
in the plains.

to ^ And Juda going forward against
the Chanaanite, that dwelt in Hebron (the
name whereof was in former times Ca-
riath-Arbe) slew Sesai, and Ahiman, and
Tholmai :

11 And departing from thence he went
to the inhabitants of Dabir, the ancient
name of which was Cariath-Sepher, that
is, the city of letters.

12 And Caleb said: He that shall take
Cariath-Sepher, and lay it waste, to him
will I give my daughter Axa to wife.

13 And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the
younger brother of Caleb, having taken
it, he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.

14 And as she was going on her way
her husband admonished her to ask a field
of her father. And as she sighed sitting
on her ass, Caleb said to her : What aileth
thee?

15 But she answered : Give me a bless-
ing, fo-. thou hast given me a dry land :
give me also a watery land. So Caleb
gave her the upper and the nether watery
ground.

16 And the children of the Cinite, the
kinsman of Moses, went up from the
city of palms, with the children of Juda
into the wilderness of his lot, which is at
the south side of Arad, and they dwelt
with him.

17 And Juda went with Simeon his bro-
ther, and they together defeated the
Chanaanites that dwelt in Sephaath, and
slew them: And the name of the city
was called Horma, that is, Anathema.

18 And Juda took Gaza with its con-

e Jos, 15. 14.

Chap, l, Ver 8- Jerusalem. This city was
divided into two; one part was called Jebns, the
other Salem • the one was in the tribe of Juda, the
other in the tribe of Benjamin, After it was taken
and burnt by the men of Juda, it was quickly rebuilt
again by the Jebusites, as we may gather from ver.
21 : and continued in their possession till it was
taken by king David,

Ver. 10= Hebron. This expedition against He-
bron, &c, is the same as is related; Jos. 15. 24. It
is here repeated, to give the reader at once a short
sketch of all the achievements of the tribe of Juda
against the Chanaanites,

Ver 11- The city of Ifttera Perhaps so called
from some famous school, or library kept there.

Ve- 16 The Cinite^ Jethro tbe father ij. law of

fines, and Ascalon and Accaron wiHi?
their confines.

19 And the Lord was with Juda, and he
possessed the hili country : but was not
able to destroy the inhabitants of the
valley, because they had many chariots
armed with scythes.

20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, -^ as
Moses had said, who destroyed out of it
the three son» of Enac.

21 But the sons of Benjamin did not de-
stroy the Jebusites that inhabited Jeru-
salem : and the Jebusite hath dwelt with
the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem until
this present day.

22 The house of Joseph also went up
against Bethel, and the Lord was with
them.

23 For when they were besieging the
city, which before was called Luza,

24 They saw a man coming out of the
city, and they said to him : Shew us the
entrance into the city, and we will shew
thee mercy.

25 And when he had shewn them, they
smote the city with the edge of the
sword : but that man and all his kindred
they let go :

26 Who being sent away, went into the
land of Hethim, and built there a city,
and called it Luza \ which is so called
until this day.

27 Manasses also did not destroy Beth-
san, and Thanac with their villages, nor
the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam,
and Mageddo with their villages. And
the Chanaanite began to dwell with
them.

28 But after Israel was grown strong he
made them tributaries, and would not
destroy them.

29 Ephraim also did not slay the Cha-
naanite that dwelt in Gazer, but dwelt
with him.

f Num. 14. 24 ; Jos. 15. 14.

Moses was called Cinceus, or the Cinite j and his
children who came along with the children of Israel
settled themselves among them in the land of Cha-
naan, embracing their worship and religion. From
these the Rechabites sprung, of whom see Jer. 35
— Ibid. T/if city ofpnjms. Jericho, so called froiD
the abundance of palm trees.

Ver 18, Gazn. &c. These were three of the prin»
cipal cities of the Philistines, famous both in sacred
and profane history They were taken at this time
by the Israelites; but as they took no care to put
garrisons in them, the Philistines soon recovered
them again.

Ver 19 Was not ablp, &c. Through a cowardlj
fear of their chariots armed with hooks and scythe»
and for want of confidcDce in God.

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An angel reproves Israel

JUDGES

The people fall into idolatry

30 Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants
of Cetron, and Naalol : but the Chanaan-
ite dwelt among them, and became their
tributaries.

31 Aser also destroyed not the inhab-
itants 01 Accho, and of Sidon, of Ahalab,
and of Achazib, and of Helba, and of
Aphec, and of Rohob :

32 And he dwelt in the midst of the
Chanaanites the inhabitants of that land,
and did not slay them.

33 Nephtali also destroyed not the in-
habitants of Bethsames, and of Beth-
anath : and he dwelt in the midst of the
Chanaanites the inhabitants of the land,
and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were
tributaries to him.

34 And the Amorrhite straitened the
children of Dan in the mountain, and
gave them not place to go down to the
plain :

35 And he dwelt in the mountain Hares,
that is, of potsherds, in Aialon and Sal-
ebim. And the hand of the house of
Joseph was heavy upon him, and he be-
came tributary to him.

36 And the border of the Amorrhite was
from the ascent of the scorpion, the rock,
and the higher places.

CHAPTER 2.

An angel reproveth Israel. They weep for their
sins. After the death of Jo.tue, they often faU^ and
repenting are delivered from their afflictions, but
still fall worse and worse.

AND an angel of the Lord went up from
^ Galgal to the place of weepers, and
said : I made you go out of Egypt, and
have brought you into the land for which
I swore to your fathers : and I promised
that I would not make void my covenant
with you for ever :

2 On condition that you should not
make a league with the inhabitants of
this land, but should throw down their
altars : and you would not hear my voice :
why have you done this ?

3 Wherefore I would not destroy them
from before your face : that you may
have enemies, and their gods may be
youi' ruin.

Ver. 35. He dwelt. That is, the Amorrhite.

Chap. 2. Ver. L An angel. Taking the shape
of a man.

Ver. 6. And Josue, &c. This is here inserted out
of Jos. 24. by way of recapitulation of what had
happened before, and by way of an introduction to
that which follows.

Ver. 12. They /olimved ztrange 'vds. What is

i And when the angel of the Lord spoke
these words to all the children of Israel,
they lifted up their voice, and wept.

5 And the name of that place was
called, The place of weepers, or of tears :
and there they offered sacrifices to the
Lord.

6 S' And Josue sent away the people, and
the children of Israel went every one to
his own possession to hold it :

7 And they served the Lord all his days,
and the days of the ancients, that hved
a long time after him, and who knew all
the works of the Lord, which he had
done for Israel.

8 And Josue the son of Nun, the ser-
vant of the Lord, died, being a hundred
and ten years old,

9 And they buried him in the borders of
his possession in Thamnathsare in mount
Ephraim, on the north side of mount
Gaas.

10 And all that generation was gathered
to their fathers : and there arose others
that knew not the Lord, and the works
which he had done for Israel.

11 And the children of Israel did evil
in the sight of the Lord, and they served
Baalim.

12 And they left the Lord the God of
their fathers, who had brought them out
of the land of Egypt: and they followed
strange gods, and the gods of the people
that dwelt round about them, and they
adored them: and they provoked the
Lord to anger.

13 Forsaking him, and serving Baai
and Astaroth.

14 And the Lord being angry against
Israel, delivered them into the hands of
plunderers : who took them and sold
them to their enemies, that dwelt rounc
about : neither could they stand against
their enemies :

15 But whithersoever they meant to go,
the hand of the Lord was upon them, as
he had said, and as he had sworn to
them : and they were greatly distressed

16 And the Lord raised up judges, to
deliver them from the hands of those

g Jos. 24. 28.

here said of the children of Israel, as to their falling
so often into idolatry, is to be understood of a great
part of them ; but not so universally, as if the true
worship of God was ever quite abolished among
them : for the succession of the true church ana
religion was kept up all this time by the priests and
Leviteto at least io th^i Uouse Qi Crod io Sila

'od is angry with the people

JUDGES

Othoniel delivers Israel

lat oppressed them: but they would
ot hearken to them,

.7 Committing fornication with strange
ods, and adoring them. They quickly
)rsook the way, in which their fathers
ad walked: and hearing the command-
lents of the Lord, they did all things
mtrary.

18 And when the Lord raised them up
idges, in their days he was moved to
lercy, and heard the groanings of the
fflicted, and delivered them from the
aughter of the oppressors.

19 But after the judge was dead, they
eturned, and did much worse things
lan their fathers had done, following
trange gods, serving them and adoring
lem. They left not their own inven-
tions, and the stubborn way, by which

hey were accustomed to walk.

20 And the wrath of the Lord was
indled against Israel, and he said: Be-
old this nation hath made void my
ovenant, which I had made with their
athers, and hath despised to hearken to
ciy voice:

21 I also will not destroy the nations
/hich Josue left, when he died:

22 That through them I may try Israel,
«rhether they will keep the way of the
jord, and walk in it, as their fathers
:ept it, or not.

23 The Lord therefore left all these na-
ions, and would not quickly destroy
hem, neither did he deliver them into
he hands of Josue.

CHAPTER 3.

"^he people falling into idolatry are oppressed hy
their enemies; hut repenting are delivered hy
Othoniel, Aod, and Samgar.

rHESE are the nations which the Lord
left, that by them he might instruct
-srael, and all that had not knOMoi the
vars of the Chanaanites:

2 That afterwards their children might
earn to fight with their enemies, and to
)e trained up to war:

3 The five princes of the Philistines,
ind all the Chanaanites, and the Sido-
lians, and the Hevites that dwelt in
nount Libanus, from mount Baal Her-
eon to the entering into Emath..

4 And he left them, that he might try
[srael by them, whether they would hear

the commandments of the Lord, which
he had commanded their fathers by the
hand of Moses, or not.

5 So the children of Israel dwelt in the
midst of the Chanaanite, and the Heth-
ite, and the Amorrhite, and the Phere-
zite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite:

6 And they took their daughters to
wives, and they gave their own daugh-
ters to their sons, and they served their
gods.

7 And they did evil in the sight of the
Lord, and they forgot their God, and
served Baalim and Astaroth.

8 And the Lord being angry with Israel,
delivered them into the hands of Chusan
Rasathaim king of Mesopotamia, and
they served him eight years.

9 And they cried to the Lord, who
raised them up a saviour, and delivered
them, to wit, Othoniel the son of Cenez,
the younger brother of Caleb:

10 And the spirit of the Lord was in
him, and he judged Israel. And he went
out to fight, and the Lord delivered into
his hands Chusan Rasathaim king of
Syria, and he overthrew him.

11 And the land rested forty years, and
Othoniel the son of Cenez died.

12 And the children of Israel did evil
again in the sight of the Lord: who
strengthened against them Eglon king
of Moab: because they did evil in his
sight.

13 And he joined to him the children of
Ammon, and Amalec: and he went and
overthrew Israel, and possessed the city
of palm trees.

14 And the children of Israel served
Eglon king of Moab eighteen years:

15 And afterwards they cried to the
Lord, who raised them up a saviour called
Aod, the son of Gera, the son of Jemini,
who used the left hand as well as the
right. And the children of Israel sent
presents to Eglon king of Moab by him.

16 And he made himself a two-edged
sword, with a haft in the midst of the
length of the palm of the hand, and was
girded therewith under his garment on
the right thigh.

17 And he presented the gifts to Eglon
king of Moab. Now Eglon was exceed-
ing fat.

18 And when he had presented the gifts

Chap. 3. Ver. 8. Mesopotamia. In Hebrew because it lies between the Euphrates and the
^ramnaharim. Syria of the two rivers : so called Tigris. It is absolutely called Syria, ver. 10.

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Aod slays the king of Moah

JUDGES

Debhora and Barac

unto him, he followed his companions
ihat came along with him.

19 Then returning from Galgal, where
the idols were, he said to the king: I
have a secret message to thee, O king.
And he commanded silence : and all be-
ing gone out that were about him,

20 Aod went in to him: now he was
sitting in a summer parlour alone, and
he said: I have a word from God to
thee. And he forthwith rose up from
his throne,

21 And Aod put forth his left hand, and
took the dagger from his right thigh,
and thrust it into his belly,

22 With such force that the haft went
in after the blade into the wound, and
was closed up with the abundance of fat.
So that hfi did not draw out the dagger,
but left it in his body as he had struck
it in. And forthwith by the secret parts
of nature the excrements of the belly
came out.

23 But Aod carefully shutting the doors
of the parlour and locking them,

24 Went out by a postern door. And
the king's servants going in, saw the
doors of the parlour shut, and they said :
Perhaps he is easing nature in his sum-
mer parlour.

25 And waiting a long time till they
were ashamed, and seeing that no man
opened the door, they took a key : and
opening, they found their lord lying dead
on the ground.

26 But Aod, while they were in confu-
sion, escaped, and passed by the place of
the idols, from whence he had retm-ned.
And he came to Seirath :

27 And forthwith he sounded the trum-
pet in mount Ephraim : and the children
of Israel went down with him, he himself
going in the front,

28 And he said to them: Follow me : for
the Lord hath dehvered our enemies the
Moabites into our hands. And they went
down after him, and seized upon the fords
of the Jordan, which are in the way to
Moab : and they suffered no man to pass
over.

29 But they slew of the Moabites at that
time, about ten thousand, all strong and
valiant men : none of them could escape.

30 And Moab was humbled that day

Ver. 20. A word from God, &c. What Aod, who
was mdfi^e and chief magistrate of Israel, did on this

under the hand of Israel ; and the land
rested eighty years.

31 After him was Samgar the son oi
Anath, who slew of the Philistines six
hundred men with a ploughshare: and
he also defended Israel.

CHAPTER 4.

Debbora and Barac deliver Israel from Jabin and
Sisara. Jahal killeth Sisara,

AND the children of Israel again did
. evil in the sight of the Lord after
the death of Aod,

2 ^ And the Lord dehvered them up into
the hands of Jaban king of Chanaan, who
reigned in Asor : and he had a general or
his army named Sisara, and he dwelt in
Haroseth of the Gentiles.

3 And the children of Israel cried to the
Lord : for he had nine hundred chariots
set with scythes, and for twenty years
had grievously oppressed them.

4 And there was at that time Debbora
a prophetess the wife cf Lapidoth, who
judged the people,

5 And she sat under a palm tree, which
was called by her name, between Rama
and Bethel in mount Ephraim : ana the
children of Israel came up to her for all
judgment.

6 And she sent and called Barac the son
of Abinoem out of Cedes in Nephtali : and
she said to him: The Lord God of Israel
hath commanded thee: Go, and lead an,
army to mount Thabor, and thou shalt
take with thee ten thousand fighting men
of the children of Nephtah, and of the
children of Zabulon:

7 And I will bring unto theo in the place
of the torrent Cison, Sisara the general
of Jabin's army, and his chariots, and all
his multitude, and will deliver them into
thy hand.

8 And Barac said to hers If thou wilt
come with me, I will go : if thou wilt not
come with me, I will not go.

9 She said to him : I will go indeed with
thee, but at this time the victory shall
not be attributed to thee, because Sisara
shall be delivered into the hand of a
womaUc Debbora therefore arose, and|
went with Barac to Cedes, i

10 And he called unto him Zabulon andf ^
Nephtali, and went up with ten thousand

h 1 Kings 12. 9.

occasion, was by a special inspiration of God : bill
such things are not to be Imitated by private men.

254

wlisara defeated and slain

JUDGES Canticle of Debbora and Barac

ighting meii having Debbora in Ms com-
pany.

11 Now Haber the Cinite had some time
»efore departed from the rest of the Cin-
bes his brethren the sons of Hobab^ ohe
:insman of Moses c and had pitched Ms
ents unto the valley which is called Sen-
lim, and was near Cedes,

12 And it was told Sisara, that Barac the
)n of Abinoem was gone up to mount
habor :

13 And he gathered together his nine
lundred chariots armed with scythes, and
11 his army from Haroseth of the Gen-
iles to the torrent Cison.

14 And Debbora said to Barac: Arise,
or this is the day wherein the Lord hath
lelivered Sisara into thy hands : behold
le is thy leader. And Barac went down
rom mount Thabor, and ten thousand
'ighting men with him.

' 15 * And the Lord struck a terror into
Ksara, and all his chariots, and all his
Qultitude, with the edge of the sword,
it the sight of Barac, insomuch that Sis-
ira leaping down from off his chariot,
led away on foot.

16 And Barac pursued after the fleeing
thariots and the army unto Haroseth of
he Gentiles, and all the multitude of the
inemies was utterly destroyed.
' 17 But Sisara fleeing came to the tent
')f Jahel the wife of Haber the Cinite, for
here was peace between Jabin the king
)f Asor, and the house of Haber the
Jinite.

' 18 And Jahel went forth to meet Sisara,
md said to him : Come in to me, my lord,
5ome in, fear not. He went in to her
ientj and being covered by her with a
jloak,

' 19 Said to her : Give me, I beseech thee,
'i little water, for I am very thirsty. She
)pened a bottle of milk, and gave Mm to
irink, and covered him.
' 20 And Sisara said to her : Stand before
;ihe door of the tent, and when any shall
liome and inquire of thee, saying: Is
lihere any man here? thou shalt say:
There is none.

21 So Jahel Haber's wife took a nail of
ihe tent, and taking also a hammer : and
?oing in softly, and with silence, she put
3he nail upon the temples of Ms head,

i Ps. 82. 10.

and striking it with the hammer^ drove
ii.t through his bi ain fast into the ground .
and so passing from deep sleep to death,
he fainted away and diedc

22 And behold Barac came pursuing
after Sisara i and Jahel went out to meet
Mm, and said to him: Come, and I will
shew thee the man whom thou seekest.
And when he came into her tent, he saw
Sisara lying dead, and the nail fastened
in his temples.

23 So God that day humbled Jabin the
king of Chanaan before the children of
Israel :

24 Who grew daily stronger^ and with a
mighty hand overpowered Jabin king of
Chanaan, till they quite destroyed him.

CHAPTER 6.

The canticle of Debbora and Barac after their vie
tory.

IN that day Debbora and Barac son of
Abinoem sung, and said :

2 O you of Israel, that have willingly
offered your lives to danger, bless the
Lord.

3 Hear, O ye kings, give ear, ye princess
It is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, 1
will sing to the Lord the God of IsraeL

4 O Lord, when thou wentest out ot
Seir, and passedst by the regions of Edom,
the earth trembled, and the heavens
dropped water.

6 The mountains melted before the
face of the Lord, and Sinai before the
face of the Lord the God of Israel.

6 In the days of Samgar the son of
Anath, in the days of Jahel the paths
rested: and they that went by them,
walked through by-ways.

7 The valiant men ceased, and rested in
Israel : until Debbora arose, a mothei
arose in Israel.

8 The Lord chose new wars, and he
himself overthrew the gates of the ene-
mies: a shield and spear was not seen
among fojrty thousand of Israel.

9 My heart loveth the princes of Israel
O you that of your own good will offered
yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.

10 Speak, you that ride upon fair asses,
and you that sit in judgment, and walk
in the way.

11 Where the chariots were dashed to-

CaAf,6. Verc6.

The paths rested. The ways to the sanctuary of God were unfrequented? and men
walked in the by-ways o£ error and sin.

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Canticle of Debbora and Barac JUDGES Canticle of Debbora and Barat

gether, and the army of the enemies was
choked, there let the justices of the
Lord be rehearsed, and his clemency to-
wards the brave men of Israel : then the
people of the Lord went down to the
gates, and obtained the sovereignty.

12 Arise, arise, O Debbora, arise, arise,
and utter a canticle. Arise, Barac, and
take hold of thy captives, O son of Abin-
oem.

13 The remnants of the people are
saved, the Lord hath fought among the
valiant ones.

14 Out of Ephraim he destroyed them
into Amalec, and after him out of Ben-
jamin into thy people, O Amalec : Out of
Machir there came down princes, and out
of Zabulon they that led the army to fight.

15 The captains of Issachar were with
Debbora, and followed the steps of Barac,
who exposed himself to danger, as one
going headlong, and into a pit. Ruben be-
ing divided against himself, there was
found a strife of courageous men.

16 Why dwellest thou between two bor-
ders, that thou mayest hear the bleatings
of the flocks ? Ruben being divided
against himself, there was found a strife
of courageous men.

17 Galaad rested beyond the Jordan,
and Dan applied himself to ships : Aser
dwelt on the sea shore, and abode in the
havens.

18 But Zabulon and Nephtali offered
their lives to death in the region of
MeromSo

19 The kings came and fought, the
kings of Chanaan fought in Thanach by
the waters of Mageddo, and yet they
took no spoils.

20 War from heaven was made against
them, the stars remaining in their order
and courses fought against Sisara»

21 The torrent of Cison dragged their
carcasses, the torrent of Cadumim, the
torrent of Oison: tread thou, my soul,
upon the strong ones.

Ver. 14. Ont of Ephraim, &c. The enemies strag-
gling in their flight were destroyed, as they were
running through the land of Ephraim, and of Ben-
jamin, which lies after, that is heyond Ephraim . and
so on to the very confines of Amalec. Or, it alludes
to former victories of the people of God, particularly
that which was freshest in memory, when the men
of Ephraim and Benjamin, wltli Aod at their head,
overthrew their enemies the Moabites with the
Amalecites their allies. See chap. 3. — Ibid. Ma-
chir. The tribe of Maoasses. whose eldest son was
Machir.

22 The hoofs of the horses were broken
whilst the stoutest of the enemieo fled
amain, and fell headlong down.

23 Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the
angel of the Lord : curse the inhabitants
thei»eof , because they came not to the help
of the Lord, to help his most valiant men.

24 Blessed among women be Jahel the
wife of Haber the Cini' \ and blessed be
she in her tent.

25 He asked her water and she gave him
milk, and offered him butter in a dish
Jit for princes.

26 She put her left hand to the nail, and
her right hand to the workman's hammer,
and she struck Sisara, seeking in hisi
head a place for the wound, and strongly
piercing through his temples.

27 At her feet he fell : he fainted, and h*
died: he rolled before her feet, and ht
lay lifeless and wretched.

28 His mother looked out at a window,
and howled: and she spoke from the
dining room: Why is his chariot so long
in coming back? Why are the feet of
his horses so slow ?

29 One that was wiser than the rest of
his wives, returned this answer to her
mother in law :

30 Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils,
and the fairest of the women is chosen
out for him : garments of divers colours
are given to Sisara for hie prey, and fur-
niture of different kinds is heaped to-
gether to adorn the necks.

31 So let all thy enemies perish, 0 Lord:
but let them that love thee shine, as the
sun shineth in his rising.

32 And the land rested for forty years*

CHAPTER 6.

The people for their sins, are oppressed by the Ma^
dianiteso Oedeon is called to deliver them,.

ND the children of Israel again did
evil in the sight of the Lord . and he
delivered them into the hand of Madian
seven years»

Ver 15. Divided against himself &c. By this it
seems that the valiant men of the tribe of KubeD
were divided in their sentiments, with relation tc
this war . which division kept them at home within
their own borders, to hear the 6leating of thei?
flocks.

Ver. 23. Meroz, Where this land of Meroz was.
which is here laid under a curse, we cannot find
nor is there mention of it anywhere else In holy writ
In the spiritual sense, they are cursed who refuse to
assist the people of God in their warfare againsi
their spiritual enemies.

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he Madianites oppress Israel JUDGES The angeVs message to Gedeon

; And they were grievousl? oppressed
them. And they made themselves
JUS and caves in the mountains, and
rong holds to resist

; And when Israel had sown, Madian
id Amalsc, and the rest of the eastern
itions came up :

And pitching their tents among them,
asted all things as they were in the
ade even to the entrance of Gaza?
id they left nothing at all in Israel for
stenance of life, nor sheep, nor oxen,
)r asses.

For they and all their flocks came with
eir tents, and like locusts filled aU
aces, an innumerable multitude of men,
id of camels, wasting whatsoever they
uched.

And Israel was humbled exceedingly
the sight of Madian.
And he cried to the Lord desiring
Ip against the Madianites.
And he sent unto them a prophet, and
spoke: Thus saith the Lord the God
Israel : I made you to come up out of
,^ypt, and brought you out of the house
bondage.

And dehvered you out of the hands of

^ Egyptians, and of all the enemies

at afflicted you : and I cast them out at

ur coming in, and gave you their land.

And I said : I am the Lord your God,

lir not the gods of the Amorrhites, in

Mose land you dwelL And you would

J t hear my voice.

And an angel of the Lord came, and
under an oak, that was in Ephra, and
1 longed to Joas the father of the family
< Ezri. And when Gedeon his son was
Ireshing and cleansing wheat by the
' Depress, to flee from Madian,
■2 The angel of the Lord appeared to
J n, and said , The Lord is with thee, O
1 3st valiant of men.

^ And Gedeon said to him : I beseech
lee, my lord, if the Lord be with us, why
J ve these evils fallen upon us ? Where
ii his miracles, which our fathers have
t d us of, saying; The Lord brought us
<t of Egypt? but now the Lord hath
Isaken us, and dehvered us into the
1 lids of Madian.

4 And the Lord looked upon him, and
* d : ^ Go in this thy strength, and thou

'irK

AP. 6. Ver. 15. The meanest in NanasseSy&c,
how the Lord choosetb the oumhle (who are

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Shalt deliver Israel out of the hand <A

Madian know that I have sent thee

15 He answered and said^ I beseech
thee, my lord, wherewith shall I deliver
Israel ? Behold my family is the meanest
in Manasses, and I am the least in my
father's house,

16 And the Lord said to him^ I will be
with thee : and thou shalfc cut off Madian
as one man.

17 And he said: If I have found grace
before thee, give me a sign that it is thou
that speakest to me,

18 And depart not hence, till I return to
thee, and bring a sacrifice, and offer it to
thee. And he answered : I will wait thy
coming.

19 So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid,
and made unleavened loaves of a measure
of flour : and putting the flesh in a basketj
and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he
carried all under the oak, and presented
to him.

20 And the angel of the Lord said to
him : Take the flesh and the unleavened
loaves, and lay them upon that rock, and
pour out the broth thereon. And when
he had done so,

21 The angel of the Lord put forth the
tip of the rod, which he held in his» hand,
and touched the flesh and the unleavened
loaves : and there arose a fire from the
rock, and consumed the flesh and the un-
leavened loaves: and the anf^el of the
Lord vanished out of his sight.

22 And Gedeon seeing that it was the
angel of the Lord, said : Alas, my Lore'
God : for I have seen the angel of the
Lord face to face.

23 And the Lord said to him : Peace be
with thee : fear not, thou shalt not die

24 And Gedeon built there an altar to
the Lord, and called it the Lord's peace ,
until this present day. And when he was
yet in Ephra, which is of the family of
Ezri,

25 That night the Lord said to him : Take
a bullock of thy father's, and another bul-
lock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy
the altar of Baal, which is thy father's '
and cut down the grove that is about the
altar»

26 And thou shalt build an altar to the
Lord thy God in the top of this rock,

I I Kings 12. 11.

mean and little in their owe eyes) ioi the greatei?
enterprises.

JUDGES

The altar of Baal destroyed

whereupon thou didst lay the sacrifice
before : and thou shalt take the second
bullock, and shalt offer a holocaust upon
a pile of the wood, which thou shalt cut
down out of the grove.

27 Then Gedeon taking ten men of his
servants, did as the Lord had commanded
him. But fearing his father's house, and
the men of that city, he would not do it
by day, but did all by night.

28 And when the men of that town were
risen in the morning, they saw the altar
of Baal destroyed, and the grove cut
down, and the second bullock laid upon
the altar, which then was built.

29 And they said one to another ; Who
hath done this ? And when they inquired
for the author of the fact, it was said :
Gedeon the son of Joas did all this.

30 And they said to Joas : Bring out thy
pon hither, that he may die : because he
hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath
cut down his grove.

31 He answered them ! Are you the
avengers of Baal, that you fight for him?
he that is his adversary, let him die be-
fore to morrow light appear s if he be a
god, let him revenge himself on him that
hath cast down his altar.

32 From that day Gedeon was called
Jerobaal, because Joas had said: Let
Baal revenge himself on him that hath
cast down his altar.

33 Now all Madian, and Amalec, and the
eastern people were gathered together,
and passing over the Jordan, camped in
the valley of Jezrael.

<}4 But the spirit of the Lord came upon
<3ledeon, and he sounded the trumpet and
called together the house of Abiezer, to
follow him.

85 And he sent messengers into all Ma-
nasses, and they also followed him: and
other messengers into Aser and Zabulon
and Nephtali, and they came to meet him.

36 And Gedeon said to God t If thou wilt
save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,

37 I will put this fleece of wool on the
floor : if there be dew on the fleece only,
and it be dry on all the ground beside, I
shall know that by my hand, as thou hast
said, thou wilt dehver IsraeL

The army of Gedem

38 And it was so. And rising before
day wringing the tieece, he filled a vesse
with the dew.

39 And he said again to God . Let not
thy wrath be kindled against me if I trj
once more, seeking a sign in the fleece
I pray that the fleece only may be dry!
and all the ground wet with dew.

40 And God did that night as he ha(,
requested : and it was dry on the fleec»!
only, and there was dew on all tb<|
ground.

CHAPTER 7.

Gedeon^with three hundred men, by stratagem d
feateth the Madianites.

THEN Jerobaal, who is the same a
Gedeon, rising up early and all th
people with him, came to the fountai
that is called Harad. Now the camp (
Madian was in the valley on the nort
side of the high hill.

2 And the Lord said to Gedeon : Tl
people that are with thee are many, ai
Madian shall not be delivered into the
hands: lest Israel should glory againj
me, and say : I was delivered by my oV,
strength.

3 Speak to the people, and proclaim
the hearing of all, ** Whosoever is fearf
and timorous, let him return. So t\
and twenty thousand men went aw
from mount Galaad and returned hon
and only ten thousand remained.

4 And the Lord said to Gedeon: T
people are still too many, bring them
the waters, and there I will try thei
and of whom I shall say to thee, T:
shall go with thee, let him go : when
shall forbid to go, let him return.

6 And when the people were come do^
to the waters, the Lord said to Gedec
They that shal' lap the water with th
tongues, as dogs are wont to lap, tb
shalt set apart by themselves : but tt
that shall drink bowing down their kne
shall be on the other side.

6 And the number of them that 1
lapped water, casting it with the hi
to their mouth, was three hundred m<
and all the rest of the multitude 1 ''
drunk kneeUng,

7 And the Lord said to Gedeon : By

Chap 7. Ver. 2. Lest Israel, &c. By this we see
that, God will not choose for his instruments in great
achievements, which depend purely on his grace,
-;uch as, through pride and self-conceit, will take the
Clor^' U) themselves.

n Deut 20. 8 ; 1 Mac. 3. 56.

Ver. 7. That lapped vater. These were
ferred that took the water up in their hands, an
lapped it, before them who laid themselves q ■
doAvn to the waters to drinks which argued a i '
eager and sensual dispositioo.

258

'■edeon enters the camp of Madian JUDGES

The Madianites defeated

hree hundred men, tliat lapped water, I
Jill 3ave you, and deliver Madiar» into
by hand . but let all the rest of the peo-
ple return to their place.
^8 So taking victuals and trumpets ac-
ording to their number, he ordered all
lie rest of the multitude to depart to
deir tents : and he with the three bun-
red gave himself to the battle. Now
le camp of Madian was beneath him in
le va'yey.

9 T0 same night the Lord said to him :
rise, and go down into the camp: be-
ause I have delivered them into thy
and.

ilO But if thou be afraid to go alone, let
hara thy servant go down with thee.

11 And when thou shalt hear what they
re saying, then shall thy hands be
orengthened, and thou shalt go down
lore secure to the enemies' camp. And
3 went down with Phara his servant
iito part of the camp, where was the
atch of men in arms.

12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the
fistern people lay scattered in the valley,
\ a multitude of locusts: their camels
so were innumerable as the sand that
3th on the sea shore.

13 And when Gedeon was come, one
Id his neighbour a dream : and in this
anner related what he had seen: I
eamt a dream, and it seemed to me as
a hearth cake of barley bread rolled

id came down into the camp of Madian :
id when it was come to a tent it struck
, and beat it down flat to the ground.
4 He to whom he spoke, answered :
bis is nothing else but the sword of
»edeon the son of Joas a man of Israel.
Dr the Lord hath delivered Madian, and
ll their camp into his hand.
1.5 And when Gedeon had heard the
heam, and the interpretation thereof,
li adored; and returned to the camp of
rael, and said? Arise, for the Lord hath
slivered the camp of Madian into our
linds

1 6 And he divided the three hundred
len into three parts, and gave them

o Ps, 82. 10,

Ver 13 A dream. Observation oi dreams is
tnmonly superstitious, and as siicli is condemned
the word of God s but in some extraordinary cases,
we here see, God is pleased by dreams to foretell
lathe t? about to do

V er. 19 Thei7 trnmpfifa, &c In a mystical sense,
e preachers of the gospel, in order to spiritual con-

trumpeto in their hands, and empty
pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers

17 And he said to thems What you shall
see me do, do you the same: I will go
into one part ot the camp, and do you
as I shall dOc

18 When the trumpet shall sound in
my hand, do you also blow the trumpets
on every side of the camp.

19 And Gedeon, and the three hundred
men that were with him, went into part
of the camp, at the beginning of the
midnight watch, and the watchmen be-^
ing alarmed, they began to sound their
trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one
against another.

20 And when they sounded their trum-
pets in three places round about the
camp, and had broken their pitchers,
they held their lamps in their left hands,
and with their right hands the trumpets
which they blew, and they cried out:
The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon :

'21 Standing every man in his place
roun*'. about the enemies' camp. So all
th^ camp was troubled, and crying out
and howling they fled away^

22 And the three hundred men never
theless persisted sounding the trumpets.
®And the Lord sent the sword into all
the camp, and they killed one another,

23 Fleeing as far as Bethsetta, and the
border of Abolmahula in Tebbath. But
the men of Israel shouting from Nephtali
and Aser, and from all Manasses pursued
after Madian.

24 And Gedeon sent messengers into
all mount Ephraim, saying: Come down
to meet Madian, and take the waters be»
fore them to Bethbera and the Jordan»
And all Ephraim shouted, and took the
waters before them and the Jordan as
far as Bethbera.

25 P And having taken two men of
Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew
in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the wine-
press of Zebc And they pursued Madian,
carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to
Gedeon beyond the waters of the Jor^
dan.

p Ps 82 12 isa 10 26.

quests., must not only sound with the trumpet of the
word ot God, but muat also break their earthen
pitchers, by the mortification of the flesh and its
passions, an(i carry lamps in their hands by the light
ot their virtues.
Ver. 26). Two men, ThaA is two ot their chioft.

259

The Madianites pursued

JUDGES Zebee and Salmana are slain

CHAPTER 8.

Bedeonappeaseth the Ephraimites. Tdketh Zebee
and So.biiana. Deytroyeth Socccth and PhanueL
JRe/useth to be king. Alaketh an ephod of the gold
of the 2J/'cj/, and dieth in a good old age. The
^people return to Idolatry.

A ND the men of Ephraim said to him :

XJL Wht-t is this that thou meanest to

do, that thou wouldst not call us when

thou wentest to fight against Madian?

and they chid him sharply and almost

offered Tiolence.

2 And he answered them : What could
I have done like to that which you have
done? Is not one bunch of grapes of
Ephraim better than the vintages of
Abiezer ?

3 The Lord hath delivered into your
hands the princes of Madian, Oreb and
Zeb: what could I have done hke to
what you have done ? And when he had
said this, their spirit was '^.ppeased, with
which thej^ swelled against him.

4 Ana when Gedeon was come to the
Jordan, he passed over it with the three
hundred men, that were with him : who
were so weary that they could not pur-
sue after them that fled.

5 And he said to the men of Soccoth :
Give, I beseech you, bread to the people
that is with me, for they are faint s that
we may pursue Zebee, and Salmana the
kings of Madian.

6 The princes of Soccoth answered :
Peradventure the palms of the hands of
Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and
therefore thou demandest that we should
give bread to thy army.

7 And he said to them : When the Lord
therefore shall have delivered Zebee and
Salmana into my hands, I will thresh
your flesh with the thorns and briers of
the desert.

8 And going up from thence, he came
to Phanuel ; and he spoke the hke things
to the men of that place. And they also
answered him, as the men of Soccoth had
answered.

9 He said therefore to them also : When
I shall return a conqueror in peace, I
will destroy this tower

10 But Zebee and Salmana were resting
with all their army. For fifteen thou-
sand men were left of all the troops of
che eastern people, and one hundred and

Chap 8, Ver. 2, What covld /, &c. A meek
?Uid bmnble answer appeased tbemc who otherwise

twenty thousand warriors that drew the
sword, were slain.

11 '^ And Gedeon went up by the way of
them that dwelt in tents, on the east of
Nobe and Jegbaa, and smote the camp
of the enemies, who were secure, and
suspected no hurt.

12 And Zebee and Salmana fled, and
Gedeon pursued and took them, all their
host being put in confusion.

13 And returning from the battle before
the sun rising,

14 He took a boy of the men of Soc
coth: and he asked him the names of the
princes and ancients of Soccoth, and he
described unto him seventy-seven men.

15 And he came to Soccoth and said to
them 2 Behold Zebee and Salmana, con
cerning whom you upbraided me, saying
Peradventure the hands of Zebee and
Salmana, are in thy hands, and therefore
thou demandest that we should give
bread to the men that are weary and
faint.

16 So he took the ancients of the city,
and thorns and briers of the desert, and
tore them with the same, and cut in
pieces the men of Soccoth.

17 And he demolished the tower of
Phanuel, and slew the men of the city»

18 And he said to Zebee and Salmana:
What manner of men were they whom
you slew in Thabor? They answered?
They were like thee, and one of them as
the son of a king.

19 He answered them: They were my
brethren, the sons of my mother. As the
Lord liveth, if you had saved them, I
would not kill you.

20 And he said to Jether his eldest son;
Arise, and slay them. But he drew not
his sword: for he was afraid, being but
yei. a boy.

21 And Zebee and Salmana said; Do
thou rise, and run upon us % because the
strength of a man is according to his age:
* Gedeon rose up and slew Zebee and Sal-
mana: and he took the ornaments and
bosses, with which the necks of the camels
of kings are wont tc be adorned.

22 And all the men of Israel said to
Gedeon: Rule thou over us, and thy
son, and thy son's sons because thou hast
deUvered us from the hand of Madian=

r Osee 10. 14c —5 Ps» 82„ 12.

might have come tc extremities So great is tbi
power o.t humiUty hoth with Qod and man*

260

Death of Gedeon

23 And he said to them • \ will not rule
over you, neither shall my son rule over
you, but the Lord shaU rale over you.

24 And he said to them I desu-e one
request ot yon Give me the earlets of
your spoila For the Ismaeiites were ac-
custome<? to wear goldec earlets,

25 They answered : We wiM give them
most willingly And spreading a mantle
01? the ground, they cast upon it the ear-
lets o^ the spoils.

2C A.nd the weight of the earlets that he
requested, was a thousand seven hun-
dred sides of gold, besides the ornaments,
and jewels, and purple raiment which the
kings of Madian were wont to use, and
besides the golden chains that were
about the camels' necks,

27 And Gedeon made an ephod thereof,
and put it in his city Ephra. And all
Israel committed fornication with it, and
it became a ruin to Gedeon and to all his
house,

28 But Madian was humbled before the
children of Israel, neither could they any
more lift up their heads? but the land
rested for forty years, while Gedeon pre-
sided,

29 So Jerobaal the son of Joas wentj and
dwelt in his own house.

10 And he had seventy sons, who came
out of his thigh, for he had many wivesc

31 And his concubinCj that he had in
Sichem, bore him a son, whose name was
Abimelech.

32 And Gedeon the son of Joas died in
a good old age, and was buried in the
sepulchre of his father in Ephra of the
family of Ezri.

33 But after Gedeon was dead, the chil-
dren of Israel turned again, and com-
mitted fornication with Baalim. And
bhey made a covenant with Baal, that he
should be their god :

34 And they remembered not the Lord
iheir God, who delivered them out of the
iiands of all their enemies round about :

35 Neither did they shew mercy to the
aouse of Jerobaal Gedeon, according to
111 the good things he had done to Israel.

JUDGES

Conspiracy of Abimelech

CHAPTER 9o

Abimelech killeth his brethren. Joatham*s parable
Gaalconspirethvnth the Sichemites against Abim>
elechj but is overcome. Abimelech destroyeth S'f»
chem .' but is killed at Thebes.

^Jipnnl;o£ fJ^'''^' A priestly garment which
,f?lr H^o^^^l^^'l^ ^ ^'^^^ ^^»^^" 5 ^"t the Israelites,
tter his ( eath, abused it by making it an instrument
»f heir idolatrous worship.

.J hVoi^' w^ ^^^J^f^^^^' She was his servant, but
wt his harlot : and is called his concubine, as wives

SSS.^lt.'i'^.K^^^'L^®.^^® commonly called in the Old
testament though otherwise lawfully married.

ND Abimelech the son of Jerobaal
went to Sichem to his mother's bre-
thren and spoke to them, and to all the
kindred of his mother's father, saying •

2 Speak to all the men of Sichem i whe-
ther is better for you that seventy men
all the sons of Jerobaai should rule over
you, or that one man should rule over
you? And withal consider that I am
your bone, and your flesh.

3 And his mother's brethren spoke of
him to all the men of Sichem, all these
words, and they inclined their hearts
after Abimelech, saying : He is our bro-
ther»

4 And they gave him seventy weight ot
silver out of the temple of Baalberith .
wherewith he hired to himself men that
were needy, and vagabonds, and they
followed him.

5 And he came to his father's house in
Ephra, and slew his brethren the sons ot
Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone
and there remained only Joatham the
youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hid
den,

6 And all the men of Sichem were
gathered together, and all the familierj
of the city of Mello -. and they went and
made Abimelech king, by the oak that
stood in Sichem,

7 This being told to Joatham, he went
and stood on the top of mount Garizimj
and lifting up his voice, he cried, and
said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so
may God hear you,

8 The trees went to anoint a king over
them? and they said to the olive tree I
Reign thou over us.

9 And it answered : Can I leave my fat-
ness, which both gods and men make use
of, to come to be promoted among the
trees ?

10 And the trees said to the fig tree:
Oome thou and reign over us.

Chap„ 9. Ver. 4. Baalberith. That is, Baa! of
the covenant, so called from the covenant they had
made with Baal, chap. 8. 33o

Ver. 9. Both gods and men make use of. The
ohve tree IS Introduced, speaking in this manner,
because oil was used both in the worship of the true
(jod, and m that of the false gods, whom the Sichem
ites servedc

261

Joatham reproves the people

11 And it answered them; Can I leave
my sweetness, and my delicious fruits,
and go to be promoted among the other
trees ?

12 And the trees said to the vine = Come
thou and reign over us.

13 And it answered them ; Can I forsake
my wine, that cheereth God and men,
and be promoted among the other trees?

14 And all the trees said to the bramble i
Come thou and reign over us.

15 And it answered them : If indeed
you mean to make me king, come ye and
rest under my shadow : but if you mean
it not, let fire come out from the bramble,
and devour the cedars of Libanus.

16 x^ow therefore if you have done well,
and without sin in appointing Abimelech
king over you, and have dealt well with
Jerobaal, and with his house, and have
made a suitable return for the benefits of
him, who fought for you,

17 And exposed his life to dangers, to
deUver you from the hands of Madian,

18 And you are now risen up against my
father's house, and have killed his sons
seventy men upon one stone, and have
made Abimelech the son of his handmaid
king over the inhabitants of Sichem, be-
cause he is your brother :

19 If therefore you have dealt well, and
without fault with Jerobaal, and his
house, rejoice ye this day in Abimelech,
and may he rejoice in you.

20 But if unjustly ; let fire come out
from him, and consume the inhabitants
of Sichem, and the town of Mello: and
let fire come out from the men of Sichem,
and from the town of Mello, and devour
Abimelech.

21 And when he had said thus he fled,
and went into Bera : and dwelt there for
tear of Abimelech his brother.

22 So Abimelech reigned over Israel for
three years,

23 And the Lord sent a very evil spirit
between Abimelech and the inhabitants
of Sichem who began to detest him,

24 And to leave the crime of the murder
of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the
shedding of their blood upon Abimelech
their brother, and upon the rest of the
Drinces of the Sichemites, who aided himc

JUDGES Sichem revolts against Abimelech

25 And they set an ambush against him
on the top of the mountains i and while
they waited for his coming, they com-
mitted robberies, taking spoils of all that
passed by i and it was told Abimelech.

26 And Gaal the son of Obed came with
his brethren, and went over to Sichem.
And the inhabitants of Sichem taking
courage at his coming,

27 Went out into the fields, wasting the
vineyards, and treading down the grapes ;
and singing and dancing they went into
the temple of their god, and in their ban-
quets and cups they cursed Abimelech.

28 And Gaal the son of Obed cried ^
Who is Abimelech, and what is Sichem,
that we should serve him ? Is he not the
son of Jerobaal, and hath made Zebul his
servant ruler over the men of Emor the
father of Sichem? Why then shall we
serve him?

29 Would to God that some man would
put this people under my hand, that I
might remove Abimelech out of the way
And it was said to Abimelech- Gather
together the multitude of an army, and
come,

30 For Zebul the ruler of the city, heai
ing the words of Gaal, the son of Obed,!
was very angry,

31 And sent messengers privately to
Abimelech, saying : Behold Gaal the sonj
of Obed is come into Sichem with hij
brethren, and endeavoureth to set th<
city against thee.

32 Arise therefore in the night with th<
people that is with thee and lie hid inl
the field :

33 And betimes in the morning at si
rising set upon the city. And when h<
shall come out against thee with hit
people, do to him what thou shalt hi

able.

34 Abimelech therefore arose with al
his army by night, and laid ambushef
near Sichem in four places-

35 And Gaal the son of Obed went oul
and stood in the entrance of the gate ol
the city. And Abimelech rose up, and
all his army with him from the places of
the ambushes

36 And when Gaal saw the people, he
said to Zebul* Behold a multitude comcth

Ver. 13. Cheereth God and men. Wine is here
represented as agreeable to God, because he had
appointed it to be offered up with his sacrifices. But
W9 are uot obliged to tak* these words, spokeu by

the trees, in Joatham's parable, according to the
strict literal sense . but only in a sense accomm(>
dated to the design of the parable expressed w tt*
COQClUSiOQ ol it.

2G2

Sichem destroyed

down from the mountains. And he an-
swered him : Thou seest the shadows of
the mountains as if they were the heads
of men, and this is thy mistake.

37 Again Gaal said : Behold there com-
eth people down from the middle of the
land, and one troop cometh by the way
that looketh towards the oak.

38 And Zebul said to him : Where is
now thy mouth wherewith thou saidst ?
Wi-D is Abimelech that we should serve
"lim ? Is not this the people which thou
didst despise ? Go out, and fight against
him.

39 So Gaal went out in the sight of the
people of Sichem, and fought against
A.bimelech,

40 Who chased and put him to flight,
md drove him to the city: and many
Neve slain of his people, even to the gate
)f the city :

41 And Abimelech sat down in Ruma :
)ut Zebul drove Gaal, and his companions
)ut of the city, and would not suffer
hem to abide in it. .

42 So the day following the people went
rat into the field. And it was told Abim-
elech.

43 And he took his army, and divided it
nto three companies, and laid ambushes
n the fields. And seeing that the peo-
)]e came out of the city, he arose and
et upon them,

44 With his own company, assaulting
-nd besieging the city : whilst the two
•ther companies chased the enemies that
irere scattered about the field.
46 And Abimelech assaulted the city all
hat day: and took it, and killed the in-
.abitants thereof, and demoKshed it, so
hat he sowed salt in it.

46 And when they who dwelt in the
ower of Sichem had heard this, they
^ent into the temple of their god Berith
There they had made a covenant with
im, and from thence the place had taken
}8 name, and it was exceeding strong.

47 Abimelech also hearing that the men
f the tower of Sichem were gathered
Jgether,

48 Went up into mount Selmon he and
U his people with him : and taking an
xe, he cut down the bough of a tree,

V 2 Kings 11. 21.

JUDGES Abimelech is killed

and laying it on his shoulder and carry-
ing it, he said to his companions : What
you see me do, do you out of hand.

49 So they cut down boughs from the
trees, every man as fast as he could, and
followed their leader. And surrounding
the fort they set it on fire : and so it
came to pass that with the smoke and
with the fire a thousand persons were
killed, men and women together, of the
inhabitants of the tower of Sichem.

50 Then Abimelech departing from
thence came to the town of Thebes,
which he surrounded and besieged with
his army.

51 And there was in the midst of the
city a high tower, to which both the men
and the women were fled together, and
all the princes of the city, and having
shut and strongly barred the gate, they
stood upon the battlements of the tower
to defend themselves.

52 And Abimelech coming near the
tower, fought stoutly: and approaching
to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it :

53 ^ And behold a certain woman cast-
ing a piece of a millstone from above,
dashed it against the head of Abimelecl^
and broke his skull.

54^ And he called hastily to his ar-
mourbearer, and said to him : Draw thy
sword, and kill me : lest it should be said
that I was slain by a woman. He did as
he was commanded, and slew him.

55 And when he was dead, all the men
of Israel that were with him, returned to
their homes.

56 And God repaid the evil, that Abim-
elech had done against his father, kill-
ing his seventy brethren.

57 The Sichemites also were rewarded
for what they had done, and the curse of
Joatham the son of Jerobaal came upon
them.

CHAPTER 10.

Thola ruleth Israel twenty-three years; and Jair
twenty-two. The people fall again into idolatry,
and are oMcted by the Philistines and AmmoK-
lies. They cry to God for help, who upon their re-
pentance hath compassion on them.

A FTER Abimelech there arose a ruler
iTx in Israel, Thola son of Phua the
uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar,
who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:

Ver.45. Sowed salt.

Id fit for nothing.

Chap. lo. Ver. l. Uncle of Abimelech, i. e.

To make the ground barren,

half!

w 1 Kings 31. 4 ; 1 Par. 10. 4.

Sr^^^K^ }^v. ^^^^9"' as being born of the same rac
tlier, but by a different father, and of a different
vrioCb

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The Israelites fall into idolatry JUDGES

Ammon wars against Israel

2 And he judged Israel three and twenty
years, and he died and was biu-ied in
Samir.

3 To him succeeded Jair the Galaadite,

us whatsoever pleaseth thee : only de-
liver us this time.

16 And saying these things, they cast
away out of their coasts all the idols of

who judged Israel for two and twenty strange gods and served the Lord their

years.

4 Having thirty sons that rode on thirty
ass colts, and were princes of thirty
cities, which from his name were called
Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair,
until this present day in the land of
Galaad.

6 And Jair died : and was buried in the
place which was called Camon.

6 But the children of Israel, adding new
sins to their old ones, did evil in the
sight of the Lord , and served idols,
Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of
Syria and of Sidon and of Moab and of
the children of Ammon and of the Philis-
tines : and they left the Lord, and did
not serve him.

7 And the Lord being angry with them,
delivered them into the hands of the
Phihstines and of the children of Am-
mon.

8 And they were afflicted, and grievous-
ly oppressed for eighteen years, all they
that dwelt beyond the Jordan in the
land of the Amorrhite, who is in Galaad :

9 Insomuch that the children of Am-
mon passing over the Jordan, wasted
Juda and Benjamin and Ephraim: and
Israel was distressed exceedingly.

10 And they cried to the Lord, and said:
We have sinned against thee, because we
have forsaken the Lord our God, and
have served Baalim.

11 And the Lord said to them: Did not
the Egyptians and the Amorrhites, and
the children of Ammon and the Philis-
tines,

12 The Sidonians also and Amalec and
Chanaan oppress you, and you cried to
me, and I delivered you out of their
hand?

13 And yet you have forsaken me, and
have worshipped strange gods : therefore
I will deliver you no more :

14 Go and call upon the gods which
you have chosen: let them deliver you
in the time of distress.

15 And the children of Israel said to
the Lord : We have sinned, do thou unto

God: and he was touched with their
miseries.

17 And the children of Ammon shout-
ing together, pitched their tents in
Galaad: against whom the children of
Israel assembled themselves together
and camped in Maspha.

18 And the princes of Galaad said one
to another : Whosoever of us shall first
begin to fight against the children of
Ammon, he shall be the leader of the
people of Galaad.

CHAPTER 11.

Jephte is made ruler of the people of Galaad : fie
first pleads their cause against the Ammonites;
then making a vow obtains a signal victory ; he
performs his vow.

rpHERE was at that time Jephte the
_L Galaadite, a most valiant man and a
warrior, the son of a woman that was a
harlot, and his father was Galaad.

2 Now Galaad had a wife of whom he
had sons : who after they were grown
up, thrust out Jephte, saying: Thou
canst not inherit in the house of our
father, because thou art born of another
mother.

3 Then he fled and avoided them and
dwelt in the land of Tob : and there were
gathered to him needy men, and robbers,
and they followed him as their prince.

4 In those days the children of Ammon
made war against Israel.

5 And as they pressed hard upon them,
the ancients of Galaad went to fetch
Jephte out of the land of Tob to help
them :

6 And they said to him : Come thou and
be our prince, and fight against the chil-
dren of Ammon.

7 And he answered them: v A.vq not
you the men that hated me, and cast me
out of my father's house, and now you
are come to me constrained by neces-
sity?

8 And the princes of Galaad said to
Jephte : For this cause we are now come
to thee, that thou mayst go with us, and
fight against the children of Ammon,

y Gen. 26. 27.

Ver. 4. Mavoth, Jair. This name was now confirmed to these towns, which they had formerly received

trom another Jair. l^um.32.41.

264

Jephte made leader of Israel

JUDGES

He defeats the Amorrhites

and be heaxi over all the inhabitants of
Qalaad.

9 Jephte also said to them: If you be
come to me sincerely, that I should fight
for you against the children of Ammon,
and the Lord shall deliver them into my
band, shall I be your prince ?

10 They answered him : The Lord who
heareth these things, he himself is medi-
ator and witness that we will do as we
have promised,

11 Jephte therefore went with the
princes of Galaad, and all the people
made him their princeo And Jephte
spoke all his words before the Lord in
Maspha.

12 And he sent messengers to the king
of the children of Ammon, to say in his
name, What hast thou to do with me,
that thou art come against me, to waste
my land ?

13 And he answered them: "^ Because
Israel took away my land when he came
np out of Egypt, from the confines of the
Arnon unto the Jaboc and the Jordan:
now therefore restore the same peace-
ably to me.

14 And Jephte again sent word by
them, and commanded them to say to
tue king of Ammon :

15 Thus saith Jephte : Israel did not
take away the land of Moab, nor the
land of the children of Ammon :

16 But when they came up out of Egypt,
he walked through the desert to the Red
Sea, and came into Cades.

17 ^ And he sent messengers to the
king of Edom, saying : Suffer me to pass
through thy land. But he would not
condescend to his request. He sent also
to the king of Moab, who likewise re-
fused to give him passage. He abode
therefore in Cades,

18 And went round the land of Edom
at the side, and the land of Moab: and
came over against the east coast of the
land of Moab, and camped on the other
side of the Arnon : ^ and he would not
enter the bounds of Moab.

\9 So Israel sent messengers to Sehon
king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in

a Num. 21. 24.

Chap. 11. Ver. 24. Chamos. The idol of the
Moabites and Ammonites. He argues from their
opinion, who thought they had a just title to the
countries which they imagined they had conquered
by the lielp of their gods : how much more then
bail Israel au indisputable title to the countries

Hesebon, and they said to him : Suffer me
to pass through thy land to the river.

20 But he also despising the words of
Israel, suffered him not to pass through
his borders : but gathering an infinite
multitude, went out against him to Jasa,
and made strong opposition.

21 And the Lord delivered him with all
his army into the hands of Israel, and
he slew him, and possessed all the land
of the Amorrhite the inhabitant of that
country,

22 And all the coasts ther^t^f from the
Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilder-
ness to the Jordan.

23 So the Lord the God of Israel de-
stroyed the Amorrhite, his people of Is-
rael fighting against him, and wilt thou
now possess this land ?

24 Are not those things which thy god
Chamos possesseth, due to thee by right?
But what the Lord our God hath obtained
by conquest, shall be our possession:

25 ^ Unless perhaps thou art better than
Balac the son of Sephor king of Moab :
or canst shew that he strove against
Israel and fought against him,

26 Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon,
and the villages thereof, and in Aroer,
and its villages, and in all the cities near
the Jordan, for three hundred years.
Why have you for so long a time at-
tempted nothing about this claim ?

27 Therefore I do not trespass against
thee, but thou wrongest me by declaring
an unjust war against me. The Lord
be judge and decide this day between
Israel and the children of Ammon.

28 And the king of the children of Am-
mon would not hearken to the words of
Jephte, which he sent him by the mes-
sengers.

29 Therefore the spirit of the Lord
came upon Jephte, and going round Ga-
laad, and Manasses, and Maspha of Ga-
laad, and passing over from thence to
the children of Ammon,

30 He made a vow to the Lord, saying:
If thou wilt deliver the children of Am-
mon into my hands,

31 Whosoever shall first come forth out

b Num. 20. 14. — c Num. 21. 13. — d Num. 22. 2.

which God, by visible miracles, had conquered for
them.

Ver. ."^l. Whosopvrr, &c. Some are of opinion,
that the meaning of this vow of Jephte, was to cod
secrate t» God whats'»pver should first meet hin»
accoiUiug to the cuudiuon of the thing; so as to

265

Jephte*s vow

JUDGES Efhraimites quarrel with Jephte

of the doors of my house, and shall meet
me when I return in peace from the chil-
dren of Ammon, the same will I offer a
holocaust to the Lord.

32 And Jephte passed over to the chil-
dren of Ammon, to fight against them:
and the Lord delivered them into his
hands.

33 And he smote them from Aroer till
you come to Mennith, twenty cities, and
as far as Abel, which is set with vine-
yards, with a very great slaughter : and
the children of Ammon were humbled by
the children of Israel.

34 And when Jephte returned into Mas-
pha to his house, his only daughter met
him with timbrels and with dances: for
he had no other children.

35 And when he saw her, he rent his
garments, and said : Alas ! my daughter,
thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself
art deceived: for I have opened my
mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other
thing.

36 And she answered him : My father,
if thou hast opened thy mouth to the
Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast
promised, since the victory hath been
granted to thee, and revenge of thy ene-
mies.

37 And she said to her father: Grant
me only this which I desire : Let me go,
that I may go about the mountains for
two months, and may bewail my virginity
with my companions.

38 And he answered her : Go. And he
sent her away for two months. And
when she was gone with her comrades
and companions, she mourned her vir-
ginity in the mountains.

39 And the two months being expired,
she returned to her father, and he did to
her as he had vowed, and she knew no
man. From thence came a fashion in Is-
rael, and a custom has been kept:

40 That from year to year the daughters
of Israel assemble together, and lament

offer it up as a holocaust, if it were such a thing as
might be so offered by the law ; or to devote it other-
Wise to God, if it were not such as the law allowed
to be offered in sacrifice. And therefore they think
the daughter of Jephte was not slain by her father,
but only consecrated to perpetual virginity. But the
common opinion followed by the generality of the
holy fathers and divines is, that she was offered as a
holocaust, in consequence of her father's vow : and
that Jephte did not sin, at least not mortally, neither
tn making, nor in keeping, his vow : since he is no
ways blamed for it in scripture; and was even
Inspired by God himself to make the vow (as appears

the daughter of Jephte the Galaadite for
four days.

CHAPTER 12.

The Ephraimites quarrel with Jephte: forty-tiro
thousand of them are slain : Abesan, Ahialon, and
Abdon, are judges.

BUT behold there arose a sedition in
Ephraim. And passing towards the
north, they said to Jephte : When thou
wentest to fight against the children of
Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us,
that we might go with thee ? Therefore
we will burn thy house.

2 And he answered them : I and my
people were at great strife with the chil-
dren of Ammon: and I called you to
assist me, and you would not do it.

3 And when I saw this, I put my hfe in
my own hands, and passed over against
the children of Ammon, and the Lord
delivered them into my hands. What
have I deserved, that you should rise up
to fight against me ?

4 Then calling to him all the men of
Galaad, he fought against Ephraim : and
the men of Galaad defeated Ephraim,
because he had said : Galaad is a fugitive
of Ephraim, and dwelleth in the midst of
Ephraim and Manasses.

5 And the Galaadites secured the fords
of the Jordan, by which Ephraim was to
return. And when any one of the num-
ber of Ephraim came thither in the flight,
and said : I beseech you let me pass : the
Galaadites said to him : Art thou not an
Ephraimite ? If he said : I am not :

6 They asked him : Say then, Scibboleth,
which is interpreted. An ear of corn.
But he answered, Sibboleth, not being
able to express an ear of corn by the
same letter. Then presently they took
him and killed him in the very passage of
the Jordan. And there fell at that time
of Ephraim two and forty thousand.

7 And Jephte the Galaadite judged Israel
six years : and he died, and was buried in
his city of Galaad.

from ver. 29, 30) in consequence of which he obtained
the victory ; and therefore he reasonably concluded
that God, who is the master of life and death, was
pleased on this oceasion to dispense with his own
law ; and that it was the divine will he should fulfil
his vow.

Ver. 37. Bewail my virginity. The bearing of
children was much coveted under the Old Testa-
ment, when women might hope that from some child
of theirs, the Saviour of the world might one day
spring. But under the New Testament virginity is
preferred. 1 Cor. 7. 35.

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An angel appears to Manue

JUDGES

8 After him Abesan of Bethlehem judged
Israel:

9 He had4)hirty sons, and as many daugh-
ters, whom he sent abroad, and gave to
husbands, and took wives for his sons of
the same number, bringing them into his
bouse. And he judged Israel seven years ;

10 And he died, and was buried in Beth-
lehem.

11 To him succeeded Ahialon a Zabu-
lonite : and he judged Israel ten years :

12 And he died, and was buried in Zabu-
lon.

13 After him Abdon, the son of lUel, a
Pharathonite, judged Israel :

14 And he had forty sons, and of them
thirty grandsons, mounted upon seventy
ass colts, and he judged Israel eight
years :

15 And he died, and was buried in Phar-
athon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount
of Amalech.

CHAPTER 13.

The people fall again into idolatry and are afflicted
by the Philistines. An angel foretelleth the birth
of Samson.

AND *the children of Israel did evil
x\ again in the sight of the Lord : and
he delivered them into the hands of the
Philistines forty years.

2 Now there was a certain man of Saraa,
and of the race of Dan, whose name was
Manue, and his wife was barren.

3 And an angel of the Lord appeared to
her, and said : Thou art barren and with-
out children: ^but thou shalt conceive
and bear a son.

4 ^ Now therefore beware and drink no
wine nor strong drink, and eat not any
andean thing.

5 Because thou shalt conceive and bear
a son, and no razor shall touch his head :
for he shall be a Nazarite of God, from
his infancy^ and from his mother's womb,
and he shah begin to deliver Israel from
the hands of the Phihstines.

6 And when she was come to her hus-
band she said to him . A man of God
came to me, having the countenance of
an angel, very awful. And when I asked
him who he was, and whence he came,

The angeVs message
he was called, he

e Supra 10, 6

g GeiL 18 11 ;

Chap. 13. Ver 13. Let her refrain, &c. By the
Latin text it is not clear wliether this abstinence
was prescribed to the mother, or to the child; but
the Hebrew (in which the verbs relating thereto are
of the feminine gender) deterjnineth it to the mother.
But Uie& tne chUd also was to relrain £rom t^e liko

and by what name

would not tell me,

7 But he answered thus Behold thou
shalt conceive and bear a son: beware
thou drink no wine, nor strong drink,
nor eat any unclean thing . for the child
shall be a Nazarite of God from his in-
fancy, from his mother's womb until the
day of his dea.,iu

8 Then Manue prayed to the Lord, and
said: I beseech thee, O Lord, that the
man of God, whom thou didst send» may
come again, and teach us what we ought
to do concerning the child that shall be
bom.

9 And the Lord heard the prayer of Ma
nue, and the angel of the Lord appeared
again to his wife as she was sitting in
the field. But Manue her husband was
not with her. And when she saw the
angel,

10 She made haste .and ran to her hus-
band : and told him saying . Behold the
man hath appeared lo me whom I saw
before.

11 He rose up and followed his wife:
and coming to the man, said to him : Art
thou he that spoke to the woman? And
he answered : I am.

12 And Manue said to him : When thy
word shall come to pass, what wilt thou
that the child should do ? or from what
shall he keep himself ?

13 And the angel of the Lord said to
Manue : From all the things I have spokeD
of to thy wife, let her refrain herself ?

14 And let her eat nothing that cometh
of the vine, neither let her drink wine or
strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing -,
and whatsoever I have commanded her,
let her fulfil and observe.

15 And Manue said to the angel of
the Lord ; 1 beseech thee to consent to
my request, and let us dress a kid for
thee.

16 And the angel answered him : If thou
press me, I will not eat of thy bread i but
if thou wilt offer a holocaust, offer it to
the Lord. And Manue knew not it was
the angel of the Lord,

17 And he said to him: What is thy

1 Kings 1. 20 ; Luke 1 31. — h Num. 6. 4.

things, because he was to be from his Infancy a
Nazarite of God^ ver. 5, that is, one set aside, in a
particular manner, and consecrated to God: no^
the Nazarites by the law were to abstain from aS
these Uiiofis.

267

Birth of Samson

JUDGES

Samson* s riddle

name, that, if thy word shall come to
pass, we may honour thee ?

18 And he answered him: *Why askest
thou my name, which is wonderful ?

19 Then Manue took a kid of the flocks,
and the hbations, and put them upon a
rock, offering to the Lord, who doth
wonderful things: and he and his wife
looked on.

20 And when the flame from the altar
went up towards heaven, the angel of
the Lord ascended also in the flame. And
when Manue and his wife saw this, they
fell flat on the ground.

21 And the angel of the Lord appeared
to them no more. And forthwith Manue
understood that it was an angel of the
Lord,

22 And he said to his wife : We shall
certainly die, because we have seen God,

23 And his wife answered him: If the
Lord had a mind to kill us, he would not
have received a holocaust and Hbations at
our hands, neither would he have shewed
us all these things, nor have told ue the
things that are to come.

24 And she bore a son, and called his
name Samson. And the child grew, and
jhe Lord blessed him.

25 And the spirit of the Lord began to
be with him in the camp of Dan, between
Saraa and EsthaoL

CHAPTER 14.

Samson desireth a wife of the Philistines. HekilU
ethalion: in uhose mouth he afterwards find'
eth honey. His marriage feast, and riddle, which
is discovered by his wife. He killeth, ami strip-
peth thirty Philistines. His wife taketh another
man.

THEN Samson went down to Tham-
natha, and seeing there a woman of
the daughters of the Philistines,

2 He came up, and told his father and
his mother, saying : I saw a woman in
Thamnatha of the daughters of the Phi-
listines I I beseech you, take her for me
to wife.

3 And his father and mother said to
him; Is there no woman among the
daughters of thy brethren, or among all
my people, that thou wilt take a wife of

i Gen. 32. 29.

Ver 22. Sfieti God. Not in his own person, but in
the person of his messenger. The Israelites, in those
days, imagined they sl)ould die if they saw an angel,
taking occasion perhaps from those words spoken by
the Lord to Moses, Ex. 33. 20, No man shall see me
and live. But the event demonstrated that it was
)Mt a groundless imagination.

the Philistines, who are uncircumcised 1
And Samson said to his father : Take this
woman for me, for she hath pleased my
eyes.

4 Now his parents knew not that the
thing was done by the Lord, and that he
sought an occasion against the Philis-
tines: for at that time the Philistines
had dominion over Israel.

5 Then Samson went down with his
father and mother to Thamnatha. And
when they were come to the vineyards of
the town, behold a young lion met him
raging and roaring.

6 And the spirit of the Lord came upon
Samson, and he tore the Hon as he would
have torn a kid in pieces, having nothing
at all in his hand : and he would not tell
this to his father and mother.

7 And he went down and spoke to the
woman that had pleased his eyes.

8 And after some days returning to take
her, he went aside to see the carcass of
the lion, and behold there was a swarm
of bees in the mouth of the lion and a
honeycomb.

9 And when he had taken it in his hands,
he went on eating: and coming to his
father and mother, he gave them of it,
and they ate: but he would not tell them,
that he had taken the honey from the
body of the lion.

10 So his father went down to the
woman, and made a feast for his son
Samson: for so the young men used to
do.

11 And when the citizens of that place
saw him, they brought him thirty com-
panions to be with hinu

12 And Samson said to them: I will
propose to you a riddle, which if you de-
clare unto me within the seven days of
the feast, I wiU give you thirty shirts,
and as many coats r

13 But if you shall not be able to de-
clare it, you shall give me thirty shirts
and the same number of coatSc They
answered him ; Put forth the riddle that
we may hear it.

14 And he said to themt Out of the

Chap= 14. Ver, 3, Is there no v^oman among the
daughters of thy brethren. Tliis shews his parents
were at first against his marriage with a Gentile, it
being prohibited, Deut. 7 3, but afterwards they
consented, knowing it to be by the dispensation ol
God; which otherwise would have been sinful in
acting contrary to the law.

268

^he riddle answered JUDGES

ater came forth meat, and out of the
:rong came forth sweetness. And they
ould not in three days expound the
ddle.

15 And when the seventh day came,
ley said to the wife of Samson: Soothe
ly husband, and persuade him to tell
lee what the riddle meaneth. But if
10 u wilt not do it, we will burn thee,
ad thy father's house. Have you called
s to the wedding on purpose to strip

16 So she wept before Samson and com-
lained, saying: Thou hatest me, and
est not love me : therefore thou wilt
ot expound to me the riddle which thou
ast proposed to the sons of my people^
lut he answered : I would not tell it to
ly father and mother, and how can I
all it to thee ?

17 So she wept before him the seven
ays of the feast : and at length on the
eventh day as she was troublesome to
lim, he expounded it. And she im-
lediately told her countrymen.

18 And they on the seventh day before
he sun went down said to him : What is
weeter than honey ? and what is stronger
ban a )ion? And he said to thems If
ou had not ploughed with my heifer,
ou had not found out my riddle.

19 And the spirit of the Lord came
pon him, and he went down to Ascalon,
nd slew there thirty men, whose gar-
lents he took away and gave to them
hat had declared the riddle. And being
xceeding angry he went up to his
ather's house :

20 But his wife took one of his friends
Jid bridal companions for her husband.

CHAPTER 16.

'amson is denied his wife. He burns the com of
j the Philistines^ and kills many of thenu

AND a while after, when the days of
,. the wheat harvest were at hand,
lamson came, meaning to visit his wife,
nd he brought her a kid of the flooko
Uid when he would have gone into her
hamber as usual, her father would not
uffer him, saying :

2 I thought thou hadst hated her, and
herefore I gave her to thy friend i but
he hath a sister, who is younger and

S amson* s revenge

Chap 15. Ver. 4. Foxes. Being judge of the
>«opie he might have many to assist iutt tocatcb

fairer than she, take her to wife insteao-
of her.

3 And Samson answered him; From
this day I shall be blameless in what j dc
against the Philistines i for "i will dii you
evils.

4 And he went and caught three hioM-
dred foxes, and coupled them tail to
tail, and fastened torches between the
tails.

5 And setting them on fire he let the
foxes go, that they might run about
hither and thither. And they presently
went into the standing corn of the
Philistines. Which being set on fire,
both the corn that was already carried
together, and that which was yet stand-
ing, was all burnt, insomuch, that the
flame consumed also the vineyards and
the oliveyards.

6 Then the Philistines said Who hath
done this thing? And it was answered;
Samson the son in law of the Tha-mnath-
ite, because he took away his wife, and
gave her to another, hath done these
things And the Philistines went up and
burnt both the woman and her father

7 But Samson said to them t Although
you have done this, yet will I be re-
venged of you, and then I wiM be quietb

8 And he made a great slaughter of
them, so that in astonishment they laid
the calf of the leg upon the thigho And
going down he dwelt in a cavern o£ the
rock Etam.

9 Then the Philistines going up into the
land of Juda, camped in the place which
afterwards was called Lechi, that is, the
Jawbone, where their army was spread,

10 And the men of the tribe of Juda
said to them. Why are you come up
against us ? They answered i We are come
to bind Samson, and to pay him for what
he hath done against uso

li Wherefore three thousand men of
Juda, went down to the cave of the rock
Etam, and said to Samson. Knowest
thou not that the Philistines rule oveJ
us ? Why wouldst thou do thus f And
he said to them^ As they did to mo, so
have I done to them.

12 And they said to him, We are come
to bind thee and to deliver thee into the
hands of the Philistines. And Samson

with nets or otherwise a number of these anfina^i
oi v/lnoh there were great aimiOers in that couiita^

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The jawbone of an ass

said to them : Swear to me, and promise
me, that you will not kill me.

13 They said : We will not kill thee :
but we will deliver thee up bound. And
they bound him with two new cords, and
brought him from the rock Etam.

14 Now when he was come to the place
of the Jawbone, and the Philistines
shouting went to meet him, the spirit of
the Lord came strongly upon him : and
as the flax is wont to be consumed at
the approach of fire, so the bands with
which he was bound were broken and
loosed.

15 And finding a jawbone, even the jaw-
bone of an ass which lay there, catching
it up, he slew therewith a thousand men.

16 And he said: With the jawbone of an
ass, with the jaw of the colt of asses I
have destroyed them, and have slain a
thousand men.

17 And when he had ended these words
singing, he threw the jawbone out of his
hand, and called the name of that place
Bamathlechi, which is interpreted the
lifting up of the jawbone.

18 And being very thirsty, he cried to
the Lord, and said : Thou hast given this
very great deliverance and victory into
the hand of thy servant : and behold I
die for thirst, and shall fall into the hands
of the uncircumcised.

19 Then the Lord opened a great tooth
in the jaw of the ass, and waters issued
out of it. And when he had drank them
he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his
strength. Therefore the name of that
place was called, The Spring of him that
invoked from the jawbone, until this
present day.

20 And he judged Israel in the days of
the Philistines twenty years. "*

CHAPTER 16.

Samson is deluded by Dalila : and falls into the
hands of the Philistines. His death.

HE went also into Gaza, and saw
there a woman a harlot, and went
in unto her.

2 And when the Philistines had heard
this, and it was noised about among them,
that Samson was come into the city, they
m Infra 10. 31. ^__^^

Chap. 16. Ver. 4. Dalila. Some are of opinion
she was married to Samson ; others that she was his
harlot. If the latter opinion be true, we cannot
wonder that, in punishment of his lust, the Lord
dblivered Uim up» by her means, into the hands of

JUDGES Samson at iff D^^r

surrounded him, setting guards at th
gate of the city, and watching there a
the night in silence, that in the mornin
they might kill him as he went out,

3 But Samson slept till midnight, an
then rising he took both the doors of th
gate, with the posts thereof, and the bol
and laying them on his shoulders, carrii
them up to the top of the hill, whi
looketh towards Hebron.

4 After this he loved a woman, wh
dv/elt in the valley of Sorec, and she w
called Dalila.

5 And the princes of the Philistine
came to her, and said: Deceive him, an
learn of him wherein his great strengt
lieth, and how we may be able to eve
come him, to bind and afflict him : whic
if thou shalt do, we will give thee eve
one of us eleven hundred pieces of silve

8 And Dalila said to Samson: Tell m
I beseech thee, wherein thy greatei
strength heth, and what it is wherewit
if thou wert bound thou couldst not brea
loose.

7 And Samson answered her : If I sha
be bound with seven cords made of sine^^
not yet dry, but still moist, I shall t
weak like other men.

8 And the princes of the PhiUstin
brought unto her seven cords, such as h
spoke of, with which she bound him ;

9 Men lying privately in wait with he
and in the chamber expecting the evei
of the thing, and she cried out to him
The Philistines are upon thee, Samso
And he broke the bands, as a man woul
break a thread of tow twined with spittl
when it smelleth the fire : so it was ii<
known wherein his strength lay.

10 And Dahla said to him: Behold the
hast mocked me, and hast told me a tti
thing: but now at least tell me where"V«iti
thou mayest be bound.

11 And he answered her : If I shall b
bound with new ropes, that were never i
work, I shall be weak and like other mer"

12 Dalila bound him again with these
and cried out : The Philistines are upo
thee, Samson, there being an ambus'
prepared for him in the chamber. Bu
he broke the bands like threads of webf

his enemies. However if he was guilty, it is not t|
be doubted but that under his afiflictions he heartil
repented and returned to God, and so obtained ic.
giveness of his sins.

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imson is shorn of his strength JUDGES"

3 And Dalila said m him again: How
Qg dost thou deceive me, and tell me
8 ? Shew me wherewith thou mayest be
und. And Samson answered her; If
ou plattest the seven locks of my head
th a lace, and tying them round about
aail fastenest it in the ground, I shall be

Death of Samson

4 And when Dalila had done this, she
id to him: The Philistines are upon
ee, Samson. And awaking out of his
3ep he drew out the nail with the hairs
d the lace.

5 And Dalila said to him : How dost
ou say thou lovest me, when thy mind
not with me ? Thou hast told me lies
ese three times, and wouldst not tell
B wherein thy great strength lieth.

6 And when she pressed him much,
id continually hung upon him for many
ys, giving him no time to rest, his soul
Inted away, and was wearied even
itil death.

7 Then opening the truth of the thing,
) said to her : The razor hath never
me upon my head, for I am a Nazarite,
at is to say, consecrated to God from
y mother's womb : if my head be shaven,
y strength shall depart from me, and I
all become weak, and shall be like other
en.

8 Then seeing that he had discovered
her all his mind, she sent to the princes
the PhiHstines, saying : Come up this

ice more, for now he hath opened his
)art to me. And they went up taking
ith them the money which they had
omised.

9 But she made him sleep upon her
lees, and lay his head in her bosom.
nd she called a barber, and shaved his
ven locks, and began to drive him
i^ay, and thrust him from her : for im-
ediately his strength departed from
m.

0 And she said : The Philistines are
)on thee, Samson. And awaking from
Bep, he said in his mind : I will go out
I did before, and shake myself, not
lowing that the Lord was departed from

Ver. 28. Revenge myself. This desire of revenge
IS out of zeal for justice against the enemies of
m and his people ; and not out of private rancour
il malice of heart.

Ver. 30. Let me die. Literally, let my soul die.
-mson did not sin on this occasion, though he was
directly the cause of his ovri death. Because he

21 Then the Philistines seized uponliim,
and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and
led him bound in chains to Gaza, and
shutting him up in prison made him
grind.

22 And now his hair began to grow
again.

23 And the princes of the Philistines as-
sembled together, to offer great sacrifices
to Dagon their god, and to make merry,
saying: Our god hath delivered our
enemy Samson into our hands.

24 And the people also seeing this,
praised their god, and said the same:
Our god hath delivered our adversary
into our hands, him that destroyed our
country and killed very many.

25 And rejoicing in their feasts, when
they had now taken their good cheer,
they commanded that Samson should
be called, and should play before them.
And being brought out of prison he
played before them, and they made him
stand between two pillars.

26 And he said to the lad that guided
his steps : Suffer me to touch the pillars
which support the whole house, and let
me lean upon them, and rest a little.

27 Now the house was full of men and
women, and all the princes of the Philis-
tines were there. Moreover about three
thousand persons of both sexes from the
roof and the higher part of the house,
were beholding Samson's play,

28 But he called upon the Lord, saying:

0 Lord God, remember me, and restore
to me now my former strength, O my
God, that I may revenge myself on my
enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes

1 may take one revenge.

29 And laying hold on both the pillars
on which the house rested, and holding
the one with his right hand, and the other
with his left,

30 He said : Let me die with the Philis
tines. And when he had strongly shook
the pillars, the house fell upon all the
princes, and the rest of the multitude
that was there : and he killed many
more at his death, than he had killed
before in his life.

was moved to what he did, by a particular inspira-
tion of fllod, who a.lso concurred with him by , .
miracle, in restoring his strength upon the spot, in
consequence of his prayer. Samson, by dying in this
manner, was a figure of Christ, who £>y Mz deatb
overcame all bis enemies.

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The idol of Michas

JUDGES

Dan sends spies to Lai

31 And his brethren and all his kindred,
going down took his body, and buried it
between Saraa and Esthaol in the bury-
ingplace of his father Manue: and he
judged Israel twenty years.

CHAPTER 17.

The history of the idol of Michas, and the young

Levite.

THERE was at that time a man of
mount Ephraim whose name was
Michas,

2 Who said to his mother: The eleven
hundred pieces of silver, which thou
hadst put aside for thyself, and concern-
ing which thou didst swear in my hear-
ing, behold I have, and they are with
me. And she said to him: Blessed be
my son by the Lord»

3 So he restored them to his mother,
who said to him: I have consecrated
and vowed this silver to the Lord, that
my son may receive it at my hand, and
make a graven and a molten god^ so now
I deliver it to thee.

4 And he restored them to his mother :
and she took two hundred pieces of sil-
ver and gave them to the silversmith, to
make of them a graven and a molten
god^ which was in the house of Michas.

5 And he separated also therein a little
temple for the god, and made an ephod,
and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly
garment, and idols: and he filled the
band of one of his sons, and he became
his priest.

6 In those days there was no king in
Israel, but every one did that which
seemed right to himself.

7 There was also another young man of
Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof :
and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

8 Now he went out from the city of
Bethlehem, and desired to sojourn where-
soever he should find it convenient for
him. And when he was come to mount
Ephraim, as he was on his journey, and
had turned aside a little into the house
of Michas,

9 He was asked by him whence he
eame. And he answered : I am a Levite
of Bethlehem Juda, and I am going to
dwell where I can, and where I shall
find a place to my advantage.

Chap. 17. Ver. 5. Filled the hand. That is,

appointed and consecrated him to the priestly office.

Chap. 18. Ver. 1. Not received^ &c They bad

10 And Michas said : Stay with me, an'
be unto me a father and a priest, and
will give thee every year ten pieces c
silver, and a double suit of apparel, an
thy victuals.

11 He was content, and abode with th
man, and was unto him as one of hi
sons.

12 And Michas filled !iis hand, and ha
the young man with him, for his priest
saying :

13 Now I know God will do me gooc
since I have a priest of the race of th
Levites.

CHAPTER 18.

The expedition of the men of Dan against Lais : i
their way they rob Michas of his priest and h\
gods,

IN those days there was no king in Is
rael, and the tribe of Dan sough
them an inheritance to dwell in: fo
unto that day they had not receive;
their lot among the other tribes.

2 So the children of Dan sent five mos
valiant men of their stock and famil;
from Saraa and Esthaol, to spy out thi
land, and to view it diligently: and the:
said to them: Go, and view the land
They went on their way, and when the;
came to mount Ephraim, they went int(
the house of Michas, and rested there :

3 And knowing the voic3 of the younj
man the Levite, and lodging with him
they said to him: Who brought the»
hither? what dost thou here? whj
wouldst thou come hither?

4 He answered them: Michas hatl
done such and such things for me, anc
hath hired me to be his priest.

5 Then they desired him to consult th(
Lord, that they might know whethe]
their journey should be prosperous, anc
the thing should have effect.

6 He answered them : Go in peace : th(
Lord looketh on your way, and the jour
ney that you go.

7 So the five men going on came tc
Lais: and they saw how the people dwelt
therein without any fear, according tc
the custom of the Sidonians, secure and
easy, having no man at all to oppose
them, being very rich, and living sepa-
rated, at a distance from Sidon and from
all men.

their portions assigned them, Jos. 19. 40. But,
tlirough their own sloth, possessed as yet but i
small part of it. See Judges 1. 34.

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The idol of Michas is taken

JUDGES The men of Dan destroy Lais

Q And they returned to theh^ brethren
in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them
what they had done? to whom they
answered :

9 Arise, and let us go up to them : for
we have seen the land which is exceeding
rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no
time : let us go and possess it, there will
be no difficulty.

10 We shall come to a people that is
secure, into a spacious country, and the
Lord will deliver the place to us, in which
there is no want of any thing that grow-
Bth on the earth.

11 There went therefore of the kindred
of Dan, to wit, from Saraa and Esthaol,
3IX hundred men, furnished with arms
for war,

12 And going up they lodged in Caria-
thiarim of Juda: which place from that
itime is called the camp of Dan, and is
behind Cariathiarim.

13 From thence they passed into mount
iEphraim. And when they were come to
ithe house of Michas,

I 14 The five men, that before had been
jsent to view the land of Lais, said to the
iFest of their brethren: You know that
iin these houses there is an ephod. and
theraphim, and a graven, and a molten
god: see what you are pleased to do.

15 And when they had turned a little
aside, they went into the house of the
young man the Levite, who was in the
house of Michas : and they saluted him
with words of peace.

I 16 And the six hundred men stood be-
fore the door, appointed with their arms.

17 But they that were gone into the
house of the young man, went about to
take away the graven god, and the ephod,
and the theraphim, and the molten god,
and the priest stood before the door, the
six hundred valiant men waiting not far
I off.

! 18 So they that were gone in took away
the graven thing, the ephod, and the
I idols, and the molten god. And the priest
said to them : What are you doing ?

19 And they said to him: Hold thy
I peace and put thy finger on thy mouth
, and come with us, that we may have

thee for a father, and a priest. Whether
is better for thee, to be a priest in the
house of one man, or in a tribe and fam-
ily in Israel ?

20 When he had heard this, t@ agreed

to their words, and took the ephod, and
the idols, and the graven god, and de-
parted with them.

21 And when they were going forward,
and had put before them the children
and the cattle and all that was valuable.

22 And were now at a distance from
the house of Michas, ^he men that dwelt
in the houses of Michas gathering to-
gether followed them,

23 And began to chout out after them.
They looked back, and said to Michas:
What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry?

24 And he answered: You have taken
away my gods which I have made me
and the priest, and all that I have, and
do you say: What aileth thee?

25 And the children of Dan said to him:
See thou say no more to us, lest men en-
raged come upon thee, and thou perish
with all thy house.

26 And so they went on the journey
they had begun. But Michas seeing that
they were stronger than he, returned to
his house.

27 And the six hundred men took the
priest, and the things we spoke of be-
fore, and came to Lais to a people that
was quiet and secure, and smote them
with the edge of the sword : and the city
was burnt with fire,

28 There being no man at all who
brought them any succour, because they
dwelt far from Sidon, and had no society
or business with any man. And the city
was in the land of Rohob : and they re-
built it and dwelt therein.

29 Calling the name of the city Dan
after the name of their father, who was
the son of Israel, which before was called
Lais.

30 And they set up to themselves the
graven idol, and Jonathan the son of
Gersam the son of Moses, he and his sons
were priests in the tribe of Dan, until the
day of their captivity.

31 And the idol of Michas remained
with them all the time that the house of
God was in Silo. In those days there
was no king in Israel.

CHAPTER 19.

A Levite bringing home his wife, is lodged by an
old man at Gabaa in the tribe of Benjam,in. Hia
wife is there abused by wicked men, and in the
morning found dead. Her husband cutteth her
body in pieces, and sendeth to every tribe of /*
rael^ requiring them, to revenge the tvicked/act

27S

The Levite and his wife

JUDGES

They are harbored in Gabaa

THERE was a certain Levite, who
dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim,
who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda :

2 And she left him and returned to her
father's house in Bethlehem, and abode
with him four months.

3 And her husband followed her, willing
to be reconciled with her, and to speak
kindly to her, and to bring her back with
him, having with him a servant and two
asses: and she received him, and brought
him into her father's house. And when
his father in law had heard this, and had
seen him, he met him with joy,

4 And embraced the man. And the son
in law tarried in the house of his father
in law three days, eating with him and
drinking familiarly.

6 But on the fourth day arising early in
the morning he desired to depart. But
his father in law kept him, and said
to him: Taste first a little bread, and
strengthen thy stomach, and so thou
shalt depart.

6 And they sat down together, and ate
and drank. And the father of the young
woman said to his son in law : I beseech
thee to stay here to day, and let us make
merry together.

7 But he rising up began to be for
departing. And nevertheless his father
in law earnestly pressed him, and made
him stay with him.

8 But when morning was come, the Le-
vite prepared to go on his journey. And
his father in law said to him again: I
beseech thee to take a little meat, and
strengthening thyself, till the day be
farther advanced, afterwards thou may-
est depart. And they ate together.

9 And the young man arose to set for-
ward with his wife and servant. And
his father in law spoke to him again:
Consider that the day is declining, and
draweth toward evening: tarry with me
to day also, and spend the day in mirth,
and to morrow thou shalt depart, that
thou mayest go into thy house.

10 His son in law would not consent to
his words: but forthwith went forward
and came over against Jebus, which by
another name is called Jerusalem, lead-
ing with him two asses laden, and his
concubine.

11 And now they were come near Jebus,

and the day was far spent: and the ser-
vant said to his master : Come, I be-
seech thee, let us turn into the city of
the Jebusites, and lodge there.

12 His master answered him: I will not
go into the town of another nation, who
are not of the children of Israel, but I will
pass over to Gabaa :

13 And when I shall come thither, we
will lodge there, or at least in the city of
Rama.

14 So they passed by Jebus, and went
on their journey, and the sun went down
upon them when they were by Gabaa,
which is in the tribe of Benjamin :

15 And they turned into it, to lodge
there. And when they were come in,
they sat in the street of the city, for no
man would receive them to lodge.

16 And behold they saw an old man,
returning out of the field and from his
work in the evening, and he also was of
mount Ephraim, and dwelt as a stranger
in Gabaa ; but the men of that country
were the children of Jemini.

17 And the old man lifting up his eyes,
saw the man sitting with his bundles in
the street of the city, and said to him :
Whence comest thou ? and whither goest
thou?

18 He answered him: We came out
from Bethlehem Juda, and we are going
to our home, which is on the side of
mount Ephraim, from whence we went
to Bethlehem: and now we go to the
house of God, and none will receive us
under his roof:

19 We have straw and hay for proven-
der of the asses, and bread and wine for
the use of myself and of thy handmaid,
and of the servant that is with me : we
want nothing but lodging.

20 And the old man answered him:
Peace be with thee : I will furnish all
things that are necessary : only I be-
seech thee, stay not in the street.

21 And he brought him into his house,
and gave provender to his asses: and
after they had washed their feet, he en-
tertained them with a feast.

22 While they were making merry, and
refreshing their bodies with meat and
drink, after the labour of the journey,
the men of that city, sons of Belial, (that
is, without yoke,) came and beset the

Chap. 19. Ver. 10. Concubine. She was his law- 1 scripture called concubines. See above, chap. 8. ver.
ful wife, but even lawful wives are frequently in| 31.— Vor. 16. Jeminio That is, Benjamin.

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The crime of the men of Gabaa JUDGES Israelites gather against Gabaa

old man's house, and began to knock at

the door, calling to the master of the

' house, and saying : P Bring forth the man

that came into thy house, that we may

'abuse him.

23 And the old man went out to them,
' and said : Do not so, my brethren, do not
so wickedly : because this man is come
into my lodging, and cease I pray you
from this folly.

24 I have a maiden daughter, and this
man hath a concubine, I will bring them
out to you, and you may humble them,
and satisfy your lust : only, I beseech
you, commit not this crime against na-
■ ture on the man.

25 ^ They would not be satisfied with
his words ; which the man seeing, brought
out his concubine to them, and abandoned

;her to their wickedness: and when they
had abused her all the night, they let her
go in the morning.

26 But the woman, at the dawning of the
day, came to the door of the house where
her lord lodged, and there fell down.

27 And in the morning the man arose,
' and opened the door that he might end

the journey he had begun: and behold
his concubine lay before the door with
her hands spread on the threshold.

28 He thinking ohe was taking her rest,
, said to her : Arise, and let us be going.
I But as she made no answer, perceiving

she was dead, he took her up, and laid her
upon his ass, and returned to his house.

29 And when he was come home he
took a sword, and divided the dead body

[ of his wife with her bones into twelve
parts, and sent the pieces into all the
! borders of Israel.

30 And when every one had seen this,
; they all cried out: There was never
I such a thing done in Israel from the day

that our fathers came up out of Egypt,
until this day : give sentence, and decree
in common what ought to be done.

CHAPTER 20.

The Israelites warring against Benjamin are
twice defeated ; but in the third battle the Ben-
jamites are all slain, saving six hundred men.

THEN all the children of Israel went
out and gathered together as one
man from Dan to Bersabee, with the
land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha :

p Gen. 19. 6.

2 And all the chiefs of the people, and
all the tribes of Israel met together in
the assembly of the people of God, four
hundred thousand footmen fit for war.

3 (Nor were the children of Benjamin
ignorant that the children of Israel were
come up to Maspha. ) And the Levite the
husband of the woman that was killed,
being asked, how so great a wickedness
had been committed,

4 Answered : I came into Gabaa of Ben-
jamin with my wife, and there I lodged :

5 And behold the men of that city in
the night beset the house wherein I was,
intending to kill me, and abused my wife
with an incredible fury of lust, so that at
last she died.

6 And I took her and cut her in pieces,
and sent the parts into all the borders of
your possession: because there nevei
was so heinous a crime, and so great an
abomination committed in Israel.

7 You are all here, O children of Israel,
determine what you ought to do.

8 And all the people standing, answered
as by the voice of one man: We will
not return to our tents, neither shall any
one of us go into his own house :

9 But this we will do in common against
Gabaa :

10 We will take ten men of a hundred
out of all the tribes of Israel, and a hun-
dred out of a thousand, and a thousand
out of ten thousand, to bring victuals for
the army, that we might fight against
Gabaa of Benjamin, and render to it for
its wickedness, what it deserveth.

11 And all Israel were gathered together
against the city, as one man, with one
mind, and one counsel :

12 And they sent messengers to all the
tribe of Benjamin to say to them : Why
hatli so great an abomination been found
among you?

13 Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that
have committed this heinous crime, that
they may die, and the evil may be taken
away out of Israel. But they would not
hearken to the proposition of their
brethren the children of Israel :

14 But out of all the cities which were
of their lot, they gathered themselves
together into Gabaa, to aid them, and to
fight against the whole people of Israel.

15 And there were found of Benjamin

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q Osee 9. 9.

The Israelites twice defeated

JUDGES

The ambush

five and twenty thousand men that drew
the sword, besides the inhabitants of
Gabaa,

16 Who were seven hundred most
valiant men, fighting with the left hand
as well as with the right: and slinging
stones so sure that they could hit even a
hair, and not miss by the stone's going
on either side.

17 Of the men of Israel also, beside the
children of Benjamin, were found four
hundred thousand that drew swords, and
were prepared to fight.

18 And they arose and came to the
house of God, that is, to Silo : and they
consulted God, and said : Who shall be in
our army the first to go to the battle against
the children of Benjamin ? And the Lord
answered them : Let Juda be your leader.

19 And forthwith the children of Israel
rising in the morning, camped by Gabaa :

20 And going out from thence to fight
against Benjamin, began to assault the
city.

21 And the children of Benjamin com-
ing out of Gabaa, slew of the children of
Israel that day two and twenty thousand
men.

22 Again Israel trusting in their strength
and their number, set their army in array
in the same place, where they had fought
before :

23 Yet so that they first went up and
wept before the Lord until night: and
consulted him, and said : Shall I go out
any more to fight against the children of
Benjamin my brethren, or not ? And he
answered them : Go up agtdnst them, and
join battle.

24 And when the children of Israel went
out the next day to fight against the
children of Benjamin,

26 The children of Benjamin sallied forth
out of the gates of Gabaa : and meeting
them made so great a slaughter of them,
as to kill eighteen thousand men that
drew the sword.

26 Wherefore all the children of Israel
came to the house of God, and sat and
wept before the Lord : and they fasted
that day till the evening, and offered to
him holocausts, and victims of peace
offerings,

Chap. 20. Ver. 22. Trusting in their strength.
The Lord suffered them to be overthrown and many
of them to be slain, though their cause was just;
partly in punishment of the idolatry which they
exercised or tolerated in the tribe of Dan, and else-

27 And inquired of him concerning their
state. At that time the ark of the cov-
enant of the Lord was there,

28 And Phinees the son of Eleazar the
son of Aaron was over the house. So
they consulted the Lord and said : Shall
we go out any more to fight against the
children of Benjamin our brethren, or
shall we cease ? And the Lord said to
them : Go up, for to morrow I will deliver
them into your hands.

29 And the children of Israel set am-
bushes round about the city of Gabaa :

30 And they drew up their army against
Benjamin the third time, as they had
done the first and second.

31 And the children of Benjamin boldly
issued out of the city, and seeing their
enemies flee, pursued them a long way,
so as to wound and kill some of them,
as they had done the first and second
day, whilst they fied by two highways,
whereof one goeth up to Bethel, and the
other to Gabaa, and they slew about thirty
men :

32 For they thought to cut them off, anB
they did before. But they artfully feigns
ing a flight, designed to draw them away
from the city, and by their seeming to
flee to bring them to the highways afore'-
said.

33 Then all the children of Israel rising
up out of the places where they were, set
their army in battle array, in the place
which is called Baalthamar. The amr
bushes also which were about the city,
began by little and little to come forth,

34 And to march from the west side oi
the city. And other ten thousand me|i
chosen out of all Israel attacked the in-
habitants of the city. And the battle
grew hot against the children of Benja-
min : and they understood not that pre-
sent death threatened them on every
side.

35 And the Lord defeated them before
the children of Israel, and they slew of
them in that day five and twenty thou-
sand, and one hundred, all fighting men
and that drew the sword.

36 But the children of Benjamin when
they saw themselves to be too weak, be-
gan to flee. Which the children of Israel

where ; and partly because they trusted in their own
strength; and therefore, though he bid them fight,
he would not give them the victory, till they were
thoroughly humbled and had learned to trust in him
alone.

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he men of Benjamin defeated JUDGES

Lamentation of the Israelites

;3ing, gave them place to flee, that they [ ber of Benjamin only six hundred men
I ght come to the ambushes that were | that were able to escape, and flee to the
;3pared, which they had set near the

7 And they that were in ambush arose

a sudden out of their coverts, and
iiilst Benjamin turned their backs to
;3 slayers, went into the city, and smote
i«7ith the edge of the sword.
B Now the children of Israel had given
: ign to them, whom they had laid in am-
:3hes, that after they had taken the city,
: 3y should make a fire : that by the
poke rising on high, they might shew
Ht the city was taken.
) And when the children of Israel saw
:'s in the battle (for the children of
[njamin thought they fled and pursued
:}m vigorously, killing thirty men of
mv army)

) And perceived as it were a pillar of
loke rise up from the city ; and Benja-
m looking back, saw that the city was
i:en, and that the flames ascended on
i:h:

. They that before had made as if they
li, turning their faces stood bravely
iiinst them; which the children of
injamin seeing, turned their backs,
15 And began to go towards the way of
i; desert, the enemy pursuing them
iJther also. And they that fired the city
me also out to meet them.
i! And so it was, that they were slain
Hboth sides by the enemies, and there
13 no rest of their men dying. They
V and were beaten down on the east
re of the city Gabaa.

And they that were slain in the same
)ce were eighteen thousand men, all
ist valiant soldiers.

. And when they that remained of
lijamin saw this, they fled into the
frderness and made towards the rock
ilt is called Remmon. In that flight,
I ) as they were straggling and going
lerent ways, they slew of them five
J usand men. And as they went farther,
ily still pursued them, and slew also
> er two thousand.

• And so it came to pass, that all that
^•e slain of Benjamin in divers places,
IV -e five and twenty thousand fighting
ta, most valiant for war.
^ And there remained of all the num-

wilderness : and they abode in the rock
Remmon four months.

48 But the children of Israel returning,
put all the remains of the city to the
sword, both men and beasts, and all the
cities and villages of Benjamin were con-
sumed with devouring flames.

CHAPTER 21.

The tribe of Benjamin is saved from being utterly
extinct, by •providing wives for the six hundred
that remained,

OW the children of Israel had also
sworn in Maspha, saying: None of
us shall give of his daughters to the chil-
dren of Benjamin to wife.

2 And they all came to the house of God
in Silo, and abiding before him till the
evening, lifted up their voices, and be-
gan to lament and weep, saying :

3 O Lord God of Israel, why is so great
an evil come to pass in thy people, that
this day one tribe should be taken away
from among us ?

4 And rising early the next day, they
built an altar: and offered there holo-
causts, and victims of peace, and they said:

5 Who is there among all the tribes of
Israel that came not up with the army
of the Lord ? for they had bound them-
selves with a great oath, when they were
in Maspha, that whosoever were wanting
should be slain.

6 And the children of Israel being
moved with repentance for their brother
Benjamin, began to say: One tribe is
taken away from Israel.

7 Whence shall they take wives? For
we have all in general sworn, not to give
our daughters to them.

8 Therefore they said : Who is there of
all the tribes of Israel, that came not up
to the Lord to Maspha. And behold the
inhabitants of Jabes Galaad were found
not to have been in that army.

9 (At that time also when they were in
Silo, no one of them was found there. )

10 So they sent ten thousand of the
most valiant men, and commanded them,
saying: Go and put the inhabitants of
Jabes Galaad to the sword, with their
wives and their children.

11 And this is what you shall observe:
*" Every male, and all women that have

Num. 31. 17, 18.
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Wives are found for Benjamin

RUTH

The daughters of Sil

known men, yon shall kill, but the vir-
gins you shall save.

12 And there were found of Jabes Ga-
laad four hundred virgins, that had not
known the bed of a nftin, and they
brought them to the camp in Silo, into
the land of Chanaan.

13 And they sent messengers to the
children of Benjamin, that were in the
rock Remmon, and commanded them to
receive them in peace.

14 And the children of Benjamin came
at that time, and wives were given them
of the daughters of Jabes Galaad: but
they found no others, whom they might
give in like manner.

15 And all Israel was very sorry, and
repented for the destroying of one tribe
out of Israel.

16 And the ancients said: What shall
we do with the rest, that have not re-
ceived wives? for all the women in
Benjamin are dead.

17 And we must use all care, and pro-
vide with great diligence, that one tribe
be not destroyed out of Israel.

18 For as to our own daughters we can-
not give them, being bound with an oath
and a curse, whereby we said ; Cursed be
he that shall give Benjamin any of his
daughters to wife.

19 So they took counsel, and said : Be-
hold there is a yearly solemnity of the
Lord in Silo, which is situate on the

north of the city of Bethel, and o;
the east side of the way, that goeth fro:
Bethel to Sichem, and on the south oil
the town of Lebona.

20 And they commanded the childre
of Benjamin, and said : Go, and lie hid
in the vineyards,

21 And when you shall see the daugh-
ters of Silo come out, as the custom is,
to dance, come ye on a sudden out of
the vineyards, and catch you every man
his wife among them, and go into the
land of Benjamin.

22 And when their fathers and their
brethren shall come, and shall begin to
complain against you, and to chide, we
will say to them: Have pity on them:
for they took them not away as by the
right of war or conquest, but when they
asked to have them, you gave them Mt,
and the fault was committed on y m
part.

23 And the children of Benjamin dia, m
they had been commanded : and accord-
ing to their number, they carried off for
themselves every man his wife of them
that were dancing: and they went into
their possession and built up their citicb,
and dwelt in them.

24 The children of Israel also returned
by their tribes, and families, to theii
dwellings. In those days there was no
king in Israel: but every one did thai
which seemed right to himself.

THE

BOOK OF RUTH.

I
This Book is called Ruth, from the name of tJie person whose history is here recorded : who, {j
being a Gentile, became a convert to the true faith, and marryinr Booz, the great-grandfathf
of David, was one of those from whom Christ sprung according to the flesh, and an illustriout l
figure of the Gentile church. The writer is unknown.

CHAPTER 1.

Elimelech of Bethlehem going with his wife Noemi,
and two sons, into the land of Moab, dieth there.
His sons marry wives of that country and die
without issue. Noem,i retumeth home with her
daughter in law Ruth, who refuseth to part with
her.

IN the days of one of the judges,
when the judges ruled, there came a

famine in the land. And a certain man
of Bethlehem Juda, went to sojourn iu
the land of Moab with his wife and his
two sons.

2 He was named EUmelech, and hia
wife, Noemi : and his two sons, the one
Mahalon, and the other CheUon, Eph-
rathites of Bethlehem Juda. And enter-

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)emi determines to return home RUTH

J into the country of Moab, they abode
}re.

And Elimelech the husband of Noemi
d: and she remained with her sons.
And they took wives of the women of
ab, of which one was called Orpha,
I the other Ruth. And they dwelt
sre ten years.

And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and
elion : and the woman was left alone,
iing lostboth her sons and her husband.
And she arose to go from the land of
ab to her own country with both her
ighters in law : for she had heard that
! Lord had looked upon his people,
i had given them food.
Wherefore she went forth out of the
ce of her sojournment, with both her
Ighters in law: and being now in the
y to return into the land of Juda,
She said to chem : Go ye home to your
thers : the Lord deal mercifully with
I, as you have dealt with the dead and
h me.

May he grant you to find rest in the
ises of the husbands which you shall
e. And she kissed them. And they
ed up their voice and began to weep.

And to say; We will go on with thee
ihy people.

But she answered them : Return, my
Ighters : why come ye with me ? have
ly more sons in my womb, that you
y hope for husbands of me ?
Retinm again, my daughters, and go
ir ways : for I am now spent with age,
I not fit for wedlock. Although I
jht conceive this night, and bear clui-
ng

If you would wait till they were grown
and come to man's estate, you would
3ld women before you marry. Do not
my daughters, I beseech you : for I
grieved the more for your distress,

the hand of the Lord is gone out
inst me.

And they lifted up their voice, and
an to weep again : Orpha kissed her
ibher in law and returned : Ruth stuck
e to her mother in law.
And Noemi said to her: Behold thy
swoman is returned to her people,

to her gods, go thou with her.

CAP. 1. Ver. 15. To her gorls, &c. Noemi did

mean to persuade Ruth to return to the false

she had formerly worshipped : but by this man-

Ruth refuses to leave her

16 She answered : Be not against me, to
desire that I should leave thee and de-
part: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I
will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I
also will dwell. Thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God.

17 The land that shall receive thee dy-
ing, in the same will I die : and there
will I be buried. The Lord do so and so
to me, and add more also, if aught but
death part me and thee.

18 Then Noemi, seeing that Ruth was
steadfastly determined to go with her,
would not be against it, noi persuade her
any more to return to her friends :

19 So they went together and came to
Bethlehem. And when they were come
into the city, the report was quickly
spread among all : and the women said :
This is that Noemi.

20 But she said to them : Call me not
Noemi, (that is, beautiful,) but call me
Mara, (that is, bitter,) for the Almighty
hath quite filled me with bitterness.

21 I went out full, and the Lord hath
brought me back empty. Why then do
you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath
humbled and the Almighty hath aflBlicted ?

22 So Noemi came with Ruth the Moab-
itess her daughter in law, from the land
of her sojournment: and returned into
Bethlehem, in the beginning of the bar-
ley harvest.

CHAPTER 2.

Buth gleaneth in the field of Booz, who sheweth her
favour.

I^OW her husband Elimelech had a
±\ kinsman, a powerful man, and very
rich, whose name was Booz.

2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to her
mother in law : If thou wilt, I will go into
the field, and glean the ears of corn that
escape the hands of the reapers, where-
soever I shall find grace with a house-
holder that will be favourable to me.
And she answered her : Go, my daughter.

3 She went therefore and gleaned the
ears of corn after the reapers. And it
happened that the owner of that field was
Booz, who was of the kindred of Elime-
lech.

4 And behold, he came out of Bethlehem,
and said to the reapers: The Lord be

return to the Lord the God of Israel. — Ver. 17. The
Lord do so and so, &c. A form of swearing usual
m the history of the Old Testament, by which the

If snpp/.h inoVr,,Vof/.H ;X k!.- V»,'*. * i/ w..o .iin... ,„ ujc jusLury oi loe i.»ia lestament, oy wnicn the
her ,h; m ,«t^i^^i" her, that If she would go person wished such and such evils to fall upon them,
her, she must renounce her false gods and ' if they did not do what they iaid.

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Ruth gleans in Booz* field

RUTH

.;^^•'

Noemi's counse

with you. And they answered him : The
Lord bless thee.

5 And Booz said to the young man that
was set over the reapers : Whose maid is
this?

6 And he answered him : This is the
Moabitess who came with Noemi, from
the land of Moab,

7 And she desired leave to glean the
ears of corn that remain, following the
steps of the reapers : and she hath been
in the field from morning till now, and
hath not gone home for one moment.

8 And Booz said to Ruth : Hear me,
daughter, do not go to glean in any other
field, and do not depart from this place :
but keep with my maids,

9 And follow where they reap. For I
have charged my young men, not to mo-
lest thee : and if thou art thirsty, go to
the vessels, and drink of the waters
whereof the servants drink.

10 She fell on her face and worshipping
upon the ground, said to him: Whence
cometh this to me, that I should find
grace bef:>re thy eyes, and that thou
shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me
a woman of another country?

11 And he answered her: All hath been
told me, that thou hast done to thy
mother in law after the death of thy hus-
band : and how thou hast left thy parents,
and the land wherein thou wast born, and
art come to a people which thou knew-
est not heretofore.

12 The Lord render unto thee for thy
work, and mayest thou receive a full
reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to
whom thou art come, and under whose
wings thou art fled.

13 And she said : I have found grace in
thy eyes, my lord, who hast comforted
me and hast spoken to the heart of thy
handmaid, who am not like to one of thy
maids.

14 And Booz said to her: At mealtime
come thou hither, and eat of the bread,
and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So
she sat at the side of the reapere, and she
heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and
was filled, and took the leavings.

15 And she arose from thence, to glean
the ears of corn as before. And Booz
commanded his servants, saying: If she
would even reap with you, hinder her not:

16 And let fall some of your handfuls of
purpose, and leave them, that she may

gather them without shame, and let ik
man rebuke her when she gathereth them

17 She gleaned therefore in the field til
evening: and beating out with a ro(
and threshing what she had gleaned, sh-
found about the measure of an ephi c
barley, that is, three bushels :

18 Which she took up and returned int
the city, and shewed it to her mother i
law : moreover she brought out, and gav
her of the remains of her meat, where
with she had been filled.

19 And her mother in law said to her
Where hast thou gleaned to day, an
where hast thou wrought? blessed be li
that hath had pity on thee. And sh
told her with whom she had wrought
and she told the man's name, that he we
called Booz.

20 And Noemi answered her : Blessed bi
he of the Lord : because the same kimj
ness which he shewed to the living, I
hath kept also to the dead. And aga:
she said : The man is our kinsman.

21 And Ruth said, He also charged m
that I 3hould keep close to his reaper
till all the corn should be reaped.

22 And her mother in law said to her:
is better for thee, my daughter, to go o
to reap with his maids, lest in anoth*
man's field some one may resist thee.

23 So she kept close to the maids
Booz : and continued to glean with thei
till all the barley and the wheat we:
laid up in the barns.

CHAPTER 3.

Ruth instructed by her mother in law lieth at Boc
feet, claiming him, for her husband by the h
of affinity : she receiveth a good answer, and i
measures of barley.

AFTER she was returned to h
. mother in law, Noemi said to he.
My daughter, I will seek rest for the
and will provide that it may be well wi
thee.

2 This Booz, with whose maids th(
wast joined in the field, is our Lear kir
man, and behold this night he winnowe
barley in the threshingfioor.

3 Wash thyself therefore and anoi
thee, and put on thy best garments, ai
go down to the barnfloor : but let not t
man see thee, till he shall have do
eating and drinking.

4 And when he shall go to sleep, ma
the place wherein he sleepeth : and th
Shalt go in, and lift- up the clothes whei

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uth goes to Booz

ith he is covered towards his feet, j^nd
laltlay thyself down there : and he will
11 thee what thou must do.
. ► She answered : Whatsoever thou shalt
bmmand, I will do.

; And she went down to the barnfloor,
id did all that her mother in law had bid
jr.

' And when Booz had eaten, and drunk,
id was merry, he went to sleep by the
3ap of sheaves, and she came softly and
icovering his feet, laid herself down.
i And behold, when it was now midnight
16 man was afraid, and troubled: and
3 saw a woman lying at his feet,
» And he said to her : Who art thou ?
nd she answered : I am Ruth thy hand-
maid: spread thy coverlet over thy ser-
mt, for thou art a near kinsman.
'O And he said : Blessed art thou of the
Did, my daughter, and thy latter kind-
3ss has surpassed the former: because
lou hast not followed young men either
Dor or rich.

"1 Fear not therefore, but whatsoever
lou shalt say to me I will do to thee,
or all the people that dwell within the
(ites of my city, know that thou art a
lirtuous woman.

•l2 Neither do I deny myself to be near
if kin, but there is another nearer than I.
Il 3 Rest thou this night: and when morn-
!ig is come, if he will take thee by the
'ght of kindred, all is well: but if he
ill not, I will undoubtedly take thee, as
le Lord liveth : sleep till the morning.

14 So she slept at his feet till the night
as going off. And she arose before
len could know one another, and Booz
lid : Beware lest any man know that
lOu earnest hither.

15 And again he said : Spread thy man-
e, wherewith thou art covered, and
old it with both hands. And when she
plead it and held it, he measured six
leasures of barley, and laid it upon her.
-nd she carried it and went into the city,

16 And came to her mother in law ; who
aid to her : What hast thou done,
aughter ? And she told her all that the
lan had done to her.

17 And she said : Behold he hath given
le six measures of barley : for he said :

RUTH

The nearer kinsman

Chap. 3. Ver. 10. Thy latter kindness, viz., to
ys husband deceased in seeking to keep up his
amc and family by marrying his relation according

I will not have thee return em^nty to thy
mother in law.

18 And Noemi said: Wait my daugh-
ter, till we see what end the thing will
have. For the man will not rest until
he have accomplished what he hath said.

CHAPTER 4.

Upon the refusal of the nearer kinsman, Booz mar
rieth Ruth, who bringeth forth Obed, the grand»
father of David.

THEN Booz went up to the gate, and
sat there. And when he had seen
the kinsman going by, of whom he had
spoken before, he said to him, calling
him by his name : Turn aside for a little
while, and sit down here. He turned
aside, and sat down.

2 And Booz taking ten men of the an-
cients of the city, said to them: Sit ye
down here.

3 They sat down, and he spoke to the
kinsman: Noemi, who is returned from
the country of Moab, will sell a parcel of
land that belonged to our brother Elime-
lech.

4 I would have thee to understand this,
and would tell thee before all that sit
here, and before the ancients of my peo-
ple. If thou wilt take possession of it by
the right of kindred : buy it and possess
it: but if it please thee not, tell me so,
that I may know what I have to do. For
there is no near kinsman besides thee,
who art first, and me, who am second.
But he answered : I will buy the field.

5 * And Booz said to him : When thou
shalt buy the field at the woman's hand,
thou must take also Ruth the Moabitess,
who was the wife of the deceased : to
raise up the name of thy kinsman in his
inheritance.

6 He answered : I yield up my right of
next akin : for I must not cut off the
posterity of my own family. Do thou
make use of my privilege, which I pro-
fess I do willingly forego.

7 Now this in former times wac5 the man-
ner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at
any time one yielded his right to another :
that the grant might be sure, the man
put off his shoe, and gave it to his neigh-
bour ; this was a testimony of cession of
right in Israel.

t Deut. 25.

to the law, and not following after young men.
Booz, it ceems, was then in years.

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1 KINGS

The genealogy of Phares

8 So Booz said to Mb kinsman : Put off
thy shoe. And immediately he took it
off from his foot.

9 And he said to the ancients and to all
the people : You are witnesses this day,
that I have bought all that was Elime-
lech's, and Chelion's, and Mahalon's, of
the hand of Noemi :

10 And have taken to wife Ruth the
Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise
up the name of the deceased in his in-
heritance lest his name be cut off, from
among his family and his brethren and
his people. You, I say, are witnesses of
this thing.

11 Then all the people that were in the
gate, and the ancients answered : We are
witnesses ; The Lord make this woman
who Cometh into thy house, like Rachel,
and Lia, who built up the house of Is-
rael : that she may be an example of
virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous
name in Bethlehem :

12 And that the house may be, as the
house of Phares, "whom Thamar bore
unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord
shall give thee of this young woman.

13 Booz therefore took Ruth, and mar-

ried her : and went in unto her, and the
Lord gave her to conceive and to bear a
son.

14 And the women said to Noemi:
Blessed be the Lord, who hath not suffer-
ed thy family to want a successor, that
his name should be preserved in Israel.

15 And thou shouldst have one to com-
fort thy soul, and cherish thy old age.
For he is born of thy daughter in law:
who loveth thee : and is much better to
thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.

16 And Noemi taking the child laid itia
her bosom, and she carried it, and was a
nurse unto it.

17 And the women her neighbours, con-
gratulating with her and saying : There
is a son born to Noemi : called his name
Obed : he is the father of Isai, the father
of David.

18 These are the generations of Phares:
'^ Phares begot Esron,

19 Esron begot ArauL, Aram begot
Aminadab,

20 Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson
begot Salmon,

21 Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,

22 Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.

THE

FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL,

OTHERWISE CALLED THE

FIRST BOOK OF KINGS.

This and tJie following Book are called by the Hebrews the books of Samuel, because they contain
the history of Samuel, and of the two kings, Saul and David, wlwm he anointed. They are
more commonly named by the Fathers, the first and second book of kings. As to the writer oj
them, it is the common opinion that Samuel composed the first book, as far as the twenty -fifth
chapter ; and that the prophets Nathan and Gad finished the first, and wrote the second
book. See 1 Paralipomenon, alias 1 Chronicles, 29. 29.

CHAPTER 1.

Anna the wife of Elcana being barren, by vow and
prayer obtaineth a son : whom she calleth Sam-
uel : and presenteth him to the service of God in
Silo, according to her voWo

THERE was a man of Ramathaimso-
phim, of mount Ephraim, and his

u Gen. 38. 29.

Chap. 4. Ver. 11.
Bethlehem.

Ephrata. Anotber name of

name was Elcana, the son of Jeroham,
the son of Eliu, the son of Thohu, the son
of Suph, an Ephraimite :

2 And he had two wives, the name ot
one was Anna, and the name of the other
Phenenna. Phenenna had children : but
Anna had no children.

V 1 Par. 2. 5, and 4. 1 ; Matt. 1. 3.

Chap. 1. Ver. l. An Ephraimite. He was of the
tribe of Levi, i Par. 6. 34, but is called an Ephraim-
ite from dwelling in momit Ephraim.

2S2

ma s vow

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The birth of Samuel

mil o vuvu — J

Andthi8 man went up out of his cityJTvny 3trong drink but i navo poured out
on the appointed days, to adore and to my soul before the Lord.

er sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo.
id the two sons of Heli, Ophni and
inees, were there priests of the Lord.
Now the day came, and Elcana offered
sri^ice, and gave to Phenenna his wife,
a to all her sons and daughters, por-

ns:

But to Anna he gave one portion with
rrow, because he loved Anna. And the
rd had shut up her womb.
Her rival also afflicted her, and trou-
jd her exceedingly, insomuch that she
braided her, that the Lord had shut up
r womb :

And thus she did every year, when
e time returned that they went up to
e temple of the Lord: and thus she
ovoked her : but Anna wept, and did
t eat.

Then Elcana her husband said to her :
ina, why weepest thou ? and why dost
ou not eat ? And why dost thou afflict
y heart ? Am not I better to thee than
n children ?

So Anna arose after she had eaten and
■unk in Silo : And Heli the priest sit-
Qg upon a stool before the door of the
mple of the Lord :

.0 As Anna had her heart full of grief,
le prayed to the Lord, shedding many

ars,

LI And she made a vow, saying : O Lord
: hosts, if thou wilt look down on the
fliction of thy servant, and wilt be mind-
il of me, and not forget thy handmaid,
id wilt give to thy servant a man child :
will give him to the Lord all the days
his life, and no razor shall come upon
_j head.

12 And it came to pass, as she multiplied
ayers before the Lord, that Heli ob-

jrved her mouth.

13 Now Anna spoke in her heart, and
nly her lips moved, but her voice was
ot heard at all. Heli therefore thought
er to be drunk,

14 And said to her : How long wilt thou
e drunk? digest a little the wine, of
^hich thou hast taken too much.

15 Anna answering, said : Not so, my
3rd: for I am an exceeding unhappy
7oman, and have drunk neither wine nor

16 Count not thy handmaid for one oV
the daughters of Belial : for out of the
abundance of my sorrow and grief havo
I spoken till now.

17 Then Heli said to her : Go in peace :
and the God of Israel grant thee thy
petition, which thou hast asked of him.

18 And she said : Would to God thy
handmaid may find grace in thy eyes. So
the woman went on her way, and ate, and
her countenance was no more changed.

19 And they rose in the morning, and
worshipped before the Lord: and they
returned, and came into their house at
Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his
wife : and the Lord remembered her.

20 And it came to pass when the time
was come about, Anna conceived and
bore a son, ^ and called his name Sam-
uel : because she had asked him of the

Lord.

21 And Elcana her husband went up,
and all his house, to offer to the Lord the
solemn sacrifice, and his vow.

22 But Anna went not up : for she said
to her husband: I will not go till the
child be weaned, and till I may carry
him, that he may appear before the Lord,
and may abide always there.

23 And Elcana her husband said to her'.
Do what seemeth good to thee, and stay
till thou wean him : and I pray that the
Lord may fulfil his word. So the woman
stayed at home, and gave her son suck, till
she weaned him.

24 And after sho had weaned him, she
carried him with her, with three calves,
and three bushels of flour, and a bottle
of wine, and she brought him to the house
of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was
as yet very young :

25 And they immolated a calf, and of-
fered the child to Heli

26 And Anna said '. I beseech thee, my
lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord : I am
that woman who stood before thee here
praying to the Lord.

27 For this child did I pray, and the
Lord hath granted me my petition, which
I asked of him.

28 Therefore I also have lent him to the
Lord all the days of his life, he shall be

X About B. C. 1100.

Ver. 20. SamueL

This name imports, asked of God.
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The canticle of Anna

lent to the Lord. And they adored the
Lord there. And Anna prayed, and said :

Helios son

CHAPTER 2.

The canticle of Anna. The wickedness of the sons
of HeLi ; for which they are not duly corrected by
their father. A prophecy against the house of Heli.

MY heart hath rejoiced in the Lord,
and my horn is exalted in my God :
my mouth is enlarged over my enemies :
because I have joyed in thy salvation.

2 There is none holy as the Lord is : for
there is no other beside thee, and there
is none strong like our God.

3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things,
boasting : let old matters depart from
your mouth: for the Lord is a God of
all knowledge, and to him are thoughts
prepared.

4 The bow of the mighty is overcome,
and the weak are girt with strength.

5 They that were full before have
hired out themselves for bread : and the
hungry are filled, so that the barren
hath borne many: and she that had
many children is weakened.

6 y The Lord killeth and maketh alive,
he bringeth down to hell and bringeth
back again.

7 The Lord maketh poor and maketh
rich, he humbleth and he exalteth.

8 He raiseth up the needy from the
dust, and lifteth up the poor from the
dunghill: that he may sit with princes,
and hold the throne of glory. For the
poles of the earth are the Lord's, and
upon them he hath set the world.

9 He will keep the feet of his saints,
and the wicked shall be silent in dark-
ness, because no man shall prevail by his
own strength.

10 The adversaries of the Lord shall
fear him : and upon them shall he thun-
der in the heavens. The Lord shall judge
the ends of the earth, and he shall give
empire to his king, and shall exalt the
horn of his Christ.

11 And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his
house: but the child ministered in the
Bight of the Lord before the face of Heli
the priest.

12 Now the sons of Heli were children
of Belial, not knowing the Lord,

y Deut. 32. 39; Tob. 13. 2; Wisd. 16. 13.

13 Nor the office of the priests to thi
people: but whosoever had offered j
sacrifice, the servant of the priest came
while the flesh was in boiling, with j
fleshhook of three teeth in his hand,

14 And thrust it into the kettle, or' infe
the caldron, or into the pot, or into th»
pan : and all that the fleshhook brough
up, the priest took to himself. Thus die
they to all Israel that came to Silo. '

16 Also before they burnt the fat, th('
servant of the priest came, and said t(|
the man that sacrificed: Give me flesr
to boil for the priest : for I will not tak('
of thee sodden flesh, but raw. '

16 And he that sacrificed said to himj
Let the fat first be burnt to day accord :
ing to the custom, and then take ai
much as thy soul desireth. But he an
swered and said to him: Not so: but
thou Shalt give it me now, or else I wiD
take it by force.

17 Wherefore the sin of the young mer
was exceeding great before the Lord:
because they withdrew men from the]
sacrifice of the Lord. !

18 But Samuel ministered before the!
face of the Lord: being a child girded
with a hnen ephod.

19 And his mother made him a httle
coat, which she brought to him on the
appointed days, when she went up with
her husband, to offer the solemn sacrifice.

20 And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife:
and he said to him : The Lord give thee
seed of this woman, for the loan thou
hast lent to the Lord. And they went to
their own home.

21 And the Lord visited Anna, and she
conceived, and bore three sons and two
daughters: and the child Samuel became
great before the Lord.

22 Now Heli ^ as very old, and he heard
all that his sons did to all Israel: and
how they lay v/ith the women that waited
at the door of the tabernacle :

23 And he said to them: Why do ye
these kinds of things, which I hear, very
wicked things, from all the people ?

24 Do not so, my sons : for it is no good
report that I hear, that you make the
people of the Lord to transgress.

25 If one man shall sin against another,

Chap. 2. Ver. l. My horn. The horn in the
•criptures signifies strength, power, and glory: so

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the horn is said to be exalted, when a person re-
ceives an increase of strength or glory.

\he prophet rebukes Heli

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The Lord calls Samuel

od may be appeased in his behalf : but
a man shall sin against the Lord, who
lall pray for him? And they hearkened
ot to the voice of their father, because
le Lord would slay them.

26 But the child Samuel advanced, and
rew on, and pleased both the Lord and
ten.

27 And there came a man of God to
:eli, and said to him : Thus saith the
rord: Did I not plainly appear to thy
ither's house, when they were in Egypt
1 the house of Pharao?

28 And I chose him out of all the tribes
f Israel to be my priest, to go up to my
Itar, and burn incense to me, and to
^ear the ephod before me : and I gave
o thy father's house of all the sacrifices
if the children of Israel.

29 Why have you kicked away my vic-
ims, and my gifts which I commanded
o be offered in the temple: and thou
last rather honoured thy sons than me,
o eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of
ay people Israel?

30 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the
Jod of Israel : ^ I said indeed that thy
lOuse, and the house of thy father should
ninister in my sight, for ever. But now
lalth the Lord : Far be this from me : but
whosoever shall glorify me, him will I
florify: but they that despise me, shall
)e despised.

! 31 Behold the days come: and I will cut
3ff thy arm, and the arm of thy father's
10 use, that there shall not be an old man
in thy house.

32 And thou shalt see thy rival in the
jbemple, in all the prosperity of Israel, and
|bhere shall not be an old man in thy
jhouse for ever.

33 However I will not altogether take
,jLway a man of thee from my altar : but
ithat thy eyes may faint and thy soul be
spent: and a great part of thy house shall
die when they come to man's estate.

34 And this shall be a sign to thee, that

z 3 Kings 2. 27.

Ver. 25. Who shall pray for him. By these words
Heli would have his sons "understand, that by tneir
«ricked abuse of sacred things, and of the very sacri-
fices which were appointed to appease the Lord,
they deprived themselves of the ordinary means of
reconciliation with God; which was by sacrifices.
The more, because as they were the chief priests
whose business it was to intercede for all others,
they had no other to offer sacrifices and to make
atonement for them. — Ibid. Because the Lord
^vould slay them. In consequence of their mani-

shall como upon xlhy two sons, Ophni and
Phinees: In one day they shall both of
them die.

35 And I will raise me up a faithful
priest, who shall do according to m^
heart, and my soul, and I will build him a
faithful house, and he shall walk all days
before my anointed.

36 And it shall come to pass, that who-
soever shall remain in thy house, shall
come that he may be prayed for, and
shall offer a piece of silver, and a roll of
bread, and shall say : Put me, I beseech
thee, to somewhat of the priestly oflice,
that I may eat a morsel of bread.

CHAPTER 3.

Samuel is four tiTnes called by the Lord: who re-
vealeth to him, the evil that shall fall on Heli, and
his house.

NOW the child Samuel ministered to
the Lord before Heli, and the word
of the Lord was precious in those days,
there was no manifest vision.

2 And it came to pass one day when
Heli lay in his place, and his eyes were
grown dim, that he could not see:

3 Before the lamp of God went out,
Samuel slept in the temple of the Lord,
where the ark of God was.

4 And the Lord called Samuel. And he
answered : Here am I.

6 And he ran to Heli and said : Here am
I : for thou didst call me. He said : I did
not call: go back and sleep. And he
went and slept.

6 And the Lord called Samuel again.
And Samuel arose and went to Heli, and
said : Here am I : for thou calledst me.
He answered : I did not call thee, my son :
return and sleep.

7 Now Samuel did not yet know the
Lord, neither had the word of the Lord
been revealed to him.

8 And the Lord called Samuel again the
third time. And he arose up and went
to Heli.

9 And said : Here am I : for thou didst

fold sacrileges, he would not soften their hearts with
his efficacious grace, but was determined to destroy
them.

Ver. 32. Thy rival. A priest of another race.
This was partly fulfilled, when Abiathar, of the race
of Heli, was removed from the priesthood, and So-
doc, who was of another line, was substituted in his
place. But it was more fully accomplished in the
New Testament, when the priesthood of Aaron gave
place to that of Christ.

Chap. 3. Ver. 1. Precious. That is, rare,

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The prophesy against Heli

call me. Then Hell tmdersibood that the
Lord called the child, and he said to
Samuel : Go, and sleep : and if he shall
call thee any more, thou shalt say : Speak,
Lord, for thy servant heareth. So Sam-
uel went and slept in his place.

10 And the Lord came and stood : and
he called, as he had called the other
times : Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel
said : Speak, Lord, for thy servant hear-
eth.

11 And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold
I do a thing in Israel: and whosoever
shall hear it, both his ears shall tingle.

12 In that day I will raise up against
Heli all the things I have spoken concern-
ing his house: I will begin, and I will
make an end.

13 For I have foretold unto him, that I
will judge his house for ever, for iniquity,
because he knew that his sons did wick-
edly, and did not chastise them.

14 Therefore have I sworn to the house
of HeU, that the iniquity of his house
shall not be expiated with victims nor
offerings for ever.

15 And Samuel slept till morning,
and opened the 'doors of the house of
the Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the
vision to Heh.

16 Then Heli called Samuel, and said :
Samuel, my son. And he answered: Hero
am I.

17 And he asked him : What is the word
that the Lord hath spoken to thee? I
beseech thee hide it not from me. May
God do so and so to thee, and add so and
so, if thou hide from me one word of all
that were said to thee.

18 So Samuel told him all the words, and
did not hide them from him. And he an-
swered : It is the Lord : let him do what
is good in his sight.

19 And Samuel grew, and the Lord was
with him, and not one of his words fell to
the ground.

20 And all Israel from Dan to Bersabee,
knew that Samuel was a faithful prophet
of the Lord.

21 And the Lord again appeared in Silo,
for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel
in Silo, according to the word of the Lord.
And the word of Samuel came to pass to
all Israel.

1 KINGS The Philistines overcome Israel

Chap. 4. Ver. l. The Stone of help. In Hebrew
Eben-ezer ; so called from the help which the Vord

CHAPTER 4.

The Israelites being overcome by the Philistines,
send for the ark of God : but they are beaten again,
the sons of Heli are killed, and the ark taken : upon
the hearing of the news, Heli falleth backward
and dieth.

AND it came to pass in those days,
XX that the Philistines gathered them-
selves together to fight : and Israel went
out to war against the Philistines, and
camped by the Stone of help. And the
Philistines came to Aphec,

2 And put their army in array against
Israel. And when they had joined battle,
Israel turned their backs to the Philis-
tines, and there was slain in that fight
here and there in the fields about four
thousand men.

3 And the people returned to the camp:
and the ancients of Israel said : Why hath
the Lord defeated us to day before the
Philistines ? Let us fetch unto us the ark
of the covenant of the Lord from Silo,
and let it come in the midst of us, that it
may save us from the hand of our ene-
mies.

4 So the people sent to Silo, and they
brought from thence the ark of the cov-
enant of the Lord of hosts sitting upon
the cherubims : and the two sons of Heli,
Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark of
the covenant of God.

6 And when the ark of the covenant of
the Lord was come into the camp, all
Israel shouted with a great shout, and
the earth rang again.

6 And the Philistines heard the noise
of the shout, and they said : What is this
noise of a great shout in the camp of
the Hebrews ? And they understood that
the ark of the Lord was come into the
camp.

7 And the Phihstines were afraid, say-
ing: God is come into the camp. And
sighing, they said :

8 Woe to us : for there was no such great
joy yesterday and the day before : Woe
to us. Who shall deliver us from the
hand of these high gods ? these are the
gods that struck Egypt with all the
plagues in the desert.

9 Take courage and behave like men,
ye Philistines : lest you come to be ser-
vants to the Hebrews, as they have
served you : take courage and fight.

was pleased afterwards to give to his people Israel
in that place, by the prayers of Samuel, chap. 7. !'>■

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^he ark is taken

10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel
'as overthrown, and every man fled to
is own dwelling : and there was an ex-
eeding great slaughter ; for there fell of
jrael thirty thousand footmen.

11 And the ark of God was taken: and
ae two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees,
i'^ere slain.

12 And there ran a man of Benjamin
ut of the army, and came to Silo the
ame day, with his clothes rent, and his
ead strewed with dust.

13 And when he was come, Heli sat
pon a stool over against the way watch-
ig. For his heart was fearful for the
rk of God. And when the man was
ome into the city, he told it: and all
he city cried out.

14 And Heli heard the noise of the cry,
nd he said : What meaneth the noise of
his uproar? But he made haste, and
ame, and told Heli.

15 Now Heli was ninety and eight years
Id, and his eyes were dim, and he could
ot see.

16 And he said to Heli : I am he that
ame from the battle, and have fled out
f the field this day. And he said to
im : What is there done, my son ?

17 And he that brought the news an-
wered, and said: Israel has fled before
he Philistines, and there has been a
reat slaughter of the people : moreover
hy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are
ead : and the ark of God is taken.

18 And when he had named the ark of
}od, he fell from his stool backwards by
he door, and broke his neck, and died,
'or he was an old man, and far advanced

years: and he judged Israel forty
ears,

19 And his daughter in law the wife of
*hinees, was big with child, and near
er time : and hearing the news that the
rk of God was taken, and her father in
iw, and her husband, were dead, she
owed herself and fell in labour : for her
ains came upon her on a sudden.

20 And when she was upon the point of
eath, they that stood about her said to
ler : Fear not, for thou hast borne a son.

Ver. 18. Named the ark, &c. There is great rea-
on, by all these circumstances, to hope that Heli
ied iu a state of grace ; and by his temporal punish-
lents escaped the eternal.

Ver. 21. Ichabod. Tha,tis, Where is the glory? or,
here is no glory. We see how much the Israelites

The ark among the Philistines

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' She answered them not, nor gave need
to them.

21 And she called the child Ichabod,
saying: The glory is gone from Israel,
because the ark of God was taken, and
for her father in law, and her husband :

22 And she said : The glory is departed
from Israel, because the ark of God was
taken.

CHAPTER 5.

Dagon twice falleth down before the ark. The Phi-
listines are grievously ajjtiicted, wherever the ark
Cometh.

ND the Philistines took the ark of
God, and carried it from the Stone
of help into Azotus.

2 And the Philistines took the ark of
God, and brought it into the temple of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

3 And when the Azotians arose early
the next day, behold Dagon lay upon his
face on the ground before the ark of the
Lord : and they took Dagon, and set him
again in his place.

4 And the next day again, when they
rose in the morning, they found Dagon
lying upon his face on the earth before
the ark of the Lord : and the head of
Dagon, and both the palms of his handa
were cut off upon the threshold :

6 And only the stump of Dagon remained
in its place. For this cause neither the
priests of Dagon, nor any that go into
the temple tread on the threshold of
Dagon in Azotus unto this day.

6 And the hand of the Lord was heavy
upon the Azotians, and he destroyed
them, ^ and afflicted Azotus and the
coasts thereof with emerodp. And in the
villages and fields in the midst of that
country, there came forth a multitude of
mice, and there was the confusion of a
great mortality in the city.

7 And the men of Azotus seeing this
kind of plague, said : The ark of the God
of Israel shall not s^ay with us : for his
hand is heavy upon us, and upon Dagon
our god.

8 And sending, they gathered together
all the lords of ^xhe Philistines to them,
and said : What shall we do with the ark

d Ps. 77. 66.

lamented the losi of the ark, which was but the sym-
bol of God's presence amongst them. How much
more ought Crristians to lament the loss of God
himself, when by sin they have driven him out oi
their souls?

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The ark is sent back

of the God of Israel ? And the Gethrites
answered : Let the ark of the God of Is-
rael be carried about. And they carried
the ark of the God of Israel about.

9 And while they were carrying it about,
the hand of the Lord came upon every
city with an exceeding great slaughter :
and he smote the men of every city, both
small and great, and they had emerods
in their secret parts. And the Gethrites
consulted together, and made themselves
seats of skins.

10 Therefore they sent the ark of God
into Accaron. And when the ark of God
was come into Accaron, the Accaronites
cried out, saying: They have brought
the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill
us and our people.

11 They sent therefore and gathered
together all the lords of the Phihstines :
and they said : Send away the ark of the
God of Israel, and let it return into its
own place, and not kill us and our people.

12 For there was the fear of death in
every city, and the hand of God was ex-
ceeding heavy. The men also that did
not die, were afllicted with the emerods :
and the cry of every city went up to
heaven.

CHAPTER 6.

The ark is sent back to Bethsames: where many
are slain for looking through curiosity into it.

NOW the ark of God was in the land
of the Philistines seven months.

2 And the Philistines called for the
priests and the diviners, saying: What
shall we do with the ark of the Lord?
tell us how we are to send it back to its
place ? And they said :

3 If you send back the ark of the God
of Israel, send it not away empty, but
render unto him what you owe for sin,
and then you shall be healed : and you
shall know why his hand departeth not
from you.

4 They answered : What is it we ought
to render unto him for sin? and they
answered :

5 According to the number of the pro-
vinces of the Philistines you shall make
five golden emerods, and five golden
mice: for the same plague hath been
upon you all, and upon your lords. And
you shall make the likeness of your eme-
rods, and the likeness of the mice that

have destroyed the land, and you shall
give glory to the God of Israel: to see
if he will take off his hand from you,
and from your gods, and from your land.

6 Why do you harden your hearts, as
Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts?
^ did not he, after he was struck, then let
them go, and they departed ?

7 Now therefore take and make a new
cart : and two kine that have calved, on
which there hath come no yoke, tie to
the cart, and shut up their calves at
home.

8 And you shall take the ark of the
Lord, and lay it on the cart, and the
vessels of gold, which you have paid
him for sin, you shall put into a little
box, at the side thereof: and send it
away that it may go.

9 And you shall look : and if it go up
by the way of his own coasts towards
Bethsames, then he hath done us this
great evil: but if not, we shall know
that it is not his hand hath touched us,
but it hath happened by chance.

10 They did therefore in this manner:
and taking two kine, that had suckling
calves, they yoked them to the cart, and
shut up their calves at home.

11 And they laid the ark of God upon
the cart, and the little box that had in it
the golden mice and the likeness of the
emerods.

12 And the kine took the straight way
that leadeth to Bethsames, and they
went along the way, lowing as they
went: and turned not aside neither to
the right hand nor to the left : and the
lords of the Phihstines followed them as
far as the borders of Bethsames.

13 Now the Bethsamites were reaping
wheat in the valley : and lifting up their
eyes they saw the ark, and rejoiced to
see it.

14 And the cart came into the field of
Josue a Bethsamite, and stood there.
And there was a great stone, and they
cut in pieces the wood of the cart, and
laid the kine upon it a holocaust to the
Lord.

15 And the Levites took down the ark
of God, and the little box that was at
the side of it, wherein were the vessels
of gold, and they put them upon the
great stone. The men also of Bethsames

/£au 12.21.

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; lie men of Bethsames

1 KINGS Israelites defeat the Philistines

ffered holocausts and sacrificed victims
lat day to the Lord.

!l6 And the five princes of the PhiHs-
.nes saw, and they returned to Accaron
le same day.

17 And these are the golden emerods,
hich the Philistines returned for sin to
le Lord : For Azotus one, for Gaza one,
)r Ascalon one, for Geth one, for Acca-
m one :

18 And the golden mice according to
16 number of the cities of the Philis-
nes, of the five provinces, from the
jnced city to the village that was with-
iit wall, and to the great Abel {the stone)
hereon they set down the ark of the
ord, which was till that day in the field
f Josue the Bethsamite.

19 But he slew of the men of Bethsames,
3cause they had seen the ark of the
ord : and he slew of the people seventy
ten, and fifty thousand of thoi common
aople. And the people lamented, be-
inse the Lord had smitten the people

"ith, a great slaughter.

20 And the men of Bethsames said:
^ho shall be able to stand before the
ord this holy God ? and to whom shall
3 go up from us ?

l\ And they sent messengers to the
ihabitants of Oariathiarim, saying: The
hilistines have brought back thd ark of
le Lord, come ye down and fetoJl it up
) you.

CHAPTER» 7.

he ark is brour/ht to Ca'' ^athlarua. By SianniteVs
ex/iortation, tJie peoiJ ^ cant aivay their iUols and
'serve God alone. T/ e Lord defeatetli the PhUis-
I tinesy while Samue" offereth sacrijice.

AND the men of Cariathiarim came
\\ and fetched up the ark of the Lord
iad carried it into the house of Abina-
|ab in Gabaa : and they sanctified Eleazar
lis son, to keep the ark of the Lord.
J2 And it came to pass, that from the
lay the ark of the Lord abode in Cari-
ibhiarim days were multiplied, (for it was
iow the twentieth year,) and all the
|ou8e of Israel rested following the
ord.

J And Samuel spoke to all the house of
irael, saying : ^ If you turn to the Lord

h Deut. 6. 13 ; Matt 4. 10.

with all your heart, put away the strange
gods from among you, Baahm and Asta-
roth ; and prepare your hearts unto the
Ljrd, and serve him only, and he will
deliver you out of the hand of the Philis-
tines.

4 Then the children of Israel put away
Baalim and Astaroth, and served the
Lord only.

5 And Samuel said: Gather all Israel
to Masphath, that I may pray to the
Lord for you.

6 And they gathered together to Mas-
phath : and they drew water, and poured
it out before the Lord, and they fasted
on that day, and they said there: We
have sinned against the Lord. And
Samuel judged the children of Israel in
Masphath.

7 And the Philistines heard that the
children of Israel were gathered together
to Masphath, and the lords of the Philis-
tines went up against Israel. And when
the children of Israel heard this, they
were afrasid of the Philistines.

8 And they said to Samuel: Cease not
to cry to the Lord our God for us, that
he may save us out of the hand of the
Philistines.

9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and
ofiPered it whole for a holocaust to the
Lord : and Samuel cried to the Lord for
Israel, and the Lord heard him.

10 And it came to pass, when Samuel
was offering the holocaust, the Philis-
tines began the battle against Israel:
*but the Lord thundered with a great
thunder on that day upon the Philistines,
and terrified them, and they were over-
thrown before the face of Israel.

11 And the men of Israel going out of
Masphath pursued after the Philistines,
and made slaughter of them till they
came under Bethchar.

12 And Samuel took a stone, and laid
it between Masphath and Sen: and he
called the place, the Stt)ne of help.
Ai>d he said : Thus far tlKe Lord hath
helped us.

13 And the Philistines \»*ere humbled,
and they did not come anji more into the
bordpsrs of Israel. And th^ hand of the

i Eccli. 4C. 21.

Chap. 6. Ver. 19. Seen; and curiously looked/ v^ha^. (. vn. i. ui ^^u
to. It is likely this plague reached to all the f oi* Gab* fc signitietli a liili.
iignbouring country, as well as Uie city of Beth- '
mes.

Chap. 7. Ver. 1. Tn Oabaa. XUat ia, OH tbe liil\

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Lord was against the Philistines, all the
days of Samuel.

14 And the cities, which the PhiHstines
had taken from Israel, were restored to
Israel, from Accaron to Geth, and their
borders : and he dehvered Israel from
the hand of the Philistines, and there
was peace between Israel and the Amor-
thites.

15 And Samuel judged Israel all the
days of his life :

16 And he went every year about to Beth-
el and to Galgal and to Masphath, and he
judged Israel in the aforesaid places.

17 And he returned to Ramatha, for
there was his house, and there he judged
Israel : he built also there an altar to the
Lord.

CHAPTER 8.

Samuel growing old, and his sons not walking in
his ways, the people desire a king.

A ND it came to pass when Samuel was
XjL old, that he appointed his sons to
be judges over Israel.

2 Now the name of his firstborn son was
Joel : and the name of the second was
Abia, judges in Bersabee.

3 And his sons walked not in his ways :
but they turned aside after lucre, and
took bribes, and perverted judgment.

4 Then all the ancients of Israel being
assembled, came to Samuel to Ramatha.

6 And they said to him: Behold thou
art old, and thy sons walk not in thy
ways : * make us a king, to judge us, as
all nations have.

6 And the word was displeasing in the
©yes of Samuel, that they should say :
Give us a king, to judge us. And Sam-
uel prayed to the Lord.

7 And the Lord said to Samuel : Heark-
en to the voice of the people in all that
they say to thee. For they have not re-
jected thee, but me, that I should not
reign over them.

8 According to all their works, they
have done from the day that I brought
them out of Egypt until this day : as
they have forsaken me, and served
strange gods, so do they also unto thee.

9 Now therefore hearken to their voice :
but yet testify to them, and foretell them

Chap. 8. Ver. 7. Rejected, &c. The government
of Israel hitherto had been a theocracy; in which
God himself immediately ruled, by laws which he
had enacted, and by iudges extraordinarily raised
<I9 bj him&elt : and therefore he complains that nis

The rights of a kin§

the right of the king, that shall reign
over them.

10 Then Samuel told all the words oi
the Lord to the people that had desired
a king of him,

11 And said: This will be the right o!
the king, that shall reign over you: He
will take your sons, and put them in his
chariots, and will make them his horse-
men, and his running footmen to run be-
fore his chariots,

12 And he will appoint of them to be
his tribunes, and centurions, and to
plough his fields, and to reap his com,
and to make him arms and chariots.

13 Your daughters also he will take to
make him ointments, and to be his cooks,
and bakers.

14 And he will take your fields, and
your vineyards, and your best olive-
yards, and give them to his servants.

15 Moreover he will take the tenth ol
your corn, and of the revenues of youi
vineyards, to give his eunuchs and ser-
vants.

16 Your servants also and handmaids,
and your goodliest young men, and jour
asses he will take away, and put theun to
his work.

17 Yom flocks also he will tithe, and
you shall be his servants.

18 And you shall cry out in that day
from the face of the king, whom yoD
have chosen to yourselves: and the
Lord will not hear you in that day, be-
cause you desired unto yourselves a king.

19 But the people would not hear tbe
voice of Samuel, and they said: Nay:
but there shall be a king over us.

20 And we also will be like all nations:
and our king shall judge us, and go out
before us, and fight our battles for us.

21 And Samuel heard all the words of
the people, and rehearsed them in the j
ears of the Lord.

22 And the Lord said to Samuel : Heark-
en to their voice, and make them a king.
And Samuel said to the men of Israel-
Let every man go to his city.

CHAPTER 9.

Saul teeking his father^s asses, cometh to SamvA
by whom, he is entertained.

k Osee 13. 10 ; Acts 13. 21.

people rejected him, in desiring a change of govertt
raent. , . i. «

Ver. 9. The right. That is, the manner {mispMi)
after which he shall proceed, having no one to coa
trol him, wh<)Q lie lias the power in his hand.

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iiul seeks his father's asses

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Saul meets Samuel

rrOW there was a man of Benjamin
1 whose name was Cis, the son of
3iel, the son of Seror, the son of Becho-
th, the son of Aphia, the son of a man

Jomini, valiant and strong.

And he had a son whoso name was
,ul, a choice and goodly man, and there
IS not among the children of Israel a
odlier person than he : from his shoul-
rs and upward he appeared above all
e people.

And the asses of Cis, Saul's father,
)re lost : and Cis said to his son Saul :
,ke one of the servants with thee, and
ise, go, and seek the asses. And when
ay had passed through mount Ephraim,

And through the land of Salisa, and
d not found them, they passed also
irough the land of Salim, and they were
t there: and through the land of
mini, and found them not.

And when they were come to the land
Suph, Saul said to the servant that was
bh him: Come, let us return, lest per-
ps my father forget the asses, and be
|ncerned for us.

And he said to him : Behold there is
inan of God in this city, a famous man :

that he saith, cometh certainly to pass.

w therefore let us go thither, perhaps
1 may tell us of our way, for which we
3 come.

And Saul said to his servant : Behold
'i will go : hut what shall we carry to
3 man of God ? the bread is spent in
ir bags : and we have no present to
like to the man of God, nor any thing

all.

The servant answered Saul again, and

Id : Behold there is found in my hand

i} fourth part of a side of silver, let us

I ^e it to the man of God, that he may

1 us our way.

Now in time past, in Israel when a

n went to consult God he spoke thus :

me, let us go to the seer. For he that

HAP. 9. Ver. 9. A seer. Because of his seeing
jivine light hidden things and things to come.
er. 12. A sacrifice. The law did not allow of

Iflces in any other place, but at the tabernacle,
emple, in which the ark of the covenant was
t; but Samuel, by divine dispensation, offered
"ifices in other places. For which dispensation

reason may be alleged, that the house of God
>iIo, having lost the ark, was now cast off; as a
re of the reprobation of the Jews, Ps. 77. 60, 67
1 in Cariathiarim where the ark was, there was
her tabernacle, nor altar. -~ Ibid. The high
cc, ExirJsun.. The excelsa^ or hi^h places, so

is now called a prophet, in time past was
called a seer.

10 And Saul said to his servant: Thy
word is very good, come, let us go. And
they went into the city, where the man
of God was.

11 And when they went up the ascent
to the city, they found maids coming out
to draw water, and they said to them : Is
the seer here ?

12 They answered and said to them : He
is : behold he is before you, make haste
now : for he came to day into the city,
for there is a sacrifice of the people to
day in the high place.

13 As soon as you come into the city,
you shall immediately find him, before
he go up to the high place to eat : for the
people will not eat till he come : because
he blesseth the victim, and afterwards
they eat that are invited. Now there-
fore go up, for to day you shall find him.

14 And they went up into the city.
And when they were walking in the midst
of the city, behold Samuel was coming out
over against them, to go up to the high
place.

15 "* Now the Lord had revealed to the
ear of Samuel the day before Saul came,
saying :

16 To morrow about this same hour I
will send thee a man of the land of Ben-
jamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be
ruler over my people Israel : and he
shall save my people out of the hand of
the Philistines: for I have looked down
upon my people, because their cry is come
to me.

17 And when Samuel sa'jf 3aul, the Lord
sai<'. to him : Behold the man, of whom I
spoke to thee, this man shall reign over
my people.

18 And Saul came to Samuel in the
midst of the gate and said: Tell me, I
pray thee, where is the house of the seer ?

19 And Samuel answered Saul, saying:

m Acts 13. 21.

often mentioned in scripture, were places of wor-
ship, in which were altars for sacrifice. These were
sometimes employed in the service of the true God,
as in the present case : but more frequently in the
service of idols ; and were called excelsa, which is
commonly (though perhaps not so accurately) ren-
dered hifrh places; nc: because they were always
upon hills, for the very worst of all, which was that
of Topheth or Geennom, ( Jer. 19.) was in a valley ;
but because of the high altars, and pillars, or monu-
ments, erected there, on which were set up the idols
or images of tbeir deities.

291

Samuel entertains Saul

1 KINGS

Saul is anointed lei

I am the seer, go up before me to the
high place, that you may eat with me to
day, and I will let thee go in the morn-
ing: and tell thee all that Is in thy heart.

20 And as for the asses, which were
lost three days ago, be not solicitous,
because they are found. And for whom
shall be all the best things of Israel?
Shall they not be for thee and for all thy
father's house?

21 And Saul answering, said : Am not I
a son of Jemini of the least tribe of Israel,
and my kindred the last among all the
families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why
then hast thou spoken this word to me ?

22 Then Samuel taking Saul and his ser-
vant, brought them into the parlour, and
gave them a place at the head of them
that were invited. For there were about
thirty men.

23 And Samuel said to the cook : Brin^^
the portion, which I gave thee, and com-
manded thee to set it apart by thee.

24 And the cook took up the shoulder,
and set it before Saul. And Samuel said :
Behold what is left, set it before thee,
and eat : because it was kept of purpose
for thee, when I invited the people. And
Saul ate with Samuel that day.

25 And they went down from the high
place into the town, and he spoke with
Saul upon the top of the house : and he
prepared a bed for Saul on the top of the
house, and he slept.

26 And when they were risen in the
morning, and it began now to be light,
Samuel called Saul on the top of the
house, saying : Arise, that I may let thee
go. And Saul arose : and ihey went out
both of them, to wit, he and Samuel.

27 And as they were going down in the
end of the city, Samuel said to Saul:
Speak to the servant to go before us, and
pass on : but stand thou still a while, that
I may tell thee the word of the Lord.

CHAPTER 10.

Saul is anointed. Be prophesieth, and is changed
into another man. Samuel calleth the people to-
gether, to make a king : the lotfalleth on Saul.

n B. C. 1040. Acts 13. 21.

Chap. lO. Ver, 3. Bethel. Where there was at
that time an altar of God ;, it being one of the places
where Samuel judged Israel.

Ver. 5. The hill of God. Gabaa, in which there
was also at that time, a high place or altar. — Pro-

ghets. These v.ere men whose office it was to sing
ymns and praises tc God ; for such in holy writ are
called prophets., &nC their s'ng^ng praities to God is

AN^D ** Samuel took a little vial of o
and poured it upon his head, ai
kissed him, and said: Behold, tho Lo
hath anointed thee to be prince over 1
inheritance, and thou shalt deliver
people out of the hands of their enemie
that are round about them. And tl:
shall be a sign unto thee, that God ha
anointed thee to be prince.

2 When thou shalt depart from me tl
day, thou shalt find two men by the se
ulchre of Rachel in the borders of Beuj
min to the south, and they shall say
thee: The asses are found which tht
wentest to seek: and thy father thinki "
no more of the asses is concerned f
you, and saith: What shaU I do for d
son?

3 And when thou shalt depart fro
thence, and go farther on, and shalt cor
to the oak of Thabor, there shall me
thee three men going up to God
Bethel, one carrying three kids, and 8
other three loaves of bread, and anoth
carrying a bottle of wine.

4 And they will salute thee, and \^
give thee two loaves, and thou shalt ta
them at their hand.

5 After that thou shalt come to the 1:
of God, where the garrison of the Phil,
tines is: and when thou shalt be coi
there into the city, thou shalt meet.
company of prophets coming down frc
the high place, with a psaltery andi
timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp befti
them, and they shall be prophesying. I

6 And the spirit of the Lord shall co]|
upon thee, and thou shalt pro]t,hesy w j
them, and shalt be changed into anotl
man. I

7 When therefore these signs shi
happen to jhee, do whatsoever thy haj
shall find, for the Lord is with thee. |

8 Anci thou shalt go down before me |
Galgal, (for I will come down to the
that thou mayest offer an oblation, a
sacrifice victims of peace: seven d
shalt thou wait, ® till I come to thee, a
I will shew thee what thou art to do.

9 So when he had turned his back to

o Infra 13. 8.

called prophesying. See 1 Par. alias 1 Chr. 15
and 25. 1. Kow there were in those days colle}
or schools for training up these prophets; an»
seems there was one of these schools at this hil
God; and another at Najoth in Ramatha.
1 Kings 19. 20, 21, &c.

Ver. 8. GaigaL Here also by dispensation ^
an altar of God.

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laid among the prophets

1 ^INGS

Saul chosen king

•om Samuel, God gave unto him another
eart, and all these things came to pass
lat day.

10 And they came to the foresaid hill,
Qd behold a company of prophets met
im: and the spirit of the Lord came
pen him, and he prophesied in the
lidst of them.

11 And aU that had known him yester-
day and the day before, seeing that he

as with the prophets, and prophesied,
lid to each other: What is this that
ith happened to the son of Cis ? Is Saul
ISO among the prophets ?
il2 And one answered another, saying:
nd who is their father ? therefore it be-
iime a proverb : P Is Saul also among the
rophets ?

13 And when he bad made an end of
rophesying, he came to the high place.
'14 And Saul's uncle said to him, and to
18 servant : Whither went you ? They
iswered : To seek the asses : and not
lading them we went to Samuel.

15 And his uncle said to him i Tell me
hat Samuel said to thee.

il6 And Saul said to his uncle : He told
i that the asses were found. But of the
atter of the kingdom of which Samuel
id spoken to him, he told him not.
ii7 And Samuel called together the peo-

1 6 to the Lord in Maspha :

l8 And he said to the children of Israel :
tius saith the Lord the God of Israel : I
•ought up Israel out of Egypt, and de-
rered you from the hand of the Egyp-
ms, and from the hand of all the kings
'ho afflicted you.

.9 But you this day have rejected your
od, who only hath saved you out of all
;)ur evils and your tribulations: and
;)U have said : ^ Nay : but set a king
rer us. Now therefore stand before
lie Lord by your tribes, and by your
milies.

JO And Samuel brought to him all the
ibes of Israel, and the lot fell on the
ibe of Benjamin.

II And he brought the tribe of Benjamin
iid the kindreds thereof, and the lot fell
)on the kindred of Metri, and it came
• Saul the son of Cis. They sought him
lerefore and he was not found.
j'2 And after this they consulted the
I p Infra 19, 24. — gr Supra 8. 19.

I^er.12. Their father.

Lord whether he would come thither.
And the Lord answered: Behold he i8
hidden at home.

23 And they ran and fetched him thence :
and he stood in the midst of the people,
and he was higher than any of the peo-
ple from the shoulders and upward.

24 And Samuel said to all the people :
Surely you see him whom the Lord hath
chosen, that there is none like him among
all the people. And all the people cried
and said: God save the king.

25 And Samuel told the people the law
of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book,
and laid it up before the Lord: and
Samuel sent away all the people, every
one to his own house.

26 Saul also departed to his own house
in Gabaa : and there went with him a
part of the army, whose hearts God had
touched.

27 But the children of BeUal said: Shall
this fellow be able to save us ? And they
despised him, and brought him no pre-
sents, but he dissembled as though he
heard not.

CHAPTER 11.

SatU defeateth the Aynmonites^
Jabes Galaad.

and deUvereth

ND it came to pass about a month
after this that Naas, the Ammonite
came up, and began to fight against
Jabes Galaad. And all the men of Jabes
said to Naas : Make a covenant with us,
and we will serve thee.

2 And Naas the Ammonite answered
them : On this condition will I make a
covenant with you, that I may pluck out
all your right eyes, and make you a re-
proach in all Israel.

3 And the ancients of Jabes said to him :
Allow us seven days, that we may send
messengers to all the coasts of Israel:
and if there be no one to defend us, we
will come out to thee.

4 The messengers therefore came to
Gabaa of Saul : and they spoke these
words in the hearing of the people : and
all the people lifted up their voices, and
wept.

5 And behold Saul came, following
oxen out of the field, and he said : What
aileth the people that they weep? And

That is, their teacher or superior. As much as to say. Who could bring about
f ucA a wooderlul change as to make Saul a propliet?

293

Said defeats the Ammonites

1 KINGS SamueVs integrity acknowledged

they told him the words of the men of'
Jabes.

6 And the spirit of the Lord came upon
Saul, when he had heard these words,
and his anger was exceedingly kindled.

7 And taking both the oxen, he cut
them in pieces, and sent them into all
the coasts of Israel by messengers, say-
ing: Whosoever shall not come forth,
and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be
done to his oxen. And the fear of the
Lord fell upon the people, and they went
out as one man.

8 And he numbered them in Bezec : and
there were of the children of Israel three
hundred thousand ; and of the men of
Juda thirty thousand.

9 And they said to the messengers that
came : Thus shall you say to the men of
Jabes Galaad : To morrow, when the sun
shall be hot, you shall have relief. The
messengers therefore came, and told the
men of Jabes : and they were glad.

10 And they said : In the morning we
will come out to you : and you shall do
what yDU please with us.

11 And it came to pass, when the mor-
row was come that Saul put the people
in three companies : and he came into the
midst of the camp in the morning watch,
and he slew the Ammonites until the day
grew hot, and the rest were scattered, so
that two of them were not left together.

12 And the people said to Samuel : ^ Who
is he that said : Shall Saul reign over us ?
Bring the men and we will kill them.

13 And Saul said : No man shall be killed
this day, because the Lord this day hath
wrought salvation in Israel :

14 And Samuel said to the people : Come
and let us go to Galgal, and let us renew
the kingdom there.

15 And all the people went to Galgal,
and there they made Saul king before the
Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there
victims of peace before the Lord. And
there Saul and all the men of Israel re-
joiced exceedingly,

CHAPTER 12.

SamueVs integrity is acknowledged. God sheweth
by a sign from heaven that they had done ill in
asking for a king.

A ND * Samuel said to all Israel : ?e-
XX hold I have hearkened to your voice

8 Supra 10. 27. — t A.M. 2909, —n Eccli. 46. 22.

in all that you said tome, and have made i
a king over you.

2 And now the king goeth before you.
but I am old and greyheaded : and my
sons are with you : having then con-
versed with you from my youth unto this i
day, behold here I am.

3 "Speak of me before the Lord, and
before his anointed, whether I have taken |
any man's ox, or ass : If I have wronged
any man, if I have oppressed any man, if
I have taken a bribe at any man's hand:
and I will despise it this day, and will re-
store it to you.

4 And they said : Thou hast not wronged
us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at
any man's hand.

5 And he said to them : The Lord is
witness against you, and his anointed is
witness this day, that you have not found
any thing in my hand. And they said :
He is witness.

6 And Samuel said to the people : It is
the Lord, who made Moses and Aaron,
and brought our fathers out of the land
of Egypt.

7 Now therefore stand up, that I may
plead in judgment against you before thi
Lord, concerning all the kindness of the
Lord, which he hath shewn to you, and
to your fathers : j

8 '" How Jacob went into Egypt, and j
your fathers cried to the Lord : and the |
Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought (
your fathers out of Egypt: and made!
them dwell in this place.

9 And they forgot the Lord their God, ;
"^ and he delivered them irrto the hands
01 Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor,
and into the hands of the Philistines, and
into the hand of the king of Moab, and
they fought against them.

10 But afterwards they cried to the
Lord, and said : We have sinned, because
we have forsaken the Lord, and have
served Baalim and Astaroth : but now
deliver us from the hand of our enemies,
and we will serve thee.

11 ^And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and
Badan, and Jephte, and Samuel, and
delivered you from the hand of your
enemies round about, and you dwelt
securely.

12 But seeing that Naas king of the chll-

V Gen. 46. 5. — W Judges 4. 2. — a; Judges 6. 14.

Chap. 12. Ver. 11.

Jerobaal and Badan. That is, Gedeon and Samson called nere Badau or BedaOi
because he was of Dau, . , ^

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imuel comforts the people

1 KINGS Philistines assemble against Israel

en of Ammon was come against you,
)U said to me : ^ Nay, but a king shall
ign over us: whereas the Lord your
>d was your king.

3 Now therefore your king is here,
lom you have chosen and desired : Be-
d the Lord hath given you a king.

If you will fear the Lord, and serve
m, and hearken to his voice, and not
ovoke the mouth of the Lord : then
all both you, and the king who reign-
over you, be followers of the Lord
ur God.

But if you will not hearken to the
ice of the Lord, but will rebel against
words, the hand of the Lord shall be
on you, and upon your fathers.

Now then stand, and see this great
ng which the Lord will do in your

:iit.

7 Is it not wheat harvest to day ? I will
upon the Lord, and he shall send
ander and rain : and you shall know
d see that you yourselves have done
eat evil in the sight of the Lord, in
iiring a king over you.
And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and
Lord sent thunder and rain that day.
And all the people greatly feared the
rd and Samuel. And all the people
d to Samuel : Pray for thy servants to
Lord thy God, that we may not die,
we have added to all our sins this
1, to ask for a king.
And Samuel said to the people : Fear
, you have done all this evil : but yet
•art not from following the Lord, but
ve the Lord with all your heart.
And turn not aside after vain things
ich shall never profit you, nor deliver

because they are vain.
I And the Lord will not forsake his
)ple for his great name's sake; be-
ise the Lord hath sworn to make you
people.

And far from me be this sin against
Lord, that I should cease to pray for
"a, and I will teach you the good and
t ht way.

Therefore fear the Lord, and serve
h 1 in truth and with your whole heart,
t you have seen the great works which
h hath done among you.

y Supra 8. 19, and 10. 19.

er. 17. Wheat harvest. At which time of the

f*\ it never thunders or rains in those countries.

HAP. 13. Ver. 1. Of one year. This text is

25 But if you will still do wickedly : both
you and your king shall perish together.

CHAPTER 13.

The war between Saul and the Philistines. The
distress of the Israelites. Saul ojfereth sacrifice
before the coming of Samuel : for which he is re-
proved.

SAUL ^ was a child of one year when he
be^an to reign, and he reigned two
years over Israel.

2 And Saul chose him three thousand
men of Israel: and two thousand were
with Saul in Machmas, and in mount
Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in
Gabaa of Benjamin, and the rest of the
people he sent back every man to their
dwellings.

3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of
the Philistines which was in Gabaa. And
when the Philistines had heard of it,
Saul sounded the trumpet over all the
land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.

4 And all Israel heard this report: Saul
hath smitten the garrison of the PhiUs-
tines: and Israel took courage against
the Philistines. And the people were
called together after Saul to Galgal.

5 The Philistines also were assembled to
fight against Israel, thirty thousand chari-
ots, and six thousand horsemen, and a
multitude of people besides, like the sand
on the sea shore for number. And going
up they camped in Machmas at the east
of Bethaven.

6 And when the men of Israel saw that
they were straitened, (for the people were
distressed, ) they hid themselves in caves,
and in thickets, and in rocks, and in dens,
and in pits.

7 And some of the Hebrews passed over
the Jordan into the land of Gad and Ga-
laad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal,
all the people that followed him were
greatly afraid.

8 And he waited seven days according to
the appointment of Samuel, ^ and Samuel
came not to Galgal, and the people slipt
away from him.

9 Then Saul said: Bring me the holo-
caust, and the peace offerings. And he
offered the holocaust.

10 And when he had made an end of of-
fering the holocaust, behold Samuel came:

2 A. M. 2911. Ante C. 1093. — a Supra 10. 8.

"evidently the result of some confusion in the origi-
nal Hebrew. It is not found in the Septuagint
version.

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Samuel reproves Saul

and Saul went forth to meet him and
salute him.

11 And Samuel said to him: What hast
thou done? Saul answered: Because I saw
that the people slipt from me, and thou
wast not come according to the days ap-
pointed, and the Philistines were gath-
ered together in Machmas,

12 I said: Now will the Philistines come
down upon me to Galgal, and I have not
appeased the face of the Lord. Forced
by necessity, I offered the holocaust.

13 And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast
done foolishly, and hast not kept the
commandments of the Lord thy God,
which he commanded thee. And if thou
hadst not done thus, the Lord would now
have established thy kingdom over Israel
for ever.

14 But thy kingdom shall not continue.
^The Lord hath sought him a man ac-
cording to his own heart: and him hath
the Lord commanded to be prince over
his people, because thou hast not ob-
served that which the Lord commanded.

15 And Samuel arose and went up from
Galgal to Gabaa of Benjamin. And the
rest of the people went up after Saul, to
meet the people who fought against them,
going from Galgal to Gabaa in the hill of
Benjamin. And Saul numbered the peo-
ple, that were found with him, about six
hundred men.

16 And Saul and Jonathan his son, and
the people that were present with them,
were in Gabaa of Benjamin: but the Phi-
listines encamped in Machmas.

17 And there went out of the camp of
the Philistines three companies to plun-
der. One company went towards the
way of Ephra to the land of Sual ;

18 And another went by the way of
Beth-horon, and the third turned to the
way of the border, above the valley of
Seboim towards the desert.

19 Now there was no smith to be found
in all the land of Israel, for the Philis-
tines had taken this precaution, lest the
Hebrews should make them swords or
spears.

20 So all Israel went down to the Phi-
listines, to sharpen every man his plough-
share, and his spade, and his axe, and his
rake.

21 So that their shares, and their spades.

1 KINGS Jonathan goes to the Philistines

and their forks, and their axes were
blunt, even to the goad, which was to be
mended.

22 And when the day of battle was
come, there was neither sword nor spear
found in the hand of any of the people
that were with Saul and Jonathan, ex-
cept Saul and Jonathan his son.

23 And the army of the Philistines went
out in order to advance further in Mach-
mas.

CHAPTER 14.
Jonathan attacketh the Philistines. A miraculoui
victory. SauVs unadvised oath, by which Jona-
than is put in danger o/ his life, but is delivered j
by the people. i

NOW it came to pass one day that!
Jonathan the son of Saul said to the!
young rnan that bore his armour: C«me,
and let us go over to the garrison of the
Phihstines, which is on the other side of
yonder place. But he told not this to his ,
father.

2 And Saul abode in the uttermost parti
of Gabaa under the pomegranate tree,'
which was in Magron: and the people]
with him were about six hundred men.

3 And Achias the son of Achitob brother
to Ichabod the son of Phinees, ^ the sod
of Heli the priest of the Lord in Silo,i
wore the ephod. And the people kncTv!
not whither Jonathan was gone. f

4 Now there were between the ascents]
by which Jonathan sought to go oveij
to the garrison of the Phihstines, rockf^
standing up on both sides, and steep clifff.
like teeth on the one side, and on th(
other, the name of the one was BoseBJ|
and the name of the other was Sene:

5 One rock stood out towards the nortl
over against Machmas, and the other t(
the south over against Gabaa.

6 And Jonathan said to the young mai
that bore his armour: Come, let us g(
over to the garrison of these uncircum
cised, it may be the Lord will do for U£
because it is easy for the Lord to sav
either by many, or by few.

7 And his armourbearer said to him
Do all that pleaseth thy mind : go whithe
thou wilt, and I will be with thee where
soever thou hast a mind.

8 And Jonathan said : Behold we will g
over to these men. And when we sha
be seen by them,

9 If they shall speak thus to us : Sta

()ActSl&22.

€ Supra 4. ZL

296

^ defeat of the Philistines

1 KINGS

SauVs oath

we come to you : let us stand still in
place, and not go up to them.
But if they shall say : Come up to
: let us go up, because the Lord hath
livered them into our hands, this shall
a sign unto us.

L So both of them discovered them-
ves to the garrison of the Philistines :
d the Philistines said : Behold the He-
iws come forth out of the holes wherein
y were hid.

2 And the men of the garrison spoke
Jonathan, and to his armourbearer,

d said : Come up to us, and we will
w you a thing. And Jonathan said to
armourbearer: Let us go up, follow
: ^ for the Lord hath delivered them
iO the hands of Israel.
{ And Jonathan went up creeping on
I hands and feet, and his armourbearer
er him. And some fell before Jona-
, others his armourbearer slew as he
lowed him.

And the first slaughter which Jona-
m and his armourbearer made, was of
out twenty men, within half an acre of
d, which a yoke of oxen is wont to
ugh in a day.
> And there was a miracle in the camp,
rough the fields : yea and all the peo-
I of their garrison, who had gone out
plunder, were amazed, and the earth
mbled: and it happened as a miracle
m God.

\ And the watchmen of Saul, who were
FGabaa of Benjamin looked, and behold
JBQultitude overthrown, and fleeing this
\ y and that.

1 And Saul said to the people that
\re with him: Look, and see who is
gae from us. And when they had
Bight, it was found that Jonathan and
t. armourbearer were not there.

? And Saul said to Achias: Bring the
ac of the Lord. (For the ark of God
\ 3 there that day with the children of
I'ael.)

? And while Saul spoke to the priest,
1 3 re arose a great uproar in the camp
c the Philistines: and it increased by
CTrrees, and was heard more clearly.
/ d Saul said to the priest: Draw in
t/ hand.

3 Then Saul and all the people that

d 1 :Mac. 4. 20,

I HAP. 14. Ver. 10. Thin ah all be a sign. It is
u ;ly Jouatjiaa was u^txucted by divine inspiration

were with him, shouted together, and
they came to the place of the fight: and
behold every man's sword was turned
upon his neighbour, and there was a
very great slaughter.

21 Moreover the Hebrews that had been
with the Philistines yesterday and the
day before, and went up with them into
the camp, returned to be with the Israel-
ites, who were with Saul and Jonathan.

22 And all the Israelites that had hid
themselves in mount Ephraim, hearing
that the Philistines fled, joined them-
selves with their countrymen in the
fight. And there were with Saul about
ten thousand men.

23 And the Lord saved! Israel that day.
And the fight went on as far as Bethaven.

24 And the men of Israel were joined
together that day ; and Saul adjured the
people, saying: Cursed be the man that
shall eat food till evening, till I be re-
venged of my enemies. So none of the
people tasted any food :

25 And all the common people came
into a forest, in which there was honey
upon the ground.

26 And when the people came into the
forest, behold the honey dropped, but no
man put his hand to his mouth. For the
people feared the oath.

27 But Jonathan had not heard when
his father adjured the people : and he
put forth the end of the rod, which he
had in his hand, and dipt it in a honey-
comb: and he carried his hand to his
mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.

28 And one of the people answering,
said : Thy father hath bound the people
with an oath, saying : Cursed be the man
that shall eat any food this day. (And
the people were faintc)

29 And Jonathan said: My father hath
troubled the land . you have seen your-
selves that my eyes are enlightened, be-
cause I tasted a little of this honey :

30 How much more if the people had
eaten of the prey of their enemies, which
they found? had there not been made a
greater slaughter among the Philistines?

31 So they smote that day the Philis-
tines from Machmas to Ailon. And the
people were wearied exceedingly.

32 And falling upon the spoils, they

to make choice of tliis sisn • otherwise the observ*
tion ot a/n^fts is ^upmsutlous and sinluL

297

Said consults the Lord in vain 1 KINGS Jonathan saved by the peopU^ [f

took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and
slew them on the ground : and the peo-
ple ate them with the blood.

33 And they told Saul that the people
had sinned against the Lord, eating with
the blood. And he said: You have trans-
gressed : roll here to me now a great
stone.

34 And Saul said: Disperse yourselves
among the people, and tell them to bring
me every man his ox and his ram, and
slay them upon this stone, and eat, and
you shall not sin against the Lord in eat-
ing with the blood. So all the people
brought every man his ox with him till
the night: and slew them there.

35 And Saul built an altar to the Lord :
and he then first began to build an altar
to the Lord.

36 And Saul said : Let us fall upon the
Philistines by night, and destroy them
till the morning light, and let us not
leave a man of them. And the people
said: Do all that seemeth good in thy
eyes. And the priest said * Let us draw
near hither unto God.

37 And Saul consulted the Lord : Shall
I pursue after the Philistines ? wilt thou
deliver them into the hands of Israel?
And he answered him not that day.

38 And Saul said : Bring hither all the
corners of the people: and know, and
see by whom this sin hath happened
to day.

39 As the Lord llveth who is the saviour
of Israel, if it was done by Jonathan my
son, he shall surely die. In this none of
the people gainsaid him.

40 And he said to all Israel : Be you on
one side, and I with Jonathan my son
will be on the other side. And the peo-
ple answered Saul: Do what seemeth
good in thy eyes.

41 And Saul said to the Lord : O Lord
God of Israel, give a sign, by which we
may know^ what the meaning is, that thou
answerest not thy servant to day. If this
iniquity be in me, or in my son Jonathan,
give a proof : or if this iniquity be in thy
people, give holiness. And Jonathan and
Saul were taken, and the people escaped.

42 And Saul said : Cast lots between me,
and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was
taken.

Ver. 42. Jonathan was taken. Though Jonathan
was excused from sin, through ignorance of the
prohibition^ yet God was pleased ou this occasion

43 And Saul said to Jonathen : Tell me
what thou hast done. And Jonathan told
him, and said: I did but taste a little i
honey with the end of the rod, which;
was in my hand, and behold I must die. i

44 And Saul said: May God do so audi
so to me, and add still more : for dying
thou shalt die, O Jonathan.

45 And the people said to Saul: Shali
Jonathan then die, who hath wrought
this great salvation in Israel? This must
not be. As the Lord liveth, there shall
not one hair of his head fall to the ground,
for he hath wrought with God this day.
So the people delivered Jonathan, that
he should not die.

46 And Saul went back, and did not
pursue after the Philistines: and the
Philistines went to their own places.

47 And Saul having his kingdom estab-
lished over Israel, fought against all Iub
enemies round about, against Moab, and
against the children of Ammon, and
Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the
Philistines ; and whithersoever he turned ,
himself, he overcame.

48 And gathering together an army, he!
defeated Amalec, and delivered Israel
from the hand of them that spoiled them.

49 And the sons of Saul, were Jonathan,
and Jessui, andMelchisua: and the names
of his two daughters, the name of the
firstborn was Merob, and the name ol
the younger Michol.

60 And the name of Saul's wife, was
Achinoam the daughter of Achimaas;
and the name of the captain of his army
was Abner, the son of Ner, the cousin
german of Saul.

51 For Cis was the father of Saul, and!
Ner the father of Abner, was son ofi
Abiel.

52 And there was a great war against
the Philistines all the days of Saul. For
whomsoever Saul saw to be a valiant
man, and fit for war, he took him tO;
himself. \

CHAPTER 15.

Saul is sent to def^troy Am alec : he spareth their MnV
and the best of their cattle : for which disobedience
he is cast off by the Lord.

^ND Samuel said to Saul: The Lord
sent me to anoint thee king over

to let the lot fall ppon him, to shew unto all tt®L,|
great obligation ot obedience to princes and ptfH IJ
ents. I L

iaul commanded to destroy Amalec 1 KINGS

SauVs disobedience

people Israel : now therefore hearken
ou unto the voice of the Lord :
Thus saith the Lord of hosts : I have
ikoned up all that Amalec hath done
Israel : ^ how he opposed them in the
y when they came up out of Egypt.
Now therefore go, and smite Amalec,
ad utterly destroy all that he hath :
)are him not, nor covet any thing that
his: but slay both man and woman,
iild and suckling, ox and sheep, camel
id ass.

[ So Saul commanded the people, and
imbered them as lambs : two hundred
ousand footmen, and ten thousand of
le men of Juda.

And when Saul was come to the city
! Amalec, he laid ambushes in the
rrent.

\ And Saul said to the Cinite : Go, de-
irt and get ye down from Amalec : lest I
Mtroy thee with him. For thou hast
lewn kindness to all the children of
rael, when they came up out of Egypt.
nd the Cinite (imparted from the midst
Amalec.

And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila,
itil thou comest to Sur, which is over
ainst Egypt.

And he took Agag the king of Amalec
ive : but all the common people he slew
ifch the edge of the sword.

And Saul and the people spared Agag
id the best of the flocks of sheep and of
le herds, and the garments and the rams,
id all that was beautiful, and would not
stroy them : but every thing that was
le and good for nothing, that they
Bstroyed.

10 And the word of the Lord came to
amuel, saying :

11 It repenteth me that I have made
Iaul king : for he hath forsaken me, and
ath not executed my commandments,
nd Samuel was grieved, and he cried
nto the Lord all night.

12 And when Samuel rose early, to go to
aul in the morning, it was told Samuel,
lat Saul was come to Carmel, and had
rected for himself a triumphant arch,
ud returning had passed on, and gone
own to Galgal. And Samuel came to
e Ex. 17. 8.

CJhap. 15. Ver. 3. Child. The great Master of
le and death (who cuts off one half of all niankhul
hilstthey are children) has been pleased sometimes
) ordain that children should be put to the sword,
I detestation of tlie crimes of their pareotSt «oa

Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust
to the Lord out of the choicest of the
spoils which he had brought from Amalec.

13 And when Samuel was come to Saul,
Saul said to him : Blessed be thou of the
Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the
Lord.

14 And Samuel said : What meaneth
then this bleating of the flocks, which
soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of
the herds, which I hear?

15 And Saul said : They have brought
them from Amalec: for the people spared
the best of the sheep and of the herds
that they might be sacrificed to the Lord
thy God, but the rest we have slain.

16 And Samuel said to Saul : Suffer me,
and I will tell thee what the Lord hath
said to me this night. And he said to
him : Speak.

17 And Samuel said: When thou wast a
little one in thy own eyes, wast thou not
made the head of the tribes of Israel?
And the Lord anointed thee to be king
over Israel.

18 And the Lord sent thee on the way,
and said: Go, and kill the sinners of
Amalec, and thou shalt fight against
them until thou hast utterly destroyed
them.

19 Why then didst thou not hearken to
the voice of the Lord : but hast turned to
the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes
of the Lord.

20 And Saul said to Samuel : Yea I have
hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and
have walked in the way by which the
Lord sent me, and have brought Agag
the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have
slain.

21 But the people took of the spoils
sheep and oxen, as the firstfruits of those
things that were slain, to offer sacrifice
to the Lord their God in Galgal.

22 And Samuel said: -^Doth the Lord
desire holocausts and victims, and not
rather that the voice of the Lord should
be obeyed ? For obedience is better than
sacrifices : and to hearken rather than to
offer the fat of rams.

23 Because it is like the sin of witch-
craft, to rebel: and like the crime of

/ Eccli. 4. 17 ; Osee 6. 6 ; Matt. 9. 13, and 12. 7.

that they might not live to follow the same wicked
ways. But without such ordinance of God it is not
allowable, in any wars, how just soever, to kill chU
dreo.

900

Saul rejected by the Lord

1 KINGS

Samuel goes to Bethlehem

idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch
therefore as thou hast rejected the word
of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected
thee from being king.

24 And Saul said to Samuel : I have
sinned because I have transgressed the
commandment of the Lord, and thy
words, fearing the people, and obeying
their voice.

25 But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin,
and return with me, that I may adore
the Lord.

26 And Samuel said to Saul : I will not
retiu-n with thee, because thou hast re-
jected the word of the Lord, and the
Lord hath rejected thee from being king
over Israel.

27 And Samuel turned about to go
away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of
his mantle, and it rent.

28 And Samuel said to him : ^ The Lord
hath rent the kingdom of Israel from
thee this day, and hath given it to thy
neighbour who is better than thee.

29 But the triumpher in Israel will not
spare, and will not be moved to repent-
ance : for he is not a man that he should
repent.

30 Then he said : I have sinned : yet
honour me now before the ancients of my
people, and before Israel, and return with
me, that I may adore the Lord thy God.

31 So Samuel turned again after Saul:
and Saul adored the Lord.

32 And Samuel said : Bring hither to me
Agag the king of Amalec. And Agag
was presented to him very fat, and
trembling. And Agag said : Doth bitter
death separate in this manner ?

33 And Samuel said : As thy sword hath
made women childless, so shall thy mo-
ther be childless among women. And
Samuel hewed him in pieces before the
Lord in Galgal.

34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha:
but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

35 And Samuel saw Saul no more till
the day of his death : nevertheless Sam-
uel mourned for Saul, because the Lord
repented that he had made him Mug
over Israel.

CHAPTER 16.

Samuel is sent to Bethlehem, where he anointeth
David : who is taken into SauVs family.

g Infra 28. 17.

ND the Lord said to Samuel : How
long wilt thou mourn for Saul,
whom I have rejected from reigning over
Israel ? fill thy horn with oil, and come,
that I may send thee to Isai the Bethle-
hemite : for I have provided me a king
among his sons.

2 And Samuel said: How shall I go?
for Saul will hear of it, and he will kill
me. And the Lord said : Thou shalt take
with thee a calf of the herd, and thou
shalt say : I am come to sacrifice to the
Lord.

3 And thou shalt call Isai to the sacri-
fice, and I will shew thee what thou art
to do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I
shall shew to thee.

4 Then Samuel did as the Lord had said
to him. And he 3ame to Bethlehem, and
the ancients of the city wondered, and
meeting him, they said : Is thy coming
hither peaceable ?

5 And he said: It is peaceable : I
come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be
sanctified, and come with me to tl
sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and
sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

6 And when they were come in, he sai
Ehab, and laid: Is the Lord's anointe(
before him?

7 And th . Lord said to Samuel : Look
not on his countenance, nor on the
height of his stature : because I have re-
jected him, nor do I judge according to
the look of man : for man seeth those
things that appear, *but the Lord be-
holdeth the heart.

8 And Isai called Abinadab, and brought
him before Samuel. And he said: Neithei
hath the Lord chosen this.

9 And Isai brought Samma, and he said
of him: Neither hath the Lord chosen
this.

10 Isai therefore brought his seven sons
before Samuel : and Samuel said to Isai :
The Lord hath not chosen any one of
these.

11 And Samuel said to Isai : Are here
all thy sons? He answered: There re-
maineth yet a 3^oung one, who keepeth
the sheep. And Samuel said to Isai:
Send, and fetch him, for we will not sit
down till he come hither.

12 He sent therefore and brought him.

i.Ps. 7. 10.

Ver. 35.

Saw Saul no more till the day of his death. That is, lie went no more to see him : he Yisited

iumnomore.

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amuel anoints David

ow he was mddy and beautiful to be-
old, and of a comely face. And the
ord said : Arise, and anoint him, for
lis is he.

13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil,
and anointed him in the midst of his
rethren: and the spirit of the Lord

* \n\Q upon David from that day forward:
Lid Samuel rose up, and went to Rama-
la.

14 But the spirit of the Lord departed
•cm Saul, and an evil spirit from the
ord troubled him.

15 And the servants of Saul said to him :
ehold Tuyw an evil spirit from God
roubleth thee.

16 Let our lord give orders, and thy
nrvants who are before thee will seek
ut a man skilful in playing on the harp,
lat when the evil spirit from the Lord

upon thee, he may play with his hand,
nd thou mayest bear it more easily.

17 And Saul said to his servants : Pro-
ide me then some man that can play
ell, and bring him to me.

18 And one of the servants answering,
lid: Behold I have seen a son of Isai
le Bethlehemite, a skilful player, and
ne of great strength, and a man fit for
^ar, and prudent in his words, and a
omely person: and the Lord is with him.

19 Then Saul sent messengers to Isai,
aying: Send me David thy son, who is
1 the pastures.

120 And Isai took an ass laden with
read, and a bottle of wine, and a kid of
ae flock, and sent them by the hand of
)avid his son to SauL

21 And David came to Saul, and stood
efore him: and he loved him exceed-
igly, and made him his armourbearer.

22 And Saul sent to Isai, saying : Let
>avid stand before me : for he hath
Dund favour in my sight.

23 So whensoever the evil spmt from
tie Lord was upon Saul, David took his
arp, and played with his hand, and Saul
ras refreshed, and was better, for the
vll spirit departed from him.

CHAPTER 17.

Var vjith the Philistines. Goliath chaUengeth Is-
rael. He is slain by David.

KINGS

Goliath challenges the Israelites

2 Kings 7. 8 ; Ps. 77. 70, and 88. 21 j Acts 7. 46, and
13.22.

Chap. 16. Ver. 14. From, the Lord. An evil spirit,
y divine permission, and for his pumshmeai. either
ossessed or obsessed him.

I^OW the Philistines gathering to-
JjJ gether their troops to battle, as-
sembled at Socho of Juda, and camped
between Socho and Azeca in the borders
of Dommim.

2 And Saul and the children of Israel
being gathered together came to the val-
ley of Terebinth, and they set the army
in array to fight against the Philistines.

3 And the Philistines stood on a moun-
tain on the one side, and Israel stood on
a mountain on the other side : and there
was a valley between them.

4 And there went out a man basebom
from the camp of the Philistines named
Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six
cubits and a span :

5 And he had a helmet of brass upon his
head, and he was clothed with a coat of
mail with scales, and the weight of his
coat of mail was five thousand sides of
brass :

6 And he had greaves of brass on his
legs, and a buckler of brass covered his
shoulders.

7 And the staff of his spear was like a
weaver's beam, and the head of his spear
weighed six hundred sides of iron : and
his armourbearer went before him.

8 And standing he cried out to the bands
of Israel, and said to them : Why are you
come out prepared to fight? am not I a
Philistine, and you the servants of Saul ?
Choose out a man of you, and let him
come down and fight hand to hand.

9 If he be able to fight with me, and kill
me, we will be servants to you : but if I
prevail against him, and kill him, you
shall be servants, and shall serve us.

10 And the Philistine said : I have defied
the bands of Israel this day : Give me a
man, and let him fight with me hand to
hand.

11 And Saul and all the Israelites hear-
ing these words of the Philistine were
dismayed, and greatly afraid.

12 ^ Now David was the son of that Eph-
rathite of Bethlehem Juda before men-
tioned, whose name was Isai, who had
eight sons, and was an old man in the
days of Saul, and of great age among
men.

I Supra, 16. L

Ver. 23. Departed from him. Chased awagr bf

David's devotion.

aoi

David goes to the camp of Israel 1 KINGS

He offers to fight Goliat

13 And his three eldest sons followed
Saul to the battle : and the names of his
three sons that went to the battle, were
Eliab the firstborn, and the second Abin-
adab, and the third Samma.

14 But David was the youngest. So the
three eldest having followed Saul,

15 David went, and returned from Saul,
k) feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.

16 Now the Philistine came out morning
and evening, and presented himself forty
days.

17 And Isai said to David his son : Take
for thy brethren an ephi of frumenty, and
these ten loaves, and run to the camp to
thy brethren.

18 And carry these ten little cheeses to
the tribune : and go see thy brethren, if
they are well : and learn with whom they
are placed.

19 But Saul, and they, and all the chil-
dren of Israel were in the valley of Tere-
binth fighting against the Philistines.

20 David therefore arose in tne morning,
and gave the charge of the flock to the
keeper: and went away loaded as Isai
had conmianded him. And he came to
the place of Magala, and to the army,
which was going out to fight, and shouted
for the battle.

21 For Israel had put themselves In ar-
ray, and the Philistines who stood against
them were prepared.

22 And David leaving the vessels which
he had brought, under the care of the
keeper of the baggage, ran to the place
of the battle and asked if all things went
well with his brethren.

23 And as he talked with them, that base-
born man whose name was Goliath, the
Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself com-
ing up from the camp of the Philistines:
and he spoke according to the name
words, and David heard them.

24 And all the Israehtes when they saw
the man, fled from his face, fearing him
exceedingly.

25 And some one of Israel said : Have
you seen this man that is come up, for he
is come up to defy Israel. And the man
that shall slay him, the king will enrich
with great riches, and will give him his
daughter, and will make his father's
house free from tribute in Israel.

26 And David spoke to the men that

m£cc1i.47.3.

stood by him, saying: What shall b
given to the man that shall kill this Phi
hstine, and shall take away the reproacl!
from Israel? for who is this uncircum
cised Philistine, that he should defy th<
armies of the Uving God ?

27 And the people answered him th»
same words saying: These things shall b(
given to the man that shall slay him.

28 Now when Eliab his eldest brothe:
heard this, when he was speaking witl
others, he was angry with David, anc
said : Why earnest thou hither ? and wh^
didst thou leave those few sheep in the
desert ? I know thy pride, and the wick
edness of thy heart: that thou art com(
down to see the battle.

29 And David said: What have I done'
is there not cause to speak ?

30 And he turned a little aside from hin
to another: and said the same word. Anc
the people answered him as before.

31 And the words which David spok(
were heard, and were rehearsed before
Saul.

32 And when he was brought to him, h€
said to him: Let not any man's heart be
dismayed in him: I thy servant will go,
and will fight against the Phihstine.

33 And Saul said to David: Thou art not
able to withstand this Philistine, nor to
fight against him: for thou art but a boy,
but he is a warrior from his youth.

34 And David said to Saul: *"Thy ser-
vant kept his father's sheep, and there
came a lion, " or a bear, and took a ran
out of the midst of the flock :

35 And I pursued after them, and struck
them, and delivered it out of their mouth:
and they rose up against me, and I caught
them by the throat, and I strangled and
killed them.

36 For I thy servant have killed both a
lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised
Philistine shall be also as one of them. I
will go now, and take away the reproach
of the people : for who is this uncircum
cised Phihstine, who hath dared to curse
the army of the living God ?

37 And David said : The Lord who de-
livered me out of the paw of the Hon,
and out of the paw of the bear, he will
deliver me out of the hand of this Philis-
tine. And Saul said to David: Go, and
the Lord be with thee.

n or /or and.

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David goes out to fight Goliath 1 .KINGS He kills Goliath

38 And Saul clothed David with hia gar- 1 sling, and fetching it about struck the
aents, and put a helmet of brass upon ' Philistine in the forehead : and the stone
lis head, and armed him with a coat of was fixed in his forehead, and he fell on
QaiL i his face upon the earth.

39 And David having girded his sword 60 ^ And David prevailed over the Phil-
ipon his armour, began to try if he could istine, with a sling and a stone, and he

struck, and slew the Philistine. And as
David had no sword in his hand,

51 He ran, and stood over the Philistine,
and took his sword, and drew it out of
the sheath, and slew him, and cut off his
head. And the Philistines seeing that
their champion was dead, fled away.

52 And the men of Israel and Juda ris-
ing up shouted, and pursued after the
Philistines till they came to the valley
and to the gates of Aocaron, and there
fell vnany wounded of the Philistines in
the way of Saraim, and as far as Geth,
and as far as Accaron.

53 And the children of Israel returning,
after they had pursued the Philistines,
fell upon their camp.

54 And David taking the head of the
Philistine brought it to Jerusalem : but
his armour he put in his tent.

55 Now at the time that Saul saw David
pcoing out against the Philistines, he said
to Abner the captain of the army : Of
what family is this young man descended,
Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul
liveth, O king, I know not.

56 And the king said: Inquire thou,
whose son this man is.

57 And when David was returned, after
the Phihstine was slain, Abnev took
him, and brought him in before Saul,
with the head of the Philistine in hip
hand.

58 And Saul said to him : Young man,
of what family art thou? And David
said : I am the son of thy servant Isai the
Bethlehemite.

CHAPTER 18.

The friendship of Jonathan and David. The envy
of Saul, and his design upon David^s life. He
marrieth him to his daughter Michol.

IND it came to pass, when he had
x\_ made an end of speaking to Saul, the
soul of Jonathan was knio with the soul
of David, and Jonathan loved him as his
own soul.

2 And Saul took him that day, and
would not let him return to his father's
house.

valk in armour: for he was not accus-
omed to it. And David said to Saul : I
annot go thus, for I am not used to it.
And he laid them off,
40 And he took his staff, which he had
I Iways in his hands : and chose him five
,mooth stones out of the brook, and put
,hem into the shepherd's scrip, which he
lad with him, and he took a shng in his
jiand, and went forth against the Philis-
ine.

,41 And the Philistine came on, and drew
agh against David, and his armourbearer
,»3fore him.

42 And when the Philistine looked, and
»eheld David, he despised him. For he
vas a young man, ruddy, and of a comely
(Ountenance.

43 And the Philistine said to David : Am
a dog, that thou comest to me with a

taff? And the Philistine cursed David
•y his gods.

44 And he said to David : Come to me,
.nd I will give thy flesh to the birds of
he air, and to the beasts of the earth.

45 And David said to the Phihstine:
\^ou comest to me with a Eword, and
,tith a spear, and with a shield: but I
,ome to thee in the name of the Lord of
,i08ts, the God of the armies of Israel,
7hich thou hast defied.

46 This day, and the Lord will deliver
hee into my hand, and I will slay thee,
nd take away thy head from thee : and

will give the carcasses of the army of
he Phihstines this day to the birds of
he air, and to the beasts of the earth :
hat all the earth may know that there
3 a God in Israel.

47 And all this assembly shall know,
hat the Lord saveth not with sword
nd spear: for it is his battle, and he will
ehver you into our hands.

48 And when the Philistine arose and
ras coming, and drew nigh to meet Da-
id, David made haste, and ran to the
ight to meet the Philistine.

49 And he put his hand into his scrip,
nd took a stone, and cast it with the

« EcclL 47. 4 ; 1 Mac. 4. 30.

303

3 And David and Jonathan made a cov-
enant, for he loved him as his own soul.

4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the
coat with which he was clothed, and gave
it to David, and the rest of his garments,
even to his sword, and to his bow, and to
his girdle.

5 And David went out to whatsoever
business Saul sent him, and he behaved
himself prudently : and Saul set him over
the soldiers, and he was acceptable in
the eyes of all the people, and especially
iu the eyes of Saul's servants.

6 Now when David returned, after he
slew the Philistine, the women came out
of all the cities of Israel, singing and
dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels
of joy, and cornets.

7 And the women sung as they played,
and they said : ^ Saul slew his thousands,
and David his ten thousands.

8 And Saul was exceeding angry, and
this word was displeasing in his eyes, and
he said: They have given David ten
thousands, and to me they have giv^^n but
a thousand ; what can he have more but
the kingdom?

9 And Saul did not look on David with
a good eye from that day and forward.

10 And the day after the evil spirit from
God came upon Saul, and he prophesied
in the midst of his house. And David
played with his hand as at other times.
And Saul held a spear in his hand,

11 And threw it, thinking to nail David
to the wall : and David stept aside out of
his presence twice.

12 And Saul feared David, because the
Lord was with him, and was departed
from himself.

13 Therefore Saul removed him from
him, and made him a captain over a
thousand men, and he went out and
came in before the people.

14 And David behaved wisely in all his
ways, *■ and the Lord was with him.

15 And Saul saw that he was exceeding
prudent, and began to beware of him.

16 But all Israel and Juda loved David,
for he came in and went out before them.

17 And Saul said to David: Behold my
elder daughter Merob, her will I give
thee to wife: only be a valiant man,
• and fight the battles of the Lord. Now

q Infra 21. 11 ; Eccli. 47. 7.~r Supra 16. 13.

Saul said within himself: Let not my
hand be upon him, but let the hands of
the Philistines be upon him.

18 And David said to Saul : Who am I
or what is my life, or my father's family
in Israel, that I should be son in law of
the king?

19 And it came to pass at the time when
Merob the daughter of Saul should have
been given to David, that she was given
to Hadriel the Molathite to wife.

20 But Michol the other daughter of
Saul loved David. And it was told Saul,
and it pleased him.

21 And Saul said: I will give her to
him, that she may be a stumblingblock
to him, and that the hand of the Philis-
tines may be upon him. And Saul said
to David: In two things thou shalt be
my son in law this day.

22 And Saul commanded his servants to
speak to David privately, saying : Behold
thou pleasest the king, and all his ser-
vants love thee. Now therefore be the
king's son in law.

23 And the servants of Saul spoke all
these words in the ears of David. And
David said : Doth it seem to you a small
matter to be the king's son in law ? But
I am a poor man, and of small ability.

24 And the servants of Saul told him|
saying: Such words as these hath David
spoken.

25 And Saul said : Speak thus to David
The king desireth not any dowry, b
only a hundred foreskins of the Phili»
tines, to be avenged of the king's en
mies. Now Saul thought to delive
David into the hands of the Philistines. ^

26 And when his servants had tol
David the words that Saul had said, thci^
word was pleasing in the eyes of Davi
to be the king's son in law.

27 And after a few days David rose up,
and went with the men that were under
him, and he slew of the Philistines two
hundred men, and brought their fore-
skins and numbered them out to the
king, that he might be his son in law.
Saul therefore gave him Michol his
daughter to wife.

28 And Saul saw, and understood that
the Lord was with David. And Michol
the daughter of Saul loved him.

s Infra 25. 28.

CfiAC. 1& Ver. 10. Prophesied, Acted the prophet in Vj mad manner.

304

onaihan intercedes for David 1 KINGS

David escapes from Saul

!9 And 3aul began to fear David
•ore: and Saul became David's enemy

ntinually.

0 And the princes of the Philistines
I3nt forth: and from the beginning of
eir going forth, David behaved himself
ore wisely than all the servants of
ul, and his name became very famous.

CHAPTER 19.

her attempts of Saul upon Davi(Vs life. He comath
o Samuel. SauVs messengers and Saul himself
nophesy.

IkND Saul spoke to Jonathan his son

(t^ and to all his servants, that they

ould kill David. But Jonathan the son

Saul loved David exceedingly.

And Jonathan told David, saying :

ul my father seeketh to kill thee :

lerefore look to thyself, I beseech

Be, in the morning, and thou shalt

Lde in a secret place and shalt be hid.

And I will go out and stand beside my

her in the field where thou art : and

m\\ speak of thee to my father, and

atsoever I shall see, I will tell thee.

And Jonathan spoke good things of

vid to Saul his father: and said to

n: Sin not, O king, against thy ser-

t, David, because he hath not sinned

Eunst thee, and his works are very

od towards thee.

And he put his life in his hand, and

w the Philistine, and the Lord wrought

jat salvation for all Israel. Thou saw-

i it and didst rejoice. Why therefore

t thou sin against innocent blood by

ling David, who is without fault?

And when Saul heard this he was ap-

ised with the words of Jonathan, and

I ore: As the Lord liveth he shall not
slain.
Then Jonathan called David and told
Q all these words : and Jonathan
)ught in David to Saul, and he was
ore him, as he had been yesterday
i the day before.

And the war began again, and David
nt out and fought against the Philis-
8, and defeated them with a great
ughter, and they fled from his face.
And the evil spirit from the Lord
ne upon Saul, and he sat in his house,

SAP. 19. Ver. 18. Najoth. It was probably a
3ol or college of prophets, in or near Kamath
er the direction of Samuel,
er. 30. PraphesyiTig, That is, singing: praises to
I by s, divine impulse. God was pleased on this

and held a spear in his hand : and David
played with his hand.

10 And Saul endeavoured to nail David
to the wall with his spear. And David
slipt away out of the presence of Saul:
and the spear missed him, and was fas-
tened in the wall, and David fled and
escaped that night.

11 Saul therefore sent his guards to
David's house to watch him, that he
might be killed in the morning. And
when Michol David's wife had told him
this, saying : Unless thou save thyself
this night, to morrow thou wilt die,

12 She let him down through a window.
And he went and fled away and escaped.

13 And Michol took an image and laid
it on the bed, and put a goal's skin with
the hair at the head of it, and covered it
with clothes.

14 And Saul sent officers to seize David:
and it was answered that he was sick.

15 And again Saul sent to see David,
saying : Bring him to me in the bed, that
he may be slain.

16 And when the messengers were come
in, they found an image upon the bed,
and a goat's skin at its head.

17 And Saul said to Michol : Why hast
thou deceived me so, and let my enemy
go and flee away ? And Michol answered
Saul : Because he said to me : Let me go,
or else I will kill thee.

18 But David fled and escaped, and
came to Samuel in Ramatha, and told
him all that Saul had done to him : and
he and Samuel went and dwelt in Najoth.

19 And it was told Saul by some, saying:
Behold David is in Najoth in Ramatha.

20 So Saul sent officers to take David:
and when they saw a company of pro-
phets prophesying, and Samuel presiding
over them, the spirit of the Lord came
also upon them, and they likewise began
to prophesy.

21 And when this was told Saul, he sent
other messengers : but they also prophe-
sied. And again Saul sent messengers
the third time : and they prophesied also.
And Saul being exceedingly angry,

22 Went also himself to Ramatha, and
came as far as the great cistern, which

occasion that both Saul's messengers and himself
should experience the like impulse, that he might
understand, by this instance of the divine power, how
vain are the desi|;iis of man agaiast lami whom God
m-eteetn

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is in Socho, and he asked, and said : In
what place are Samuel and David ? And
it was told him : Behold they are in Na-
joth in Ramatha.

23 And he went to Najoth in Ramatha,
and the spirit of the Lord came upon
him also, and he went on, and prophe-
sied till he came to Najoth in Ramatha.

24 And he stripped himself also of his
garments, and prophesied with the rest
before Samuel, and lay down naked all
that day and night. This gave occasion
to a proverb : "What ! is Saul too among
the prophets ?

CHAPTER 20.

Saul being obstinately bent upon killing David, he
is sent away by Jonathan.

BUT David fled from Najoth, which
is in Ramatha, and came and said to
Jonathan : What have I done ? what is
my iniquity, and what is my sin against
thy father, that he seeketh my life ?

2 And he said to him ; God forbid, thou
Bhalt not die : for my father will do no-
thing great or little, without first telling
me : hath then my father hid this word
only from me ? no, this shall not be.

3 And he swore again to David. And
David said: Thy father certainly know-
eth that I have found grace in thy sight,
and he will say : Let not Jonathan know
this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the
Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is
but one step (as I may say) between me
and death.

4 And Jonathan said to David : What-
soever thy soul shall say to me, I will do
for thee.

5 And David said to Jonathan: Behold
to morrow is the new moon, and I ac-
cording to custom am wont to sit beside
the king to eat : let me go then that I
may be hid in the field till the evening
of the third day.

6 If thy father look and inquire for me,
thou shalt answer him : David asked me
that he might run to Bethlehem '^ his
own city : because there are solemn sac-
rifices there for all his tribe.

7 If he shall say. It is well: thy servant
shall have peace: but if he be angry,

u Supra 10. 12.

Chap. 20. Ver. 5. To morrow is the new w,oon.
The neomenia, or first day of the moon, kept accord-
ing to the law, as a festival; and therefore Saul
feasted on that day : and expected tbe attendance
of his family.

know that his malice is come to iti
height.

8 Deal mercifully then with thy ser
vant: for thou hast brought me thy ser
vant into a covenant of the Lord witl
thee. But if there be any iniquity in mej
do thou kill me, and bring me not in t(l
thy father. j

9 And Jonathan said : Far be this fron)
thee : for if I should certainly know thall
evil is determined by my father against
thee, I could do no otherwise than tel
thee.

10 And David answered Jonathan : Whc
shall bring me word, if thy father shoulc
answer thee harshly concerning me ?

11 And Jonathan said to David : Come
and let us go out into the field. Ant
when they were both of them gone oul
into the field,

12 Jonathan said to David : O Lord Goc
of Israel, if I shall discover my father't
mind, to morrow or the day after, anc
there be any thing good for David, and ]
send not immediately to thee, and make
it known to thee,

13 May the Lord do so and so to Jona
than and add still more. But if my fa
ther shall continue in malice against thee
I will discover it to thy ear, and wil
send thee away, that thou mayest go ir
peace, and the Lord be with thee, as h(
hath been with my father.

14 And if I live, thou shalt shew methf
kindness of the Lord : but if I die,

15 Thou shalt not take away thy kind
ness from my house for ever, when the
Lord shall have rooted out the enemiet
of David, every one of them from tht
earth, may he take away Jonathan froii
his house, and may the Lord require il
at the hands of David's enemies.

16 Jonathan therefore made a covenant
with the house of David : and the Lord
required it at the hands of David's ene-
mies.

17 And Jonathan swore again to David,
because he loved him: for he loved him
as his own soul.

18 And Jonathan said to him: To mor-
row is the new moon, and thou wilt be
missed :

w Luke 2. 4.

Ver. 15. May he take away Jonathan, &c. It is I
curse upon himself, if he should not be faithful to hi:
promise. — Ibid. Require it, &c. That is, revenge i'
upon David's enemies, and upon me, if I should laL
of my word given to him.

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aul enquires for David

1 KINGS

19 For thy seat will be empty till after
3 morrow. So thou shalt go down
Suickly, and come to the place, where
liou must be hid on the day when it is
Wful to work, and thou shalt remain
eside the stone, which is called Ezel.

20 And I will shoot three arrows near
), and will shoot as if I were exercising
lyself at a mark.

21 And I will send a boy, saying to him:
i^o and fetch me the arrows.

'22 If I shall say to the boy : Behold the
rrows are on this side of thee, take
aem up: come thou to me, because
laere is peace to thee, and there is no
vil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall
peak thus to the boy: Behold the ar-
bws are beyond thee: go in peace, for
lie Lord hath sent thee away.

23 And concerning the word which I
nd thou have spoken, the Lord be be-
ween thee and me for ever.

24 So David was hid in the field, and
ae new moon came, and the king sat
own to eat bread.

25 And when the king sat down upon
is chair (according to custom) which
^as beside the wall, Jonathan arose, and
Lbner sat by Saul's side, and David's
lace appeared empty.

26 And Saul said nothing that day, for
e thought it might have happened to
im, that he was not clean, nor purified.

27 And when the second day after the
ew moon was come, David's place ap-
eared empty again. And Saul said to
onathan his son: Why cometh not the
on of Isai to meat neither yesterday
or to day?

'28 And* Jonathan answered Saul: He

sked leave of me earnestly to go to

lethlehem,

■29 And he said : Let me go, for there is

solemn sacrifice in the city, one of my
'rethren hath sent for me : and now if

have found favour in thy eyes, I will
o quickly, and see my brethren. For
'his cause he came not to the king's
able.

'30 Then Saul being angry against Jona-
han said to him: Thou son of a woman
[hat ic the ravisher of a man, do I not
:now that thou loves|i the son of Isai to
hy own confusion and to the confusion
\i thy shameless mother ?

Jonathan bids David depar

31 For as long as the son of Isai liveth
upon earth, thou shaJt not be establishedj
nor thy kingdom. Therefore now pre-
sently send, and fetch him to me: for
he is the son of death.

32 And Jonathan answering Saul his
father, said: Why shall he die: what
hath he done ?

33 And Saul caught up a spear to strike
him. And Jonathan understood that it
was determined by his father to kill Da-
vid.

34 So Jonathan rose from the table in
great anger, and did not eat bread on
the second day after the new moon. For
he was grieved for David, because his
father had put him to confusion.

35 And when the morning came, Jona-
than went into the field, according to
the appointment with David, and a little
boy with him.

36 And ha said to his boy: Go, and
fetch me the arrows which I shoot.
And when the boy ran, he shot another
arrow beyond the boy.

37 The boy therefore came to the place
of the arrow which Jonathan had shot :
and Jonathan cried after the boy, and
said : Behold the arrow is there further
beyond thee.

38 And Jonathan cried again after the
boy, saying: Make haste speedily, stand
not. And Jonathan's boy gathered up
the arrows, and brought them to his
master :

39 And he knew not at all what was
doing: for only Jonathan and David
knew the matter.

40 Jonathan therefore gave his arms to
the boy, and said to him : Go, and carry
them into the city.

41 And when the boy was gone, David
rose out of his place, which was towards
the south, and falling on his face to the
ground, adored thrice : and kissing one
another, they wept together, but David
more.

42 And Jonathan said to David : Go in
peace: and let all stand that we have
sworn both of us in the name of the
Lord, saying : The Lord be between me
and thee, and between my seed and thy
seed for ever.

43 And David arose, and departed : and
Jonathan went into the city.

Var. 31. The son of death. ThaX is, one thsA deserreth death, and sball surely be put to death.

ZQ7

David receives the holy bread

CHAPTER 21.

David receiveth holy bread of AcMmelech the priest :
and feigneth himself mad before Achis king of
Oeth,

A ND David came to Nobe to Achime-
XA. lech the priest: and Achimelech
was astonished at David's coming. And
he said to him : Why art thou alone, and
no man with thee ?

2 And David said to Achimelech the
priest : The king hath commanded me a
business, and said: Let no man know
the thing for which thou art sent by me,
and what manner of commands i have
given thee: and I have appointed my
servants to such and such a place.

3 Now therefore if thou have any thing
at hand, though it were but five loaves,
give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.

4 And the priest answered David, say-
ing : I have no common bread at hand,
but only holy bread, if the young men
be clean, especially from women?

6 And David answered the priest, and
said to him : Truly, as to what concern-
eth women, we have refrained ourselves
from yesterday and the day before, when
we came out, and the vessels of the
young men were holy. Now this way is
defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this
day in the vessels.

6^ The priest therefore gave him hal-
lowed bread: for there was no bread
there, but only the loaves of proposition,
which had been taken away from before
the face of the Lord, that hot loaves
might be set up.

7 Now a certain man of the servants of
Saul was there that day, within the tab-
ernacle of the Lord : and his name was
Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul's
herdsmen.

8 And David said to Achimelech : Hast
thou here at hand a spear, or a sword ?
for I brought not my own sword, nor my
own weapons with me, for the king's
business required haste.

9 And the priest said: Lo, here is the

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David flees to Getk

y Matt. 12. 3, 4.

Chap. 21. Ver. 1. Nobe. A city in the tribe of
Benjamin, to which the tabernacle of the Lord had
been translated from Silo.

Ver. 4. If the yonn^ men be clean, &c. If this
cleanness was required of them that were to eat that
bread, which was but a figure of the bread of life
which we receive in the blessed sacrament; how
clean ought Christians to be when they approach to
our tremendous mysteries. And what reason hath
the church of God to admit none to be her ministers

sword of Goliath the Philistine whom
thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth,
wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod:
if thou wilt take this, take it, for here
is no other but this. And David said-
There is none like that, give it me.

10 And David arose and fled that day
from the face of Saul: and came to
Achis the king of Geth:

11 And the servants of Achis, when they
saw David, said to him : Is not this DaviA
the king of the land ? Did they not sing
to him in their dances, saying : ^ Saul
hath slain his thousands, and David his
ten thousands ?

12 But David laid up these '^ords in his
heart, and was exceedingly afraid at the
face ol Acais the king of Geth.

13 And he changed his countenance be-
fore them, and siipt down between theii
hands : and he stumbled against the doors
of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon
his beard.

14 And Achis said to his servants i Yon
saw the man was mad: why have yon
brought him to me ?

15 Have we need of madmen, that yoD
have brought in this fellow, to play the
madman in my presence ? shall this fellow
come into my house ?

CHAPTER 22.

Many resort to David. Doeg accuseth Achimelech
to Saul. He ordereth him and all the other priests
of Nobe to be slain. Abiathar escapeth.

AVED therefore went from thence

And when his brethren, and all his father^
house had heard of it, they went dowf. co
him thither ;

2 And all that were i±x distieiss and op-
pressed with debt, and under affliction of
mind gathered themselves unto him i and
he became their prince, and there were
with him about four hundred men.

3 And David departed from thence into
Maspha of Moab : and he said to the king
of Moab : Let my father and my mothei

2 Supra 18. 7 ; Eccli. 47. 7.

to consecrate and daily receive this most pure sacra«
ment, but such as devote themselves to a life of pen
petual purity.

Ver. 5. The vessels, i. e., the bodies, have beer
holy, that is, have been* kept from impurity. — Ibid.
Is defiled. Is liable to expose us to dangers of ud-
cleanness.— Ibid. Be sanctified, &c. That is, we
shall take care, notwithstanding these dangerou:.
circumstances, to keep our vessels holy, that is. to
keep our bodies from every thing that may deiUe ur

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loeg accuses AcMmelech

arry with you, I beseech thee, till I
hnt God will do for me.
4 And he left them under the eyes of the
ing of Moab, and they abode with him
U the days that David was in the hold.
6 And Gad the prophet said to David :
bide not in the hold, depart, and go into
16 land of Juda. And David departed,
nd came into the forest of Haret.
6 And Saul heard that David was seen,
nd the men that were with him. Now
hilst Saul abode in Gabaa, and was in
le wood, which is by Rama, having his
pear in his hand, and all his servants
ere standing about him,
r He said to his servants that stood about
lim : Hear me now, ye sons of Jemini :
rill the son of Isai give every one of you
elds, and vineyards, and make you all
ribunes, and centurions :
8 That all of you have conspired against
ae, and there is no one to inform me, es-
ecially when even my son hath entered
ato league with the son of Isai ? There
} not one of you that pitieth my case,
or that giveth me any information: be-
ause my son hath raised up my servant
gainst me, plotting against me to this
ay.
And Doeg the Edomite who stood by,
d was the chief among the servants of
ul, auswering, said : I saw the son of
ai, in Nobe with Achimelech the son of
chitob the priest.

0 And he consulted the Lord for him,
nd gave him victuals, and gave him the
isrord of Goliath the Philistine.

1 Then the king sent to call for Achime-
ch the priest the son of Achitob, and all

father's house, the priests that were
Nobe, and they came all of them to the

12 And Saul said to Achimelech : Hear,
ou son of Achitob. He answered : Here
am, my lord.

13 And Saul said to him : Why have you
nspired against me, thou, and the son

Isai, and thou hast given him bread
id a sword, and hast consulted the Lord
)r him, that he should rise up against
16, continuing a traitor to this day.
4 And Achimelech answering the king,
id : And who amongst all thy servants
I 80 faithful as David, who is the king's

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know

Saul kills the priests

son in law, and goeth forth at thy bid-
ding, and is honourable in thy house?

15 Did I begin to day to consult the
Lord for him ? far be this from me : let
not the king suspect such a thing against
his servant, or any one in all my father's
house : for thy servant knew nothing of
this matter, either little or great.

16 And the king said : Dying thou shalt
die, Achimelech, thou and all thy father's
house.

17 And the king said to the messengers
that stood about him : Turn, and kill the
priests of the Lord, for their hand is with
David, because they knew that he was
fled, and they told it not to me. And the
king's servants would not put forth their
hands against the priests of the Lord.

18 And the king said to Doeg: Turn
thou, and fall upon the priests. And
Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell upon
the priests and slew in that day eighty-
five men that wore the linen ephod.

19 And Nobe the city of the priests he
smote with the edge of his sword, both
men and women, children, and sucklings,
and ox and ass, and sheep with the edge
of the sword.

20 But one of the sons of Achimelech
the son of Achitob, whose name was
Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David,

21 And told him that Saul had slain the
priests of the Lord.

22 And David said to Abiathar : I knew
that day when Doeg the Edomite was
there, that without doubt he would tell
Saul: I have been the occasion of the
death of all the souls of thy father's
house.

23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he
that seeketh my life, seeketh thy life
also, and with me thou shalt be saved.

CHAPTER 23.

David relieveth Ceila, besieged by the Philistines.
Hefleeth into the desert of Ziph. Jonathan and
he confirm their former covenant. The Ziphites
discover hint to Saul, who pursuing close after
him, is called away by an invasion from the
Philistines.

ND they told David, saying : Behold
the Philistines fight against Ceila,
and they rob the barns.

2 Therefore David consulted the Lord,
saying : Shall I go and smite these Philis-

Chap. 22. V«r.4L

The hold. The strong hold, or fortress qI Maspba.
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tines ? And the Lord said to David : Go, I mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a
and thou shalt smite the Philistines, and woody hill. And Saul sought him always ;

delivered him not into his

shalt save Ceila

j 3 And the men that were with David,
/Said to him : Behold we are in fear here
in Judea, how much more if we go to
Ceila against the bands of the Philistines ?

4 Therefore David consulted the Lord
again. And he answered and said to
him: Arise, and go to Ceila: for I will
deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

5 David therefore, and his men, went to
Ceila, and fought against the Philistines,
and brought away their cattle, and made
a great slaughter of them : and David
saved the inhabitants of Ceila.

6 Now at that time, when Abiathar the
son of Achimelech fled to David to Ceila,
he came down having an ephod with
him.

7 And it was told Saul that David was
come to Ceila : and Saul said : The Lord
hath deUvered him into my hands, and
he is shut up, being come into a city,
that hath gates and bars.

8 And Saul commanded all the people
to go down to fight against Ceila, and to
besiege David, and his men.

9 Now when David understood, that
Saul secretly prepared evil against him,
he said to Abiathar the priest: Bring
hither the ephod.

10 And David said : O Lord God of Israel,
thy servant hath heard a report, that
Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to de-
stroy the city for my sake:

11 Will the men of Ceila deliver me
into his hands ? and will Saul come down,
as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God
of Israel, tell thy servant. And the Lord
said : He will come down.

12 And David said : Will the men of
Ceila dehver me, and my men, into the
hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They
will deliver thee up.

13 Then David and his men, who were
about six hundred, arose, and departing
from Ceila, wandered up and down un-
certain where they should stay: and it
was told Saul that David was fled from
Ceila, and had escaped: wherefore he
forbore to go out.

14 But David abode in the desert in
strong holds, and he remained in a

but the Lord
hands.

15 And David saw that Saul was come
out to seek his hfe. And David was in
the desert of Ziph, in a wood.

16 And Jonathan the son of Saul arose»
and went to David into the wood, and
strengthened his hands in God : and he
said to him

17 Fear not: for the hand of my fatherl J
Saul shall not find thee, and thou shalt
reign over Israel, and I shall be next to
thee, yea, and my father knoweth this.

18 And the two made a covenant befcrel t
the Lord : and David abode in the wood:
but Jonathan returned to his house.

19 ^And the Ziphites went up to Sanli^
in Gabaa, saying : Lo, doth not David lie
hid with us in the strong holds of the
wood, in mount Hachila, which is on the
right hand of the desert.

20 Now therefore come down, as thy
soul hath desired to come down : and it
shall be our business to deliver him intolii
the king's hands.

21 And Saul said : Blessed be ye of tb
Lord, for you have pitied my case

22 Go therefore, I pray you, and use a
diligence, and curiously inquire, and con
sider the place where his foot is, and wb
hath seen him there : for he thinketh o:
me, that I lie craftily in wait for him.

23 Consider and see all his lurking holesj
wherein he is hid, and return to me witJ
the certainty of the thing, that I may gc|
with you. And if he should even go dow:
into the earth to hide himself, I wi
search him out in all the thousands oil
Juda.

24 And they arose and went to Ziph
fore Saul : and David and his men wer
in the desert of Maon, in the plain at tb
right hand of Jesimon.

25 Then Saul and his men went to see
him: and it was told David, and forth-
with he went down to the rock, and
abode in the wilderness of Maon : and
when Saul had heard of it he pursued
after David in the wilderness of Maon.

26 And Saul went on this side of the
mountain : and David and his men were
on the other side of the mountain : and

c Infra 2<;. 1.

Ghat. 23. Ver.e.

An ephod, or the ephod. That is, the vestment of the high priest, with the urim
and ihummim, by which the Lord gave his oracles.

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David spares the life of Saul

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David* s appeal to Saul

Javid despaired of being able to escape
'rem the face of Saul : and Saul and his
,nen encompassed David and his men
round about to take them.
I 27 And a messenger came to Saul, say-
ng: Make haste to come, for the Philis-
Anea have poured in themselves upon
}he land.

1 28 Wherefore Saul returned, leaving
iihe pursuit of David, and went to meet
}he Philistines. For this cause they
jailed that place, the Rock of division.

CHAPTER 24.

Saul seeketh David in the wilderness of Engaddi :
he goeth into a cave where David hath him in his

pmcer.

THEN David went up from thence,
and dwelt in strong holds of Engaddi.
I 2 And when Saul was returned from
following the Philistines, they told him,
jaying: Behold, David is in the desert of
Bngaddi.

I 3 Saul therefore took three thousand
ijhosen men out of all Israel, and went
Dut to seek after David, and his men,
9ven upon the most craggy rocks, which
are accessible only to wild goats.

4 And he came to the sheepcotes, which
were in his way. And there was a cave,
jinto which Saul went, to ease nature :
|Qow David and his men lay hid in the
inner part of the cave.

5 And the servants of David said to
him : Behold the day, of which the Lord
3aid to thee: I will deliver thy enemy
.unto thee, that thou may est do to him
,as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then
;David arose, and secretly cut off the
hem of Saul's robe.

6 After which David's heart struck him,
because he had cut off the hem of Saul's
robe.

, 7 And he said to his men : The Lord be
merciful unto me, that I may do no such
thing to my master the Lord's anointed,
lEs to lay my hand upon him, because he
is the Lord's anointed.
3 And David stopped his men with his
words, and juffered them not to rise

Ohap. 24. Ver. 6. Heart struck him, viz., with
remorse, as fearing he had done amiss.

Ver. 11. A thought to kill thee. That is, a sug-
gestion, to which I did not consent.

Ver. 13. Revenge me of thee, or, as it is in the
Hebrew, will revenge me. The meaning is, that
he refers his whole case to God, to judge and

against Saul. But Saul rising up out o.^:
the cave, went on his way.

9 And David also rose up after him:
and going out of the cave cried after
Saul, saying: My lord the king. And
Saul looked behind him : and David bow-
ing himself down to the ground, wor-
shipped,

10 And said to Saul: Why dost thou
hear the words of men that say : David
seeketh thy hurt?

11 Behold this day thy eyes have seen,
that the Lord hath delivered thee into
my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought
to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee.
For I said : I will not put out my hand
against my lord, because he is the Lord's
anointed.

12 Moreover see and know, O my father,
the hem of thy robe in my hand, that
when I cut ofif the hem of thy robe, I
would not put out my hand against thee.
Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in
my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I
sinned against thee: but thou liest in
wait for my life, to take it away.

13 The Lord judge between me and thee,
and the Lord revenge me of thee: but
my hand shall not be upon thee.

14 As also it is said in the old proverb :
From the vncked shall wickedness come
forth : therefore my hand shall not be
upon thee. After whom dost thou come
out, O king of Israel ?

15 After whom dost thou pursue ? After
a dead dog, after a flea.

16 Be the Lord judge, and judge between
me and thee, and see, and judge my cause,
and deliver me out of thy hand.

17 And when David had made an end of
speaking these words to Saul, Saul said :
Is this thy voice, my son David ? And
Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

18 And he said to David : Thou art more
just than I : for thou hast done good to
me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.

19 And thou hast shewn this day what
good things thou hast done to me : how
the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and
txiou hast not killed me.

punish according to his justice: yet so as to keep
himself in the mean time, from all personal hatred
to Saul, or desire of gratifying his own passion, by
seeking revenge. So far from it, that when Saul
was afterwards slain, we find, that instead of re-
joicng at his death, he mourned most bitterly
for him.

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Nabal refuses David

20 For tHio when h® hath found Mb ene-
my, will let him go well away ? But the
Lord reward thee for this good turn, for
what thou hast done to me this day.

21 And now as I know that thou shalt
surely be king, and have the kingdom of
Israel in thy hand :

22 Swear to me by the Lord, that thou
wilt not destroy my seed after me, nor
take away my name from the house of
my father.

23 And David swore to Saul. So Saul
went home : and David and his men went
up into safer places.

CHAPTER 25.

The death of Samuel. David, provoked by Nabal,
threateneth to destroy him: but is appeased by

Abigail.

AND Samuel died, ^ and all Israel was
^ gathered together, and they mourned
for him, and buried him in his house in
Ramatha. And David rose and went down
into the wilderness of Pharan.

2 Now there was a certain man in the
wilderness of Maon, and his possessions
were in Carmel, and the man was very
great : and he had three thousand sheep,
and a thousand goats : and it happened
that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

3 Now the name of the man was Nabal :
and the name of his wife was Abigail. And
she was a prudent and very comely wo-
man, but her husband was churlish, and
very bad and ill natured : and he was of
the house of Caleb.

4 And when David heard in the wilder-
ness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

5 He sent ten young men, and said to
them: Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal,
and salute him in my name with peace.

6 And you shall say : Peace be to my bre-
thren, and to thee, and peace to thy house,
and peace to all that thou hast.

7 I heard that thy shepherds that were
with us i«i the desert were shearing: we
never molested them, neither was there
ought missing to them of the flock at any
time, all the while they were with us in
Carmel.

8 Ask thy servants, and they will tell
thee. Now therefore let thy servants
find favour in thy eyes: for we are come
in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall
find give to thy servants, and to thy
son David.

9 And when David's servants came, they
spoke to Nabal all these words in David' s
name: and then held their peace.

10 But Nabal answering the servants of
David, said: Who is David ? and what is
the son of Isai ? servants are multiplied
now a days who flee from their masters.

11 Shall I then take my bread, and my
water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I
have killed for my shearers, and give to
men whom I know not whence they are ?

12 So the servants of David went back
their way, and returning came and told
him all the words that he said.

13 Then David said to his young men:
Let every man gird on his sword. And
they girded on every man his sword. And
David also girded on his sword: and there
followed David about four hundred men:
and two hundred remained with the bag-
gage.

14 But one of the servants told Abigail
the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold David
sent messengers out of the wilderness, to
salute our master: and he rejected them.

15 These men were very good to us, and
gave us no trouble : neither did we ever
lose any thing all the time that we con-
versed with them in the desert.

16 They were a wall unto us both by
night and day, all the while we were with
them keeping the sheep.

17 Wherefore consider, and think what
thou hast to do: for evil is determined
against thy husband, and against thy
house, and he is a son of Belial, so that
no man can speak to him.

18 Then Abigail made haste and took
two hundred loaves, and two vessels of
wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and
five measures of parched corn, and a hun-
dred clusters of raisins, and two hundred
cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon
asses :

19 And she said to her servants: Go be-
fore me: behold I will follow after you:
but she told not her husband Nabal.

20 And when she had gotten upon an
ass, and was coming down to the foot of
the mountain, David and his men came
down over against her, and she met
them.

21 And David said: Truly in vain have
I kept all that belonged to this man iu
the wilderness, and nothing was lost of

/ Infra 28. 3 « £ccli. 46. 23.

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Nabal dies

11 that pertained unto him: and he hath
turned me evil for good.

22 May God do so and so, and add more
the foes of David, if I leave of all that

elong to him till the morning, any that
isseth against the wall.

23 And when Abigail saw David she
aade haste and lighted off the ass, and

11 before David, on her face, and adored
pen the ground.

24 And she fell at his feet, and said:
Fpon me let this iniquity be, my lord : let

y handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy
BTs : and hear the words of thy servant.

25 Let not my lord the king, I pray, re-
ard this naughty man Nabal : for accord-
ag to his name, he is a fool, and folly is
rith him : but I thy handmaid did not see

y servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.

26 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord
veth, and thy soul liveth, who hath with-
olden thee from coming to blood, and
ath saved thy hand to thee : and now

fc thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they
hat seek evil to my lord.

27 Wherefore receive this blessing, which
ly handmaid hath brought to thee, my
3rd : and give it to the young men that
ollow thee, my lord.

28 Forgive the iniquity of thy hand-
[laid : for the Lord will surely make for
ay lord a faithful house, ^ because thou,
ay lord, fightest the battles of the Lord :

t not evil therefore be found in thee all
he days of thy life.

29 For if a man at any time shall rise,
nd persecute thee, and seek thy life,
he soul of my lord shall be kept, as in
he bundle of the living, with the Lord
hy God : but the souls of thy enemies
hall be whirled, as with the violence
nd whirling of a sling.

30 And when the Lord shall have done
o thee, my lord, all the good that he
ath spoken concerning thee, and shall
lave made thee prince over Israel,

31 This shall not be an occasion of grief
o thee, cind a scruple of heart to my lord,
hat thou hast shed innocent blood, or
last revenged thyself: and when the Lord

g Supra 16. 18, and 17. 40.

Chap. 25. Ver. 22. // / leave, &c. David cer-
iainly sinned in his designs against Nabal and his
lamily, as he himself was afterwards sensible, when
16 blessed God for hindering him from executing the
evenge he had proposed.

Ver. 25. His name. Nabal^ in Hebrew, signifies a

1..

shall have done well by my lord, thou
shalt remember thy handmaid.

32 And David said to Abigail: Blessed
be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent
thee this day to meet me, and blessed be
thy speech:

33 And blessed be thou, who hast kept
me to day, from coming to blood, and re-
venging me with my own hand.

34 Otherwise as the Lord liveth the God
of Israel, who hath withholden me from
doing thee any evil : if thou hadst not
quickly come to meet me, there had not
been left to Nabal by the morning light
any that pisseth against the wall.

35 And David received at her hand all
that she had brought him, and said to
her : Go in peace into thy house, behold
I have heard thy voice, and have hon-
oured thy face.

36 And Abigail came to Nabal: and be-
hold he had a feast in his house, like the
feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was
merry : for he was very drunk : and she
told him nothing less or more until morn-
ing.

37 But early in the morning when Nabal
had digested his wine, his wife told him
these words, and his heart died within
him, and he became as a stone.

38 And after ten days had passed, the
Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

39 And when David had heard that Na-
bal was dead, he said: Blessed be the
Lord, who hath judged the cause of my
reproach at the hand of Nabal, and hath
kept his servant from evil, and the Lord
hath returned the wickedness of Nabal
upon his head. Then David sent and
treated with Abigail, that he might take
her to himself for a wife.

40 And David's servants came to Abi-
gail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying:
David hath sent us to thee, to take thee
to himself for a wife.

41 And she arose and bowed herself
down with her face to the earth, and
said : Behold, let thy servant be a hand-
maid, to wash the feet of the servants of
my lord.

Ver. 39. Blessed he, &c. David praiseth God, on
this occasion, not out of joy for the death of NabaJ
(which would have argued a rancour of heart), bii
because he saw that God had so visibly taken his
cause in hand, in punishing the injury done to him
whilst, by a merciful providence lie kept him fr<y
revenging Imusell.

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42 And Abigail arose, and made haste,
and got upon an ass, and five damsels
went with her, her waiting maids, and
she followed the messengers of David,
and became his wife.

43 Moreover David took also Achinoam
ot Jezrahel: and they were both of them
his wives.

44 But Saul gave Michol his daughter,
David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Lais,
who was of Gallium.

CHAPTER 26.

Saul goeth out again after David, who cometh by
night wfiere Saul and his men are asleep, but siif-
/ereth hhn not to be touched. Saul again confess-
eth his fault, and prorniseth peace.

AND the men of Ziph came to Saul in
x\ Gabaa, saying: * Behold David is
hid in the hill of Hachila, which is over
against the wilderness.

2 And Saul arose, and went down to the
wilderness of Ziph, having with him three
thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek
David in the wilderness of Ziph.

3 And Saul encamped in Gabaa Hachila,
Which was over against the wilderness in
the way : and David abode in the wilder-
ness. And seeing that Saul was come
after him into the wilderness,

4 He sent spies, and learned that he
was most certainly come thither.

5 And David arose secretly, and came to
the place where Saul was : and when he
had beheld the place, wherein Saul slept,
and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of
his army, and Saul sleeping in a tent, and
the rest of the multitude round about
him,

6 David spoke to Achimelech the Heth-
ite, and Abisai the son of Sarvia the
brother of Joab, saying: Who will go
down with me to Saul into the camp?
And Abisai said : I will go with thee.

7 So David and Abisai came to the peo-
ple by night, and found Saul lying and
sleeping in the tent, and his spear fixed
in the ground at his head : and Abner
and the people sleeping round about him.

8 And Abisai said to David : God hath
shut up thy enemy this day into thy
hands : now then I will run him through
with my spear even to the earth at once,
and there shall be no need of a second
time.

9 And David said to Abisai : Kill him

not: for who shall put forth his hand
against the Lord's anointed, and shall be
guiltless ?

10 And David said : As the Lord liveth,
unless the Lord shall strike him, or his
day shall come to die, or he shall go dowi»
to battle and perish:

11 The Lord be merciful unto me, that I
extend not my hand upon the Lord's
anointed. But now take the spear, which
is at his head, and the cup of water, and
let us go.

12 So David took the spear, and the cup
of water which was at Saul's head, and
they went away : and no man saw it, or
knew it, or awaked, but they were all
asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord
was fallen upon them.

13 And when David was gone over to
the other side, and stood on the top of
the hill afar off, and a good space was
between them,

14 David cried to the people, and to Ab-
ner the son of Ner, saying : Wilt thou
not answer, Abner ? And Abner answer-
ing, said : Who art thou, that cries t, and
disturbest the king?

16 And David said to Abner: Art not
thou a man? and who is like thee in
Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy
lord tlie king ? for there came one of the
people in to kill the king thy lord.

16 This thing is not good, that thou hast
done : as the Lord liveth, you are the
sons of death, who have not kept your
master, the Lord's anointed. And now
where is the king's spear, and the cup of
water, which was at his head ?

17 And Saul knew David's voice, and
said : Is this thy voice, my son David?
And David said : It is my voice, my lord
the king.

18 And he said : Wherefore doth my
lord persecute his servant ? What have
I done ? or what evil is there in my hand?

19 Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my
lord the king, the words of thy servant:
If the Lord stir thee up against me, let
him accept of sacrifice : but if the sons
of men. they are cursed in the sight ot
the Lora, Jrho have cast me out this day,
that I should not dwell in the inheritance
of the Lord, saying: Go, serve str&nge
gods.

20 And now let not my blood ^e shed

i Supra 23. 19.

ai4

i I

lavid goes again to Geth

1 KINGS He dwells among the Philistines

pon the earth before the Lord i for the
;.iiig of lisrael is come out to seek a flea,
8 the partridge is hunted in the moun-
ains.

21 And Saul said : I have sinned, return,
y son David, for I will no more do thee
arm, because my life hath been precious
1 thy eyes this day: for it appeareth

at I have done foolishly, and have been
orant in very many things.

22 And David answering, said: Behold
he king's spear : let one of the king's
ervants come over and fetch it.

23 And the Lord will reward every one
ccording to his justice, and his faithful-
ess: for the Lord hath delivered thee
his day into my hand, and I would not
»ut forth my hand against the Lord's
nointed.

24 And as thy life hath been much set
>y this day in my eyes, so let my life be
Quch set by in the eyes of the Lord, and
et him deliver me from all distress.

25 Then Saul said to David : Blessed art
hou, my son David : and truly doing thou
halt do, and prevaihng thou shalt pre-
vail. And David went on his way, and
Jaul returned to his place.

CHAPTER 27.

'yavidgopth again to Achis king of Geth, and obtain-
eth of him the city of Siceleg.

AND David said in his heart : I shall
. one day or other fall into the hands
)f Saul : is it not better for me to flee,
and to be saved in the land of the Philis-
»ines, that Saul may despair of me, and
jease to seek me in all the coasts of
[srael ? I will flee then out of his hands.
i 2 And David arose and went away, both
'ae and the six hundred men that were
ivith him, to Achis the son of Maoch, king
Df Geth.

I 3 And David dwelt with Achis at Geth,
he and his men : every man with his
household, and David with his two wives,
iAchinoam the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail
the wife of Nabal of Carmel.
4 And it was told Saul that David was
fled to Geth, and he sought no more after
him.

Chap. 27. Ver. 8. Pillaged Gessvri, &c. These

6 And David said to Achis: If I have
found favour in thy sight, let a place be
given me in one of the cities of this
country, that I may dwell there : for
why should thy servant dwell in the
royal city with thee ?

6 Then Achis gave him Siceleg that
day : for which reason Siceleg belongeth
to the kings of Juda unto this day.

7 And the time that David dwelt in
the country of the Philistines, was four
months.

8 And David and his men went up, and
pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Ama-
lecites: for these were of old the inhab-
itants of the countries, as men go to Sur,
even to the land of Egypt.

9 And David wasted all the land, and
left neither man nor woman alive : and
took away the sheep and the oxen, and
the asses, and the camels, and the ap-
parel, and returned and came to Achis.

10 And Achis said to him : Whom hast
thou gone against to day? David an-
swered : Against the south of Juda, and
against the south of Jerameel, and against
the south of Ceni.

11 And David saved neither man nor
woman, neither brought he any of them
to Geth, saying : Lest they should speak
against us. So did David, and such was
his proceeding all the days that he dwelt
in the country of the Philistines.

12 And Achis believed David, saying:
He hath done much harm to his people
Israel : therefore he shall be my servant
for ever.

CHAPTER 28.

The Philistines go out to war against Israel. Saul
being forsaken by God, hath recourse to a ivitch.
Samuel appeareth to him,

AND '^it came to pass in those days,
J\. that the Philistines gathered to-
gether their armies to be prepared for
war against Israel: and Achis said to
David : Know thou now assuredly, that
thou Shalt go out with me to the war,
thou, and thy men.

2 And David said to Achis : Now thou
shalt know what thy servant will do.

/cB. C. 1012.

. , , . o?^ ligation of justifying every thing that he dirt: for

?I^ -i'^ ^®^,*^ enemies of the people of God: and ^ the scripture, in relating wliat wms done, doth not
=« ,r -i. „ , ^, , ., , „ .. suy that it was well done. And even such as are true

servants of God, are not to be imitated in jill tli^y

do.

some, if not all of them, were of the number of those
whom God had ordered to be destroyed: which jus-
tifies David's proceedings in their regard. Though
It is to he observed bere, that we are not under an

zis

And Achis said to David : And I will ap-
point thee to guard my life for ever.

3 ^ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel
mommed for him, and buried him in Ram-
atha his city. And Saul had put away
all the magicians and soothsayers out of
the land.

4 And the Philistines were gathered to-
gether, and came and camped in Sunam :
and Saul also gathered together all Israel,
and came to Gelboe.

5 And Saul saw the army of the Philis-
tines, and was afraid, and his heart was
very much dismayed.

6 And he consulted the Lord, and he
answered him not, neither by dreams,
nor by priests, nor by prophets.

7 And Saul said to his servants: Seek
me a woman that hath a "* divining spirit,
and I will go to her, and inquire by her.
And his servants said to him : There is a
woman that hath a divining spirit at
Endor.

8 Then he disguised himself : and put on
other clothes, and he went, and two men
with him, and they came to the woman
by night, and he said to her : Divine to
me by thy divining spirit, and bring me
up him whom I shall tell thee.

9 And the woman said to him : Behold
thou knowest all that Saul hath done,
and how he hath rooted out the magicians
and soothsayers from the land : why then
dost thou lay a snare for my life, to
cause me to be put to death ?

10 And Saul swore unto her by the
Lord, saying : As the Lord liveth there
shall no evil happen to thee for this
thing.

11 And the woman said to him: Whom
shall I bring up to thee ? And he said,
Bring me up Samuel.

12 And when the woman saw Samuel,
she cried out with a loud voice, and said
to Saul : Why hast thou deceived me ?
for thou art Saul.

13 And the king said to her : Fear not :
what hast thou seen ? And the woman
said to Saul : I saw gods ascending out
of the earth.

14 And he said to her : What form is he

? Supra 25. 1 ; Eccli. 46. 23. — m Lev. 20. 27 ;

Chap. 28. Ver. 14. Understood that it vms Sam-
uel. It is the more common opinion of the holy
fathers, and interpreters, that the soul of Samuel
appeared indeed ; and not, as some have imagined,
an evil spirit in his shape. Not that the power of
tier magic could bring him thither, but that God was

»f l/l^uui-«/jy I/ VKJ KJU,lll

of ? And she said : An old man cometh
up, and he is covered with a mantle.
And Saul understood that it was Samuel,
and he bowed himself with his face tc
the ground, and adored.

15 And Samuel said to Saul : " Why ha..*
thou disturbed my rest, that I should be
brought up ? And Saul said, I am in great
distress : for the Philistines fight against
me, and God is departed from me, and
would not hear me, neither by the hand
of prophets, nor by dreams : therefore I
have called thee, that thou mayest shew
me what I shall do.

16 And Samuel said: Why askest thou
me, seeing the Lord has departed from
thee, and is gone over to thy rival :

17 For the Lord will do to thee as he
spoke by me, and he will rend thy king
dom out of thy hand, and will give it tc^
thy neighbour David :

18 Because thou didst not obey the vol
of the Lord, neither didst thou execu
the wrath of his indignation upon Amai
lee. Therefore hath the Lord done t(
thee what thou sufferest this day.

19 And the Lord also will deliver Isr
with thee into the hands of the Philis
tines : and to morrow thou and thy soni
shall be with me : and the Lord will ak
deliver the army of Israel into the hand
of the Philistines.

20 And forthwith Saul fell all along o:
the ground, for he was frightened wit!
the words of Samuel, and there was n<|
strength in him, for he had eaten nj
bread all that day.

21 And the woman came to Saul (for hi
was very much troubled) and said to himj
Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed th
voice, and I have put my life in my hand
and I hearkened unto the words whie
thou spokest to me.

22 Now therefore hear thou also th
voice of thy handmaid, and let me se
before thee a morsel of bread, that tho
mayest eat and recover strength, and
able to go on thy journey.

23 But he refused, and said : I will nc
eat. But his servants and the woma
forced him, and at length hearkening t

Deut. 18. 11 ; Acts 16. 16. — n Eccli. 46. 23.

pleased for the punishment of Saul, that Samu
himself should denounce unto him the evils th
were falUng upon him. See Eccli. 46. 23.

Ver. 19. With me. That is, in the state of tl
dead, and in another world, though not in the sas
place.

316

^[le Philistines send David bach 1 KINGS The Amalecites destroy Siceleg

teir voice, he arose from the ground
f d sat upon the bed.

4 Now tho woman had a fatted calf in
j 3 house, and she made haste and killed
j : and taking meal kneaded it, and baked
I me unleavened bread,

5 And set it before Saul, and before his
irvants. And when they had eaten they
jse up, and walked all that night.

CHAPTER 29.

vid going with the Philistines is sent back by
their princes.

TOW all the troops of the Philistines
N were gathered together to Aphec :
d Israel also camped by the fountain
lich is in Jezrahel.

And the lords of the Philistines

arched with their hundreds and their

ousands : but David and his men were

the rear with Achis.

And the princes of the Philistines said

Achis: What mean these Hebrews?

nd Achis said to the princes of the

lilistines : Do you not know David, who

as the servant of Saul the king of Israel,

id hath been with me many days, or

l3ars, and I have found no fault in him,

'uce the day that he fled over to me

ibil this day?

't P But the princes of the Philistines
ere angry with him, qnd they said to
m : Let this man return, and abide in
s place, which thou hast appointed him,
id let him not go down with us to bat-
e, lest he be an adversary to us, when
e shall begin to fight : for how can he
'bherwise appease his master, but with
iir heads ?

!5 Is not this David, to whom they sung
li their dances, saying: Saul slew his
liousands, and David his ten thousands ?
5 Then Achis called David, and said to
Hm: As the Lord liveth, thou art up-
jight and good in my sight: and so is
by going out, and thy coming in with
^le in the army : and I have not found
ny evil in thee, since the day that thou
'amest to me unto this day: but thou
'leasest not the lords.
17 Return therefore, and go in peace, and
flfend not the eyes of the princes of the
j'hiligtines.

(8 And David said to Achis: But what
iiave I done, and what hast thou found

p 1 Par. 12. 19.
q 2 Kings 14. 17 and 20 j 19. 27.

in me thy servant, from the day that \
have been in thy sight until this day,
that I may not go and fight against the
enemies of my lord the king?

9 And Achis answering said to David :
I know that thou art good in my sight,
5 as an angel of God : but the princes of
the Philistines have said: He shall not
go up with us to the battle.

10 Therefore arise in the morning, thou,
and the servants of thy lord, who came
with thee : and when you are up before
day, and it shaU begin to be light, go on
your way.

11 So David and his men arose in the
night, that they might set forward in the
morning, and returned to the land of
the Philistines : and the Philistines went
up to Jezrahel.

CHAPTER 30.

The Amalecites burn Siceleg, and carry off the
prey : David pursueth after them, and recovereth
all out of their hands.

I^OW ** when David and his men were
J^ come to Siceleg on the third day,
* the Amalecites had made an invasion
on the south side upon Siceleg, and had
smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire.

2 And had taken the women captives
that were in it, both little and great:
and they had not killed any person, but
had carried them with them, and went
on their way.

3 So when David and his men came to
the city, and found it burnt with fire, and
that their wives and their sons, and their
daughters were taken captives,

4 David and the people that were with
him, lifted up their voices, and wept till
they had no more tears.

6 For the two wives also of David were
taken captives, Achinoam the Jezrahel-
itess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal of
Carmel.

6 And David was greatly aflaicted: for
the people had a mind to stone him, for
the soul of every man was bitterly grieved
for his sons, and daughters : but David
took courage in the Lord his God.

7 And he said to Abiathar the priest the
son of Achimelech: Bring me hither the
ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod
to David.

8 And David consulted the Lord, say-
ing: Shall I pursue after these robbers.

rB. C. 1012.
s 1 Par. 12. 20.

317

David pursues the Amalecites 1 KINGS

He divides the spmi

and shall I overtake them, or not ? And
the Lord said bo him: Pursue after them:
for thou Shalt surely overtake them and
recover the prey.

9 So David went, he and the six hun-
dred men that were with him, and they
came to the torrent Besor: and some be-
ing weary stayed there.

10 But David pursued, he and four hun-
dred men: for two hundred stayed, who
being weary could not go over the tor-
rent Besor.

11 And they found an Egyptian in the
field, and brought him to David : and
they gave him bread to eat, and water
to drink,

12 As also a piece of a cake of figs, and
two bunches of raisins. And when he
had eaten them his spirit returned, and
he was refreshed: for he had not eaten
bread, nor drunk water three days, and
three nights.

13 And David said to him: To whom
dost thou belong? or whence dost thou
come ? and whither art thou going ? He
said: I am a young man of Egypt, the
servant of an Amalecite, and my master
left me, because I began to be sick three
days ago.

14 For we made an invasion on the
south side of Cerethi, and upon Juda,
and upon the south of Caleb, and we
burnt Siceleg with fire.

15 And David said to him: Canst thou
bring me to this company? And he said:
Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not
kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of
my master, and I will bring thee to this
company. And David swore to him.

16 And when he had brought him, be-
hold they were lying spread upon all the
ground, eating and drinking, and as it
were keeping a festival day, for all the
prey, and the spoils which they had
taken out of the land of the Philistines,
and out of the land of Juda.

17 And David slew them from the even-
ing unto the evening of the next day, and
there escaped not a man of them, but
four hundred young men, who had gotten
upon camels, and fled.

18 So David recovered all that the Ama-
lecites had taken, and he rescued his two
wives.

19 And there was nothing missing small
or great, neither of their sons or their
daughters, nor of the spoils, and whatso-

ever they had taken: David recovere
all.

20 And he took all the flocks and th
herds, and made them go before hiir
and they said: This is the prey of Davi<

21 And David came to the two hundre
men, who being weary had stayed, an
were not able to follow David, and he ha
ordered them to abide at the torrent B<
sor: and they came out to meet Davi»
and the people that were with him. Ar
David coming to the people saluted the]
peaceably.

22 Then all the wicked and unjust me
that had gone with David answerin;
said: Because they came not with us, v,
will not give them any thing of the pre
which we have recovered: but let evei
man take his wife and his children, ar
be contented with them, and go his wa

23 But David said: You shall not do 6
my brethren, with these things, whic
the Lord hath given us, who hath keji
us, and hath dehvered the robbers thil
invaded us into our hands.

24 And no man shall hearken to you
this matter. But equal shall be the po
tion of him that went down to battle ai
of him that abode at the baggage, ai
they shall divide alike.

25 And this hath been done from th
day forward, and since was made a sta
ute, and an ordinance, and as a law
Israel.

26 Then David came to Siceleg, and se
presents of the prey to the ancients
Juda his neighbours, saying: Receive
blessing of the prey of the enemies
the Lord.

27 To them that were in Bethel, ai
that were in Ramoth to the south, and
them that were in Jether,

28 And to them that were in Aroer ai
that were in Sephamoth, and that we:
in Esthamo,

29 And that were in Rachal, and th
were in the cities of Jerameel, and th
were in the cities of Ceni,

30 And that were in Arama, and th
were in the lake Asan, and that were
Athach,

31 And that were in Hebron, and to tl
rest that were in those places, in whi<
David had abode with his men.

CHAPTER 31.
Israel U d^eated by the PhUistines: Saul andi
aona are slain.

ul and his sons are slain

2 KINGS

Their bodies are recovered

\ND *the Philistines fought against
^ Israel, and the men of Israel fled
fun before the Philistines, and fell down
i in in mount Gelboe.

"And the Philistines fell upon Saul,
id upon Ms sons, and they slew Jona-
lin, and Abinadab and Melchisua the
' 13 of Saul.

And the whole weight of the battle
> IS turned upon Saul : and the archers
lertook him, and he was grievously
^)unded by the archers.

'^^Then Saul said to his armourbearer:
]aw thy sword, and kill me: lest these
1 circumcised come, and slay me, and
)3ck at me. And his armourbearer
^)uld not: for he was struck with ex-
leding great fear. Then Saul took his
rord, and fell upon it.
' And when his armourbearer saw this,
1 wit, that Saul was dead, he also fell
i»on ids sword and died with him.

So Saul died, and his three sons, and
'.i armourbearer, and all his men that
I me day together.

And the men of Israel, that were be-
;>nd the valley, and beyond the Jordan,

seeing that the Israelites were fled, and
that Saul was dead, and his sons, forsook
their cities, and fled : and the Philistines
came, and dwelt there.

8 And on the morrow the Philistines
came to strip the slain, and they found
Saul and his three sons lying in mount
Gelboe,

9 And they cut off Saul's head, and
stripped him of his armour, and sent into
the land of the Philistines round about,
to publish it in the temples of their idols,
and among their people.

IC And they put his armour in the
temple of Astaroth, but his body they
hung on the wall of Bethsan.

11 ^Now when the inhabitants of Jabes
Galaad had heard all that the Philistines
had done to Saul,

12 All the most valiant men arose, and
walked all the night, and took the body
of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from
the wall of Bethsan : and they came to
Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there :

13 And they took their bones and buried
them in the wood of Jabes : and fasted
seven days.

THE

SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL,

OTHERWISE CALLED THE

SECOND BOOK OF KINGS.

■his Book relates the transactions from the death of Saul until the end of Davids reign, being
a history for the space of about forty -six years.

CHAPTER 1.

ivid mourtieth for the death of Saul and Jona-
than : he ordereth the man to be slain who pre-
tended he had killed Savl,

rrOW *it came to pass, after Saul was
1.1 dead, that David returned from the
laughter of the Amalecites, and abode
v^o days in Siceleg.

li And on the third day, there appeared
'■• man who came out of Saul's camp,
ith his garments rent, and dust strewed
1 his head : and when he came to

I B. C. 1012.— u 1 Par. 10. 2 and 3. — v 1 Par. 10. 4.

David, he fell upon his face, and
adored.

3 And David said to him : From whence
comest thou ? And he said to him : I am
fled out of the camp of Israel

4 And David said unto him : What is the
matter that is come to pass? tell me.
He said: The people are fled from the
battle, and many of the people are fallen
and dead: moreover Saul and Jonathan
his son are slain.

5 And David said to the young man

w 2 Kings 2. 4. —X B. C. 1012.

319

David mourns Saul and Jonathan 2 KINGS

David goes to Hebron

that told him : How knowest thou that
Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead ?

6 And the young man that told him,
said: I came by chance upon mount
Gelboe, and Saul leaned upon his spear :
and the chariots and horsemen drew
nigh unto him,

7 And looking behind him, and seeing
me, he called me. And I answered, Here
am I.

8 And he said to me: Who art thou?
And I said to him : I am an Amalecite.

9 And he said to me: Stand over me,
and kill me: for anguish is come upon
me, and as yet my whole life is in
me.

10 So standing over him, I killed him:
for I knew that he could not live after
the fall : and I took the diadem that was
on his head, and the bracelet that was
on his arm, and have brought them hither
to thee, my lord.

11 Then David took hold of his gar-
ments and rent them, and likewise all
the men that were with him.

12 And they mourned, and wept, and
fasted until evening for Saul, and for
Jonathan his son, and for the people of
the Lord, and for the house of Israel,
because they were fallen by the sword.

13 And David said to the young man
that told him: Whence art thou? He
answered : I am the son of a stranger of
Amalec.

14 David said to him : 2/ Why didst thou
not fear to put out thy hand to kill the
Lord's anointed?

15 And David calling one of his ser-
vants, said : Go near and fall upon him.
And he struck him so that he died.

16 And David said to him : Thy blood
be upon thy own head: for thy own
mouth hath spoken against thee, saying :
I have slain the Lord's anointed.

17 And David made this kind of lamen-
tation over Saul, and over Jonathan his
son.

18 (Also he commanded that they should
teach the children of Juda the use of the
bow, as it is written in the book of the
just.) And he said: Consider, O Israel,
for them that are dead, wounded on thy
high places.

19 The illustrious of Israel are slain

y Ps. 104. 15.

Chap. l. Ver. 10. / killed him. This story of
tlie young Amalecite was not true, as may easily be

upon thy mountains ! how are the valiant
fallen?

20 Tell it not in Geth, publish it not ir*'
the streets of Ascalon: lest the daugh
ters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the
daughters of the uncircumcised triumph

21 Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neitheitl
dew, nor rain come upon you, neither M]
they fieldp of firstfruits: for there waft
cast away the shield of the vaUant, th«''
shield of Saul as though he had not beei^
anointed with oil.

22 From the blood of the slain, from tb
fat of the vahant, the arrow of Jonathai'
never turned back, and the sword oil
Saul did not return empty.

23 Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comelj
in their life, even in death they were no
divided : they were swifter than eagl
stronger than lions.

24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep ovei
Saul, who clothed you with scarlet ii
dehghts, who gave ornaments of golc
for your attire.

25 How are the valiant fallen in battle'
Jonathan slain in the high places?

26 I grieve for thee, my brother Jona
than : exceeding beautiful, and amiabli |
to me above the love of women. As thdj
mother loveth her only son, so did I lov(j
thee. ^

27 How are the valiant fallen, and th([^
weapons of war perished?

CHAPTER 2.

David is received and anointed king of Juda. il
boseth the son of Saul reigneth over the rest (}
Israel, A battle between Abner and Joab,

ND ^ after these things David con
suited the Lord, saying : Shall I g<
up into one of the cities of Juda? An/
the Lord said to him : Go up. And Da
vid said: Whither shall I go up? Am
he answered him: Into Hebron.

2 So David went up, and his two wivef
Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, and Abigai
the wife of Nabal of Carmel :

3 And the men also that were with him
David brought up every man with hi
household : and they abode in the towa
of Hebron.

4 ** And the men of Juda came, and an
ointed David there, to be king over th'
house of Juda. And it was told Daviq

z B. C. 1012. — a 1 Mae. 2. 57 ; Infra 5. 3.

proved by comparing it with the last chapter of tb
foregoiug book.

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boseth reigns over part of Israel 9> KINGS The battle between Abner and Joah

at jhe men of Jabes Galaad had buried
ul.

David therefore sent messengers to

I men of Jabes Galaad, and said to

3m : Blessed be you to the Lord, who

ye shewn this mercy to your master

uI, and have buried him.

And now the Lord surely will render

a mercy and truth, and I also will

jiuite you for this good tiu'n, because

a have done this thing.

Let yom* hands be strengthened, and

lye men of valour: for although your

ster Saul be dead, yet the house of

la hath anointed me to be their king.

iBut Abner the son of Ner, general of

,il's array, took Isboseth the son of

il, and led him about through the

ap.

And made him king over Galaad, and
Gessuri, and over Jezrahel, and
>r Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and
r all Israel.

Isboseth the son of Saul was forty
ITS old when he began to reign over
lel, and he reigned two years; and
y the house of Juda followed David.
And the number of the days that
id abode, reigning in Hebnon over
house of Juda, was seven y^ears and
months.

And Abner the son of Ner, and the
?ants of Isboseth the son of Saul,
it out from the camp to Gabaon.
And Joab the son of Sarvia, and t he
rants of David went out. and met
by the pool of Gabaon. And when
Y were come together, they sat down
against one another: the one on
one side of the pool, and the other
:he other side.

And Abner said to Joab: Let the
|ng men rise, and play before us.
Joab answered : Let them rise.
Then there arose and went over
ve in number of Benjamin, of the
of Isboseth the son of Saul, and
ve of the servants of David.
And every one catching his tehow
ihe head, thrust his sword into the
of his adversary, and they fell down
ther: and the name of the place
called: The field of the valiant, in
^ aon.
1 And there was a very fierce battle

< A p. 2. Ver. 10. He reigned two years, viz.,
aa 0 he begai- visibly to decline: but in all lie

that day: and Abner was put to flight,
with the men of Israel, by the servants
of David.

18 And there were the three sons of Sar-
via there, Joab, and Abisai, and Asael:
now Asael was a most swift runner, like
one of the roes that abide in the woods.

19 And Asael pursued after Abner, and
turned not to the right hand nor to th*»
left from following Abner.

20 And Abner looked behind him, and
said : Art thou Asael ? And he answered :
I am.

21 And Abner said to him : Go to the
right hand or to the left, and lay hold on
one of the young men and take thee his
spoils. But Asael would not leave off
following him close.

22 And again Abner said to Asael: Go
off, and do not follow me, lest I be obliged
to 3tab thee to the ground, and I shall not
be able to hold up my face to Joab thy
brother.

23 But he refused to hearken to him,
and would not turn aside : wherefore Ab-
ner struck him with his spear with a
back stroke in the g;roin, and thrust him
through, and he died upon the spot : and
all that "iame to the place where Asael
fell down and died stood still.

24 Now while Joab and Abisai pursued
after Abner, the sun went down : and they
came as far as the hill of the aqueduct,
that lieth over against the valley by the
way of the wilderness in Gabaon.

25 And the children of Benjamin gath-
ered themselves together to Abner : and
being joined in one body, they stood on
the top of a hill.

26 And Abner cried out to Joab, and
said : Shall thy sword rage unto utter de-
struction? knowest thou not that it is
dangerous to drive people to despair?
how long dost thou defer to bid the peo-
ple cease from pursuing after their bre-
thren?

27 And Joab said : As the Lord liveth, if
thou hadst spoke sooner, even in the morn-
ing the people should have retired from
pursuing after their brethren.

28 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and
all the army stood still, and did not pur-
sue after Israel any farther, nor fight any
more.

29 And Abner and his men walked all

reigned seven years and six months; for so lon^
David reigned in Hebron.

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The sons of David

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Ahner comes to David

tnat niglit through the plains : and fchey
passed the Jordan, and having gone
through all Beth-horon, came to the camp.

30 And Joab returning, after he had left
Abner, assembled all the people : and
there were wanting of David's servants
nineteen men, beside Asael.

31 But the servants of David had killed
of Benjamin, and of the men that were
with Abner, three hundred and sixty, who

all died.

32 And they took Asael, and buried him
in the sepulchre of his father in Bethle-
hem, and Joab, and the men that were
with him, marched all the night, and they
oame to Hebron at break of day.

CHAPTER 3.

David groweth daily stronger. Abner corneth over
to him : he is treacherously slain by Joab.

NOW there was a long war between
the house of Saul and the house of
David: David prospering and growing
always stronger and stronger, but the
house of Saul decaying daily.

2 *^ And sons were born to David in He-
bron: and his firstborn was Amnon of
Achinoam the Jezrahelitess :

3 And his second Cheleab of Abigail the
wife of Nabal of Carmel : and the third
Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter
of Tholmai king of Gessur :

4 And the fourth Adonias, the son of
Haggith : and the fifth Saphathia the son

of Abital : , x. , xv,

5 And the sixth Jethraam of Egla the
wife of David: these were born to David
in Hebron.

6 Now while there was war between the
house of Saul and the house of David,
Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of

Saul. , _

7 And Saul had a concubine named Kes-
pha, the daughter of Aia. And Isboseth
said to Abner:

8 Why didst thou go in to my father's
concubine? And he was exceedingly
angry for the words of Isboseth, and said :
Am I a dog's head against Juda this day,
who have shewn mercy to the house of
Saul thy father, and to his brethren and
friends, and have not delivered thee in':©
the hands of David, and hast thou sought
this day against me to charge me with a
matter concerning a woman ?

9 ^o do God "o Abner, and more also
unless as the Lord hath sworn to David,
so I do to him,

10 That the kingdom be translated froir
the house of Saul, and the throne of Davie
be set up over Israel, and over Juda fron
Dan to Bersabee.

11 And he could not answer him a word
because he feared him.

12 Abner ^therefore sent messengers t(
David for himself, saying : Whose is th
land? and that they should say: Make
league with me, and my hand shall b
with thee : and I will bring all Israel t

thee.

13 And he said : Very well : I will mat
a league with thee : but one thing I r.
quire of thee, saying: Thou shalt not 6(
my face before thou bring Michol tl
daughter of Saul : and so thou shalt com
and see me.

14 And David sent messengers to Isb
seth the son of Saul, saying: ^Restc
my wife Michol, whom I espoused to i
for a hundred foreskins of the Philistii

15 And Isboseth sent, and took her frc
her husband Phaltiel, the son of Lais. ,

i 16 And her husband followed her, we<|
ing as far as Bahurim: and Abner said;
him: Go and return. And he returre

17 Abner also spoke to the ancients
Israel, saying: Both yesterday and i
day before you sought for David that
might reign over you.

18 Now then do it: because the L'
hath spoken to David, saying: By
hand of my servant David I will save
people Israel from the hands of the I
listines, and of all their enemies.

19 And Abner spoke also to Ben jar
And he went to speak to David in Heb
all that seemed good to Israel, and tc
Benjamin.

20 And he came to David in Hebron ^
twenty men: and David made a feast
Abner, and his men that came with 1

21 And Abner said to David: I willi
that I may gather all Israel unto thee

I lord the king, and may enter into a lea
with thee, and that thou mayst n
over all as thy soul desireth. Now w
David had brought Abner on his way,
he was gone in peace,

22 Immediately David's servantB_

c 1 Par. 3. 1.

dB. C. 1005. — e 1 Kings 18. 27.

Cha p. 3. Ver. 1.

There was a long war between the house of Saul, &c. Rather a strife or emulat
tSa war with arms: it la«>^pr1 five years iind a half.

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mer slain by Joab

2 KINGS

David mourns over Abner

h came, after having slain tli: robbors,
^ch an exceeding great booty; and Ab-
ir was not with David in Hebron, for he
\ 1 now sent him away, and he was gone
I peace.

J And Joab and all the army that was
ylh him, came afterwards: and it was
t'd Joab, that Abner the son of Ner came
t the king, and he hath sent him away,
?i he is gone in peace.

I And Joab went in to the king, and
s d : What hast thou done ? Behold Ab-
i r came to thee : Why didst thou send
1 a away, and he is gone and departed ?

') Knowest thou, not Abner the son of
I r, that to this end he came to thee,
tit he might deceive thee, and to know
t ' going out, and thy coming in, and to
iow all thou dost?

5 Then Joab going out from David,
sit messengers after Abner, and brought
t a back from the cistern of Sira, David
I owing nothing of it.

r And when •'Abner was returned to
I bron, Joab took him aside to the mid-
c of the gate, to speak to him treach-
€ )U8ly : and he stabbed him there in the
g)in, and he died, in revenge of the
t>od of Asael his brother.

^ And when David heard of it, after the
t ng was now done, he said : I, and my
iigdom are innocent before the Lord
f ever of the blood of Abner the son of
Ir:

) And may it come upon the head of
J lb, and upon all his father's house : and
I there not fail from the house of Joab
c 3 that hath an issue of seed, or that is
a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or
t it falleth by the sword, or that want-
€i bread.

) So Joab and Abisai his brother slew
I ner, because he had killed their brother
I lel at Gabaon in the battle.

And David said to Joab, and to all the
p jple that were with him : Rend your
gments, and gird yourselves with sack-

0 ths, and mourn before the funeral of
-" ner. And king David himself followed
t bier.

: And when they had buried Abner in

1 bron, king David lifted up his voice,
a 1 wept at the grave of Abner : and all
t people also wept.

! And the king mourning and lament-

/3£iBr3a.sw

ing ovor Abnei, said : Not as cowards are
wont to die, hath Abner died.

34 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy
feet laden with fetters : but as men fall
before the children of iniquity, so didst
thou fall. And all the people repeating
it wept over him.

35 And when all the people came to take
meat with David, while it was yet broad
day, David swore, saying: So do God to
me, and more also, if I taste bread or any
thing else before sunset.

36 And all the people heard, and they
were pleased, and all that the king did
seemed good in the sight of all the peo-
ple.

37 And all the people, and all Israel un-
derstood that day that it was not the
king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner
was slain.

38 The king also said to his servants :
Do you not know that a prince and a
great man is slain this day in Israel ?

39 But I as yet am tender, though anoint-
ed king. And these men the sons of Sar-
via are too hard for me : the Lord reward
him that doth evil according to his wick-
edness.

CHAPTER 4.

Isboseth is rrmrdered by ttvo of his servants. David

punisheth the rmirderers.

A ND Isboseth the son of Saul heard
a\. that Abner was slain in Hebron:
and his hands were weakened, and all
Israel was troubled.

2 Now the son of Sau! had two men cap-
tains of hie bands, the name of the one
was Baana, and the name of the other
Rechab, the sons of Remmon a Berothite
of the children of Benjamin : for Beroth
also was reckoned in Benjamin.

3 And the Berothites fled into Gethaim,
and were sojourners there until that
time.

4 And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son
that was lame of his feet : for he was five
years old when the tidings came of Saul
and Jonathan from Jezrahel. And his
nurse took him up and fled : and as she
made haste to flee, he fell and became
lame : and his name was Miphiboseth.

5 And the sons of Remmon the Beroth-
ite, Rechab and Baana coming, went into
the house of Isboseth in the heat of the
day: and he was sleeping upon his bed at

g B. C. 1005.

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Isboseth is murdered

2 KINGS David anointed Idng of all Israel

noon. And the doorkeepei' of the house,
who was cleansing wheat, was fallen
asleep.

6 And they entered into the house se-
cretly taking ears of corn, and Rechab
and Baana his brother stabbed him in the
groin, and fled away.

7 For when they came into the house, he
was sleeping upon his bed in a parlour,
and they struck him and killed him:
and taking away his head they went off
by the way of the wilderness, walking all
night.

8 And they brought the head of Isboseth
to David to Hebron : and they said to the
king : Behold the head of Isboseth the son
of Saul thy enemy who sought thy life :
and the Lord hath revenged my lord the
king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

9 But David answered Rechab, and Ba-
ana his brother, the sons of Remmon the
Berothite, and said to them : As the Lord
liveth, who hath delivered my soul out
of all distress,

10 ^The man that told me, and said:
Saul is dead, who thought he brought
good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him
in Siceleg, who should have been re-
warded for his news.

11 How much more now when wicked
men have slain an innocent man in his
own house, upon his bed, shall I not re-
quire his blood at your hand, and take
you away from the earth ?

12 And David commanded his servants
and they slew them • and cutting off their
hands and feet, hanged them up over the
pool in Hebron: but the head of Isboseth
they took and buried in the sepulchre of
Abner in Hebron.

CHAPTER 5.

David is anointed kino of oil IsraM. He taketh
Jerusalem, and dwelleth there. He defeateth the
Philistines.

THEN ^ all the tribes of Israel came to
David in Hebron, saying ° ^ Behold
we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Moreover yesterday also and the day
before, when Saul was king over us, thou
wast he that did lead out and bring in
Israel : and the Lord said to thee : Thou
shalt feed my people Israel, and thou
ehalt be prince over Israel.

/i Supra 1. 14. — I B. C. 1005. — ; 1 Par. 11. 1.
k Supra 2. 4. — I 3 Kings 2. 11,

Chap. 5. Ver. 13. David took more concubines
nnd wives of Jerusalem. Not harlots, but wives of

3 The ancients also of Israel came to
the king to Hebron, and king David
made a league with them in Hebron
before the Lord: ''and they anointed
David to be king over Israel.

4 David was thirty years old when he
began to reign, ' and he reigned forty
years.

5 In Hebron he reigned over Juda
seven years and six months: and in Je-
rusalem he reigned three and thirty
years over all Israel and Juda.

6 And the king and all the men that
were with him went to Jerusalem to the
Jebusites the inhabitants of the land:
and they said to David : Thou shalt not
come in hither unless thou take away the
blind and the lame that say : David shall
not come in hither.

7 But David took the castle of Sion, the
same is the city of David.

8 For David had offered that day a re-
ward to whosoever should strike the
Jebusites and get up to the gutters of
the tops of the houses, and take away
the blind and the lame that hated the
soul of David : therefore it is said in the
proverb: The blind and the lame shall
not come into the temple.

9 "^ And David dwelt in the castle, and
called it, The city of David : and built
round about from Mello and inwards.

10 And he went on prospering and grow-
ing up, and the Lord God of hosts was
with him.

11 "And Hiram the king of Tyre sent
messengers to David, and cedar treoB,
and carpenters, and masons for walls:
and they built a house for David.

12 And David knew that the Lord had
confirmed him king over Israel, and that
he had exalted his kingdom over his peo-
ple Israel.

13 °And David took more concubines
and wives of Jerusalem, after he was
come from Hebron : and there were born
to David other sons also and daugh-
ters:

14 And these are the names of them,
that were born to him in Jerusalem,
Samua, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solo-
mon,

15 And Jebahar, and Elisua, and Nepheg,

m 1 Par. 11. 8. — nl Par. 14. 1.
o 1 Par. 3. 1 and 2.

an inferior condition ; for such, in scripture, are
styled concubines.

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avid defeats the Philistines 2 KINGS

Oza is stricken dead

6 And .raphia, and Elisama, and Elioda,
d Eliphaleth.

7 And the Philistines heard that they
d anointed David to be king over Is-
el : and they all came to seek David :
d when David heard of it, he went
wn to a strong hold.

8 P And the Philistines coming spread
Bmselves in the valley of Raphaim.

9 And David consulted the Lord, say-
Shall I go up to the Philistines?

d wilt thou deliver them into my
nd ? And the Lord said to David : Go

|, for I will surely deliver the Philis-
es into thy hand.
j) 5 And David came to Baal Pharisim :
|i defeated them there, and he said:
e Lord hath divided my enemies be-
e me, as waters are divided. *" There-

ie the name of the place was called
ill Pharisim.
And they left there their idols : which
vid and his men took away.
I And the Philistines came up again
1 spread themselves in the valley of
phaim.
. And David consulted the Lord : Shall

0 up against the Phihstines, and wilt
u deliver them into my hands? He
iwered : Go not up against them, but
3h a compass behind them, and thou

^It come upon them over against the
I |,r trees.

And when thou shalt hear the sound
c :)ne going in the tops of the pear trees,
t|n shalt thou join battle: for then will
t|! Lord go out before thy face to strike
tl army of the Philistines.

And David did as the Lord had com-
iided him, and he smote the Philistines
n Gabaa until thou come to Gezer.

CHAPTER 6.

lidfetcheth the ark from Cariathiarim. Oza is
wcA; dead for touching it. It is deposited in the
wse of Obededom : and from thence carried to

Ipvid's house.

|ND David again gathered together all
the chosen men of Israel, thirty

isand.

And David arose and went, with all

people that were with him of the

1 of Juda to fetch the ark of God,

|) J Par. 14. 9.~Q Isa. 28. 21. — r l Par. 14. il.
I Par. 13. 5. Ml Kings 7. 1.

rZi.^'^ Yu^' ^; ^^a^«a- The hill of Cariathi-
I wnere the ark had been in the house of Ablna-

upon which the name of the Lord oi
hosts is invoked, who sitteth over 1,
upon the cherubims.

3 And they laid the ark of God upon a
new cart : and took it out of the house of
Abinadab, who was in Gabaa : and Oza,
and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove
the new cart.

4 **And when they had taken it out
of the house of Abinadab, who was in
Gabaa, Ahio having care of the ark of
God went before the ark.

5 But David and all Israel played before
the Lord on all manner of instruments
made of wood, on harps and lutes and
timbrels and cornets and cymbals.

6 And when they came to the floor of
Nachon, Oza put forth his hand to the
ark of God, and took hold of it : because
the oxen kicked and made it lean aside.

7 And the indignation of the Lord was
enkindled against Oza, and he struck him
for his rashness : and he died there be-
fore the ark of God.

8 ^ And David was grieved because the
Lord had struck Oza, and the name of
that place was called: The striking of
Oza, to this day.

9 And David was afraid of the Lord that
day, saying : How shall the ark of the
Lord come to me?

10 And he would not have the ark of
the Lord brought in to himself into the
city of David : but he caused it to be
carried into the house of Obededom the
Gethite.

11 And the ark of the Lord abode in the
house of Obededom the Gethite three
months : and the Lord blessed Obed-
edom, and all his household.

12 '^And it was told king David, that
the Lord had blessed Obededom, and all
that he had, because of the ark of God.
So David went, and brought away the
ark of God out of the house of Obededom
into the city of David with joy. And
there were with David seven choirs, and
calves for victims.

13 "'And when they that carried the
ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he
sacrificed an ox and a ram :

14 And David danced with all his might

V 1 Par. 13. 11. —w; 1 Par. 15. 25.
X 1 Par. 15. 26.

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dab, from the time of its being restored back by 'ilia
Philistines.
Ver. 12. Choirs, Or companies of musiciaua.

The ark brought to Jerusalem g KINGS David wishes to build a temple

iyetore the Lord and David was girded
with a linen ephod.

15 And David and all the house of Israel
brought the ark of the covenant of the
Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound
of trumpet.

16 And when the ark of the Lord was
come into the city of David, Michol the
daughter of Saul, looking out through a.
window, saw king David leaping and
dancing before the Lord; and she de-
spised him in her heart.

17 And they brought the ark of the
Lord, and sec it in its place in the midst
of the tabernacle, which David had
pitched for it : and David offered holo-
causts, and peace offerings before the
Lord.

18 And when he had made an end of
offering holocausts and peace offerings,
he blessed the people in the name of the
Lord of hosts.

19 And he distributed to all the multi-
tude of Israel, both men and women, to
every one, a cake of bread, and a piece
of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with
oil: and all the people departed every
one to his house.

20 And David returned to bless his own
house : and Michol the daughter of Saul
coming out to meet David, said ; How
glorious was the king of Israel to day,
uncovering himself before the handmaids
of his servants, and was naked, as if one
of the buffoons should be naked.

21 And David said to Michol : Before
the Lord, who chose me rather than thy
father, and than all his house, and com-
manded me to be ruler over the people
of the Lord in Israel,

22 I will both play and make myself
meaner than I have done : and I will be
little in my own eyes: and with the
handmaids of whom thou speakest, I
shall appear more glorious

23 Therefore Michol the daughter of
Saul had no child to the day of her death.

CHAPTER 7.
David's purpose to build a temple is rewarded with
the promise of great blessings in his seed : his
prayer and thanksgiving.

A ND it came to pass when the king
j\. sat in his house, and the Lord had

z 1 Par. 17. 1.

given him rest on ^very side from aU
his enemies,

2 He said to Nathan the prophet : " Dost
thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar,
and the ark of God is lodged within
skins ?

3 And Nathan said to the king : Go, do
all that is in thy heart : because the Lord
is with thee.

4 But it came to pass that night, that
the word of the Lord came to Nathan,

saying: . ^ ^^

6 Go, and say to my servant David :
Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build
1 me a house to dwell in ?

6 Whereas I have not dwelt in a house
from the day that I brought the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt even
to this day : but have walked in a taber-
nacle, and in a tent.

7 In all the places that I have gone
through with all the children of Israel, ^
did ever I speak a word to any one of
the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded
to feed my people Israel, saying : Why
have you not built me a house of cedar?

8 And now thus shalt thou speak to my
servant David: Thus saith the Lord of
hosts : " I took thee out of the pastures
from following the sheep to be ruler over
my people Israel :

9 And I have been with thee whereso-
ever thou hast walked, and have slain all
thy enemies from before thy face : and I
have made thee a great man, like unto thej
name of the great ones that are on thej
earth.

10 And I will appoint a place for my
people Israel, and I will plant them, andj
they shall dwell therein, and shall be.
disturbed no more : neither shall the
children of iniquity afllict them any more
as they did before,

11 From the day that I appointed judge
over my people Israel : and I will give
thee rest from all thy enemies. And the
Lord foretelleth to thee, that the Lord
will make thee a house.

12 ^ And when thy days shall be fulfilled
and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, j
will raise up thy seed after thee, whicl
shall proceed out of thy bowels, and j
will establish his kingdom. _

Chap. 7. Ver. 12. / will establish his kingdom.
This prophecy partly relateth to Solomon : but much
more to Christ, who i* called Ch» «en f^i David m

a26

a 1 Kings 16. 13; Ps. 70. 17. — 6 3 Kings 8- 19^

scripture, and who is the builder of the true templf
which is the church, his everlasting kingdom, whid
shaJJ Jievo: fail

jvid's prayer

2 KINGS

David^s victories

'} ° He shall build a house to my name,
fi5 I will establish the throne of his
ligdom for ever.

{ ^ I will be to him a father, and he
8 ill be to me a son : and if he commit
av' iniquity, I will correct him with the
rl of men, and with the stripes of the
C Idren of men.

> " But my mercy I will not take away
t m him, as I took it from Saul, whom
I smoved from before my face,
ii 5 And thy house shall be faithful, and

f' kingdom for ever before thy face,
id thy throne shall be firm for ever.
(According to all these words and ac-
ding to all this vision, so did Nathan
lak to David.
And David went in, and sat before
M Lord, and said : Who am I, O Lord
Gi, and what is my house, that thou
b t brought me thus far ?
: But yet this hath seemed little in thy
si it, O Lord God, unless thou didst also
S) ak of the house of thy servant for a
k ? time to come : for this is the law of
Aim, O Lord God.

t And what can David say more unto
tie? for thou knowest thy servant, O
id God:

1 For thy word's sake, and according
tchy own heart thou hast done all these

at things, so that thou wouldst make

nown to thy servant.

Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord

|i, because there is none Uke to thee,

i:her is there any God besides thee, in

the things that we have heard with

01 earSc

5 And what nation is there upon earth,
as hy people Israel, whom God went to
re^em for a people to himself, and to
ni:e him a name, and to do for them
grit and terrible things, upon the earth,
be>re the face of thy people, whom thou
Tt iemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from
th nations and their gods.

2 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy
peple Israel to be an everlasting peo-
pi and thou, O Lord God, art become
thrGod.

2 And now, C Lord God, raise up for
3V' the word that thou hast spoken,
CO earning thy servant and concerning
bifDouse: and do as thou hast spoken,
^That thy name may be magnified for

c 3 Kings 5. 5. — d 1 Par. 22. iC ^ Hebw 1. 5.

ever, and it may be said : The Lord of
hosts is God over Israel And the house
of thy servant David shall be established
before the Lord.

27 Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God
of Israel, hast revealed to the ear of thy
servant, saying : I will build thee a house :
therefore hath thy servant found in his
heart to pray this prayer to thee.

28 And now, O Lord God, thou art God,
and thy words shall be true: for thou
hast spoken to thy servant these good
things.

29 And now begin, and bless the house
of thy servant, that it may endure for
ever before thee : because thou, O Lord
God, hast spoken it, and with thy bless-
ing let the house of thy servant be blessed
for ever.

CHAPTER 8.
David^s victories, and his chief officers,

AND it came to pass after this that
. David defeated the Philistines, and
brought them down, s and David took
the bridle of tribute out of the hand of
the Philistines.

2 And he defeated Moab, and mea-
sured them with a line, casting them
down to the earth : and he measured with
two lines, one to put to death, and one
to save alive : and Moab was made to
serve David under tribute.

3 David defeated also Adarezer the son
of Rohob king of Soba, when he went to
extend his dominion over the river * Eu-
phrates.

4 And David took from him a thousand
and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty
thousand footmen, and houghed all the
chariot horses: and only reserved of
them for one hundred chariots.

5 And the Syrians of Damascus came to
succour Adarezer the king of Soba : and
David slew of the Syrians two and twenty
thousand men.

6 And David put garrisons in Syria of
Damascus : and Syria served David un-
der tribute . and the Lord preserved Da-
vid in all his enterprises, whithersoever
he went.

7 And David took the arms of gold,
which the servants of Adarezer wore, and
brought them to Jerusalem.

8 And ont of Bete, and out of Beroth^

g I Par. 18. L

i I Par. U.9,

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David's officers

% KINGS David's kindness to Miphihoseih ■

cities of Adarezer, king David took an
exceeding great quantity of brass.
if And Thou the king of Eraath heard
Tuhat David had defeated all the forces of
Adarezer.

10 And Thou sent Jorana his son to king
David, to salute him, and to congratulate
with him, and to return him thanks •. be-
cause he had fought against Adarezer,
and had defeated him. For Thou was an
enemy to Adarezer, and in his hand were
vessels of gold, and vessels of silver, and
vessels of brass:

11 And king David dedicated them to
the Lord, together with the silver and
gold that he had dedicated of all the na-
tions, which he had subdued:

12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the
children of Ammon, and of the Philis-
tines, and of Amalec, and of the spoils
of Adarezer the son of Rohob king of
Soba.

13 David also made himself a name,
when he returned after taking Syria in
the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen
thousand :

14 And he put guards in Edom, and
placed there a garrison: and all Edom
was made to serve David : and the Lord
preserved David in all enterprises he
went about.

15 And David reigned over all Israel:
and David did judgment and justice to
all his people.

16 And Joab the son of Sarvia was over
the army: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud
was recorder:

17 And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and
Achimelech the son of Abiathar, were the
priests : and Saraias was the scribe :

18 And Banaias the son of Joiada was
over the Cerethi and Phelethi : and the
sons of David were the princes.

CHAPTER 9.

David's kindness to Miphiboseih for the sake of his
father Jonathan.

A ND David said : Is there any one, think
XX you, left of the house of Saul, that
I may shew kindness to him for Jona-
than's sake ?

2 Now there was of the house of Saul, a
servant named Siba : and when the king
iiad called him to him, he said to him :

Chap. 8^ Ver. 16. Recorder, or chancellor.

V'T. 17. Scribe, or secretary.

Ver, lo. Tfa Corethi and FheletM. The king's

Art thou Siba? And he answered: I am
Siba thy servant.

3 And the king said : Is there any one '
left of the house of Saul, that I may shewl
the mercy of God unto him? And Siba'
said to the king: There is a son of Jona-k
than left, who is lame of his feet. i

4 Where is he? said he. And Siba said»
to the king: Behold he is in the house I
of Machir the son of Ammiel in Loda*i
bar. I

6 Then king David sent, and broughtl
him out of the house of Machir the Bonj
of Ammiel of Lodabar. j

6 And when Miphiboseth the son off
Jonathan the son of Saul was come tci
David, he fell on his face and worshipped!
And David said: Miphiboseth? And he^
answered : Behold thy servant. [

7 And David said to him : Fear not, fori;
I will surely shew thee mercy for Jonaf
than thy father's sake, and I will restore
the lands of Saul thy father, and thot
shalt eat bread at my table always.

8 He bowed down to him, and said |!
Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldBl <
look upon such a dead dog as I am? i

9 Then the king cabled Siba the servanl i
of Saul, and said to him : All that be- )
longed to Saul, and all his house, I have t
given to thy master's son. t

10 Thou therefore and thy sons and thj t.
servants shall till the land for him : anc t
thou shalt bring in food for thy master'i i
son, that he may be maintained: anci
Miphiboseth the son of thy master shal i
always eat bread at my table. And Sib.' *
had fifteen sons and twenty servants. I

11 And Siba said to the king: As thoi r
my lord the king hast commanded th}
servant, so will thy servant do: anc
Miphiboseth shall eat at my table, as od(
of the sons of the king.

12 And Miphiboseth had a young soi
whose name was Micha: and all th(!
kindred of the house of Siba server
Miphiboseth.

13 But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem
because he ate always of the king's table
and he was lame of both feet.

CHAPTER 10.

The Ammonites sham,efully abxise the ambassador y
of David, they hire the Syrians to their astisi'.
ance: but are overthromnvrith their allies. M

guards. — Ibid. Princes. Literally i^riests. (Cohei;
So called, by a uitle of honour, and not from exerci;
in;;; the iTiestl;'' junctions.

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David defeats the Syrians

ND it came to pass

after this, that
1L the king of the children of Ammon
3d, and Hanon his son reigned in his
2ad.

i And David said : ^ I will shew kind-
ss to Hanon the son of Daas, as his
jher shewed kindness to me. So David
at his servants to comfort liim for the
ath of his father. But when the ser-
ntc of David were come into the land
the children of Ammon,
Th'' princes of the children of Ammon
id to Hanon their lord: Thinkest thou
it for the honour of thy father, David
th sent comforters to thee, and hath
t David rather sent his servants to
i3e to search, and spy into the city, and
erthrow it ?

Wherefore Hanon took the servants
David, and shaved off the one half of
uir beards, and cut away half of their
cments even to the buttocks, and sent
im away.

When this was told David, he sent to
et them: for the men were sadly put
confusion, and David commanded
)m, saying: Stay at Jericho, till your
irds be grown, and then return.
And the children of Ammon seeing
,t they had done an injury to David,
|:t and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and
I' Syrians of Soba, twenty thousand
tmen, and of the king of Maacha a
usand men, and of Istob twelve thou-
d men.

And when David heard this, he sent
,b and the whole army of warriors.
A.nd the children of Ammon came
and set their men in array at the
Birlng in of the gate : but the Syrians
oba, and of Rohob, and of Istob, and
tfaacha were by themselves in the

Phen Joab seeing that the battle was
pared against him, both before and
ind, chose of all the choice men of
lel, and put them in array against the
ianr -

Anc ^he rest of the people he de-
red to Abisai his brother, who set
bin in array against the children of

mon.

And Joab said : If the Syrians are
trong for me, then thou shalt help
but h the children of Ammon are

fclPar. 19. 2.

too strong for thee, then I will help
thee.

12 Be of good courage, and let us fight
for our people, and for the city of our
God : and the Lord will do what is good
in his sight,

13 And Joab and the people that were
with him, began to fight against tho
Syrians: and they immediately fied be-
fore him

14 And the children of Ammon seeing
that the Syrians were fled, they fied also
before Abisai, and entered into the city :
and Joab returned from the children of
Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

15 Then the Syrians seeing that they had
fallen before Israel, gathered themselves
together.

16 And Adarezer sent and fetched the
Syrians, that were beyond the river, and
brought over their army: and Sobach,
the captain of the host of Adarezer, was
their general.

17 And when this was told David, he
gathered all Israel together, and passed
over the Jordan, and came to Helam:
and the Syrians set themselves in array
against David, and fought against him.

18 And the Syrians fled before Israel,
and David slew of the Syrians the w.en of
seven hundred chariots, and forty thou-
sand horsemen : and smote Sobach the
captain of the army, who presently died.

1 9 And all the kings that were auxiliaries
of Adarezer, seeing themselves overcome
by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight
and fifty thousand men before Israel.
And they made peace with Israel: and
served them, and all the Syrians were
afraid to help the children of Ammon
any more.

CHAPTER 11.
David falleth into the crime of adultery with
Bethsabee : and not finding other means to con-
ceal it., causpth her husband Urios to be slain.
Then marrieth her, who beareth him a son.

A ND '^ it came to pass at the return of
jl\. the year, at the time when kings
go forth to war, 'that David sent Joab
and his servants with him, and all Israel,
and they spoiled the children of Ammon,
and besieged Rabba: but David re-
mained in Jerusalem.

2 In the mean time it happened that
David arose from his bed after noon, and
walked upon the i oof of the king's house :

m 1 Par. 20. 1.

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David's crime

2 KINGS

The death of Urias

and he saw from the roof of his house
a woman washing herself, over against
him: and the woman was very beautiful.

3 And the king sent, and inquired who
the woman was. And it was told him
that she was Bethsabee the daughter of
Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite.

4 And David sent messengers, and took
her, and she came in to him, and he slept
with her : o and presently she was puri-
fied from her uncleanness :

6 And she returned to her house having
conceived. And she sent and told David,
and said: I have conceived.

6 And David sent to Joab, saying: Send
me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent
Urias to David.

7 And Urias came to David. And David
asked how Joab did, and the people, and
how the war was carried on.

8 And David said to Urias : Go into thy
house, and wash thy feet. And Urias
went out from the king's house, and
there went out after him a mess of meat
from the king.

9 But Urias slept before the gate of the
king's house, with the other servants of
his lord, and went not down to his own
house.

10 And it was told David by some that
said: Urias went not to his house. And
David said to Urias : Didst thou not come
from thy journey? why didst thou not
go down to thy house?

11 And Urias said to David: The ark of
God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents,
and my lord Joab and the servants of
my lord abide upon the face of the earth :
and shall I go into my house, to eat and
to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By
thy welfare and by the welfare of thy
soul I will not do this thing.

12 Then David said to Urias: Tarry
here to day, and to morrow I will send
thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem
that day and the next.

13 And David called him to eat and to
drink before him, and he made him
drunk: and he went out in the evening,
and slept on his couch with the servants
of his lord, and went not down into his
house.

14 And when the morning was come,
David wrote a letter to Joab : and sent it
by the hand of Urias,

oLev. 15. 18*

15 Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias
in the front of the battle, where the fight
is strongest: and leave ye him, that he
may be wounded and die.

16 Wherefore as Joab was besieging the
city, he put Urias in the place where he
knew the bravest men were.

17 And the men coming out of the city,
fought against Joab, and there fell some
of the people of the servants of David,
and Urias the Hethite was killed also.

18 Then Joab sent, and told David all
things concerning the battle.

19 And he charged the messenger, say-
ing: When thou hast told all the words
of the battle to the king,

20 If thou see him to be angry, and he
shall say : Why did you approach so near
to the wall to fight? knew you not that
many darts are thrown from above off
the wall?

21 Who killed Abimelech the son of Je-
robaal? p did not a woman cast a piece
of a millstone upon him from the wall,
and slew him in Thebes? Why did you
go near the wall? Thou shalt say:
Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also
slain.

22 So the messenger departed, and came
and told David all that Joab had com-
manded him.

23 And the messenger said to David:
The men prevailed against us, and they
came out to us into the field: and we
vigorously charged and pursued them
even to the gate of the city.

24 And the archers shot their arrows
at thy servants from off the wall above:
and some of the king's servants are slain,
and thy servant Urias the Hethite is also
dead.

25 And David said to the messenger:
Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this
thing discourage thee : for various is the
event of war: and sometimes one, some-
times another is consumed by the sword:
encourage thy warriors against the city,
and exhort them that thou mayest over-
throw it.

26 And the wife of Urias heard that
Urias her husband was dead, and she
mourned for him.

27 And the mourning being over, David
sent and brought her into his house, and
she became his wife, and she bore him »

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p Judges 9. 6t.

Nathan*s parable

2 KINGS

The death of David's child

aon: and this thing which Davia had
done, was displeasing to the Lord.

CHAPTER 12.

yathan^s parable. David confesseth his sin, and is
forgiven: yet so as to be sentenced to most severe
temporal punishm,ents. The death of the child.
The birth of Solom,oru The taking of Jiabbath.

the Lord sent Nathan to David :

and when he was come to him, he

d to him : There were two men in one
trity, the one rich, and the other poor.

2 The rich man had exceeding many
iheep and oxen.

3 But the poor man had nothing at all
but one little ewe lamb, which he had

ought and nourished up, and which had
own up in his house together with his
dren, eating of his bread, and drink-
ing of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom :
and it was unto him as a daughter.

4 And when a certain stranger was
3ome to the rich man, he spared to take
Df his own sheep and oxen, to make a
feast for that stranger, who was come to
bim, but took the poor man's ewe, and
dressed it for the man that was come to
him.

5 And David's anger being exceedingly
kindled against that man, he said to Na-
than : As the Lord liveth, the man that
hath done this is a child of death.

6 ''He shall restore the ewe fourfold,
because he did this thing, and had no
pity.

7 And Nathan said to David : Thou art
the man. Thus saith the Lord the God
of Israel : I anointed thee king over Is-
rael, and I dehvered thee from the hand
of Saul,

8 And gave thee thy master's house
and th}^ master's wives into thy bosom,
and gave thee the house of Israel and
Juda : and if these things be little, I shall
add far greater things unto thee.

9 Why therefore hast thou despised the
word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight?
Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with
the s .vord, and hast taken his wife to be
bhy wife, and hast slain him with the
3word of the children of Ammon.

10 Therefore the sword shall never de-
part from thy house, because thou hast

r Ex. 22. 1.

Chap. 12. Ver. 11. / wUl raise, &c. All these
ivlls, inasmueh as they were punishments, came
ipon David by a just judgment of God, for his sin,
iad th«refor« God says, / ivill raise, &c. ; but inas-

despised me, and hast taken the wife of
Urias the Hethite to be thy wife.

11 Thus saith the Lord : Behold, I will
raise up evil against thee out of thy own
house, and I will take thy wives before
thy eyes *and give them to thy neigh-
bour, and he shall lie with thy wives in

I the sight of this sun.

j 12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will
do this thing in the sight of all Israel,
and in the sight of the sun.

13 And David said to Nathan : I have
sinned against the Lord. And Nathan
said to David: 'The Lord also hath taken
away thy sin : thou shalt not die.

14 Nevertheless, because thou hast given
occasion to the enemies of the Lord to
blaspheme, for this thing, the child that
is born to thee, shall surely die.

15 And Npthan returned to his house.
The Lord also struck the child which the
wife of Urias had borne to David, and
his life was despaired of.

16 And David besought the Lord for the
child : and David kept a fast, and going
in by himself lay upon the ground.

17 And the ancients of his house came,
to make him rise from the ground : but
he would not, neither did he eat meat
with them.

18 And it came to pass on the seventh
day that the child died: and the servants
of David feared to tell him, that the child
was dead. For they said : Behold when
the child was yet alive, we spoke to him,
and he would not hearken to our voice :
how much more will he afflict iiimself if
we tell him that the child is dead ?

19 But when David saw his servants
whispering, he understood that the child
was dead : and he said to his servants :
Is the child dead ? They answered him i
He is dead.

20 Then David arose from the ground,
and washed and anointed himself: and
when he had changed his apparel, he
went into the house of the Lord : and
worshipped, and then he came into his
own house, and he called for bread, and
ate.

21 And his servants said to him : What
thing is this that thou hast done? thou

s Infra 16. 21. — t Eccli. 47. 13.

much as they were sing,on the part of Absalom and
his associates, God was not the author of them, but
ouly permitted them.

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The birth of Solomon

% KINGS

Amnott feigns sickness

didst fast and weep for the child, while it
was alive, but when the child wac dead,
thou didst rise up, and eat bread.

22 And he said : While the child was
yet alive, I fasted and wept for him : for
I said : Who knoweth whether the Lord
may not give him to me, and the child
may live?

23 But now that he is dead, why should
I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back
any more ? I shall go to him rather : but
he shall not return to me.

24 And David comforted Bethsabee his
wife, and went in unto her, and slept
with her: and she bore a son, and he
called his name Solomon, and the Lord
loved him.

25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan
the prophet, and called his name, Ami-
able to the Lord, because the Lord loved
him.

2,^ "And Joab fought against Rabbath
of tho children of Ammon, and laid close
siege to the royal city.

27 And Joab sent messengers to David,
saying: I have fought against Rabbath,
and the city of waters U about to be
taken.

28 Now therefore gather thou the rest
of the people together, and besiege the
city and take it : lest when the city shall
be wasted by me, the victory be ascribed
to my name.

29 Then David gathered all the people
together, and went out against Rabbath :
and after fighting, he took it.

30 And he took the crown of their king
from his head, the weight of which was
a talent of gold, set with most precious
stones, and it was put upon David's head,
and the spoils of the city which were
very great he carried away.

31 And bringing forth the people thereof
he sawed them, and drove over them char-
iots armed with iron : and divided them
with knives, and made them pass through
brickkilns : so did he to all the cities of
the children of Ammon: and David re-
turned, with all the army to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 13.

Amnon ravisheth Thamar. For which Absalom kill-
eth him, andflieth to Gessur.

V 1 Par. 20. 1.

Ver. 25. Amiable to the Lord. Or, beloved of the
Lord. In Hebrew, Jedidiah.

Ver. 27. The city of waters. Rabbath the royal
city of the Ammonites, was called the city c/ waters^
Lo"a beiDf; OQCompassed with waters.

AND it came to pass after this, that
. Amnon the son of David loved the
sister of Absalom the son of David, who
was very beautiful, and her name was
Thamar.

2 And he was exceedingly fond of her,
so that he fell sick for the love of her :
for as she was a virgin, he thought it
hard to do any thing dishonestly with
her.

3 Now Amnon had a friend, named Jon-
adab the son of Semmaa the brother of
David, a very wise man;

4 And he said to him : Why dost thou
grow so lean from day to day, O son of
the king? why dost thou not tell me the
reason of it? And Amnon said to him:
I am in love with Thamar the sister of
my brother Absalom.

5 And Jonadab said to him: Lie down
upon thy bed, and feign thyself sick: and
when thy father shall come to visit thee,
say to him: Let my sister Thamar, I pray
thee, come to me, to give me to eat, and
to make me a mess, that I may eat it at
her hand.

6 So Amnon lay down, and made as if
he were sick: and when the king came
to visit him, Amnon said to the king: I
pray thee let my sister Thamar come,
and make in my sight two little messes,
that I may eat at her hand.

7 Then David sent home to Thamar, say»
ing: Come to the house of thy brother
Amnon, and make him a mess.

8 And Thamar came to the house of
Amnon her brother : but he was laid
down: and she took meal and tempered
it : and dissolving it in his sight she made
little messes.

9 And taking what she had boiled, she
poured it out, and set it before him, but
he would not eat: and Amnon said: Put
out all persons from me. And when
they had put all persons out,

10 Amnon said to Thamar: Bring th%
mess into the chamber, that I may eat at
thy hand. And Thamar took the little
messes which she had made, and brought
them in to her brother Amnon in the
chamber.

11 And when she had presented him the

Chap. 1.3. Ver. 3. A vpvy vnse man. That is, a
crafty and subtle man : for the counsel he gave on
this occasion shews that bis wisdom was but carnaJ
and worldly.

88d

mon s crime

I jat, he took hold of her, and said i Come

(with me, my sister.
2 She answered him : Do not so, my
Dther, do not force me : for no such
ng must be done in Israel. Do not
DU this folly.

|5 For I shall not be able to bear my
lime, and thou shalt be as one of the
)ls in Israel: but rather speak to the
ig, and he will not deny me to thee.
'I But he would not hearken to her
lyers, but being stronger overpowered
r and lay with her.

) Then Amnon hated her with an ex-
iding great hatred: so that the hatred
I erewith he hated her was greater rhan
love with which he had loved her
ore. And Amnon said to her .. Arise,
ii get thee gone.

■» She answered him : Thi evil which

TT thou dost against me, in driving me

lay, is greater than that which thou

st before. And he would not hearken

In her:

But calling the servants that minis-
b ed to him, he said : Thrust this woman
Q -J from me : and shut the door after
h-.

; And she was clothed with a long robe :
U the king's daughters that were virgins,
Q d such kind of garments. Then his
K vant thrust her out : and shut the
i)r after her.

' And she put ashes on her head, and
n t her long robe and laid her hands
D )n her head, and went on crying.

And Absalom her brother said to her:
E th thy brother Amnon lain with thee ?
b ] now, sister, hold thy peace, he is thy
b ther : and afflict not thy heart for this
tiag. So Thamar remained pining away
ii :he house of Absalom her brother.
; And when king David heard of these
tings he was exceedingly grieved: and
h would not afflict the spirit of his son
Ainon, for he loved him, because he
lis his firstborn.

: But Absalom spoke not to Amnon
nther good nor evil: for Absalom hated
A mon because he had ravished his sis-
fa Thamar.
' And it came to pass after two years,
tl t the sheep of Absalom were shorn in
Bilhasor, which is near Ephraim: and
A ^alom invited all the king's sons :

KINGS

Amnon Is killed by Absalom

24 And he came to the king, and said
to him: Behold thy servant's sheep are
shorn. Let the king, I pray, with his
servants come to his servant.

25 And the king said to Absalom: Nay,
my son, do not ask that we should all
come, and be chargeable to thee. And
when he pressed him, and he would not
go, he blessed him.

26 And Absalom said : If thou wilt not
come, at least let my brother Amnon, I
beseech thee, come with us. And the
king said to him: It is not necessary that
he should go with thee.

27 But Absalom pressed him, so that he
let Amnon and all the king's sous go with
him. And Absalom made a feast as it
were the feast of a king.

28 And Absalom had commanded his ser-
vants, saying : Take notice when Amnon
shall be drunk with wine, and when I
shall say to you : Strike him, and kill
him, fear not : for it is I that command
you : take courage, and be valiant men.

29 And the servants of Absalom did to
Amnon as Absalom had commanded them.
And all the king's sons arose and got up
every man upon his mule, and fled.

30 And while they were yet in the way,
a rumour came to David, saying : Absalom
hath slain all the king's sons, and there is
not one of them left.

31 Then the king rose up, and rent his
garment? : and fell upon the ground, and
aU his servants, that stood about him,
rent their garments.

32 But Jonadab the son of Semmaa Da-
vid's brother answering, said : Let not my
lord the king think that all the king's sons
are slain: Amnon only is dead, for he
was appointed by the mouth of Absalom
from the day that he ravished his sister
Thamar.

33 Now therefore let not my lord the
king take this thing into his heart, saying:
All the king's sons are slain : for Amnon
only is dead.

34 But Absalom fled away : and the
young man that kept the watch, lifted up
his eyes and looked, and behold there
came much people by a by-way on the
side of the mountain.

35 And Jonadab said to the king : Be-
hold the king's sons are come: as tny
servant said, so it is.

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The woman of Thecua

36 And when he made an end of speak-
ing, the king's sons also appeared: and
coming in they lifted up their voice, and
wept: and the king also and all his ser-
vants wept very much.

37 But Absalom fled, and went to Tb.olo-
mai the son of Ammiud the king of Ges-
sur. And David mourned for his son
every day.

38 And Absalom after he was fled, and
come Into Gessur, was there three years.
And king David ceased to pursue after
Absalom, because he was comforted con-
cerning the death of Amnon.

CHAPTER 14.

Joab procureth Absalom^s return, and his admit-
tance to the king's presence.

A ND Joab the son of Sarvia, under-
J\. standing that the king's heart was
turned to Absalom,

2 Sent to Thecua, and fetched from
thence a wise woman : and said to her :
Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put
on mourning apparel, and be not anointed
with oil, that thou may est be as a woman
that had a long time been mourning for
one dead.

8 And thou shalt go in to the king, and
Shalt speak to him in this manner. And
Joab put the words in her mouth.

4 And when the woman of Thecua was
come in to the king, she fell before him
Upon the ground, and worshipped, and
said: Save me, O king.

5 And the king said to her : What is the
matter with thee ? She answered : Alas,
I am a widow woman : for my husband
is dead.

6 And thy handmaid had two sons : and
they quarrelled with each other in the
field, and there was none to part them :
and the one struck the other, and slew
him.

7 And behold the whole kindred rising
against thy handmaid, saith : Deliver him
that hath slain his brother, that we may
kill him for the life of his brother, whom
he slew, and that we may destroy the
heir : and they seek to quench my spark
which is left, and will leave my husband
no name, nor remainder upon the earth.

8 A nd the king said to the woman : Go
to thy house, and I will give charge con-
corning thee.

2 KINGS She pleads for Absalom

9 And the woman of Thecua said to the
king: Upon me, my lord be the iniquity,
and upon the house of my father: but
may the king and his throne be guiltless.

10 And the king said : If any one ehcJl
say ought against thee, bring him to me,
and he shall not touch thee any more.

11 And she said: Let the king remember
the Lord his God, that the next of kin bf
not multiplied to take revenge, and th?
they may not kill my son. And he said
As the Lord liveth, there shall not or
hair of thy son fall to the earth.

12 Then the woman said : Let thy hand
maid speak one word to my lord the
king. And he said : Speak.

13 And the woman said : Why hast thoc
thought such a thing against the people
of God, and why hath the king spoker
this word, to sin, and not bring home
again his own exile ?

14 We all die, and like waters that re-
turn no more, we fall down into the
earth : ^ neither will God have a soul to
perish, but recalleth, meaning that he
that is cast off should not altogether
perish.

15 Now therefore I am come, to speak

this word to my lord the king before the
people. And thy handmaid said : I will
speak to the king, it may be the king will
perform the request of his handmaid.

16 And the king hath hearkened to me
to deliver his handmaid out of the hand
of all that would destroy me and my son
together out of the inheritance of God.

17 Then let thy handmaid say, that the
word of the Lord the king be made as a
sacrifice. ° For even as an angel of God,
so is my lord the king, that he is neither
moved with blessing nor cursing : where*
fore the Lord thy God is also with thee.

18 And the king answering, said to the
woman: Hide not from me the thing
that I ask thee. And the woman said to
him : Speak, my lord the king.

19 And the king said : Is not the handi
of Joab with thee in all this ? The woman
answered, and said : By the health of thy
soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the
left hand, nor on the right, in all these
things which my lord the king hath
spoken: for thy servant Joab, he com*
manded me, and he put all these wordl
into the mouth of thy handmaid.

zKzech, 18. 32, and 33. 11.— ol. Kings 29. 9.

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[hsalom^s return

2 KINGS

Absalom* s policy

20 That I shjold come about with this
rir. of jpeech, thy servant Joab com-

i.c!ed 3hiE . but thou, my lord, O king,
frt wise, according to the wisdom of an
el of God, to understand all things
ou earth.

21 \nd the king said to Joab: Behold I
m appeased and have granted thy re-

est : Go therefore r.nd fetch back the
oy Absalom.

22 And Joab ^ailing down Co the ground
pon his face, adorod, -^nd blessed the
Ing: and Joab said: This day thy servant
ath understood, that I I:?.ve found grace

thy sight, my lord, O Iiing: for thon
ast fulfilled the request 'f dhy se: vant.

23 Then Joab arose and wenl. to 'jeseur,
nd brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

24 But the king said : Let him return into
is house, and let him not see my face,
o Absalom returned into his house, and
iw not the king's face.

35 But in all Israel there was not a man
a comely, and so exceedingly beautiful as
bsalom: from the sole of "the foot to
16 crown of his head there was no
lemish in him.

26 And when he polled his hair (now he
ras polled once a year, because his hair
ras burdensome to him) he weighed the
air of his head at two hundred sides,
ccording to the common weight.

27 And there were bom to Absalom
hree sons : and one daughter, whose
ame was Thamar, and she was very
eautiful.

28 And Absalom dwelt two years in
erusalem, and saw not the king's face.

29 He sent therefore to Joab, to send
;im to the king: but he would not come
0 him. And when he had sent the
econd time, and he would not come to
im,

30 He said to his servants : You know
he field of Joab near my field, that hath

crop of barley : go now and set it on
ire. So the servants of Absalom set the
orn on fire. And Joab's servants com-
Qg with their garments rent, said : The
ervarits of Absalom have set part of the
leld on fir .

31 Then JoLb arose, and came to Absa-
am to his house, and said : Why have
hy servants set my corn on fire ?

?2 And Absalom answered Joab ! I sent
to thee beseeching thee to come to me,
that I might send thee to the king, to say
to him: Wherefore am I come from
Gessur? it had been better for me to be
there : I beseech thee therefore that I
may see the face of the king : and if he
be mindful of my iniquity, let him kill
me.

33 So Joab going in to the king, told
him all : and Absalom was called for, and
he went in to the king : and prostrated
himself on the ground before him: and
the king kissed Absalom.

CHAPTER 15.

Absalom^s jolicy and conspiracy. David is obliged
to flee.

n^'OW after these things Absalom
Xl made himself chariots, and horse-
men, anc fifty men to run before him.

2 And Absalom rising up early stood by
the entrance of the gate, and when any
man had business to come to the king's
judgment, Absalom called him to him,
and said : Of what city art thou ? He an-
swered, and said: Thy servant is of such
-., tribe of Israel.

And Absalom answered him : Thy
words seem to me good and just. But
there is no man appointed by the king
to hear thee. And Absalom said ;

4 O that they would make me judge
over the land, that all that have business
might come to me, that I might do them
justice.

6 Moreover when any man came to him
to salute him, he put forth his hand, and
took him, and kissed him.

6 And this he did to all Israel that
came for judgment, to be heard by the
king, and he enticed the hearts of the
men of Israel.

7 And after forty years, Absalom said to
king David : Let me go, and pay my vows
which I have vowed to the Lord in He-
bron.

8 For thy servant made a vow, when he
was in Gessur of Syria, saying : If the
Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem,
I will offer sacrifice to the Lord.

9 And king David said to him: Go ia
peace. And h.<d arose, and went to He-
bron.

GBAF. 1«, Te^22. Blessed,

That is» and ga.e aatUM ^ Cbt klog.
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David flees from Jerusalem

2 KINGS The ark is returned to Jerusalem

10 And Absalom sent cpies into all the
tribes cf Israel, ....yin , As soon as you
shall hear tho sound cf the trumpet, say
ye : Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

11 Now there went with Absalom two
hundred men out of Jerusalem that were
called, going with simphcity of heart, and
knowing nothing of the design.

12 Absalom also sent for Achitophel the
Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city
Gilo. And while he was offering sacri-
fices, there was a strong conspiracy, and
the people running together increased
with Absalom.

13 And there came a messenger to David,
saying: All Israel with their whole heart
fclloweth Absalom.

14 And David said to his servants, that
were with him in Jerusalem : Arise and
let us flee: for we shall not escape else
from the face of Absalom: make haste
to go out, lest he come and overtake us,
and bring ruin upon us, and smite the
city with the edge of the sword.

15 And the king's servants said to him :
Whatsoever our lord the king shall com-
jnand, we thy servants will wiUingly
execute.

16 And the king went forth, and all his
household on foot: and the king left
ten women his concubines to keep the
house:

17 And the king going forth and all
Israel on foot, stood afar off from the
house :

18 And all his servants walked by him,
and the bands of the Cerethi, and the
Phelethi, and all the Gethites, valiant
warriors, six hundred men who had fol-
lowed him from Geth on foot, went be-
fore the king.

19 And the king said to Ethai the Geth-
ite: Why comest thou with us? return
and dwell with the king, for thou art a
stranger, and art come out of thy own
place.

20 Yesterday thou camest, and to day
Shalt thou be forced to go forth with us ?
but I shall go whither I am going : return
thou, and take back thy brethren with
thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy,
and truth, because thou hast shewn grace
and fidelity.

Chap. 15. Ver. 16.
of an inferior degree.
Vsr. 30. Weeping, &c

Concubines, That is, wives
David on this occasion

336

21 And Ethai answered the king, say-
ing : As the Lord hveth, and as my lord
the king liveth: in what place soever
thou shalt be, my lord, O king, either in
death, or in life, there will thy servant
be.

22 And David said to Ethai: Come, and
pass over. And Ethai the Gethite passed,
and all the men that were with him, and
the rest of the people.

23 And they all wept with a loud voice,
and all the people passed over : the king
also himself went over the brook Cedron,
and all the people marched towards the
way that looketh to the desert.

24 And Sadoc the priest also came, and
all the Levites with him carrying the ark
of the covenant of God, and they set
down the ark of God : and Abiathar
went up, till all the people that was come
out of the city had done passing.

25 And the king said to Sadoc : Carry
back the ark of God into the city : if I
shall find grace in the sight of the Lord,
he will bring me again, and he will shew
me it, and his tabernacle.

26 But if he shall say to me : Thou
pleasest me not: I am ready, let him do
that which is good before him.

27 And the king said to Sadoc the priest:
0 seer, return into the city in peace :
and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan
the son of Abiathar, your two sons, be
with you.

28 Behold I will lie hid in the plains of
the wilderness, till there come word from
you to certify me.

29 So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back
the ark of God into Jerusalem : and they
tarried there.

30 But David went up by the ascent of
mount Ohvet, going up and weeping,
walking barefoot, and with his head cov-
ered, and all the people that were with
them, went up with their heads covered
weeping.

31 And it was told David that Achito-
phel also was in the conspiracy with
Absalom, and David said : Infatuate, 0
Lord, I beseech thee, the counsel of Achi-
tophel.

32 And when David was come to the top
of the mountain, where he was about to

wept for his sins, which he knew were the cause of
all liis sufferings.

iba brings provisions to David 2 KINGS

Semei curses David

: ore the Lord, behold Chusai the Ara-
•ite, came to meet him with hi*: gar-
jjnt rent and his head covered with
frth.

3 And David said to him: If thou come
1 th me, thou wilt be a burden to me :

1 But if thou return into the city, and
y It say to Absalom : I am thy servant,
( king : as I have been thy f ather^s ser-
^ nt, so I will be thy servant : thou shalt
c leat the counsel of Achitophel.

5 And thou hast with thee Sadoc, and
i'iathar the priests: and what thing
B3ver thou shalt hear out of the king's
luse, thou shalt tell it to Sadoc and
i iathar the priests.

3 And there are with them their two
flis Achiraaas the son of Sadoc, and
Jnathan the son of Abiathar: and you
Bill send by them to me every thing
tit you shall hear.

■ Then Chusai the friend of David
^nt into the city, and Absalom came
i; o Jerusalem,

CHAPTER 16.

8a bringeth provisions to David. Semei curseth
him. Absalom defileth hisfather^s wives.

ND when David was a little past the
.<L top of the hill, behold Siba the ser-
^it of Miphiboseth came to meet him
V3h two asses, laden with two hundred
h ves of bread, and a hundred bunches

0 raisins, a hundred cakes of figs, and a
Vjsel of wine.

And the king said to Siba : What mean
tse things? And Siba answered: The
a 68 are for the king's household to sit
0 : r.nd the loaves and the figs for thy
8' vants to eat, and the wine to drink if
a/ man be faint in the desert.

And ^he king said : Where is thy mas-
fc's son? ^And Siba answered the king:

1 remained in Jerusalem, saying: To
d ' will the house of Israel restore me
t. kingdom of my father.

And the king said to Siba : I give thee
a that belonged to Miphiboseth. And
8a said: I beseech thee let me find
g ce before thee, my lord, O king.

And king David came as far as Bahu-
3f:i: and behold there came out from

3AP. 16. Ver. 10 and 11. Ifath bid him curse.
N that the Lord was the author of Semei's sin,
^ ch pr'^ceeded purely from his own mahce, and
ti ^buse of bis free wilL But that knowing, and

thence a man of the kindred of the house
of Saul named Semei, the son of Gera,
and coming out ^ he cursed as he went
on,

6 And he threw stones at David, and at
all the servants of king David : and all
the people, and all the warriors walked
on the right, and on the left side of the
king.

7 And thus said Semei when he cursed
the king: Come out, come out, thou man
of blood, and thou man of Belial.

8 The Lord hath repaid thee for all the
blood of the house of Saul : because thou
hast usurped the kingdom in his stead,
and the Lord hath given the kingdom
into the hand of Absalom thy son : and
behold thy evils press upon thee, because
thou art a man of blood.

9 And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to
the king: Why should this dead dog
curse my lord the king? I will go, and
cut off his head.

10 And the king said: What have I to
do with you, ye sons of Sarvia ? Let him
alone and let him curse : for the Lord
hath bid him curse David : and who is he
that shall dare say, why hath he done so ?

11 And the king said to Abisai, and to
all his servants : Behold my son, who
came forth from my bowels, seeketh my
life: how much more now a son of
Jemini ? let him alone that he may curse
as the Lord hath bidden him.

12 Perhaps the Lord may look upon my
affliction, and the Lord may render m©
good for the cursing of this day.

13 And David and his men with him
went by the way. And Semei by the
hill's side went over against him, cursing,
and casting stones at him, and scattering
earth.

14 And the king and all the people with
him came weary, and refreshed them-
selves there.

15 But Absalom and all his people came
into Jerusalem, and Achitophel was with
him.

16 And when Chusai the Arachite,
David's friend, was come to Absalom, he
said to him : God save thee, O king, God
save thee, O king.

/ Infra 19. 27.— g 3 Kings 2. 8.

suffering his malicious disposition to break out on
this occasion, he made use of him as his instrument
to punish David for his sins.

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AchitojyheVs counsel

2 KINGS

The counsel of Chuso

17 And Absalom said to him : Is this
thy kindness to thy friend ? Why went-
est thou not with thy friend ?

18 And Chusai answered Absalom:
Nay : for I will be his, whom the Lord
hath chosen, and all this people, and all
Israel, and with him will I abide.

19 Besides this, whom shall I serve? is
it not the king's son ? as I have served
thy father, so will I serve thee also.

20 And Absalom said to Achitophel :
Consult what we are to do.

21 And Achitophel said to Absalom:
Go in to the concubines of thy father,
whom he hath left to keep the house:
that when all Israel shall hear that thou
hast disgraced thy father, their hands
may be strengthened with thee.

22 ^* So they spread a tent for Absalom
on the top of the house, and he went in
to his father's concubines before all
Israel.

23 Now the counsel of Achitophel,
which he gave in those days, was as if a
man should consult God : so was all the
counsel of Achitophel, both when he was
with David, and when he was with Absa-
lom.

CHAPTER 17.

AchitopheVs counsel is defeated by Chusai: who
sendeth intelligence to David. Achitophel hang-
eth himself.

AND Achitophel said to Absalom: I
J\, will choose me twelve thousand
men, and I will arise and pursue after
David this night.

2 And coming upon him (for he is now
weary, and weak handed) I will defeat
him: and when all the people is put to
flight that is with him, I will kill the king
who will be left alone.

3 And I will bring back all the people,
as if they were but one man : for thou
seekest but one man: and all the people
s^ll be in peace.

4 And his saying pleased Absalom, and
all the ancients of Israel.

5 But Absalom said : Call Chusai the
Arachite, and let us hear what he also
saith.

6 And when Chusai was come to Absa-
lom, Absalom said to him: Achitophel
hath spoken after this manner ; shall we

do it or not? what counsel dost thol
give?

7 And Chusai said to Absalom: Th
counsel that Achitophel hath given th
time is not good.

8 And again Chusai said : Thou kno^
est thy father, and the men that are wil
him, that they are very valiant, ar
bitter in their mind, as a bear raging i
the wood when her whelps are tak(
away: and thy father is a warrior, ai
will not lodge with the people.

9 Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits,
in some other place where he list: ai
when any one shall fall at the first, eve
one that heareth it shall say : There is
slaughter among the people that follow
Absalom.

10 And the most valiant man who
heart is as the heart of a lion, shall m»
for fear: for all the people of Isr^'
know thy father to be a valiant man, a
that all who are with him are valiant.

11 But this seemeth to me to be go
counsel: Let all Israel be gathered
thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sa
of the sea which cannot be numberc
and thou shalt be in the midst of then

12 And we shall come upon him in wl
place soever he shall be found : and
shall cover him, as the dew falleth up
the ground, and we shall not leave
the men that are with him, not so mi
as one.

13 And if he shall enter into any ci
all Israel shall cast ropes round ab(
that city, and we will draw it into i
river, so that there shall not be foi
so much as one small stone thereof.

14 And Absalom, and all the men
Israel said : The counsel of Chusai
Arachite is better than the counsel
Achitophel : and by the will of the L
the profitable counsel of Achitophel 's *
defeated, that the Lord might bring ( '
upon Absalom.

15 And Chusai said to Sadoc and i*
athar the priests: Thus and thus '
Achitophel counsel Absalom, and ij
ancients of Israel: and thus and thus |i
I counsel them.

16 Now therefore send quickly, and 1
David, saying: Tarry not this nigh'^'

h Supra 12. 11.

Ver 21. Their hands may he strengthened, &c.
The people might apprfehend lest Absalom should be
reconciled to his father, and therefore they followed

him with some fear of being left in the lu/^^ij
they saw such a crime committed as seemed to r i '
a reconciliation Impossible.

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'David learns the plans of Absalom 2 KINGS

David prepares for battle

* jhe plains of tho wilderness, but without
ielay pass over : lest the king be swallow-
3d up, and all the people that is with him.

17 And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed
3y the fountain Rogel : and there went
3, maid and told them : and they went
forward, to carry the message to king
iDavid, for they might not be seen, nor
5nter into the city.

18 But a certain boy saw them, and told
Absalom: but they making haste went
into the house of a certain man in Bahu-
rim, who had a well in his court, and
they went down into it.

19 And a woman took, and spread a
covering over the mouth of the well, as
lit were to dry sodden barley? and so the
thing was not known.

I 20 And when Absalom's servants were

come into the house, they said to the

woman: Where is Achimaas and Jona-

ithan ? and the woman answered them :

They passed on in haste, after they had

tasted a little water. But they that

iBOught them, when they found them not,

i returned into Jerusalem.

I 21 And when they were gone, they came

up out of the well, and going on told king

; David, and said : Arise, and pass quickly

iover the river: for this manner of counsel

I has Achitophel given against you.

22 So David arose, and all the people
that were with him, and they passed over

ithe Jordan, until it grew light, and not

* one of them was left that was not gone
'■ ever the river.

23 But Achitophel seeing that his coun-
sel was not followed, saddled his ass, and
arose and went home to his house and to
his city, and putting his house in order,
hanged himself, and was buried in the

I sepulchre of his father.

I 24 But David came to the camp, and Ab-

i calom passed over the Jordan, he and all

I the men of Israel with him.

; 25 Now Absalom appointed Amasa in

I Joab's stead over the army : and Amasa

I wac the oon of a man who was called

Jethra of Jezrael, who went in to Abigail

the daughter of Naas, the sister of Sarvia

who was the mother of Joab.
26 And Israel camped with Absalom in

tho land of Galaad.

Chap. 17. Ver. 24. To the camp. The city of
Mahaaairo, the name of which, In Hebrew, signifies
-I he camp. I "j vrc.z r. city of noto at that time, as

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27 And when David was come to the
camp, Sobi the son of Naas of Rabbath oi
the children of Ammon, and Machir the
son of Ammihel of Lodabar, and Berzellai
the Oalaadite of Rogelim,

28 Brought him beds, and tapestry, and
earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley,
and meal, and parched corn, and beans,
and lentils, and fried pulse,

29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and
fat calves, and they gave to David and
the people that were with him, to eat:
for they suspected that the people were
faint with hunger and thirst in the wilder-
ness.

CHAPTER 18.

Absalom, is defeated, and slain by Joab. David
raourneth for him.

ND David having reviewed his peo-
ple, appointed over them captains
of thousands and of hundreds,

2 And sent forth a third part of the peo-
ple under the hand of Joab, and a third
part under the hand of Abisai the son of
Sarvia Joab's brother, and a third part
under the hand of Ethai, who was of
Geth : and the king said to the people :
I also will go forth with you.

3 And the people answered : Thou shalt
not go forth: for if we flee away, they
will not much mind us : or if half of us
should fall, they will not greatly care:
for thou alone art accounted for ten
thousand : it is better theref 01 e that thou
shouldst be in the city to succour us.

4 And the king said to them : What seem-
eth good to you, that will I do. And the
king stood by the gate: and all the peo-
ple went forth by their troops, by hun-
dreds and by thousands.

5 And the king commanded Joab, and
Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the
boy Absalom. And all the people heard
the king giving charge to all the princes
concerning Absalom.

6 So the people went out into the field
against Israel, and the battle was fought
in the forest of Ephraim.

7 And the people of Israel were defeated
there by David's army, and a great
slaughter was made that day of twenty
thousand men.

appears from its having been chosen by Isboseth for
the place of his residence.

Absalom is defeated and slain 2 KINGS

The messengers

8 And the battle there was scattered
over the face of all the country, and there
were many more of the people whom the
forest consumed, than whom the sword
devoured that day.

9 And it happened that Absalom met
the servants of David, riding on a mule:
and as the mule went under a thick and
large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and
while he hung between the heaven and
the earth, the mule on which he rode
passed on.

10 And one saw this and told Joab, say-
ing: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.

11 And Joab said to the man that told
him: If thou sawest him, why didst thou
not stab him to the ground, and I would
have given thee ten sides of silver, and
a belt?

12 And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst
have paid down in my hands a thousand
pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands
upon the king's son: for in our hearing
the king charged thee, and Abisai, and
Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom.

13 Yea and if I should have acted boldly
against my own life, this could not have
been hid from the king, and wouldst thou
have stood by me ?

14 And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but
I will set upon him in thy sight. So he
took three lances in his hand, and thrust
them into the heart of Absalom: and
whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on
the oak,

15 Ten young men, armourbearers of
Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.

16 And Joab sounded the trumpet, and
kept back the people from pursuing after
Israel in their flight, being willing to spare
the multitude.

17 And they took Absalom, and cast him
into a great pit in the forest, and they
laid an exceeding great heap of stones
upon him: but all Israel fled to their own
dwellings.

18 Now Absalom had reared up for him-
self, in his lifetime, a pillar, which is in
the king's valley : for he said : I have no
son, and this shall be the monument of
my name. And he called the pillar by
his own name, and it is called the hand
of Absalom, to this day.

19 And Achimaas the son of Sadocsaid:

Chap. 18. Ver. 8.
precipices.
Ver. 18. JVo son.

Consumed, viz., by i^ilc and

The sons mentionecl abovr.

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I will run and tell the king, that the Lord
hath done judgment for him from the
hand of his enemies.

20 And Joab said to him : Thou shalt not
be the messenger this day, but shalt bear
tidings another day : this day I will not
have thee bear tidings, because the king's
son is dead.

21 And Joab said to Chusai : Go, and tell
the king what thou hast seen. Chusai
bowed down to Joab, and ran.

22 Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said
to Joab again : Why might not I also run
after Chusai? And Joab said to him:
Why wilt thou run, my son ? thou wilt
not be the bearer of good tidings. [1

23 He answered: But what if I run? j
And he said to him : Bun. Then Achim- 1
aas running by a nearer way passed
Chusai.

24 And David sat between the two gates:
and the watchman that was on the top
of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his
eyes, saw a man running alone.

25 And crying out he told the king : and
the king said : If he be alone, there are
good tidings in his mouth. And as he
was coming apace, and drawing nearer,

26 The watchman saw another man run-
ning, and crying aloud from above, he
said : I see another man running alone.
And the king said : He also is a good
messenger.

27 And the watchman said: The run-
ning of the foremost seemeth to me like
the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc.
And the king said: He is a good man:
and cometh with good news.

28 And Achimaas crying out, said to the
king : God save thee, O king. And fall-
ing down before the king with his face
to the ground, he said: Blessed be the
Lord thy God, who hath shut up the men
that have lifted up their hands against
the lord my king.

29 And the king said : Is the young maD
Absalom safe ? And Achimaas said : I saw
a great tumult, O king, when thy servant
Joab sent me thy servant: I know no-
thing else.

30 And the king said to him : Pass, and
stand here.

31 And when he had passed, and stood
still, Chusai appeared ? and coming up he

chap. 14. 27, were dead when this pillar was erected:
unless we suppose be raised this pillar before they
were born.

'iivid mourns over Absalom

2 KINGS

Semei goes to meet David

f d: I bring good tidings, my lord, the
lig, for the Lord hath judged for thee
t a day from the hand of all that have
1 en up against thee.

2 And the king said to Chusai : Is the
«ang man Absalom safe? And Chusai
t swering him, said : Let the enemies of
r ' lord, the king, and all that rise against
1: a unto evil, be as the young man is.

{ The king therefore being much moved,
\nt up to the high chamber over the
g :e, and wept. And as he went he spoke
1: this manner : ^ My son Absalom, Ab-
Bom my son: would to God that I
B'?ht die for thee, Absalom my son, my
B 1 Absalom.

CHAPTER 19.

Z\>id, at the remonstrances of Joab, eeaseth his
j , ouming. He is invited back and met by Semei
id Miphiboseth: a strife between the men of
ida and the m,en of Israel.

ND it was told Joab, that the king
J L wept and mourned for his son :

And the victory that day was turned
iir» mourning unto all the people: for
tli people heard say that day: The king

\ gleveth for his son.

And the people shunned the going
ii 3 the city that day as a people would

: d that hath turned their backs, and fled
a ay from the battle.

And the king covered his head, and
c:'3d with a loud voice : O my son Ab-
es )m, O Absalom my son, O my son.
. Then Joab going into the house to the
k |g, said : Thou hast shamed this day
tl faces of all thy servants, that have

'^' (Ked thy life, and the lives of thy sons,
a: I of thy daughters, and the lives of

' tl wives, and the lives of thy concubines.
• rhou lovest them that hate thee, and

' t u hatest them that love thee : and

' tl u hast shewn this day that thou car-
ef not for thy nobles, nor for thy ser-

- V. ts : and I now plainly perceive that
if! bsalom had lived, and all we had been

^ Bl!n, then it would have pleased thee.

» ''S^ow therefore arise, and go out, and

£ B||ak to the satisfaction of thy servants :

^ f c! I swear to thee by the Lord, that if
tlu wilt not go forth, there will not

I ta'y with thee so much as one this

k Infra 19. 4.

.01

r. 33. Would to God. David lamented the death
bsalom, because of the wretched state in which

T€jied ; and therefore would have been glad to have
d his Ufe, even by dying for iwn. In whloh h^

night: and that will he worse to theCj
than all the evils that h-^ve befallen thee
from thy youth until now.

8 Then the king arose and sat in the
gate: and it was told to all the people
that the king sat in tho gate : and all the
people came before the king, but Israel
fled to their own dwellings.

9 And all the people were at strife in all
the tribes of Israel, saying : The king de-
livered us out of the hand of our ene-
mies, and he saved us out of the hand of
the Philistines: and now he is fled out of
the land for Absalom.

10 But Absalom, whom we anointed
over us, is dead in the battle : how long
are you silent, and bring not back the
king?

11 And king David sent to Sadoc, and
Abiathar the priests, saying: Speak to
the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are
you the last to bring the king back to his
house? (For the talk of all Israel was
come to the king in his house.)

12 You are my brethren, you are ray
bone, and my flesh, why are you the last
to bring back the king?

13 And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou
my bone, and my flesh? So do God to
me and add more, if thou be not the
chief captain of the army before me
always in the place of Joab.

14 And he inclined the heart of all the
men of Juda, as it were of one man : and
they sent to the king, saying: Return
thou, and all thy servants.

15 And the king returned and came as
far as the Jordan, and all Juda came as
far as Galgal to meet the king, and to
bring him over the Jordan.

16 "* And Semei the son of Gera tha son
of Jemini of Bahurim, made haste nd
went down with the men of Juda to
meet king David,

17 With a thousand men of Benjamin,
and Siba the servant of the house of
Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty
servants were with him : and going over
the Jordan,

18 They passed the fords before the
king, that they might help over the
king's household, and do according to

m 3 Kings 2. 8.

was a figure of Christ weeping, praying and dying
for his rebelUous childien, and even for them th&%
crucified him.

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David spares Semei

2 KINGS

David blesses Berzellai

hi6 commandment. And Semei the sod
of Gera falling down befor the king,
when he was come over the Jordan,

19 Said to him : Impute not to me, my
lord, the iniquity^ nor remember the in-
juries of thy servant on the day that thou,
my lord, the king, wentest out of Jeru-
salem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.

20 For I thy servant acknowledge my
sin: and therefore I am come this day
the first of all the house of Joseph, and
am come down to meet my lord the king.

21 But Abisai the son of Sarvia answer-
ing, said : Shall Semei for these words
not be put to death, because he cursed
the Lord's anointed?

22 And David said : What have I to do
with you, ye sons of Sarvia? why are
you a satan this day to me ? shall there
any man be killed this day in Israel ? do
not I know that this day I am made king
over Israel?

23 And the king said to Semei : Thou
shalt not die. And he swore unto him.

24 And Miphiboseth the son of Saul
came down to meet the king, and he had
neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his
beard: nor washed his garments from
the day that the king went out, until the
day of his return in peace.

25 And when he met the king at Jeru-
salem, the king said to him : Why camest
thou not with me, Miphiboseth ?

26 And he answering, said : My lord, O
king, my servant despised me : for I thy
servant spoke to him to saddle me an
ass, that I might get on and go with the
king : for I thy servant am lame.

27 " Moreover he hath also accused me
thy servant to thee, my lord the king:
but ° thou my lord the king art as an
angel of God, do what pleaseth thee.

28 For all of my father's house were no
better than worthy of death before my
lord the king ; and thou hast set me thy
servant among the guests of thy table :
what just complaint therefore have I?
or what right to cry any more to the
king?

29 Then the king said to him: Why
speakest thou any more? what I have
said is determined : thou and Siba divide
the possessions.

30 And Miphiboseth answered the king :
Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my

n oupra M.S.'-'O Supra 14. 17 :uid 20 • 1 Kings 29. 9.

lord the king is returned peaceably into
his house.

31 Berzellai also the Galaadite coming
down from Rogehm, brought the king
over the Jordan, being ready also to wait
on him beyond the river.

32 ^Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of
a great age, that is to say, fourscore
years old, and he provided the king with
sustenance when he abode in the camp:
for he was a man exceeding rich.

33 And the king said to Berzellai : Come
with me that thou mayest rest secure
with me in Jerusalem.

34 And Berzellai said to the king : How
many are the days of the years of my
life, that I should go up with the king to
Jerusalem ?

35 ^ I am this day fourscore years old,
are my senses quick to discern sweet and
bitter ? or can meat or drink delight thy
servant? or can I hear any more the
voice of singing men and singing women?
why should thy servant be a burden to
my lord, the king ?

36 I thy servant will go on a little way
from the Jordan with thee : I need not
this recompense.

37 But I beseech thee let thy servant
return, and die in my own city, and be)
buried by the sepulchre of my father,'
and of my mother. But there is thy ser-
vant Charaaam, let him go with thee, my
lord, the king, and do to him whatsoever
seemeth good to thee.

38 Then the king said to him : Let Cham
aam go over with me, and I will do for
him whatsoever shall please thee, and
all that thou shalt ask of me, thou shalt
obtain.

39 And when all the people and the
king had passed over the Jordan, the
king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him;
and he returned to his own place.

40 So the king went on to Galgal, an»
Chamaam with him. Now all the p»
pie of Juda had brought the king over,
and only half of the people of Ibt<
were there.

41 Therefore all the men of Israel run
ning together to the king, said to him
Why have our brethren the men of Jud£
stolen thee away, and have brought the
king and his household over the Jordan
and all the men of David with him ?

■

p 3 Kings 2.'!'—q Supm 17. 23;

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I eba*s rebellion

2 KINGS

Amasa is slain

42 And all the men of Jnda answered
le men of Israel: Because the king is
earer to me : why art thou angry for
lis matter? have we eaten any thing
f the king's, or have any gifts been
iven us ?

43 And the men of Israel answered the
len of Juda, and said : I have ten parts
1 the king more than thou, and David
elongeth to me more than to thee:
rhy hast thou done me a wrong, and
rhy was it not told m© first, that I might
ring back my king ? And the men of
uda answered more harshly than the
len of Israel.

j CHAPTER 20.

eba''s rebellion. Amasa is slain by Joab. Abela
is besieged, but ujyonthe citizens casthig over the
wall the head of Seba, Joab departeth with his
arm I/.

A ND there happened to be there a
t\. man of Belial, whose name was Seba,
he son of Bochri, a man of Jemini : and
,e sounded the trumpet, and said : We
a,\e no part in David, nor inheritance

1 the son of Isai : return to thy dwell-
Qgs, O Israel.

2 And all Israel departed from David,
jid followed Seba the son of Bochri :
»ut the mer of Juda stuck to their king
rom the Jordan unto Jerusalem.

3 And when the king was come into his
ouse at Jerusalem, he took the ten
^omen hie concubines^ whom he had left

keep the house, and put them in ward,
llowing them provisions : and he went
ot in unto them, but they were shut up
nto the day of their death living in
ndowhood.

4 And the king said to Amasa : Assem-
le to me all the men of Juda against the
hird day, and be thou here present.

5 So Amasa went to assemble the men
f Juda, but he tarried beyond the set
im€ which the king had appointed him.

6 And David said to Abisai : Now will
Jeba the son of Bochri do us more harm
ihan did Absalom : take thou therefore the
ervants of thy lord, and pursue after him,
est he find fenced cities, and escape us.

7 So Joab'e men went out with him, and
ihe Cerethi and the Phelethi : and all
)he valiant men went out of Jerusalem

pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.

8 And when they were at the great stone
which is in Gabaon, Amasa coming met
them. And Joab had on a close coat of
equal length with his habit, and over it
was girded with a sword hanging down
to his flank, in a scabbard, made in such
manner as to come out with the least
motion and strike.

9 And Joab said to Amasa: God save
thee, my brother. * And he took Amasa
by the chin with his right hand to kiss
him.

10 But Amasa did not take notice of the
sword, which Joab had, and he struck him
in the side, and shed out his bowels to the
ground, and gave him not a second wound,
and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his
brother pursued after Seba the son of
Bochri.

11 In the mean time some men of Joab's
company stopping at the dead body of
Amasa, said : Behold he that would have
been in Joab's stead the companion of
David.

12 And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay
in the midst of the way. A certain man
saw this that all the people stood still to
look upon him, so he removed Amasa out
of the highway into the field, and covered
him with a garment, that they who passed
might not stop on his account.

13 And when he was removed out of the
way, all the people went on following
Joab to pursue after Seba the son of
Bochri.

14 Now he had passed through all the
tribes of Israel unto Abela and Beth-
maacha : and all the chosen men were
gathered together unto him.

15 And they came, and besieged him in
Abela, and in Bethmaacha, and they cast
up works round the city, and the city was
besieged: and all the people that were
with Joab, laboured to throw down the
walls.

16 And a wise woman cried out from the
city : Hear, hear, and say to Joab : Come
near hither, and I will speak with thee.

17 And when he was come near to her,
she said to him: Art thou Joab ? And he
answered : I am. And she spoke thus to
him: Hear the words of thy handmaid.
He answered: I do hear.

18 And she again said : A saying was

s 3 Kings 2. 5.

CSAP. 2«. y«r u Abela fmd Bethmaacha. Cities of the tribe of i^ephtalL

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Seba is killed

2 KINGS

Seven sons of Saul crucified

deed in the old proverb ? They that in-
quire, let them inquire in Abela : and so
' hey made an end,.

19 Am not I she that answer truth in
Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the
city, and to overthrow a mother in Is-
rael? Why wilt thou throw down the
inheritance of the Lord ?

20 And Joab answering said: God forbid,
God forbid that I should, I do not throw
down, nor destroy.

21 The matter is not so, but a man of
mount Ephraim, Seba the son of Bochri
by name, hath lifted up his hand against
king David : deliver him only, and we
will depart from the city. And the wo-
man said to Joab : Behold his head shall
be thrown to thee from the wall.

22 So she went to all the people, and
spoke to them wisely : and they cut off
the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and
cast it out to .Joab. And he sounded the
trumpet, and they departed from the city,
every one to their home : and Joab re-
turned to Jerusalem to the king.

23 * So Joab was over all the army of
Israel : and Banaias the son of Joiada
was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,

24 But Aduram over the tributes: and
Josaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.

25 And Siva was scribe : and Sadoc and
Abiathar, priests.

26 And Ira the Jairite was the priest of
David.

CHAPTER 21.

A famine of three years, for the sin of Saul against
the Gabaonites, at whose desire seven of Saul^s
race are crucified. War again with the Philis-
tines.

A ND there was a famine in the days
Jl\ of David for three years succes-
sively : and David consulted the oracle of
the Lord. And the Lord said : It is for
Saul, and his bloody house, because he
slew the Gabaonites.

2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaon-
ites, said to them : (Now the Gabaonites
were not of the children of Israel, but
the remains of the Amorrhites : ^ and the
children of Israel had sworn to them, and
Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as
it were for the children of Israel and
Juda:)

t Supra 8. 16.

V Jos. 9. 15. — wl Kings 18. 3.

Chap. 21. Ver. 8. Of Michnl. They were
sons of Merob, who was married to Hadriel.

the
but

3 David therefore laid tc the Gabaon-
ites : What shall I d for you ? anc' what
shall be the atonement xor yo a, that you
may bless the inheritance ot the Lord V

4 And the Gabaonites said to him : We
have no contest about silver and gold, but
against Saul and against his house • nei-
ther do we desire that any man be slain
of Israel. And the king said to them:
What will you then that T should do for
you?

5 And they said to the king : The man
that crushed us and oppressed us unjustly,
we must destroy in such manner that
there be not so much as one left of his
stock in all the coasts of Israel.

6 Let seven men of his children be de-
livered unto us, that we may crucify them
to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the
chosen of the Lord. And the king said:
I will give them.

7 ^ And the king spared Miphiboseth
the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, be-
cause of the oath of the Lord, that had
been between David and Jonathan the
son of Saul.

8 So the king took the two sons of Res-
phcv tne daughter of Aia, whom she bore to
Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth : and the
five sons of Michol the daughter of Saul,
whoni she bore to Hadriel the son of
Berzellai, that was of Molathi ;

9 And gave them into the hands of the
Gabaonites : and they crucified them on a
hill before the Lord: and these seven
died together in the first days of the
harvest, when the barley began to be
reaped.

10 And Respha the daughter of Aia took
haircloth, and spread it under her upon
the rock from the beginning of the har-
vest, till water dropped upon them out
of heaven : and suffered neither the birds
to tear them by day, nor the beasts by
night.

11 And it was told David, what Respha
the daughter of Aia, the concubine of
Saul, had done.

12 And David went, and took the bonef
of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his
son from the men of Jabes Galaad, ^ who
had stolen them from the street of Beth*
san, where the Philistines had hanged

y 1 Kings 31, 12.

they are here called the sons of Michol, because shfi
adopted them, and brought them up z' her own.

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War icfith the Philistines

^ KINGS David's psalm of thanksgiving

'Jiem when they had elain Saul in Gel- i Lord delivered him out of the hand of ali

boe.

13 And he brought from thence the
bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan
his son, and they gathered up the bones
of them that were crucified,

14 And they buried them with the

his enemieS; and out of the hand of Saul,

2 And he said ; ^ The Lord is my rock,
and my strength, and my saviour.

3 God is my strong one, in him will I
trust: my shield, and the horn of my
salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my

bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son refuge : my saviour, thou wilt deliver

in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in me from iniquity.

I the sepulchre of Cis his father: and they I 4^1 will call on the Lord who is worthy

did all that the king had commanded, to be praised : and I shall be saved from

and God shewed mercy again to the land my enemies.

after these things. 5 For the pangs of death have sur-

I 15 And the Philistines made war again rounded me : the floods of Belial have

against Israel, and David went down, and made me afraid.

his servants with him, and fought against

the Philistines. And David growing faint,

16 Jesbibenob, who was of the race of

Arapha, ^ the iron of whose spear weighed

fchree hundred ounces, being girded with

a new sword, attempted to kill David.

1 17 And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued

' him, and striking the Philistine killed

him. Then David's men swore unto him,

saying: Thou shalt go no more out with

us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp

of IsraeL

18 * There was also a second battle in
Gob against the Philistines : then Sobo-
chai of Husathi slew Saph of the race of
Arapha of the family of the giants.

19 And there was a third battle in Gob
against the Philistines, in which Adeoda-
tus the son of the Forrest an embroiderer
of Bethlehem slew Goliath the Gethite,
the shaft of whose spear was like a
weaver's beam.

20 A fourth battle was in Geth: where
there was a man of great stature, that
had six fingers on each hand, and six
toes on each foot, four and twenty in all,
and he was of the race of Arapha,

21 And he reproached Israel: and Jon-
athan the son of Samae the brother of
David slew him.

22 These four were bom of Arapha in
Geth, and they fell by the hand of David,
and of his servants.

CHAPTER 22.

finff David's psalm of thanksgiving for his deliver'
ancefrom, all his enemies.

\ ND David spoke to the Lord the words
of this canticle, in the day that the

2 1 Kings 17. 7. — a 1 Par. 20. 4.

, Ver.l9. Afle.nrlnfijn the son of fhP- Fnrreat. So it
» rendered iu the Latin Vulgate, by giving the inter-

6 The cords of uell compassed me : the
snares of death pre /ented me.

7 In my distress I wiU call upon the
Lord, and I wiL zrr; to my God: and he
will hear my voice out of his temple,
and my cry shall jome to his ears.

8 The earth shook and trembled, the
foundations of the mountains were
moved, and shaken, because he was
angry with them.

9 A smoke went up from his nostrils,
and a devouring fire out of his mouth:
coals were kindled by it.

10 He bowed the heavens, and came
down : and darkness was under his feet.

11 And he rode upon the cherubims,
and flew : and slid upon the wings of the
wind.

12 He made darkness a covering round
about him: dropping waters out of tho
clouds of the heavens.

13 By the brightness before him, the
coals of fire were kindled.

14 The Lord shall thunder from heaven:
and the most high shall give forth his
voice.

15 He shot arrows and scattered them:
lightning, and consumed them.

16 And the overflowings of the sea ap-
peared, and the foundations of the world
were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord,
at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.

17 He sent from on high, and took me,
and drew me out of many waters.

18 He delivered me from my most
mighty enemy, and from them that hated
me : for they were too strong for me.

19 He prevented me in the day of my
affliction, and the Lord became my stay.

6 Ps. 17. 3. — c Ps. 17.4.

pretation of the Hebrew uamei>, which are Elhauao
the son of Jaare.

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20 And he brought me forth into a large
placo, he delivered me, because I pleased
him.

1 The Lord will reward me according
to my justice : and according to the clean-
ness of my hands he will render to me.

22 Because I have kept the ways of the
Lord, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.

23 For all his judgments are in my sight :
and his precepts I have not removed
from me.

24 And I shall be perfect with him: and
shall keep myself fro: my iniquity.

25 And the Lord will recompense me
according to my justice: and according
to the cleanness of my hands in the sight
of his eyes.

26 With the holy one thou wUt be holy :
and with the valiant perfect.

27 With the elect thou wilt be sleet:
and with the perverse thou wilt be per-
verted.

28 And the poor people thou wil save :
and with thy eyes thor I' humble the
haughty.

29 For thou art my lamp, O Lord : and
thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.

30 For in thee I will run girded : in my
God I will leap over the wall.

31 God, his way is immaculate, the word
of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the
shield of all that trust in him.

32 Who is God but the Lord : and who
is strong but our God ?

33 God who hath girded me with
strength, and made my way perfect.

34 ** Making my feet like the feet of
harts, and setting me upon my high
places.

35 He teacheth my hands to war: and
maketh my arms like a bow of brass.

36 Thou hast given me the shield of my
salvation : and thy mildness hath multi-
plied me.

37 Thou shalt enlarge my steps under
me: and my ankles shall not fail.

38 I will pursue after my enemies, and
crush them: and will not return again
till I consume them.

39 I will consume them and break them
in pieces, so that they shall not rise:
they shall fall under my feet.

40 Thou hast girded me with strength

(I Ps. 143. 1. — e Ps. 17. 49.

to battle: thou hast made them that
T^sistec*! me to bow under me.

il My encmiG3 thou hast made to turn
ohoir back to me : them that hated me,
and I shall destroy them.

42 They shall cry, and there shall be
none to aave : to the Lord, and he shall
not hear thom.

43 I shall beat them as small as the duat
of the earth: I shall crush them and
spread them abroad like the mire of the
streets.

44 Thou wilt save me from the contra-
dictions of my people: thou wilt keep
me to be the head of the Gentiles : tb«»
people which I know not, shall serve me,

45 The sons of the stranger will resist
me, at the hearing of the ear they wiU
obey me

46 The strangers are melted away, and
shall be straitened in their distresses.

47 The Lord hveth, and my God is
blessed : and the strong God of my sal-
vation shall be exalted:

48 God who giveth me revenge, and
bringest down peoplo under me,

49 Who bringest me forth from my ene-
mies, and hftest me up from them that
resist me: ^from the wicked man thou
shalt deliver me.

60 -^Therefore will I give thanks to thee,
O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will
sing to thy name.

61 Giving great salvation to his king,
and shewing mercy to David his anointed,
and to his seed for ever.

CHAPTER 23.

The last words of Da vid. A ca talogue of his valiar
men.

OW these are David's last wordfe.
David the son of Isai said : The man
to whom it was appointed concerning
the Christ of the God of Jacob, ^ the ex-
cellent psalmist of Israel said :

2 The spirit of the Lord hath spoken
by me and his word by my tongue.

3 The God of Israel said to me, the
strong one of Israel spoke, the ruler of
men, the just ruler in the fear of God.

4 As the light of the morning, when the
sun riseth, shineth in the morning with-
out clouds, and as the grass springeth
out oi the earth by rain.

/ Rom. 16. 9. — ^ Acts 2. 30.

Chap. 23. V^r. ^, As the Light, Sic So L^hall ^«e the kingdom ol Clirisu

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Neither is my house so great with | there waa a garrison of the PhiUstiDes

d, that he should make with me an
irnal covenant, tirm in all things and
lured. For he is all my salvation, and
my will: neither is there ought
;reof that springeth not up.
But transgressors shall all of them be
icked up as thorns: which are not
:en away with hands.
And if a man will touch them, he
oat be armed with iron and with the
iff of a lance : but they shall be set on
•e and burnt to nothing.

I ^ These are the names of the valiant
911 of David. Jesbaham sitting in the

-air was the wisest chief among the
iree, he was like the most tender little
orm of the wood, who killed eight bun-
red men at one onset.
_, After him was Eleazar the son of
odo the Ahohite, one of the three val-
,nt men that were with David when
ey defied the Philistines, and they
ere there gathered together to battle.
10 And when the men of Israel were
one away, he stood and smote the Phi-
stines till his hand was weary, and grew
bifC with the sword: and the Lord
rrought a great victory that day: and
he people that were fled away, returned
o take spoils of them that were slain.

II And after him was Semma the son of
ge of Arari. And the Philistines were

gathered together in a troop : for there

then in Bethlehem.

15 And David longed, and said : O that
some man would get me a drink of the
water out of the cistern, that is in Beth-
lehem, by the gate.

16 And the three valiant men broke
through the camp of the Philistines, and
drew water out of the cistern of Bethle-
hem, that was by the gate, and brought
it to David : but he would not drink, but
offered it to the Lord,

17 Saying: The Lord be merciful to me,
that I may not do this: shall I drink the
blood of these men that went, and the
peril of their lives? therefore he would
not drink. These things did these three
mighty men.

18 Abisai also the brother of Joab, the
son of Sarvia, was chief among three:
and he lifted up his spear against three
hundred whom he slew, and he was re-
nowned among the three,

19 And the noblest of three, and was
their chief, but to the three first he at-
tained not.

20 And Banaias the son of Joiada a
most valiant man, of great deeds, of
Cabseel : he slew the two lions of Moab,
and he went down, and slew a Hon in
the midst of a pit, in the time of snow.

21 He also slew an Egyptian, a man
worthy to be a sight, having a spear rn
his hand: but he went down to him with

as a field full of lentils. And when the | a rod, and forced the spear out of the

•eople were fled from the face of the
^hiliatines,

12 He stood in the midst of the field,
md defended it, and defeated the Phi-
listines: and the Lord gave a great vic-
tory.

13 Moreover also before this the three
who were princes * among the thirty,
went down and came to David in the
harvest time into the cave of OdoUam :
and the camp of the Philistines was in
the valley of the giants.

14 And David was then in a hold : and

h 1 Par. 11. 10.

Ver. 5. Neither is my house, &c. As if he should
say • This everlasting covenant was not due to my
house: but purely owing to his boui/ty; who is all
my salvation, and my will : that is, who hath always
saved me, and granted me what I beseeched of him ;
•o that I and my house, through his blessing, have
sprung up, and succeeded in all things.

Ver. 8. Jesbaham, the son of HachamonL For
this was the name of Uis hero, as appears from
* Clnoc. or f aralip. U. "- Ibkl Most tender» &o. fie

hand of the Egyptian, and slew him with
his own spear.

22 These things did Banaias the son of
Joiada.

23 And he was renowned among the
three vahant men, who were the most
honourable among the thirty: but he at-
tained not to the first three: and David
made him of his privy council.

24 Asael the brother of Joab was one of
the thirty, Elehanan the son of Dodo of
Bethlehem.

25 Semma of Harodi, Elica of Harodi,

i 1 Par. 11. 15.

appeared like one tender and weak, but was indeed
most valiant and strong. It seems the Latm has
here given the interpretation of the Hebrew name of
the hero, to whom Jesbaham v/as like, mstead of the
name itself, which was Adi^m the Eznite, one mucH
renowned of old for his valour. , • u ;„ tha

Ver. 9. Dodo. In Latin, P<itrm ejus, wiiich is the
interpretation of the Hebrew name Dodo, Tne same
occur? iD ver. 2A.

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26 Heles of Phalti, Hira the son ot Acces
of Thecua,

27 Abiezer of Anathoth, Mobonnai of
Husati,

28 Selmop ihe Ahohite, Maharai the
Netophathitfc,

29 Heled the son of Baana, also a Neto-
phathite, Ithai the son of Ribai of Gabaath
of the children of Benjamin,

30 Banaia t»:ie Pharathonite, Heddai of
the torrent Gaas,

31 Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth
of Beromi,

32 Ehaba of Salaboni. The sons of Jas-
sen, Jonathai».

33 Semma of Orori, Aliam the son of
Sarar the Arorite,

34 Eliphelet the son of Aasbai the son
of Machati, Eliam the son of Achitophel
the Gelonite,

35 Hesrai of Carmel, Pharai of Arbi,

36 Igaal the soa of Nathan of Soba,
Bonni of Gadi,

37 Selec of Ammoni, Naharai the Be-
rothite, armourbear#r of Joab the son of
Sarvia,

38 Ira the Jethrite. Gareb also a Jeth-
rite ;

39 Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven
in all.

CHAPTER 54.

David numbereth the people, irod sendeth a pesti-
lence, which is stopt by David's prayer and sacru
Jice,

AND the anger of the Lord ^ was again
J\. kindled against Israel, and stirred
up David among them, saying: Go, num-
ber Israel and Juda.

2 And the king said to Joao the general
of his army : Go through all the tribes of
Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and number
ye the people that I may know the num-
ber of them.

3 And Joab said to the king The Lord
thy God increase thy people, and make
them as many more as they are now, and
again multiply them a hundredfold in
the sight of my lord the king: bet what
meaneth my lord the king by this kind
of thing?

4 But the king's words prevailed over
the words of Joab, and of the captains

k 1 Par. 21. 13.

Chap. 24. Ver. 1. Stirred up, &c. This stirring
up was not the doing of God, but of Satan; as it is
expressly declared, l Chron. or Paralip. 21. 1.

Ver. 10. David's hea-rt struck himt ajter the people

David numbers the peopU]

of the army: and Joab, and the captaiiiEl
of the soldiers went out from the pre
sence of the king, to number the people
of Israel.

5 And when they had passed the Jor-
dan, they came to Aroer to the right side
of the city, which is in the vale of
Gad.

6 And by Jazer they passed into Galaad,
and to the lower land of Hodsi, and they
came into the woodlands of Dan» And
going about by Sidon,

7 They passed near the walls of Tyre,
and all the land of the Hevite, and the
Chanaanite, and they came to the south
of Juda into Bersabee :

8 And having gone through the whole
land, after nine months and twenty days,
they came to Jerusalem.

9 And Joab gave up the sum of the num*
ber of the people to the king, and there
were found of Israel eight hundred thou-
sand valiant men that drew the sword:
and of Juda five hundred thousand fight-
ing men.

10 ^ But David's heart struck him, after
the people were numbered: and David
said to the Lord: I have sinned very
much in what I have done: but I pray
thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity
of thy servant, because I have done ex-
ceeding foolishly.

11 And David arose in the morning,
and the word of the Lord came to Gad
the prophet and the seer of David, say-
ing;

12 Go, and say to David: Thus saith the
Lord: I give thee thy choice of three
things, choose one of them which thou
wilt, that I may do it to thee.

13 And when Gad was come to David,
he told him, saying: Either seven years
of famine shall come to thee in thy land:
or thou Shalt flee three months before
thy adversaries, and they shall pursue
thee: or for three days there shall be a
pestilence in thy land. Now therefore
deliberate, and see what answer X shall
return to him that sent me.

14 And David said to Gad: I am in a
great strait: ^ but it is better that I
should fall into the hands of the Lord

1 1 Kings 24. 6. — m Dan. 13. 23.

were numbered. That is he was touched with a great
remorse for the vanity and pride which had put hiir
upoQ numbermg the people.

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for his mercies are many) than into the
ands of men.

L6 And the Lord sent a pestilence upon
crael, from the morning unto the time
Ippointed, and there died of the people
om Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand
ten.

16 And when the angel of the Lord had
aretched out his hand over Jerusalem to
estroy it, the Lord had pity on the
flfliction, and said to the angel that slew
le people : It is enough : now hold thy
and. And the angel of the Lord was by
le thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.

17 And David said to the Lord, when he
iw the angel striking the people : It is
; I am he that have sinned, I have done
ickedly: these that are the sheep,
hat have they done ? let thy hand, I
eseech thee, be turned against me, and
gainst my father's house.

18 And Gad came to David that day,
nd said: Go up, and build an altar to
tie Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna
lie Jebusite.

19 And David went up according to the
rord of Gad which the Lord had com-
landed him.

20 And Areuna looked, and saw the

The plague is stayed

king and his servants coming towards
him:

21 And going out he worshipped the
king, bowing with his face to the earth,
and said: Wherefore is luv lord the king
come to his servant ? Ana David said to
him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee,
and build an altar to the Lord, that the
plague, which rageth among the people,
may cease.

22 And Areuna said to David : Let my
lord the king take, and offer, as it seem-
eth good to him: thou hast here oxen for
a holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes
of the oxen for wood.

23 All these things Areuna as a king gave
to the king: and Areuna said to the king:
The Lord thy God receive thy vow.

24 And the king answered him, and said:
Nay, but I will buy it of thee at a price,
and I will not offer to the Lord my God
holocausts free cost. So David bought
the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sides
of silver :

25 And David built there an altar to the
Lord, and offered holocausts and peace
offerings : and the Lord became merciful
to the land, and the plague was stayed
from Israel.

THE

THIRD BOOK OF KINGS.

^is and the following Book are called hy the holy fathers the third and fourth book of Kings;
but by the Hebrews, the first aitd second. They contain the history of the kingdoms of Israel
and Juda, from the beginning of the reign of Solomon, to the captivity. As to the writer o;f
these books, it seems most probable they were not written by one man ; nor at one time ; but as
there was all along a succession of prophets in Israel, who recorded, by divine inspiration, the
most remarkable things that happened in th^ir days, these books seem to have been written
by these prophets. See 2 Paralip. alias 2 Chron. 9. 29 ; 12. 15 ; 13. 22 ; 20. 34 ; 26. 22 ; 32.
32.

CHAPTER 1.

Hng David growing old, Abisag a Sunamitess is
brought to him. Adonias pretending to reign, Na-

! than and Bethsabee obtain that Solomon should
be declared and anointed king.

VTOW king David was old, and ad-
i-i vanced in years : and when he was
jovered with clothes, he was not warm.
I 2 His servants therefore said to him :

Let us seek for our lord the king, a young
virgin, and let her stand before the king,
and cherish him, and sleep in his bosom,
and warm our lord the king.

3 So they sought a beautiful young wo-
man in all the coasts of Israel, and they
found Abisag a Sunamitess, and brought
her to the king.

4 And the damsel was exceeding beauti

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David chooses Solomon

rui, and she slept with the king: and
served him, but the king did not know
her.

5 And Adonias the son of Haggith ex-
alted himself, saying : I will be king. And
he made himself chariots and horsemen,
and fifty men to run before him.

6 ^ Neither did his father rebuke him at
any time, saying: Why hast thou done
this ? And he also was very beautiful,
^he next in birth after Absalom.

7 And he conferred with Joab the son of
(Barvia, and with Abiathar the priest, who
furthered Adonias's side.

8 But Sadoc the priest, and Banaias the
son of Joiada, and Nathan the prophet,
and Semei, and Rei, and the strength of
David's army was not with Adonias.

9 And Adonias having slain rams and
calves, and all fat cattle by the stone of
Zoheleth, which was near the fountain
Rogel, invited all his brethren the king's
sons, and all the men of Juda, the king's
servants :

10 But Nathan the prophet, and Bana-
ias, and all the valiant men, and Solo-
mon his brother, he invited not.

11 And Nathan said to Bethsabee the
mother of Solomon : Hast thou not heard
that Adonias the son of Haggith reigneth,
and our lord David knoweth it not ?

12 Now then come, take my counsel and
save thy life, and the life of thy son Sol-
omon.

13 Go, and get thee in to king David, and
say to him : Didst not thou, my lord O
king, swear to me thy handmaid, saying :
Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and
he shall sit on my throne ? why then doth
Adonias reign ?

1 i And while thou art yet speaking there
with the king, I will come in after thee,
and will fill up thy words.

15 So Bethsabee went in to the king into
the chamber : now the king was very old,
and Abisag the Sunamitess ministered to
him.

16 Bethsabee bowed herself, and wor-
shipped the king. And the king said to
her : What is thy will?

17 She answered and said : My lord,
thou didst swear to thy handmaid by the
Lord thy God, saying : Solomon thy son
shall reign after me, and he shall sit on
my throne.

18 And behold now Adonias reigneth,
and thou, my lord the king, knowest
nothing of it.

19 He hath killed oxen, and all fat cattle,
and many rams, and invited all the king's
sons, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab
the general of the army : but SolomoD
thy servant he invited not.

20 And now, my lord O king, the eyes
of all Israel are upon thee, that thou
shouldst tell them, who shall sit on thy
throne, my lord the king, after thee.

21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when
my lord the king sleepeth with his fa-
thers, that I and my son Solomon shall be
counted offenders.

22 As she was yet speaking with the
king, Nathan the prophet came.

23 And they told the king, saying : Na-
than the prophet is here. And when he
was come in before the king, and had
worshipped, bowing down to the ground,

24 Nathan said : My lord O king, hast
thou said : Let Adonias reign after me^
and let him sit upon my throne ?

25 Because he is gone down to day, ani
hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many
rams, and invited all the king's sons, and
the captains of the army, and Abiathar
the priest: and they are eating and
drinking before him, and saying: God
save king Adonias :

26 But me thy servant, and Sadoc the
priest, and Banaias the son of Joiada,
and Solomon thy servant he hath not in-
vited.

27 Is this word come out from my lord
the king, and hast thou not told me thy
servant who should sit on the throne of
my lord the king after him ?

28 And king David answered and said :
Call to me Bethsabee. And when she
was come in to the king, and stood before
him,

29 The king swore and said : As the
Lord liveth, who hath delivered my soul
out of all distress,

30 Even as I swore to thee by the Lord
the God of Israel, saying: Solomon thy
son shall reign after me, and he shall sit
upon my throne in my stead, so will I do
this day.

31 And Bethsabee bowing with her face
to the earth worshipped the king, say-
ing : May my lord David hve for ever.

o 1 Kings 2. 29 ; 2 Klogs 13. 21, and & L
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iomon is anointed king

3 KINGS

Solomon spares Adonias

King David also said i Call me Sadoc
priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
laias the son of Joiada. And when
y were come in before the king.
He said to them : Take with you the
vants of your lord, and set my son
lomon upon my mule : and bring him
3ihon.
And let Sadoc the priest, and Nathan
prophet anoint him there king over
llael: and you shall sound the trum-
I ,., and shall say : God save king Solo-
1 n.
» And you shall come up after him,

fl he shall come, and shall sit upon my
one, and he shall reign in my stead :
a I will appoint him to be ruler over
ael, and over Juda.
) And Banaias the son of Joiada an-
ered the king, saying: Amen: so say
) Lord the God of my lord the king.
|r As the Lord hath been with my lord
3 king, so be he with Solomon, and
Lke his throne higher than the throne
my lord king David.
i So Sadoc the priest, and Nathan the
Dphet went down, and Banaias the son
Joiada, and the Cerethi, and Phelethi:
d they set Solomon upon the mule of
ag David, and brought him to Gihon.
9 And Sadoc the priest took a horn of
out of the tabernacle, and anointed
lomon: and they sounded the trum-
t, and all the people said: God save
iig Solomon.

0 And all the multitude went up after
im, and the people played with pipes,

d rejoiced with a great joy, and the
rth rang with the noise of their cry.

1 And Adonias, and all that were in-
|ted by him, heard it, and now the feast
18 at an end : Joab also hearing the
und of the trumpet, said : What mean-
h this noise of the city in an uproar ?
:2 While he yet spoke, Jonathan the
n of Abiathar the priest came : and
donias said to him : Come in, because
lou art a valiant man, and bringest good

JWS.

13 And Jonathan answered Adonias :
ot so : for our lord king David hath
jpointed Solomon king.

14 And hath sent with him Sadoc the
riest, and Nathan the prophet, and
anaias the son of Joiada, and the Cere-

thi, and Phelethi, and they have set hiii.
upon the king's mule.

45 And Sadoc the priest, and Nathan
the prophet have anointed him king in
Gihon : and they are gone up from thence
rejoicing, so that the city rang again*
this is the noise that you have heard.

46 Moreover Solomon sitteth upon the
throne of the kingdom,

47 And the king's servants going in
have blessed our lord king David, saying i
May God make the name of Solomon
greater than thy name, and make his
throne greater than thy throne. And
the king adored in his bed :

48 And he said : Blessed be the Lord the
God of Israel, who hath given this day
one to sit on my throne, my eyes seeing
it.

49 Then all the guests of Adonias were
afraid, and they all arose and every man
went his way.

50 And Adonias fearing Solomon, arose,
and went, and took hold on the horn of
the altar.

51 And they told Solomon, saying : Be-
hold Adonias, fearing king Solomon,
hath taken hold of the horn of the altar,
saying: Let king Solomon swear to me
this day, that he will not kill his servant
with the sword.

52 And Solomon said : If he be a good
man, there shall not so much as one hair
of his head fall to the ground: but it
evil be found in him, he shall die.

53 Then king Solomon sent, and brought
him out from the altar: and going in he
worshipped king Solomon : and Solomon
said to him : Go to thy house.

CHAPTER 2.

David, after giving his last charge to Solomoi\
dieth. Adonias is put to death: Abiathar is
banished : Joab and Semei are slain.

AND Pthe days of David drew nigh
J\. that he should die, and he charged
his son Solomon, saying :

2 I am going the way of all flesh : take
thou courage, and shew thyself a man.

3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy
God, to walk in his ways, and observe
his ceremonies, and his precepts, and
judgments, and testimonies, ^ as it is
written in the law of Moses : that thou
mayest understand all thou dost, and
whithersoever thou shalt turn thyself :

p B. C. 972.

g Deat 1^. 19.

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The death of David

3 KINGS

Adonias is put to death

4 That the Lord may confirm hie words,
Tvhich he hath spoken of me, saying: If
thy children shall take heed to their
ways, and shall walk before me in truth,
with all their heart, and with all their
soul, there shall not be taken away from
thee a man on the throne of Israel.

5 Thou knowest also what Joab the son
of Sarvia hath done to me, what he did
to the two captains of the army of Israel,
** to Abner the son of Ner, and ® to Amasa
the son of Jether : whom he slew, and
shed the blood of war in peace, and put
the blood of war on his girdle that was
about his loins, and in his shoes that
were on his feet.

6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom,
and let not his hoary head go down to
hell in peace.

7 But shew kindness to the sons of Ber-
zellai the Galaadite, and let them eat at
thy table: * for they met me when I fled
from the face of Absalom thy brother.

8 ** Thou hast also with thoe Semei the
son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim,
who cursed me with a grievous curse,
when I went to the camp : but because
he came down to meet me when I passed
over the Jordan, and I swore to him by
the Lord, saying : I will not kill thee with
a sword :

9 Do not thou hold him guiltless. But
thou art a wise man, and knowest what
to do with him, and thou shalt bring
down his grey hairs with blood to hell.

10 ^So David slept with his fathers, and
was buried in the city of David.

11 ^ And the days that David reignod
in Israel, were forty years : in Hebron
he reigned seven years, in Jerusalem
thirty-three.

12 And Solomon sat upon the throne of
his father David, and his kingdom was
strengthened exceedingly.

13 And Adonias the son of Haggith
came to Bethsabee the mother of Solo-
mon. And she said to him : Is thy coming
peaceable ? he answered : Peaceable.

14 And he added : I have a word to
speak with thee. She said to him:
Speak. And he said :

r 2 Kings 3. 27. — s 2 Kings 20. 10. — < 2 Kings 19.31.
u 2 Kings 16. 5, and 19. 19.

Chap. 2. Ver. 5. Joab. These instructions given
by David to his son, with relation to Joab and Semei,
proceeded not from any rancour of heart, or private
pique; but from a zeal for justice, that crimes so
public and heinous might not pass unpunished.

858

15 Thou knowest that the kingdom wan
mine, and all Israel had preferred me to
be their king : but the kingdom is trans-
ferred, and is become my brother^s : for
it was appointed him by the Lord.

16 Now therefore I ask one petition of
thee: turn not away my face. And she
said to him : Say on.

17 And he said: I pray thee speak to
king Solomon (for he cannot deny thee
any thing) to give me Abisag the Su-
namitess to wife.

18 And Bethsabee said : Well, I will
speak for thee to the king.

19 Then Bethsabee came to king Solo-
mon, to speak to him for Adonias : and
the king arose to meet her, and bowed
to her, and sat down upon his throne;
and a throne was set for the king^s
mother, and she sat on his right hand.

20 And she said to him: I desire one
small petition of thee, do not put me to
confusion. And the king said to her:
My mother, ask: for I must not turn
away thy face.

21 And she said: Let Abisag the Sunam-
itess be given to Adonias thy brother to
wife.

22 And king Solomon answered, and
said to his mother: Why dost thou ask
Abisag the Sunamitess for Adonias ? ask
for him also the kingdom : for he is my
elder brother, and hath Abiathar the
priest, and Joab the son of Sarvia.

23 Then king Solomon swore by the
Lord, saying: So and so may God do to
me, and add more, if Adonias hath not
spoken this word against his own life.

24 And now as the Lord liveth, who hath
established me, and placed me upon the
throne of David my father, and who hath
made me a house, as he promised, Ado-
nias shall be put to death this day.

25 And king Solomon sent by the hand
of Banaias the son of Joiada, who slew
him, and he died.

26 And the king said also to Abiathar
the priest : Go to Anathoth to thy lands,
for indeed thou art worthy of death : but
I will not at this time put thee to death,
because thou didst carry the ark of the

V Acts 2. 29.
W 1 Par. 29. 27.

Ver. 6. To hell. This word hell doth not here sig.
nify the place or state of damnation ; but the place
and state of the dead*

Joah is slain

S KINGS

Semei is put io death

Lord God before David my father, and
bast endured trouble in all the troubles
toy father endured.

27 So Solomon cast t>vJtt Abiathar, from
being the priest of the Lord, ^ that the
word of the Lord might be fulfilled, which
he spoke concerning the house of Heli in
Silo.

28 And the news came to Joab, because
Joab had turned after Adonias, and had
not turned after Salomon : and Joab fled
Into the tabernacle of the Lord and laid
hold on the horn of the altar.

29 And it was told king Solomon, that
Toab was fled into the tabernacle of the
Lord, and was by the altar : and Solomon
Bent Banaias the son of Joiada, saying :
Go, kill him.

30 And Banaias came to the cabernacle
of the Lord, and said to him : Thus saith
the king ; Come forth. And he said : I
will not come forth, but here I will die.
Banaias brought word back to the king,
saying: Thus saith Joab, and thus he
answered me,

31 And the king said to him : Do as he
hath said: and kill him, and bury him,
and thou shalt remove the innocent
blood which hath been shed by Joab,
from me, and from the house of my
father.

32 And the Lord shall return his blc od
upon his own head, because he murdered
two men, just and better than Mmself :
and slew them with the sword, my father
David not knowing it, y Abner fche son of
Ner, general of the army of Israel, and
Amasa the son of Jether, general of !ihe
army of Juda.

33 And their blood shall return upon
the head of Joab, and upon the bead of
his seed for ever. But to David and his
seed and his house, and to his throne be
pef.ce for ever from the Lord.

34 So Banaias the son of Joiada went up,
and setting upon him slew him, and he
was buried in his house in the desert.

35 And the king appointed Banaias the
eon of Joiada in his room over the army,
and Sadoc the priest he put in the place
of Abiathar.

36 The king also sent, and called for
Semei, and said to him : Build fchee a
house in Jerusalem, and dwell there:
and go not out from thence any whither. I of Jerusalem round about.

37 For on what day soever thou shalt
go out, and shalt pass over the brook
Cedron, know that thou shalt be put to
death : thy blood shall be upon thy own
head:

38 And Semei said to the king: The
saying is good : as my lord the king hath
said, so will thy servant do. And Semei
dwelt in Jerusalem, many days.

39 And it came to pass after three years,
that the servants of Semei ran away to
Achis the son of Maacha the king of
Geth: and it was told Semei that his
servants were gone to Geth.

40 And Semei arose, and saddled his ass,
and went to Achis to Geth to seek his
servants, and he brought them out of
Geth.

41 And it was told Solomon that Semei
had gone from Jerusalem to Geth, and
was come back.

42 And sending he called for him, and
said to him : Did I not protest to thee by
the Lord, and tell thee before : On what
day soever thou shalt go out. and walk
abroad any whither, know that thou shalt
die? And thou answeredst me: The
word that I have heard is good.

43 Why then hast thou not kept the
oath of the Lord, and the commandment
that I laid upon thee ?

44 And the king said to Semei: Thou
knowest all the evil, of which thy heart
is conscious, which thou didst to David
my father : the Lord hath returned thy
wickedness upon thy own head :

45 And king Solomon shall be biessed,
and the throne of David shall be estab*
lished before the Lord for ever.

48 So the king commanded Banaias the
son of Joiada: and he went out and
struck him, and he died.

CHAPTER 3.

Solomon marrieth Pharaohs daughter, ffe sacriJU
ceth in Gabaon : in the choice which God gave him.
he preferreth wisdom. His wise judgment between
the two harlots.

A ND ^ the kingdom was established ^ in
jljl the hand of Solomon, and he made
affinity with Pharao the king of Egypt ;
for he took his daughter, and brought
her into the city of David, ^ until he had
made an end of building his own house,
and the house of the Lord, and the wall

X 1 Kings 2. 31
y Z Kings a 27 : 20 y^

«B.C. 972.
a 2 Par. 1. 1. — 6 2 Par. 8. IL

35S

Solomon asks for wisdom

3 KINGS

Solomon's jucigrl

2 But yet the people sacrificed in the
high places: for there was no temple
built to the name of the Lord until that
day.

3 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking
in the precepts of David his father, only
he sacrificed in the high places : and burnt
incense.

4 He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacri-
fice there : for that was the great high
place : a thousand victims for holocausts
did Solomon offer upon that altar in
Gabaon.

6 And the Lord appeared to Solomon in
a dream by night, saying : Ask what thou
wilt that I should give thee.

6 And Solomon said^ Thou hast shewn
great mercy to thy servant Drvid my
father, even as he walked before thee in
truth, and justice, and an upright heart
with thee • and thou hast kept thy great
mercy for hinr, and hast given him a son
to sit on his t /u-one, as it is this day.

7 And now, O Lojd God, thcu hast made
thy servant king instead o2 David my
father: and I am but a child, and know
not how to go out and come in.

8 And thy servant 5s in the midst of the
people which thou h^8t chosen, an im-
mense people, which e^ nnot be nuinbered
nor counted for multitude.

9 ^Give therefore to thy servant an un-
derstanding heart, to judge thy people,
and discern between good and evil. For
who shall be able tc judge this people,
thy people which is so numerous ?

10 And the word was pleasing to the
A^ord that Solomon had asked such a
thing.

11 And the Lord said to Solomon: Be-
cause thou hast asked this thing, and
hast not asked for thyself long life or
riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but
hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern
judgment,

12 Behold I have done for thee accord-
ing to thy words, and have given thee a
wise and understanding heart, insomuch
that there hath been no one like thee
before thee, nor shall arise after thee.

13 ** Yea and the things also which thou
didst not ask, I have given thee : to wit,

c 2 Par. 1. 10.

Chap. 3. Ver. 2. High places. That is, altars
«There they worshipped the Lord, but not according
JO the ordinance of the law; which allowed of no
^xfi' Diaces tor sacrifice but the temple of God.

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riches and glory, so that no one hath
like thee among the kings in all
heretofore.

14 And if thou wilt walk in my
and keep my precepts, and my comm
ments, as thy father walked, I
lengthen thy days.

15 And Solomon awaked, and perceil
that it was a dream: and when he its
come to Jerusalem, he stood before e
ark of the covenant of the Lord, anc f-
fered holocausts, and sacrificed victs
of peace offerings, and made a great l t
for all his servants.

16 Then there came two women it
were harlots, to the king, and stood
fore him :

17 And one of them said: I bese j
thee, my lord, I and this woman dwel a
one house, and I was delivered of a c j
with her in the chamber.

18 And the third day, after that I s
delivered, she also was delivered, and 3
were together, and no other person vi
us in the house, only we two.

19 And this woman's child died in
night : for in her sleep she over i
him,

20 And rising in the dead time of
night, she took my child from my s
while I thy handmaid was asleep, ; i
laid it in her bosom : and laid her d 1
child in my bosom.

21 And when I rose in the morning
give my child suck, behold it was de .
but considering him more diligently w'
it was clear day, I found that it was
mine which I bore.

22 And the other woman answered
is not so as thou sayest, but thy chile
dead, and mine is alive. On the cci-ti
she said: Thou liest: for my child liv(
and thy child is dead. And in this in
ner they strove before the king.

23 Then said the king: The one ea
My child is alive, and thy child is de
And the other answereth : Nay, but i
child is dead, and mine liveth.

24 The king therefore said: Bring m
sword. And when they had brougl^
sword before the king,

25 Divide, said he, the living child

d Wisd. 7. 11 • ATatt. 3. 29.

Among these hifrh places that of Gabaon was
chiefest, because tliere was the tabernacle of tlie
timony, which bad been removed from Silo to ^
and from Nobe to Gabaon.

hlomons chief officers

3 KINGS

His power and riches

iWO, and give half to the one, «.nd half to
jhe other.

126 But the woman whose child was alive,
aid to the kingj (for her bowels were
loved upon her child,) I beseech thee,
ly lord, give her the child alive, and do
ot kill it. But the other said : Let it be
either mine nor thine, but divide it.

27 The king answered, and said: Give
\Q living child to this woman, and let it
ot be killed, for she is the mother there-
f.

28 And all Israel heard the judgment
hich the king had judged, and they
ared the king, seeing that the wisdom
: God was in him to do judgment.

CHAPTER 4.

lolomon^s chief officers. His riches and wisdom.

iND king Solomon reigned over all Is-

A- rael:

! And these were the princes which

3 had: Azarias the son of Sadoc the

■iest:

Elihoreph, and Ahia, the sons of Sisa,
ribes: Josaphat the son of Ahilud, re-
■ rder:

Banaias the son of Joiada, over the
imy: and Sadoc and Abiathar priests.

Azarias the son of Nathan, over them
1 at were about the king: Zabud, the son
« Nathan the priest, the king's friend :

And Ahisar governor of the house:
{ d Adoniram the son of Abdr over the
i bute.

And Solomon had twelve governors
( er all Israel, who provided victuals for
t3 king and for his household: for every
CiB provided necessaries, each man his
i)nth in the year.

And these are their names: Benhur, in
I tunt Ephraim,

Bendecar, in Macces, and in Salebim,
ad in Bethsames, and in Elon, and in
I fchanan.

Benhesed in Aruboth: hie wae Socho,
a 1 all the land of Epher.

I Benabinadab, to whom belonged all
^|phath-Dor, he had Tapheth the daugh-
t» of Solomon to wife.

! Bana the son of Ahilud, who gov-

ledThanae and Mageddo, and all Beth-

i, which is by Sarthana beneath Jez-

e Eccli. 47. 15.

.,,^^P- 4- Ver. 4. Abiathar. By this it appears
w . Abiathar was not altogether deposed from the
i^'' priesthood; but only !b?'.nished to Ms country

rael, from Bethsan unto Abelmehula over
against Jecmaan.

13 Bengaber in Ramoth Galaad: he had
the towns of Jair the son of Manasses in
Galaad, he was chief in all the country
of Argob, which is in Basan, threescore
great cities with walls, and brazen bolts.

14 Abinadab the son of Addo was chief
in Manaim.

15 Achimaas in Nephtali: he also had
Basemath the daughter of Solomon to
wife.

16 Baana the son of Husi, in Aser and in
Baloth.

17 Josaphat the son of Pharue, in Issa-
char.

18 Semei the son of Ela in Benjamin.

19 Gaber the son of Uri, in the land
of Galaad, in the land of Sehon the king
of the Amorrhites and of Og the king of
Basan. over all that were in that land.

20 Juda and Israel were innumerable, as
the sand of the sea in multitude: eating
and drinking, and rejoicing.

21 ^ And Solomon had imdor him. all tho
kingdoms from the nver to the land or
the Philistines, eve J to the border of
Egypt: and they broughfi him presents
and serveci him, all the dayc of Ids life.

22 And the provision of Soloi^on for
oach day, waL thirtj^ measures of fine
flour, and thioosoore measures of meal,

23 Ten ^at oxer and twenty out of the
pastures» and . hundred rams, besides
venison of harts, roesj and buffles, and
fatted fowls.

24 For he had all the country which was
beyond the river, from Thaphsa to Gazan,
and all the kings of those countries: and
he had peace on every side round about.

25 And Juda and Israel dwslt without
any fear, every one under his vine, and
under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersa-
bee, all the days of Solomon.

26-^ And Solomon had forty thousand
stalls of chariot horses, and twelve thou-
sand for the saddle»

27 And the foresaid governors of the
king fed them: and they furnished the
necessaries also for king Solomon's table,
with great care in their time.

28 They brought barley also and straw
for the horses, and beasts, to the place

/2Par. 9. 25.

house, and by that means excluded from the exercise
of his functions.
Ver. 21, The river, Euphrates.

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Solomon's wisdom

3 KINGS Hiram agrees to help Solomon

where the king was, according as it was
appointed them.

29 And God gave to Solomon wisdom
and understanding exceeding much, and
largeness of heart as the sand that is on
the sea shore.

30 And the wisdom of Solomon sur-
passed the wisdom of all the Orientals,
and of the Egyptians,

31 ff And he was wiser than all men :
wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and He-
man, and Chalcol, and Dorda the sons of
Mahol, and he was renowned in all na-
tions round about.

32 Solomon also spoke three thousand
parables : and his poems were a thousand
and five.

33 And he treated about trees from the
cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop
that Cometh out of the wall : and he dis-
coursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of
creeping things, and of fishes.

34 And they came from, all nations to
hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from
all the kings of the earth, who heard of
ills wisdom.

CHAPTER 5.

Hiram king of Tyre agreeth to furnish timber and
workmen for building the temple: the number
of workmen and overseers,

AND Hiram king of Tyre sent his ser-
XX vants to Solomon: for he heard
that they had anointed him king in the
room of his father: for Hiram had al-
ways been David's friend.

2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying:

3 Thou knowest the will of David my
father, and that he could not build a
house to the name of the Lord his God,
because of the wars that were round
about him, until the Lord put them
Tinder the soles of his feet.

4 But now the Lord my God hath given
me rest round about: and there is no
adversary nor evil occurrence.

5 Wherefore I purpose to build a temple
to the name of the Lord my God, as the
Lord spoke to David my father, saying:
• Thy son, whom I will set upon the
throne in thy place, he shall build a
house to my name.

6 Give orders therefore that thy ser-
vants cut me down cedar trees out of
Libanus, and let my servants be with thy

g Eccli. 47. 10.

servants : and I will give thee the hire of
thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask,
for thou knowest how there Is not among
my people a man that has skill to hew
wood like to the Sidonians.

7 Now when Hiram had heard the words
of Solomon, he rejoiced exceedingly, and.
said : Blessed be the Lord God this day, i
who hath given to David a very wise son
over this numerous people.

8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying:
I have heard all thou hast desired of me:
and I will do all thy desire concerning
cedar trees, and fir trees.

9 My servants shall bring them down
from Libanus to the sea: and I will put
them together in floats in the sea, and
convey them to the place, which thou
shalt signify to me; and will land them
there, and thou shalt receive them: and
thou shalt allow me necessaries, to fui>|
nish food for my household.

10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees,
and fir trees, according to all his d
sire.

11 And Solomon allowed Hiram twenty^
thousand measures of wheat, for provi-
sion for his house, and twenty measures
of the purest oil : thus gave Solomon to
Hiram every year.

12 3 And the Lord gave wisdom to Solo- !
mon, as he promised him : and there was •
peace between Hiram and Solomon, and]:
they two made a league together.

13 And king Solomon chose workmenp
out of all Israel, and the levy was of
thirty thousand men.

14 And he sent them to Libanus, ter
thousand every month by turns, so that
two months they were at home: an(!
Adoniram was over this levy.

15 And Solomon had seventy thousand
to carry burdens, and eighty thousand^
to hew stones in the mountain : ,

16 Besides the overseers who were ovei
every work, in number three thousand
and three hundred that ruled over th(
people, and them that did the work.

17 And the king commanded, that thej
should bring great stones, costly stones
for the foundation of the temple, anc

Ver. 32.
works are

Three thousand parables, &c.
all lost, excepting some part

These
of the

should square them:
18 And the masons of Solomon, and
masons of Hiram hewed them: and

i 2 Kings 7. 13 ; 1 Par. 22. 10. —3 Supra 3.

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parables extant in the book of Proverbs ; and
chief poem called the Canticle of Canticles.

I building of the temple

3 KINGS

The building of the temple

ians prepared timber and stones to
the house.

CHAPTER 6.

The building of Solomon^s temple.
TD^it came to pass ^ in the four hun-
dred and eightieth year after the
iren of Israel came out of the land of
3t, in the fourth year of the reign of
mon over Israel, in the month Zio
same is the second month), he began
aild a house to the Lord,
nd the house, which king Solomon
to the Lord, was threescore cubits
ngth, and twenty cubits in breadth,
thirty cubite in height,
nd there was a porch before the tem-
)f twenty cubits in length, according
he measure of the breadth of the
)le : and it was ten cubits in breadth
e the face of the temple.
nd he made in the temple oblique
ows.

nd upon the wall of the temple he

floors round about, in the walls of

lOuse round about the temple and the

le, and he made sides round about.

he floor that was underneath, was

cubits in breadth, and the middle

was six cubits in breadth, and the

floor was seven cubits in breadth.

he put beams in the house round

b on the outside, that they might

be fastened in the walls of the tem-

nd the house, when it was in build-
was built of stones hewed and made
Y : so that there was neither hammer
ixe nor any tool of iron heard in the
e when it was in building,
ae door for the middle side was on
ight hand of the house : and by wind-
tairs they went up to the middle
, and from the middle to the third.
» he built the house, and finished it :
le covered the house with roofs of

Lnd he built a floor over all the house
ubits in height, and he covered the
e with timber of cedar.

k B. C. 769-8. — ^ 2 Par. 3. 1.

P. 6. Ver. 5. Upon the wall, i. e., joining to
ill. — Ibid. He built floors round about. Cham-
•r cells adjoining to the temple, for the use of
mple and of the priests, so contrived as to be
en the inward and outward wall ot the temple,
■ee stories, one above another. — Ibid. The
The inner temple or holy of holies, where I

B his nrfip.lf»! f

11 And the word of the Lord came to
Solomon, saying :

12 This house, which thou buildest, if
thou wilt walk in my statutes, and exe-
cute my judgments, and keep all my com-
mandments, walking in them, I will fulfil
my word to thee '^ which I spoke to Da-
vid thy father.

13 ^ And I will dwell in the midst of the
children of Israel, and will not forsake my
people Israel.

14 So Solomon built the house and fin-
ished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house
on the inside, with boards of cedar, from
the floor of the house to the top of the
walls, and to the roofs, he covered it with
boards of cedar on the inside : and he
covered the floor of the house with planks
of flr.

16 And he built up twenty cubits with
boards of cedar at the hinder part of the
temple, from the floor to the top: and
made the inner house of the oracle to be
the holy of holies.

17 And the temple itself before the doors
of the oracle was forty cubits long.

18 And all the house was covered within
with cedar, having the turnings, and the
joints thereof artfully wrought and carv-
ings projecting out : all was covered with
boards of cedar : and no stone could be
seen in the wall at all.

19 And he made the oracle in the midst of
the house, in the inner part, to set there
the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

20 Now the oracle was twenty cubits in
length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and
twenty cubits in height. And he cov-
ered and overlaid it with most pure gold.
And the altar also he covered with cedar.

21 And the house before the oracle he
overlaid with most pure gold, and fas-
tened on the plates with nails of gold.

22 And there was nothing in the temple
that was not covered with gold : the
whole altar of the oracle he covered also
with gold.

23 And he made in the oracle two cher-
ubims of olive tree, of ten cubits in height.

m 2 Kings 7. 16. — n 1 Par. 22. 9.

Ver 7. Made ready, &c. So the stones for the
building of God's eternal temple in the heavenly
Jerusalem, (who are the faithful,) must first be hewn
and polished here by many trials and sufferings,
before they can be admitted to have a place Id that
celestial structure.

aTe his oracles.

357

The cherubim

3 KINGS

24 One wing of the cherub was five cu-
bits, and the other wing of the cherub
was five cubits ; that is, in all ten cubits,
from the extremity of one wing to the
extremity of the other wing.

25 The second cherub also was ten cu-
bits: and the measure, and the work
was the same in both the cherubims :

26 That is to say, one cherub was ten
cubits high, and in like manner the other
cherub.

27 And he set the cherubims in the midst
of the inner temple : and the cherubims
stretched forth their wings, and the
wing of the one touched one wall, and
the wing of the other cherub touched the
other wall : and the other wings in the
midst of the temple touched one an-
other.

28 And he overlaid the cherubims with
gold.

29 And all the walls of the temple round
about he carved with divers figures and
carvings : and he made in them cheru-
bims and palm trees, and divers repre-
sentations, as it were standing out, and
coming forth from the wall.

30 And the floor of the house he also
overlaid with gold within and without.

31 And in the entrance of the oracle he
made little doors of olive tree, and posts
of five corners,

32 And two doors of olive tree : and he
carved upon them figures of cherubims,
and figures of palm trees, and carvings
very much projecting : and he overlaid
them with gold: and he covered both the
cherubims and the paJm trees, and the
other things with gold.

33 And he made in the entrance of the
temple posts of olive tree foursquare :

34 And two doors of fir tree, one of
each side : and each door was double, and
so opened with folding leaves.

35 And he carved cherubims, and palm
trees, and carved work standing very
much out: and he overlaid all with golden
plates in square work by rule.

36 And he built the inner court with
three rows of polished stones, and one
:row of beams of cedar.

37 In the fourth year was the house of
the Lord founded in the month Zio :

38 And in the eleventh year in the
month Bui (which is the eighth month)

Solomon s palact

the house W2.3 finished in all the work
thereof, and in all the appurtenance
thereof: and he was seven years in buildf
ing it. (

CHAPTER 7.

Solomon's palace, his house in the forest, and th\
queen's house : the work of the two pillars : thesei
(or lacer) and other vessels. [

A ND Solomon built his own house i ■
Xjl p thirteen years, and brought it t
perfection. |

2 He built also the house of the foreF»
of Libanus, the length of it was a hui
dred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubit
and the height thirty cubits: and fou
galleries between pillars of cedar: for h'
had cut cedar trees into pillars.

3 And he covered the whole vault wit'
boards of cedar, and it was held up wit
five and forty pillars. And one row ha
fifteen pillars,

4 Set one against another, I

5 And looking one upon another, witf
equal space between the pillars, and ov<
the pillars were square beams in a
things equal.

6 And he made a porch of pillars of fift
cubits in length, and thirty cubits i
breadth : and another porch before tl
greater porch : and pillars, and chapite
upon the pillars.

7 He made also the porch of the throe
wherein is the seat of judgment : ai
covered it with cedar wood from tl
floor to the top.

8 And in the midst of the porch, w
small house where he sat in judgment,
the like work. He made also a ho
for the daughter of Pharao (^ whom So!
mon had taken to wife) of the same wo:
as this porch,

9 All of costly stones, which were saw<
by a certain rule and measure both wit"
and without: from the foundation to t
top of the walls, and without unto t'
great court.

10 And the foundations were of cob
stones, great stones of ten cubits or ei
cubits :

11 And above there were costly stom
of equal measure, hewed; and, in lil
manner, planks of cedar :

12 And the greater court was made rouj
with three rows of hewed stones, and o
row of planks of cedar, moreover also

i:> Supra 6- »% and Infra 9. 10 ~ 9 Supra 3. t
389

he pillars of brass

3 KINGS

The laver end the bases

inner court of the house of the Lord,

d in tl e porch of the house.

3 And king Solomon sent, and brought

ram from Tyre,

i The con of a widow woman of the

be of Nephtali, whose father was a

Tian, an artificer in brass, and full of
•^sdom, and understanding, and skill to
Drk all work in brass. And when he
\ 3 come to king Solomon, he wrought
I his work.

5 And he cast two pillars in brass, each
J lar was eighteen cubits high : ^" and a
le of twelve cubits compassed both the
jlars.

3 He made also two chapiters of molten
t iss, to be set upon the tops of the pil-
1 s : the height of one chapiter was five
$ )its, and the height of the other chapi-
t was five cubits :

' And a kind of network, and chain
9 rk wreathed together with wonderful
a. Both the chapiters of the pillars
»re cast : seven rows of nets were on one
cipiter, and seven nets on the other
c ipiter.

1 And he made the pillars, and two
^78 round about each network to cover
tl chapiters, that were upon the top,
V h pomegranates : and in like manner
d he to the other chapiter.

And the chapiters that were upon the
U of the pillars, were of lily work in
tl porch, of four cubits.

! And again other chapiters in the top
othe pillars above, according to the
insure of the pillar over against the
B»work: and of pomegranates there
w-e two hundred in rows round about
tl other chapiter.

1 And he set up the two pillars in the
P'ch of the temple : and when he had
B€ up the pillar on the right hand, he
Ciedthe name thereof Jachin: in hke
m mer he set up the second pillar, and
C£ed the name thereof Booz.

5 And upon the tops of the pillars he
mie hly work: so the work of the pil-
la, was finished.

5 * He made also a molten sea of ten
Cilte from brim to brim, round all about;

the height of it was five cubits, and a
line of thirty cubits compassed it round
about.

24 And a graven work under the brim
of it compassed it, for ten cubits going
about the sea : there were two rows cast
of chamfered sculptures.

25 And it stood upon twelve oxevi, of
which three looked towards the north,
and three towards the west, and three
towards the south, and three towards
the east, and the sea was above upon
them, and their hinder parts were all
hid within.

26 And the laver was a handbreadth
thick: and the brim thereof was like the
brim of a cup, or the leaf of a crisped
hly : it contained two thousand bates.

27 And he made ten bases of brass,
every base was four cubits in length, and
four cubits in breadth, and three cubits
high.

28 And the work itself of the bases, was
intergraven : and therf) were gravings
between the joinings.

29 And between the little crowns and
the ledges were lions, and oxen, and
cherubims : and in the joinings likewise
above : and under the lions and oxen, as
it were bands of brass hanging down.

30 And every base had four wheels, and
axletrees-of brass : and at the four sides
were undersetters under the laver molten,
looking one against another.

31 The mouth also of the laver within,
was in the top of the chapiter : and that
which appeared without, was of one cubit
all round, and together it was one cubit
and a half : and in the corners of the
pillars were divers engravings : and the
spaces between the pillars were square,
not round.

32 And the four wheels, which were at
the four corners of the base, were joined
one to another under the base : the
height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

33 And they were such wheels as are
used to be made in a chariot : and their
axletrees, and spokes, and strakes, and
naves, were all cast.

34 And the four undersetters that were

r Jer. 52. 21.

< AP. 7. Ver. 21. Jachin. Ths^t is, firmly estab-
;*f "• — loid. Bpoz. That is, in ita strength. By
«Vciing these names in holy writ, the spirit of God
wcd have us understand tlie invincible firmness
Ki strength of the pillars on which the true temple
w w, wtiicti is the ciiurcli, is established.

s 2 Par. 4. 2.

Ver. 26. Tiro thousand bates. That is, about ten
thousand gallons. This was the quantity of water
which was usually put into it: but it was capable
if brimful, of lioldiug tliree thousaud. See 2 Far.
4.5.

359

The vessels for the temple

3 KINGS The ark brought into the temple

at every comer of eaii base, ?7erG of the
base itself cast and joined together.

35 And in the top of the base there was
a round compass of half a cubit, so
wrought that the laver might be set
thereon, having its gravings, and divers
sculptures of itself.

36 He engraved also in those plates,
which were of brass, and in the corners,
cherubims, and lions, and palm trees, in
likeness of a man standing, so that they
seemed not to be engraven, but added
round about.

37 After bhis manner he made ten bases,
of one casting and measure, and the like
graving.

38 He made also ten lavers of brass :
one laver contained four bases, and was
of four cubits : and upon every base, in
all ten, he put as many lavers.

39 And he set the ten bases, five on the
right side of the temple, and five on the
left: and the sea he put on the right
side of the temple over against the east
southward.

40 And Hiram made caldrons, and shov-
els, and basins, and finished all the work
of king Solomon in the temple of the
Lord.

41 The two pillars and the two cords of
the chapiters, upon the chapiters of the
pillars : and the two networks, to cover
the two cords, that were upon the top of
the pillars.

42 And lOur hundred pomegranates for
the two networks : two rows of pome-
granates for each network, to cover the
cords of the chapiters, which were upon
the tops of the pillars.

43 And the ten bases, and the ten lavers
on the bases.

44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under
the sea.

45 And the caldrons, and the shovels,
and the basins. All the vessels that Hi-
tam made for king Solomon for the
house of the Lord, were of fine brass.

46 In the plains of the Jordan did the
king cast them in a clay ground, be-
tween Socoth and Sartham.

47 And Solomon placed all the vessels:
but for exceeding great multitude the
brass could not be weighed.

48 And Solomon made all the vessels
for the house of the Lord: the altar of

4 2 Par. 5. 1.

gold, and ohe table of gold, upon which
the loaves of proposition should be set :

49 And the golden candlesticks, five on
the right hand, and five on the left, over
against the oracle, of pure gold : and the
flowers like lilies, and the lamps over
them of gold : and golden snuffers,

50 And pots, and fieshhooks, and bowla,
anc' mortars, and censers, of most pure
gold : and the hinges for the doors of the
inner house of the holy of holies, and
for the doors of the house of the temple
were of gold.

61 * And Solomon finished all the work
that he made in the house of the Lord,
and brought in the things that David his
father had dedicated, the silver and the
gold, and the vessels, and laid them up
in the treasures of the house of the Lord.

CHAPTER 8.

The dedication of the temple: Solomon^s jtraiyBt
and sacrifices.

THEN all the ancients of Israel ^ with
tho princes of the tribes, and thej
heads Ot the famiUes of the children o;
Israe! were assembled to king Solomo]
in Jerusalem : that they might carry the
ark of the covenant of the Lord out ol,
the city of David, that is, out of Sion.

2 And all Israel assembled themselvef
to king Solomon on the festival day ii^
the : lonth of Ethanim, the same is th(
seventh month.

3 And all the ancients of Israel ca:
and the priests took up the ark,

4 And carried the ark of the Lord,
the tabernacle of the covenant, and
the vessels of the sanctuary, that were
the tabernacle : and the priests and th
Levites carried them.

5 And king Solomon, and all the mult
tude of Israel, that were assembled unt
him went with him before the ark,
they sacrificed sheep and oxen t,
could not be counted or numbered.

6 And the priests brought in the ark f
the covenant of the Lord into its plac-
into the oracle of the temple, into th
holy of holies under the wings of th
cherubims.

7 For the cherubims spread forth the
wings over the place of the ark, ar;
covered the ark, and the staves therei;
above.

anl
tlul

v2rar.&2.

he dedication of the temple

3 KINGS

Solomon's prayer

And whereas the staves stood out, the
ds of them were seen without in the
actuary before the oracle, but were
t seen farther out, and there they have
en unto this day.

Now in the ark there was nothing
\e ^ but the two tables of stone, which
Dses put there at Horeb, when the
rd made a covenant with the children

Israel, when they came out of the
id of Egypt.

0 And it came to pass, when the priests
;re come out of the sanctuary, that a
)ud filled the house of the Lord,

1 And the priests could not stand to
nistei because of the cloud : for the
Dry of the Lord had filled the house of
e Lord.

2 Then Solomon said : '^ The Lord said
at he would dwell in a cloud.

3 Building I have built a house for thy
;^elling, to be thy most firm throne for
er.

4 And the king turned his face, and
3ssed ar the assembly of Israel: for

the assembly of Israel stood.

5 And Solomon said : Blessed be the
rd the God of Israel, who spoke with
J mouth to David my father, and with

own hands hath accomplished it,
^ing :

6 Since the day that I brought my
ople Israel out of Egypt, I chose no

< y out of all the tribes of Israel, for a
use to be built, that my name might

there : but I chose David to be over
Y people Israel.

U y And David my father would have
ilt a house to the name of the Lord the
)d of Israel :

8 And the Lord said to David my
iher: Whereas thou hast thought in
jr heart to build a house to my name,
5U hast done well in having this same
ng in thy mind.

) Nevertheless thou shalt not build me
house, but thy son, that shall come
•th out of thy loins, he chall build a
use to my name.

The Lord hath performed his word
lich he spoke : and I stand in the room
David my father, and sit upon the
one of Israel, as the Lord promised :

w Ex. 34. 27 ; Heb. 9. 4. — cc 2 Par. 6. 1.

HAP. 8, Ver. 9. Nothing else, &c. There was
liing else but the tables of the law ivifMn the ark ;
■• on the outside ot the ark, or near the ark were

and have built a house to the name o!
the Lord the God of Israel.

21 And I have set there a place foi the
ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord,
which he made with our fathers, when
they came out of the land of Egypt.

22 And Solomon stood before the altar
of the Lord in the sight of the assembly
of Israel, and spread forth his hands
towards heaven ;

23 And said : Lord God of Israel, there
is no God like thee in heaven above,
or on earth beneath : who keepest cove-
nant and mercy with thy servants that
have walked before thee with all their
heart.

24 Who hast kept with thy servant
David my father what thou hast promised
him : with thy mouth thou didst speak,
and with thy hands thou hast performed,
as this day proveth.

25 Now therefore, O Lord God of Is-
rael, keep with thy servant David my
father what thou hast spoken to him,
saying : ^ There shall not be taken away
of thee a man in my sight, to sit on the
throne of Israel : yet so that thy children
take heed to their way, that they walk
before me as thou hast walked in my
sight.

26 And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy
words be established, which thou haot
spoken to thy servant David my father.

27 Is it then ^o be thought that God
should indeed dwell upon earth? for if
heaven, and the heavens of heavens can-
not contain thee, how much less this
house which I have built?

28 But have regard to the prayer of thy
servant, and to hisr supplications, O Lord
my God : hear the hymn and the prayer,
which thy servant prayeth before thee
this day :

29 That thy eyes may be open upon
this house night and day : upon the house
of which thou hast said : *^ My name shall
be there : that thou mayest hearken to
the prayer, which thy servant prayeth in
this place to thee.

30 That thou mayest hearken to the
supplication of thy servant and of thy
people Israel, whatsoever they shall pray
for in this place, and hear them in the

2/2 Kings 7. 5. — 3 2 Kings 7. 12. — a. Dent. 12. 11.

also the rod of Aaron, and a golden urn witli nianna
Heb, 9. 4,

361

SolomorCs prayer

3 KINGS

SolomorCs prayeil

place of thy dwelling in heaven; and
when thou hearest, shew them mercy.

31 If any man trespass against his neigh-
bour, and have an oath upon him, where-
with he is bound : and come because of
the oath before thy altar to thy house,

32 Then hear thou in heaven : and do,
and judge thy servants, condemning the
wicked, and bringing his way upon his
own head, and justifying the just, and
rewarding him according to his justice.

33 If thy people Israel shall fly before
their enemies, (because they will sin
against thee,) and doing penance, and
confessing to thy name, shall 3ome. and
pray, and make supplications to thee in
this house :

34 Then hear thou in heaven, and for-
give the sin of thy people Israel, and
bring them back to the land which thou
gavest to their fathers.

36 If heaven shall be shut up, and there
shall be no rain, because of their sins,
and they praying in this place, shall do
penance to thy name, and shall be con-
verted from their sins, by occasion of
their afflictions :

36 Then hear thou them in heaven, and
forgive the sins of thy servants, and of
thy pe.ople Israel: and shew them the
good way wherein they should walk, and
give rain upon thy land, which thou hast
given to thy people in possession.

37 If a famine arise in the land, or a
pestilence, or corrupt air, or blasting, or
locust, or mildew, if their enemy afflict
them besieging the gates, whatsoever
plague, whatsoever infirmity,

38 Whatsoever curse or imprecation
shall happen to any man of thy people
Israel: when a man shall know the
wound of his own heart, and shall spread
forth his hands in this house,

39 Then hear thou in heaven, in the
place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and
do so as to give to every one according
to his ways, as thou shalt see his heart
(for thou only knowest the heart of all
the children of men)

40 That they may fear thee all the days
that they live upon the face of the land,
which thou hast given to our fathers.

41 Moreover also the stranger, who is
not of thy people Israel, when he shall
come out of a far country for thy name's

sake, (for they shall hear every where
of thy great name and thy mighty hand

42 And thy stretched out arm,) so wher
he shall come, and shall pray in thij
place,

43 Then hear thou in heaven, in the
firmament of thy dwelling place, and dc
all those things, for which that strangei
shall call upon thee : that all the people
of the earth may learn to fear thy name,
as do thy people Israel, and may prove
that thy name is called upon on thie
house, v/hich I have built.

44 If thy people go out to war against
their enemies, by what way soever thoi
shalt send them, they shall pray to theej
towards the way of the city, which thorj
hast chosen, and towards the house
which I have built to thy name t

45 And then hear thou in heaven theii
prayers, and their supplications, and dc
judgment for them.

46 But if they sin against thee (^foi
there is no man who sinneth not) anc
thou being angry deliver them up tc
their enemies, so that they be led awaj
captives into the land of their enemiej
far or near ;

47 Then if they do penance in theii
heart in the place of captivity, and being
converted make supplication to thee ir
their captivity, saying: We have sinned
we have done unjustly, we have com
mitted wickedness :

48 And return to thee with all theii!
heart, and all their soul, in the laiid oi'
their enemies, to which they had beer
led captives: and pray to thee towards
the way of their land, which thou gavesi
to their fathers, and of the city whicl
thou hast chosen, and of the temple
which I have built to thy name :

49 Then hear thou in heaven, in the
firmament of thy throne, their prayers,
and their supplications, and do judgment
for them :

60 And forgive thy people, that have
sinned against thee, and all their iniqui-
ties, by which they have transgressed
against thee: and give them mercy be-
fore them that have made them cap-
tives, that they may have compassioD
on them.

51 For they are thy people, and thy in-
heritance, whom thou hast brought out

b 2 far. & 36 ; £ccL 7. 21 ; 1 JobQ 1. 8»

362

E'omon blesses the people

3 KINGS The Lord appears to Solomori

c the land ot EgyDt. from jhe midst of
t ; furnace of iron

That thy eyes may be open to the
8)plication of thy servant, and of thy
p>plo Israel, to hear them in all things
f. which they shall call upon thee.

; For thou hast separated them to thy-
af for an inheritance from among all
t people of the earth, as thou hast
f (ken by Moses thy servant, when thou
b ugh test our fathers out of Egypt, O
I 'd God.

And it came to pass, when Solomon
hi made an end of praying all this
p yer and supplication to the Lord,
tJ t he rose from before the altar of the
Ld: for he had fixed both knees on
tl ground, and had spread his hands
tc'ards heaven.

^ And he stood and blessed all the as-
Kibly of Israel with a loud voice, say-
ii:

I Blessed be the Lord, who hath given
Rj to his people Israel, according to all
tithe promised t there hath not failed
scmuch as one word of all the good
tligs that he promised by his servant

f. The Lord our God be with us, as he
w with our fathers, and not leave us,
li( cast us off:

t But may he incline cur hearts to
hi self, that we may walk in all his
w 8, and keep his commandments, and
hi ceremonies, and all his judgments
w ch he commanded our fathers.

6 And let these my words, wherewith
I i Ye prayed before the Lord, be nigh
niD the Lord our God day and night,
th; he may do judgment for his ser-
V£t, and for his people Israel day by
•is:

6 That all the people of the earth may
ki w, that the Lord he is God, and there
18 D other besides him.

6 Let our hearts also be perfect with
th Lord our God, that we may walk in
lu. statutes, and keep his command-
ni' ts, as at this day.

6 And the king, and all Israel with
hi^,, offered victims before the Lord.

6 And Solomon slew victims of peace
Oflnngs, which he sacrificed to the Lord,

t^i and twenty thousand oxen, and a

^ I — - — ■

.^ c Supra 3. 5 ; 2 Par. 7. 12.

Cap. 9. Ver. 4. As thy father vmlked, in sim~
mtyqf heart That i», in tbe «lincerity and integ-

hundred and twenty thousand sheep •
so the king, and the children of Israel
dedicated the temple a the Lord.

64 In that day the king sanctified the
middle of the court that was before the
house of the Lord : for there he offered
the holocaust, and sacrifice, and fat of
the peace offerings : because the brazen
altar that was before the Lord, was toe
little to receive the holocaust, and sacri-
fice, and fat of the peace offerings.

65 And Solomon made at the same time
a solemn feast, and all Israel with him,
a great multitude from the entrance of
Emath to the river of Egypt, before the
Lord our God, seven days and seven
days, that is, fourteen days.

66 And on the eighth day he sent away
the people : and they blessed the king,
and went to their dwellings rejoicing,
and glad in heart for all the good things
that the Lord had done for David his ser-
vant, and fo"* Israel his people.

CHAPTER 9.

The Lord appear eth oqain to Solomon : he butiaeth
cities : he sendeth a fleet to Ophir.

AND it came to pass when Solomon
. had finished the building of the
house of the Lord, and the king's house,
and all that he desired, and was pleased
to do,

2 That the Lord appeared to him the
second time, ^ as he had appeared to him
in Gabaon.

3 And the Lord said to him : I have
heard thy prayer and thy supplication,
which thou hast made before me : I have
sanctified this house, which thou hast
built, to put my name there for ever,
and my eyes and my heart shall be there
always.

4 And if thou wilt walk before me, aa
thy father walked, in simplicity of heart,
and in uprightness : and wilt do all that
I have commanded thee, and wilt keep
my ordinances and my judgments,

5 *^I win establish the throne of thy
kingdom over Israel for ever, as I pro-
mised David thy father, saying: There
shall not fail a man of thy race upon the
throne of Israel.

6 But if you and your children revolting
shall turn away from following me, and

d 2 Kin^s 7. 12 and 16.

rity of a single hearty as opposite to all double deal
iug «ad deceit

363

Cities huilt by Solomon

will not keep my commandments
my ceremonies, which I have set before
you, but will go and worship strange
gods, and adore them :

7 I will take away Israel from the face
of the land which I have given them ; and
the temple which I have sanctified to my
name, I will cast out of my sight; and
Israel shall be a proverb, and a byword
among all people.

8 And this house shall be made an ex-
ample of : every one that shall pass by
it, shaU be astonished, and shall hiss, and
say : ^ Why hath the Lord done thus to
this land, and to this house i

£ And they shall answer '. Because they
forsook the Lord their God, who brought
their fathers out of the land of Egypt,
and followed strange gods, and adored
them, and worshipped them: therefore
hath the Lord brought upon them all this
evil.

10-^ And when twenty years were ended
after Solomon had built the two houses,
that is, the house of the Lord, and the
house of the king,

11 (Hiram the king oi Tyre furnishing
Solomon with cedat trees and fir trees,
and gold according to all he had need of,)
then Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities
in the land of Galilee.

12 And Hiram came out of Tyre, to see
the towns which Solomon had given him,
and thev pleased him not,

13 And he said : Are these the cities
which thou hast given me, brother ? And
he called them the land of ChabuL unto
this day.

14 And Hiiam sent to king Solomon a
hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15 This is the sum of the expenses, which
king Solomon offered to build the house
of the Lord, and his own house, and Mello,
and the wall of Jerusalem, and Heser.
and Mageddo, and Gazer.

16 Pharao the king of Egypt came up
and took Gazer, and burnt it with fire :
and slew the Chanaanite that dwelt in the
city, and gave it for a dowry to his daugh-
ter, Solomon's wife.

17 So Solomon built Gazer, and Beth-
horon the nether,

18 AndBaalath, and Palmira in the land
of the wilderness.

3 KINGS He sends a fleet, to Oph\

and I 19 And all the towns that bclon^jed
himself, and were not walled, ho f ortifl
the cities also of the chariots, and tl
cities of the horsemen, and whatsoever 3i
had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and
Libanus, and in all the land of his d
minion.

20 All the people that were left of
Amorrhites, andHethites, and Pherezitt
and Hevites, and Jebusites, that are d
of the children of Israel :

21 Their children^ that were left in t
land, to wit, such as the children of Isrj
had not been able to destroy, Solom
made tributary unto this day.

22 But of the children of Israel Solom
made not any to be bondmen, but tb
were men of war., and his servants, a
his princes, and captains, and overse(
of the chariots and horses.

23 And there vere five hundred a
fifty chief ofiBcers set over all the woi
of Solomon, and they had people unc
them, and had charge over the apr Inl
works.

24 ^ And "^he daughter of Pharao 3a
up out of the city of David to her hoi]
which Solomon had feuilt for her: tl
did he build Mello

2t Solomen also offered three tin
ever' year ho^oc usts, and victims
peace offerings tipon the altar which
had built to the Lord, and he burnt
cense beforr the Lord; and the tern
was finished.

26 And king Solomon made a fleet
Asiongaber, which is by Ailath on
nhore of the Red Sea in the land of Ed<

27 And Hiram sent his servants in
ileet, sailors that had knowledge of
sea, with the servants of Solomon.

28 And they came to Ophir, and t
brought from thence to king Solor
four hundred and twenty talents of g

e Deut. 29. 24 ; Jer. 22. 8.
/ 2 Par. 8. 1.

CHAPTER 10.

The queen of Saba cometh to king Solomon,
riches and glory.

A ND '^ the queen of Saba, having he
J\ of the fame of Solomon in the m
of the Lord, came to try him with h
questions.

2 And entering into Jerusalem wit
great train, and riches, and camels J

g 2 Par. 8. 11.
h 2 Par. 9. l ; Matt 12. 42 ; Luke 11. 31. _

Ver.t3. Cka

.^-I'S.

That is, dirty or displeasing^
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The queen of Sheba

3 KINGS

SolomorCs riches and wisdom

carried spices, jbiq an immense 'i^uantity
of gold, and precious stones, she came to
Eing Solomon, and spoke to him all that
she had in her heart.

3 And Solomon informed her of all the
things she proposed to him: there was
not any word the king was ignorant of,
Rud which he could not answer her.

4 And when the queen of Saba saw all
Ithe wisdom of Solomon, and the house

which he had built,

5 And the meat of his table, and the
jEpartments of his servants, and the order
of his ministers, and their apparel, and
the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which
he offered in the house of the Lord: she
had no longer any spirit in her,

6 And she said to the king : The report
Is true, which I heard in my own country,

7 Concerning thy words, and concerning
thy wisdom. And I did not believe them
that told me, till I came myself, and saw
with my own eyes, and have found that
the half iiath not been told me : thy wis-
dom and thy works, exceed the fame
which I heard.

8 Blessed are thy men, and blessed are
thy servants, who stand before thee al-
ways, and hear thy wisdom.

9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom
thou hast pleased, and who hath set thee
[apon the throne of Israel, because the
[Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath
I appointed thee king, to do judgment and
'justice.

; 10 * And she gave the king a hundred
jand twenty talents of gold, and of spices
a very great store, and precious stones :
there was brought no more such abun-
dance of spices as these which the queen
of Saba gave to king Solomon.
I 11 («^The navy also of Hiram, which
I brought gold from Ophir, brought from
, Ophir great plenty of thyine trees, and
precious stones.

12 And the king made of the thyine
trees the rails of the house of the Lord,
and of the king's house, and citterns and
harps for singers : there were no such
thyine trees as these brought, nor seen
unto this day.)

13 And king Solomon gave the queen
of Saba all that she desired, and asked
Of him : besides what he offered her of
himself of his royal bounty. And she

« 2 Par. 9. 9. —J 2 Par. 9. lo.

returned, and went to iier own country
with her servants.

14 And the weight of the gold that was
brought to Solomon every year, was six
nundred and sixty-six talents of gold ;

15 Besides that which the men brought
him that were over the tributes, and the
merchants, and they that sold by retail,
and all the kings of Arabia, and the gov-
ernors of the country.

16 And Solomon made two hundred
shields of the purest gold: he allowed
six hundred sides of gold for the plates
of one shield.

17 And three hundred targets of fine
gold : three hundred pounds of gold cov-
ered one target : and the king put them
in the house of the forest of Libanus.

18 King Solomon also made a great
throne of ivory: and overlaid it with
the finest gold.

19 It had six steps: and the top of the
throne was round behind: and there were
two hands on either side holding the seat :
and two lions stood, one at each hand.

20 And twelve little lions stood upon
the six steps on the one side and on the
other: there was no such work made in
any kingdom.

21 Moreover all the vessels, out of which
king Solomon drank, were of gold: and
all the furniture of the house of the for-
est of Libanus was of most pure gold:
there was no silver, nor was any account
made of it in the days of Solomon :

22 For the king's navy, once in three
years, went with the navy of Hiram by
sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence
gold, and silver, and elephants' teeth, and
apes, and peacocks.

23 And king Solomon exceeded all the
kings of the earth in riches, and wisdom,

24 And all the earth desired to see Solo-
mon's face, to hear his wisdom, which
God had given in his heart.

25 And every one brought him presents,
vessels of silver and of gold, garments
and armour, and spices, and horses and
mules every year.

26 '^ And Solomon gathered together
chariots and horsemen, and he had a
thousand four hundred chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen: and he be»
stowed them in fenced cities, and with
the king in Jerusalem.

ftSFar. L«4

365

Solomon falls into idolatry

3 KINGS

Solomon^s adversariet

27 And he made silver to be as plentiful
In Jerusalem as stones : and cedars to be
as common as sycamores whicli grow in
the plains.

28 And horses were brought for Solo-
mon out of Egypt, and Goa: for the
king's merchants brought them out of
Coa, and bought them at a set price.

29 And a chariot of four horses came
out of Egypt, for six hundred sides of
silver, and a horse for a hundred and
fifty. And after this manner did all the
kings of the Hethites, and of Syria, sell
horses.

CHAPTER 11

Solomon by means of his xoivesfalleth into idolatry •
God raiseth him adversaries^ Adad, Razon^ and
Jeroboam, Solomon dieth.

AND king Solomon ' loved many strange
XjL women besides the daughter of
Pharao, and women of Moab, and of
Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and
of the Hethites :

2 Of the nations concerning which the
Lord said to fche children of Israel ; ^ You
shall not go in unto them, neither shall
any of them come in to yours : for they
will most certainly turn away your heart
to follow their gods. And to these was
Solomon joined with a most ardent love.

3 And he had seven hundred wives as
qjueens, and three hundred concubines:

\id the women turned away his heart.

4 And when he was now old, his heart
was tun»d away by women to follow
strange gods : and his heart was not per-
fect with the Lord his God, as was the
heart of David his father.

6 But Solomon worshipped Astarthe the
goddess of the Sidonians, and Moloch the
idol of the Ammonites.

6 And Solomon did that which was not
pleasing before the Lord, and did not
fully follow the Lord, as David his fa-
ther.

7 Then Solomon built a temple for Cha-
mos the idol of Moab, on the hill that is
over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch
the idol of the children of Ammon.

8 And he did in this manner for all his
wives that were strangers, who burnt in-
cense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

9 And the Lord was angry with Solo-
mon, because his mind was turned away

' I Deut. 17. 17 : Eccli. 47. 21.

m Ex. 34. 16.

from tihe Lord the God of Israel, ® wh(
had appeared to him twice,

10 And had commanded him concernini
this thing, that he should not folio
strange gods : but he kept not the thinj
which the Lord commanded him.

11 The Lord therefore said to Solomon
Because thou hast done this, and hasi
not kept my covenant, and my precepts
which I have commanded thee, I Mil
divide and rend thy kingdom, and wil
give it to thy servant.

12 P Nevertheless in thy days I will no
do it, for David thy father's sake : but
will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

13 Neither will I take away the whol<
kingdom, but I will give one tribe to thj
son for the sake of David my servant
and Jerusalem which I have chosen.

14 And the Lord raised up an adversarj
to Solomon, Adad the Edomite of th<
king's seed, in Edom.

15 ^ For when David was in Edom, an<
Joab the general of the army was gon
up to bury them that were slain, and ha<
killed every male in Edom,

16 (For Joab remained there six monthi
with all Israel, till he had slain ever]
male in Edom,)

17 Then Adad fled, he and certain Edom
ites, of his father's servants with him, U
go into Egypt: and Adad was then a Uttl<
boy.

18 And they arose out of Madian, an
came into Pharan, and they took mei
with them from Pharan, and went int(
Egypt to Pharao the king of Egypt
who gave him a house, and appointee
him victuals, and assigned him land.

19 And Adad found great favour befor
Pharao, insomuch that he gave him t<
wife, the own sister of his wife Taphnei
the queen.

20 And the sister of Taphnes bore hin
his son Genubath, and Taphnes brough
him up in the house of Pharao : and Qe
nubath dwelt with Pharao among hii
children.

21 And when Adad heard in Egypt tha
David slept with his fathers, and tha
Joab the general of the army was dead
he said to Pharao : Let me depart, that
may go to my own country.

22 And Pharao said to him: Why, wh»

o Supra 9. 2. — p Infra 12. 15.
q 2 Kings 8. 14.

Chap. IL Ver. 13. One tribe.

Besides that of Juda. bis own native tribe.
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m tribes promised to Jeroboam 3 KINGS

Death of Solomxm

wanting to thee with me, that thou
akest to go to thy own country? But
, answered: Nothing; yet I beseech
,ee to let me go.

3 God also raised up against him an
. versary, Razon the son of Eliada, ''who
,d fled from his master Adarezer the
agof Soba:

4 And he gathered men against him,
;d he became a captain of robbers,

len David slew them of Soba: and they

• mt to Damascus, and dwelt there, and

• ay made him king in Damascus.

5 And he was an adversary to Israel,
, i the days of Solomon : and this is the

I il of Adad, and his hatred against Is-
13], and he reigned in Syria.

6 'Jeroboam also the son of Nabat an
! ihrathite of Sareda, a servant of Solo-

, ])n, whose mother was named Sarua, a
'dow woman, lifted up his hand against
; \B king.

7 And thie is the cause of his rebellion
jainst him, for Solomon built Mello,
id fiUed up the breach of the city of

; 3,vid his father.
3 And Jeroboam was a valiant and
ighty man: and Solomon seeing him a
^ung man ingenious and industrious,
iide hiflj chief over the tributes of all
( y aonse of Joseph.
? * So it came to pass at that time, that
i|Poboam went out of Jerusalem, and
(J prophet Ahias the Silonite, clad with
coew earment. found him in the way:
td they cwf were alone in the field.
,} And Ahias taking his new garment,
herewith bt- was clad, divided it into
t|elve parts :

il And he said to Jeroboam : Take to
1,36 ten pieces : for thus saith the Lord
13 God of Israel: Behold I will rend the
hgdom out of the hand of Solomon,
lid will give thee ten tribes.

2 But one tribe shall remain to him
1' the sake of my servant David, and
«rusalem the city, which I have chosen
\t of all the tribes of Israel :

3 Because he hath forsaken me, and
J th adored Astarthe the goddess of the
Uonians, and Chamos the god of Moab,
'" Moloch the god of the children of

T 2 Kings 8. 6 ; 1 Par 18. 6.
s 2 Par. 13. 6.

li^L'H: ^P^^ ^^^^ ^f ^''^ ^'ords, &c. This book Is
' t, witn Qlvers others mentioned in holy writ

Ammoni and hath not walked in my
ways, to do justice before me. and to
keep my precepts, and judgments as did
David his father.

34 Yet I will not take away all the
kingdom out of his hand, but I will make
him prince all the days of his hfe, for
David my servant's sake, whom I chose,
who kept my commandments and my
precepts.

35 But I will take away the kingdom
out of his son's hand and will give thee
ten tribes :

36 And to his son I will give one tribe,
that there may remain a lamp for my
servant David before me always in Jeru-
salem the city which I have chosen, that
my name might be there.

37 And I wiU take thee, and thou shatt
reign over all that thy soul desireth, and
thou shalt be king over IsraeL

38 If then thou wilt hearken to aD that
I shall command thee, and wilt walk in
my waysj and do whai is right before
me, keeping my commandments and my
precepts, as David my servant did: I
will be with thee, and will build thee
up a faithful house, as I built a house
for David, and I will deliver Israel to
thee:

39 And I will for this afflict the seed of
David, but yet not for ever.

40 Solomon therefore sought to kill
Jeroboam: but he arose, and fled into
Egypt to Sesac the king of Egypt^ and
was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.

41 And the rest of the words of Solo
mon, and aU that he did, and hie wisdom :
behold they are all written in the book
of the words of the days of Solomon.

42 And the days that Solomon reigned
in Jerusalem over all Israel, were forty
years.

43 And ** Solomon slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the city of David hip
father, and Roboam his son reigned in
his stead.

CHAPTER 12.

Roboam following the counsel of young men alien
ateth from him the minds of the people. They
make Jeroboam king over ten tribes: he setteth
vp idolatry.

t 2 Par. 10. 15.
tt B. C. 932

Ver. 4a Solomon slept, &c. That is, died Be
was then about fifty -eight years of age. taafln^
• reigned forty years.

367

The people petition Roboam 3 KINGS

Revolt of the ten trii

A ND ^ Roboam went to Sichem : ^ for
XIl thither were all Israel come to-
gether to make him king.

2 But Jeroboam the son of Kabat, who
was yet in Egypt, a fugitive from the
foce of king Solomon, hearing of his
death, returned out of Egypt.

3 And they sent and called him: and
Jeroboam came, and all the multitude of
Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying;

4 Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon
us: now therefore do thou take off a
little of the grievous service of thy fa-
ther, and of his most heavy yoke, which
he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

6 And he said to them : Go till the third
day, and come to me again. And when
the people was gone,

6 King Roboam took counsel with the
old men, that stood before Solomon his
father while he yet lived, and he said :
What counsel do you give me, that I may
answer this people?

7 They said to him : If thou wilt yield
to this people to day, and condescend to
them, and grant their petition, and wilt
speak gentle words to them, they will be
thy servants always.

8 But he left the counsel of the old men,
c^hich they had given him, and consulted
with the young men. that had been
brought up with him, and stood before
him.

9 And he said to them : What connsel
do you give me, that I may answer this
people, who have said to me : Make the
yoke which thy father put upon us
lighter?

10 And the young men that had been
brought up with him, said: Thus shalt
thou speak to this people, who have
spoken to thee, saying : Thy father made
©ur yoke heavy, do thou ease us. Thou
shalt say to them : My little finger is
thicker than the back of my father.

11 And now my father put a heavy yoke
upon you, but I will add to youi- yoke :
my father beat you with whips, but I will
beat you with scorpions.

12 So Jeroboam and all the people came
to Roboam the third day, as the king had
appointed, saying: Come to me again the
third day.

V B, (J. 932.— w 2 Par. 10. 1. — sc Supra 11, 31.

Chap. 12. Ver. 20. Juda only, Benjamic was a
small tribe, and so intermixed with the tribe of Juda,
(ttt very city of Jerusaleir being partly tm Juda.

366

13 And the king answered the peo[
roughly, leaving the counsel of the
men, which they had given him,

14 And he spoke to them accordinj
the counsel of the young men, sayi
My father made your yoke heavy, b^
will add to your yoke: my father
you with whips, but I will beat you
scorpions.

15 And the king condescended not
the people: for the Lord was turi
away from him, to make good his w(
* which he had spoken in the ham
Ahias the Silonite, to Jeroboam the
of Nabat.

16 Then the people seeing that the
would not hearken to them, answf
him, saying : What portion have wc
David? or what inheritance in the
of Isai ? Go home to thy dwellings, 01
rael, now David look to thy own ho[
So Israel departed to their dwellingsJ

17 But as for all the children of Is]
that dwelt in the cities of Juda, Rob<|
reigned over them.

1 8 Then king Roboam sent Aduram, '
was over the tribute : and all Israel stojd
him, and he died. Wherefore king )•
boam made haste to get him up intc is
chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:

19 And Israel revolted from the h( e
of David, unto this day.

20 And it ame to pass when all le ^1
heard that Jeroboam was come a^ ^i
that they gathered an assembly, and it
and called him, and made him king ( r
all Israel, and there was none that 1-
lowed the house of David but the t "
of Juda only.

2 1 And Roboam came to Jerusalem, id
gathered together all the house of J
and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred f
score thousand chosen men for wa
fight against the house of Israel, ar
bring the kingdom again under Rob
the son of Solomon.

22 *" But the word oi the Lord can
Semeias the man of God, saying:

23 Speak to Roboam the son of Soloi
the king of Juda^ and to all the houi
Juda, and Benjamin, and the rest ol
people, saying:

24 Thus saith the Lord: You shall

s 2 Par. 11. 2.

partly in Benjamin,) tliat tlie> are here counte
a& one tribes

The two golden calves

3 KINGS

The prophet sent to Jeroboam

go up nor ughi against your brethren
the children of Israel: let every man re-
turn to hio house, for this thing is from

,me. They hearkened to the word of the

•Lord, and returned from their journey,
as the Lord had commanded them.
25 And Jeroboam built Sichem in mount

lEphraim, and dwelt there, and going out
from thence he built PhanueL

; 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now
shall the kingdom return to the house of

i David,

27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices
in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem :
and the heart of this people will turn to
their lord Roboam the king of Juda, and

• they will kill me, and return to him.

28 " And finding out a device he made
two golden calves, and said to them : Go

I ye up no more to Jerusalem : ^ Behold
I thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out
I of the land of Egypt.
I 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the
I other in Dan :

30 And this thing became an occasion
I of sin: for the people went to adore the
calf as far as Dan.

31 And he made temples in the high
places, ^ and priests of the lowest of the
people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

32 And he appointed a feast in the
eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the
month, after the manner of the feast that
was celebrated in Juda. And going up
to the altar, he did in like manner in
Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves, which
he had made : and he placed in Bethel
priests of the high places, which he had
made.

33 And he went up to the altar, which
he had built in Bethel, on the fifteenth
day of the eighth month, which he had de-
vised of his own heart : and he Ox'dained
a feast to the children of Israel, and went
upon the altar to burn incense.

CHAPTER 13.

d prophet sent from Juda to Bethel foretelleth the
birthof Josias, and the destruction of Jeroboam^s
altar. Jeroboam^s hand offering violence to the
prophet wither eth, but is restored by the prophet's
prayer: the same prophet is deceived by another
prophet, and slain by a lion,

« Tob. 1. 5. — 6 Ex. 32. 8.— c 2 Par. 11. 15.

yer.28. Golden calves. It is likely, by making his
gods m this form, he mimicked the Egyptians, among
Whom he had sojourned, who worshipped their Apis
and their Osiris under the form of a bullock.

ver. 29. Bethtl %nu, Dar^ Bethe} wa» % city ol

AND ^behold there came a man of God
jt\. out of Juda, by the word of the Lord
to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing
upon the altar, and burning incense»

2 And he cried out against the altar in
the word of the Lord, and said: O altar,
altar, thus saith the Lord : ^ Behold a child
shall be born to the house of David, Josias
by name, and he shall immolate upon thee
the priests of the high places, who now
burn incense upon thee, and he shall burn
men's bones upon thee.

3 And he gave a sign the same day, say-
ing : This shall be the sign, that the Lord
hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be
rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall
be poured out.

4 And when the king had heard the word
of the man of God, which he had cried out
against the altar in Bethel, he stretched
forth his hand from the altar, saying:
Lay hold on him. And his hand which
he stretched forth against him withered :
and he was not able to draw it back again
to him.

5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes
were poured out from the altar, according
to the sign which the man of God had
given before in the word of the Lord.

6 And the king said to the man of God :
Entreat the face of the Lord thy God, and
pray for me, that my hand may be re-
stored to me. And the man of God be-
sought the face ot the Lord, and the king's
hand was restored to him, and it became
as it was before.

7 And the king said to the man of God :
Come home with me to dine, and I will
make thee presents.

8 And the man of God answered the
king: If thou wouldst give me half thy
house I will not go with thee, nor eat
bread, nor drink water in this place :

9 For so it was enjoined me by the word
of the Lord commanding me : Thou shalt
not eat bread nor drink water, nor return
by the same way that thou camest.

10 So he departed by another way, and
returned not by the way that he came
into Bethel.

11 Now a certain old prophet dwelt in
Bethel, and his sons came to him and told

d B. C. 932.— e 4 Kings 23. 16.

the tribe of Ephraim in tlie southern part of the
dominions of Jeroboam, aiiout six leagues from Jeru-
salera; Dan was in the extremity of his dominions
to the north in the confines of Syria.

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Disobedience of the prophet

3 KINGS

The prophet killed by a lion

him all the works that the man of God
had done that day in Bethel : and chey
told their father the words which he had
ijpoken to the king.

12 And their father said to them: What
way went he ? His sons shewed him the
way by which the man of God went, who
came out of Juda.

13 And he said to his sons: Saddle me
the ass. And when they had saddled him,
he got up,

14 And went after the man of God, and
found him sitting under a turpentine
tree: and he said to him: Art thou the
man of God that camest from Juda ? He
answered : I am.

15 And he said to him : Come home with
me, to eat bread.

16 But he said : I must not return, nor
go with thee, neither will I eat bread, nor
drink water in this place •

17 Because the Lord spoke to me in the
word of the Lord, saying : Thou shalt not
eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water
there, nor return by the way thou went-
est.

18 He said to him : 1 also am a prophet
like unto thee : and an angel spoke to mc
in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring
him back with thee into thy house, that
he may eat bread, and drink water. He
deceived him,

19 And brought him back with him: so
he ate bread and drank water in his
house.

20 And as they sat at table, the word of
the Lord came to the prophet that brought
him back :

21 And he cried out to the man of God
who came out of Juda, saying : Thus saith
the Lord : Because thou hast not been
obedient to the Lord, and hast not kept
the commandment which the Lord thy
God commanded thee,

22 And hast returned and eaten bread,
and drunk water in the place wherein he
commanded thee that thou shouldst not
eat bread, nor drink water, thy dead body
shall not be brought into the sepulchre of
thy fathers.

23 And when he had eaten and drunk,
he saddled his ass for the prophet, whom
he had brought back.

Chap. 13. Ver. 18. An angel spoke to me, &c.
This old man of Bethel was indeed a prophet, but he
sinned in thus deceiving the man of God ; the more
because he pretended a revelation for what he did.

Ver. 24. Killed him. Thus the Lord often pun-

24 And when he was gone, a lion found
him in the way, and killed him, and his
body was cast in the way: and the asp
stood by him, and the lion stood by thb
dead body.

25 And behold, men passing by saw the
dead body cast in the way, and the Hon
standing by the body. And they came
and told it in the city, wherein that old
prophet dwelt.

26 And when that prophet, who had
brought him back out of the way, heard
of it, he said : It is the man of God, that
was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord,
and the Lord hath delivered him to th©
lion, and he hath torn him, and killed
him according to the word of the Lordj
which he spoke to him.

27 And he said to his sons : Saddle me
an aes. And when they had saddled it,

28 And he was gone, he found the dead
body cast in the way, and the ass and the
lion standing by the carcass : the lion had
not eaten of the dead body, nor hurt the
ass.

29 And the prophet took up the body of
the man of God, and laid it upon the ass,
and going back brought it into the city
of the old prophet, to mourn for him,

30 And he laid his dead ho&s in Ml owt>
sepulchre : and they mourned over hini^
saying: Alas! alas! my b« other,

31 And when they hac mourned over
him, he said to his sons ; When I am dead
bury me in the sep'ilchre whereir thf
man of God is buried ; lay my bonee oe
side his bones.

32 For assuredly the word shall ccmf
to pass which he hath foretold in the
word of the Lord against the altar that is
in Bethel : and against all the temples of
the high places, that are in the cities of
Samaria.

33 After these words Jeroboam came
not back from his wicked way: but on
the contrary he made of the meanest of
the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he filled his hand,
and he was made a priest of the high
places.

34 And for this cause did the house of
Jeroboam sin, and was cut off and de-
stroyed from the face of the earth.

ishes his servants here, that he may spare them here-
after. For the generality of divines arc of opinion,
that the sin of this prophet, considered with all its
circumstances, was not mortal.

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^roboam*s wife visits Ahias

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Prophecy of Ahias

CHAPTER 14.

iaa prophesieth the destruction of the family of
'eroboam. Uedieth,and is succeeded by his son
iadab. The king of Egypt taketh and pillageth
Jerusalem. Roboam dieth and his son Abiavi sue-
eedeth.

|T that time Abia the son of Jeroboam
\. fell sick.

I And Jeroboam said to his wife : Arise,
f,d change thy dress, that thou be not
1 own to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go
t Silo, where Ahias the prophet is, -^ who
td me, that I should reign over this
pple.

I Take also with thee ten loaves, and
cicknels, and a pot of honey, and go
t him : for he will tell thee what shall
fc 3ome of this child.

Jeroboam's wife did as he told her:
ai rising up went to Silo, and came to
i ) house of Ahias : but he could not see,
t his eyes were dim by reason of his
a,).

And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold
t.,5 wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to con-
Bt thee concerning her son that is sick:
t is and thus shalt thou speak to her.
3 when she was coming in, and made as
li he were another woman,

Ahias heard the sound of her feet
Oiling in at the door, and said: Come
h thou wife of Jeroboam : why dost thou
Ui^ii thyself to be another? But I am
Brt to thee with heavy tidings.

Go, and tell Jeroboam : Thus saith the
L-d the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I
e ilted thee from among the people, and
nde thee prince over my people Israel:

And rent the kingdom away from the
h ise of David, and gave it to thee, and
tliU hast not been as my servant David,
%p kept my commandments, and fol-
ic ed me with all his heart, doing that
uich was well pleasing in my sight:

But hast done evil above all that were
b ore thee, and hast made thee strange
gils and molten gods, to provoke me to
a jer, and hast cast me behind thy back :
Therefore behold I will bring evils
ti|)n the house of Jeroboam, and fi'will
c off from Jeroboam him that pisseth
ftiinst the wall, and him that is shut up,
ftil the last in Israel : and I will sweep

/Supra 11. 31. — g Infra 16. 29.

lAP. 14. Ver. 19. The book of the words of the
««!? of the kings of Israel. This book, which is
Olin mentioned in the Book of Kings, is long since

♦Oj Pot p.a tn th*» hrtrkka nf 'P«»roIinr»nnor»rn-« rki»

away the remnant of the house of Jero-
boam, as dung is swept away till all be
clean.

1 1 Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the
city, the dogs shall eat : and them that
shall die in the field, the birds of the air
shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

12 Arise thou therefore, and go to thy
house: and when thy feet shall be enter-
ing into the city, the child shall die,

13 And all Israel shall mourn for him,
and rjhall bury him : for he only of Jero-
boam shall be laid in a sepulchre, be-
cause in his regard there is found a good
word from the Lord the God of Israel, in
the house of Jeroboam.

14 And the Lord hath appointed himself
a king over Israel, who shall cut off the
house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this
time:

15 And the Lord God shall strike Israel
as a reed is shaken in the water: and he
shall root up Israel out of this good land,
which he gave to their fathers, and shall
scatter them beyond the river : because
they have made to themselves groves, to
provoke the Lord.

16 And the Lord shall give up Israel for
the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned,
and made Israel to sin.

17 And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and
departed, and came to Thersa : and when
she was coming in to the threshold of the
house, the child died ;

18 And they buried him. And all Israel
mourned for him according to the word
of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand
of his servant Ahias the prophet.

19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam,
how he fought, and how he reigned^ be-
hold they are written in the book of the
words of the days of the kings of Israel.

20 And the days that Jeroboam reigned,
were two and twenty years : and he slept
with his fathers: and Nadab his son
reigned in his stead.

21 ^ And Roboam the son of Solomon
reigned in Juda : Roboam was one and
forty years old when he began to reign:
and he reigned seventeen years in Je-
rusalem the city, which the Lord chose
out of all the tribes of Israel to put his

h 2 Par. 12. 13.

I For as to tbe books of Paralipomenon, or

Chronicles, (which the Hebrews call the words of the
days,) they were certainly written after the Book c'
Kings, since they frequently refer to them.

Jerusalem is pillaged

^ame there. And his mother's name was
Naama an Ammonitess.

22 And Juda did evil in the sight of the
Lord, and provoked him above all that
their fathers had done, in their sins which
they committed.

23 For they also built them altars, and
statues, and groves upon every high hill
and under every green tree :

24 There were also the effeminate in the
land, and they did according to all the
abominations of the people whom the
Lord had destroyed before the face of
the children of Israel.

25 * And in the fifth year of the reign of
Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem.

26 And he took away the treasures of
the house of the Lord, and the king's
treasures, and carried all off : as also the
shields of gold which «? Solomon had
made.

27 And Roboam made chields of brass
instead of them, and delivered them into
the hand of the captains cf the shield-
bearers, and of them that kopt watch be-
fore the gate of the king's house.

28 And when the king went into the
house of the Lord, they whose office it
was to go before him, carried them : and
afterwards they brought them back to
the armoury of the shieldbearers.

29 Now the rest of the acts of Roboam,
and all that he did, behold they are
written in the book of the words of the
days of the kings of Juda.

30 And there was war between Roboam
and Jeroboam always.

31 And Roboam slept with his fathers,
and was buried with them in the city
of David: and his mother's name was
Naama an Ammonitess : and Abiam his
Bon reigned in his stead.

And

CHAPTER 15.

The acts of Abiam and of Asa king» of Juda*
ofNadab and Basa kings of Israel.

NOW ^ in the eighteenth year of the
reign of Jeroboam the son of Nabat,
A-biam reigned over Juda.

3 KINGS The reigns of Abiam and Asa

2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem:
^ the name of his mother was Maacha the
daughter of Abessalom.

3 And he walked in all the sins of his
father, which he had done before him:
and his heart was not perfect with the
Lord his God, as was the heart of David
his father.

4 But for David's sake the Lord his God
gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up
his son after him, and to establish Jeru-
salem :

6 Because David had done that which
was right in the eyes of the Lord, an**
had not turned aside from anv thing th&«
he commanded him, all tbt days of hie
life, "* except the matter of Urias thei
Hethite.

6 But there was war between Roboam
and Jeroboam all the time of his life.

7 And the rest of the words of Abiam,
and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Juda? "^ And there was war
between Abiam and Jeroboam.

8 And Abiam slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the city of David,
° and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

9 So in the twentieth year of Jeroboanr
king of Isiael, p reigned Asa king oi
Juda.

10 And he reigned one and forty yean
in Jerusalem. His mother's name wa
Maacha, the daughter of Abessalom.

11 And Asa did that which was right ii
the sight of the Lord, as did David hi
father :

12 And he took away the effeminate ou
of the land, and he removed all the filtl
of the idols, which his fathers had made

13 Moreover he also removed his mc
ther Maacha, from being the princess i;
the sacrifices of Priapus, and in the grov
which she had consecrated to him : an
he destroyed her den, and broke in piece
the filthy idol, and burnt it by the torrer
Cedron:

14 But the high places he did not tak
away. Nevertheless the heart of Afi
was perfect with the Lord all his days!

i B. C. 928.— i Supra 10. 16.
k B. C. 914. — I 2 Par. 13. 2.

Ver. 24. The effeminate. Catamites, or men ad-
dicted to unnatural lust.

Chap. 15. Ver. 2. Maacha^ &c. She is called
elsewhere Michaia. daughter of Uriel; but it was
common in those days for the same person to have

two names. ^ ^,. ^ . v a

Ver. lOo Hi* frutther, &c That is, his grand-

m 2 Kings 11. 14. — w 2 Par. 13. 3.
o2 Par. 14. l.—pB.C. 911.

mother ; unless we suppose, which is not improbab
that the Maacha here named is different from i
Maacha mentioned, ver. 2.

Ver. 14. The high places. There were exceim
high places of two different kinds. Some were J
up, and dedicated to the worship of idols, or stran
gods; and these Asa removed, 2 Par. 14. 2; otne

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Death of Asa

15 And he brought in the things which
his father had dedicated, and he had
vowed, into the house of the Lord, silver
and gold, and vessels.

16 And there was war between Asa, and
Baasa king of Israel all their days.

17 5 And Baasa king of Israel went up
against Juda, and built Rama, that no
man might go out or come in, of the side
of Asa king of Juda.

18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold
that remained in the treasures of the
house of the Lord, and in the treasures
of the king's house, and delivered it into
the hands of his servants : and sent them
to Benadad son of Tabremon the son of
Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in
Damascus, saying :

19 There is a league between me and
thee, and between my father and thy
lather: therefore I have sent thee pre-
sents of silver and gold : and I desire thee
to come, and break thy league with
Baasa kin^' of Israel^ that he may depart
from me.

20 Benadad hearkening to king Asa,
cent the captains of his army against the
cities of Israel; and they smote Ahion,
and Dan, and Abeldomum Maacha, and
aU Cenneroth, that is aU the land of
Nephtali.

21 And when Baasa had heard this, he
left off building ilama, and returned into
Thersa.

22 But king Asa sent word into all Juda,
saying : Let no man be excused : and
they took away the stones from Rama,
and the timber thereof wherewith Baasa
had been building, and with them king
Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.

23 But the rest of all the acts of Asa,
and all his strength, and all that he did,
and the cities that he built, are they not
written in the book of the words of the
days of the kings of Juda ? But in the
time of his old age he was diseased in
his feet.

24 And he slept with his fathers, and
was buried with them in the city of
David his father. '' And Josaphat his son
reigned in his place.

25 But Nadab the son of Jeroboam

q 2 Par. 16. 1.
r 2 Par. IT. 1. B. C. 870. — s B. C. 910.

3 KINGS

Reigns of Nadab and Baasa

were only altars of the true God, but were erected
contrary to the law, which allowed of no sacrifices
but in the temple ; and these were not removed by

reigned over Israel the second year ' of
Asa king of Juda : and he reigned over
Israel two years.

26 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, and walked in the ways of his
father, and in his sins, wherewith he
made Israel to sin.

27 And Baasa the son of Ahias of the
house of Issachar, conspired against him,
and slew him in Gebbethon, which is a
city of the Philistines : for Nadab and all
Israel besieged Gebbethon.

28 So Baasa slew him in the third year *
of Asa king of Juda, and reigned in his
place.

29 " And when he was king he cut off
all the house of Jeroboam : he left not so
much as one soul of his seed, till he
had utterly destroj^ed him, according to
the word of the Lord, ^ which he had
jpoken in the hand of Ahias the Silonite :

30 Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which
he had sinned, and wherewith he had
made Israel to sin, and for the offence,
wherewith he provoked the Lord the
God of Israel.

31 But the rest of the acts of Nadab, and
all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of the
kings of Israel ?

32 And there was war between Asa and
Baasa the king of Israel all their days.

33 In the third year "'of Asa king of
Juda, Baasa the son of Ahias reigned
over all Israel, in Thersa, four and twenty
years.

34 And he did evil before the Lord, and
walked in the ways of Jeroboam, and in
hie 3ins, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

CHAPTER 16.

/^hu prophesieth against Baasa : his son Ela is slain
and all his family destroijed by Zambri, Of the
reign of Amri father of Achab.

rpHEN '^he word of the Lord came to
X Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa,
saying .

2 Forasmuch as I have exalted thee out
of the dust, and made thee prince over
my people Israel, and thou hast walked
in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made
my people Israel to sin, to provoke me
to anger with their sins:

t B. C. 909. — M Infra 21. 22.
V Supra 14. 10. — w B. C. 909.

Asa. — Ibid. Perfect vHfh the Lord. Asa had hij
faults ; but never forsook the worship of the Lord.

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Ela is slain hy Zamhri

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Death of Zamhri

3 ±5ehold, I will cut down the posterity
of Baasa, and the posterity of his house,
and I will make thy house as the house
of Jeroboam the son of Nabat.

i -^ Him that dieth of Baasa in the city,
the dogs shall eat: and him that dieth of
his in the country, the fowls of the air
shall devour.

5 y But the rest of the acts of Baasa and
all that he did, and his battles, are they
not written in the book of the words of
the days of the kings of Israel ?

6 So Baasa slept with his fathers, and
was buried in Thersa: and Ela his son
reigned in his stead.

7 And when the word of the Lord came
in the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani
the prophet, against Baasa, and against
his house, and against all the evil that he
had done before the Lord, to provoke
him to anger by the works of his hands,
to become as the house of Jeroboam : for
this cause he slew him, that is to say,
Jehu the son of Hanani, the prophet.

8 In the ^ six and twentieth year of Asa
king of Juda, Ela the son of Baasa reigned
over Israel in Thersa two years.

9 And his servant Zambri, who was cap-
tain of half the horsemen, rebelled against
hiri: now Ela was drinking in Thersa,
and drunk in the house of Arsa the gov-
ernor of Thersa.

10 " And Zambri rushing in, struck him
and slew him in the seven and twentieth
year of Asa king of Juda, and he reigned
in his stead.

11 And when he was king and sat upon
his throne, he slew all the house of Baasa,
and he left not one thereof to piss against
a wall, and all his kinsfolks and friends.

12 And Zambri destroyed all the house
of Baasa, according to the word of the
Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa in the
hand of Jehu the prophet,

13 For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins
of Ela his son, who sinned, and made Is-
rael to sin, provoking the Lord the God
of Israel with their vanities.

14 But the rest of the acts of Ela, and
all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of the
kings of Israel ?

X Supra 14. 11. — y 2 Par. 16. 1.
z B. C. 886. — a 4 Kings 9. 31.

Chap. le. Ver. 23. In the one and thirtieth year,
&c. Amri began to reign in the seven a.nrt twentieth
fear of Asa; but had not quiet possession of the
UDgdom mi the death of his competitor Thebni,

15 In the seven and twentieth year ^ of
Asa king of Juda, Zambri reigned seven
days in Thersa : now the army was be-
sieging Gebbethon a city of the Fhilis-
tines.

16 And when they heard that Zambri had
rebelled, and slain the king, all Israel
made Amri their king, who was general
over Israel in the camp that day.

17 And Amri went up, and all Israel
with him from Gebbethon, and they be-
sieged Thersa.

18 And Zambri seeing that the city was
about to be taken, went into the palace
and burnt himself with the king's house:
and he died

19 In his sins, which he had sinned, do-
ing evil before the Lord, and walking in
the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin,
wherewith he made Israel to sin.

20 But the rest of the acts of Zambri^
and of his conspiracy and tyranny, are
they not written in the book of the words
of the days of the kings of Israel ?

21 Then were the people of Israel di-
vided into two parts: onahalf of the peo-
ple followed Thebni the son of Gineth, to
make him king: and one half followed
Amri.

22 But the people that were with AmrL
prevailed over the people that followed
Thebni the son of Gineth: and Thebni
died, and Amri reigned.

23 In the one and thirtieth year ^ of
Asa king of Juda, Amri reigned over
Israel twelve years : in Thersa he reigned
six years.

24 And he bought the hill of Samaria of
Semer for two talents of silver: and he
built upon it, and he called the city which
he built Samaria, after the name of Semer
the owner of the hill.

25 And Amri did evil in the sight of the
Lord, and acted wickedly above all that
were before him.

26 And he walked in all the way of Jero-
boam the son of Nabat, and in his sins
wherewith he made Israel to sin : to pro-
voke the Lord the God of Israel to anger
with their vanities.

27 Now the rest of the acts of Amri,
and the battles he fought, are they not

b B. C. 885.
c B. C. 885

which was in the one and thirtieth year of Asa'»
reign. .^ ,

Ver. 26. With their vanities. That is, their idoU|p
their golden caives, vain, false, deceitful things

374

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The widow of Sarephta

Titten in the book of the words of the

ya of the kings of Israel ?
28 And ^ Amri slept with his fathers,
ad was buried in Samaria, and Achab
son reigned in his stead.

9 Now Achab the son of Amri reigned
7er Israel in the eight and thirtieth year

Asa king Df Juda. And Achab the son
I Amri reigned over Israel in Samaria

ro and twenty years.

0 And Achab the son of Amri did evil in
■16 sight of the Lord above all that were

fore him.

M Nor was it enough for him to walk in
le sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat :

t he also took to wife Jezabel daughter
! Ethbaal king of the Sidonians. And he
ent, and served Baal, and adored him.
12 And he set up an altar for Baal in the
mple of Baal, which he had built in
imaria,

{3 And he planted a grove : and Achab
d more to provoke the Lord the God of
rael, than all the kings of Israel that
ere before him.

4 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jeri-
■K) : in Abiram his firstborn he laid its
nndations: and in his youngest son
)gub he set up the gates thereof: ac-
)rding to the word of the Lord, which

spoke in the hand of Josue the son of

CHAPTER 17.

ias shutteth up the heaven from raining. He is
Ted by ravens, and afterwards by a widow of So-
'ephta. He raiseth the ividoiv''s son to life,

4ND ^Elias the Thesbite of the inhab-
A. itants of Galaad said to Achab : As

e Lord liveth the God of Israel, in
hose sight I stand, there shall not be

w nor rain these years, but according

the words of mj'" mouth.
5 And the word of the Lord came to him,
ying :

Get thee hence, and go towards the
ist and hide thyself by the torrent of
arith, which is over against the Jordan,
I And there thou shalt drink of the tor-
!nt : and I have commanded the ravens
' feed thee there.

> So he went, and did according to the
ord of the Lord : and going, he dwelt
r the torrent Carith, which is over
gainst the Jordan.

dB. C. 874.-
/Eccli. 47. 1

-e Jos. 6. 26.
James 5. 17.

(JHAP. 17. Ver. 9.

6 And the ravens brought him bread
and flesh in the morning, and bread and
flesh in the evening, and he drank of the

, torrent.

I 7 But after some time the torrent was
dried up, for it had not rained upon the
earth.

8 Then the word of the Lord came to
him, saying:

9 Arise, £ nd go to Sarephta of the Sido-
nians, and dwell there : for I have com-
manded a widow woman there to feed
thee.

10 ^ H*^ arose, and went to Sarephta.
And when he was come to the gate of
the city, he saw the widow woman gath-
ering sticks, and he called her, and said
to her : Give me a little water in a ves-
sel, that I may drink.

11 And when she was going to fetch it
he called after her, saying: Bring me also,
I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy
hand.

12 And she answered : As the Lord thy
God liveth, I have no bread, but only a
handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil
in a cruse: behold I am gathering two
sticks that I may go in and dress it, for
me and my son, that we may eat it, and
die.

13 And Elias said to her : Fear not, but
go, and do as thou hast said: but first
make for me of the same meal a little
hearth cake, and bring it to me: and
after make for thyself and thy son.

14 For thus saith the Lord the God of
Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste,
nor the cruse of oil be diminished, until
the day wherein the Lord will give rain
upon the face of the earth.

15 She went and did according to the
word of Elias : and he ate, and she, and
her house : and from that day

16 The pot of meal wasted not, and the
cruse of oil was not diminished, accord-
ing to the word of the Lord, which he
spoke in the hand of Elias.

17 And ib came to pass after this that
the son of the woman, the mistress of
the house, fell sick, and the sickness was
very grievous, so that there was no breath
left in him.

18 And she said to Elias: What have I
to do with thee, thou man of God? art

h Luke 4. 26.

tSarephta o/ the Sidonians,
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Itiat is, a city of Uit SidooiaDS.

Elias restores the widow* s son

3 KINGS

Elias and Achah meet

thou come to me that my iniquities should
be remembered, and that thou shouldst
kill my son?

19 And Elias said to her: Give me thy
son. And he took him out of her bosom,
and carried him into the upper chamber

(There he abode, and laid him upon his
fwn bed.

20 And he cried to the Lord, and said :
O Lord my God, hast thou afflicted also
the widow, with whom I am after a sort
maintained, so as to kill her son ?

21 And he stretched, and measured nim-
self upon the child three times, and cried
to the Lord, and said : O Lord my God,
let the soul of this child, I beseech thee,
return into his body,

22 And the Lord heard the voice of
Elias : and the soul of the child returned
into him, and he revived.

23 And Elias took the child, and brought
him down from the upper chamber to
the house below, and delivered him to
his mother, and said to her ; Behold thy
son liveth.

24 And the woman said to Elias: Now,
by this I know that thou art a man of
God, and the word of the Lord in thy
mouth is true.

CHAPTER 18.

Elias Cometh before Achab. He convinceth the false
prophets by brinffing fire from heaven: he obtain-
eth rain by his prayer.

AFTER many days the word of the
. Lord came to Elias, in the third
year, saying: Go and shew thyself to
Achab, that T may give rain upon the
face of the earth.

2 And Elias went to shew himself to
Achab, and there was a grievous famine
in Samaria.

3 And Achab called Abdias the governor
of his house : now Abdias feaircd the Lord
very much.

4 For when Jezabel killed the prophets
of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets
and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves,
and fed them with bread and water.

5 And Achab said to Abdias: Go into
the land unto all fountains of waters, and
into all valleys, to see if we can find
grass, and save the horses and mules,
that the beasts may not utterly perish.

8 And they divided the countries be-

tween them, that they might go round
about them: Achab went one way, and
Abdias another way by himself.

7 And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met
him: and he knew him, and fell on his
face, and said : Art thou my lord Ehas?

8 And he answered : I am. Go, and tell
thy master : Elias is here.

9 And he said : What have I sinned, that
thouwouldst deliver me thy servant into
the hand of Achab, that he should kill
me?

10 As the Lord bhy God liveth. there is
no nation or kingdom, whither my lord
hath not sent to seek thee : and when all
answered : He is not here : he took an
oath of every kingdom and nation, be»
cause thou wast not founc., ^p

11 And now thou sayest to me: Go. and
tell thy master : Elias is here.

12 And when I am gone from thee, the
spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a
place that I know not : and I shall go in
and tell Achab^ and he not finding thee,
will kill me : but thy servant feareth the
Lord from his infancy.

13 Hath it not been told thee, my lord,
what I did when Jezabel killed the pro-
phets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred
men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty
and fifty in caves, and fed them with
bread and water?

14 And now thou sayest: Go, and tell
thy master : Elias is here : that he may
kill me.

15 And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts
liveth, before whose face I stand, this
day I will shew myself unto him.

16 Abdias therefore went to meet Achab,
and told him : and Achab came to meet
Elias.

17 And when he had seen him, he said:
Art thou he that troublest Israel?

18 And he said: I have not troubled Is-
rael, but thou and thy father's house, who
have forsaken the commandments of the
Lord, and have followed Baalim. ,

19 Nevertheless send now, and gather I
unto me a?l Israel, unto mount Carmel,
and the prophets of Baal four hundre'
and fifty, anc ^he prophets of the grov<
four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's tabl

20 Achab sent to all the children of Israel
and gathered together the orophets UBi
mount Carmel.

«W

\ke two altars

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The fire from heaven

51 And Elias coming to all the people,
lid : How long do you halt between two
des? if the Lord be God, follow him:
it if Baal, then follow him. And the
3ople did not answer him a word.

22 And Elias said again to the people: I
aly remain a prophet of the Lord : but
le prophets of Baal are four hundred and
fty men.

23 Let two bullocks be given us, and let
lem choose one bullock for themselves,
ud cut it in pieces and lay it upon wood,
lut put no fire under : and I will dress
16 other bullock, and lay it on wood, and
ut no fire under it.

24 Call ye on the names of your gods,
nd I will call on the name of my Lords
nd the God that shall answer by fire, let
|;im be God. And all the people answer-
ig said : A very good proposal.

26 Then Elias said to the prophets of
laal : Choose you one bullock and dress
first, because you are many : and cali
n the names of your gods, but put no
ire under.

26 And they took the buUrck which he
ji:ave them, and dressed 11'. and they

ailed on the name of Baal from mci mng
ven till noon, saying : O Baal, hear us.
Jut there was no voice, nor any 'chcj\i an-
wered ? and they leaped aver the ciltar
hat they had made.

27 And when it was now noon, Elias
ested at them, saying : Cry with a louder
roice : for he is a God, and ;Derhaps he
8 talking, or is in an mn, or on a jour-
ley, or perhaps he is asleep, and must be
iwakedo

28 So they cried with a loud voice, and
mt themselves after their manner with
mives and lancets, till they were all cov-
ered with blood.

29 And after midday was past, and
while they were prophesying, the time
WSLS come of offering sacrifice, and there
was no voice heard, nor did any one an-
swer, nor regard them as they prayed :

30 Elias said to all the people : Come ye
onto me. And the people coming near
onto him, he repaired the altar of the
Lord, that was broken uown :

31 And he jook twelve jtones according
to the number of the tribes of the cons
of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord
8ame, aaying : ^ Israel shall b€ thy name.

32 And he built with the stones an altar
to the name of the Lord : and he made a
trench for water, of the breadth of two
furrows round about the altar.

33 And he laid the wood in order, and
cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it upon
the wood.

34 And he said : Fill four buckets with
water, and pour it upon the burnt offering,
and upon the wood. And again he said:
Do the same the second t:'me. And when
they had done it the second time, he
said: Do the same also the third time.
And they did so the third time.

35 And the water run round about the
altar, and the trench was filled with
water.

36 And when it was now time to offer
the holocaust, Elias the prophet came
near and said : O Lord God of Abraham,
and Isaac, and Israel, shew tl»^ day that
thou art the God of Israel, and I thy ser-
vant, and that according to thy com-
mandment I havQ done all these things.

37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me • that this
people may learn, that thou art the Lord
God, and that thou hast turned their
heart again.

38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and
consumed the holocaust, and the wood,
and the stones, and the dust, and licked
up the water that was in the trench.

39 And when all the people saw this,
they fell on their faces, and they said:
The Lord he is God, the Lord he is God.

40 And Ehas said to them : Take the
prophets of Baal, and let not one of them
escape. And when they had taken them,
Elias brought them down to the torrent
Cison, and killed them there.

41 And Elias said to Achab : Go up, sat,
and drink : for there is a sound of abun-
dance of rain.

42 Achab went up to eat and drink: and
Ehas went up to the top of Carmel, and
casting himself down upon the earth put
his face between his knees,

43 And he said to his servant : Go up,
and look toward the sea. And he went
up, and looked, and said: There is no-
thing. And again he said to him: Re-
turn seven times.

44 And at the seventh time, behold, a
little cloud arose out of the sea like a
man^s foot. And he said : Go up and say

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Elias fed by an angel

to Achab : Prepare thy chariot and go
down, lest the rain prevent thee.

46 And while he turned himself this
way and that way, behold the heavens
grew dark, with clouds, and wind, and
there fell a great rain. And Achab get-
ting up went away to Jezrahel:

46 And the hand of the Lord was upon
Elias, and he girded up his loins and ran
before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.

CHAPTER 19.

Elias, Jlecing from Jezabel, is fed by an angel in the
desert; and by the strength of that f ood walketh
forty days, till he comeih to Uoreb, where he hath
a vision of God.

AND Achab told Jezabel all that Elias
^ had done, and how he had slain all
the prophets wi^Ji the sword.

2 And Jezabe' sent a messenger to
Elias, saying : Such and such things may
the gods do to me, and add still more, if
by this hour to morrow I make not thy
life as the life of one of them.

3 Then Elias was afraid, and rising up
he went whithersoever he had a mind :
and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and
left his servant there,

4 And he went forward, one day's jour-
ney into the desert. And when he was
there, and sat under a juniper tree, he
"requested for his soul that he might die,
LMid said : It is enough for me. Lord, take
^way my soul : for I am no better than
my fathers.

5 And he cast himself down, and slept
.in the shadow of the juniper tree : and
oehold an angel of the Lord touched
him, and said to him : Arise and eat.

6 He looked, and t hold there was at
his head a hearth cake, and a vessel of
water : and he ate and drank, and he fell
asleep again.

7 And the angel of the Lord came again
the second time, and touched him, and
said to him : Arise, eat : for thou hast
yet a great way to go.

8 And he arose, end ate, and drank, and
walked in the strength of that food forty

Chap. 19. Ver. 4. That he might die. Elias
requested to die, not out of impatience or pusilla-
flimity, but out of zeal against sin •, and that he might
no longer be witness of the miseries of his people ;
and the war they were waging against God and his
servants. See ver. 10.

Ver. 8. In the strength of that food, &c. This
bread, with which Elias was fed in the w'lderness,
7as a figure of the bread of life which we receive in
Uie blessed sacrament ; by the strength ot oli we

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days and forty nights, unto the mount
of God, Horeb.

9 And when he was come thither, he
abode in a cave : and behold the word
of the Lord came unto him, and he said
bo him : What dost thou here, Elias ?

10 And he answered : With zeal have X
been zealous for the Lord God of hosts:
for the Children of Israel have forsaken
thy covenant: they have thrown down
thy altars, they have slain thy prophets
with the sword, and I alone am ieft, and
they seek my life to take it away.

11 And he said to him: Go forth, ?-vJ
stand upon the mount before the Lord
and behold the Lord passeth, and a great
and strong wind before the Lord over-
throwing the mountains, and breaking
the rocks in pieces : the Lord is not in
the wind, and after the wind an earth-
quake: the Lord is not in the earth-
quake

12 And after the earthquake a fire : the
Lord is not in the fire, and after the fire
a whistling of a gentle air.

13 And when Elias heard it, he covered
his face with his mantle, and coming
forth stood in the entering in of the
cave, and behold a voice unto him, say-
ing: What dost thou here, Elias? And
he answered :

14 With zeal have I been zealous for
the Lord God of hosts: ^because the
children of Israel have forsaken thy cov-
enant: they have destroyed thy altars,
they have slain thy prophets with the
sword, and I alone am . left, and they
seek my life to take it away.

15 And the Lord said to him: Go, and
return on thy way through the desert
to Damascus: and when thou art como
thither, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be
king over Syria.

16 "* And thou shalt anoint Jehu the son
of Namsi to be king over Israel: and
Eliseus the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula,
thou shalt anoint to be prophet in thy
room.

I Kom. 11. 3. — w 4 Kings 9. 1.

are to be supported in our journey through the wil-
derness of this world till we come to the true mouD-
tain of God, and his vision in a happy eternity.

'7 or. 10. / alone am left, viz., of the prophets m
the kingdom of Israel, or of the ten tribes , for in the
kingdom of Juda religion was at that time in a very
flourishing condition under the kings Asa and Josa-
phat. And even in Israel there remained several
prophets, though not 'iiea known to Elias. See
cbap. 9.0, 13, 28, 3&

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Eliseus follows Elias

3 KINGS The Syrians besiege Samaria

17 And it shall come to pass, that who-
3oever shall escape the sword of Hazael,
shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever
shall escape the sword of Jehu, shall be
glain by Eliseus.

18 "And I will leave me seven thou-
sand men in Israel, whose knees have
not been bowed before Baal, and every
mouth that hath not worshipped him
kissing the hands.

19 And Elias departing from thence,
found Eliseus the son of Saphat, plough-
ing with twelve yoke of oxen: and he
was one of them that were ploughing
with twelve yoke of oxen: and when
Elias came up to him, he cast his mantle
upon him.

20 And he forthwith left the oxen and
ran after Elias, and said : Let me, I pray
thee, kiss my father and my mottier, and
then I will follow thee. And he said
to him : Go, and return back : for that

^hich was my part, I have done to thee.

21 And returning back from him, he
took a yoke of oxen, and killed them,

d boiled the flesh with the plough of
ihe oxen, and gave to the people, and
ihey ate : and rising up he went away,
nd followed Elias, and ministered to
nim.

CHAPTER 20.

Tlie Syrians besiege Samaria: they are ttvice de-
feated by Achab : who is reprehended by a pro-
phet for letting Benadad go.

AND Benadad, king of Syria, gathered
. together all his host, and there were
mo and thirty kings with him, and horses,
EUid chariots: and going up, he fought
against Samaria, and besieged it.

2 And, sending messengers to Achab
ing of Israel into the city,

3 He said: Thus saith Benadad: Thy
silver, and thy gold is mine: and thy
wives, and thy goodliest children are
mine.

4 And the king of Israel answered : Ac-
tsording to thy word, my lord O king, I
am thine, and all that I have.

6 And the messengers came again, and
said : Thus saith Benadad, who sent us

n Rom. 11, 4.

Ver. 17. Shall be slain by Eliseus. Eliseus did
not kill any of the idolaters with the material sword :
but he is here joined with Hazael and Jehu, tiie
'^ great instruments of God in punishing the idolatry
of Israel, because he foretold to the former his exal-
tation to the kingdom ol Syria, and the vengeance
he would execute against Israel, and anointed the

ante thee ? Thy silver, and uhy gold, amr'.
tihy wives, and thy children thou shaifi
deliver up to me.

6 To morrow therefore at this same
hour I will send my servants to thee, and
they shall search thy house, and the
houses of thy servants : and all that
pleaseth them, they shall put in their
hands, and take away.

7 And the king of Israel called all the
ancients of the land, and said: Mark,
and see that he layeth snares for us.
For he sent to me for my wives, and for
my children, and for my silver and gold:
and I said not nay.

8 And all the ancients, and all the peo-
ple said to him : Hearken not to him,
nor consent to him.

9 Wherefore he answered the messen-
gers of Benadad: Tell my lord the king:
All that thou didst send for to me thy
servant at first, I will do : but this thing
I cannot do.

10 And the messengers returning
brought him word. And he sent again
and said: Such and such things may the
gods do to me, and more may they add,
if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for
handfuls for all the people that follow
me.

11 And the king of Israel answering,
said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast
himself as the ungirded.

12 And it came to pass, when Benadad
heard this word, that he and the kings
were drinking in pavilions, and he said
to his servants: Beset the city. And
they beset it.

13 And behold a prophet coming to
Achab king of Israel, said to him : Thus"
saith the Lord: Hast thou seen all this
exceeding great multitude, behold I will
deliver them into thy hand this day:
that thou mayest know that I am the
Lord.

14 And Achab said: By whom? And he
said to him : Thus saith the Lord : By the
servants of the princes of the provinces.
And he said: Who shall begin to fight?
And he said: Thou.

latter by one of his disciples to be king of Israel,
with commission to extirpate the house of Achab.

Chap. 20. Ver. 11. Let not the girded, &c. Let
him not boast before the victory : it will then be
time to glory when lie putteth off Iiis armour, haying
overcome his adversary

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The Syrians again defeated

15 So he mustered tho servants ox the
princes of the provinces, and ho found
the number of two hundred and thirty-
two . and he mustered after them the
people, all the children of Israel, seven
thousand :

16 And they went out at noon. Bu^
Benadad was drinking himself drunk, in
his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings
with him, who were come tc help him.

17 And the servants of the princes of
the provinces went out first. And Bena-
dad sent. And they told him, saying;
There are men come out of Samaria.

18 And he said: Whether they come for
peace, take them alive : or whether they
come to fight, take them alive.

19 So the servants of the princes of the
provinces went out, and the rest of the
army followed :

20 And every one slew the man that
came against him: and the Syrians fled,
and Israel pursued after them. And
Benadad king of Syria fled away on
horseback with his horsemen.

21 But the king of Israel going out
overthrew the horses and chariots, and
slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

22 (And a prophet coming to the king
Oi Israel, said to him : Go, and strengthen
thyself, and know, and see what thou
dost : for the next year the king of Syria
will come up against thee.)

23 But the servants of the king of Syria
said to him : Their gods are gods of the
hills, therefore they have overcome us :
but it is better that we should fight
against them in the plains, and we shall
overcome them.

24 Do thou therefore this thing : Re-
move all the kings from thy army, and
put captains in their stead :

25 And make up the number of soldiers
that have been slain of thine, and
horses according to the former horses,
and chariots according to the chariots
which thou hadst before : and we will
fight against them in the plains, and
thou Shalt see that we shall overcome
them. He believed their counsel and
did so.

26 Wherefore at the return of the year,
Benadad mustered the Syrians, and went
up to Aphec, to fight against IsraeL

27 And the children of Israel were mus-

tered, and taking victuals went out on
the other side, and camped over against
them, like two httle flocks of goats : but
the Syrians filled the land.

28 (And a man of God coming, said to
the king of Israel : Thus saith the Lord :
Because the Syrians have said : The
Lord is God of the hills, but is not God
of the valleys : I will deliver all this
great multitude into thy hand, and you
shall know that I am the Lord.)

29 And both sides set their armies in
array one against the other seven days,
and on the seventh day the battle was
fought: and the children of Israel slew
of the Syrians a hundred thousand foct-
men in one day,

30 And they that remained fled to
Aphec, into the city : and the wall fell
upon seven and twenty thousand men,
that were left. And Benadad fleeing
went into the city, into a chamber that
was within a chamber.

31 And his servants said to him: Be-
hold, wo have heard that the kings of
the house of Israel are merciful : so let
us put sackcloth on oui loins, and ropea
on our heads, and go out to the king of
Israel : perhaps he will save our lives.

32 So they girded sackcloth on their
loins, and put ropes on their heads, and
came to the king of Israel, and said to
him : Thy servant Benadad saith : I be-
seech thee let me have my life. And he
said : If he be yet alive he is my brother,

33 The men took this for a sign : and
in haste caught the word out of his
mouth, and said : Thy brother Benadad.
And he said to them : Go, and bring him
to me. Then Benadad came out to him,
and he lifted him up into his chariot.

34 And he said to him : The cities
which my father took from thy father,
I will restore : and do thou make thee
streets in Damascus, as my father made
in Samaria, and having made a league
I will depart from thee. So he made a
league with him, and let him go.

35 Then a certain man of the sons of
the prophets said to his companion in
the word of the Lord : Strike me. But
ha would not strike»

36 Then he said to him : Because thou
wouldst not hearken to the word of the
Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me,

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prophet reproves Achah

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Nahoih stoned to death

(1 & lion shall slay thee. And ';Fben
was gone a little from him, a lion
ind him, and slew him.

7 Then he found another man, and said
him: Strike me. And he struck him,
d wounded him.

8 So the prophet went, and met the
ag in the way, and disguised himself

sprinkling dust on his face and his
es.

£ And as the king passed by, he cried
the king, and said : Thy servant went
t to fight hand to hand ; and when a
rtain man was run away, one brought
n to me, and said : Keep this man: and
he shall slip away, thy life shall be for
3 life, or thou shalt pay a talent of
ver

0 And whilst I in a hurry turned this
ly and that, on a sudden he was not to

seen. And the king of Israel said to
ai : This is thy judgment, which thyself
st decreed.

1 But he forthwith wiped off the dust
)m his face., and the king of Israel knew
n, that he was one of the prophets.

2 And h o siid to him : Thus sa^th the
•rd : Because thou hast let go out of thy
nd a mcin ';vorthy of death, thy life
all be for his life, and thy people for

3 people.

3 And the king of Israel returned to his
use, slighting to hear, and raging came
tio Samaria.

CHAPTER 21.

'Jbothffor denying his vineyard to king Achah^ is
>y JezabeVs commandment^ falsely accused and
toned to death. For which crime Elias denoun-
eth to Achab the judgments of God : upon his huwy
ling himself the sentence is mitigated.

IND after these things, Naboth the
Ix Jezrahelite, who was in Jezrahel,
Pd at that time a vineyard near the
] lace of Acbab king of Samaria.

And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying :
< ve me thy vineyard, that I may make
13 a garden of herbs, because it is nigh,
s d adjoining to ray house, and I will give
lee for it a better vineyard : or if thou
link it more convenient for thee, I wiU
|ve th: e the worth of it in money.

Naboth answered him: The Lord be
l3rciful to me, and not let me give thee
ie inheritance of my fathers.

And Achab came into his house angry

anr^ fretting, because olf the word that
Naooth the Jezrahelite had spoken tc
him, saying : I will not give thee the in-
heritance of my fathers. And casting
himself upon his bed, he turned away his
face to the wall, and would eat no bread.
6 And Jezabel his wife went in to him,
and said to him : What is the matter that
thy soul is so grieved ? and why eatest
thou no bread ?

6 And he answered her : I spoke to Na-
both the Jezrahelite, and said to him :
Give me thy vineyard, and take money
for it : or if it please thee, I will give
thee a better vineyard for it. And he
said : I will not give thee my vineyard.

7 Then Jezabel his wife said to him:
Thou art of great authority indeed, and
governest well the kingdom of Israel.
Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer,
I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth
the Jezrahelite.

8 So she wrote letters in Achab's name,
and sealed them with his ring, and sent
them to the ancients, and the chief men
that were in his city, and that d^7elt witli
Naboth.

9 And this was the tenor of the letters:
Proclaim a fast, a,nd make Naboth sit
among the chief of the people,

10 And suborn two men, sons of Belial
against him, and let them bear false wit-
ness : that he hath blasphemed God and
the king: and then carry him out, and
stone him, and so let him die.

11 And the men of his city, the ancients
and nobles, that dwelt with him in the
city, did as jezabel had commanded them,
and as it was written in the letters which
she had sent to them :

12 They jproclaimed a fast, and made
Naboth sit among the chief of the people.

13 And bringing two men, sons of the
devil, they made them sit against him:
and they, like men of the devil, bore wit-
ness against him before the people, say-
ing: Naboth hath blasphemed God and
the king: wherefore they brought him
forth without the city, and stoned him to
death.

14 And they sent to Jezabel, saying:
Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

15 And it came to pass when Jezabel
heard that Naboth was stoned, and dead,
that she said to Achab : Arise and take

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possession of the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezrahelite, who would not agree with
thee, and give it thee for money: for
Naboth is not alive, but dead.

16 And when Achab heard this, to wit,
that Naboth was dead, he arose, and went
down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jez-
rahelite, to take possession of it.

17 And the word of the Lord came to
Elias the Thesbite, saying:

18 Arise, and go down to meet Achab
king of Israel, who is in Samaria: behold
he is going down to the vineyard of Na-
both, to take possession of it :

19 And thou shalt speak to him, saying:
Thus saith the Lord : Thou hast alain,
moreover also thou hast taken possession.
And after these words thou shalt add:
Thus saith the Lord: ''In this place.
Wherein the dogs have licked the blood
of Naboth, they shall lick thy blood also.

20 And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou
found me thy enemy ? He said : I have
found thee, because thou art sold, to do
evil in the sight of the Lord.

21 * Behold I will bring evil upon thee,
and I will cut down thy posterity, and I
will kill of Achab him that pisseth against
the wall, and him that is shut up, and the
last in Israel.

22 And I will mako thy house like the '
house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and
like the house of " Baasa the son of Ahias:
for what thou hast done, to provoke me
to anger, and for making Israel to sin.

23 ^ And of Jezabel also the Lord spoke,
saying : The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the
field of Jezrahel.

24 If Achab die in the city, the dogs
shall eat him : but if he die in the field,
the birds of the air shall eat hjpa.

25 Now there was not such another as
Achab, who was sold to do evil in the
sight of the Lord: for his wife Jezabel
set him on,

26 And he became abominable, insomuch
that he followed the idols which the
Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord
destroyed before the face of the children
of Israel.

27 And when Achab had heard these
words, he rent his garments, and put
haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted and

r Infra 22. 38. — s 4 Kings 9. 8. — i Supra 15. 29.
u Supra 16. 3.

Chap. 21. Ver. 20, Sold, to do evil in the sight,
iC Tbat is. so addicted to evi/ as if thou hadst

slept in sackcloth, and walked with hig
head cast down.

28 And the word of the Lord came to
Elias the Thesbite, saying :

29 Hast thou not seen Achab humbled
before me? therefore, because he hath
humbled himself for my sake, I will not
bring the evil in his days, ^ but in hie
son's days will I bring the evil upon his
house.

CHAPTER 22. ;■

Achab believing his false prophets rather than
Micheas, is slain in Jtamoth Galaad. Ochozias
succeedeth him. dood king Josaphat dieth, and
his son Joram succeedeth him.

AND ^ there passed three years with»
. out war between Syria and Israel,

2 And in the third year, Josaphat king
of Juda came down to the king of h-
raol.

3 (And the king of Israel said to his
servants: Know yo not that Ramoth
Galaad if} ours, and we neglect to take it
out of the hand of the king of Syria ?)

■1 Ancl he said to Josaphat : Wilt then
come with me to battle to Ramoth
Galatcd i

6 And Josaphat said to the king of Is-
raol: Ac 1 am, so art jhou: my people
and iihy people are one ? and my horse-
men, thy horsemen. And Josaphau said
to the king of Israe!! : Inquire, I beseech
thee, this day, the word of the Lord,

6 Then the king of Israel assembled the L
prophetCi about four hundred men^ and
ho said to them : Shall I go to Ramoth
Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They
answered : Go up, and the Lord will de-
liver it into the hand of the king.

7 And Josaphat said: Is there not here
some prophet of the Lord, that we may
inquire by him ?

8 And the king of Israel said to Josa-
phat : There is one man left, by whom
we may inquire of the Lord : Micheas |
the son of Jemla; but I hate him, for he
doth not prophesy good to me, but evil
And Josaphat said : Speak not so, 0
king.

9 Then the king of Israel called aD
eunuch, and said to him: Make hastei
and bring hither Micheas the son oi
Jemla.

V 4 Kings 9. 36. — tr 4 Kings 9. 26.
X 2 Par. 18. 1

sold thyself to the devil, to be his slave to work aD
kinds of evil.

382

^rophecy of Micheas

3 KINGS

Micheas is put in prison

10 Then the 1 Ag of Israel, and Josa-
hat king of Juda, sat each on his throne
lothed with royal robes, in a court by
le entrance of the gate of Samaria, and
U the prophets prophesied before them.

11 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana
lade himself horns of iron, and said:
hus saith the Lord: With these shalt
lou push Syria, till thou destroy it.

12 And all the prophets prophesied in
e manner, saying: Go up to Ramoth

alaad, and prosper, for the Lord will
aiiver it into the king's hands.

3 And the messenger, that went to
11 Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Be-

3ld the words of the prophets with one
outh declare good things to the king :
t thy word therefore be like to theirs,
id speak that which is good.

4 But Micheas said to him: As the
>rd liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall
y to me, that will I speak.

6 So he came to the king, and the king
id to him : Micheas, shall we go to
imoth G alaad to battle, or shall we for-
►ar ? He answered him : Go up, and
osper, and the Lord shall deliver it
to the king's hands.

6 But the king said to him : I adjure
ee again and again, that thou tell me
thing but that which is true in the
-me of the Lord.

7 And he said : I saw all Israel scat-
red upon the hills, like sheep that have

shepherd: ^and the Lord said : These
ve no master : let every man of them
)urn to his house in peace.

(Then the king of Israel said to Josa-
at: Did I not tell thee, that he pro-

Iesieth no good to me, but always
il?)
9 And he added and said : Hear thou
arefore the word of the Lord : I saw
I Lord sitting on his throne, and all
) army of heaven standing ^by him
the right hand and on the left:
►^And the Lord said: Who shall de-

y Num. 27. 17 ; Matt. 9. 36. — g Joel 1. 6.

HAP. 22. Ver. 15. Go up, &c. This was spoken
iically, and by way of jesting at the flattering
eches of the false prophets : and so the king
lerstood it, as appears >^y his adjuring Micheas,
he followfcg verse, to .^il him the truth in the
ae of the Lord.

<er.20. The Lord said, &c. God standeth not in
id of any counsellor ; nor are we to suppose that
«igs pass in heaven in the manner here described:
D this representation was made to the prophet, to
D lelivered by him in a manner adapted to the com-
■ 3 ways and 'motions c f men.

ceive Achab king of Israel, that he may
go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad ? And
one spoke words of this manner, and
another otherwise.

21 And there came forth a spirit, and
stood before the Lord, and said : I will
deceive him. And the Lord said to him :
By what means ?

22 And he said: I will go forth, and be
a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And the Lord said : Thou
shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail : " go
forth, and do so.

23 Now therefore behold the Lord hath
given a lying spirit in the mouth of al)
thy prophets that are here, and the Lord
hath spoken evil against thee.

24 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana
came, and struck Micheas on the cheek,
and said: Hath then the spirit of the
Lord left me, and spoken to thee ?

25 And Micheas said: Thou shalt see
in the day when thou shalt go into a
chamber within a chamber to hide thy-
self.

26 And the king of Israel said : Take
Micheas, and let him abide with Ammon
the governor of the city, and with Joas
the son of Amalech.

27 And tell them: Thus saith the king:
Put this man in prison, and feed him with
bread of affliction, and water of distress,
till I return in peace.

28 And Micheas said : If thou retn ?n in
peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me.
And he said : Hear, all ye people.

29 So the king of Israel, and Josaphat
king of Juda went up to Ramoth Ga-
laad.

30 And the king of Israel said to Josa-
phat : Take armour, and go into the bat-
tle, and put on thy own garments. But
the king of Israel changed his dress, and
went into the battle.

31 And the king of Syria had commanded
the two and thirty captains of the chariots,
saying : You shall not fight against any.

a Vide Matt 8. 32, and Apoc. 20. 3.

Ver. 22. Go forth, and do so. This was not a com-
mand, but a permission: for God never ordaineth
lies ; though he often permitteth the lying spirit to
deceive those who love not the truth. 2 Thess. 2. 10.
And in this sense it is said in the following verse,
The Lord hath given a lying spirit in the mouth of
all thy prophets.

Ver. 25. Go into a chamber, &c. This happened
when he heard the king was slain, and justly appre
bended that he should be punished for his false pro
phecy.

383

Achah is slain

3 KINGS

The reign of Josaphai

small or great, but against the king of
Israel only.

32 So when the captains of the chariots
saw Josaphat, they suspected that he was
the king of Israel, and making a violent
assault they fought against him : and
Josaphat cried out.

33 And the captains of the chariots per-
ceived that he was not the king of Israel,
and they turned away from him.

34 And a certain man bent his bow,
shooting at a venture, and chanced to
strike the king of Israel between the lungs
and the stomach. But he said to the
driver ot his chariot: Turn thy band, and
carry me out of the army, for I am griev-
ously wounded.

35 And the battle was fought that day,
and the king of Israel stood in his chariot
against the Syrians, and he died in the
evening: and the blood ran out of the
wound into the midst of the chariot.

36 And the herald proclaimed through
all the army before the sun set, saying :
Let every man return to his own city,
and to his own country.

37 And the king died, ^ and was carried
into Samaria: and they buried the king
in Samaria.

38 ° And they washed his chariot in the
pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up
his blood, and they washed the reins,
according to the word of the Lord which
he had spoken.

39 But the rest of the acts of Achab, and
all that he did, and the house of ivory
that he made, and all the cities that he
built, are they not written in the book
of the words of the days of the kings of
Israel ?

40 So Achab slept with his fathers, and
Ochozias his son reigned in his stead.

41 But Josaphat the son of Asa began
to reign over Juda in the fourth year of
^ Achab king of Israel.

42 He was five and thirty years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
five and twenty years in Jerusalem : the

6 B. C. 853. — c Supra 21, 19.
dB. C. 870. — e A. M. 3108.

Ver. 44. He took not away, &c. He left some of
the his^h places, viz., those in which they worshipped
the true God: but tof)l< away all others, 2 Par. 17. 6,
imd aote ver. U of chap. 15. 3 Kings.

name of his mother was Azuba the daugh-
ter of Salai.

43 And he walked in all the way of Asa
his father, and he declined not from it:
and he did that which was right in the
sight of the Lord.

44 Nevertheless he took not away the
high places : for as yet the people offered
sacrifices and burnt incense in the high
places.

45 And Josaphat had peace with the
king of Israel,

46 But the rest of the acts of Josaphat,
and his works which he did, and his bat-
tles, are they not written in the book of
the words of the days of the kings of
Juda?

47 And the remnant also of the effemi-
nate, who remained in the days of Asa hit
father, he took out of the land.

48 And there was then no king appointed
in Edom.

49 * But king Josaphat made navies OQ
the sea, to sail into Ophir for gold : but
thej^ could not go, «^for the ships were
broken in Asiongaber.

60 Then Ochozias the son of Achab said
to Josaphat : Let my servants go with thy
servants in the ships. And Josaphat
would not.

61 And ^ Josaphat slept with his fathers,
and was buried with them in the city of
David his father: and Joram his sob
reigned in his stead.

62 And Ochozias the son of Achab be-
gan to reign over Israel in Samaria, in
the seventeenth year of ^ Josaphat king
of Juda, and he reigned over Israel two
years,

63 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, and walked in the way of his father
and his mother, and in the way of Jero-
boam the 3on of Nabat, who made Israel
to sin.

54 He served also Baal, and worshipped
him, and provoked the Lord the Go-i of
Israel, according to all that his father
had done.

/2 Par. 20. 36.— i/ B. C. 848.
h B. C. 853.

Ver. 50. Would not. He had been reprehended
before for admitting such a partner : and therefore
would have no more to do with liini.

384

chozias consults Beelzebub

Elias brings fire from heaven

THB

FOURTH BOOK OF KINGS.

CHAPTER 1.

hozias aendeth to considt Beelzebub: Elias fore-
elleth his death : and causeth Jire to come down
rom heaven^ upon two captains and their com-
yanies.

iND Moab rebelled against Israel,
\. after the death of Achab.
I And OchoKias fell through the lattices
I his upper chamber which he had in
[maria, and was sick : and he sent mes-
iQgers, saying to them: Go, consult
] elzebub, the god of Accaron, whether
]i hall recover of this my illness.

And an angel of the Lord spoke to
Jias the Thesbite, saying : Arise, and go

I to meet the messengers of the king
i Samaria, and say to them : Is there

I I a God in Israel, that ye go to consult
1 elzebub the god of Accaron?

; Wherefore thus saith the Lord : From
t3 bed, on which thou art gone up, thou
oilt not come down, but thou shalt
8:ely die. And Elias went away.

And the messengers turned back to
(hozias. And he said to them: Why
5) you come back?

But they answered him : A man met
t and said to us : Go, and return to the
i ig, that sent you, and you shall say to
ta: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because
t)TQ was no God in Israel that thou
Oldest to Beelzebub the god of Acca-
n? Therefore thou shalt not come
d«rn from the bed, on which thou art
gie up, but thou shalt surely die.

And he said to them: What manner
r»man was he who met you, and spoke
I' ise words?

I But they said: A hairy man with a
gdle of leather about his loins. And he
Bi: It is Elias the Thesbite.

And he sent to him a captain of fifty,
ii the fifty men that were under him.
/d he went up to him, and as he was
ffiingon the top of a hill, said to him:

13AP. 1. Ver. 10. Let fire, &c. Elias was
It ured to call for fire from heaven upon these cap-
K s, who came to apprehend him ; not out of a
fl; re to gratify any private passion; but to punish
t msult offered to religion, to confirm his mission.

Man of God, the Mng hath commanded
that thou come down.

10 And Elias answering, said to the
captain of fifty : If I be a man of God,
let fire come down from heaven, and
consume thee, and thy fifty. And there
came down fire from heaven, and con-
sumed him, and the fifty that were with
him.

11 And again he sent to him another
captain of fifty men, and his fiftj with
him. And he said to him : Man of God,
thus saith the king: Make haste and
come down.

12 Elias answering, said : If I be a man
of God, let fire come down from heaven,
and consume thee and thy fifty. And
fire came down from heaven, and con
sumed him and his fifty.

13 Again he sent a third captain of fifty
men, and the fifty that were with him.
And when he was come, he fell upon his
knees, before Elias, and besought him
and said: Man of God, despise not my
life, and the lives of thy servants that
are with me.

14 Behold fire came down from heaven,
and consumed the two first captains of
fifty men, and the fifties that were with
them: but now I beseech thee to spare
my life.

15 And the angel of the Lord spoke to
Elias, saying: Go down with him, fear
not. He arose therefore, and went down
with him to the king,

16 And said to him: Thus saith the
Lord : Because thou hast sent messengers
to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron,
as though there were not a God in Israel,
of whom thou mightest inquire the word ;
therefore from the bed on which thou
art gone up, thou shalt not come down,
but thou shalt surely die.

17 So he died according to the word of

and to shew how vain are the efforts of men against
God, and his servants, whom he willeth to protect.

Ver. 17, The second year of Joram, &c. Counted
from the time that he was associated i^o the throne
by his father Josaphat,

385

Eliseus refuses to leave Elias 4 KINGS Elias taken up in the fiery charic

Che L<n»d which Elias spoke, and Joram
his brother reigned in liis stead, in the
second ^ year of Joram the son of Josa-
phat king of Juda: because he had no
Bon.

18 But the rest of the acts of Ochozias
which he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Israel ?

CHAPTER 2.

Eliseus vdll not part from Elias. The water of the
Jordan is divided by Elias^s cloak. Elias is taken
up in a fiery chariot, and his double spirit is given
to Eliseus. Eliseus healeth the waters by casting
in salt. Boys are torn by bears for mocking Elis-
eus.
A ND it came to pass, when the Lord

XX would take up Elias into heaven by

a whirlwind, that Elias and EUseus were

going from Galgal.

2 And Elias said to Eliseus: Stay thou
here, because the Lord hath sent me as
far as Bethel. And Eliseus said to him :
As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee. And when they
were come down to Bethel,

3 The sons of the prophets, that were
at Bethel, came forth to EUseus, and said
to him: Dost thou know that this day
the Lor;d will take away thy master from
thee ? And he answered : I also know it :
hold your peace.

4 And EUas said to Eliseus : Stay here
because the Lord hath sent me to Jericho.
And he said : As the Lord liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.
And when they were come to Jericho,

6 The sons of the prophets that were at
Jericho, came to EUseus, and said to
him: Dost thou know that this day the
Lord will take away thy master from
thee? And he said: I also know it: hold
your peace.

6 And Elias said to him: Stay here, be-
cause the Lord hath sent me as far as
the Jordan. And he said : As the Lord
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not
leave thee; and they two went on to-
gether,

7 And fifty men of the sons of the pro-
phets followed them, and stood in sight

at a distance : but they two stood by thi
Jordan.

8 And Elias took his mantle and folded^ ^
it together, and struck the waters, anc
they were divided hither and thither, anc'
they both passed over on dry ground.

9 And when they were gone over, Eliai*
said to Eliseus : Ask what thou wilt hav('
me to do for thee, before I be taker
away from thee. And EUseus said^ I be
seech thee that in me may be thy doubl<'
spirit. f'

10 And he answered: Thou hast askec^"^
a hard thing: nevertheless if thou sed'
me when I am taken from thee, thoil^
shalt have what thou hast asked : but "
thou see me not, thou shalt not have i

11 And as they went on, walking
talking together, behold a fiery ch
and fiery horses parted them both as
der: ^ and EUas went up by a whirl
into heaven.

12 And EUseus saw him, and cried :
father, my father, the chariot of Is;
and the driver thereof. And he saw
no more : and he took hold of his o:
garments, and rent them in two pieo

13 And he took up the mantle ^i E
that feU from him: and going back,
stood upon the bank of the Jordan,

14 And he struck the waters with
mantle of EUas, that had fallen from
and they were not divided. And he s
Where is now the God of Elias? And
struck the waters, and they were divide
hither and thither, and EUseus pase^
over.

15 And the sons of the prophets
Jericho, who were over against hii
seeing it said: The spirit of Elias ha
rested upon EUseus. And coming to me
him, they worshipped him, falUng to tl
ground,

16 And they said to him : Behold, the
are with thy servants fifty strong me
that can go, and seek thy master, le
perhaps the spirit of the Lord hath tak<
him up and cast him upon some mounta
or into some valley. And he said : I
not send.

j B. C. 852.

Chap. 2. Ver. 1. Heaven. By heaven Jiere is
tieant the air, the lowest of the heavenly regions.

V«r. 3. The sons of the propfiets. That is, the
lisciples of the prophets ; who seem to have had
their schools, like colleges or communities, in
Bethel, Jericho, and other places in the days of
Elias and Eliseus.

I Eccli. 48. 13 ; 1 Mac. 2. 58.

Ver. 9. Double spirit. A double portion of
smrit, as thy eldest son and heir : or thy spirit wi
is double in comparison of that which God usu;
imparteth to his prophets. ,

Ver 15. They worshipped htm. Viz., witn an
ferior, yet religious veneration, uot for any tempo!
but spiritual excellency.

386

sens heals the waters

4 KINGS

TJie kings consult EUseiis

But they pressed him, till he con-
ted, and said: Send. And they sent

men: and they sought three days
found him not.

And they came back to him: for he
jde at Jericho, and he said to them:
I not say to you: Do not send?
And the men of the city said to Elis-

Behold the situation of this city is

good, as thou, my lord, seest: but
waters are very bad, and the ground
•en.

And he said: Bring me a new vessel,
put salt into it. And when they had
ight it.

He went out to the spring of the
rs, and cast the salt into it, and said :
s saith the Lord: I have healed these
irs, and there shall be no more in
a death or barrenness.
And the waters were healed unto
day, according to the word of Elis-
which he spoke.

And he went up from thence to Beth-
md as he was going up by the way,

boys come out of the city and
:ed him, saying: Go up, thou bald
; go up, thou bald head.
And looking back he saw them, and
id them in the name of the Lord:
there came forth two bears out of
forest, and tore of them two and

boys.
And from thence he went to mount
lel, and from thence he returned to
iria.

CHAPTER 3

Mngs of Israel, Juda and Edom, fight
mst the king of Moab. They want water,
\ch Eliseus procureth without rain : and
phesieth victory. The king of Moab is over-
own, his city is besieged: he sacriflceth his
t6orn son: so the Israelites raise the siege.

D Joram the son of Achab reigned
)ver Israel in Samaria in the eight-
year ofm Josaphat king of Juda.
he reigned twelve years.
nd he did evil before the Lord, but
ke his father and his mother: for he
away the statues of Baal, which his
r had made.

evertheless he stuck to the sins of
cam the son of Nabat, who made

TO B. C. 852.

.24. Cursed them. This curse, which

oijowed by so visible a judgment of God,

qt the effect of passion, or of a desire of

J^E^ing himself; but of zeal for religion,

Israel to sin, nor did he depart from
them.

4 Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished
many sheep, and he paid to the king of
Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a
hundred thousand rams with their fleeces.

5 And when Achab was dead, he broke
the league which he had made with the
king of Israel.

6 And king Joram went out that day
from Samaria, and mustered all Israel.

I 7 And he sent to Josaphat king of Juda,
saying: The king of Moab is revolted

'from me, come with me against him to
battle. And he answered: I will come
up: he that is mine, is thine: my people,
thy people: and my horses, thy horses.

8 And he said: Which way shall we go
up? But he answered: By the desert of
Edom.

9 So the king of Israel, and the king of
Juda, and the king of Edom went, and
they fetched a compass of seven days*
journey, and there was no water for the
army, and for the beasts, that followed
them.

10 And the king of Israel said: Alas,
alas, alas, the Lord hath gathered us
three kings together, to deliver us into
the hands of Moab!

11 And Josaphat said: Is there not here
a prophet of the Lord, that we may be-
seech the Lord by him? And one of the
servants of the king of Israel answered:
Here is Eliseus the son of Saphat, who
poured water on the hands of Elias.

12 And Josaphat said: The word of the
Lord is with him. And the king of Israel,
and Josaphat king of Juda, and the king
of Edom went down to him.

13 And Eliseus said to the king of Israel:
What have I to do with thee? go to the
prophets of thy father, and thy mother.
And the king of Israel said to him: Why
hath the Lord gathered together these
three kings, to deliver them into the
hands of Moab ?

14 And Eliseus said to him: As the
Lord of hosts liveth, in whose sight I
stand, if I did not reverence the face of
Josaphat king of Juda, I would not have
hearkened to thee, nor looked on thee.

of the prophet ; and of a divine inspiration :
God punishing in this manner the inhabitants of
Bethel, (the chief seat of the calf worship,)
who had trained up their children in a pr^u-

il< wa«iiT,«7iifoH'K^+v.«o^ K '^ /ui leiigion, wno naa trained up their children in a preju-
was insulted by these boys, in the person | dice against the true religion and its ministers.

387

The Moahites are defeated

15 But now bring me hither a minstrel.
And when the minstrel played, the hand
of the Lord came upon him, <and he said :

16 Thus saith the Lorcl: Make the chan-
nel of this torrent full of ditches.

17 For thus saith the Lord: You shall
not see wind, nor rain: and yet this
channel shall be filled with waters, and
you shall drink, you anc!. your families,
and your beasts.

18 And this is a small thing in the sight
of the Lord: moreover he will deliver
also Moab into your hands.

19 And you shall destroy every fenced
city, and every choice city, and shall cut
down every fruitful tree, and shall stop
up all the springs of waters, and every
goodly field you shall cover with stones.

20 And it came to pass in the morning,
when the sacrifices used to be offered,
that behold, water camc; by the way of
Edom, and the country was filled with
water.

21 And all jhcj Moabites hearing that the
kings were some up to fight against them,
gathered together all that were girded
with a belt upon them, and stood in the
borders.

22 And they rose early in the morning,
and the sun being now up, and shining
upon the waters, the Moabites saw the
waters over against them red, like blood,

23 And they said: It is the blood of the
sword : the kings have fought among
themselves, and they have killed one
another: go now, Moab, to the spoils.

24 And they went into the camp of Is-
rael : but Israel rising up defeated Moab,
who fled before them. And they being
conquerors, went and smote Moab.

25 And they destroyed the cities : and
they filled every goodly field, every man
casting his stone : and they stopt up all
the springs of waters : and cut down all
the trees that bore fruit, so that brick
walls only remained : and the city was
beset by the slingers, and a great part
thereof destroyed.

26 And when the king of Moab saw this,
to wit, that the enemies had prevailed,
he took with him seven hundred men
that drew the sword, to break in upon
the king of Edom : but they could not.

27 Then he took his eldest son that

4 KINGS

Eliseus multiplies the oil

should have reigned "w his stead, and of-
fered him for a burnt offering upon the
wall : and there was great indignation ii
Israel, and presently they departed from
him, and returned into their own country

CHAPTER 4.

Miracles of Eliseus. He raiseth a dead chUd '
life.

I^OW a certain woman of the wive:
±M of the prophets cried to Eliseus, say'
ing: Thy servant my husband is dead,
and thou knowest that thy servant was
one that feared God, and behold the
creditor is com^ to take away my two sons
to serve him.

2 And Ehseus said to her : What wilt
thou have me to do for thee ? Tell me,
what hast thou in thy house ? And she
answered : I thy handmaid have nothing
in my house but a little oil, to anoint me

3 And he said to her : Go, borrow of all
thy neighbour:; empty vessels not a few.

4 And go in, and shut thy door, when
thou art within, and thy sons : and poor
out thereof into all those vessels: and
when they are full take them away.

6 So the woman went, and shut the door
upon her, and upon her sons: they brought
her the vessels, and she poured in.

6 And when the vessels were full, she
said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel
And he answered : I have no more. And
the oil stood.

7 And she came, and told the man of
God. And he said : Go, sell the oil, and
pay thy creditor : and thou and thy songjt,
live of the rest.

8 And there was a day when Eli
passed by Sunam : now there was a great
woman there, who detained him to eal
bread ; and as he passed often that
he turned into her house to eat bread..

9 And she said to her husband : I
ceive that this is a holy man of God,
often passeth by us.

10 Let us therefore make him a liti
chamber, and put a little bed in it for
and a table, and a stool, and a candl
stick, that when he cometh to us, he ma,
abide there.

11 Now there was a certain day
he came and turned in to the chaml
and rested there.

Coat. 3. Ver. 25. Brick walls only remained. It was the proper name of the capital city of ttt

Moabites In Hebrew, Kir-Haraseth,

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'liseus* promise to the Sunamitess 4 KINGS Eliseus raises the child to life

.2 And he said to Giezi his servant :
all this Sunamitess. And when he had
illed her, and she stood before him,
il3 He said to his servant: Say to her :
Bhold thou hast dihgently served us in
1 thingSj what wilt thou have me to do
•r thee? hast thou any business, and
ilt thou that I speak to the king, or to
e general of the army ? And she an-
gered : I dwell in the midst of my own
jople,

4 And he said : What will she then that
io for her? And Giezi said: Do not
k, for she hath no son, and her hus-
nd is old.

5 Then he bid him call her : And when
le was called, and stood before the door,

6 He said to her: At this time, and this
me hour, if life accompany, thou shalt
ve a son in thy womb But she an-
ered : Do not, I beseech thee, my lord,
ou man of God, do not lie to thy hand-
lid.

7 And the woman conceivedj and
ought forth a son in the time, and at

same hour, that Eliseus had said.
3 And the child grew. And on a cer-
n day, when he went out to his father
the reapers,

? He said to his father : My hea<3 ach-
1, my head acheth. But he said to his
•vant : Take him, and carry him to his

i")ther.
) And when he had taken him, and
J)ught him to his mother, she set him

her knees until noon, and then he
'd.
L And she went up and laid him upon

bed of the man of God, and shut the
5r : and going out,

She called her husband, and said:
id with me, I beseech thee, one of thy
vants, and an ass that I may run to
I man of God, and come again.

And he said to her : Why dost thou
to him? to day is neither new moon

sabbath. She answered : I will go

And she saddled an ass, and com-
nded her servant: Drive, and make

^^' 1* ^®^- ^- 'Salute him not. He that is
to raise to life the sinner spiritually dead, must
suffer himself to be called off, or diverted from
enterprise, by the salutations or ceremonlGS of
world.

itc 31. St. Augustine considers a great mystery
us miracle wrought by the prophet Eliseus, thu;i:
; ne staff sent by his servant is figured the rod Oi
» es or the ow Law. whicli was not sufQcient to

haste, make no stay in going. And do
that which I bid thee.

25 So 3he went forward, and came to the
man of God to mount Carmel: and when
the man of God saw her coming towards,
he said to Giezi his servant : Behold that
Sunamitess.

26 Go therefore to meet her, and say to
her . Is all well with thee, and with thy
husband, and with thy son ? and she an-
swered : WelL

27 And when she came to the man of
God to the mount, she cauglit hold on his
feet: and Giezi came to remove her
A nd the man of God said : Let her alone
for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord
hath hid it from me, and hath not told
me.

28 And she said to Mm : Did I ask a eon
oi my lord? did jl not say to thee: Do
not deceive me ?

29 Then he said to Giezi : Gird up thy
loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and
go. If any man meet thee, salute him
not : and if any man salute thee, answer
him not : 3nd lay my staff upon the face
of the child.

30 But the mother of the child said : As
the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I
win not leave thee. He arose, therefore,
and followed her.

31 But Giezi was gone before them, and
laid the staff upon the face of the child,
and there was no voice nor sense: and
he returned to meet him, and told him,
saying : The child is not risen.

32 Eliseus therefore went into the house
and behold the child lay dead on his bed!

33 And going in he shut the door upon
him, and upon the child, and prayed to
the Lord.

34 And he went up, and lay upon the
child: and he put his mouth upon his
mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and
his hands upon his hands : and he bowed
himself upon him, and the child's flesh
grew warmo

36 Then he returned and walked in the
house, once to and fro : and he went up,

bring manlcind to life then dead in sin. It was ne.
cessary that Christ himself should come, and by tak.
mg m human nature, become flesh of our flesh, and
restor». us to life. In this Eliseus was a figure of
Christ, as it wan necessary that he should come him-
sell to bring the dead child to life and restore him to
nis mother, who is here, in a mystical sense.a figure
of the Gburcli,

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4 KINGS

Naaman visits Elisei

and lay upon him : and the child gaped
^even times, and opened his eyes.

36 And he called Giezi, and said to him:
Call this Sunamitess. And she being
called, went in to him: and he said:
Take up thy son.

37 She came and fell at his !eet, and
worshipped upon the ground : and took
up her son, and went out.

38 And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and
there was a famine in the land, and the
sons of the prophets dwelt before him.
And he said to one of his servants : Set
on the great pot, and boil pottage for the
80113 of the prophets.

39 And one went out into the field to
gather wild herbs : and he found some-
thing like a wild vine, and gathered of it
wild gourds of the field, and filled his
mantle, and coming back he shred them
into the pot of pottage, for he knew not
what it was.

40 And they poured it out for their
companions to eat : and when they had
tasted of the pottage, they cried out, say-
ing : Death is in the pot, O man of God.
And they could not eat thereof.

41 But he said: Bring some meal. And
when they had brought it, he cast it into
the pot, and said : Pour out for the peo-
ple, that they may eat. And therc; was
BOW no bitterness in th j pot.

42 And a certain man came from Baal-
saUsa bringing to the man of God bread
of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of bar-
ley, and new corn in his scrip. And he
said : Give to the people, that they may
eat.

43 And his servant answered him : How
Inuch is this, that I should set it before a
hundred men? He said again : Give to
the people, that they may eat : for thus
saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there
shall be left.

44 So he set it before them : and they
ate, and there was left according to the
word of the Lord.

CHAPTER 5.

Naaman the Syrian is cleansed of his leprosy. He
professeth his belief in one God, promising to serve
him. Giezi taketh gifts of Naaman^and is struck
with leprosy,

NAAMAN, general of the army of the
king of Syria, was a great man with
his master, and honourable : for by him

Ver. 39. Wild gourds of the field. Colocynthidas.
They are extremely bitter- and therefore ar» called

the Lord gave deliverance to Syria : ai
he was a valiant man and rich, but
leper.

2 Now there had gone out robbers fro
Syria, and had led away captive out
the land of Israel a little maid, and si
waited upon Naaman's wife.

3 And she said to her mistress : I wii
my master had been with the propht
that is in Samaria : he would certain
have healed him of the leprosy which
hath.

4 Then Naaman went in to his lord, ai
told him, saying : Thus and thus said tl
girl from the land of Israel.

6 And the king of Syria said to him : G
and I will send a letter to the king
Israel. And he departed, and took wi
him ten talents of silver, and six the
sand pieces of gold, and ten changes
raiment,

6 And brought the letter to the king i
Israel, in these words : When thou sh{
receive this letter, know that I have sej
to thee Naaman my servant, that th,
mayest heal him of his leprosy. I

7 And when the king of Israel had re I
the letter, he rent his garments, and sai;
Am I God, to be able to kill and give 11,
that this man hath sent to me, to hea
man of his leprosy ? mark, and see h(,
he seeketh occasions against me.

8 And when Eliseus the man of God h\
heard this, to wit, that the king of Isrjj
had rent his garments, he sent to hi)
saying: Why hast thou rent thy g;j
ments ? let him come to me, and let h
know that there is a prophet in Israel

9 So Naaman came with his horses a
chariots, and stood at the door of tj
house of Eliseus : j

10 And Eliseus sent a messenger to hi|
saying : Go, and wash seven times in 1 -
Jordan, and thy flesh shall recover heal ,
and thou shalt be clean.

11 Naaman was angry and went aw i
saying: I thought he would have co )
out to me, and standing would have •
voked the name of the Lord his God, i i
touched with his hand the place of 3
leprosy, and healed me.

12 Are not the Abana, and the PI
phar, rivers of Damascus, better than
the waters of Israel, that I may wasl
them, and be made clean? So as

the gall of the earth { aud are poisonous il take
a great quantity.

saaman cured of the leprosy 4 KINGS

Giezi stricken with leprosy

irned, and was going away with indig-
'ation,

13 His servants came to him, and said
) him: Father, if the prophet had bid
lee do some great thing, surely thou
louldst have done it: how much rather

^hat he now hath said to thee: Wash,
ad thou 3halt be clean ?

14 9 Then he went down, and washed in
le Jordan seven times : according to the
ord of the man of God, and his flesh was
38^ored, hke the flesh of a little child,
t\h he was made clean.

15 And returning to the man of God with
•11 his train, he came, and stood before
im, and said : In truth, I know there is
0 other God in all the earth, but only in
,rael: I beseech thee therefore take a
■iessing of thy servant.

16 But he answered: As the Lordliveth,
'efore whom I stand, I will receive none.

nd when he pressed him, he stiU refused.
'17 And Naaman said : As thou wilt: but
' beseech thee, grant to me thy servant,
b take from hence two mules' burden of
arth : for thy servant will not henceforth
ffer holocaust, or victim, to other gods,
•ut to the Lord.

18 But there is only this, for which thou
halt entreat the Lord for thy servant,
'hen my master goeth into the temple
•f Remmon, to worship: and he leaneth
pon my hand, if I bow down in the tem-
'le of Remmon, when he boweth down in
•le same place, that the Lord pardon me
hy servant for this thing.

19 And he said to him: Go in peace. So
« departed from him in the springtime
f the earth.

'20 But Giezi the servant of the man of
•odsaid: My master hath spared Naa-
lan this Syrian, in not receiving of him
'lat which he brought : as the Lord liv-
|jh, I will run after him, and take some
[ling of him :

\l\ And Giezi followed after Naaman:
bd when he saw him running after him,
1°. leapt down from his chariot to meet
m, and said: Is all well?
J2 And he said: Well: my master hath

q Luke 4. 27.

>Chap. 5. Ver. 15. A blessinr/. A present.
, Ver. 19. Go in peace. What the prophet here
lowed, was not an outward conformity to an Idola-
lous worship; but only a service which by his
nee he owed to his master : who on all public oc-
.sions leaned on him : so that his bowing down
Q3Q bis master bowed himself dows WjkS not in

sent me to thee, saying: Just now there
are come to me from mount Ephraim,
two young men of the sons of the pro-
phets: give them a talent of silver, and
two changes of garments.

23 And Naaman said: It is better that
thou take two talents. And he forced
him, and bound two talents of silver in two
bags, and two changes of garments, and
laid them upon two of his servants, and
they carried them before him.

24 And when he was come, and now it
was the evening, he took them from their
hands, and laid them up in the house, and
sent the men away, and they departed.

25 But he went in, and stood before his
master. And Eliseus said: Whence com-
est thou, Giezi? He answered: Thy ser-
vant went no whither.

26 But he said : Was not my heart pre-
sent, when the man turned back from
his chariot to meet thee? So now thou
hast received money, and received gar-
ments, to buy oliveyards, and vineyards,
and sheep, and oxen, and menservants,
and maidservants.

27 But the leprosy of Naaman shall also
stick to thee, and to thy seed for ever.
And he went out from him a leper as
white as snow.

CHAPTER 6.

Eliseus maketh Iron to sjcijn upon the tcater: hs
leudeth the JSyriarts that tvere sent to apprehend
him into Samaria, where their eyes being ojjened^
they are courteously entertained. The Syrians
besiege Samaria: the famine there causeth a ico-
man to eat her own child. Upon this the kUng
coinmandeth Eliseus to be put to death.

AND the sons of the prophets said to
. Eliseus : Behold the place where we
dwell with thee is too strait for us.

2 Let us go as far as the Jordan and take
out of the wood every man a piece of
timber, that we may build us there a place
to dwell in. And he said : Go.

3 And one of them said: But come thou
also with thy servants. He answered: I
will come.

4 So he went with them. And when
they were come to the Jordan they cut
down wood.

effect adoring the idols : nor was it so understood
by the standers by, since he publicly professed him.
self a worshipper of the only true and living God, but
it was no more than doing a civil office to the king
his master, whose leaning upon him obliged him to
bow at the same time that be bowed.

Ambush of the Syrians revealed 4 KINGS The Syrians besiege Samaria

6 And it happened, as one was felling
some timber, that the head of the axe fell
Into the water: and he cried out, and
Baid: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this
same was borrowed.

6 And the man of God said: Where did
it fall? and he shewed him the place.
Then he cut off a piece of wood, and cast
it in thither: and the iron swam.

7 And he said: Take it up. And he put
out his hand and took it.

8 And the king of Syria warred against
Israel, and took counsel with his servants,
saying: In such and such a place let us
lay ambushes.

9 And the man of God sent to the king
of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass
not to such a place: for the Syrians are
there in ambush.

10 And the king of Israel sent to the
place which the man of God had told him,
and prevented him, and looked well to
himself there not once nor twice.

11 And the heart of the king of Syria
was troubled for this thing. And calling
together his servants, he said: Why do
you not tell me who it is that betrays me
to the king of Israel?

12 And one of his servants said: No one,
my lord O king: but Ehseus the prophet,
that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel
all the words, that thou speakest in thy
privy chamber.

13 And he said to them: Go, and see
where he is: that I may send, and take
him. And they told him, saying: Behold
he is in Dothan.

14 Therefore he sent thither horses and
chariots, and the strength of an army:
and they came by night, and beset the
city.

15 And the servant of the man of God
rising early, went out, and saw an army
round about the city, and horses and
chariots: and he told him, saying: Alas,
alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do ?

16 But he answered: Fear not: for there
are more with us than with them.

17 And Eliseus prayed, and said: Lord,
open his eyes, that he may see. And the
Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and

Chap. 6. Ver. 18. Blindness. The blindness here
spoken of was of a particular kind, which hindered
them from seeing the objects that were really be-
fore them ; and represented other different objects
to their imagination: so that they no longer per-
ceived tbe city ol iX>UiaOi oor were able to know the

he saw: and behold the mountain was fulj
of horses, and chariots of fire round about
Eliseus.

18 And the enemies came down to him,
but Ehseus prayed to the Lord, saying:
Strike, I beseech thee, this people with
bUndness. And the Lord struck them
with bhndness, according to the word of
Ehseus.

19 And Ehseus said to them: This is not
the way, neither is this the city : folloT
me, and I will shew you the man whom
you seek. So he led them into Samaria.

20 And when they were come into Sa-
maria, Eliseus said : Lord, open the eyes
of these men, that they may see. And
the Lord opened their eyes, and they saw
themselves to be in the midst of Sama-
ria.

21 And the king of Israel said to Eliseui,
when he saw them : My father, shall I
kill them?

22 And he said : Thou shalt not kill
them : for thou didst not take them with
thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst
kill them: but set bread and water be-
fore them, that they may eat and drink,
and go to their master.

23 And a great provision of meats wai
set before them, and they ate and drank,
and he let them go, and they went awayl
to their master, and the robbers of Syria
came no more into the land of Israel

24 And it came to pass after these
things, that Benadad king of Syria gath
ered together all his army, and went up,
and besieged Samaria.

25 And there was a great famine in Sa-
maria: and so long did the siege con
tinue, till the head of an ass was sold for
fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth
part of a cabe of pigeon's dung, for five
pieces of silver.

26 And as the king of Israel was passing
by the wall, a certain woman cried out
to him, saying: Save me, my lord O king.

27 And he said : If the Lord doth nol
save thee, how can I save thee ? out ol
the barnfloor, or out of the winepress '
And the king said to her: What ailetl
thee ? And she answered :

person of Eliseus ; but were easily led by him, whon
they took to be another man, to Samaria. So tba
he truly told them, this is not the timy, neither is tM
the city, &c., because he spoke with relation to th
v>ay and to the dty^ which was represented t
them.

8»

(he Icing wishes .to kill Eliseus 4 KING S

Flight of the Syriwns

This woman said to me: Give thy
in, that we may eat him to day, and we
[1 eat my son tomorrow.

So we boiled my son, and ate him.
id I said to her on the next day: Give
y son that we may eat him. And she
ith hid her son.

;0 When the king heard this, he rent

s garments, and passed by upon the

all. And all the people saw the hair-

oth which he wore within next to his

-sh.

1 And the king said: May God do so
ad so to me, and may he add more, if the
/ad of Eliseus the son of Saphat shall
jand on him this day.

2 But Eliseus sat in his house, and the
acients sat with him. So he sent a man

fore: and before that messenger came,
; said to the ancients: Do you know

at this son of a murderer hath sent to
(t off my head? Look then, when the

essenger shall come, shut the door,
ad suffer him not to come in: for be-
'. >ld the sound of his master's feet is
Ihind him.

3 While he was yet speaking to them,
e messenger appeared who was coming

• him. And he said: Behold, so great
a evil is from the Lord: what shall I
iDk for more from the Lord?

CHAPTER 7.
Aseus prophesieth a great plenty, which pres-
ently ensueth upon the sudden flight of the Sy-
ians ; of which four lepers bring the news to
he city. The incredulous nobleman is trod to
leath.

k ND Eliseus said: Hear ye the word
-x. of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord:
') morrow about this time a bushel of
l|ie flour shall be sold for a stater, and
to bushels of barley for a stater, in the
[te of Samaria.

j Then one of the lords, upon whose
llnd the king leaned, answering the man
«I God, said: If the Lord should make
li'Od-gates in heaven, can that possibly
ll which thou sayest? And he said:
'iiou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt
i|t eat thereof.

Now there were four lepers, at the
"tering in of the gate: and they said
«e to another: What mean we to stay
' re till we die ?

If we will enter into the city, we shall

Chap. 7. Ver. 1, A stater.

die with the famine: and if we will re-
main here, we must also die: come, there-
fore, and let us run over to the camp of
the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall
live: but if they kill us, we shall but
die.

5 So they arose in the evening, to go to
the Syrian camp. And when they were
come to the first part of the camp of the
Syrians, they found no man there.

6 For the Lord had made them hear, in
the camp of Syria, the noise of chariots,
and of horses, and of a very great army,
and they said one to another: Behold the
king of Israel hath hired against us the
kings of the Hethites, and of the Egyp-
tians, and they are come upon us.

7 Wherefore they arose, and fled away
in the dark, and left their tents, and their
horses and asses in the camp, and fled,
desiring to save their lives.

8 So when these lepers were come to
the beginning of the camp, they went
into one tent, and ate and drank: and
they took from thence silver, and gold,
and raiment, and went, and hid it: and
they came again, and went into another
tent, and carried from thence in like
manner, and hid it.

9 Then they said one to another: We
do not well: for this is a day of good
tidings. If we hold our peace, and do
not tell it till the morning, we shall be
charged with a crime: come, let us go
and tell it in the king's court.

10 So they came to the gate of the city,
and told them, saying: We went to the
camp of the Syrians, and we found no
man there, but horses, and asses tied,
and the tents standing.

11 Then the guards of the gate went,
and told it within the kings palace.

12 And he arose in the night and said to
his servants: I tell you what the Syrians
have done to us: They know that we
suffer great famine, and therefore they
are gone out of the camp, and lie hid in
the fields, saying: When they come out
of the city we shall take them alive, and
then we may get into the city.

13 And one of his servants answered:
Let us take the five horses that are re-
maining in the city (because there are
no more in the whole multitude of Israel,

It Is the same as a side or shekel.
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The incredulous lord put to death 4 KINGS
T

Hazael consults Eliseus

for the rest are consumed^) and let us
send and see»

14 They brought therefore two horses,
and the king sent into the camp of the
Syrians J saying: Go, and see.

15 And they went after them as far as
the Jordan: and behold all the way was
full of garments, and vessels, which the
Syrians had cast away in their fright,
and the messengers returned and told
the king.

16 And the people going out pillaged
the camp of the Syrians: and a bushel
of fine flour was sold for a stater, and
two bushels of barley for a stater, ac-
cording to the word of the Lord.

17 And the king appointed that lord on
whose hand he leaned, to stand at the
gatei and the people trod upon him in
the entrance of the gate; and he died,
as the man of God had said, when the
king came down to him.

18 And it came to pass according to the
word of the man of God, which he spoke
to the king, when he said: Two bushels
oi barley shall be for a stater, and a
bushel of fine flour for a stater, at this
very time to morrow in the gate of Sa-
maria.

19 When that lord answered the man
of God, and said: Although the Lord
should make flood-gates in heaven, could
this come to pass which thou sayestt
And he said to him: Thou shalt see with
thy eyes, and shalt not eat thereof.

20 And so it fell out to him as it was
foretold, and the people trod upon him
In the gate, and he died.

CHAPTER 8.

Aft&r seven years^ famine foretold by Eliseus^ the Su'
namitess returning home, recovereth her lands,
and revenues. Eliseus foresheiveth the death of
Benadad, king of Sijria, and the reign of Bazael
JorarnPs vncked reign in Judo. He dieth^ and his
son Ochozias succeedeth.

AND Eliseus spoke to the woman,
J\. ^ whose son he had restored to life,
saying: Arise, and go thou and thy
household, and sojourn wheresoever thou
canst find: for the Lord hath called a
famine, and it shall come upon the land
seven years.
2 And she arose, and did according to

the word of the man of God: and gcing
with her householdj she sojourned in the
land of the Philistines many days.

8 And when the seven years were
ended, the woman returned out of the
land of the Philistines, and she went
forth to speak to the king for her house,
and for her lands.

4 And the king talked with Giezi, the
servant of the man of God, saying: Tell
me all the great things that Eliseus hath
done.

6 And when he was telling the king
how he had raised one dead to life, the
woman appeared, whose son he had re-
stored to life, crying to the king for her
house, and her lands. And Giezi said:
My lord O king, this is the woman, and
this is her son, whom Eliseus raised tc
Hfe.

6 And the king asked the woman: and
she told him. And the king appointed!
her an eunuch, saying: Restore her allj
that is hersj and all the revenues of the
lands, from the day that she left th
land, to this present.

7 Eliseus also came to Damascus, anc
Benadad king of Syria was sick: anci
they told him, saying: The man of Gocj
is come hither. |

8 And the king said to Hazael: Tab!
with thee presents, and go to meet th(|
man of God, and consult the Lord b:|
him, saying: Can I recover of this m:
illness?

9 And Hazael went to meet him, takin
with him presents, and all the goo
things of Damascus, the burdens of fort
camels. And when he stood before hin
he said: Thy son Benadad the king c
Syria hath sent me to thee, saying : Ca
1 recover of this my illness?

10 And Eliseus said to him: Go te
him : Thou shalt recover : but the Loi
hath shewn me that he shall surely die,

11 And he stood with him, and w;
troubled so far as to blush : and the mr
of God wept.

12 And Hazael said to him: Why ao<
my lord weep? And he said: Because
know the evil that thou wilt do to 11
children of Israel. «Their strong citi

V Supra 4„ 37.

Chap. 8. Ver. 10. Tell him: Thou shalt recover.
By these words the prophet signified that the king's
disease was not mortal : and that he would recover
if nc violence were used. Or he might only express
Uimself Id this manner, by way of giving Hazae? to

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understand that be knew both what he would
and do; that he would indeed tellthekingheshoi
recover ; but wouid b© himself the instrument ot
deatk

''he revolt of Edam

4 KINGS

The reign of Ochozia-9

lOU wilt burn with fire, and their young
len thou wilt kill with the eword, and
lOU wilt dash their children, and rip up
leir pregnant women.

13 And Hazael said : But what am I thy
ervant a dog, that I should do this great
ling? And Eliseus said: The Lord
ath shewn me that thou shalt be king
£ Syria.

14 And when he w?s departed from
)liseus, he came to his master, who said

him: What saith Eliseus to thee?
nd he answered: He told me: Thou
lalt recover.

15 And on the next day he took a blan-
et, and poured water on it, and spread
i v.pon his face : and he died, and Hazael
signed in his stead.

16 In the fifth year of Joram son of
chab king of Israel, Josaphat being

ing of Juda, reigned Joram son of Josa-

hat king of Juda.

17 yjle was two and thirty years old
rhen he began to reign, and he reigned
ight years in Jerusalem.

18 And he walked in the ways of the
ings of Israel, as the house of Achab
ad walked : for the daughter of Achab
raa his wife : and he did that which was
vil in the sight of the Lord.

19 ^But the Lord would not destroy
uda, for David his servant's sake, as he
ad promised him, to give him a light,
nd to his children always.

'20 *In his days Edom revolted, from
eing under Juda, and made themselves
king.

21 And Joram came to Seira, and all
he chariots with him : and he arose in
he night, and defeated the Edomites
hat had surrounded him, and the cap-
ains of the chariots, but the people fled
Qto their tents.

22 So Edom revolted from being under
uda, unto this day. Then Lobna also
evolted at the same time.

23 But the rest of the acts of Joram,
i-nd all that he did, are they not written
Q the book of the words of the days of
Ihe kings of Juda ?

1 24 And Joram slept with his fathers,

y 2 Par. 21. 5. B.
a Gen. 27

C. 854. — z 2 Kings 7. 16.
. 40 ; 2 Par. 21. 8.

Ver. 16. Josaphat being King, &c. That is,
osaphat being yet alive, who some time before his
eath made his son Joram king, as David had
one before by his son Solomon.

and was buried with "^ihem in the city of
David, and Ochozias his son reigned in
his stead.

25 ^ In the twelfth year of Joram oon of
Achab king of Ibrael, reigned ^ Ochozias
son of Joram king of Juda.

26 Ochozias was two and twenty years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem : the name
of his mother was Athalia the daughter
of Amri king of Israel.

27 And he walked in the ways of the
house of Achab : and he did evil before
the Lord, as did the house of Achab .
for he was the son in law of the house
of Achab.

28 He went also with Joram son ol
Achab, to fight against Hazael king of
Syria in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians
wounded Joram :

29 And he went back to be healed,
in Jezrahel: because the Syrians had
wounded him in Ramoth when he fought
against Hazael king of Syria. And Ocho-
zias the son of Joram king of Juda, went
down to visit Joram the son of Achab in
Jezrahel, because he was sick there.

CHAPTER 9.

Jehu is anointed king of Israel, to destroy the hoxist
of Achab and Jezabel. He Jcilleth Joram king of
Israel, and Ochozias king of Juda. Jezabel it
eaten by dogs.

A iSTD Eliseus the prophet called on©
x\ of the sons of the prophets, and said
to him : Gird up thy loins, and take this
little bottle of oil in thy hand, and go to
Ramoth Galaad.

2 fl'And when thou art come thither,
thou shalt see Jehu the son of Josaphat
the son of Namsi: and going in thotL
shalt make him rise up from amongst his
brethren, and carry him into an inner
chamber,

3 Then taking the little bottle of oil,
thou shalt pour it on his head, and shalt
say . Thus saith the Lord : I have anoint-
ed thee king over Israel. And thou
shalt open the door and flee, and shalt
not stay there.

4 So the young man, the servant of the
prophet, went away to Ramoth Galaad,

c2 Par. 22. 1.— ^ZB. C.
g 3 Kings 19. 16.

S46.

Ver. 26. Daughter. That is, grand-daughter ;
for she was daughter of Achab son of Amri, ver.
18.

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J Oram killed by Jehu

5 And went in thither ; and behold *he
captains of the army were sitting • and
he said . T have a word to thee, O prince.
A.nd Jehu said: Unto whom of ua all?
And he said : To thee, O prince.

6 And he arose, and went into the
chamber: and he poured the oil upon
his head, and said : Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel : I have anointed thee king
over Israel, the people of the Lord.

7 And thou shalt cut off the house of
Achab thy master, and I will revenge
the blood of my servants the prophets,
and the blood of all the servants of the
Lord at the hand of Jezabel.

8 ^ And I will destroy all the house of
Achab, and I will cut off from Achab
him that pisseth againct the wall, and
him that is shut up, and the meanest in
[sraeL

9 And I will make the house of Achab
like * the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nabat, and like the house of ^ Baasa the
Bon of Ahias.

10 And the dogs shall eat Jezabel in the
field of Jezrahel, and there shall be no
one to bury her. And he opened the
door and fied.

1 1 Then Jehu went forth to the servants
of his lord : and they said to him : Are
all things well ? why came this mad man
to thee? And he said to them: You
know the man, and what he said.

12 But they answered : It is false, but
rather do thou tell us. And he said to
them: Thus and thus did he speak to
me: and he said: Thus saith the Lord; I
have anointed thee king over Israel.

13 Then they made haste and taking
every man his garment laid it under his
feet, after the manner of a judgment
seat, and they sounded the trumpet, and
said : Jehu is king.

14 So Jehu the son of Josaphat the son
of Namsi conspired against Joram. ^ Now
Joram had besieged Ramoth Galaad, he
and all Israel fighting with Hazael king
of Syria

15 And was returned to be healed in
Jezrahel of his wounds, for the Syrians
had wounded him, when he fought with
Hazael king of Syria. And Jehu said :
If it please you, let no man go forth or
flee out ot the city, lest he go, and tell in
JezraheL

16 And he got up, and went mto Jezra-
hel : for Joram was sick there, and Ocho-
zias king of Juda was come down to
visit Joram.

17 The watchmen therefore, that stood
upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw the
troop of Jehu coming, and said : I see a
troop. And Joram said : Take a chariot,
and send to meet them, and lit him that
goeth say : Is all well?

18 So there went one in a chariot to
meet him, and said : Thus saith the king:
Are all things peaceable? And Jehu
said: What hast thou to do with peace?
go behind and follow me. And the watch-
man told, saying : The messenger came
to them, but he returneth not.

19 And he sent a second chariot of
horses : and he came to them, and said :
Thus saith the king: Is there peace?
And Jehu said : What hast thou to do
with peace ? pass, and follow me.

20 And the watchman told, saying : He
came even to them, but returneth not:
and the driving is like the driving of
Jehu the son of Namsi, for he drives
furiously.

21 And Joram said : Make ready the
chariot. And they made ready his char-
iot, and Joram king ot Israel, and Ocho-
zias king of Juda went out, each in his
chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu,
and met him in the field of Naboth the
Jezrahehte.

22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said
Is there peace, Jehu ? And he answered :
What peace ? so long as the fornications
of Jezabel thy mother, and her many
sorceries are in their vigoiu*.

23 And Joram turned his hand, and flee-
ing, said to Ochozias : There is treachery,
Ochozias.

24 But Jehu bent his bow with his hand,
and shot Joram between the shoulders:
and the arrow went out through his heart,
and immediately he fell in his chariot.

25 And Jehu said to Badacer his captain:
Take him, and cast him into the field of
Naboth the Jezrahelite : for I remember
when I and thou sitting in a chariot fol*
lowed Achab this man's father, that the
Xord laid thit burden upon him, saying :

26 ' If I do not requite thee in this field,
saith the Lord, for the blood of Naboth,
and for the blood of his children, which I

h 3 Kings ZV. 21. — i 3 Kings 16. 29 ^i 3 Kings »6. 3.

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\ih of Jezabel

4 KINGS Jehu destroys the sons of Achab

yesterday, saith the Lord» Sc now
t^) him, and cast him into the field,
ai>rding to the word of the Lord.

1 Bui Ochozias king of Juda seeing this,
flj by the way of the garden house : and
Ja 1 pursued him, and said : Strike him
all in his chariot. And they struck him

he going up to Gaver, which is by
aam : and he fled into Mageddo, and
L there.

And hie servants laid him upon his
•iot, and carried him to Jerusalem:
they buried him in his sepulchre with

hifathers in the city of David,
iln the eleventh year of Joram the

so of Achab, Ochozias reigned over Juda,

2 And Jehu came into Jezrahel. But
Jfibel hearing of his coming in, painted
hi face with stibic stone, and adorned
he head, and looked out of a window

3 At Jehu coming in at the gate, and
ea : "* Can there be peace for Zambri,
th . hath killed his master ?

3 And Jehu lifted up his face to the
wiiow, and said : Who is this ? And two
orhree eunuchs bowed down to him.

3 And he said to them: Throw her
den headlong: and they threw her
dc n, and the wall was sprinkled with
he blood, and the hoofs of the horses
ti<l upon her.

3 And when he was come in, to eat,
an to drink, he said : Go, and see after
th. cursed woman, and bury her: be-
ca le she is a king's daughter.

3 And when they went to bury her,
th ;- found nothing but the skull, and the
fe< , and the extremities of her hands.

8 And coming back they told him.
All Jehu said: "It is the word of the
L( 3, which he spoke by his servant Elias
th Thesbite, saying : In the field of Jez-
rE3l the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jeza-
be

8 And the flesh of Jezabel shall be as
dv g upon the face of the earth in the
flcl of Jezrahel, so that they who pass
bjihall say : Is this that same Jezabel ?

CHAPTER 10.

/ei destroyeth the house of Achab : abolisheth the
1 rship of Baal, and killeth the worshippers : but
i ?keth to the calves of Jeroboam. Israel is of-
J ted by the Syrians.

/ND ° Achab had seventy sons in Sama-
X. ria: so Jehu wrote letters, and sent

m 8 Kings 16w 10.— n 3 Kings 2h 2X

to Samaria, to the chief men of the oity,
and to the ancients, and to them that
brought up Achab's children, saying:

2 As soon as you receive these letters,
ye that have your master's sons, and
chariots, and horses, and fenced cities,
and armour,

3 Choose the best, and him that shall
please you most of your master's sons,
and set him on his father's throne, and
fight for the house of your master.

4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and
said : Behold two kings could not stand
before him, and how shall we be able to
resist ?

6 Therefore the overseers of the house,
and the rulers of the city, and the an-
cients, and the tutors sent to Jehu, say-
ing: We are thy servants, whatsoever
thou shalt command us we will do, nei-
ther will we make us a king: do thou all
that pleaseth thee.

6 And he wrote letters the second time
to them, saying : If you be mine, and will
obey me, take the heads of the sons of
your master, and come to me to Jezrahel
by to morrow this time. Now the king's
sons, being seventy men, were brought
up with the chief men of the city.

7 And when the letters came to them,
they took the king's sons, and slew sev-
enty persons, and put their heads in bas-
kets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.

8 And a messenger came, and told him,
saying : They have brought the heads of
the king's sons. And he said: Lay ye
them in two heaps by the entering in of
the gate until the morning.

9 And when it was light, he went out,
and standing said to all the people : You
are just : if I conspired against my mas-
ter, and slew him, who hath slain all
these ?

10 P See therefore now that there hath
not fallen to the ground any of the words
of the Lord, which the Lord spoke con-
cerning the house of Achab, and the Lord
hath done that which he spoke in the
hand of his servant Elias.

11 So Jehu slew all that were left of
the house of Achab in Jezrahel, and all
his chief men, and his friends, and his
priests, till there were no remains left of
him.

12 And he arose, and went to Samaria:

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Jehu gathers the priests of Baal 4 KINGS He kills the priests of Baal

and when he was come to the shepherds'
cabin in the way,

13 He met with the brethren of Ocho-
zias king of Juda, and he said to them :
Who are you ? And they answered : We
are the brethren of Ochozias, and are
come down to salute the sons of the
king, and the sons of the queen.

14 And he said : Take them alive. And
they took them alive, and killed them at
the pit by the cabin, two and forty men,
and he left not any of them.

15 And when he was departed thence,
he found Jonadab the son of Rechab com-
ing to meet him, and he blessed him.
And he said to him : Is thy heart right as
my heart is with thy heart? And Jona-
dab said : It is. If it be, said he, give me
thy hand. He gave him his hand. And
he lifted him up to him into the chariot,

16 And he said to him : Come with me,
and see my zeal for the Lord. So he
made him ride in his chariot,

17 And brought him into Samaria. And
he slew all that were left of Achab in
Samaria, to a man, according to the word
of the Lord, which he spoke by EUas.

18 And Jehu gathered together all the
people, and said to them: ^ Achab wor-
shipped Baal a little, but I will worship
him more.

19 Now therefore call to me all the pro-
phets of Baal, and all his servants, and
all his priests : let none be wanting, for
I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal:
whosoever shall be wanting shall not
live. Now Jehu did this craftily, that he
might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

20 And he said : Proclaim a festival for
Baal. And he called,

21 And he sent into all the borders of
Israel, and all the servants of Baal came :
there was not one left that did not come.
And they went into the temple of Baal :
and the house of Baal was filled, from
one end to the other.

22 And he said to them that were over
the wardrobe: Bring forth garments for
all the servants of Baal. And they
brought them forth garments.

23 And Jehu and Jonadab the son of
Rechab went to the temple of Baal, and
said to the worshippers of Baal: Search,

and see that there be not any with you
of the servants of the Lord, but that
there be the servants of Baal only.

24 And they went in to offer sacrifices
and burnt offerings: but Jehu had pre-
pared him fourscore men without, and!
said to them : If any of the men escape,
whom I have brought into your hands,
he that letteth him go shall answer life
for life.

25 And it came to pass, when the burnt
offering was ended, that Jehu commanded
his soldiers and captains, saying: Go in,
and kill them, let none escape. And the
soldiers and captains slew them with the
edge of the sword, and cast them out:
and they went into the city of the temple
of Baal,

26 And brought the statue out of Baal's
temple, and burnt it,

27 And broke it in pieces. They de
stroyed also the temple of Baal, and
made a jakes in its place unto this day.

28 So Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel;

29 But yet he departed not from thf
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, wh(
made Israel to sin, nor did he forsake th(
golden calves that were in Bethel anc
Dan.

30 And the Lord said to Jehu : Becaus<
thou hast diligently executed that whicl
was right and pleasing In my eyes, an«|
hast done to the house of Achab accord
ing to all that was in my heart: ^th
children shall sit upon the throne of L
rael to the fourth generation.

31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in th
law of the Lord the God of Israel with a
his heart: for he departed not from tb
sins of Jeroboam, who had made Isra
to sin.

32 In those days the Lord began to I
weary of Israel: and Hazael ravagt
them in all the coasts of Israel,

33 Prom the Jordan eastward, all tl
land of Galaad, and Gad, and Ruben, ai
Manasses, from Aroer, which is upon tl
torrent Arnon, and Galaad, and Basan.

34 But the rest of the acts of Jehu, ai
all that he did, and his strength, are thl
not written in the book of the words
the days of the kings of Israel?

35 And Jehu slept with his fathers, a

q 3 Kings 16. 31.

Chap. 10. Ver. 18. / will worship him more.
Jehu sinned in thus pretending to worship Baal, and
causing sacrifice to be offered to him : because evil

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is not to be done, that good may come of it K<

?.S.

[surpation of Athalia

4 KINGS

Joas is made king

ey buried him in Samaria: and Joachaz

8 son reigned in his stead.

6 And the time that Jehu reigned over

rael, in Samaria, was eight and twenty

ars.

CHAPTER 11.

hatia*s usurpation and tyranny. Joas is made
king. Athalia is slain.

L ND * Athalia the mother of Ochozias

1l seeing that her son was dead, arose,

d slew all the royal seed.

But Josaba the daughter of king Joram,

ter of Ochozias, took Joas the son of

jhozias, and stole him from among the

g's sons that were slain, out of the

dchamber with his nurse: and hid him

)m the face of Athalia, so that ^e was

t slaiUc

And he was with her six years hid

the house of the Lord. And Athalia

[gned over the land.

*^And in the seventh year Joiada sent,

d taking the centurions and the sol-

rs, brought them in to him into the

mple of the Lord, and made a cove-

1 nt with them : and taking an oath of

tem in the house of the Lord, shewed

1 3ra the king's son :

And he commanded them, saying i This

i the thing that you must do :

Let a third part of you go in on the

i ^bath, and keep the watch of the king's

luse. And let a third part be at the

Jte of Sur: and let a third part be at

t? gate behind the dwelling of the shield-

larers '- and you shall keep the watch of

t5 house of Messa.

But let two parts of you, all that go

f ;th on the sabbath, keep the watch

c the house ot the Lord about the

lig.

And you shall compass him round

a3ut, having weapons in your hands:

ad if any man shall enter the precinct

c the temple, let him be slain : and you

B ill be with the king coming in and go-

1; out.

And the centurions did according to

a things that Joiada the priest had

cnmanded them : and taking every one

t"tu men, that went in on the sabbath,

V jb them that went out on the sabbath,

cn6j to Joiada the priest.

> And he gave them the spears, and

s B. C. 846. 2 Par. 22. 10.

^ HAP. 11.

tl law.

Ver, 12. The testimony, th» book of

the arms of Ling David, which were in
the house of the Lord,

11 And they stood having every one
their weapons in their hands, from the
right side of the temple, unto the left
side of the altar, and of the temple,
about the king.

12 And he brought forth the king's son,
and put the diadem upon him, and the
testimony : and they made him king, and
anointed him : and clapping their hands,
they said, God save the king.

13 And Athalia heard the noise of the
people running: and going in to the peo-
ple into the temple of the Lord,

14 She saw the king standing upon a
tribunal, as the manner was, and the
singers, and the trumpets near him, and
all the people of the land rejoicing, and
sounding the trumpets . and she rent her
garments, and cried: A conspiracy, a
conspiracy.

15 But Joiada commanded the centurions
that were over the army, and said to
them : Have her forth without the pre-
cinct of the temple, and whosoever shall
follow her, let him be slain with the
sword. For the priest had said: Let her
not be clain in the temple of the Lord.

16 And they laid hands on her: and
thrust her out by the way by which the
horses go in, by the palace, and she was
slain there.

17 And JoiadC; made a covonant between
the Lord, and the king, and the people, that
they shoulc bo the people of the Lord,
and between the king and the people.

18 And all the people of the land went
into the temple of Baal, and broke down
his altars, and his images they broke in
pieces thoroughly: they slew also Mathan
the priest of Baal before the altar. And
the priest set guards in the house of the
Lord.

19 And he took the centurions, and the
bands of the Cerethi and the Phelethi,
and cill the people of the land, and they
broughfj the king from the house of the
Lord: anC they came by the way of the
gate Oa tho shieldbearers into the palace,
and he sat on the throne of the kings»

20 And all the people of the land rejoiced,
and the city was quiet i but Athalia was
slain with the sword in the king's house.

t 2 Par. 23. 1. B. C. 841.

Ver. 14. A triburuU, A tribune. Of m place Olt"
f&ted above Uie test

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The temple is repaired

4 KINGS

Joas is slain

21 New Joas was seven years oM, when
he began to reign.

CHAPTER 12.

The temple is repaired. Hazael is bought off from
attacking Jerusalem,, Joas is slain.

IN ^ the seventh year of Jehu Joas be-
gan to reign: and he reigned forty
years in Jerusalem. The name of his
mother was Sebia of Bersabee.

2 And Joas did that which was right be-
fore the Lord all the days that Joiada the
priest taught him.

3 But yet he took not away the high
places : for the people still sacrificed and
burnt incense in the high places.

4 And Joas said to the priests: All the
money of the sanctified things, which is
brought into the temple of the Lord by
those that pass, which is offered for the
price of a soul, and which of their own
accord, and of their own free heart they
bring into the temple of the Lord:

6 Let the priests take it according to
their order, and repair the house, where-
soever they shall see any thing that want-
eth repairing.

6 Now till the three and twentieth year
of king Joas, the priests did not make the
repairs of the temple.

7 And king Joas called Joiada the high
priest and the priests, saying to them:
Why do you not repair the temple ? Take
you therefore money no more according
to your order, but restore it for the re-
pairing of the temple.

8 And the priests were forbidden to tako
any more money of the people, and to
make the repairs of the house.

9 And Joiada the high priest took a chest
and bored a hole in the top, and set it by
ttie altar at the right hand of them that
came into the house of the Lord, and the
priests that kept the doors put therein
all the money that was brought to the
temple of the Lord.

10 And when they saw that there was
very much money in the chest, the king's
scribe and the high priest came up, and
poured it out, and counted the money
that was found in the house of the
Lord;

mB. C. 841.

Chap. 12. Ver. 4. Sanctified. That is, dedicated
to God's service. — Ibid. The price of a soul.
That is, the ordinary oblation, which every soul
was to offer by the law. Ex. 30.

11 And they gave it out by number and
measure into the hands of them that were
over the builders of the house of the
Lord: and they laid it out to the carpen-
ters, and the masons that wrought in the
house of the Lord,

12 And made the repairs: and to them
that cut stones, and to buy timber, and
stones, to be hewed, that the repairs of
the house of the Lord might be comr
pletely finished, and wheresoever there
was need of expenses to uphold the house.

13 But there were not made of the same
money for the temple of the Lord, bowls,
or fleshhooks, or censers, or trumpets,
or any vessel of gold and silver, of the
money that was brought into the temple
of the Lord.

14 For it was given to them that did the
work, that the temple of the Lord might
be repaired.

15 And they reckoned not with the men
that received the money to distribute it
to the workmen, but they bestowed 't
faithfully.

16 But the money for trespass, and vhe
money for sins, they brought not into
the temple of the Lord, because it was
for the priests.

17 Then Hazael king of Syria weut up
and i'ought against Geth, one] took i^b and
set his face to go up to JenDicalem.

IG Wherefore Joas king o2 Jiida took all
the sanctified things, ^vhich Josaphat, and
Joram, and Ochozias las fathers the kings
of Juda had dedicated to holy useS; and
which he himself had offered 2 and all the
silver that eould be found Li the treasures
oi the temple of the Lord, and in the
king's palace: and sent it to Hazael king
of Syria, and he went off from Jerusa-
lem.

19 And the rest of the acts of Joas, and
all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the words of the days of the
kings of Juda?

20 And « his servants arose, and conspir-
ed among themselves, and slew Joas in the
house of Mello in the descent of Sella.''

21 For Josachar the son of Semaath, and
Jozabad the son of Somer his servant
struck him, and he died: and they buried

V 2 Par. 24. 23. — x B. C. 802.

Ver. 21. The city of David. He was buried in
the same city with his fathers, but not in the
sepulchres of the kings. 2 Par. 14.

400

rhe reign of Joachaz

4 KINGS

Death of EUsevs

dm with his fathers in the city of David,
od Amasias his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 13.

Tie reign of Joachaz and of Joas kings of Israel.
The last acts and death of Eliseus the prophet : a
dead man is raised to life by the touch of his
bones.

[N J' the three and twentieth year of
Joas son of Ochozias king of Juda,
bachaz the son of Jehu reigned over
Brael in Samaria, seventeen years.
2 And he did evil before the Lord, and
allowed the sins of Jeroboam the son of
I'abat, who made Israel to sin, and he
eparted not from them.
8 And the wrath of the Lord was kindled
gainst Israel, and he delivered them
ato the hand of Hazael the king of Syria,
nd into the hand of Benadad the son of
[azael all days.

4 But Joachaz besought the face of the
ord, and the Lord heard him: for he
aw the distress of Israel, because the
ing of Syria had oppressed them:

5 And the Lord gave Israel a saviour,
nd they were delivered out of the hand
I the king of Syria : and the children of
srael dwelt in their pavilions as yester-
ay and the day before.

6 But yet they departed not from the
ins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to
in, but walked in them: and there still
emained a grove also in Samaria.

7 And Joachaz had no more left of the
eople than fifty horsemen, and ten
lariots. and ten thousand footmen: for
le king of Syria had slain them, and
ad brought them low as dust by thrash-
Qg in the barnfloor.

8 But the rest of the acts of Joachaz,
.nd all that he did, and his valour, are
hey not written in the book of the words
»f the days of the kings of Israel ?

9 And ^ Joachaz slept with his fathers,
nd they buried him in Samaria: and
oas his son reigned in Ms stead.

10 In the seven and thirtieth year of
Joas king of Juda, Joas the son of Jo-

ijjhaz reigned over Israel in Samaria
■ixteen years.

11 And he did that which is evil in the

yB. C. 820. — «B. C. 804.

sight of the Lord: he departed not from
all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat^
who made Israel to sin, but he walked -n
them.

12 But the rest of the acts of Joas, and
all that he did, and his valour wherewith
he fought against Amasias king of Juda,
are they not written in the book of the
words of the days of the kings of Israel ?

13 And Joas slept with his fathers: and
Jeroboam sat upon his throne. « But Joas
was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel.

14 Now Eliseus was sick of the illness
whereof he died : and Joas king of Is-
rael went down to him, and wept before
him, and said: O my father, my father,
the chariot of Israel and the guider
thereof.

16 And Eliseus said to him: Bring a
bow and arrows. And when he had
brought him a bow, and arrows,

16 He said to the king of Israel: Put
thy hand upon the bow. And when he
had put his hand, Eliseus put his hands
over the king'c hands,

17 And said. Open the window to the
east. And when he had opened it, Elis-
eus 3aid : Shoot an arrow. And he shot.
And Eliseus said : The arrow of the Lord's
deliverance, and the arrow of the deliv-
erance from Syria : and thou shalt strike
the Syrians i-^ Aphec, till thou consume
them.

18 And he said: Take the arrows. And
when he had taken them, he said to him :
Strike with an arrow upon the ground.
And he struck three times and stood
still.

19 And the man of God was angry with
him, and said : If thou hadst smitten five
or six or seven times, thou hadst smitten
Syria even to utter destruction : but now
three times shalt thou smite it.

20 And Eliseus died, and they buried
him. And the rovers from Moab came
into the land the same year.

21 ^ And some that were burying a man,
saw the rovers, and cast the body into
the sepulchre of Eliseus. And when it
had touched the bones of Eliseus, the

aB. C. 789. — c Eccli. 48. 14.

Chap. 13. Ver. 6. A grove : dedicated to the wor-
hip of Idols.

Ver. 19. If thou hadst smitten, &c. By this it ap-
>ear3 that God had revealed to the prophet that the
:ing should overcome the Syrians as Jiany times as

^ 401

he should then strike on the ground ; but as he had
not at the same time revealed to him how often the
king would strike, the prophet was Jjoncerned to se*
that be struck but tbrica

The reign of Amasias

4 KINGS

Amasias is defeated

to life, and stood upon his Joas son of Jeachaz, son of Jehu king of

Israel, saying: Come

man came
feet.

22 Now Hazael king of Syria afflicted
Israel all the days of Joachaz :

23 And the Lord had mercy on them,
and returned to them because of his
covenant, which he had made with Abra-
ham and Isaac and Jacob: and he would
not destroy them, nor utterly cast them
away, unto this present time.

24 And Hazael king of Syria died, and
Benadad his son reigned in his stead.

25 Now Joas the son of Joachaz, took
the cities out of the hand of Benadad,
the son of Hazael, which he had taken
out of the hand of Joachaz his father by
war, three times did Joas beat him, and
he restored the cities to Israel.

CHAPTER 14.

Amasias reigneth in Juda : he overcometh the Edom-
ites : but is overcome by Joas king of Israel, Jero-
boam the second reigneth in Israel.

IN ^ the second year of Joas son of Joa-
chaz, king of Israel, reigned Amasias
son of Joas king of Juda.

2-^ He was five and twenty years old
when he began to reign: and nine and
twenty years he reigned in Jerusalem:
the name of his mother was Joadan of
Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was right be-
fore the Lord, but yet not like David his
father. He did according to all things
that Joas his father did:

^ "^ut ^his only, that he took not away
the high places; ior yet the people sac-
rificed and burnt incense in the high
places.

5 And when he had possession of the
kingdom, he put his servants to death
that had slain the king his father :

6 But the children of the mmrderers he
did not put to death, according to that
which is written in the book of the law
of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded,
saying : ^ The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, neither shall the
children be put to death for the fathers:
but every man shall die for his own sins.

7 He slew of Edom in the valley of the
Saltpits ten thousand men, and took the
rock by war, and called the name thereof
Jectehel, unto this day.

8 Then Amasias sent messengers to

e B. C. 802.—/ 2 Par. 25. 1.
g Deut. 24. 16 ; Ezech. 18. 20.

let us see one an-
other.

9 And Joas king of Israel sent again to
Amasias king of Juda, saying : A thistle
of Libanus sent to a cedar tree, which is
in Libanus, saying : Give thy daughter to
my son to wife. And the beasts of the
forest, that are in Libanus, passed and
trod down the thistle.

10 Thou hast beaten and prevailed over
Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up :
be content with the glory, and sit at
home: why provokest thou evil, that
thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee ?

11 But Amasias did not rest satisfied.
So Joas king of Israel went up, and
he and Amasias king of Juda saw one
another in Bethsames a town in Juda.

12 And Juda was put to the worst be-
fore Israel, and they fled every man to
their dwellings.

13 But Joas king of Israel took Amasias,
king of Juda the son of Joas, the son of
Ochozias, in Bethsames, and brought him
into Jerusalem : and he broke down the
wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of
Ephraim to the gate of the corner, four
hundred cubits.

14 And he took all the gold, and silver,
and all the vessels, that were found in
the house of the Lord, and in the king's
treasures, and hostages, and returned to
Samaria.

15 But the rest of the acts of Joas,
which he did, and his valour, wherewith
he fought against Amasias king of Juda,
are they not written in the book of the
words of the days of the kings of Israel?

16 And Joas slept with his fathers, and
was buried in Samaria, with the kings of
Israel : and Jeroboam his son reigned in
his stead.

17 And Amasias the son of Joas king of
Juda lived, after the death of Joas son o/
Joachaz king of Israel fifteen years.

18 And the rest of the acts of Amasias,
are they not written in the book of the
words of the days of the kings of Juda?

19 Now they made a conspiracy against
him in Jerusalem : and he fled to Lachis.
* And they sent after him to Lachis, and
killed him there.

20 And they brought him away upon

t B. G. 775.

Chap. i4. Yer.S. Let%t9aee one another. This was a challeDge to fight.

402

^eign of the second Jeroboam 4 KINGS Reigns of Azarias and Zacharias

'^Gffses, anc he was buried in Jerusalem

\AV\ his fathers in the city of David.
SjI, And all the people of Juda took

Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and

made him king instead of his father
' Amasias.
22 He built Elath, and restored it to

Juda, after that the king slept with his

fathers.

' 23 In the fifteenth year of Amasias ^ son
; of Joas king of Juda, reigned Jeroboam

the son of Joas king of Israel in Samaria,

one and forty years :

24 And he did that which was evil be-
fore the Lord. He departed not from
all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat,

; who made Israel to sin.

25 He restored the borders of ' Israel
from the entrance of Emath, unto the
sea of the wUderness, according to the
word of the Lord the God of Israel,
which he spoke by his servant "* Jonas

I the son of Amathi, the prophet, who was
of Geth, which is in Opher.
! 26 For the Lord saw the affliction of Is-
rael that it was exceeding bitter, and
that they were consumed even to them
that were shut up in prison, and the low-
I est persons, and that there was no one to
help Israel.

27 And the Lord did not say that he
\ would blot out the name of Israel from
, under heaven, but he saved them by the

hand of Jeroboam the son of Joas.

28 But the rest of the acts of Jeroboam,
and all that he did, and his valour, where-
with he fought, and how he restored

■ Damascus, and Emath to Juda in Israel,
I are they not written in the book of the
words of the days of the kings of Israel ?
! 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers
I the kings of Israel, and Zacharias his son
' reigned in his stead.

I CHAPTER 15.

I The reign of Azarias, and J oatham in Juda: and
of Zacharias, Sellum, Manahem^ Phaceia, and
j Phacee in Israel.

IN "the seven and twentieth year of
Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Aza-
j rias son of Amasias, king of Juda.

2 He was sixteen years old, when he
; began to reign, and he reigned two and

fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his
mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was pleasing
before the Lord, according to all that his
father Amasias had done.

4 But the high places he did not destroy:
for the people sacrificed and burnt in-
cense in the high places.

5 °And the Lord struck the king, so
that he was a leper unto the day of his
death, and he dwelt in a free house
apart: but Joatham the king's son gov-
erned the palace, and judged the people
of the land.

6 And the rest of the acts of Azarias,
and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Juda ?

7 And Azarias ^ slept with his fathers :
and they buried him with his ancestors
in the city of David, and Joatham his son
reigned in his stead.

8 ^In the eight and thirtieth year of
Azarias king of Juda, reigned Zachariab
son of Jeroboam over Israel in Samaria
six months :

9 And he did that which is evil before
the Lord, as his fathers had done : he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nabat who made Israel to sin.

10 And Sellum the son of Jabes con-
spired against him: and struck him pub-
licly and killed him, and reigned in his
place.

11 Now the rest of the acts of Zacharias,
are they not written in the book of the
words of the days of the kings of Israel?

12 ''This was the word of the Lord,
which he spoke to Jehu, saying: Thy
children to the fourth generation shall
sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it
came to pass.

13 Sellum the son of Jabes began to
reign in the nine * and thirtieth year of
Azarias king of Juda: and reigned one
month in Samaria.

14 And Manahem the son of Gadi went
up from Thersa: and he came into Sa-
maria, and struck Sellum the son of
Jabes in Samaria, and slew him, and
reigned in his stead.

15 And the rest of the acts of Sellum,

j 2 Par. 26. 1. — A; B. C. 789.
I Num. 18. 21. — m Jonas 1. 1.
n B. C. 775. — o 2 Par. 26. 21.

Ver. 25. Opher. In the tribe of Zabulon.

Chap. 15. Ver. 1. Aza/riois. Otherwise called
Ozias. It seems that we should have here 15th in-
stead of 27th.

403

p B. C. 735.
qB. C. 749.
r Supra 10. 30.— s B. C.

749.

Ver. 5. A leper. In punishment of his usurping
the priestly function. 2 Par. 26.

Reigns of Manahem and Phaceia 4 KINGS Reigns of Phacee and Joatham

.nd his conspiracy, which he made, are
they not written in the book of the
worde of the days of the kings of Israel?

16 Then Manahem destroyed Thapsa
and all that were in it and the borders
thereof from Thersa, because they would
not open to him: and he slew all the
women thereof that were with child, and
ripped them up.

17 In the nine and thirtieth year of
Azarias king of Juda, reigned Manahem
son of Gadi over Israel ten years in Sa-
maria.

18 And he did that which was evil be-
f e the Lord: he departed not from the

-as of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who
made Israel to sin all his days.

19 And Phul king of the Assyrians came
into the land, and Manahem gave Phul
a thousand talents of silver, to aid him
and to estabUsh him in the kingdom.

20 And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel,
on all that were mighty and rich, to give
the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty
sides of silver : so the king of the Assyr-
ians turned back, and did not stay in the
land.

21 And the rest of the acts of Manahem,
and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Israel?

22 And Manahem slept with his fathers :
and Phaceia his son reigned in his stead.

23 In the fiftieth year of * Azarias king
of Juda reigned Phaceia the son of
Manahem over Israel in Samaria two
years.

24 And he did that which was evil be-
fore the Lord: he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who
made Israel to sin.

25 And Phacee the son of Romelia, his
captain conspired against him, "and
smote him in Samaria, in the tower of
the king's house, near Argob, and near
Arie^ and with him fifty men of the sons
of the Galaadites, and he slew him and
reigned in his stead.

26 And the rest of the acts of Phaceia,
and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Israel?

tB. C. 737. — mB. C. 736.

27 In the two and fiftieth year of Aza-
rias king of Juda reigned Phacee the son
of Romelia over Israel in Samaria twenty
years.

28 And he did that which was evil be-
fore the Lord: he departed not from the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who
made Israel to sin.

29 In the days of Phacee king of Israel
came Theglathphalasar king of Assyria,
and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha
and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and
Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of
Nephtali: and carried them captives into
Assyria.

30 Now Osee son of Ela conspired,
and formed a plot against Phacee, the
son of Romelia, and struck him, and
slew him: and reigned in his stead in the
twentieth year of Joatham the son of
Ozias.

31 But the rest of the acts of Phacee
^ and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days oi
the kings of Israel?

32 ^ In the second year of Phacee the
son of Romelia king of Israel reigned
Joatham son of Ozias king of Juda.

33 He was five and twenty years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem: the name of
his mother was Jerusa, the daughter of
Sadoc.

34 And he did that v/hich was right be*
fore the Lord: according to all that his
father Ozias had done, so did he.

35 But the high places he took not
away: the people still sacrificed and
burnt incense in the high places: he
built the highest gate of the house of
the Lord.

36 But the rest of the acts of Joatham,
and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Juda ?

37 In those days the Lord began to send
into ^ Juda Rasin king of Syria, and Pha-
cee the son of Romelia.

38 And Joatham slept with his fathers,
and was buried with them in the city of
David his father, and Achaz his son
reigned in his stead.

Yer. 30. In the twentieth year of Joatham. That
y. iD th. *:wentieth year, from the beginning of Joa-
•ivim*8 reign The sacred writer chooses rather to j

404

V 2 Par. 27. \. — u B. C. 735. — a; Isa. 7. 1.

follow here this date, than to speak of the years ol
Achaz, who had not yet been mentioned.

lie wicked reign of Achaz

CHAPTER 16.

he tvicked reign of Achaz : the kings of Syria and
Israel war against him : he hireth the king of the
Assyrians to assist him : he causeth an altar to
be made after the pattern of that of Damascus.

'N the seventeenth year of Phacee the

- son of Romelia reigned v Achaz the

)n of Joatham king of Juda.

2 Achaz was twenty years old when
6 began to reign, and he reigned sixteen
ears in Jerusalem: he did not that
'hich was pleasing in the sight of the
ord his God, as David his father.

3 But he walked in the way of the kings
f Israel: moreover he consecrated also
is son, making him pass through the
re according to the idols of the nations :
'hich the Lord destroyed before the
hildren of Israel.

4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense
1 the high places and on the hills, and
nder every green tree.

5 " Then Rasin king of Syria, and Pha-
ee son of Romelia king of Israel came
p to Jerusalem to fight: and they be-
ieged Achaz, but were not able to over-
ome him.

6 At that time Rasin king of Syria re-
bored Aila to Syria, and drove the men
f Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites
ame into Aila, and dwelt there unto this
jay.

|7 And Achaz sent messengers to Theg-
ithphalasar king of the Assyrians, say-
ag : I am thy servant, and thy son : come
p, and save me out of the hand of the
ing of Syria, and out of the hand of the
,ing of Israel, who are risen up together
gainst me.

8 And when he had gathered together
he silver and gold that could be found
Q the house of the Lord, and in the
ing's treasures, he sent it for a present
0 the king of the Assyrians.

9 And he agreed to his desire: for the
ing of the Assyrians went up against
i)amascus, and laid it waste: and he
arried away the inhabitants thereof to
Gyrene, but Rasin he slew.

10 And king Achaz went to Damascus
o meet Theglathphalasar king of the
^Syrians, and when he had seen the
iltar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to
Mas the priest a pattern of it, and its
ikeness according to all the work thereof.

4 KINGS He sacrifices on the new altar

y 2 Par. 28. 1. B. C. 781.— o fea. 7. 1.

11 Andl Urias the priest built an altar
according to all that king Achaz had
commanded from Damascus, so did Urias
the priest, until king Achaz came from
Damascus.

12 And when the king was come from
Damascus, he saw the altar and wor-
shipped it : and went up and offered hol-
ocausts, and his own sacrifice.

13 And offered libations and poured the
blood of the peace offerings, which he had
offered upon the altar.

14 But the altar of brass that was before
the Lord, he removed from the face of
the temple, and from the place of the
altar, and from the place of the temple
of the Lord : and he set it at the side of
the altar toward the north.

15 And king Achaz commanded Urias
the priest saying : Upon the great altar
offer the morning holocaust, and the
evening sacrifice, and the king's holo-
caust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust
of the whole people of the land, and
their sacrifices, and their libations : and
all the blood of the holocaust, and all
the blood of the victim thou shalt pour
out upon it : but the altar of brass shall
be ready at my pleasure.

16 So Urias the priest did according
to all that king Achaz had commanded
him.

17 And king Achaz took away the graven
bases, and the laver that was upon them:
and he took down the sea from the bra-
zen oxen that held it up, and put it upon
a pavement of stone.

18 The Musach also for the sabbath,
which he had built in the temple: and
the king's entry from without he turned
into the temple of the Lord, because of
the king of the Assyrians.

19 Now the rest of the acts of Achaz,
which he did, are they not written in the
book of the words of the days of the
kings of Juda ?

20 And Achaz slept with his fathers, and
was buried with them in the city of Da-
vid, ** and Ezechias his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 17.

The reign of Osee, The Israelites for their sins an
carried into captivity : other inhabitants are sent
to Samaria^ who make a mixture of religion.

d 2 Par. 28. 27. B. C. 727.

405

The Israelites carried into captivity 4 KINGS

The vnckedness of Israel

rael and in Juda by the hand of all the
prophets and seers, saying : ^ Return from
your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, |
and ceremonies, according to all the la\? i
which I commanded your fathers: and!
as I nave sent to you in the hand of my)
servants the prophets.

14 And they hearkened not, but hard*'
ened their necks like to the neck of'
their fathers, who would not obey thei
Lord their God. i

15 And they rejected his ordinances andj
the covenant that he made with thbir fa-!
thers, and the testimonies which he tes-j
tifled against them: and they followed'
vanities, and acted vainly : and they foU
lowed the nations that were round about!
them, concerning which the Lord hadi
commanded them that they should not doj
as they did.

16 And they forsook all the precepts off
the Lord their God : and made to them-i
selves two molten calves, and groves, andl
adored all the host of heaven : and theyf
served Baal. I

17 And consecrated their sons, and theii)
daughters through fire: and they gavei
themselves to divinations, and soothsay-l
ings : and they delivered themselves up
to do evil before the Lord, to provoke
him.

18 And the Lord was very angry with
Israel, and removed them from his sight!
and there remained only the tribe ol'
Juda.

19 But neither did Juda itself keep th€
commandments of the Lord their God
but they walked in the errors of Israel
which they had wrought.

20 And the Lord cast off all the seed oi
Israel, and afflicted them and deliverec
them into the hand of spoilers, till he casi
theni away from his face :

21 *Even from that time, when Israe
was rent from the house of David, anc
made Jeroboam son of Nabat their king
for Jeroboam separated Israel from th<
Lord, and made them commit a great sin

22 And the children of Israel walked ii
all the sins of Jeroboam, which he hac
done : and they departed not from them

23 J Till the Lord removed Israel fron
his face, as he had spoken in the hand o

IN the twelfth year of * Achaz king of
Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in
Samaria over Israel nine years.

2 And he did evil before the Lord : but
not as the kings of Israel that had been
before him»

3 -^Against him came up Salmanasar
king of the Assyrians, and Osee became
his servant, and paid him tribute.

4 And when the king of the Assyrians
found that Osee endeavouring to rebel
had sent messengers to Sua the king of
Egypt, that he might not pay tribute to
the king of the Assyrians, as he had done
every year, he besieged him, bound him,
and cast him into prison.

6 And he went through all the land :
and going up to Samaria, he besieged it
three years.

6 9 And in the ninth year of Osee, the
king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and
carried Israel away to Assyria : and he
placed them in Hala and Habor by the
river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

7 For so it was that the children of
Israel had sinned against the Lord their
God, who brought them out of the land
of Egypt, from under the hand of Pha-
rao king of Egypt, and they worshipped
strange gods.

8 And they walked according to the
way of the nations which the Lord had
destroyed in the sight of the children of
Israel and of the kings of Israel: because
they had done in like manner.

9 And the children of Israel offended
the Lord their God with things that were
not right : and built them high places in
all their cities from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced city.

10 And they made them statues and
groves on every high hill, and under
every shady tree :

11 And they burnt incense there upon
altars after the manner of the nations
which the Lord had removed from their
face: and they did wicked things, pro-
voking the Lord.

12 And they worshipped abominations,
concerning which the Lord had com-
manded them that they should not do this
thing.

13 And the Lord testified to them in Is-

e B. C. 730.
/ Infra 18. 9 ; Tob. 1. 2.

Chap. 17. Ver. 1. In the Umifth year of Achaz
king of Juda. He began to reign before* but was

g Infra 18. 10. — /i Jer. 25. 5.
i 3 Kings 12. 19. — j Jer. 25. 9.

not in quiet possession of the kingdom to the twelftl
year of Achaz.

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range people brought to Samaria 4 KINGS

liiB servants the prophets : and Israel
Ls carried away out of their land to
j«jTia, unto this day.

4 And the king of the Assyrians brought
ople from Babylon, and from Cutha, and
)m Avah, and from Emath, and from
pharvaim : and placed them in the
;ies of Samaria instead of the children

Israel: and they possessed Samaria,
d dwelt in the cities thereof.

5 And when they began to dwell there,
ey feared not the Lord : and the Lord
nt lions among them, which killed them.

6 And it was told the king of the Assyr-
ns, and it was said : The nations which
ou hast removed, and made to dwell in
e cities of Samaria, know not the ordi-
.nces of the God of the land: and the
)rd hath sent lions among them: and
ihold they kill them, because they know
!)t the manner of the God of the land.

7 And the king of the Assyrians com-
anded, saying : Carry thither one of the
•iests whom you brought from thence
.ptive, and let him go, and dwell with
lem : and let him teach them the ordi-
mces of the God of the land.

58 So one of the priests who had been
irried away captive from Samaria, came
id dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how
ley should worship the Lord.
!9 And every nation made gods of their
Nu^ and put them in the temples of the
gh places, which the Samaritans had
ade, every nation in their cities where
ley dwelt,

JO For the men of Babylon made So-
lothbenoth: and the Cuthitesmade Ner-
3l : and the men of Emath made Asima.
U And the Hevites made Nebahaz and
harthac. And they that were of Sephar-
aim burnt their children in fire, zo
dramelech and Anamelech the gods of
epharvaim.

i>2 And nevertheless they worshipped the
lord. And they made to themselves, of
pe lowest of the people, priests of the
iigh places, and they placed them in the
I3mple8 of the high places.
i33 And when they worshipped the Lord,
ley served also their own gods accord-
iig to the custom of the nations out of
'hich they were brought to Samaria :

k Gen. 32. 28. — I 2 Par. 28. 27. and 29. 1.
m B. C. 727.

Chap. 18. Ver.4. And he called its name Nuties-
zn. That is^thtir brass: or a little brass. So he

The reign of Ezechias

34 Unto this day they followed the old
manner: they fear not the Lord, nei-
ther do they keep his ceremonies, and
judgments, and law, and the command-
ment, which the Lord commanded the
children of Jacob, whom he surnamed
Israel: ^

35 With whom he made a covenant, anC
charged them, saying: You shall not fear
strange gods, nor shall you adore them,
nor worship them, nor sacrifice to them.

36 But the Lord your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt with great
power, and a stretched out arm, him shall
you fear, and him shall you adore, and
to him shall you sacrifice.

37 And the ceremonies, and judgments,
and law, and the commandment, which
he wrote for you, you shall observe to do
them always : and you shall not fear
strange gods.

38 And the covenant that he made with
you, you shall not forget : neither shall
ye worship strange gods,

39 But fear the Lord your God, and he
shall deliver you out of the hand of all
your enemies.

40 But they did not hearken, but did
according to their old custom.

41 So these nations feared the Lord, but
nevertheless served also their idols : their
children also and grandchildren, as their
fathers did, so do they unto this day.

CHAPTER 18.

The reign of Ezechias : he abolisheth idolatry and
prospereth. Sennacherib conieth up against him :
Babsaces soliciteth the people to revolt ; and bias-
phem,eth the Lord.

IN 'the third year of Osee the son of
Ela king of Israel, reigned "* Ezechias
the son of Achaz king of Juda.

2 He was five and twenty years old when
he began to reign: and he reigned nine
and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name
of his mother was Abi the daughter of
Zacharias.

3 And he did that which was good be-
fore the Lord, according to all that Da-
vid his father had done.

4 He destroyed the high places, and
broke the statues in pieces, and cut down
the grove^ and broke the brazen serpent,
° which Moses had made : for till that

o Num. 21. 9.

called it in eontempti because :^ey bad made an idol
of it.

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4 KINGS

time the children of Israel burnt incense
to it : and he called its name Nohestan.

6 He trusted in the Lord the God of
Israel: so that after him there was none
like him among all the kings of Juda, nor
any of them that were before him :

6 And he stuck to the Lord, and de-
parted not from his steps, but kept his
commandments, which the Lord com-
manded Moses.

7 Wherefore the Lord also was with him,
and in all things, to which he went forth,
he behaved himself wisely. And he re-
belled against the king of the Assyrians,
and served him not.

8 He smote the Philistines as far as
Gaza, and all their borders, from the
tower of the watchmen to the fenced
city.

9 ^ In the fourth year of king Ezechias,
which was the seventh year of Osee the
eon of Ela king of Israel, Salmanasar king
of the Assyrians came up to Samaria, and
besieged it,

10 And took it. For after three years,
in the sixth year of Ezechias, that is, in
the ninth year of Osee king of Israel,
Samaria was taken: ^

11 And the king of the Assyrians car-
ried away Israel into Assyria, and placed
them in Hala and in Habor by the rivers
Of Gozan in the cities of the Medes:

12 Because they hearkened not to the
voice of the Lord their God, but trans-
gressed his covenant : all that Moses the
servant of the Lord commanded, they
would not hear nor do.

13 '"In the fourteenth year of king Eze-
chias, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians
came up against the fenced cities of Juda:
and took them.

14 Then Ezechias king of Juda sent mes-
sengers to the king of the Assyrians to
Lachis, saying : I have offended, depart
from me : and all that thou shalt put
upon me, I will bear. And the king of
the Assyrians put a tax upon Ezechias
king of Juda, of three hundred talents of
silver, and thirty talents of gold.

15 And Ezechias gave all the silver that
was found in the house of the Lord, and
in the king's treasures.

16 At that time Ezechias broke the doors
of the temple of the Lord, and the plates
of gold which he had fastened on them,

p Supra 17. 6 ; Tob. 1. 2. ; B. C 723. — g B. C 721.

Jerusalem is besieged

and gave them to the king of the As-
syrians.

17 And the king of the Assyrians sent
Tharthan and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces
from Lachis to king Ezechias with a
strong army to Jerusalem : and they went
up and came to Jerusalem, and they
stood by the conduit of the upper pool,
which is in the way of the fuller's field.

18 And they called for the king: and
there went out to them Eliacim the son
of Helcias who was over the house, and
Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of
Asaph the recorder.

19 And Rabsaces said to them : Speak
to Ezechias : Thus saith the great king,
the king of the Assyrians : What is this
confidence, wherein thou trustest ?

20 Perhaps thou hast taken counsel, to
prepare thyself for battle. On whom dost
thou trust, that thou darest to rebel ?

21 Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of
a broken reed, upon which if a man lean,
it will break and go into his hand, and
pierce it? so is Pharao king of Egypt, to
all that trust in him.

22 But if you say to me : We trust in
the Lord our God : is it not he, whose
high places and altars Ezechias hath
taken away: and hath commanded Juda
and Jerusalem: You shall worship before
this altar in Jerusalem?

23 Now therefore come over to my mas
ter the king of the Assyrians, and I will
give you two thousand horses, and see
whether you be able to have riders for
them.

24 And how can you stand against one
lord of the least of my master's servants?
Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and
for horsemen ?

25 Is it without the will of the Lord that
I am come up to this place to destroy it?
The Lord said to me : Go up to this land
and destroy it.

26 Then Eliacim the son of Helcias, and
Sobna, and Joahe said to Rabsaces : We
pray thee speak to us thy servants in
Syriac: for we understand that tongue;
and speak not to us in the Jews' language,
in the hearing of the people that are
upon the wall.

27 And Rabsaces answered them, say-
ing: Hath my master sent me to thy
master and to thee, to speak these words,

r 2 Par. 32. 1. ; Eccli. 48. 20 ; Isa. 36. 1. The expe-
dition of Sennacherib was in 701 B. C.

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^hsaces* address to the Jews

4 KINGS

Isaias reassures the Jews

jid not rather to th^ men that sit upon
he wall, that they may eat their own
lung, and drink their urine with you ?

28 Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out
yith a loud voice in the Jews' language,
.nd said: Hear the words of the great
:ing, the king of the Assyrians.

29 Thus saith the king : Let not Eze-
ihias deceive you : for he shall not be
ible to deliver you out of my hand.

30 Neither let him make you trust in the
jord, saying : The Lord will surely deliver
18, and this city shall not be given into
he hand of the king of the Assyrians.

31 Do not hearken to Ezechias. For thus
■aith the king of the Assyrians : Do with
ne that which is for your advantage, and
'some out to me : and every man of you
ihall eat of his own vineyard, and of his
)wn fig tree : and you shall drink water
)f your own cisterns,

32 Till I come, and take you away to a
and, like to your own land, a fruitful
'and, and plentiful in wine, a land of
)read and vineyards, a land of olives,
md oil and honey, and you shall live,
md not die. Hearken not to Ezechias,
vho deceiveth you, saying: The Lord
;dll dehver us.

33 Have any of the gods of the nations
ielivered their land from the hand of the
ting of Assyria ?

34 * Where is the god of Emath, and of
Arphad ? where is the god of Sepharvaim,
!)f Ana, and of Ava ? * have they deliv-
ered Samaria out of my hand ?

' 35 Who are they among all the gods of
jhe nations, that have delivered their
country out of my hand, that the Lord
bay deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ?

36 But the people held their peace, and
inswered him not a word: for they had
received commandment from the king
Ibhat they should not answer him.

37 And Eliacim the son of Helcias, who
was over the house, and Sobna the scribe,
and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder,
came to Ezechias, with their garments
rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.

j CHAPTER 19.

Ezechias is assured of God's help by Isaias the pro-
phet. The king of the Assyrians still threateneth
and blasphemeth. Ezechias prayeth, and Godpro-

I miseth to protect Jerusalem. An angel destroyeth

! the army of the Assyrians, their king retumeth to

' N^inive, and is slain by his two sons.

$ Infra 19. 13 ; Isa. lo. 9, and 37. 13. — t Supra 17. 24.

AND ^ when king Ezechias heard thes^^
^ words, he rent his garments, and
covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into the house of the Lord.

2 ^ And he sent Eliacim, who was over
the house, and Sobna the scribe, and the
ancients of the priests covered with sack-
cloths, to Isaias the prophet the son of
Amos,

3 And they said to him : Thus saith Eze-
chias : This day is a day of tribulation,
and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: the
children are come to the birth, and the
woman in travail hath not strength.

4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear
all the words of Rabsaces, whom the king
of the Assyrians his master hath sent to
reproach the living God, and to reprove
with words, which the Lord thy God hath
heard: and do thou offer prayer for the
remnants that are found.

6 So the servants of king Ezechias came
to Isaias,

6 And Isaias said to them : Thus shall
you say to your master: Thus saith the
Lord: Be not afraid for the words which
thou hast heard, with which the servants
of the king of the Assyrians have blas-
phemed me.

7 Behold I will send a spirit upon him,
and he shall hear a message, and shall
return into his own country, and I will
make him fall by the sword in his own
country.

8 And Rabsaces returned, and found the
king of the Assyrians besieging Lobnas
for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachis.

9 And when he heard of Theraca king
of Ethiopia : Behold, he is come out to
fight with thee: and was going against
him, he sent messengers to Ezechias,
saying :

10 Thus shall you say to Ezechias king
of Juda: Let not thy God deceive thee,
in whom thou trustest : and do not say:
Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the
hands of the king of the Assyrians.

11 Behold thou hast heard what the
kings of the Assyrians have done to all
countries, how they have laid them waste:
and canst thou alone be delivered?

12 Have the gods of the nations deliv-
ered any of them, whom my fathers have
destroyed, to wit, Gozan, and Haran, and

u Isa. 37. 1. — V B. C. 701.

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The prayer of Ezechias

4 KINGS

The answer of Jsaioi

Beseph, and the children of Eden that
were in Thelassar ?

13 Where is the king of Emath, and the
king of Arphad, and the king of the city
of Sepharvaim, of Ana and of Ava ?

14 And when Ezechias had received the
letter of the hand of the messengers, and
had read it, he went up to the house of
the Lord, and spread it before the Lord,

15 And he prayed in his sight, saying :
O Lord God of Israel, who sitteth upon
the cherubims, thou alone art the God of
all the kings of the earth: thou madest
heaven and earth :

16 Incline thy ear, and hear : open, O
Lord, thy eyes, and see : and hear all the
words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to
upbraid unto us the living God.

17 Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the
Assyrians have destroyed nations, and
the lands of them all.

18 And they have cast their gods into
the fire : for they were not gods, but the
works of men's hands of wood and stone,
and they destroyed them.

19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, save
us from his hand, that ali the kingdoms
of the earth may know, that thou art the
Lord the only God.

20 And Isaias the son of Amos sent to
Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord
the God of Israel: I have heard the
prayer thou hast made to me concerning
Sennacherib king of the Assyrians.

21 This is the word, that the Lord hath
spoken of him : The virgin the daughter
of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed
thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusa-
lem hath wagged her head behind thy.
back.

22 Whom hast thou reproached, and
whom hast thou blasphemed? against
whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and
lifted up thy eyes on high? against the
holy one of Israel.

23 By the hand of thy servants thou
hast reproached the Lord, and hast said :
With the multitude of my chariots I have
gone up to the height of the mountains,
to the top of Libanus, and have cut down

Chap. 19. Ver. 23. CarmeL A pleasant fruitful
hill in the forest. These expressions are figurative,
signifying under the names of mountains and forests,
the kings and provinces whom the Assyrians had
triumphed over.

Ver. 25. I have formed it, &c. All thy exploits,
in wMch thou takest pride, are no more than what

its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees.
And I have entered into the furthest
parts thereof, and the forest of its
Carmel.

24 I have cut down, and I have drunk
strange waters, and have dried up with
the soles of my feet all the shut up
waters.

25 Hast thou not heard what I have
done from the beginning ? from the days
of old I have formed it, and now I have
brought it to effect : that fenced cities of
fighting men should be turned to heaps
of ruin :

26 And the inhabitants of them, were
weak of hand, they trembled and were
confounded, they became like the grass
of the field, and the green herb on the
tops of houses, which withered before it
came to maturity.

27 Thy dwelling and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy way I knew be-
fore, and thy rage against me.

28 Thou hast been mad against me, and
thy pride hath come up to my ears;
therefore I will put a ring in thy nose,
and a bit between thy lips, and I will
turn thee back by the way, by which
thou camest. .

29 And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be
a sign : ^ Eat this year what thou shalt
find : and in the second year, such things
as spring of themselves : but in the third
year sow and reap : plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit of them.

30 And whatsoever shall be left of the
house of Juda, shall take root downward,
and bear fruit upward.

31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and that which shall be saved
out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord
of hosts shall do this.

32 Wherefore thus saith the Lord con-
cerning the king of the Assyrians : He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot
an arrow into it, nor come before it with
shield, nor cast a trench about it.

33 By the way that he came, he shall
retm*n: and into this city he shall not
come, saith the Lord.

w Isa. 37. 30.

I have decreed ; and are not to be ascribed to thy
wisdom or strength, but to my will and ordinance:
who have given to thee to take and destroy so many
fenced cities, and to carry terror wherever tnou
comest. — Ibid. Heaps of ruin» Literally, rm/i o/
hills.

41d

le Assyrians slain by an angel 4 KINGS

The dial of Achaz

'i And I will protect this city, and will J
76 it for my own sake, and for David
r servant's sake.

5 ^ And it came to pass that night, that
i angel of the Lord came, and slew
I the camp of the Assyrians a hundred
I d eighty- five thousand. And when he
Dse early in the morning, he saw all
e bodies of the dead.

6 And Sennacherib king of the Assyr-
is departing went away, and he re-
rned and abode in Ninive.

7 ^ And as he was worshipping in the
mple of Nesroch his god, Adramelech
id Sarasar his sons slew him with the
7ord, and they fled into the land of
e Armenians, and Asarhaddon his son
igned in his stead.

CHAPTER 20.

echias being sick, is told by Isaias that he shaU
lie; but praying to God, he obtaineth longer life,
ind in confirmation thereof receiveth a sign by
he spin's returning back. He she^ceth all his treuy
mres to the ambassadors of the king of Babylon:
Isaias reproving him for it, foretelleth the Baby-
'^nish captivity.

N ^ those days Ezechias was sick unto

. death : and Isaias the son of Amos the

•ophet came and said to liim : Thus saith

le Lord God: Give charge concerning

ly house, for thou shalt die, and not

v^e.

5 And he turned his face to the wall,

id prayed to the Lord, saying:

} I beseech thee, O Lord, remember

3W I have walked before thee in truth,

id with a perfect heart, and have done

lat which is pleasing before thee. And

zechias wept with much weeping.

[ And before Isaias was gone out of the

iddle of the court, the word of the Lord

ime to him, saying :

) Go back, and tell Ezechias the captain

I my people : Thus saith the Lord the

od of David thy father : I have heard

ly prayer, and I have seen thy tears :

id behold I have healed thee ; on the

lird day thou shalt go up to the temple

I the Lord.

3 And I will add to thy days fifteen

ears : and I will deliver thee and this

ty out of the hand of the king of the

ssyrians, and I will protect this city for

Ly own sake, and for David my servant's

ike.

7 And Isaias said : Bring me a lump of

X Tob. 1. 21 ; Eccli. 48. 24 ; Isa. 37. 36 ;
1 Mac. 7. 41 ; 2 Mac 3. IS. — y Tob. 1. 24.

figs. And when they had brought it, and
laid it upon his boil, he was healed.

8 And Ezechias had said to Isaias : What
shall be the sign that the Lord will heal
me, and that I shall go up to the temple
of the Lord the third day ?

9 And Isaias said to him : This shall be
the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will
do the word which he hath spoken:
Wilt thou that the shadow go forward
ten lines, or that it go back so many de-
grees?

10 And Ezechias said: It is an easy
matter for the shadow to go forward ten
lines : and I do not desire that this be
done, but let it return back ten degrees.

11 And Isaias the prophet called upon
the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten
degrees backwards by the lines, by which
it had already gone down in the dial of
Achaz.

12 "' At that time Berodach Baladan, the
son of Baladan, king of the Babylonians,
sent letters and presents to Ezechias:
for he had heard that Ezechias had been
sick.

13 And Ezechias rejoiced at their com-
ing, and he showed them the house of
his aromatical spices, and the gold and
the silver, and divers precious odours,
and ointments, and the house of his
vessels, and all that he had in his trea-
sures. There was nothing in his house,
nor in all his dominions that Ezechias
shewed them not.

14 And Isaias the prophet came to king
Ezechias, and said to him : What said
these men? or from whence came they
to thee? And Ezechias said to him:
From a far country they came to me out
of Babylon.

15 And he said : What did they see in
thy house ? Ezechias said : They saw all
the things that are in my house : there
is nothing among my treasures that I
have not shewn them.

16 And Isaias said to Ezechias : Hear
the word of the Lord.

17 Behold the days shall come, that all
that is in thy house, and that thy fathers
have laid up in store unto this day, shall
be carried into Babylon : nothing shall
be left, saith the Lord.

18 And of thy sons also that shall issue
from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they

•2Far. 32. 24; Isa. 38.1.

a Isa. 39. 1.

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The wicked reign of Manasses 4 KINGS God threatens by His prophets

^lall take away, aiid t Jiey shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of Babylon.

19 Ezechias said to Isaias: The word of
the Lord, which thou hast spoken, is
good: let peace and truth be in my
days,

20 And the rest of the acts of Ezechias
and all his might, and how he made a
pool, and a conduit, and brought waters
into the city, are they not written in the
book of the words of the days of the
kings of Juda ?

21 ^ And Ezechias slept with his fathers,
and Manasses his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 21.

The wickedness of Manasses : God's threats by his
prophets. His wicked son Amon succeedeth him,^
and is slain by his servants.

MANASSES ^was twelve years old
when he began to reign, and he
reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem :
the name of his mother was Haphsiba.

2 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, according to the idols of the na-
tions, which the Lord destroyed from
before the face of the children of Is-
rael.

3 ^ And he turned, and built up the high
places which Ezechias his father had de-
stroyed : and he set up altars to Baal,
and made groves, as Achab the king of
Israel had done : and he adored all the
host of heaven, and served them.

4 And he built altars in the house of the
Lord, of which the Lord said: ®In Jeru-
salem I will put my name.

6 And he built altars for all the host of
heaven in the two courts of the temple
of the Lord.

6 And he made his son pass through
fire: and he used divination, and ob-
served omens, and appointed pythons,
and multiplied soothsayers to do evil be-
fore the Lord, and to provoke him.

7 He set also an idol of the grove,
which he had made, in the temple of the
Lord: -^concerning which the Lord said
to David, and to Solomon his son : In this
temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I
will put my name for ever.

8 And I will no more make the feet of
Israel to be moved out of the land, which

6 B. C. 698. — c 2 Par. 33. 1.

d 2 Par. 33. 3. — e 2 Kings 7. 10,

I gave to their fathers : only if they will
observe to do all that I have commanded
them according to the law which my ser-
vant Moses commanded them.

9 But they hearkened not: but were
seduced by Manasses, to do evil more
than the nations which the Lord de-
stroyed before the children of Israel

10 And the Lord spoke in the hand of
his servants, the prophets, saying:

11 s' Because Manasses king of Juda
hath done these most wicked abomina-
tions, beyond all that the Amorrhites did
before him, and hath made Juda also to
sin with his filthy doings :

12 Therefore thus saith the Lord the
God of Israel : Behold I will bring on
evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that
whosoever shall hear of them, both hli
ears shall tingle.

13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem
the line of Samaria, and the weight of the
house of Achab : and I will efface Jeru-
salem, as tables are wont to be effaced,
and I will erase and turn it, and draw
the pencil often over the face thereot

14 And I will leave the remnants of my
inheritance, and will deliver them into
the hands of their enemies: and they
shall become a prey, and a spoil to aU
their enemies.

15 Because they have done evil before
me, and have continued to provoke me,
from the day that their fathers came out
of Egypt, even unto this day.

16 ^Moreover Manasses shed also very
much innocent blood, till he filled Jeru-
salem up to the mouth : besides his sins,
wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do
evil before the Lord.

17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasses,
and all that he did, and his sin which he
sinned, are they not written in the book
of the words of the days of the kings of
Juda ?

18 And Manasses slept * with his fathers,
and was buried in the garden of his own
house, in the garden of Oza : and Amon
his son reigned in his stead.

19 Two and twenty years old was Amon
when he began to reign, and he reigned
two years in Jerusalem : the name of his
mother was Messalemeth the daughter
of Harus of Jeteba.

/2 Kings 7. 26 ; 3 Kings 8. 16, and 9. 5.— fir Jer. 15. 4.
h Infra 24. A.—i Ante C. 643.

Chap. 21. Ver. 6. Pyth&ns. That is, diviners by spirit».

412

^he reign of Josias

20 And he did evil in the sight of the
ord, as Manassas his father had done.

21 And he walked in all the way in
rhich his father had walked: and he
Brved the abominations which his father
ad served, and he adored them ;

22 And forsook the Lord the God of his
athers, and walked not in the way of
he Lord.

23 And his servants plotted against him,
nd slew the king in his own house.

24 But the people of the land slew all
hem that had conspired against king
Lmon: and made Josias his son their
dng in his stead.

25 But the rest of the acts of Amon
7hich he did, are they not written in the
K)ok of the words of the days of the kings
if Juda?

26 And they buried him in his sepulchre
n the garden of Oza : and his son Josias
«igned in his stead.

CHAPTER 22.

^oeicis tepaireth the temple. The book of the law is
founds upon which they consult the Lord, and are
told that great evils shall fall upon them^ but not
in the time of Josias.

wj began to reign : he reigned one and
■ihirty years in Jerusalem: the name of
"lis mother was Idida, the daughter of
ladaia, of Besecath.

2 And he did that which was right in the
light of the Lord, and walked in all the
NSLys of David his father : he turned not
iside to the right hand, or to the left.

3 And in the eighteenth year of '^ king
Fosias, the king sent Saphan the son of
i^ssia, the son of Messulam, the scribe
3f the temple of the Lord, saying to
aim:

4 Go to Helcias the high priest, that
:he money may be put together which
is brought into the temple of the Lord,
w^hich the doorkeepers of the temple
bave gathered of the people.

5 And let it be given to the workmen by
the overseers of the house of the Lord :
and let them distribute it to those that
work in the temple of the Lord, to re-
pair the temple:

6 That is, to carpenters and masons, and
to such as mend breaches : and that tim-
ber may be bought, and stones out of the

4 KINGS The book of the Law is found

""TOSIAS - was eight years old when he

i2 Par. 34. 1. B. C. 641.

Chap. 22. Ver. 8
Deuteronomy.

Th^ book of the law, ttiat is,

quarries, to repair the temple of the
Lord.

7 But let there be no reckoning made
with them of the money which they re-
ceive, but let them have it in their power,
and in their trust.

8 And Helcias the high priest said to
Saphan the scribe: 'I have found the
book of the law in the house of the Lord :
and Helcias gave the book to Saphan, and
he read it.

9 And Saphan the scribe came to the
king, and brought him word again con-
Qerning that which he had commanded,
and said : Thy servants have gathered
together the money that was found in
the house of the Lord, and they have
given it to be distributed to the work-
men, by the overseers of the works of
the temple of the Lord.

10 And Saphan the scribe told the king,
saying : Helcias the priest hath delivered
to me a book. And when Saphan had
read it before the king,

11 And the king had heard the worda
of the law of the Lord, he rent his gar-
ments.

12 And he commanded Helcias the priest,
and Ahicam the son of Saphan, and Acho-
bor the son of Micha, and Saphan the
scribe, and Asaia the king's servant, say-
ing:

13 Go and consult the Lord for me, and
for the people, and for all Juda, concern-
ing the words of this book which is
found : for the great wrath of the Lord is
kindled against us, because our fathers
have not hearkened to the words of this
book, to do all that is written for us.

14 So Helcias the priest, and Ahicam,
and Achobor, and Saphan, and Asaia
went to Holda the prophetess the wife of
Solium the son of Thecua, the son of
Araas keeper of the wardrobe, who dwelt
in Jerusalem in the Second: and they
spoke to her.

15 And she said to them: Thussaith the
Lord the God of Israel: Tell the man that
sent you to me:

16 Thus saith the Lord : Behold, I will
bring evils upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants thereof, all the words of the
law which the king of Juda hath read :

17 Because they have forsaken me, and

k B, C. 624. — ; 2 Par. 44. 14.

Ver. 14. The Second : a street, or part of tlie city^
SO called ; in Hebrew, Massem-

413

Josias reads the hook of the Law 4 KINGS

He abolishes idolatry

have sacrificed to strange gods, provok-
ing me by all the works of their hands :
therefore my indignation shall be kin-
dled against this place, and shall not be
quenched.

18 But to the king of Juda, who sent
you to consult the Lord, thus shall you
say: Thus saith the Lord the God of Is-
rael: Forasmuch as thou hast heard the
words of the book,

19 And thy heart hath been moved to
fear, and thou hast humbled thyself be-
fore the Lord, hearing the words against
this place, and the inhabitants thereof,
to wit, that they should become a won-
der and a curse : and thou hast rent thy
garments, and wept before me, I also
ha\8 heard thee, saith the Lord:

20 Therefore I will gather thee to thy
fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to
thy sepulchre in peace, that thy eyes may
nob see all the evils which I will bring
upon this place.

CHAPTER 23.

Josias readeth the law before all the people. They
promise to observe it. He abolisheth all idolatry,
celebrateth the phase : is slain in battle by the king
of Egypt. The short reign of Joachaz^ in whose
place Joakim is made king.

AND ^ they brought the king word
XA- again what she had said. And he
sent: and all the ancients of Juda and
Jerusalem were assembled to him.

2 And the king went up to the temple
of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him,
the priests and the prophets, and all the
people both little and great : and in the
hearing of them all he read all the words
of the book of the covenant, which was
found in the house of the Lord.

3 And the king stood upon the step : and
made a covenant with the Lord, to walk
after the Lord, and to keep his command-
ments, and his testimonies and his cere-
monies, with all their heart, and with all
their soul, and to perform the words of
this covenant, which were written in that
book : and the people agreed io the cov-
enant.

4 And the king commanded Helcias the
high priest, and the priests of the second
order, and the doorkeepers, ** to cast out
of the temple of the Lord all the vessels

m 2 Par. 34. 28. B. C. 689.

that had been made for Baal, and for the
grove, and for all the host of heaven:
and he burnt them without Jerusalem Id
the valley of Cedron, and he carried the
ashes of them to Bethel.

5 And he destroyed the soothsayers,
whom the kings of Juda had appointed
to sacrifice in the high places in the
cities of Juda, and round about Jerusa-
lem: them also that burnt incense to
Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon,
and to the twelve signs, and to all the
host of heaven.

6 And he caused the grove to be carried
out from the house of the Lord without
Jerusalem to the valley of Cedron, and he
burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and
cast the dust upon the graves of the com-
mon people.

7 He destroyed also the pavilions of the
effeminate, which were in the house of
the Lord, for which the women wove as
it were little dwellings for the grove.

8 And he gathered together all the
priests out of the cities of Juda: and he
defiled the high p'.aces, where the prieste
offered sacrifice, Irom Gabaa to Bersabee:
and he broke down the altars of the gates
that were in the entering in of the gate
of Josue governor of the city, which was
on the left hand of the gate of the city.

9 However the priests of the high places
came not up to the altar of the Lord in
Jerusalem: but only ate of the unleav-
ened bread among their brethren.

10 And he defiled Topheth, which is ir
the valley of the son of Ennom : that no,
man should consecrate there his son orj
his daughter through fire to Moloch. i

11 And he took away the horses which!
the kings of Juda had given to the 8un,j
at the entering in of the temple of the
Lord, near the chamber of Nathanmelecb
the eunuch, who was in Pharurim : and
he burnt the chariots of the sun with
fire.

12 And the altars that were upon the
top of the upper chamber of Achaz, whict
the kings of Juda had made, and the
altars which Man asses had made in the
two courts of the temple of the Lord
the king broke down: and he ran from
thence, and cast the ashes of them intc
the torrent Cedron.

n Eccli. 49. 3.

Chap, 23. Ver. 3. The king stood upon the step :
that is, bis tribune, or tribunal, a more eminent

place, from whence h© might be seen and heard h}
the people.

il4

'he Phase is celebrated

4 KINGS

Josias is slain

13 The high places also that were at
erusalem on the right side of the Mount
'f Offence, ° which Solomon king of Israel
ad built to Astaroth the idol of the Si-
onians, and to Chamos the scandal of
loab, and to Melchom the abomination
f the children of Ammon, the king de-
led.

14 And he broke in pieces the statues,
'nd cut down the groves: and he filled
aeir places with the bones of dead men.

15 P Moreover the altar also that was at
ethel, and the high place, which Jero-
oam the son of Nabat, who made Israel
'd sin, had made : both the altar, and the
igh place he broke down and burnt, and
3duced to powder, and burnt the grove.

16 And as Josias turned himself, he saw
aere the sepulchres that were in the
iiount: and he sent and took the bones
at of the sepulchres, and burnt them
pen the altar, and defiled it according
b the word of the Lord, which the man of
fed spoke, who had foretold these things.

17 5 And he said: What is that monument
^hich I see ? And the men of that city
nswered : It is the sepulchre of the man
f God, who came from Juda, and fore-
Did these things which thou hast done
pen the altar of Bethel.

18 And he said: Let him alone, let no
lan move his bones. So his bones were
jft untouched with the bones of the pro-
het that came out of Samaria.

t9 Moreover all the temples of the high
laces, which were in the cities of Sama-
ia, which the kings of Israel had made
0 provoke the Lord, Josias took away :
nd he did to them according to all the
cts that he had done in Bethel.

20 And he slew all the priests of the
igh places, that were there, upon the
Itars: and he burnt men's bones upon
hem : and leturned to Jerusalem.

21 *■ And he commanded all the people,
aying : Keep the phase to the Lord your
Jod, according as it is written in the
ook of this covenant.

22 Now there was no such a phase kept
rem the days of the judges, who judged
srael, nor in all the days of the kings of
srael, and of the kings of Juda,

23 As was this phase that was kept to
he Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth
'ear of king Josias.

o 3 Kings 11. 7. — p 3 Kings 13.32.
q 3 Kings 13. 1. -_r 2 Par. 35. LA. M. 8381.

24 Moreover the diviners by spirits, and
soothsayers, and the figures of idols, and
the uncleannesses, and the abominations,
that had been in the land of Juda ^nd
Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he
might perform the words of the law,
that were written in the book which Hel-
cias the priest had found in the temple of
the Lord.

25 There was no king before him like
unto him, that returned to the Lord with
all his heart, and with all his soul, and
with all his strength, according to all the
law of Moses: neither after him did
there arise any Uke him.

26 But yet the Lord turned not away
from the wrath of his great indignation,
wherewith his anger was kindled against
Juda: because of the provocations,
wherewith Manasses had provoked him.

27 ® And the Lord said: I will remove
Juda also from before my face, as I have
removed Israel : and I will cast off this
city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the
house, of which I said : My name shall
be there.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josias,
and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Juda?

29 * In his days Pharao Nechao king of
Egypt **went up against the king of
Assyria to the river Euphrates: and
king Josias went to meet him : and was
slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him.

30 And his servants carried him dead
from Mageddo: and they brought him
to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own
Sepulchre. And the people of the land
took Joachaz the son of Josias : and they
anointed him, and made him king in his
father's stead.

31 ^Joachaz was three and twenty years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem : the
name of his mother was Amital, the
daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

32 And he did evil before the Lord, ac-
cording to all that his fathers had done.

33 And Pharao Nechao bound him at
Rebla, which is in the land of Emath,
that he should not reign in Jerusalem:
and he set a fine upon the land, of a hun-
dred talents of silver, and a talent of
gold.

s Infra 24. 2. — t2 Par. 35. 20.
u B. C. 610. — v 2 Par. 36. 2.

The reign of Joakim

4 KINGS

The reign of Joachin

34 And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim
the son of Josias king in the room of
Josias his father: and turned his name
to Joakim. And he took Joachaz away
and carried him into Egypt, and he died
there.

35 And Joakim gave the silver and the
gold to Pharao, after he had taxed the
land for every man, to contribute ac-
cording to the commandment of Pharao :
and he exacted both the silver and the
gold of the people of the land, of every
man according to his ability : to give to
Pharao Nechao.

36 "'Joakim was five and twenty years
old when he began to reign: '^and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem : the
name of his mother was Zebidathe daugh-
ter of Phadaia of Ruma.

37 And he did evil before the Lord ac-
cording to all that his fathers had done.

CHAPTER 24.

The reign of Joakim^ Joachin^ and Sedecias.

IN his days Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon came up, 2/ and Joakim be-
came his servant three years : then again
he rebelled against him.

2 And the Lord sent against him the
rovers of the Chaldees, and the rovers of
Syria, and the rovers of Moab, and the
rovers of the children of Ammon: and
he sent them against Juda, to destroy it,
* according to the word of the Lord,
which he had spoken by his servants
the prophets.

3 And this came by the word of the
Lord against Juda, to remove them from
before him for all the sins of Manasses
which he did.

4 And for the innocent blood that he
shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent
blood: and therefore the Lord would
not be appeased.

6 But the rest of the acts of Joakim,
and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the words of the days of
the kings of Juda? And Joakim slept
with his fathers:

6 And Joachin his son reigned in his
stead.

7 And the king of Egypt came not

w 2 Par. 36. 5

yB. C. 606.—

aB. C. 598.-

— X B.
z Supra
-h Dan

23
. 1.

60y.

. 27.
1.

again any more out of his own country:
for the king of Babylon had taken all that
had belonged to the king of Egypt, froiD
the river of Egypt, unto the river Eu-
phrates.

8 Joachin was eighteen years old when
he began to reign, ** and he reigned three
months in Jerusalem: the name of hig
mother was Nohesta the daughter ol
Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9 And he did evil before the Lord, ac-
cording to all that his father had done.

10 ^ At that time the servants of Nabu-
chodonosor king of Babylon came up
against Jerusalem, and the city was but
rounded with their forts.

11 And Nabuchodonosor king of Baby
Ion came to the city with his servantf
to assault it.

12 And Joachin king of Juda went ou^
to the king of Babylon, he and hii
mother, and his servants, and his noblei
and his eunuchs : and the king of Baby
Ion received him in the eighth year o;|
his reign.

13 And he brought out from thence alj
the treasures of the house of the Lon
and the treasures of the king's house
and he cut in pieces all the vessels o|
gold which Solomon king of Israel ha<
made in the temple of the Lord, acco
ing to the word of the Lord. ^

14 And he carried away all Jerusale:
and all the princes, and all the valia;
men of the army, to the number of te:
thousand into captivity: and every artij
ficer and smith : and none were left, b
the poor sort of the people of the land.

15 ^ And he carried away Joachin ini
Babylon, and the king's mother, and th|
king's wives, and his eunuchs: and th
judges of the land he carried into cap
tivity from Jerusalem into Babylon.

16 And all the strong men, seven thoi
sand, and the artificers, and the smith
a thousand, all that were valiant me
and fit for war : and the king of Babylo
led them captives into Babylon.

17 *And he appointed Matthanias h:
uncle in his stead : and called his nam
Sedecias.

18 Sedecias was one and twenty yeai

c Isa. 39.6. — d 2 Par. 36. 10 ; Esther 2, 6, and
11. 4 ; Ezech. 17. 12 ; Jer. 24. 1, and 39. 2. B. C. 6S
e Jer. 37. 1, and 52. 1.

CfiAP. 24. Ver. 2. The Lord sent against him the rovers. Latrunculos. Bands «r parties of men, wli<

pillaged and plundered wherever they came.

416

lisalem is besieged and taken 4 KINGS

( when he began to reign, and he
ined eleven years in Jerusalem; the
te of his mother was Amital, the
i>hter of Jeremias of Lobna.
And he did evil before the Lord,
►•rding to all that Joakim had done,
I For the Lord was angry against Jeru-
■ m and against Juda, till he cast them
> from his face : and Sedecias revolted
[1 the king of Babylon.

CHAPTER 25.

Ialem is besieged and taken by Nahuchodxmo-
: Sedecias is taken : the city and temple are
troyed. Godolias, who is left governor, is
in. Joachin is exalted by Evxlmerodach.
TD -^it came to pass in the ninth year
". of his reign, ^ in the tenth month,
.tenth day of the month, that Nab-
j)donosor king of Babylon came, he
i all his army against Jerusalem : and

' surrounded it: and raised works

id about it.

jid the city was shut up and bes^'eged
,.;he eleventh year of king Sed^^cias,
1 he ninth day of the month : and a
) ne prevailed in the city, and there
;, no bread for the people of the land.
; |.nd a breach was made into the city :
V all the men of war fled in the night
i,/een the two wails by the king's
^len, (now the Chaldees besi^Jged the
t round about,) and SetleciaF fied by
|Way that leadeth to the< plains of the
Ljerness.

,.nd the army of the Chaldee* pur-
,1 after the king, and overtook him
|he plains of Jericho: and all the
priors that were with him were scat-
id, and left him :

|)0 they took the king, and brought

to the king of Babylon to Reblatha,

he gave judgment upon him.

Jid he olew the sons of Sedecias be-
his face, and he put out his eyes,

bound him with chains, and brought

to Babylon.

a the fifth month, the seventh day

le month, that is, the nineteenth year
,16 king of Babylon, came Nabuzardan
',mander ot the army, a servant of the

: of Babylon, into Jerusalem.
', And he burnt the house of the Lord,
il the king's house, and the houses
lerusalem, and every house he burnt
il firoo

Juda taken into captivity

10 And ell the army of the Chaldees
which wac with tho commander of the
troops, broke down the walls of Jerusa-
lem round about.

11 And Nabuzardan the commander of
the army, carried away the rest of the
people that remained in the city, and the
fugitives that had gone over to the king
of Babylon, and the remnant of the com-
mon people.

12 But of the poor of the land he left
some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

13-^ And the pillars of brass that were
in the temple of the Lord, and the bases,
and the sea of brass which was in the
house of the Lord, the Chaldees broke in
pieces, and carried all the brass of them
to Babylon.

14 They took away also the pots ol
brass, and the mazers, and the forks, and
the cups, and the mortars, and all the
V'^ssels of brass with which they minis-
tered.

16 Moreover also the censers, and the
bowls, such as were of gold in gold, and
suoh as were of silver in silver, the gen-
eral of the army took away.

l(i That is, two pillars, one sea, and the
bases which Solomon had made in the
temple of the Lord: the brass of all these
vessels was without weight.

17 '^ One pillar was eighteen cubits high,
and the chapiter of brass which was upoit
it was three cubits high: and the net-
work, and the pomegranates that were
upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all
of brass: and the second pillar k*d the
like adorning.

18 A.nd the general of th© army took
Seraias the chief priest, and Sophonias
the second priest, and three doorkeepers.

19 And out of the city one eunuch, who
was captain over the men of war ; and
five men of them that had stood before
the king, whom he found in the city,
and Sopher the captain of the army who
exercised the young soldiers of the peo-
ple of the land : and threescore men of
the common people, who were found in
the city.

20 These Nabuzardan the general of the
army took away, and carried them to the
king of Babylon to Reblatha.

21 And the king of Babylon smote them,
and slew them at Reblatha in the land of

0 Jer. 39.
27

/ B. C. 589.
4, and 62. 4.—h Ps. 78. 7.

tB. C. 587. — 5 Jer. 27.
k 3 Kings 7. 15 ; 2 Par. 3. 16 •

19.
Jev. 52. 21.

417

Oodolias governor in J u da 1 PAEALIPOMENON J oachin treated kindl

Kmath: so Jnda was carried away out
of their land.

22 ' But over the people that remained
in the land of Juda, which Nabuchodono-
Bor king of Babylon had left, he gave the
government to Godolias the son of Ahi-
cam the son of Saphan.

23 And when all the captains of the sol-
diers had heard this, they and the men
that were with them, to wit, that the
king of Babylon had made Godolias gov-
ernor, they came to Godolias to Maspha,
Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Jo-
hanan the son of Caree, and Saraia the
son of Thanehumeth the Netophathite,
and Jezonias the son of Maachathi, they
and their men.

24 And Godolias swore to them and to
their men, saying : Be not afraid to serve
the Chaldees : stay in the land, and serve
the king of Babylon, r.nc it shall be well
with you.

25 But it came to pass in the seventh
month, "^ that Ismael the son of Natha-
nias, the son of Elisama of the seed royal

I came, an^ ten men with him : and smo
I Godolias 8"^ that he died : and also tl
i Jews and the Chaldees that were m
I him in Maspha.

I 26 And all the people both little ai
I great, and the captains of the soldie

rising up went to Egypt, fearing t

Chaldees.

27 ^ And it came to pass in the " sev
and thirtieth year of the captivity
Joachin king of Juda, in the twelf
month the seven and twentieth day
the month: Evilmerodach king of Bat
Ion, in the year that he began to reij
lifted up the head of Joachin king of Ju
out of prison.

28 And he spoke kindly to him: apd
set his throne above the throne of t
kings that were with him in Babylon.

29 And he changed his garments whi ,
he had in prison, and he ate bread
ways before him, all the days of his li

30 And he appointed him a contin
allowance, which was also given him
the king day by day, all the days of his I

THE FIRS'!

BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON

These Books are called by the Greek interpreters, ParalipomenoD, {TlapaXfivo/ievov,) ihnt u
things left out, or omitted ; because they are a kind of a supplement of such things Oi
passed over in the books of the Kings. The Hebrews call them Dibre Haijamim, that is,
words of the days, or The Chronicles. — Not that they are the books which are so c
quoted in the Kings, under the title of the words of the days of the kings of Israel, ar,
the kings of Juda ; for the books of Paralipomenon were written after the books of Ki
bnt because in all probability they have been abridged from those anci«nt words of the dl.
by Esdras or some other sacred writer, '

CHAPTER 1.

The genealogy of the patriarchs down to Abraham :
The posterity of Abraham and of Esatu

ADAM, P Seth, Enos,
. 2 Cainan, Malaleel, Jared,

3 Henoc, Mathusale, Lamech,

4 Noe, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.

5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Ma-
gog, and Madai, and Javan, Thubal, Mo-
soch, Thiras.

6 And the sons of Gomer: Ascenez, and
Riphath, and Thogorma.

IB. C. 587.— m About B. C. 582.
n Jer. 52. 31.— o B. C. 561. 560.

7 And the sons of Javan Elisa
Tharsis, O-thim and Dodanim.

8 The sons of Cham: Chus, and Me(
and Phut, and Chanaan.

9 And the sons of Chus : Saba, and
Vila, Sabatha, and Regma. and Sabath
And the sons of Regma • Saba, and
dan.

ll Now Chus begot ^Nemrod: he bf
to be mighty upon earth.

1 1 But Mesraim begot Ludim, and i
mim, and Laabim, and Nephtuim,

p Gea 2. 7, and 4. 25, and 5. 6. 9
q Gen. 10. 8.

418

nealogy of the patriarchs 1 PARALIPOMENON

The kings of Edom

Phetrusim also, and Casluim: from
)m came the Philistines, and Caphto-

And Chanaan begot Sidon his first-
, and the Hethite,
And the Jebusite, and the Amorrh-
d the Gergesite,

And the Hevite, and the Aracite,
the Sinite,

And the Aradian, and the Samarite,
the Hamathite.

The sons of Sem: ^'Elam and Asur,
Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and
I, and Hul, and Gether, and Mosoch.
And Arphaxad begot Sale, and Sale
W:>i Heber.

] And to Heber were bom two sons,
tl: name of the one was Phaleg, because
in lis days the earth was divided; and
th name of his brother was Jectan.
i And Jectan begot Elmodad, and Sa-
le i, and Asarmoth, and Jare,
I And Adoram, and Usal, and Decla,
i And Hebal, and Abimael, and Saba,
'i And Ophir, and Hevila, and Jobab.
A of these are the sons of Jectan.
'i Sem, Arphaxad, Sale,
i Heber, Phaleg, Ragau,
^ Serug, Nachor, Thare,
i Abram, «this is Abraham.
1 And the sons of Abraham, Isaac and
Isabel.

£ And these are the generations of
ttn. The firstborn of ^ Ismahel, Naba-
jci, then. Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mab-
ssi,

i And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Ha-
di', and Thema,

■ Jetur, Naphis, Cedma: these are the
■-t< of Ismahel.

; And the sons of Cetura, Abraham's
cccubine, whom she bore: Zamran, Jec-
S£l, Madan, Madian, Jesboc, and Sue.
Ai the sons of Jecsan, Saba, and Da-
dj. And the sons of Dadan: Assurim,
ai Latussim, and Laomin.

' And the sons «of Madian: Epha,
a 1 Epher, and Henoch, and Abida,
all Eldaa. All these are the sons of
Cura.

< ^And Abraham begot Isaac: and his
s«(s were Esau and Israel.

The sons of ^ Esau : Eliphaz, Ra-
1, Jehus, Ihelom, and Core.

'• Gen. 10. 22, and 11. 10.— s Gen. 11. 26.
tGen. 25. 13.

36 The sons of Eliphaz: Theman, Omar,
Sephi, Gathan, Cenez, and by Thamna,
Amalec.

37 The sons of Rahuel: Nahath, Zara,
Samma, Meza.

38 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Sobal, Se-
beon, Ana, Dison, Eser, Disan.

39 The sons of Lotan: Hori, Homam.
And the sister of Lotan was Thamna.

40 The sons of Sobal : Allan, and Mana-
hath, and Ebal, Sephi, and Onam. The
sons of Sebeon: Aia, and Ana. The son
of Ana: Dison.

41 The sons of Dison: Hamram, and
Eseban, and Jethran, and Charan.

42 The sons of Eser: Balaan, and Za-
van, and Jacan. The sons of Disan: Hus
and Aran.

43 Now these are the kings that reigned
in the land of Edom, before there was
a king over the children of Israel: Bale
the son of Beor: and the name of his
city was Denaba.

44 And Bale died, and Jobab the son of
Zare of Bosra, reigned in his stead.

45 And when Jobab also was dead,
Husam of the land of the Themanites
reigned in his stead.

46 And Husam also died, and Adad the
son of Badad reigned in his stead, and
he defeated the Madianites in the land of
Moab : and the name of his city was Avith.

47 And when Adad also was dead, Semla
of Masreca reigned in his stead.

48 Semla also died, and Saul of Roho-
both, which is near the river, reigned in
his stead.

49 And when Saul was dead, Balanan
the son of Achobor reigned in his stead.

50 He also died, and Adad reigned in
his stead: and the name of his city was
Phau, and his wife was called Meetabel
the daughter of Hatred, the daughter of
Mezaab.

51 And after the death of Adad, there
began to be dukes in Edom instead of
kings: duke Thamna, duke Alva, duke
Jetheth,

52 Duke Oolibama, duke Ela, duke Phi-
non,

53 Duke Cenez, duke Theman, duke
Mabsar,

54 Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram. These
are the dukes of Edom.

u Gen. 25. 4--y Gen. 25. 19
w Gen. 36. 10.

Chap. l. Ver. 32. Concubine. She was his lawful wife, but of an inferior desrrce.

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The descendants of Israel 1 PARALIPOMENON The descendants of Isra

CHAPTER 2.

The twelve tribes of Israel. The genealogy of Juda
down to David, Other getiealogies of the tribe of
Jtula,

AND ^ these are the sons of Israel : Ru-
J\ ben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar,
and Zabulon,

2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephtali, Gad,
and Aser.

3 The sons of ^ Juda : Her, Onan and
Sela. These three were born to him of
the Chanaanitess the daughter of Sue.
And Her the firstborn of Juda, was wicked
in the sight of the Lord, and he slew
him.

4 ^ And Thamar his daughter in law bore
him Phares and Zara. So all the sons of
Juda were five.

5 And the sons of Phares, were Hesron
and Hamul.

6 And the sons also of Zare : Zamri, and
Ethan, and Eman, and Ohalchal, and
Dara, five in all.

7 And the sons of " Charmi: Achar, who
troubled Israel, and sinned by the theft
of the anathema.

8 The sons of Ethan : Azarias,

9 And the sons of ^Hesron that were born
to him : Jerameel, and Ram, and Calubi.

10 And Ram begot Aminadab, and Amin-
adab begot Nahasson, prince of the chil-
dren of Juda.

11 And Nahasson begot Salma, the fa-
ther of Booz.

12 And Booz begot Obed, and Obed
begot Isai.

13 ^ And Isai begot Ehab his firstborn,
the second Abinadab, the third Simmaa,

14 The fourth, Nathanael, the fifth Rad-
dai,

15 The sixth Asom, the seventh David.

16 And their sisters were Sarvia, and
Abigail. The sons of Sarvia: Abisai, Joab,
and Asael, three.

17 And Abigail bore Amasa, whose fa-
ther was Jether the Ismahelite.

18 And Caleb the son of Hesron took a
wife named Azuba, of whom he had Jeri-
oth: and her sons were Jaser, and Sobab,
and Ardon.

X Gen. 29. 32, and 30. 5, and 35. 22.
y Gen. 38. 3, and 46. 12.

Chap. 2. Ver. 7. Achar, alias Achan. Jos. 7. —
Ibid. The anathema,- the thing devoted or ac-
cursed, viz., the spoils of Jericho.

Ver. 10. Jif/m. He is commonly called Aram.
But it is to be ol)served here, once for all, that it was
a commoo tlung among tUe Hebrews tor tlie same

19 And when Azuba was dead, Calt
took to wife Ephrata : who bore
Hur.

20 And Hut begot Uri : and Uri begJ
Bezeleel.

21 And afterwards Hesron went in
the daughter of Machir the father
Galaad, and took her to wife when
was threescore years old : and she boj
him Segub.

22 And Segub begot Jair, and he hil
three and twenty cities in the land
Galaad.

23 And he took Gessur, and Aram til
towns of Jair, and Canath, and the ^|
lages thereof, threescore cities. All the
the sons of Machir father of Galaad.

24 And when Hesron was dead, Call
went in to Ephrata. Hesron also hadi
wife Abia who bore him Ashur the fat
of Thecua.

25 And the sons of Jerameel the firstbcl
of Hesron, were Ram his firstborn, al
Buna, and Aram, and Asom, and Achif

26 And Jerameel married another w\
named Atara, who was the mother]
Guam.

27 And the sons of Ram the firstbJ
of Jerameel, were Moos, Jamin, ]|
Achar.

28 And Onam had sons Semei, and Js
And the sons of Semei: Nadab, and ^|
sur.

29 And the name of Abisur's wife
Abihail, who bore him Ahobban, and '\
lid.

30 And the sons of Nadab were Sf
and Apphaim. And Saled died witl
children.

31 But the son of Apphaim was Jj
and Jesi begot Sesan. And Sesan b«|
Oholai.

32 And the sons of Jada the brothel
Semei : Jether and Jonathan. And Je[
also died without children.

33 But Jonathan begot Phaleth, and *\
These were the sons of Jerameel.

34 And Sesan had no sons, but dal
ters and a servant an Egyptian, naj
Jeraa.

z Infra 4. 1 ? Matt. 1. 3. — a Jos. 7. 1.
b Ruth 4. 19. — c 1 Kings 16. 6, and 8. 9, and 11

persons to have different names : and that it
impossible among so many proper names, al
occur in the first nine chapters of this bookj
the transcribers of the ancient Hebrew copief
have made some slips in the orthography,
Ver. 1& CaM>t alias Calubi, ver. %•

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descendants of Israel 1 PARALIPOMENON The descendants of David

And he gave him his daughter to

) : and she bore him Ethei.

And Ethei begot Nathan, and Nathan

ot Zabad.

And Zabad begot Ophlal, and Ophlal
sot Obed.
8 Obed begotJehu, Jehu begot Azarias.

5 Azarias begot Helles, and Helles be-
!C Elasa.

4 Elasa begot Sisamoi, Sisamoi begot

4 Sellum begot Icamia, and Icamia be-

jc Elisama.

4 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of

iimeel were Mesa his firstborn, who was

hi father of Siph: and the sons of Ma-

B . father of Hebron.

4 And the sons of Hebron, Core, and

!lphua, and Recera, and Samma.

4 And Samma begot Raham, the father

i ercaam, and Recem begot Sammai.

4 The son of Sammai, Maon : and Maon

h father of Bethsur.

4 And Epha the concubine of Caleb

IC3 Haran, and Mosa, and Gezez. And

I an begot Gezez.

4 And the sons of Jahaddai, Rogom,

X Joathan, and Gesan, and Phalet, and

B]ia, and Saaph.

4 And Maacha the concubine of Caleb

ic,3 Saber, and Tharana.

4 And Saaph the father of Madmena
leDt Sue the father of Machbena, and
h father of Gabaa. And the daughter
►f|!aleb was Achsa.

6 These were the sons of Caleb, the son
itivac the firstborn of Ephrata, Sobal
hi father of Cariathiarim.

6Salma the father of Bethlehem, Ha-
iji the father of Bethgader.
5And Sobal the father of Cariathiarim
18 sons : he that saw half of the places

)fi38t.

5; And of the kindred of Cariathiarim,
ih Jethrites, and Aphuthites, and Sem-
itites, and Maserites. Of them came
ih Saraites, and Esthaolites.

5 The sons of Salma, Bethlehem, and
^«lophathi, the crowns of the house of
^03, and half of the place of rest of Sarai.

&And the families of the scribes that
1^1 U in Jabes, singing and making mel-

d 2 Kings 3. 2.

ir. 52. ffe that saw, &c. The Latin interpreter
^«i3 to have given us here, instead of the proper
«^!s, the meaning of those names in the Hebrew,
«as doue m like muuixei, v«t» Mi I

ody, and abiding in tents. These are the
Cinites, who came of Calor (Chamath)
father of the house of Rechab.

CHAPTER 3.

The genealogy of the house of David,

NOW ^ these were the sons of David
that were born to him in Hebron:
the firstborn Amnon of Achinoam the
Jezrahelitess, the second Daniel of Abi-
gail the Carmelitess.

2 The third Absalom the son of Maacha
the daughter of Tolmai king of Gessur,
the fourth Adonias the son of Aggith,

3 The fifth Saphatias of Abital, the sixth
Jethrahem of Egla his wife.

4 So six sons were born to him in He-
bron, where he reigned seven years and
six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned
three and thirty years.

5 * And these sons were born to him in
Jerusalem : Simmaa, and Sobab, and Na-
than, and Solomon, four of Bethsabee the
daughter of Ammiel.

6 Jebaar also and Elisama,

7 And Eliphaleth, and Noge, and Ne-
pheg, and Japhia,

8 And Elisama, and Ehada, and Ehphe-
leth, nine:

9 All these the sons of David, beside the
sons of the concubines: and they had a
sister Thamar.

10 And Solomon's son was Roboam:
whose son Abia begot Asa. And his son
was Josaphat,

11 The father of Joram: and Joram be-
got Ochozias, of whom was born Joas :

12 And his son Amasias begot Azarias.
And Joathan the son of Azarias

13 Begot Achaz, the father of Ezechias,
of whom was born Manasses.

14 And Manasses begot Amonthe father
of Josias.

15 And the sons of Josias were, the first-
born Johanan, the second Joakim, the
third Sedecias, the fourth Sellum.

16 •i'^Of Joakim was born Jechonias, and
Sedecias.

17 The sons of Jechonias were Asir, Sa-
lathiel,

18 Melchiram, Phadaia, Senneser and
Jecemia, Sama, and Nadabia.

e 2 Kings 5. 14. — / Matt. 1. 11.

Chap. 3.
wives.

Ver. 9. Tht ccncu^nes, TtXQ Meriof

The descendants of Judu 1 PARALIPOMENON The descendants of Juda

19 Of Phadaia were born Zorobabel and
Semei. Zorobabel begot Mosollam, Han-
anias, and Salomith their sister :

20 Hasaba also, and Ohol, and Barachias,
and Hasadias, Josabhesed, five.

21 And the son of Hananias -was Phaltias
the father of Jeseias, whose son was Raph-
aia. And his son was Arnan, of whom
was born Obdia, whose son was Sechenias.

22 The son of Sechenias, was Semeia,
whose sons were Hattns, and Jegaal, and
Baria, and Naaria, and Saphat, six in
number.

23 The sons of Naaria, Elioenai, and
Ezechias, and Ezricam, three.

24 The sons of Elioenai, Oduia, and Elia-
sub, and Pheleia, and Accub,and Johanan,
and Dalaia, and Anani, Beveu.

CHAPTER 4.

Other genealogies of Juda and of Simeon, and their
victories.

THE S'sons of Juda: Phares, Hesron,
and Charmi, and Hur, and Sobal.

2 And Raia the son of Sobal begot
Jahath, of whom were born Ahumai, and
Laad. These are the families of Sarathi.

3 And this is the posterity of Etam: Jez-
rahel, and Jesema, and Jedebos: and the
name of their sister was Asalelphuni.

4 And Phanuel the father of Gedor, and
Ezar the father of Hosa, these are the
eons of Hur the firstborn of Ephratha
the father of Bethlehem.

5 And Assur the father of Thecua had
two wives, Halaa and Naara:

6 And Naara bore him Ozam, and He-
pher, and Themani, and Ahasthari: these
are the sons of Naara.

7 And the sons of Halaa, Sereth, Isaar,
and Ethnan.

8 And Cos begot Anob, and Soboba, and
the kindred of Aharehel the son of Arum.

9 And Jabes was more honourable than
any of his brethren, and his mother called
his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore
him with sorrow.

10 And Jabes called upon the God of
Israel, saying: If blessing thou wilt bless
me, and wilt enlarge my borders, and thy
hand be with me, and thou save me

g Gen. 38. 3, and 46. 12 ; Supra 2. 4 ; Matt. 1. 3.

"Ver. 22. Six. Counting the father in the number.

<:!hap. 4. Yer. 9. Jabes. That is, sorrowful.

Ver. 22. Ne that made, &c., viz., Joazim, the mean-
ing of whose name in Hebrew is, he that made the
$un to stand. In like manner the following names,
l/ying CCbozeba), Seeun UoMk aoA ^turning (^

from being oppressed by evil. And Godi
granted him the things he prayed for,

11 And Caleb the brother of Sua begot
Mahir, who was the father of Esthon.

12 And Esthon begot Bethrapha, and
Phesse, and Tehinna father of the city ol
Naas: these are the men of Recha.

13 And the sons of Cenez were Othoniel
and Saraia. And the sons of Othoniel. j
Hathath, and Maonathi.

14 Maonathi begot Ophra, and Saraia be
got Joab the father of the Valley of arti
ficers: for artificers were there.

15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Je
phone, were Hir, and Ela, and Naham
And the sons of Ela : Cenez.

16 The sons also of Jaleleel: Ziph, an(
Zipha, Thiria, and Asrael. ,

17 And the sons of Esra, Jethw, and Mel |
red, and Epher, and Jalon, and he begd |
Mariam, and Sammai, and Jesba the fathf
of Esthamo.

18 And his wife Judaia, bore Jared tb
father of Gedor, and Heber the father (
Socho, and Icu thiol the father of Zano
And these are the sons of Bethia th
daughter of Pharao, whom Mered too
to wife.

19 And the sons of his wife Odaia tl
sister of Naham the father of Cell
Garmi, and Esthamo, who was of Mac
athi.

20 The sons also of Simon, Amnon, ai|
Rinna the son of Hanan, and Thil
And the sons of Jesi Zoheth, and Be
zoheth.

21 The sons, of ^ Sela the son of Jud
Her the father of Lecha, and Laada \\
father of Maresa, and the families of t
house of them that wrought fine linen
the House of oath.

22 And he that made the sun to stai
and the men of Lying, and Secure, a
Burning, who were princes in Moab, a
who returned into Lahem. Now th(
are things of old.

23 These are the potters, and they dw
in Plantations, and Hedges, with the ki
for his works, and they abode there

24 The sons of * Simeon : Namuel, a
Jamin, Jarib, Zara, Saul:

h Gen. 38. 5. — i Gen. 46. 10.

raph),are substitnted in place of the Hebrew na
of the same signification.

Vcr. 23. Plant of ions and Hedges. These are
proper names of the places where tbey dwelt
Hebrew Atharim and Godiro.

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{.scmdanfs of Simeon 1 PARALIPOMENON

Genealogy of Ruben

Sellum his son, Mapsam his son,
ma his son.

The sons of Masma : Hamuel his son,
hur his son, Semei his son.
The sons of Semei were sixteen, and
daughters : but his brethren had not
n ay sons, and the whole kindred could
n reach to the sum of the children of
Ji a.

: And they dwelt in Bersabee, and Mol-
ai,, and Hasarsuhal,

J And in Bala, and in Asom, and in
T )lad,

; And in Bathuel, and in Horma, and
iijiceleg,

J And in Bethmarchaboth, and in Ha-
8f susim, and in Bethberai, and in Saarim.
T jse were their cities unto the reign of
D/id.

: Their towns also were Etam, and
Ai, Remmon, and Thochen, and Asan,
fi ) cities.

i And all their villages round about
tl 36 cities as far as Baal. This was their
h: itation, and the distribution of their
killings.

i And Mosabab and Jemlech, and Josa,
ti son of Amasias,

i And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josa-
bi the son of Saraia, the son of Asiel,

i And EUoenai, and Jacoba, and Isu-
ha, and Asaia, and Adiel, and Ismiel,
ta Banaia,

i Ziza also the son of Sephei the son
olLllon the son of Idaia the son of Semri
tl: son of Samaia.

c These were named princes in their
kijreds, and in the houses of their fam-
ili-i were multiplied exceedingly.

h And they went forth to enter into
Glor as far as to the east side of the
vaey, to seek pastures for their flocks.

4 And they found fat pastures, and
v«y good, and a country spacious, and
q^it, and fruitful, in which some of the
ra? of Cham had dwelt before.

^ And these whose names are written
al ve, came in the days of Ezechias king
01 uda : and they beat down their tents,
ai slew the inhabitants that were found
tl^re, and utterly destroyed them unto
tt day : and they dwelt in their place,
btause they found there fat pastures.
J Some also of the children of Simeon,
_jGeD. 35. 22, and 49. 4. — A; Gen. 46. 9 ; Ex. 6. 14 ;

kh I'^^v^ Ver. 2. Accounted to Joseph, viz., as to
Hiiouble portion, wluch belonged to the firstborn ;

five hundred men, went into mount Seir,

having for their captains Phaltias and

Naaria and Raphaia and Oziel the sons

of Jesi :

43 And they slew the remnant of the

Amalecites, who had been able to escape,

and they dwelt there in their stead unto

this day.

CHAPTER 5.

Genealogies of Ruben and Gad: their victories over
the Agarites : their captivity.

1^ OW the sons of Ruben the firstborn
JLi of Israel, (for he was his firstborn:
but forasmuch as ^ he defiled his father's
bed, his first birthright was given to the
sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he
was not accounted for the firstborn.

2 But of the race of Juda, who was the
strongest among his brethren, came the
princes : but the first birthright was ac-
counted to Joseph.)

3 The sons then of ^ Ruben the firstborn
of Israel were Enoch, and Phallu, Esron,
and Charmi.

4 The sons of Joel: Samaia his son, Gog
his son, Semei his son,

5 Micha his son, Reia his son, Baal his
son,

6 Beera hiF 3on, whom Thelgathphal-
nasar ' king of the Assyrians carried
away captive, and he was prince in the
tribe of Ruben.

7 And his brethren, and all his kindred,
when they were numbered by their fam-
ilies, had for princes Jehiel, and Zach-
arias.

8 And Bala the son of Azaz, the son of
Samma, the son of Joel, dwelt in Aroer
as far as Nebo, and Beelmeon.

9 And eastward he had his habitation as
far as the entrance of the desert, and the
river Euphrates. For they possessed a
great number of cattle in the land of
Galaad.

10 And in the days of Saul they fought
against the Agarites, and sle\r them, and
dwelt in their tents in their stead, in all
the country, that looketh to the east of
Galaad.

11 And the children of Gad dwelt over
against them in the land of Basan, as far
as Selcha:

12 Johel the chief, and Saphan the sec-
ond : and Janai, and Sap hat in Basan.

Num. 26. 5. — ^ 4 Kings 15. 29.

but the princely dignity was given to Juda, and the
priesthood to Levi.

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Gad and, Manasses

1 PARALIPOMENON

Genealogy of Lm

13 And their brethren according to the
houses of their kindreds, were Michael,
and Mosollam, and Sebe, and Jorai, and
Jacan, and Zie, and Heber, seven.

14 These were the sons of Abihail, the
eon of Huri, the son of Jara, the son of
Galaad, the son of Michael, the son of
Jesisi, the son of Jeddo, the son of Buz.

15 And their brethren the sons of Ab-
diel, the son of Guni, chief of the house
in their families,

16 And they dwelt in Galaad, and in
Basan and in the towns thereof, and in
all the suburbs of Saron, unto the borders.

17 All these were numbered in the days
of Joathan king of Juda, and in the days
of Jeroboam king of Israel.

18 The sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and
of the half tribe of Manasses, fighting
men, bearing shields, and swords, and
bending the bow, and trained up to bat-
tles, four and forty thousand seven hun-
dred and threescore that went out to war.

19 They fought against the Agarites:
but the Itureans, and Naphis, and Nodab,

20 Gave them help. And the Agarites
were delivered into their hands, and all
that were with them, because they called
upon God in the battle: and he heard
them, because they had put their faith in
him.

21 And they took all that they possessed,
of camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two
hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses
two thousand, and of men a hundred
thousand souls.

22 And many fell down slain : for it was
the battle of the Lord. And they dwelt
in their stead till the captivity.

23 And the children of the half tribe of
Manasses possessed the land, from the
borders of Basan unto Baal, Hermon, and
Sanir, and mount Hermon, for their num-
ber was great.

24 And these were the heads of the
house of their kindred, Epher, and Jesi,
and Eliel, and Esriel, and Jeremia, and
Odoia, and Jediel, most valiant and pow-
erful men, and famous chiefs in their
families.

25 But they forsook the God of their
fathers, and went astray after the gods
of the people of the land, whom God de-
stroyed before them.

26 And the God of Israel stirred up the

spirit of Phul ^ kingr of the Assyriaa
and the spirit of Thelgathphalnasar kin
of Assur: and he carried away Ruber»
and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse
and brought them to Lahela, and to H?
bor, and to Ara, and to the river of Gozai
unto this day.

CHAPTER 6.

The genealogies of Levi, and of Aaron: the cities
the Levitts.

THE '^sons of Levi were Gerso
Caath, and Merari.

2 The sons of Caath: Amram, Isaar, H
bron, and Oziel.

3 The children of Amram: Aaron, Mose
and Mary. The sons of Aaron: Nad.
and Abiu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

4 Eleazar begot Phinees, and Phine
begot Abisue,

5 And Abisue begot Bocci, and Bocci \
got Ozi.

6 Ozi begot Zaraias, and Zaraias be^
Maraioth.

7 And Maraioth begot Amarias, 2
Amarias begot Achitob.

8 Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sadoc
got Achimaas.

9 Achimaas begot Azarias, Azariaa
got Johanan,

10 Johanan begot Azarias. This is
that executed the priestly office in ^
house which Solomon built in Jerusal .

11 And Azarias begot Amarias, 'i
Amarias begot Achitob.

12 And Achitob begot Sadoc, and Sa -
begot Sellum,

13 Sellum begot Helcias, and He] £
begot Azarias,

14 Azarias begot Saraias, and Sai -
begot Josedec.

15 Now Josedec went out, when ^
Lord carried away Juda, and Jerusa J
by the hands of Nabuchodonosor.

16 So the sons °of Levi were Gei^
Caath, and Merari.

17 And these are the names of the
of Gerson: Lobni and Semei.

18 The sons of Caath : Amram, and I
and Hebron, and Oziel.

19 The sons of Merari: Moholi and j
And these are the kindreds of Levi ac<
ing to their families.

20 Of Gerson: Lobni his son, Jahat
son, Zamma his son,

m 4 Kings 1& 1^ 9i^^ 2i>

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» Gen. 46. 11 ; Infra 23. 6.— o Ex. 6. M.

mlogy of Levi

1 PARALIPOMENON

The sons of Aaron

Joah his son, Addo his son, Zara his
Jethrai his son.
The sons of Caath, Aminadab his son,

his son, Asir his son,
Elcana his son, Abiasaph his son,
his son,

S Thahath his son, Uriel his son, Ozias
hison, Saul his son.

S The sons of Elcana: Amasai, and
A" imoth,

2 And Elcana. The sons of Elcana: So-
pli his son, Nahath his son,
2 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elcana
hison.

2 The sons of Samuel: the firstborn
Y'lseni, and Abia.

2; And the sons of Merari, Moholi:
L(ni his son, Semei his son, Oza his son,

S Sammaa his son, Haggia his son,
Afia his son.

3 These are they, whom David set over
th singing men of the house of the Lord,
afr that the Park was placed

3 And they ministered before the tab-
ericle of the testimony, with singing,
ur 1 Solomon built the house of the Lord
Uii erusalem, and they stood according
to tieir order in the ministry.

3 And these are they that stood with
th r sons, of the sons of Caath, Hemam
a I iger, the son of Joel, the son of Sam-
ml,

3 The son of Elcana, the son of Jero-
ha , the son of Eliel, the son of Thohu,

3 The son of Suph, the son of Elcana,
th son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

8 The son of Elcana, the son of Johel,

thjsoia of Azarias, the son of Sopho-

nii,
Silhe son of Thahath, the son of Asir,

th son of Abiasaph, the son of Core,
J 8i The son of Isaar, the son of Caath,
jjth^on of Levi, the son of Israel.
. 3,And his brother Asaph, who stood on
'hiiiright hand, Asaph the son of Bara-

ch 8, the son of Samaa.

4 The son of Michael, the son of Basaia,
tL son of Melchia.

4|The son of Athanai, the son of Zara,
'Chc3on of Adaia.

4 The son of Ethan, the son of Zamma,
^^on of Semei.

4 The son of Jeth, the son of Gorson,
, bhjson of Levi.
''' 4 And the sons of Tlerari their bre-

thren, on the left hand, Ethan the son of
Cusi, the son of Abdi, the son of Meloch,
46 The son of Hasabia, the son of
Amasai, the son of Helcias,

46 The son of Amasai, the son of Boni,
the son of Somer,

47 The son -^f Moholi, the son of Musi,
the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

48 T^eir brethren also the Levites, who
were appointed for all the ministry of the
tabernacle of the house of the Lord.

49 But Aaron and his sons offered burnt
' 5>ffering8 upon the altar of holocausts, and

u j)on the altar of incense, for every work
of the holy of holies: and to pray for
Israel according to all that Moses the
servant of God had commanded.

50 And ihese are the sons of Aaron:
Eleazar his son, Phinees his son, Abisue
his son,

51 Bocci his son, Ozi his son, Zarahia
his son,

52 Meraioth his son, Amarias his son,
Achitob his son,

53 Sadoc his son, Achiraaas his son.

54 And these are their dwelling places
by the towns and confines, to wit, of
the sons of Aaron, of the families of
the Caathites: for they fell to them by
lot.

55 And they gave them Hebron in the
land of Juda, and the suburbs thereof
round about :

56 But the fields of the city, and the
villages to Caleb son of Jephone.

57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave
the cities for refuge Hebron, and Lobna,
and the suburbs thereof,

58 And Jether and Esthemo, with their
subm'bs, and Helen, and Dabir with their
suburbs :

69 Asan also, and Bethsames, with their
suburbs.

60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin :
Gabee and its suburbs, Almath with its
subm-bs, Anathoth also with its suburbs :
all their cities throughout their families
were thirteen.

61 And to the sons of Caath that re-
mained of their kindred they gave out
of the half tribe of Manasses ten cities
in possession.

62 And to the sons ot Gerson by their
families out of the tribe of Issachar, and
out of the tribe of Aser, and out of the

i, -^ iiiugs & I and 1?

$»

The cities of the Levites 1 PARALIPOMENON Issachar and Benjami^

79 Cademoth also and its suburbs, aoj
Mephaath with its suburbs;

80 Moreover also out of the tribe of G»
Ramoth in Galaad and its suburbs, ar
Manaim with its suburbs ;

81 Hesebon also with its suburbs, ai
Jazer with its suburbs.

tribe of Nephtali, and out of the tribe of
Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.

63 And to the sons of Merari by their
families out of the tribe of Ruben, and
out of the tribe of Gad. and out of the
tribe of Zabulon, they gave by lot twelve
cities.

64 And the children of Israel gave to
the Levites the cities, and their suburbs.

65 And they gave them by lot, out of
the tribe of the sons of Juda, and out of
the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out
of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these
cities which they called by their names.

66 And to them that were of the kindred
of the sons of Caath, ^and the cities
in their borders were of the tribe of
Ephraim.

67 And they gave the cities or refuge
Sichem with its suburbs in mount
Ephraim, and Gazer with its suburbs,

68 Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and
Beth-horon in like manner,

69 Helon also with its suburbs, and Geth-
remmon in like manner,

70 And out of the half tribe of Manasses,
Aner and its suburbs, Baalam and its
f aburbr to wit, to them that were left of
the family of the sons o2 Caath.

71 And to the sons of Gersom, out of
the kindred of the half tribe cf Manasses,
Gaulon, in Basan, and its suburbs, and
Astharoth with its suburbs.

72 Out of the tribe of Issachar, Cedes
and its suburbs, and Dabereth with its
suburbs ;

7 b Ramoth also and its suburbs, and
Anen with its suburbs.

74 And out of the tribe of Aser: M"sal
with its suburbs, and Abdon in like
manner ;

75 Hucac also and its suburbs, and Rohol
with its suburbs.

76 And out of the tribe of Nephtali, Cedes
in Galilee and its suburbs, Hamon with its
suburbs, and Oariathaim, and its suburbs.

77 And to the sons of Merari that re-
mained : out of the tribe of Zabulon, Rem-
mono and its suburbs, and Thabor with
its suburbs.

78 Beyond the Jordan also over against
Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan,
out of the tribe of Ruben, Bosor in the
Wilderness with its suburbs, and Jassa
With its juburbs ;

«Jos. 21. 21.

CHAPTER 7.

Genealogies of Issachar, Benjamin, Nephtali, A i
nasses, Ephraim, and Aser.

NOW *■ the sons of Issachar wej
Thola, and Phua. Jasub and Simero»
four. I

2 The sons of Thola : Ozi and Rapha!
and Jeriel, and Jemai, and Jebsem, a:|
Samuel, chiefs of the houses of their k:
dreds. Of the posterity of Thola we
numbered in the days of David, two a
twenty thousand six hundred most valit
men.

3 The sons of Ozi : Izrahia, of whom w(
born Michael, and Obadia, and Joel, a
Jesia, five all great men.

4 And there were with them by tfc
families and peoples, six and thi
thousand most valiant men ready
war: for they had many wives and cl
dren.

6 Their brethren also throughout all
house of Issachar, were numbered fc
score and seven thousand most vali
men for war.

6 The sons of * Benjamin were Bela, ;
Bechor, and Jadihel, three.

7 The sons of Bela : Esbon, and Ozi, ; ;
Ozial, and Jerimoth and Urai, five ch
of their families, and most valiant v
riors, and their number was twenty- :
thousand and thirty-four.

8 And the sons of Bechor were Zair
and Joas, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, ^
Amai, and Jerimoth, and Abia, and A
thoth, and Almath: all these were
sons of Bechor.

9 And they were numbered by the U
lies, heads of their kindreds, most val
men for war, twenty thousand and
hundred.

10 And the son of Jadihel : Balan.
the sons of Balan: Jehus and Benjajn
and Aod, and Chanana, and Zethan d
Tharsis, and Ahisahar. |

11 All these were sons of Jadihel, h< l9
of their kindreds, most valiant men,

rGeD.l&U.^« Gea.46.21.

US»

MaliManasses.Ephriam 1 PARALIPOMENON

The children of Aser

«n thousand and two hundred fit to
ufc to «k^ar.

Sepham also and Hapham the sons of
and Hasim the sons of Aher.
*And the sons of Nephtali were
Tiel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Sellum,
B( s of Bala.

] And the son of Manasses, Ezriel:
ai his concubine the Syrian bore Machir
tt father of Galaad.
: And Machir took wives for his sons
H 3phim, and Saphan : and he had a
li er named Maacha ; the name of the
BCDnd was Salphaad, and Salphaad had
lii'ghters.

] And Maacha the wife of Machir bore
B )n, and she called his name Phares :
u the name of his brother was Sarec :
ai his sons were Ulam and Recen.
] And the son of Ulam, Baden. These
u the sons of Galaad, the son of Machir,
tl] son of Manasses.

] And his sister named Queen bore
Gndlyman, and Abiezer, and Mohola.

1 And the sons of Semida were Ahiu,
ai Sechem, and Leci and Aniam.

2 And the sons of Ephraim were
Siliala, Bared his son, Thahath his son,
Ella his son, Thahath his son, and his
BO Zabad,

2 And his son Suthala, and his son
EiT, and Elad: and the men of Geth
be 1 in the land slew them, because they
Ba' e down to invade their possessions.

2 And Ephraim their father mourned
a.iy days, and his brethren came to
DO fort him.

2 And he went in to his wife : and she
Co^eived and bore a son, and he called
hiiname Beria, because he was born
«rl'n it went evil with his house :

2 And his daughter was Sara, who
bu b Bethoron, the nether and the upper,
an Ozensara.

2 And Kapha was his son, and Reseph,
an Thale, of whom was born Thaan,

2'Who begot Laadan : and his son was
AiiT3iud, who begot Elisama,

2 Of whom was bom Nun, who had
Joie for his son.

2' And their possessions and habita-
*»ic's were Bethel with her daughters,
an eastward Noran, and westward Gazer
^ her daughters, Sichem also with her

t Gen. 46. 24.

daughters, as far as Asa with her daugh-
ters.

29 And by the borders of the sons of
Manasses Bethsan and her daughters,
Thanach and her daughters, Mageddo
and her daughters : Dor and her daugh-
ters: in these dwelt the children of
Joseph, the son of Israel.

30 The children of ^Aser were Jemna,
and Jesua, and Jessui, and Baria, and Sara
their sister.

31 And the sons of Baria: Haber, and
Melchiel : he is the father of Barsaith.

32 And Heber begot Jephlat, and Somer,
and Hotham, and Suaa their sister.

33 The sons of Jephlat: Phosech, and
Chamaal, and Asoth : these are the sons
of Jephlat.

34 And the sons of Somer : Ahi, and
Roaga, and Haba, and Aram.

35 And the sons of Helem his brother .
Supha, and Jemna, and Selles, and Amal.

36 The sons of Supha : Sue, Hernapher,
and Sual, and Beri, and Jamra.

37 Bop.or and Hod, and Samma, and
§alusa, and Jethran, and Bera.

38 The sons of Jether : Jephone, and
Phaspha, and Ara.

39 And the sons of 011a : Aree, and
Haniel, and Resia.

40 All these were sons of Aser, heads of
their families, choice and most valiant
captains of captaine : and the n*;mber of
them that were of the age that was fit
for war, was six and twent» .«.housand.

CHAPTER 6.

The posterity of Benjamin is further declared down
to Said His issue.

n^OW ^ Benjamin begot Bale his first-
X 1 born, Asbel the second, Ahara the
third,

2 Nohaa the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

3 And the sons of Bale were Addar, and
Gera, and Abiud,

4 And Abisue, and Naaman, and Ahoe,

5 And Gera, and Sephuphan, and Hu-
ram.

6 These are the sons of Ahod, heads of
families that dwelt in Gabaa, who were
removed into Manahath.

7 And Naaman, and Achia, and Gera he
removed them, and begot Oza, and
Ahiud.

u Gen. 46. 17. — v Gen. 46. 21 ; Supra 7. 6.

Chap. 7. Ver.23. Beria, This name siguifies in evi^ or in cy^ictioa».

43»

Fro7n Benjamin to Saul 1 PARALIPOMENON

Posterity of Sa\

8 And Saharim begot in the land of
Moab, after he sent away Husim and Baru
his wives.

9 And he begot of Hodes his wife Jobab,
and Sebia, and Mosa, and Molchom,

10 And Jehus and Sechia, and Marma.
These were his sons heads of their
families.

11 And Mehusim begot Abitob, and El-
phaal.

12 And the sons of Elphaal were Heber,
and Misaam, and Samad : who built Ono,
and Lod, and its daughters.

13 And Baria, and Sama were heads of
their kindreds that dwelt in Aialon:
these drove away the inhabitants of
Geth.

14 And Ahio, and Sesac, and Jerimoth,

15 And Zabadia, and Arod, and Heder,

16 And Michael, and Jespha, and Joha,
the sons of Baria.

17 And Zabadia, and MosoUam, and
Hezeci, and Heber,

18 And Jesamari, and Jezlia, and Jobab,
sons of Elphaal,

19 And Jacim, and Zechri, and Zabdi,

20 And Elioenai, and Selethai, and Elial,

21 And Adaia, and Baraia, and Sama-
reth, the sons of Semei.

22 And Jespham, and Heber, and Eliel,

23 And Abdon, and Zechri, and Ha-
uan,

24 And Hanania, and Elam, and Anatho-
thia.

25 And Jephdaia, and Phanuel the sons
of Sesac.

26 And Samsari, and Sohoria and Otho-
lia,

27 And Jersia, and Elia, and Zechri, the
sons of Jeroham.

28 These were the chief fathers, and
heads of their families who dwelt in Jeru-
salem.

29 And ^ at Gabaon dwelt Abigabaon,
and the name of his wife was Maacha ;

30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and
Sur, and Cis, and Baal, and Nadab,

31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher,
and Macelloth :

32 And Macelloth begot Samaa: and
they dwelt over against their brethren in
Jerusalem with their brethren.

33 And *Ner begot Cis, and Cis begot

w Infra 9. 35.

Chap. 8. Ver. 33. Esbaal, alias Isboseth.

Ver. 34. MeribbaaU alias Miphiboseth. 2 Kings

Saul. And Saul begot Jonathan and W i
chisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.

34 And the son of Jonathan was Mer
baal : and Meribbaal begot Micha.

35 And the sons of Micha were Phith(
and Melech, and Tharaa, and Ahaz.

36 And Ahaz begot Joada : and Jos;
begot Alamath, and Azmoth, and Zai
and Zamri begot Mosa,

37 And Mosa begot Banaa, whose f|
was Kapha, of whom was born El
who begot Asel.

38 And Asel had six sons whose nai
were Ezricam, Bochru, Ismahel, St
Obdia, and Hanan. All these were
sons of Asel.

39 And the sons of Esec, his brot
were Ulam the firstborn, and Jehus
second, and Eliphalet the third.

40 And the sons of Ulam were most'
iant men, and archers of great strenfl
and they had many sons and grandsf
even to a hundred and fifty. All tl|
were children of Benjamin.

CHAPTER 9.

The Israelites, priests, and Levites, who firstl
in Jerusalem after the captivity. A repetm^
the genealogy of Saul.

A ND all Israel was numbered : anc
XjL sum of them was written ini
book of the kings of Israel, and Ji|
and they were carried away to Bal
for their transgression.

2 Now the first that dwelt in their]
sessions, and in their cities, were tl
raelites, and the priests, and the Lei
and the Nathineans.

3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the chill
of Juda, and of the children of Benjij
and of the children of Ephraim, a:[
Manasses.

4 Othei the son of Ammiud, the si
Amri, the son of Omrai, the son of BJ
of the sons of Phares the son of JucJ

6 And of Siloni : Asaia the first!
and his sons.

6 And of the sons of Zara : JehueJ
their brethren, six hundred and nirj

7 And of the sons of Benjamin: Sa|
son of Mosollam, the son of Oduil
son of Asana:

8 And Jobania the son of Jerohai
Ela the son of Ozi, the son of Mo«|

xl Kings 14. 51 ; Infra 9. 39.

Chap. 9. Ver. 2. Nathineans. These w
posterity of the Gabaonites, whose office « "<
bring wood, water, &c., for the ser^^ice of the oP*

438

\habUants of Jerusalem 1 PARALIPOMENON Charge of priests and Levite^

d Mosallam the son cf Saphatias, the
a of Rahuel, the son of Jebania:
And their brethren by their families,
16 hundred and fifty-six. All these
»re heads of their families, by the houses
their fathers.

) And of the priests : Jedaia, Joiarib,
d Jaohin :

1 And Azarias the son of Helcias, the
of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc, the
of Maraioth, the son of Achitob, high

lest of the house of God.

2 And Adaias the son of Jeroham, the
of Phassur, the son of Melchias, and

lasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jezra,
son of Mosollam, the son of Mosolla-
th, the son of Emmer.

And their brethren heads in their
nihes a thousand seven hundred and
reescore, very strong and able men for
8 work of the ministry in the house of
•d.

1 And of the Levites : Semeia the son
Hassub the son of Ezricam, the son of
isebia of the sons of Merari.

5 And Bacbacar the carpenter, and
Jal, and Mathania the son of Micha,
e son of Zechri the son of Asaph :
5 And Obdia the son of Semeia, the son
Galal, the son of Idithum : and Bara-
ia the son of Asa, the son of Elcana,

10 dwelt in the suburbs of Netophati.
I? And the porters were Sellum, and Ac-
°b, and Telmon, and Ahiman : and their
lother Sellum was the prince,

"8 Until that time, in the king's gate
«stward, the sons of Levi waited by
teir turns.

|9 But Sellum the son of Core, the son
• Abiasaph, the son of Core, with his
lethren and his father's house, the Cor-
i's were over the works of the service,
i epers of the gates of the tabernacle :
Id their families in turns were keepers
4 the entrance of the camp of the Lord.
0 And Phinees the son of Eleazar, was
teir prince before the Lord,

11 And Zacharias the son of Mosollamia,
lis porter of the gate of the tabernacle
1 the testimony ?

2 All these that were chosen to be por-
jrs at the gates, were two hundred and
Felve : and they were registered in their
toper towns : whom David and Samuel

e seer appointed in their trust.

y Supra S. ^

23 As well them as their sons, to keep
the gates of the house of the Lord, and
the tabernacle by their turns.

24 In four quarters were the porters:
that is to say, toward the east, and west,
and north, and south.

26 And their brethren dwelt in villages,
and came upon their sabbath days from
time to time.

26 To these four Levites were committed
the whole number of the porters, and they
were over the chambers, and treasures,
of the house of the Lord.

27 And they abode in their watches
round about the temple of the Lord :
that when it was time, they might open
the gates in the morning.

28 And some of their stock had the
charge of the vessels for the ministry :
for the vessels were both brought in and
carried out by number.

29 Some of them also had the instru-
ments of the sanctuary committed unto
them, and the charge of the fine flour,
and wine, and oil, and frankincense, and
spices.

30 And the sons of the priests made
the ointments of the apices.

31 And Mathathias a Levite, the firstborn
of Sellum the Corite, was overseer of such
things as were fried "n the fryingpan.

32 And some of the cons of Caath their
brethren, were over the loaves of propo-
sition, to prepare always new for every
sabbath.

33 These are the chief of the singing men
of the families of the Levites, who dwelt
in the chambers, by the temple, that they
might serve continually day and night ia
their ministry.

34 The heads of the Levites, princes i&
their families, abode in Jerusalem.

35 And y in Gabaon dwelt Jehiel the
father of Gabaon, and the name of his
wife was Maacha :

36 His firstborn son Abdon, and Sur, and
Cis, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

37 Gedor also, and Ahio, and Zacharias,
and Macelloth.

38 And Macelloth begot Samaan : thes*
dwelt over against their brethren in Jeru-
salem, with their brethren.

39 * Now Ner begot Cis : and Cis begot
Saul : and Saul begot Jonathan and Mel-
chisua, and Abinadab, and Esbaal.

429

eSupcai.33b

Saul is slain

1 PARALIPOMENON

David anointed Idt

40 And the son of Jonathan, was Merib-
baal : and Meribbaal begot Micha.

41 And the sons of Micha, were Phithon,
and Melech, and Tharaa, and Ahaz.

42 And Ahaz begot Jara, and Jara begot
Alamath, and Azmoth, and Zamri. And
Zamri begot Mosa.

43 And Mosa begot Banaa: whose son
Haphaia begot Elasa : of whom was born
Asel.

44 And Asel had six sons whose names
are, Ezricam, Bochru, Ismahel, Saria, Ob-
dia, Hanan : these are the sons of AseL

CHAPTER 10.

Saul ts slain for his sins : he is buried by the men
of Jabes.

NOW °' the Philistines fought against
Israel, and the men of Israel fled
from before the Philistines, and fell down
wounded in mount Gelboe.

2 ^ And the Philistines drew near piu-su-
ing after Saul, and his sons, and they
killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Mel-
chisua the sons of Saul.

3 And the battle grew hard against Saul,
and the archers reached him, and wounded
him witn arrows.

4 And Saul said to his armourbearer:
Draw thy sword, and kill me : lest these
uncircumcised come, and mock me. But
his armourbearer would not, for he was
struck with fear ; so Saul took his sword,
and feU upon it.

5 And when his armourbearer saw it, to
wit, that Saul was dead, he also fell upon
his sword and died.

6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and
all his house fell together.

7 And when the men of Israel, that
dwelt in the plains, saw this, they fled :
and Saul and his sons being dead, they
forsook their cities, and were scattered
up and down : and the Philistines came,
and dwelt in them.

8 And the next day the Philistines tak-
ing away the spoils of them that were
elain, found Saul and his sons lying on
mount Gelboe.

9 And when they had stripped him, and
cut off his head, and taken away his ar-
mour, they sent it into their land, to be
tarried about, and shewn in the temples
of the idols and to the people.

10 And his armour they dedicated in the

temple of their god, and his head the
fastened up in the temple of Dagon.

11 And when the men of Jabes Galasf
had heard this, to wit, all that the Phili'
tines had done to Saul,

12 All the valiant men of them aroe
and took the bodies of Saul and of h
sons, and brought them to Jabes, ail
buried their bones under the oak th'
was in Jabes, and they fasted seven daj

13 So Saul died for his iniquities, b
cause he transgressed the ^ commaD
ment of the Lord, which he had coji
manded, and kept it not : ^ and moreov
consulted also a witch,

14 And trusted not in the Lord : theil
fore he slew him, and transferred }'
kingdom to David the son of Isai.

CHAPTER 11.

David is made king. He taketh the castle of S'l
A catalogue of his valiant men.

THEN ® all Israel gathered themseb
to David in Hebron, saying : We j
thy bone, and thy flesh.

2 Yesterday also, and the day bef<
when Saul was king, thou wast he t;
leddest out and broughtest in Israel :
the Lord thy God said to thee: Tl
shalt feed my people Israel, and tl
shalt be ruler over them.

3 So all the ancients of Israel camt
the king to Hebron, and David mad \
covenant with them before the Lo ;
and they anointed him king over Isi ,
according to the word of the Lord will
he spoke in the hand of Samuel. f

4 And David and all Israel went to J<''
salem, «^ which is Jebus, where the Jt
sites were the inhabitants of the lane

6 And the Inhabitants of Jebus sai( o
David : Thou shalt not come in h J.
But David took the castle of Sion, wl
is the city of David.

6 And he said: Whosoever shall |«t
strike the Jebusites, shall be the 1 d
and chief captain. And Joab the so )<
Sarvia went up first, and was made
general.

7 And David dwelt in the castle,
therefore it was called the city of Df|i

8 And he built the city round a it
from Mello all round, and Joab built
rest of the city.

9 And David went on growing am

a 1 Kings 31. L — 6 B. C. 1012.
c Ex. 17. 14 ; 1 Kings 15. Z.—d 1 Kings 28. 8.

e 2 King» 5. 1.—/ 2 Kings 5. 6.

430

valiant men of David 1 PARALIPOMENON The valiant men of David

ig, and the Lord of hosts was with

These are the chief of the valiant

of David, who helped him to be

king over all Israel, according to

ord of the Lord, which he spoke to

arl.

lAnd this is the number of the heroes
f avid : Jesbaam the son of Hachamoni
!i( ;hief among the thirty : he lifted up
is pear against three hundred wounded
y im at one time.

1$ ^nd after him was Eleazar his uncle^s
01 he Ahohite, who was one of the three
li ities.

V.Kq was with David in Phesdomim,
^hi the Philistines were gathered to
a£ place to battle : and the field of
tu country was full of barley, and the
erle fled from before the Philistines.
l43ut these men stood in the midst of
li€ ield, and defended it : and they slew
iiE^hiHstines, and the Lord gave a great
el erance to his people.
If ^ And three of the thirty captains
re ) down to the rock, wherein David
ra to the cave of Odollam, when the
hstines encamped in the valley of
ta laim.

1( And David was In a hold, and the
ai son of the Philistines in Bethlehem.
lUnd David longed, and said: O that
M) man would give me water of the
is rn of Bethlehem, which is in the
at

ItVnd these three broke through the
ii< t of the camp of the Philistines, and
r^' water out of the cistern of Bethle-
e^ which was in the gate, and brought
i t David to drink : and he would not
ric of it, but rather offered it to the

l&saying: God forbid that I should do
li in the sight of my God, and should
ris the blood of these men : for with
:ie danger of their lives they have
rcght me the water. And therefore
e ould not drink. These things did
ac hree most vahant.
2CVnd Abisai the brother of Joab, he
^a chief of three, and he lifted up his
ptr against three hundred whom he
le, and he was renowned among the
tin.

,^ fcaKlDgr 23. 8. — i 2 Kings 23. 13.

21 And illustrious among the second
three, and their captain : but yet he at-
tained not to the first three.

22 Banaias the son of Joiada^ a most val-
iant man, of Cabseel, who had done many
acts: he slew the two ariels of Moab:
and he went down, and killed a lion in
the midst of a pit in the time oi snow.

23 And he slew an Egj'^ptian, whose stat-
ure was of five cubits, and who had a
spear like a weaver's beam : and he went
down to him with a staff, and plucked
away the spear, that he held in his hand,
and slew him with his own spear.

24 These things did Banaias the son of
Joiada, who was renowned among the
three valiant ones,

26 And the first among the thirty, but
yet to the thrsf he attained not: and
David made lim ot his council.

26 Moreover tirie most valiant men of
the army, were Asahel brother of Joab,
and Elchanan ^he son of his uncle of
Bethlehem,

27 Sammoth an Arorite, Helles a Pha-
lonite,

28 Ira Che son of Acces a Thecuite,
Abiezer an Anathothite,

29 Sobbochai a Husathite, Dai an Aho-
hite,

30 Maharai a Netophathite, Heled the
son of Baana a Netophathite,

31 Ethai the son of Ribai of Gabaath of
the sons ot Benjamin, Banai a Phara-
thonite,

32 Hurai of the torrent Gaas, Abiel an
Arbathite, Azmoth a Bauramite, EUaba a
Salabonite,

33 The sons of Assem a Gezonite, Jona-
than the son of Sage an Ararite,

34 Ahiam the son of Sachar an Ararite,

35 Eliphal the son of Ur,

36 Hepher a Mecherathite, Ahia a Phe-
lonite,

37 Hesro a Carmelite, Naarai the son of
Azbai,

38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibahar
the son of Agarai.

39 Selec an Ammonite, Naharai a Bero-
thite, the armourbearer of Joab the son
of Sarvia.

40 Ira a Jethrite, Gareb a Jethrite,

41 Urias a Hethite, Zabad the son of
Oholi,

j 2 Kings 23. 14.

I* Ml. Ve^aa, T%oo aa-telt, Xliat ii^two IIods, or lion-like men j for Ariel in Hebrew signifies a lion.

431

Those who came to David 1 PARALIPOMENON Those who came to Pat

42 Adina the son of Siza a Rubenite the
prince of the Rubenites, and thirty with
him:

43 Hanan the son of Maacha, and Josa-
phat a Mathanite,

44 Ozia an Astarothite, Samma, and Je-
hiel the sons oi Hotham an Arorite,

45 Jedihel the son of Zamri, and Joha
his brother a Thosaite,

46 Eliel a Mahumite, and Jeribai, and
Josaia the sons of Ehiaim, and Jethma a
Moabite, Ehel, and Obed, and Jasiel of
Masobia.

CHAPTER 12.

Who followed David when he fled from Saul. And
who came to Hebron to make him king.

"VTOW these are they that came to
i^ David to Siceleg, '^ while he yet fled
from Saul the son of Cis, and they were
most valiant and excellent warriors,

2 Bending the bow, and using either
hand in hurling stones with slings, and
shooting arrows i of the brethren of Saul
of Benjamin.

3 The chief was Ahiezer, and Joas, the
sons of Samaa of Gabaath, and Jaziel,
and Phallet the sons of Azmoth, and
Beracha, and Jehu an Anathothite.

4 And Samaias of Gabaon, the stoutest
amongst the thirty and over the thirty ;
Jeremias, and Jeheziel, and Johanan, and
Jezabad of Gaderoth;

5 And Eluzai, and Jerimuth, and Baalia,
and Samaria, an<i Saphatia the Haru-
phite ;

6 Elcana, and Jesia, and Azareel, and
Joezer, and Jesbaam of Carehim :

7 And Joela, and Zabaxiia the sons of
Jerohara of Gedcr.

8 From Gaddi also there went over to
David, when he lay hid in the wilderness
most valiant men, and excellent warriors,
holding shield and spear: whose faces
were Uke the faces of a lion, and they
were swift like the roebucks on the
mountains.

9 Ezer the chief, Obdias the second,
Eliab the third,

10 Masmana the fourth, Jeremias the
fifth,

11 Ethi the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

12 Johanan the eighth, Elzebad the
ninth,

ISJerenias the tenth, Machbani the
eleventh,

14 These were of the sons of Gad, c
tains of the army : the least of them
captain over a hundred soldiers, and
greatest over a thousand.

16 These are they who passed over
Jordan in the first month, when it
used to flow over its banks: and
put to flight all that dwelt in the va
both toward the east and toward
west.

16 And there came also of the me:
Benjamin, and of Juda to the hold,
which David abode.

17 And David went out to meet tl
and said : If you are come peaceabl;^
me to help me, let my heart be joined
you : but if you plot against me for
enemies whereas I have no iniquityl
my hands, let the God of oiu* fathers
and judge.

18 But the spirit came upon Amasai
chief among thirty, and he said : We
thine, O David, and for thee, O so
Isai : peace, peace be to thee, and p
to thy helpers. For thy God hel^
thee. So David received them, and n|
them captains of the band.

19 And there were some of Man
that went over to David, when he
with the Philistines against Saul to fl
but he did not fight with them : ' be
the lords of the Philistines taking ca
sent him back, saying : With the da|
of our heads he will return to his m;
Saul.

20 So when he went back to Sicel
there fled to him of Manasses, Edna
Jozabad, and Jedihel, and Michael,
Ednas, and Jozabad, and Eliu, and Sa
captains of thousands in Manasses.

21 These helped David against thep^
ers: for they were all most vahant jDi
and were made commanders in the i

22 Moreover day by day there
some to David to help him till the
came a great number, like the an
God.

23 And this is the number of the (
of the army who came to David,
he was in Hebron, '^to transfer tc

h i Kings 33. 2.

the kingdom of Saul, according t
word of the Lord.

24 The sons of Juda bearing shiel
spear, six thousand eight hundred
appointed to war. ^^

n 2 Kings 5. B. C. 1006.

4»

hose who came to David 1 PARALIPOMENON

Oza is slain

i Of the sons of Simeon valiant men
> war, seven thousand one hundred.
J Of the sons of Levi, four thousand
; hundred.

f And Joiada prince of the race of
ron, and with him three thousand
Ten hundred.

I Sadoc also a young man of excellent
position, and the house of his father,
enty-two principal men.
) And of the sons of Benjamin the
)thren of Saul, three thousand: for
herto a great part of them followed
) house of Saul.

) And of the sons of Ephraim twenty
)iisand eight hundred, men of great
our renowned in their kindreds.
. And of the half tribe of Manasses,
hteen thousand, every one by their
nes, came to make David king.
I Also of the sons of Issachar men of
derstanding, that knew all times to
ier what Israel should do, two hundred
ncipal men: and all the rest of the
t)e followed their counsel.
J And of Zabulon such as went forth
battle, and stood in array well ap-
inted with armour for war, there came
iy thousand to his aid, with no double
irt.

i And of Nephtali, a thousand leaders :
d with them seven and thirty thousand,
•nished with shield and spear.
Ip Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand
H: hundred prepared for battle.
•3 And of Aser forty thousand going
f 'th to fight, and challenging in battle.
7 And on the other side of the Jordan
(, the sons of Ruben, and of Gad, and of
t3 half of the tribe of Manasses a hun-
ted and twenty thousand, furnished
^ th arms for war.

5 All these men of war well appointed
t fight, came with a perfect heart to
^3bron, to make David king over all Is-
i|el : and all the rest also of Israel, were
f one heart to make David king.
j9 And they were there with David
tjree days eating and drinking : for their
Ijethren had prepared for them.
iO Moreover they that were near them
< en as far as Issachar, and Zabulon, and
liphtali, brought loaves on asses, and
i camels, and on mules, and on oxen,
y eat: mea figs, raisins, wine, oil, and

• 2EiDes6.2.

oxen, and sheep in abundance, for there
was joy in Israel.

CHAPTER 13.

The ark is brought from Cariathiarim. Oza for
touching it is struck dead.

AND David consulted with the captains
. of thousands, and of hundreds, and
with all the commanders.

2 And he said to all the assembly of Is-
rael: If it please you ; and if the words
which I speak come from the Lord our
God, let us send to the rest of our bre-
thren into all the countries of Israel,
and to the priests, and the Levites, that
dwell in the suburbs of the cities, to
gather themselves to us,

3 And let us bring again the ark of our
God to us : for we sought it not in the
days of Saul.

4 And all the multitude answered that
it should be so : for the word pleased all
the people.

5 So David assembled all Israel from
Sihor of Egypt, even to the entering
into Emath, ^to bring the ark of God
from Cariathiarim.

6 And David went up with all the men
of Israel to the hill of Cariathiarim which
is in Juda, to bring thence the ark of the
Lord God sitting upon the cherubims,
where his name is called upon.

7 And they carried the ark of God upon
a new cart, out of the house of Abinadab.
And Oza and his brother drove the cart.

8 And David and all Israel played before
God with all their might with hymns, and
with harps, and with psalteries, and tim-
brels, and cymbals, and trumpets,

9 And when they came to the floor of ^
Chidon, Oza put forth his hand, to hold
up the ark: for the ox being wanton had
made it lean a little on one side.

10 And the Lord was angry with Oza,
and struck him, because he had touched
the ark; and he died there before the
Lord.

11 And David was troubled because the
Lord had divided Oza : and he called that
place the Breach of Oza to this day.

12 And he feared God at that time, say-
ing: How can I bring in the ark of God
to me?

13 And therefore he brought it not home
to himself, that is, into the city of David,

p Alias NacbfO»

Ida

The children of David 1 PARALIPOMENON Levites to carry the arl

but carried it aside into the house of

Obededom the Gethite.

14 And the crk of God remained in the

house of Obededom three months: and

the Lord bl^-'sed his house, and all that

he had.

CHAPTER 14.

David's house, and children : his victories over the
Philistines.

AND 5 Hiram king of Tyre sent mes-
. sengers to David, and cedar trees,
and masons, and carpenters, to build him
a house.

2 And David perceived that the Lord
had confirmed him king over Israel, and
that his kingdom was exalted over his
people Israel.

3 ** And David took other wives in Jeru-
salem : and he begot sons, and daughters.

4 Now these are the names of them that
were born to him in Jerusalem : Samua,
and Sobad, Nathan, and Solomon,

6 Jebahar, and Elisua, and Eliphaict,

6 And Noga, and Napheg, and Japhia,

7 Elisama, and Baaliada, and Eliphalet.

8 * And the Philistines hearing that Da-
vid was anointed king over all Israel,
went all up to seek ^m: and David
heard of it, and w^nt out against them.

9 And the Philistines came and spread
themselves in the vale of Raphaim.

And David consulted the Lord, say-
ing: Shall I go up against the Philistines,
and wilt thou deliver them into my hand ?
And the Lord said to him : Go up, and I
will deliver them into thy hand.

11 And when they were come to Baal-
pharasim, David defeated them there,
and he said : God hath divided my ene-
mies by my hand, as waters are divided :
and therefore the name of that place
was called Baalpharasim.

12 And they left there their gods, and
David commanded that they should be
burnt.

13 Another time also the Philistines
made an irruption, and spread themselves
abroad in the valley.

14 And David consulted God again, and
God said to him : Go not up after them,
turn away from them, and come upon
them over against the pear trees.

15 And when thou shalt hear the sound
of one going in the tops of the pear trees,
then shalt thou go out to battle. For

Q 2 Kings 6. u. — / 2 Kings 'j, 13.—« 2 Kings 6. 17.

God is gone out before thee to strike tin
army of the Philistines.

16 And David did as God had commanded
him, and defeated the army of the Philie
tines, slaying them from Gabaon to Ga
zera.

17 And the name of David became fa
mous in all countries, and the Lord madi
all nations fear aim.

JHAPTER 15.

The ark is brought into the city of David, with gru \
solemnity. Michol derideth David''s devotion.

HE made also houses for himself i,
the city of David : and built a placi
for the ark of God, and pitched a tabej]
nacle for it.

2 Then David said: No one ought 1|
carry the ark of God, but the Levite
whom the Lord hath chosen to carry ij
and to minister unto himself for ever.

3 And he gathered all Israel togeth(|
into Jerusalem, that the ark of God mig]
be brought into its place, which he hi|
prepared for it.

4 And the sons of Aaron also, and tl|
Levites.

5 Of the children of Caath, Uriel wl
the chief, and his brethren a hundred aij
twenty.

6 Of the sons of Merari, Asaia the cM
and his brethren two hundred ai|
twenty.

7 Of the sons of Gersom, Joel the chij
and his brethren a hundred and thirty

8 Of the sons of Elisaphan, Semeias t|
chief : and his brethren two hundred.

9 Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chi(
and his brethren eighty.

10 Of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab fl
chief : and his brethren a hundred a|
twelve.

11 And David called Sadoc, and A1
thar the priests, and the Levites, Ur|
Asaia, Joel, Semeia, Eliel, and Aminadi

12 And he said to them : You that
the heads of the Levitical families,
sanctified with your brethren, and b:
the ark of the Lord the God of Israel
the place, which is prepared for it :

13 ' Lest as the Lord at first struck
because you were not present, the si
should now also come to pass, by
doing some thing against the law.

14 So the priests and the Levites w 9

«Supra 13. li&

434

carried with solemnity 1 PARALIPOMENON Ark placed in tabernacle

ttified, to carry the ark of the Lord

God of Israel.
I ^ And the sons of Levi took the ark
4 >od as Moses had commanded, accord-
b to the word of the Lord, upon their

{ulders, with the staves.
And David spoke to the chiefs of the
irites, to appoint some of their bre-
Hen to be singers with musical instru-
Bnts, to wit, on psalteries, and harps,
a;l cymbals, that the joyful noise might
wound on high.

And they appointed Levites, Hemam
tl son of Joel, and of his brethren Asaph
ti son of Barachias : and of the sons of
B^rari, their brethren: Ethan the son of
C^aia.

And with them their brethren: in
tl second rank, Zacharias, and Ben, and
J iel, and Semiramoth, and Jahiel, and
^i, and Eliab,and Banaias, and Maasias,
el Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and Ma-
edas, and Obededom, and Jehiel, the
pi'ters.

• Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and
Bian, sounded with cymbals of brass.

I And Zacharias, and Oziel, and Semira-
B th, and Jehiel, and Ani, and Eliab, and
^asias, and Banaias, sung mysteries
vun psalteries.

. And Mathathias, and Eliphalu, and
^ cenias and Obededom, and Jehiel and
Caziu, sung a song of victory for the
o^ave upon harps.

I And Chonenias chief of the Levites,
f isided over the prophecy, to give out
t i tunes : for he was very skilful.

5 And Barachias, and Elcana, were
CDrkeepers of the ark.

't And Sebenias, and Josaphat, and Na-
tmael, and Amasai, and Zacharias, and
inaias, and Eliezer the priests, sounded
Vbh trumpets, before the ark of God:
£d Obededom and Jehias were porters
c the ark.

3 ^So David and all the ancients of
1 ael, and the captains over thousands,
^nt to bring the ark of the covenant of
t3 Lord out of the house of Obededom
Uh joy.

i6 And when God had helped the Levites
^10 carried the ark of the covenant ot
^e Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven
ten, and seven rams.

}■ Num. 4. 15. — i; 2 Kings 6. 12. — w2 Kings 6. 17.

yHAP. 15. Ver. 22. The prophecy^ to give out the
1m«. Singiag praises to God is here called pro-

27 And David was clothed with a robe
of fine linen, and all the Levites that car-
ried the ark, and the singing men, and
Chonenias the ruler of the prophecy
among the singers: and David also had
on him an ephod of linen.

28 And all Israel brought the ark of the
covenant of the Lord with joyful shout-
ing, and sounding with the sound of the
cornet, and with trumpets, and cymbals,
and psalteries, and harps.

29 And when the ark of the covenant
of the Lord was come to the city of Da-
vid, Michol the daughter of Saul looking
out at a window, saw king David dancing
and playing, and she despised him in her
heart.

CHAPTER 16.
The ark is placed in the tabernacle. Sacrifice is of-
fered. David blesseth the people, disposeth the
offices of Levites^ and maketh a psalm of praise t»
God.

SO ^they brought the ark of God, and
set it in the midst of the tent, which
David had pitched for it : and they offered
holocausts, and peace offerings before
God.

2 And when David had made an end of
offering holocausts, and peace offerings,
he blessed the people in the name of the
Lord.

3 And he divided to all and every one,
both men and women, a loaf of bread,
and a piece of roasted beef, and fiour
fried with oil.

4 And he appointed Levites to minister
before the ark of the Lord, and to re-
member his works, and to glorify, and
praise the Lord God of Israel.

5 Asaph the chief, and next after hit_
Zacharias: moreover Jahiel, and Semira-
moth, and Jehiel, and Mathathias, and
Eliab, and Banaias, and Obededom: and
Jehiel over the instruments of psaltery,
and harps: and Asaph sounded with cym-
bals:

6 But Banaias, and Jaziel the priests,
to sound the trumpet continually before
the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

7 In that day David made Asaph the
chief to give praise to the Lord with his
brethren.

» * Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his
name : make known his doings among the
nations.

X Ps. 104. 1 ; Isa. 12. 4.

phecy : tlie more, because these singers were often
inspired meo.

436

David's psalm of praise 1 PARALIPOMENON

Levites before the wi

9 Sing to Mm, yea, sing praises to him:
and relate all his wondrous works.

10 Praise ye his holy name: let the heart
of them rejoice, that seek the Lord.

11 Seek ye the Lord, and his power:
seek ye his face evermore.

12 Remember his wonderful works,
which he hath done : his signs, and the
judgments of his mouth.

13 O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye
children of Jacob his chosen.

14 He is the Lord our God: his judg-
ments are in all the earth.

15 Remember for ever his covenant :
the word, which he commanded to a thou-
sand generations.

16 The covenant which he made with
Abraham : and his oath to Isaac.

17 And he appointed the same to Jacob
for a precept : and to Israel for an ever-
lasting covenant :

18 Saying : To thee will I give the land
of Chanaan : the lot of your inheritance.

19 When they were but a small number :
very few and sojourners in it.

20 And they passed from nation to na-
tion: and from a kingdom to another
jeople.

21 He suffered no man to do them
wrong: and reproved kings for their
sake.

22 ^ Touch not my anointed : and do no
evil to my prophets.

23 ^ Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth :
shew forth from day to day his salvation.

24 Declare his glory among the Gentiles :
his wonders among all people.

25 For the Lord is great and exceedingly
to be praised : and he is to be feared above
all gods.

26 For all the gods of the nations are
idols : but the Lord made the heavens.

27 Praise and magnificence are before
him : strength and joy in his place.

28 Bring ye to the Lord, O ye families
of the nations : bring ye to the Lord
glory and empire.

29 Give to the Lord glory to his name,
bring up sacrifice, and come ye in his
sight: and adore the Lord in holy be-
comingness.

30 Let aU the earth be moved at his
presence : for he hath founded the world
immoveable.

31 Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth

y Pa. 104. 16. — « Ps. 95. 1.

be glad : and let them say among the n(
tions : The Lord hath reigned.

32 Let the sea roar, and the fulne
thereof : let the fields rejoice, and
things that are in them.

33 Then shall the trees of the wood gii
praise before the Lord : because he
come to judge the earth.

34 Give ye glory to the Lord, for he
good : for his mercy endureth for eveii

35 And say ye : Save us, O God our i
viour: and gather us together, and c
liver us from the nations, that we mi
give glory to thy holy name, and ml
rejoice in singing thy praises. I

36 Blessed be the Lord the God of '
rael from eternity to eternity: and
all the people say Amen, and a hymn
God. I

37 So he left there before the ark of 1i
covenant of the Lord, Asaph and
brethren to minister in the presence !
the ark continually day by day, and I
their courses.

38 And Obededom, with his brethi
sixty-eight: and Obededom the son
Idithun, and Hosa he appointed to
porters.

39 And Sadoc the priest, and his b
thren priests, before the tabernacle
the Lord in the high place, which waf
Gabaon.

40 That they should offer holocaustfi
the Lord upon the altar of holocaii
continually, morning and evening, i
cording to all that is written in the J
of the Lord, which he commanded Isr

41 And after him Heman, and Iditli
and the rest that were chosen, every
by his name to give praise to the Lc
because his mercy endureth for ever.

42 And Heman and Idithun sounded
trumpet, and played on the cymbals,;
all kinds of musical instruments to £
praises to God: and the sons of Idit
he made porters.

43 And aU the people returned to tl
houses : and David to bless also his c|3
house.

CHAPTER 17.

David's "purpose to build o temple, is rewarde
most ample promises : David's thanksgiviw

NOW " when David was dwelling ir ^
house, he said to Nathan the ] ►*
phet : Behold I dwell in a house of ce(

a 2 Kings 7. 2.

436

Man\s- message to David 1 PARALIPOMENON

d the ark of the covenant of the Lord
under skins.

And Nathan said to David: Do all
lat is in thy heart : for God is with thee.

Now that night the word of God came

Nathan, saying :

Go, and speak to David my servant:

us saith the Lord : Thou shalt not build
3 a house to dwell in.

For I have not remained in a house
i)m the time that I brought up Israel,

this day: but I have been always
anging places in a tabernacle, and in a
pt.

Abiding with all Israel. Did I ever
eak to any one, of all the judges of

ael, whom I charged to feed my peo-
B, saying : Why have you not built me
lOUse of cedar ?

Now therefore thus shalt thou say to

Y oervant David : Thus saith the Lord
hosts : I took thee from the pastures,
)m following the flock, that thou
ouldst be ruler of my people Israel.

And I have been with thee whither-
ever thou hast gone : and have slain
thy enemies before thee, and have
ide thee a name like that of one of the
eat ones that are renowned in the earth.
And I have given a place to my peo-
■8 Israel : they shall be planted, and
all dwell therein, and shall be moved
moro, neither shall the children of
quity waste them, as at the beginning,

0 Since the days that I gave judges to

Y people Israel, and have humbled all
y enemies. And I declare to thee,
at the Lord will build thee a house.

1 And when thou shalt have ended
y days to go to thy fathers, I will raise
) thy seed after thee, which shall be of
ly sons : and I will establish his king-
pm.

j.2 He shall build me a house, and I will

jitabhsh his throne for ever.

^3 I wiU be to him a father, and he

(lall be to me a son : and I will not take

l^y mercy away from him, as I took it

I cm him that was before thee.

14 But I will settle him in my house,

ad in my kingdom for ever: and his

jirone shall be most firm for ever.

l^ According to all these words, and

3cording to all this vision, so did Na-

la:^. speak to David.

David*s prayer

16 And king David came and sat before
the Lord, and said : Who am I, O Lord
God, and what is my house, that thou
shouldst give such things to me ?

17 But even this hath seemed little in
thy sight, and therefore thou hast also
spoken concerning the house of thy ser-
vant for the time to come: and hast
made me remarkable above all men, O
Lord God.

18 What can David add more, seeing
thon hast thus glorified thy servant, and
known him?

19 O Lord, for thy servant's sake, ac-
cording to thy own heart, thou hast
shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst
have all the great things to be known.

20 O Lord there is none like thee: and
ohere is no other God beside thee, of all
whom we have heard of with our ears.

21 For what other nation is there upon
earth like thy people Israel, whom God
went to dehver, and make a people for
himself, and by his greatness and terrors
cast out nations before their face whom
he had delivered out of Egypt ?

22 And thou hast made thy people Is-
rael to be thy own people for ever, and
thou, O Lord, art become their God.

23 Now therefore, O Lord, let the word
which thou hast spoken to thy servant,
and concerning his house, be established
for ever, and do as thou hast said.

24 And let thy name remain and be
magnified for ever: and let it be said:
The Lord of hosts is God of Israel, and
the house of David his servant remaineth
before him.

25 For thou, O Lord my God, hast re-
vealed to the ear of thy servant, that
thou wilt build him a house : and there-
fore thy servant hath found confidence
to pray before thee.

26 And now O Lord, thou art God : and
thou hast promised to thy servant such
great benefits.

27 And thou hast begun to bless the
house of thy servant, that it may be
always before thee: for seeing thou
blessest it, O Lord, it shall be blessed for
ever.

CHAPTER 18.
David's victories. His chief officers.

ND ^ it came to pass after this, that
David defeated the Philistines, and

»a£ios8t.i.

«•7

David* s victories

1 PARALIPOMENON His ambassadors insulie

humbled them, and took away Geth, and
her daughters out of the hands of the
Philistines,

2 And he defeated Moab, and the Moab-
ites were made David's servants, and
brought him gifts.

3 At that time David defeated also
Adarezer king of Soba of the land of
Hemath, when he went to extend his
dominions as far as the river Euphrates.

4 And David took from him a thousand
chariots, and seven thousand horsemen,
and twenty thousand footmen, and he
houghed all the chariot horses, only a
hundred chariots, which he reserved for
himself.

5 And the Syrians of Damascus came
also to help Adarezer king of Soba : and
David slew of them likewise two and
twenty thousand men.

6 And he put a garrison iu Damascus,
that Syria also should serve him, and
bring gifts. And the Lord assisted him
in all things to which he went.

7 And David took the golden quivers
which the servants of Adarezer had, and
he brought them to Jerusalem.

8 Likewise out of Thebath and Chun,
cities of Adarezer, he brought very
much brass, of which Solomon made the
brazen sea, and the pillars, and the ves-
sels of brass.

9 Now when Thou king of Hemath
heard that David had defeated all the
army of Adarezer king of Soba,

10 He sent Adoram his son to king Da-
vid, to desire peace of him, and to con-
gratulate him that he had defeated and
overthrown Adarezer: for Thou was an
enemy to Adarezer.

11 And all the vessels of gold, and sil-
ver, and brass king David consecrated
to the Lord, with the silver and gold
which he had taken from all the nations,
as well from Edom, and from Moab, and
from the sons of Ammon, as from the
Philistines, and from Amalec.

12 And Abisai the son of Sarvia slew of
the Edomites in the vale of the saltpits,
eighteen thousand:

13 And he put a garrison in Edom, that
Edom should serve David: and the Lord
preserved David in all things to which
he went.

14 So David reigned over all Israel, and

executed judgment and justice amon,
all his people.

1*^ And Joab the son of Sarvia wan ove'
the army, and Josaphat the son of Ah
lud recorder. i

16 And Sadoc the son of Achitob, an
Achimelech the son of Abiathar, wei
the priests : and Susa, scribe. i

17 And Banaias the son of Joiada ws'
over the bands of the Cerethi, and th
Phelethi: and the sons of David wer
chief about the king.

CHAPTER 19.

The Ammonites abuse Davicfs ambassadors: ho\\
they and their confederates are overthrovm. i

NOW ^ it came to pass that Naas tli
king of the children of Ammon diej
and his son reigned in his stead.

2 And David said: I will shew kindnel
to Hanon the son of Naas : for his f ath4
did a favour to me. And David sent mej
sengers to comfort him upon the deatj
of his father. But when they were conj
into the land of the children of Ammo!
to comfort Hanon, |

3 The princes of the children of Ammc
said to Hanon : Thou thinkest perha
that David to do honour to thy fath
hath sent comforters to thee : and th<(
dost not take notice, that his servar
are come to thee to consider, and searc
and spy out thy land.

4 Wherefore Hanon shaved the hea
and beards of the servants of David, a
cut away their garments from the bi
tocks to the feet, and sent them away.

5 And when they were gone, they se
word to David, who sent to meet th(
(for they had suffered a great affroi
and ordered them to stay at Jericho '
their beards grew and then to return.

6 And when the children of Ammon e;
that they had done an injury to Dav
Hanon and the rest of the people sen
thousand talents of silver, to hire th<
chariots and horsemen out of Mesopo
mia^ and out of Syria Maacha, and out
Soba.

7 And they hired two and thirty th(
sand chariots, and the king of Maac
with his people. And they came p-
camped over against Medaba. .^Ji'1 ^
children of Ammon gathered ^aemsel^
together out of their cities, and camo
battle.

2 KiL«?s 10. 1,

438

\eat of the Syrians

1 PARALIPOMENON Victories over Philistines

d when David heard of iu, he sent

b, and all the army of valiant men:
nd the children of Ammon came out
put their army in array before the
3 of the city : and the kings, that were
e to their aid, stood apart in the field.
Wherefore Joab understanding that
battle was set against him before and
nd, chose out the bravest men of all
el, and marched against the Syrians,
And the rest of the people he dehv-
1 into the hand of Abisai his brother,
they went against the children of
Loaon.

!l And he said: If the Syrians be too
it ng for me, then thou shalt help me :
on if the children of Ammon be too
?ti ng for thee, I will help thee.
1 Be of good courage and let us behave
acielves manfully for our people, and
fo the cities ot om.' God : and the Lord
Wi do that which is good in his sight.
d So Joab and the people that were
-Wi;i him, went against the Syrians to
bb battle : and he put them to flight.
: 1 And the children of Ammon seeing
thi the Syrians were fled, they likewise
fl€ from Abisai his brother, and went
in the city : and Joab also returned to
Jeiisalem.

1 But the Syrians seeing that they had
fa m before Israel, sent messengers, and
bright to them the Syrians that were
beond the river: and Sophach, general
of le army of Adarezer, was their leader.
1 And it was told David, and he gath-
er i together all Israel, and passed the
Jcian, and came upon them, and put his
ar y in array against them, and they
fo ;ht with him.

1 But the Syrian fled before Israel: and
Dnd slew of the Syrians seven thousand
cb'iots, and forty thousand footmen, and
Scihach the general of the army.

1 And when the servants of Adarezer
fla themselves overcome by Israel, they
W it over to David, and served him: and
S}ia would not help the children of Am-
111 1 any more.

CHAPTER 20.

fi<!>a is taken. Other victories over the Philis-
tines.

I ND * it came to pass after the course

! j^ of a year, at the time that kings go

out to battle, Joab gathered together an
army and the strength of the troops, and
wasted the land of the children of Am-
mon : and went and besieged Rabba. But
David stayed at Jerusalem, when Joab
smote Rabba, and destroyed it.

2 And David took the crown of Melchom
from his head, and found in it a talent
weight of gold, and most precious stones,
and he made himself a diadem of it : he
took also the spoils of the city which
were very great.

3 And the people that were therein he
brought out : and made harrows, and
sleds, and chariots of iron to go over
them, so that they were cut and bruised
to pieces : in this manner David dealt
with all the cities of the children of Am-
mon : and he returned with all his people
to Jerusalem.

4 -^ After this there arose a war at Gazer
against the Phihstines: in which Sabachai
the Husathite slew Saphai of the race of
Raphaim, and humbled them.

5 Another battle also was fought against
the Philistines, in which Adeodatus the
son of Saltus a Bethlehemite slew the bro-
ther of Goliath the Gethite, the staff of
whor^ spear was like a weaver's beam.

6 There was another battle also in Geth,
in which there was a man of great stature,
whose fingers and toes were four and
twenty, six on each hand and foot: who
also was born of the stock of Rapha.

7 He reviled Israel : but Jonathan the
son of Samaa the brother of David slew
him. These were the sons of Rapha in
Geth, who fell by the hand of David and
his iervants.

CHAPTER 21.

David's sin in numbering the people is punished by
a pestilence : which ceaseth upon his offering sac
rifice in the thrashingfloor of Oman.

ND ^ Satan rose up against Israel : and
moved David to number Israel.

2 And David said to Joab, and to the
rulers of the people : Go, and number Is-
rael from Bersabee even to Dan, and
bring me the number of them that I may
know it.

3 And Joab answered : The Lord make
his people a hundred times more than
they are : but, my lord the king, are they
not all thy servants : why doth my lord

f Kings 10. 7, and 11. i.

/2 Kings 21. 18.
a 2 Kings 24. 1 ; Infra 27. 24.

Chap. id. Ver. i& Seven, thouiond chariots, Tbat is, of men who fought in chariots.

David numbers the people 1 PARALIPOMENON Thrashing floor of Oi

seek this thing, which may be imputed
as a sin to Israel ?

4 But the king's word rather prevailed:
and Joab departed, and went through all
Israel : and returned to Jerusalem.

5 And he gave David the number of
them, whom he had surveyed : and all the
number of Israel was found to be eleven
hundred thousand men that drew the
sword : and of Juda four hundred and
seventy thousand fighting men.

6 But Levi and Benjamin he did not
number: for Joab unwillingly executed
the king's orders.

7 And God was displeased with this
thing that was commanded : and he
struck Israel.

8 And David said to God : I have sinned
exceedingly in doing this : I beseech thee
take away the iniquity of thy servant,
for I have done fooUshly.

9 And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer
of David, saying :

10 Go, and speak to David, and tell
him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee
the choice of three things: choose one
which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee.

11 And when Gad was come to David,
he said to him: Thus saith the Lord:
choose which thou wilt:

12 Either three years' famine : or three
months to flee from thy enemies, and not
to be able to escape their sword: or three
days to have the sword of the Lord, and
pestilence in the land, and the angel of
the Lord destroying in all the coasts of
Israel: now therefore see what I shall
answer him who sent me.

13 And David said to Gad: I am on
every side in a great strait : but it is bet-
ter for me to fall into the hands of the
Lord, for his mercies are many, than into
the hands of men.

14 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon
Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy
thousand men.

15 And he sent an angel to Jerusalem,
to strike it: and as he was striking it, the
Lord beheld, and took pity for the great-
ness of the evil: and said to the angel
that destroyed: It is enough, now stop

Chap. 21. Ver. 5. The number, &c. The differ-
ence of the numbers here and 2 Kings 24. is to be
accounted for, by supposing the greator number to
be that which was really found, and the lesser to be
that which Joab gave in.

Ver. 12. Three years^ fnm,me : Which joined with
the three foregoing y'enrs of famine mentioned,
% Kiugs 21 and the seventh year ol the land's rest-

thy hand. And the angel of the
stood by the thrashingfloor of Oman
Jebusite.

16 And David lifting up his eyes, n
the angel of the Lord standing betwe
heaven and earth, with a drawn swo
in his hand, turned against Jerusale:
and both he and the ancients clothed
haircloth, fell down flat on the ground

17 And David said to God : Am not I \
that commanded the people to be nu
bered? It is I that have sinned: it»
that have done the evil : but as for tl
flock, what hath it deserved ? O Lord i
God, let thy hand be turned, I besec
thee, upon me, and upon my fathe
house : and let not thy people be (
stroyed.

18 And the angel of the Lord co
manded Gad to tell David, to go up, a
build an altar to the Lord God in tl
thrashingfloor of Oman the Jebusite. '

19 And David went up, according to i
word of Gad, which he spoke to him
the name of the Lord. j

20 Now when Oman looked up, and si
the angel, he and his four sons hid the
selves : for at that time he was thrash
wheat in the floor.

21 And as David was coming to Orn
Oman saw him, and went out of
thrashingfloor to meet him, and bo\
down to him with his face to the grou

22 And David said to him : Give me U
place of thy thrashingfloor, that I e|'
build therein an altar to the Lord:
thou shalt take of me as much monej
it is worth, that the plague may ce
from the people.

23 And Oman said to David: Take
and let my lord the king do all t
pleaseth him: and moreover the o:
also I give for a holocaust, and the di
for wood, and the wheat for the sa
fice : I will give it all willingly.

24 And king David said to him : It s
not be so, but I will give thee mone
much as it is worth: for I must not t
it from thee, and so offer to the I
holocausts free cost.

25 So David gave to Oman for

ing, would make up the seven years proposed b
prophet, 2 Kings 24. 13.

Ver. 15. Oman: Otherwise Areuna.

Ver. 25. Six hundred sides, &c. This wa.'
price of the whole place, on which the tempU
afterwards built ; but the price of the oxss^' "^
sides of silver, 2 Kings 24. 24.

e I
d

plague is stayed

1 PARALIPOMENON David's charge to Solomon

Ix hundred sides of gold of just
ight.

' * And he built there an altar to the
d : and he offered holocausts, and
ice offerings, and he called upon the
rd, and he heard him by sending fire
m heaven upon the altar of the holo-

C ist.

And the Lord commanded the angel :
u 1 he put up his sword again into the
B ath.

And David seeing that the Lord had
h ird him in the thrashingfloor of Oman
t Jebusite, forthwith offered victims
t re.

I But the tabernacle of the Lord,
* hich Moses made in the desert, and
t altar of holocausts, was at that time
i] :he high place of Gabaon.

' And David could not go to the altar
I ; r'? to pray to God : for he was seized

h an exceeding great fear, seeing the
fi :rd of the angel of the Lord.

CHAPTER 22.

L id having prepared zll necessaries, chargeth
iiomon to build the temple and the princes to
•sist him.

riHEN David said: -^ This is the house
, of God, and this is the altar for the
h ocaust of Israel.

And he commanded to gather to-
g her all the proselytes of the land of
Iiael, and out of them he appointed
Binecutters to hew stones and polish
t; m, to build the house of God.

And David prepared in abundance
Im for the nails of the gates, and for
t closures and joinings: and of brass
a immense weight.

I And the cedar trees were without
nnber, which the Sidonians, and Tyri-
a I brought to David.

And David said : Solomon my son is
■V|-y young and tender, and the house
vich I would have to be built to the
I,:d, must be such as to be renowned in
a countries: therefore I will prepare
hi necessaries. And therefore before
h, death he prepared all the charges.

And he called for Solomon his son:
ajl commanded him to build a house to
tp Lord the God of Israel.

And David said to Solomon: My son,
i^as my desire to have built a house to
tinameof the Lord my God.*

^ ^ h2 Par= 3. 1,— i Ex. 36. 2.

8 But the word of the Lord came to me,
saying: Thou hast shed much blood, and
fought many battles, so thou canst not
build a house to my name, after shedding
so much blood before me:

9 The son, that shall be born to thee,
shall be a most quiet man: for I will
make him rest from all his enemies
round about : and therefore he shall be
called Peaceable : and I will give peace
and quietness to Israel all his days.

10 "^ He shall build a house to my name,
and he shall be a son to me, and I will be
a father to him : and I will establish the
throne of his kingdom over Israel for
ever.

11 Now then, my son, the Lord be with
thee, and do thou prosper, and build the
house to the Lord thy God, as he hath
spoken of thee.

12 The Lord also give thee wisdom and
understanding, that thou may est be able
to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the
Lord thy God.

13 For then thou shalt be able to pro-
sper, if thou keep the commandments,
and judgments, which the liOrd com-
manded Moses to teach Israel: take cour-
age and act manfully, fear not, nor be
dismayed.

14 Behold I in my poverty have pre-
pared the charges of the house of the
Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents,
and of silver a million of talents : but of
brass, and of iron there is no weight, for
the abundance surpasseth all account:
timber also and stones I have prepared
for all the charges.

15 Thou hast also workmen in abun-
dance, hewers of stones, and masons, and
carpenters, and of all trades the most
skilful in their work,

16 In gold, and in silver, and in brass,
and in iron, whereof there is no number.
Arise then, and be doing, and the Lord
will be with thee.

17 David also charged all the princes of
Israel, to help Solomon his son,

18 Saying: You see, that the Lord your
God is with you, and hath given you
rest round about, and hath delivered all
your enemies into your hands, and the
land is subdued before the Lord, and be-
fore his people.

19 Give therefore your hearts and your

1 2 Kings 7. 1. — m 2 Kings 7. 13 ; 3 Kings 6. 5;

441

David makes Solomon kiny 1 PARALIPOMENON Levites and their offi

souls, to seek the Lord your God : and
arise, and build a sanctuary to the Lord
God, that the ark of the covenant of the
Lord, and the vessels consecrated to the
Lord, may be brought into the house,
which is built to the name of the Lord.

CHAPTER 23.

David appointeth Solomon king. The distribution
of the Levites and their offices.

A ND ^ David being old and full of days,
J\. made Solomon his son king over
Israel.

?' And he gathered together all the
princes of Israel, and the priests and
Levites.

3 And the Levites were numbered from
the age of thirty years, and upwards:
and there were found of them thirty-
eight thousand men.

4 Of these twenty-four thousand were
chosen, and distributed unto the minis-
try of the house of the Lord : and six
thousand were the overseers and judges.

6 Moreover four thousand were porters:
and as many singers singing to the Lord
with the instruments, which he had made
to sing with.

6 *'And David distributed them into
courses by the families of the sons of
Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and
of Merari.

7 The sons of Gerson were Leedan and
Semei.

8 The sons of Leedan : the chief Jahiel,
and Zethan, and Joel, three.

9 The sons of Semei: Salomith,and Ho-
siel, and Aran, three: these were the
heads of the families of Leedan.

10 And the sons of Semei were Leheth,
and Ziza, and Jaus, and Baria: these
were the sons of Semei, four.

11 And Leheth wab the first, Ziza the
second : but Jaus and Baria had not
many children, and therefore they were
counted in one family, and in one house.

12 The sons of Caath were Amram, and
Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel, four.

13^ The sons of Amram, Aaron, and
Moses. ^ And Aaron was separated to
minister in the holy of holies, he and
his sons for ever, and to burn incense
before the Lord, according to his cere-
monies, and to bless his name for ever.

14 The sons also of Moses, the man of

God, were numbered in the tribe
Levi.

15 The sons'" of Moses were Gersom ail
Eliezer:

16 The sons of Gersom: Subuel the fin

17 And the sons of Eliezer were : Roh
bia the first: and Eliezer had no mo
sons. But the sons of Rohobia we
multiplied exceedingly.

18 The sons of Isaar : Salomith the fir

19 The sons of Hebron : Jeriau the fir
Amarias the second, Jahaziel the thi
Jecmaam the fourth.

20 The sons of Oziel: Micha the fli
Jesia the second.

21 The sons of Merari : Moholi,
Musi. The sons of Moholi: Eleazar a
Cis.

22 And Eleazar died, and had no sc|
but daughters: and the sons of Cis th
brethren took them.

23 The sons of Musi : Moholi, and Ed
and Jerimoth, three.

24 These are the sons of Levi in th
kindreds and families, princes by th
courses, and the number of every h<
that did the works of the ministry of
house of the Lord from twenty years
and upward.

25 For David said: The Lord the (
of Israel hath given rest to his peo]
and a habitation in Jerusalem for eve

26 And it shall not be the oflace of the
vites to carry any more the taberna
and all the vessels for the service then

27 So according to the last preceptt
David, the sons of Levi are to be ni
bered from twenty years old and upwj

28 And they are to be under the h
of the sons of Aaron for the service^
the house of the Lord, in the pore
and in the chambers, and in the pi
of purification, and in the sanctuary,
in all the works of the ministry of
temple of the Lord.

29 And the priests have the charge
the loaves of proposition, and of the
rifice of fine flour, and of the unleave
cakes, and of the fryingpan, and of
roasting, and of every weight and i
sure.

30 And the Levites are to stand in
morning to give thanks, and to
praises to the Lord: and in like mai
in the evening,

C. 972. — o Supra 6. 1.
p Supra 6. 3.

g Heb. 5. 4.
r Ex. 2. 22, and 18. 3 and 4.

442

twenty-four courses 1 PARALIPOMENON The chiefs of the Levites

As well in the oblation of the holo-
Bts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths

in the new moons, and the rest of
solemnities, according to the number

ceremonies prescribed for every
ig, continually before the Lord.
And let them keep the observances
he tabernacle of the covenant, and

ceremonies of the sanctuary, and
charge of the sons of Aaron their
;hren, that they may minister in the
se of the Lord.

CHAPTER 24.

divisions of the priests into four and twenty
irses, to serve in the temple : the chiefs of the
vites.

OW these were the divisions of the

sons of Aaron : The sons of Aaron ;

lab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Itha-

But Nadab and Abiu died before their
ler, and had no children : so Eleazar,
Ithamar did the office of the priest-
d.

ind David distributed them, that is,
oc of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahime-
1 of the sons of Ithamar, according to
:ir courses and ministry.
l\nd there were found many more of
: sons of Eleazar among the principal
D,i, than of the sons of Ithamar. And
n divided them so, that there were of
1 sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by
Hr families: and of the sons of Itha-
t: • eight by their families and houses.
/Vnd he divided both the families one
?h the other by lot: for there were
>: ices of the sanctuary, and princes of
> 1, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of
1 sons of Ithamar.

Knd Semeias the son of Nathanael the
c[be a Levite, wrote them down before
Ij king and the princes, and Sadoc the
>i38t, and Ahimelech the son of Abia-
U, and the princes also of the priestly
-I Levitical families : one house, which
Y over the rest, of Eleazar: and an-
'ler house, which had the rest under it,
>![thamar.

Now the first lot came forth to Joia-
|, the second to Jedei,
[The third to Harim, the fourth to
yrim,

The fifth to Melchia, the sixth to
^iman,

10 The seventh to Accos, the eighth to
Abia,

11 The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to
Sechenias

12 The eleventh to Eliasib, the twelfth
to Jacim,

13 The thirteenth to Hoppha, the four-
teenth to Isbaab,

14 The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth
to Emmer,

16 The seventeenth to Hezh, the eight-
eenth to Aphses,

16 The nineteenth to Pheteia, the twen-
tieth to Hezechiel,

17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the
two and twentieth to Gamul,

18 The three and twentieth to Dalaiau,
the four and twentieth to Maaziau.

19 These are their courses according to
their ministries, to come into the house
of the Lord, and according to their man-
ner under the hand of Aaron their father:
as the Lord the God of Israel had com-
manded.

20 Now of the rest of the sons of Levi,
there was of the sons of Amram, Subael ;
and of the sons of Subael, Jehedeia.

21 Also of the sons of Rohobia the chief
Jesias.

22 And the son of Isaar Salemoth, and
the son of Salemoth Jahath :

23 And his son Jeriau the first, Amaridjs
the second, Jahaziel the third, Jecmaan
the fourth.

24 The son of Oziel, Micha : the son of
Micha, Samir.

25 The brother of Micha, Jesia : and the
son of Jesia, Zacharias.

26 The sons of Merari: Moholi and
Musi: the son of Oziau: Benno.

27 The son also of Merari : Oziau, and
Soam, and Zacchur, and Hebri.

28 And the son of Moholi : Eleazar, who
had no sons.

29 And the son of Cis, Jeramael.

30 The sons of Musi: Moholi, Eder, and
Jerimoth. These are the sons of Levi
according to the houses of their fami-
lies.

31 And they also cast lots over against
their brethren the sons of Aaron before
David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahime-
lech, and the princes of the priestly and
Levitical families, both the elder and the
younger. The lot divided all equally.

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443

The musicians

CHAPTER 25.

The number and divisions of the musicians.

MOREOVER David and the chief
oflacers of the army separated for
the ministry the sons of Asaph, and of
Heman, and of Idithun : to prophesy with
harps, and with psalteries, and with cym-
bals according to their number serving in
their appointed oflBce.

2 Of the sons of Asaph: Zacchur, and
Joseph, and Nathania, and Asarela, sons
of Asaph: under the hand of Asaph pro-
phesying near the king.

3 And of Idithun : the sons of Idithun,
Godolias, Sori, Jeseias, and Hasabias, and
Mathathias, six, under the hand of their
father Idithun, who prophesied with a
harp to give thanks and to praise the
Lord.

4 Of Heman also : the sons of Heman,
Bocciau, Mathaniau, Oziel, Subuel, and
Jerimoth, Hananias, Hanani, Eliatha,
Geddelthi, and Romemthiezer, and Jes-
bacassa, Mellothi, Othir, Mahazioth :

6 All these were the sons of Heman the
seer of the king in the words of God, to
lift up the horn : and God gave to Heman
fourteen sons and three daughters.

6 All these under their father's hand
were distributed to sing in the temple of
the Lord, with cymbals, and psalteries
and harps, for the service of the house
of the Lord near the king : to wit, Asaph,
and Idithun, and Heman.

7 And the number of them with their
brethren, that taught the song of the
Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred
and eighty-eight.

8 And they cast lots by their courses,
the elder equally with the younger, the
learned and the unlearned together.

9 And the first lot came forth to Joseph,
Who was of Asaph. The second to God-
olias, to him and his sons, and his bre-
thren twelve.

10 The third to Zachur, to his sons and
his brethren twelve.

11 The fourth to Isari, to his sons and
his brethren twelve.

12 The fifth to Nathania, to his sons and
his brethren twelve.

13 The sixth to Bocciau, to his sons and
his brethren twelve.

14 The seventh to Isreela, to his sons
and his brethren twelve.

15 The eighth to Jesaia, to his sons and
his brethren twelve.

PARALIPOMENON

The musicians

16 The ninth to Mathanaias, to his soiw
and his brethren twelve.

17 The tenth to Semeias, to his sons and
his brethren twelve.

18 The eleventh to Azareel, to his sons
and his brethren twelve.

19 The twelfth to Hasabia, to his sona
and his brethren twelve.

20 The thirteenth to Subael, to his sons
and his brethren twelve.

21 The fourteenth to Mathathias, to his
sons and his brethren twelve.

22 The fifteenth to Jerimoth, to his sona
and his brethren twelve.

23 The sixteenth to Hananias, to his
sons and his brethren twelve.

24 The seventeenth to Jesbacassa, to Ids
sons and his brethren twelve.

25 The eighteenth to Hanani, to his sons
and his brethren twelve.

26 The nineteenth to Mellothi, to his
sons and his brethren twelve.

27 The twentieth to Eliatha, to his sons
and his brethren twelve.

28 The one and twentieth to Othir, to
his sons and his brethren twelve.

29 The two and twentieth to Geddelthi,
to his sons and his brethren twelve.

30 The three and twentieth to Maha-
zioth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

31 The four and twentieth to Romem-
thiezer, to his sons and his brethren
twelve.

CHAPTER 26.
The divisions of the porters. Offices of other Levites.
AND the divisions of the porters: oi
J\. the Corites Meselemia, the son ol
Core, of the sons of Asaph.

2 The sons of Meselemia : Zacharias the
firstborn, Jadihel the second, Zabadiat
the third, Jathanael the fourth,

3 Elam the fifth, Johanan the sixth
Elioenai the seventh.

4 And the sons of Obededom, Semeia
the firstborn, Jozabad the second, Joahi
the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathanae
the fifth,

5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the sev
enth, Phollathi the eighth: for the Lor<
had blessed him.

6 And to Semei his son were born sonf
heads of their families: for they wer
men of great valour.

7 The sons then of Semeias were Othn
and Raphael, and Obed, Elizabad, and b:
brethren most valiant men: and El"

I and Samachias.

444

Y porters

■lU these of the sons of Obededom :
tir, and their sons, and their brethren
lit able men for service, sixty-two of
oFdedom.

Bk.nd the sons of Meselemia, and their
l^ hren strong men, were eighteen.

~ And of Hosa, that is, of the sons of
ari : Semri the chief, (for he had not
stborn, and therefore his father made
chief.)

I Helcias the second, Tabelias the
tli, Zacharias the fourth : all these the
s«t, and the brethren of Hosa, were
tkbeen.

■•Among these were the divisions of
tl porters, so that the chiefs of the
^wis, as well as their brethren, always
rod istered in the house of the Lord.

I And they cast lots equally, both little
aB great, by their families for every one
of ie gates.

1 And the lot of the east fell to Sele-
mji. But to his son Zacharias, a very
wi) and learned man, the north gate fell
byot.

1 And to Obededom and his sons that
to irds the south : in which part of the
ho 56 was the council of the ancients.

ITo Sephim, and Hosa towards the
W(b, by the gate which leadeth to the
W{ of the ascent : ward against ward.

l|Now towards the east were six Le-
vii3 : and towards the north four a day :
an towards the south likewise four a
da : and where the council was, two and
tv.

1 In the cells also of the porters to-
vn i the west four in the way : and two
at very cell.

1 These are the divisions of the porters
of le sons of Core, and of Merari.

2|Now Achias was over the treasures
of le house of God, and the holy vessels.

2|The sons of Ledan, the sons of Ger-
80 li: of Ledan were heads of the fami-
lie of Ledan, and Gersonni, Jehieli.

2 The sons of Jehieli : Zathan and Joel,
hi{ brethren over the treasures of the
hojie of the Lord,

2 With the Amramites, and Isaarites,
an, Hebronites, and Ozielites.

2 And Subael the son of Gersom, the
80 of Moses, was chief over the trea-

8lt|8.

1 PARALIPOMENON Duties of the other Levites

A p. 26 Ver. 10. He had 7iot a firstborn. That
5 iirstborn was either dead or not fit to be chief ;
nerefore he made Seinri the cMet

25 His brethren also, Eliezer, whose son
Rohobia, and his son Isaias, and his son
Joram, and his son Zechri, and his sou
Selemith.

26 Which Selemith and his brethren
were over the treasures of the holy
things, which king David, and the heads
of families, and the captains over thou-
sands and over hundreds, and the cap-
tains of the host had dedicated,

27 Out of the wars, and the spoils won
in battles, which fhf^ry had consecrated to
the building and furniture of the temple
of the Lord.

28 And all these things that Samuel the
seer and Saul the son of Cis, and Abner
the son of Ner, and Joab the son of
Sarvia had sanctified : and whosoever had
sanctified those things, they were under
the hand of Selemith and his brethren.

29 But Chonenias and his sons were
over the Isaarites, for the business
abroad over Israel to teach them and
judge them.

30 And of the Hebronites Hasabias, and
his brethren most able men, a thousand
seven hundred had the charge over Is-
rael beyond the Jordan westward, in all
the works of the Lord, and for the ser-
vice or the king.

61 And the chief of the Hebronites wae
Jeria according to their families and kin-
dreds. In the fortieth year of the reign
of David they were numbered, and there
were found most valiant men in Jazer
Galaad,

32 And his brethren of stronger age, two
thousand seven hundred chiefs of fam-
ilies. And king David made them rulers
over the Rubenites and the Gadites, and
the half tribe of Manasses, for all the
service of God, and the king.

CHAPTER 27.

The twelve captains for every month : the twelve
princes of the tribes. Davicfs several officers.

"I^OW the children of Israel according
JJi to their number, the heads of fam-
ilies, captains of thousands and of hun-
dreds, and oflSicers, that served the king
according to their companies, who came
in and went out every month in the year,
under every chief were four and twenty
thousand.

Ver. 20. Holy vessels.
places, or of things holy.

Or vessels of the holy
Vasa sanctorum*

Captains for each month 1 PARALIPOMENON The chiefs of the trU

2 Over the first company the first month
Jesboam, the son of Zabdiel was chief,
and under him were four and twenty
thousand.

3 Of the sons of Phares, the chief of all
the captains in the host in the first
month.

4 The company of the second month
was under Dudia, an Ahohite, and after
him was another named Macelloth, who
commanded a part of the army of four
and twenty thousand.

5 And the captain of the third company
for the third month, was Banaias the son
of Joiada the priest : and in his division
were four and twenty thousand.

6 This is that Banaias the most valiant
among the thirty, and above the thirty.
And Amizabad his son commanded his
company.

7 The fourth, for the fourth month, was
Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zabadias
his bon after him : and in his company
were four and twenty thousand.

8 The fifth captain for the fifth month,
was Samaoth a Jezerite: and his com-
pany were four and twenty thousand.

9 The sixth, for the sixth month, was
Hira the son of Acces a Thecuite : and in
his company were four and twenty thou-
sand.

10 The seventh, for the seventh month,
was Helles a Phallonite of the sons of
Ephraim : and in his company were four
and twenty thousand.

11 The eighth, for the eighth month, was
Sobochai a Husathite of the race of
Zarahi : and in his company were four
and twenty thousand.

12 The ninth, for the ninth month, was
Abiezer an Anathothite of the sons of
Jemini, and in his company were four
and twenty thousand.

13 The tenth, for the tenth month, was
Marai, who was a Netophathite of the
race of Zarai : and in his company were
four and twenty thousand.

14 The eleventh, for the eleventh month,
was Banaias, a Pharathonite of the sons
of Ephraim: and in his company were
four and twenty thousand.

15 The twelfth, for the twelfth month,
was Holdai a Netophathite, of the race
of Gothoniel : and in his company were
four and twenty thousand.

16 Now the chiefs over the tribes
Israel were these : over the Rubenit
Eliezer the son of Zechri was ruler : o^
the Simeonites, Saphatias the son
Maacha :

17 Over the Levites, Hasabias the son
Camuel : over the Aaronites, Sadoc :

18 Over Juda, Eliu the brother of Dav
over Issachar, Amri the son of Michac

19 Over the Zabulonites, Jesmaiae
son of Adias : over the NephtaUtes, J«
moth the son of Ozriel :

20 Over the sons of Ephraim, Osee 1
son of Ozaziu: over the half tribe
Manasses, Joel the son of Phadaia :

21 And over the half tribe of Manaa
in Galaad, Jaddo the son of Zachari;
and over Benjamin, Jasiel the son
Abner.

22 And over Dan, Ezrihel the son of
roham: these were the princes of
children of Israel. i

23 But David would not number th i
from twenty years old and under : beca ! ;
the Lord had said that he would multi '
Israel like the stars of heaven. '

24 * Joab the son of Sarvia began I)
number, but he finished not: becal)
upon this there fell wrath upon Isr^':
and therefore the number of them 1 1
were numbered, was not registered in •?
chronicles of king David.

25 And over the king's treasures i8
Azmoth the son of Adiel : and over ttU
stores which were in the cities, and in e
villages, and in the castles, was Jo.nat Q
the son of Ozias.

26 And over the tillage, and the 1
bandmen, who tilled the ground, was ]
the son of Chelub :

27 And over the dressers of the v
yards, was Semeias a Romathite:
over the wine cellars, Zabdias an Apl i*
ite.

28 And over the oliveyards and th€
groves, which were in the plains,
Balanam a Gederite: and over the
cellars, Joas.

29 And over the herds that fed in Sa
was Setrai a Saronite : and over the c
in the valleys, Saphat the son of Adl

30 And over the camels, Ubil an Ist
helite : and over the asses, Jadias a Me
athite :

31 And over the sheep Jaziz an Agar

t Supra 2L 2.

i46

fftvid's speech to the people 1 PARALIPOMENON Gold and silver for temple
/ these were the rulers of the substance

0 dug David.

And Jonathan David's uncle, a coun-
S«or, a wise and learned maiM he and
J del the son of Hachamoni were with
t] king's sons.

And Achitophel was the king's coun-
B< or, and Chusai the Ai*achite, the king's
fcind.

And after Achitophel was Joiada the
81 of Banaias, and Abiathar. And the
g leral of the king's army was Joab.

CHAPTER 28.

1 id's speech, in a solemn assembly : his exhoHa-
on to Solomon. He giveth him, a pattern of the

mple.

ND David assembled all the chief
^L men of Israel, the princes of the
1 368, and the captains of the companies,
•^o waited on the king: and the cap-
t^QS over thousands, and over hundreds,
al them who had the charge over the
B)8tance and possessions of the king,
:il his sons with the ofBcers of the
curt, end the men of power, and all the
b-vest of the army at Jerusalem.

I And the king rising up, and standing
e4 : Hear me, my brethren and my peo-
li'i I had a thought to have built a
tise, in which the ark of the Lord, and
t;) footstool of our God might rest :
ail prepared all things for the building.

lAnd God said to me : ^ Thou shalt not
bid a house to my name: because thou
aj. a man of war, and hast shed blood.

But the Lord God of Israel chose me
c all the house of my father, to be king
osr Israel for ever: for of Juda he chose
tfi princes : and of the house of Juda,
r ' father's house : and among the sons
c my father, it pleased him to choose
t king over all IsraeL

^ And among my sons (for the Lord
hh given me many sons) he hath chosen
Slomon my rjon, to sit upon the throne
qthe kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

! And !ie said to me : Solomon thy son
8 ill build my house, and my courts: for
Ijiave chosen him to be my son, and I
>U be a father to him.

I And I will establish his kingdom for
jer, ii he continue to keep my com-
J|indments, and my judgments, as at
<!« day.

I Now then before all the assembly of

v2Kiiigs7.1&

Israel, in the hearing of our God, keep
ye, and seek all the commandments of
the Lord our God : that you may possess
the good land, and may leave it to your
children after you for ever.

9 And thou my son Solomon, know the
God of thy father, and serve him with a
perfect heart, and a willing mind: *for
the Lord searcheth all hearts, and under-
standeth all the thoughts of minds. If
thou seek him, thou shalt find him : but
if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off
for ever.

10 Now therefore seeing the Lord hath
chosen thee to build the house of the
sanctuary, take courage, and do it.

11 And David gave to Solomon his son
a description of the porch, and of the
temple, and of the treasures, and of the
upper floor, and of the inner chambers,
and of the house for the mercy seat,

12 As also of all the courts, which he
had in his thought, and of the chambers
round about, for the treasm'es of the
house of the Lord, and for the treasures
of the consecrated things,

13 And of the divisions of the priests
and of the Levites, for aU the works of
the house of the Lord, and for all the
vessels of the service of the temple of
the Lord.

14 Gold by weight for every vessel for
the ministry. And silver by weight ac-
cording to the diversity of the vessels
and uses.

15 He gave also gold for the golden
candlesticks, and their lamps, according
to the dimensions of every candlestick,
and the lamps thereof. In like manner
also he gave silver by weight for the sil-
ver candlesticks, and for their lamps
according to the diversity of the dimen-
sions of them.

16 He gave also gold for the tables of
proposition, according to the diversity
of the tables: in like manner also silver
for other tables of silver.

17 For fleshhooks also, and bowls, and
censers of fine gold, and for little lions
of gold, according to the measure ho
gave by weight, for every lion. In like
manner also for lions of silver he :;et
aside a different weight of silver.

18 And for the altar of incense, he gave
the purest gold: and to make the like-

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447

1 PARALIPOMENON

David encourages Solomon

ness of the chariot of the cherubims
spreading their wings, and covering the
ark of the covenant of the Lord.

19 All these things, said he, came to me
written by the hand of the Lord that I
might understand all the works of the
pattern.

20 And David said to Solomon his son :
Act like a man, and take courage, and
do: fear not, and be not dismayed: for
the Lord my God will be with thee, and
will not leave thee, nor forsake thee, till
thou hast finished all the work for the
service of the house of the Lord.

21 Behold the courses of the priests and
the Levites, for every ministry of the
house of the Lord, stand by thee, and
are ready, and both the princes, and the
people know how to execute all thy
commandments.

CHAPTER 29.

David by word and example encourageth the princes

to contribute liberally to the building of the tern.

pie. His thanksgiving^ prayer, and sacrifices : his

death.

A ND ^ king David said to all the asseir-
jLJl bly : Solomon my son, whom alone
God hath chosen, is as yel young and
tender: and the work is great, for a
house is prepared not for man, but for
God.

2 And I with all my ability have pre-
pared the expenses for the house of my
God. Gold for vessels of gold, and sil-
ver for vessels of silver, brass for things
of brass, iron for things of iron, wood for
things of wood: and onyx stones, and
stones like alabaster, and of divers col-
ours, and all manner of precious stones,
and marble of Paros in great abundance.

3 Now over and above the things which
I have offered into the house of my God
I give of my own proper goods, gold and
silver for the temple of my God, beside
what things I have prepared for the holy
house.

4 Three thousand talents of gold of the
gold of Ophir: and seven thousand tal-
ents of refined _;ilver, to overlay the
walls of the temple.

5 And gold for wheresoever there is
need of gold: and silver for whereso-
ever there is need of silver, for the
works to be made by tho hands of the
artificers : now if any man is willing to

David* s thanksgivii

offer, let him fill his hand to day,
offer what he pleaseth to the Lord.

6 Then the heads of the famihes,
the princes of the tribes of Israel,
the captains of thousands, and of h
dreds, and the overseers of the kin;
possessions promised,

7 And they gave for the works of
house of the Lord, of gold, five thous
talents, and ten thousand solids: of
ver ten thousand talents: and of b
eighteen thousand talents: and of iro
hundred thousand talents.

8 And all they that had stones, g
them to the treasures of the house of
Lord, by the hand of Jahiel the G
sonite.

9 And the people rejoiced, when tl
promised their offerings willingly:
cause they offered them to the Lord
all their heart: and David the king
joiced also with a great joy.

10 And he blessed the Lord before
the multitude, and he said: Blessed
thou, O Lord the God of Isrr.el, our fa
from eternity to eternity.

11 Thine, O Lord, is magnificence,
power, and glory, and victory : an
thee is praise: for all that is in hea
and in earth, is thine : thine is the k:
dom, O Lord, and thou art above
princes.

12 Thine are riches, and thine is gl
thou hast dominion over all, in thy b
is power and might : in thy hand grjb
ness, and the smpire of all things.

13 Now therefore our God we
thanks to thee, and we praise thy
rious name.

14 Who am I, and what is my pe( e,
that we should be able to promise 36
all these things? all things are the:
and we have given thee what wee-
ceived of thy hand.

15 For we are sojourners before
and strangers, as were all our fat
^ Our days upon earth are as a sha
and there is no stay.

16 O Lord our God, all this store
we have prepared to build thee a h
for thy holy name, is from thy hand
all things are thine,

17 I know my God that thou pr(
hearts, and lovest simplicity, wher<
I also in the simplicity of my heart,

y B. C. 972.

t Wisd. 2. 6.

448

4a/ sacrifices offered 1 PARALIPOMENON

oylly offered all these things: and I
ia\ seen with great joy thy people,
vha are here present, offer fehee their
>ff« ngs.

16) Lord God of Abraham, and of
J9B , and of Israel our fathers, keep for
)Y( this will of their heart, and let this
nil remain always for the worship of

19s.nd give to Solomon my son a per-
ectheart, that he may keep thy com-
aalments, thy testimonies, and thy
ar nonies, and do all things : and build
lieiouse, for which I have provided the
ihf^es.

2Cs.nd David commanded all the as-
eB ly : Bless ye the Lord our God. And
Jl he assembly blessed the Lord the
lo of their fathers : and they bowed
he selves and worshipped God, and
he the king.

2Knd they sacrificed victims to the
jO) : and they offered holocausts the
day, a thousand bullocks, a thou-
ai rams, a thousand lambs, with their
ibi ons, and with every thing pre-
er ed most abundantly for all Israel.
2'And they ate, and drank before the
-o: that day with great joy. "^And
h€ anointed the second time Solomon
h€3on of David. And they anointed

Death of David

him to the Lord to be prince, and Sadoo
to be high priest.

23 And Solomon sat on the throne ol
the Lord as king instead of David his
father, and he pleased all: and all Israel
obeyed him.

24 And all the princes, and men of
power, and all the sons of king David
gave their hand, and were subject to
Solomon the king.

25 And the Lord magnified Solomon
over all Israel : and gave him the glory
of a reign, such as no king of Israel had
before him.

26 So David the e^n of Isai reigned
over all Israel.

27 ^ And the days that he reigned over
Israel, were forty years: in Hebron he
reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem
three and thirty years.

28 ^ And he died in a good age, full of
days, and riches, and glory. And Solo-
mon his son reigned in his stead.

29 Now the acts of king David first and
last are written in the book of Samuel
the seer, and in the book of Nathan the
prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer :

30 And of all his reign, and his valour,
and of the timefe that passed under him,
either in Israe*, or in aU the Mngdoma
of the countries:

THE SECOND

BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON.

CHAPTER 1.

^lon ojfereth sacrifices at Gabaon. His choice
of wisdom which God giveth him.

ArD^ Solomon the son of David was
Lj strengthened in his kingdom, and
in Lord his God was with him, and
ninifled him to a high degree.

2i nd Solomon gave orders to all Israel,
lO 16 captains of thousands, and of hun-
iTi.s, and to the rulers, and to the judges
>' 1 Israel, and the heads of the fami-
ie

? nd he went with all the multitude
;^ae tiigh plpoe of Gabaon, where was

o 3 Kings 1. 34.-6 3 Kings 2. 11.
c B. C. 972.

the tabernacle of the covenant of the
Lord, which Moses the servant of God
made, in the wilderness.

4 * For David had brought the ark of
God from Cariathiarim to the place,
which he had prepared for it, and where
he had pitched a tabernacle for it, that
is, in Jerusalem.

5 And the altar of brass, -^ which Beseleel
the son of Uri the son of Hur had made,
was there before the tabernacle of the
Lord : and Solomon and all the assembly
sought it :

6 And Solomon went up thither to the

d B. C. 972. 3 Kings 3. 1.
e 2 Kings 6. 17 ; 1 Par. 16. 1.—/ Ex. 38. 8.

449

Solomon prays for wisdom 2 PARALIPOMENON Solomon asks aid of Hii\

brazen altar, before the tabernacle of CHAPTER 2.

the covenant, of the Lord, and offered

up on it a thousand victims.

7 And behold that night God appeared
to him, saying : Ask what thou wilt that
I should give thee.

8 And Solomon said to God: Thou hast
shewn great kindness to my father David :
and hast made me king in his stead.

9 Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy
word be fulfilled, which thou hast pro-
mised to David my father ; for thou hast
made me king over thy great people,
which is as innumerable as the dust of
the earth.

10 fl' Give me wisdom and knowledge
that I may come in and go out before
thy people : for who can worthily judge
this thy people, which is so great ?

11 And God said l/O Solomon: Because
this choice hath pleased thy heart, and
thou hast not asked riches, and wealth,
and glory, nor the lives of them that
hate thee^ nor many days of life: but
hast asked wisdom and knowledge, to
be able to judge my people, over which
J have made thee king,

12 Wisdom and knowledge are granted
to thee : and I will give thee riches, and
wealth, and glory, so that none of the
kings before thee, nor after the«, shall be
like thee.

13 Then Solomon came from the high
place of Gabaon to Jerusalem before the
tabernacle of the covenant, and reigned
over Israel.

14 '^ And he gathered to himself chari-
ots and horsemen, and he had a thousand
four hundred chariots, and twelve thou-
sand horsemen : and he placed them in
the cities of the chariots, and with the
king in Jerusalem.

15 And the king made silver and gold to
be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees
as sycamores, which grow in the plains
in great m.ultitude.

16 And there were horses brought him
from Egypt, and from Coa by the king's
merchants, who went, and bought at a
price,

17 A chariot of four horses for six hun-
dred pieces of silver, and a horse for a
hundred and fifty : in like manner mar-
ket was made in all the kingdoms of the
Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.

Solomon^s embassage to Hiram, who sends h\
skilful workman and timber.

ND Solomon determined to buijl
house to the name of the Lord,[
a palace for himself.

2 And he numbered out seventy til
sand men to bear burdens, and ei|
thousand to hew stones in the mountil
and three thousand six hundred to o[
see them.

3 * He sent also to Hiram king of
saying : As thou didst with David m\
ther, and didst send him cedars, to i|
him a house, in which he dwelt :

4 So do with me that I may build a h|
to the name of the Lord my God, to
cate it to burn incense before him, ai
perfume with aromatical spices, anc
the continual setting forth of breadj
for the holocausts, morning and evei
and on the sabbaths, and on the
moons, and the solemnities of the
our God for ever, which are commaj
for Israel.

6 For the house which I desire to
is great : for our God is great aboi
gods.

6 Who then can be able to build hi
worthy house? if heaven, and thej
vens of heavens cannot contain him i
am I that I should be able to build
house ? but to this end only, that m\
may be burnt before him.

7 Send me therefore a skilful mai
knoweth how to work in gold, and
ver, in brass, and in iron, in purpi
scarlet and in blue, and that hath sl[
engraving, with the artificers, wl
have with me in Judea and Jerm
whom David my father provided.

8 Send me also cedars, and fir tree I
pine trees from Libanus : for I knoi?|
thy servants are skilful in cutting t[
in Libanus, and my servants shn
with thy servants,

9 To provide me timber in abuncj
For the house which I desire to bu
to be exceeding great, and glorious]

10 And I will give thy servants the
men that are to cut down the trej
their food twenty thousand co]|
wheat, and as many cores of barlel
twenty thousand measures of winj
twenty thousand measures of oil.

g Wisd. 9. 10, — /i 3 Kings 10 26.

460

i 3 Kings & 2.

tram aids Solomon

2 PARALIPOMENON Interior of the temple

And Hiram king of Tyre sent a letter
Solomon, saying : Because the Lord
|:h loved his people, therefore he hath
jde thee king over them.
I And he added, saying : Blessed be the
|:d the God of Israel, who made heaven
earth, who hath given to king David
rise and knowing son, endued with
lerstanding and prudence, to build a
to the Lord, and a palace for him-

I therefore have sent thee my father

m, a wise and most skilful man.

The son of a woman of the daughters

an, whose father was a Tyrian, who

weth how to work in gold, and in sil-

', in brass, and in iron, and in marble,

in timber, in purple also, and violet,

silk and scarlet : and who knoweth to

,ve all sort of graving, and to devise

'eniously all that there may be need of

ihe work with thy artificers, and with

artificers of my lord David thy father.

The wheat therefore, and the barley

the oil, and the wine, which thou, my

hast promised, send to thy servants.

And we will cut down as many trees

of Libanus, as thou shalt want, and

convey them in fioats by sea to

pe : and it will be thy part to bring

m thence to Jerusalem.

And Solomon numbered all the prose-

8 in the land of Israel, after the num-

^ng which David his father had made,

they were found a hundred andfifty-

e thousand and six hundred.

And he set seventy thousand of them

-rry burdens on their shoulders, and

ty thousand to hew stones in the

ii*untains: and three thousand and six

hidred to be overseers of the work of

t people.

CHAPTER 3.

7 J Ian and omavients of the temple.- the cheru-
bims, the veil, and the pillars.

N"D^ Solomon began to build the house
--L of the Lord in Jerusalem, in mount
jj 'ia, which had been shewn to David
t father, in the place which David had
P pared in the ^ thrashingfloor of Or-
■ H'l the Jebusite.

And he began to build in the second
^ nth, in the fourth year of his reign. I

Now these are the foundations, which
-Somon laid, to build the house of God,

' t Kings 6. \.~k z KinKs 24. 21 ; 1 Par. 21. 2«.

the length by the first measure sixty
cubits, the breadth twenty cubits.

4 And the porch in the front, which was
extended in length according to the mea-
sure of the breadth of the house, twenty
cubits: and the height was a hundred
and twenty cubits : and he overlaid it
within with pure gold.

5 And the greater house he ceiled with
deal boards, and overlaid them with
plates of fine gold throughout: and he
graved in them palm trees, and like little
chains interlaced with one another.

6 He paved also the floor of the temple
with most precious marble, of great
beauty.

7 And the gold of the plates with which
he overlaid the house, and the beams
thereof, and the posts, and the walls,
and the doors was of the finest : and he
graved cherubims on the walls.

8 He made also the house of the holy
of holies : the length of it according to
the breadth of the temple, twenty cu-
bits, and the breadth of it in like man-
ner twenty cubits : and he overlaid it
with plates of gold, amounting to about
six hundred talents.

9 He made also nails of gold, and the
weight of every nail was fifty sides : the
upper chambers also he overlaid with
gold.

10 He made also in the house of the
holy of holies two cherubims of image
work : and he overlaid them with gold.

11 The wings of the cherubims were ex-
tended twenty cubits, so that one wing
was five cubits long, and reached to the
wall of the house: and the other was
also five cubits long, and reached to the
wing of the other cherub.

12 In like manner the wing of the other
cherub, was five cubits long, and reached
to the wall ; and his other wing was five
cubits long, and touched the wing of
the other cherub.

13 So the wings of the two cherubims
were spread forth, and were extended
twentj'' cubits: and they stood upright
on their feet, and their faces were turned
toward the house without.

14 "^He made also a veil of violet, pur-
ple, scarlet, and silk: and wrought in it
cherubims.

15 '^He made also before the doors of

I B, C. 769. 763. — m Matt. 27. 51. — n Jer. 52. 20.

451

Vessels of the temple

2 PARALIPOMENON

Vessels of the tempk

the temple two pillars, which were five
and thirty cubits Ligh: and their chapi-
ters were five cubits.

16 He made also as it were little chains
in the oracle, and he put them on the
heads of the pillars: and a hundred
pomegranates, which he put between the
little chains.

17 These pillars he put at the entrance
of the temple, one on the right hand,
and the other on the left: that which
was on the right hand, he called Jachin:
and that on the left hand, Booz.

CHAPTER 4.

The altar of brass, the molten sea upon twelve
oxen; the ten loaves, the candlesticks and other
vessels and ornaments of the temple.

HE made also an altar of brass twenty
cubits long, and twenty cubits
broad, and ten cubits high.

2 ° Also a molten sea of ten cubits from
brim to brim, round in compass : it was
five cubits high, and a line of thirty cu-
bits compassed it round about.

3 And under it there was the likeness
of oxen, and certain engravings on the
outside of ten cubits compassed the belly
of the sea, as it were with two rows.

4 And the oxen were cast : and the sea
itself was set upon the twelve oxen,
three of which looked toward the north,
and other three toward the west: and
other three toward the south, and the
other three that remained toward the
east, and the sea stood upon them : and
the hinder parts of the oxen were in-
ward under the sea.

5 Now the thickness of it was a hand-
breadth, and the brim of it was hke the
brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily : and it
held three thousand measures.

6 He made also ten lavers : and he set
five on the right hand, and five on the
left, to wash in them all such things as
they were to offer for holocausts: but
the sea was for the priests to wash in.

7 And he made ten golden candlesticks,
according to the form which they were
commanded to be made by : and he set
them in the temple, five on the right
hand, and five on the left.

8 Moreover also ten tables : and he set
them in the temple, five on the right
side, and five on the left. Also a hun-
dred bowls of gold.

1^ 3 Kings 7. 23.

9 He made also the court of the priesta,
and a great hall, and doors in the hall,
which he covered with brass.

10 And he set the sea on the right side
over against the east toward the south.

11 And Hiram made caldrons, and flesh-
hooks, and bowls : and finished all the
king's work in the house of God:

12 That is to say, the two pillars, and
the pommels, and the chapiters, and the
network, to cover the chapiters over the
pommels.

13 And four hundred pomegranates, and
two wreaths of network, so that two
rows of pomegranates were joined tc
each wreath, to cover the pommels, ani
the chapiters of the pillars.

14 He made also bases, and lavers, whicl
he set upon the bases :

15 One sea, and twelve oxen under tiw
sea;

16 And the caldrons, and fieshhooks
and bowls. All the vessels did Hiram hL
father make for Solomon»in the house o
the Lord of the finest brass.

17 In the country near the Jordan di<
the king cast them, in a clay ground be
tween Sochot and Saredatha. '

18 And the multitude of vesself was 'r
numerable, so that the weight of tu'
brass was not known. i

19 And Solomon made all the vessel
for the house of God, and the golde!
altar, and the tables, upon which wer'
the loaves of proposition, '

20 The candlesticks also of most pui!
gold with their lamps to give light b(
fore the oracle, according to the manne

21 And certain flowers, and lamps, aD|
golden tongs : all were made of the fine
gold.

22 The vessels also for the perfunn
and the censers, and the bowls, and tl
mortars, of pure gold. And he grav(
the doors of the inner temple, that
for the holy of holies : and the doors
the templo without were of gold. Ar
thus all the work was finished wbic
Solomon made in the house of the Lor

CHAPTER 5.

The ark is brought with great solemnity into t
temple: the temple is filled with the glory of G

THEN P Solomon brought in all t'
things that David his father h

p 3 Kings 7. 51.

452

rk brought into the temple 2 PARALIPOMENON

Solomon* s prayer

»wed, the silver, and the gold, and all
le vessels he put among the treasures
i the house of God.

« And after this he gathered together
le ancients of Israel, and all the princes
i the tribes, and the heads of the fami-
1 8, of the children of Israel to Jerusa-
in, to bring the ark of the covenant of
<e Lord out of the city of David, which
j Sion.

And aU the men of Israel came to the
iig in the solemn day of the seventh
lonth.

And when all the ancients of Israel
ijire come, the Levites took up the ark.

And brought it in, together with all
1 3 furniture of the tabernacle. And the
I lasts with the Levites carried the ves-
18 of the sanctuary, which were in the
t )ernacle.

And king Solomon and all the assem-
\ ^ of Israel, and all that were gathered
t;ether before the ark, sacrificed rams,
8i oxen without number: so great was
t|3 multitude of the victims.
' 1 And the priests brought in the ark of
t) covenant of the Lord into its place,
tit is, to the oracle of the temple, into
t ) holy of holies under the wings of the
c jrubims :

! So that the cherubims spread their
^.ags over the place, in which the ark
\8 set, and covered the ark itself and
li staves.

Now the ends of the staves wherewith
t ) ark was carried, because they were
B ae thing longer, were seen before the
dole: but if a man were a little out-
¥,rd, he could not see them. So the ark
hj been there unto this day,

I And there was nothing else in the
a,: but the two tables which Moses put
tiire at Horeb when the Lord gave the
^f to the children of Israel, at their
Oioing out of Egypt.

Now when the priests were come out
0|bhe sanctuary, (for all the priests that
Cild be found there, were sanctified:
al as yet at that time the courses and
olers of the ministries were not divided
aong them,)

! Both the Levites and the singing
Din, that is, both they that were under
^(iph, and they that were under Heman,
ail they that were under Idithun, with

«»Kingtri

their sons, and their brethren, clothed
with fine linen, sounded with cymbals,
and psalteries, and harps, standing on
the east side of the altar, and with them
a hundred and twenty priests, sounding
with trumpets.

13 So when they all sounded together,
both with trumpets, and voice, and cym-
bals, and organs, and with divers kind of
musical instruments, and lifted up their
voice on high : the sound was heard afar
off, so that when they began to praise
the Lord, and to say : Give glory to the
Lord for he is good, for his mercy endur-
eth for ever : the house of God was filled
with a cloud.

14 Nor could the priests stand and min-
ister by reason of the cloud. For the
glory of the Lord had filled the house of
God.

CHAPTER 6.
SolomorVs blessings and prayer.

THEN ''Solomon said: The Lord pro-
mised that he would dwell in a cloud.

2 But I have built a house to his name,
that he might dwell there for ever.

3 And the king turned his face, and
blessed all the multitude of Israel (for all
the multitude stood attentive) and he
said :

4 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel,
who hath accomplished in deed that
which he spoke to David my father, say-
ing:

6 From the day that I brought my peo-
ple out of the land of Egypt, I chose
no city among all the tribes of Israel,
for a house to be built in it to my name:
neither chose I any other man, to be the
ruler of my people Israel.

6 But I chose Jerusalem, that my name
might be there: and I chose David to set
him over my people Israel.

7 And whereas David my father had a
mind to build a house to the name of the
Lord the God of Israel,

8 The Lord said to him : Forasmuch as
it was thy will to build a house to my
name, thou ha«t done well indeed in hav-
ing such a will :

9 But thou Shalt not build the house»
but thy son, who shall come out of thy
loins, he shall build a house to my name

10 The Lord therefore hath accom'
plished his word which he spoke : and I

468

r 3 Kings 8. 15.

SolomorCs prayer

am risen up in the place of David my fa-
ther, and sit upon th'e throne of Isra6l> as
the Lord promised : and have built a house
to the name of the Lord God of Israel.
Ml And I have put in it the ark, wherein
jg thd covenant of the Lord, which he
inade with the children of Israel.

12 And he stood before the altar of the
Lord, in presence of all the multitude of
Israel, and stretched forth his hands.

13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaf-
fold, and had set it in the midst of the
temple, which was five cubits long, and
five cubits broad, and three cubits high:
and he stood upon it: then kneeling
down in thepresence of all the multitude
of Israel, and lifting up his hands towards
heaven,

14 * He said: O Lord God of Israel, there
is no God like thee in heaven nor in earth :
whokeepest covenant and mercy with thy
servants, that walk before thee with all
their hearts :

15 Who hast performed to thy servant
David my father all that thou hast pro-
mised him: and hast accomplished in fact,
what thou hast spoken with thy mouth,
as also the present time proveth.

16 Now then, O Lord God of Israel, ful-
fil to thy servant David my father, what-
soever thou hast promised him, saying :
There shall not fail thee a man in my
sight, to sit upon the throne of Israel :
yet &o that X^y children take heed to
their ways, and walk in my law, as thou
hast walked before me.

17 And now, Lord God of Israel, let thy
word be established whicl^ thou hast
spoken to thy servant David.

18 Is it credible then that God should
dwell With men on the earth ? If heaven
and the heavens of heavens do not con-
tain thee, how much less this house,
which I have built?

19 But to thia end only it is made, that
thou mayest regard the prayer of thy
servant and his supplication, O Lord
my God: and mayest hear the prayers
which thy servant poureth out before
thee.

20 That thou mayest open thy eyes
upon this house day and night, upon the
place wherein thou hast promised that
thy name should be called upon,

21 And that thou wouldst hear the

^ PARALIPOMKNGN 'Solomon's prayeil

prayer which thy servant prayeth in it
hearken then to the prayers of thy serl
vant, and of thy people Israel Who8o|
ever shall pray in this place, hear thoii
fyom thy dwelhng place, that is, froal
heaven, dnd shew mercy. i

22 If any man sin against his neighb^m
and come to swear against him, and bin
himself with a curse before the altar ii
this house : i

23 Then hear thou from heaven, and d
justice to thy servants, so -as to requil
the wicked by making his wickedness fa
upon his own. head, and to revenge tli
just, rewarding him according to his jo'
tice.

24 If thy people Israel be overcome U
their enemies, (for they will sin agair'
thee,) and being converted shall do pe
ance, and call upon thy name, and pr
to thee in this place,

25 Then hear thou from heaven, and f(
give the sin of thy people Israel,. a
bring them back into the land,, wh.
thou gavest to them, and their fathen

26 If the heavens be shut up, and th •
fall no rain by reason of the sins of ,!
people, and they shall pray to theeU
this place, and confess to thy name, .fi
be converted from their sins, when tjl
dost aflQict them,

27 Then hear thou from heaven, 0
and forgive the sins of thy servants
of thy people Israel, and teach them
good way^ in which -they may walk: id
give rain to thy land which thou pt
given to thy people to possess.

28 * If a famine arise in the land, ' ft
pestilence or blasting, or mildew, o !>
ousts, or caterpillars: or if their enejM
waste the country, and besiege the c:,!».
whatsoever scourge or infirmity shaJe
upon them :

29 Then if any of thy people Is
knowing his own scourge and infir
shall pray, and shall spread fortl
hands in this house,

30 Hear thou from heaven, from
high dwelling place, and forgive, anc
der to every one according to his v^
which thou knowest him to have
heart: (for thou only knowest the I
of the children of men:)

31 That they may fear thee, and w
thy ways all the days that they live

I tjl

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#2Mao.2.&

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I iiixra 20. a

s prayer

2 PARALIPOiVIEyON God's glory fills the temple

face of the land, which thou hast

n to our fathers.

If the stranger also, who is not of thy
pie Die Israel, come from a far country,
fo :he sake of thy great name, and thy
st ng hand, and thy stretched out arm,
an adore in this place :

Hear thou from heaven thy firm
place, and do all that which
stranger shall call upon thee for:
all the people of the earth may
ISLW thy name, and may fear thee, as
th people Israel, and may know, that
Li name is invoked upon this house,
wl^h I have built.

dvlling

God, put on salvation, and thy saints re-
joice in good things.

42 O Lord God, turn not away the face
of thy anointed: remember the mercies
of David thy servant.

CHAPTER 7.

Fire from heaven consximeth the sacrifices. Th^i
solemnity of the dedication of the temple. God
sifjnifieth his having heard Solomon^s prayer:
yet so if he continue to serve him.

AND when Solomon had made an end
. of his prayer, fire came down from
heaven, and consumed the holocausts and
the victims: and the majesty of the Lord
filled the house.
2 ^ Neither could the priests enter into

8 If thy people go out to war against

th r enemies, by the way that thou shalt the temple of the Lord,^ because the maj

86 I them, and adore thee towards the
Wi of this city, which thou hast chosen,
an the house which I have built to thy
nae:

SPhen hear thou from heaven their
pr ers, and their supplications, and re-
vere them.

8 A.nd if they sin against thee (" for
thi8 is no man that sinneth not) and
thi be angry with them, and dehver
tha up to their enemies, and they lead
tha away captive to a land either afar
off )r near at hand,

3'\nd if they be converted in their
he t in the land to which they were led
ca]ive, and do penance, and pray to
the in the land of their captivity, say-
ing We have sinned, we have done
wiiedly, we have dealt unjustly:

3iVnd return to thee with all their
iie;t, and with all their soul, in the land
af eir captivity, to which they were led
iw -, and adore thee towards the way of

1' own land which thou gavest their
lat^rs, and of the city, which thou hast
2h(3n, and the house which I have built
» y name:

SiChen hear thou from heaven, that
^ •om thy firm dwelling place, their

' -^rs, and do judgment, and forgive
•^:'>eople, although they have sinned:

^C^or thou art my God: let thy eyes, I
^s^ch thee, be open, and let thy ears
^ tentive to the prayer, that is made
'^ 13 place.

41 Now therefore arise, O Lord God,
^ thy resting place, thou and the ark
2.'iy strength: let thy priests, O Lord

u 3 Kings 8. 46 ; EcclL 7.
VfS.131.8.

21 ; 1 John L &

esty of the Lord had filled the temple of
the Lord.

3 Moreover all the children of Israel saw
the fire coming down, and the glory of the
Lord upon the house : and falling down
with their faces to the ground, upon the
stone pavement, they adored and praised
the Lord: because he is good, because his
mercy endureth for ever.

4 And the king and all the people sacri-
ficed victims before the Lord.

5 y And king Solomon offered a sacrifice
of twenty-two thousand oxen, and one
hundred and twenty thousand rams: and
the king and all the people dedicated the
house of God.

6 And the priests stood in their oflaces:
and the Levites with the instruments of
music of the Lord, which king Da\'id
made to praise the Lord: because his
mercy endureth for ever, singing the
hymns of David by their ministry: and
the priests sounded with trumpets before
them, and all Israel stood.

7 Solomon also sanctified the middle of
the court before the temple of the Lord:
for he offered there the holocausts, and
the fat of the peace offerings: because the
brazen altar, which he had made, could
not hold the holocausts and the sacrifices
and the fat:

8 And Solomon kept the solemnity at
that time seven days, and all Israel with
him, a very great congregation, from the
entrance of Emath to the torrent of
Egypt.

9 And he made on the eighth day a sol-
emn assembly, because he had kept the

4&^

X 2 Mac. 2. 8.
y 3 Kings & 63.

God's promise to Solomon 2 PARALIPOMENON Solomon s other buildit
dedication of the altar seven days, and

had celebrated the solemnity seven days.

10 So on the three and twentieth day of
the seventh month he sent away the peo-
ple to their dwelUngs, joyful and glad for
the good that the Lord had done to David,
and to Solomon, and to all Israel his
people.

11 ^ And Solomon finished the house of
the Lord, and the king's house, and all
that he had designed in his heart to do,
in the house of the Lord, and in his own
house, and he prospered.

12 And the Lord appeared to him by
night, and said 1 1 have heard thy prayer,
and I have chosen this place to myself
for a house of sacrifice.

13 If I shut up heaven, and there fall no
rain, or if I give orders, and command
the locust to devour the land, or if I
send pestilence among my people:

14 And my people, upon whom my
name is called, being converted, shall
make supplication to me, and seek out
my face, and do penance for their most
wicked ways : then wiU I hear from
heaven, and will forgive their sins and
will heal their land.

15 My eyes also shall be open, and my
ears attentive to the prayer of him that
shall pray in this place.

16 For I have chosen, and have sancti-
fied this place, that my name may be
there for ever, and my eyes and my
heart may remain there perpetually.

17 And as for thee, if thou walk before
me, as David thy father walked, and do
according to all that I have commanded
thee, and keep my justices and my
judgments :

18 I will raise up the throne of thy
kingdom, as I promised to David thy
father, saying : There shall not fail thee
a man of thy stock to be ruler in Israel.

19 But if you turn away, and forsake

commandments
and shall
adore

my justices, and my
which I have set before you,
go and serve strange gods, and
them,

20 I will pluck you up by the root out
of my land which I have given you : and
this house which I have sanctified to my
name, I will cast away from before my
face, and will make it a byword, and an
example among all nations.

cS Kings 9.1.

21 And this house shall be for a prov
to all that pass by, and they shall be ;
tonished and say : Why hath the L(
done thus to this land, and to this houi

22 And they shall answer : Because tl
forsook the Lord the God of their fathc
who brought them out of the land
Egypt, and laid hold on strange gods,{
adored them, and worshipped the
therefore aU these evils are come uj
them.

CHAPTER 8.
Solo'mon'*s buildings and other acts,
ND at the end of twenty years ai
Solomon had built the house of
Lord and his own house:

2 He built the cities which Hiram
given to Solomon, and caused the c
dren of Israel to dwell there.

3 He went also into Emath Suba,
possessed it. ,

4 And he built Palmira in the des
and he built other strong cities in Em

5 And he built Beth-horon the up
and Beth-horon the nether, walled ci|
with gates and bars and locks.

6 Balaath also and all the strong c:
that were Solomon's, and all the citi
the chariots, and the cities of the h
men. All that Solomon had a mind,
designed, he built in Jerusalem am
Libanus, and in all the land of
minion.

7 All the people that were left o
Hethites, and the Amorrhites, an
Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the
usites, that were not of the stock oi
rael:

8 Of their children, and of the pos
whom the children of Israel h
slain, Solomon made to be the tril
ries, unto this day.

9 But of the children of Israel h<|
none to serve in the king's work
they were men of war, and chiefl
tains, and rulers of his chariotsi
horsemen

10 And all the chief captains of
Solomon's army were two hundre<i
fifty, who taught the people.

11 And he removed the daugh
Pharao from the 3ity of * David, t
house which he had built for her.
the king said: My wife shall not
in the house of David king of Isra

8 Kings a la --b 3 Kings & 1.

456

for

sacrifices

A sanctified: because the ark of the
■ d came into it.

1 Then Solomon offered holocausts to
tt Lord upon the altar of the Lord
w ch he had built before the porch,

That every day an offering might be
It le on it according to the ordinance
o: Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the
n'7 moons, and on the festival days
(196 times a year, that is to say, in the
h^t of unleavened bread, and in the
fc it of weeks, and in the feast of taber-
n les.

: And he appointed according to the
0 er of David his father the offices of
tl priests in their ministries: and the
L'ites in their order to give praise,
t] minister before the priests according
t< he duty of every day: and the por-
Ui in their divisions by gate and gate:
fc 80 David the man of God had com-
irided.
: And the priests and Levites departed
n from the king's commandments, as
t( any thing that he had commanded,
a: as to the keeping of the treasures.

Solomon had all charges prepared,
fiTi the day that he founded the house
0 the Lord, until the day wherein he
fi shed it.

Then Solomon went to Asiongaber,
a to Ailath, on the coast of the Red
8 , which is in the land of Edom.

And Hiram sent him ships by the
kids of his servants, and skilful mari-
n s, and they went with Solomon's ser-
<rit8 to Ophir, and they took thence
f(r hundred and fifty talents of gold,
tl brought it to king Solomon.

CHAPTER 9.

T 7uccn of Saba admireth the wisdom of Solo-
mon, His riches and glory. His death.

NT) ^ when the queen of Saba heard
Jk. of the fame of Solomon, she came
t<ry him with hard questions at Jerusa-
l«i, with great riches, and camels, which
ftried spices, and abundance of gold,
ftl precious stones. And when she was
One to Solomon, she proposed to him
»|that was in her heart.

And Solomon explained to her all that
8 proposed: and there was not
t-ng that he did not make clear
h'.

2 PARALIPOMENON

The queen of Sheba

any
unto

3 And when she had seen these things,
to wit, the wisdom of Solomon, and the
house which he had built,

4 And the meats of his table, and the
dwelling places of his servants, and the
attendance of his officers, and their ap-
parel, his cupbearers also, and their
garments, and the victims which he of-
fered in the house of the Lord: there
was no more spirit in her, she was so
astonished.

6 And she said to the king : The word
is true which I heard in my country of
thy virtues and wisdom.

6 I did not believe them that told it,
until I came, and my eyes had seen, and
I had proved that scarce one half of thy
wisdom had been told me : thou hast ex-
ceeded the same with thy virtues.

7 Happy are thy men, and happy are
thy servants, who stand always before
thee, and hear thy wisdom.

8 Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath
been pleased to set thee on his throne,
king of the Lord thy God. Because God
loveth Israel, and will preserve them for
ever : therefore hath he made thee king
over them, to do judgment and justice.

9 And she gave to the king a hundred
and twenty talents of gold, and spices
in great abundance, and most Drecious
stones: there were no such spices as
these which the queen of Saba gave to
king Solomon.

10 And the servants also of Hiram, with
the servants of Solomon, brought gold
from Ophir, and thyine trees, and most
precious stones:

11 And the king made of the thyine
trees stairs in the house ot the Lord, and
in the king's house, and harps and psal-
teries for the singing men : never were
there seen such trees in the land ot Juda.

12 And king Solomon gave to the queen
of Saba all that she desired, and that she
asked, and many more things than she
brought to him : so she returned, and
went to her own country with her ser-
vants.

13 And the weight of the gold, that was
brought to Solomon every year, was six
hundred and sixty-six talents of gold :

14 Beside the sum which the deputies c*
divers nations, and the merchants were
accustomed to bring, and all the kings of

• 8 Kings 10. 1 1 Matt 12. 42 j Luke 11. 31.
457

Solomon's riches and glory 2 PARALIPOMENON People petition Roboai

Arabia, and the lords of the lands, who
brought gold and silver to Solomon.

15 And king Solomon made two hun-
dred golden spears, of the sum of six
hundred pieces of gold, which went to
every spear :

16 And three hundred golden shields of
three hundred pieces of gold, which went
to the covering of every shield : and the
king put them in the armoury, which was
compassed with a wood.

17 The king also made a great throne
of ivory, and overlaid 5t with pure gold.

18 And six steps to go up to the throne,
and a footstool of gold, and two arms one
on either side, and two lions standing by
the arms :

19 Moreover twelve other little lions
standing upon the steps on boih sides:
there was not such a throne in any king-
dom.

20 And all the vessels of the king's table
were of gold, and the vessels of the house
of the forest of Libanus were of the pur-
est gold. For no account was made of
silver in those days.

21 For the king's ships went to Tharsis
with the servants of Hiram, once in three
years : and they brought thence gold
and silver, and ivory, and apes, and pea-
cocks.

22 And Solomon was magnified above
all the kings of the earth for riches and
glory.

23 And all the kings of the earth desired
to see the face of Solomon, that they
might hear the wisdom which God had
given in his heart.

24 And every year they brought him
presents, vessels of silver and of gold,
and garments, and armour, and spices,
and horses, and mules.

25 And Solomon had forty thousand
horses in the stables, and twelve thou-
sand chariots, and horsemen, and he
placed them in the cities of the chariots,
and where the king was in Jerusalem.

26 And he exercised authorit}^ over all
the kings from the river Euphrates to
the land of the Philistines, and to the
borders of Egypt.

27 And he made silver as plentiful in
Jerusalem as stones : and cedars as com-
ttion as the sycamores, which grow in the
plains.

28 And horses were brought to him oi
of Egypt, and out of all countries.

29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomc
first and last are written in the words «
Nathan the prophet, and in the books (
Ahias the Silonite, and in the visic
of Addo the seer, against Jeroboam tl
son of Nabat.

30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusale
over all Israel forty years.

31 And he slept ^ with his fathers: ai
they buried him in the city of Davi(
and Roboam his son reigned in his stea

CHAPTER 10.

Roboam answereth the people roughly: upon whi
ten tribes revolt.

ND ^ Roboam went to Sichem : f

d B. C. 932.

to make him king.

2 And when Jeroboam the son of Nab
who was in Egypt, (for he was fled thitl;
from Solomon,) heard it, forthwith
returned.

3 And they sent for him, and he cail
with all Israel, and they spoke to F
boam, saying:

4 Thy father oppressed us with a m(
,^rievous yoke, do thou govern us with
ighter hand than thy father, who 1;

upon us a heavy servitude, and er
some thing of the burden, that we m!
serve thee. {

6 And he said to them : Come to :
again after three days. And when t
people were gone,

6 He took counsel with the ancier
who had stood before his father Solom
while he yet lived, saying: What coun
give you to me, that I may answer t
people ?

7 And they said to him : If thou pie
this people, and soothe them with k
words, they will be thy servants for e\

8 But he forsook the counsel of
ancients, and began to treat with '
young men, that had been brought
with him, and were in his train.

9 And he said to them: What seem
good to you? or what shall I answer i
people, who have said to me: ExO
yoke which thy father laid upon c::?

10 But they answered as young mer» J
brought up with him in pleasurec, i
said : Thus shalt thou speak to the p

e 3 Kings 12. 1.

458

,oU of the ten tribes 2 P AR ALIPOMEKON

Bohoam's reign

that said to thee: Thy father made
yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus
It thou answer them : My little finger
jb bicker than the loins of my father.

J, My father laid upon you a heavy
:e, and I will add more weight to it:
n father beat you with scourges, but I
Vi I beat you with scorpions.

So Jeroboam, and all the people came
t( Roboam the third day, as he com-
u iided them.

And the king answered roughly, leav-
h the counsel of the ancients.

And he spoke according to the advice
0 he young men : My father laid upon
y i a heavy yoke, which I will make
hivier: my father beat you with
8( urges, but I will beat you with scor-
pns.

And he condescended not to the peo-
p's requests: for it was the will of God,
tit his word might be fulfilled -^ which
h had spoken by the hand of Ahias the
S )nite to Jeroboam the son of Nabat.

; And all the people upon the king's
S]i aking roughly, said thus unto him :
Vi have no part in David, nor inherit-
a ;e in the son of Isai. Return to thy
dellings, O Israel, and do thou, O Da-
V feed thy own house. And Israel
\<nt away to their dwellings.

; But Roboam reigned over the chil-
dn of Israel that dwelt in the cities of
J la.

i And king Roboam sent Aduram, who
Ids over the tributes, and the children of
Ii,ael stoned him, and he died: and king
Iboam made haste to get up into his
Cjiriot, and fled into Jerusalem.

• And Israel revolted from the house
oDavid unto this day.

CHAPTER 11.

ohoam^s reign. His kingdom is strengthened.

, ND 3 Roboam came to Jerusalem, and
jjL called together all the house of Juda
ai of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore
t)usand chosen men and warriors, to
f ,tit against Israel, and to bring back his
Ifigdom to him.

I And the word of the Lord came to
^ineias the man of God, saying :

I Speak to Roboam the son of Solomon
tj) king of Juda, and to all Israel, in Juda
8i Benjamin :

/3 Kinr: 11.291

4 Thus saith the Lord: You shall not go
up, nor fight against your brethren : let
every man return to his own house, for
by my will this thing has been done.
And when they heard the word of the
Lord, they returned, and did not go
against Jeroboam,

5 And Roboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and
built walled cities in Juda.

6 And he built Bethlehem, and Etam,
and Thecue,

7 And Bethsur, and Socho, and Odollam,

8 And Geth, and Maresa, and Ziph,

9 And Aduram, and Lachis, and Azecha,

10 Saraa also, and Aialon, and Hebron,
which are in Juda and Benjamin, well
fenced cities.

11 And when he had enclosed them with
walls, he put in them governors and store-
houses of provisions, that is, of oil and of
wine.

12 Moreover in every city he made a^'\
armoury of shields and spears, and he
fortified them with great diligence, and
he reigned over Juda, and Benjamin,

13 And the priests and Levites, that
were in all Israel, came to him out of all
their seats,

14 Leaving their suburbs, and their pos-
sessions, and passing over to Juda, and
Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his
sons had cast them off, from executing
the priestly office to the Lord.

15 And he made to himself priests for
the high places, and for the devils, and
for the calves which he had made.

16 Moreover out of all the tribes of Is-
rael, whosoever gave their heart to seek
the Lord the God of Israel, came into
Jerusalem to sacrifice their victims be-
fore the Lord the God of their fathers.

17 And they strengthened the kingdom
of Juda, and established Roboam the son
of Solomon for three years: for they
walked in the ways of David and of Solo-
mon, only three years.

18 And Roboam took to wife Mahalath,
the daughter of Jerimoth the son of Da-
vid : and Abihail the daughter of Eliab
the son of Isai.

19 And they bore him sons Jehus, and
Somorias, and Zoom.

20 And after her he married Maacha the
daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abia,
and Ethai, and Ziza, and Salomith.

t B. C. 932. 2 Kinxs 12. 81.

459

Sesdc invades Juda

2 PARALIPOMENON

Death of Robom

21 And Roboam loved Ilcacha the
daughter of Absalom above all Mb wives,
and concubines : for he had married
eighteen wives, and threescore concu-
bines: and he begot eight and twenty
sons, and threescore daughters.

22 But he put at the head of them Abia
the son of Maacha to be the chief ruler
over all his brethren : for he meant to
make him king,

23 Because he was wiser and mightier
than all his sons, and in all the countries
of Juda, and of Benjamin, and in all the
walled cities: and he gave them provi-
sions in abundance, and he sought many
wives.

CHAPTER 12.

Rohoam for his nins is delivered up into the haruls
of the king of Egypt : who carrieth away all the
treasures of the tern/jle.

AND when the kingdom of Robopm
XjL was strengthened and fortified, he
forsook the law of the Lord, and all Is-
rael with him.

2 And in the fifth year of the reign of
Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem (because they had
sinned against the Lord)

3 With twelve hundred chariots and
threescore thousand horsemen : and the
people were without number that came
with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans,
and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.

4 And he took the strongest cities in
Juda, and came to Jerusalem.

5 And Semeias the prophet came to Ro-
boam, and to the princes of Juda, that
were gathered together in Jerusalem,
fleeing from Sesac, and he said to them :
Thus saith the Lord : You have left me,
and I have left you in the hand of Sesac.

6 And the princes of Israel, and the king,
being in a consternation, said: The Lord
is just.

7 And when the Lord saw that they were
humbled, the word of the Lord came to
Semeias, saying : Because they are hum-
bled, I will not destroy them, and I will
give them a little help, and my wrath
shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the
hand of Sesac.

8 But yet they shall serve him, that they
may know the difference between my

3 Kings 14. 25.

service, and the service of a kingdom o
the earth.

9 So Sesac king of Egypt departed froii
Jerusalem, taking away the treasures o|
the house of the Lord, and of the king''
house, and he took all with him, and tW
golden shields that Solomon had made, I

10 Instead of which the king mad)
brazen ones, and delivered them to th)
captains of the shieldbearers, wh)
guarded the entrance of the palace. t

11 And when the king entered into th^
house of the Lord, the shieldbearei
came and took them, and brought thei
back again to their armoury.

12 But yet because they were humble(
the wrath of the Lord turned away froi,
them, and they were not utterly d(|
stroyed : for even in Juda there wei
found good works.

13-^ King Roboam therefore was strengt 1
ened in Jerusalem, and reigned : he w^l
one and forty years old when he bega'
to reign, and he reigned seventeen yea
in Jerusalem, the city which the Loij
chose out of all the tribes of Israel, v
establish his name there : and the nan
of his mother was Naama an Ammo
itess.

14 But he did evil, and did not prepa
his heart to seek the Lord.

16 Now the acts of Roboam first ai
last are written in the books of Semei
the prophet, and of Addo the seer, ai
diligently recorded: and there was w
between Roboam and Jeroboam all the
days.

16 And Roboam slept with his fathei
and was buried in the city of Davi
And Abia his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 13.

Abia^s reign : his victory over Jeroboam.

IN ^^ the eighteenth year of king Jer
boam, Abia reigned over Juda.

2 Three years he reigned in Jerusale
and his mother's name was Michaia, t
daughter of Uriel of Gabaa : and the
was war between Abia and Jeroboam.

3 ^And when Abia had begun batt
and had with him four hundred the
sand most valiant and chosen men, Jei
boam put his army in array against hi

j 3 Kings 14. 21. — /c B. C. 914. 3 Kings 15, 2.
I 3 Kings 15. 7.

Ohat. 13. Ver. 2. MichwUit alias Maacha. Her father had also two names, viz., Absalom, or Abes

aalom, and Uriel

4«0

reign of Abia

% PARALIPOMENON AUa defeats Jeroboam

it hundred thousand mon, who were
ali chosen and most valiant for war.
4 Lud Abia stood upon mount Semeron,
\fl3h was in Ephraim, and said: Hear
u^ 0 Jeroboam, and all Israel :
6 )o you not know that the Lord God of
If: el gave to David the kingdom over
Ir el for ever, to him and to his sons by
a < venant of salt ?

6k.nd Jeroboam the son of Nabat, the
ee ant of Solomon the son of David,
ro, up : '^ and rebelled against his lord.
7\nd there were gathered to him vain
mi, and children of Belial: and they
pi /ailed against Roboam the son of
Sc>mon: for Roboam was unexperi-
etid, and of a fearful heart, and could
nc resist them.

Sind now you say that you are able to
wi istand the kingdom of the Lord, which
hcoossesseth by the sons of David, and
yc have a great multitude of people,
ac golden calves, which Jeroboam hath
m e you for gods.

9 And you have cast out the priests
of he Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the
Ltites: and you have made you priests,
lit all the nations of the earth : whoso-
e"v: Cometh and consecrateth his hand
wii a bullock of the herd, and with
sem rams, is made a priest of those
wJ» are no gods.

1 But the Lord is our God, whom we
fo ake not, and the priests who minister
tOihe Lord are the sons of Aaron, and
th Levites are in their order.

1 And they offer holocausts to the
L<ci, every day, morning and evening,
ai, incense made according to the ordi-
Df ce of the law, and the loaves are set
fo h on a most clean table, and there is
^\ us the golden candlestick, and the
laps thereof, to be lighted always in
tb evening : for we keep the precepts
of he Lord our God, whom you have
foaken.

1 Therefore God is the leader in our
ai y, and his priests who sound with
trnpets, and resound against you: O
didren of Israel, fight not against the
L<d the God of your fathers, for it is
ii< good for you.

J While he spoke these things, Jero-
^^m c?."^ed an ambushment to come

m 3 1 Ju^3 . '. 26. —n C Kings 12. 31.

about behind him. And while he stood
facing the onemies, he encompassed Juda,
who perceived it not, with his army.

14 And when Juda looked back, they
saw the battle coming upon them both
before and behind, and they cried to the
Lord : and the priests began to sound
with the trumpets.

15 And all the men of Juda shouted:
and behold when they shouted, God terri-
fied Jeroboam, and all Israel that stood
against Abia and Juda.

16 And the children of Israel fled before
Juda, and the Lord delivered them into
their hand.

17 And Abia and his people slew them
with a great slaughter, and there fell
wounded of Israel five hundred thousand
valiant men.

18 And the children of Israel were
brought down, at that time, and the chil-
dren of Juda were exceedingly strength-
ened, because they had trusted in the
Lord the God of their fathers.

19 And Abia pursued after Jeroboam,
and took cities from him. Bethel and her
daughters, and Jesana with her daughters,
Ephron also and her daughters.

20 And Jeroboam was not able to resist
any more, in the days of Abia: and the
Lord struck him, and he died.

21 But Abia, being strengthened in his
kingdom, took fourteen wives : and be-
got two and twenty sons, and sixteen
daughters.

22 And the rest of the acts of Abia, and
of his ways and works, are written dili-
gently in the book of Addo the prophet.

CHAPTER 14.

The reign of Asa : his victory over the Ethiopians,

A ND ° Abia slept with his fathers, and
J\. they buried him in the city of Da-
vid: and Asa his son reigned in his
stead : in his days the land was quiet
ten years.

2 And Asa did that which was good and
pleasing in the sight of his God, and he
destroyed the altars of foreign worship,
and the high places.

3 And broke the statues, and cut down
the groves.

4 And he commanded Juda to seek
the Lord the God of their fathers, and

oB. C. 911. 3 Kings 15. 8.

Ver. 5. A covenant ofscUL Tbat is, a ilrm and perpetual covenant. See Num. 18. 19.

461

Asa defeats the Ethiopians % PARALIPOMENON The propJiecy of Azarl

to do the law, and ali the command-
ments. '^"'

6 And he took away out of all the cities
of Juda the altars, and temples, and
reigned in peace.

6 Ho built also strong cities in Juda, for
he was quiet, and there had no wars risen
in his time, the Lord giving peace.

7 And he said to Juda: Let us build
these cities, and compass them with
walls, and fortify them with towers, and
gates, and bars, while all is quiet from
wars, because we have sought the Lord
the God of our fathers, and he hath given
us peace round about. So they built, and
there was no hinderance in building.

8 And Asa had in his army of men that
bore shields and spears of Juda three
hundred thousand, and of Benjamin that
bore shields and drew bows, two hundred
and eighty thousand, all these were most
valiant men.

9 And Zara the Ethiopian came out
against them with his army of ten hun-
dred thousand men, and with three hun-
dred chariots: and he came as far as
Maresa.

10 And Asa went out to meet him, and
set his army in array for battle in the
vale of Sephata, which is near Maresa:

11 And he called upon the Lord God,
and said: ^Lord, there is no difference
with thee, whether thou help with few,
or with many: help us, O Lord our God:
for with confidence in thee, and in thy
name, we are come against this multi-
tude. O Lord thou art our God, let not
man prevail against thee.

12 And the Lord terrified the Ethiopians
before Asa and Juda : and the Ethiopians
fled.

13 And Asa and the people that were
with him pursued them to Gerara: and
the Ethiopians fell even to utter destruc-
tion, for the Lord slew them, and his
army fought against them, and they were
destroyed. And they took abundance of
spoils,

14 And they took all the cities round
about Gerara : for a great fear was come
upon all men: and they pillaged the
cities, and carried off much booty.

15 And they destroyed the sheepcotes,
and took an infinite number of cattle, and
of camels : and returned to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 15.

The prophecy of Azarias. Asa\s covenant vdth
He deposeth his mother.

ND the spirit of God came U]
Azarias the son of Oded,

2 And he went out to meet Asa, i
said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and
Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is ^
you, because you have been with h
If you seek him, you shall find: bu
you forsake him, he will forsake you.

3 And many days shall pass in Isr
without the true God, and withou
priest a teacher, and without the law

4 And when in their distress t
shall return to the Lord the God of
rael, and shall seek him, they shall
him.

5 At that time there shall be no p
to him that goeth out and comethi
but terrors on every side among all
inhabitants of the earth.

6 For nation shall fight against nalj
and city against city, for the Lord
trouble them with all distress.

7 Do you therefore take courage,
let not your hands be weakened:
there shall be a reward for your wo

8 And when Asa had heard the W(|
and the prophecy of Azarias the sc
Oded the prophet, he took courage,
took away the idols out of all the
of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and o
the cities of mount Ephraim, whic
had taken, and he dedicated the alt
the Lord, which was before the por-
the Lord.

9 And he gathered together all Jud
Benjamin, and the strangers with
of Ephraim, and Manasses, and Si
for many were come over to him o
Israel, seeing that the Lord his Goc|
with him.

10 And when they were come to
salem in the third month, in the fift<|
year of the reign of Asa,

11 They sacrificed to the Lord in
day of the spoils, and of the prey|
they had brought, seven hundred
and seven thousand rams.

12 And he went in to confirm as
the covenant, that they should see
Lord the God of their fathers wi
their heart, and with all their soul.

13 And if any one, said he, see

q 1 Kings 14. &

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no»

f, seeks aid of Benadad 2 PARALIPOMENON

The death of Asa

Lord the God of Israel, Set Mm die,
ther little or great, man or woman.
And they swore to the Lord with a

voice with joyful shouting, and with
id of trumpet, and sound of cornets,
All that were in Juda with st curse :
with all their heart they swore, and

all their will they sought him, and
T found him, and the Lord gave them
round about.

Moreover Maacha the mother of king
he deposed from the royal authority,
luso she had made in a grove an idol
tiapus : and he entirely destroyed it,
breaking it into pieces, burnt it at
uorrent Cedron.

'But high places were left in Israel:
ertheless the heart of Asa was per-
all his days.
And the things which his father had
ed- and he himself had vowed, he
ight into the house of the Lord, gold
silver, and vessels of divers uses.
And there was no war unto the five
thirtieth year of the kingdom of Asa.

CHAPTER 16.

^ reproved for seeking help from the Syrians:
his last acts and death.

'TO in the six and thirtieth year of his
. kingdom, ^Baasa the king of Israel
e up against Juda, and built a wall
it Rama, that no one might safely go
or come in of the kingdom of Asa.
!Tien Asa brought out silver and gold
of the treasures of the house of the
i, and of the king's treasures, and
5 to Benadad king of Syria, who dwelt
Damascus, saying:

Phere is a league between me and
>, as there was between my father and
father, wherefore I have sent thee
9r and gold, that thou mayst break
league with Baasa king of Israel, and
me him depart from me.
lAnd when Benadad heard this, he
3; the captains of his armies against
3 cities of Israel: and they took Ahion,
t Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the
'aed cities of Nephtali.
iB^nd when Baasa heard of it, he left
4^he building of Rama, and interrupted
diwork.

sB. C. 876.
t Supra 14. 9. — u B. C. 872.

6 Then king Asa took all Juda,"and they
carried away from Rama the stones, and
the timber that Baasa had prepared for
the building: and he built with them
Gabaa, and Maspha.

7 At that time Hanani the prophet came
to Asa king of Juda, and said to him:
Because thou hast had confidence in the
king of Syria, and not in the Lord thy
God, therefore hath the army of the king
of Syria escaped out of thy hand.

8 * Were not the Ethiopians, and the
Libyans much more numerous in chariots,
and horsemen, and an exceeding great
multitude: yet because thou trustedst in
the Lord, he delivered them into thy
hand?

9 For the eyes of the Lord behold all
the earth, and give strength to those
who with a perfect heart trust in him.
Wherefore thou hast done foolishly, and
for this cause from this time wars shall
arise against thee.

10 And Asa was angry with the seer,
and commanded him to be put in prison:
for he was greatly enraged because of
this thing : and he put to death many of
the people at that time.

11 But the works of Asa the first and
last are written in th*^ book of the kings
of Juda and Israel.

12 And Asa fell sick in the nine and
thirtieth " year of his reign, of a most
violent pain in his feet, and yet in his
illness he did not seek the Lord, but
rather trusted in the skill of physicians.

13 And he slept with his fathers: and
he died in the one and fortieth year ^ of
his reign.

14 And they buried him in his own sep-
ulchre, which he had made for himself
in the city of David : and they laid him
on his bed full of spices and odoriferous
ointments, which were made by the art
of the perfumers, and they burnt them
over him with very great pomp.

CHAPTER 17.

JosaphaVs reign : his care for the instmctionofhU
people: his numerous forces.

A ND ^ Josaphat his son reigned in his
xX. stead, and grew strong against
Israel.

V B. C. 870.
wB. C. 870.

i^^' ^^'r^^^I--^- ^'^7 ^,*^^ thiHieth year of his the date of it from the beginning of the rel&m Ol
tjCioOT. That is, of the kingdom of Juda, taking I Roboam. *^

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The reign of Josaphat 2 PARALIPOMENON

Josaphat and Acha

2 And he placed numbers of soldiers in
all the fortified cities of Juda. And he
put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in
the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his fa-
ther had taken.

3 And the Lord was with Josaphat,
because he walked in the first ways
of David his father: and trusted not in
Baalim,

4 But in the God of his father, and walked
in his commandments, and not according
to the sins of Israel.

5 And the Lord established the kingdom
in his hand, and all Juda brought pre-
sents to Josaphat: and he acquired im-
mense riches, and much glory.

6 And when his heart had taken cour-
age for the ways of the Lord, he took
away also the high places and the groves
out of Juda.

7 And in the third year ^ of his reign,
he sent of his princes Benhail, and Ab-
dias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and
Micheas, to teach in the cities of Juda :

8 And with them the Levites, Semeias,
and Nathanias, and Zabadias, and Asael,
and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and
Adonias, and Tobias, and Thobadonias
Levites, and with them Elisama, and Jo-
ram priests.

9 And they taught the people in Juda,
having with them the book of the law of
the Lord: and they went about all the
cities of Juda, and instructed the peo-
ple.

10 And the fear of the Lord came upon
all the kingdoms of the lands that were
round about Juda, and they durst not
make war against Josaphat.

11 The Philistines also brought presents
to Josaphat, and tribute in silver, and the
Arabians brought him cattle, seven thou-
sand seven hundred rams, and as many
he goats.

12 And Josaphat grew, and became ex-
ceeding great: and he built in Juda
llouses like towers, and walled cities.

13 And he prepared many works in the
cities of Juda: and he had warriors, and
Valiant men in Jerusalem.

14 Of whom this is the number of the
houses and famiUes of every one: in
Juda captains of the army, Ednas the
<riiief, and with him three hundred thou-
sand most valiant men.

X B. C. 768.

15 After him Johanan the captain, an
with him two hundred and eighty thoi
sand.

16 And after him was Amasias the bc
of Zechri, consecrated to the Lord, ai
with him were two hundred thousai
vahant men.

17 After him was Eliada valiant in ba
tie, and with him two hundred thousai
armed with bow and shield.

18 After him also was Jozabad, and wi
him a hundred and eighty thousand reac
for war.

19 All these were at the hand of t
king, beside others, whom he had put
the walled cities, in all Juda.

CHAPTER 18.

Josaphat accompanies Achab in his expedit
against Ramoth ; where Achab is slain, as
cheas had foretold.

NOW Josaphat was rich and very g
rious, and was joined by aflSnity
Achab.

2 And he went down to him after so
years to Samaria: and Achab athiscc
ing killed sheep and oxen in abundai
for him and the people that came w
him : and he persuaded him to go up!
Ramoth Galaad. |

3 And Achab king of Israel said to Jc|
phat king of Juda: Come with me
Ramoth Galaad. And he answered h
Thou art as I am, and my people as
people, and we will be with thee in
war.

4 And Josaphat said to the king of
rael: Inquire, I beseech thee, at pre£
the word of the Lord.

5 So the king of Israel gathered togel
of the prophets four hundred men,
he said to them. Shall we go to Ran
Galaad to fight, or shall we forbear?
they said : Go up, and God will deliv*
into the king's hand.

6 And Josaphat said : Is there not
a prophet of the Lord, that we maj
quire also of him ?

7 And the king of Israel said to J
phat : There is one man, of whom we
ask the will of the Lord : but I hate
for he never prophesieth good to meiut
always evil : and it is Micheas the bc o^
Jemla. And Josaphat said : Speak ot
thus, O king.

8 And the king of Israel called or

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le false prophets

2 PARALIPOMENON The prophecy of Micheas

eunuchs, and said to him: Call quick-

Micheas the son of Jemla.

Now the king of Israel, and Josaphat

ig of Juda, both sat on their thrones,

^thed in royal robes, and they sat in

open court by the gate of Samaria,

|d all the prophets prophesied before

And Sedecias the son of Chanaana
,de him horns of iron, and said: Thus
;h the Lord: With these shalt thou
Bh Syria, till thou destroy it.

And all the prophets prophesied in
:e manner, and said : Go up to Ramoth
aad, and thou shalt prosper, and the
ird will deliver them into the king's
nd.

•2 And the messenger that went to call
;icheas, said to him: Behold the words

< all the prophets with one mouth de-
ure good to the king: I beseech thee
lerefore let not thy word disagree with
t3m, and speak thou also good success.

3 And Micheas answered him: As the
rd liveth, whatsoever my God shall
^-Y to me, that will I speak.

± So he came to the king : and the king
aid to him: Micheas, shall we go to Ra-
i')th Galaad to fight, or forbear? And
1 answered him: Go up, for all shall
sceeed prosperously, and the enemies
{'all be deliverd into your hands.

5 And the king said: I adjure thee
iain and again to say nothing but the
tith to me, in the name of the Lord.

6 Then he said: I saw all Israel scat-
t*ed in the mountains, like sheep with-
(it a shepherd: and the Lord said:
'lese have no masters: let every man
J:urn to his own house in peace.

1 And the king of Israel said to Josa-
lat: Did I not tell thee that this man
^>uld not prophesy me any good, but
(il?

8 Then he said : Hear ye therefore the
')rd of the Lord : I saw the Lord sitting

< his throne, and all the army of heaven
5|inding by him on the right hand and

< the left.

9 And the Lord said: Who shall de-
"ive Achab king of Israel, that he may
!• up and fall in Ramoth Galaad? And

len one spoke in this manner, and
iother otherwise:
|0 There came forth a spirit, and stood

before the Lord, and said: I will deceive
him. And the Lord said to him: By what
means wilt thou deceive him?

21 And he answered: I will go out, and
be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And the Lord said : Thou shalt
deceive, and shalt prevail: go out, and
do so.

22 Now therefore behold the Lord hath
put a spirit of lying in the mouth of all
thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken
evil against thee.

23 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana
came, and struck Micheas on the cheek
and said: Which way went the spirit of
the Lord from me, to speak to thee?

24 And Micheas said: Thou thyself
shalt see in that day, when thou shalt
go in from chamber to chamber, to hide
thyself.

25 And the king of Israel commanded,
saying: Take Micheas, and carry him to
Amon the governor of the city, and to
Joas the son of Amelech,

26 And say: Thus saith the king: Put
this fellow in prison, and give him bread
and water in a small quantity till I re-
turn in peace.

27 And Micheas said: if thou return in
peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me.
And he said: Hear, all ye people.

28 So the king of Israel and Josaphat
king of Juda went up to Ramoth Galaad.

29 And the king of Israel said to Josa-
phat: I will change my dress, and so I
will go to the battle, but put thou on thy
own garments. And the king of Israel
having changed his dress, went to the
battle.

30 Now the king of Syria had com-
manded the captains of his cavalry, say-
ing: Fight ye not with small, or great,
but with the king of Israel only.

31 So when the captains of the cavalry
saw Josaphat, they said : This is the king
of Israel. And they surrounded him to
attack him : but he cried to the Lord, and
he helped him, and turned them away
from him.

32 For when the captains of the caval-
ry saw, that he was not the king of
Israel, they left him.

33 And it happened that one of the peo-
ple shot an arrow at a venture, and
struck the king of Israel between the

Chap. 18. Ver. 19. Who shall deceive, &c. See the annotations, 3 Kings 22.

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JosaphaVs charge

% PARALIPOMENON

Juda is invaded]

neck and the shoulders, and he said to
his chariot man : Turn thy hand, and
carry me out of the battle, for I am
wounded.
34 And the fight was ended that day:
but the king of Israel stood m his chariot
against the Syrians until the evening,
and died at the sunset.

CHAPTER 19.

JosaphaVs charge to the judges and to the Levites.

A ND Josaphat king of Juda returned

XJL to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer
met him, and said to him: Thou helpest
the ungodly, and thou art joined in friend-
ship with them that hate the Lord, and
therefore thou didst deserve indeed the
wrath of the Lord :

3 But good works are found in chee,
because thou hast taken away the groves
out of the land of Juda, and hast pre-
pared thy heart to seek the Lord the God
of thy fathers.

4 And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem : and
he went out again to the people from
Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought
them back to the Lord the God of their
fathers.

5 And he set judges of the land in all
the fenced cities of Juda, in every place.

6 And charging the judges, he said :
Take heed what j^ou do : for you exercise
not the judgment of man, but of the
Lord : and whatsoever you judge, it shall
redound to you.

7 Let the fear of the Lord be with you,
and do all things with diligence: for
there is no iniquity with the Lord our
God, "' nor respect of persons, nor desire
of gifts.

8 In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed
Levites, and priests and chiefs of the
families of Israel, to judge the judgment
and the cause of the Lord for the inhab-
'^•ints thereof.

9 And he charged them, saying? Thus
shall you do in the fear of the Lord faith-
fully, and with a perfect heart.

10 Every cause that shall come to you
of your brethren, that dwell in their
cities, between kindred and kindred,
wheresoever there is question concern-
ing the law, the commandment, the cere-
monies, the justifications: shew it them.

^ B31it 10. 17 i WiscL 6. 8 J EcclL 35. 16 ; AotI la 34 ;

that they may not sin against the Lord *
and that wrath may not come upon yc
and your brethren: and so doing yon
shall not sin.

11 And Amarias the priest your higb
priest shall be chief in the things which'
regard God: and Zabadias the son of Is'
mahel, who is ruler in the house of Juda
shall be over those matters which belong'
to the king's oflBce : and you have before'
you the Levites for masters, take courag(
and do diligently, and the Lord will b(
with you in good things.

CHAPTER 20.

The Ammonites, Moahites, and Syrians combiv
against Josaphat : he seeketh God^s help byjmb'
prayer and fasling. A prophet foretell eih thatGc
will fight for his jjeoplf : the enemies destroy oi
another, Josajyhat ivith his men gathereth V
spoils. He reigneth in jyeace, but his navy peru
eth.,for his society with wicked Ochozias.

AFTER this the children of Moab,aD
. the children of Ammon, and wit
them of the Ammonites, were gatbere
together to fight against Josaphat.

2 And there came messengers, and to]
Josaphat, saying : There cometh a gre;
multitude against thee from beyond tr
sea, and out of Syria, and behold they ai'
in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.

3 And Josaphat being seized with fe;'
betook himself wholly to pray to tl
Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for i
Juda.

4 And Juda gathered themselves

gether to pray to the Lord : and all can
out of their citiep< to make supplicati
to him.

5 And Josaphat stood in the midst
the assembly of Juda, and Jerusalem,
the house of the Lord before the m
court,

6 And said : O Lord God of our fathe
thou art God in heaven, and rulest o\
all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hal
is strength and power, and no one c
resist thee.

7 Didst not thou our God kill all t
inhabitants of this land before thy peoi
Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Ab
ham thy friend for ever?

8 And they dwelt in it, and built in i
sanctuary to thy name, saying:

9 If evils fall upon us, the sword f
judgment, or pestilence, or famine,
will stand in thy presence before t

Kom.2.11;Gal.2.6;Eph.6.9;Col.3.25i

1 Peter x. 17.

4ea

£ prayer of Josaj)hat 2 PARALIPOMENON

Moah and Ammon

e, in which thy name is called upon :

we will cry to thee in our afflictions,

iftou wilt hear, and save us.

^ Now therefore behold the children
mon, and of Moab, and mount Seir,
[ough whose lands thou didst not allow
1 to pass, when they came out of
ypt, but they turned aside from them,
a 1 slew them not.

Do the contrary, and endeavour to
c t us out of the possession which thou
h t delivered to us.

0 our God, wilt thou not then judge
tlm? as for us we have not strength
e:»ugh, to be able to resist this multi-
fee, which Cometh violently upon us.
B!j as we know not what to do, we can
0 y turn our eyes to thee.

And all Juda stood before the Lord
«h their lUtle ones, and their wives,
a: I their children.
; And Jahaziel the son of Zacharias,
tl son of Banaias, the son of Jehiel, the
B( of Mathanias, a Levite of the sons of
Aiph, was there, upon whom the spirit
Ojthe Lord came in the midst of the
lijltitude,

I And he said : Attend ye, all Juda, and
yi that dwell in Jerusalem, and thou
k g Josaphat: Thus saith the Lord to
yi: Fear ye not, and be not dismayed
a this multitude: for the battle is not
y irs, but God's.

To morrow you shall go down against
tlm: for they will come up by the as-
cvt named Sis, and you shall find them
a ;he head of the torrent, which is over
a,. Inst the wilderness of Jeruel.

It shall not be you that shall fight,
b only stand with confidence, and you
8111 see the help of the Lord over you,
Oi uda, and Jerusalem : fear ye not, nor
biyou dismayed: to morrow you shall
g| out against them, and the Lord will
bjwith you.

Then Josaphat, and Juda, and all the
itabitants of Jerusalem fell flat on the
g und before the Lord, and adored him.

And the Levites of the sons of Caath,
a 1 of the sons of Core praised the Lord
tl God of Israel with a loud voice, on

And they rose early in the morning,
I went out through the desert of The-
^' and as they were marching, Josa-

• Deut S. S.

phat standing in the midst of them, said :
Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the in-
habitants of Jerusalem: believe in the
Lord your God, and you shall be secure :
believe his prophets, and all things shall
succeed well.

21 And he gave counsel to the people,
and appointed the singing men of the
Lord, to praise him by their companies,
and to go before the army, and with one
voice to say: ^Give glory to the Lord,
for his mercy endureth for ever.

22 And when they began to sing praises,
the Lord turned their ambushments upon
themselves, that is to say, of the children
of Ammon, and of Moab, and of mount
Seir, who were come out to fight against
Juda, and they were slain.

23 For the children of Ammon, and of
Moab, rose up against the inhabitants of
mount Seir, to kill and destroy them:
and when they had made an end of them,
they turned also against one another,
and destroyed one another.

24 And when Juda came to the watch
tower, that looketh toward the desert,
they saw afar off all the country, for a
great space, full of dead bodies, and that
no one was left that could escape death.

25 Then Josaphat came, and all the peo-
ple with him to take away the spoils of
the dead, and they found among the dead
bodies, stuff of various kinds, and gar-
ments, and most precious vessels: and
they took them for themselves, insomuch
that they could not carry all, nor in three
days take away the spoils, the booty was
so great.

26 And on the fourth day they were as»
sembled in the valley of Blessing: for
there they blessed the Lord, and there-
fore they called that place the valley of
Blessing until this day.

27 And every man of Juda, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem returned, and
Josaphat at their head, into Jerusalem
with great joy, because the Lord had
made them rejoice over their enemies.

28 And they came into Jerusalem with
psalteries, and harps, and trumpets into
the house of the Lord.

29 And the fear of the Lord fell upon
all the kingdoms of the lands when they
heard that the Lord had fought against
the enemies of Israel.

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Peace reigns in Juda 2 PARALIPOMENON

30 And the kingdom of Josaphat was
quiet, and God gave him peace round

JorawbS loicked reign

about.

31 *And Josaphat reigned over Juda,
and he was five and thirty years old
when he began to reign : and he reigned
five and twenty years in Jerusalem : and
the name of his mother was Azuba the
daughter of Selahi.

62 And he walked in the way of his
father Asa, and departed not from it,
doing the things that were pleasing be-
fore the Lord.

oc But yet he took not away the high
places, and the people had not yet turned
their heart to the Lord the God of their
fathers.

c»4 But the rest of the acts of Josaphat,
firsc and last, are written in the words of
Jehu the son of Hanani, which he digested
into the books of the kings of Israel.

36 After these things Josaphat king of
Juda made friendship with Ochozias king
of Israel, whose works were very wicked.

36 And he was partner with him in
making ships, to go to Tharsis : and they
made the ships in Asiongaber.

37 And Eliezer the son of Dodau of
Maresa prophesied to Josaphat, saying :
Because thou hast made a league with
Ochozias, the Lord hath destroyed thy
works, and the ships are broken, and
they could not go to Tharsis.

CHAPTER 21,

Jbrani's wicked reign : his punishment and death.
A ND ^ Josaphat slept with his fathers,
J\. and was buried with them in the
city of David: and Joram his son reigned
in his stead.

2 And he had brethren the sons of Josa-
phat, Azarias, and Jahiel, and Zacharias,
and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias,
all these were the sons of Josaphat king
of Juda.

3 And their father gave them great
gifts of silver, and of gold, and pensions,
with strong cities in Juda : but the king-
dom he gave to Joram, because he was
the eldest.

4 So Joram rose up over the kingdom
of his father : and when he had estab-
lished himself, he slew all his brethren
with the sword, and some of the princes
of Israel.

e 3 Kings 22. 41.
g B. C. 854. 8 Kings 22. 51.

5 Jcraia wac two and thirty years old
when he began to reign: and he reigned

eight years in Jerusalem.

6 ^And he walked in the ways of the
kings of Israel, as the house of Achab
had done ; for his wife was a daughter of
Achab, and he did evil in the sight of
the Lord.

7 But the Lord would not destroy the
house of David: because of the covenant
which he had made with him: and be-
cause he had promised to give a lamp to
him, and to his sons for ever.

8 In those days Edom revolted, *from
being subject to Juda, and made them-
selves a king.

9 And Joram went over with his princes,
and all his cavalry with him, and rose in
the night, and defeated the Edomites
who had surrounded him, and all the
captains of his cavalry.

10 However Edom revolted, from being
under the dominion of Juda unto this
day: at that time Lobna also revolted,
from being under his hand. For he had
forsaken the Lord the God of his fa
thers :

11 Moreover he built also high places
in the cities of Juda, and he made th(
inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit for
nication, and Juda to transgress.

12 And there was a letter brought bin
from Elias the prophet, in which it wa'
written : Thus saith the Lord the God o
David thy father: Because thou hast no
walked in the ways of Josaphat thy fa
ther nor in the ways of Asa king o
Juda,

13 But hast walked in the ways of th
kings of Israel, and hast made Juda an
the inhabitants of Jerusalem to comm
fornication, imitating the fornication t
the house of Achab, moreover also tbo
hast killed thy brethren, the house (
thy father, better men than thyself,

14 Behold the Lord will strike thee wit
a great plague, with all thy people, ar
thy children, and thy wives, and all tl
substance. j

16 And thou shalt be sick of a ve)
grievous disease of thy bowels, till tl
vital parte come out by little and litt
every day.

16 And the Lord stirred up against J
ram the spirit of the Philistines, and

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h 4 Kings 8. 16.
i Gea 27. 40.

u^^

\e death of J or am

2 PARALIPOMENON

Ochozias is hilled

Arabians, who border on the Ethi-
^Ans.
And they came up into the land of
[a, and wasted it, and they carried
|ay all the substance that was found
the king's house, his sons also, and
k wives: so that there was no son left
|i but Joachaz, who was the youngest.
I . And besides all this the Lord struck
|i with an incurable disease in his
i^els.

f .,' And as day came after day, and time
filed on, two whole years passed: then
tar being wasted with a long consump-
tii, so as to void his very bowels, his
4 3ase ended with his life. ^ And he
dd of a most wretched illness, and the
p tple did not make a funeral for him
aiording to the manner of burning, as
^y had done for his ancestors.
I He was two and thirty years old
If an he began his reign, and he reigned
eJ hi years in Jerusalem. And he walked
n- rightly, and they buried him in the
ci'" of David: but not in the sepulchres
0 he kings.

CHAPTER 22.

Vi reign and death of Ochozias. The tyranny of
Athalia.

ND ^'the inhabitants of Jerusalem
2^ made Ochozias his youngest son
kg in his place: for the rovers of the
Ai,bians, who had broke in upon the
Of ip, had killed all that were his elder
bithers. So Ochozias the son of Joram
kig of Juda reigned.

i Dchozias was forty-two years old when
ki« began to reign, and he reigned one
y<r in Jerusalem, and the name of his
DQ^her was Athalia the daughter of
Ari.

'iie also walked in the ways of the
hi 36 of Achab : for his mother pushed
Hill on to do wickedly.

^5o he did evil in the sight of the Lord,
at he house of Achab did : for they were
hi counsellors after the death of his f a-
ti|r, to his destruction.

^^nd he walked after their counsels.
Ai he went with Joram the son of Achab
fc? of Israel, to fight against Hazael
*^? of Syria, at Ramoth Galaad : and the
S;ian8 wounded Joram.

■i

j B. C. 846.
C. 846. 4 Kings 8.

24.

r^^* ^i* X**"* ^^* -Joachaz, alias Ochozias.
*^«». ^Ht.% F0rty4wo, Sic Divers Greek

6 And he returned to be healed in Jez-
rahel : for he received many wounds in
the foresaid battle. And Ochozias the
son of Joram king of Juda, went down to
visit Joram the son of Achab in Jezrahel
where he lay sick.

7 For it was the will of God against
Ochozias that he should come to Joram :
and when he was come should go out
also against Jehu the son of Namsi, whom
the Lord had anointed to destroy the
house of Achab.

8 So when Jehu was rooting out the
house of Achab, he found the princes of
Juda, and the sons of the brethren of
Ochozias, who served him, and he slew
them.

9 And he sought for Ochozias himself,
and took him lying hid in Samaria : and
when he was brought to him, he killed
him, and they buried him : because he
was the son of Josaphat, who had sought
the Lord with all his heart. And there
was no more hope that any one should
reign of the race of Ochozias.

10 "*For Athalia his mother, seeing that
her son was dead, rose up, and killed all
the royal family of the house of Joram.

11 But Josabeth the king's daughter took
Joas the son of Ochozias, and stole him
from among the king's sons that were
slain. And she hid him with his nurse in
a bedchamber : now Josabeth that hid
him, was daughter of king Joram, wife of
Joiada the high priest, and sister of Ocho-
zias, and therefore Athaliadid not kill him.

12 And he was with them hid in the
house of God six years, during which
Athalia reigned over the land.

CHAPTER 23.

Joiada the high priest causeth Joas to he made king:
Athalia to be slain, and idolatry to be destroyed.

A ND ^ in the seventh year Joiada be-
a\, ing encouraged, took the captains
of hundreds, to wit, Azarias the son of
Jeroham, and Ismahel the son of Johanan,
and Azarias the 5on of Obed, and Maasias
the son of Adaias, and Elisaphat the son
of Zechri: and made a covenant with
them.

2 And they went about Juda, and gath-
ered together the Levites out of all the

m 4 Kingrs 11. 1. B. C. 846.
n B. C. 841. 4 Kings 11. 4.

Bibles read thirty-two, agreeably to 4 Kings f.
17.

469

Joas is made king

2 PARALIPOMENON

Aihalia is slain

cities of Juda, and the chiefs of the fami-
lies of Israel, and th^ came to Jerusa-
lem.

3 And all the multitude made a cove-
nant with the king in the house of God:
and Joiada said to them : Behold the
king's son shall reign, as the Lord hath
said of the sons of David.

4 And this is the thing that you shall
do:

5 A third part of you that come to the
sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites,
and of the porters, shall be at the gates :
and a third part at the king's house : and
a third at the gate that is called the Foun-
dation: but let all the rest of the peo-
ple be in the courts of the house of the
Lord.

6 And let no one come into the house of
the Lord, but the priests, and they that
minister of the Levites: let them only
come in, because they are sanctified : and
let all the rest of the people keep the
watches of the Lord.

7 And let the Levites be round about the
king, every man with his arms; (and if
any other come into the temple, let him
be slain;) and let them be with the king,
both coming in, and going out.

8 So the Levites, and all Juda did ac-
cording to all that Joiada the high priest
had commanded: and they took every
one his men that were under him, and
that came in by the course of the sabbath,
with those who had fulfilled the sabbath,
and were to go out. For Joiada the high
priest permitted not the companies to
depart, which were accustomed to suc-
ceed one another every week.

9 And Joiada the priest gave to the
captains the spears, and the shields, and
targets of king David, which he had
dedicated in the house of the Lord.

10 And he set all the people with swords
in their hands from the right side of the
temple, to the left side of the temple,
before the altar, and the temple, round
about the king.

11 And they brought out the king's son,
and put the crown upon him, and the
testimony, and gave him the law to hold
in his hand, and they made him king:
and Joiada the high priest and his sons
anointed him : and they prayed for him,
and said : God save the king.

12 Now when A thalia heard the noise ol
the people running and praising the king,
she came in to the people, into the teoaple
of the Lord.

13 And when she saw the king standing
upon the step in the entrance, and the
princes, and the companies about him, and
all the people of the land rejoicing, and
sounding with trumpets, and playing on
instruments of divers kinds, and the voice
of those that praised, she rent her gar-
ments, and said : Treason, treason.

14 And Joiada the high priest going out
to the captains, and the chiefs of the army,
said to them : Take her forth without the
precinct of the temple, and when she i£
without let her be killed with the sword
For the priest commanded that she shoulc
not be killed in the house of the Lord.

15 And they laid hold on her by th(
neck : and when she was come withi:
the horse gate of the palace, they kille
her there.

16 And Joiada made a covenant betwee
himself and all the people, and the kin^
that they should be the people of th
Lord.

17 And all the people went into th
house of Baal, and destroyed it: an
they broke down his altars and his idoli
and they slew Mathan the priest of Ba
before the altars.

18 And Joiada appointed overseers
the house of the Lord, under the haD(
of the priests, and the Levites, who
David had distributed in the house of t);
Lord : to offer holocausts to the Lord, i
it is written in the law of Moees, wii
joy and singing, according to the dispoi!
tion of David. j

19 He appointed also porters in tj
gates of the house of the Lord, that no'
who was unclean in any thing shoi
enter in.

20 And he took the captains of hi
dreds, and the most vahant men, and t
chiefs of the people, and all the peo^
of the land, and they brought down <
king from the house of the Lord, s
brought him through the upper gate i
the king's house, and set him on
royal throne.

21 And all the people of the land
joiced, and the city was quiet : but At
ha was slain with the sword.

Cbap. 23. Ver. &

To the sabbath. That is, to perform in your weeks the iunctiona oi yow
office» 01 the weekly watches.

47d

repairs the temple 2 PARALIPOMENON People fall into idolatry

CHAPTER 24.

ireigneth v^ell all the days ofJoiada: afterwards
\lleth into idolatry and causeth Zacharias to
dain. He is slain himself by his servants.

'AS ** was seven years old when he
began to reign : and he reigned forty
rs in Jerusalem : the name of his mo-
il was Sebia of Bersabee.
nd he did that which is good before
Lord all the days of Joiada the priest,
nd Joiada took for him two wives,
whom he had sons and daughters,
iter this Joas had a mind to repair
house of the Lord.

And he assembled the priests, and
Levites, and said to them : Go out to
cities of Juda, and gather of all Israel
Hiiey to repair the temple of your God,
ftm year to year: and do this with
8] ed : but the Levites were negligent.
iiAnd the king called Joiada the chief,
ft:!l said to him: Why hast thou not
fc en care to oblige the Levites to bring
ii )ut of Juda and Jerusalem the money
tlit was appointed by Moses the servant
Oi^he Lord for all the multitude of Israel
t( :)ring into the tabernacle of the testi-
niiy?

For that wicked woman Athalia, and
h!" children have destroyed the house of
Gi, and adorned the temple of Baal with
a the things that had been dedicated in
tl temple of the Lord.
iiAnd the king commanded, and they
nde a ch3st: and set it by the gate of
tl house of the Lord on the outside.
'And they made a proclamation in Juda
a I Jerusalem, that every man should
bing to the Lord ^ the money which
Rses the servant of God appointed for
aJsrael, in the desert.

And all the princes, and all the peo-
p, rejoiced: and going in they contrib-
B d and cast so much into the chest of
til Lord, that it was filled.

I And when it was ti<me to bring the
Cii3t before the king by the hands of
til Levites, (for they saw there was much
rney,) the king's scribe, and he whom
H high priest had appointed went in:
ap they poured out the money that was
ijthe chest: and they carried back the
c|3Stto its place: and thus they did from
y to day, and there was gathered an
ijtnense sum of money.

o 4 Kings 11. 21 ; 12. 1. B. C. 841.
q Ex. 30. 12.

12 And the king and Joiada gave it to
those who were over the works of ihe
house of the Lord : but they hired with
it stonecutters, and artificers of every
kind of work to repair the house of the
Lord : and such as wrought in iron and
brass, to uphold what began to be fall-
ing.

13 And the workmen were diligent, and
the breach of the walls was closed up by
their hands, and they set up the house of
the Lord in its former state, and made it
stand firm.

14 And when they had finished all the
works, they brought the rest of the money
before the king and Joiada : and with it
were made vessels for the temple for the
ministry, and for holocausts and bowls,
and other vessels of gold and silver : and
holocausts were offered in the house of
the Lord continually all the days of Joi'
ada.

15 But Joiada grew old and was full of
days, and died when he was a hundred
and thirty years old.

16 And they buried him in the city of
David among the kings, because he had
done good to Israel, and to his house.

17 And after the death of Joiada, the
princes of Juda went in, and worshipped
the king : and he was soothed by their
services and hearkened to them.

18 And they forsook the temple of the
Lord the God of their fathers, and served
groves and idols, and wrath came upon
Juda and Jerusalem for this sin.

19 And he sent prophets to them to
bring them back to the Lord, and they
would not give ear when they testified
against them.

20 The spirit of God then came upon
Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest,

and he stood in the sight of the people,
and said to them : Thus saith the Lord
God : Why transgress you the command-
ment of the Lord which will not be for
your good, and have forsaken the Lord,
to make him forsake you?

21 And they gathered themselves to-
gether against him, and stoned him at
the king's commandment in the court of
the house of the Lord. ^

22 And king Joas did not remember the
kindness that Joiada his father had done
to him, * but killed his son. And when

s Matt. 23. 3&

471

Joas is slain

% PARALIPOMENON The reign of Amasia,

Le died, he said : The Lord see, and re-
quire it. •

23 * And when a year was come about,
the army of Syria came up against him:
and they came to Juda and Jerusalem,
and killed all the princes of the people,
and they sent all the spoils to the king
of Damascus.

24 And whereas there came a very
small number of the Syrians, the Lord
delivered into their hands an infinite
multitude, because they had forsaken the
Lord the God of their fathers : and on
Joas they executed shameful judgments.

25 And departing they left him in great
diseases: and his servants rose up against
him, for revenge of the blood of the son
of Joiada the priest, and they slew him
in his bed, and he died: and they buried
him in the city of David, but not in the
sepulchres of the kings.

26 Now the men that conspired against
him were Zabad the son of Semmaath an
Ammonitess, and Jozabad the son of
Semarith a Moabitess.

27 And concerning his sons, and the
sum of money which was gathered under
him, and the repairing the house of God,
they are written more diligently in the
book of kings: and Amasias his son
reigned in his stead.

CHAPTl-R 25.

AtTiasias^s reign : he beginmth well, hut endeth ill :
he is overthrown by Joas, and slain by his ovm
people.

AMASIAS ""was five and twenty years
. old when he began to reign, and he
reigned nine and twenty years in Jeru-
salem, the name of his mother was Jon-
dan of Jerusalem.

2 And he did what was ^ood in the sight
of the Lord: but yet not with a perfect
heart.

3 And when he saw himself strengthened
in his kingdom, he put to death the ser-
vants that had slain the king his father.

4 But he slew not their children, as it is
written in the book of the law of Moses,
where the Lord commanded, saying:
^ The fathers shall not be slain for the
children, nor the children for their
fathers, but every man shall die for his
own sin.

5 Amasias therefore gathered Juda to-
gether, and appointed them by families,

1 3 Kings 12. 17.

and captains of thousands and of hun-
dreds in all Juda, and Benjamin : an('
he numbered them from twenty years oV
and upwards, and found three hundre'
thousand young men that could go ou
to battle, and could hold the spear an
shield. !

6 He hired also of Israel a hundred thoi
sand valiant men, for a hundred talent;
of silver. '

7 But a man of God came to him, an
said : O king, let not the army of Isra
go out with thee, for the Lord is not wit
Israel, and all the children of Ephraim

8 And if thou think that battles consij
in the strength of the army, God w:|
make thee to be overcome by the enemie
for it belongeth to God both to help, ai
to put to flight.

9 And Amasias said to the man of Go
What will then become of the hundr
talents which I havo ^^ven to the soldie
of Israel? and the man of God answer
him: The Lord is rich enough to be al
to give thee much more than this.

10 Then Amasias separated the am
that came to him out of Ephraim, to
home again: but they being much (
raged against Juda, returned to th
own country.

11 And Amasias taking courage \
forth his people, and went to the vale
saltpits, and slew of the children of S
ten thousand.

12 And other ten thousand men '
sons of Juda took, and brought to
steep of a certain rock, and cast th
down headlong from the top, and tl
all were broken to pieces. I

13 But that army which Amasias iM
sent back, that they should not go v!i
him to battle, spread themselves am
the cities of Juda, from Samaria to B<
horon, and having killed three thous
took away much spoil.

14 But Amasias after he had slain
Edomites, set up the gods of the child
of Seir, which he had brought thence
be his gods, and adored them, and bi
incense to them. I

15 Wherefore the Lord being ar y
against Amasias, sent a prophet to 1
to say to him: Why hast thou ad(
gods that have not delivered their
people out of thy hand?

472

V B. C. 802. 4 KinKS 14. 2.
w Deut. 24. 16 ; 4 Kings 14. 6 ; Ezech. 18. 20

fias defeated by Joas 2 PARALIPOMENON

The reign of Ozias

And when he spoke these things, he
wered him: Art thou the king's coun-
or? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And
H prophet departing, said : I know that
Q d is minded to kill thee, because thou

^t done this evil, and moreover hast

i hearkened to my counsel.
Then Ama3ias king of Juda taking
y bad counsel, sent to Joas the son of

ichaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel,
ing : Come, let us see one another.
But he sent back the messengers,

ing: The thistle that is in Libanus,
St to the cedar in Libanus, saying:
fi'e thy daughter to my son to wife:
pi behold the beasts that were ir the
Hod of Libanus passed by and trod
dvn the thistle.

Thou hast said: I Have overthrown
h om, and therefore thy Jaeart is lifted up
H h pride : stay at home, why dost thou
p )Voke eviJ against thee, chat both thou
8 )uldst fall and Juda with thee.

) Amasias would not hearken to him,
b^ause it was the Lord's will that he
B,)uld be delivered into the hands of
e3mie8, because of the gods of Edom.

- So Joas king of Israel went up, and
li,!y presented themselves to be seen by
03 another: and Amasias king of Juda
^ 8 in Bethsames of Juda :

5 And Juda fell before Israel, and they
fll to their dwellings.

) And Joas king of Israel took Amasias
kig of Juda, the son of Joas, the son of
Jichaz, in Bethsames, and brought him
t|Jerusalem : and broke down the walls
t;reof from the gate of Ephraim, to
t5 gate of the corner, four hundred cu-
ts.

t And he took all the gold, and silver,
ai all the vessels, that he found in the
tase of God, and with Obededom, and in
1 1 treasures of the king's house, more-
cer also the sons of the hostages, he
t)ught back to Samaria.

(3 And Amasias the son of Joas king of
A3a Uved, after the death of Joas the
81 of Joachaz king of Israel, fifteen

J ITS.

p Now the rest of the acts of Amasias,

!3 first and last, are written in the book
the kings of Juda and Israel.
7 And after he revolted from the Lord,

3y made a conspiracy against him in

X B. e. 775.

Jerusalem, *And he fled into Lachia»
and they sent, and, killed him there.

28 And they brought him back upon
horses, and buried him with his fathers in
the city of David.

CHAPTER 26.

Ozias reigneth prosperously, till he invadeth the
priests'' office, upon which he is struck with a
leprosy.

AND ^all the people of Juda took his
.£\ son Ozias, who was sixteen years
old, and made him king in the room of
Amasias hip father.

2 He built Ailath, and restored it to the
dominion of Juda, after that the king
slept with his fathers.

3 Ozias was sixteen years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned two and
fifty years in Jerusalem : the name of his
mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem.

4 And he did that which was right in
the eyes of the Lord, according to all
that Amasias his father had done.

5 And he sought the Lord in the days of
Zacharias that understood and saw God:
and as long as he sought the Lord, he
directed him in all things.

6 Moreover he went forth and fought
against the Philistines, and broke down
the wall oi Geth, and th^ wall of Jabnia,
and the wall of AzotUF : and he buUt
towns in Azotus, and among the Philis-
tines.

7 And God helped him against the Phi-
listines, and against the Arabians, that
dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Am-
monites.

8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to
Ozias : and his name was spread abroad
even to the entrance of Egypt for his.
frequent victories.

9 And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem
over the gate of the corner, and over
the gate of the valley, and the rest, in
the same side of the wall, and fortified
them.

10 And he built towers in the wilder-
ness, and dug many cisterns, for he had
much cattle both in the plains, and in the
waste of the desert: he had also vine-
yards and dressers of vines in the moun-
tains, and in Carmel : for he was a man
that loved husbandry.

11 And the army of his fighting men,
that went out to war, was under the

473

y B. C. 775. 4 Kings 14. 21.

ggig^ stricken with leprosy g PARALIPOMENON Joatham's good reign

hand of Jehiel the scribe, and Maasias
the doctor, and under the hand of Hena-
nias, wlio was one of the long's captains.

12 And the whole numbei' of the chiefs
by the famihes of vahant men were two
thousand six hundred.

13 And the whole army under them
three hundred and seven thousand five
hundred : who were fit for war, and fought
(or the king against the enemy.

14 And Ozias prepared for them, that is,
^or the whole army, shields, and spears,
and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows,
and slings to cast stones.

15 And he made in Jerusalem engines
of diverse kinds, which he placed in the

house of the Lord. And Joatham his son
governed the king's house, and judged the
people of the land.

22 But the rest of the acts of Ozias first
and last were written by Isaias the son
of Amos, the prophet.

23 And Ozias slept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the field of the royal
sepulchres, because he was a leper : and,
Joatham his son reigned in his stead. i

CHAPTER 27.
Joathafri's good reign. 1 1

JOATHAM ^ was five and twenty year!
old when he began to reign, and h(
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem : th(| 1

towers, and in the corners of the walls, ; name of his mother was Jerusa the daugh
to shoot arrows, and great stones : and his ter of Sadoc.

name went forth far abroad, for the Lord
helped him, and had strengthened him.

16 But when he was made strong, his
heart was lifted up to his destruction,
and he neglected the Lord his God : and
going into the temple of the Lord, he
had a mind to burn incense upon the
altar of incense.

17 And immediately Azarias the priest
going in after him, and with him four-
score priests of the Lord, most valiant
men,

18 Withstood the king and said: It doth
not belong to thee, Ozias, to burn incense
to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to
the sons of Aaron, ^ who are consecrated
for this ministry : go out of the sanctu-
ary, do not despise : for this thing shall
not be accounted to thy glory by the
Lord God.

19 And Ozias was angry, and holding in
his hand the censer to burn incense,
threatened the priests. And presently
there rose a leprosy in his forehead be-
fore the priests, in the house of the Lord
at the altar of incense.

20 And Azarias the high priest, and all
the rest of the priests looked upon him,
and saw the leprosy in his forehead, and
they made haste to thrust him out. Yea
himself also being frightened, hasted to
go out, because he had quickly felt the
stroke of the Lord.

21 * And Ozias the king was a leper
unto the day of his death, and he dwelt
in a house apart being full of the leprosy,
for which he had been cast out of the

t Ex. 30. 7 et seq.
«4 Kings 15. &

2 And he did that which was right be
fore the Lord, according to all that Ozia
his father had done, only that he enterei
not into the temple of the Lord, and th
people still transgressed.

3 He built the high gate of the house c,
the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel
built much.

4 Moreover he built cities in the moT
tains of Juda, and castles and towers i|
the forests.

5 He fought against the king of the cl
dren of Ammon, and overcame them, ai
the children of Ammon gave him at th^
time a hundred talents of silver, and
thousand measures of wheat, and
many measures of barley : so much dl
the children of Ammon give him in tl|
second and third year.

6 And Joatham was strengthened, bj
cause he had his way directed before tj
Lord his God.

7 Now the rest of the acts of Joathai
and all his wars, and his works, are
ten in the book of the kings of Israel a|
Juda.

8 He was five and twenty years (|
when he began to reign, and he reij
sixteen years in Jerusalem.

9 And Joatham slept with his fathe
and they buried him in the city of Dav|
and Achaz his son reigned in his stei

CHAPTER 28.

TJie wicked and unhappy reign of Achaz,

ACHAZ ^was twenty years old WJ
. he began to reign, and he reigi

474

6 B. C. 735. 4 Kings 15. 33.
c B. C. 731. 4 Kings 16. 2.

\ie wicked reign of Achaz 2 PARALIPOMENON The captives are released

jcteen years in Jerusalem: he did not
lat which was right in the sight of the
»rd as David his father had done,
I But walked in the ways of the kings
Israel ; moreover also he cast statues
Baalim.

It was he that burnt incense in the

lley of Benennom, and consecrated his

B in the fire according to the manner

the nations, which the Lord slew at

coming of the children of Israel.
He sacrificed also, and burnt incense
the high places, and on the hills, and
der every green tree.

And the Lord his God delivered him
o the hands of the king of Syria, who
feated him, and took a great booty out
his kingdom, and carried it to Damas-
s: he was also delivered into the hands
the king of Israel, who overthrew him
th a great slaughter.
For Phacee the son of Romelia slew
Juda a hundred and twenty thousand
one day, all valiant men . because they

forsaken the Lord the God of their
hers.
At the same time Zechri a powerful

of Ephraim, slew Maasias the king's
n, and Ezricam the governor of his
fuse, and Elcana who was next to the

And the children of Israel carried

ay of their brethren two hundred

ousand women, boys, and girls, and an

mense booty : and they brought it to

maria.

At that time there was a prophet of
|e Lord there, whose name was Oded :
d he went out to meet the army that
me to Samaria, and said to them : Be-
Id the Lord the God of your fathers
ing angry with Juda, hath delivered
tem into your hands, and you have
tchered them cruelly, so that your

elty hath reached up to heaven.

0 Moreover you have a mind to keep
der the children of Juda and Jerusalem

your bondmen and bondwomen, which
ght not to be done : for you have sinned
this against the Lord your God.

1 But hear ye my counsel, and release
captives that you have brought of

ur brethren, because a great indigna-
II of the Lord hangeth over you.

C!hap. 28. Ver. 19. For he had stripped it of
Ip: that is, Acbaz stripped the kingdom of Juda

12 Then some of the chief men of the
sons of Ephraim, Azarias the son ol
Johanan, Barachias the son of MosoUa-
moth, Ezechias the son of Solium, and
Amasa the son of Adali, stood up against
them that came from the war.

13 And they said to them : You shall
not bring in the captives hither, lest we
sin against the Lord. Why will you add
to our sins, and heap up upon our former
offences? for the sin is great, and the
fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over
Israel.

14 So the soldiers left the spoils, and all
that they had taken, before the princes
and all the multitude.

15 And the men, whom we mentioned
above, roso up and took the captives,
and with the spoils clothed all them that
were naked : and when they had clothed
and shod them, and refreshed them with
meat and drink, and anointed them be-
cause of their labour, and had taken care
of them, they set such of them as could
not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts,
and brought them to Jericho the city of
palm trees to their brethren, and they
returned to Samaria.

16 At that time king Achaz sent to the
king of the Assyrians asking help.

17 And the Edomites came and slew
many of Juda, and took a great booty.

18 The Philistines also spread them-
selves among the cities of the plains, and
to the south of Juda : and they took
BethsamcE), and Aialon, and Gaderoth, and
Socho, and Thamnan, and Gamzo, with
their villages, and they dwelt in them.

19 For the Lord had humbled Juda be-
cause of Achaz the king of Juda, for he
had stripped it of help, and had con-
temned the Lord.

20 And he brought against him Thelgath-
phalnasar king of the Assyrians, who
also afflicted him, and plundered him
without any resistance.

21 And Achaz stripped the house of the
Lord, and the house of the kings, and of
the princes, and gave gifts to the king
of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him
nothing.

22 Moreover also in the time of his dis-
tress he increased contempt against the
Lord : king Achaz himself by himself.

of the divine assistance by his wickedness, and by his
introducing idolatry.

475

Death of Achaz

2 PARALIPOMENON Ezechias purifies the temyle

23 Sacrificed victims to the gods of
Damascus that struck him, and he said :
The gods of the kings of Syria help them,
and I will appease them with victims,
and they will help me ; whereas on the
contrary they were the ruin of him, and
of all Israel.

24 Then Achaz having taken away all
the vessels of the house of God, and
broken them, shut up the doors of the
temple of God, and made himself altars
in all the corners of Jerusalem.

25 And in all the cities of Juda he built
altars to burn frankincense, and he pro-
voked the Lord the God of his fathers to
wrath.

26 But the rest of his acts, and all his
works first and last are written in the
book of the kings of Juda and Israel.

27 And Achaz slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in the city of Jeru-
salem : for they received him not into
the sepulchres of the kings of Israel.
And Ezechias his son reigned in his
stead.

CHAPTER 29.

Ezechias purifieth the temple^ and restoreth re-
ligion.

NOW ^ Ezechias began to reign, when
he was five and twenty years old,
and he reigned nine and twenty years in
Jerusalem : the name of his mother was
Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.

2 And he did that which was pleasing
in the sight of the Lord, according to all
that David his father had done.

3 In the first year and month of his
reign he opened the doors of the house
of the Lord, and repaired them.

4 And he brought the priests and the
Levites, and assembled them in the east
street.

5 And he said to them : Hear me, ye
Levites, and be sanctified, purify the
house of the Lord the God of your fa-
thers, and take away all filth out of the
sanctuary.

6 Our fathers have sinned and done evil
in the sight of the Lord God, forsaking
him: they have turned away their faces
from the tabernacle of the Lord, and
turned their backs.

7 They have shut up the doors that
were in the porch, and put out the lamps,
and have not burnt incense, nor offered

holocausts in the sanctuary of the Go(}j.j,
of Israel. j i

8 Therefore the wrath of the Lord hatt; ;
been stirred up against Juda and Jerusa i
lem, and he hath dehvered them to trou
ble, and to destruction, and to be hissec
at, as you see with your eyes. ^

9 Behold, our fathers are fallen by tho y
sword, our sons, and our daughters, an(| -4
wives are led away captives for thi
wickedness.

10 Now therefore I have a mind that w
make a covenant with the Lord the Go
of Israel, and he will turn away the wrat
of his indignation from us.

11 My sons, be not negligent: the Lor
hath chosen you to stand before him, an
to minister to him, and to worship hin
and to burn incense to him.

12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath tl
son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Az;
rias, of the sons of Caath: and of tl
sons of Merari, Cis the son of Abdi, ar
Azarias the son of Jalaleel. And of tl
sons of Gerson, Joah the son of Zemm,
and Eden the son of Joah.

13 And of the sons of Elisaphan, Sai
and Jahiel. Also of the sons of Asat
Zacharias, and Mathanias.

14 And of the sons of Heman, Jahi^
and Semei: and of the sons of Idithi
Semeias, and Oziel.

15 And they gathered together th^
brethren, and sanctified themselves, a:|
went in according to the commandme
of the king, and the precept of the Lo]|
to purify the house of God.

16 And the priests went into the temi
of the Lord to sanctify it, and brought (1
all the uncleanness that they found witll
to the entrance of the house of the Lol
and the Levites took it away, and carrj
it out abroad to the torrent Cedron.

17 And they began to cleanse on
first day of the first month, and on II
eighth day of the same month they ca|
into the porch of the temple of the
and they purified the temple in eii|
days, and on the sixteenth day of
same month they finished what they 1|
begun.

18 And they went in to king Ezecl
and said to him: We have sanctified!
the house of the Lord, and the alta^
holocaust, and the vessels thereof,

g B. C. 727. 4 Kings 18. I.

476

\? sacrifices offered

2 PARALIPOMENON

The sacrifices offered

rising early, as-
of the city, and

And all the furniture of the temple,
ch king Achaz in his reign had defiled,
!r his transgresbion ; and behold they
all set forth before the altar of the
d.

And king Ezechias
ibled all the rulers
it up into the house of the Lord :
And they offered together seven bul-

|c8, and seven rams, and seven lambs,
al seven he goats for sin, for the king-
dl 1, for the sanctuary, for Juda : and he
sfke to the priests the sons of Aaron,
|j>ffer them upon the altar of the Lord.

i Therefore they killed the bullocks,
m the priests took the blood, and poured
if pon the altar ; they killed also the
ra s, and their blood they poiu-ed also
U] n the altar, and they killed the lambs,
ai poured the blood upon the altar.

i And they brought the he goats for
at before the king, and the whole multi-
tD9, and they laid their hand upon them:

S And the priests immolated them, and
Bf nkled their blood before the altar for
ai expiation of all Israel: for the king
hi commanded that the holocaust and
bh sin offering should be made for all
Ib eL

2 And he set the Levites in the house
of he Lord with cymbals, and psalteries,
ai harps according to the regulation of
D: id the king, and of Gad the seer, and
ol^Tathan the prophet: for it was the
ccimandment of the Lord by the hand
*it is prophets.

S And the Levites stood, with the in-
•t ments of David, and the priests with
trnpets.

2 And Ezechias commanded that they
sh'ald offer holocausts upon the altar:
ft! when the holocausts were offered,
thr^ began to sing praises to the Lord,
•r to sound with trumpets, and divers
Inruments which David the king of
Is el had prepared.

2 And all the multitude adored, and
tb singers, and the trumpeters, were in
tb r office till the holocaust was finished.

2 And when the oblation was ended,
^ king, and all that were with him
vced down and adored.

3 And Ezechias and the princes com-

table of proposition with all its ves- 1 manded the Levites to praise the Lord

with the words of David, and Asaph the
seer: and they praised him with great
joy, and bowing the knee adored.

31 And Ezechias added, and said : You
bave filled your hands to the Lord, come
and offer victims, and praises in the house
of the Lord» And all the multitude of-
fered victims, and praises, and holocausts
with a devout mind.

32 And the number of the holocausts
which the multitude offered, was seventy
bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hun-
dred lambs.

33 And they consecrated to the Lord
six hundred oxen, and three thousand
sheep.

34 But the priests were few, and were
not enough to flay the holocausts : where-
fore the Levites their brethren helped
them, till the work was ended, and priests
were sanctified, for the Levites are sanc-
tified with an easier rite than the priests.

35 So there were many holocausts, and
the fat of peace offerings, and the liba-
tions of holocausts: and the service of
the house of the Lord was completed.

36 And Ezechias, and all the people re-
joiced because the ministry of the Lord
was accomphshed. For the resolution
of doing this thing was taken suddenly.

CHAPTER 30.

Ezechias inviteth all Israel to celebrate the patch
the solemnity is kept fourteen days.

ND Ezechias sent to all Israel and
Juda : and he wrote letters to
Ephraim and Manasses, that they should
come to the house of the Lord in Jerusa-
lem, and keep the phase to the Lord the
God of Israel,

2 For the king, taking counsel, and the
princes, and all the assembly of Jerusa-
lem, decreed to keep the phase the sec-
ond month.

3 For they could not keep it in its time ;
because there were not priests enough
sanctified, and the people was not as yet
gathered together to Jerusalem.

4 And the thing pleased the king, and
all the people.

5 And they decreed to send messengers
to all Israel from Bersabee even to Dan,
that they should come, and keep the
phase to the Lord the God of Israel in

477

The pasch proclaimed 2 PARALIPOMENON' Celebration of the pasch

Jerusalem : for many had not kept it as
it is prescribed by the law.

6 And the posts went with letters by
commandment of the king, and his princes,
to all Israel and Juda, proclaiming ac-
cording to the king's orders : Ye children
of Israel, turn again to the Lord the God
of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel :
and he will return to the remnant of
you that have. escaped the hand of the
king of the Assyrians.

7 Be not like your fathers, and brethren,
who departed from the Lord the God of
their fathers, and he hath given them
up to destruction, as you see.

8 Harden not your necks, as your fathers
did: yield yourselves to the Lord, and
come to his sanctuary, which he hath
sanctified for ever: serve the Lord tke
God of your fathers, and the wrath of
his indignation shall be turned away
from you.

9 For if you turn again to the Lord:
your brethren, and children shall find
raercy before their masters, that have
led them away captive, and they shall
return into this land : for the Lord your
God is merciful, and will not turn away
his face from you, if you return to him.

10 So the posts went speedily from city
to city, through the land of Ephraim,
and of Man asses, even to Zabulon, whilst
they laughed at them and mocked them.

11 Nevertheless some men of Aser, and
of Manasses, and of Zabulon, yielding to
the counsel, came to Jerusalem.

12 But the hand of God was in Juda, to
give them one heart to do the word of
the Lord, according to the commandment
of the king, and of the princes.

13 And much people were assembled to
Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of
the unleavened bread in the second
month :

14 And they arose and destroyed the
altars that were in Jerusalem, and took
away all things in which incense was
burnt to idols, and cast them into the
torrent Cedron.

15 And they immolated the phase on
the fourteenth day of the second month.
And the priests and the Levites being at
length sanctified offered holocausts in
the house of the Lord.

16 And they stood in their order ac-
cording to the disposition and law of
Moses the man of God: but the priests

received the blood which was to bf
poured out, from the hands of the Le-
vites,

17 Because a great number was noli
sanctified : and therefore the Levites im
molated the phase for them that ca:
not in time to be sanctified to th(j
Lord.

18 For a great part of the people fro
Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issach
and Zabulon, that had not been sanct
fied, ate the phase otherwise than it J
written: and Ezechias prayed for then
saying: The Lord who is good will she^
mercy,

19 To all them, who with their who]
heart, seek the Lord the God of the
fathers: and will not impute it to the^
that they are not sanctified.

20 And the Lord heard him, and w;
merciful to the people.

21 And the children of Israel, that wi
found at Jerusalem, kept the feast
unleavened bread seven days with gri
joy, praising the Lord every day: tl
Levites also, and the priests, with ins
ments that agreed to their office.

22 And Ezechias spoke to the heart
all the Levites, that had good und
standing concerning the Lord : and th^
ate during the seven days of the sole
nity, immolating victims of peace offi
ings, and praising the Lord the Godj
their fathers.

23 And it pleased the whole multit
to keep other seven days: which tl|
did with great joy.

24 For Ezechias the king of Juda
given to the multitude a thousand
locks, and seven thousand sheep:
the princes had given the people a th
sand bullocks, and ten thousand she
and a great number of priests was sa
tified.

25 And all the multitude of Juda
the priests and Levites, and all the
sembly, that came out of Israel ; and
proselytes of the land of Israel, and t
dwelt in Juda were full of joy.

26 And there was a great solemnit;|
Jerusalem, such as had not been in {
city since the time of Solomon the
of David king of Israel.

27 And fche priests and the Levites j
up and blessed the people: and t
voice was heard: and their prayer c
to the holy dwelling place of heaven.

478

e offerings of the people 2 PARALIPOMENON Distribution of offerings

CHAPTER 31.

•atry is abolished, and provisions made for the
ministers.

ND when these things had been duly
celebrated, all Israel that were found
the cities of Juda, went out, and they
ke the idols, and cut down the groves,
aolished the high places, and destroyed
altars, not only out of all Juda and
ijamin, but out of Ephraim also and
nasses, till they had utterly destroyed
m: then all the children of Israel re-
ned to their possessions and cities.

And Ezechias appointed companies of
priests, and the Levites, by their
rses, every man in his own office, to
, both of the priests, and of the Le-
;s, for holocausts, and for peace offer-
s, to minister, and to praise, and to
in the gates of the camp of the
id.

And the king's part was, that of his
per substance the holocaust should
1^ offered always morning and evening,
a ! on the sabbaths, and the new moons
a 1 the other solemnities, as it is writ-
ii in the law of Moses.

:Ie commanded also the people that
i 3lt in Jerusalem, to give to the priests,
a! the Levites their portion, that they
trcht attend to the law of the Lord.

Vhich when it was noised abroad in
tl ears of the people, the children of
Lael offered in abundance the first fruits
03 corn, wine, and oil, and honey: and
b:ught the tithe of all things which the
^und bringeth forth.

• Moreover the children of Israel and
J a, that dwelt in the cities of Juda,
bught in the tithes of oxen, and sheep,
a:i. the tithes of holy things, which they
h- vowed to the Lord their God: and
drying them all, made many heaps.

' n the third month they began to lay
tl foundations of the heaps, and in the
s(3nth month, they finished them.

<\nd when Ezechias and his princes
c^ie in, they saw the heaps, and they
b'jsed the Lord and the people of Israel.

SVnd Ezechias asked the priests and
tV Levites, why the heaps lay so.

- Azarias the chief priest of the race
olSadoc answered him, saying: Since
tl' first fruits began to be offered in the
b'se of the Lord, we have eaten, and

479

have been filled, and abundance is left,
because the Lord hath blessed his people :
and of that which is left is this great
store which thou seest.

11 Then Ezechias commanded to pre-
pare storehouses in the house of the
Lord. And when they had done so,

12 They brought in faithfully both the
firstfruits, and the tithes, and all they
had vowed. And the overseer of them
was Chonenias the Levite, and Semei hia
brother was the second.

13 And after him Jehiel, and Azarias,
and Nahath, and Asael, and Jerimoth,
and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jesmachias,
and Mahath, and Banaias, overseers un-
der the hand of Chonenias, and Semei his
brother, by the commandment of Eze-
chias the king, and Azarias the high
priest of the house of God, to whom all
things appertained.

14 But Core the son of Jemna the Le-
vite, the porter of the east gate, was
overseer of the things which were freely
offered to the Lord, and of the firstfruits
and the things dedicated for the holy of
holies.

15 And imder his charge were Eden, and
Benjamin, Jesue, and Semeias, and Ama-
rias, and Sechenias, in the cities of the
priests, to distribute faithfully portions
to their brethren, both little and great:

16 Besides the males from three years
old and upward, to all that went into
the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever
there was need of in the ministry, and
their offices according to their courses,
day by day.

17 To the priests by their families, and
to the Levites from the twentieth year
and upward, by their classes and com-
panies.

18 And to all the multitude, both to
their wives, and to their children of both
sexes, victuals were given faithfully out
of the things that had been sanctified.

19 Also of the sons of Aaron who were
in the fields and in the suburbs of each
city, there were men appointed, to dis-
tribute portions to all the males, among
the priests and the Levites.

20 So Ezechias did all things which we
have said in all Juda, and wrought that
which was good, and right, and truth,
before the Lord his God,

Sennacherib invades Juda 2 PARALIPOMENON

21 In all the service of the ministry of
the house of the Lord according to the
law and the ceremonies, desiring to seek
his God with all his heart, and he did it
and prospered.

CHAPTER 32

Sennacherib vnvadeth Juda: his army is destroyed
by an angel. Ezechias recovereth from his sick-
ness f his other acts.

AFTER •'these things, and thie truth,
^ Sennacherib king of the Assyrians
came and entered into Juda, and be-
sieged the fenced cities, desiring to take
them.

2 And when Ezechias saw tha^ Sen-
nacherib was come, and that the wh^ le
force of the war was turning against.
Jerusalem,

3 He took counsel with the princes, and
the most valiant men, to stop ap ihe
heads of the springs, that were wi^^hout
the city: and as they were all of this
mind,

4 He gathered together a vl: y great
multitude, and they stopped up all the
springs, and the orook, that ran through
the midst of the land, saying ? Lest uLe
kings of the Assyrians should come, and
find abundance of water,

6 He built up also with great diligence
an the wall that had been broken down,
and built towers upon it, and another
wall without : and he repaired Mello in
the city of David, and made all sorts of
arms and shields:

6 And he appointed captains of the sol-
diers of the army: and he called them all
together in the street of the gate of the
city, and spoke to thoir heart, saying :

7 Behave like men, and take courage:
be not afraid nor dismayed for the king
of the Assyrians, nor for all the multi-
tude that is with him: for there are many
more with us than with him.

8 For with him is an arm of flesh: with
us the Lord our God, who is our helper,
and fighteth for us. And the people were
encouraged with these words of Ezechias
king of Juda.

9 After this, Sennacherib king of the
Assyrians sent his servants to Jerusalem,
(for he with all his army was besieging
Lachis,) to Ezechias king of Juda, and to
all the people that were in the city, say-
ing:

SennacheriVs threats

10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of the
Assyrians: In whom do you trust, that
you sit still besieged in Jerusalem?

11 Doth not Ezechias deceive you, to
give you up to die by hunger and thirst,
affirming that the Lord your God shall
deliver you from the hand of the king of
the Assyrians ?

12 Is it not this same Ezechias, that
hath destroyed his high places, and his
altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusa-
lem, saying: You shall worship before
one altar, and upon it you shall burn
incense ?

13 Know you not what I and my fathers
have done to all the people of the lands?
ha e the gods of any nations and lands
been able to deliver their country out of
my hand

14 Who is there among all the gods of
th6 nations, which my fathers have de-
Litroyed, that could deliver his people out
of my hand, that your God should be able
to aeliver you out of this hand ?

15 Therefore let not Ezechias deceive
you, nor delude you with a vain persua-
sion, and do not believe him. For if no
god of all the nations and kingdoms,
could deliver his people out of my hand,
and out of the hand of my fathers, con-
sequently neither shall your God be able
to deliver you out of my hand.

16 And many other things did his ser-
vants speak against the Lord God, and
against Ezechias his servant.

17 He wrote also letters full of blas-
phemy against the Lord the God of Is-
rael, and he spoke against him: As the
gods of other nations could not deliver
their people out of my hand, so neither
can the God of Ezechias deliver his peo-
ple out of this hand.

18 Moreover he cried out with a loud
voice, in the Jews' tongue, to the people
that sat on the walls of Jerusalem, that
he might frighten them, and take the
city.

19 And he spoke against the God of Je-
rusalem, as against the gods of the peo-
ple of the earth, the works of the hands
of men.

20 And Ezechias the king, and iisaias the
prophet th« son of Amos, prayod against
this blasphemy, and cried out to heaven.

21 * And the Lord sent ii: .^nge , who

i B. C. 701. 4 Kings 18. 13.

SocU.4&80:Ira.a&lr^^!C9b? 21.

480

The riches of Ezechias 2 PARALIPOMENON Wicked reign of Manasses

cut off all the stout men and the warriors,
and the captains of the army of the king
of the Assyrians : and he returned with
disgrace into his own country. And when
he was come into the house of his god,
his sons that came out of his bowels, slew
him with the sword.

22 And the Lord sa v^ed Ezecmas and the
Inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of the hand
of Sennacherib king of the Assyrians,
and out of the hand of all, and gave them
treasures on every side.

•23 Many also brought victims, and sac-
rifices to the Lord to Jerusalem, and pre-
sents to Ezechias king of Juda: and he
was magnified thenceforth in the sight of
all nations.

24 * In those days Ezechias was sick even
to death, and he prayed to the Lord : and
he heard him, and gave him a sign.

25 But he did not render again accord-
ing to the benefits which he had received,
for his heart was lifted up: and wrath
was enkindled against him, and against
Juda and Jerusalem.

26 And he humbled himself afterwards,
because his heart had been Uftedup,both
he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem : and
therefore the wrath of the Lord came not
upon them in the days of Ezechias.

27 And Ezechias was rich, and very
glorious, and he gathered himself great
treasures of silver and of gold, and of
precious stones, of spices, and of arms,
of all kinds, and of vessels of great price.

28 Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and
of oil, and stalls for all beasts, and iolds
for cattle.

29 And he built himself cities : for he
had flocks of sheep, and herds without
number, for the Lord had given him very
touch substance.

30 This same Ezechias was he that stop-
ped the upper source of the waters of
Gihon, and turned them away underneath
toward the west of the city of David :
m all his works he did prosperously what
he would.

31 But yet in the embassy of the princes
of Babylon, that were sent to him, to in-
quire of the wonder that had happened
upon the earth, God left him that he
might be tempted, and all things might
be made known that were in his heart.

I 4 Kings 20. 8 ; Isa. 88. 1. — m B. C. 698.

32 Now the rest of the acts of Ezechias,
and of his mercies are written in the book
of the kings of Juda and Israel.

33 And Ezechias slept with his fathers, "*
and they buried him above t^ie sepulchres
of the sons of David: and all Juda, and
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem celebrated
his funeral : and Manasses hia son reigned
in his stead.

CHAPTER 3a.

Manasses for his manifold wickednesslM led captive
to Babylon : he repenteth^ and is restored to hia
kinydom^ and destroy eth idolatry : hia stuscesaor
Amon is slain by his servants.

MANASSES "was twelve years old
when he began to reign, and he
reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 And he did evil before the Lord, ac-
cording to all the abominations of the
nations, which the Lord cast out before
the children of Israel :

3 And he turned, and built again the
high places which Ezechias his father had
destroyed : and he built altars to Baalim,
and made groves, and he adored all the
host of heaven, and worshipped them.

4 He built also altars in the house of the
Lord, whereof the Lord had said: ®Iii
Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

5 And he built them for all the host of
heaven in the two courts of the house of
the Lord.

6 And he made his sons to pass through
the fire in the valley of Benennom : he
observed dreams, followed divinations,
gave himself up to magic arts, had with
him magicians, and enchanters : and he
wrought many evils before the Lord, to
provoke him to anger.

7 P He set also a graven, and a molten
statue in the house of God, of which God
had said to David, and to Solomon his
son: In this house, and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen out of all the tribes
of Israel, will I put my name for ever.

8 And I will not make the foot of Israel
to be removed out of the land which I
have delivered to their fathers : yet so if
they will take heed to do what I have
commanded them, and all the law, and
the ceremonies, and judgments by the
hand of Moses.

9 So Manasses seduced Juda, and the in-
habitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond

n B. C. 698. 4 Kings 21.1.
o 2 Kings 7. 10. — p 3 Kings 8. 17.

Chap. S3. Vera- The host of heaven. Tlie sun, moon, and stars.

481

£tepentance of Manasses 2 PARALIPOMENON Josias abolishes idolatry

ail the nations, which the Lord had de-
•troyed before the face of the children of
IsraeL

10 And the Lord spoke to him, and to
bis people, and they would not hearken.

11 Therefore he brought upon them the
captains of the army of the king of the
Assyrians : and they took Manasses, and
carried him bound with chains ap4 fit-
ters to Babylon.

12 And after that he was in cfistress he
prayed to the Lord his God: and did
penance exceedingly before the God of
hiF /athers.

'^6 And he entreated him, and besought
him earnestly : and he heard his prayer,
and brought him again to Jerusalem into
his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the
Lord was God.

14 After this he built a wall without the
city of David, on the west side of Gihon
in the valley, from the entering in of the
fish gate round about to Ophel, and raised
it up to a great height : and he appointed
captains of the army in all the fenced
cities of Juda :

16 And he took away the strange gods,
and the idol out of the house of the Lord :
the altars also which he had made in the
mount of the house of the Lord, and in
Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of
the city.

16 And he repaired the altar of the
Lord, and sacrificed upon it victims, and
peace offerings, and praise : and he com-
manded Juda to serve the Lord the God
of Israel.

17 Nevertheless the people still sacri-
ficed in the high places to the Lord their
God.

13 But the rest of the acts of Manasses,
and his prayer to his God, and the words
of the seers that spoke to him in the
name of the Lord the God of Israel, are
contained in the words of the kings of
Israel,

19 His prayer also, and his being heard,
and all his sins, and contempt, and places
wherein he built high places, and set up
groves, and statues before he did pen-
ance, are written in the words of Hozai.

20 And Manasses slept ^ with his fathers,
and they buried him in his house : and
his son Amon reigned in his stead.

21 Amon was two and twenty years old

q B. C. 643. — r 4 Kings 22. 1.

was right in

when he began to reign, and he reigned
two years in Jerusalem.

22 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, as Manasses his father had done:
and he sacrificed to all the idols which
Manasses his father had made, and licrved
them.

23 And he did not humble himself before
the Lord, as Manasses his father had hum-
bled himself, but committed far greater
sins.

24 And his servants conspired against
him, and slew him in his own house.

25 But the rest of the multitude of the
people slew them that had killed Amon,
and made Josias his son king in nis
stead.

CHAPTER 34.

Josias destroyeth idolatry, repaireth the temple,
and reneweth the covenant between God and th$
people.

JOSIAS '' was eight years old when he
began to reign, * and he reigned one
and thirty years in Jerusalem.

2 And he did that which
the sight of the Lord, and walked in the
ways of David his father: he declined
not, neither to the right hand, nor to the
left.

3 And in the eighth year of his reign,
when he was yet a boy, he began to seek
the God of his father David : and in the
twelfth year after he began to reign, he
cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from tne
high places, and the groves, and the idols,
and the graven things.

4 And they broke down before him the
altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols
that had been set upon them ; and he
cut down the groves and the graven
things, and broke them in pieces : and
strewed the fragments upon the graves
of them that had sacrificed to them.

6 And he burnt the bones of the priests
on the altars of the idols, and he cleaLisfld
Juda and Jerusalem.

6 And in the cities of Manasses, and o;
Ephraim, and of Simeon, even to Neph
tali he demolished all.

7 And when he had destroyed the altars,
and the groves, and had broken the idols
in pieces, and had demoUshed all profane
temples throughout all the land of Israel
he returned to Jerusalem.

8 Now in the eighteenth year ' of hifl

482

sB. C. 641. — <B. C. 624.

Josias repairs the temple 2 PARALIPOMENON Oldas prophecy

reign, when he had cleansed the land, I cam the son ot Saphan, and Abdon the

and the temple of the Lord, he sent
Saphan the son of Eselias, and Maasias
the governor of the city, Joha the son of
Joachaz the recorder, to repair the house
of the Lord his God.

9 And they came to Helcias the high
priest : and received of him the money
which had been brought into the house
of the Lord, and which the Levites and
porters had gathered together from Ma-
nasses, and Ephraim, and all the remnant
of Israel, and from all Juda, and Benjamin,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

10 Which they delivered into the hands
of then? that were over the workmen in
the house of the Lord, to repair the fcemplej
and mend all that was weak.
, 11 But they gave it to the artificers, and
to the masons, to buy stones out of the
[quarries, and timber for the couplings of
the building, and to rafter the houses,
which the kings of Juda had destroyed.
i 12 And they did all faithfully. Now the
ioverseers of the workmen were Jahath
|ind Abdias of the sons of Merari, Zacha-
jfias and MosoUara of the sons of Caath,
^ho hastened the work; all Levites skil-
hil to play on instruments.

13 But over them that carried burdens
for divers uses, were scribes, and masters
|)f the number of the Levites, and porters

14 Now when they carried out the money
|hat had been brought into the temple ot
he Lord, Helciae the priest found the
took of the law oi the Lord, by the hand
I MoseSo

15 And he said to Saphac the scribe: 1
ave found the book of the law in the
ouse of the Lord : and he delivered it tc
im.

16 But he carried the bool? to the king,
Dd told him, saying ; Lo, a^J that thou
ast committed to thy eeivantb, is ac-
jmplishedc

17 They have gathered f cgether the
Iver that was found in the house of the
ord: and it is given tc the overseers oi
le artificers, and of the workmen, for
Ivers works.

8 Moreover Helcias the priest gave me
lis book. And he read it before the king.

9 And when he had heard the wcrOfe ol
le law, he rent his garments:
50 And he commanded Helcias, and Ahi-

son oi Micha, and Saphan the scribe, and
Asaa the king's servant, saying i

21 Go, and pray to the Lord for me,
and for the remnant of Israel, and Juda,
concerning all the words of this book,
whiah is found: for the great wrath ol
the Lord hath fallen upon us, because
our fathers have not kept the words of
the Lord, to do all things that are writtea
in this book.

22 And Helcias and they that were sent
with him by the king, went to Olda the
prophetess, the wife of Solium the son
of Thecuath, the son of Hasra keeper of
the wardrobe : who dwelt in Jerusalem
in the Second part: and they spoke to
her the words above mentioned.

23 And she answered them : Thus saitb
the Lord the God of Israel : Tell the man
that sent you to me:

24 Thus saith the Lord : Behold I will
bring evils upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof, and all the curses
that are written in this book which they
read before the king of Juda.

25 Because they have forsaken me, and
have sacrificed to strange gods^ to pro-
voke me to wrath with all the works of
their hands, therefore my wrath shall fall
upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

26 But as to the king of Juda that sent
you to beseech the Lord, thus shall yon
say to him ; Thus saith the Lord the God
of Israel: Because thou hast heard the
words of this book,

27 And thy heart was softened, and
thou hast humbled thyself in the sight of
God for the things that are spoken
against this place, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and reverencing my face, hast
rent thy garments, and wept before me:
I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.

28 For now I will gather thee to thy
fathers, and thou shalt be brought to thy
tomb in peace : and thy eyes shall not
see all the evil that I will bring upon
this place, and the inhabitants thereof.
"They therefore reported to the king all
that she had said.

29 And he called together all the an-
ciente of Juda and Jerusalem.

30 And went up to the house of the Lord,
and all the men of Juda, and the inhabit-
ants of Jerusalem, the priests and the

u 4 Kings 23. 1.
483

Josias celebrates the pasch 2 PARALIPOMENON Josias celebrates the patch

Levites, and al! the people from the least
to the greatest. And the king read in
their hearing, in the house of the Lord,
all the words of the book.

31 And standing up in his tribunal, he
made a covenant before the Lord to walk
after him, and keep his commandments,
and testimonies, and justifications with
all his heart, and with all his soul, and to
do the things that were written in that
book which he had read.

32 And he adjured all that were found
in Jerusalem and Benjamin to do the
same : and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
did according to the covenant of the
Lord the God of their f athersc

33 And Josias took away all the abomi-
nations out of all the countries of the
children of Israel: and made all that
were left in Israel, to serve the Lord
their God. As long as he lived they de-
parted not from the Lord the God of their
father».

CHAPTER 35.

kMias celabrateth a most solemn pasch. Bb is
slain by the king of Egypt.

AND * Josias kept a phase to the Lord
J\. in Jerusalem, and it was sacrificed
on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 And he set the priests in their offices,
and exhorted them to minister in the
bouse of the Lord.

3 And he spoke to the Levites, by whose
instruction all Israel was sanctified to
the Lord, saying: Put the ark in the
sanctuary of the temple, which Solomon
the son of David king of Israel built : for
you shall carry it no more : but minister
now to the Lord your God, and to his
people Israel

4 And prepare yourselves by your
houses, and families according to your
courses, as David king of Israel com-
mandedj and Solomon his son hath
written.

6 And serve ye in the sanctuary by the
families and companies of Levi.

6 And being sanctified kill the phase,
and prepare your brethren, that they
may do according to the words which
the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.

7 And Josias gave to all the people that
were found there in the solemnity of the
phase, of lambs and of kids of the flocks,
and of other small cattle thirty thou-

sand, and of osen three thousand, all
these were of the king's substance.

8 And his princes willingly offered what
they had vowed, both to the people and
to the priests and the Levites. More
over Helcias, and Zacharias, and Jahiel
rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to
the priests to keep the phase two thou-
sand six hundred small cattle, and three
hundred oxen.

9 And Chonenias, and Semeias and
Nathanael, his brethren, and Hasabias,
and Jehiel, and Jozabad princes of the
Levites, gave to the rest of the Levites
to celebrate the phase five thousand
small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

10 And the ministry was prepared, and
the priests stood in their office: the Le-
vites also in their companies, according
to the king's commandment.

11 And the phase was immolated • and
the priests sprinkled the blood with their
hand, and the Levites flayed the holo-
causts ;

12 And they separated them to give
them by the houses and families of every
one, and to be offered to the Lord, as i%
is written in the book of Moses, and with
the oxen they did in like manner,

13 And they roasted the phase with fire,
according to that which is written in the
law: but the victims of peace offerings
they boiled in caldrons, and kettles, and
pots, and they distributed them speedily
among all the people.

14 And afterwards they made ready for
themselves, and for the priests: for the
priests were busied in offering of holo-
causts and the fat until night : wherefore
the Levites prepared for themselves, and
for the priests the sons of Aaron last.

16 And the singers the sons of Asapb
stood in their order, according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and
Heman, and Idithun the prophets of the
king: and the porters kept guard at
every gate, so as not to depart one
moment from their service . and there-
fore their brethren the Levites prepared
meats for them.

16 So all the service of the Lord was
duly accomplished that day, both in
keeping the phase, and offering holo»
causts upon the altar of the Lord, accord»
ing to the commandment of king Josias.

V 4 Kings 26. 21.
484

The death oj Josias

17 And the children jt Israel that were
found there, kept the phase at that time,
and the feast of aoleavened bread seven
days.

18 There was no phase like to this in Is-
rael, from the days of Samuel the pro-
phet: neither did any of all the kings of
Israel keep such a phase as Josias kept,
with the priests, and the Levites, and all
Juda, and Israel that were found, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.

19 In the eighteenth year of the reign
of Josias was this phase celebrated.

20 ^ After that Josias had repaired the
temple, Nechao king of Egj'-pt came up
to jBight in Charcamis by the Euphrates :
and Josias went out to meet him.

21 But he sent messengers to him, say-
ing: What have I to do with thee, O
king of Juda? I come not against thee
this day, but I fight against another
house, to which God hath commanded
me to go in haste : forbear to do against
God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.

22 Josias would not return, but prepared
to fight against him, and hearkened not
to the words of Nechao from the mouth
of God, ^ but went to fight in the field of
Mageddo.

23 And there he was wounded by the
archers, and he said to his servants :
Carry me out of the battle, for I am
grievously wounded,

24 And they removed him from the
chariot into another, that followed him
after the manner of kings, and they
carried him away to Jerusalem, and he
died, and was buried in the monument of
his fathers, and all Jud^, and Jerusalem
mourned for him,

25 Particularly Jeremias: whose lamen-
tations for Josias all the singing men and
singing women repeat unto this day,
and it became like a law in Israel : Be-
hold it is found written in the Lamenta-
tions.

26 Now the rest of the acts of Josias and
of his mercies, according to what was
commanded by the law of the Lord:

27 And his works first and last, are writ-
ten in the book of the kings of Juda and
[srael.

2 PARALIPOMENON

Joakim and Joachin

w 4 Kings 23. 29. B. C. 610.
r Zaeh. 12. 11.

Chap 36 Ver 9. Eight years old. He was as-

iociated by his rather to the" kingdom, when he was 4 Kings
lut eight years old, c-'it after iu^ laUter"^» «aasta,*

485

CHAPTKl 36.

The reigna ofJoacha&^ Jjokim^ Joachin, and Sede-
cias the captivity of Babylon released at lengtk
by Cyrus.

THEN J' the people of the land tooK
Joachaz the son of Josias, and made
him king instead of his father in Jerusa-
lem.

2 Joachaz was three and twenty years
old when he began to reign, and he
reigned three months in Jerusalem.

3 And the king of Egypt came to Jeru-
salem, and deposed him, and condemned
the land in a hundred talents of silver,
and a talent of gold.

4 And he made ^Eliakim his brother
king in his stead, over Juda and Jerusa-
lem : and he turned his name to Joakim :
but he took Joachaz with him, and car-
ried him away into Egypt.

5 Joakim was five and twenty years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did
evil before the Lord his God.

6 Against him came up Nabuchodonosor
king of the Chaldeans, and led him bound
in chains into Babylon.

7 And he carried also thither the vessels
of the Lord, and put them in his temple.

8 But the rest of the acts of Joakim, and
his abominations, which he wrought, and
the things that were found in him, are
contained in the book of the kings of Juda
and Israel. And Joachin his son reigned
in his stead.

9 Joachin was eight years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned three
months and ten daj^s in Jerusalem, and
he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

10 And at the return of the year, king
Nabuchodonosor sent, and brought him to
Babylon, carrying away at the same time
the most precious vessels of the house
of the Lord i " and he made Sedecias his
uncle king over Juda and Jerusalem.

11 Sedecias was one and twenty years
old when he Jbegan to reign: and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

12 And he did evil in the eyes of the
Lord his God, and did not reverence the
face of Jeremias the prophet speaking to
him from the mouth of the Lord.

yB.C.
«Matt. 1. 11.-

610. 4 Kings 23. 30.

-a 4 Kings 24. 1 ; Jer. 37. 1.

wh^a he reigned alone, he was oighteen years oldi
- '--—24.8.

Wickedness of the people

13 He also revolted from king Nabucho-
donosor, ^ who Jiad made him swear by
God : and he hardened his neck and his
heart, from returning to the Lord the God
of Israel.

14 Moreover all the chief of the priests,
and the people wickedly transgressed
according to all the abominations of the
Gentiles : and they defiled the house of
. the Lord, which he had sanctified to him-
self in Jerusalem.

15 And the Lord the God of their fa-
thers sent to them, by the hand of his
messengers, rising early, and daily admon-
ishing them : because he spared his peo-
ple and his dwelling place.

16 But they mocked the messengers of
God, and despised his words, and mis-
used the prophets, until the wrath of the
Lord arose against his people, and there
was no remedy.

17 For he brought upon them the king
of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young
men with the sword in the house of his
sanctuary, he had no compassion on
young man, or maiden, old man or even
him that stooped for age, but he delivered
them all into his hands.

18 And all the vessels of the house of
the Lord, great and small, and the trea-
sures of the temple and of the king, and

1 ESDRAS

The 70 years of captivity

of the princes he carried away to Baby-
lon.

19 And the enemies set fire to the house
of God, and broke down the wall of Je-
rusalem, burnt all the towers, and what-
soever was precious they destroyed.

20 Whosoever escaped the sword, wa£
led into Babylon, and there served the
king and his sons till the reign of the
king of Persia.

21 That the word of the Lord by the
mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and
the land might keep her sabbaths: for
all the days of the desolation she kept
a sabbath, till the seventy years were
expired.

22 ^ But in the first year ^ of Cyrus king
of the Persians, to fulfil the word of the
Lord, which he had spoken by the mouth
of Jeremias, the Lord stirred up the heart
of Cyrus king of the Persians : who com-
manded it to be proclaimed through all
his kingdom, and by writing also, saying:

23 Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians :
All the kingdoms of the earth hath the
Lord the God of heaven given to me,
and he hath charged me to build him a
house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea:
who is there among you of all his peo-
ple ? The Lord his God be with him, and
let him go up.

THE

FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS.

This Book taketh its immefrom the writer : who was a holy pnest, and doctor of the law.

He is called by the Hebrews, Ezra,

CHAPTER 1.

Cyrus king of Persia releaseth God^s people from
their captivity., with license to return and build the
temple in Jerusalem, : and restoreth the holy ves-
sels which Nabuchodonosor had taken from, thence.

IN the first year * of Cyrus king of the
Persians, that the word of the Lord by
the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled,
the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus
king of the Persians : and he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and in writing also, saying:
2 Thus saith Cyrus king of the Per-

6 B. C. 587.
c Esd. 1. 1, and 6. 3 ; Jer. 25. 12, and 29.

10.

sians : The Lord the God of heaven hatb
given to me all the kingdoms of the earth,
and he hath charged me to build him a
house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.

3 Who is there among you of all his peo
pie ? His God be with him. Let him go up
to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and builc
the house of the Lord the God of Israel
he is the God that is in Jerusalem.

4 And let all the rest in all places 'Vv^ere
soever they dwell, help him every mai
from his place, with silver and gold, an(

486

dB. C. 538.
e B. C. 538. 2 Par. 36. 22 ; Jer. 25. 12, and 29. 10.

Cyrus restores the holy vessels 1 ESDRAS Number of people who returned

goods, and cattle, besides that which they
offer freely to the temple of Godj which
is in Jerusalemc
6 Then rose up the chief of the fathers
of Juda and Benjamin, and the priests,
and Levites, and every one whose spirit
God had raised up, to go up to build the
temple of the Lord, which was in Jeru-
salem.

6 And all they that were round about,
helped their hands with vessels of silver,
and gold, with goods, and with beastS; and
with furniture, besides what they had
offered on their own accord.

7 And king Cyrus brought forth the ves-
sels of the temple of the Lord, which
Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusa-
lem, and had put them in the temple of
his god.

8 Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them
forth by the hand of Mithridates the eon
of Gazabar, and numbered them to ^ Sas-
eabasar the prince of Juda.

9 And this is the number of them : thirty
bowls of gold, a thousand bowls of sil-
ver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups
of gold,

10 Silver cupg of a second sort, four
hundred and ten J other vessels a thou-
sand.

11 All the vessels of gold and silver, five
♦housand four hundred: all these Sassa-
oasar brought with them that came up
from the captivity of Babylon to Jerusa-
lem.

CHAPTER 2.

The number of them that returned to Judea their

oblations.

NOW ^ these are the children of the
province, that went out of the cap-
tivity, which Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and
^ho returned to Jerusalem and Juda.
every man to his city.

2 Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Ne-
liemia, Saraia, Rahelaia, Mardochai, Bel-
Ban, Mesphar, Beguai, Rehum, Baana.
The number of the men of the people of
Israel :

3 The children of Pharos two thousand
one hundred seventy-two.

4 The children of Sephatia, three hun-
dred seventy-two.

5 The children of Area, seven hundred
seventy-five.

/Alias ZorobabeL

e The children of Phahath Moab, of the
children of Josue : Joab, two thousand
eight hundred twelve.

7 The children of Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty-four.

8 The children of Zethua, nine hundred
forty- five.

9 The children of Zachai, seven hundred
sixty.

10 The children ot Bani, six hundred
forty-two.

11 The children ot Bebai; six hundred
twenty-three.

12 The children of Azgad, a thousand
two hundred twenty-two.

13 The children of Adonicam, six hun-
dred sixty-six,

14 The children of Beguai, two thousand
fifty-six.

15 The children of Adin, four hundred
fifty-four.

16 The children of Ather, who were ol
Ezechias, ninety-eight.

17 The children of Besai, three hundred
and twenty-three.

18 The children of Jora, a hundred and
twelve,

19 The children of Hasum, two hundred
twenty- three.

20 The children of Gebbar, ninety-five.

21 The children of Bethlehem, a hundred
twenty-three.

22 The men of Netupha, fifty-six.

23 The men Cx Anathoth, a hundred
twenty-eight.

24 The children of Azmaveth, forty- two,

25 The children of Cariathiarim, Cephira,
and Beroth, seven hundred forty-three.

26 The children of Rama and Gabaa, six
hundred twenty-one.

27 The men of Machmas, a hundred
twenty- two.

28 The men of Bethel and HaL, two hui>
dred twenty- three.

29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

SO The children of Megbis, a hundred
fifty- six.

31 The children of the other Elam, a
thousand two hundred fifty-four.

32 The children of Harim, three hundred
and twenty.

33 The children of Lod, Hadid and Ono,
seven hundred twenty-five.

34 The children of Jericho, three hun-
dred forty-five.

487

g 2 Esd. 7. 6.

Number of people who returned 1 ESDRAS Their offerings for the temple

35 The children oi Senaa.. three thousand
six hundred thirty.

36 The priests : the children of Jadaia
of the house of Josue., nine hundred sev-
enty-three.

37 The children of Emmer, a thousand
fifty-two.

38 The children of Pheshui, a thousand
two hundred forty-seven.

39 The children of Harim, a thousand
and seventeen.

40 The Levites : the children of Josue
and of Cedmihelj the children of Odovia,
seventy-four.

41 The singing men: the children of
Asaph, a hundred twenty-eight.

42 The children of the porters : the chil-
dren of Sellum, the children of Ater, the
children of Telmon, the children of Accub,
the children of Hatita, the children of
Sobai : in all a hundred thirty-nine.

43 The Nathinites : the children of Siha,
the children of Hasupha, the children of
Tabbaoth,

44 The children of Ceros, the children
Of Sia, the children of Phadon,

45 The children of Lebana, the children
of Hegaba, the children of Accub,

46 The children of Hagab, the children
of Semlai, the children of Hanan,

47 The children of Gaddel, the children
of Gaher, the children of Raaia,

48 The children of Rasin, the children
of Necoda, the children of Gazam,

49 The children of Asa, the children of
Phasea, the children of Besee,

50 The children of Asena, the children
of Munim, the children of Nephusim,

51 The children of Bacbuc, the children
of Hacupha, the children of Harhur,

62 The children of Besluth, the children
of Mahida, the children of Harsa,

63 The children of Bercos, the children
of Sisara, the children of Thema,

64 The children of Nasia, the children of
Hatipha,

55 The children of the servants of Solo-
mon, the children of Sotai, the children
of Sopheret, the children of Pharudaj

66 The children of Jala, the children of
Dercon, the children of Geddel.

57 The children of Saphatia, the children
jf Hatil, the children of Phochereth,

Chap. 2. Ver. 64. Forty-iwo thousand^ &c. Those
vho are reckoned up above of the tribes of Juda,
Benjamin, and Levi. isA\ short of tiiis number. The

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which were of Asebaim, the children
Ami,

58 All the Nathinites, and the childrec
of the servants of Solomon, three hun-
dred ninety-two.

59 And these are they that came up
from Thelmela, Thelharsa. Cherub, and
Aden, and Emer. And they could not
shew the house of their fathers and their
seed, whether they were of Israel.

60 The children of Dalaia, the children
of Tobia, the children of Necoda, six hun-
dred fifty-two.

61 And of the children of the priests:
the children of Hobia, the children of
Accos, the children of Berzellai, who took
a wife of the daughters of Berzellai, the
Galaadite, and was called by their name :

62 These sought the writing of theii
genealogy, and found it not, and they
were cast out of the priesthood.

G3 ^'' And Athersatha said to them, that
they should not eat of the holy of holies,
till there arose a priest learned and per-
fect.

64 All the multitudes as one man, were
forty-two thousand three hundred and
sixty :

65 Besides their menservants, and wo»
menservants, of whom there were seven
thousand three hundred and thirty-seven :
and among them singing men, and sing-
ing women two hundred.

66 Their horses seven hundred thirty-
six, their mules two hundred forty-five,

67 Their camels four hundred thirty- five,
their asses six thousand seven hundred
and twenty.

68 And some of the chief of the fathers,
when they came to the temple of the
Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely
to the house of the Lord to build it in ite
place.

69 According to ..heir ability, they gave
towards the expenses of the work, sixty
one thousand solids of gold, five thousand
pounds of silver, and a hundred garments
for the priests.

70 So the priests and the Levites, and
some of the people, and the singing
men, and the porters, and the Nathinitee
dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their
cities.

h 2 Esd. 7. 65.

rest, wlio must be taken in to make up tha wbolf I
sum, were ol the other tribes.

An altar is hiiilt

1 ESDRAS Foundations of the temple laid

CHAPTER 3.

An altar is huilt for sacrifice, the feast of taber-
nacles is solemnly celebrated, and the founda-
tions of the temple are laid.

AND now the seventh month was
~l\. come, and the children of Israel
were in their cities: and the people gath-
ered themselves together as one man to
Jerusalem.

2 And Josue the son of Josedec rose up,
and his brethren the priests, and Zoro-
babel the son of Salathiel, and his bre-
thren, and they built the altar of the God
of Israel that they might offer holocausts
upon it, as it is written in the law of
Moses the man of God.

3 And they set the altar of God upon its
bases, while the people of the lands round
about put them in fear, and they offered
upon it a holocaust to the Lord morning
and evening.

4 And they kept the feast of taber-
nacles, as it is written, and offered the
holocaust every day orderly according
to the commandments, the duty of the
day in its day.

5 And afterwards the continual holo-
caust, both of the new moons, and on all
the solemnities of the Lord, that were
consecrated, and on all in which a free-
will offering was made to the Lord.

6 From the first day of the seventh
month they began to offer holocausts to
the Lord: but the temple of God was not
yet founded.

7 And they gave money to hewers of
stones and to masons: and meat and
drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyr-
ians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus
to the sea of Joppe, according to the or-
ders which Cyrus king of the Persians
had given them.

8 And in the second year of their com-
ing to the temple of God in Jerusalem,
the second month, Zorobabel the son of
Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec,
and the rest of their brethren the priests,
and the Levites, and all that were come
from the captivity to Jerusalem began,
and they appointed Levites from twenty
years old and upward, to hasten forward
the work of the Lord.

9 Then Josue and his sons and his bre-
thren, Cedmihel, and his sons, and the

children of Juda, as one man, stood to
hasten them that did the work in the
temple of God: the sons of Henadad,
and their sons, and their brethren the
Levites.

10 And when the masons laid the foun-f
dations of the temple of the Lord, the
priests stood in their ornaments with
trumpets: and the Levites the sons of
Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by
the hands of David king of Israel.

11 And they sung together hymns, and
praise to the Lord: because he is good,
for his mercy endureth forever towards
Israel. And all the people shouted with
a great shout, praising the Lord, because
the foundations of the temple of the Lord
were laid.

12 But many of the priests and the Le-
vites, and the chiefs of the fathers and
the ancients that had seen the former
temple; when they had the foundation
of this temple before their eyes, wept
with a loud voice: and many shouting
for joy, lifted up their voice.

13 So that one could not distinguish the
voice of the shout of joy, from the noise
of the weeping of the people: for one
with another the people shouted with a
loud shout, and the voice was heard afar
off.

CHAPTER 4.

The Samaritans by their letter to the king
hinder the building.

NOW the enemies of Juda and Ben-
jamin heard that the children of the
captivity were building a temple to the
Lord the God of Israel.

2 And they came to Zorobabel, and the
chief of the fathers, and said to them:
Let us build with you, for we seek your
God as ye do: behold we have sacrificed
to him, since the days of Asor Haddan
king of Assyria, who brought us hither.

3 But Zorobabel, and Josue, and the rest
of the chiefs of the fathers of Israel said
to them: You have nothing to do with
us to build a house to our God, but we
ourselves alone will build to the Lord our
God, as Cyrus king of the Persians hath
commanded us.

4 Then the people of the land hindered
the hands of the people of Juda, and trou-
bled them in building.

Chap, 3. Ver. 2. Josue: or Jesus ( Jeshua) the son of Josedec ; he was th« high priest at that time,

489

The letter of the Samaritans

1 ESDRAS

The work is interrupted

5 And they hired counsellors against
them, to frustrate their design all the
days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until
the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

6 And in the reign of Assuerus, in the
beginning of his reign, they wrote an
accusation against the inhabitants of Juda
and Jerusalem.

7 And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bese-
1am, Mithridates, and Thabeel, and the
rest that were in the council wrote to
Artaxerxes king of the Persians : and the
letter of accusation was written in Syriac,
and was read in the Syrian tongue.

8 Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe
wrote a letter from Jerusalem to king
Artaxerxes, in this manner :

9 Reum Beelteem, and Samsai the scribe
and the rest of their counsellors, the Din
ites, and the Apharsathacites, the Ther-
phalites, the Apharsites, the Erchuites,
the Babylonians, the Susanechites, the
Dievites, and the Elamites,

10 And the rest of the nations, whom
the great and glorious Asenaphar brought
over: and made to dwell in the cities of
Samaria and in the rest of the countries
of this side of the river in peace.

11 (This is the copy of the letter, which
they sent to him:) To Artaxerxes the
king, thy servants, the men that are on
this side of the river, send greeting.

12 Be it known to the king, that the
Jews, who came up from thee to us, are
come to Jerusalem a rebellious and
wicked city, which they are building,
setting up the ramparts thereof and re-
pairing the walls.

13 And now be it known to the king,
that if this city be built up, and the walls
thereof repaired, they will not pay trib-
ute nor toll- nor yearly revenues, and
this lose will fall upon the kings.

14 But we remembering the salt that
we have eaten in the palace, and because
we count it a crime to see the king
wronged, have therefore sent and certi-
fied the king,

15 That search may be made in the books
of the histories of th>; fathers, and thou
Shalt find written in the records: and
Shalt know that this city is a rebellious
city, and hurtful to the kings and pro-
vinces, and that wars were raised therein

Chap. 4. Ver. 6. Assuerus. Otherwise called
Cambyses the son and successor oi Cyrus. He is also

of old time: for which cause also the
city was destroyed.

16 We certify the king, that if this city
be built, and the walls thereof repaired,
thou shalt have no possession on this
side of the river.

17 The king sent word to Reum Beelteem
and Samsai the scribe, and to the rept
that were in their council, inhabitants of
Samaria, and to the rest beyond the
river, sending greeting and peace.

18 The accusation, which you have sent
to us, hath been plainly read before me,

19 And I commanded : and search hath
been made, and it is found, that this city
of old time hath rebelled against kings,
and seditions and wars have been raised
therein.

20 For there have been powerful kings
in Jerusalem, who have had dominion
over all the country that is beyond the
river : and have received tribute, and toll
and revenues.

21 Now therefore hear the sentence:
Hinder those men, that this city be not
built, till further orders be given by me.

22 See that you be not negligent in exe-
cuting this, lest by httle and little the
evil grow to the hurt of the kings.

23 Now the copy of the edict of king
Artaxerxes was read before Reum Beel^
teem, and Samsai the scribe, and their
counsellors : and they went up in haste
to Jerusalem to the Jews, and hindered
them with arm and power.

24 Then the work of the house of the
Lord in Jerusalem was interrupted, and
ceased till the second year of the reign of
Darius king of the Persians.

CHAPTER 5.

By the exhortation of Aggeus, and Zacharias. tht
people proceed in builditig the temple. Which
their enemies strive in vain to hinder.

NOW ^ Aggeus the prophet, and Zacha-
rias the son of Addo, prophesied to
the Jews that were in Judea and Jeru-
salem, in the name of the God of Israel.

2 Then rose up Zorobabel the son of
Salathiel, and Josue the son of Josedec,
and began to build the temple of God in
Jerusalem, and with them were the pro-
phets of God helping them.

3 And at the same time came to them
Thathanai, who was governor beyond

I B. C. 520.

in the following verse named Artaxerxes, a namt
common to almost all tbt kings of Persia.

490

The governor's letter to Darius 1 ESDRAS

The record found

the river, and Stharbuzanai, and their
counsellors: and said thus to them: Who
hath given you counsel to build this
house, and to repair the walls thereof ?

4 In answer to which we gave them the
names of the men who were the promot-
ers of that building.

5 But the eye of their God was upon the
ancients of the Jews, and they could not
hinder them. And it was agreed that
the matter should be referred to Darius,
and then they should give satisfaction
concerning that accusation.

6 The copy of the letter that Thathanai
governor of the country beyond the river,
and Stharbuzanai, and his counsellors the
Arphasachites, who dwelt beyond the
river, sent to Darius the king.

7 The letter which they sent him, was
written thus : To Darius the king all
peace.

8 Be it known to the king, that we went
to t' le province of Judea, to the house of
the great God, which they are building
with unpolished stones, and timber is
laid in the walls : and this work is carried
on diligently, and advanceth in their
hands.

9 And we asked those ancients, and said
to them thus: Who hath given you au-
thority to build this house, and to repair
these walls?

10 We asked also of them their names,
that we might give thee notice i and we
have written the names of the men that
are the chief among them.

11 And they answered us in these words,
saying : We are the servants of the God
of heaven and earth, and we are building
a temple that was built these many years
ago, and which a great king of Israel
built and set up.

12 But after that our fathers had pro-
voked the God of heaven to wrath, he
delivered them into the hands of Nabu-
chodonosor the king of Babylon the Chal-
dean : and he destroyed this house, and
carried away the people to Babylon.

13 But in the first year of Cyrus the
king of Babylon, king Cyrus set forth a
decree, that this house of God should be
built.

14 And the vessels also of gold and
oilver of the temple of God, which Nabu-
chodonosor had taken out of the temple,

that was in Jerusalem, and had brought
them to the temple of Babylon, king Cyrus
brought out of the temple of Babylon,
and they were delivered to one Sassa-
basar, whom also he appointed governor,

15 And said to him : Take these vessels,
and go, and put them in the temple that
is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God
be built in its place.

16 Then came this same Sassabasar, and
laid the foundations of the temple of God
in Jerusalem, and from that time until
now it is in building, and is not yet
finished.

17 Now therefore if it seem good to the
king, let him search in the king's library,
which is in Babylon, whether it hath been
decreed by Cyrus the king, that the
house of God in Jerusalem should be
built, and let the king send his pleasure
to us concerning this matter.

CHAPTER 6.

KlTtg Darius favoureth the building and contrib-
uteth to it.

THEN king Darius gave orders, and
they searched in the library of the
books that were laid up in Babylon,

2 And there was found in Ecbatana,
which is a castle in the province of Media,
a book in which this record was written.

3 In the first year of Cyrus the king:
Cyrus the king decreed, that the house
of God should be built, which is in Jeru-
salem, in the place where they may offer
sacrifices, and that they lay the foun-
dations that may support the height of
threescore cubits, and the breadth of
threescore cubits,

4 Three rows of unpolished stones, and
so rows of new timber: and the charges
shall be given out of the king's house.

6 And also let the golden and silver ves-
sels of the temple of God, which Nabu-
chodonosor took out of the temple of
Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be
restored, and carried back to the temple
oi Jerusalem to their place, which also
were placed in the temple of God.

6 Now therefore Thathanai, governor of
the country beyond the river, Stharbu-
zanai, and your counsellors the Aphar-
sachites, who are beyond the river, depart
far from them,

7 And let that temple of God be built

The decree of Darius

1 ESDRAS Esdras goes up to Jerusalem

by the governor of the Jews, and by their
ancients, that they may build that house
of God in its place.

8 I also have commanded what must be
done by those ancients of the Jews, that
the house of God may be built, to wit,
that of the king's chest, that is, of the
tribute that is paid out of the country be-
yond the river, the charges be diligently
given to those men, lest the work be
hindered.

9 And if it shall be necessary, let calves
also, and lambs, and kids, for holocausts
to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine,
and oil, according to the custom of the
priests that are in Jerusalem, be given
them day by daj^ that there be no com-
plaint in any thing.

10 And let them offer oblations to the
God of heaven, and pray for the life of
the king, and of his children.

11 And I have made a decree : That if
any whosoever, shall alter this command-
ment, a beam be taken from his house,
and set up, and he be nailed upon it, and
his house be confiscated.

12 And may the God, that hath caused
his name to dwell there, destroy all
kingdoms, and the people that shall put
out their hand to resist, and to destroy
the house of God, that is in Jerusalem.
I Darius have made the decree, which I
will have diligently comphed with.

13 So then Thathanai, governor of the
country beyond the river, and Stharbu-
zanai, and his counsellors diligently ex-
ecuted what Darius the king had com-
manded.

14 And the ancients of the Jews built,
and prospered according to the prophecy
of Aggeus the prophet, and of Zacharias
the son of Addo : and they built and
finished, by the commandment of the
God of Israel, and by the commandment
of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes
Lings of the Persians.

15 And they were finishing this house
of God, until the third day of the month
o- Adar, which was in the sixth year of
tho reign of king Darius.

16 And the children of Israel, the priests
BJiC the Levites, and the rest of the chil-
dren of the captivity kept the dedication
of the house of God with joy,

17 And they offered at the dedication

n Num. 3. 6, and 8. 9.

of the house of God, a hundred calves,
two hundred rams, four hundred lambs,
and for a sin offering for all Israel twelve
he goats, according to the number of the
tribes of Israel.

18 And they set the priests in their di-
visions, and the Levites in their courses
over the works of God in Jerusalem. ^ as
it is written in the book of Moses.

19 And the children of Israel of the
captivity kept the phase, ° on the four-
teenth day of the first month.

20 For all the priests and the Levites
were purified as one man : all were clean
to kill the phase foi dll the children of
the captivity, and for oheir brethren the
priests, and themselves.

21 And the children of Israel that were
returned from captivity, and all that had
separated themselves from the filthiness
of the nations of the earth to them, to
seek the Lord the God of Israel, did eat.

22 And they kept the feast of unlei^vened
bread seven days with joy, for the Lord
had made them joyful, and had turned
the heart of the king of Assyria to them,
that he should help their hands in the
work of the house of the Lord the God
of Israel.

CHAPTER 7

Esdras goeth up to Jerusalem, to teach, and assist
the people, with a gracious decree of Artaxerxes.

NOW ^ after these things in the reign
of Artaxerxes king oi the Persians,
Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of
Azarias, the son of Helcias,

2 The son of Sellum, the son of Sadoc,
the son of Achitob,

3 Ihe son of Amarias, the son of Aza-
rias, the son of Maraioth,

4 The son of Zarahias, the son of Ozi,
the son of Bocci,

5 The son of Abisue, the son of Phinees,
the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest from the beginning.

6 This Esdras went up from Babylon,
and he was a ready scribe in the law of
Moses, which the Lord God had given to
Israel: and the king granted him all his
request, according to the hand of the
Lord his God upon him.

7 And there went up some of the chil-
dren of Israel, and of the children of the
prlects, and of the children of the Levites,
and of the zin'^ug men, and of the por-

I
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oB. C. 515.— 3oB. C. 458.

The letter of Artaxerxes

1 ESDRAS

The letter of Artaxerxes

ters, and of tho Nathinites to Jerusalem
in the seventh year ^ of Artaxerxes the
king.

3 And they came to Jerusalem in the
fifth month, in the seventh year of the
king.

9 For upon the first day of the first
month he began to go up from Babylon,
and on the first day of the fifth month
he came to Jerusalem according to the
good hand of his God upon him,

10 For Esdras had prepared his heart
to seek the law of the Lord, and to do
and to teach in Israel the commandments
and judgment.

11 And this is the copy of the letter of
the edict, which king Artaxerxes gave
to Esdras the priest, the scribe instructed
in the words and commandments of the
Lord, and his ceremonies in Israel,

12 Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras
the priest, the most learned scribe of
the law of the God of heaven, greeting,

13 lb is decreed by me, that all they of
the people of Israel, and of the priests
and of the Levites in my realm, that are
minded to go into Jerusalem, should go
with thee.

14 For thou art sent from before the
king, and his seven counsellors, to visit
Judea and Jerusalem according to the
law of thy God, which is in thy hand.

15 And to carry the silver and gold,
which the king and his counsellors have
freely offered to the God of Israel, whose
tabernacle is in Jerusalem.

16 And all the silver and gold that thou
Shalt find in all the province of Babylon,
and that the people is willing to offer,
and that the priests shall offer of their
Iwn accord to the house of their God,
which is in Jerusalem,

17 Take freely, and buy diligently with
this money, calves, rams, lambs, with
the sacrifices and libations of them, and
offer them upon the altar of the temple
of your God, that is in Jerusalem,

18 And if it seem good iio thee, and to
thy brethren to do any thing with the
rest of the silver and gold, do It accord-
ing to the will of your God.

19 The vessels also, that are given thee
for the sacrifice of the house of thy God,
deliver thou in the sight of God in Jeru-
salem.

20 And whatsoever more there shall be
need of for the house of thy God, how
much soever thou shalt have occasion to
spend, it shall be given out of the trea-
sury, and the king's exchequer, and by
me,

21 I Artaxerxes the king have ordered
and decreed to all the keepers of th6
public chest, that are beyond the river,
that whatsoever Esdras the priest, tho
scribe of the law of the God of heaven,
shall require of you, you give it without
delay,

22 IFnto a hundred talents of silver, and
unto a hundred cores of wheat, and unto
a hundred bates of wine, and unto a
hundred bates of oil, and salt without
measure.

23 All that belongeth to the rites of
the God of heaven, let it be given dil-
igently in the house of the God of hea-
ven : lest his wrath should be enkindled
against the realm of the king, and of hia
sons.

24 We give you also to understand con*
cerning all ihe priests, and the Levites,
and the singers, and the porters, and the
Nathinites, and ministers of the house of
this God, chat you have no authority to
impose toll or tribute, or custom upon
them.

26 And thou Esdras according to tha
wisdom of thy God, which is in thy hand,
appoint judges and magistrates, that may
judge all the people, that is beyond the
river^ that is, for them who know the
law of thy God, yea and the ignorant
teach ye freely.

26 And whosoever will not do the law
of thy God, and the law of the king dili-
gently, judgment shall be executed upon
him, either unto death, or unto banish-
ment, or to the confiscation of goods, d?
at least to prison.

27 Blessed be the Lord the God of our
fathers, who hath put this in the king's
heart, to glorify the house of the Lord,
which is in Jerusalem,

28 And hath inclined his mercy toward
me before the king and his counsellors,
and all the mighty princes of the klBg:
and I being strengthened by the hand of
the Lord my God, which was upon me,
gathered together out of Israel chief
men to go up with me.

q B. C. 459-458.

493

The companions of Esdras

1 ESDRAS

Esdras proclaims a fast

CHAPTER 8.

The companions of Esdras. The fast which he
appointed. They bring the holy vessels into the
temple.

"^TOW *" these are the chiefs of families,
jLl and the genealogy of them, who
came up with me from Babylon in the
reign of Artaxerxes the king.

2 Of the sons of Phinees, Gersom. Of
the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons
of David, Hattus.

3 Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of
Pharos, Zacharias, and with him were
numbered a hundred and fifty men.

4 Of the sons of Phahath Moab, Eleoenai
the son of Zareha, and with him two
hundred men.

5 Of the sons of Sechenias, the son of
Ezectiel, and with him three hundred
men.

6 Of the sons of Adan, Abed the son of
Jonathan, and with him fifty men.

7 Of the sons of Alam, Isaias the son of
Athahas, and with him seventy men.

8 Of the sons of Saphatia : Zebodia the
80n of Michael, and with him eighty men.

9 Of the sons of Joab, Obedia the son of
Jahiel, and with him two hundred and
eighteen men.

10 Of the sons of Selomith, the son of
Josphia, and with him a hundred and
sixty men.

11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zacharias the
son of Bebai: and with him eight and
twenty men.

12 Of the sons of Azgad, Joanan the son
of Eccetan, and with him a hundred and
ten men.

13 Of the sons of Adonicam, who were
the last* and these are their names:
Eliphelet, and Jehiel, and Samaias, and
with them sixty men.

14 Of the sons of Begui, Uthai and Za-
Chur, and with them seventy men.

15 And I gathered them together to the
riv*^r, which runneth down to Ahava, and
we stayed there three days : and I sought
among the people and among the priests
for the sons of Levi, and found none
there.

16 So I sent Eliezer, and Ariel, and Se-
meias, and Elnathan, and Jarib, and an-

rB. C. 459-458.

Chap. 8. Ver. 21. And I proclaimed a fast. It
is not enough to part from Babylon, that is, figura-
tively from sin, but we must also do works of pen-
uice ; and therefore Esdras her* proclaimed ao >

484

other Elnathan, and Nathan, and Zacha-
rias, and Mosollam, chief men: and Joia-
rib, and Elnathan, wise men.

17 And I sent them to Eddo, who is
chief in the place of Chasphia, and I put
in their mouth the words that they
should speak to Eddo, and his brethren
the Nathinites in the place of Chasphia,
that they should bring us ministers o*
the house of our God.

18 And by the good hand of our God
upon us, they brought us a most learned
man of the sons of Moholi the son of
Levi the son of Israel, and Sarabias and
his sons, and his brethren eighteen,

19 And Hasabias, and with him Isaias
of the sons of Merari, and his brethren,
and his sons twenty.

20 And of the Nathinites, whom David,
and the princes gave for the service of
the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and
twenty: all these were called by their
names.

21 And I proclaimed there a fast by the
river Ahava, that we might afflict our-
selves before the Lord our God, and
might ask of him a right way for us and
for our children, and for all our sub-
stance.

22 For I was ashamed to ask the king
for aid and for horsemen, to defend us
from the enemy in the way: because we
had said to the king: The hand of ouj?
God is upon all them that seek him m
goodness: and his power and strength,
and wrath upon all them that forsake
him.

23 And we fasted, and besought our God
for this: and it fell out prosperously
unto us.

24 And I separated twelve of the chief
of the priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias,
and with them ten of their brethren,

25 And I weighed unto them the silver
and gold, and the vessels consecrated for
the house of our God, which the king
and his counsellors, and his princes, and
all Israel, that were found had offered.

26 And I weighed to their hands six
hundred and fifty talents of silver, and a
hundred vessels of silver, and a hundred
talents of gold,

extraordinary fast to those that mtvi come from
captivity. This shews that fasting was commanded
and practised from the earliest times.

Holy vessels brought to Jerusalem 1 ESDRAS

27 And twenty cnps oi gold, of a thou-
sand solids, and two vessels of the best
shining brass, beautiful as gold.

28 And 1 said to them; You are the
holy onee of the Lord, and the vessels
are holy, and the silver and gold, that is
freely offered to the Lord the God of our
fathers

The 'prayer of Esdras

29 Watch ye and keep them, till yon
deliver thera by weight before the chief
of the priests, and of the Levites, and the
heads of the families of Israel in Jerusa-
lem, into the treasure of the house of the
Lord.

30 And the priests and the Levites re-
ceived the weight of the silver and gold,
and the vessels, to carry them to Jeru-
salem to the house of our God.

31 Then we set forward from the river
Ahava on the twelfth day of the first
month tc go to Jerusalem : and the hand
of our God was upon us, and delivered
us from the hand of the enemy, and of
eueh ae lay in wait by the way.

32 And we came to Jerusalem, and we
ftayed there three days.

33 And on the fom'th day the silver and
the gold^ and the vessels were weighed
in th€ house of cur God by the hand of
Meremotb the son of Urias the priest,
and with hire*' wag Eleazar the son of
Phinees and wi^"h them Jozabad the son
Ot ,?oeue, anc Noadaia the son of Benoi,
Ltvitet

b According to the rumbei and weight
ai cvor;^ thing: and al? the weight was
Writtei at that time

t- Moreover the children of them that
had been carried away that were come out
A the captivity, offered holocausts to the
fiod of Israel, twelve calves for all the
people of Israel ninety six rams, seventy-
seven lambs, and twelve he goats for
sin: all for a holocaust to the Lord.

36 And they gave the king's edicts to
the lords that were from the king's court,
and the governors beyond the river, and
they furthered the people and the bouse
of God.

CHAPTER e.

Ssdrr^B moumeth for the transgression of the peo-
ple • his confession and praye?

Chap. 9. Ver. j and 2. This shows how sinfuJ U
18 to intermarry with those that the Church forbids
OS, on account of the danger of perversion and faU-
<nc off from the true faith

ANL^ • after these tnings were accom-
J\. plished, the princes came to me,
saying : The people of Israel, and the
priests and Levites have not separateci
themselves from the people of the lands^
and from their abominations^ namely^ o!
the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and
the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the
Ammonites^ and the Moabites, and the
Egyptians^ and the Amorrhites.

2 For they have taken of their daugh-
ters for themselves and for their eonfi^
and they have mingled the holy seed
with the people of the lands. And the
hand of the princee and magistrates hatb
been first in this transgression.

8 And when I had heard this word, I
rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked
off the hairs of my head and my beard,
and I sat down mourning.

4 And there were assembled to me all
that feared the God of Israel, because of
the transgression of those that were come
from the captivity, and I sat sorrowful»
until the evening sacrifice.

5 And at the evening sacrifice I rose up
from my affliction, and having rent my
mantle and my garmeut, I fell upon my
knees, and spread out my hands to th6
Lord my God,

6 And said : My God I am confounded
and ashamed to lift up my face to thee:
for our iniquities are multiplied over our
heads, and our sins are grown up even
unto heaven^

7 From the days of our fathers: and we
ourselves also have sinned grievously
unto this day, and for our iniquities we
and our kingSj and our priests have been
delivered into the hands of the kings of
the lands» and to the sword, and to cap-
tivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of
face, as it is at this day.

8 And now as a little, and for a moment
has oar prayer been made before the
Lord our God, tc leave us a remnant, and
give us a pin in his holy place, and that
our God would enlighten our eyes, and
would give us a little life in our bondage.

8 For we are bondmen, and in oui bond-
age our God hath not forsaken us, but
hatb extended mercy upon ue before the

s B. C. 459-458.

Ver. 8. A pin, or nail, here signifies a small settle-
ment or holding 5 which Esdras begs for, to preserrc
even a part of the people, who, by their great iniquitj
bad incurred the aager m God.

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The prayer of Esdras

1 ESDRAS

Esdras assembles the Jews

king of the Persians, to give us life, and
to set up the house of our God and to
rebuild the desolations thereof and to
give us a fence in Juda and Jerusalem.

10 And now, 0 our God, what shall we
say after this? for we have forsaken thy
commandments,

11 Which thou hast commanded 6y the
hand of they servants the prophets, say-
ing : The land which you go to possess is
an unclean land, according to the un-
cleanness of the people, and of other
lands, with their abominations, who have
filled it from mouth to mouth with their
filth.

12 t Now therefore give not your daugh-
ters to their sons, and take not their
daughters for your sons, and seek not
their peace, nor their prosperity for ever :
that you may be strengthened, and may
eat the good things of the land, and may
have our children your heirs for ever.

13 And after all that is come upon us,
for our most wicked deeds, and our great
sin, seeing that thou our God hast saved
us from our iniquity, and hast given us
a deliverance as at this day.

14 That we should not turn away, nor
break thy commandments, nor join in
marriage with the people of these abomi-
nations. Art thou angry with us unto
utter destruction, not to leave us a rem-
nant to be saved?

15 0 Lord God of Israel, thou art just:
for we remain yet to be saved as at this
day. Behold we are before thee in our
sin, for there can be no standing before
thee in this matter.

CHAPTER 10.

Order is given for discharging strange women:
the na/mes of the guilty.

NOW ^*when Esdras was thus praying,
and beseeching, and weeping, and
lying before the temple of God, there
was gathered to him of Israel an exceed-
ing great assembly of men and women
and children, and the people wept with
much lamentation.

2 And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of
the sons of Elam answered, and said to
Esdras: We have sinned against our
God, and have taken strange wives of
the people of the land : and now if there
be repentance in Israel concerning this,

3 Let us make a covenant with the

t Deut. 7. 8.

Lord our God, to put away all the wives,
and such as are born of them, according
to the will of the Lord and of them that
fear the commandment of the Lord our
God : let it be done according to the law.

4 Arise, it is thy part to give orders,
and we vdll be with thee: take courage,
and do it.

5 So Esdras arose, and made the chiefs
of the priests and of the Levites, and all
Israel, to swear that they would do ac-
cording to this word, and they swore.

6 And Esdras rose up from before the
house of God, and went to the chamber
of Johanan the son of Eliasib, and en-
tered in thither: he ate no bread, and
drank no water: for he mourned for the
transgression of them that were come
out of the captivity.

7 And proclamation was made in Juda
and Jerusalem to all the children of the
captivity, that they should assemble to-
gether into Jerusalem.

8 And that whosoever would not come
within three days, according to the coun-
sel of the princes and the ancients, all
his substance should be taken away and
be should be cast out of the company of
them that were returned from captivity.

9 Then all the men of Juda, and Benja-
min gathered themselves together to Je-
rusalem within three days, in the ninth
month, the twentieth day of the month:
and all the people sat in the street of
the house of God, trembling because of
the sin, and the rain.

10 And Esdras the priest stood up, and
said to them: You have transgressed,
and taken strange wives, to add to the
sins of Israel.

11 And now make confessions to the
Lord the God of your fathers, and do his
pleasure, and separate yourselves from
the people of the land, and from your
strange wives.

12 And all the multitude answered and
said with a loud voice: According to thy
word unto us, so be it done.

13 But as the people are many, and it
is time of rain, and we are not able to
stand without, and it is not a work of
one day or two, (for we have exceed-
ingly sinned in this matter,)

14 Let rulers be appointed in all the

496

tt B. C. 459-458.

They put away the strange women 1 ESDRAS Names of the guilty Jews

multitude : and in all our cities, let them
that have taken strange wives come at
the times appointed, and with them the
ancients and the judges of every city,
until the wrath of our God be turned
away from us for this sin.

15 Then Jonathan the son of Azahel,
and Jaasia the son of Thecua were ap-
pointed over this, and MesoUam and
Sebethai, Levites, helped them :

16 And the children of the captivity did
so. And Esdras the priest, and the men
heads of the families in the houses of
their fathers, and all by their names,
went and sat down in the first day of the
tenth month to examine the matter.

17 And they made an end with all the
men that had taken strange wives by the
first day of the first month.

18 And there were found among the
sons of the priests that had taken strange
wives : Of the sons of Josue the son of
Josedec, and his brethren, Maasia, and
Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.

19 And they gave their hands to put
away their wives, and to offer for their
offence a ram of the flock.

20 And of the sons of Emmer, Hanani,
and Zebedia.

21 And of the sons of Harim, Maasia,
and Elia, and Semeia, and Jehiel, and
Ozias.

22 And of the sons of Pheshur, Elioenai,
Maasia, Ismael, Nathanael, Jozabed, and
Elasa.

23 And of the sons of the Levites, Joza-
bed, and Semei, and Celaia, the same is
Calita, Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.

24 And of the singing men, Elisiab : and
of the porters, Solium, and Telem, and
Uri.

25 And of Israel, of the sons of Pharos,
Remeia, and Jezia, and Melchia, and Mia-
min, and Eliezer, and Melchia, and Banea.

26 And of the sons of Elam, Mathania,
Zacharias, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeri-
moth, and Elia.

27 And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai,
Eliasib, Mathania, Jerimuth, and Zabad|
and Aziaza.

28 And of the sons of Babai, Johanan,
Hanania, Zabbai, Athalai:

29 And of the sons of Bani, Mosollam,
and Melluch, and Adaia, Jasub, and Saal,
and Ramoth.

30 And of the sons of Phahath, Moab,
Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and Maasias,
Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Ma-
nasse.

31 And of the sons of Herem, Eliezer,
Josue, Melchias, Semeias, Simeon,

32 Benjamin, Maloch, Samarias.

33 And of the sons of Hasom, Mathanai,
Mathatha, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jermai, Ma-
nasse, Semei.

34 Of the sons of Bani, Maaddi, Amram,
and Uel,

35 Baneas, and Badaias, Cheliau,

36 Vania, Marimuth, and Eliasib,

37 Mathanias, Mathania, and Jasi,

38 And Bani, and Bennui, Semei,

39 And Salmias, and Nathan, and Ada-
las,

40 And Mechnedebai, Sisai, Sarai,

41 Ezrel, and Selemiau, Semeria,

42 Sellum, Amaria, Joseph.

43 Of the sons of Nebo, Jehiel, Matha-
thias, Zabad, Zabina, Jeddu, and Joel, and
Banaia.

44 All these had taken strange wives,
and there were among them women that
had borne children.

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Nehemias mourns condition of Jews

The prayer of Nehemias

THE

BOOK OF NEHEMIAS,

WHICH IS CALLED

THE SECOND OF ESDRAS.

This Book takes its name from the writer, who wa^ cupbearer to Artaxerxes {surnamed Longi-
, Taanus) king of Persia, and was sent by him with a commission to rebuild the walls of Jeru-
,! salem. It is also called tlie second book of Esdras ; because it is a continuation of the history,
begun by Esdras, of the state of the people of God after their return from captivity.

\u CHAPTER 1.

Nehemias hea ring the nhiserable state of his country-
men in Judea, famentetJi , fastcth, and prayeth to
God/or their relief.

THE '" words of Nehemias the son of
Helchias. And it came to pass in
the month of Casleu, in the twentieth
year, as I was in the castle of Susa,

2 That Hananione of my brethren came,
he and some men of Juda ; and I asked
them concerning the Jews, that remained
and were left of the captivity, and con-
cerning Jerusalem.

3 And they said to me : They that have
remained, and are left of the captivity
there in the province, are in great afflic-
tion, and reproach : and the wall of Je-
rusalem is broken down, and the gates
thereof are burnt with fire.

4 And when I had heard these words,
I sat down, and wept, and mourned for
many days: and I fasted, and prayed
before the face of the God of heaven.

5 And I said : ^ I beseech thee, O Lord
God of heaven, strong, great, and ter-
rible, who keepest covenant and mercy
with those that love thee, and keep thy
commandments :

6 Let thy ears be attentive, and thy
oyes open, to hear the prayer of thy ser-
vant, which I pray before thee now,
night and day, for the children of Israel
thy servants : and I confess the sins of
the children of Israel, by which they
have sinned against thee: I and my fa-
ther's house have sinned.

7 We have been seduced by vanity, and
have not kept thy commandments, and
ceremonies and judgments, which thou
hast commanded thy servant Moses.

V B. C. 446-44.:

w Dan. 9. 4.

8 Remember the word that thou com
mandedst to Moses thy servant, saying:
If you shall transgress, I will scatter you
abroad among the nations:

9 But if you return to me, and keep ni^
commandments, and do them, though you
should be led away to the uttermost parts
of the world, I will gather you from thence,
and bring you back to the place which I
have chosen for my name to dwell there.

10 And these are thy servants, and thy
people : whom thou hast redeemed by thy
great strength, and by thy mighty hand.

Ill beseech thee, O Lord, let thy ear be
attentive to the prayer of thy servant,
and to the prayer of thy servants who
desire to fear thy name : and direct thy
servant this day, and give him mercy
before this man. For I was the king's
cupbearer.

CHAPTER 2.

Nehemias with com.m,issio7i from king Artaxerxes
Cometh to Jerusalem : and exhorteth the Jews to
rebuild the walls.

A ND it came to pass in the month of
J\. Nisan, in the twentieth year of Ar-
taxerxes the king : that wine was before
him, and I took up the wine, and gave it
to the king : and I was as one languish-
ing away before his face.

2 And the king said to me : Why is thy
countenance sad, seeing thou dost not
appear to be sick? this is not without
cause, but some evil, I know not what, is
in thy heart. And I was seized with ar
exceeding great fear :

3 And I said to the king : O king, live
for ever : why should not my counte-
nance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the
place of the sepulchres of my fathers is

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Nehemias brings the hinges letters 2 ESDRAS

desolate an'^ the gatec thereof are burnt
with fire '

C Thei; the king said to me : For what
dost thou make request? And I prayed
to the God of heaven,

5 And I said to the king: If it seem
good to the king, and if thy servant hath
found favour in thy sight, that thou
wouldst send me into Judea to the city
of the sepulchre of my father, and I will
build it.

6 And the king said to me, and the queen
that sat by him: For how long shall thy
journey be, and when wilt thou return ?
And it pleased the king, and he sent me :
and I fixed him a time.

7 And I said to the king: If it seem good
to the king, let him give me letters to
the governors of the country beyond the
river, that they convey me over, till I
come into Judea :

8 And a letter to Asaph the keeper of
the king's forest, to give me timber that
I may cover the gates of the tower of the
house, and the walls of the city, and
the house that I shall enter into. And
the king gave me according to the good
hand of my God with me.

9 And I came to the governors of the
country beyond the river, and gave them
the king's letters. And the king had sent
with me captains of soldiers, and horse-
men.

10 And Sanaballat the Horonite, and To-
bias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it,
and it grieved them exceedingly, that a
man was come, who sought the prosper-
ity of the children of Israel.

11 And I came to Jerusalem, and was
there three days.

12 And I a-rose in the night, I and some
few men with me, and I told not any man
what God had put in my heart to do in
Jerusalem, and there was no beast with
me, but the beast that I rode upon.

13 And I went out by night by the gate
of the valley, and before the dragon foun-
tain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed
the wall of Jerusalem which was broken
down, and the gates thereof which were
consumed with fire.

14 And I passed to the gate of the foun-
tain, and to the king's aqueduct, and
there was no place for the beast on
which I rode to pass.

Nehemias exhorts the Jews

15 And T went up in the night by the
torrent, and viewed the wall, and going
back I came to the gate of the valley,
and returned.

16 But the magistrates knew not whither
I went, or what 1 did : neither had I as
yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the
priests, or to the nobles, or to the magis-
trates, or to the rest that did the work.

17 Then I said to them : You know the
affliction wherein we are, because Jeru-
salem is desolate, and the gates thereof
are consumed with fire : come, and let us
build up the walls of Jerusalem, and let
us be no longer a reproach,

18 And I shewed them how the hand
of my God was good with me, and the
king's words, which he had spoken to
me, and I said: Let us rise up, and build.
And their hands were strengthened in
good.

19 But Sanaballat the Horonite, and To-
bias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gos-
sem the Arabian heard of it, and they
scoffed at us, and despised us, and said:
What is this thing that you do ? are you
going to rebel against the king ?

20 And I answered them, and said to
them: The God of heaven he helpeth us,
and we are his servants: let us rise up
and build : but you have no part, nor
justice, nor remembrance in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 3.

They begin to build the walls : the names and order
of the builders.

rpHEN y Eliasib the high priest arose,
JL and his brethren the priests, and
they built the flock gate : they sanctified
it, and set up the doors thereof, even
unto the tower of a hundred cubits they
sanctified it unto the tower of Hananeel.

2 And next to him the men of Jericho
built : and next to them built Zachur the
son of Amri.

3 But the fish gate the sons of Asnaa
built: they covered it, and set up the
doors thereof, and the locks, and the
bars. And next to them built Marimuth
the son of Urias the son of Accus.

4 And next to him built MosoUam the
son of Barachias, the son of Merezebel,
and next to them built Sadoc the son of
Baana.

6 And next to them the Thecuites built:

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y B. C. 446-445.
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The names of the builders

2 ESDRAS

The names of the builders

but their great men did not put their
necks to the work of their Lord.

6 And Joiada the son of Phasea, and
Mosollam the son of Besodia built the
old gate : they covered it and set up the
doors thereof, and the locks, and the bars.

7 And next to them built Meltias the
Gabaonite, and Jadon the Meronathite,
the men of Gabaon and Maspha, for the
governor that was in the country beyond
the river,

8 And next to him built Eziel the son of
Araia the goldsmith : and next to him
built Ananias the son of the perfumer :
and they left Jerusalem unto the wall of
the broad street.

9 And next to him built Raphaia the son
of Hur, lord of the street of Jerusalem.

10 And next to him Jedaia the son of
Haromaph over against his own house :
and next to him built Hattus the son of
Hasebonia.

11 Melchias the son of Herem, and Ha-
sub the son of Phahath Moab, built half
the street, and the tower of the furnaces.

12 And next to him built Sellum the
son of Alohes, lord of half the street of
Jerusalem, he and his daughters,

13 And the gate of the valley Hanun
built, and the inhabitants of Zanoe ; they
built it, and set up the doors thereof, and
the locks, and the bars, and a thousand
cubits in the wall unto the gate of the
dunghill.

14 And the gate of the dunghill Melchias
the son of Rechab built, lord of the street
of Bethacharam : he built it, and set up
the doors thereof, and the locks, and the
bars.

16 And the gate of the fountain Sellum
the son of Cholhoza built, lord of the
street of Maspha : he built it, and cov-
ered it, and set up the doors thereof, and
the locks, and the bars, and the walls of
the pool of Siloe unto the king's guard,
and unto the steps that go down from
the city of David.

16 After him built Nehemias the son of
Azboc, lord of half the street of Bethsur,
as far as over against the sepulchre of
David, and to the pool, that was built with
great labour, and to the house of the
mighty.

17 After him built the Levites, Rehum
the son of Benni. After him built Hase-
bias, lord of half the street of Ceila in his
own street.

18 After him built their brethren Bavai
the son of Enadad, lord of half Ceila.

19 And next to him Aser the son of Josue,
lord of Maspha, built another measure,
over against the going up of the strong
corner.

20 After him in the mount Baruch the
son of Zachai built another measure,
from the corner to the door of the house
of Eliasib the high priest.

21 After him Merimuth the son of Urias
the son of Haccus, built another measure,
from the door of the house of Eliasib, to
the end of the house of Eliasib„

22 And after him built the priests, the
men of the plains of the Jordan.

23 After him built Benjamin and Hasub,
over against their own house : and after
him built Azarias the son of Maasias
the son of Ananias over against his
house.

24 After him built Bennui the son Or
Hanadad another measure, from the house
of Azarias unto the bending, and unto the
corner.

25 Phalel, the son of Ozi,over against the
bending and the tower, which lieth out
from the king's high house, that is, in the
coiu-t of the prison: after him Phadaia
the son of Pharos.

26 And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel,
as far as over against the water gate
toward the east, and the tower that stood
out.

27 After him the Thecuites built another
measure over against, from the great
tower that standeth out unto the wall of
the temple.

28 And upward from the horse gate the
priests built, every man over against his
house.

29 After them built Sadoc the son of
Emmer over against his house. And after
him built Semaia the son of Sechenias,
keeper of the east gate.

30 After him built Hanania the son of Se-
lemia, and Hanun the sixth son of Seleph,
another measure : after him built Mosol-
lam the son of Barachias over against his
treasury. After him Melcias the gold-
smith's son built unto the house of the
Nathinites, and of the sellers of small
wares, over against the judgment gate,
and unto the chamber of the corner.

31 And within the chamber of the cor*
ner of the flock gate, the goldsmiths and
til* merchaats built.

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The building goes on

2 ESDRAS

Nehemias arms the men

CHAPTER 4.

The building is carried on notwithstanding the
opposition of their enemies,

A ND ' it came to pass, that when Sana-
XX ballat heard that we were building
the wall he was angry : and being moved
exceedingly he scoffed at the Jews.

2 And said before his brethren, and the
multitude of the Samaritans : What are
the silly Jews doing ? Will the Gentiles
let them alone ? will they sacrifice and
make an end in a day ? are they able to
raise stones out of the heaps of the rub-
bish, which are burnt ?

3 Tobias also the Ammonite who was by
him said : Let them build : if a fox go up,
he will leap over their stone wall.

4 Hear thou our God, for we are de-
spised : turn their reproach upon their
own head, and give them to be despised
in a land of captivity.

5 Cover not their iniquity, and let not
their sin be blotted out from before thy
face, because they have mocked thy build-
ers.

6 So we built the wall, and joined it all
together unto the half thereof : and the
heart of the people was excited to workc

7 And it came to pass, when Sanaballat,
and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the
Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that
the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and
the breaches began to be closed, that
they were exceedingly angry.

8 And they all assembled themselves
together, to come, and to fight against
Jerusalem, and to prepare ambushes.

9 And we prayed to our God, and set
watchmen upon the wall day and night
against them»

10 And Juda said : The strength of the
bearer of burdens is decayed, and the
rubbish is very much, and we shall not be
able to build the wall.

11 And our enemies said : Let them not
know, nor understand, till we come in the
midst of them, and kill them, and cause
the work to cease.

12 And it came to pass, that when the
Jews that dwelt by them came and told
us ten times, ou j of all the places from
whence they ciime to us,

13 I set the people in the place behind
the wall round about in order, with their
swords, and spears, and bows.

z B. C. 446-445.

14 And I looked and rose up : and I said
to the chief men and the magistrates,
and to the rest of the common people :
be not afraid of them. Remember the
Lord who is great and terrible, and fight
for your brethren, your sons, and your
daughters, and your wives, and your
houses.

15 And It came to pass, when our ene-
mies heard that the thing had been told
us, that God defeated their counsel. And
we returned all of us to the walls, every
man to his work.

16 And it came to pass from that day
forward, that half of their young men
did the work, and half were ready for to
fight, with spears, and shields, and bows,
and coats of mail, and the rulers were
behind them in all the house of Juda»

17 Of them that built on the wall and
that carried burdens, and that laded;
with one of his hands he did the work,
and with the other he held a sword.

18 For every one of the builders waa
girded with a sword about his reins. An^
they built, and sounded with a trumpet
by me.

19 And I said to the nobles, and to the
magistrates, and to the rest of the com-
mon people: The work is great and wide,
and we are separated on the wall one far
from another:

20 In what place soever you shall hear
the sound of the trumpet, run all thither
unto us: our God will fight for us.

21 And let us do the work : and let one
half of U8 hold our spears from the rising
of the morning, till the stare appear.

22 At that time also I said to the peo-
ple : Let every one with his servant stay
in the midst of Jerusalem, and let us take
our turns in the night, and by day, to
work.

23 Now I and my brethren, and my ser-
vants, and the watchmen that followed
me» did not put off our clothes: only
every man stripped himself when he waa
to be washed.

CHAPTER 5.

Nehemias blameth the rich^for their oppressing the
poor. His exhortation, and bounty to his country'
men.

"VrOW "there was a great cry of the
xN people, and of their wives against
their brethren the Jews.

a, B.C. 446-445.

501

Nehemias rebukes the usurers ^ ESDRAS

2 And there were som© that said: Our
sons and our daughters are very manys
let us take up corn for the price of thenij
and let us eat and Hve.

S And there were some that said: Let us
mortgage our lands, and our vineyards,
and our houses, and let us take corn be-
cause of the famine.

4 And others said : Let us borrow money
for the king's tribute, and let us give up
our fields and vineyards:

5 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our
brethren : and our children as their chil-
dren. Behold we bring into bondage our
sons and our daughters, and some of our
daughters are bondwomen already, nei-
ther have we wherewith to redeem them,
and our fields and our vineyards other
men possess.

6 And I was exceedingly angry when I
heard their cry according to these words.

7 And my heart thought with myself:
and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates,
and said to them : Do you every one ex-
act usury of your brethren ? And I gath-
ered together a great assembly against
them,

8 And I said to them : We, as you know,
have redeemed according to our ability
our brethren the Jews, that were sold to
the Gentiles : and will you then sell your
brethren, for us to redeem them ? And
they held their peace, and found not what
to answer.

9 And I said to them : The thing you do
is not good : why walk you not in the fear
of our God, that we be not exposed to the
reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies ?

10 Both I and my brethren, and my ser-
vants, have lent money and corn to
many : let us all agree not to call for it
again; let us forgive the debt that is
owing to us.

11 Restore ye to them this day their
fields, and theii vineyards, and their
p;liveyards, and *heir houses: and the hun-
dredth part of the money, and of the
coruc, the winf , and the oil, which you
were wont to ©«act of them, give it rather
for them.
■^'^12 And they said: We will restore, and

we will require nothing of them: and we
will do as thou sayest. And I called the
priests and took an oath of them, to do
according to what I had said.

Nehemias* generosity

13 Moreover I shook my lapj and said^
So may God shake every man that shaL
not accomphsh this word, out of his
house, and out of his labours, thus may
he be shaken out, and become empty.
And all the multitude said : Amen. And
they praised God. And the people did
according to what was said.

14 And from the day, in which the king
commanded me to be governor in the
land of Juda, from the twentieth year
even to the two and thirtieth year of
Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I
and my brethren did not eat the yearly
allowance that was due to the governors.

15 But the former governors that had
been before me, were chargeable to the
people, and took of them in bread, and
wine, and in money every day forty
sides: and their ofiicers also oppressed
the people. But I did not so for the fear
of God.

16 Moreover I built in the work of the
wall, and I bought no land, and all my
servants were gathered together to the
work.

17 The Jews also and the magistrates to
the number of one hundred and fifty men,
were at my table, besides them that came
to us from among the nations that were
round about us.

18 And there was prepared for me day
by day one ox, and six choice rams, be-
sides fowls, and once in ten days I gave
store of divers wines, and many other
things : yet I did not require my yearly
allowance as governor: for the people
were very much impoverished.

19 Remember me, O my God, for good
according to all that I have done for thie
people.

CHAPTER 6.

Tfie enemies seek to terrify Nehemias. He proceed-
eth and finisheth the xvall.

AND ^ it came to pass, when Sanaballat,
. and Tobias, and Gossem the Arabian,
and the rest of our enemies, heard that 1
had built the wall, and that there was no
breach left in it, (though at that time 1
had not set up the doors in the gates,)

2 Sanaballat and Gossem sent to me,
saying: Come, and let us make a league
together in the villages, in the plain of
Ono. But they thought to do me mis*
chief.

h B. C. 446-445.

602

Sanaballafs message

3 And I sent messenprers >jo them, say-
ing: I am dong a great work, and I can-
Hot come down, lest it be neglected
Krhilst I come, and go down to you.

4 And they sent to me according to this
word, four times: and I answered them
after the same manner.

5 And Sanaballat sent his servant to me
the fifth time according to the former
word, and he had a letter in his hand
written in this manner:

6 It is reported amongst the Gentiles,
and Gossem hath said it, that thou and
the Jews think to rebel, and therefore
thou buildest the wall, and hast a mind to
set thyself king over them : for which end

7 Thou hast also set up prophets, to
preach of thee at Jerusalem, sajdng :
There is a king in Judea. The king will
hear of these things: therefore come
now, that wc may take counsel together.

8 /ind I cent to them, saying : There is
no ouch thing done as thou sayest: but
thou feignest th^se things out of thy own
heart.

9 For all these men thought to frighten
us, thinking that our hands would cease
from the wcrrk, and that we would leave
off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands
vhe more:

10 And I went into the house of Samaia
iihe son ol Delaia, the son of Metabeel
privately. And he said : Let us consult
together In the house of God in the
midst of the temple : and let us shut the
doors of the temple, for they will come
to kill thee, and in the night they will
come to slay thee.

11 And I said: Should such a man as I
flee? and who is there that being as I am,
would go into the temple, to save his
life ? I will not go in.

12 And I understood that God had not
sent him, but that he had spoken to me
as if he had been prophesying, and Tobias,
and Sanaballat had hired him.

13 For he had taken money, that I being
afraid should do this thing, and sin, and
ohey might have some evil to upbraid me
j^ithaL

14 Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias
and Sanaballat, according to their works
of this kind : and Noadias the prophet,
and the rest of the prophets that would
have put me in fear.

2 ESDRAS The walls of Jerusalem finished

c B. C. 446-445 ; Eccli. 49. 15.

15 But the wall was finished the five and
twentieth day of the month of Blul, In
two and fifty days.

16 And it came to pass when all oui-
enemies heard of it, that all nations which
were round about us, were afraid, and
were cast down within themselves, for
they perceived that this work was the
work of God.

17 Moreover in those days many letters
were sent by the principal men of the
Jews to Tobias, and from Tobias there
came letters to them.

18 For there were many in Judea sworn
to him, because he was the son in law of
Sechenias the son of Area, and Johanan
his son had taken to wife the daughter
of Mosollam the son of Barachias.

19 And they praised him also before me,
and they related my words to him • And
Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.

CHAPTER 7.

Nehemias appointeth watchmen in Jerusalem. Th9
list of those who cam^e first from Babylon.

NOW ^ after the wall was built, and I
had set up the doors, and numbered
the porters and singing men, and Le-
vi tes :

2 I commanded Hanani my brother, and
Hananias ruler of the house of Jerusalem,
(for he seemed as a sincere man, and one
that feared God above the rest,)

3 And I said to them : Leo not the gates
of Jerusalem be opened till the sun be
hot. And while they were yet standing
by, the gates were shut, and barred: and
I set watchmen of the inhabitants of Je-
rusalem, every one by their courses, and
every man over against his house.

4 And the city was very wide and great,
and the people few in the midst thereof
and the houses were not built.

6 But God had put in my heart, and 1
assembled the princes and magistrates,
and common people, to number them:
and I found a book of the number of
them who came up at first, and therein it
was found written :

6 ^ These are the children of the pro-
vince, who came up from the captivity
of them that had been carried away,
whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Baby-
lon had carried away, and who returned
into Judea, every one into his own city.

dll£sd.2.L

508

Those who first came from Babylon % ESDRAS Those who first came from Babylon

7 Who came with Zorobabel, Josue, Ne-
hemias, Azarias, Raamias, Nahamani,
Mardochai, Belsam, Mespharath, Begoia,
Nahum, Baana. The number of the men
of the people of Israel:

ft- The children of Pharos, two thousand
one hundred seventy-two.

9 The children of Sephatia, three hun-
dred seventy-two.

10 The children of Area, six hundred
fifty-two.

11 The children of Phahath Moab of the
children of Josue and Joab, two thousand
eight hundred eighteen.

12 The children of Elam, one thousand
two hundred fifty-four.

13 The children of Zethua, eight hun-
dred forty-five.

14 The children of Zachai, seven hun-
dred sixty.

15 The children of Bannui, six hundred
forty-eight.

16 The children of Bebai, six hundred
twenty-eight.

17 The children of Azgad, two thousand
three hundred twenty-two.

18 The children of Adonicam, six hun-
dred sixty-seven.

19 The children of Beguai, two thousand
sixty-seven.

20 The children of Adin, six hundred
fifty-five.

21 The children of Ater, children of
Hezechias, ninety-eight.

22 The children of Hasem, three hun-
dred twenty-eight.

23 The children of Besai, three hundred
twenty-four.

24 The children of Hareph, a hundred
and twelve.

25 The children of Gabaon, ninety-five.

26 The children of Bethlehem, and Ne-
tupha, a hundred eighty-eight.

27 The men of Anathoth, a hundred
twenty-eight.

28 The men Ol Bethazmoth, forty-two.

29 The men of Cariathiarim, Cephira,
and Beroth, seven hundred forty-three.

30 The men of Rama and Geba, six hun-
dred twenty-one.

31 The men of Machmas, a hundred
twenty-two.

32 The men of Bethel and Hai, a hun-
dred twenty-three.

33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

34 The men of the other Elam, one
Idaousand two hundred fifty-four.

35 The children cf Harem, three hun-
dred and twenty.

36 The children of Jericho, three hun-
dred forty-five.

37 The children of Lod, of Hadid and
Ono, seven hundred twenty-one. '

38 The children of Senaa, three thou-'
sand nine hundred thirty.

39 The priests i the children of Idaia
in the house of Josue, nine hundred and
seventy-three.

40 The children of Emmer, one thou-
sand fifty-two.

41 The children of Phashur, one thou-
sand two hundred forty-seven.

42 The children of Arem, one thousand
and seventeen. The Levites :

43 The children of Josue and CedmiheL
the sons

44 Of Oduia, seventy-four. The singing^
men:

45 The children of Asaph, a hundred
forty-eight.

46 The porters : the children of Sellum,
the children of Ater, the children of Tel-
mon, the children of Accub, the children
of Hatita, the children of Sobai : a hun-
dred thirty-eight.

47 The Nathinites : the children of Soha,
the children of Hasupha, the children of
Tebbaoth,

48 The children of Oeros, the children
of Siaa, the children of Phadon, the chil-
dren of Lebana, the children of Hagaba,
the children of Selmai,

49 The children of Hanan, the children
of Geddel, the children of Gaher,

60 The children of Raaia, the children
of Rasin, the children of Necoda,

51 The children of Gezem, the children
of Asa, the children of Phasea,

52 The children of Besai, the children
of Munim, the children of Nephussim,

63 The children of Bacbuc, the children
of Hacupha, the children of Harhur,

54 The children of Besloth, the children
of Mahida, the children of Harsa,

55 The children of Bercos, the children
of Sisara, the children of Thema,

56 The children of Nasia, the children
of Hatipha,

57 The children of the servants of Solo-
mon, the children of Sothai, the children
of Sophereth, the children of Pharida,

58 The children of Jahala, the children
of Darcon, the children of Jeddel,

59 The ^shildren of Saphatia, the Qhil«

504

Those who had lost their pedigree 2 ESDRAS Esdras reads the hook of the Law

dren of Hatil, the children of Phochereth,
who was born of Sabaim, the son of
Anion»

60 All the Nathinites, and the children
of the servants of Solomon, three hun-
dred ninety-two.

61 And these are they that came up
from Telmela, Thelharsa, Cherub, Ad-
don, and Smmer: and could not shew
the house of their fathers, nor their seed,
whether they were of Israel.

62 The children of Dalaia, the children
of Tobia, the children of Necoda, six
hundred forty-two.

63 And of the priests, the children of
Habia, the children of Accos, the chil-
dren of Berzellai, who took a wife of
the daughters of Berzellai the Galaadite,
and he was called by their name.

64 These sought their writing in the re-
cord, and found it not: and they were
east out of the priesthood.

65 And Athersatha said to them, that
they should not eat of the holies of holies,
until there stood up a priest learned and
skilful.

66 All the multitude as it were one
man, forty-two thousand threa hundred
Lixty,

67 Beside their menservants and wo-
menservants, who were seven thousand
three hundred thirty-seven : and among
them singing men, and singing women,
two hundred forty-five.

68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty-
six ; their mules two hundred forty-five :

69 Their camels, four hundred thirty-
five, their asses, six thousand seven hun-
dred and twenty.

Hitherto is related what was vrritten in the record.
From this place forward goeth on the history of
Ifehemiac.

70 And 3ome ^f .ne heads of the fami-
lies gavs ante Ihc work. Athersatha
gave into the treasure ^ uhousand drams
of gold, fifty bowls, and five hundred
and ihu-ty garments cor priests.

71 And some of the tieada of families
gave to the treasure of the work, twenty
thousand drams of gold, and two thou-
sand two hundred pounds of silver.

72 And that which the rest of the peo-
pie gave, was twenty thousand drams of

Chap. 7 Ver. 70. Athersatha. That is, Nehe.
mias ; as appears from chap. 12. Either that he was
'.o aaJed at the oourt of the ^ing of Persia, where

gold, and fcwo thousand pounds of silver,
and sixty-seven garments for priests.

73 And the priests, and the Levites,
and the porters, and the singing men, and
the rest of the common people, and the
Nathinites, and all Israel dwelt in their
cities.

CHAPTER 8.

Esdras readeth the law before the people. j.feh9'
mias comforteth thcTn. They celebrate the feast
of tabernacles.

AND ®the seventh month came: and
J\. the children of Israel were in their
cities. And all the people were gathered
together as one man to the street which
is before the water gate, and they spoke
to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book
of the law of Moses, which the Lord had
commanded to Israel,

2 Then Esdras the priest brought the
law before the multitude of men and
women, and all those that could under-
stand, in the first day of the seventb
month.

3 And he read it plainly in the street
that was before the water gate, from the
morning until midday, before the men,
and the women, and all those that could
understand : and the ears of all the people
were attentive to the book.

4 And Esdras the scribe stood upon a
step of wood, which he had made to
speak upon, and there stood by him Math-
athias, and Semeia, and Ania, and Uria,
and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right
hand: and on the left, Phadaia, Misael,
and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana,
Zacharia and MosoUam.

5 And Esdras opened the book before
all the people : for he was above all the
people : and when he had opened it, all
the people stood.

6 And Esdras blessed the Lord the great
God : and all the people answered. Amen,
amen : lifting up their hands : and they
bowed down, and adored God with their
faces to the ground.

7 Now Josue, and Banl, and Serebia,
Jamin, Accub, Sephtai, Odia, Maasia,
Celtia, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia,
the Levites, made silence among the peo-
ple to hear the law : and the people stood
in their place.

e B. C. 446-445.

he was cupliearer- or that, as some think this aame
signifies governor ; and lie was at that time governoi
olJudea.

505

Feast of tabernacles celebrated

2 ESDRA»

8 And they read in the book of the law
of God distinctly md plainly to be under-
stood: and they understood when it was
fead.

81 And x^^eiiemias (he is Athersatha) and
Gsdras the priest and scribe, and the
Levites who interpreted to all the peo-
ple, said : This is a holy day to the Lord
our God : do not mourn, nor weep i for
all ^© people wept, when they heard the
words of the law.
10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat
meats, and drink sweet wine, and send
portions to them that have not prepared
for themselves: because it is the holy
day of the Lord, and be not sad : for the

^oy of the Lord is our strength.

- 11 And the Levites stilled all the peo-
ple, saying : Hold your peace, for the

i iay is holy, and be not sorrowful.

f' 12 So all the people went to eat and
drink, and to send portions, and to make
great mirth: because they understood
the words that he had taught them.

13 And on the second day the chiefs of
the families of all the people, the priests,
and the Levites were gathered together
to Esdras the scribe, that he should in-
terpret to them the words of the law.

14 And they found written in the law,
that the Lord had commanded by the
hand of Moses, that the children of Israel
should dwel! in tabernacles, on the feast,
in the seventh month:

15 And that they should proclaim and
publish the word in all their cities, and
in Jerusalem, saying: Go forth to the
mount, and fetch branches of olive, and
branches of beautiful wood, branches of
myrtle, and branches of palm, and
branches of thick trees, to make taber-
nacles, as it is written.

16 And the people went forth, and
brought. And they made themselves
tabernacles every man on the top of his
house, and in their courts, and in the
courts of the house of God, and in the
street of the water gate, and in the street
of the gate of Ephraim.

17 And all the assembly of them that
we<re returned from the captivity,-^ made
tabernacles, and dwelt in tabernacles:

/ Lev. 23. 39.

Chap. 9. Ver. 7. The firo of the Chaldeans. The
'.Ity of Ur in Chaldea, the name of which signifies
Are, Or out of the fire of the tribulations and temp-
^atiOBScto wlticta ti» was Uiere axposed. -» Tbeancient

The people do penance

for since the days of Josue the son of
Nun the children of Israel had not done
so, until that day : and there was exceed-
ing great joy.

18 And he read in the book of the law
of God day by day, from the first day till
the last, and they kept the solemnity
seven days, and in the eighth day a
solemn assembly according to the
manner.

CHAPTER 9.

The people repent with fasting and sackcloth. Th$
Levites confess Go(Vs benefits^ and the people^s 4n.
gratitude ■ they pray for tAem, and make a cove-
nant with God.

AND ^ in the four and twentieth day
. of the month the children of Israel
came together with fasting and with
sackcloth, and earth upon them.

2 And the seed of the children of Is-
rael separated themselves from every
stranger: and they stood, and confessed
their sins, and the iniquities of theii
fathers.

3 And they rose up to stand : and they
read in the book of the law of the Lord
their God, four times in the day, and four
times they confessed, and adored the
Lord their God.

4 And there stood up upon the step of
the Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmi-
hel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and
Chanani: and they cried with a loud
voice to the Lord their God.

5 And the Levites Josue and Cedmihel,
Bonni, Hasebnia, Serebia, Oduia, Sebnia,
and Phathahia, said : Arise, bless the
Lord your God from eternity to eter-
nity: and blessed be the high name ol
thy glory with all blessing and praise.

6 Thou thyself, O Lord alone, thou hast
made heaven, and the heaven of heavens,
and all the host thereof : the earth and
all things that are in it : the seas and all
that are therein : and thou givest life to
all these things, and the host of heaven
adoreth thee.

7 Thou, O Lord God, art he who chosest
Abram, ^ and broughtest him forth out ot
the fire of the Chaldeans, and gavest him
the name of Abraham.

8 And thou didst find his heart faithfuJ

0 B. C. 446-445.— /i Gen. 11. 31.

Rabbins understood this literally, affirming that
Abram was cast into the fire by the idolater" aort
brought out by s miracle without any hurt

506

The 'prayer of the Levites

2 ESDRAS

The prayer of the Levites

before thoe: and fjhoii madest a covenant
with him, to give him the land of the
Ohanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the
Amorrhite, aod oi the Pherezite, and of
the Jebusite, anc' of the Gergezite, to
give it to his seed: and thou hast ful-
filled thy words, because thou art just.

9 And thou sawest the aflEliction of our
fatherc in Egypt: and thou didst hear
their cry by the Red Sea.

10 And thou shewedst signs and wonders
upon Pharao, and upon all his servants,
and upon the people of his land : for thou
knewest that they dealt proudly against
them : and thou madest thyself a name,
as it is at this day.

11 And thou didst divide the sea before
them, and they passed through the midst
of the sea on dry land : but their perse-
cutors thou threwest into the depth, as a
stone into mighty waters.

12 And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast
their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire
by night, that they might see the way by
which they went.

13 Thou camest down also to mount
Sinai, and didst speak with them from
heaven, and thou gavest them right
judgments, and the law of truth, cere-
monies, and good precepts.

14 Thou madest known to them thy
holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them
commandments, and ceremonies, and the
law by the hand of Moses thy servant.

15 And thou gavest them bread from
heaven in their hunger, and broughtest
forth water for them out of the rock in
their thirst, and thou saidst to them that
they should go in, and possess the land,
upon which thou hadst Ufted up thy hand
to give it them.

16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly,
and hardened their necks and hearkened
not to thy commandments.

17 And they would not hear, and they
remembered not thy wonders which thou
hadst done for them. And they hardened
their necks, and gave the head to return
to their bondage, as it were by contention.
But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and
merciful, longsuffering, and full of com-
passion, didst not forsake them.

18 Yea when they had made also to
themselves a molten calf, and had said:
This is thy God, that brought thee out of

Egypt : and had committed great blas-
phemies :

19 Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst
not leave them in the desert : the pillar
of the cloud departed not from them by.
day to lead them in the way, and the pil'
lar of fire by night to shew them the way;
by which they should go.

20 And thou gavest them thy good Spirit
to teach them, and thy manna thou didst
not withhold from their mouth, and thou
gavest them water for their thirst. ^

21 Forty years didst thou feed them. in.
the desert, and nothing was wanting to
them ; their garments did not grow old,
and their feet were not woruo j

22 And thou gavest them kingdoms, and^
nations, and didst divide lots for them :^
and they possessed the land of Sehon,f
and the land of the king of Hesebon, and
the land of Og king of Basan. ^

23 And thou didst multiply their children^
as the stars of heaven, and broughtest
them to the land concerning which thou
hadst said to their fathers, that they
should go in and possess it.

24 And the children came and possessedv
the land, and thou didst humble before,
them the inhabitants of the land, the'^
Chanaanites, and gavest them into their,
hands, with their kings, and the people ot
the land, that they might do with them
as it pleased them. " '* " -r

25 And they took strong cities and a fai^
land, and possessed houses full of all
goods: cisterns made by others, vine-,
yards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees iiL
abundance : and they ate, and were filled^
and became fat, and abounded with de'|
light in thy great goodness.

26 But they provoked thee to wrath, and
departed from thee, and threw thy law'
behind their backs : and they killed thyr
prophets, who admonished them earnestly*
to return to thee : and they were guilty^
of great blasphemies.

27 And thou gavest them Into the handffj
of their enemies, and they afflicted them^
And in the time of their tribulation they
cried to thee, and thou heardest from
heaven, and according to the multitude
of thy tender mercies thou gavest them
saviours, to save them from the bands oi
their enemies. .

28 But after they had rest, they returned

▼er. 17. And gave the titm^ '^Iwtli.tteyiM^tlieiirAead, or were bent to return to Egypt

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The prayer of the Levites

to do evil in thy sight: and thou leftest
them in the hand of their enemies, and
they had dominion over them. Then they
returned, and cried to thee: and thou
heardest from heaven, and deliveredst
them many times in thy mercies.

29 And thou didst admonish them to re-
turn to thy laWc But they dealt proudly,
and hearkened not to thy command-
ments, but sinned against thy judgments,
which if a man do, he shall live in them:
and they withdrew the shoulder, and
hardened their neck, and would not
hear.

30 And thou didst forbear v/ith them for
many years, and didst testify against them
by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets:
and they heard not, and thou didst deliver
them into the hand of the people of the
lands.

31 Yet In thy very many mercies thou
didst not utterly consume them, nor f or-
sake them i because thou art a merciful
and gracious God.

32 Now therefore our God, great, strong
and terrible, who keepest covenant and
mercy, tin:n not away from thy face all
the labour which hath come upon ns,
upon our kings, and our princes, and
our priests, and our prophets, and our
fathers, and all the people from the days
of the king of Assur, until this day.

33 And thou art just in all things that
have come upon us : because thou hast
done truth, but we have done wickedly.

34 Our kings, our princes, our priests,
and our fathers have not kept thy law,
and have not minded thy command-
ments, and thy testimonies which thou
hast testified among them,

35 And they have not served thee in
their kingdoms, and in thy manifold good-
ness, which thou gavest them, and in the
large and fat land, which thou deliver-
edst before them, nor did they return
from their most wicked devices,

36 Behold we ourselves this day are
bondmen : and the land, which thou gav-
est our fathers, to eat the bread thereof,
and the good things thereof, and we our-
selves are servants in it.

37 And the fruits thereof grow ^p for the
kings, whom thou hast set over us for our
sins, and they have dominion over our
bodies, and over our beasts, according to

2 ESDRAS The subscribers to the covenani

their will, and we are in great tribula-
tion.

38 And because of all this we ourselves
make a covenant, and write it, and our
princes, our Levites, and our priests sign
it.

CHAPTER 10.

The names of the subscribers to the covenant^ and

the contents of it.

AND* the subscribers were Nehemias,
Xjl Athersatha the eon of Hachelai,
and Sedecias,

2 Saraias, Azarias, Jeremias,

3 Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,

4 Hattus, Sebenia, Melluch,

5 Harem, Merimuth, Obdias,

6 Daniel, Genthon, Baruch,

7 MosoUam, Abia, Miamin,

8 Maazia, Belgia, Semeia : these were
priests.

9 And the Levites, Josue the son of
Azanias, Bennui of the sons of Henadad,
Cedmihel,

10 And their brethren, Sebenia, Oduia,
Celita, Phalaia, Hanan,

11 Micha, Rohob, Hasebia,

12 Zachur, Serebia, Sabania,

13 Odaia, BaiJ, Baninu.

14 The heads of the people, Pharos, Pha
hatb Moabi Elam, Zethu, Bani,

16 Bonni, Azgad, Bebai,

16 Adonia, Begoai, Adin,

17 Ater, Hezecia, Azur,

18 Odaia, Hasum, Besai,

19 Hareph, Anathoth, NebaJ, '
50 Megphias, Mosollam, Hazir,
21 Mesizabel, Sadoc, Jeddua,
£2 Pheltia, Hanan, Anaia,

23 Osee, Hanania, Hasub,

24 Alohes, Phalea, Sobec,

25 Rehum, Hasebna, Maasia,

26 Echaia, Hanan, Anan,

27 Melluch, Haran, Baanaj

28 And the rest of the people, priests,
Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathin*
ites, and all that had separated them-
selves from the people of the lands to
the law of God, their wives, their sons,
and their daughters.

29 All that could understand promising
for their brethren,, with their chief men,
and they came to promise, and swear
that they would walk in the law of God,
which he gave in the hand of Moses the
servant of God, that they would do and

iB,

C. 4.46-445.

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The covenant

2 ESDRAS The inhabitants of Jerusalem

keep all the commandments of the Lord
our God, and his judgments and his cere-
monies.

30 And that we would not give our
daughters to the people of the land, nor
take their daughters for our sons.

31 And if the people of the land bring
in thingF fco sell, or any things for use, to
sell them on the sabbath day, that we
would not buy them of them on the sab-
bath, or on the holy day. And that we
would leave the seventh year, and the
exaction of every hand.

32 And we mads ordinances for our-
selves, to give the third part of a side
every year for the work of the house of
our God,

33 For the loaves of proposition, and
for the continual sacrifice, and for a con-
tinual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the
new moons, on the set feasts, and for the
holy things, and for the sin offering: that
atonement might be made for Israel, and
for every use of the house of our God.

34 And we cast lots among the priests,
and the Levites, and the people for the
offering of wood, that it might be brought
into the house of our God by the houses
of our fathers at set times, from year to
year: to bum upon the altar of the Lord
our God, as it is written in the law of
Moses:

35 And that we would bring the first-
fruits of our land, and the firstfruits of
all fruit of every tree, from year to year,
in the house of our Lord.

36 And the firstborn of our sons, and of
our cattle, as it is written in the law, and
the firstlings of our oxen, and of our
sheep, to be offered in the house of our
God, to the priests who minister in the
house of our God.

37 And that we would bring the first-
fruits of our meats, and of our libations,
and the fruit of every tree, of the vint-
age also and of oil to the priests, to the
storehouse of our God, and the tithes of
our ground to the Levites. The Levites
also shall receive the tithes of our works
out of all the cities.

38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall
be with the Levites in the tithes of the
liCvites, and the Levites shall offer the
tithe of their tithes in the house of our
God, to the storeroom into the treasure
^ouse.

89 For ^e Children of Israel and the

children of Levi shall carry to the trea-
sury the firstfruits of corn, of wine, and
of oil : and the sanctified vessels shall be
there, and the priests, and the singing
men, and the porters, and ministers, and
we will not forsake the house of our God,

CHAPTER 11.

WTio were the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and th6
other cities.

A ND the princes of the people dwelt at
xjL Jerusalem: but the rest of the peo-
ple cast lots, to take one part in ten to
dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and
nine parts in the other cities.

2 And the people blessed all the men
that willingly offered themselves to dwell
in Jerusalem.

3 These therefore are the chief men of
the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem,
and in the cities of Juda. And every one
dwelt in his possession, in their cities:
Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Na-
thinites, and the children of the servants
of Solomon.

4 And in Jerusalem there dwelt some of
the children of Juda, and some of the
children of Benjamin ? of the children of
Juda, Athaias the son of Aziam, the son
of Zacharias, the 3on of Amarias, the son
of Saphatias, the son of Malaleel: of the
sons of Phares,

5 Maasia the son of Baruch, the son o!
Cholhoza, the 3on of Hazia, the son of
Adaia, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zach'
arias, the son of the Silonite :

6 All these the sons of Phares, who
dwelt in Jerusalem, were four hundred
sixty-eight valiant men.

7 And these are the children of Benja-
min: Sellum the son of MosoUam, the
son of Joed, the son of Phadaia, the son
of Colaia, the son of Masia, the son of
Etheel, the son of Isaia.

8 And after him Gebbai, Sellai, nine hun-
dred twenty-eight.

9 And Joel the son of Zechri their ruler,
and Judas the son of Senua was second
over the city.

10 And of the priests Idaia the son of
Joarib, Jachin,

11 Saraia the son of Helcias, the son of
Mosollam, the son of Sadoc, the son of
Meraioth, the son of Achitob the prince
of the house of God,

12 And their brethren that do the works
of the temple: sight hundred twenty^

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The inhabitants of the other cities 2 ESDRAS

List of priests and Levites

two. And Adaia the son of Jeroham, the
son of Phelelia, the son of Amsi, the son
of Zacharias, the son ot Pheshur, the son
of Melchias,

13 And hie brethren the chiefs of the
fathers : two hundred forty-two. And
Amassai the son of Azreel, the son of
Ahazi, the son of Mosollamoth, the son
of Emmer,

14 And their brethren who were very
mighty, a hundred twenty-eight : and
their ruler Zabdiel son of the mighty.

15 And of the Levites Semeia the son of
Hasub, the son of Azaricam, the son of
Hasabia, the son of Boni,

16 And Sabathai and Jozabed, who were
over all the outward business of the house
of God, of the princes of the Levites,

17 And Mathania the son of Micha, the
eon of Zebedei, the son of Asaph, was the
principal man to praise, and to give glory
in prayer, and Becbecia the second, one
of his brethren, and Abda the son of
Samua, the son of Galal, the son of Idi-
thun.

18 All the Levites in the holy city were
two hundred eighty-four.

19 And the porters, Accub, Telmon, and
their brethren, who kept the doors: a
hundred seventy-two.

20 And the rest of Israel, the priests
ind the Levites were in all the cities of
Juda, every man in his possession.

21 And the Nathinites, that dwelt in
Ophel, and Siaha, and Gaspha of the Na-
thinites.

22 And the overseer of the Levites in
Jerusalem, was Azzi the son of Bani, the
son of Hasabia, the son of Mathania, the
son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph,
were the singing men in the ministry of
the house of God.

23 For the king's commandment was
concerning them, and an order among
the singing men day by day.

24 And Phathahia the son of Mesezebel
of the children of Zara the son of Juda
was at the hand of the king, in all matters
concerning the people,

25 And in the houses through all their
countries. Of the children of Juda some
dwelt at Cariath- Arbe, and in the villages
thereof: and at Dibon, and in the villages
thereof : and at Cabseel, and in the vil-
lages thereof.

26 And at Jesue, and at Molada, and at
Bethphalethy

27 And at Hasersnal, and at Bersabee^
and in the villages thereof,

28 And at Siceleg, and at Mochona, and
in the villages thereof,

29 And at Remmon, and at Saraa, and
at Jerimuth,

30 Zanoa, OdoUam, and in their villages,
at Lachis and its dependencies, and at
Azeca and the villages thereof. An*^
they dwelt from Bersabee unto the valley
of Bnnom.

31 And the children of Benjamin, from
Geba, at Mechmas, and at Hai, and at
Bethel, and in the villages thereof,

32 At Anathoth, Nob, Anania,

33 Asor, Rama, Gethaim,

34 Hadid, Seboim, and Neballat, Lod,
36 And Ono the valley of craftsmen.

36 And of the Levites were portions of
Juda and Benjamin.

CHAPTER 12.

The priests^ and Levites that came wp with Zorobu
bel. The succession of high priests : the solemnity
of the dedication of the wall.

NOW these are the priests and the Le-
vites, that went up with Zorobabei
the son of Salathiel, and Josue : Saraia^
Jeremias, Esdras,

2 Amaria, Meiluch, Hattus,

3 Sebenias, Rheum, Merimuth,

4 Addo, Genthon, Abia,
6 Miamin, Madia, Belga,

6 Semeia, and Joiarib, Idaia, Sellum,
Amoc, Helcias,

7 Idaia. These were the chief of the
priests, and of their brethren in the days
of Josue.

8 And the Levites, Jesua, Bennui, Ced-
mihel, Sarebia, Juda, Mathanias, they and
their brethren were over the hymns:

9 And Becbecia, and Hanni, and their
brethren every one in his office.

10 And Josue begot Joacim, and Joa-
cim begot Eliasib, and Eliasib begot Joi»
ada,

11 And Joiada begot Jonathan, and
Jonathan begot Jeddoa.

12 And in the days of Joacim the priests
and heads of the families were : Of Saraia,
Maraia: of Jeremias, Hanania .

13 Of Esdras, Mosollam : and of Amaria,
Johanan :

14 Of Milicho, Jonathan: of Sebenia,
Joseph :

15 Of Haram, Edna; of Maraioth, Helci?

16 Of Adaia, Zacharia : of Genthon, Mo-
IfloUam;

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Chief men of the Levites

2 ESDRAS

Dedication of ike walls

17 Of Abia, Zechri : of Miamin and Moa-
dia, Phelti:

18 Of Belga, Sammua of Semaia, Jona-
than:

19 Of Joiarib, Mathanai: of Jodaia,
Azzi:

20 Of Sellai, Celai: of Amoc, Heber:

21 Of Heloias, Haeebia: of Idaia, Na-
thanaeL

22 The Levites the chiefs of the families
in the days of Bliasib, and Joiada, and
^ohanan, and Jeddoa, were recorded, and
the priests in the reign of Darius the
Persian.

23 The sons of Levi, heads of the fami-
lies were written in the book of Chroni-
cles, even unto the days of Jonathan the
son of Eliasibo

24 Now the chief of the Levites were
Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue the son of
Cedmihel: and their brethren by their
courses, to praise and to give thanks ac-
cording to the commandment of David
the man of God, and to wait equally in
order.

25 Mathania, and Becbecia, Obedia, and
Mosollam, Telmon, Accub, were keepers
of the gates and of the entrances before
the gates.

26 These were in the days of Joacim
the son of Josue, the son of Josedec, and
in the days of Nehemias the governor,
and of Esdras the priest and scribe.

27 And at the dedication of the wall of
Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of
all their places, to bring them to Jerusa-
lem, and to keep the dedication, and to
rejoice with thanksgiving, and with sing-
ing, and with cymbals, and psalteries and
harps.

28 And the sons of the singing men
were gathered together out of the plain
country about Jerusalem, and out of the
villages of Nethuphati,

29 And from the house of Galgal, and
from the countries of Geba and Azma-
vethi for the singing men had built
themselves villages round about Jerusa-
lem.

30 And the priests and the Levites were
purified, and they purified the people,
and the gates, and the wall.

31 And I made the princes of Juda go
np upon the wall, and I appointed two
great choirs to give praise. And they
went on the right hand upon the wall to-
ward the dunghiU gate.

32 And after them went Osaias, and hali
of the princes of Juda,

33 And Azarias, Esdras, and Mosollam^
Judas, and Benjamin, and Semeia, and
Jeremias.

34 And of the sons of the priests with
trumpets, Zacharias the son of Jonathan^
the son of Semeia, the son of Mathania,
the son of Michaia, the son of Zechur, the
son of Asaph,

36 And his brethren Semeia, and Azareel^
Malalai, Galalai, Maai, Nathanael, and
Judas, and Hanani, with the musical in-
struments of David the man of God : and
Esdras the scribe before them at the
fountain gate.

36 And they went up over against them
by the stairs of the city of David, at the
going up of the wall of the house of Da-
vid, and to the water gate eastward :

37 And the second choir of them that
gave thanks went on the opposite side^
and I after them, and the half of the
people upon the wall, and upon the
tower of the furnaces, even to the broad
wall,

38 And above the gate of Ephraim, and
above the old gate, and above the fish
gate and the tower of Hananeel, and the
tower of Emath, and even to the flock
gate: and they stood still in the watch
gate.

39 And the two choirs of them that
gave praise stood still at the house of
Godj <£nd I and the half of the magis-
trates with me.

40 And the priests, Eliachim, Maasia^
Miamin, Michea, Elioenai, Zacharia^ Han-
ania with trumpets,

41 And Maasia, and Semeia, and Eleazar,
and Azzi, and Johanan, and Melchia, and
Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sung
loud, and Jezraia was their overseer:

42 And they sacrificed on that day grea*
sacrifices, and they rejoiced : for God had
made them joyful with great joy : their
wives also and their children rejoiced^
and the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar
off.

43 They appointed also in that day men
over the storehouses of the treasure, for
the libations, and for the firstfruits, and
for the tithes, that the rulers of the city
might bring them in by them in honour
of thanksgiving, for the priests and Le»
vites: for Juda was joyful ijn thei pri^ta
and Levites that assisted. 'J «'*»ii-f w '' - *

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Strangers separated from the Jews 2 ESDRAS

Violation of the Sabbath

44 And they kept the watch of their
God, and the observance of expiation,
and the singing men, and the porters,
according to the commandment of David,
and of Solomon his son.

45 For in the days of David and Asaph
from the beginning there were chief
singers appointed, to praise with canti-
cles, and give thanks to God.

46 And all Israel, in the days of Zoro-
babel, and in the days of Nehemias gave
portions to the singing men, and to the
porters, day by day, and they sanctified
the Levites, and the Levites sanctified
the sons of Aaron.

CHAPTER 13.

Divers abuses are reformed.

A ND -^ on that day they read in the book
J\. of Moses in the hearing of the peo-
ple : and therein was found written, that
the Ammonites and the Moabites should
not come in to the church of God for
ever:

2 Because they met not the children of
Israel with bread and water: and they
hired against them Balaam, to curse
them, and our God turned the curse into
blessing.

3 And it came to pass, when they had
heard the law, that they separated every
stranger from Israel.

4 And over this thing was Eliasib the
priest, who was set over the treasury of
the house of our God, and was near akin
to Tobias.

5 And he made him a great storeroom,
where before him they laid up gifts, and
frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes
of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil,
the portions of the Levites, and of the
singing men, and of the porters, and the
firstfruits of the priests.

6 But in all this time I was not in Jeru-
salem, because in the two and thirtieth
year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I
went to the king, and aft«r certain days
I asked the king:

7 And I came to Jerusalem,^ and I un-
derstood the evil that Eliasib had done
for Tobias, to make him a storehouse in
the courts of the house of God.

S And it seemed to me exceeding evil.

j Deut. 23. 3.

Chap. 12. Ver. 46. Sanctified. That Is, they gave
them that which by the law was set aside, and sano
llfied for their use.

And I cast forth the vessels of the house
of Tobiae out of the storehouse,

9 And I commanded and they cleansed
the storehouses: and I brought thither
again the vessels of the house of God,
the sacrifice, and the frankincense.

10 And I perceived that the portions of
the Levites had not been given them:
and that the Levites, and the singing
men, and they that ministered were fled
away every man to his own country :

11 And I pleaded the matter against
the magistrates, and said : Why have we
forsaken the house of God? And I gath-
ered them together, and I made them to
fitand in their places.

1 2 And all Juda brought the tithe of
the corn, and the wine, and the oil into
the storehouses,

13 And we set over the storehouses
Selemias the priest, and Sadoc the scribe,
and of the Levites Phadaia, and next to
them Hanan the son of Zachur, the son
of Mathania : for they were approved as
faithful, and to them were committed
the portions of their brethren.

14 Remember me, O my God, for this
thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses,
which I have done relating to the house
of my God and his ceremonies.

15 In those days I saw in Juda some
treading the presses on the sabbath, and
carrying sheaves, and lading asses with
wine, and grapes, and figs, and all man-
ner of burthens, and bringing them into
Jerusalem on the sabbath day. And I
charged them that they should sell on a
day on which it was lawful to sell.

16 Some Tyrians also dwelt there, who
brought fish, and all manner of wares;
and they sold them on the sabbaths to
the children of Juda in Jerusalem.

17 And I rebuked the chief men of
Juda, and said to them: What is this
evil thing that you are doing, profaning
the sabbath day?

18 Did not our fathers do these things^
and our God brought all this evil upon
us, and upon this city ? And you bring
more wrath upon Israel by violating the
sabbath.

19 And it came to pass, that when the
gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the

k B. C. 434.

Chap. 13. Ver. 4. Over thin thing, &c.
was faulty in this thing, or iu this kind

Or. he

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Mixed Marriages

TOBIAS

The sin of Sohmon

sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the
gates, and I commanded that they should
not open them till after the sabbath:
and I set some of my servants at the
gates, that none should bring in burthens
on the sabbath day.

20 So the merchants, and they that sold
all kinds of wares, stayed without Jeru-
salem once or twice.

21 And I charged them, and I said to
them: Why stay you before the wall? if
you do so another time, I will lay hands
on you. And from that time they came
no more on the sabbath.

22 I spoke also to the Levites that they
shDuld be purified, and should come to
keep the gates, and to sanctify the sab>
bath day: for this also remember me, 0
my God, and spare me according to the
multitude of thy tender mercies.

23 In those days also I saw Jews that
married wives, women of Azotus, and of
Ammon, and of Moab.

24 And their children spoke half in the
speech of Azotus, and could not speak
the Jews* language, but they spoke ac-
cording to the language of this and that
people.

25 And I chid them, and laid my curse
upon them. And I beat some of them.

and shaved off their hair, and made them
swear by God that they would not give
their daughters to their sons, nor take
their daughters for their sons, nor for
themselves saying:

26 ^Did not Solomon king of Israel sin
in this kind of thing? and surely among
many nations, there was not a king like
him, and he was beloved af his God, and
God made him king over all Israel "»and
yet women of other countries brought
even him to sin.

27 And shall we also be disobedient and
do all this great evil to transgress against
our God, and marry strange women?

28 And one of the sons of Joiada the
son of Eliasib the high priest, was son
in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I
drove him from me.

29 Remember them, 0 Lord my God,
that defile the priesthood, and the law
of priests and Levites.

30 So I separated from them all stran-
gers, and I appointed the courses of the
priests and the Levites, every man in his
ministry :

31 And for the offering of wood at times
appointed, and for the firstfruits, re-
member me, O my God, unto good
Amen.

THE

BOOK OF TOBIAS.

This Book takes its name from the holy man Tobias, whose wonderful virtues are
herein recorded. It contains most excellent documents of great piety, extraordinary
patience, and of a perfect resignation to the will of God. His humble prayer was
heard, and the angel Raphael was sevt to relieve him: he is thankful and praises
the Lord, calling on the children of Israel to do the same. Having lived to the age
of one hundred and two years, he exhorts his son and grandsons to piety, foretells
the destruction of Ninive and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, he dies happily.

CHAPTER 1.

Tobias's early piety : his works of mercy, particu-
larly in burying the dead.

TOBIAS of the tribe and city of Neph-
tali, (which is in the upper parts of
Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way
that leadeth to the west, having on the
right hand the city of Sephet,)

2 "'When he was made captive in the
days of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians
even in his captivity, forsook not the
way of truth,

3 But every day gave all he could get
to his brethren his fellow captives, that
were of his kindred.

4 And when he was younger than any

I 3 Kings 3. 1, and 11. 1.— w 3 Kings 11. 4.
33 513

n 4 Kings 17. 3, and 18. 9.

The generosity of Tobias

TOBIAS

He buries the dead

of the Mbe of Nephtali, yet did he no
childish thing in his work.
6 Moreover when all went to the golden
calves ° which Jeroboam king of Israel
had made, he alone fled the company of
all,

6 And went to Jerusalem to the temple
of the Lord, and there adored the Lord
God of Israel, offering faithfully all his
firstfruits, and his tithes,

7 So that in the third year he gave all
his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers.

8 These and such like things did he
observe when but a boy according to ih©
law of God.

9 But when he was a man, he took to
wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a
son by her, whom he called after his own
name,

10 And from his infancy he taug,ht him
to fear God, and to abstain from all sin,

11 And when by the captivity he with
bis wife and his son and all his tribe was
come to the city of Ninive,

12 (When all ate of the meats of the
Gentx. s) he kept his soul and ueve^ was
defiled with their meats.

13 And because be was mindful of the
Lord with all his heart, God gave him
favour in the sight of Salmanasar the
king.

14 And he gave him leave to go whi-
^ersoever he would, with liberty to do
whatever he had a mind.

15 He therefore went to all that were
in captivity, and gave them wholesome
admonitions.

16 And when he was come to Rages a
dty of the Medes, and had ten talents of
silver of that with which he had been
honoured by the king :

17 And when amongst a great multi-
tude of his kindred, he saw Gabelus in
want, who was one of his tribe, taking a
Bote of his hand he gave him the afore-
said sum of money.

18 But after a long time, Salmanasar
the king being dead, P when Sennacherib
his son, who reigned in his place, had a
hatred for the children of Israel i

19 Tobias daily went among all his kin-
dred, and comforted them, and distrib-
uted to every one as he was able, out of
his goods:

o 3 Kings 12. 28.-39 B. C. 705-681.
q 4 Kings 19. 35 ; Eccli. 48. 24 ; 2 Mac. 8. 19.

r B. a 701.

20 He fed the hungry, and gave clothep
to the naked, and was careful to burj^
the dead, and they that were slain.

21 5 And when *" king Sennacherib was
come back, fleeing from Judea by reason
of the slaughter that God had made about
him for his blasphemy, and being angry
slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias
buried their bodies.

22 But when it was told the king, he
commanded him to be slain, and took
away all his substance.

23 But Tobias fleeing naked away with
hjs son and with his wife, lay concealed,
ft*r many loved him.

24 ^' But after forty-five days, the king
was kiUed by his own sons.

25 And Tobias returned to his house, and
all his substance was restored to him,

CHAPTER 2.

Tobias leaveth his dinner to hiiry the dead : he to»'
eth his sight by God^s permission, for manifesto^
tion of his patience.

BUT after this, when there was a festi-
val of the Lord, and a good dinner
was prepared in Tobias's house,

2 He said to his son : Go, and bring
some of our tribe that fear God, to feast
with us.

3 And when he had gone, returning he
told him, that one of the children of
Israel lay slain in the street. And he
forthwith leaped up from his place at the
table, and left his dinner, and came fast-
ing to the body i

4 And taking it up carried it privately
to his house, that after the sun was down,
he might bury him cautiously.

6 And when he had hid the body, he ate
bread with mourning and fear,

6 Remembering the word which the
Lord spoke by ' Amos the prophet : Your
festival days shall be turned into lamen-
tation and moarning.

7 So when the sun was down, he went
and buried him.

8 Now all his neighbours blamed him,
saying : Once already commandment was
given for thee to be slain because of this
matter, and thou didst scarce escape the
sentence of death, and dost ^jhou again
bury the dead ?

9 ^ But Tobias fearing God more than the
king, carried off the bodies of them that

• 4 Kings 19. 37 5 2 Par. 32. 21 ; Isa. 37. 38.

t Amos 3. 10; 1 Mac 1. 11.

u Supra 1. 2i.

514

The patience of Tobias

were slain, and hid them in his house, and
at midnight buried them.

10 Now it happened one day, that being
wearied with burying, • he came to his
house, and cast himself down by the waD
and slept,

11 And as he was sleeping, hot dung out
of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes^ and
he was made blind.

12 Now this trial the Lord therefore per-
mitted to happen to him, that an exam-
ple might be given to posterity of his
patience, ae also of holy Jobc

13 For wTiereas ne naa always feared
God from his infancy, and kept his com-
mandments, he repined not against God
because the evil of blindness had befallen
him,

14 But continued immoveable in the fear
of God, giving thanks to God all the days
of his life.

15 For as the kings insulted over holy
Job : BO his relations and kinsmen mocked
at his life, saying:

16 Where is thy hope, for which thou
gavest alms, and buriedst the dead t

17 But Tobias rebuked them, saying-
Speak not so :

18 For we are the children of saints, and
look for that hfe which God will give to
those that never change their faith from
him.

19 Now Anna his wife went daily to
weaving work, and she brought home
what she could get for their living by
the labour of her hands.

20 Whereby it came to pass, that she re-
ceived a young kid, and brought it home ;

21 And when her husband heard it bleat-
ing, he said : ^ Take heed, lest perhaps it
be stolen, restore ye it to its cwnerSj for
it is not lawful for us either to eat or to
touch any thing that cometh by theft.

22 * At these words his wife being angry
answered : It ie evident thy hope is come
to nothing, and thy alms now appear.

23 And with these, and other such like
words she upbraided hinic

CHAPTER 3.

The prayer of, Tobias, and of Sara, in fheir several
afflictions, are heard by God, and the angel Ra-
phael is sent to relieve them,

w Deut 22. L

Chap. 2. Ver. 15. Kirujs. So Job's three friends
are here called, because they were princes in their
respective territories.

Chap, a Ver^ 7. Rage». In the Greek it is 27c&a>

TOBIAS

The prayer of Tobias

THEN Tobias sighed, and began to pray
with tears,

2 Saying : Thou art just, O Lord, and all
thy judgments are just, and all thy ways
mercy, and truth, and judgment i

3 And now, 0 Lord, think of me, and
take not revenge of my sins, neither re*
member my offences, nor those of my
parents.

4 y For we have not obeyed thy com-
mandments, therefore are we dehvered
to spoil and to captivity, and deaths and
are made a fable, and a reproach to all
nations, amongst which thou hast scat-
tered USo

6 And now% O Lord, great are thy judg-
ments, because we have not done accord-
ing to thy precepts, and have not walked
sincerely before thee 5

6 And now, O Lord, do with me accord-
ing to thy will, and command my spirit to
be received in peace : for it is better for
me to die, than to live,

7 Now it happened on the same day,
that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Ragee
a city of the Modes, received a reproach
from one of her father*6 servant maids.

8 Because she had been given to seven
husbands, and a devil named Asmodeus
had killed them, at their first going in
unto her

9 So when she reproved the maid for
her fault, she answered her, saying ; May
we never see son, or daughter ot thee
upon the earth, thou murderei of thy
husbands.

10 Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast
already killed seven husbande? At these
words she went into an upper chamber
of her house ; and for three days and
three nights did neither eat nor drink •

11 But continuing in prayer with teare
besought God, that he would deliver hei
from this reproach^

12 And it came to pass on the third
day, when she was making an end of her
prayer, blessing the Lord,

13 She said ; Blessed is thy name, O God
of our fathers : who when thou hast been
angry ^ wilt shew mercy^ and in the time
of tribulation forgivest the sine of then}
that caD upon thee.

X Jot 22. 8. «> I/ Deut 28 16.

tana, which was also called Ra?es. Foi there were
two cities in Media of the name of Rages. Haguel
dwelt iD one ot them, and Gabelus tQ the other

515

The prayer of Sara

TOBIAS Tobias^ admonitions to his son

14 To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to
thee I direct my eyes,

15 I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me
from the bond of this reproach^ or else
take me away from the earth.

16 Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never
coveted a husband, and have kept my
soul clean from all lust,

17 Never have I joined myself with them
that play: neither have I made myself
partaker with them that walk in light-
ness.

18 But a husband I consented to take,
with thy fear, not with my lust.

19 And either I was unworthy of them,
or they perhaps were not worthy of me :
because perhaps thou hast kept me for
another man

20 For thy counsel is not in man's power.

21 But this every one is sure of that
worshippeth thee^ that his life, if it be
under trial, shall be crowned : and if it
be under tribulation, it shall be delivered :
and if it be under correction, it shall be
allowed to come to thy mercy.

22 For thou art not delighted in our
being lost* because after a storm thou
makest a calm, and after tears and weep-
ing thou pour est in joy fulness.

23 Be thy name^ O God of Israel, blessed
for everc

24 At that time the prayers ot them both
were heard in the sight of the glory of
the most high God :

25 And the holy angel of the Lord, Ra
phael was sent to heal them both, whose
prayers at one time were rehearsed in
the sight of the Lord.

CHAPTER 4.

Tobias thinking he shall die, ffiveth hi» son godly
admonitions • and telleth him of money he had
lent to a friend.

THEREFORE when Tobias thought
that his prayer was heard that he
might die, he called to him Tobias his
son,

2 And said to him : Hear, my son, the
words of my mouth, and lay them as a
foundation in thy heart.

3 When God shall take my soul, thou
ehalt bury my body : " and thou shall
honour thy mother all the days of her
Ufe;

4 For thou must be mindful what and

a Ex. 20. 12 ; Eccli. 7. 29.
b Prov. 3. 9: Eccli. 4. 1, and 14. 13 j Luke 14. 13.
r Eccli 8& 22 — d Eccli. 29, 15 — c I Thess. 4. 3.

how great perils she suffered for thee in
her womb.

6 And when she also shall have ended
the time of her life, bury her by me.

6 And all the days of thy life have God
in thy mind : and take heed thou never
consent to sin^ nor transgress the com-
mandments of the Lord our God.

7 ^ Give alms out of thy substance, and
turn not away thy face from any poor
person : for so it shall come to pass that
the face of the Lord shall not be turned
from thee.

8 * According to thy ability be merciful.

9 If thou have much give abundantly s
if thou have little, take care even so to
bestow willingly a little.

10 For thus thou storest up to thyself a
good reward for the day of necessity.

11 ^^J'or alms deliver from all sin, and
froaudeaiSr-^d wiUj^ suffer the soul
to go intodarj^mess.

^12^ AteI§"8Eailbe a great confidence be»
fore the most high God, to all them that
give it.

13 * Take heed to keep thyself, my son,
from all fornication, and beside thy wife
never endure to know a crime.

14 Never suffer pride to reign in thy
mind, or in thy words : -^for from it all
perdition took its beginning.

15 fl* If any man hath done any work fop
thee, immediately pay him his hire, and
let not the wages of thy hired servant
stay with thee at alL

16 * See thou never do to another what
thou wouldst hate to have done to thee
by another.

17 * Eat thy bread with the hungry and
the needy, and with thy garments cover
the naked.

18 Lay out thy bread, and thy wint: ipon
the burial of a Just man, and do no; '>at
and drink thereof with the wicked.

19 Seek counsel always of a wise man.

20 Bless God at all times : and desire of
him to direct thy ways, and that all thy
counsels may abide in him.

21 I tell thee also, my son, that I lent
ten talents of silver, while thou wast yet

a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the a
Medes, and I have a note of his hand with 1
me:

22 Now therefore inquire how thoumayst

/ Gen. 8. 6. — gr Lev. 19» 13 ? Deiit 24. 14

fc Matt 7, 12: Luke 6. 31.

i Luke 14. 13.

The young Tobias seeks a guide TOBIAS

The angel Raphael

go to him, and receive of him the fore-
3aid sum of money, and restore to him
the note of his hand.

23 Fear not, my son : we lead indeed a
poor life, ^ but we shall have many good
things if we fear God, and depart from all
sin, and do that which is good.

CHAPTER 6.

Toung Tobias seeking a guide for his journey ^the
angel Raphael, in shape of a man, undeHaketh
this office.

THEN Tobias answered his father, and
said : I will do all things, father,
which thou hast commanded me.

2 But how I shall get this money, I can-
not tell ; he knoweth not me, and I know
not him : what token shall I give him ?
nor did I ever know the way which lead-
eth thither.

3 Then his father answered him, and
said : I have a note of his hand with me,
which when thou shalt shew him, he will
presently pay it.

4 But go now, and seek thee out some
faithful man, to go with thee for his hire :
that thou mayst receive it, while I yet
live.

5 Then Tobias going forth, found a beau-
tiful young man, standing girded, and as
it were ready to walk.

6 And not knowing that he was an angel
of God, he saluted him, and said : From
whence art thou, good young man?

7 But he answered : Of the children of
Israel. And Tobias said to him : Know-
est thou the way that leadeth to the coun-
try of the Medes ?

8 And he answered : I know It : and I
have often walked through all the ways
thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus
our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a
city of the Medes, which is situate in the
mount of Ecbatana.

9 And Tobias said to him : Stay for me,
I beseech thee, till I tell these same
things to my father.

10 Then Tobias going in told all these
things to his father. Upon which his
father being in admiration, desired that
he would come in unto him.

11 So going in he saluted him, and said :
Joy be to thee always.

12 And Tobias said : What manner of

j Rom. 8. 17.

Chap. 5. Ver. 18. Azarias. The angel took the
form of Azarias: and therefore might call himself
by the name of the man whom he personated. Aza-

joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness,
and see not the light of heaven ?

13 And the young man said to him : Be
of good courage, thy cure from God is at
hand.

14 And Tobias said to him : Canst thou
conduct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a
city of the Medes ? and when thou shalt
return, I will pay thee thy hire.

15 And the angel said to him: I will
conduct him thither, and bring him back
to thee.

16 And Tobias said to him : I pray thee,
tell me, of what family, or what tribe art
thou?

17 And Raphael the angel answered:
Dost thou seek the family of him thou
hirest, or the hired servant himself to go
with thy son?

18 But lest I should make thee uneasy,
I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias.

19 And Tobias answered : Thou art of
a great family. But I pray thee be not
angry that I desired to know thy family.

20 And the angel said to him ; I will
lead thy son safe, and bring him to thee
again safe.

21 And Tobias answering, said : May
you have a good journey, and God be
with you in your way, and his angel
accompany you.

22 Then all things being ready, that were
to be carried in their journey, Tobias bade
his father and his mother farewell, and
they set out both together.

23 ^ And when they were departed, his
mother began to weep, and to say: Thou
hast taken the staff of our old age, and
sent him away from us.

24 I wish the money for which thou
hast sent him, had never been.

25 For our poverty was suflBcient for us,
that we might account it as riches, that
we saw our son.

26 And Tobias said to her : Weep not, our
son will arrive thither safe, and will return
safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.

27 For I believe that the good angel of
God doth accompany him, and doth order
all things well that are done about him,
so that he shall return to us with joy.

28 At these words his mother ceased
weeping, and held her peace.

k Infra 10. 4.

Has, in Hebrew, signifies the help qf God^'dsid AJia^
nias the grace of God,

Tobias saved from the fish

TOBIAS

The angeVs counsel

CHAPTER 6.

By the angeVs advice young Tobias taketh hold on a
fish that assauiteth him. Reserveth the heart, the
gall, and the liver for medicines. They lodge at
the house of I'aguel, whose daughter Sara, Tobias
is to marry ; she had before been married to seven
husbands, who were all slain by a devil.

AND Tobias went forward, and the
XJL dog followed him, and he lodged the
first night by the river of Tigris.

2 And he went out to wash his feet,
and behold a monstrous fish came up to
devour him.

3 And Tobias being afraid of him, cried
out with a loud voice, saying : Sir, he
Cometh upon me.

4 And the angel said to him: Take him
^y'^the gill, and draw him to thee. And
when he had done so, he drew him out
upon the land, and he began to pant be-
fore his feet.

6 Then the angel said to him : Take out
the entrails of this fish, and lay up his
heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee :
for these are necessary for useful medi-
cines.

6 And when he had done so, he roasted
the flesh thereof, and they took it with
them in the way : the rest they salted as
much as might serve them, till they came
to Rages the city of the Modes.

7 Then Tobias asked the angel, and said
to him : I beseech thee, brother Azarias,
tel) me what remedies are these things
good for, which thou hast bid me keep
of the fish?

8 And the angel, answering, said to
him: If thou put a little piece of its heart
upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth
away all kind of devils, either from man
or from woman, so that they come no
more to them.

9 And the gall is good for anointing the
eyes, in which there is a white speck, and
they shall be cured.

10 And Tobias said to him : Where wilt
thou that we lodge ?

11 And the angel answering, said : Here
is one whose name is Raguel, a near kins-
man of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter
named Sara, but he hath no son nor any
other daughter beside her.

m Num. 27. 8, and 36. 8.

Chap. 6. Ver. 8. Its heart, &c. The liver (ver.
19). God was pleased to give to these things a virtue
against those proud spirits, to make them, who af-
fected to he like the Most High, subject to such mean
corporeal creatures aft iostrumeots oi; h\^ power.

12 "* All his substance is due to thee,
and thou must take her to wife.

13 Ask her therefore of her father, and
he will give her thee to wife.

14 Then Tobias answered, and said: I
hear that she hath been given to seven
husbands, and they all died : moreover |
have heard, that a devil killed them.

15 Now I am afraid, lest the same thi ig
should happen to me also : and whereas
I am the only child of my parents, I should
bring down their old age with sorrow to
hell.

16 Then the angel Raphael said to him:
Hear me, and I will shew thee who they
are, over whom the devil can prevail.

17 For they who insuch manner receive
matrimony, as to shut out God from them-
selves, and from their mind, and to give
themselves to their lust, as the horse and
mule, which have not understanding, over
them the devil hath power.

18 But thou when thou shalt take her,
go into the chamber, and for three days
keep thyself continent from her, and give
thyself to nothing else but to prayers with
her.

19 And on that night lay the liver of the
fish on the fire, and the devil shall be
driven away.

20 But the second night thou shalt be
admitted into the society of the holy
Patriarchs.

21 And the third night thou shalt obtain
a blessing that sound children may be
born of you.

22 And when the third night is past,
thou shalt take the virgin with the fear
of the Lord, moved rather for love of
children than for lust, that in the seed
of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing
in children.

CHAPTER 7.

They are kindly entertained by RagueL Tobias
demandeth Sara to wife.

A ND they went in to Raguel, and Ra-
XjL guel received them with joy.

2 And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said
to Anna his wife : How like is this young
man to my cousin?

3 And when he had spoken these words,

Ver. 15. To hpil. That is. to the place where the
souls of the good were kept belore tbe coming of
Christ

618

Tobias asks Sara in marriage TOBIAS

Prayer of Tobias and Sara

our

he said : Whence are ye young men
brethren?

4 But they said : We are of the tribe
Nephtali, of the captivity of Ninive.

5 And Raguel said to them: Do you
know Tobias my brother? And they
said : We know him.

6 And when he was speaking many
good things of him, the angel said to
Raguel: Tobias concerning whom thou
inquirest is this young man's father.

7 And Raguel went to him, and kissed
him with tears and weeping upon his
n/^ck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my
con, because thou art the son of a good
and most virtuous man.

8 And Anna his wife, and Sara their
daughter wept.

9 And after they had spoken, Raguel
commanded a sheep to be killed, and a
feast to be preparedo And when he de-
sired them to sit down to dinner,

10 Tobias said : I will not eat nor drink
here this day, unless thou first grant me
my petition, and promise to give me
Sara thy daughter.

11 Now when Raguel heard this he was
afraid, knowing what had happened to
those seven husbands, that went in unto
her : and he began to fear lest it might
happen to him also in like manner : and
as he was in suspense, and gave no an-
swer to his petition,

12 The angel said to him: Be not afraid
to give her to this man, for to him who
feareth God is thy daughter due to be
his wife: therefore another could not
have her.

13 Then Raguel said : I doubt not but
God hath regarded my prayers and tears
in his sight.

14 And I believe he hath therefore made
you come to me, that this maid might be
married to one of her own kindred, ^ ac-
cording to the law of Moses : and now
doubt not but I will give her to thee.

15 And taking the right hand of his
daughter, he gave it into the right hand
of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob be with you, and may he join
you together, and fulfil his blessing in
you.

16 And taking paper they made a writ-
ing of the marriage.

<»^uia.36.6.

17 And afterwards they made merry,
blessing God.

18 And Raguel called to him Anna his
wife, and bade her prepare another cham-
ber.

19 And she brought Sara her daughter
in thither, and she wept.

20 And she said to her: Be of good
cheer, my daughter : the Lord of heaven
give thee joy for the trouble thou hast
undergone.

CHAPTER 8.

Tobias burneth part of the fish's liver, and Raphael
bindeth the devil. Tobias and Sara pray.

ND after they had supped, they
brought in the young man to her.

2 And Tobias remembering the angePg
word, took out of his bag part of the
liver, and laid it upon burning coals.

3 Then the angel Raphael took the
devil, and bound him in the desert of
upper Egypt.

4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and
said to her : Sara, arise, and let us pray
to God to day, and to morrow, and the
next day : because for these three nights
we are joined to God: and when the
third night is over, we will be in oui
own wedlock.

5 For we are the children of saints, and
we must not be joined together like hea-
thens that know not God.

6 So they both arose, and prayed ear-
nestly both together that health might
be given them,

7 And Tobias said : Lord God of our fa-
thers, may the heavens and the earth,
and the sea, and the fountains, and the
rivers, and all thy creatures that are in
them, bless thee.

8 5 Thou madest Adam of the slime of
the earth, and gavest him Eve for a
helper.

9 And now. Lord, thou knowest, that
not for fleshly lust do I take my sister
to wife, but only for the love of poster-
ity, in which thy name may be blessed
for ever and ever.

10 Sara also said : Have mercy on us, O
Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow
old both together in health.

11 And it came to pass about the cock-
crowing, Raguel ordered his servants to
be called for, and they went with him
together to dig a grave.

Q Gen. 2. 7.

519

Tobias saved from the devil

TOBIAS

The angel goes to Raguel

12 For he said? Lest perhaps it may-
have happened to him, in like manner as
it did to the other seven husbands, that
went in unto her.

13 And when they had prepared the
pit, Raguel went back to his wife, and
said to her :

14 Send one of thy maids, and let her
see if he be dead, that I may bury him
before it be day.

15 So she sent one of her maidservants,
who went into the chamber, and found
them safe and sound, sleeping both to-
gether.

16 And returning she brought the good
news: and Raguel and Anna his wife
blessed the Lord,

17 And said: We bless thee, O Lord
God of Israel, because it hath not hap-
pened as we suspected.

18 For thou hast shewn thy mercy to
us, and hast shut out from us the enemy
that persecuted us.

19 And thou hast taken pity upon two
only children. Make them, O Lord, bless
thee more fully : and to offer up to thee
a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their
health, that all nations may know, that
thou alone art God in all the earth.

20 And immediately Raguel commanded
his servants, to fill up the pit they had
made, before it was day.

21 And he spoke to his wife to make
ready a feast, and prepare all kind of
provisions that are necessary for such as
go a journey.

22 He caused also two fat kine, and four
wethers to be killed, and a banquet to be
prepared for all his neighbours, and all
his friendSo

23 And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide
with him two weeks.

24 And of all things which Raguel pos-
sessed, he gave one half to Tobias, and
made a writing, that the half that re-
mained should after their decease come
also to Tobias.

CHAPTER 9.

The angel Raphael goeth to Oabelus., receiveth the
money ^ and bringeth him to them,arriage.

THEN Tobias called the angel to
him, whom he took to be a man, and
said to him : Brother Azarias, I pray thee
hearken to my words:
2 If I should give myself to be thy ser-

vant I should not make a worthy returii
for thy care.

3 However, I beseech thee, to take with
thee beasts and servants, and to go to
Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes :
and to restore to him his note of hand,
and receive of him the money, and de-
sire him to come to my wedding.

4 For thou knowest that my father num-
bereth the days: and if I stay one day
more, his soul will be afflicted.

5 And indeed thou seest how Raguel
hath adjured me, whose adjuring I can-
not despise.

6 Then Raphael took four of Raguel's
servants, and two camels, and went to
Rages the city of the Medes: and finding
Gabelus, gave him his note of hand, and
received of him all the money.

7 And he told him concerning Tobias
the son of Tobias, all that had been done:
and made him come with him to the
wedding.

8 And when he was come into Raguel's
house he found Tobias sitting at the
table : and he leaped up, and they kissed
each other : and Gabelus wept, and blessed
God,

9 And said: The God of Israel bless thee,
because thou art the son of a very good
and just man, and that feareth God, and
doth almsdeeds :

10 And may a blessing come upon thy
wife and upon your parents.

11 And may you see your children, and
your children's children, unto the third
and fourth generation: and may your
seed be blessed by the God of Israel, who
reigneth for ever and ever.

12 And when all had said, Amen, they
went to the feast : but the marriage feast
they celebrated also with the fear of the
Lord.

CHAPTER 10.

The parents lament the long absence of their son
Tobias. He sets out to retnm,

BUT as Tobias made longer stay
upon occasion of the marriage, To-
bias his father was solicitous, saying:
Why thinkest thou doth my son tarry, or I
why is he detained there ?

2 Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no
man will pay him the money ?

3 And he began to be exceeding sad,
both he and Anna his wife with him : and

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The lament of Tobias* parents TOBIAS

The return of Tobias

they began both to weep together: be-
cause their son did not return to them
on the day appointed.

4 * But his mother wept and was quite
disconsolate, and said : Woe, woe is me,
my son ; why did we send thee to go to a
strange country, the Ught of our eyes,
the staff of our old age, the comfort of
our life, the hope of our posterity?

5 We having all things together in thee
alonej ought not to have let thee go from
us.

6 And Tobias said to her: Hold thy
peace, and be not troubled, our son is
lafe: that man with whom we sent him
?B very trusty.

7 But she could by no means be com-
forted, but daily running out looked
round about, and went into all the ways
by which there seemed any hope he
might return, that she might if possible
see him coming afar off.

8 But Raguel said to his son in law:
Stay here, and I will send a messenger to
Tobias thy father, that thou art in health.

9 And Tobias said to him: I know that
my father and mother now count the
days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted
within them.

10 And when Raguel had pressed Tobias
with many words, and he by no means
would hearken to him, he dehvered Sara
unto him, and half of all his substance in
menservants, and womenservants, in cat-
tle, in camels, and in kine, and in much
money, and sent him away safe and joy-
ful from him,

11 Saying: The holy angel of the Lord
be with you in your journey, and bring
you through safe, and that you may find
all things well about your parents, and
my eyes may see your childreii before I
die.

12 And the parents taking their daugh-
ter kissed her, and let her go:

13 Admonishing her to honour her fa-
ther and mother in law, to love her hus-
band, to take care of the family, to gov-
ern the house, and to behave herself
Irreprehensibly,

CHAPTER 11.

Tobias anointeth his father''s eyes with the Jl8h*3
rfrtll . and he recovereth his sight.

t Supra 5. 23.

Chap. 11. Ver. 9. The doa, &c. This may seem
fc very minute circumstance to be recorded in sacred
bistory: but as we learn Irom our Saviour. S^ Matt.

AND as they were returning they
J^ came to Charan, which is in the
midway to Ninive, the eleventh day.

2 And the angel said: Brother Tobias,
thou knowest how thou didst leave thy
father.

3 If it please thee therefore, let us ga
before, and let the family follow softly
after us, together with thy wife, and with
the beasts.

4 And as this their going pleased him,
Raphael said to Tobias : Take with thee
of the gall of the fish, for it will be neces-
sary. So Tobias took some of that gall
and departed.

6 But Anna sat beside the way daily ^ on
the top of a hill, from whence she might
see afar off.

6 And while she watched nis coming
from that place, she saw him afar off, and
presently perceived it was her son com-
ing: and returning she told her husband,
saying: Behold thy son cometh.

7 And Raphael said to Tobias : As soon
as thou shalt come into thy house, forth-
with adore the Lord thy God ; and giving
thanks to him, go to thy father, and kiss
him.

8 And immediately anoint his eyes with
this gall of the fish, which thou carriest
with thee. For be assured that his eyes
shall be presently opened, and thy father
shall see the light of heaven, and shall
rejoice in the sight of thee.

9 Then the dog, which had been with
them in the way, ran before, and coming
as if he had brought the news, shewed
his joy by his fawning and wagging his tail.

10 And his father that was blind, rising
up, began to run stumbling with his feet :
and giving a servant his hand, went to
meet his son.

11 And receiving him kissed him, as did
also his wife, and they began to weep for
joy.

12 And when they had adored God, and
given him thanks, they sat down together.

13 Then Tobias taking of the gall of the
fish, anointed his father's eyes.

14 And he stayed about half an hour;
and a white skin began to come 0**t of
his 3yes, like the skin of an :iQg,

15 And Tobias took hold of it, and drew

5. 18,ther3 are ^ntas and tittles In the word of God?
that is "-o 3ay. things that appear minute, but which
liav* iuxVeed » deep and mysterious meaning in then»

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Gratitude of the father and son TOBIAS Raphael makes himself known

it from his eyes, and immediately be
recovered his sight.

16 And they glorified God, both he and
his wife and all that knew him.

17 And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord
God of Israel, because thou hast chastised
me, and thou hast saved me : and behold
I see Tobias my son.

18 And after seven days Sara his son's
wife, and all the family arrived safe, and
the cattle, and the camels, and an abun-
dance of money of his wife's : and that
money also which he had received of
Gabelus:

19 And he told his parents all the bene-
fits of God, which he had done to him by
the man that conducted him.

20 And Achior and Nabath the kinsmen
of Tobias came, rejoicing for Tobias, and
congratulating with him for all the good
things that God had done for him.

21 And for seven days they feasted and
rejoiced all with great ]oy.

CHAPTER 12.

Raphael maketh himself known.

THEN Tobias called to him his son,
and said to him ; What can we give
to this holy man, that is come with thee ?

2 Tobias answering, said to his father ,
father, what wages shall we give him?
or what can be worthy of his benefits ?

3 He conducted me and brought me safe
again, he received the money of Gabelus,
he caused me to have my wife, and he
chased from her the evil spirit, he gave
joy to her parents, myself he delivered
from being devoured by the fish, thee
also he hath made to see the light of
heaven, and we are filled with all good
things through him. What can we give
him sufficient for these things?

4 But I beseech thee, my father, to de-
sire him, that he would vouchsafe to ac-
cept of one half of all things that have
been brought.

5 So the father and the son calling him,
took him aside: and began to desire him
that he would vouchsafe to accept of half
of all things that they had brought.

6 Then he said to them secretly : Bless
ye the God of heaven, give glory to him
to the sight of all that live, because he
bath shewn his mercy to you.

7 For it is good to hide the secret of a

king % hut bonoarable to reveal and con»
fess the works of God.

8 Prayer is good with fasting and alms
more than to lay up treasures of gold .

9 For alms deUvereth from death, and
the same is that which purge th away
sins, and maketh to find mercy and life
everlasting.

10 But they that commit sin and in*
iquity, are enemies to their own souL

11 I discover then the truth unto you,
and T will not hide the secret from you.

12 When thou didst pray with tears, and
didst bm-y the dead, and didst leave thy
dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy
house, and bury them by night, I offered
thy prayer to the Lord.

13 And because thou wast acceptable to
God, it was necessary that temptation
should prove thee,

14 And now the Lord hath sent me to
heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's
wife from the devil.

15 For I am the angel Raphael, one of
the seven, who stand before the Lord.

16 And when they had heard these
things, they were troubled, and being
seized with fear they fell upon the ground
on their face.

17 And the angel said to them: Peace be
to you, fear not.

18 For when I was with you, I was there
by the will of God: bless ye him, and sing
praises to him.

19 I seemed indeed to eat and to drink
with you; but I use an invisible meat and
drink, which cannot be seen by men.

20 It is time therefore that I return to
him that sent me : but bless ye God, and
publish all his wonderful works.

21 And when he had said these things,
he was taken from their sight, and they
could see him no more.

22 Then they Ijdng prostrate for three
hours upon their face, blessed God* and
rising up, they told all his wonderful
worka

CHAPTER 13.

Tobias the father praiseth God, exhorting all Israel
to do the same. Prophesieth the restoration and
better state of Jerusalem.

AND Tobias the elder opening his

XA. mouth, blessed the Lord, and said

Thou art great, O Lord, for ever, and thy

kingdom is onto all ages .

Prayer of the older Tobias

2 ^ For thou scourgest, and thoiii eavest?
thou leadest down to hell, and bringest
up again: and there is none that can
escape thy hand.

3 Give glory to the Lord, ye children of
Israel, and praise him in the sight of the
Gentiles :

4 Because he hath therefore scattered
you among the Gentiles, who know not
him, that you may declare his wonderful
works, and make them know that there
18 no other almighty God besides him.

5 He hath chastised us for our iniqui-
ties: and he will save us for his own
mercy.

6 See then what he hath done with us,
and with fear and trembling give ye glory
to him: and extol the eternal King of
worlds in your works.

7 As for me, I will praise him in the
land of my captivity: because he hath
shewn his majesty toward a sinful natioiio

8 Be converted therefore, ye sinners,
and do justice before God, believing that
he will shew his mercy to youc

9 And I and my soul will rejoice in him.

10 Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep
days of joy, and give glory to him.

11 Jerusalem^ city of God, the Lord hath
chastised thee for the works of thy hands.

12 Give glory to the Lord for thy good
things, and bless the God eternal, that he
may rebuild his tabernacle in thee, and
may call back all the captives to thee,
and thou mayst rejoice for ever and
ever,

13 Thou Shalt shine with a glorious
light: and all the ends of the earth shall
worship thee.

14 2/ Nations ixv^m afar shall come to
thee: and shall bring gifts, and shall
adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem
thy land as holy.

15 For they shall call upon tho great
name in thee,

16 They shall be cm-sed that shall de-
spise thee: and they shall be condemned
that shall blaspheme thee : and blessed
shall they be that shall build thee up.

17 But thou Shalt rejoice in thy chil-
dren, because they shall all be blessed, and
shall be gathered together to the Lord

X Deut. 32. 39 , 1 Kings 2 6 . Wisd. 16« 13»
y Isa. 60 5.-2 Apoc 21. 19.

Chap. 13. Ver. li. Jerrisa/em. What is prophet-
ically delivered here, and in the following chapter,
with relation to Jerusalem, is partly to be under.
»tood of the rebuiadmK tbe city after the captivity ?

TOBIAS

His last words

18 Blessed are all they that love thea
and that rejoice in thy peace

19 My soul, bless thou the Lord, because
the Lord our God hath delivered Jerusa
lem his city from all her troubles.

20 Happy shall I be if there shall
remain of my seed, to see the glory ol
Jerusalem.

21 ^The gates of Jerusalem shall be
built of sapphire, and of emerald, and al)
the walls thereof round about of precious
stones.

22 All its streets shall be paved with
white and clean stones: and Alleluia
shall be sung in its streets

23 Blessed be the Lord, who hath ex-
alted it, and may he reign over it foi
ever and ever, Amen

CHAPTER 14,

Old Tobias dieth at the age of a hundred and two
years, after exhortiJig his son and grandsons to
piety, for eshewing that Ninive shall be destroyed,
and' Jerusalem rebuilt. The younger Tobias re-
turneth with his family to Raguel^ and dieth hap
pily as he had lived.

A ND the words of Tobias were ended,

J\. And after Tobias was restored to his

sight, he lived two and forty years, and

saw the children of his grandchildren.

2 And after he had lived a hundred and
two years, he was buried honourably in
Ninive.

3 For he was six and fifty years old
when he lost the sight of his eyes, and
sixty when he recovered it again.

4 And the rest of his life was in joy, and
with great increase of the fear of God he
departed in peace.

5 And at the hour of his death he called
unto him his son Tobias and his children,
seven young men, his grandsons, and
said to them :

6 The destruction of Ninivt •? it hand:
for the word of the Lord m?^t be ful-
filled • ^ and our brethren, that are scat-
tered abroad from the land of Israel,
shall retiu*n to it.

7 And all the land ♦^^hereot that is desert
shall be filled witi' people, and the house
of God which ie ournt in it shall again
be rebuilt i and aD that tear God shall
return thithei

8 And the Gentiles shall leave their

b 1 Esd, 3. 8

and partly of the spiritual Jerusalem, which is the
church of Christ, &n^ Uitt eternal Jerusalem ixt
heaven.

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Arphaxad builds Ecbatana

JUDITH Nahuchodonosor overcomes him

idols, and ehall come into Jerusalem, and
ehall dwell in it.

9 And all the kings of the earth shall
rejoice in it, adoring the King of Israel.

10 Hearken therefore, my children, to
your father : serve the Lord in truth, and
eeek to do the things that please him :

11 And command your children that
they do justice and almsdeeds, and that
they be mindful of God, and bless him
at all times in truth, and with all their
power.

12 And now, children, hear me, and do
not stay here i but as soon as you shall
bury your mother by me in one sepul-
chre, without delay direct your steps to
depart hence :

13 For I see that its iniquity will bring
it to destruction.

14 And it came J}0 pass that after the
death of his mother, Tobias departed out
of Ninive with his wife, and children,
and children's children, and returned to
his father and mother in law.

16 And he found them in health in a
good old age : and he took care of them,
and he closed their eyes: and all the in-
heritance of Raguel's house came to him:
and he saw his children's children to the
fifth generation.

16 And after he had lived ninety-nine
years in the fear ot the Lord, with joy
they buried him.

17 And all his kindred, and all his gen-
eration continued in good life, and in
holy conversation, so that they were ac-
ceptable both to God, and to men, and
to all that dwelt in the land.

THE

BOOK OF JUDITH.

The sacred writer of this Book wrote in a Semitic language. He was a Jew, a clever
writer, familiar with the earlier sacred writings; an ardent patriot, faithfully at-
tached to the Law. It takes its name from that illustrious woman, by whose virtue,
fortitude, and prayer, the children of Israel were preserved from the destruction
threatened them by Holof ernes and his great army. It finishes with her canticle
of thanksgiving to God.

CHAPTER 1.

Nahuchodonosor king of the Assyrians overcometh
Arphaxad king of the Medes.

NOW Arphaxad king of the Medes had
brought many nations under his do-
minions, and he built a very strong city,
which he called Ecbatana,

2 Of stones squared and hewed : he made
the walls thereof seventy cubits broad,
and thirty cubits high, and the towers
thereof he made a hundred cubits high.
But on the square of them, each side was
extended the space ot twenty feet.

3 And he made the gates thereof ac-
cording to the height of the towers:

4 And he gloried as a mighty one in the
force of his army and in the glory of his
chariots.

Chap. l. Ver. l. Arphaxad. He was probably
the same as is called Dejoces by Herodotus ; to whom
he attributes the buildmg of Ecbatana, the capital
eity of Media.

Ver. ». Nabiuihodonosor. Not the king of Baby^

5 Now in the twelfth year of his reign,
Nahuchodonosor king of the Assyrians,
who reigned in Ninive the great city,
fought against Arphaxad and overcame
him,

6 In the great plain which is called
Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the
Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of
Erioch the king of the Elicians.

7 Then was the kingdom of Nahuchodon-
osor exalted, and his heart was elevated'
and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia
and Damascus, and Libanus,

8 And to the nations that are in Car-
melus, and Cedar, and to the inhabitants
of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon,

9 And to all that were in Samaria, and
beyond the river Jordan even to Jerusa-

lon, who took and destroyed Jerusalem, but another
of the same name, who reigned in Ninive : and is
called by profane historians Saosduchin. He suo
ceeded Asarhaddon in the kingdom of the Assyrians
and was contemporary with Manasses kin^ of Juda

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The mission of Holof ernes

JUDITH

His victorious progress

lem, and all the land of Jesse till you
come to the borders of Ethiopia.

10 To all these Nabuchodonosor king of
the Assyrians, sent messengers .

11 But they all with one mind refused,
and sent them back empty, and rejected
them without honour.

12 Then king Nabuchodonosor being an-
gry against all that land, swore by his
throne and kingdom that he would re-
venge himself of all those countries.

CHAPTER 2.

tfatmchodonosor sendeth Holof ernes to toaste the

tountriea of the west.

IN the thirteenth year of the reign of
Nabuchodonosor, the two and twen-
tieth day of the first month, the word was
given out in the house of Nabuchodon-
osor king of the Assyrians, that he would
revenge himself,

2 And he called all the ancients, and all
the governors, and his officers of war,
and communicated to them the secret of
his counsel:

3 And he said that his thoughts were to
bring all the earth under his empire.

4 And when this saying pleased them all,
Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holo-
fernes the general of his armies,

5 And said to him : Go out against all
the kingdoms of the west, and against
them especially that despised my com-
mandment.

6 Thy eye shall not spare any kingdom,
and all the strong cities thou shalt bring
under my yoke,

7 Then Holofernes called the captains,
and officers of the power of the Assyrians:
and he mustered men for the expedition,
as the king commanded him, a hundred
and twenty thousand fighting men on
foot, and twelve thousand archers, horse-
men.

8 And he made all his warlike prepara-
tions to go before with a multitude of
innumerable camels, with all provisions
sufficient for the armies in abundance,
and herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep,
without number.

9 He appointed com to be prepared out
of all Syria in his passage.

10 But gold and silver he took out of
the king's house in great abundance.

11 And he went forth he and all the

army, with the 'Ohariots, and horsemen,
and archers, who covered the face of the
earth, Uke locusts.

12 And when he had passed through the
borders of the Assyrians, he came to the
great mountains of Ange, which are on
the left of Cilicia : and he went up to all
their castles, and took all the strong
places.

13 And he took by assault the renowned
city of Melothus, and pillaged all the
children of Tharsis, and the children of
Ismahel, who were over against the face
of the desert, and on the south of the
land of Cellon.

14 And he passed over the Euphrates,
and came into Mesopotamia: and he
forced all the stately cities that were
there, from the torrent of Mambre, till
one comes to the sea:

16 And he took the borders thereof,
from Cilicia to the coasts of Japheth,
which are towards the south.

16 And he carried away all the children
of Madian, and stripped them of all their
riches, and all that resisted him he slew
with the edge of the sword.

17 And after these things he went down
into the plains of Damascus in the days
of the harvest, and he set all the corn on
fire, and he caused all the trees and vine-
yards to be cut down.

18 And the fear of them fell upon all the
inhabitants of the land.

CHAPTER 8.

Many sttbmit themselves to Holofernes. Be destroy^
eth their cities, and their gods^that N'cUmchodono-
8or ordy might be called God.

THEN the kings and the princes of all the
cities and provinces, of Syria, Meso-
potamia, and Syria Sobal, and Libya, and
Cilicia sent their ambassadors, who com-
ing to Holofernes, said :

2 Let thy indignation towards us cease :
for it is better for us to live and serve
Nabuchodonosor the great king, and be
subject to thee, than to die and to perish,
or suffer the miseries of slavery.

3 All our cities and our possessions, all
mountains and hills, and fields, and herds
of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and goats,
and horses, and camels, and all our goods,
and ramilies are in thy sight:

4 Let all we have be subject to thy law.

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Submisson of people to Holof ernes JUDITH

The Jews prepare to resist

6 Both we and onr cMldren are thy ser-
vants.

6 Come to us a peaceable lord, and use
our service as it shall please thee.

7 Then he came down from the moun-
tains with horsemen, in great power, and
made himself master of every city, and
all the inhabitants of the land,

8 And from all the cities he took auxil-
iaries valiant men, and chosen for war,

9 And so great a fear lay upon all those
provinces, that the inhabitants of all the
cities, both princes and nobles, as well as
the people, went out to meet him at his
coming.

10 And received him with garlands, and
lights, and dances, and timbrels, and
flutes.

11 And though they did these things,
thej^ could not for all that mitigate the
fierceness of his heart:

12 For he both destroyed their cities,
and cut down their groves.

13 For Nabuchodonosor the king had
commanded him to destroy all the gods
&f the earth, that he only might be called
God by those nations which could be
brought under him by the power of
Holofernes.

14 And when he had passed through all
Syria Sobal, and all Apamea, and all
Mesopotamia, he came to the Idumeans
into the land of Gabaa,

15 And he took possession of their cities,
and stayed there for thirty days, in which
days he commanded all the troops of his
army to be united.

CHAPTER 4.

77ie children of Israel prepare themselves to resist
Holofernes. They cry to the Lord for help.

THEN the children of Israel, who dwelt
in the land of Juda, hearing these
things, were exceedingly afraid of him.

2 Dread and horror seized upon their
minds, lest he should do the same to
Jerusalem and to the temple of the Lord,
that he had done to other cities and their
temples.

3 And they sent into all Samaria round
about, as far as Jericho, and seized upon
all the tops of the mountains:

4 And they compassed their towns with
walls, and gathered together corn for
provision for war.

6 And Eliachim the priest wrote to all
that were over against Esdrelon, which
faceth the great plain near Dothain, and
to all by whom there might be a passage
of way, that they should take possession
of the ascents of the mountains, by which
there might be any way to Jerusalem,
and should keep watch where the way
was narrow between the mountains.

6 And the children of Israel did as the
priest of the Lord Eliachim had appointed
them.

7 And all the people cried to the Lord
with great earnestness, and they humbled
their souls in fastings, and prayers, both
they and their wives.

8 And the priests put on haircloths, and
they caused the Httle children to lie
prostrate before the temple of the Lord,
and the altar of the Lord they covered
with haircloth.

9 And they cried to the Lord the God of
Israel with one accord, that their chil-
dren might not be made a prey, and their
wives carried off, and their cities de-
stroyed, and their holy things profaned,
and that they might not be made a re
proach to the Gentiles.

10 Then Eliachim the high priest of the
Lord went about all Israel and spoke to
them,

11 Saying i Know ye that the Lord will
hear your prayers, if you continue with
perseverance in fastings and prayers in
the sight of the Lord.

12 Remember Moses the servant of t'de
Lord, who overcame Amalec that trusted
in his own strength, and in his power,
and in his army, and in his shields, and
in his chariots, and in his horsemen, not
by fighting with the sword, but by holy
prayers :

13 * So shall all the enemies of Israel be,
if you persevere in this work which you
have begun.

14 So they being moved by this exhorta-
tion of his, prayed to the Lord, and con-
tinued in the sight of the Lord.

15 So that even they who offered the
holocausts to the Lord, offered the sacri-
fices to the Lord girded with haircloths,
and with ashes upon their head.

16 And they all begged of God with al)
their heart, that he would visit his peo-
ple Israel.

€ Ex. 17. 12.

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The anger of Holof ernes

JUDITH

Aehior's account

CHAPTER 6.

Achlor gives Holof ernes an accmmt of the people of
Israel,

A ND it was told Holof ernes the general
,^3. of the army of the Assyrians, that
the children of Israelprepared themselves
to resist, and had shut up the ways of the
mountains.

2 And he was transported with exceed-
ing great fury and indignation, and he
called all the princes of Moab and the
leaders of Ammon.

3 And he said to them ; Tell me what is
this people that besetteth the mountains ;
or what are their cities, and of what sort,
and how great: also what is their power,
or what is their multitude : or who is the
king over their warfare :

4 And why they above all that dwell in
the east, have despised us, i«nd have not
come out to meet us, that they might
receive us with peace ?

5 Then Achior captain of all the children
of Ammon answering, said : If thou vouch-
safe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth
in thy sight concerning this people, that
dwelleth in the mountains, and there
shall not a false word come out of my
mouth,

6 This people is of the offspring of the
Chaldeans.

7 f They dwelt first in Mesopotamia,
because they would not follow the gods
of their fathers, who were in the land of
the Chaldeans.

8 Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies
of their fathers, which consisted in the
worship of many gods,

9 They worshipped one God of heaven,
fl'who also commanded them to depart
from thence, and to dwell in Charan.
And when there was a famine over all
the land, ^ they went down into Egypt,
and there for four hundred years were so
multiplied, that the army of them could
not be numbered.

10 And when the king of Egypt oppress-
ed them, and made slaves of them to
labour in clay and brick, in the building
of his cities, they cried to their Lord,
and he struck the whole land of Egypt
with divers plagues.

11 * And when the Egyptians had cast
them out from them, and the plague had
ceased from them, and they had a mind

/Gen. U.^].-»!^ Geou 12- lo— AG«»a.48bit.

to take them again, and bring them back
to their service,

12-^The God of heaven opened the sea
to them in their flight, so that the wa-
ters were made to stand firm as a wall
on either side, and they walked through
the bottom of the sea and passed it dry
foot.

13 And when an innumerable army of
the Egyptians p'^rsued after them in
that place, they were so overwhelmed
with the waters, that there was not one
left, to tell what had happened to pos-
terity.

14 And after thej;' came out of the Red
Sea, they abode in the deserts of mount
Sina, in which never man could dwell, or
son of man rested.

15 There bitter fountains were made
sweet for them to drink, and for forty
years they received food from heaven.

16 Wheresoever they went in without
bow and arrow, and without shield and
sword, their God fought for them and
overcame.

17 And there vas no one that tri-
umphed over this people, but when they
departed from the worship of the Lord
their God.

18 But as often as beside their own God.
they worshipped any other, they were
given to spoil, and to the sword, and to
reproach.

19 And as often as they were penitent
for having revolted from the worship of
their God, the God of heaven gave them
power to resist.

20 So they overthrew the king of the
Chanaanites, and of the Jebusites, and of
the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and
of the Hevites, and of the Amorrhites,
and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and
they possessed their lands, and their
cities :

21 And as long as they sinned not in
the sight of their God, it was well with
them : for their God hateth iniquity.

22 And even some years ago when they
had revolted from the way which God
had given them to walk therein, they
were destroyed in battles by many na-
tions, and very many of them were led
away captive into a strange landc

23 But of late returning to the Lord
their God, from the different placet

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Achior taken to Bethulia

wherein they were scattered, they are
come together and are gone up into all
these mountains, and possess Jerusalem
again, where their holies are.

24 Now therefore, my lord, search If
there be any iniquity of theirs in the
sight of their God : let us go up to them,
because their God will surely deliver
them to thee, and they shall be brought
under the yoke of thy power:

25 But if there be no offence of this
people in the sight of their God, we can-
not resist them, because their God will
defend them : and we shall be a reproach
to the whole earth.

26 And it came to pass, when Achior
bad ceased to speak these words, all the
great men of Holofernes were angry, and
they had a mind to kill him, saying to
each other:

27 Who is this, that saith the children
of Israel can resist king Nabuchodonosor,
and his armies, men unarmed, and with-
out force, and without skill in the art of
war?

28 That Achior therefore may know
that he deceive th us, let us go up into
the mountains: and when the bravest of
them shall be taken, then shall he with
them be stabbed with the sword:

29 That every nation may know that
Nabuchodonosor is god of the earth, and
besides him there is do other.

CHAPTER 6.

ffolofemes in great rage sendeth Achior to Beth-
ulia, there to be slain with the Israelites.

A ND it came to pass when they had
jLjL left off speaking, that Holofernes
being in a violent passion, said to Achior :

2 Because thou hast prophesied unto us,
saying: That the nation of Israel is de-
fended by their God, to shew thee that
there is no God, but Nabuchodonosor :

3 When we shall slay them all aa one
man, then thou aiso shalt die with them
by the sword of the Assyrians, and all
Israel shall perish with thee :

4 And thou shalt find that Nabucho-
donosor is lord of the whole earth : and
then the sword of my soldiers shall pass
through thy sides, and thou shalt be
stabbed and fall among the wounded of
Israel, and thou shalt breathe no more
till thou be destroyed with them.

5 But If thou thint "ihy prophecy true,
let not thy countenance sink, and let the
paleness that is in thy face, depart from
thee, if thou imaginest these my wordf
cannot be accomphshed.

6 And that thou mayst know that thou
shalt experieroe these things together
with them, hi «old from this hour thou
shalt be asso^^Aated to their people, that
when they shall receive the punishment
they deserve from my sword, thou mayst
fall under the same vengeance.

7 Then Holofernes commanded his ser-
vants to take Achior, and to lead him
to BethuUa, and to deliver him into the
hands of the children of Israel,

8 And the servants of Holofernes tak-
ing him, went through the plains: but-
when they came near the mountains, the
slingere came out against them,

9 Then turning out of the way by the
side of the mountain, they tied Achior
to a tree hand and foot, and so left him
bound with ropes, and returned to their
master,

10 And the children of Israel coming
down from Bethulia, came to him, and
loosing him they brought him to Beth-
ulia, and setting him in the midst of the
people, asked him what was the matter,
that the Assyrians had left him bound,

11 In those days the rulers there, were
Ozias the son of Micha of the tribe of
Simeon, and Oharmi, called also Gotho*
DieL

12 And Achior related in the midst of
the ancients, and in the presence of all
the people, all that he had said being
asked by Holofernes: and how the peo»
pie of Holofernes would have killed him
for this word,

13 And how Holofernes himself being
angry had commanded him to be de-
livered for this cause to the Israelites:
that when he should overcome the chil-
dren of Israel, then he might command
Achior also himself to be put to death
by diverse torments, for having said;
The God of heaven is their defender.

14 * And when Achior had declared all
these things, all the people fell upoE
their faces, adoring the Lord, and all of
them together mourning and weepinj?
poured out their prayers with one ac-
cord to the Lord,

Alopralbflti

The Jews comfort Achior

JUDITH

The siege of Beihulia

15 Saying: O Lord God of heaven and
earth, behold their pride, and look on
our low condition, and have regard to
the face of thy saints, and shew that
thou forsakest not them that trust on
thee, and that thou humblest them that
presume of themselves, and glory in
their own strength.

16 So when their weeping was ended,
and the people's prayer, in which they
continued all the day, was concluded,
they comforted Achior,

17 Saying : The God of our fathers,
whose power thou hast set forth, will
make this return to thee, that thou
rather shalt see their destruction.

18 And when the Lord our God shall
give this hberty to his servants, let God
be with thee also in the midst of us:
that as it shall please thee, so thou with
all thine mayst converse with us.

19 Then Ozias, after the assembly was
broken up, received him into his house,
and made him a great supper.

20 And all the ancients were invited,
and they refreshed themselves together
after their fast was over.

21 And afterwards all the people were
called together, and they prayed all the
night long within the church, desiring
help of the God of Israel.

CHAPTER 7.

Holof ernes besiegeth Bethulia. The distress of t,he
besieged..

BUT Holofernes on the next day gave
orders to his army, to go up against
Bethulia.

2 Now there were in his troops a hun-
dred and twenty thousand footmen, and
two and twenty thousand horsemen, be-
sides the preparations of those men who
had been taken, and whc had been
brought away out of the provinces and
cities of all the youth.

3 All these prepared themselves to-
gether to fight against the children of
Israel, and they came by the hillside to
the top, which looketh toward Dothain,
from the place which is called Belma,
unto Chelmon, which is over against Es-
drelon.

4 But the children of Israel, when they
saw the multitude of them, prostrated

themselves upon the ground, putting
ashes upon their heads, praying with one
accord, that the God of Israel would shew
his mercy upon his people.

6 And taking their arms of war, they
posted themselves at the places, which
by a narrow pathway lead directly be-
tween the mountains, and they guarded
them all day and night.

6 Now Holofernes, in going round about,
found that the fountain which supplied
them with water, ran through an aque-
duct without the city on the south side :
and he commanded their aqueduct to be
cut off.

7 Nevertheless there were springs not
far from the walls, out of which they
were seen secretly to draw water, to re-
fresh themselves a little rather than to
drink their fill.

8 But the children of Ammon and Moab
came to Holofernes, saying : The children
of Israel trust not in their spears, nor in
their arrows, but the mountains are their
defence, and the steep hills and preci-
pices guard them.

9 Wherefore that thou mayst overcome
them without joining battle, set guards
at the springs that they may not draw
water out of them, and thou shalt destroy
them without sword, or at least being
wearied out they will yield up their city,
which they supp^>8e. because it is situate
in the mountains. >o be impregnable.

10 And these swords pleased Holofernes,
and his oflBicers, and he placed all round
about a hundred men at every spring.

11 And when they had kept this watch
for full twenty days, the cisterns, and the
reserve of waters failed among all the
inhabitants of Bethnlia, so that there was
not within the jity, enough to satisfy
them, no not for one day, for water was
daily given out to the people by measure.

12 Then all the men and women, young
men, and children, gathering themselves
together to Ozias, all together with one
voice,

13 Said : ' God be judge between us a,nd
thee, for thou hast done evil against us,
in that thou wouldst not speak peaceably
with the Assyrians, and for this cause
God hath sold ue into their hands.

14 And therefore there is no one to help

I Ex. 5. 21.

Chap. 6 Veir= 21» The church. That Is, the sjmagogue or place where they met for prayer.
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Lamentation of the Jews JUDITH

us, while we are cast down before their
eyes in thirst, and sad destruction.

15 And now assemble ye all that are in
the city, that we may of our own accord
yield ourselves all up to the people of
Holofernes.

16 For it is better, that being captives
we should live and bless the Lord, than
that we should die, and be a reproach to
all flesh, after we have seen our wives
and our infants die before our eyes.

17 We call to witness this day heaven
and earth, and the God of our fathers,
who taketh vengeance upon us according
to our sins, conjuring you to deliver now
the city into the hand of the army of
Holofernes, that our end may be short
by the edge of the sword, which is made
longer by the drought of thirst.

18 And when they had said these things,
there was great weeping and lamentation
of all in the assembly, and for many
hours with one voice they cried to God,
Baying :

19 "* We have sinned with our fathers,
we have done unjustly, we have com-
mitted iniquity:

20 Have thou mercy on us, because thou
art good, or punish our iniquities by chas-
tising us thyself, and deliver not them
that trust in thee to a people that know-
eth not thee,

21 That they may not say among the
Gentiles ; Where is their God ?

22 And when being wearied with these
cries, and tired with these weepings, they
held their peace,

23 Ozias rising up all in tears, said : Be
of good courage, my brethren, and let us
wait these five days for mercy from the
Lord.

24 For perhaps he will put a stop to his
indignation, and will give glory to his
ow :name.

21 But if after five days be past there
jome no aid, we will do the things which
you have spoken.

CHAPTER 8.

The character of Judith : her discourse to the
ancients.

Judith

m Ps. 10. 6.

Chap. 8. Ver. 1. Simeon the son of Ruben. In
the Greek, it is the son of Israel. For Simeon the

Satriarch, from whom Judith descended, was not
tie son, but the brother of Ruben. It seems more

probable that the Simeon and the Ruben here men- that of king Saul, I Kings 9. 1.
cioncd are Dot the patriarchs ' but two ol the de- 1

1VT0W it caiD© '.0 pass, when Judith
1.1 a widow had heard these words,
who was t.Lo daughter of Merari, the son
of Idox, the son of Joseph, .he son of
Ozias, the son of Elai, the son cjt Jamnor,
the son of Gedeon, the 60n of Raphaim,
the son of Achitob, the BOn of Melchias,
the son of Enan, the son Of Nathanias, the
son of Salathiel, the SOB of Simeon, the
son of Ruben:

2 And her husband was Manasses, who
died in the time of the barley harvest :

3 For he was standing over them that
bound sheaves in the field ; and the heat
came upon his head, and he died in Beth-
ulia his own city, and was buried there
with his fathers.

4 And Judith his relict was a widow now
three years and six months.

5 And she made herself a private cham-
ber in the upper part of her house, in
which she abode shut up with her maids.

6 And she wore haircloth upon her loins,
and fasted all the days of her life, except-
the sabbaths, and new moons, and thb
feasts of the house of Israel.

7 And she was exceedingly beautiful,
and her husband left her great riches,
and very many servants, and large pos-
sessions of herds of oxen, and flocks of
sheep.

8 And she was greatly renowned among
all, because she feared the Lord very
much, neither was there any one that
spoke an ill word of her.

9 When therefore she had beard that
Ozias had promised that he would deliver
up the city after the fifth day, she sent
to the ancients Chabri and Charmi.

10 And they came to her, and she said
to them: What is this word, by which
Ozias hath consented to give up the city
to the Assyrians, if within five days there
come no aid to us ?

11 And who are you that tempt the Lord?

12 This is not a word that may draw
down mercy, but rather that may stir up
wrath, and enkindle indignation.

13 You have set a time for the mercy of
the Lord, and you have appointed him $•
day, according to your pleasure.

scendants of the patriarch Simeon: and that th»*
genealogy of Judith, recorded in this place, is not
carried up so high as the patriarchs. No more thai
that of Elcana the father of Samuel, 1 Kings 1. 1, and

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Judith'' s discourse to the ancients JUDITH Judith's discourse to the ancients

14 But forasmuch as the Lord is patient,
let us be penitent for this same thing,
and with many tears let us beg his par-
don:

15 For God will not threaten like man,
nor be inflamed to anger like the son of
man.

16 And therefore let us humble our
souls before him^ and continuing in an
humble spirit, in his service :

17 Let us ask the Lord with tears, that
according to his will so he would shew
his mercy to us : that as our heart is
troubled by their pride, so also we may
glorify in our humility.

18 For we have not followed the sins of
our fathers, who forsook their trod, and
worshipped strange gods.

19 For which crime they were given up
to their enemies, to the sword, and to
pillage, and to confusion : but we know
no other God but him.

20 Let us humbly wait for his consola-
tion, and the Lord our God will require
our blood of the aflaictions of our ene-
mies, and he will humble all the nations
that shall rise up against us, and bring
them to disgrace.

21 And now, brethren, as you are the
ancients among the people of God, and
their very soul resteth upon you : com-
fort their hearts by your speech, that
they may be mindful how our fathers
were tempted that they might be proved,
whether they worshipped their God truly.

22 «■ They must remember how our father
Abraham was tempted, and being proved
by many tribulations, was made the friend
of God.

23 So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all
that have pleased God, passed through
many tribulations, remaining faithful.

24 But they that did not receive the
trials with the fear of the Lord, but ut-
tered their impatience and the reproach
of their murmmring against the Lord,

25 ° Were destroyed by the destroyer,
and perished by serpents.

26 As for us therefore let us not revenge
ourselves for these things which we suf-
fer.

27 But esteeming these very pum'sh-

n Gen. 22. 1.— o 1 Cor. 10. 9.

Chap. 9. Ver. 2. Gavest him a sword, &c. The
justice ( i God is here praised, in punishing by the
sword of Simeon the crime of the Sichemites : and
not the act of Simeon, which was justly condemned
by his father, Gen. 49. 5. Thougli even with regard

ments to be less than our sins deserve,
let us believe that these scourges of the
Lord, with which like servants we are
chastised, have happened for our amend-
ment, and not for our destruction.

28 And Ozias and the ancients said to
her: All things which thou hast spoken
are true, and there is nothing to be re-
prehended in thy words.

29 Now therefore pray for us, for thou
art a holy woman, and one fearing God.

30 And Judith said to them : As you
know that what I have been able to say
is of God :

31 So that which I intend to do prove
ye if it be of God, and pray that God
may strengthen my design.

32 You shall stand at the gate this
night, and I will go out with my maid-
servant : and pray ye, that as you have
said, in five days the Lord may look
down upon his people Israel.

33 But I desire that you search not into
what I anL-jJoing, and till I bring you
word let nothing else ^e done but to
pray tor me-ta the L(5fd^ our God.

34 And Ozias the prince of Juda said to
her : Go in peace, and the Lord be with
thee to take revenge of our enemies. So
returning they departed.

CHAPTER 9.

Judith's prayer^ to beg of God to fortify her in her
undertaking.

A ND when they were gone, Judith went
Jl\. into her oratory: and putting on
haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and
falling down prostrate before the Lord,
she cried to the Lord, saying :

2 O Lord God of my father Simeon,
P who gavest him a sword to execute
vengeance against strangers, who had
defiled by their uncleanness, and uncov-
ered the virgin unto confusion :

3 And who gavest their wives to be
made a prey, and their daughters into
captivity: and all their spoils to be di-
vided to thy servants, who were zealous
with thy zeal: assist, I beseech thee, O
Lord God, me a widow.

4 For thou hast done the things of old,

and hast devised one thing after another :

p Gen. 34.2r>.

to this act, we may distinguisli between his zeal
against the crime committed by the ravishers of his
sister, which zeal may be considered just : and the
manner of his punishing that crime, which was irreg-
ular and excessive.

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Judith's prayer

JUDITH Judith goes to the Assyrian camp

a^id what thou hast designed hath been
doiie.

5 For all thy ways are prepared, and
in thy providence thou hast placed thy
judgments.

6 ^ Look upon the camp of the Assyrians
now, as thou wast pleased to look upon
the camp of the Egyptians, when they
pursued armed after thy servants, trust-
ing in their chariots, and in their horse-
men, and in a multitude of warriors.

7 But thou lookedst over their camp,
and darkness wearied them.

8 The deep held their feet, and the wa-
ters overwhelmed them.

9 So may it be with these also, O Lord,
who trust in their multitude, and in their
chariots, and in their pikes, and in their
shields, and in their arrows, and glory in
their spears,

10 And know not that thou art our God,
who destroyest wars from the beginning,
and the Lord is thy name.

, 11 Lift up thy arm as from the begin-
ning, and crush their power with thy
power : let their power fall in their wrath,
who promise themselves to violate thy
sanctuary, and defile the dwelling place
of thy name, and to beat down with
their sword the horn of thy altar.

12 Bring to pass, O Lord, that his pride
may be cut off with his own sword.

13 Let him be caught in the net of his
own eyes in my regard, and do thou
strike him by the graces of the words of
my lips.

14 Give me constancy in my mind, that
I may despise aim: and fortitude that I
may overthrov him.

15 **For this will be a glorious monu-
ment for thy name, when he shall fall by
the hand of a woman.

16 For thy power, O Lord, is not in a
multitude, nor is thy pleasure in the
strength of horses, nor from the begin-
ning have the proud been acceptable to
thee: but the prayer of the humble and
^e meek hath always pleased thee.

17 O God of the heavens, creator of the
waters, and Lord of the whole creation,
hear me a poor wretch, making suppli-
cation to thee, and presuming of thy
mercy.

18 Remember, O Lord, thy covenant,
and put thou words in my mouth, and

strengthen the resolution in my heart,
that thy house may continue in thy holi-
ness:

19 And all nations may acknowledge
that thou art God, and there is no other
besides thee.

CHAPTER 10.

Judith goeth out towards the camp, and is tcckeiii
and brought to Holofernes.

A KD it came to pass, when she had
XX ceased to cry to the Lord, that she
rose from the place wherein she lay
prostrate before the Lord.

2 And she called her maid, and going
down into her house she took off her
haircloth, and put away the garments of
her widowhood,

3 And she washed her body, and
anointed herself with the best ointment,
and plaited the hair of her head, and put
a bonnet upon her head, and clothed
herself with the garments of her glad-
ness, and put sandals on her feet, and
took her bracelets, and lilies, and earlets,
and rings, and adorned herself with all
her ornaments.

4 And the Lord also gave her more
beauty : because all this dressing up did
not proceed from sensuality, but from
virtue: and therefore the Lord increased
this her beauty, so that she appeared to
all men's eyes incomparably lovely.

6 And she gave to her maid a bottle of
wine to carry, and a vessel of oil, and
parched corn, and dry figs, and bread and
cheese, and went out.

6 And when they came to the gate of
the city, they found Ozias, and the an-
cients of the city waiting.

7 And when they saw her they were
astonished, and admired her beauty ex-
ceedingly.

8 But they asked her no question, only
they let her pass, saying: The God of
our fathers give thee grace, and may he
strengthen all the counsel of thy heart
with his power, that Jerusalem may
glory in thee, and thy name may be in
the number of the holy and just.

9 And they that were there said, all with
one voice : So be it, so be it.

10 But Judith praying to the Lord,
passed through the gates, she and hei
maido

q Ex. 14. 9.

r Judges 4. 21, and 5. 26.

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Judith's speech to Holof ernes

11 And it came to pass, when she went
down the hill, about break of day, that
the watchmen of the Assjrrians met her,
and stopped her, saying: Whence comest
thou ? or whither goest thou ?

12 And she answered : 1 am a daughter
of the Hebrews, and I am fled from them,
because I knew they would be made a
prey to you, because they despised you,
and would not of their own accord yield
themselves, that they might find mercy in
your sight.

13 For this reason I thought with my-
self, saying: I will go to the presence of
the prince Holofernes, that I may tell
him their secrets, and shew him by what
way he may take them, without the loss
of one man of his army.

14 And when the men had heard her
words, they beheld her face, and their
eyes were amazed, for they wondered
exceedingly at her beauty.

15 And they said to her: Thou hast
saved thy life by taking this resolution,
to come down to our lord.

16 And be assured of this, that when
thou shalt stand before him, he will treat
[ bee well, and thou wilt be most accept-
able to his heart. And they brought her to
the tent of Holofernes, telling him of her.

17 And when she was ccne into his pre-
sence, forthwith Holofernes was caught
by his eyes.

18 And his officers said to him : Who
can despise the people of the Hebrews,
who have such beautiful women, that we
should not think it worth our while for
their sakes to fight against them ?

19 And Judith seeing Holofernes sitting
under a canopy, which was woven of
purple and gold, with emeralds and pre-
cious stones :

20 After she had looked on his face,
bowed down to him, prostrating herself
to the ground. And the servants of
Holofernes lifted her up, by the com-
mand of their master.

CHAPTER 11.

Judith^s speech to Holofernes.

THEN Holofernes said to her : Be of
good comfort, and fear not in thy

Chap. lO. Ver. 12. Because I knew, &c. In this
ana the tollowing chapter, some things are related
to have been said by Judith, which seem hard to re-
eoDcUe wlUi truOu But aU that U related iu scrip.

heart : f o:!^ i have never hurt a man that
was willing to serve Nabuchodonosor the
king.

2 And if thy people had not despised
me, I would never have lifted up my
spear against them.

3 But now tell me, for what cause hast
thou left them, and why it hath pleased
thee to come to us ?

4 And Judith said to him : Receive the
words of thy handmaid, for if thou wilt
follow the words of thy handmaid, the
Lord will do with thee a perfect thing.

5 For as Nabuchodonosor the king of
the Garth liveth, and his power liveth
which is in thee for chastising of all
straying souls: not only men serve him
through thee, but also the beasts of the
field obey him.

6 For the industry of thy mind is spo-
ken of among all nations, and it is told
through the whole world, that thou only
art excellent, and mighty in all his king-
dom, and thy discipline is cried up in all
provinces.

7 * It is known also what Achior said,
nor are we ignorant of what thou hast
commanded to be done to him.

8 For it is certain that our God is so of-
fended with sins, that he hath sent word
by his prophets to the people, that he
will deliver them up for their sins.

9 And because the children of Israel
know they have offended their God, thy
dread is upon them.

10 Moreover also a famine hath come
upon them, and for drought of water
they are already to be counted among
the dead.

11 And they have a design even to kill
their cattle, and to drink the blood of
them.

12 And the consecrated things of the
Lord their God which God forbade them
to touch, in corn, wine, and oil, these
have they purposed to make use of, and
they design to consume the things which
they ought not to touch with their hands:
therefore because they do these things,
it is certain they will be given up to de-
struction.

13 And I thy handmaid knowing this,

5 Supra 5. 5.

ture of the servants of God is not approved by the
scripture ; and even the saints in their good enter*
prises may sometimes slip into venial sins.

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Judith finds favor with Holof ernes JUDITH

Judith invited to the banquet

am fled from them, and tilie Lord hath
sent me to tell thee these very things.

14 For I thy handmaid worship God
even now that I am with thee, and thy
handmaid will go out, and I will pray to
Grod,

15 And he will tell me when he will re-
pay them for their sins, and I will come
t-nd tell thee, so that I may bring thee
through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou
shalt have aU the people of Israel, as
sheep that have no shepherd, and there
ohall not so much as one dog bark against
thee:

16 Because these things are told me by
the providence of God.

17 And because God is angry with them,
I am sent to tell these very things to thee.

18 And all these words pleased Holo-
f ernes, and his servants, and they ad-
mired her wisdom, and they said one to
another:

19 There is not such another woman
upon earth in look, in beauty, and in
sense of words.

20 And Holof ernes said to her : God
hath done well who sent thee before the
people, that thou mightest give them
into our hands :

21 And because thy promise is good, if
thy God shall do this for me, he shall
also be my God, and thou shalt be great
in the house of Nabuchodonosor, and thy
name shall be renowned through all the
earth.

CHAPTER 12.

Judith ffoeth out in the night to pray : she is In^
vited to a banquet with Holofernes.

THEN he ordered that she should go
in where his treasures were laid up,
and bade her tarry there, and he ap-
pointed what should be given her from
his own table.

2 And Judith answered him and said :
Now I cannot eat of these things which
thou commandest to be given me, lest
sin come upon me : but I will eat of the
things which I have brought.

3 And Holofernes said to her: If these
things which thou hast brought with
thee fail thee, what shall we do for thee ?

4 And Judith said : As thy soul liveth,
my lord, thy handmaid shall not spend
all these things till God do by my hand
that which I have purposed. And his
servants brought her into the tent which
h<s had commanded.

6 And when she was going in, she de-
sired that she might have liberty to go
out at night and before day to prayer,
and to beseech the Lord.

6 And he commanded his chamber-
lains, that she might go out and in, to
adore her God as she pleased, for three
days.

7 And she went out in the nights into
the valley of Bethulia, and washed her-
self in a fountain of water.

8 And as she came up, she prayed to the
Lord the God of Israel, that he would
direct her way to the deliverance of his
people.

9 And going in, she remained pure in
the tent, until she took her own meat in
the evening.

10 And it came to pass on the fourth
day, that Holofernes made a supper for
his servants, and said to Vagao his
eunuch: Go, and persuade that Hebrew
woman, to consent of her own accord to
dwell with me.

11 For it is looked upon as shameful
among the Assyrians, if a woman mock a
man, by doing so as to pass free from him.

12 Then Vagao went in to Judith, and
oaid : Let not my good maid be afraid to go
in to my lord, that she may be honoured
before his face, that she may eat with
him and drink wine and be merry.

13 And Judith answered him : Who am
I, that I should gainsay my lord ?

14 All that shall be good and best be-
fore his eyes, I will do. And whatsoever
shall please him, that shall be best to me
all the days of my life.

15 And she arose and dressed herself
out with her garments, and going in she
stood before his face.

16 And the heart of Holofernes was
smitten, for he was burning with the de-
sire of her.

17 And Holofernes said to her: Drink
now, and sit down and be merry; for
thou hast found favour before me.

18 And Judith said: I will drink my
lord, because my life is magnified this
day above all my days.

19 And she took and ate and drank be-
fore him what her maid had prepared
for her.

20 And Holofernes was made merry on
her occasion, and drank exceeding much
wine, so much as he had never drunk in

I his life.

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JUDITH

She returns to her people

CHAPTER 13.

Judith cutteth off the head of Holofernes, and return-
eth to Bethidla.

AND when it was grown late, his ser-
. vants made haste to their lodgings,
and Vagao shut the chamber doors, and
went his way,

2 And they were all overcharged with
wine.

3 And Judith was alone in the chamber.

4 But Holofernes lay on his bed, fast
asleep, being exceedingly drunk.

5 And Judith spoke to her maid to stand
without before the chamber, and to
watch:

6 And Judith stood before the bed pray-
ing with tears, and the motion of her lips
in silence,

7 Saying: Strengthen me, 0 Lord God
of Israel, and ^n this hour look on the
works of my hands, that as thou hast
promised, thou mayst raise up Jerusalem
thy city: and that I may bring to pass
that which I have purposed, having a
belief that it might be done by thee.

8 And when she had said this, she went
to the pillar that was at his bed's head,
and loosed his sword that hung tied upon
it.

9 And when she had drawn it out, she
took him by the hair of his head, and
said : Strengthen me, O Lord God, at this
hour.

10 And she struck twice upon his neck,
and cut off his head, and took off his can-
opy from the pillars, and rolled away his
headless body.

11 And after a while she went out, and
delivered the head of Holofernes to her
maid, and bade her put it into her wallet.

12 And they two went out according to
their custom, as it were to prayer, and
they passed the camp, and having com-
passed the valley, they came to the gate
of the city.

13 And Judith from afar off cried to the
watchmen upon the walls : Open the gates
for God is with us, who hath shewn his
power in Israel.

14 And it came to pass, when the men
had heard her voice, that they called the
ancients of the city.

15 And aii ran to meet her from the
least to the greatest: for they now had
no hopes that she would come.

Praise ye the Lord our
not forsaken them that

16 And lighting up lights they all gath-
ered round about her: and she went up
to a higher place, and commanded silence
to be made. And when all had held their
peace,

17 Judith said :
God, who hath
hope in him.

18 And by me his handmaid he hath ful-
filled his mercy, which he promised to
the house of Israel: and he hath killed
the enemy of his people by my hand this
night.

19 Then she brought forth the head of
Holofernes out of Iho T7allet, and shewed
it them, saying : Behold the head of
Holofernes the general of the army of
the Assyrians, and behold his canopy,
wherein he lay in his drunkenness, where
the Lord our God slew him by the hand
of a woman.

20 But as the same Lord liveth, his angel
hath been my keeper both going hence,
and abiding there, and returning from
thence hither: and the Lord hath not
suffered me his handmaid to be defiled,
but hath brought me back to you without
pollution of sin, rejoicing for his victory,
for my escape, and for your deliverance,

21 *Give all of you glory to him, be-
cause he is good, because his mercy en-
dureth for ever.

22 And they all adored the Lord, and
said to her: The Lord hath blessed thee
by his power, because by thee he hath
brought our enemies to nought.

23 And Ozias the prince of the people
of Israel, said to her: Blessed art thou,
O daughter, by the Lord the most high
God, above all women upon the earth.

24 Blessed be the Lord who made hea-
ven and earth, who hath directed thee to
the cutting off the head of the piince of
our enemies.

25 Because he hath so magnified thy
name this day, that thy praise shall not
depart out of the mouth of men who shall
be mindful of the power of the Lord for
ever, for that thou hast not spared thy
hfe, by reason of the distress and tribu-
lation of thy people, but hast prevented
our ruin in the presence of our God.

26 And all the people said : So be it, so
be it.

27 And Achior being called for came,

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The assault on the Assyrian camp JUDITH Death of Holof ernes discovered

and Judith said to him : The God of Israel,
to whom thou gavest testimony, that he
revengeth himself of his enemies, he hath
cut off the head of all the unbehevers
this night by my hand.

28 And that thou mayst find that it is
80, behold the head of Holof ernos, who
in the contempt of his pride despise "* the
God of Israel: and threatened the: .Tiri
death, saying : When the people of Israel
shall be taken, I will command tiiy ides
to be pierced with a sword.

29 Then Achior seeing the head of Holo-
fernes, being seized with a great fear he
fell on his face upon the eart] , end his
soul swooned away.

30 But after he had recovered his spirits
he fell down at her feet, and reverenced
her, and said :

31 Blessed art thou by thy God in every

9 And they that were in the tent came^
and made a noise before the door of the
chamber to awake him, endeavouring by
art to break his rest, that Holof ernee
might awake, not by their calling him,
but by their noise.

10 For no man durst knock, or open and
go into the chamber of the general of
the Assyrians.

11 But when his captains and tribunes
were come, and all the chiefs of the army
of the king of the Assyrians, they said to
the chamberlains :

12 Go in, and awake him, for the mice,
coming out of their holes, have presumed
to challenge us to fight.

13 Then Vagao going into his chamber,
stood before the curtain, and made a
clapping with his hands : for he thought
that he was sleeping with Judith.

tabernacle of Jacob, for in every nation . 14 But when with hearkening, he per-
which shall hear thy name, the God of ceived no motion of one lying, he came
Israel shall be magnified on occasion of near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and
thee. yseeing the body of Holofernes, lying

CHAPTER 14.

The Israelites assault the Assyrians, who finding
their general slain, are ccized with a panic fear.

A ND Judith said to all the people : Hear
l\ me, my brethren, hang ye up this
head upon our walls.

2 And as soon as the sun shall rise, let
every man take his arms, and rush ye
out, not as going down beneath, but as
making an assault.

3 Then the watchmen must needs run to
awake their prince for the battle.

4 And when the captains of them shall
run to the tent of Holofernes, and shall
find him without his head wallowing in
his blood, fear shall fall upon them.

6 And when you shall know that they
are fleeing, go after them securely, for the
Lord will destroy them under your feet.

6 Then Achior seeing the power that
the God of Israel had wrought, leaving
the religion of the Gentiles, he believed
God, and circumcised the flesh of his
foreskin, and was joined to the people of
Israel, with all the succession of his
kindred until this present day.

7 And immediately at break of day, they
hung up the head of Holofernes upon the
walls, and every man took his arms, and
they went out with a great noise and
shouting.

8 And the watchmen seeing this, ran to
the tent of Holofernes.

upon the ground, without the head, wel-
tering in his blood, he cried out v«^ith a
loud voice, with weeping, and rent his
garments.

15 And he went into the tent of Judith,
and not finding her, he ran out to the
people,

16 And said : One Hebrew woman hath
made confusion in the house of king
Nabuchodonosor : for behold Holofernes
lieth upon the ground, and his head is
not upon him.

17 Now when the chiefs of the army of
the Assyrians had heard this, they all
rent their garments, and an intolerable
fear and dread fell upon them, and their
minds were troubled exceedingly.

18 And there was a very great cry in
the midst of their camp.

CHAPTER 15.

The Assyrians flee : the Hebreivs pursue after them,
and are enriched by their spoils.

AND when all the army heard that
. Holofernes was beheaded, courage
and counsel fled from them, and being
seized with trembUng and fear they
thought only to save themselves by
flight :

2 So that no one spoke to his neighbour,
but hanging down the head, leaving all
things behind, they made haste to escape
frcT» the Hebrews, who, ae they heard.

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Flight of the Assyrians

were coming armed upon them, and fled
by the ways of the fields, and the paths
of the hills.

3 So the children of Israel seeing them
fleeing, followed after them. And they
went down sounding with trumpets and
shouting after them.

4 And because the Assyrians were not
united together, they went without order
in their flight i but the children of Israel
pursuing in one body, defeated all that
they could find.

5 And Ozias sent messengers through
all the cities and countries of Israel.

6 And every country, and every city,
Bent their chosen young men armed after
them, and they pursued them with the
edge of the sword until they came to the
extremities of their confines.

7 And the rest that were in Bethulia
went into the camp of the Assyrians, and
took away the spoils which the Assyrians
in their flight had left behind them, and
they were laden exceedingly,

8 But they that returned conquerors to
Bethulia, brought with them all things
that were theirs, so that there was no
numbering of their cattle, and beasts, and
all their moveables, insomuch that from
the least to the greatest all were made
rich by their spoils.

9 And Joachim the high priest came
from Jerusalem to Bethulia with all his
ancients to see Judith.

10 And when she was come out to him,
they all blessed her with one voice, say-
ing: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem,
thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the
honour of our people *

11 For thou hast done manfully, and thy
heart has been strengthened, because
thou hast loved chastity, and after thy
husband hast not known any other :
therefore also the hand of the Lord hath
strengthened thee, and therefore thou
Shalt be blessed for ever.

12 And all the people said: So be it, so
be it.

13 And thirty days were scarce sufficient
for the people of Israel to gather up the
Bpoils of the Assyrians.

14 But all those things that were proved
to be the peculiar goods of Holofernes,
they gave to Judith in gold, and silver,
and garments and precious stones, and
all household stuff, and they all were de-
livered to her by the people.

JUDITH

The canticle of Judith

15 And all the people rejoiced, with tne
women, and virgins, and young men^
playing on instruments and harps.

CHAPTER 16.

The canticle of Judith : her virtuous life and death.

THEN Judith sung this canticle to the
Lord, saying :

2 Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels,
sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, tune
unto him a new psalm, extol and call
upon his name.

3 The Lord putteth an end to wars, the
Lord is his name.

4 He hath set his camp in the midst of
his people, to deliver us from the hand
of all our enemies.

5 The Assyrian came out of the moun-
tains from the north in the multitude of
his strength : his multitude stopped up
the torrents, and their horses covered the
valleys.

6 He bragged that he would set my bor
ders on fire, and kill my young men with
the sword, to make my infants a prey,
and my virgins captives.

7 But the almighty Lord hath struck
him, and hath delivered him into the
hands of a woman, and hath slain him.

8 For their mighty one did not fall by
young men, neither did the sons of Titan
strike him, nor tall giants oppose them-
selves to him, but Judith the daughter of
Merari weakened him with the beauty of
her face.

9 For she put off her the garments of
widowhood, and put on her the garments
of joy, to give joy to the children of Is-
raeL

10 She anointed her face with ointment,
and bound up her locks with a crown, she
took a new robe to deceive him.

11 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her
beauty made his soul her captive, with a
sword she cut off his head.

12 The Persians quaked at her constancy,
and the Medes at her boldness.

13 Then the camp of the Assyrians
howled, when my lowly ones appeared,
parched with thirst.

14 The sons of the damsels have pierced
them through, and they have killed them
like children fleeing away : they perished
in battle before the face of the Lord my
God.

15 Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let
us sing a new hymn to our God.

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The canticle of Judith

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The death of Judith

16 O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and
glorious in thy power, and no one can
overcome thee.

17 "^ Let all thy creatures serve thee : be-
cause thou hast spoken, and they were
made: thou didst send forth thy spirit,
and they were created, and there is no
one that can resist thy voice.

18 The mountains shall be moved from
the foundations with the waters: the
rocks shall melt as wax before thy
face.

19 But they that fear thee, shall be great
with thee in all things.

20 Woe be to the nation that riseth up
against my people : for the Lord almighty
will take revenge on them, in the day of
judgment he will visit them.

21 For he will give fire, and worms into
their flesh, that they may burn, and may
feel for ever.

22 And it came to pass after these things,
that all the people, after the victory,
came to Jerusalem to adore the Lord:
and as soon as they were purified, they
all offered holocausts, and vows, and their
promises.

23 And Judith offered for an anathema
of oblivion all the arms of Holofernes,
which the people gave her, and the can-

opy that she had taken away out of his
chamber.

24 And the people were joyful in the
sight of the sanctuary, and for three
months the joy of this victory was cele-
brated with Judith.

25 And after those days every man re-
turned to his house, and Judith was made
great in Bethulia, and she was most re-
nowned in all the land of Israel.

26 And chastity was joined to her vir
tue, so that she knew no man all the days
of her life, after the death of Manasses
her husband,

27 And on festival days she came forth
with great glory.

28 And she abode in her husband^ b house
a hundred and five years, and made her
handmaid free, and she died, and was
buried with her husband in Bethulia.

29 And all the people rn^.^ned for seven
days.

30 And all the time of her life there wa£
none that troubled Israel, nor many years
after her death.

31 But the day of the festivity of thif
victory is received by the Hebrews in the
number of holy days, and is religiously
observed by the Jews from that time
until this day.

THE

BOOK OF ESTHER.

This Book takes its name from queen Esther, whose history is here recorded. The
first part 1.1-10.3 was written in Hebrew; the rest has been preserved only in
Greek, whatever be its original language. Some of the sources probably go back
to Persia, perhaps to Mardochai as may be gathered from chap. 9. ver. 20.

CHAPTER 1.

King Assuerus maketh a great feast. Queen Vasthi
heing sent for refuseth to come: for which disobe-
dience she is deposed.

IN the days of Assuerus, who reigned
from India to Ethiopia over a hun-
dred and twenty-seven provinces :

2 When he sat on the throne of his king-
dom, the city Susan was the capital of
his kingdom.

3 Now in the third year ^ of his reign he

u Ys. 32. &.

Chap. 16. Ver. 23. An anathema of oblivion.
That is, a gift or offering made to God, by way of
an everlasting monument, to prevent the oblivion
of forgetting so great a benefit.

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made a great feast for all the princes, and
for his servants, for the most mighty of
the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes,
and the governors of the provinces in his
sight,

4 That he might shew the riches of the
glory of his kingdom, and the greatness,
and boasting of his power, for a long
time, to wit, for a hundred and fourscore
days.

5 And when the days of the feast were

V B. C. 483.

Chap. 1. Ver. 1. Assuerus,
name rendered usually Xerses.
Xerses I son of Darius I.

from the Persian
It is question of

The feast of Assuerus

expired, he invited all the people that
were found in Susan, from the greatest
to the least: and commanded a feast to
be made seven days in the court of the
garden, and of the wood, which was
planted by the care and the hand of the
king.

6 And there were hung up on every side
sky coloured, and green, and violet hang-
ings, fastened with cords of silk, and of
purple, which were put into rings of
ivory, and were held up with marble pil-
lars. The beds also were of gold and sil-
ver, placed in order upon a floor paved
with porphyry and white marble : which
was embellished with painting of won-
derful variety.

7 And they that were invited, drank in
golden cups, and the meats were brought
in divers vessels one after another. Wine
also in abundance and of the best was
presented, as was worthy of a king's
magnificence.

8 Neither was there any one to compel
them to drink that were not willing, but
as the king had appointed, who set over
every table one of his nobles, that every
man might take what he would.

9 Also Vasthi the queen made a feast
for the women in the palace, where king
Assuerus was used to dwell.

10 Now on the seventh day, when the
king was merry, and after very much
drinking was well warmed with wine, he
commanded Mauman, and Bazatha, and
Harbona, and Bagatha, and Abgatha, and
Zethar, and Charcas, the seven eunuchs
that served in his presence,

11 To bring in queen Vasthi before the
king, with the crown set upon her head,
to shew her beauty to all the people and
the princes: for she was exceeding beau-
tiful.

12 But she refused, and would not come
at the king's commandment, which he
had signified to her by the eunuchs.
Whereupon the king, being angry, and
inflamed' with a very great fury,

13 Asked the wise men, who according
to the custom of the kings, were always
near his person, and all he did was by
their counsel, who knew the laws, and
judgments of their forefathers:

14 (Now the chief and nearest him were,
Charsena, and Sethar, and Admatha, and
Tharsis, and Mares, and Marsana, and Ma-
Bmcban, seven princes of the Persians,

ESTHER Vasthi is deposed

and off the Medes, who saw the face of
the king, and were used to sit first after
him:)

15 What sentence ought to pass upon
Vasthi the queen, who had refused tc
obey the commandment of king Assuerus,
which he had sent to her by the eunuchs f

16 And Mamuchan answered, in the
hearing of the king and the princes :
Queen Vasthi hath not only injured the
king, but also all the people and princes
that are in all the provinces of king As-
suerus.

17 For this deed of the queen will go
abroad to all women, so that they will
despise their husbands, and wiU say :
King Assuerus commanded that queen
Vasthi should come in to him, and she
would not.

18 And by this example all the wives of
the princes of the i'ersians and the Medea
will slight the commandments of their
husbands : wherefore the king's indigna-
tion is just.

19 If it please thee, le an edict go out
from thy presence, and let it be written
according to the law of the Persians and
of the Medes, which must not be altered,
that Vasthi come in no more to the king,
but another, that is better than her, be
made queen in her place.

20 And let thie be published through all
the provinces of thy empire, (which is
very wide,) and let all wives, as well of the
greater as of the lesser, give honour to
their husbands.

21 His counsel pleased the king, and the
princes: and the king did according to
the counsel of Mamuchan.

22 And he sent letters to all the pro-
vinces of his kingdom, as every nation
could hear and read, in divers languages
and characters, that the husbands should
be rulers and masters in their houses:
and that this should be published to every
people.

CHAPTER 2.

Esther is advanced to be queen. Mardochai detect
eth a plot against the king,

A FTER this, when the wrath of king
Jl\. Assuerus was appeased, he remem-
bered Vasthi, and what she had done and
what she had suffered :

2 And the king's servants and his offi-
cers said : Let young women be sought
for the king, virgins and beautiful,

3 And let some persons be sent through

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Assuerus seeks a new queen

ESTHER

all the provinces to look for beautiful
maidens and virgins» and let them bring
them to the city of Susan, and put them
into the house of the women under the
hand of Egeus the eunuch, who is the
overseer and keeper of the king's women;
and let them receive women's ornaments,
and other things necessary for their use.

4 And whosoever among them all shall
please the king's eyes, let her be queen
instead of Vasthi. The word pleased the
king: and he commanded it should be
done as they had suggested.

5 There was a man in the city of Susan,
a Jew, named Mardochai, ^the son of
Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of
the race of Jemini,

6 Who had been earned away from Jeru-
salem, at the time that Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon carried away ^ Jechonias
king of Juda,

7 And he had brought up his bro therms
daughter Edissa, who by another name
was called Esther: now she had lost both
her parents: and was exceeding fair and
beautiful. And her father and mother
being dead, Mardochai adopted her for
his daughter.

8 And when the king's ordinance was
noised abroad, and according to his com-
mandment many beautiful virgins were
brought to Susan, and were delivered to
Egeus the eunuch: Esther also among the
rest of the maidens was delivered to him
to be kept in the number of the women.

9 And she pleased him, and found favour
in his sight. And he commanded the
eunuch to hasten the women's ornaments,
and to deliver to her her part, and seven
of the most beautiful maidens of the
king's house, and to adorn and deck out
both her and her waiting maids.

10 And she would not tell him her peo-
ple nor her country. For Mardochai had
charged her to say nothing at all of that:

11 And he walked every day before the
court of the house, in which the chosen
virgins were kept, having a care for Es-
ther's welfare, and desiring to know what
would befall her.

12 Now when every virgin's turn came
to go in to the king, after all had been
done for setting them off to advantage,
it was the twelfth month: so that for six
months they were anointed with oil of

Esther chosen queen

VI Infra ll. 2.«- x l Kings 24. 16: loira IL 4.

myrrh, and tor other six months theTr
used certain pei'fumes and sweet spicea

13 And when they were going in to the
king, whatsoever they asked to adorn
themselves they received : and being
decked out, as it pleased them, they
passed from the chamber of the women
to the king's chamber,

14 And she that went in at evening,
came out in the morning, and from thence
she was conducted to the second nouse»
that was under the hand of Susagaz the
eunuch, who had the charge over the
king's concubines: neither could she re-
turn any more to the King, aniess the
king desired it, and bad ordered her by
name to come.

16 And as the time came orderly about»
the day was at hand, when Esther, the
daughter of Abihaii the brother of Mar-
dochai, whom he had adopted for hlE
daughter, was to go in to the king. But
she sought not women's ornaments, but
whatsoever Egeus the eunuch the keeper
of the virgins had a mind he gave her to
adorn her. For she was exceeding fair»
and her incredible beauty made her ap-
pear agreeable and amiable in the eyee
of all.

16 So she was brought to the chamber
of king Assuerus the tenth month, which
is called Tebeth, in the seventh year ^ of
his reign.

17 And the king loved her more than
all the women, and she had favour and
kindness before him above all the wo-
men, and he set the royal crown on hex
head, and made her queen instead oi
Vasthi.

18 And he commanded a magnificent
feast to be prepared for all the princes,
and for his servants, for the marriage and
wedding of Esther. And he gave rest to
all the provinces, and bestowed gifts ac-
cording to princely magnificence,

19 And when the virgins were sought
the second time, and gathered together^
Mardochai stayed at the king's gate,

20 Neither had Esther as yet declared
her country and people, according to bis
commandment. For whatsoever he com-
manded, Esther observed: and she did all
things in the same manner as she was
wont at that time when he brought her
up a little one.

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Mardochai displeases Aman

ESTHER Destruction of the Jews decreed

21 At that time, therefore, when Mar-
dochai abode at the king's gate, Bagathan
and Thares, two of the king's eunuchs,
who were porters, and presided in the first
entry of the palace, were angry: and they
designed to rise up against the king, and
to kill him.

22 And Mardochai had notice of it, and
immediately he told it to queen Esther:
and she to the king in Mardochai's name,
who had reported the thing unto her.

23 It was inquired into, and found out :
and they were both hanged on a gibbet.
And it was put in the histories, and re-
corded in the chronicles before the king.

CHAPTER 3.

Aman, advanced by the king, is offended at Mar-
dochai, and therefore procnreth the king^s decree
to destroy the ivhole nation of the Jews.

AFTER these things, king Assuerus ad-
J\. vanced Aman, the son of Amadathi,
who was of the race of Agag : and he set
his throne above all the princes that
were with him.

2 And all the king's servants, that were
at the doors of the palace, bent their
knees, and worshipped Aman : for so the
emperor had commanded them, only
Mardochai did not bend his knee, nor
worship him.

3 And the king's servants that were
chief at the doors of the palace, said to
him : Why dost thou alone not observe
the king's commandment?

4 And when they were saying this often,
and he would not hearken to them, they
told Aman, desirous to know whether he
would continue in his resolution : for he
had told them that he was a Jew.

5 Now when Aman had heard this, and
had proved by experience that Mardo-
chai did not bend his knee to him, nor
worship him, he was exceeding angry.

6 And he counted it nothing to lay his
hands upon Mardochai alone : for he had
heard that he was of the nation of the
Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all
the nation of the Jews that were in the
kingdom of Assuerus.

7 In the first month (which is called
Kisan) in the twelfth year of the reign
Df Assuerus, the lot was cast into an urn,
which in Hebrew is called Phur, before
Aman, on what day and what month the
nation of the Jews should be destroyed:

and there came ont the twelfth month,
which is called Adar.

8 And Aman said to king Assuerus:
There is a people scattered through all
the provinces of thy kingdom, and sep-
arated one from another, that use new
laws and ceremonies, and moreover de-
spise the king's ordinances : and thou
knowest very well that it is not expedi-
ent for thy kingdom that they should
grow insolent by impunity.

9 If it please thee, decree that they may
be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand
talents to thy treasurers.

10 And the king took the ring that he
used, from his own hand, and gave it to
Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race
of Agag, the enemy of the Jews, '

11 And he said to him: As to the money
which thou promisest, keep it for thy-
self : and as to the people, do with them
as seemeth good to thee.

12 And the king's scribes were called
in the first month Nisan, on the thirteenth
day of the same month : and they wrote,
as Aman had commanded, to all the king's
heutenants, and to the judges of the pro-
vinces, and of divers nations, as every
nation could read, and hear according to
their different languages, in the name of
king Assuerus: and the letters, sealed
with his ring,

13 Were sent by the king's messengers
to all provinces, to kill and destroy all
the Jews, both young and old, little chil-
dren, and women, in one day, that is,
on the thirteenth of the twelfth month,
which is called Adar, and to make a spoil
of their goods.

14 And the contents of the letters were
to this effect, that all provinces might
know and be ready against that day.

15 The couriers that were sent made
haste to fulfil the king's commandment.
And immediately the edict was hung up
in Susan, the king and Aman feasting
together, and all the Jews that were in
the city weeping.

CHAPTER 4.

Mardochai desireth Esther to petition the kingfov
the Jeirs. They join in fasting and. prayer.

I^OW when Mardochai had heard these
Xi things, he rent his garments, and
put on sackcloth, strewing ashes on his

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Esther learns of the decree

ESTHER

head : and he cried with a loud voice in

the street in the midst of the city, shew-
ing the anguish of his mind.

2 And he came lamenting in this man-
ner even to the gate of the palace: for
no one clothed with sackcloth might
enter the king's court.

3 And in all provinces, towns, and places,
to which the king's cruel edict was come,
there was great mourning among the
Jews, with fasting, waiUng, and weeping,
many using sackcloth and ashes for their
bed.

4 Then Esther's maids and her eunuchs
went in, and told her. And when she
heard it she was in a consternation i and
she sent a garment, to clothe him, and
to take away the sackcloth : but he would
not receive it.

5 And she called for Athach the eunuch,
whom the king had appointed to attend
upon her, and she commanded him to go
to Mardochai, and learn of him why he
did this.

6 And Athach going out went to Mardo-
chai, who was standing in the street of
the city, before the palace gate :

7 And Mardochai told him all that had
happened, how Aman had promised to
pay money into the king's treasures, to
have the Jews destroyed.

8 He gave him also a copy of the edict
which was hanging up in Susan, that he
should shew it to the queen, and admon-
ish her to go in to the king, and to en-
treat him for her people.

9 And Athach went back and told Esther
all that Mardochai had said.

10 She answered him, and bade him say
to Mardochai:

11 All the king's servants, and all the
provinces that are under his dominion,
know, that whosoever, whether man or
woman, cometh into the king's inner
court, who is not called for, is immedi-
ately to be put to death without any de-
lay : except the king shall hold out the
golden sceptre to him, in token of clem-
ency, that so he may live. How then
can I go in to the king, who for these
thirty days now have not been called
Unto him?

12 And when Mardochai had heard this,

13 He sent word to Esther again, say-
ing: Think not that thou mayst save thy

Esther before the king

life only, because thou art in the king^s
house, more than all the Jews :

14 For if thou wilt now hold thy peace,
the Jews shall be dehvered by some
other occasion : and thou, and thy father's
house shall perish. And who knoweth
whether thou art not therefore come to
the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready
in such a time as this ?

15 And again Esther sent to Mardochai
in these words:

16 Go, and gather together all the Jews
whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray
ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for
three days and three nights : and I with
my handmaids will fast in like manner,
and then I will go in to the king, against
the law, not being called, and expose
myself to death and to danger.

17 So Mardochai went, and did all that
Esther had commanded him.

CHAPTER 5.

Esther is graciously received : she inviteth the king
and Aman to dinner» Aman prepareth a gibbet
/or Mardochai.

A ND on the third day Esther put on
x\ her royal apparel, and stood in the
inner court of the king's house, over
against the king's hall : now he sat upon
his throne in the hall of the palace, over
against the door of the house.

2 And when he saw Esther the queen
standing, she pleased his eyes, and he
held out toward her the golden sceptre,
which he held in his hand : and she drew
near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.

3 And the king said to her : What wilt
thou, queen Esther? what is thy request?
if thou shouldst even ask one half of the
kingdom, it shall be given to thee.

4 But she answered : If it please the
king, I beseech thee to come to me this
day, and Aman with thee to the banquet
which I have prepared.

5 And the king said forthwith : Call ye
Aman quickly, that he may obey Esther's
will. So the king and Aman came to the
banquet which the queen had prepared
for them.

6 And the king said to her, after he had
drunk wine plentifully : What dost thou
desire should be given thee? and for
what thing askest thou? although thou
shouldst ask the half of my kingdom,
thou shalt have it.

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Amans anger
7 And Esther

answered: My petition

and request is this :

8 If I have found favour in the Mug's
sight, and if it please the king to give
me what I ask, and to fulfil my petition:
let the king and Aman come to the ban-
quet which I have prepared them, and to
morrow I will open my mind to the king.

9 So Aman went out that day joyful and
merry. And when he saw Mardochai
flitting before the gate of the palace, and
that he not only did not rise up to hon-
our him, but did not so much as move
2rom the place where he sat^ he was
exceedingly angry :

10 But dissembling his anger, and re-
turning into his house, he called together
to him his friends, and Zares his wife :

11 And he declared to them the great-
ness of his riches, and the multitude of
his children, and with how great glory
the king had advanced him above all his
princes and servants.

12 And after this he said : Queen Esther
also hath invited no other to the banquet
with the king, but me: and with her I
am also to dine to morrow with the king :

13 And whereas I have all these things,
1 think I have nothing, so long as I see
Mardochai the Jew sitting before the
king's gate.

14 Then Zares his wife, and the rest of
his friends answered him: Order a great
beam to be prepared, fifty cubits high,
and in the morning speak to the king,
that Mardochai may be hanged upon it,
and so thou shalt go full of joy with the
king to the banquet. The counsel pleased
him, and he commanded a high gibbet
to be prepared.

CHAPTER 6.

The king hearing of the good service done Mm by
Mardochai^ commandeth Aman to honour him
next to the king, which he performeth.

THAT night the king passed without
sleep, and he commanded the histo-
ries and chronicles of former times to be
brought him. And when they were read-
ing them before him,

2 They came to that place where it was
written, how Mardochai had discovered
the treason of Bagathan and Thares the
eunuchs, who sought to kill king Assue-
rus.

ESTHER

The King honors Mardochai

Chap. 6. Var. .3. iVo reward at all. He received
«ome presents irom tlie king,cliap„ 12. £. bu^tfaiMi

3 And when the ^ng heard this, h.%
said: What honour and reward hath
Mardochai received for this fideUtyf
His servants and ministers said to him:
He hath received no reward at all.

4 And the king said immediately : Who
is in the court? for Aman was coming in
to the inner court of the king's house, to
speak to the king, that he might order
Mardochai to be hanged upon the gibbet
which was prepared for him.

5 The servants answered : Aman stand-
eth in the court, and the king said : Let
him come in.

6 And when he was come in, he said to
him: What ought to be done to the man
whom the king is desirous to honour?
But Aman thinking in his heart, and
supposing that the king would honour
no other but himself,

7 Answered : The man whom the king
desireth to honour,

8 Ought to be clothed with the king* 3
apparel, and to be set upon the horse that
the king rideth upon, and to have the
royal crown upon his head,

9 And let the first of the king's princes
and nobles hold his horse, and going
through the street of the city, proclaira
before him and say: Thus shall he be
honoured^ whom the king hath a mind
to honour.

10 And the king said to him: Make
haste and take the robe and the horse,
and do as thou hast spoken to Mardochai
the Jew, who sitteth before the gates of
the palace. Beware thou pass over any
of those things which thou hast spoken.

11 So Aman took the robe and the
horse, and arraying Mardochai in the
street of the city, and setting him on the
horse, went before him, and proclaimed:
This honour is he worthy of, whom the
king hath a mind to honour.

12 But Mardochai returned to the pal-
ace gate: and Aman made haste to go
to his house, mourning and having hifi
head covered:

13 And he told Zares his wife, and his
friends, all that had befallen him. And
the wise men whom he had in counsel,
and his wife answered him: If Mardo-
chai be of the seed of the Jews, before
whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst

were so inoonsiderable in the opinion of the couf
tiers, tliat they esteemed them as nothing at alU

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Esther's petition

ESTHER

Esther^ s plea for her people

not resist him, but thou shalt fall in his
sight.

14 As they were yet speaking, the king's
ounuchs came, and compelled him to go
quickly to the banquet which the queen
had prepared.

CHAPTER 7.

Esther^s petition for herself and her people: Aman
is hanged upon the gibbet he had prepared for
Mardochai.

SO the king and Aman went in, to
drink with the queen.

2 And the king said to her again the
second day, after he was warm with
wine : What is thy petition, Esther, that
it may be granted thee ? and what wilt
thou have done : although thou ask the
half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

3 Then she answered : If I have found
favour in thy sight, O king, and if it
please thee, give me my life for which I
ask, and my people for which I request.

4 For we are given up, I and my peo-
ple, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to
perish. And would God we were sold
for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil
might be borne with, and I would have
mourned in silence; but now we have
an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth
upon the king.

5 And king Assuerus answered and
said: Who is this, and of what power,
that he should do these things ?

6 And Esther said : It is this Aman that
is our adversary and most wicked enemy.
Aman hearing this was forthwith aston-
ished, not being able to bear the counte-
nance of the king and of the queen.

7 But the king being angry rose up, and
went from the place of the banquet into
the garden set with trees. Aman also
rose up to entreat Esther the queen for
his life, for he understood that evil was
prepared for him by the king.

8 And when the king came back out of
the garden set with trees, and entered
into the place of the banquet, he found
Aman was fallen upon the bed on which
Esther lay, and he said: He will force
the queen sA&o in my presence, in my
own house. The word was not yet gone
out of the king's mouth, and immediately
they covered his face.

9 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that
stood waiting on the king, said: Behold

the gibbet which he hath prepared for
Mardochai, who spoke for the king,
standeth in Aman's house, being fifty
cubits high. And the king said to him:
Hang him upon it.

10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet,
which he had prepared for Mardochai:
and the king's wrath ceased.

CHAPTER 8.

Mardochai is advanced : Aman'*s letters a/re
reversed.

N that day king Assuerus gave the
house of Aman, the Jews' enemy, to
queen Esther, and Mardochai came in
before the king. For Esther had con-
fessed to him that he was her uncle,

2 And the king took the ring which he
had commanded to be taken again from
Aman, and gave it to Mardochai And
Esther set Mardochai over her house.

3 And not content with these things,
she fell down at the king's feet and wept,
and speaking to him besought him, that
he would give orders that the malice of
Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked
devices which he had invented against
the Jews, should be of no effect.

4 But he, as the manner was, held out
the golden sceptre with his hand, which
was the sign of clemency : and she arose
up and stood before him,

5 And said : If it please the king, and if
I have found favour in his sight, and my
request be not disagreeable to him, I
beseech, thee, that the former letters of
Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews,
by which he commanded that they should
be destroyed in all the king's provinces,
may be reversed by new letters.

6 For how can I endure the murdering
and slaughter of my people ?

7 And king Assuerus answered Esther
the queen, and Mardochai the Jew: I
have given Aman's house to Esther, and
I have commanded him to be hanged on
a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on
the Jews.

8 Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it
pleaseth you, in the king's name, and
seal the letters with my ring. For this
was the custom, that no man durst gain-
say the letters which were sent in the
king's name, and were sealed with hie
ring.

I
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The new decree

ESTHER

The Jews kill their enemies

9 TbeD the king's scribes and secretaries
were called for (now it was the time of
the third month which is called Siban)
the three and twentieth day of the month,
and letters were written, as Mardochai
had a mind, to the Jews, and to the gov-
ernors, and to the deputies, and to the
judges, who were rulers over the hun-
dred and twenty-seven provinccb, from
India even to Ethiopia; to province and
province, to people and people, accord-
ing to their languages and characters, and
to the Jews, according as they could read
and hear.

10 And these letters which were sent in
the king's name, were sealed with his
ring, and sent by posts : who were to run
through all the provinces, to prevent the
former letters with new messages.

11 And the king gave orders to them, to
speak to the Jews in every city, and to
command them to gather themselves to-
gether, and to stand for their lives, and
to kill and destroy all their enemies with
their wives and children and all their
houses, and to take their spoil.

12 And one day of revenge was ap-
pointed through all the provinces, to wit,
the thirteenth of the twelfth month
Adar.

13 And this was the content of the
letter, that it should be notified in all
lands and peoples that were subject to
the empire of king Assuerus, that the
Jews were ready to be revenged of their
enemies.

14 So the swift posts went out carrying
the messages, and the king's edict was
hung up in Susan.

15 And Mardochai going forth out of
the palace, and from the king's presence,
shone in royal apparel, to wit, of violet
»nd sky colour, wearing a golden crown
on his head, and clothed with a cloak of
silk and purple. And all the city re-
joiced and was glad.

16 But to the Jews a new light seemed
to rise, joy, honour, and dancing.

17 And in all peoples, cities, and pro-
vinces, whithersoever the king's com-
mandments came,there was wonderful re-
joicing, feasts and banquets, and keeping
holy day : insomuch that many of other

Chap. 9. Ver. l. To revenge, &c. The Jews on
*is occasion, by authority from the king, were made
""^"'itioners of the public justice, for pimishing by

nations and religion, joined themselvet
to jheir worship and ceremonies. For fi
great dread of the name of the Jews ha/^
fallen upon all.

CHAPTER 9.

The Jews kill their enemies that would have killed
them. The days of Phurinc are appointed to be
kept holy.

SO on the thirteenth day of the
twelfth month, which as we have
said above is called Adar, when all the
Jews were designed to be massacred, and
their enemies were greedy after their
blood, the case being altered, the Jews
began to have the upper hand, and to
revenge themselves of their adversaries.

2 And they gathered themselves to
gether in every city, and town, and place,
to lay their hands on their enemies, and
their persecutors. And no one durst
withstand them, for the fear of their
power had gone through every people.

3 And the judges of the provinces, and
the governors, and lieutenants, and every
one in dignity, that presided over every
place and work, extolled the Jews for
fear of Mardochai:

4 For trkey knew him to be prince of the
palace, and to have great power : and the
fame of his name increased daily, and was
spread abroad through all men's mouths.

5 So the Jews made a great slaughter
of their enemies, and killed them, repay-
ing according to what they had prepared
to do to them :

6 Insomuch that even in Susan they
killed live hundred men, besides the ten
sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of
the Jews : whose names are these :

7 Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Es-
phatha,

8 And Phoratha, and Adalia, and Arida-
tha,

9 And Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai,
and Jezatha.

10 And when they had slain them, they
would not touch the spoils of their
goods.

11 And presently the number of them
that were killed in Susan was brought to
the king.

12 And he sa\d to the queen: The Jews
have killed £ve hundred men in che city

death a crime woithy of death, viz., a malicious CUl
spiracy for extirpatlDg their whole iiatiou

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The Jews kill their enemies

ESTHER

The feast of Phurim

of Susan, besides the ten sons of Aman °.
now many dost thou think they have
slain in all the provinces? What askest
thou more, and what wilt thou have me
to command to be done ?

13 And she answered : If it please the
king, let it be granted to the Jews, to do
to morrow in Susan as they have done
to day, and that the ten sons of Aman
may be hanged upon gibbets.

14 And the king commanded that it
should be so done. And forthwith the
edict was hung up in Susan, and the ten
sons of Aman were hanged.

15 And on the fourteenth day of the
month Adarthe Jews gathered themselves
together, and they killed in Susan three
hundred men: but they took not their
substance.

16 Moreover through all the provinces
which were subject to the king's domin-
ion the Jews stood for their hves, and
slew their enemies and persecutors : in-
somuch that the number of them that
were killed amounted to seventy-five
thousand, and no man took any of their
goods.

17 Now the thirteenth day of the month
Adar was the first day with them all of
the slaughter, and on the fourteenth day
they left off. Which they ordained to be
kept holy day, so that all times hereafter
they should celebrate it with feasting,
Joy, and banquets.

18 But they that were killing in the
city of Susan, were employed in the
slaughter on the thirteenth and four-
teenth day of the same month: and on
the fifteenth day they rested. And there-
fore they appointed that day to be a
holy day of feasting and gladness.

19 But those Jews that dwelt in towns
not walled and in villages, appointed the
fourteenth day of the month Adar for
banquets and gladness, so as to rejoice
on that day, and send one another por-
tions of their banquets and meats.

20 And Mardochai wrote all these things,
and sent them comprised in letters to the
Jews that abode in all the king's pro-
vinces, both those that lay near and those
afar off,

21 That they should receive the four-
teenth and fifteenth day of the month
Adar for holy days, and always at the re-
turn of the year should celebrate them
with solemn honour:

22 Because on those days the Jews re-
venged themselves of their enemies, and
their mourning and sorrow were turned
into mirth and joy, and that these should
be days of feasting and gladness, in which
they should send one to another portions
of meats, and should give gifts to the
poor.

23 And the Jews undertook to observe
with solemnity all they had begun to do
at that time, which Mardochai by letters
had commanded to be done.

24 For Aman, the son of Amadathi ol
the race of Agag, the enemy and adver-
sary of the Jews, had devised evil against
them, to kill them and destroy them:
and had cast Phur, that is, the lot.

25 And afterwards Esther went in to the
king, beseeching him that his endeavours
might be made void by the king's letters:
and the evil that he had intended against
the Jews, might return upon his own
head. And so both he and his sons were
hanged upon gibbets.

26 And since that time these daj^s are
called Phurim, that is, of lots: because
Phur, that is, the lot, was cast into the
urn. And all things that were done, are
contained in the volume of this epistlQ
that is, of this book:

27 And th" things that they suffered,
and that w^x-e afterwards changed, the
Jews took upon themselves and their
seed, and upon all that had a mind to be
joined to their religion, so that it should
be lawful for none to pass these days
without solemnity : which the writing
testifieth, and certain times require, as
the years continually succeed one an-
other.

28 These are the days which shall never
be forgot : and which all provinces in the
whole world shall celebrate throughout
all generations : neither is there any city
wherein the days of Phurim, that is, of
lots, must not be observed by the Jews,
and by their posterity , which is bound to
these ceremonies.

29 And Esther the queen, the daughter
of Abihail, and Mardochai the Jew, wrote
also a second epistle, that with all dili-
gence this day should be estabUshed •
festival for the time to come.

30 And they sent to all the Jews that
were in the hundred and twenty-seven
provinces of king Assuerus, that they
should have peace, and receive truths

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Mardochai*s dream

3i And observe the days of lots, and
celebrate them with joy in their proper
time: as Mardochai and Esther had ap-
pointed, and they undertook them to be
observed by themselves and by their
seed, fasts, and cries, and the days of
lots,

32 And all things which are contained
in the history of this book, which is called
Esther.

CHAPTER 10.
Assuerms^s greatness. MardochaPs dignity.

A ND king Assuerus made all the land,
J\. and all the islands of the sea tribu-
tary.

2 And his strength and his empire, r.nd
the dignity and greatness wherewith ho
exalted Mardochai, are written in the
books of the Medes, and of the Per-
sians:

3 And how Mardochai of the race of the
Jews, was next after king Assuerus: and^
fjreat among the Jews, and acceptable to
the people of his brethren, seeking the
good of his people, and speaking those
things which were for the welfare of his
seed.

4 Then Mardochai said : God hath done
these things.

5 I remember a dream that I saw, which
signified these same things : and nothing
thereof hath failed.

6 The little fountain which grew into a
river, and was turned into a light, and
into the sun, and abounded into many
waters, is Esther, whom the king married,
and made queen.

7 But the two dragons are I and Aman.

8 The nations that were assembled are
they that endeavoured to destroy the
name of the Jews.

9 And my nation is Israel, who cried to
the Lord, and the Lord saved his people :
and he delivered us from all evils, and
hath wrought great signs and wonders
among the nations :

10 And he commanded that there should
be two lots, one of the people of God, and
the other of all the nations.

11 And both lots came to the day ap-
pointed already from that time before
God to all nations:

Chap. lo. Ver. 4. Tbeyi Mardochai, &c. Here
St Jerome advertiseth the reader, that wliat fol-
lows is not in the Hebrew : but is found in the sep-
tuagint Greek edition, wliich tbe seventy-two inter-

12 And the Lord remembered his peo-
ple, and had mercy on his inheritance.

13 And these days shall be observed in
the month of Adar on the fourteenth,
and fifteenth day of the same month,
with all diligence, and joy of the people
gathered into one assembly, throughout
all the generations hereafter of the peo-
ple of Israel.

CHAPTER 11.

The dream of Mardochai^ which in the ancient

Greek and Latin Bibles was in the beginning oj
the book,, but was detached by St. Jerome^ and jmi
in this place.

IN the fourth year of the reign of
Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus,
who said he was a priest, and of the Le-
vitical race, and Ptolemy his son brought
this epistle of Phurim, which they said
Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy had in-
terpreted in Jerusalem.

2 In the second year of the reign of Ar-
taxerxes the great, in the first day of the
month Nisan, Mardochai the son of Jair,
the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the
tribe of Benjamin:

3 A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan,
a great man and among the first of the
king's court, had a dream.

4-^ Now he was of the number of the
captives, whom Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon had carried away from Jerusa-
lem with Jechonias king of Juda:

5 And this was his dream : Behold there
were voices, and tumults, and thunders,
and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon
the earth.

6 ^ And behold two great dragons came
forth ready to fight one against another.

7 And at their cry all nations were
stirred up to fight against the nation of
the just.

8 And that was a day of darkness and
danger, of tribulation and distress, and
great fear upon the earth.

9 And the nation o^ the just wa3 troubled
fearing their own evils, and was prepared
for death.

10 And they cried to God: and as they
were crying, a little fountain grew into a
very great river, and abounded into many
waters.

j 4 Kings 24. 15 ; Supra 2. 6. — fr Supra 10. 7.

preters translated out of the Hebrew, or added by
the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.

Ver. 5. A dream. This dream was prophetical
and extraordinary: otherwise the general rule Is
not to observe dreams.

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11 The light and the Bun rose up,' and
fche humble were exalted, and they de-
voured the glorious.

12 And when Mardochai had seen this,
and arose out of his bed, he was thinking
what God would do: and he kept it fixed
in his mind, desirous to know what the
dream should signify.

Mardochai^s prayer

CHAPTER 12.

Mardochai detects the conspiracy of the two etmuchs,

AND 'he abode at that time in the
J\. king's court with Bagatha and Thara
the king's eunuchs, who were porters of
the palace.

2 And when he understood their designs,
and had diligently searched into their pro-
jects, he learned that they went about to
lay violent hands on king Artaxerxes, and
he told the king thereof.

3 Then the king had them both exam-
ined, and after they had confessed, com-
manded them to be put to death.

4 But the king made a record of what
■v^as done: and Mardochai also committed
the memory of the thing to writing.

5 And the king commanded him, to abide
ir. the court of the palace, and gave him
presents for the information.

6 But Aman the son of Amadathi the
Bugite was in great honour with the king,
and sought to hurt Mardochai and his
people, because of the two eunuchs of
the king who were put to death.

CHAPTER 13.

A copy of a letter sent by Aman to destroy the Jews.
AlardochaVs prayer for the people,

AND this was the copy of the letter :
. Artaxerxes the great king who
reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the
princes and governors of the hundred
and twenty-seven provinces, that are
subject to his empire, greeting.

2 Whereas I reigned over many nations,
and had brought all the world under my
dominion, I was not willing to abuse the
greatness of my power, but to govern
my subjects with clemency and lenity,
that they might live quietly without any
terror, and might enjoy peace, which is
desired by all men.

3 But when I asked my counsellors how
this might be accomphshed, one that ex-
celled the rest in wisdom and fidelity,

and was second after the Mng, AxnaD *^
name,

4 Told me that there was a people scat-
tered through the whole world, .zhich
used new laws, and acted againsu the
customs of all nations, despised the com
mandments of kings, and violated by
their opposition the concord of all na-
tions.

6 Wherefore having learned this, and
seeing one nation in opposition to all
mankind using perverse laws, and going
against our commandments, and disturb-
ing the peace and concord of the pro-
vinces subject to us,

6 We have commanded that all whom
Aman shall mark out, who is chief over
all the provinces, and second after the
king, and whom we honour as a father,
shall be utterly destroyed by their ene-
mies, with their wives and children, and
that none shall have pity on them, on
the fourteenth day of the twelfth month
Adar of this present year :

7 That these wicked men going down to
hell in one day, may restore to our em-
pire the peace which they had disturbed.

8 But Mardochai besought the Lord, re-
membering all his works,

9 And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king,
for all things are in thy power, and there
is none that can resist thy will, if thou
determine to save Israel.

10 Thou hast made heaven and earth,
and all things that are under the cope of
heaven.

11 Thou art Lord of all, and there is
none that can resist thy majesty.

12 Thou knowest all things, and thou
knowest that it was not out of pride and
contempt, or any desire of glory, that 1
refused to worship the proud Aman,

13 (For I would willingly and readily for
the salvation of Israel have kissed even
the steps of his feet,)

14 But I feared lest I should transfer
the honour of my God to a man, and lest
I should adore any one except my God.

15 And now, O Lord, O king, O God of
Abraham, have mercy on thy people, be-
cause our enemies resolve to destroy us,
and extinguish thy inheritance.

16 Despise not thy portion, which thoQ
hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt.

17 Hear my supplication, and be merd*

Z Supra 2. 21, and 6. 2.
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ESTHER

Esther's prayer

ful to thy lot and inheritance, and turn
our mouriiing into joy, that we may live
and praise thy name, O Lord, and shut
not the mouths of them that sing to thee.
18 And all Israel with like mind and
supplication cried to the Lord, because
they saw certain death hanging over
their heads.

CHAPTER 14.

77ie prayer of Esther for herself and her people.
iUEEN Esther also, fearing the danger
that was at hand, had recourse to
the Lord.

2 And when she had laid away her royal
apparel, she put on garments suitable for
weeping and mourning: instead of divers
precious ointments, she covered her head
with ashes and dung, and she humbled
her body with fasts: and all the places
in which before she was accustomed to
rejoice, she filled with her torn hair.

3 And jhe prayed to the Lord the God
of Israel, saying: O my Lord, who alone
art our king, help me a desolate woman,
and who have no other helper but thee.

4 My danger is in my hands.

5 "* I have heard of my father that thou,
O Lord, didst take Israel from among all
nations, and our fathers from all their
predecessors, to possess them as an ever-
lasting inheritance, and thou hast done
to them as thou hast promised.

6 We have sinned in thy sight, and
therefore thou hast delivered us into the
hands ot our enemies :

7 For we have worshipped their gods.
Thou art just, O Lord.

8 And now they are not content to op-
press us with most bard oondage,but at-
tributing the strength oC their Jiands to
the power of their idols.

, 9 They design to change thy promises,
and destroy thy inheritance, and shut
the mouths of them that praise thee, and
extinguish the glory of thy temple and
altar,

10 That they may open the mouths of
Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols,
and magnify for ever a carnal king.

11 Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them
that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin :
but turn their counsel upon themselves,
land destroy him that hath begun to rage
iigainst us.

12 Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself
to us in the time of our tribulation, and
give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods,
and of all power :

13 Give me a well ordered speech in my
mouth in the presence of the lion, and
turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy,
that both he himself may perish, and the
rest that consent to him.

14 But deliver us by thy hand, and help
me, who have no other helper, but thee,
O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all
things.

15 And thou knowest that I hate the
glory of the wicked, and abhor the bed
of the uncircumcised, and of every stran-
ger.

16 Thou knowest my necessity, that I
abominate the sign of my pride and
glory, which is upon my head in the days
of my public appearance, and detest it
as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in
the days of my silence,

17 And that I have not eaten at Aman's
table, nor hath the king's banquet pleased
me, and that I have not drunk the wine
of the drink offerings :

18 And that thy handmaid hath never
rejoiced, since I was brought hither unto
this day, but in thee, O Lord, the God of
Abraham.

19 O God, who art mighty above all,
hear the voice of them, that have no
other hope, and deliver us from the hand
of the wicked, and deliver me from my
fear.

CHAPTER 15.

Esther comes into the king's presence : she is terrU

fiecl, but God turns his heart.

AND he commanded her (no doubt but
XA. he was Mardochai) to go to the
king, and petition for her people, and for
her country.

2 Remember, (said he,) the days of thy
low estate, how thou wast brought up by
my hand, because Aman the second after
the king hath spoken against us unto
death.

3 And do thou call upon the Lord, and
speak to the king for us, and deliver us
from death.

4 And on the third day she laid away
the garments she wore, and put on her
g • ■)rious apparel.

:> And flittering in royal robes, after

m Dent 4. 20, 34, aoiidS. i
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Esther before the king

ESTHER

The hing*s letter

sne had called upon God the ruler and
Saviour of all, she took two maids with
her,

6 And upon one of them she leaned, as
if for delicateness and overmuch tender-
ness she were not able to bear up her own
body.

7 And the other maid followed her
lady, bearing up her train flowing on the
ground.

8 But she with a rosy colour in her face,
and with gracious and bright eyes, hid a
mind full of anguish, and exceeding great
fear.

9 So going in she passed through all the
doors in order, and stood before the king,
where he sat upon his royal throne,
clothed with his royal robes, and glitter-
ing with gold, and precious stones, and
he was terrible to behold.

10 And when he had lifted up his coun-
tenance, and with burning eyes had
shewn the wrath of his heart, the queen
sunk down, and her colour turned pale,
and she rested her weary head upon her
handmaid.

11 And God changed the king's spirit
into mildness, and all in haste and in
fear he leaped from his throne, and hold-
ing her up in his arms, till she came to
herself, caressed her with these words:

12 What is the matter, Esther? I am
thy brother, fear not.

13 Thou Shalt not die : for this law is
ubt made for thee, but for all others.

14 Come near then, and touch the scep-
tre.

15 And as she held her peace, he took
the golden sceptre, and laid it upon her
neck, and kissed her, and said : Why
dost thou not speak to me ?

16 She answered: ^* I saw thee, my lord,
as an angel of God, and my heart was
troubled for fear of thy majesty.

17 For thou, my lord, art very admirable,
and thy face is full of graces.

18 And while she was speaking, she
fell down again, and was almost in a
swoon.

19 But the king was troubled, and all
6is servants comforted her.

CHAPTER 16.
A copy of the Mng^s letter in favour of the Jews.

n Gen. 33. 10. — o Supra 11. 2.

THE ° great king Artaxerxes, from
India to Ethiopia, to the governors
and princes of a hundred and twenty-
seven provinces, which obey our com-
mand, sendeth greeting.

2 Many Ph&ye abused unto pride the
goodness of princes, and the honour that
hath been bestowed upon them :

3 And not only endeavour to oppress
the king's subjects, but not bearing the
glory that is given them, take in hand
to practise also against them that gave /t.

4 Neither are they content not to re-
turn thanks for benefits received, and to
violate in themselves the laws of human-
ity, but they think they can also escape
the justice of God who seeth all things.

5 And they break out into so great
madness, as to endeavour to undermine
by lies such as observe diligently the
offices committed to them, and do all
things in such manner as to be worthy
of all men's praise,

6 While with crafty fraud they deceive
the ears of princes that are well meaning,
and judge of others by their own nature.

7 Now this is proved both from ancient
histories, and by the things which are
done daily, how the good designs of kings
are depraved by the evil suggestions of
certain men.

8 Wherefore we must provide for the
peace of all provinces.

9 Neither must you think, if we com-
mand different things, that it cometh of
the levity of our mind, but that we give
sentence according to the quality and
necessity of times, as the profit of the
commonwealth requireth.

10 Now that you may more plainly un-
derstand what we say, ^ Aman the son of
Amadathi, a Macedonian both in mind
and country, and having nothing of the
Persian blood, but with his cruelty stain-
ing our goodness, was received being a
stranger by us:

11 And found our humanity so great to-
wards him, that he was called our father,
and was worshipped by all as the next
man after the king:

12 But he was so far puffed up with
arrogancy, as to go about to deprive us
of our kingdom and life.

13 For with certain new and unheard of

p Supra 3. 10. — q Supra 3. 1.

Chap. 16. Ver. 1. From India to Ethiopia, That is, who reignet^^ from India to Etbiopift

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JOB

The hinges letter

devices he hath sought the destruction of
Mardochai, by whose fidelity and good
services our life was saved, and of Es-
ther the partner of our kingdom, with all
their nation :

1 4 Thinking that after they were slain,
he might work treason against us left
alone without friends, and might trans-
fer the kingdom of the Persians to the
Macedonians.

15 But we have found that the Jews,
who were by that most wicked man ap-
pointed to be slain, are in no fault at all,
but contrariwise, use just laws,

13 And are the children of the highest
and the greatest, and the ever living God,
by whose benefit the kingdom was given
both to our fathers and to us, and is kept
anto this day.

17 Wherefore know ye that those letters
which he sent in our name, are void and
of no effect.

18 For which crime both he himself
that devised it, and all his kindred hang
on gibbets, before the gates of this city
Susan : not we, but God repaying him as
he deserved.

19 But this edict, which we now send,
shall be published in all cities, that the
Jews may freely follow their own laws.

20 And you shall aid them that they
may kill those who had prepared them-
selves to kill them, on the thirteenth day
of the twelfth month, which is called
Adar.

21 For the almighty vlod hath turned
this day of sadness and mourning into
joy to them.

22 Wherefore you shall also count this
day among other festival days, and cele-
brate it with all joy, that it may be known
also in times to come,

23 That all they who faithfully obey the
Persians, receive a worthy reward for
their fidelity : but they that are traitors
to their kingdom, are destroyed for their
wickedness.

24 And let every province and city, that
will not be partaker of this solemnity,
perish by the sword and by fire, and be
destroyed in such manner as to be made
unpassable, both to men and beasts, for
an example of contempt, and disobedi-
ence.

THE

BOOK OF JOB.

This Book takes its name from the holy man of whom it treats. It is not a strictly
historical narrative y though Job is an historical personage; it is a didactic poem
with an historical basis. It is uncertain who was the writer of it. In the Hebrew
it is written in verse, from the beginning of the third chapter to the forty-second
chapter.

CHAPTER 1.

Job^s virtue and riches. Satan by permission from
God strippeth him of all his substance. His pa-
tience.

ri 1HERE was a man in the land of Hus,
X whose name was Job, and that man
was simple and upright, and fearing God,
and avoiding evil.

2 And there were born to him seven
sons and three daughters.

Chap. l. Ver. 1. Hus. The land of Hus was
probably in northern Arabia. — Ibid. Simple. That
IB. innocent, sincere, and without guile.

3 And his possession was seven thou-
sand sheep, and three thousand camels,
and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five
hundred she asses, and a family exceed-
ing great: and this man was great among
all the people of the east.

4 And his sons went, and made a feast
by houses every one in his day. And
sending they called their three sisters to
eat and drink with them.

Ver. 4. And made a feast by houses. That is, each
made a feast in his own house and had hia doAj
inviting the others, and their sisters.

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Satan permitted to tempt Job

JOB

Job stripped of his possessions

5 And when the days of their feasting
were gone about, Job sent to them, and
sanctified them: and rising up early of-
fered holocausts for every one of them.
For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have
sinned, and have blessed God in their
hearts. So did Job all days.

6 Now on a certain day when the sons
of God came to stand before the Lord,
Satan also was present among them.

7 And the Lord said to him : Whence
comest thou ? And he answered and said :
I have gone round about the earth, and
walked through it.

8 And the Lord said to him: Hast thou
considered my servant Job, that there is
none like him in the earth, a simple and
upright man, and fearing God, and avoid-
ing evil?

9 And Satan answering, said : Doth Job
fear God in vain ?

10 Hast not thou made a fence for him,
and his house, and all his substance
round about, blessed the works of his
hands, and his possession hath increased
on the earth ?

11 But stretch forth thy hand a little,
and touch all that he hath, and see if he
blesseth thee not to thy face.

12 Then the Lord said to Satan : Behold,
all that he hath is in thy hand : only
put not forth thy hand upon his person.
And Satan went forth from the presence
of the Lord.

13 Now upon a certain day when his
sons and daughters were eating and
drinking wine in the house of their eld-
est brother,

14 There came a messenger to Job, and
said: The oxen were ploughing, and the
asses feeding beside them,

15 And the Sabeans rushed in, and took
All away, and slew the servants with the
sword, and I alone have escaped to tell
thee.

16 And while he was yet speaking, an-
other came, and said : The fire of God
fell from heaven, and striking the sheep
and the servants, hath consumed them,
and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Ver. 5. Blessed. For greater horror of the very
thouf^ht of blasphemy, the scripture both here and
ver. 11, and in the following chapter, ver. 5 r>nd 9, uses
the word bless to signify its contrary.

Ver. 6. The sons of God, The angcls. — Ibid. Sa-
tan also, &c. This passage represents to us in a
figure, accommodated to UiC ways and uoderstaud-

17 And while he also was yet speaking,
there came another, and said : The Chal-
deans made three troops, and have fall-
en upon the camels, and taken them,
moreover they have slain the servants
with the sword, and I alone have escaped
to tell thee.

18 He was yet speaking, and behold an-
other came in, and said : Thy sons and
daughters were eating and drinking wine
in the house of their elder brother :

19 A violent wind came on a sudden
from the side of the desert, and shook
the four corners of the house, and it fell
upon thy children and they are dead,
and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

20 Then Job rose up, and rent his gar-
ments, and having shaven his head fell
down upon the ground and worshipped,

21 And said : * Naked came I out of my
mother's womb, and naked shall I return
thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord
hath taken away : as it hath pleased the
Lord so is it done: blessed be the name
of the Lord.

22 In all these things Job sinned not by
his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing
against God.

CHAPTER 2.

Satan, by God''s jiermission, striketh Job with ulcers
from head to foot: his patience is still invincible.

AND it came to pass, when on a cer-
. tain day the sons of God came, and
stood before the Lord, and Satan came
among them, and stood in his sight,

2 That the Lord said to Satan : Whence
comest thou ? And he answered and said:
I have gone round about the earth, and
walked through it.

3 And the Lord said to Satan : Hast
thou considered my servant Job, that
there is none like him in the earth, a
man simple, and upright, and fearing
God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping
his innocence ? But thou hast moved me
against him, that I should aflBiict him
without cause.

4 And Satan answered, and said : Skin
for skin, and all that a man hath he will
give for his life :

s Eccli. J. 14; 1 Tim. 6. 7.

ings of men, 1. The restless endeavours of Satan
against the servants of God; 2. That he can do no-
thing without God's permission ; 3. That God doth
not permit him to tempt them above their strength:
but assists them by his divine grace in such manner,
that the vain efforts of the enemy only serve to illua-
trate their vutue aud increase their merit.

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JOB

Job curses the day of his birth

5 But put forth thy hand, and touch his
bone and his flr:h, and then thou shalt
tso tnat he will bless thee to thy face.

6 And the Lord said to Satar. : Behold
l-i is in thy hand, but yet save his hfe.

7 So Satan went forth from the pre-
sence of the Lord, and struck Job with a
very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the
foot even to the top of his head :

8 And he took a potsherd and scraped
the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

9 And his wife said to him : Dost thou
still continue in thy simphcity? bless
God, ..nd die.

10 And he said to her: Thou hast spo-
ken l^ke one of the foohsh women : if we
Lave received good things at the hand
of God, why should we not receive evil?
la all these thiiigs Job did not sin with
his hps.

11 ITow when Job's three friends heard
all the evil that had befallen him, they
came every one from his own place,
Ehphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the
Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite.
For they had made an appointment to
come together and visit him, and com-
fort him.

12 And when they had lifted up their
eyes afar off, they knew him not, and
crying out they wept, and rending their
garments they sprinkled dust upon their
heads towards heaven.

13 And they sat with him on the ground
seven days and seven nights, and no
man spoke to him a word : for they saw
that his grief was ve^^ great.

CHAPToTR

Job expresseth his sense of the miseries oj man^s
Ufe^ by cursing the day of his birth.

A FTER this J >b opened his n onth, and
x\. cursed his day,

2 And he said :

3 *Let the day perish wherein I v/cs
born, and the night in which it was said:
A man child is conceived.

4 Let that day be turned into darkness,
let not God regard it from above, and let
not the light shine upon it.

6 Let darkness, and the shadow of death
iX)ver it, let a mist overspread it, and let
ii be wrapped up in bitterness.

t Jer. 20. 14.

Chap. 3, Ver. 1. Cursed his day. Job cursed the
day of his birth, not by way of wishing evil to any
^hijig ot Qod^ cr«;Uu>o: i>ut only to tTprtit in »u

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6 Let a darksome whirlwind seize npon

that night, let it not be counted in the
days of the year, nor numbered in the
months.

7 Let that night be solitary, and not
worthy of praise.

8 Let them curse it who ciu^e the day,
who are ready to raise up a leviathan i

9 Let the stars be darkened with the
mist thereof: let it expect hght and not
see it, nor the rising of the dawning of
the day :

10 Because it shut not up the doors of
the womb that bore me, nor took away
evils from my eyes.

11 Why did I not die in the womb, why
did I not perish when I came out of the
beUy?

12 Why received upon the knees? why
suckled at the breasts ?

13 For now I should have been asleep
and still, and should have rest in my
sleep.

14 With kings and consuls of the earth,
who build themselves sohtudes:

15 Or with princes, that possess gold, and
fill their houses with silver:

16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I should
not be, or as they that being conceived
hav3 not seen the hght.

17 There the wicked cease from tumult,
and there the wearied in strength are at
rest.

18 Ana th^y sometime bound together
without disquiet, have not heard the voice
of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there, and
the servant is free from his master.

20 Why is Ught given to him that is in
misery, and life to them that are in bitter-
ness of soul?

21 That look for death, and it cometh not,
as they that dig for a treasure ?

22 And they rejoice exceedingly when
they have found the grave.

23 To a man whose way is hidden, and
God hath surrounded him with darkness?

24 Before I oat I sigh : and as overflow-
ing waters, so is my roaring:

25 For the fear which I feared, hath
come upon me: and that which I was
afraid of, hath befallen me.

26 Have I not dissembled ? have I not

siror'Tcr m-^nner his sense of human miseries is
gQB&tSLU and of his own calamities in particular.

Eliphaz accuses Job of impatience JOB

The foolish shall come to griej

kept silence t have I not bees qidett and

indignation is come upon me.

CHAPTER 4.

Eliphaz charges Job with impatience, and pretends
that God never afflicts the i.xnocent.

THEN Eliphaz the Themanite answered,
and said :

2 If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps
thou wilt take it ill, but who can with-
hold the words he hath conceived?

3 Behold thou hast taught many, and
thou hast strengthened the weary hands:

4 Thy words have confirmed them that
were staggering, and thou hast strength-
ened the trembling knees :

6 But now the scourge is come upon
thee, and thou faintest : it hath touched
thee, and thou art troubled.

6 Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy
patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever per-
ished being innocent? or when were the
just destroyed ?

8 On the contrary I have seen those
who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and
reap them,

9 Perishing by the blast of God, and con-
sumed by the spirit of his wrath.

10 The roaring of the lion, and the vofce
of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps
of lions are broken:

11 The tiger hath perished for want of
prey, and the young lions are scattered
abroad.

12 Now there was a word spoken to me
in private, and my ears by stealth as it
were received the veins of its whisper.

13 In the horror of a vision by night,
when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

14 Fear seized upon me, and trembUng,
and all my bones were affrighted :

15 And when a spirit passed before me,
the hair of my flesh stood up.

16 There stood one whose countenance
I knew not, an image before my eyes, and
I heard the voice as it were of a gentle
wind:

17 " Shall man be justified in comparison
of God, or shall a man be more pure than
his maker ?

18 ^Behold they that serve him are not
steadfast, and in his angels he found
wickedness :

u Infra 25. 4. — v Infra 15. 15 ; 2 Peter 2. 4; Jude 1. 6.

19 H^^mooii more shall they that dweUi
in houses of clay, who have an eart-/iy
foundation, be consumed as with the
moth?

20 From morning till evening they shal
be cut down ; and because no one under*
standeth, they shall perish for ever.

21 And they that shall be left, shall be
taken away from them: they shall die,
and not in wisdom.

CHAPTER 6.

Eliphaz proceeds in his charge, and exhort* Job to

acknowledge his sins.

CALL now if there be any that will
answer thee, and turn to some of
the saints.

2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and
envy slayeth the little one.

3 I have seen a fool with a strong root,
and I cursed his beauty immediately.

4 His children shall be far Trom safety,
and shall be destroyed in the gate, and
there shall be none to deUver them.

5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat,
and the armed man shall take him by
violence, and the thirsty shall drink up
his riches.

6 Nothing upon earth is done without a
cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of
the ground.

7 Man is born to labour and the bird to

fly.

8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and
address my speech to God :

9 Who doth great things and unsearch-
able and wonderful things without num-
ber:

10 Who giveth rain upon the face of the
earth, and watereth all things with
waters:

11 Who setteth up the humble on high
and comforteth with health those that
mourn.

12 Who bringeth to nought the designs
of the malignant, so that their hands can-
not accomplish what they had begun :

13 ^Who catcheth the wise in their
craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel
of the wicked:

14 They shall meet with darkness in the
day, and grope at noonday as in the
night.

15 But he shall save the needy from the

V 1 Cor. 3. 19.

Chap. 4. Ver. 17. Shall man bejastijied in com-
perUon o/ Ood, &c. These ar« tbe word! which

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Eliphaz had heard from an angel, which, ver. 16, be
calls Z9piriiL

The correction of God

JOB

Job complains of his friends

Bword of their mouth, and the poor from
the hand of the violent.

16 And to the needy there shall be hope,
but iniquity ^hall draw in her mouth.

17 Blessed is the man whom God correct-
eth: refuse not therefore the chastising
of the Lord :

18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he
striketh, and his hands shall heal.

19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee,
and in the seventh, evil shall not touch
thee.

20 In famine he shall deliver thee from
death: and in battle, from the hand of
the sword.

21 Thou shaltbe hidden from the scourge
of the tongue : and thou shalt not fear
calamity when it cometh.

22 In destruction and famine thou shalt
laugh : and thou shalt not be afraid of the
beasts of the earth.

23 But thou shalt have a covenant with
the stones of the lands, and the beasts of
the earth shall be at peace with thee.

24 And thou shalt know that thy taber-
nacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty
thou shalt not sin.

25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed
bhall be multiplied, and thy offspring like
the grass of the earth.

•^6 Thou shalt enter into the grave in
abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought
in its season.

27 Behold, this is even so, as we have
searched out: which thou having heard,
consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

CHAPTER 6.

Job maintains his innocence, and complains of his
friends,

BUT Job answered, and said :
2 O that my sins, whereby I have de«
served wrath, and the calamity that I
suffer, were weighed in a balance.

3 As the sand of the sea this would ap-
pear heavier: therefore my words are
full of sorrow :

4 For the arrows of the Lord are in me,
the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit,
and the terrors of the Lord war against me.

6 Will the wild ass bray when he hath
grass ? or will the ox low when he stand-
etb before a full manger?

OiAP.6. Ver.2. My sins, &c He does not mean
to compare his sufferings with his real sins: but
with the imaginary crimes which his friends imputed
to hun: and especially witli bis wrath, or grief, ex-

6 Or can an ansavoury thing be eaten,
that is not seasoned with salt? or can a
man taste that which when tasted bring-
eth death?

7 The things which before my soul would
not touch, now, through anguish are my
meats.

8 Who will grant that my request may
come : and that God may give me what
Hook for?

9 And that he that hath begun may
destroy me, that he may let loose his
hand, and cut me off ?

10 And that this may be my comfort,
that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare
not, nor I contradict the words of the
Holy One.

11 For what is my strength, that I can
hold out? or what is my end that I should
keep patience ?

12 My strength Is not the strength of
stones, nor is my flesh of brass.

13 Behold there is no help for me in
myself, and my familiar friends also are
departed from me.

14 He that taketh away mercy from his
friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

15 My brethren have passed *>y me, ae»
the torrent that passe th swiftly . ' tin
valleys.

16 They that fear the hoary frost, Che
snow shall fall upon them.

17 At the time when they shall be scat-
tered they shall perish : and after it
groweth hot they shall be melted out of
their place.

18 The paths of their steps are entanglevl:
they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.

19 Consider the paths of Thema, the
ways of Saba, and wait a little while.

20 They are confounded, because I have
hoped : they are come also even unto
me, and are covered with shame.

21 Now you are come : and now seeing
my affliction you are afraid.

22 Did I say : Bring to me, and give me
of your substance ?

23 Or deliver me from the hand of the
enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of
the mighty ?

24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace:
and if I have been ignorant in any thingp
instruct me.

pressed in the third chapter, which they so mucli
accused. Though, as he tells them here, it bore HO
proportion with the greatness of bis ealamit|r.

The miseries of life

JOB

Job's appeal to God

25 Why have you detracted the words
of truth, whereas there is none of you
that can reprove me?

26 You dress up speeches only to re-
buke, and you utter words to the wind.

27 You rush in upon the fatherless, and
you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

28 However finish v/hat you have be-
gun, give ear, and see whether I lie.

29 Answer, I beseech you, without con-
tention: and speaking that which is just,
judge ye.

30 And you shall not find iniquity in my
tongue, neither shall folly sound in my
mouth.

CHAPTER 7.

Job declares the miseries of man's life:
addresses himself to God.

and

THE life of man upon earth is a war-
fare, and his days are like the days
of a hireling.

2 As a servant longeth for the shade,
as the hireling looketh for the end of his
work;

3 So I also have had empty months,
and have numbered to myself wearisome
nights.

4 If I lie down to sleep, I shall say:
When shall I arise? and again I shall
look for the evening, and shall be filled
with sorrows even till darkness.

5 My flesh is clothed with rottenness
and the filth of dust, my skin is withered
and drawn together.

6 My days have passed more swiftly
than the web is cut by the weaver, and
are consumed without any hope.

7 Remember that my life is but wind,
and my eyes shall not return to see good
things.

8 Nor shall the sight of man behold me :
thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no
more.

9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth
away: so he that shall go down to hell
shall not come up.

10 Nor shall he return a,ny more into his
house, neither shall his place know him
any more.

11 Wherefore I will not spare my mouth,
I will speak in the affliction of my spirit :
I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou
hast enclosed me in a prison?

13 If I say: My bed shall comfort me,

and I shall be relieved speaking with
myself on my couch:

14 Thou wilt frighten me with dreams
and terrify me with visions.

15 So that my soul rather chooseth hang-
ing, and my bones death.

16 I have done with hope, I shall now
live no longer: spare me, for my days
are nothing.

17 What is a man that thou shouldst
magnify him? or why dost thou set thy
heart upon hirti?

18 Thou visitest him early in the morn-
ing, and thou provest him suddenly.

19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor
suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

20 I have sinned: what shall I do to
thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou
set me opposite to thee, and I am become
burdensome to myself?

21 Why dost thou not remove my sin,
and why dost thou not take away my
iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in
the dust: and if thou seek me in the
morning, I shall not be.

CHAPTER 8.

Baldad, under pretence of defending the justice of
God, acctises Job, and exhorts him to return to
God.

THEN Baldad the Suhite answered,
and said:

2 How long wilt thou speak these things,
and how long shall the words of thy
mouth be like a strong wind?

3 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth
the Almighty overthrow that which is
just?

4 Although thy children have sinned
against him, and he hath left them in
the hand of their iniquity:

5 Yet if thou wilt arise early to God,
and wilt beseech the Almighty:

6 If thou wilt walk clean and upright,
he will presently awake unto thee, and
will make the dwelling of thy justice
peaceable :

7 Insomuch, that if thy former things
were small, thy latter things would be
multiplied exceedingly.

8 For inquire of the former generation,
and search diligently into the memory
of the fathers:

9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are
ignorant « that our days upon earth are
but a shadow:)

s Infra 14, 2 ; Ps. 148 4.

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Baldad addresses Job

10 And they shall teach thee; they shall
speak to thee, and utter words out of
their heai-ts.

11 Can the rush be green without mois-
ture? or a sedge-bush grow without
water?

12 When it is yet in flower, and is not
plucked up with the hand, it withereth
before all herbs.

13 Even so are the ways of all that for-
get God, and the hope of the hypocrite
shall perish:

14 His folly shall not please him, and
his trust shall be like the spider's web.

15 He shall lean upon his house, and it
shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and
it shall not rise :

16 He seemeth to have moistin*e before
the sun cometh, and at his rising his blos-
som shall shoot forth.

17 His roots shall be thick upon a heap
of stones, and among the stones he shall
abide.

18 If one swallow him up out of his
place, he shall deny him, and shall say :
I know thee not.

19 For this is the joy of his way, that
others may spring again out of the earth.

20 God will not cast away the simple,
nor reach out his hand to the evildoer :

2 1 Until thy mouth be filled with laugh-
ter, and thy lips with rejoicing.

22 They that hate thee, shall be clothed
with confusion : and the dwelling of the
wicked shall not stand.

CHAPTER 9.

Job acknowledges God*s justice : although he often
afflicts the innocent.

A ND Job answered, and said :
J\. 2 Indeed I know it is so, and that
man cannot be justified compared with
God.

3 If he will contend with him, he can-
not answer him one for a thousand.

4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in
strength: who hath resisted him, and
hath had peace ?

5 Who hath removed mountains, and
they whom he overthrew in his wrath,
knew it not.

6 Who shaketh the earth out of her
place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

7 Who commandeth the sun and it ris-

JOB

Job acknowledges God*s justice

^Chap. 9. Ver. 9, Arcfurris, &c. These are names
Oi stars or constellations. In Hebrew. Ash, Cesil,
£._a Cimah. See note cliap. 38, v«r. 2^

eth not : and shutteth up the stars as il.
were under a seal :

8 Who alone spreadeth out the heavens,
and walketh upon the waves of the sea.

9 Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and
Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.

10 Who doth things great and incom-
prehensible, and wonderful, of which
there is no number.

11 If he come to me, I shall not see
him: if he depart I shall not understand.

12 If he examine on a sudden, who
shall answer him ? or who can say : Why
dost thou so ?

13 God, whose wrath no man can re-
sist, and under whom they stoop that
bear up the world.

14 What am I then, that I should an-
swer him, and have words with him?

15 I, who although I should have any
just thing, would not answer, but would
make supplication to my judge.

16 And if he should hear me when I
call, I should not believe that he had
heard my voice.

17 For he shall crush me in a whirl-
wind, and multiply my wounds even
without cause.

18 He alloweth not my spirit to rest,
and he filleth me with bitterness.

19 If strength be demanded, he is most
strong: if equity of judgment, no man
dare bear witness for me.

20 If I would justify myself, my own
mouth shall condemn me : if I would
shew myself innocent, he shall prove me
wicked.

21 Although I should be simple, even
this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I
shall be weary of my life.

22 One thing there is that I have spo-
ken, both the innocent and the wicked
he consumeth.

23 If he scourge, let him kill at once, and
not laugh at the pains of the innocent.

24 The earth is given into the hand of
the wicked, he covereth the face of the
judges thereof : and if it be not he, who
is it then?

25 My days have been swifter than a
post : they have fled away and have not
seen good.

26 They have passed by as ships carry-
ing fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.

Ver. 17. Without cause. That is, without my
knowing ihe cause : or witliout any crime ol mine.

tf7

JoVs lament to God

JOB

Job's lament to God

27 If I say: i will not speak so: I
change ny face, TiCJCMia tormented with
sorrow.

28 I feared all my wcrL3, knowinr^ that
thou didst not sparo the offender.

29 But if so also I am wicked, why have
I laboured in vain?

30 If I be washed as it were with snov/
waters, and my hands shall shine ever so
clean :

31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth,
and my garments shall abhor me,

32 For I shall not answer a man that is
like myself: nor one that may be heard
with me equally in judgment.

33 There is none that may be able to re-
prove both, and to put his hand between
both.

34 Let him take his rod away from me,
and let not his fear terrify me.

35 I will speak, and will not fear him :
for I cannot answer while I am in fear.

CHAPTER 10.
Job laments his afflictions and begs to be delivered.

MY soul is weary of my life, I will
let go my speech against myself,
I will speak in the bitterness of my
soul.

2 I will say to God : Do not condemn
me : tell me why thou judgest me so.

3 Doth it seem good to thee that thou
shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me,
the work of thy own hands, and help the
counsel of the wicked ?

4 Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou
see as man seeth?

6 Are thy days as the days of man, and
are thy years as the times of men:

6 That thou shouldst inquire after my
iniquity, and search after my sin ?

7 And shouldst know that I have done
no wicked thing, whereas there is no man
that can deliver out of thy hand.

8 Thy hands have made me, and fash-
ioned me wholly round about, and dost
thou thus cast me down headlong on a
sudden ?

9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou
hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt
bring me into dust again.

IG Hast thou not milked me as milk,
and curdled me like cheese ?

11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and
flesh: thou hast put me together with
bones and sinews :

12 Thou hast granted me life and mercy,

and thy \-isitati02i hath preserved my
spirit.

13 Although thou conceal these thingo
in thy heart, yet I know that thou re-
memberest all things.

14 If I have sinned and thou hast spared
me for p.n hour : why dost thou not suf-
fer me to be clean from my iniquity ?

15 And if I be wicked, woe unto me:
and if just, I shall not lift up my head,
being filled with affliction and misery.

16 And for pride thou wilt take me ac c
lioness, and returning thou tormentest
me wonderfully.

17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against
me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me,
and pains war against me.

18 Why didst thou bring me fort] out
of the womb: O that I Jiad been consumed
that eye might not see me !

19 I should have been as if I had not
been, carried from the womb to the grave.

20 Shall not the fewness of my days be
ended shortly ? suffer me, therefore, that
I may lament my sorrow a httle:

21 Before I go, and return no more, to a
land that is dark and covered with the
mist of death:

22 A land of misery and darkness, where
the shadow of death, and no order, but
everlasting horror dwelleth.

CHAPTER 11.

Sophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and
invites him, to repentance.

THEN Sophar the Naamathite an-
swered, and said :

2 Shall not he that speaketh much, hear
also ? or shall a man full of talk be justi-
fied?

3 Shall men hold their peace to thee
only? and when thou hast mocked otherc,
shall no man confute thee ?

4 For thou hast said: My word ic pure,
and I am clean in thy sight.

5 And I wish that God would speak
with thee, and would open his lipc to
thee,

6 That he might shew thee the secrets
of wisdom, and that his law is manifold,
and thou mightest understand that he
exacteth much less of thee, than thy in-
iquity deserveth.

7 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend
the steps of God, and wilt find out the
Almighty perfectly ?

S He is higher than heaven, and what

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Sophar reproves' J ol)

JOB

Joh*s reply

wilt thou do ? he is deeper than hell, and
how wilt thou know?

9 The measure of him is longer than the
earth, and broader than the sea.

10 If he shall overturn all things, or
shall press them together, who shall con-
tradict him ?

11 For he knoweth the vanity of men,
and when he seeth iniquity, doth he not
consider it?

12 A vain man is lifted up into pride,
and thinketh himself born free like a
wild ass's colt.

13 But thou hast hardened thy heart,
and hast spread thy hands to him.

14 If thou wilt put away from thee the
iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not
injustice remain in thy tabernacle:

15 Then mayst thou lift up thy face
without spot, and thou shalt be steadfast,
and shalt not fear.

16 Thou shalt also forget misery, and
remember it only as waters that are
passed away.

17 And brightness like that of the noon-
day, shall arise to thee at evening: and
when thou shalt think thyself consumed,
thou shalt rise as the day star.

18 And thou shalt have confidence, hope
being set before thee, and being buried
thou shalt sleep secure.

19 i/Thou shalt rest, and there shall be
none to make thee afraid: and many
shall entreat thy face.

20 ^But the eyes of the wicked shall
decay, and the way to escape shall fail
them, and their hope the abomination of
the soul.

CHAPTER 12.

Job's reply to Sophar. He extols God's power

and wisdom.

THEN Job answered, and said:
2 Are you then men alone, and shall
wisdom die with you?

3^1 also have a heart as well as you:
for who is ignorant of these things, which
you know?

4 & He that is mocked by his friends as
I, shall call upon God and he will hear
him: for the simplicity of the just man
is laughed to scorn.

5 The lamp despised in the thoughts of
the rich, is ready for the time appointed.

6 cThe tabernacles of robbers abound,
and they provoke God boldly; whereas it

y Lev. 26. 6

Lev. 26. 16
h Prov. 14. 2.

Infra 20. 2.

is he that hath given all into their
hands:

7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall
teach thee: and the birds of the air, and
they shall tell thee.

8 Speak to the earth, and it shall answer
thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.

9 Who is ignorant that the hand of the
Lord hath made all these things?

10 In whose hand is the soul of every
living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of
man.

11 (^ Doth not the ear discern words,
and the palate of him that eateth, the
taste ?

12 In the ancient is wisdom, and in
length of days prudence.

13 With him is wisdom and strength, he
hath counsel and understanding.

14 e If he pull down, there is no man
that can build up: if he shut up a man,
there is none that can open.

15 If he withhold the waters, all things
shall be dried up: and if he send them
out, they shall overturn the earth.

16 With him is strength and wisdom: he
knoweth both the deceivers, and him that
is deceived.

17 He bringeth counsellors to a foolish
end, and judges to insensibilty.

18 He looseth the belt of kings, and
girdeth their loins with a cord.

19 He leadeth away priests without
glory, and overthroweth nobles.

20 He changeth the speech of the true
speakers, and taketh away the doctrine
of the aged.

21 He poureth contempt upon princes,
and relieve th them that were oppressed.

22 He discovereth deep things out of
darkness, and bringeth up to light the
shadow of death.

23 He multiplieth nations, and destroy-
eth them, and restoreth them again after
they were overthrown.

24 He changeth the heart of the princes
of the people of the earth, and deceiveth
them that they walk in vain where there
is no way.

25 They shall grope as in the dark, and
not in the light, and he shall make them
stagger like men that are drunk.

CHAPTER 13.

Job persists in maintaining his innocence: and
reproves his friends.

c Ps. 43. 11, and 48. 7—d Infra 34. 3.
6 Isa. 22. 22 ; Apoc. 3. 7.

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Job maintains his innocence

BEHOLD my eye hath seen all these
things, and my ear hath heard them,
and I have understood them all.

2 According to your knowledge I also
know: neither am I inferior to you.

8 But yet I will speak to the Almighty,
and I desire to reason with God.

4 Having first shewn that you are
forgers of lies, and maintainers of per-
verse opinions.

5 And I wish you would hold your
peace, that you might be thought to be
wise men.

6 Hear ye therefore my reproof, and
attend to the judgment of my lips.

7 Hath God any need of your lie, that
you should speak deceitfully for him?

8 Do you accept this person, and do you
endeavour to judge for God?

9 Or shall it please him, from whom
nothing can be concealed? or shall he be
deceived as a man, with your deceitful
dealings ?

10 He shall reprove you, because in
secret you accept his person.

11 As soon as he shall move himself, he
shall trouble you: and his dread shall
fall upon you.

12 Your remembrance shall be compared
to ashes, and your necks shall be brought
to clay.

13 Hold your peace a little while, that I
may speak whatsoever my mind shall
suggest to me.

14 Why do I tear my flesh with my
teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

15 Although he should kill me, I will
trust in him: but yet I will reprove my
ways in his sight.

16 And he shall be my saviour: for no
hypocrite shall come before his presence.

17 Hear ye my speech, and receive with
your ears hidden truths.

18 If I shall be judged, I know that I
shall be found just.

19 Who is he that will plead against
me? let him come: why am I consumed
holding my peace?

20 Two things only do not to me, and
then from thy face I shall not be hid:

21 Withdraw thy hand far from me,
and let not thy dread terrify me.

22 Call me, and I will answer thee: or
else I will speak, and do thou answer
me.

JOB The shortness of man's days

23 How many are my iniquities and
sins? make me know my crimes and
offenses.

24 Why hidest thou thy face, and think-
est me thy enemy?

25 Against a leaf, that is carried away
with the wind, thou shewest thy power,
and thou pursuest a dry straw.

26 For thou writest bitter things against
me, and wilt consume me for the sins of
my youth.

27 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks,
and hast observed all my paths, and hast
considered the steps of my feet:

28 Who am to be consumed as rotten-
ness, and as a garment that is moth-
eaten.

CHAPTER 14.

Jol) declares the shortness of man's days: and
professes his l)elief of a resurrection.

IVTAN born of a woman, living for a

/ Supra 8. 9 ; Ps. 143. 4.

short time, is filled with many
miseries.

2 /Who cometh forth like a flower, and
is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and
never continueth in the same state.

3 And dost thou think it meet to open
thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring
him into judgment with thee ?

4 fl'Who can make him clean that is
conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou
who only art?

5 The days of man are short, and the
number of nis months is with thee: thou
hast appointed his bounds which cannot
be passed.

6 Depart a little from him, that he may
rest, until his wished for day come, as
that of the hireling.

7 A tree hath hope:
groweth green again,
thereof sprout.

8 If its roots be old in the earth, and its
stock be dead in the dust:

9 At the scent of water, it shall spring,
and bring forth leaves, as when it was
first planted.

10 But man when he shall be dead, and
stripped and consumed, I pray you where
is he?

11 As if the waters should depart out of
the sea, and an emptied river should be
dried up;

12 So man when he is fallen asleep shall
not rise again; till the heavens be broken,

g Ps. 50. 4.

if it be cut, it
and the boughs

Joh^s belief in the resurrection

JOB

ae shall not awake, nor rise np out of

his sleep.

13 Who will grant me this, that thou
mayst protect me in hell, and hide me
fcill thy wrath pass, and appoint me a
time when thou wilt remember me ?

14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou,
live again? all the days in which I am
now in warfare, I expect until my change
come.

15 Thou shalt call me, and I will answer
thee: to the work of thy hands thou
shalt reach out thy right hand.

16 '^Thou indeed hast numbered my
Bteps, but spare my sins.

17 Thou hast sealed up my offences as
it were in a bag, but hast cured my ini-
quityc

18 A mountain falling cometh to nought,
and a rock is removed out of its place.

19 Waters wear away the stones, and
with inundation the ground by little and
little is washed away: so in like manner
thou shalt destroy man.

20 Thou hast strengthened him for a
little while, that he may pass away for
ever- thou shalt change his face, and
ahalt send him away.

21 Whether his children come to honour
or dishonour, he shall not understand.

22 But yet his flesh, while he shall live,
ehall have pain, and his soul shall mourn
over him.

CHAPTER 15.

Eliphaz returns to the charge against Job, and de-
scribes the wretched state of the wicked.

AND Eliphaz the Themanite, answered,
x\- and said :

2 Will a wise man answer as if he were
speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach
with burning heat?

3 Thou reprovest him by words, who is
not equal to thee, and thou speakest that
which is not good for thee.

4 As much ae ie in thee, thou hast made
void fear, and hast taken away prayers
fron: before God.

5 For thy iniquity hath taught thy
mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of
blasphemers,

fr Thy own mouth shall condemn thee,

Eliphaz reproves Job

h Infra 31. 4, and 34. 31 ; Prov. 5. 21.

Chap. 14. Ver. la. That thou mayst protect me
In hell. That is, in the state of the dead , and in
the place where the souls are kept waiting for their
Redeemer.

Chap. 15. Ver. 4. ITiou hast made void /ear.
That is, cast off the fear of ofiending God.

and not I : and tny own lips shall answer
thee.

7 Art thou the first man that was born,
or wast thou made before the hills ?

8 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and
shall his wisdom be inferior to thee ?

9 What knowest thou that we are igno-
rant of? what dost thou understand that
we know not?

10 * There are with us also aged and an*
cient men, much elder than thy fathers.

11 Is it a great matter that God should
comfort thee? but thy wicked words
hinder this.

12 Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and
why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if
they were thinking great things ?

13 Why doth thy spirit swell against
God, to utter such words out of thy
mouth ?

14 What is man that he should be with-
out spot, and he that is born of a woman
that he should appear just?

15 -^Behold among his saints none is un-
changeable, and the heavens are not pure
in his sight.

16 How much more is man abominable,
xnd unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity
like water?

17 . will shew thee, hear me : and I will
tell thee what I have seen.

18 Wise men confess and hide not their
fathers.

19 To whom alone the earth was given,
and no stranger hath passed among
them.

20 The wicked man is proud all hir
days, and the number of the years of hie
tyranny is uncertain.

21 The sound of dread is always in hia
ears : and when there is peace, he always
suspecteth treason.

22 He believeth not that he may return
from darkness to light, looking round
about for the sword on every side.

23 When he moveth himself to seek
bread, he knoweth that the day of dark-
ness is ready at hi;: handc

24 Tribulation shall terrify him, and dis-
tress shall surround him, as a king that
is prepared for the battle.

i Eccli. 18. 8. — j Supra 4. 18.

Ver. 18. Wise men confess and hide not thei:^
fathers. That is, the knowledge and documenta
tliey have received from their fathers they are not
ashamed to own.

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The wretched state of the wicked JOB

Job appeals to God's judgment

25 For he hath stretched out his hand
against God, and hath strengthened him-
self against the Almighty.

26 He hath run against him with his
neck raised up, and is armed with a fat
neck.

27 Fatness hath covered his face, and
the fat hangeth down on his sides.

28 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and
in desert houses that are reduced into
heaps.

29 He shall not be enriched, neither
shall his substance continue, neither shall
he push his root in the earth.

30 He shall not depart out of darkness :
the flame shall dry up his branches, and
he shall be taken away by the breath of
his own mouth.

31 He shall not believe, being vainly
deceived by error, that he may be re-
deemed with any price.

32 Before his days be full he shall per-
ish: and his hands shall wither away.

33 He shall be blasted as a vine when
its grapes are in the first flower, and as
an olive tree that casteth its flower.

34 For the congregation of the hypocrite
is barren, and fire shall devour their
tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

35 ^ He hath conceived sorrow, and hath
brought forth iniquitiy, and his womb
prepareth deceits.

CHAPTER 16.

Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to
the judgment of God.

THEN Job answered, «nd said:
2 I have often heard such things as
these: you are all troublesome comfort-
ers.

3 Shall windy words have no end? or
is it any trouble to thee to speak?

4 I also could speak like you : and would
God your soul were for my soul.

5 I would comfort you also with words,
and would wag my head over you.

6 I would strengthen you with my
mouth, and would move my lips, as spar-
ing you.

7 But what shall I do? If I speak, my
pain will not rest : and if I hold my peace,
it will not depart from me.

8 But now my sorrow hath oppressed
me, and all my limbs are brought to
nothing.

9 My wrinkles bear witness against me,
and a false speaker riseth up against my
face, contradicting me.

10 He hath gathered together his fury
against me, and threatening me he hath
gnashed with his teeth upon me: my
enemy hath beheld me with terrible
eyes.

11 They have opened their mouths upon
me, and reproaching me they have struck
me on the cheek, they are filled with my
pains.

12 God hath shut me up with the unjust
man, and hath delivered me into the
hands of the wicked.

13 I that was formerly so wealthy, am
all on a sudden broken to pieces: he
hath taken me by my neck, he hath
broken me, and hath set me up to be
his mark.

14 He hath compassed me round about
with his lances, he hath wounded my
loins, he hath not spared, and hath
poured out my bowels on the earth.

15 He hath torn me with wound upon
wound, he hath rushed in upon me like
a giant.

16 I have sowed sackcloth upon my
skin, and have covered my flesh with
ashes.

17 My face is swollen with weeping,
and my eyelids are dim.

18 These things have I suffered without
the iniquity of my hand, when I offered
pure prayers to Gk)d.

19 0 earth, cover not thou my blood,
neither let my cry find a hiding place in
thee.

20 For behold my witness is in heaven,
and he that knoweth my conscience is
on high.

21 My friends are full of words : my eye
poureth out tears to God.

22 And O that a man might so be judged
with God, as the son of man is judged
with his companion!

23 For behold short years pass away,
and I am walking in a path by which I
shall not return.

CHAPTER 17.
Job*s hope in God: he expects rest in death.

MY spirit shall be wasted, my days
shall be shortened, and only the
grave remaineth for me.

k Ps. 7. 15; Isa. 59. 4.
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JoVs hope is in God

JOB

The miseries of the wicked.

2 I have not siimed, and my eye abide th
in bitterness.

3 Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside
thee, and let any man's hand fight against
me.

4 Thou hast set their heart far from
understanding, therefore they shall not
be exalted.

6 He promiseth a prey to his compan-
ions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.

6 He hath made me as it were a byword
of the people, and I am an example be-
fore them»

7 My eye is dim through indignation,
and my limbs are brought as it were to
nothing.

8 The just shall be astonished at this,
and the innocent shall be raised up
against the hypocrite.

% And the just man shall hold on his
way, and he that hath clean hands shall
be stronger and stronger,

10 Wherefore be you all converted, and
come, and I shall not find among you
any wise man.

11 My days have passed away, my
thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my
heart.

12 They have turned night into day,
'»nd after darkness I hope for light again.

13 If I wait hell is my house, and T have
made my bed in darkness.

14 I have said to rottenness : Thou art
my father; to worms, my mother and
my sister.

15 Where is now then my expectation,
and who considereth my patience?

16 All that I have shall go down into
the deepest pit : thinkest thou that there
at least I shall have rest ?

OHAPTER 18.

Baldad again reproves Job and describes the mis-
eries of the ixricked.

THEN Baldad the Suhite answered,
and said:
2 How long will you throw out words?
understand first, and so let us speak.

5 Why are we reputed as beasts, and
counted vile before you?

4 Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy
fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee,
and shall rocks be removed out of their
place ?

Chap. 17. Ver. 2. Not sinned. That is, I am not
iuilty of such sins as tbey cliarge me witli.

5 Shall not the light of the wicked be
extinguished, and the flame of his fire
not shine ?

6 The Ught shall be dark in his taberna-
cle, and the lamp that is over him, shall
be put out.

7 The step of his strength shall be
straitened, and his own counsel shall
cast him down headlong.

8 For he hath thrust his feet into a net,
and walketh in its meshes.

9 The sole of his foot shall be held in
a snare, and thirst shall burn against
him.

10 A gin is hidden for him in the earth,
and his trap upon the path.

11 Fears shall terrify him on every side,
and shall entangle his feet.

12 Let ' is strength be wasted with fam-
ine, and let hunger invade his ribs.

13 Let it devour the beauty of his skin,
let the firwfcborn death consume his arms.

14 Let nis confidence be rooted out of
his tabernacle, and let destruction tread
upon him Uke a king.

16 Let the companions of him that is
not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone
be sprinkled in his tent.

16 Let his roots be dried up beneath,
and his harvest destroyed above.

17 * Let the memory of him perish from
th' earth, and let not his name be re-
nowned in the streets.

18 He shall drive him out of light into
darkness, and shall remove him out of
the world.

19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his
offspring among his people, nor any
remnants in his country.

20 They that come after him shall be
astonished at his day, and horror shall
fall upon them that went before.

21 These then are the tabernacles of
the wicked, and this the place of him
that knoweth not God.

CHAPTER 19,

Job complains of the cruelty of his friends ; he
describes his own sufferings and his belief of a
future resurrection.

THEN Job answered, and said •
2 How long do you afflict my soul,
and break me in pieces with words ?

3 Behold, these ten times you confound
me, and are not ashamed to oppress me,

I Prov. 2. 22.

Ver. 13. Hell. SheoL The region of the dead.
Ver. 16. Deepest jdt. Literally, A«Z^

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Job describes his sufferings

JOB

4 For if I have been ignorant, my igno-
rance shall be with me.

6 But you set yourselves up against me,
and reprove me with my reproaches.

6 At least now under8tand,that God hath
not afflicted me with an equal judgment,
and compassed me with his scourges.

7 Behold I shall cry suffering violence,
and no one will hear : I shall cry aloud,
and there is none to judge.

8 He hath hedged in my path round
about, and I cannot pass, and in my way
he hath set darkness.

9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and
hath taken the crown from my head.

10 He hath destroyed me on every side,
and I am lost, and he hath taken away
my hope, as from a tree that is plucked
up.

11 His wrath is kindled against me, and
he hath counted me as his enemy.

12 His troops have come together, and
have made themselves a way by me, and
have besieged my tabernacle round about.

13 He hath put my brethren far from
me, and my acquaintance like strangers
have departed from me.

14 My kinsmen have forsaken me, and
they that knew me, have forgotten me.

15 They that dwell in my house, and
my maidservants have counted me as a
stranger, and I have been like an ahen in
their eyes.

16 I called my servant, and he gave me
no answer, I entreated him with my own
mouth.

17 My wife hath abhorred my breath,
and I entreated the children of my womb.

18 Even fools despised me, and when I
was gone from them, they spoke against
me.

19 They that were sometime my coun-
sellors, have abhorred me : and he whom
I loved most is turned against me.

20 The flesh being consumed, my bone
hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but
lips are left about my teeth.

21 Have pity on me, have pity on me,
at Jeast you my friends, because the hand
of the Lord hath touched me.

Chap. 19. Ver. 6. With on equal judgment. St.
Gregory explains these words thus : Jobheingajust
man, and truly considering his own life, thought that
his affliction was greater than his sins deserved : and
in that respect, that the punishment was not equal,
yet it was just, as coming from God, who gives a
crown of justice to those who suffer for righteous-
ness' sake, and nroves the just with tribulations, as
gold ia tried by tire.

His belief in the resurrection

22 Why do you persecute me as God,
and glut yourselves with my flesh?

23 Who will grant me that my words
may be written ? who will grant me that
they may be marked down in a book ?

24 With an iron pen and in a plate of
lead, or else be graven with an instru-
ment in flint stone ?

25 For I know that my Redeemer liv-
eth, and in the last day I shall rise out of
the earth.

26 And I shall be clothed again with my
skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

27 Whom I myself shall see, and my
eyes shall behold, and not another : this
my hope is laid up in my bosom.

28 Why then do you say now : Let us
persecute him, and let us find occasion of
word against him ?

29 Flee then from the face of the sword,
for the sword is the revenger of iniqui-
ties : and know ye that there is a judg-
ment.

CHAPTER 20.

the shortness of the prosperity of
and their sudden downfall.

Sophar declares
the wicked :

IHEN Sophar the Naamathite an-
swered, and said :

2 Therefore various thoughts succeed
one another in me, and my mind is hur-
ried away to different things.

3 The doctrine with which thou reprov-
est me, I will hear, and the spirit of my
understanding shall answer for me.

4 This I know from the beginning, since
man was placed upon the earth,

5 That the praise of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the hypocrite but for a
moment.

6 If his pride mount up even to heaven,
and his head touch the clouds :

7 In the end he shall be destroyed like
a dunghill, and they that had seen him,
shall say : Where is he ?

8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall
not be found, he shall pass as a vision of
the night :

9 The eyes that had seen him, shall see
him no more, neither shall his place any
more behold him.

Ver. 25, 26, and 27 shew Job's explicit belief in
his Redeemer, and also of the resurrection of the
flesh, not as one tree riseth in place of another, but
that the selfsame flesh shall rise at the last day, by
the power of God, changed in quality but not in sub-
stance, every one to recoive sentence according to
his works in this life.

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The downfall of the vnclced

JOB The yyiclced prosper for a while

i 10 His children shall be oppressed with

want, and his hands shall render to him

bis sorrow.

(. 11 His bones shall be filled with the

vices of his youth, and they shall sleep

with him in the dust.

^12 For when evil shall be sweet in his

mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

13 He will spare it, and ^ot leave it, and
will hide it in his throat.

14 His bread in his belly shall be turned
into the gall of asps within him,

15 The riches which he hath swallowed,
he shall vomit up, and God shall draw
them out of his belly/

16 He shall suck the head of asps, and
the viper's tongue shall kill him.

17 (Let him not see the streams of the
river, the brooks of honey and of butter.)

18 He shall be punished for all that he
did, and yet shall not be consumed : ac-
cording to the multitude of his devices
80 also shall he suffer.

19 Because he broke in and stripped the
poor: he hath violently taken away a
house which he did not build. ' '

• 20 "* And yet his belly was not filled :
and when he hath the things he coveted,
he shall not be able to possess them.*

• 21 There was nothing left of his meat,
and therefore nothing shall continue of
his goods :

22 When he shall be filled, he shall be
straitened, he shall burn, and every sor-
row shall fall upon him.

23 May his belly be filled, that God may
Bend forth -the wrath of his indignation
upon him, and rain down his "war upon
him.

24 He shall flee from weapons of iron,
and shall fall upon a bow of brass.

- 25 The sword is drawn out, and cometh
forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in
his bitterness : the terrible ones shall go
and come upon him. ~^

26 All darkness is hid in his secret
places: a fire that is not kindled shall
devour him, he shall be afflicted when
left in his tabernacle.

27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity,
and the earth shall rise up against him.

28 The offspring of his house shall be
exposed, he shall be pulled down in the
day of God's wrath.

m Eccli. 5. 9.

29 This is the portion of a wicked man
from God, and the inheritance of his
doings from the Lord.

CHAPTER 21.

Job shews that the wicked often prosper in this
world, even to the end of their life: but that their
judgment is in anotherworld,

THEN Job answered, and said :
2 Hear, I beseech you, my words,
and do penance.

3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after,
if you please, laugh at my words.

4 Is my debate against man, that I should
not have just reason to be troubled?

6 Hearken to me and be astonished, and
lay your finger,on your mouth.

6 As for me, when I remember, I am
afraid, and trembUng taketh hold on my
flesh.

7 "* Why then do the wicked Uve, are they
advanced, and strengthened with riches ?

8 Their seed continUeth before them, a
multitude of kinsmen, and of children's
children in their sight.

9 Their houses are secure and peaceable,
and the rod of God is not upon them.

10 Their cattle ^have conceived, and
failed not : their cow has calved, and is
not deprived of her fruit.

11 Their httle ones go out' like a flock,
and their children dance and play.

12 They take the timbrel, and the harp,
and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

13 They spend their days in wealth, and
in a moment they go down to hell.

14 Who have said to God : Depart from
us, we desire jiot the knowledge of thy
ways.

15 ° Who is the Almighty, that we should
serve him? and what doth it profit. us if
we pray to him ?

16 Yet because- their good things are not
in their hand, niay the counsel of the
wicked be far from me.

17 How often shall the lamp 'bf the
wicked be put out, and a deluge come
upon them, iand he shall distribute the
sorrows of his wrath ?

18 Thfey shall be as chaff be fore, the face
of the wind, and as ashes which the
whirlwind scattereth.

19 God shall lay up the sorrow of the
father for his children : and when he skall
repay, then shall he know.

n Jer. 12. 1 ; Hab. 2. 5. — o Mai. 3. 14,

Chap. 20. Yei-is.

According to Vie multitude of his devices. That is, his stratagems to gratify bis
passiuus and to oppress and destroy Uie poo&

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The judgment of the wicked

JOB

Eliphaz falsely accuses Job

see his own destruc-
drink of the wrath of

20 His eyes shall
tion, and he shall
the Almighty.

21 For what is it to him what befalleth
his house after him: and if the number
of his months be diminished by one half?

22 Shall any one teach God knowledge,
who judgeth those that are high?

23 One man dieth strong, and hale, rich
and happy,

24 His bowels are full of fat, and his
bones are moistened with marrow.

25 But another dieth in bitterness of soul
without any riches :

26 And yet they shall sleep together in
the dust, and worms shall cover them.

27 Surely I know your thoughts, and
your unjust judgments against me.

28 For you say : Where is the house of
the prince ? and where are the dwelling
places of the wicked ?

29 Ask any one of them that go by the
way, and you shall perceive that he know-
eth these same things.

30 Because the wicked man is reserved
to the day of destruction, and he shall be
brought to the day of wrath.

31 Who shall reprove his way to his face ?
and who shall repay him what he hath
done?

32 He shall be brought to the graves,
and shall watch in the heap of the dead.

33 He hath been acceptable to the
gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw
every man after him, and there are in-
numerable before him,

34 How then do ye comfort me in vain,
whereas your answer is shewn to be re-
pugnant to truth ?

CHAPTER 22.

Eliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, (rut
promises him, prosperity if he wVl repent.

THEN Eliphaz theThemanite answered,
and said:

2 Can man be compared with God, even
though he were of perfect knowledge ?

3 What doth it profit God if thou be
just ? or what dost thou give him if thy
way be unspotted?

4 Shall he reprove thee for fear, and
come with thee into judgment :

Chap. 21. Ver. 33. Acceptable to the gravel of
Cocytus. The Hebrew word, which St. Jerome has
here rendered by the name Cocytus, (which the poets
represent as a river in hell,) signifies a valley or z
torrent : and io this place, is taken for ttie low region

5 And not tor th3' manifold wickednesOv
and thy infinite iniquities ?

6 For thou hast taken away the pledge
of thy brethren without cause, and
stripped the naked of their clothing.

7 Thou hast not given water to the
weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from
the hungry,

8 In the strength of thy arm thou didst
possess the land, and being the mos'
mighty thou boldest it.

9 Thou hast sent widows away empty,
and the arms of the fatherless thou hast
broken in pieces.

10 Therefore art thou surrounded with
snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.

11 And didst thou think that thou
shouldst not see darkness, and that thou
shouldst not be covered with the violence
of overflowing waters?

12 Dost not thou think that God is higher
than heaven, and is elevated above the
height of the stars ?

13 And thou sayst : What doth God
know ? and he judgeth as it were through
a mist.

14 The clouds are his covert, and he
doth not consider our things, and he
walketh about the poles of heaven.

16 Dost thou desire to keep the path of
ages, which wicked men have trodden ?

16 Who were taken away before their
time, and a flood hath overthrown their
foundation.

17 Who said to God : Depart from us :
and looked upon the Almighty as if he
could do nothing:

18 Whereas he had filled their houses
with good things : whose way of thinking
be far from me.

19 P The just shall see, and shall rejoice,
and the innocent shall laugh them to
scorn.

20 Is not their exaltation cut down, and
hath not fire devoured the remnants of
them?

21 Submit thyself then to him, and be
at peace: and thereby thou shalt have
the best fruits.

22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay
up his words in thy heart.

23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty,

p Ps. 106. 42.

of death and hell: which willingly, as it were, re-
ceives the wicked at their death ; who are ushered
in by innumerable others that have gone before
them J and are followed by multitudes above
ber.

num

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Job wishes to he judged by God

JOB The wicked go unpunished for a while

thoi shalt be built up. and shalt put
Awaj iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

24 He shall give for earth flint, and for
flint torrents of gold.

25 ^Lud the Almighty shall be against
thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped
together for thee,

26 Then shalt thou abound in delights
in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy
face to God.

27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will
hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it
shall come to thee, and light shall shine
in thy ways.

29 ^ For he that hath been humbled,
shall be in glory: and he that shall bow
down his eyes, he shall be saved.

30 The innocent shall be saved, and he
shall be saveO by the cleanness of his
hands.

CHAPTER 23.
Job wishes to be tried at God's triburuxZ.
rjlHEN Job answered, and saidr
JL 2 Now also my words are in bitter-
ness, and the hand of my scourge is more
grievous than my mourning.

3 Who will grant me that I might know
and find him, and come even to his
throne ?

4 I would set judgment before him, and
would fill my mouth with complaints.

5 That I might know the words that he
would answer me, and understand what
he would say to me.

6 I would not that he should contend
with me with much strength, nor over-
whelm me with th€ weight of his great-
ness.

7 Let him propose equity against me,
and let my judgment come to victory.

8 But if I go to the east, he appeareth
not; if to the west, I shall not under-
stand him.

9 If to the left hand, what shall I do? I
shall not take hold on him : if I turn my-
self to the right hand, I shall not see
him.

10 But he knoweth my way, and has
tried me as gold that passeth through
the fire :

11 My foot hath followed his steps, I
have kept his way, and have not declined
from it.

12 I have not departed from the com-
mandments of his lips, and the words of
his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

13 For he is alone, and no man can
turn away his thought: and whatsoever
his soul hath desired, that hath he done.

14 And when he shall have fulfilled his
will in me, many other like things are
also at hand with him.

15 And therefore I am troubled at his
presence, and when I consider him I am
made pensive with fear.

16 God hath softened my heart, and the
Almighty hath troubled me.

17 For I have not perished because of
the darkness that hangs over me, neither
hath the mist covered my face.

CHAPTER 24.

Go(Pa providence often suffers the wicked to go on
a long time in their sins but ^punisheth them in
another life,

TIMES are not hid from the Almighty :
but they that know him, kno\i not
his days.

2 Some have removed landmarks, have
taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

3 They have driven away the ass of the
fatherless, and have taken away the
widow's ox for a pledge.

4 They have overturned the way of the
poor, and have oppressed together the
meek of the earth.

5 Others like wild asses in the desert go
forth to their work : by watching for a
prey they get bread for their children.

6 They reap the field that is not their
own, and gather the vintage of his vine-
yard whom by violence they have op-
pressed.

7 They send men away naked, taking
away their clothes who have no cover-
ing in the cold:

8 Who are wet, with the showers of the
mountains, and having no covering em-
brace the stones.

9 They have violently robbed the father-
less, and stripped the poor common peo-
ple.

10 From the naked and them that go
without clothing, and from the hungry
they have taken away the ears of corn.

11 They have taken their rest at noon
among the stores of them, who after hav-
ing trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.

12 Out of the cities they have mad«

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The wicked go unpu n ishedfor a wh He JOB

men to groan, and the sotil O* the
wounded hath cried out, ana God doth
not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

13 They have been rebeUious to the
light, they have not known his ways,
neither have they returned by his paths.

14 The murderer rlseth at the very
break of day, he kiUeth the needy, and
the poor man: but in the night he will
be as a thief.

15 The eye of the adulterer observeth
darkness, saying: No eye shall see me:
and he will cover his face.

16 He diggeth through houses in the
dark, as in the day they had appointed
for themselves, and they have not known
the hght,

17 If the morning suddenly appear, it is
to them the shadow of death : and they
walk in darkness as if it were in light,

18 He is light upon the face of the water:
cnrsed be his portion on the earth, let him
not walk by the way of the vineyards.

19 Let him pass from the snow waters
to excessive heat, and his sin even to
helL

20 Let mercy forget him : may worms
be his sweetness: let him be remem-
bered no more, but be broken In pieces
as an unfmitfnl tree.

21 For he hath fed the barren that bear-
eth not, and to the widow he hath done
no good.

22 He hath pulled down the strong by
his might: and when he standeth up, he
shall not trust to his Hfe.

23 ' God hath given him place for pen-
ance, and he abuseth it tmto pride: but
his eyes are upon his ways.

24 They are lifted up for a little while
and shall not stand, and shall be brought
down as all things, and shall be taken
away, and as the tops of the ears of corn
they shall be broken.

25 And il it be not so, who can convince
Pie that I have lied, and set my words
before God?

CHAPTER 25.

Baldad represents the justice of Cfod^ before whom
no man con be justifi.^'d.

THEN Baldad the Suhite answered, and
said:

r Apoc. 2. 21.

Chap. 26. Ver. 13. Ws obffeiric hand brotf/jht

forth the vmrfino s^rn^ryf. That is, the omnipotent
power of God ; which hrnnght forth all thines cre-
ated m cimeb but cooceivod iii tbe Divio* taiai tnxn

The ipisdom and power of God

2 Power and terror aif© with him, who
maketh peace in his high places.

3 Is there any numbering ot hiii sol-
diers? and upon whom shali not his hght
arise?

4 Can man be justified compared with
God, or he that is born of a woman ap-
pear clean?

6 Behold even the moon doth not shine,
and the stars are not pure in his sight.

6 Hov much less man that is rottenness,
and the eon of man who is a worm?

CHAPTER 26.

Job declares his sentirnents of the trisdom and pourer
of God

THEN Job answered, and saic* :
2 Whose helper art thou ? is it of
him that is weak? and dost thou hold up
the arm of him that has no strength?

3 To whom hast thou given counsel?
perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and
thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.

4 Whom hast thou desired to teach ? was
it not him that made Hfe ?

6 Behold the giants groan under the
waters, and they that dweU with them.

6 Hell is naked before him, and there is
no covering for destruction.

7 He stretched out the north over the
empty space, and hangeth the earth upon
nothing.

8 He bindeth up the waters in his clouds,
so that they break not out and faU down
together.

9 He withholdeth the face of his throne,
and spreadeth his cloud over it,

10 He hath set bounds about the waters,
till light and darkness come to an end.

11 The pillars of heaven tremble, and
dread at his beck.

12 By his power the seas are suddenly
gathered together, and his wisdom has
struck the proud one

13 His spirit hath adorned the heavens,
and his obstetric hand brought forth the
winding serpent.

14 Lo, these things are said in part of
his ways : and seeing we have heard
scarce a little drop of his word, who shall
be able to behold the thander of his
greatness ?

an eternity. The rr-indino serpevt, a constellation
of fixed stars winding round the north pole, called
Drnro This appears from the foregoing part of the
same verse Hi» spirit hcUh adorrud the heavent>

Job reasserts his innocence

JOB

CHAPTER 27.

fob persists in asserting his own innocence, and that
hypocrites will be punished in the end.

JOB also added, taking up his parable,
and said :

2 As God liveth, who hath taken away
my judgment, and the Almighty, who
hath brought my soul to bitterness,

3 As long as breath remaineth in me,
and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

4 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither
shall my tongue contrive lying.

6 God forbid that I should judge you to
be just: till I die I will not depart from
ixiy innocence.

6 My justification, which I have begun
to hold, I will not forsake : for my heart
doth not reprehend me in all my life.

7 Let my enemy be as the ungodly, and
my adversary as the wicked one.

8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite
if through covetousness he take by vio-
lence, and God deliver not his soul?

9 Will God hear his cry, when distress
shall come upon him?

10 Or can he delight himself in the Al-
mighty, and call upon God at all times ?

11 I will teach you by the hand of God,
what the Almighty hath, and I will not
conceal it.

12 Behold you all know it, and why do
you speak vain things without cause?

13 This is the portion of a wicked man
with God, and the inheritance of the vio-
lent, which they shall receive of the Al-
mighty.

14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall
be for the sword, and his grandsons shall
not be filled with bread.

15 They that shall remain of him, shall
be buried in death, and his widows shall
not weep.

16 If he shall heap together silver as
earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

17 He shall prepare indeed, but the just
man shall be clothed with it: and the
innocent shall divide the silver.

18 He hath built his house as a moth,
and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

19 * The rich man when he shall sleep
shall take away nothing with him: he
shall open his eyes and find nothing.

20 Poverty like water shall take hold on
him, a tempest shall oppress him in the
night :

« Ps. 48. 18.

Man searches out many things

21 A burning wind shall take him up,
and carry him away, and as a whirlwind
shall snatch him from his place.

22 And he shall cast upon him, and shall
not spare : out of his hand he would will-
ingly flee.

23 He shall clasp his hands upon him,
and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

CHAPTER 28.

MarCs indtistry searcheth out many things: trtte
wisdom is taught by God alone.

ILVER hath beginnings of its veins,
and gold hath a place wherein it is
melted.

2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and
stone melted with heat is turned into
brass.

3 He hath set a time for darkness, and
the end of all things he considereth, the
stone also that is in the dark and the
shadow of death.

4 The flood divideth from the people
that are on their ioumey, those whom
the food of the neeay man hath forgot-
ten, and who cannot be come at.

5 The land, out of which bread grew in
its place, hath beer» overturned with fire.

6 The stones of it are the place of sap-
phires, and the clods of it are gold.

7 The bird hath not known the path,
neither hath the eye of the vulture be-
held it.

8 The children of the merchants have
not trodden it, neither hath the lioness
passed by it.

9 He hath stretched forth his hand to
the flint, he hath overturned mountains
from tne roots.

10 In the rocks he hath cut out rivers,
and his eye hath seen every precious
thing.

11 The depths also of rivers he hath
searched, and hidden things he hath
brought forth to light.

12 But where is wisdom to be found,
and where is the place of understanding ?

13 Man knoweth not the price thereof,
neither is it found in the land of them
that live in delights.

14 The depth saith: It is not in me : and
the sea saith : It is not with me.

15 *The finest gold shall not purchase
it, neither shall silver be weighed in
exchange for it.

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Wisdom IS taught hy God alone

JOB

Job respected hy all

16 It shall not be compared with the
dyed colours of India, or with the most
precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire.

17 Gold or crystal cannot equal it, nei-
ther shall any vessels of gold be changed
for it.

18 High and eminent things shall not be
mentioned in comparison of it: but wis-
dom is drawn out of secret places.

19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be
equal to it, neither shall it be compared
to the cleanest dyeing.

20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and
where is the place of understanding ?

21 It is hid from the eyes of all living,
and the fowls of the air know it not.

22 Destruction and death have said:
With our ears we have heard the fame
thereof.

23 God understandeth the way of it, and
he knoweth the place thereof.

24 For he beholdeth the ends of the
world: and looketh on all things that
are under heaven.

25 Who made a weight for the winds,
and weighed the waters by measure.

26 When he gave a law for the rain, and
» way for the sounding storms.

37 Then he saw it, and declared, and
prepared, and searched it.

28 And he said to man : Behold the fear
Of the Lord, that is wisdom : and to de-
part from evil, is understanding.

CHAPTER 29.

Job relates his former happiness, and the respect
that all men shelved him.

JOB also added, taking up his parable,
and said :

2 Who will grant me, that I might be
according to the months past, according
to the days in which God kept me ?

3 When his lamp shined over my head,
and I walked by his light in darkness ?

4 As I was in the days of my youth,
when God was secretly in my tabernacle ?

6 When the Almighty was with me : and
my servants round about me ?

6 When I washed my feet with butter,
and the rock poured me out rivers of
oil?

7 When I went out to the gate of the
city, and in the street they prepared me
a chair?

8 The young men saw me, and hid them-

Chap. 30. Ver. 1. But noir the younger in time:
that is, younger tlian I am, and as it were obscure,

selves : and the old men rose up and
stood.

9 The princes ceased to speak, ind laid
the finger on their mouth.

10 The rulers held their peace, and their
tongue cleaved to their throat.

11 The ear that heard me blessed me,
and the eye that saw me gave witness to
me:

12 Because I had delivered the poor
man that cried out ; and the fatherless,
that had no helper.

13 The blessing of him that was ready
to perish came upon me, and I comforted
the heart of the widow.

14 1 was clad with justice : and I clothed
myself with my judgment, as with a robe
and a diadem.

15 I was an eye to the blind, and a foot
to the lame.

16 I was the father of the poor: and
the cause which I knew not, I searched
out most dihgently.

17 I broke the jaws of the wicked man,
and out of his teeth I took away the
prey.

18 And I said: I shall die in my nest,
and as a palm tree shall multiply my
days.

19 My root is opened beside the waters,
and dew shall continue in my harvest.

20 My glory shall always be renewed,
and my bow in my hand shall be repaired.

21 They that heard me, waited for my
sentence, and being attentive held their
peace at my counsel.

22 To my words they durst add nothing,
and my speech dropped upon them.

23 They waited for me as for rain, and
they opened their mouth as for a latter
shower.

24 If at any time I laughed on them,
they believed not, and the light of my
countenance fell not on earth.

25 If I had a mind to go to them, I sat
first, and when I sat as a king, with his
army standing about him, yet I was a
comforter of them that mourned.

CHAPTER 30.

Job shews the wonderful change of his tempore,»
estate, from welfare to great calamity.

BUT now the younger in time scorn
me, whose fathers I would not have
set with the dogs of my flock :

when I was conspicuous and in magnificence ^ they
now look down on me.

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The contempt now shown him

JOB Great calamity has now cowe upon him

2 The strength of whose hands was to
ne as nothing, and they were thought
inworthy of life itself.

3 Barren with want and hunger, who
rnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with
jalamity and misery.

4 And they ate grass, and barks of trees,
md the root of junipers was their food.

6 Who snatched up these things out of
;he valleys, and when they had found
my of them, they ran to them with a
jry.

6 They dwelt in the desert places of tor-
ments, and in caves of earth, or upon the
p-avel.

7 They pleased themselves among these
dnd of things, and counted it delightful
;o be under the briers.

8 The children of foolish and base men,
md not appearing at all upon the earth.

9 Now I am turned into their song, and
im become their byword.

10 They abhor me, and flee far from
ne, and are not afraid to spit in my
'ace.

11 For he hath opened his quiver, and
lath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle
nto my mouth.

12 At the right hand of my rising, my
jalamities forthwith arose : they have
)verthrown my feet, and have over-
«rhelmed me with their paths as with
^aves.

13 They have destroyed my ways, they
iiave lain in wait against me, and they
biave prevailed, and there was none to
aelp.

14 They have rushed in upon me, as
tvhen a wall is br::ken, and a gate
Dpened, and have rolled themselves
3own to my miseries.

■*5 I am brought to nothing : as a wind
thou hast taken away my desire : and
QQy prosperity hath passed away like a
iloud.

16 And now my soul fadeth within my-
self, and the days of affliction possess me.

17 In the night my bone is pierced with
Borrows: and they that feed upon me,
do not sleep.

18 With the multitude of them my gar-
ment is consumed, and they have girded
me about, as with the collar of my coat.

19 I am compared to dirt, and am lik-
ened to embers and ashes.

20 I cry to thee, and thou hearest me
not : I stand up, and thou dost not re-
gard me.

21 Thou art changed to be cruel toward
me, and in the hardness of thy and
thou art against me.

22 Thou hast lifted me up, and set me
as it were upon the wind, and thou hast
mightily dashed me.

23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to
death, where a house is appointed for
every one that liveth.

24 But yet thou stretchest not forth
thy hand to their consumption: and if
they shall fall down thou wilt save.

25 I wept heretofore for him that was
afflicted, and my soul had compassion
on the poor.

26 I expected good things, and evils
are come upon me: I waited for light,
and darkness broke out.

27 My inner parts have boiled without
any rest, the days of affliction have pr«i-
vented me.

28 I went mourning without indigna-
tion ; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

29 I was the brother of dragons, and
companion of ostriches.

30 My skin is become black upon me,
and my bones are dried up with heat.

31 My harp is turned to mourning, and
my organ into the voice of those that
weep.

CHAPTER 31.

Joh, to defend himself from the unjust judgment$
of his friends, gives a sincere account of his own
virtues.

I MADE a covenant with my eyes,
that I would not so much as think
upon a virgin.

2 For what part should God from above
have in me, and what inheritance the Al-
mighty from on high ?

3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and
aversion to them that work iniquity ?

4 Doth not he consider my ways, and
number all my steps ?

5 If I have walked in vanity, and my
foot hath made haste to deceit :

6 Let him weigh me in a just balance,
and let God know my simplicity.

7 If my step hath turned out of the
way, and if my heart hath followed my
eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my
hands :

Vor.29. Brother qf droffons. &C.

Imitating these creatures in their lamentable noise.
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Job recites his good deeds

JOB

Job recites his good deeds

8 Then let me sow and let another e^'t :
and let my offspring be rooted out.

9 If my heart hath been deceived upon
a woman, and if I have laid wait at my
friend's door :

10 Let my wife be the harlot of another,
and let other men lie with her.

11 For this is a heinous crime, and a
most grievous iniquity.

12 It is a fire that devoureth even to
destruction, and rooteth up all things
that spring.

13 If I have despised to abide judgment
with my manservant, or my maidservant,
when they had any controversy against
me :

14 For what shall I do when God shall
rise to judge ? and when he shall exam-
ine, what shall I answer him ?

15 Did not he that made me in the
womb make him also : and did not one
and the same form me in the womb ?

16 If I have denied to the poor what
they desired, and have made the eyes of
the widow wait :

17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and
the fatherless hath not eaten thereof ;

18 (For from my infancy mercy grew up
with me : and it came out with me from
my mother's womb :)

19 If I have despised him that was per-
ishing for want of clothing, and the poor
man that had no covering :

20 If his sides have not blessed me, and
if he were not warmed with the fleece of
my sheep :

21 If I have lifted up my hand against
the fatherless, even when I saw myself
superior in the gate :

22 Let my shoulder fall from its joint,
and let my arm with its bones be broken.

23 For I have always feared God as
waves swelling over me, and his weight
I was not able to bear.

24 If I have thought gold my strength,
and have said to fine gold : My confidence :

25 If I have rejoiced over my great
riches, and because my hand had gotten
much.

26 If I beheld the sun when it shined,
and the moon going in brightness :

27 And my heart in secret hath re-
joiced, and I have kissed my hand with
my mouth:

Chap. 31. Ver. 26. If I beheld the sun, &e. If I
behold the sun and moon with admiration, knowing
tbem to be created and governed by the power of

28 Which is a very great iniquity, and
a denial against the niQSt high God.

29 If I have been glad at the downfall
of him that hated me, and bave rejoiced
that evil had found him.

30 For I have not giver, my mouth to
sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.

31 If the men of my tabernacle have
not said : Who will give us of his flesh
that we may be filled ?

32 The stranger did noo stay without^
my door was open to the traveller.

33 If as a man I have hid my sin, and
have concealed my iniquity in my
bosom.

34 If I have been afraid at a very great
multitude, and the contempt of kins-
men hath terrified me : «i-nd .1 have not
rather held my peace, and not gone out
of the door.

35 Who would grant me a hearer, that
the Almighty may hear my desire * and
that he himself that judgeth would write
a book,

36 That I may carry it on my shoulder,
and put it about me as a crown ?

37 At every step of mine I would pro-
nounce it, and offer it as to a prince.

38 If my land cry against me, and with
it the furrows thereof mourn :

39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof
without money, and have afflicted the
soul of the tillers thereof:

40 Let thistles grow up to me instead of
wheat, and thorns instead of barley.

The words of Job are ended,

CHAPTER 32.

Eliu is aiw'^'v ' *th with Job and his friends. He
"iQasts of himself.

SO these three men ceased to answer
Job, because he seemed just to him-
self.

2 And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buz-
ite, of the kindred of Ram, was angry
and was moved to indignation : now he
was angry against Job, because he said
he was just before God.

3 And he wac angry with his friends,
because they had not found a reasonable
answer, but only had condemned Job.

4 So Eliu waited while Job was speak-
ing, because they were his elders that
were speaking.

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Eliu reproves Job's friends

JOB

Eliu blames Job

6 But when he saw that the three were
not able to answer, he was exceedingly
angry.

6 Then Eliu the son of Barachel the
Buzite answered, and said : I am younger
in days, and you are more ancient; there-
fore hanging down my head, I was afraid
to shew you my opinion.

7 For T hoped that greater age would
speak, and that a multitude of years
'vould teach wisdom.

8 But, as I see, there is a spirit in men,
and the inspiration of the Almighty giv-
eth understanding.

9 They that are aged are not the wise
men, neither do the ancients understand
judgment.

10 Therefore I will speak: Hearken
to me, I also wUl shew you my wis-
dom.

11 For I have waited for your words, I
have given ear to your wisdom, as long
as you were disputing in words,

12 And as long as I thought you said
some thing, I considered : but, as I see,
there is none of you that can convince
Job, and answer his words.

13 Lest you should say: We have found
wisdom, God hath cast him down, not
man.

14 He hath spoken nothing to me, and
I w\ll not answer him according to your
words.

15 They were afraid, and answered no
vnore- and they left off speaking.

16 Therefore because I have waited, and
they have not spoken ; they stood, and
answered no more ;

17 I also will answer my part, and will
shew my knowledge.

18 For I am full of matter to speak of,
and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth
me.

19 Behold, my belly is as new wine which
wanteth vent, which bursteth the new
vessels.

20 I will speak and take breath a little :
1 will open my lips, and will answer.

21 I will not accept the person of man,
and I will not level God with man.

22 For I know not how long I shall con-
tinue, and whether after a while my
Maker may take me away.

Chap, 32. Ver. 21. / will not level GodwiVc man.
Here Elhi considers that Job hath put himself on a
level with God, by the manner he assumed tc jus-
ufT his own life in speaking to God as if be spoke

CHAPTER 33.

Eliu blames Job for asserting his own Innocenct,

HEAR therefore, O Job, my speeches,
and hearken to all my words.

2 Behold now I have opened my mouth,
let my tongue speak within my jaws.

3 My words are from my upright heart,
and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.

4 The spirit of God made me, and the
breath of the Almighty gave me hfe.

5 If thou canst, answer me, and stand
up against my face.

6 Behold God hath made me as well as
thee, and of the same clay I also was
formed.

7 But yet let not my wonder terrify
thee, and let not my eloquence be bur-
densome to thee.

8 Now thou hast said in my hearing, and
I have heard the voice of thy words :

9 I am clean, and without sin : 1 am un-
spotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

10 Because he hath found complaints
against me, therefore he hath counted
me for his enemy.

11 He hath put my feet in the stocks,
he hath observed all my paths.

12 Now this is the thing in which thou
art not justified : I will answer thee, that
God is greater than man.

13 Dost thou strive against him, because
he hath not answered thee to all words ?

14 God speaketh once, and repeateth
not the selfsame thing the second time.

15 By a dream in a vision by night,
when deep sleep falleth upon men, and
they are sleeping in their beds •

16 Then he openeth the ears of men,
and teaching instructeth them in what
they are to learn.

17 That he may withdraw a man from
the things he is doing, and may deliver
him from pride.

18 Rescuing his soul from corruption:
and his life from passing to the sword.

19 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed,
and he maketh all his bones to wither.

20 Bread become th abominable to hinj
in his life, and to his soul the meat which
before he desired.

21 His flesh shall be consumed away,
and his bones that were covered shall be
made bare.

to an equal ; Eliu expresses !n the following tci. 22
his fear of punishment bereafter for such vt it
tempt.

673

God punishes man to save him

JOB

The justice of God

22 His soul hath drawn near to corrup-
tion, and his life to the destroyers.

23 If there shall be an angel speaking
for him, one among thousands, to declare
man's uprightness,

24 He shall have mercy on him, and
shall say: Deliver him, that he may not
go down to corruption : I have found
wherein I may be merciful to him.

25 His flesh is consumed with punish-
ments, let him return to the days of his
youth.

26 He shall pray to God, and he will be
gracious to him : and he shall see his
face with joy, and he will render to man
his justice.

27 He shall loo r upon men, and shall
say: I have sinned, and indeed I have
offended, and I have not received what I
have deserved.

28 He hath delivered his soul from ^o-
ing into destruction, that it may live and
see the light.

29 Behold, all these things God worketb
three times within every one.

30 That he may withdraw their souls
from corruption, and enlighten them with
the light of the living.

31 Attend. Job, and bearker -30 me: and
hold thy peace, whilst J ^peak.

32 But if thou hast anj; thing to say, an-
swer me, speak : for I would have thee
to appear just,

33 And if thou have not, hear me : hold
thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.

CHAPTER 34.

Eliu charges Job with blasphemy .• and sets forth
the power and justice of God.

AND Ehu continued his discourse, and
. said :

2 Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye
learned, hearken to me :

3 " For the ear trieth words, and the
mouth discerneth meats by the taste.

4 Let us choose to us judgment, and let
us see among ourselves what is the best.

5 For Job hath said : I am just, and God
hath overthrown my judgment.

6 For in judging me there is a lie : my
arrow is violent without any sin.

7 What man is there like Job, who
drinketh up scorning like water ?

8 Who goeth in company with them
that work iniquity, and walketh with
wicked men?

u Supra 12. 11.
« Deut la 17 i 2 Par. 19. 7 ; Wisd. 6. 8 ; EccIL 35. 16}

9 For he hath said : Man shall not please
God, although he run with him.

10 Therefore, ye men of understanding,
hear me: far from God be wickedness,
and iniquity from the Almighty.

11 For he will render to a man his work,
and according to the ways of every one
he will reward them.

12 For in very deed God will not con-
demn without cause, neither will the Al-
mighty pervert judgment.

13 What other hath he appointed over
the earth ? or whom hath he set over the
world which he made ?

14 If he turn his heart to him, he shall
draw his spirit and breath unto himself.

15 All flesh shall perish together, and
man shall return into ashes.

16 If then thou hast understanding, hear
what is said, and hearken to the voice of
my words.

17 Can he be healed that loveth not
judgment? and how dost thou so far
condemn him that is just ?

18 Who saith to the king : Thou art an
apostate : who calleth rulers ungodly :

19 ^ Who accepteth not the persons of
princes : nor hath regarded the tyrant,
when he contended against the poor
man : for all are the work of his hands.

20 They shall suddenly die, and the peo-
ple shall be troubled at midnight, and
they shall pass, and take away the vio-
lent without hand.

'>1 For his eyes are upon the ways of
men, and he considereth all their steps.

22 There is no darkness, and there is no
shadow of death, where they may be hid
who work iniquity.

23 For it is no longer in the power of
man to enter into judgment with God.

24 He shall break in pieces many and
innumerable, ana ..hall make others to
stand in their stead.

25 For he knoweth their works : and
therefore he shall bring night on them,
and they shall be destroyed.

26 He hath struck them, as being wicked,
in open sight.

27 Who as it were on purpose have re-
volted from him, and would not under-
stand all his ways :

28 So that they caused the cry of the
needy to come to him, and he heard the
voice of the poor.

Acts 10. 34 : Rom. 2. 11 ; GaL 2. 6 ; Eph. 6.i.9|
COL3.25; 1 Peter L 17.

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£liu accuses Job of blasphemy

JOB

29 For when he granteth peace, who is
there that can condemn? When he hid-
eth his countenance, who is there that
can behold him, whether it regard na-
tions, or all men?

30 Who maketh a man that is a hypo-
crite to reign for the sins of the people ?

31 Seeing then I have spoken of God. I
will not hinder thee in thy turn.

32 If I have erred, teach thou me ; H t
have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.

33 Doth God require it of thee, because
it hath displeased thee ? for thou began-
nest to speak, and not I : but if thou know
any thing better, speak.

34 Let men of understanding speak to
me, and let a wise man hearken to me.

35 But Job hath spoken fooUshly, and
his words sound not discipline.

36 My father, let Job be tried even to
the end : cease not from the man of ini-
quity.

37 Because he addeth blasphemy upon
his sins, let him be tied fast in the mean
time amongst us : and then let him pro-
voke God to judgment with his speeches.

CHAPTER 35.

Eliu declares that the good or evil done by man
cannot reach God.

MOREOVER Eliu spoke these words :
2 Doth thy thought seem right to
thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more
just than God?

3 For thou saidst : That which is right
doth not please thee : or what will it
profit thee if I sin ?

4 Therefore I will answer thy words,
and thy friends with thee.

6 Look up to heaven and see, and be-
hold the sky, that it is higher than
thee.

6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him ?
and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what
ehalt thou do against him ?

7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou
give him, or what shall he receive of thy
hand ?

8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that
is hke thee : and thy justice may help the
son of man.

9 By reason of the multitude of oppres-
sors they shall cry out : and shall wail
tor the violence of the arm of tyrants.

10 And he hath not said : Where is God,
who made me, who hath given songs in
the night?

God is just

11 Who teacheth us more than the
beasts of the earth, and instructeth us
more than the fowls of the air.

12 There shall they cry, and he will not
hear, because of the pride of evil men.

13 God therefore will not hear in vain,
and the Almighty will look into the causes
of every one

1^ Yea when thou shalt say: He con-
sidereon not : be judged before him, and
expect him.

15 For he doth not now bring on his
fury, neither doth he revenge wicked*
ness exceedingly.

16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in
vain, and multiplieth words without know-
ledge.

CHAPTER 36.

Eliu proceeds in setting forth the justice anxZ power
of God.

ELIU also proceeded, and said :
2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew
thee : for I have yet somewhat to speak
in God's behalf.

5 I will repeat my knowledge from the
beginning, and I will prove my Maker
just.

4 For indeed my words are without a
lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved
to thee.

6 God doth not cast away the mighty,
whereas he himself also is mighty.

6 But he saveth not the wicked, and he
giveth judgment to the poor.

7 He will not take away his eyes from
the just, and he placeth kings on the
throne for ever, and they are exalted.

8 And if they shall be in chains, and be
bound with the cords of poverty :

9 He shall shew them their works, and
their wicked deeds, because they have
been violent.

10 He also shall open their ear, to correct
them: and shall speak, that they may
return from iniquity.

11 If they shall hear and observe, they
shall accomplish their days in good, and
their years in glory.

12 But if they hear not, they shall pass
by the sword, and shall be consumed in
folly.

13 Dissemblers and crafty men prove
the wrath of God, neither shall they cry
when they are bound.

14 Their soul shall die in a storm, and
their life among the effeminate.

15 He shall deliver the poor out of hia

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JOB

The greatnes.s of God

distress, and shall open his ear in afflic-
tion.

16 Therefore he shall set thee at large
out of the narrow mouth, and which hath
no foundation under it : and the rest of
thy table shall be full of fatness.

17 Thy cause hath been judged as that
of the wicked, cause and judgment thou
shalt recover.

18 Therefore let not anger overcome
thee to oppress any man: neither let
multitude of gifts turn thee aside.

19 Lay down thy greatness without trib-
ulation, and all the mighty of strength.

20 Prolong not the night that people
may come up for them.

21 Beware thou turn not aside to ini-
quity : for this thou hast begun to follow
after misery.

22 Behold, God is high in his strength,
and none is like him among the law-
givers.

23 Who can search out his ways ? or
who can say to him: Thou hast wrought
tuiquity ?

24 Remember that thou knowest not his
work, concerning which men have sung.

25 All men see him, every one beholdeth
afar off.

26 Behold, God is great, exceeding our
knowledge : th^ number of his years is
Inestimable.

27 He lifteth up the drops of rain, anc
poureth out «howers like floods ;

28 Which flow from the clouds that
cover all above,

29 If he will spread out clouds as his
tent,

30 And lighten with his light from above,
he shall cover also the ends of the sea.

31 For by these he judgeth people, and
giveth food to many mortals.

32 In his hands he hideth the light, and
commandeth it to come again.

33 He sheweth his friend concerning it,
that it is his possession, and that he may
come up to it.

CHAPTER 37.

Eliu goes on in his discourse, shelving GotVs wisdom
and power ^ by his wonderful works.

Chap. 36. Ver. 16. Out of the narrow mouth.
That is, out of hell, whose entrance is narrow, and
its depth bottomless; but figuratively meant here,
that is, from his miseries and calamity to be restored
to his former state of happiness.

Ver. 21. For this thou hast begun to follow after
misery. Eliu charges Job, that notwithstanding his
misery, be does not fear God as be ought: but w bis
Inrtgrne.nt, falls into iuiquity.

The wonderful works of God

AT this my heart trembleth, and is
. moved out of its place.

2 Hear ye attentively the terror of his
voice, and the sound that cometh out of
his mouth.

3 He beholdeth under all the heavens,
and his light is upon the ends of the
earth.

4 After it a noise shall roar, he shall
thunder with the voice of his majesty,
and shall not be found out, when his
voice shall be heard.

6 God shall thunder wonderfully with
his voice, he that doth great and un-
searchable things.

6 He commandeth the snow to go down
upon the earth, and the winter rain, and
the shower of his strength.

7 He sealeth up the hand of all men, that
every one may know his works.

8 Then the beast shall go into his covert,
and shall abide in his den.

9 Out of the inner parts shall a tempest
come, and cold out of the north.

10 When God bloweth there cometh
frost, and again the waters are poured
out abundantly.

11 Corn desire th clouds, and the clouds
spread their light:

12 Which go round about, whithersoever
the will of him that governeth them shall
lead them, to whatsoever he shall com-
mand them upon the face of the whole
earth:

13 Whether in one tribe, or in his own
land, or in what place soever of his mercy
he shall command them to be found.

14 Hearken to these things, Job : Stand,
and consider the wondrous works of
God.

15 Dost thou know when God com-
manded the rains, to shew his Ught of
his clouds?

16 Knowest thou the great paths of the
clouds, and the perfect knowledges ?

17 Are not thy garments hot, when the
south wind blows upon the earth ?

18 Thou perhaps hast made the heavens
with him, which are most strong, as if
they were of molten bra&s.

Chap. 37 Ver. 7. He sealeth vp, &c. When he
sends those showers of his strength, that is, those
storms o> rain, he seals up, that is, he shuts up the
hands oi men from their usual worl<s abroad, and
confines them within doors, to consider his works j
or to forecast their works, that is, wliat tbey theu»:
selves are to do

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God answers Job

JOB The littleness of marCs knowledge

19 Shew S13 what we may say to him :

for we are wrapped up in darkness.

20 Who shall tell him the things T speak?
even if a man shall speak, he shall be
swallowed up.

21 But now they see not the light: the
air on a sudden shall be thickened into
clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive
them away,

22 Cold Cometh out of the north, and to
God praise with fear.

23 We cannot find him worthily: he is
great in strength, and in judgment, and
in justice, and he is ineffable.

24 Therefore men shall fear him, and all
that seem to themselves to be wise, shall
not dare to behold him.

CHAPTER 38.

God interposes and shews from the things he hath
made, that Tnan cannot com,prehend his power
and tuisdom,

THEN the Lord answered Job out of a
whirlwind, and said:

2 Who is this that wrappeth up sen-
tences in unskilful words?

3 Gird up thy loins hke a man I will
ask thee, and answer thou me,

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foun-
dations of the earth? tellm© if thou hast
understanding,

6 Who hath laid Che measures thereof,
If thou knowest? or who hath stretched
the hue upon it?

6 Upon what are its bases grounded ? or
who laid the corner stone thereof,

7 When the morning stars praised me
together, and all the sons of God made a
joyful melody ?

8 Who shut up the sea with doors, when
It broke forth as issuing out of the womb :

9 When I made a cloud the garment
iiereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in
iwaddling bands ?

10 I set my bounds around it, and made
it bars and doors :

11 And I said : Hitherto thou shalt come,
and shalt go no further, and here thou
jhalt break thy swelling waves.

12 Didst thou since thy birth command
uhe morning, and shew the dawning of
ihe day its place ?

Ver, 20. He shall be swallowed up. All that man
'^n say when he speaks of God, is so little and incon-
iiderable in comparison with the subject, that man
'5 lost, and as it were swallowed up in so immense
iU ocean.

Chap 38. Ver 1. The Lord. That »» an angel
uDeaking io the oame ot Ihe Lord.

13 And didst thou hold the extremities
of the earth shaking them, and hast thou
shaken the ungodly out of it ?

14 The seal shall be restored as clay,
and shall stand as a garment :

15 From the wicked their light shall be
taken away, and the high arm shall be
broken.

16 Hast thou entered into the depths ol
the sea, and walked in the lowest parts
of the deep ?

17 Have the gates of death been opened
to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome
doors ?

18 Hast thou considered the breadth of
the earth? tell me, if thou knowest all
things ?

19 Where is the way where light dwell-
eth, and where is the place of darkness

20 That thou mayst bring every thing
to its own bounds, and understand the
paths of the house thereof.

21 Didst thou know then that thou
shouldst be born ? and didst thou know
the number of thy days ?

22 Hast thou entered into the store-
houses of the snow, or hast thou beheld
the treasures of the hail :

23 Which I have prepared for the time
of the enemy, against the day of battle
and war?

24 By what way is the light spread, and!
heat divided upon the earth?

25 Who gave a course to violent show-
ers, or a way for noisy thunder :

26 That it should rain on the earth with-
out man in the wilderness, where no
mortal dwelleth:

27 That it should fill the desert and
desolate land, and should bring forth
green grass ?

28 Who is the father of rainr or who
begot the drops of dew ?

29 Out of whose womb came the icej
and the frost from heaven who hath gen-
dered it ?

30 The waters are hardened like a stone,
and the surface of the deep is congealed.

31 Shalt thou be able to join together
the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst
thou stop the turning about of Arcturus ?

Ver. 31. Pleiades^ Hebrew, Cimah. A cluster ol
seven stars in the constellation Taurus or the Bull
Arcturvs, a bright star in the constellation Bootes,
The Hebrew name Cesil, is variously interpreted •
by some, Orion , by others, the Great Bear is ^indef
stood.

I
577

The littleness of man^s power

JOB

The horse

32 Canst thou bring forth the day 3tar
in it6 time, and make the evening star to
rise upon the children of the earth?

33 Dost thou know the order of heaven,
and canst thou set down the reason
thereof on the earth?

34 Canst thou Uft up thy voice to the
clouds, that an abundance of waters may
cover thee ?

35 Oanst thou send lightnings, and will
^©y o^» 3^d will they return and say to
thee: Here we are?

33 Who hath put wisdom in the heart of
maa ? or who gave the cock understand-
ing?

37 Who can declare the order of the
heavens, or who can make the harmony
ef heaven to sleep ?

38 When was the dust poured on the
earth, and the clods fastened together ?

39 Wilt thou take the prey for the lion-
ess, and satisfy the appetite of her
whelps,

40 When they couch in the dens and lie
in wait in holes ?

41 ^Who provideth food for the raven,
when her young ones cry to God, wan-
dering about, because they have no meat?

CHAPTER 39.

The ivondera of the power and providence of Qod in
many of his creatures.

KNOWEST thou the time when the
wild goats bring forth among the
rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds
when they fawn ?

2 Hast thou numbered the months of
Iheir conceiving, or knowest thou the
time when they bring forth?

3 They bow themselves to bring forth
young, and they cast them, and send
forth roarings.

4 Their young are weaned and go to feed:
they go forth, and return not to them.

§ Who hath sent out the wild ass free,
and who hath loosed his bonds ?

3 To whom I have given a house in the
wilderness, and his dwelhngs in the bar-
ren land.

7 He scorneth the multitude of the city,
he heareth not the cry of the driver.

8 He looketh round about the mountains
of his pasture, and seeketh for every
green thing.

w Ps. 146. 9.

9 Shall jhe rhinoceros be wilhng to
serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib ?

10 Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with
thy ihong to plough, or will he break
the clods of the valleys after thee ?

11 Wilt thou have confidence in his
great strength, and leave thy labours to
him?

12 WUt thou trust him that he will ren-
der thee the seed, and gather it into thy
barnfloor?

13 The wing of the ostrich is like the
wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

14 When she leaveth her eggs on the
earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in
the dust.

15 She forgetteth that the foot may
tread upon them, or that the beasts of
the field may break them.

16 She is hardened against her young
ones, as though they were not hers, she
hath laboured in vain, no fear constrain-
ing her.

17 For God hath deprived her of wisdom,
neither hath he given her understanding.

18 When time shall be, she setteth up
her wings on high: she scorneth the
horse and his rider.

19 Wilt thou give strength to the horsey
or clothe his neck with neighing?

20 Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts?
the glory of his nostrils is terror.

21 He breaketh up the earth with his
hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth for*
ward to meet armed men.

22 He despiseth fear, he turneth not his
back to the sword.

23 Above him shall the quiver rattle,
the spear and shield shall glitter.

24 Chasing and raging he swalloweth
the ground, neither doth he make account
when the noise of the trumpet soundeth,

25 When he heareth the trumpet he
saith : Ha, ha : he smelleth the battle afar
oif, the encouraging of the captains, and

I the shouting of the army.

26 Doth the hawk wax feathered by
thy wisdom, spreading her wings to the |
south ?

27 Will the eagle mount up at thy com- 1
mand, and make her nest in high places?

28 She abideth among the rocks, and!
dweUeth among cragged flints, and stonyj
hills, where there is no access.

Ter 36. Understanding That instinct by wl>^ he distinguishes the times of crowing in the night

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Job humbles himself to God

JOB

The behemoth and the leviathan

29 From thence she looketh for the

prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

30 Her young ones shall suck np blood :
and wheresoever the carcass bhall be,
she is immediately there.

31 And the Lord went on, and said to
Job:

32 Shall he that contendeth with God
be so easily silenced ? surely he that re-
proveth God, ought to answer him.

33 Then Job answered the Lord, and
said:

34 What can I answer, who hath spoken
inconsiderately ? I will lay my hand upon
my mouth.

35 One thing I have spoken, which I
wish I had not said: and another, to
which I will add no more.

CHAPTER 40.

Qf the power of God in the behemoth atid ihe levia-
than,

AND the Lord answering Job out of
XjL the whirlwind, said:

2 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will
ask thee, and do thou tell me.

3 Wilt thou make void my judgment:
and condemn me, that thou mayst be
justified ?

4 And hast thou an arm like God, and
canst thou thunder with a voice like
him?

5 Clothe thyself with beauty, and set
thyself up on high, and be glorious, and
put on goodly garments.

6 Scatter the proud in thy indignation,
and behold every arrogant man, and
humble him.

7 Look on all that are proud, and con-
found them, and crush the wicked in
their place.

8 Hide them in the dust together, and
plunge their faces into the pit.

9 Then I will confess that thy right
hand is able to save thee.

10 Behold behemoth whom I made with
thee, he eateth grass like an ox.

11 His strength is in his loins, and his
force in the navel of his belly.

Chap. 39. Ver. 34. Spoken inconsiderately. If
we discuss all Job's words (saith St Gregory), we
shall find nothing impiously spoken; as may be
gjithered from the words of the Lord himself, chap.
42, ver. 7, 8 ; but what was reprehensible in him, was
the manner of expressing himself at times, speaking
too mriph of his own affliction, and too little ot God's
goodness towards him, which here he acknowledges
as inconsiderate.

Chap. 40. Ver. IC. Behemoth4QB.GbTew,behenuh

12 He eetteth up his tail like a cedar,
the sinews of his testicles are wrapped
together.

j 13 His bones are like pipes of brass, his
gristle like plates of irouc

14 He is the beginning of the ways of
God, who made him, he will apply hj«
sword.

15 To him the mountains bring fortb
grass: there all the beasts of the field
shall play.

16 He sleepeth under the shadow, in
the covert of the reed, and in moist
places.

17 The shades cover his shadow, the
willows of the brook shall compass him
about.

18 Behold, he will drink up a river, and
not wonder: and he trusteth that the
Jordan may run into his mouthc

19 In his eyes as with a hook he shaK
take him, and bore through his nostrils
with stakes.

20 Canst thou draw out the leviathan
with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue
with a cord ?

21 Canst thou put a ring in his nose, or
bore through his Jaw with a buckle ?

22 Will he make many supplications tO
thee, or speak soft words to thee ?

23 Will he make a covenant with thee,
and wilt thou take him to be a servant
for ever?

24 Shalt thou play with him as with a
bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?

25 Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall
merchants divide him?

26 Wilt thou fill nets with his skin, and
the cabins of fishes with his head?

27 Lay thy hand upon himi remember
the battle, and speak no more.

28 Behold his hope shall fail him, and
in the sight of all he shall be cast down.

CHAPTER 41.
A further description of the leviathan,

I WILL not stir him up, like one that
is cruel: for who can resist my coun-
tenance ?

which signifies in general an animal; but many
authors explain, that here it Is put for the ele-
phant.

Ver. 14. He will apply his sword. This text fs
variously explained: some explain the sword, the
horn given to the animal for his defence j others^ the
power that God hath given to man to slay Wm, not
withstanding his great size and strength.

Ver. 20. Leviathan. The whale or aonue aei
monster.

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The leviathan

JOB

God justifies Job

g Who hath given me before that I
should repay him? All fchings that are
under heaven are mine.

3 i will not spare him, nor his mighty
words, and framed to make supplication.

4 Who can discover- the face of his gar-
ment ? or who can go into the midst of
his mouth?

6 Who can open the doors of hie face?
his teeth are terrible round about.

6 His body is like molten shields, shut
close up with scales pressing upon one
another.

7 One is joined to another, and not so
much as any air can come between
them:

8 They stick one to another and they
hold one another fast, and ehall not be
Beparatedo

9 His sneezing is Kke the shining of fire,
and his eyes like the eyelids of the
morning.

10 Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like
torches of lighted fire.

11 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, like
that of a pot heated and boiling.

12 His breath kindleth coals, and a
flame cometh forth out of his mouth,

13 In his neck strength shall dwell, and
want goeth before his face.

14 The members of his fiesh cleave one
to another: he shall send lightnings
against him, and they shall not be carried
to another place.

15 His heart shall be as hard as a stone,
and as firm as a smith's anvil.

16 When he shall raise him up, the
angels shall fear, and being affrighted
shall purify themselves»

17 When a sword shall lay at him, it
shall not be able to hold., nor a spear, nor
a breastplate.

18 For he shall esteem iron as straw,
and brass as rotten wood.

19 The archer shall not put him to flight,
che stones of the shng are to him like
stubble.

20 As stubble will he esteem the hammer,
and he will laugh him to scorn who
shaketh the spear.

21 The beams of the sun shall be under

Chap. 41. Ver« 16. Angels. Elim, Hebrew ; which
signifies here, the mighty, the most valiant, shall
fear this monstrous fisht and in their fear shali seek
to be purified.

Ver. 21. Under him. He shall not value the
beams of the sun ; and gold to him shall be like mire.

Ver. 23. The dee^ as growing old. Growing ^^a^y,

him, and he shaB strew gold under him
like mire.

22 He shall make the deep sea to boil
like a pot, and shali make It as when
ointments boiL

2S A path shall shine after him, he shall
esteem the deep as growing old.

24 There is no power upon earth that
can be compared with him who wa&
made to tear no one.

25 He beholdeth every high thing, he is
king over all the children of pride.

CHAPTER 42.

tifob (tubmits himself God pronounces in his favour
Job offers sacrifice for his friends. He is blessed
with riches ana children, and dies happily.

THEN Job answered the Lord, and
said:

2 I know that thou canst do all things,
and no thought is hid from thee^

3 Who is this that hi(Jeth counsel with-
out knowledge ? Therefore I have spoken
unwisely, and things that above measure
exceeded my knowledge.

4 Hear, and I will speak ; I will ask
thee, and do thou tell me.

6 With the hearing of the ear, I have
heard thee, but now my eye seeth thee.

6 Therefore I reprehend myself, and do
penance in dust and ashes.

7 And after the Lord had spoken these
words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the
Themanite: My wrath is kindled againsl
thee, and against thy two friends, because
you have not spoken the thing that i»
right before me, as my servant Job hatlx

8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen,
and seven rams, and go to my servant
Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust,
and my servant Job shall pray for you
his face I will accept, that folly be noi
imputed to you: for you have notspokeu
right things before me, as my servant
Job hath.

9 So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad
the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathitt
went, and did as the Lord had spoken to
them, and the Lord accepted the face oi
Job.

10 The Lord also was turned at the pen*
ance of Job, when he prayed for hie

as it were with the froth which he leaves behind
him.

Ver. 25. ffe is king, &c. He is superior In strength
to all that are great and strong amongst living crea
tures : mystically it is understood of the devil, whc
is king over aU the proud.

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The happiness of the just

PSALMS

Persecutors of the Lord

friends. And the Lord gave Job twice
as much as he had before.

11 And all his brethren came to him,
and all his sisters, and all that knew him
before, and they ate bread with him in
his house : and bemoaned him, and com-
forted him upon all the evil that God had
brought upon him. And every man gave
him one ewe, and one earring of gold.

12 And the Lord blessed the latter end
of Job more than his beginning. And
he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six
thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of
oxen, and a thousand she asses.

13 And he had seven sons, and three
daughters.

14 And he called the name of one Dies,
and the name of the second Cassia, and
the name of the third Cornustibii.

15 And there were not found in all the
earth women so beautiful as the daugh-
ters of Job : and their father gave them
inheritance among their brethren.

16 And Job lived after these things, a
hundred and forty years, and he saw his
children, and his children's children, unto
the fourth generation, and he died an old
man, and full of days.

THE

BOOK OF PSALMS.

The Psalms are called by the Hebrews Tehillim, that is, Hymns of Praise. The
author, of a great part of them, was king David; but Tnany of them were made by
Asaph, and others whose names are prefixed in the titles or whose names are un-
known.

PSALM 1.

Beatus vir.

The happiness of the just and the evil state of the
wicked.

BLESSED is the man who hath not
walked in the counsel of the ungod-
ly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor
sat in the chair of pestilence.

2 ^ But his will is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he shall meditate day and
night.

3 y And he shall be like a tree which is
planted near the running waters, which
shall bring forth its fruit, in due season.

And his leaf shall not fall off: and all
whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

4 Not so the wicked, not so: but like
the dust, which the wind driveth from
the face of the earth.

5 Therefore the wicked shall not rise
again in judgment: nor sinners in the
council of the just.

6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the
just: and the way of the wicked shall
perish.

PSALM 2.

Quare fremuerunt

The vain efforts of -persecutors against Christ and
his church.

X Jos. \.Q. — y Jer. 17. 8.

WEnr ^ have the Gentiles raged, and
the people devised vain things ?

2 The kings of the earth stood up, and
the princes met together, against the
Lord, and against his Christ.

3 Let us break their bonds asunder:
and let us cast away their yoke from us.

4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall
laugh at them : and the Lord shall de-
ride them.

6 Then shall he speak to them in his
anger, and trouble them in his rage.

6 But I am appointed king by him over
Sion his holy mountain, preaching his
commandment.

7 " The Lord hath said to me : Thou art
my son, this day have I begotten thee.

8 Ask of me, and I will give thee the
Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the ut-
most parts of the earth for thy posses-
sion.

9 ^ Thou shalt rule them with a rod of
iron, and shalt break them in pieces like
a potter's vessel.

10 And now, O ye kings, understand:
receive instruction, you that judge the
earth.

11 Serve ye the Lord with fear: and
rejoice unto him with trembling.

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a ActG 13. 3o J Heb. l. 5. and 5. 5.
I- : -nou r. i Vv : aO lis. i&

The protection of God

12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time
the Lord be angry, and you perish from
the just way.

13 When his wiath shall be kindled in a
short time, blessed are all they that trust
in him.

PSALM 3.

Domine, quid multiplicati.

Theprophet*8 danger and delivery from Ma son Ah-
aatom : mystically ^ the "passion and resurrection
of Christ.

1 The psalm of David when he fled from the face of

his son Absalom. [ 2 Kings 15. ]

2 TTTHY, O Lord, are they multiplied

W that afflict me? many are they
who rise up against me.

3 Many say to my soul: There is no sal-
vation for him in his God.

4 But thou, O Lord, art my protector,
my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

5 I have cried to the Lord with my voice :
and he hath heard me from his holy hill.

6 I have slept and have taken my rest:
and I have risen up, because the Lord
hath protected me.

7 I will not fear thousands of the peo-
ple, surrounding me: arise, O Lord;
3ave me, O my God.

8 For thou hast struck all them who
are my adversaries without cause : thou
hast broken the teeth of sinners.

9 Salvation is of the Lord: and thy
blessing is upon thy people.

PSALM 4.

Cum invocarem.

T%9 prophet teacheth us to flee to God in tribula-
tion, with confidence in him.

1 Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David.

2 TT7HEN I called upon him, the God
W of my justice heard me: when I
was in distress, thou hast enlarged me.
Have mercy on me : and hear my prayer.

3 O ye sons of men, how long will you
be dull of heart ? why do you love van-
ity, and seek after lying?

4 Know ye also that the Lord hath
made his holy one wonderful : the Lord
will hear me when I shall cry unto him.

5 ^ Be ye angry, and sin not : the things

PSALMS

God abhors the toicked

C Eph. 4. 26.

Psalm 4. Ver. i. Unto the end. Or, as St. Je-
rome renders it, victori, to him that overcometh •
which some understand of the chief m,usician; to
whom they suppose the psalms, which bear that
title, were given to be sung ; we rather understand
the psalms thus inscribed to refer to Christ, who is
tbe end of the law, and the great conqueror of death
BOd hell, ^nd ^ tjb» K«w Tdst^iueDt -> Ibid. Ir».^

you say in your hearts, be sorry for theca
upon your beds.

6 Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and
trust in the Lord : many gay, Who shew
eth us good things ?

7 The hght of thy countenance O Lord,
is signed upon us : thou hast given glad-
ness in my heart.

8 By the fruit of their corn, their wine,
and oil, they are multiplied.

9 In peace in the selfsame I will sleep
and I will rest :

10 For thou, 0 Lord, singularly hast
settled me in hope.

PSALM 0,

Verba mea auribua.
A prayer to God against the iniquities of men.

1 Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the Inherit-

ance. A psalm for David,

2 i""i IVB ear, O Lord, to my words, un*
vT derstand my cry.

3 Hearken to the voice of my prayer.
O my King and my God.

4 For to thee will I pray: 0 Lord, n tha
morning thou shalt hear my voice.

5 In the morning I will stand before
thee, and will see: because thou art not
a God that wiliest iniquity.

6 Neither shall the wicked dwell near
thee: nor shall the unjust abide before
thy eyes.

7 Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity:
thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie.

The bloody and the deceitful man the
Lord will abhor.

8 But as for me in the multitude of thy
mercy,

I will come into thy house ; I will wor-
ship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

9 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice :
because of my enemies, direct my way in
thy sight.

10 For there is no truth in their mouth :
their heart is vain.

11 ^ Their throat is an open sepulchre
they dealt deceitfully with their tongues
judge them, O God.

Let them fall from their devices : accord-
ing to the multitude of their wicked-

er Ps. 13. 3, and 139. 4 - Rom. 3. 13.

versesy in carminibus. In the Hebrew, it Is neghi-
noth, supposed by some to be a musical instrument,
with which this psalm was to be sung. —Ibid. For
David, or to David, t(? Aa^ifi ; that is, inspired to Da-
vid himself, or to be sung.

Psalm 5. Ver. 1. For her that obtaineth the in
I .%eritance. Ttol> le {or the cburcb of Cbrist.

Prayer of a penitent sinner

PSALMS Prayer for help against the enemy

nesses cast them out: for they have
provoked thee, O Lord.

12 But let all them be glad that hope in
thee: they shall rejoice for ever, and
thou shalt dwell in them^

And all they that love thy name shall
glory in thee :

13 For thou wilt bless the just.

O Lord, thou hast crowned ue, afi with a
fihield of thy good wilL

PSALM e.

Domine, ne in furore.

A prayer of a penitent sinner^ under the scourge
of God. The first penitential psalm.

1 Unto the end. In verses, a psalm for David, for the

octave.

2 r\ LORD, rebuke me not in thy in-
yj dignation, nor chastise me in thy

wrath.

3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am
weak : heal me, O Lord, for my bones
are troubled.

4 And my soul is troubled exceedingly :
but thou, O Lord, how long ?

5 Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my
soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake.

6 For there is no one in death, that is
mindful of thee : and who shall confess to
thee in hell ?

7 1 have laboured in my groanings, every
night I will wash my bed : I will water
my couch with my tears.

8 My eye is troubled through indigna-
tion : I have grown old amongst all my
enemies.

9 ® Depart from me, all ye workers of
iniquity: for the Lord hath heard the
voice of my weeping.

10 The Lord hath heard my supplica-
tion : the Lord hath received my prayer.

11 Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be
very much troubled : let them be turned
back, and be ashamed very speedily.

PSALM 7.

Domine, Deus meus.

Davids trusting in the justice of his cause^ prayeth

for God's help against his enemies,
1 The psalm of Daviol which he sung to the Lord,

for the words of Chusi the son of Jeminl £2 Kings

16.]

e Matt. 7. 23, and 25. 41 ; Luke 13. 27
/ 1 Par. 28. 9 ; Jer. IL 20,

Psalm 6. Ver 1. For the octave. That is, to be
sung on an instrument of eight strings. St Angus-
tine understands it mystically, of the last resurrec-
tion, and the world to come \ which is, as it were,
(Od octaye^oi eighth day. alter tlie seveo days oi tnis

2 1^ LORD my God, in thee have I put
\J my trust : save me from all them
that persecute me, and deliver me.

3 Lest at any time he seize upon my
soul like a lion, while there is no one to
redeem me, nor to save.

4 O Lord my God, if I have done this
thing, if there be iniquity in my hands :

6 If I have rendered to them that re-
paid me evils, let me deservedly fall
empty before my enemies.

6 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and
take it, and tread down my life on the
earthj and bring down my glory to the
dust.

7 Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger : and be
thou exalted in the borders of my ene-
mies.

And arise, O Lord my God, in the pre-
cept which thou hast commanded : 8 and
a congregation of people shall surround
thee.

And for their sakes return thou on high.

9 The Lord judgeth the people.
Judge me, O Lord, according to my jus-
tice, and according to my innocence in me,

10 The wickedness of sinners shall be
brought to nought : and thou shalt direct
the just: -^the searcher of hearts and
reins is God.

11 Just is my help from the Lord ; who
saveth the upright of heart.

12 God is a just judge, strong and pa-
tient: is he angry every day?

13 Except you will be converted, he
will brandish his sword : he hath bent his
bow, and made it ready,

14 And in it he hath prepared the in-
struments of death, he hath made ready
his arrows for them that burn.

15 ^ Behold he hath been in labour with
injustice ; he hath conceived sorrow, and
brought forth iniquity.

16 He hath opened a pit and dug itt
and he is fallen into the hole he made.

17 His sorrow shall be turned on his
own head: and his iniquity shall come
down upon his crown.

18 I will give glory to the Lord accord-
ing to his justice : and will sing to the
name of the Lord the most high.

and 17. 10, and 20. 12.
g Job 15. 35 ; Isa. 59. 4.

mortal life • and for this octave, sinners must dls»
pose themselves, like David, by bewailing their sina
w hilst they are here upon earth.

Psalm 7. Ver. 14. For them that bum. That 13»
against tbe persecutors of bis samts

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God IS wonderful in His works PSALMS David praises God for His protection

PSALM 8.

Domine, Dominus noster.

God is wonderful in his works ; especially in man-
kind, singularly exalted by the incarnation o/
Christ.

1 Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David.

2 /^ LORD our Lord, how admirable is

thy name in the whole earth !
For thy magnificence is elevated above
the heavens.

3 Out of the mouth of infants and of
sucklings thou hast perfected praise, be-
cause of thy enemies, that thou mayst
destroy the enemy and the avenger.

4 For I will behold thy heavens, the
works of thy fingers : the moon and the
stars which thou hast founded.

5 What is man that thou art mindful of
him ? or the son of man that thou visit-
est him ?

6 ^ Thou hast made him a little less
than the angels, thou hast crowned him
with glory and honour: 7 and hast set
him over the works of thy hands.

8 * Thou hast subjected all things under
his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover
the beasts also of the fields.

9 The birds of the air, and the fishes of
the sea, that pass through the paths of
the sea.

10 O Lord our Lord, how admirable is
thy name in all the earth 1

PSALM 8.

Confitebor tibi, Domine.

The church praiseth God for his protection against
her enemies.

1 Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son.

A psalm for David.

2 T WILL give praise to thee, O Lord,
JL with my whole heart: I will relate

all thy wonders.

3 I will be glad and rejoice in thee : I
will sing to thy name, O thou most high.

4 When my enemy shall be turned
back: they shall be weakened and per-
ish before thy face.

5 For thou hast maintained my judg-
ment and my cause : thou hast sat on
the throne, who judgest justice.

h Heb. 2. 7.

G Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and
the wicked one hath perished : thou hast
blotted out their name for ever and ever.

7 The swords of the enemy have failed
unto the end: and their cities thou hast
destroyed.

Their memory hath perished with a
noise: 8 but the Lord remaineth for
ever.

He hath prepared his throne in judg-
ment: 9 and he shall judge the world in
equity, he shall judge the people in jus-
tice.

10 And the Lord is become a refuge for
the poor: a helper in due time in tribu-
lation.

11 And let them trust in thee who know
thy name : for thou hast not forsaken
them that seek thee, O Lord.

12 Sing ye to the Lord, who dwellethin
Sion: declare his ways among the Gen-
tiles:

13 For requiring their blood he hath re-
membered them : he hath not forgotten
the cry of the poor.

14 Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my
humiUation which I suffer from my ene-
mies.

15 Thou that liftest me up from the
gates of death, that I may declare all thy
praises in the gates of the daughter of
Sion.

16 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the
Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruc-
tion which they prepared.

Their foot hath been taken in the very
snare which they hid.

17 The Lord shall be known when he
executeth judgments : the sinner hath
been caught in the works of his own
hands.

18 The wicked shall be turned into hell,
all the nations that forget God.

19 For the poor man shall not be for-
gotten to the end : the patience of the
poor shall not perish for ever.

20 Arise, O Lord, let not man be strength-
ened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy
sight.

21 Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over

Psalm 8. Ver. 1. The presses. In Hebrew, Git-
tith, supposed to be a musical instrument.

Psalm 9. Ver 1. The hidden things of the Son.
The humility and suflferinps of Christ, the Son of
God ; and of good Christians, who are his sons by
adoption; are called hidden things, with, regard to
the children of this world, who know not the value
.uid merit of them.

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i Gen. 1. 28 ; 1 Cor. 15. 2G.

Ver. 21. Here the late Hebrew doctors divide this
psalm into two, making ver. 22 the beginning ol^
Psalm 10. And again they join Psalms 14C and
147 into one, in order that the whole number ol
psalms should not exceed ir,o. And in this mannei
the psalms are numbered in the Protestant Bible.

The wickedy unmindful of God PSALMS

Confidence in God's justice

them: that the gentiles may know them-
selves to be but men.

Psalm 10 according to the Hebrews.

1 Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar
off ? why dost thou alight us in our wants,
in the time of trouble ?

2 Whilst the wicked man fs proud, the
poor Is sec on fire : they are caught in
the counsels which they devise.

3 For the sinner is praised m the desires
of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

4 The sinner hath provoked the Lord,
according to the multitude of his wrath
he will not seek him:

h God is not before his eyes " his ways
are filthy at all times.

Thy judgments are removed from his
dight: he shall rule over all his enemies.

6 For he hath said in his heart : I shall
not be moved from generation to genera-
iion, and shall be without evil.

7 ^ His mouth is full of cursing, and
of bitterness, and of deceit: under his
tongue are labour and sorrow,

8 He sitteth in ambush with the rich in
private places, that he may kill the inno-
cent.

9 His eyes are upon the poor man: he
lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den.

He lieth in ambush that he may catch
the poor man : to catch the poor, whilst
he draweth him to him.

10 In his net he will bring him down, he
will crouch and fall, when he shall have
power over the poor.

11 For he hath said in his heart: God
hath forgotten, he hath turned away his
face not to see to the end.

12 Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be
3xalted : forget not the poor.

13 Wherefore hath the wicked pro-
voked God? for he hath said in his
heart : He will not require it.

14 Thou seest if, for thou considerest
labour and sorrow : that thou mayst de-
liver them into thy hands.

To thee is the poor man left . thou
wilt be a helper to the orphan.

15 Break thou the arm of the sinner and
of the malignant ? his sin shall be sought,
and shall not be found.

16 The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea,
for ever and ever; ye Gentiles shall per-
ish from his land.

17 The Lord hath heard the desire of

i Infra 1& r,i Jtom. j. 14.

the poor: thy ear hath heard the prepa-
ration of their heart.

18 To judge for the fatherless and foi
the humble, that man may no more pre*
sume to magnify himself upon earth.

PSALM 10.

In Domino confida

The jttst man'if confidence in God in tne viidst 0$

persecutions,

1 Unto the end. A psalm for David.

2 TN the Lord I put my trust : how then
X do you say to my bouI : Get thee
away from hence to the mountain Uke a
sparrow ?

3 For, lo, the wicked have bent their
bow; they ha,ve prepared their arrows in
the quiver ; to shoot in the dark the up-
right of heart.

4 For they have destroyed the things
which thou hast made : but what has the
just man done ?

6 ^ The Lord is in his holy temple, the
Lord's throne is in heaven.

His eyes look on the poor man: his
eyelids examine the sons of men.

6 The Lord trieth the just and the
wicked : but he that loveth iniquity hat-
eth his own soul.

7 He shall rain snares upon sinners
fire and brimstone and storms of winds
shall be the portion of their cup.

8 For the I>ord is just, and hath loved
justice : his countenance hath beheld
righteousneBS.

PSALM 11.

Salvum me fac.

Ths proph£t xJlsfor God's help against the wicked.

1 Unto the enc ? for the octave, a psalm for David.

2 O AVE me, O Lord, for there is now

lO no saint : truths are decayed from

among the children of men.

3 They have spoken vain things every
one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips,
and with a double heart have they spoken.

4 May the Lord destroy all deceitful
lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud
things.

5 Who have said : We will magnify our
tongue; our lips are our own; who is
Lord over us ?

6 By reason of the misery of the needy,
and the groans of the poor, now will 1
arise, saith bhe Lord.

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fcH?,b.2.20.

A prayer of one in trihulafion

PSALMS

The innocent shall dwell in Sion

1 will 3et him in safety? I wili d3al
confidently in his regard.

7 *Tha words of the Lord are pure
words : as silver tried bj'' the fire, purged
from the earth, refined seven times.

8 Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us ; and
keep us from this generation for ever,

9 The wicked walk round about i ac-
cording to thy highness, thou hast multi-
plied the children of men.

PSALM 12.

Usquaquo, Domine.

4 prayer in tribulation.

t Unto the end, a psalm for David

HOW long, O Lord, wilt thou forget
me unto the end ? how long dost
thou turn away thy face from me ?

2 How long shall 1 take counsels in my
soul, sorrow in my heart all the day ?

3 How long shall my enemy be exalted
over me? 4 Consider, and hear me, 0
Lord my God.

Enhghten my eyes that I never sleep
in death : 5 lest at any time my enemy
say : I have prevailed against him.

They that trouble me will rejoice when
I am moved : 6 but I have trusted in thy
mercy.

My neart shall rejoice in thy salvation ;
I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me
good things : yea I will sing to the name
of the Lord the most high.

PSALM 13.

Dixit insipiens. 1.

The general corruption of man before our redemp'

tion by Christ.

* Unto the end, a psahn for David.

THE fool hath said in his heart : '^ There
is no God.
They are corrupt, and are become
abominable in their ways : there is none
that doth good, no not one.

2 The Lord hath looked down from hea-
ven upon the children of men, to see if
there be any that understand and seek
God.

3 They are all gone aside, they are be-
come unprofitable together : there is
none that doth good, no not one.

Their throat is an open sepulchre : with
their tongues they acted deceitfully ; the
poison of asps is under their lips.

I Prov. 30. 5.

FlALM 15, Ver. 1. The inscription of a title.
That is. of a pillar or monument, (n^Aoypo^ia : which

Their mouth is fall of cursing and bitter-
ness ; their feet are swift to shed blood.

Destruction and unhappiness in their
ways : and the way of peace they have
not known; there is no fear of God be-
fore their eyes.

4 Shall not all they know that work ini-
quity, who devour my people as they eat
bread ?

5 They have not called upon the Lord :
there have they trembled for fear, where
there was no fear.

6 For the Lord is in the just generation:
you have confounded the counsel of the
poor man, but the Lord is his hope.

7 Who shall give out of Sion the salva-
tion of Israel ? when the Lord shall have
turned away the captivity of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be
glad,

PSALM 14.

Domine, quis habitabit.

What kind of men shall dwell in the heavenly Sion

I A psalm of David.

LORD, who shall dwell in thy taber-
nacle ? or who shall rest in thy holy
hill?

2 He that walketh without blemish, and
worketh justice i

3 He that speaketh truth in his heart,
who hath not used deceit in his tongue :

Nor hath done evil to his neighbour:
nor taken up a reproach against his
neighbours.

4 In his sight the malignant is brought
to nothing : but he glorifieth them that
fear the Lord.

He that sweareth to his neighbour,
and deceiveth not ; 5 he that hath not
put out his money to usury, nor taken
bribes against the innocent :

He that doth these things shall not be
moved for ever»

PSALM 15.

Conserva me, Domine.

Christ* s future victory and triumph over the world
and death.

i The inscription of a title to David himself.

PRESERVE me, O Lord, for I have put
my trust in thee. 2 I have said to
the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast
no need of my goods.

m Ps. 52. 1.

is as much as to say, that this psalm is most wortliK
to be engraved on an everlastin; • monument

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Hope in the future life

PSALMS

A prayer for protection

3 To the salntB, wko are in his land, he
hath made wonderful all my desires in
them.

4 Their infirmities were multiplied:
afterwards they made haste.

1 will not gather together their meet-
ings for blood offerings: nor will I be
mindful of their names by my hps.

5 The Lord is the portion of my inherit-
ance and of my cup : it is thou that wilt
restore my inheritance to me.

6 The hnes are fallen unto me in goodly
places: for my inheritance is goodly to me.

/ I will bless the Lord, who hath given
me understanding: moreover my reins
also have corrected me even till night.

8^1 set the Lord always in my sight:
for he is at my right hand, that I be not
moved.

9 Therefore my heart hath been glad,
and my tongue hath rejoiced : moreover
my flesh also shall rest in hope.

10 ° Because thou wilt not leave my soul
in hell ; nor wilt thou give thy holy one
to see corruption.

11 Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy
with thy countenance : at thy right hand
are dehghts even to the end.

PSALM 16.

£xaudi, Domine, justitiam.

A just 7nan*8 prayer in tribulation against the
malice of his enemy,

1 The prayer of David.

HEAR, O Lord, my justice ; attend to
my supplication.
Give ear unto my prayer, which proceed-
eth not from deceitful lips.

2 Let my judgment come forth from thy
countenance : let thy eyes behold the
things that are equitable.

3 Thou hast proved my heart, and visited
it by night, thou hast tried me by fire :
and iniquity hath not been found in me.

4 That my mouth may not speak the
works of men : for the sake of the words
of thy Ups, I have kept hard ways.

6 Perfect thou my goings in thy paths :
that my footsteps be not moved.

n Acts 2. 25. — Q Acts 2. 31, and 13. 35.

PbALM 16. Ver. 10. Their fat. That is, their
bowels of compassion : for they have none for me.

Ver. 14. Divide them from the few, &c. That is,
2ut them off from the earth, and the fevj trifling
things thereof ; which they are so proud of, or divide
them, from the feir,- that is, from thy elect, who are
but/eit-; that "they may no longer have it in their
?ower to oppress tbem. It is not meant by way ot a

6 I have cried to thee, for thou, O God-
hast heard me: O incline thy ear unto
me, and hear my words.

7 Shew forth thy • wonderful mercies ;
thou who savest them that trust in thee.

8 From them that resist thy right hand
keep me, as the apple of thy eye.

Protect me under the shadow of thy
wings. 9 From the face of the wicked
who have afllicted me.

My enemies have surrounded my soul :
10 they have shut up their fat: their
mouth hath spoken proudly.

11 They have cast me forth and no*»/
they have surrounded me : they have set
their eyes bowing down to the earth.

12 They have taken me, as a lion pre-
pared for the prey ; and as a young lion
dwelling in secret places.

13 Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and
supplant him ; deUver my soul from the
wicked one : thy sword 14 from the ene-
mies of thy hand.

O Lord, divide them from the few of the
earth in their hfe: their belly is filled
from thy hidden stores.

They are full of children : and they have
left to their little ones the rest of their
substance,

15 But as for me, I will appear before
thy sight in justice : I shall be satisfied
when thy glory shall appeal-.

PSALM 17.

Diligam te, Domine.

David's thanks to God for his delivery from all his
enemies.

1 Unto the end. for David the servant of the Lord,
who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticlCt
in the day that the Lord delivered him from the
hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of
SauL [2 Kings 22.]

2 T WILL love thee, O Lord, my
X strength:

3 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge,
and my deliverer.

P My God is my helper, and in him will
I put my trust.

My protector and the horn of my salva-
tion, and my support.

4 Praising I will call upon the Lord : and
I shall be saved from my enemies.

p Heb. 2. 13. *

curse or imprecation ; but, as many other the like
passages in the psalms, by way of a prediction, or
prophecy of what should come upon them, in pun^
ishment of their wickedness. — Ibid. Thy hidden
stores : thy secret treasures, out of which thou fur
nishest those earthly goods,, which, with a bountiful
hand thou bast distributed both to the good and ttm.
ba(L

5S7

Acknowledgment of God* s help

5 The sorrows of death surrounded mes
and the torrents el iniquity troubled me.

6 The sorrows of hell encompassed me :
and the snares of death prevented me.

7 In my affliction I called upon the
Lord, and I cried to my God :

And he heard my voice from his holy
temple: and my cry before him came
into hie ears.

8 The earth shook and trembled: the
foundations of the mountains were trou-
bled and were moved, because he was
angry with them.

9 There went up a smoke in his wrath :
and a fire flamed from his face: coals
were kindled by it.

10 He bowed the heavens, and came
down: and darkness was under his feet.

11 And he ascended upon the cheru-
bim, and he flew ; he flew upon the wings
of the winds.

12 And he made darkness his covert, his
pavilion round about him: dark waters
in the clouds of the air.

13 At the brightness that was before him
the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

14 And the Lord thundered from heaven,
and the highest gave hie voice : hail and
coals of fire.

15 And he sent forth his arrows, and
he scattered them: he multiplied light-
nings, and troubled them.

16 Then the fountains oi waters ap-
peared, and the foundations of the world
were discovered:

At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of
the spirit of thy wrath.

17 He sent from on high, and took me :
and received me out of many waters.

18 He delivered me from my strongest
enemies, and from them that hated me:
for they were too strong for me.

19 They prevented me in the day of my
affliction : and the Lord became my pro-
tector.

20 And he brought me forth into a large
place: he saved me, because he was well
pleased with me.

21 And the Lord will reward me accord-
ing to my justice ; and will repay me ac-
cording to the cleanness of my hands :

22 Because I have kept the ways of the
Lord ; and have not done wickedly against
my God.

23 For all his judgments are in my sight :

PSALMS

Q 2 Kings 22 iA.

Our strength is from God

and hit Justices I have not put away irom
me.

24 And I shall be spotless with him: and
shall keep myself from my iniquity.

25 And the Lord will reward me accord-
ing to my justice ; and according to the
cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

26 With the holy, thou wilt be holy; and
with the innocent man thou wilt be inno-
cent.

27 And with the elect thou wilt be elect:
and with the perverse thou wilt be per-
verted.

28 For thou wilt save the humble peo-
ple ; but wilt bring down the eyes of the
proud.

29 For thou lightest my lamp, 0 Lord:
O my God enlighten my darkness.

30 For by thee I shall be delivered from
temptation ; and through my God I shall
go over a wall.

31 As for my God, his way is undefiled:
the words of the Lord are fire tried: he
is the protector of all that trust in him.

32 For who is God but the Lord ? or who
IS God but our God ?

33 God who hath girt me with strength j
and made my way blameless.

34 ^Who hath made my feet like the
feet of harts : and who setteth me upon
high places.

35 ''Who teacheth my hands to war:
and thou hast made my arms like a brazen
bow.

36 And thou hast given me the pro tec*
tion of thy salvation: and thy right hand
hath held me up :

And thy discipline hath corrected me
unto the end: and thy discipUne, the
same shall teach mCc

37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under
me ; and my feet are not weakened.

38 I will pursue after my enemies, and
overtake them: and I will not turn again
till they are consumed.

39 I will break them, and they shall not
be able to stand: they shall fall under my
feet.

40 And thou hast girded me with strength
unto battle ; and hast subdued under me
them that rose up against me.

41 And thou hast made my enemies turn
their back upon me, and hast destroyed
them that hated me.

42 They cried, but there was none to

r ? RiDgs 22. 36u

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The works of God show His glory PSALMS

A prayer for the king

save them, to the Lord: but he heard
them not.

43 And I shall beat them as small as the
dust before the wind ; I shall bring them
% nought, Uke the dirt in the streets.

44 Thou wilt deUver me from the con-
tradictions of the people : thou wilt make
me head of the Gentiles.

45 A people, which I knew not, hath
served me : at the hearing of the ear
they have obeyed me.

46 The children that are strangers have
lied to me, strange children have faded
away, and have halted from their paths

47 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my
God, and let the God of my salvation be
exalted :

48 O God, who avengest me, and subdu-
est the people under me, my deliverer
from my enemies.

49 ® And thou wilt lift me up above them
that rise up against me : from the unjust
man thou wilt deUver me.

60 ' Therefore will I give glory to thee,
0 Lord, among the nations, and I will
sing a psalm to thy name.

51 Giving great deliverance to his king,
and shewing mercy to David his anointed :
and to his seed for ever.

PSALM 18.

Coeli enarrant.

The works of God shew forth his glory: his law is

greatly to be esteemed and loved,

1 Unto the end. A psalm for David.
2 rilHE heavens shew forth the glory
X. of God, and the firmament declar-
eth the work of his hands.

3 Day to day uttereth speech, and night
to night sheweth knowledge.

4 There are no speeches nor languages,
where their voices are not heard.

5 " Their sound hath gone forth into all
the earth : and their words unto the ends
of the world.

6 He hath set his tabernacle in the sun :
' and he, as a bridegroom coming out of
his bride chamber,

Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way:
7 His going out is from the end of heaven.

And his circuit even to the end thereof :
and there is no one that can hide himself
from his heat.

8 The law of the Lord is unspotted, con-

s 2 Kings 22.49. — f 2 Kings 22. 50 ; Rom. 15. 9.

Psalm 19. Ver. 7. The salvation of his right
\and is in powers* That is, in strengUi. His dgbt

verting souls: the testimony of the Lord
is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

9 The justices of the Lord are right, re-
joicing hearts : the commandment of the
Lord is lightsome, enhghtening the eyes.

10 The fear of the Lord is holy, endur-
ing for ever and ever: the judgments of
the Lord are true, justified in themselves.

11 More to be desired than gold and
many precious stones : and sweeter than
honey and the honeycomb.

12 For thy servant keepeth them, and
in keeping them there is a great reward.

13 Who can understand sins ? from my
secret ones cleanse me, O Lord: 14 and
from those of others spare thy servant.

If they shall have no dominion over me,
then shall I be without spot : and I shall
be cleansed from the greatest sin.

15 And the words of my mouth shall be
such as may please : and the meditation
of my heart always in thy sight.

O Lord, my helper, and my redeemer,

PSALM 19.

Exaudiat te Dominus.

A prayer for the king.

1 Unto the end. A psalm for David.

2 ItTAY the Lord hear thee in the day
J3X of tribulation : may the name of
the God of Jacob protect thee.

3 May he send thee help from the sanc-
tuary : and defend thee out of Sion.

4 May he be mindful of all thy sacri-
fices : and may thy whole burnt offering
be made fat.

5 May he give thee according to thy
own heart ; and confirm all thy counsels.

6 We will rejoice in thy salvation ; and
in the name of our God we shall be ex-
alted.

7 The Lord fulfil all thy petitions : now
have I known that the Lord hath saved
his anointed.

He will hear him from his holy heaven :
the salvation of his right hand is in
powers.

8 Some trust in chariots, and some in
horses: but we will call upon the name
of the Lord our God.

9 They are bound, and have fallen ; but
we are risen, and are set upright.

O Lord, save the king: and hear us in
the day that we shall call upon thee.

u Rom. 10. 18. — V Luke 24. 46.

band is strong and mighty to save them that trust in
2um.

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A prayer of thanksgiving

PSALMS

PSALM 20.

Domlne, in virtute.

Praise to God /or Christ's exaltation after his pas-
sion,

Z Unto the end. A psalm for David.

2 TN thy strength, O Lord, the king

J. shall joy ; and in thy salvation he

ohall rejoice exceedingly.

3 Thou hast given him his heart's de-
sire: and hast not withholden from him
the will of his lips.

4 For thou hast prevented him with
blessings of sweetness : thou hast set on
his head a crown of precious stones.

6 He asked life of thee: and thou hast
given him length of days for ever and
ever.

6 His glory is great in thy salvation:
glory and great beauty shalt thou lay
upon him.

7 For thou shalt give him to be a bless-
ing for ever and ever : thou shalt make
him joyful in gladness with thy counte-
nance.

8 For the king hopeth in the Lord : and
through the mercy of the most High he
shall not be moved.

9 Let thy hand be found by all thy
enemies: let thy right hand find out all
them that bate thee.

10 Thou shalt make them as an oven of
Ore, in the time of thy anger : the Lord
chall trouble them in his wrath, and fire
ahall devour them.

11 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from
the earth : and their seed from among
the children of men.

12 For they have intended evils against
thee: they have devised counsels which
they have not been able to establish.

13 For thou shalt make them turn their
back: in thy remnants thou shalt pre-
pare their face.

14 Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own
strength: we will sing and praise thy
power.

PSALM 21.

Deus De us mens.

ChHsfs passion : and the conversion of the Oentiles.

I Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm
for David.

w Matt. 27. 46 ; Marie 15. 34.

Psalm 20. Ver. 13. In thy remnants thou shalt
ryrepare their face: or thou shalt set thy remnants
against their faces. That is, thou shalt make them
see what punishments remain for them hereafter
from thy justice. Instead of remnants, St. Jerome
tenders it/tmes, that is, cords or strings^ viz., of the

The sufferings of Christ

2 f\ GOD «'my God, look upon me:
\J why hast thou forsaken me ?
Far from my salvation are the words of
my sins.

3 O my God, I ^ shall cry by day, and
thou wilt not hear : and by night, and it
shall not be reputed as folly in me.

4 But thou dwellest in the holy place,
the praise of Israel.

5 In thee have our fathers hoped : they
have hoped, and thou hast dehvered
them.

6 They cried to thee, and they were
saved: they trusted in thee, and were
not confounded.

7 But I am a worm, and no man: the
reproach of men, and the outcast of the
people.

8 ^ All they that saw me have laughed
me to scorn : they have spoken with the
lips, and wagged the head.

9 y He hoped in the Lord, let him de-
liver him: let him save him, seeing he
dclighteth in him.

10 For thou art he that hast drawn me
out of the womb: my hope from the
breasts of my mother. 11 I was cast
upon thee from the womb.

From my mother's womb thou art my
God, 12 depart not from me.

For tribulation is very near : for there
is none to help me.

13 Many calves have surrounded me:
fat bulls have besieged me.

14 They have opened their mouthr
against me, as a lion ravening and roar-
ing.

15 1 am poured out like water ; and all
my bones are scattered.

My heart is become Uke wax melting
in the midst of my bowels.

16 My strength is dried up hke a pot-
sherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my
jaws: and thou hast brought me down
into the dust of death.

17 For many dogs have encompassed
me: the council of the malignant hath
besieged me.

They have dug my hands and feet. 18
They have numbered all my bones.
And they have looked and stared upon

X Matt. 27. 39 ; Mark 15. 29. — y Matt. 27. 43.

bow of divine justice, from which God directs his
arrows against the /aces of his enemies.

Psalm 21. Ver. 2. The words of my sins. That
is, the sins of the world, which I have taken upon
myself, cry out against me, and are the cause of all
my sufferings.

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Conversion of the Gentiles

PSALMS

Who shall ascend to heaven

parted my garments
and upon my vesture

me. 19 ^They
amongst them;
they cast lots.

20 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy
help to a distance from me; look to-
wards my defence.

21 Deliver, O God, my soul from the
Bword: my only one from the hand of
the dog.

22 Save me from the lion's mouth; and
my lowness from the horns of the uni-
corns.

23 "I will declare thy name to my
brethren : in the midst of the church
will I praise thee.

24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him:
all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.

25 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: be-
cause he hath not slighted nor despised
the supplication of the poor man.

Neither hath he turned away his face
from me : and when I cried to him he
heard me.

26 With thee is my praise in a great
church : I will pay my vows in the sight
of them that fear him.

27 The poor shall eat and shall be filled :
and they shall praise the Lord that seek
him : their hearts shall live for ever and
ever.

28 All the ends of the earth shall remem-
ber, and shall be converted to the Lord:

And all the kindreds of the Gentiles
shall adore in his sight.

29 ^or the kingdom is the Lord's ; and
he shall have dominion over the nations.

»yO All the fat ones of the earth have
eaten and have adored: all they that
go down to the earth shall fall before
him,

31 And to him my soul shall live : and
my seed shall serve him.

32 There shall be declared to the Lord
a generation to come: and the heavens
shall shew forth his justice to a people
that shall be born, which the Lord hath
made.

PSALM 22.

Dominus regit me.

God^s spiritual benefits tofaithfvl sotUs,

1 A psalm for David.

THE ^Lord ruleth me: and I shall
want nothing. 2 He hath set me
a place of pasture.

2 Matt. 27. 35 ; John 19, 23 and 24.
aHeb. 2. 12.— b Isa. 40. 11 ; Jer. 23. 6 ;

He hath brought me up, on the water of
refreshment: 3 he hath converted my
soul.

He hath led me on the paths of justice,
for his own name's sake.

4 For though I should walk in the midst
of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evils, for thou art with me.

Thy rod and thy staff, they have com-
forted me.

5 Thou hast prepared a table before me,
against them that afflict me.

Thou hast anointed my head with oil ;
and my chalice which inebriate th me, how
goodly is it !

6 And thy mercy will follow me all the
days of my life.

And that I may dwell in the house of
the Lord unto length of days,

PSALM 23.

Domini est terra.

Who are they that shall ascend to heaven : Chrisft
triumphant ascension thither,

1 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David.

THE «^ earth is the Lord's and the ful-
ness thereof: the world, and all they
that dwell therein.

2 For he hath founded it upon the
seas; and hath prepared it upon the
rivers.

3 Who shall ascend into the mountain
of the Lord: or who shall stand in his
holy place ?

4 The innocent in hands, and clean of
heart, who hath not taken his soul in
vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neigh-
bour.

5 He shall receive a blessing from the
Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour.

6 This is the generation of them that
seek him, of them that seek the face of
the God of Jacob.

7 Lift up your gates, C ye princes, and
be ye lifted up, O eternal gates : and the
King of Glory shall enter in.

8 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord
who is strong and mighty: the Lord
mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and
be ye hfted up, O eternal gates : and the
King of Glory shall enter in.

10 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord
of hosts, he is the King of Glory.

Ezech. 34. 11 and 23 ; 1 Peter 2. 26, and 5. 3.
C Ps. 49. 12 ; 1 Cor. 10. 26.

PsAUf2a; ¥tr.i. ii%Uethm^ Iofiet»ew,/s mi/ 57iepyierd»Tiz^ to feed» guide, aBdcovwooiai.

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A prayer for pardon of sin

PSALMS

PSALM 24.

Ad te, Domine, levavL

A prayer /or grace, mercy, and protection against
our enemieso

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.

tg^O thee, O Lord, have I lifted up «ly
J_ soul. 2 In thee, O my God, I put
my trust ; let me not be ashamed.

3 Neither let my enemies laugh at me :
for none of them that wait on thee shall
be confounded.

4 Let all them be confounded that act
unjust things without cause.

Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and
teach me thy paths.

5 Direct me in thy truth, and teach me ;
for thou art God my Saviour; and on
thee have I waited all the day long.

6 Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of com-
passion ; and thy mercies that are from
the beginning of the world.

7 The sins of my youth and my igno-
rances do not remember.

According to thy mercy remember thou
me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

8 The Lord is sweet and righteous :
therefore he will give a law to sinners in
the way.

9 He will guide the mild in judgment :
he will teach the meek his ways.

10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy
and truth, to them that seek after his
covenant and his testimonies.

11 For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou
wilt pardon my sin : for it is great.

12 Who is the man that feareth the
Lord ? He hath appointed him a law in
the way he hath chosen.

13 His soul shall dwell in good things :
and his seed shall inherit the land.

14 The Lord is a firmament to them
that fear him : and his covenant shall be
made manifest to them.

15 My eyes are ever towards the Lord :
for he shall pluck my feet out of the
snare.

16 Look thou upon me, and have mercy
on me ; for I am alone and poor.

17 The troubles of my heart are multi-
plied : deliver me from my necessities.

18 See my abjection and my labour ;
and forgive me all my sins.

19 Consider my enemies for they are
multiplied, ^ and have hated me with an
unjust hatred.

David's innocence

20 Keep thou my soul^ and deliver me:

I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped

in thee.
2 J The innocent and the upright have

adhered to me : because 1 have waited

on thee
22 Deliver Israel, O God> from alJ his

tribiUationfi.

PSALM 25.

Judica me, Domine.

David's prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered^
that he may com,e to worship him in his taber-
nacle.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.

JUDGE me, O Lord, for I have walked
in my innocence: and I have put my
trust in the Lord, and shall not be weak-
ened.

2 Prove me, O Lord, and try mc ; burn
my reins and my heart.

3 For thy mercy is before my eyes ^ and
I am well pleased with thy truth.

4 I have not sat with the council of
vanity: neither will I go in with the doers
of unjust things.

5 I have hated the assembly of the ma-
hgnant ; and with the wicked I will not sit.

6 I will wash my hands among the m-
nocent; and will compass thy altar, O
Lord:

7 That I may hear the voice of thy
praise: and teb of all thy wondrous
works.

8 I have loved, O Lord, the beautj^ of
thy house ; and the place where thy
glory dwelleth.

9 Take not away my soul, O God with
the wicked: nor my life with bloody
men:

10 In whose hands are iniquities : their
right hand is filled with gifts.

11 But as for me, I have walked in my
innocence: redeem me, and have mercy
on me.

12 My foot hath stood in the direct way .
in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.

PSALM 26.

Dominus illuminatio.
David's faith and hope in €ML
1 The psalm of David before he was anointed.

THE Lord is my light and my salvation,
whom shall I fear ?
The Lord is the protector of my life : of
whom shall I be afraid ?

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David* s confidence in God

PSALMS Prayer for help against the enemy

2 Whilst the wicked draw near against
me, to eat my flesh.

My enemies that trouble me, have
themselves been weakened, and have
fallen.

3 If armies in camp should stand to-
gether against me, my heart shall not fear.

If a battle should rise up against me, in
this will I be confident.

4 One thing I have asked of the Lord,
this will I seek after ; that I may dwell
in the house of the Lord all the days of
my life.

That I may see the delight of the Lord,
and may visit his temple.

6 For he hath hidden me in his taberna-
cle ; in the day of evils, he hath protected
me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

6 He hath exalted me upon a rock : and
now he hath lifted up my head above my
enemies.

I have gone round, and have offered up
in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation :
I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I
have cried to thee : have mercy on me
and hear me.

8 My heart hath said to thee : My face
hath sought thee : thy face, O Lord, will
I still seek.

9 Turn not away thy face from me ; de-
cline not in thy wrath from thy servant.

Be thou my helper, forsake me not ; do
not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

10 For my father and my mother have
left me : but the Lord hath taken me up.

11 Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way,
and guide me in the right path, because
of my enemies.

12 Deliver me not over to the will of
them that trouble me; for unjust wit-
nesses have risen up against me ; and in-
iquity hath lied to itself.

13 I believe to see the good things of
the Lord in the land of the living.

14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and
let thy heart take courage, and wait thou
for the Lord.

PSALM 27.

Ad te, Domine, clamabo.

iklvUPB prayer that his enemies may not prevail

over him,.

1 A psalm for David himself.

TTNTO thee will ^ cry, O Lord: O my

\J God, be not thou silent to me : lest if

thou be silent to me, I become like them
that go down into the pit.

2 Hear, O Lord, the voice of my suppli-
cation, when I pray to thee ; when I lift
up my hands to thy holy temple.

3 Draw me not away together with the
wicked ; and with the workers of iniquity
destroy me not :

Who speak peace with their neighbour,
but evils are in their hearts.

4 Give them according to their works,
and according to the wickedness of their
inventions.

According to the works of their hands
give thou to them : render to them their
reward.

6 Because they have not understood the
works of the Lord, and the operations of
his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and
shalt not build them up.

6 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard
the voice of my supplication.

7 The Lord is my helper and my pro-
tecfcor: in him hath my heart confided,
and I have been helped.

And my flesh hath flourished again,
and with my will I will give praise to
him.

8 The Lord is the strength of his peo-
ple, and the protector of the salvation of
his anointed.

9 Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless
thy inheritance : and rule them and exalt
them for ever.

PSALM 28.

Afferte Domino.

An invitation to glorify Ood^ with a convmemora»
tion of his mighty works.

1 A psalm for Davids at the finishing of the taber-
nacle.

BRING to the Lord, O ye children of
God : bring to the Lord the offspring
of rams.

2 Bring to the Lord glory and honour:
bring to the Lord glory to his name:
adore ye the Lord in his holy court.

3 The voice of the Lord is upon the wa-
ters ; the God of majesty hath thundered.
The Lord is upon many waters.

4 The voice of the Lord is in power; the
voice of the Lord in magnificence.

5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the
cedars : yea, the Lord shall break the ce-
dars of Libanus.

6 And shall reduce them to pieces, as a

Psalm 28. Ver. 6.
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David praises God for his deliverance PSALMS

Prayer of one in affliction

calf of Libanus, and as the beloved son
of unicorns.
7 The voice of the Lord divideth the
flame of fire : 8 The voice of the Lord
Bhaketh the desert: and the Lord shall
9hake the desert of Cades.

9 The voice of the Lord prepareth the
stags: and he will discover the thick
'Kvoods: and in lis temple all shall speak
his glory.

10 The Lord maketh the flood to dwell:
and the Lord shall sit king for ever.

The Lord will give strength to his peo-
ple: the Lord will bless his people with
peace.

PSALM 29.

Exaltabo te, Doraine.

David praiseth ^od for his deliverance^ and his
merciful dealings with him.

1 A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of 3>avid's

house.

2 T WILL 3xtol thee, O Lord, for thou
X hast upheld me: and hast not made

my enemies to rejoice over me.

3 O Lord my God, 1 have cried to thee,
and thou hast healed me.

4 Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my
soul from hell : thou hast saved me from
them that go down into the pit.

5 Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints : and
give praise to the memory of his holiness.

6 For wrath is in his indignation; and
life in his good will.

In the evening weeping shall have place,
and in the morning gladness.

7 And in my abundance I said: I shall
never be moved.

8 O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest
strength to my beauty.

Thou turnedst away thy face from me,
and I became troubled.

9 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will
make supplication to my God.

10 What profit is there in my blood,
whilst I go down to corruption ?

Shall dust confess to thee, or declare
thy truth?

11 The Lord hath heard, and hath had
mercy on me : the Lord became my helper.

12 Thou hast turned for me my mourn-
ing into joy : thou hast cut my sackcloth,
and hast compassed me with gladness :

calf. The psalmist here describes the effects of
ehunder (which he calls the voice of the Lord) which

13 To the end that my glory may sing
♦^^o thee, and I may not regret: O Lord
my God, I will give praise to thee for
ever.

PSALM 80.

In te, Domine, speravL

J prayer of a just man under affliction,

I Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
2 TN thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let

i me never be confounded: deliver
me in thy justice.

3 Bow down thy ear to me : make haste
to deliver me.

Be thou unto me a God, a protector,
and a house of refuge, to save me.

4 For thou art my strength and my re-
fuge ; and for thy name's sake thou wilt
lead me, and nourish me.

5 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare,
which they have hidden for me: for thou
art my protector,

6 ®Into thy hands I commend my spirit;
thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God
of truth.

7 Thou hast hated them that regard
vanities, to no purpose.

But I have hoped in the Lord: 8 I will
be glad and rejoice in thy mercy.

For thou hast regarded my humility,
thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

9 And thou hast not shut me up in the
hands of the enemy: thou hast set my
feet in a spacious place.

10 Have mercy on me, 0 Lord, for I am
afflicted : my eye is troubled with wrath,
my soul, and my beily:

II For my life is wasted with grief: and
my years in sighs.

My strength is weakened through pov-
erty and my bones are disturbed.

12 I am become a reproach among all
my enemies, and very much to my neigh-
bours ; and a fear to my acquaintance.

They that say; me without fled from
me. 13 I am forgotten as one dead from
the heart.

I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
14 For I have heard the blame of many
that dwell round about.

While they assembled together against
me, they consulted to take away my life.

15 But I have put my trust in thee, 0

e Luke 23. 46.

ful voice of God's word in his church ; which haJ

, broken the pride of the great ones of this world, anc

sometimes breaks down the tallest and strongest : brought many of them aneekly and joyfully to sub
"Tees ; and makes their broken branches ikip, &c j Jiit their necks to the sweet yoke of Christ,
Ul this is to be understood mystically of ^e power- i

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Fear of God, and hope, rewarded PSALMS Acknowledgment and pardon of sin

Lord: I said: ThoB art my God 16 My

lots are in thy hands.
Deliver me out of the hands of my ene-
mies ; and from them that persecute me.

17 Make thy face to shine upon thy
servant ; save me in thy mercy.

18 Let me not be confounded; O Lord,
for I have called upon thee.

Let the wicked be ashamed, and be
brought down to helL 19 Let deceitful
lips be made dumb.

Which speak iniquity against the just,
with pride and abuse.

20 0 how great is the multitude of thy
sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hid-
den for them that fear thee I

Which thou hast wrought for them that
hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of
men.

21 Thou shalt hide them in the secret
of thy face, from the disturbance of men.

Thou shalt protect them in thy taber-
nacle from the contradiction of tongues.

22 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath
shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a
fortified city.

23 But I said in the excess of my mind :
I am cast away from before thy eyes.

Therefore thou hast heard the voice of
my prayer, when I cried to thee.

24 O love the Lord, all ye his saints:
for the Lord will require truth, and will
repay them abundantly that act proudly.

25 Do ye manfully, and let your heart
be strengthened, all ye that hope In the
liOrd.

PSALM 31.

Beati quorum.

7%e second penitential pscUm.

1 To David himself, understanding.

BLESSED «^are they whose iniquities
are forgiven, and whose sins are
covered,

2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord
hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit
there is no guile.

3 Because I was silent my bones grew
rid ; whilst I cried out all the day long.

t For day and night thy hand was heavy
upon me: I am turned in ihy anguish,
whilst the thorn is fastened.

/Kora.4.7.

Psalm 31. Ver. 3. Because I was silent, &c. That
IS, whilst I kept silence, by concealing, or refusing to
confess my sins, thy hand was heavy upon me, &c.

Ver. 4. / am txirned, &c. That is, I turn and roll
about in my bed to seek for ease in my pain whilst
toe thora of tby Justice pierces my flesb^ and sticks

6 I have acknowledged my sin to thee,
and my injustice I have not concealed.

^ I said I will confess against myself my
injustice to the Lord : and thou hast for-
given the wickedness of my sin.

6 For this shall every one that is holy
pray to thee in a seasonable time.

And yet in a flood of many waters, they
shall not come nigh unto him.

7 Thou art my refuge from the trouble
which hath encompassed me : my joy,
deliver me from them that surround
me.

8 I will give thee understanding, and I
will instruct the© in this way, in which
thou shalt go : I will fix my eyes upon
thee.

9 Do not become like the horse and the
mule, who have no understanding.

With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws,
who come not near unto thee.

10 Many are the scourges of the sinner,
but mercy shall encompass him that hop-
eth in the Lord.

11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye
just, and glory, all ye right of heart.

PSALM 32.

Exultate, justL

An exhortation to praise God, and to trust in hifln,

1 A psalm for David.

REJOICE in the Lord, O ye just: praise
becometh the upright.

2 Give praise to the Lord on the harp ;
sing to him with the psaltery, the instru-
ment of ten stringei

3 Sing to him a n«rw canvicix?, sing rKill
unto him with a loud noise.

4 For the word of the Lord is right, and
all his works are done with faithfulness.

6 He loveth mercy and judgment ; the
earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

6 By the word of the Lord the heavens
were established; and all the power of
them by the spirit of his mouth:

7 Gathering together the waters of the
sea, as in a vessel ; laying up the depths
in storehouses.

8 Let all the earth fear the Lord, and
let all the inhabitants of the world be in
awe of him.

g Isa. 65. 24.

fast in me. Or, / am turned ; that is, I am converted
to thee, my God, by being brought to a better under-
standing by thy chastisements. In the Hebrew it is,
my moisture is turned into the droughts o/ the suiff
rrier.

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God the protector of His people PSALMS

g ^* For he spoke and they were made :
he commanded and they were created.

10 The Lord bringeth to nought the
counsels of nations ; and he rejecteth the
devices ot people, and casteth away the
counsels of princes.

11 But the counsel of the Lord standeth
for ever : the thoughts of his heart to all
generations.

12 Blessed is the nation whose God is
the Lord : the people whom he hath
chosen for his inheritance,

13 The Lord hath looked from heaven:
he hath beheld all the sons of men,

14 From his habitation which he hath
prepared, he hath looked upon all that
dwell on the earth.

15 He who hath made the hearts of
every one of them : who understandeth
all their works.

16 The king is not saved by a great
army: nor shall the giant be saved by
his own great strength.

17 Vain is the horse for safety: neither
shall he be saved by the abundance of
his strength.

18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on
them that fear him: and on them that
hope in his mercy.

19 To dehver their souls from death;
and feed them in famine.

20 Our soulwaiteth for the Lord: for he
is our helper and protector.

21 For in him our heart shall rejoice:
and in his holy name we have trusted.

22 Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us,
as we have hoped in thee.

PSALM 33.

Benedicam Dominum.
An exhortation to the praise, and service of God.

1 For David, when he changed his countenance be-
fore Achimelech, who dismissed him, and he went

. his way. [1 Kings 21.]

2 T WILL bless the Lord at all times,
X his praise shall be always in my

mouth.

3 In the Lord shall my soul be praised:
let the meek hear and rejoice.

4 O magnify the Lord with me ; and let
us extol his name together.

5 I sought the Lord, and he heard me ;
and he delivered me from all my troubleSc

6 Come ye to him and be enhghtened :
and your faces shall not be confounded.

h Qeti, L •; Judltb 18. i7.~i IiUtw 1.63c

The happiness of serving God

7 This poor man cried, and the Lord
heard him: and saved him out of all his
troubles.

8 The angel of the Lord shall encamp
round about them that fear him: and
shall deliver them.

9 O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet :
blessed is the man that hopeth in him.

10 Fear the Lord, all ye his saints : for
there is no want to them that fear him.

11 * The rich have wanted, and have su^
f ered hunger : but they that seek the Lord
shall not be deprived of any good.

12 Come, children, hearken to me : I will
teach you the fear of the Lord.

13«? Who is the man that desire th life:
who loveth to see good days ?

14 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy
hps from speaking guile.

15 Turn away from evil and do good .
seek after peace and pursue it.

16 The eyes of the Lord are ^'upon the
just: and his ears unto their prayers.

17 But the countenance of the Lord is
against them that do evil things : to cut
off the remembrance of them from th©
earth.

18 The just cried, and the Lord heard
them : and dehvered them out of all their
troubles.

19 The Lord is nigh unto them that are
of a contrite heart : and he will save the
humble of spirit.

20 Many are the afflictions of the just;
but out of them all will the Lord dehver
them.

21 The Lord keepeth all their bones, not
one of them shall be broken.

22 The death of the wicked is very evil :
and they that hate the just shall be guilty.

23 The Lord will redeem the souls of his
servants : and none of them that trust in
him shall offend.

PSALM 34.

Judica, Domine, nocentes me.

David, in the person of Christ, prayeth against hi»
persecutors : prophetically foreshewing the punish^
ments that shall fall upon them.

1 For David himself.

JUDGE thou, O Lord, them that wrong
me: overthrow them that fight against
me.

2 Take hold of arms and shield : and rise
up to help me.

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J 1 Petei 3. 10.— A; EcclL 15. 20 ; Heb. i. U>

l)avid*s appeal against the enemy

3 Bring out the sword, and shut up the
way against them that persecute me : say
to my soul : I am thy salvation.

4 ^ Let them be confounded and ashamed
that seek after my soul.

Let them be turned back and be con-
founded that devise evil against me.

5 Let them become as dust before the
wind: and let the angel of the Lord
straiten them.

6 Let their way become dark and slip-
pery ; and let the angel of the Lord pur-
sue them.

7 For without cause they have hidden
their net for me unto destruction : with-
out cause they have upbraided my soul.

8 Let the snare which he knoweth not
come upon him: and let the net which he
hath hidden catch him: and into that
very snare let them fall.

9 But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord ;
and shall be delighted in his salvation.

10 All my bones shall say : Lord, who is
like to thee ?

Who deliveresfc the poor from the hand
of them that are stronger than he ; the
needy and the poor from them that strip
him.

11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked
me things I knew not.

12 They repaid me evil for good : to the
depriving me of my soul.

13 But as for me, when they were trou-
blesome to me, I was clothed with hair-
cloth.

I humbled my soul with fasting ; and my
prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

14 As a neighbour and as an own bro-
ther, so did I please: as one mourning
and sorrowful so was I humbled.

15 But they rejoiced against me, and
came together : scourges were gathered
together upon me, and I knew not.

16 They were separated, and repented
not: they tempted me, they scoffed at
me with scorn: they gnashed upon me
with their teeth.

17 Lord, when wilt thou look upon me ?
rescue thou my soul from their malice :
my only one from the lions.

18 I will give thanks to thee in a great
church; I will praise thee in a strong
people.

19 Let not them that are my enemies

PSALMS

The wicked fear not God

I Infra 39. 15. — m John 15. 25.

wrongfully rejoice over me: ^who have
hated me without cause, and wink with
the eyes.

20 For they spoke indeed peaceably to
me; and speaking in the anger of the
earth they devised guile.

21 And they opened their mouth wide
against me ; they said : Well done, well
done, our eyes have seen it.

22 Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou
silent : O Lord, depart not from me.

23 Arise, and be attentive to my judg-
ment : to my cause, my God, and my Lord.

24 Judge me, O Lord my God according
to thy justice, and let them not rejoice
over me.

25 Let them not say in their hearts : It
is well, it is well, to our mind : neither let
them say : We have swallowed him up.

26 Let them blush : and be ashamed to-
gether, who rejoice at my evils.

Let them be clothed with confusion and
shame, who speak great things against
me. ;

27 Let them rejoice and be glad, who
are well pleased with my justice, and let
them say always : The Lord be magnified,
who delights in the peace of his servant.

28 And my tongue shall meditate thy
justice, thy praise all the day long.

PSALM 35.

Dixit injustus.
The malice of sinners, and the goodness of God.

1 Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself.

2 rriHE unjust hath said within himself,

X that he would sin : there is no fear
of God before his eyes.

3 ^* For in his sight he hath done deceit-
fully, that his iniquity may be found
unto hatred.

4 The words of his mouth are iniquity
and guile: he would not understand that
he might do well.

5 He hath devised iniquity on his bed,
he hath set himself on every way that is
not good : but evil he hath not hated.

6 O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and
thy truth reacheth even to the clouds.

7 Thy justice is as the mountains of God,
thy judgments are a great deep.

Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O
Lord : 8 O how hast thou multiplied thy
mercy, O God !

n Supra 13. 3.

fSALMSS. Ver.3. Unto hatred. That is, hateful to God.

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The vncked not to he envied

But the children of men shall put their
trust under the covert of thy wings.

9 They shall be inebriated with the
plenty of thy house ; and thou shalt
make them drink of the torrent of thy
pleasure.

10 For with thee is the fountain of life;
and in thy light we shall see light.

11 Extend thy mercy to them that know
thee, and thy justice to them that are
right in heart.

12 Let not the foot of pride come to me,
and let not the hand of the sinner move
me.

13 There the workers of iniquity are
fallen, they are east out, and could not
stand.

PSALM 36.

Noli semulari.

An exhortation to despise this world ; and the short
prosperity of the wicked ; and to trxist in Provi-
dence.

1 A psalm for David himself.

BE not emulous of evildoers ; nor envy
them that work iniquity.

2 For they shall shortly wither away as
grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly
fall.

3 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and
dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed
with its riches.

4 Delight in the Lord, and he will give
thee the requests of thy heart.

5 Commit thy way to the Lord, and
trust in him, and he will do it.

6 And he will bring forth thy justice as
the light, and thy judgment as the noon-
day. 7 Be subject to the Lord and pray
to him.

Envy not the man who prospereth in
his way ; the man who doth unjust things.

8 Cease from anger, and leave rage;
have no emulation to do evil.

9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but
they that wait upon the Lord, they shall
inherit the land.

10 For yet a little while, and the wicked
shall not be: and thou shalt seek his
place, and shalt not find it.

11 ** But the meek shall inherit tho land,
and shall delight in abundance of peace.

12 The sinner shall watch the just man :
and shall gnash upon him with his teeth.

13 But the Lord shall laugh at him : for
he f oreseeth that his day shall come.

PSALMS

o Matt 6. 4. — > j> f loy. 31. 26.

The happiness of the just

the

14 The wicked have drawn out
sword : they have bent their bow.

To cast down the poor and needy, to
kill the upright of heart.

15 Let their sword enter into their own
hearts, and let their bow be broken.

16 Better is a little to the just, than tke
great riches of the wicked.

17 For the arms of the wicked shall be
broken in pieces ; but the Lord strength-
eneth the just.

18 The Lord knoweth the days of the
undefiled ; and their inheritance shall be
for ever.

19 They shall not be confounded in the
evil time ; and in the days of famine
they shall be filled : 20 because the
wicked shall perish.

And the enemies of the Lord, presently
after they shall be honoured and exalted,
shall come to nothing and vanish like
smoke.

21 The sinner shall borrow, and not pay
again ; but the just sheweth mercy and
shall give.

22 For such as bless him shall inherit the
land : but such as curse him shall perish.

23 With the Lord shall the steps of a
man be directed, and he shall like well
his way.

24 When he shall fall he shall not be
bruised, for the Lord putteth his hand
under him.

26 I have been young, and now am old ;
and I have not seen the just forsaken,
nor his seed seeking bread.

26 He shewoth mercy, and lendeth all
the day long; and his seed shall be in
blessing.

27 Decline from evil and do good, and
dwell for ever and ever.

28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and
will not forsake his saints : they shall be
preserved for ever.

The unjust shall be punished, and the
seed of the wicked shall perish.

29 But the just shall inherit the land,
and shall dwell therein for evermore.

30 P The mouth of the just shall medi-
tate wisdom : and his tongue shall speak
judgment.

31 ^ The law of his God is in his heart,
and his steps shall not be supplanted.

32 The wicked watcheth the just man,
and seeketh to put him to death, i

q Isa. 51. 7.

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The wicked shall he destroyed PSALMS

Prayer for pardon and help

33 But the Lord will not leave him in
his hands; nor condemn him when he
shall be judged.

34 Expect the Lord and keep his way:
and he will exalt thee to inherit the land :
when the sinners shall perish thou shalt
see.

35 I have seen the wicked highly ex-
alted, and lifted up like the cedars of
Libanus.

36 And I passed by, and lo, he was not :
and I sought him and his place was not
found.

37 Keep innocence, and behold justice:
for there are remnants for the peaceable
man.

38 But the unjust shall be destroyed to-
gether: the remnants of the wicked shall
perish.

39 But the salvation of the just is from
the Lord, and he is their protector in the
time of trouble.

40 And the Lord will help them and de-
liver them : and he will rescue them from
the wicked, and save them, because they
have hoped in him.

PSALM 37. '

Domine, ne in furore,

A prayer of a penitent for the remission of his sins.
The third penitential psalm.

1 A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the Sab-

bath.

2 TJ EBUKE me not, 0 Lord, in thy in-
Xv dignation: nor chastise me in thy

wrath.

3 For thy arrows are fastened in me:
and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

4 There is no health in my flesh, because
of thy wrath: there is no peace for my
bones, because of my sins.

5 For my iniquities are gone over my
head, and as a heavy burden are become
heavy upon me.

6 My sores are putrified and corrupted,
because of my foolishness.

7 I am become miserable, and am bowed
down even to the end: I walked sorrow-
ful all the day long.

8 For my loins are filled with illusions;
and there is no health in my flesh.

9 I am afflicted and humbled exceed-
ingly: I roared with the groaning of my
heart.

r Supra 6, 2.

Psalm 37. Ver. 1. For a remembrance, viz., of our miseries and sins : and to be sung on the sabbath.

day.

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10 Lord, all my desire is before thee,
and my groaning is not hidden from
thee.

11 my heart is troubled, my strength
hath left me, and the light of my eyes
itself is not with me. _

12 My friends and my neighbours have
drawn near, and stood against me.

And they that were near me stood afar
off:

13 And they that sought my soul used
violence.

And they that sought evils to me spoke
vain things, and studied deceits all the
day long.

14 But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and
as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

15 And I became as a man that heareth
not: and that hath no reproofs in his
mouth.

16 For in thee, 0 Lord, have I hoped:
thou wilt hear me, 0 Lord my God.

17 For I said: Lest at any time my ene-
mies rejoice over me : and whilst my feet
are moved, they speak great things
against me.

18 For I am ready for scourges: and my
sorrow is continually before me.

19 For I will declare my iniquity: and
I will think for my sin.

20 But my enemies live, and are stronger
than I : and they that hate me wrongfully
are multiplied.

21 They that render evil for good, have
detracted me, because I followed good-
ness.

22 Forsake me not, 0 Lord my God : do
not thou depart from me.

23 Attend unto my help, 0 Lord, the
Grod of my salvation.

PSALM 38.

Dixi custodiam.

A just man's peace and patience in his sufferings,
considering the vanity of the world, and the provi-
dence of God.

1 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of
,_. David.

2 I SAID : I will take heed to my ways :

that I sin not with my tongue.

I have set a guard to my mouth, when
the sinner stood against me.

3 I was dumb, and was humbled, and
kept silence from good things: and my
sorow was renewed.

The vanity of earthly things

PSALMS

Vhedience the best sacrifice

4 My heart grew hot within me: and in
my meditation a fire shall flame out.

5 I spoke with my tongue: O Lord,
make me know my end.

And what is the number of my days:
that I may know what is wanting to me.

6 Behold thou hast made my days mea-
surable: and my substance is as nothing
before thee.

And indeed all things are vanity: every
man living.

7 Surely man passeth as an image: yea,
and he is disquieted in vain.

He storeth up: and he knoweth not for
whom he shall gather these things.

8 And now what is my hope ? is it not
the Lord ? and my substance is with thee.

9 Deliver thou me from all my iniquities :
thou hast made me a reproach to the
fool.

10 I was dumb, and I opened not my
mouth, because thou hast done it. 11 Re-
move thy scourges from me.

The strength of thy hand hath made me
faint in rebukes: 12 thou hast corrected
man for iniquity.

And thou hast made his soul to waste
away like a spider: surely in vain is any
man disquieted.

13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my
supplication: give ear to my tears.

Be not silent: for I am a stranger with
thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers
were.

14 O forgive me, that I may be refresh-
ed, before I go hence, and be no more.

PSALM 39.

Expectans Bxpectavi.

Christ's coming, and redeeming mauTcind.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.

2TT7ITH expectation I have waited
W for the Lord, and he was atten-
tive to me.

3 And he heard my prayers, and brought
me out of the pit of misery and the mire
of dregs.

And he set my feet upon a rock, and di-
rected my steps.

4 And he put a new canticle into my
mouth, a song to our God.

Many shall see, and shall fear: and they
shall hope in the Lord.

8 Heb. 10. 5.

Psalm 39. Ver. 13. My iniquities. That is, the

sins of all mankind, which I have taken upon me.

Ver, 16, *Ti8 well» The Hebrew here is an in-

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5 Blessed is the man whose trust is in
the name of the Lord; and who hath not
had regard to vanities, and lying follies.

6 Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful
works, O Lord my God: and in thy
thoughts there is no one like to thee.

I have declared and I have spoken:
they are multiplied above number.

7 «Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not
desire; but thou hast pierced ears for
me.

Burnt offering and sin offering thou
didst not require: 8 then said I, Behold
I come.

In the head of the book it is written of
me 9 that I should do thy will : O my God,
I have desired it, and thy law in the
midst of my heart.

10 I have declared thy justice in a great
church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O
Lord, thou knowest it.

II I have not hid thy justice within my
heart: I have declared thy truth and
thy "jalvation.

I have not concealed thy mercy
thy truth from a great council.

12 Withhold not thou, 0 Lord,
tender mercies from me: thy mercy and
thy truth have always upheld me.

13 For evils without number have sur-
rounded me; my iniquities have over-
taken me, and I was not able to see.

They are multiplied above the hairs of
my head: and my heart hath forsaken
me.

14 Be pleased, 0 Lord, to deliver me:
*look down, 0 Lord, to help me.

15 w Let them be confounded and
ashamed together, that seek after my
soul to take it away.

Let them be turned backward and be
ashamed that desire evils to me.

16 Let them immediately bear their
confusion, that say to me: 'Tis well, 'tis
well.

17 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be
glad in thee: and let such as love thy
salvation say always: The Lord be mag-
nified.

18 But I am a beggar and poor: the
Lord is careful for me.

Thou art my helper and my protector:
0 my God, be not slack.

and
thy

t Infra 69. 2. — u Supra 34. 4.

terjection of insult and derision, like the Vah.
Matt. 27. 49.

Duvid*s complaint

PSALMS

Desire of the just for God

PSALM 40.

Beatus qui intelligit.

The happiness of him that shall believe in Christ ;
notwithstanding the humilitij and poverty in
which he shall come : the malice of his enemies^
especially of the traitor Judas.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David bimself.

2 TJLESSED is he that under standeth
XJ concerning the needy and the
poor: the Lord will deliver him in the
evil day.

3 The Lord preserve him and give him
life, and make him blessed upon the
earth: and deliver him not up to the
will of his enemies.

4 The Lord help him on his bed of sor-
row: thou hast turned all his couch in
his sickness.

5 I said : O Lord, be thou merciful to
me : heal my soul, for I have sinned
against thee.

6 My enemies have spoken evils against
me: when shall he die and his name
perish?

7 And if he came in to see ?ne, he spoke
vain things : his heart gathered together
iniquity to itself.

He went out and spoke to the same pur-
pose.

8 All my enemies whispered together
against me: they devised evils to me.

9 They determined against me an un-
just word : shall he that sleepeth rise
again no more ?

10 ^ For even the man of my peace, in
whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath
greatly supplanted me.

11 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on
me, and raise me up again : and I will
requite them.

12 By this I know, that thou hast had
a good will for me : because my enemy
shall not rejoice over me.

13 But thou hast upheld me by reason
of my innocence: and hast estabhshed
me in thy sight for ever.

14 Blessed be the Lord the God of Is-
rael from eternity to eternity. So be it.
So be it.

PSALM 41.

Quemadmodum desiderat.

The fervent desire of the just after God: hope in
afflictions.

1 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core.

AS the hart panteth after the foun-

12 ,.

tains of water ; so my soul panteth

after thee, O God.

3 My soul hath thirsted after the strong
living God ; when shall I come and ap-
pear before the face of God ?

4 My tears have been my bread day and
night, whilst it is said to me daily:
Where is thy God ?

5 These things I remembered, and
poured out my soul in me : for I shall go
over into the place of the wonderful tab-
ernacle, even to the house of God :

With the voice of joy and praise ; the
noise of one feasting.

6 Why art thou sad, O my soul? and
why dost thou trouble me ?

Hope in God, for I will still give praise
to him : the salvation of my counte-
nance, 7 and my God.

My soul is troubled within myself:
therefore will I remember thee from the
land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the
little hill.

8 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of
thy flood-gates.

All thy heights and thy billows have
passed over me.

9 In the daytime the Lord hath com-
manded his mercy ; and a canticle to him
in the night.

With me is prayer to the God of my
life. 10 I will say to God : Thou art my
support.

Why hast thou forgotten me ? and why
go I mourning, whilst my enemy af-
flicteth me?

11 Whilst my bones are broken, my ene-
mies who trouble me have reproached
me ;

Whilst they say to me day by day:
Where is thy God?

12 Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why dost thou disquiet me ?

Hope thou in God, for I will still give
praise to him : the salvation of my coun-
tenance, and my God,

PSALM 42.

Judica me, Deus.

The prophet aspireth after the temple and altar o}

God.

1 A psalm for David.

JUDGE me, O God, and distinguish my
cause from the nation that is not

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God/s favors to His people

PSALMS

holy : deliver me from the unjust and de-
ceitful man.

2 For thou art God my strength : why
hast thou cast me off? and why do I go
sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me ?

3 Send forth thy light and thy truth : they
have conducted me, and brought me unto
thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

4 And I will go in to the altar of God:
to God who giveth joy to my youth.

5 To thee, O God my God, I will give
praise upon the harp : why art thou sad, O
my soul ? and why dost thou disquiet me ?

6 Hope in God, for I will still give
praise to him : the salvation of my coun-
tenance, and my God.

PSALM 43.

Deus auribus nostris.
The church commemorates former favours, and
vresent afflictions; under which she prays for
succour,

1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give under-

standing.

2 TXTE have heard, O God, with our

W ears: our fathers have declared
to us,
The work thou hast wrought in their
days, and in the days of old.

3 Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and
thou plantedst them : thou didst afflict
the people and cast them out.

4 For they got not the possession of the
land by their own sword: neither did
their own arm save them.

But thy right hand and thy arm, and
the light of thy countenance : because
thou wast pleased with them.

5 Thou art thyself my king and my God,
who commandest the saving of Jacob.

6 Through thee we will push down our
enemies with the horn : and through thy
name we will despise them that rise up
against us.

7 For I will not trust in my bow : nei-
ther shall my sword save me.

8 But thou hast saved us from them
that afflict us : and hast put them to
shame that hate us.

9 In God shall we glory all the day
long : and in thy name we will give
praise for ever.

10 But now thou hast cast us off, and
put us to shame : and thou, O God, wilt
not go out with our armies.

His people are humbled

w Rom, 8. 36.

Psalm 44.
changed, L e.,

Ver. 1. For them that shall be
for souls happily changed, by being

11 Thou hast made us turn our back to
our enemies: and they that hated as
plundered for themselves.

12 Thou hast given us up like sheep to be
eaten : thou hast scattered us among th^B
nations.

13 Thou hast sold thy people for no
price : and there was no reckoning in
the exchange of them.

14 Thou hast made us a reproach to our
neighbours, a scoff and derision to them
that are round about us.

15 Thou hast made us a byword among
the Gentiles: a shaking of the head
among the people.

16 All the day long my shame is before
me : and the confusion of my face hath
covered me,

17 At the voice of him that reproacheth
and detracteth me: at the face of the
enemy and persecutor.

18 All these things have come upon us,
yet we have not forgotten thee : and we
have not done wickedly in thy covenant.

19 And our heart hath not turned back:
neither hast thou turned aside our steps
from thy way.

20 For thou hast humbled us in the
place of affliction: and the shadow of
death hath covered us.

21 If we have forgotten the name of
our God, and if we have spread forth
our hands to a strange god:

22 Shall not God search out these
things: for he knoweth the secrets of
the heart.

'^ Because for thy sake we are killed all
the day long: we are counted as sheep
for the slaughter.

23 Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
arise, and cast us not off to the end.

24 Why turnest thou thy face away?
and f orgettest our want and our trouble ?

25 For our soul is humbled down to the
dust : our belly cleaveth to the earth.

26 Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem
us for thy name's sake.

PSALM 44.

Eructavit cor meum.

The excellence of ChrisPs kingdom., and the endow-

ments of his church.
1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, foi

the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for

the Beloved.

converted to God. — Ibid.
Lord Jesus Christ.

The Beloved, viz.. Our

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Beauty of Chrisfs hingdom

PSALMS God our strength and our protector

2 IV/TY heart hath uttered a good word:
1.T-L I speak my works to the king:
My tongue is the pen of a scrivener
that writeth swiftly.

3 Thou art beautiful above the sons of
men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips;
therefore hath God blessed thee for ever.

4 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, 0
thou most mighty.

5 With thy comeliness and thy beauty
set out, proceed prosperously, and reign.

Because of truth and meekness and
justice: and thy right hand shall con-
duct thee wonderfully.

6 Thy arrows are sharp: under thee
shall people fall, into the hearts of the
king^s enemies.

7 ^ Thy Throne, 0 God, is for ever and
ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a
scepter of uprightness.

8 Thou hast loved justice and hated
iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath
anointed thee with the oil of gladness
above thy fellows.

9 Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume
thy garments, from the ivory houses:
out of which 10 the daughters of kings
have delighted thee in thy glory.

The queen stood on thy right hand, in
gilded clothing; surrounded with variety.

11 Hearken, 0 daughter, and see, and
incline thy ear: and forget thy people
and thy father's house.

12 And the king shall greatly desire thy
beauty, for he is the Lord thy God, and
him they shall adore.

13 And the daughters of Tyre with gifts,
yea, all the rich among the people, shall
entreat thy countenance.

14 All the glory of the king's daughter
is within in golden borders, 15 clothed
round about with varieties.

After her shall virgins be brought to
the king: her neighbours shall be
brought to thee.

16 They shall be brought with gladness
and rejoicing: they shall be brought into
the temple of the king.

17 Instead of thy fathers, sons are born
to thee: thou shalt make them princes
over all the earth.

18 They shall remember thy name
throughout all generations.

Therefore shall people praise thee for
ever; yea, for ever and ever.

w H«b. 1. 8.

PSALM 45.

Deus noster refugium.

The church in persecution trusteth in the pro-
tection of God.

1 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.

2 f~\ UR God is our refuge and strength:
V_/ a helper in troubles, which have

found us exceedingly.

3 Therefore we will not fear, when the
earth shall be troubled; and the moun-
tains shall be removed into the heart of
the sea.

4 Their waters roared and were trou-
bled: the mountains were troubled with
his strength.

5 The stream of the river maketh the
city of God joyful: the most High hath
sanctified his own tabernacle.

6 God is in the midst thereof, it shall
not be moved: God will help it in the
morning early.

7 Nations were troubled, and kingdoms
were bowed down: he uttered his voice,
the earth trembled.

8 The Lord of armies is with us: the
God of Jacob is our protector.

9 Come and behold ye the works of the
Lord: what wonders he hath done upon
earth, 10 making wars to cease even to
the end of the earth.

He shall destroy the bow, and break
the weapons: and the shield he shall
burn in the fire.

11 Be still and see that I am God; I will
be exalted among the nations, and I will
be exalted in the earth.

12 The Lord of armies is with us: the
God of Jacob is our protector.

PSALM 46.

Omnes gentes, plaudite.

The Gentiles are invited to prcUse God for the
estahlishment of the kingdom of Christ.

1 Unto the end, for the song of Core.

2 /~\ CLAP your hands, all ye nations:
V-/ shout unto God with the voice of
joy,

3 For the Lord is high, terrible: a great
king over all the earth.

4 He hath subdued the people under
us; and the nations under our feet.

5 He hath chosen for us his inheritance,
the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

6 y God is ascended with jubilee, and
the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

p 2 Kings 6. 15.

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The enemy defeated and dispersed PSALMS

Vanity of earthly riches

7 Sing praises to our God, sing* ye: sing-
praises to our king, sing ye.

8 For God is the king of all the earth:
sing ye wisely.

9 God shall reign over the nations:
God sitteth on his holy throne.

10 The princes of the people are gath-
ered together, with the God of Abra-
ham: for the strong gods of the earth
are exceedingly exalted.

PSALM 47.

Magnus Dominus.
Ood is greatly to 6e praised for the establish-
ment of his church.

1 A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core,

on the second day of the week.

2 /^ REAT is the Lord, and exceedingly
vJT to be praised in the city of our

God, in his holy mountain.

3 With the joy of the whole earth is
mount Sion founded, on the sides of the
north, the city of the great king.

4 In her houses shall God be known,
when he shall protect her.

5 For behold the kings of the earth as-
sembled themselves: they gathered to-
gether.

6 So they saw, and they wondered, they
were troubled, they were moved: 7 trem-
bling took hold of them.

There were pains as of a woman in
labour. 8 With a vehement wind thou
shalt break in pieces the ships of Thar-
sis.

9 As we have heard, so have we seen, in
the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city
of our God : God hath founded it for ever.

10 We have received thy mercy, 0 God,
in the midst of thy temple.

11 According to thy name, 0 God, so
also is thy praise unto the ends of the
earth : thy right hand is full of justice.

12 Let mount Sion rejoice and the

Psalm 48. Ver. 6. The iniquity of my heel.
That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways: or
the iniquity of my pride, with which as with the
heel, I have spurned and kicked at my neigh-
bours : or the iniquity of my heel, that is, the
iniquity in which I shall be found In death. The
meaning of this verse is, Why should I now in-
dulge those passions and sinful affections, or
commit now those sins, which will cause me so
much fear and anguish in the evil day ; when
the sorrows of death shall compass me, and the
perils of hell shall find me?

Ver. 7. They that trust, &c. As much as to
say, let them fear that trust in their strength
or riches : for they have great reason to fear :
seeing no brother or other man, how much a
friend soever, can by any price or labour rescue
them from death.

daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy
judgments, O Lord.

13 Surround Sion, and encompass her:
tell ye in her towers.

14 Set your hearts on her strength; and
distribute her houses, that ye may relate
it in another generation.

15 For this is God, our God unto eter-
nity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule
us for evermore.

PSALM 48.

Audite haec, omnes gentes.
The folly of worldlings, who live on in sin, with-
out thinking of death or hell.

I Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
2 TTEAR these things, all ye nations:

JLX give ear, all ye inhabitants of the
world.

3 All you that are earthbom, and you
sons of men: both rich and poor together.

4 My mouth shall speak wisdom: and
the meditation of my heart understand-
ing.

5^1 will incline my ear to a parable;
I will open my proposition on the psal-
tery.

6 Why shall I fear in the evil day ? the
iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.

7 They that trust in their own strength,
and glory in the multitude of their riches,

8 No brother can redeem, nor shall man
redeem: he shall not give to God his
ransom.

9 Nor the price of the redemption of his
soul: and shall labour for ever, 10 and
shall still live unto the end.

II He shall not see destruction, when he
shall see the wise dying: the senseless
and the fool shall perish together:

And they shall leave their riches to
strangers: 12 and their sepulchres shall
be their houses for ever.

Their dwelling places to all generations:

z Ps. 77. 2 ; Matt. 13. 35.

Ver. 9. And shall labour for ever, &c. This
seems to be a continuation of the foregoing sen-
tence : as much as to say no man can by any
price or ransom prolong his life, that so he may
still continue to labour here, and live to the end
of the world. Others understand it of the etern-
al sorrows, and dying life of hell, which is the
dreadful consequence of dying in sin.

Ver. 11. He shall not see destruction, Ac, or
shall he not see destruction? As much as to say,
however thoughtless he may be of his death, he
must not expect to escape, when even the wise
and the good are not exempt from dying.

Ver. 12. They have called, &c. That is, they
have left their names on their graves, which
alone remain of their lands.

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The future life

PSALMS

All things are God*s

they have called their lands by their
names.

13 And man when he was in honour did
not understand ; he is compared to sense-
less beasts, and is become like to theme

14 This way of theirs is a stumbling-
block to them : and afterwards they shall
delight in their mouth.

15 They are laid in hell like sheep : death
shall feed upon theme

And the just shall have dominion over
them in the morning; and their help
shall decay in hell from their glory.

16 But God will redeem my soul from
the hand of hell, when he shall receive
me.

17 Be not thou afraid, when a man shall
be made rich, and when the glory of his
Jiouse shall be increased.

18 For when he shall die ho shall take
nothing away; nor -ihall his glory de-
scend with him.

19 For in his lifetime his soul will be
blessed: and he will praise thee when
thou shalt do well to him.

20 He shall go in to the generationp
of his fathers : and he shall never see
light.

f 21 Man when he was in honoui did not
understand: he hath been compared to
senseless beasts, and made like to them.

PSALM 49.

Deus deorura.

The coming of Christ : who prefers virtue and in-
ward purity before the blood of victims.

1 A psalm for Asaph.

THE God of gods, the Lord hath spoken:
and he hath called the earth.
From the rising of the sun, to the going
down thereof: 2 out of Sion the loveli-
ness of his beauty.

8 God shall come manifestly : our God
shall come, and shall not keep silence.

A fire shall burn before him: and a,
mighty tempest shall be round about him.

4 He shall call heaven from above, and
the earth, to judge his people.

5 Gather ye together his saints to him :
Who set his covenant before sacrifices.

6 And the heavens shall declare his jus-
tice: for God is judge.

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak :

Ver. 14. They shall delir/ht in their mouth. Not-
Withstanding the wretched way in which they walk,
they shall applaud themselves with their mouths,
and glory in their doings.

Ver. 15. In the morning. That is, m the resurrec-

0 Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am
God, thy God.

8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacri-
fices : and thy burnt offerings are always
in my sight.

9 I will not take calves out of thy house:
nor he goats out of thy flocks.

10 For all the beasts of the woods aie
mine : the cattle on the hills, and the ixen.

11 1 know all the fowls of the air', and
with me is the beauty of the field.

12 If I should be hungry, I would not
tell thee: for the world is mine, and the
fulness thereof.

13 Shall I eat the flesh ol bullocks ? or
shall I drink the blood of goats ?

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise:
and pay thy vows to the most High.

15 And call upon me in the day of trou-
ble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt
glorify me.

16 But to the sinner God hath said:
Why dost thou declare my justices, and
take my covenant in thy mouth ?

17 Seeing thou nast hated discipline:
and hast cast my words behind thee.

18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst
run with him : and with adulterers thou
hast been a partaker.

19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil,
and thy tongue framed deceits.

20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy
brother, and didst lay a scandal against
thy mother's son: 21 these things hast
thou done, and I was silent.

Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should
be like to thee : hut I will reprove thee,
and set before thy face.

22 Understand these things, you that
forget God ; lest he snatch you away, and
there be none to deliver you.

23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify
me : and there is the way by which I will
shew him the salvation of God.

PSALM 50.

Miserere.

The repentance and confession of David after his
sin. The fourth penitential psalm.

1 Unto the end, a psalm of David, 2 when Nathan
the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with
Bethsabee. [2 Kings 12.]

3 TTAVE mercy on me, O God, accord*
XI ing to thy great mercy.

tion to a new life ; when the just shall judge and
condemn the wicked» — Ibid. From th^ir glory.
That is, when their short-lived glory in this world
shall be past, and be no mora

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David's prayer for pardon

PSALMS

Malice of the wicked

And according to the multitude of thy
tender mercies blot out my iniquity,

4 Wash me yet more from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.

5 For I know my iniquity, and my sin
is always before me.

6 To thee only have I sinned, and have
done evil before thee : " that thou mayst
be justified in thy words, and mayst over-
come when thou art judged.

7 For behold I was conceived in iniqui-
ties ; and in sins did my mother conceive
me.

8 For behold thou haet loved truth : the
uncertain and hidden things of thy wis-
dom thou hast made manifest to me.

9 ^ Thou Shalt sprinkle me with hyssop,
and I shall be cleansed : thou shalt wash
me, and I shall be made whiter than
snow.

10 To my hearing thou shalt give joy
and gladness : and the bones that have
been humbled shall rejoice.

11 Turn away thy face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.

12 Create a clean heart in me, O God :
and renew a right spirit within my bow-
els.

13 Cast me not away from thy face; and
take not thy holy spirit from me.

14 Restore unto me the joy of thy sal-
vation, and strengthen me with a perfect
spirit.

15 I will teach the unjust thy ways :
and the wicked shall be converted to
thee.

16 Dehver me from blood, O God, thou
God of my salvation: and my tongue
shall extol thy justice.

17 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips : and
my mouth shall declare thy praise.

18 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I
would indeed have given it : with burnt
offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

19 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted
pirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O

God, thou wilt not despise.

20 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good
Will with Sion ; that the walls of Jerusalem
may be built up.

21 Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice
of justice, oblations and whole burnt
offerings : then shall they lay calves upon
thy altar.

a Bom. 3. 4.— 6 Lev. 14,; Num. 19.

PSALM 51.

Quid gloriaris.

David eondemneth the wickedness of Doeg^ and
foretelleth his destruction.

1 Unto the end, understanding for David, 2 whea
Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul : David wen*
to the house of Achimelech. [l Kings 22. 9.]

3 TTTHY dost thou glory in mali"^
V V thou that art mighty jfn iniquity ?

4 All the day long thy tongue hath de-
vised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou
hast wrought deceit.

6 Thou hast loved malice more than
goodness: and iniquity rather than to
speak righteousness.

6 Thou hast loved all the words of ruin,
O deceitful tongue.

7 Therefore will God destroy thee for
ever : he will pluck thee out, and remove
thee from thy dwelUng place : and thy
root out of the land of the living.

8 The just shall see and fear, and shall
laugh at him, and say : 9 Behold the man
that made not God his helper :

But trusted in the abundance of his
riches : and prevailed in his vanity.

10 But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the
house of God, have hoped in the mercy
of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.

11 I will praise thee for ever, because
thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy
name, for it is good in the sight of thy
saints.

PSALM 52.
Dixit insipiens.

The general corruption of man before the comiuff of

Christ.

I Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to
David.

THE fool said in his heart: ^' There
no God.

2 They are corrupted, and become abom*-
inable in iniquities: there i& none that
doth good.

3 God looked down from heaven on the
children of men: to see if there were
any that did understand, or did seek
God.

4 ^ All have gone aside, they are become
unprofitable together, there is none that
doth good, no not one.

5 Shall not all the workers of iniquity
know, who eat up my people as they eat
bread ?

c Ps. 13. 1. — d Rom. 3. 12.

Psalm 52. Veic L Maeletl or Machalath. A musical Instrument, or a chorus of musicians, for

St. Jerome |.^;}ders it, per chorunu

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Prayer for help in distress

PSALMS

David betrayed by his own

6 They have not called upon God : there
have they trembled for fear, where there
was no fear.

For God hath scattered the bones of
them that please men : they have been
confounded, because God hath despised
them.

7 Who will give out of Sion the salva-
tion of Israel? when God shall bring back
the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
rejoictt, and Israel shall be glad.

PSALM 53.

Deus, in nomine tuo.
A prayer for help in, distress.

1 Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.
2 When the men of Ziph had come and said to
Saul: Is not David hidden with us? [1 Kings
23. 19.]

3 O AVE me, O God, by thy name, and
lO judge me in thy strength.

4 O God, hear my prayer : give ear to
the words of my mouth.

5 For strangers have risen up against
me; and the mighty have sought after
my soul : and they have not set God be-
fore their eyes.

6 For behold God is my helper: and the
Lord is the protector of my soul.

7 Turn back the evils upon my enemies ;
and cut them off in thy truth.

8 I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will
give praise, O God, to thy name ; because
it is good :

9 For thou hast delivered me out of all
trouble : and my eye hath looked down
upon my enemies.

PSALM 54.

Exaudi, Deus.

A prayer of a just man under persecution from the
wicked. It agrees to Christ persecuted by the Jews,
and betrayed by Judas.

\ Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.

2 TTEAR, O God, my prayer, and de-
X± spise not my supplication : 3 be

attentive to me and hear me.

I am grieved in my exercise ; and am
troubled, 4 at the voice of the enemy,
and at the tribulation of the sinner.

For they have cast iniquities upon me :

Ver. G. God hath scattered the bones, &c. That is,
la^od lias brouglit to nothing the strength of all those
inat seek to please men, to the prejudice of their
fluty to their Maker.

^SALM 54. Ver. 16. Let death, &c. This, and
sucn like imprecations which occur in the psalms,
are delivered prophetically; that is, by way of fore-
telling the punishments which shall fall upon the
wiciiea from divinciustice, and approving the right-

and in wrath they were troublesome to
me.

6 My heart is troubled within me : and
the fear of death is fallen upon me.

6 Fear and trembling are come upon me:
and darkness hath covered me.

7 And I said : Who will give me wings
like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest ?

8 Lo, I have gone far off flying away ;
and I abode in the wilderness.

9 I waited for him that hath saved me
from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.

10 Cast down, O Lord, and divide their
tongues; for I have seen iniquity and
contradiction in the city.

11 Day and night shall iniquity surround
it upon its walls: and in the midst there-
of are labour, 12 and injustice.

And usury and deceit have not departed
from its streets.

13 For if my enemy had reviled me^ T
would verily have borne with it.

And if he that hated me had spoken
great things against me, I would per-
haps have hidden myself from him.

14 But thou a man of one mind, my
guide, and my familiar.

15 Who didst take sweetmeats together
with me: in the house of God we walked
with consent.

16 Let death come upon them, and let
them go down alive into hell.

For there is wickedness in their dwell-
ings : in the midst of them.

17 But I have cried to God : and the
Lord will save me.

18 Evening and morning, and at noon I
will speak and declare : and he shall hear
my voice.

19 He shall redeem my soul in peace
from them that draw near to me : for
among many they were with me.

20 God shall hear, and the Eternal shall
humble them.

For there is no change with them, and
they have not feared God: 21 he hath
stretched forth his hand to repay.

They have defiled his covenant, 22 they
are divided by the wrath of his counte-
nance, and his heart hath drawn near.

eous ways of God : but not by way of ill will, or un-
charitable curses, which the law of God disallows.

Ver. 19. Among inany, &c. That is, they that
drew near to attack me were many in company all
combined to fight against me.

Ver. 22. They are divided. &c. Dispersed, scat*
tered, and brought to nothing, by the wrath of God:
who looks with indignation on their wicked and
deceitful ways.

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Prayer of one in distress

PSALMS David praises God for deliverance

His words are smoother than oil, and

the same are darts.

23 ^ Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he
shall sustain thee : he shall not suffer the
just to waver for ever.

24 But thou, O God, shalt bring them
down into the pit of destruction.

Bloody and deceitful men shall not hve
out half their days ; but I will trust in
thee, O Lord.

PSALM 55.

Miserere mei, Deus.
A prayer of David in danger and distress.

1 Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a
distance from the sanctuary : for David, for au in-
scription of a title i,or pillar) when the Philistines
held him in Geth.

2 TT AVE mercy on me, O God, for man
XI hath trodden me under foot ; all

the day long he hath afflicted me fighting
against me.

3 My enemies have trodden on me all
the day long; for they are many that
make war against me.

4 From the height of the day I shall fear :
but I will trust in thee.

5 In God I will praise my words, in God
I have put my trust : I will not fear what
flesh can do against me.

6 All the day long they detested my
words : all their thoughts were against me
unto evil.

7 They will dwell and hide themselves :
they will watch my heel.

As they have waited for my soul, 8 for
nothing shalt thou save them : in thy an-
ger thou shalt break the people in pieces.

O God, 9 I have declared to thee my
life: thou hast set my tears in thy sight,

As also in thy promise. 10 Then shall my
enemies be turned back.

In what day soever I shall call upon
thee, behold I know thou art my God.

11 In God will I praise the word, in the
Lord will I praise his speech. In God
have I hoped, I will not fear what man
can do to me.

12 In me, O God, are vows to thee,
which I will pay, praises to thee :

13 Because thou hast delivered my soul
from death, my feet from falling: that I

e Matt. 0. 25 ; Luke 12. 22 ; 1 Peter 5. 7.

Psalm 55. Ver. 4. The heirfht of the dmj. That
is, even at noonday, when the sun i^ the highest, I
am still in danger.

Ver. 5. My words. The words or promises God
has made in my favour.

Ver. i £"%* nothing shalt thou save them. That

may please in the sight of God, in tha
light of the living.

PSALM 66.

Miserere mei, Deus.

The prophet prays in his affliction, and jtraisee Ged
for his delivery.

1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an In-
scription of a title, when he fled from Saul into
the cave. [1 Kings 24.]

2 TT AVE mercy on me, O God, have
XI mercy on me: for my soul trust-

eth in thee.

And in the shadow of thy wings will I
hope, until iniquity pass away.

3 I will cry to God the most High ; to
God who hath done good to me.

4 He hath sent from heaven and deliv-
ered me I he hath made them a reproach
that trod upon me.

God hath sent his mercy and his truth,
5 and he hath deUvered my soul from the
midst of the young lions. I slept troubled.

The sons of men, whose teeth are wea-
pons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp
sword.

6 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens, and thy glory above all the
earth.

7 They prepared a snare for my feet;
and they bowed down my soul.

They dug a pit before my face, and they
are fallen into it.

8 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is
ready : I will sing, and rehearse a psalm,

9 Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and
harp : I will arise early.

10 I will give praise to thee, O Lord,
among the people : I will sing a psalm to
thee among the nations.

11 For thy mercy is magnified even to
the heavens: and thy truth unto the
clouds.

12 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens; and thy glory above all the
earth.

PSALM 57. .

Si vere utique.

Lfavid reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their
punishment.

1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an in-
scription of a title.

is, since they lie in wait to ruin my soul, thou shalt
for no consideration favour or assist them, but exe-
cute thy justice upon them.

Psalm 56. Ver. I. Destroy not. Suffer me iwt
to be destroyed.

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Punishment of the wicked

PSALMS Confidence in God's protection

2 T"F in very deed you speak justice:
X. judge right things, ye sons of men.

3 For in your heart you work iniquity:
your hands forge injustice in the earth.

4 The wicked are alienated from the
womb, they have gone astray from the
wonA; they have spoken false things.

5 Their madness is according to the like-
ness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that
stoppeth her ears:

6 Which will not hear the voice of the
charmers, nor of the wizard that charm-
eth wisely.

7 God shall break in pieces their teeth
in their mouth : the Lord shall break the
grinders of the lions.

8 They shall come to nothing, like water
running down; he hath bent his bow till
they be weakened.

9 Like wax that melteth they shall be
taken away: fire hath fallen on them,
and they shall not see the sun.

10 Before your thorns could know the
brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive,
in his wrath.

11 The just shall rejoice when he shall
see the revenge : he shall wash his hands
in the blood of the sinner.

12 And man shall say: If indeed there
be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God
that judge th them on the earth.

PSALM 58.

Eripe me.

A prayer to he delivered from the wicked, with con-
fidence in God's help and protection. It agrees to
Christ and his enemies the Jews.

1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an in-
scription of a title, when Saul sent and watched
his house to kill him. [IKngs 19.]

2 "T^E LIVER me from my enemies, 0
JlJ my God, and defend me from them

that rise up against me.

3 Deliver me from them that work ini-
quity, and save me from bloody men.

4 For behold they have caught my soul :
the mighty have rushed in upon me:

5 Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin,
0 Lord: without iniquity have I run,
and directed my steps.

6 Rise up thou to meet me, and behold:
even thou, 0 Lord, the God of hosts, the
God of Israel.

Attend to visit all the nations: have no
mercy on all them that work iniquity.

^ Psalm 57 Ver. 10. Before your thorns, &c. That
IS, before your thorns grow up, so as to become
Btrong briers, they shall be overtaken and consumed
by divine justice, 8wallowin« them up, as it were,
miive in his torcOh,

7 They shall return at evening, and shall
suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go
round about the city.

8 Behold they shall speak with their
mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for
who, say they, hath heard us?

9 But thou, 0 Lord, shalt laugh at them:
thou shalt bring all the nations to no-
thing.

10 I will keep my strength to thee: for
thou art my protector: 11 my God, his
mercy shall prevent me.

12 God shall let me see over my ene-
mies : slay them not, lest at any time my
people forget.

Scatter them by thy power; and bring
them down, 0 Lord, my protector:

13 For the sin of their mouth, and the
word of their lips : and let them be taken
in their pride.

And for their cursing and lying they
shall be talked of, 14 when they are con-
sumed: when they are consumed by thy
wrath, and they shall be no more.

And they shall know that God will rule
Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.

15 They shall return at evening and
shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall
go round about the city.

16 They shall be scattered abroad to eat,
and shall murmur if they be not filled.

17 But I will sing thy strength: and
will extol thy mercy in the morning.

For thou art become my support, and
my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

18 Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing,
for thou art God my defence : my God my
mercy.

PSALM 59.

Deus, repiolisti nos.

After many afflictions, the church of Christ shaU
prevail.

1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for
the inscription of a title, to David himself, for
doctrine, 2 when he set fire to Mesopotamia of
Syria and Sobal ; and Joab returned and slew of
Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand
men.

3/^ GOD, thou hast cast us off, and
V/ hast destroyed us; thou hast been
angry, and hast had mercy on us.

4 Thou hast moved the earth, and hast
troubled it : heal thou the breaches there-
of, for it has been moved.

5 Thou hast shewn thy people hard

Ver. 11. ShaU wash his hands, &c. Shall applaud
the justice of God, and take occasion from the con-
sideration of the punishment of the wicked to wash
and cleanse his bands from sin.

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Our help is from God

PSALMS

Exhortation to trust in God

things; thou hast made us drink the
wine of sorrow.

6 Thou hast given a warning to them
that fear thee: that they may flee from
before the bow:

That thy beloved may be delivered.
7 Save me with thy right hand, and hear
me.

8 God hath spoken in his holy place: I
will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem;
and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

9 Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine;
and Ephraim is the strength of my head.

Juda is my king: 10 Moab is the pot of
my hope.

Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe:
to me the foreigners are made subject.

11 Who will bring me into the strong
city? who will lead me into Edom?

12 Wilt not thou, 0 God, who hast cast
us off? and wilt not thou, 0 God, go out
with our armies?

13 Give us help from trouble: for vain
is the salvation of man.

14 Through God we shall do mightily:
and he shall bring to nothing them that
afflict us.

PSALM 60.

Exaudi, Deus.

A prayer for the coming of the kingdom of Christ,
which shall have no end.

1 Unto the end, in hymns, for David.

2TTEAR, 0 God, my supplication: be

Xl attentive to my prayer.

3 To thee have I cried from the ends of
the earth : when my heart was in anguish,
thou hast exalted me on a rock.

Thou hast conducted me; 4 for thou
hast been my hope; a tower of strength
against the face of the enemy.

5 In thy tabernacle I shall dwell forever:
I shall be protected under the covert of
thy wings.

6 For thou, my God, hast heard my
prayer: thou hast given an inheritance
to them that fear thy name.

7 Thou wilt add days to the days of the
king: his years even to generation and
generation.

8 He abideth for ever in the sight of

Psalm 59. Ver. 10. The pot of my hope: or my
watering pot. That is, a vessel for meaner uses by
being reduced to serve me, even in the meanest em-
ployments.— Ibid. Foreigners. So the Philistines
are called, who had no kindred with the Israelites ;
whereas the Edomites, Moabites, &c., were originally
of the same family.

God: his mercy and truth who shall
search?

9 So will I sing a psalm to thy name for A
ever and ever: that I may pay my vows "
from day to day.

PSALM 61.

Nonne Deo.

The prophet encourageth himself and all others to
trust in God, and serve hiyn.

1 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David.

2 0< HALL not my soul be subject to God?
lO for from him is my salvation.

3 For he is my God and my saviour: he
is my protector, I shall be moved no
more.

4 How long do you rush in upon a man?
you all kill, as if you were thrusting down

a leaning wall, and a tottering fence. j

5 But they have thought to cast away 1
my pride; I ran in thirst: they blessed 1
with their mouth, but cursed with their
heart.

6 But be thou, 0 my soul, subject to
God: for from him is my patience.

7 For he is my God and my saviour: he
is my helper, I shall not be moved.

8 In God is my salvation and my glory
he is the God of my help, and my hope is
in God.

9 Trust in him, all ye congregation of
people : pour out your hearts before him.
God is our helper for ever.

10 But vain are the sons of men, the
sons of men are liars in the balances:
that by vanity they may together deceive.

11 Trust not in iniquity, and cover not
robberies: if riches abound, set not your
heart upon them.

12 God hath spoken once, these two
things have I heard, that power belongeth
to God, 13 and mercy to thee, 0 Lord;
/ for thou wilt render to every man ac-
cording to his works.

PSALM 62.

Deus Deus meus, ad te.
The prophet aspireth after God.

1 A psalm of David when he was in the desert of
Edom.

2/^ GOD, my God, to thee do I watch
V / at break of day.

/ Matt. 16. 27 ; Rom. 2. 6 ; 1 Cor. 3. 8 ; Gal.6. 5.

Psalm 61. Ver. 10. Are liars in the balances, &c.
They are so vain and light, that if they are put into I
the scales, they will be found to be of no weight ; andi
to be mere lies, deceit, and vanity. Or, They aret
liars in their balances, by weighing things by false!
weights, and preferring the temporal before thej
eternal.

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Thirsting for God

PSALMS

A hymn of thanksgiving

For thee my soul hath thirsted; for
thee my flesh, 0 how many ways!

3 In a desert land, and where there is
no way, and no water : so in the sanctuary
have I come before thee, to see thy power
and thy glory.

4 For thy mercy is better than lives:
thee my lips shall praise.

5 Thus will I bless thee all my life long:
and in thy name I will lift up my hands.

6 Let my soul be filled as with marrow
and fatness: and my mouth shall praise
thee with joyful lips.

7 If I have remembered thee upon my
bed, I will meditate on thee in the morn-
ing: 8 because thou hast been my helper.

And I will rejoice under the covert of
thy wings: 9 my soul hath stuck close
to thee: thy right hand hath received
me.

10 But they have sought my soul in
vain, they shall go into the lower parts
of the earth:

11 They shall be delivered into the hands
of the sword, they shall be the portions
of foxes.

12 But the king shall rejoice in God, all
they shall be praised that swear by him:
because the mouth is stopped of them
that speak wicked things.

PSALM 63.

Exaudi Deus orationem.

A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that
he will bring to nought the machinations of per-
secutors.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.

2 XT EAR, 0 God, my prayer, when I
XT make supplication to thee: de-
liver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

3 Thou hast protected me from the as-
sembly of the malignant; from the mul-
titude of the workers of iniquity.

4 For they have whetted their tongues
like a sword; they have bent their Idow
a bitter thing, 5 to shoot in secret the
undefiled.

6 They will shoot at him on a sudden,
and will not fear: they are resolute in
wickedness.

They have talked of hiding snares; they
have said: Who shall see them?

Psalm 63. Ver. 7. A deep heart. That is, crafty,
subtle, deep projects and designs, which neverthe-
less shall not succeed, for God shall be exalted in
bringing them to nought by his wisdom and power.

Ver. 8. The arrows of children are their wounds.
That is, the wounds, stripes, or blows they seek to
inflict upon the just, are but like the weak efforts of

7 They have searched after iniquities:
they have failed in their search.

Man shall come to a deep heart: 8 and
God shall be exalted.

The arrows of children are their wounds :
9 and their tongues against them are
made weak.

All that sawthem were troubled; 10 and
every man was afraid.

And they declared the works of God
and understood his doings.

11 The just shall rejoice in the Lord,
and shall hope in him: and all the up-
right in heart shall be praised.

PSALM 64.

Te decet.

God is to be praised in his church, to which all
nations shall be called.

1 To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jer-
emias and Ezechiel to the people of the captivity
when they began to go out.

2 A HYMN, 0 God, becometh thee in
J\. Sion: and a vow shall be paid to

thee in Jerusalem.

3 0 hear my prayer: all flesh shall
come to thee.

4 The words of the wicked have pre-
vailed over us : and thou wilt pardon our
transgressions.

5 Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen
and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy
courts.

We shall be filled with the good things
of thy house; holy is thy temple, 6 won-
derful in justice.

Hear us, 0 God our saviour, who art the
hope of all the ends of the earth, and in
the sea afar off^.

7 Thou who preparest the mountains by
thy strength, being girded with power:
8 who troublest the depth of the sea, the
noise of its waves.

The Gentiles shall be troubled, 9 and
they that dwell in the uttermost borders
shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt
make the outgoings of the morning and
of the evening to be joyful.

10 Thou hast visited the earth, and hast
plentifully watered it; thou hast many
ways enriched it.

The river of God is filled with water,

children's arrows, which can do no execution and
their tongues, that is, their speeches against them
come to nothing.

Psalm 64. Ver. 1. Of the captivity. That is the
people of the captivity of Babylon. This is not in
the Hebrew, but is found in the ancient translation
of the Septuagint.

Exhortation to praise God

PSALMS

Ihou hast prepared their food i Icor ao is
Hb preparation.

1 1 Fill up plentifully the streams thereof,
multiply its fruits ; it shall spring up and
rejoice in its showers.

12 Thou Shalt bless the crown of the
year of thy goodness: and thy fields
shall be filled with plenty.

13 The beautiful places of the wilderness
shall grow fat: and the hills shall be
girded about with joy,

14 The rams of the flock are clothed,
and the vales shall abound with corn:
they shall shout^ yea they shall sing a
hymn.

PSALM 66.

Jubilate Dea

An invitation to praise God.

I Unto the end, st canticle of a psalm of the resur>
rection.

SHOUT with joy to God, all the earth,
2 sing ye a psalm to his name \ give
glory to his praise.

3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy
works, O Lord ! in the multitude of thy
strength thy enemies shall lie to thee,

4 Let all the earth adore thee^ and sing
to thee • let it sing a psalm to thy name^

t Come and see the works of God ; who
Is terrible in his counsels over the sons
of men.

6 Who turneth the sea into dry land, in
the river they shall pass on footr there
shall we rejoice in him^

7 Who by his power ruleth for ever:
his eyes behold the nations : let not
them that provoke him be exalted in
themselves.

8 O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and
make the voice of his praise to be heard.

9 Who hath set my soul to live? and
hath not suffered my feet to be moved:

10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou
hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

11 Thou hast brought us into a net,
thou hast laid afflictions on our back:
12 thou hast set men over our headsc

We have passed through fire and water,
and thou hast brought us out into a re-
freshment.

13 I will go into thy house with burnt
offerings: I will pay thee my vows, 14
which my lips have uttered,

And my mout> hath spoken, when I was
In trouble.

A prayer of praise

Psalm 67. Vet , 6. Who ascendeth upon the west,
Super occas'urr gt Gregory understands it of

16 I will offer up to thee holocausts full
of marrow, with burnt offerings of rams ;
I will offer to thee buUockc with goats.

16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God
and I will tell you what great things he
hath done for my soul.

17 I cried to him with my mouth : and 1
extolled him with my tongue.

18 If I have looked at iniquity in my
heart, the Lord will not hear me.

19 Therefore hath God heard me, and
hatb attended to the voice of my suppli-
cation.

20 Blessed be God, who hath not turned
away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

PSALM 66.

Deus misereatur.

A prayer for the propagation of the church

I Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle tog

David.

AY God have mercy on usj and
bless us : may he cause the light
of his countenance to shine upon us, and
may he have mercy on us.

3 That we may know thy way upon
earth : thy salvation in all nations.

4 Let people confess to theOj O God: let
ail people give praise to thee.

6 Let the nations be glad and rejoice;
for thou judgest the people with justice,
and directest the nations upon earth.

6 Let the people, O God, confess to thee?
let all the people give praise to thee ; "
the earth hath yielded her fruit.

May God. our God bless us, 8 may God
bless us 3 and all the ends of the earth
feai him.

PSALM 67.

Exurgat Deus.

The glorious establishment of the church of the Jfew\

Testament, prefigured by the benefits bestowed on\

the people of Israel»

1 Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David hinuj

sell

2 T ET God arise, and let his enemii
J_J be scattered: and let them thai

hate him flee from before his face.

3 As smoke vanisheth, so let them van
ish away : as wax melteth before the fire,
so let the wicked perish at the presence
of God.

4 And let the just feast, and rejoice be
fore God: and be delighted with glad
ness.

5 Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to hi

Christ, who after his going down, like the sun. ir tb
west, by his passion and deatfe, ascended a»or( gl<

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God's wonders in the desert

PSALMS Mount Sion is His dwelling place

name, mako a way for him who ascend-
eth upon the west : the Lord is his name.
Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked
shall be troubled at hie presence, 6 who
is the father of orphans, and the judge of
widows-
God in his holy place : 7 God who maketh
men of one manner to dwell in a house :
Who bringeth out them that were bound
in strength ; in like manner them that
provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

8 O God, when thou didst go forth in
the sight of thy people, when thou didst
pass through the desert;

9 The earth was moved, and the heavens
dropped at the presence of the God of
Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

10 Thou Shalt set aside for thy inherit-
ance a free rain, O God : and it was weak-
ened, but thou hast made it perfect.

11 In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy
sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for
the poor.

12 The Lord shall give the word to them
that preach good tidings with great
power.

13 The king of powers is of the beloved,

rious, and carried all before him. St. Jerome ren-
ders it, who ascendeth, or cometh up, through the
deserts.

Ver. 7. Of 07ie manner. That is, agreeing in faith,
unanimous in love, and following the same manner
of discipline. It is verified in the servants of God,
living together in his house, whi;h is the church.
\ Tim. 3. 15. — Ibid. Them that were bound, &c. Tlie
power and mercy of God appears in his bringing out
of their captivity those that were strongly hound in
their sins : and in restoring to his grace those whose
behaviour had been most provoking; and who by
their evil habits were not only dead, but buried in
their sepulchres.

Ver. 10. A free rain. The manna, which rained
plentifully from heaven, in favour of God's inherit-
ance, that is, of his people Israel : which ivas weak-
ened indeed under a variety of afflictions, but was
made perfect by God ; that is, was still supported by
divine providence, and i)rouglit on to the promised
land. It agrees particularly to the church of Christ,
his true inheritance, which is plentifully watered
with the free rain of heavenly grace ; and through
many infirmities, that is, crosses and tribulations, is
m,ade perfect, and fitted for eternal glory.

Ver. 11. In it, &c. That is, in this clinrch, which
is thy fold and thy inheritance, shall thy animals,
thy sheep, dwell, where thou hast plentifully pro-
vided for them.

Ver. 12. To them that preach good tidings. Evnn-
gelizantihus. That is, to the preachers of the gos-
pel ; who receiving the vtord from the Lord, shall
with great power and efficacy preach throughout the
world the glad tidings of a Saviour, and of eternal
salvation through him.

Ver. 13. The king of pov)ers. That is, the might-
King, the Lord of hosts, is of the heloved, of the he-
loved : that is, is en tlie side oi Christ, hit mos,; be-
loved son: and his beautiful house viz., the church,
in which God dwells forever shall by her spiritual
conquests divide the spoils of many nations. The He-

JTGV? (sir, \'.- nnmr lf-.a.nH' nnintoH"' ic '■Hue :^^T\Ar\r'a.A

orcxr ^ i; now itaod: pointed; is thus rendered

of the beloved; and the beauty of the
house shall divide spoils.

14 If you sleep among the midst of lots^
you shall be as the wings of a dove cov-
ered with silver, and the hinder parta of
her back with the paleness of gold.

16 When he that is in heaven appoint-
eth kings over her, they shall be whited
with snow in Selmon. 16 The mountain
of God is a fat mountain.

A curdled mountain, a fat mountain. 17
Why suspect, ye curdled mountains?

A mountain in which God is well pleased
to dwell : for there the Lord shall dwell
unto the end.

18 The chariot of God is attended by ten
thousands ; thousands of them that re-
joice : the Lord is among them in Sina,
in the holy place.

19 Thou hast ascended on high, thou
hast led captivity captive ; thou hast re-
ceived gifts in men.

Yea for those also that do not believe,
the dwelling of the Lord God.

20 Blessed be the Lord day by day : the
God of our salvation will make our jour-
ney prosperous to us.

The kings of armies have fled, they have fled, and
she that dwells at home (or the beauty of the house)
shall divide the spoils. '

Ver. 14. If you sleep am,ov/f the midst of lots {intei
medios cleros, &c.), viz., In such dangers and perse,
cutions, as if your enemies were casting lots for youi
goods and persons : or in the midst of the lots, (inter
medios terminos, as St. Jerome renders it.) that is,
upon the very bounds or borders of the dominions
of your enemies: you shall be secure nevertheless
under the divine protection; and shall be enabled
to fly away, like a dove, with glittering wings and
feathers shining like the palest and most precious
gold; that is, with great increase of virtue, andglov/-
ing with the fervour of charity.

Ver. 15. Kings over her. That is, pastorr, and
rulers over his church, viz. the apostles and their
successors. Then by their ministry shall men be
made whiter than thf* snow which lies on the top ot
the high mountain Selmon.

Ver. 16. The mountain of God. The cluirfh,
which, Isa. 2. 2, is called The mountain of the house
of the Lord, upon the top of mountains. It is hr^re
called a fat and a, curdled, mountain ; that is tos ly,
most fruitful, and enriched by the spiritual gifts and
graces of the Holy Ghost.

Ver. 17. Why suspect, ye curdled mountains?
Why do you suppose or imagine there may be any
other such curdled mountains ? You are mistaken
the mountain thus favoured by God is but one ; and
this same he has chosen for his dwelling for ever.

Ver. 18. 77ie chariot of God, descending to give
his law on mount Sina: as also of Jesus Christ hiw
Son, ascending into heaven, to send from thence the
Holy Ghost, to publish his new law, is attended witl"
ten thousands, that is with an innumerable inulti
tude of joyful angels.

Ver. 19. Led. captivity captive. Carrying' away
with thee to heaven those wlio l»efore had been the
captives ^t Satan; and receiving from God the Father
:i;if ts to be distributed to men ; ever to those who were
before unbelievora.

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TJis triumphs of Israel

PSALMS

The passion of Christ

21 Our God is the God of salvation : and
of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues
from death.

22 But God shall break the heads of his
enemies : the hairy crown of them that
walk on in their sins.

23 The Lord said : I will turn them from
Basan, I will turn them into the depth
of the sea:

24 That thy foot may be dipped in the
blood of thy enemies ; the tongue of thy
dogs be red with the same.

25 They have seen thy goings, O God,
the goings of my God : of my king who
is in his sanctuary.

26 Princes went before joined with sing-
ers, in the midst of young damsels play-
ing on timbrels.

27 In the churches bless ye God the
Lord, from the fountains of Israel.

28 There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy
of mind.

The princes of Juda are their leaders :
fche princes of Zabulon, the princes of
Nephthali.

29 Command thy strength, O God : con-
firm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.

30 From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings
shall offer presents to thee.

31 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds,
the congregation of bulls with the kine
of the people ; who seek to exclude them
who are tried with silver.

Scatter thou the nations that delight in
wars : 32 ambassadors shall come out of

Ver. 21. The issues from death. The Lord alone
Is master of the issues^hy which we may escape from
death.

Ver. 23. / will turn them from Basan, &c. I will
cast out my enemies from their rich possessions, sig-
nified by Basan, a fruitful country ; and I will drive
them into the depth of the sea: and make such a
slaughter of them, that the feet of my servants may
be dyed in their blood, &c.

Ver. 25. Thy goings. Thy ways, thy proceedings,
by which thou didst formerly take possession of the
promised land in favour of thy people; and shalt
afterwards of the whole world, which thou shalt
subdue to thy Son.

Ver. 26. Princes. The apostles, the first convert-
ers of nations ; attended by numbers of perfect souls,
singing the divine praises, and virgins consecrated to
God.

Ver. 27. From thefountains of Israel. From whom
botli Christ and his apostles sprung. By Benjamin,
tho Iioly fathers on this place understand St. Paul,
wh^ was of that tribe, named here a youth, because
he was the last called to the apostleship. By the
princej of Juda, Zabulon, and Nephthali, we may
understand the other apostles, who were of the tribe
of .Juda; or of the tribes of Zabulon, and Nephthali,
Where our Lord began to preach, Matt. 4. 13, &c.

Ver. 29. Command thy strength. Give orders that
ihy strength may be always with us.

Ver. 31. Rebuke the vjild beasts of the reeds : or
^iiC tvild beasts» wbicli Ua Md in the reeds. That is.

Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out
her hands to God.

33 Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the
earth : sing ye to the Lord :

Sing ye to God, 34 who mounteth above
the heaven of heavens, to the east.

Behold he will give to his voice the
voice of power : 35 give ye glory to God
for Israel, his magnificence, and his power
is in the clouds.

36 God is wonderful in his saints : the
God of Israel is he who will give power
and strength to his people. Blessed be
God.

PSALM 68.

Salvum me fac, Deus.

Christ in his passion declareth the greatness of his
sufferings, and the malice of his persecutors the
Jews ; and foretell eth their reprobation.

1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed ; for

David.

2 C< AVE me, O God : for the waters are
O come in even unto my soul,

3 I stick fast in the mire of the deep :
and there is no sure standing.

I am come into the depth of the sea :
and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

4 I have laboured with crying-, my ]aw8
are become hoarse : my eyes have failed,
whilst I hope in my God.

5 They are multiplied above the hairs of
my head, who hate me without cause.

My enemies are grown strong who have
wrongfully persecuted me : then did I
pay that which I took not away.

the devils, who hide themselves in order to surprise
their prey. Or by wild beasts, are here understood
persecutors, who, for all their attempts against the
Church, are but as uea,k reeds, which cannot i)re-
vail against them who are supported by the strength
of the Almighty. The same are also called the con-
gregation of bulls (from their rage against the
Church) who assemble together all their kine, that
is, the people their subjects, to exclude if they can,
from Christ and his inheritance, his constant con-
fessors, who are like silver tried by fire.

Ver. 32. Ambassadors shall come, &c. it is a pro
phecy of the conversion of the Gentiles, and by name
of the Egyptians and Ethiopians.

Ver. 84. To the east. From mount Olivet, which
is on the east side of Jerusalem. — Ibid. The voice
of power. That is, he will make his voice to be a
pov:erful voice : by calling from death to life, such as
were dead in mortal sin : as at the last day he will
by the power of his voice call all the dead from their
graves.

Psalm 68. Ver. 1. For them that shall he
changed. A psalm for Christian converts, to remem*
ber the passion of Christ.

Ver. 2. The waters. Of afiflictions and sorrows.
My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Matt. 26. 38.

Ver. 5. / pay that which I took not away. Christ
in his passion made restitution of what he had not
taken away, by suffering the punishment due to
our sins, and so repairing the injury we had done tO
Go<L

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The 'passion of Christ PSALMS Punishment of the persecutors

6 O God, thou knowest my foolishness : 22 * And they gave me erall for my food.

6 O God, thou knowest my foolishness ;
and my offences are not hidden from
thee:

7 Let not them be ashamed for me, who
look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts.

Let them not be confounded on my ac-
count, who seek thee, O God of Israel.

8 Because for thy sake I have borne re-
proach ; shame hath covered my face.

9 I am become a stranger to my bre-
thren, and an alien to the sons of my
mother.

10 s'For the zeal of thy house hath
eaten me up: ^and the reproaches of
them that reproached thee are fallen
upon me.

11 And I covered my soul in fasting:
and it was made a reproach to me.

12 And I made haircloth my garment :
and I became a byword to them.

13 They that sat in the gate spoke
against me : and they that drank wine
made me their song.

1 4 But as for me, my prayer is to thee,

0 Lord ; for the time of thy good plea-
sure, O God.

In the multitude of thy mercy hear me,
in the truth of thy salvation.

15 Draw me out of the mire, that I may
not stick fast: deliver me from them
that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

16 Let not the tempest of water drown
me, nor the deep swallow me up : and let
not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is
kind; look upon me according to the
multitude of thy tender mercies.

18 And turn not away thy face from
thy servant : for I am in trouble, hear me
speedily.

19 Attend to my soul, and deliver it :
save me because of my enemies.

20 Thou knowest my reproach, and my
confusion, and my shame.

21 In thy sight are all they that afflict
me ; my heart hath expected reproach
and misery.

And I looked for one that would grieve
together with me, but there was none :
and for one that would comfort me, and

1 found none.

g John 2. 17. — h Rom. 15. 3.

Ver. 6. My foolishness and my offences : which
my enemies impute to me : or the follies and sins of
men, which I have taken upon myself.

Ver. 23. Let their table, &c. What here follows in
the style of an imprecation, is a prophecy of the

22 * And they gave me gall for my food,
and in my thirst they gave me vinegar
to drink.

23-^ Let their table become as a snare
before them, and a recompense, and a
stumblingblock.

24 Let their eyes be darkened that they
see not ; and their back bend thou down
always.

25 Pour out thy indignation upon them :
and let thy wrathful anger take hold of
them.

26 '^ Let their habitation be made deso-
late : and let there be none to dwell in
their tabernacles.

27 Because they have persecuted him
whom thou hast smitten ; and they have
added to the grief of my wounds.

28 Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity:
and let them not come into thy jus-
tice.

29 Let them be blotted out of the book
of the living ; and with the just let them
not be written.

30 But I am poor and sorrowful : thy
salvation, O God, hath set me up.

31 I will praise the name of God with a
canticle : and I will magnify him with
praise.

32 And it shall please God better than
a young calf, that bringeth forth horns
and hoofs.

33 Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye
God, and your soul shall live.

34 For the Lord hath heard the poor :
and hath not despised his prisoners.

35 Let the heavens and the earth praise
him ; the sea, and every thing that creep-
eth therein.

36 For God will save Sion, and the cities
of Juda shall be built up.

And they shall dwell there, and acquire
it by inheritance.

37 And the seed of his servants shall
possess it ; and they that love his name
shall dwell therein.

PSALM 69.

Deus in adjutorium.

A prayer in persecution.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to re.
membrance that the Lord saved him.

i Matt. 27. 48. —j Rom. 11. 9. — fc Acts 1. 20.

wretched state to which the Jews should be reduced
in punishment of their wilful obstinacy.

Ver. 36. Sion. The catholic church. The cities of
Juda, &c., her places of worship, which shall be es-
tablished throughout the world. And there, viz., in
this church of Christ, shall his servants dwell, &c.

Prayer for God*s protection

PS\LMS

z /'^ GOD, come to my assistance; O
\J Lord, make haste to help me.

3 Let them be confounded and asharaed
that seek my soul :

4 Let them be turned backward, and
blush for shame that desire evils to me :

Let them be presently turned away
blushing for shame that say to me : 'T is
well, 'tis well.

5 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be
glad in thee ; and let such as love thy sal-
vation say always : The Lord be magnified.

6 But I am needy and poor ; O God, help
me.

Thou art my helper and my deliverer :

0 Lord, make no delay.

PSALM 70.

In te, Domine.
A prayer for perseverance.

1 A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and

the former captives.

IN thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me
never be put to confusion : 2 deliver
me in thy justice, and rescue me.
Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

3 Be thou unto me a God, a protector,
and a place of strength : that thou mayst
make me safe.

For thou art my firmament and my
refuge.

4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand
of the sinner, and out of the hand of the
transgressor of the law and of the unjust.

5 For thou art my patience, O Lord : my
hope, O Lord, from my youth.

6 By thee have I been confirmed from
the womb : from my mother's womb thou
art my protector.

Of thee shall I continually sing : 7 I am
become unto many as a wonder, but thou
art a strong helper.

8 Let my mouth be filled with praise,
that I may sing thy glory ; thy greatness
all the day long.

9 Cast me not off in the time of old age:
when my strength shall fail, do not thou
forsake me.

10 For my enemies have spoken against
me ; and they that watched my soul have
consulted together.

Psalm 69. Ver. 4. ^Tis well, ^tis well, Euge,
eufjp. St. Jerome renders it, vah, vahf which is the
voice of one insulting and deriding. Some under-
stand it as a detestation of deceitful flatterers.

Psalm 70. Ver. l. Of the sons of Jonadab. The
Rechabites, of whom see Jer. 35. By this addition
of the seventy-two interpreters, we gather that this

Prayer for God^s protection

11 Saying! God hath forsaken him: pur-
sue and take him, for there is none to
deliver him.

12 O God, be not thou far from me: O
my God, make haste to my help.

13 Let them be confounded and come to
nothing that detract my soul ; let them
be covered with confusion and shame that
seek my hurt.

14 But I will always hope ; and will add
to all thy praise.

15 My mouth shall shew forth thy jus-
tice ; thy salvation all the day long.

Because I have not known learning, 161
will enter into the powers of the Lord:
O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice
alone.

17 Thou hast taught me, O God, from
my youth : and till now I will declare thy
wonderful works.

18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O
God, forsake me not.

Until I shew forth thy arm to all the
generation that is to come :

Thy power, 19 and thy justice, O God,
even to the highest great things thou
hast done : O God, who is like to thee ?

20 How great troubles hast thou shewn
me, many and grievous : and turning thou
hast brought me to life, and hast brought
me back again from the depths of the
earth :

21 Thou hast multiplied thy magnifi-
cence ; and turning to me thou hast com-
forted me.

22 For I will also confess to thee thy
truth with the instruments of psaltery :
O God, I will sing to thee with the harp,
thou holy one of Israel.

23 My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I
shall sing to thee; and my soul which
thou hast redeemed.

24 Yea and my tongue shall meditate on
thy justice all the day ; when they shall
be confounded and put to shame that
seek evils to me.

PSALM 71.

Deus, judicium tuum.

A prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his king'

dorn : prefigured by Solomon and his happy reign.

1 A psalm on Solomon.

psalm was usually sung in the synagogue, in the
person of the Rechabites, and of those who were first
carried away into captivity.

Ver. 15. Learning. As much as to say, I build
not upon human learning, but only on the power and
justice of Go(L

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A prayer for the king's son

PSALMS Temporal prosperity of the wicked

2 /^ IVE to the king thy judgment, O
VT God: and to the king's son thy
justice :
To judge thy people with justice, and
thy poor with judgment.

3 Let the mountains receive peace for
the people : and the hills justice.

4 He shall judge the poor of the people,
and he shall save the children of the
poor : and he shall humble the oppressor.

5 And he shall continue with the sun,
and before the moon, throughout all gen-
erations.

6 He shall come down like lain upon
the fleece ; and as showers falling gently
upon the earth.

7 In his days shall justice spring up, and
abundance of peace, till the moon be
taken away.

8 And he shall rule from sea to sea, and
from the river unto the ends of the earth.

9 Before him the Ethiopians shall fall
down: and his enemies shall lick the
ground.

10 The kings of Tharsis and the islands
shall offer presents: the kings of the
Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts :

11 And all kings of the earth shall adore
him : all nations shall serve him.

12 For he shall deliver the poor from the
mighty : and the needy that had no helper.

13 He shall spare the poor and needy :
and he shall save the souls of the poor.

14 He shall redeem their souls from
usuries and iniquity : and their names
shall be honourable in his sight.

15 And he shall live, and to him shall be
given of the gold of Arabia, for him they
shall always adore : they shall bless him
all the day.

16 And there shall be a firmament on
the earth on the tops of mountains, above
Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted :
and they of the city shall flourish like the
grass of the earth.

17 Let his name be blessed for evermore :
his name continueth before the sun.

And in him shall all the tribes of the
earth be blessed : all nations shall mag-
nify him.

Psalm 71. Ver. 16. A firmament on the earth,
&c. This may be understood of the church of Christ,
«^ver firm and visible : and of the flourishing condi-
tion of its congregation.

Ver. 20. Are ended. By this it appears that this

Esalm, though placed here, was m order of time the
ist of those which David composed.
Psalm 72. Ver. 7. Fatness. Abundance and
temporal prosperity, which hath encouraged them

18 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
who alone doth wonderful things.

19 And blessed be the name of his maj-
esty for ever: and the whole earth shall be
filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.

20 The praises of David, the son of Jesse,
are ended.

PSALM 72.

Quani bonus Israel Deus.

The temptation of the weak, upon seeing the prO'
sperity of the wicked, is overcome by the considera-
tion of the justice of God, who will quickly render
to every one according to his works.

1 A psalm for Asaph.

HOW good is God to Israel, to them
that are of a right heart I

2 But my feet were almost moved ; my
steps had wellnigh shpped.

3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of
the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sin-
ners.

4 For there is no regard to their death,
nor 18 there strength in their stripes.

6 They are not in the labour of men?
neither shall they be scourged like othefr
men.

6 Therefore pride hath held them fast:
they are covered with their iniquity and
their wickedness.

7 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it
were from fatness: they have passed into
the affection of the heart.

8 They have thought and spoken wick-
edness: they have spoken iniquity on
high.

9 They have set their mouth asjainst
heaven : and their tongue hath passed
through the earth.

10 Therefore will my people return here :
and full days shall be found in them.

11 And they said: How doth God knowf
and is there knowledge in the most
High?

12 Behold these are sinners ; and yet
abounding in the world they have ob-
tained riches.

13 And I said : Then have I in vain jus-
tified my heart, and washed my hands
among the innocent.

14 And I have been scourged all the day ;

in their iniquity : and made them give themselves up
to their irregular affections.

Ver. 10. Return herf ; or hither. The weak among
the servants of God, will be apt often to return to
this thought, and will he shocked when they consider
the/w^i rfCTi/s,that is, the long and prosperous life of
the wicked; and will l)e tempted to make the reflec-
tions against providence which are set down in tbe
following verses.

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The wicked are brought to naught PSALMS A prayer in time of persecution

and my chastisement hath been in the
mornings.

15 If I said : I will speak thus ; behold
T should condemn the generation of thy
children.

16 I studied that I might know this
thing, it is a labour in my sight :

17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God,
and understand concerning their last
ends.

18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put
it to them: when they were lifted up
thou hast cast them down.

19 How are they brought to desolation?
they have suddenly ceased to be: they
have perished by reason of their iniquity.

20 As the dream of them that awake,

0 Lord ; so in thy city thou shalt bring
their image to nothing.

21 For my heart hath been inflamed,
and my reins have been changed: 22 and

1 am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

23 I am become as a beast before thee :
and I am always with thee.

24 Thou hast held me by my right hand ;
and by thy will thou hast conducted me,
and with thy glory thou hast received
me.

25 For what have I in heaven ? and be-
sides thee what do I desire upon earth ?

26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath
fainted away : thou art the God of my
heart, and the God that is my portion for
ever.

27 For behold they that go far from
thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed
all them that are disloyal to thee.

28 But it is good for me to adhere to
my God, to put my hope in the Lord
God:

That I may declare all thy praises, in
the gates of the daughter of Sion.

PSALM 73.

Ut quid, Deus.
A prayer of the church under (grievous persecutions.
1 Understanding for Asaph.

1 4 Kings 25. 9.

Ver. 15. // / said, &c. That is, if I should indulge
such thoughts as these.

Ver. 18. Thou hast put it to them,. In punishment
of their deceits, or for deceiving them, thou hast
brought evils upon them in their last end, which, in
their prosperity they never apprehended.

Psalm 73. Ver, 4. Their ensigns, &c. They have
fixed their colours for signs and trophies, both on the
gates, and on the highest top of the temple : and they
knew not, that is, they regarded not the sanctity of
the place. This psalm maDilestly foretells the time

GOD, why hast thou cast us off unto
the end : why is thy wrath enkindled
against the sheep of thy pasture ?

2 Remember thy congregation, which
thou hast possessed from the beginning.

The sceptre of thy inheritance which
thou hast redeemed : mount Sion in
which thou hast dwelt.

3 Lift up thy hands against their pride
unto the end ; see what things the enemy
hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

4 And they that hate thee have made
their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity.

They have set up their ensigns for signs,
5 and they knew not both in the going
out and on the highest top.

As with axes in a wood of trees, 6 they
have cut down at once the gates thereof,
with axe and hatchet they have brought
it down.

7 ^ They have set fire to thy sanctuary :
they have defiled the dwelUng place of
thy name on the earth.

8 They said in their heart, the whole kin-
dred of them together: Let us aboUsh all
the festival days of God from the land.

9 Our signs we have not seen, there is
now no prophet: and he will know us no
more.

10 How long, O God, shall the enemy
reproach: is the adversary to provoke
thy name for ever ?

11 Why dost thou turn away thy hand :
and thy right hand out of the midst of
thy bosom for ever ?

12 "* But God is our king before ages :
he hath wrought salvation in the midst of
the earth.

13 Thou by thy strength didst make
the sea firm : thou didst crush the heads
of the dragons in the waters.

14 Thou hast broken the heads of the
dragon : thou hast given him to be meat
for the people of the Ethiopians.

15 Thou hast broken up the fountains
and the torrents: thou hast dried up the
Ethan rivers.

m Luke 1. 08.

of the Machabees, and the profanation of the temple
by Antiochus.

Ver. 13. The sea firm. By making the waters of
the Red Sea stand like firm walls, whilst Israel
passed through : and destroying the Egyptians
called here dragons from their cruelty, in the same
waters, with their king; casting up their bodies on
the shore to be stripped by the Ethiopians inhabiting
in those days the coast of Arabia.

Ver. 15. Ethan rivers. That is, rivers which run
with strong streams. This was verified in Jordaiii
Jos. 3, and in Arnon, Num. 21. 14.

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God will judge the wicked

PSALMS

God protects Israel

16 Thine is the day, and thine is the
night : thou hast made the morning light
and the sun.

17 Thou hast made all the borders of the
earth : the summer and the spring were
formed by thee.

18 Remember this, the enemy hath re-
proached the Lord : and a foolish people
hath provoked thy name.

19 Deliver not up to beasts the souls
that confess to thee: and forget not to
the end the souls of thy poor.

20 Have regard to thy covenant : for
they that are the obscure of the earth have
been filled with dwellings of iniquity.

2^. Let not the humble be turned away
With confusion : the poor and needy shall
praise thy name.

22 Arise, O God, judge thy own cause:
remember thy reproaches with which the
foolish man hath reproached thee all the
day.

23 Forget not the voices of thy enemies :
the pride of them that hate thee ascend-
eth continually.

PSALM 74.

Confitebimur tibi.

There is a just judgment to come: therefore let the
wicked take care.

1 Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle

for Asaph.

2 TXTE will praise thee, O God: we will

VV praise, and we will call upon thy
name.

We will relate thy wondrous works : 3
when I shall take a time, I will judge jus-
tices.

4 The earth is melted, and all that dwell
therein: I have established the pillars
thereof.

6 I said to the wicked : Do not act wick-
edly : and to the sinners : Lift not up the
horn.

6 Lift not up your horn on high : speak
not iniquity against God.

7 For neither from the east, nor from
the west, nor from the desert hills : 8 for
God is the judge.

One he putteth down, and another he

Ver. 20. The obscure of the earth. Mean and igno-
ble wretches have been filled, that is, enriched, with
houses of iniquity, that is, with our estates and pos-
sessions, which they Jiave unjustly acquired.

Psalm 74. Ver. 1, Corr^tpt not. It is believed
to have been the beginning of some ode or hymn, to
the tune of which this psalm was to be sung. St.
Augustine and other fathers take it to be an admo-
nition of the spirit of God, not to faint or fail in our
bope: but to persevere with constaQcy in good: be> *

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lifteth up : 9 for in the hand of the Lord
there is a cup of strong wine full of mix-
ture.

And he hath poured it out from this to
that: but the dregs thereof are not emp-
tied: all the sinners of the earth shall
drink.

10 But I will declare forever: I wiW sing
to the God of Jacob.

11 And I will break all the horns of sin-
ners : but the horns of the just shall be
exalted.

PSALM 75.

Notus in Judaea.

God is known in his church : and exerts his power
in protecting it. It alludes to the slaughter of the
Assyrians, in the days of king Ezechias.

1 Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph : a

canticle to the Assyrians.

2 TN Judea God is known : his name is
J_ great in Israel.

3 And his place is in peace : and his
abode in Sion :

4 There hath he broken the powers of
bows, the shield, the sword, and the bat-
tle.

5 Thou enlightenest wonderfully from
the everlasting hills. 6 All the foolish of
heart were troubled.

They have slept their sleep ; and all the
men of riches have found nothing in
their hands.

7 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they
have all slumbered that mounted on
horseback.

8 Thou art terrible, and who shall resist
thee ? from that time thy wrath.

9 Thou hast caused judgment to be
heard from heaven : the earth trembled
and was still,

10 When God arose in judgment, to
save all the meek of the earth.

11 For the thought of man shall give
praise to thee : and the remainders of
the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

12 Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your
God: all you that are round about him
bring presents.

To him that is terrible, 13 even to him

cause God will not fail in his due time to render to
every man according to his works.

Ver. 3. When I shall take a time. In proper
times : particularly at the last day, when the earth
shall melt away at the presence of the great Judge:
the same who originally laid the foundations of it,
and as It were ostablished its pillars.

Psalm 75. Ver. 8. From that time, &c. From
the cime that thy wrath shall break out

A prayer to God in adversity

PSALMS

God's dealings with Israel

who taketh away the spirit of princes:
to the tenible with the kings of the
earth.

PSALM 76.

Voce mea.

The faithful have recourse to God in trouble of
mind, with confidence in his mercy and power.

1 Unto the end, for Iditbun, a psalm of Asaph.

2 T CRIED to the Lord with my voice ;
X to God with my voice, and he gave
ear to me.

3 In the day of my trouble I sought God,
with my hands lifted up to him in the
night, and I was not deceived.

My soul refused to be comforted: 4 I
remembered God, and was delighted, and
was exercised, and my spirit swooned
away.

5 My eyes prevented the watches: I
was troubled, and I spoke not.

6 I thought upon the days of old : and I
had in my mind the eternal years.

7 And I meditated in the night with my
own heart: and I was exercised and I
swept my spirit.

8 Will God then cast off for ever? or
will he never be more favourable again ?

9 Or will he cut off his mercy for ever,
from generation to generation ?

10 Or will God forget to shew mercy?
or will he in his anger shut up his
mercies ?

11 And I said. Now have I begun: this
is the change of the right hand of the
most High.

12 I remembered the works of the
Lord : for I will be mindful of thy won-
ders from the beginning.

13 And I will meditate on all thy
works : and will be employed in thy in-
ventions.

14 Thy way, O God, is in the holy place :
who is the great God like our God ? 15
Thou art the God that dost wonders.

Thou hast made thy power known
among the nations: 16 with thy arm thou
hast redeemed thy people the children
of Jacob and of Joseph.

17 The waters saw thee, O God, the
waters saw thee : and they were afraid,
iind the depths were troubled.

18 Great was the noise of the waters :
the clouds sent out a sound.

Psalm 77. Ver. 2. Propositions. Deep and mys-
terious sayings. By this it appears that the histor-
ical facts of ancient times, commemorated in this

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For thy arrows pass: 19 the voice of
thy thunder in a wheel.

Thy lightnings enlightened the world:
the earth shook and trembled.

20 Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths
in many waters : and thy footsteps shall
not be known.

21 '^Thou hast conducted thy people
like sheep, by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.

PSALM 77.

Attendlte.

Ood>8 great benefits to the people of Israel^ notwUh^

standing their ingratitude,

1 Understanding for Asaph.

ATTEND, O my people, to my law:
J\. incline your ears to the words of
my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in parables: 1
will utter propositions from the begin-
ning.

3 How great things have we heard and
known, and our fathers have told us.

4 They have not been hidden from their
children, in another generation.

Declaring the praises of the Lord, and
his powers, and his wonders which he
hath done.

5 And he set up a testimony in Jacob:
and made a law in Israel.

How great things he commanded our
f athersj that they should make the same
known to their children. 6 That another
generation might know them.

The children that should be born and
should rise up, and declare them to their
children.

7 That they may put their hope in God
and may not forget the works of God :
and may seek his commandments.

8 That they may not become like their
fathers, a perverse and exasperating gen
oration.

A generation that set not their heart
aright : and whose spirit was not faith-
ful to God.

9 The sons of Ephraim who bend and
shoot with the bow: they have turned
back in the day of battle.

10 They kept not the covenant of God:
and in his law they would not walk.

11 And they forgot his benefits, and hii
wonders that he had shewn them.

n Ex. 14. 29.

psalm, were deep and mysterious : as being figure.'
of great truths appertaining to the time oi the llevj
Testament.

The wonders in the desert

PSALMS

The plagues of Egypt

12 Wonderful things did ha do in the

light of their fathers, in the land of
"Egypu, in the field of Tanis

13 ® He divided the sea and brought
them through: and ha mads the waters
io stand as in a vessel

14 And he conducted them with a cloud
by day : and all the night with a light of
fire.

15 P He struck the rock in the wilder-
ness; and gave them to drink, as out of
the great deep.

16 He brought forth water out of the
cock: and made streams run down as
rivers.

17 And they added yet more sin against
him they provoked the most High to
wrath in the place without water.

18 And they tempted God in their
hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

19 And they spoke ill of God ; they
said: Can God furnish a table in the
wilderness ?

20 Because he struck the rock, and the
waters gushed out, and the streams
overflowed.

Can he also give breads or provide a
table for his people ?

21 '^ Therefore the Lord heard, and was
angry: and a fire was kindled against
Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.

22 Because they believed not in God:
and trusted not in his salvation.

23 And he had commanded the clouds
from above, and had opened the doors of
heaven.

24 ^ And had rained down manna upon
them to eat, and had given them the
bread of heaven.

25 ' Man ate the bread of angels ; he
oent them provisions in abundance.

26 * He removed the south wind from
heaven: and by his power brought in
the southwest wind.

27 And he rained upon them flesh as
duet; and feathered fowls like as the
jand of the sea.

2S And they fell in the midst of their
camp, round about their pavilions.

29 So they did eat, and were filled ex-
ceedingly, and he gave them their de-
sire : 30 they were not defrauded of that
which they craved.

"As yet their meat was in their

O Ex. 14. 22. — V Ex. 17 -J Ps. 104 41

0 Num. IL L — r Ex. 16. 4; Num. U. 7.

• Johns St-. 1 Cor l&&- « Num u n

mouth : 31 tnd the wrath of God came
upon them.

And he slew the fat ones amongst them,
and brought down the chosen men of
Israel.

32 In all these things they sinned still ;
and they believed not for his wondrous
works.

33 And their days were consumed in
vanity, and their years in haste.

34 When he slew them, then they sought
him ; and they returned, and came to
him early in the morning.

35 And they remembered that 3od was
their helper: and the most high God
their redeemer.

36 And they loved him with their mouth ;
and with their tongue they lied unto him :

37 But their heart was not right with
him: nor were they counted faithful
in his covenant.

38 But he is merciful, and will forgive
their sins : and will not destroy them.

And many a time did he turn away his
anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.

39 And he remembered that they are
flesh : a wind that goeth and returneth
not.

40 How often did they provoke him in
the desert : and move him to wrath in the
place without water?

41 And they turned back and tempted
God : and grieved the holy one of Israel.

42 They remembered not his hand, in
the day that he redeemed them from the
hand of him that afflicted them :

43 How he wrought his signs in Egypt,
and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

44 ''And he turned their rivers into
blood, and their showers that they might
not drink.

45 ^ He sent amongst them divers sorts
of flies, which devoured them; *and
frogs which destroyed them.

46 ^ And he gave up their fruits to the
blast, and their labours to the locust.

47 ^ And he destroyed their vineyards
with hail, and their mulberry trees with
hoarfrost.

48 And he gave up their cattle to the
hail, and their stock to the fire.

49 And he sent upon them the wrath of
his indignation : indignation and wrath
and crouble, which he sent by evil angels.

u Num 11. 33.— ?; Ex. 7. 20.
w Ex. S. 24. —X Ex. 3. 6.

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IsraeVs ingratitude punished

PSALMS Prayer against enemies of Israel

60 Ho made a way for a path to his
anger: he spaced not their souls from
death, and their cattle he shut up in
death.

61 ® And he killed all the firstborn in
the land of Egypt -, the flretfruits of aD
their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

62 And he took away his own people as
sheep: and guided them in the wilder-
ness Mke a flock.

63 And he brought them out in hope,
and they feared not: ^and the sea over-
whelmed their enemies.

64 And he brought them into the moun-
tain of his sanctuary: the mountain which
his right hand had purchased.

^And he cast out the Gentiles before
them: and by lot divided to them their
land by a line of distribution.

65 And he ma de the tribes of Israel to
dweE in their tabernacles.

66 Yet they tempted, and provoked the
mosu high God: and they kept not his
testimonies.

67 And they turned away, and kept not
the covenant: even like their fathers
they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

68 They provoked him to anger on their
hills: and moved him to jealousy with
their graven things.

69 God heard, and despised them^ and he
reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to
nothing.

60 ^ And he put away the tabernacle of
Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among
men.

61 And he delivered their strength into
captivity: and their beauty into the
hands of the enemy,

62 And he shut up his pec pie under the
Bword: and he despised his inheritance.

63 Fire consumed their young men: and
their maidens were not lamented.

64 Their priests fell by the sword : and
their widows did not mourn.

65 And the Lord was awaked as one out
cf sleep, and like a mighty man tliat hath
been surfeited with wine.

66 And he smote his enemies on the
hinder parts: he put them to an ever-
lasting reproach.

67 And he rejected the tabernacle of

a Ex. 12. 29. — b Ex. 14. 27.
I, Jos. 13. 6 and 7.

Ver. 69. As of unicorns. That is, firm and strong
Kke the horn of the unicorn. This is one of the
cbiefest of the "propositions of this psalm» foreshew»

Joseph; and chose not the tribe of
Ephraim :

68 But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount
Sion which he loved.

69 And he built his sanctuary as of uni-
corns, in the land which he founded for
ever.

70 And he chose his servant David, and
took him from the flocks of sheep: he
brought him from following the ewee
great with young,

71 To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel
his inheritance.

72 And he fed them in the innocence of
his heart: and conducted them by the
skilfulness of his hands.

PSALM 78

Deus. venerunt gentes.

The church in time of persecution pray eth for relitf.

It seems to belong to the time of the Machabees.

I A psalm for Asaph.

OGOD, the heathens are come into thy
inheritance, they have defiled thy
holy temple : they have made Jerusalem
as a place to keep fruit.

2 They have given the dead bodies ot
thy servants to be meat for the fowls of
the air: the flesh of thy saints for the
beasts of the earth.

3 They have poured out their blood as
water, round about Jerusalem, and there
was none to bury them.

4 We are become a reproach to our
neighbours : a scorn and dcision to them
that are round about us.

6 How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry
for ever : shall thy zeal be kindled like a
fire?

6 ® Pour out thy wrath upon the nations
that have not known thee: and upon the
kingdoms that have not called upon thj
name.

7 Because they have devoured Jacob;
and have laid waste his place.

8 -^Remember not our former iniquities *
let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for
we are become exceeding poor.

9 Help us, O God, our saviour r and for
the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver
us : and forgive us our sins for thy name's
sake:

d 1 Kings 4. 4 ; Jer. 7. 12, 14, and 26. 6.
e Jer. 10. 25.—/ Isa. 64. 9.

ing the firm establishment of the one, true, and ever
lasting sanctuary of God, in his church.

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Prayer for salvation from the enemy PSALMS Song of praise to God our Helper
10 Lest they should say amonsr the Gen- and the branches thereof the cedars of

10 Lest they should say among the Gen
tiles: Where is their God? And let him
be made known among the nations before
our eyes.

By the revenging the blood of thy ser-
vants, which hath been shed: 11 let the
sighing of the prisoners come in before
thee.

According to the greatness of thy arm,
take possession of the children of them
that have been put to death.

12 And render to our neighbours seven-
fold in their bosom: the reproach where-
with they have reproached thee, 0 Lord.

13 But we thy people, and the sheep of
thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for
ever.

We will shew forth thy praise, unto
generation and generation.

PSALM 79.

Qui regis Israel.

A prayer for the church in tribulation, commemo-
rating God's former favours.

1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed a
testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

2/^^ IVE ear, 0 thou that rulest Israel:
VJ" thou that leadest Joseph like a

sheep.
Thou that sittest upon the cherubims,

shine forth 3 before Ephraim, Benjamin,

and Manasses.
Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

4 Convert us, 0 God: and shew us thy
face, and we shall be saved.

5 0 Lord God of hosts, how long wilt
thou be angry against the prayer of thy
servant?

6 How long wilt thou feed us with the
bread of tears : and give us for our drink
tears in measure?

7 Thou hast made us to be a contradic-
tion to our neighbours : and our enemies
have scoffed at us.

8 0 God of hosts, convert us: and shew
thy face, and we shall be saved.

9 Thou has brought a vineyard out of
Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles
and planted it.

10 Thou wast the guide of its journey in
its sight: thou plantedst the roots there-
of, and it filled the land.

11 The shadow of it covered the hills:

g Gen. 41. 29.

Psalm 79. Ver, 17. Things set on fire, &c. So
this vineyard of thine, almost consumed already,
must perishj if thou continue thy rebukes.

Ver. lb. The man of thy right hand. Christ.

Psalm 49, V«r* 1. For the toinepressea, &c., tor-

and the branches thereof the cedars of
God.

12 It stretched forth its branches unto
the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

13 Why hast thou broken down the
hedge thereof, so that all they who pass
by the way do pluck it?

14 The boar out of the wood hath laid it
waste: and a singular wild beast hath
devoured it.

15 Turn again, 0 God of hosts, look
down from heaven and see, and visit
this vineyard:

16 And perfect the same which thy
right hand hath planted: and upon the
son of man whom thou hast confirmed
for thyself.

17 Things set on fire and dug down
shall perish at the rebuke of thy coun-
tenance.

18 Let thy hand be upon the man of
thy right hand : and upon the son of man
whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

19 And we depart not from thee, thou
shalt quicken us: and we will call upon
thy name.
20 0 Lord God of hosts, convert us:
and shew thy face, and we shall be
saved.

PSALM 80.

Exultate Deo.
An invitation to a solem,n praising of God.

1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for

Asaph himself.

2 TJ EJOICE to God our helper: sing
J\^ aloud to the God of Jacob.

3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the tim-
brel : the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

4 Blow up the trumpet on the new moon,
on the noted day of your solemnity.

5 For it is a commandment in Israel,
and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

6 9 He ordained it for a testimony in
Joseph, when he came out of the land of
Egypt : he heard a tongue which he knew
not.

7 He removed his back from the bur-
dens: his hands had served in baskets.

8 Thou calledst upon me in affliction,
and I delivered thee: I heard thee in
the secret place of tempest: ^I proved
thee at the waters of contradiction.

A Ex. 17. 5.

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cularibris. It either signifies a musical instrument,
or that this psalm was to be sung at the feast of the
tabernacles after the gathering in of the vintage.

Ver. 8. In the secret place of tempest. Heb., Of
thunder. When thou soughtest to hide thyself from

Against unjust judges

PSALMS Prayer for help against the enemy

9 Hear, O my people, and I will testify
to thee : O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to
me, 10 there rhall be ^no new god in
thee: neither halt thou adore a strange
god.

11 For I am ^ihe Lord thy God, who
brought thee out of the land of Egypt :
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

12 But my people heard nol) my voice:
and Israel hearkened not to me.

13 •'So I let them go according to the
desires of their heart: they shall walk
in their own inventions.

14 * If my people had heard me : if Is-
rael had walked in my ways :

15 I should soon have humbled their
enemies, and laid my hand on them that
troubled then^,

16 The enemies of the Lord have lied
to him: and their time ahall be for ever.

17 And he fed them, with the fat of
wheat, and filled ohem with honey out
of the rock.

PSALM 81.

Deus stetit

Anexhortation to judge: and men in power,

1 L psalm f 3r Asaph.

GOD hath stood in tho congregation
of gods: and being in the midst of
them he judge th gods.

2 How long will you judge unjustly:
and accept the persons of the wicked ?

3 Judge for the noedy and fatherless:
do justice to the humble and the poor.

4 'Rescue the poor; and deliver the
needy out of the hand of the Dinner.

6 They have not known nor under-
stood : they walk on in darkness : all the
foundations of the earth shall be moved.

6 '^ I have said : You are gods and all
''f you the sons of the most High.

7 But you like men shall die : and shall
fall like one of the princes.

8 Arise, O God, judge thou the earth :
for thou shalt inherit among aU the na-
laons.

PSALM 82.

Deus, quis similis.

A prayer against the enemies of God's church.

1 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.

9 f\ GOD, who shall be like to thee ?

\^ hold not thy peace, aeither be

thou still, O God.

t Ex. 20. 3.— J Acts 1*, 15.
k Bar. 3. 23. — « Prov. 24. 11.— m John 10 34.

the tempest . or, wlien 1 came down to mount Sina,
'nAdden from thy eyes in a Storm of thiirder.

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3 For io, thy enemdes have made !i
noise: and they that hate thee have
lifted up the head.

4 They have taken a malicious counsel
against thy people, and have consulted
against thy saints.

6 They have said: Come and let us de-
stroy them, so that they be not a nation :
and let the name of Israel be remem-
bered no more.

6 For they have contrived with one
consent: they have made a covenant
together against thee, 7 the taberna-
cles of the Edomites, and the Ismahel-
ites:

Moab, and the Agarens, 8 Gebal, and
Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines,
with the inhabitants of Tyre.

9 Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined
with them : they are com^^ to the aid of
the 3ons of Lot.

10 Do to them '^as thou didst to Madian
° and to Sisara : as to Jabin at the brook
of Cisson.

11 Who perished at Endor: and became
as dung for the earth.

12 PMake their princes like Oreb, ^and
Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana.

All their princes, 13 who have said : Leu
us possess the sanctuary of God for an
inheritance.

14 O my God, make them like a wheel;
and as stub le before the wind.

15 As fin which burneth the wood:
and as a flame burning mountains :

16 So Shalt thou pursue them with thy
tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy,
wrath. I

17 Fill their faces with shame ; and theyj
shall seek thy name, O Lord. ■

18 Let them be ashamed and troubled
for ever and ever : and let them be con-j
founded and perish.

19 And let them know that the Lord ie
thy name : thou alone art the most Higfc
over all the earth.

PSALM 33.

Quam dllecta.

The soul aspireth after heaven ; rejoicing in th*

mean time, in being in the comm^union of God*

church upon earth.

1 Unto the end, for the winepresses, - psalm fo

the sons of Core.

n Judjres 7. 22. — o Judges 4. 15.
p Judges 7. 25. — q Judges 8. 21.

Ver, ifi. Their time shall be for ever. Impeniten
Sinners shall suffer for ever.

The beauty of God's dwelling place PSALMS Prayer for mercy and salvation

" TT OW iovo_y are thy tabernacles, O
Xl Lord of hosts ! 3 my soul longeth
and fainteth for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in
the living God.

4 For the sparrow hath found herself a
house, and the turtle a nest for herself
where she may lay her young ones:

Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king
and my God.

5 Blessed are they that dwell in thy
house, O Lord : they shall praise thee for
ever and ever.

6 Blessed is the man whose help is from
thee : in his heart he hath disposed to
ascend by steps^ 7 in the vale of tears, in
the place which he hath set.

8 For the lawgiver shall give a blessing,
they shall go from, virtue to virtue : the
God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

9 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer :
give ear, O God of Jacob.

10 Behold O God our protector: and
look on the face of thy Christ.

11 For better ie one day in thy courts
above thousands.

I have chosen to be an abject in the
house of my God, rather than to dwell in
the tabernacles of sinners.

12 For Godloveth mercy and truth; the
Lord will give grace and glory.

13 He will not deprive of good things
them that walk in innocence : O Lord of
hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth
in thee.

PSALM 84.

Benedixisti, Domine.

The coining o; Christ, to bring peace and salvation

to man.

iTnto the end, for the sons of CorOv a psahn.

2 T ORD, thou hast blessed thy land :
X-^ thou hast turned awajr the cap-
tivity of Jacob.

8 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy
people : thou hast covered all their sins.

4 Thoii hast mitigated all thy anger :
thou hast turned away from the wrath of
thy indignation.

6 Convert us, O God our saviour : and
tnri off thy anger from us.

b Wilt thou be angry with us for ever :

or wilt thou extend thy wrath from gen-
eration to generation ?

7 Thou wilt turn, O God. and bring us
to life : and thy people shall rejoice in
thee.

8 Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and
grant us thy salvation.

9 I will hear what the Lord God will
speak in me: for he will speak peace
unto his people :

And unto his saints * and unto them
that are converted to the heart.

10 Surely his salvation is near to them
that fear him : that glory may dwell in
our land.

11 Mercy and truth have met each
other : justice and peace have kissed.

12 Truth is sprung out of the earth :
and justice hath looked down from hea-
ven.

13 For the Lord will give goodness: and
our earth shall yield her fruit.

14 Justice shall walk before him ; and
shall set his steps in the way.

PSALM 85.

Inclina, Domine.

A prayer for God^s grace to assist its to the end.

1 A prayer for David himself.

rrCLINE thy ear, O Lord, and hear me:
for I am needy and poor.

2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy : save
thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in
thee.

3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have
cried to thee all the day, 4 Give joy to
the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O
Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

6 ** For thou, O Lord, art sweet and
mild : and plenteous in mercy to all that
call upon thee.

6 Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer : and
attend to the voice of my petition.

7 I have called upon thee in the day of
my trouble : because thou hast heard me.

8 There is none among the gods like
unto thee, O Lord : and there is none
according to thy works.

9 All the nations thou hast made shall
come and adore before thee, O Lord : and
they shall glorify thy name.

r Joel 2. 13.

Psalm 83. Vet . 6. In his heart he hath disposed
to ascend by steps-, &c., asvensinnes in corde svo dis^
posuit. As })y steps men oscemded to the temple of
God, situated on a hill ; so the good Christian ascends

tow'» -'s tlie ptertia) temple by clz tain. <f<e»s of virtue ^^.^^.,^^^ ,v.» .«, .,.,„,..„<,. ^ „xu
y-is posed 01 ordered within tho i!;.;:,. ,: : and this whilst 1 and professioD dedicated to thy service

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he lives as yet in the body, in this vale of tears, the
place which man hath set .- that is, which he hath
brought himself to : being cast out of paradise for
his sin.
Psalm 85 Ver. 2, / am holy. I am bj my office

The glories of Jerusalem

PSALMS A prayer of one in affliction

10 For thou art great and dost wonder-
ful things : thou art God alone.

11 Conduct me, 0 Lord, in thy way, and
I will walk in thy truth : let my heart
rejoice that it may fear thy name.

12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God,
with my whole heart, and I will glorify
thy name for ever :

13 For thy mercy is great towards me :
and thou hast delivered my soul out of
the lower hell.

14 O God, the wicked are risen up
against me, and the assembly of the
mighty have sought my soul : and they
have not set thee before their eyes.

15 And thou, O Lord, art a God of com-
passion, and merciful, patient, and of
much mercy, and true.

16 O look upon me, and have mercy
on me : give thy command to thy ser-
vant, and save the son of thy hand-
maid.

17 Shew me a token for good : that they
who hate me may see, and be confounded,
because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and
hast comforted me.

PSALM 86.

Fundamenta ejus.

The glory of the church of Christ.

1 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle.

THE foundations thereof are in the holy
mountains :

2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion
above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3 Glorious things are said of thee, O
city of God.

4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of
Babylon knowing me.

Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and
the people of the Ethiopians, these were
there.

5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that
man is born in her? and the Highest
himself hath founded her.

6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of
peoples and of princes, of them that have
been in her.

7 The dwelling in thee is ac it were of
all rejoicing.

Psalm 86. Ver. 1. The holy mountains. The
apostles and prophets. Eph. 2. 20.

Ver. 4. Rahab. Egypt, &c. To this Sion, which
Is the church of God, many shaJl resort from all
nations.

Ver. 5. Shall not Sion say, &c. The meaning is,
that Sion, viz., the church, shall not only he able to
comraemorare this or that particular person of re-
BOWD boru in her, but also to glory in great multi-

PSALM 87.

Domiue, Deus salutis.

A prayer of one under grievous affliction : it agrees
to Christ in his passion, and alludes to his
death and burial.

1 A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto
the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding ol
Eman the Ezrahite.

2 /^ LORD, the God of my salvation:
\J I have cried in the day, and in the

night before thee.

3 Let my prayer come in before thee :
incline thy ear to my petition.

4 For my soul is filled with evils: and
my life has drawn nigh to hell.

5 I am counted among them that go
down to the pit: I am become as a man
without help, 6 free among the dead.

Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres
whom thou rememberest no more: and
they are cast off from thy hand.

7 They have laid me in the lower pits
in the dark places, and in the shadow of
death.

8 Thy wrath is strong over me : and all
thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.

9 Thou hast put away my acquaintance
far from me : they have set me an abom-
ination to themselves.

I was delivered up, and came not forth;
10 my eyes languished through poverty.

All the day I cried to thee, O Lord: I
stretched out my hands tc thee.

II Wilt thou shew wonders to the
dead? or shall physicians raise to life,
and give praise to thee ?

12 Shall any one in the sepulchre de-
clare thy mercy : and thy truth in destruc-
tion?

13 Shall thy wonders be known in the
dark ; and thy justice in the land of for-
getf ulness ?

14 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee :
and in the morning my prayer shall pre-
vent thee.

15 Lord, why castest thou off my prayer:
why turnest thou away thy face from
me?

16 I am poor, and in labours from my
youth: and being exalted have been
humbled and troubled.

tudes ot people md princes of her communion ; who
have been foretold in the writings of the prophets,
and registered in the writings of the apostles.

Psalm 87. Ver, i. Maheleth. A musical instru- 1
ment, or chorus of musicians, to answer one another.
— Ibid. Understanding. Or a psalm of instruction, '
composed by Eman the Ezrahite, or by David, in his
name.

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GocTs mercies to the house of David PSALMS God*s promises to house of David

17 Thy wrath hath come upon me : and
thy terrors have troubled me.

18 They have come round about me hke
water all the day: they have compassed
me about together.

19 Friend and neighbour thou hast put
far from me : and my acquaintance, be-
cause of misery.

PSALM 88.

Misericordias Domini.

The perpetuity of the church of Christ, in conse-
quence of the promise of God: which, notwith-
standing, God permits her to suffer sometimes
most grievous afflictions.
1 Of understanding, for Etlian the Ezraliite.

2 fTlHE mercies of the Lord I will sing
X for ever.

I will shew forth thy truth with my
mouth to generation and generation.

3 For thou hast said: Mercy shall be
built up for ever in the heavens: thy
truth shall be prepared in them.

4 I have made a covenant with my
elect: * I have sworn to David my servant:
5 Thy seed will I settle for ever.

And I will build up thy throne unto
generation and generation.

6 I'he heavens shall confess thy won-
ders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church
of the saints.

7 For who in the clouds can be com-
pared to the Lord : or who among the
sons of God shall be like to God ?

8 God, who is glorified in the assembly
of the saints: great and terrible above
all them that are about him.

9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like to
thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy
truth is round about thee.

10 Thou rulest the power of the sea : and
appeasest the motion of the waves
thereof.

II Thou hast humbled the proud one,
as one that is slain : with the arm of thy
strength thou hast scattered thy ene-
mies.

12 * Thine are the heavens, and thine is
the earth : the world and the fulness
chereof thou hast founded : 13 the north
and the sea thou hast created.

Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy
name : 14 thy arm is with might.

Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy
right hand exalted : 15 justice and judg-
ment are the preparation of thy throne.

• 2 Kings 7. 12.— t Gen. 1. 2.

Mercy and truth shall go before thy
face : 16 blessed is the people that know-
eth jubilation.

They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of
thy countenance : 17 and in thy name
they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy
justice they shall be exalted.

18 For thou art the glory of their
strength : and in thy good pleasure shall
our horn be exalted.

19 For our protection is of the Lord,
and of our king the holy one of Israel.

20 Then thou spokest in a vision to thy
saints, and saidst : I have laid help upon
one that is mighty, and have exalted one
chosen out of my people.

21 "I have found David my servant:
with my holy oil I have anointed him.

22 For my hand shall help him: and my
arm shall strengthen him.

23 The enemy shall have no advantage
over him : nor the son of iniquity have
power to hurt him.

24 And I will cut down his enemies be-
fore his face ; and them that hate him I
will put to flight.

25 And my truth and my mercy shall he
with him: and in my name shall his horn
be exalted.

26 And I will set his hand in the sea ;
and his right hand in the rivers.

27 He shall cry out to me : Thou art my
father : my God, and the support of my
salvation.

28 And I will make him my firstborn,
high above the kings of the earth.

29 I will keep my mercy for him for
ever : and my covenant faithful to him.

30 And I will make his seed to endure
for evermore : and his throne as the days
of heaven.

31 And if his children forsake my law,
and walk not in my judgments :

32 If they profane my justices: and
keep not my commandments :

33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod :
and their sins with stripes.

34 But my mercy I will not take away
from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.

35 Neither will I profane my covenant :
and the words that proceed from my
mouth I will not make void.

36 Once have I sworn by my holines** :
I will not lie unto David: 37 his seed
shall endure for ever.

u 1 Kings 16. 1 and 12 ; Acts 13. 22.

The sad state of the house of David PSALMS Prayer for pardon and mercy

38 *And his throne as the sun before
sne r and as the moon perfect for ever,
and a faithful witness in heaven.

39 But thou hast rejected and despised:
thou hast been angry with thy anointed.

40 Thou hast overthrown the covenant
of thy servant: thou hast profaned his
sanctuary on the earth.

41 Thou hast broken down all his hedges:
thou hast made his strength fear.

42 All that pass by the way have robbed
him : he is become a reproach to his neigh-
bours.

43 Thou hast set up the right hand of
them that oppress him : thou hast made
all his enemies to rejoice.

44 Thou hast turned away the help of his
sword ; and hast not assisted him in battle.

45 Thou hast made his pm-ification to
cease : and thou hast cast his throne down
to the ground.

46 Thou hast shortened the days of his
time: thou hast covered him with con-
fusion.

47 How long, O Lord, turnest thou away
unto the end? shall thy anger burn like
fire?

48 Remember what my substance is:
for hast thou made all the children of
men in vain?

49 Who is the man that shall live, and
not see death : that shall deliver his soul
from the hand of hell ?

50 Lord, where are thy ancient mercies,
according to ^ what thou didst swear to
David in thy truth ?

51 Be mindful, O Lord^ of the reproach
of thy servants (which I have held in my
bosom) of many nations:

52 Wherewith thy enemies have re-
proached, O Lord ; wherewith they have
reproached the change of thy anointed.

53 Blessed be the Lord for evermore.
So be it. So be it.

PSALM 89.

Domine, refugium.

A prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the short-
ness and miseries of the days of man.

1 A prayer of Moses the man of God.

V 2 Kings 7. \^. — w2 Kings 7. 11.

Psalm 88. Ver. 40. Overthrown the covenant, &c.
All this seems to relate to the time of the captivity
of Babylon, in which, for the sins of the people and
their princes, God seemed to have set aside for
a while the covenant he made with David.

Psalm 89. Ver. 3. Tnrn not man avfay, &c.
Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, since thou
art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee.

Ver. d, Jis a spider. As frail and weak as a

LORD, thou hast been our refuge from
generation to generation.

2 Before the mountains were made, or
the earth and the world was formed;
from eternity and to eternity thou art
God.

3 Turn not man away to be brought low;
and thou hast said : Be converted, O ye
sons of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are
as yesterday, which is past.

And as a watch in the night, 5 things
that are counted nothing, shall their
years be.

6 In the morning man shall grow up like
grass ; in the morning he shall flourish
and pass away : in the evening he shall
fall, grow dry, and wither.

7 For in thy wrath we have fainte
away : and are troubled in thy indigna-l
tion.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities befor
thy eyec : our life in the light of thy
countenance.

9 For all our days are spent ; and in thy
wrath we have fainted away.

Our years shall be considered as a spi-
der: 10 *the days of our years in them
are threescore and ten years.

But if in the strong they be fourscore
years: and what is more of them is labour
and sorrow.

For mildness is come upon us: and we
shall be corrected.

11 Who knoweth the power of thy
anger, and for thy fear 12 can number
thy wrath?

So make thy right hand known: and
men learned in heart, in wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long ? and be
entreated in favour of thy servants.

14 We are filled in the morning with
thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and
are delighted all our days.

15 We have rejoiced for the days in
which thou hast humbled us : for the
years in which we have seen evils.

16 Look upon thy servants and upon
their works : and direct their children.

X Eccli. 18. 8.

spider^s web ; and miserable withal, whilst like a
spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs tc
catch flies. f

Ver. 10. Mildness is come upon us, &c. God'f
mildness corrects us ; inasmuch as he deals kindhi
with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life (
and so weaning our affections from all its transitory
enjoyments, and teaching us tw^ wisdom.

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Trust in the Di7'ine protection PSALMS The wonderful zvorks of God

17 And let the brightness of the Lord
our God be upon us: and direct thou the
works of our hands over us; yea, the
work of our hands do thou direct.

PSALM 90.

Qui habitat.

The just is secure under the protection of God.

1 The praise of a canticle for David.

HE that dwelleth in the aid of the
most High, shall abide under the
protection of the God of Jacob.

2 He shall say to the Lord: Thou art
my protector, and my refuge: my God,
In him will I trust.

3 For he hath delivered me from the
snare of the hunters : and from the sharp
word.

4 He will overshadow thee with his
shoulders : and under his wings thou
Shalt trust.

5 His truth shall compass thee with a
shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the
terror of the night.

6 Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of
the business that walketh about in the
dark: of invasion, or of the noonday
devil.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and
ten thousand at thy right hand : but it
shall not come nigh thee.

8 But thou shalt consider with thy eyes :
and shalt see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because thou, O Lord, art my hope:
thou hast made the most High thy re-
fuge.

10 There shall no evil come to thee: nor
shall the scourge come near thy dwell-
ing.

11 ^For he hath given his angels charge
over thee ; to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 In their hands they shall bear thee
up: lest thou dash thy foot against a
Btone.

13 Thou shalt walk upon the asp and
the basilisk : and thou shalt trample
ander foot the lion and the dragon.

14 Because he hoped in me I will deliver
him: I will protect him because he hath
known my name.

15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear
him: I am with him in tribulation, I will
deliver him, and I will glorify him.

16 I will fill him with length of days ;
and I will shew him my salvation.

PSALM 91.

Bonum est confiteri.
God is to be praised for his wondrous works.
1 A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.

2 T T is good to give praise to the Lord :
J[ and to sing to thy name, 0 most
High.

3 To shew forth thy mercy in the morn-
ing, and thy truth in the night:

4 Upon an instrument of ten strings,
upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon
the harp.

5 For thou hast given me, 0 Lord, a
delight in thy doings: and in the works
of thy hands I shall rejoice.

6 0 Lord, how p-reat are thy works! thy
thoughts are exceeding deep.

7 The senseless man shall not know : nor
will the fool understand these things.

8 When the wicked shall spring up as
grass: and all the workers of iniquity
shall appear :

That they may perish for ever and ever :
9 but thou, O Lord, art most high foi
evermore.

10 For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for
behold thy enemies shall perish : and all
the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

11 But my horn shall be exalted like
that of the unicorn: and my old age in
plentiful mercy.

12 My eye also hath looked down upon
my enemies: and my ear shall hear of
the downfall of the malignant that rise up
against me.

13 The just shall flourish like the palm
tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of
Libanus.

14 They that are planted in the house
of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of
the house of our God.

15 They shall still increase in a fruitful
old age: and shall be well treated, 16 that
they may shew.

That the Lord our God is righteous, and
there is no iniquity in him.

PSALM 92.

Dominus regnavit.
The glory and stability of the kingdom ; that is, of

the church of Christ.
Praise in the way of a canticle, for David himself, on
the day before the sabbath, when the earth was
founded.

1 nnHE Lord hath reigned, he is clothed
JL with beauty: the Lord is clothed

y Matt. 4. 6 ; Luke 4. 10.
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"Hymn to the Creator

PSALMS

God will protect His people

with strength, and hath girded him-
self.

For he hath established the world which
shall not be moved.

2 Thy throne is prepared from of old :
thou art from everlasting.

3 Tho floods have lifted up, O Lord : the
floods have lifted up their voice.

The floods have lifted up their waves,
4 with the noise of many waters.

Wonderful are the surges of the sea:
wonderful is the Lord on high.

5 Thy testimonies are become exceed-
ingly credible : holiness becometh thy
house, O Lord, unto length of days.

PSALM 93.

Deus ultionum.

God shall judge and punish the oppressors of his
people.

A psalm for David himself on the fourth day of the
week.

1 nnHE Lord is the God to whom re-
JL venge belongeth: the God of re-
venge hath acted freely.

2 Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the
earth : render a reward to the proud.

3 How long shall sinners, O Lord : how
long shall sinners glory?

4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity :
shall all speak who work injustice ?

5 Thy people, O Lord, they have brought
low : and they have afflicted thy inherit-
ance.

6 They have slain the widow and the
stranger: and they have murdered the
fatherlesSo

7 And they have said : The Lord shall
not see : neither shall the God of Jacob
understand.

8 Understand, ye senseless among the
people : and, you fools, be wise at last.

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not
hear ? or he that formed the eye, doth he
not consider?

10 He that chastise th nations, shall ho not
rebuke : he that teacheth man knowledge?

11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of
men, that they are vain.

12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt
instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him
out of thy law.

Psalm 93. Ver, 13. Rest from the evil days. That
thou mayst mitigate the sorrows, to which he is
exposed, during the short and evil days of his mor-
tality,

Ver. 15. Until justice be turned into judgment, &c.
By being put in execution ; which will be agreeable
to all the upright in heart.

13 That thou mayst give him rest from
the evil days: till a pit be dug for the
wicked.

14 For the Lord will not cast off his peo-
ple: neither will he forsake his own in*
heritance.

15 Until justice be turned into judgment;
and they that are near it are all the up-
right in heart.

16 Who shall rise up for me against the
evildoers? or who shall stand with me
against the workers of iniquity?

17 Unless the Lord had been my helper,
my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

18 If I said : My foot is moved : thy
mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

19 According to the multitude of my
sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have
given joy to my soul, i-ngvo

20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to
thee, who framest labour in command-
ment?

21 They will hunt after the soul of the
just, and will condemn innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my refuge : and my
God the help of my hope.

23 And he will render them their ini-
quity : and in their malice he will destroy
them: the Lord our God will destroy
them.

PSALM 94.

Venite exultemus.

An invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear
his voice.

Praise of a canticle for David himself,

1 /^OME let us praise the Lord with

\J joy : let us joyfully sing to God our

saviour.

2 Let us come before his presence with
thanksgiving; and make a joyful nois€
to him with psalms.

3 For the Lord is a great God, and £
great King above all gods.

4 For in his hand are all the ends o;
the earth : and the heights of the moun
tains are his.

5 For the sea is his, and he made it
and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come let us adore and fall down
and weep before the Lord that made us.

7 For he is the Lord our God : and w«

Ver. 20. Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, &(
That is, wilt thou, O God, who art always just, ac
mit of the seat of iniquity; that is, of injustice, o
unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee
Tliou who framest, or makest, labour in commant
went, that is, thou who obligest us to labour with a'
diligence to keep thy oomvnandmenis.

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Exhortation to praise God

are the people of his pasture and the
sheep of his hand.

8 ^ To day if you shall hear his voice,
harden not your hearts ;

9 As in the provocation, according to
the day of temptation in the wilderness :
where your fathers tempted me, they
proved me, and saw my works.

10 " Forty years long was I offended
with that generation, and I said : These
always err in heart.

11 And these men have not known my
ways : ^ so I swore in my wrath that they
shall not enter into my rest.

PSALM 95. y
Cantate Domino.
An exhortation to praise God for the coming of
Christ and his kingdom.

1 A canticle for David himself, when the house was
built after the captivity.

SING ye to the Lord a new canticle :
sing to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Sing ye to the Lord and bless his
name : shew forth his salvation from day
to day.

3 Declare his glory among the Gentiles :
his wonders among all people.

4 For the Lord is great, and exceedingly
to be praised : he is to be feared above
all gods.

5 For all the gods of the Gentiles are
devils: but the Lord made the heavens.

6 Praise and beauty are before him :
holiness and majesty in his sanctuary.

7 Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds
of the Gentiles, bring ye to the Lord
glory and honour : 8 bring to the Lord
glory unto his name.

Bring up sacrifices, and come into his
courts : 9 adore ye the Lord in his holy
court.

Let all the earth be moved at his pre-
sence. 10 Say ye among the Gentiles,
the Lord hath reigned.

For he hath corrected the world, which
shall not be moved : he will judge the
people with justice.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the
earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and
the fulness thereof: 12 the fields and all
things that are in them shall be joyful.

PSALMS

The power and glory of God

z Heb. 3. 7, and 4. 7.
a Num. 14, 34. — b Heb. 4. 3.

Ps A LM 95. Ver. 1. When the house was built, &c.
Alluding to that time, and then ordered to be sung :
but principally relating to the building of the church
of Christ, after our redemption from the captivity of
Sataii.

Then shall all the trees of the woods
rejoice 13 before the face of the Lord,
because he cometh: because he cometh
to judge the earth.

He shall judge the world with justice,
and the people with his truth.

PSALM 96.

♦ Dominus regnavit.

All are invited to rejoice at the glorious coming and
reign of Christ.

1 For the same David, when his land was restored
again to him.

THE Lord hath reigned, let the earth
rejoice : let many islands be glad.

2 Clouds and darkness are round about
him : justice and judgment are the estab-
lishment of his throne.

3 A fire shall go before him, and shall
burn his enemies round about.

4 His lightnings have shone forth to the
world : the earth saw and trembled.

5 The mountains melted like wax, at
the presence of the Lord: at the pre-
sence of the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens declared his justice : and
all people saw his glory.

7 ^ Let them be all confounded that
adore graven things, and that glory in
their idols.

^ Adore him, all you his angels : 8 Sion
heard, and was glad.

And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, be-
cause of thy judgments, O Lord.

9 For thou art the most high Lord over
all the earth : thou art exalted exceed-
ingly above all gods.

10 ^ You that love the Lord, hate evil :
the Lord preserveth the souls of his
saints, he will deliver them out of the
hand of the sinner.

11 Light is risen to the just, and joy ik
the right of heart.

12 Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord : and
give praise to the remembrance of his
holiness.

PSALM 97.

Cantate Domino.

All are again invited to praise the Lord, for the

victories of Christ.

1 A psalm for David himself.

c Ex. 20. 4 ; Lev. 26. 1 ; Deut. 5 8.
d Heb, 1. 6. — e Amos 5. 15 ; Rom. 12. 9.

Psalm 96. Ver. 2. Clouds and darkness. The
coming of Christ in the clouds with great terror and
majesty to judge the world, is here prophesied.

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PSALMS

Invitation to praise God

SING ye to the Lord a new canticle:
because he hath done wonderful
things.

His right hand hath wrought for him
salvation, and his arm is holy.

2 -^The Lord hath made known his sal-
vation: he hath revealed his justice in
the sight of the Gentiles.

3 He hath remembered his merpy and
his truth toward the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation of our God.

4 Sing joyfully to God, all the earth;
make melody, rejoice and sing.

5 Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on
the harp, and with the voice of a psalm :
6 with long trumpets, and sound of cornet.

Make a joyful noise before the Lord
our king: 7 let the sea be moved and
the fulness thereof: the world and they
that dwell therein.

8 The rivers shall clap their hands, the
mountains shall rejoice together 9 at the
presence of the Lord : because he cometh
to judge the earth.

He shall judge the world with justice,
and the people with equity.

PSALM 98.

Dominus regnavit.

The reign of the Lord in Sion : that is, of Christ in
his church.

1 A psalm for David himself.

THE Lord hath reigned, let the people
be angry: he that sitteth on the
cherubims : let the earth be moved.

2 The Lord is great in Sion, and high
above all people.

3 Let them give praise to thy great
name: for it is terrible and holy: 4 and
the king's honour loveth judgment.

Thou hast prepared directions: thou
hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.
/ Isa. 52. 10, and 63. 8 ; Luke 3. 6.

Psalm 98. Ver. l. Let the people be angry.
Though many enemies rage, and the whole earth be
stirred up to oppose the reign of Christ, he shall still
prevail.

Ver. 4. Loveth judgment. Kequireth discretion.
— Ibid. Directions. Most right and just laws to
direct men.

Ver. 5. Adore his footstool. The ark of the cove-
nant was called, in the Old Testament, God's foot-
stool : over which he was understood to sit, ou his
propitiatory, or mercy seat, as on a throne, between
the wings of the cherubims, in the sanctuary: to
wliich the children of Israel paid a great veneration.
But as this psalm evidently relates to Christ, and the
New Testament, where the ark has no place, the holy
fathers understand this text, or tlie worship paid by
the church to the body iind blood of Christ in the
sacred mysteries: inasmuch as the humanity of

Invitation to rejoice in God

5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore
his footstool, for it is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron among hig priests:
and Samuel among them that call upon
his name.

They called upon the Lord, and he heard
them: 7 he spoke to them in the pillar
of the cloud.

They kept his testimonies, and the com-
mandment which he gave them.

8 Thou didst hear them, O Lord our
God : thou wast a merciful God to them,
and taking vengeance on all their inven-
tions.

9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore
at his holy mountain : for the Lord our
God is holy.

PSALM 99.

Jubilate Deo.

All are invited to rejoice in God the Creator of aU»

1 A psalm of praise.

2 QING joyfully to God, all the earth:
O serve ye the Lord with gladness.

Come in before his presence with ex-
ceeding great joy.

3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he
made us, and not we ourselves.

We are his people and the sheep of his
pasture. 4 Go ye into his gates with
praise, into his courts with hymns : and
give glory to him.

Praise ye his namet 5 for the Lord is
sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and
his truth to generation and generation.

PSALM 100.

Mlsericordiam et judicium.

The prophet exhorteth all by his example, to follow
mercy and justice.

1 A psalm for David himself.

ERCY and judgment I will sing to
thee, O Lord :
I will sing, 2 and I will understand in

Christ is, as it were, the footstool of the divinity.
So St. Ambrose, L. 3. De Spiritu Sancto, c. 12. And
St. Augustine upon this psalm.

Ver. 6. Moses and. Aaron among his priests. Bji
this it is evident, that Moses also was a priest, anc
indeed the chief priest, inasmuch as he consecratec
Aaron, and offered sacrifice for him. Lev. 8. So thai
his pre-eminence over Aaron makes nothing for laj
church headship.

Ver. 8. All their inventions. That is, all th(
enterprises of their enemies against them, as in th»
case of Core, Dathan, and Abiron.

Psalm 100. Ver. 2. I will understand, &c. Tha
is, I will apply my mind, I will do my endeavour, ti
know and to follow the perfect way of thy command
ments : not trusting to my own strength, but relyini
on thy cominc, to me by thy grace.

The integrity of David

PSALMS

Prayer for one in affliction

the unspotted way, when thou shalt come
to me.
I walked in the innocence of my heart,
in the midst of my house.

3 I did not set before my eyes any un-
just thing: I hated the workers of ini-
quities.

4 The perverse heart did not cleave to
me : and the malignant, that turned aside
from me, I would not know.

5 The man that in private detracted his
neighbour, him did I persecute.

With him that had a proud eye, and an
unsatiable heart, I would not eat.

6 My eyes were upon the faithful of the
earth, to sit with me: the man that
walked in the perfect way, he served me.

7 He that worketh pride shall not dwell
in the midst of my house : he that speak-
eth unjust things did not prosper before
my eyes.

8 In the morning I put to death all the
wicked of the land: that I might cut off
all the workers of iniquity from the city
of the Lord.

PSALM 101.
Domine, exaudi.

the fifth penitential

upon

A prayer for one in affliction
psalm.

1 The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious,
and poured out his supplication before the Lord.

2 TTEAR, O Lord, my prayer: and let
Xl my cry come to thee.

3 Turn not away thy face from me : in
the day when I am in trouble, incline thy
ear to me.

In what day soever I shall call
thee, hear me speedily.

4 For my days are vanished like smoke :
and my bones are grown dry like fuel
for the fire.

5 I am smitten as grass, and my heart
is withered: because I forgot to eat my
bread.

6 Through the voice of my groaning,
my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

7 I am become like to a pelican of the
wilderness : I am like a night raven in
the house.

8 I have watched, and am become as a
sparrow all alone on the housetop.

9 All the day long my enemies re-

PsALM 101. Ver. 7. A pelican, &c. I am become
through grief, like birds tliat affect solitude and
darkness.

Ver. 24. He answered him in the way of his
itrength. That is, the people, mentioned in the fore

preached mo : and they that praised me
did swear against me.

10 For I did eat ashes like bread, and
mingled my drink with weeping.

11 Because of thy anger and indigna-
tion: for having lifted me up thou hast
thrown me down.

12 My days have declined like a shad-
ow, and I am withered like grass.

13 But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever:
and thy memorial to all generations.

14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on
Sion : for it is time to have mercy on it,
for the time is come.

15 For the stones thereof have pleased
thy servants: and they shall have pity
on the earth thereof.

16 And the Gentiles shall fear thy name,
O Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy
glory.

17 For the Lord hath built up Sion : and
he shall be seen in his glory.

18 He hath had regard to the prayer
of the humble : and he hath not despised
their petition.

19 Let these things be written unto
another generation : and the people that
shall be created shall praise the Lord :

20 Because he hath looked forth from
his high sanctuary : from heaven the
Lord hath looked upon the earth.

21 That he might hear the groans of
them that are in fetters: that he might
release the children of the slain :

22 That they may declare the name of
the Lord in Sion : and his praise in Jeru-
salem ;

23 When the people assemble together,
and kings, to serve the Lord.

24 He answered him in the way of his
strength: Declare unto me the fewness
of my days.

25 Call me not away in the midst of my
days : thy years are unto generation and
generation.

26 In the beginning, O Lord, thou found-
edst the earth : and the heavens are the
works of thy hands.

27 They shall perish but thou remain-
est: and all of them shall grow old like a
garment :

And as a vesture thou shalt change

psalm is deliverefl, onsirererf the Lord in the way of
his strength: that is, according to the best of his
power and strength : or wlien he was in the flower of
his age and strengtli : inquiring after the /e?/.'?ie.'<s of
his days: to know if he should live long enough to

going verse, or the penitent^ in whose person this I see the happy restoration of Sion, &c.

633

The mercies of God

them, and they shall be changed. 28 But
thou art always the selfsame, and thy
years shall not fail.

29 The children of thy servants shall
continue : and their seed shall be di-
rected for ever.

PSALM 102.

Benedic, anima.

Thanksgiving to God for his mercies.

1 For David himself.

BLESS the Lord, O my soul : and let
all that is within me bless his holy
name.

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never
forget all he hath done for thee.

3 Who forgiveth all thy iniquities : who
healeth all thy diseases.

4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruc-
tion : who crowneth thee with mercy
and compassion.

5 Who satisfieth thy desire with good
things: thy youth shall be renewed like
the eagle's.

6 The Lord doth mercies, and judgment
for all that suffer wrong.

7 He hath made his ways known to
Moses : his wills to the children of Is-
rael.

8 s' The Lord is compassionate and mer-
ciful: longsuffering and plenteous in
mercy.

9 He will not always be angry : nor will
he threaten for ever.

10 He hath not dealt with us according
to our sins : nor rewarded us according
to our iniquities.

11 For according to the height of the
heaven above the earth : he hath
strengthened his mercy towards them
that fear him.

12 As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our iniquities
from us.

13 As a father hath compassion on his
children, so hath the Lord compassion
on them that fear him : 14 for he know-
eth our frame.

He remembereth that we are dust : 15
man's days are as grass, as the flower of
the field so shall he flourish.

16 For the spirit shall pass in him, and
he shall not be : and he shall know his
place no more.

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from

PSALMS The works of creation

eternity and unto eternity upon them
that fear him :

And his justice unto children's children,
18 to such as keep his covenant.

And are mindful of his commandments
to do them.

19 The Lord hath prepared his throne
in heaven: and his kingdom shall rule
over all.

20 Bless the Lord, all ye his angels : you
that are mighty in strength, and execute
his word, hearkening to the voice of his
orders.

21 Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you
ministers of his that do his will.

22 Bless the Lord, all his works : in
every place of his dominion, O my soul,
bless thou the Lord.

PSALM 103.

Benedic, anima.

God is to be praised for his mighty works^ and

wonderful providence.

1 For David himself.

BLESS the Lord, O my soul: O Lord
my God, thou art exceedingly great.

Thou hast put on praise and beauty:
2 and art clothed with light as with a
garment.

Who stretchest out the heaven like a
pavilion: 3 who coverest the higher
rooms thereof with water. ; ; ^ ; . .^

Who makest the clouds thy chariot : who
walkest upon the wings of the winds.

4 ^Who makest thy angels spirits: and
thy ministers a burning fire.

5 Who hast founded the earth upon its
own bases: it shall not be moved for ever
and ever.

6 The deep like a garment is its cloth-
ing : above the mountains shall the wa-
ters stand.

7 At thy rebuke they shall flee : at the
voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

8 The mountains ascend, and the plains
descend into the place which thou hast
founded for them.

9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall
not pass over ; neither shall they return
to cover the earth.

10 Thou sendest forth springs in the
vales : between the midst of the hills the
waters shall pass.

11 All the beasts of the field shall drink:!
the wild asses shall expect in their thirst.

g Ex. 34. 6 ; Num. 14. 8.

h Heb. 1. 7.

634

Works of creation and providence PSALMS

God*s mercies to Israel

12 Over them the birds of the air shall
dwell : from the midst of the rocks they
shall give forth their voices.

13 Thon waterest the hills from thy
upper rooms: the earth shall be filled
with the fruit of thy works :

14 Bringing forth grass for cattle, and
herb for the service of men.

That thou mayst bring bread out of the
earth i 15 and that wine may cheer the
heart of man.

That he may make the face cheerful
with oil : and that bread may strengthen
man's heart.

16 The trees of the field shall be filled,
and the cedars of Libanus which he hath
planted : 17 there the sparrows shall
make their nests.

The highest of them is the house of the
heron. 18 The high hills are a refuge for
the harts, the rock for the irchins.

19 He hath made the moon for seasons :
the sun knoweth his going down.

20 Thou hast appointed darkness, and it
is night : in it shall all the beasts of the
woods go about:

21 The young lions roaring after their
prey, and seeking their meat from God.

22 The sun ariseth, and they are gath-
ered together : and they shall lie down
in their dens.

23 Man shall go forth to his work, and
to his labour until the evening.

24 How great are thy works, O Lord ?
thou hast made all things in wisdom : the
earth is filled with thy riches.

25 So is this great sea, which stretcheth
wide its arms : there are creeping things
without number :

Creatures little and great. 26 There the
ships shall go. ':•■*"•!

This sea dragon which thou hast formed
to play therein. 27 All expect of thee
that thou give them food in season.

28 What thou givest to them they shall
«gather up: when thou openest thy hand,
they shall all be filled with good.

29 But if thou turnest away thy face,
they shall be troubled : thou shalt take
away their breath, and they shall fail, and
ihall return to their dust.

30 Thou Shalt send forth thy spirit, and
they shall be created : and thou shalt re-
new the face of the earth.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure

* Infra 145. 2.^,ji Par. 16. 8; Isa. 12. 4.

for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his
works.

32 He looketh upon the earth, and mak-
eth it tremble : he toucheth the moun-
tains, and they smoke.

33 * I will sing to the Lord as long as I
live : I will sing praise to my God while
I have my being.

34 Let my speech be acceptable to him :
but I will take delight in the Lord.

35 Let sinners be consumed out of the
earth, and the unjust, so that they be no
more : O my soul, bless thou the Lord,

PSALM 104.

Confltemini Domino-

A thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people

Israel.

Alleluia.

GIVE ^ glory to the Lord, and call upoa
his name : declare his deeds among
the Gentiles.

2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him:
relate all his wondrous works.

3 Glory ye in his holy name : let the
heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord,

4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strength-
ened : seek his face evermore.

5 Remember his marvellous works which
he hath done ; his wonders, and the judg-
ments of his mouth.

6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant ; ye
sons of Jacob his chosen.

7 He is the Lord our God: his judg-
ments are in all the earth.

8 He hath remembered his covenant for
ever: the word which he commanded to
a thousand generations.

9 ^ Which he made to Abraham; and
his oat'i to Isaac :

10 And he appointed the same to Jacob
for a law, and to Israel for an everlast-
ing testament :

11 Saying: To thee will I give the land
of Chanaan, the lot of your inheritance.

12 When they were but a small number ••
yea very few, and sojourners therein :

13 And they passed from nation to na-
tion, and from one kingdom to another
people.

14 He suffered no man to hurt them:
and he reproved kings for their sakes.

15 ^ Touch ye not my anointed : and do
no evil to my prophets.

16 And he called a famine upon the

k Gen. 22. 16.— « £ Kingsj h Z(:i 1 Par. 16. 22.

035

The plagues of Egypt PSALMS Israel brought out of Egypt

land : and he broke in pieces all the sup- [their land, and consumed all the fruit ot

port of bread.

17 He sent a man before them: "* Jo-
seph, who was sold for a slave.

18 '^They humbled his feet in fetters:
the iron pierced his soul, 19 until his
word came.

The word of the Lord inflamed him.
20 ° The king sent, and he released him :
the ruler of the people, and he set him
at liberty.

21 He made him master of his house,
and ruler of all his possession.

22 That he might instruct his princes as
himself, and teach his ancients wisdom.

23 ^ And Israel went into Egypt : and
Jacob was a sojourner in the land of
Cham.

24 ^ And he increased his people exceed-
ingly : and strengthened them over their
enemies.

25 He turned their heart to hate his
people: and to deal deceitfully with his
servants.

26 *'He sent Moses his servant: Aaron
the man whom he had chosen.

27 ^He gave them power to shew his
signs, and his wonders in the land of
Cham.

28 'He sent darkness, and made it ob-
scure : and grieved not his words.

29 ** He turned their waters into blood,
and destroyed their fish.

30 ^ Their land brought forth frogs, in
the inner chambers of their kings.

31 ^He spoke, and there came divers
sorts of flies and sciniphs in all their coasts.

32 He gave them hail for rain, a burn-
ing fire in the land.

33 And he destroyed their vineyards
and their fig trees : and he broke in
pieces the trees of their coasts.

34 ^ He spoke, and the locust came, and
the bruchus, of which there was no num-
ber.

35 And they devoured all the grass in

m Gen. 37. 36. — n Gen. 39. 20. — o Gen. 41. 14.

p Gen. 4G. 6. — q Ex. 1. 7; Acts 7. 17.

r Ex. 3. 10, and 4. 29. — s Ex. 7. 10. — t Ex. 10. 21.

u Ex. 7. 20. —v Ex. B.6. — W Ex. 8. 16 and 24.

Psalm 104. Ver. 25. He turned their heart, &c.
Not that God (who is never the author of sin) moved
the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people ; but
that the Egyptians took occasion of hating and envy-
ing them, from the sight of the benefits which God
bestowed upon them.

Ver. 28, Grieved not his ivords. That is, he was
not wanting to fulfil his words : or he did not grieve
Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words : or he
<Ud Dot grieve his wordSt that is, his sons, the chil-

firstborn in
of all their

their ground.

36 y And he slew all the
their land: the flrstfruits
labour.

37 ^ And he brought them out with sil-
ver and gold: and there was not among
their tribes one that was feeble.

38 Egypt was glad when they departed -.
for the fear of them lay upon them.

39 " He spread a cloud for their protec-
tion, and fire to give them light in the
night.

40 ^They asked, and the quail came:
and he filled them with the bread o\
heaven.

41 ^He opened the rock, and waters
flowed : rivers ran down in the dry land.

42 ^Because he remembered his holy
word, which he had spoken to his ser-
vant Abraham.

43 And he brought forth his people
with joy, and his chosen with gladness.

44 And he gave them the lands of the
Gentiles : and they possessed the laboure
of the people :

45 That they might observe his justifi-
cations, and seek after his law.

PSALM 105.

Confiteraini Domino.

A conjession of the manifold sins and ingratitude'
of the Israelites. j

Alleluia.

f^TVE * glory to the Lord, for he
VX good: for his mercy endureth fo
ever.

2 -^ Who shall declare the powers of th
Lord ? who shall set forth all his praises

3 Blessed are they that keep judgmen
and do justice at all times.

4 Remember us, O Lord, in the favor
of thy people : visit us with thy salvj
tion.

5 That we may see the good of tb
chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy *

X Ex. 10. 12. —y Ex. 12. 29.-2 Ex. 12. 35.

a Ex. 13. 21 ; Ps. 77. 14 ; 1 Cor. 10. 1.

b Ex. 16. 13. — c Num. 20. 11. — d Gen. 17. 7.

e Judges 13. 21. — / Eccli. 43. 35.

dren of Israel, who enjoyed light whilst the Eg:
tians were oppressed with darkness.

Ver. 31. Sciniphs. See the annotation, Ex. 8.

Ver. 34. Bruchus, an insect of the locust kind.

Ver. 45. His justifications. That is, his comma
ments; which here, and in many other places of 1
scripture, are called justifications, because the ke
ing of them makes man just The Protestants r
der it by the word statutes, in favour of their d
trine, whicb does aot allow good works to justify

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The ingratitude of Israel

PSALMS

Idolatry of Israel

thy nation: that thou mayst be praisea
with thy inheritance.

6 ^ We have sinned with our fathers :
we have acted unjustly, we have wrought
iniquity.

7 Our fathers understood not thy won-
ders in Egypt: they remembered not
the multitude of thy mercies :

And they provoked to wrath going up
to the sea, even the Red Sea.

8 And he saved them for his own
name's sake : that he might make his
power known.

9 ^ And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it
was dried up : and he led them through
the depths, as in a wilderness.

10 And he saved them from the hand
of them that hated them: and he re-
deemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 *And the water covered them that
afflicted them: there was not one of
them left.

12 And they believed his words: and
they sang his praises.

13 They had quickly done, they forgot
his works : and they waited not for his
counsel.

14 -^ And they coveted their desire in
uhe desert : and they tempted God in the
place without water.

15 *And he gave them their request"
and sent fulness into their souls.

16 And they provoked Moses in the
camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

17 ^The earth opened and swallowed
np Dathan: and covered the congrega-
tion of Abiron.

18 And a fire was kindled in their con-
gregation : the flame burned the wicked.

19 "* They made also a calf in Horeb :
and they adored the graven thing.

20 And they changed their glory Into
the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

21 They forgot God. who saved them,
who had done great ohings in Egypt,
22 wondrous works in the land of Cham :
terrible things in the Red Sea.

23 ^ And he said that he would destroy
them: had not Moses his chosen stood
before him in the breach :

g Judges 7. 19. — h Ex. 14. 22. — t Ex. 14. 27.
_ JEx. 17. 2. — k Num. 11. .31. — I Num. 16. 32.

Psalm 105. Ver.28. Initiated. That is, they dedi-
cated, or consecrated themselves to the idol of tlie
Moabitesand Madianites, called Beelphegor,or Ba;il-
reor. Num. 25. 3. — Ibid. The dead, viz., idols wim-
oia life.

Ver. 33. He distin/jt naked vrith his Hps. Moses, i<v
occasion of the people's rebellion and incredulity,

To turn away his wrath, lest he should
destroy them. 24 And they set at nought
the desirable land.

They believed not his word, 25 and
they murmured in their tents: they
hearkened not to ihe voice of the Lord-

26 °And he lifted up his hand over
them : to overthrow them in the desert ;

27 And to cast down their seed among
the nations, and to scatter them in the
countries.

28 They also were initiated to Beel-
phegor: and ate the sacrifices of the
dead.

29 And they provoked him with their
inventions: and destruction was multi-
plied among them.

30 ^Then Phinees stood up, and pacified
him: and the slaughter ceased.

31 And it was reputed to him unto jus-
tice, to generation and generation for
evermore.

32 '?They provoked him also at the
waters of contradiction : and Moses was
aflBiicted for their sakes : 33 because they
exasperated his spirit.

And he distinguished with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the nations of
which the Lord spoke unto them.

35 And they were mingled among the
heathens, and learned their works : 36 and
served their idols, and it became a stum-
blingblock to them.

37 And they sacrificed their sons, and
their daughters to devils.

38 And they shed innocent blood: the
blood of their sons and of their daughters
which they sacrificed to the idols of
Chanaan.

And the land was polluted with blood,
39 and was defiled with their works : and
they went aside after their own inven-
tions.

40 And the Lord was exceedingly angry
with his people: and he abhorred his in-
heritance.

41 And he delivered them into the hands
of the nations : and they that hated them
had dominion over them.

42 And their enemies afflicted them:

m Ex. 32. 4.-71 Ex. 32. 10. — o Num. 14. 32.
p Num. 25. l. — q Num. 20. 10.

was guilty of distinfjuishing vnth his lips ; when,
instead of speaking to the rock, as God had com-
manded. he said to the people, with a certain hesi-
tation in his faith, Hear ye, rf.hellions and incredii-
In us: Can ne from this rock bring out water for
you ? NunL 20. 10.

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God*s mercies to Israel

PSALMS

GocTs mercies to Israel

and they were humbled under their
hands: 43 many times did he deliver
them.

But they provoked him with their coun-
sel : and they were brought low by their
iniquities.

44 And he saw when they were in tribu-
lation : and he heard their prayer.

45 *" And he was mindful of his covenant:
and repented according to the multitude
of his mercies.

46 And he gave them unto mercies, in
the sight of all those that had made them
captives.

47 Save us, O Lord, our God : and gather
us from among the nations :

That we may give thanks to thy holy
name, and may glory in thy praise.

48 Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting : and let
all the people say : So be it, so be it.

PSALM 106.

Confltemini Domino.

All are invited to give thanks to God for hisjoerpet'
ual 'providence over men.

Alleluia.

GIVE glory to the Lord, for he is good :
for his mercy endureth for ever.

2 Let them say so that have been re-
deemed by the Lord, whom he hath re-
deemed from the hand of the enemy:
and gathered out of the countries.

3 From the rising and from the setting
of the sun, from the north and from the
sea.

4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a
place without water : they found not the
way of a city for their habitation.

5 They were hungry and thirsty : their
soul fainted in them.

6 And they cried to the Lord in their
tribulation: and he delivered them out
of their distresses.

7 And he led them into the right way,
that they might go to a city of habitation.

8 Let the mercies of the Lord give glory
to him : and his wonderful works to the
children of men.

9 For he hath satisfied the empty soul,
and hath filled the hungry soul with good
things.

10 Such as sat in darkness and in the
shadow of death : bound in want and in
iron.

11 Because they had exasperated the
words of God : and provoked the counsel
of the most High :

12 And their heart was humbled with
labours : they were weakened, and there
was none to help them.

13 Then they cried to the Lord in their
aflaiction : and he delivered them out of
their distresses.

14 And he brought them out of darkness,
and the shadow of death ; and broke their
bonds in sunder.

15 Let the mercies of the Lord give
glory to him, and his wonderful works to
the children of men.

16 Because he hath broken gates of
brass, and burst iron bars.

17 He took them out of the way of their
iniquity : for they were brought low for
their injustice

18 Their soul abhorred all inrAnner of
meat : and they drew nigh even to the
gates of death.

19 And they cried to the Lord in their
affliction: and he delivered them out of
their distresses.

20 He sent his word, and healed them :
and delivered them from their destruc-
tions.

21 Let the mercies of the Lord give
glory to him : and his wonderful works
to the children of men.

22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of
praise : and declare his works with joy.

23 They that go down to the sea ik»
ships, doing business in the great waters:

24 These have seen the works of the
Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

25 He said the word, and there arose a
storm of wind: and the waves thereof
were lifted up.

26 They mount up to the heavens, and
they go down to the depths : their soul
pined away with evils.

27 They were troubled, and reeled like a
drunken man ; and all their wisdom was
swallowed up.

28 And they cried to the Lord in their
affliction: and he brought them out of
their distresses.

29 And he turned the storm into a
breeze : and its waves were still.

30 And they rejoiced because they were
still : and he brought them to the haven
which they wished for.

r Deut 30. 1.

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God*s mercies to Israel PSALMS
' — ' — - - - --~ 1

81 Let the memee of fche Loro give
glory to him, and his wonderful works to
Qie children of men.

32 And let them exalt him in the church

01 the people: and praise him in the
chair of the ancients.

33 He hath turned rivers into a wilder-
ness : and the sources of waters into dry
ground :

34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for
the wickedness of them that dwell
therein.

35 He hath turned a wilderness into
pools of waters, and a dry land into wa-
ter springs.

36 And hath placed there the hungry ;
and they made a city for their habitation.

37 And they sowed fields, and planted
vineyards: and they yielded fruit of
birth.

38 And he blessed them, and they were
multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle
he suffered not to decrease.

39 Then they were brought to be few:
and they were afflicted through the trou-
ble of evils and sorrow.

40 Contempt was poured forth upon
their princes : and he caused them to wan-
der where there was no passing, and out
ot the way.

41 And he helped the poor out of pov-
erty: and made him families like a. flock
of sheep

\2 * The just shall see, and shall rejoice,
^ftid all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

43 Who is wise, and will keep these
tilings ; and will understand the mercies
Jf the Lord ?

PSALM 107.

Paratum cor meum.

The prophet praiseth God for benefits received.

J A canticle of a psalm for David himself

2 llyTY heart is ready, O God, my heart
JLtX is ready . I will sing, and will

give praise, with my glory.

3 Arise, my glory ; arise, psaltery and
hcrpi I will arise in the morning early.

4 1 will praise thee, O Lord, among the
people c and I will sing unto thee among
the nationSc

6 For thy mercy is great above the

Oar help it from Ood

s Job 22. 19.

Psalm 108- Ver. 6. Set thou the sinner over him.
«c Give to the devil, that arch-sinner, power over
Wm : let him enter into him, and possess him. The
imprecations, contained in the thirty verses of this
pialQ), ar* oppossa 1^ tiu thirty olece^ oi silvd; for

heavens; and thj ixiith even nnto the
clouds.

6 Be thou exalted, O God, above the
heavens, and thy glory over all thd
earth : 7 that thy beloved may be deUv
ered.

Save with thy right hand and hear me
8 God hath spoken in his hohness.

I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem :
and I will mete out the vale of taberna*
cles.

9 Galaad is mine i and Manasses is mine i
and Ephraim the protection of my head.

Juda is my king: 10 Moab the pot of my
hope.

Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe .'
the aliens are become my friends

II Who will bring me into the strong
city? who will lead me into Edom?

12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast
us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth
with our armies ?

13 O grant us help from trouble ! for
vain is the help of man,

14 Through God we shall do mightily:
and he will bring our enemies to nothing.

PSALM 108.

Deus, laudem meam.
David in the person of Christy prayeth against his
persecutors, more especially the traitor Judas:
foretelling and approving his just punishment for
his obstinacy in sin^ and final impenitence.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2 /^ GOD, be not thou silent in my
\J praise : for the mouth of the wicked
and the mouth of the deceitful man is
opened against me.

3 They have spoken against me with
deceitful tongues ; and they have com-
passed me about with words of hatred;
and have fought against me without
cause.

4 Instead of making me a return of love,
they detracted me • but I gave myself to
prayer.

5 And they repaid me evil for good:
and hatred for my love.

6 Set thou the sinner over him : and
may the devil stand at his right hand.

7 When he is judged, may he go out
condemned ; and may his prayer be
turned to sin.

which Judas betrayed our Lord and are to be taken
as prophetic denunciations of the evils that should
befall the traitor and his accompUcesUie Jdws and
not properly && curses.

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David prays against his enemies PSALMS

8 May his days be i@w ^ and bis bishopric

let another take.

9 May his children be fatherless, and
his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be carried about
vagabonds, and beg; and let them be
cast out of their dwellings.

11 May the usurer search all his sub-
stance: and let strangers olunder bis
labours.

12 May there be none to help him : nor
none to pity his fatherless offspring.

13 May his posterity be cut off; in one
generation may his name be blotted out.

14 May the iniquity of his fathers be
remembered in the sight of the Lord:
and let not the sic of his mother be
blotted out.

15 May they be before the Lord continu-
ally, and let the memory of them perish
from the earth: 16 because he remem-
bered not to shew mercy,

17 But persecuted the poor man and
the beggar ; and the broken in heart, to
put him to death.

18 And he loved cursing, and it shall
come unto him % and he would not have
blessing, and it shall be far from him.

And he put on cursing, like a garment :
and it went in like water into his entrails,
and like oil in his bones.

19 May it be unto him like a garment
which covereth him; and like a girdle
with which he is girded continually.

20 This is the work of them who detract
me before the Lord; and who speak evils
against my souL

21 But thouj O Lord, do with me for thy
name's sake: because thy mercy is
sweet.

Do thou deliver me, 29 for I am poor
and needy, and my heart is troubled
within me.

23 I am taken away like the shadow
when it declineth . and I am shaken off
as locusts.

24 My knees are weakened through
fasting : and my flesh is changed for oil.

25 And I am become a reproach to
them ; they saw me and they shaked their
beads

26 Help me, O Lord my God : save me
according to thy mercy.

27 And let them know that this is thy
t Matt. 22, 44. - w 1 Cor. 15. 25 , Heb. 1. 13, and 10. 13.

The priesthood of Christ

hand" amd tiwt >^ou, O Lord, hast iiicjne
it.

28 They will curse and thou wilt bless ;
let them that rise up against me be co--
founded : but thy servant shall rejoice.

29 Let them that detract me be clothed
with shame: and let them be covered
with their confusion as with a double
cloak.

30 I will give great thanks to the Lord
with my mouth: and in the midst of
many I will praise him.

31 Because he hath stood at the right
hand of the poor, to save ^ly soul from
persecutors,

PSALM 109.

Dixit Dominua.

Ch/risf^ exaltation and everlasting priesthoods

I A psaim for David.

THE * Lord said to my Lord • Sit thoa
at my right hand :
^ Until I make thy enemies thy foot»
stool.

2 The Lord will send forth the 3ceptr«
of thy power out of Sion : rule thou ia
the midst of thy enemies.

3 With thee is the principality in the
day of thy strength : in the brightness of
the saints: from the womb before the
day star I begot thee.

4 The Lord hath sworn, and he will not
repent: ^Thou art a priest for ever ac-
cording to the order of Melchisedech,

5 The Lord at thy right hand hath
broken kings in the day of his wrath.

6 He shall judge among nations, ho
shall fill ruins : he shall crush the heada
in the land of many,

7 He shall drink of the torrent in the
way : therefore shall he lift up the head.

PSALM 1!0.

Confitebor tibi. Domine.

God i» to tie grraised for his graces, and bem^U» to
his church.

Alleluia.
WILL praise thee, O Lord, with my
whole heart; in the council of the
just, and in the congregation.

2 Great are the works of the Lord
sought out according to all his wills,

3 His work is praise and magnificence
and his justice continueth for ever and
ever. __^___^__-

V John 12. 34 ; Heb. 5. 6, and 7. 17. .

Ver. 24 ^or otU propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh io changed, being perfectly emaciated 2£d

dried uo. as iiavlng lost ali its oi) ot fatnesa

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Happiness of the just

i Ho hath made l remesobrance cf his
wonderful works, being a merciful and
gracious Lord : 6 he hath given food to
triem that fear him.

He will be mindful for ever of hie cove-
nant : 6 he will shew forth to his people
the power of his works.

7 That he may give them the inheritance
of the Gentiles : the works of his hands
are truth and judgment.

8 All his commandments are faithful :
confirmed for ever and ever, made in
truth and equity.

9 He hath sent redemption to his peo-
ple : he hath commanded his covenant
for ever.

Holy and terrible is his name : 10 ^ the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom.

A good understanding to all that do it :
bis praise contini^th for ever and ever.

PSALM 111.
neatus vir.
The go id man ie happy.
ADeluia, of the returLUig of Aggeus and Zacbarit^.

BLESSED Is th^5 man that feareth the ^
Lord: he shall delight exceedingly [
in his commandmerts.

2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth :
the generation of the righteous shall be
blessedc

3 Glory and wealth shall be in his house :
and his justice remaineth for ever and
over.

4 To the righteous a light is risen up
in darkness ; he is merciful, and compas-
sionate and just

5 Acceptable is the man that sheweth
mercy and lendeth : he shall order his
words with judgment : 6 because he shall
not be moved for ever.

7 The just shall be in everlasting remem-
brance : he shall not fear the evil hearing.

His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:
8 his heart is strengthened, he shall not
be moved until he look over his enemies.

9 He hath distributed, he hath given to
ine poorr his justice remaineth for ever
and ever, his horn shall be exalted in
glory.

10 The wicked shall see, and shall be
angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and

PSALMS God regards the poor and humble

w Prov. 1. 7, and 9, 10 ^ EcclL 1. 16.

^ Psalm ill. Of the returning^ &c. This is in the
jreek }*nd Latin, but not in the Hebrew It sigoio
>«■ t'lat thi9 psalm was proper to bt simg at the

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pine away : the desire ©f the wicked eh^
perish.

PSALM 112.

Laudate, puerL

Ood is to be praised, for his regard to the poor €mi

humble.

Alleluia.

PRAISE the Lord, ye children! praise
ye the name of the Lord.

2 Blessed be the name of the Lord, from
henceforth now and for ever.

3 ^ From the rising of the sun unto the
going down of the same, the name of the
Lord is worthy of praise.

4 The Lord is high above all nations;
and his glory above the heavens.

6 Who is as the Liord our God, who
dwelleth on high: 6 and looketh down on
the low things in heaven and in earth?

7 Raising up the needy from the earth,
and lifting up the poor cut of the dung-
hill:

8 That he may place him with princes,
with the princes of his people.

9 Who maketh a barren woman to dwell
in a house, the joyful mother of children.

PSALM 118.

In exitu Israel

God hath shewn his power in deli'ering his people
idols are vain. The Hebrews dfmde this into two
psalms.

Alleluia.

WHEN i^ Israel went out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from & barba-
rous people :

2 Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel
his dominion.

3 The sea saw and fled : Jordan was
turned back.

4 The mountains skipped like rams, anci
the hills like the lambs of the flock.

6 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that
thou didst flee : and thou, O Jordan, that
thou wast turned back t

o Ye mountains, that ye skipped like
rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the
flock?

7 At the presence of the Lord the earth
was moved, at the presence of the God
of Jacob :

8 Who turned the rock into pools of
water, and the stony hill into fountains
of waters.

X Male L IL^y Ex. 13. S.

time of the return of the people from their captivity,
to inculcate to them, how happy they might be, ti
they would be coDstaat is the s^rri^ «t 4oa

The vanity of idols

PSALMS God our helper and deliverer

1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to
thy name give glory.

2 For thy mercy, and for thy truth's
sake: lest the Gentiles should say:
Where is their God?

3 But our God is in heaven: he hath
done all things whatsoever he would.

4 ^ The idols of the Gentiles are silver
and gold, the works of the hands of men.

5 «They have mouths and speak not:
they have eyes and see not.

6 They have ears and hear not: they
have noses and smell not.

7 They have hands and feel not: they
have feet and walk not: neither shall
they cry out through their throat.

8 Let them that make them become like
unto them: and all such as trust in them.

9 The house of Israel hath hoped in the
Lord: he is their helper and their pro-
tector.

10 The house of Aaron hath hoped in
the Lord: he is their helper and their
protector.

11 They that fear the Lord have hoped
in the Lord : he is their helper and their
protector.

12 The Lord hath been mindful of us,
and hath blessed us.

He hath blessed the house of Israel : he
hath blessed the house of Aaron.

13 He hath blessed all that fear the
Lord, both little and great.

14 May the Lord add blessings upon
you: upon you, and upon your children.

15 Blessed be you of the Lord, who
made heaven and earth.

16 The heaven of heaven is the Lord's :
but the earth he has given to the cnil-
dren of men.

17 ^ The dead shall not praise thee, 0
Lord: nor any of them that go down to
hell.

18 But we that live bless the Lord:
from this time now and for ever.

PSALM 114

Dilexi.

The prayer o1 a just man in affliction, with a
lively confidence in God.

Alleluia.

I HAVE loved, because the Lord will
hear the voice of my prayer.
2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto
me: and in my days I will call upon him.

Z Infra 134. 15. — aWiad. 15. 15.
bBar. 2. 17.

4 The sorrows of death have compassed
me: and the perils of hell have found me.

I met with trouble and sorrow : 4 and I
called upon the name of the Lord.

0 Lord, deliver my soul. 5 The Lord is
merciful and just, and our God sheweth
mercy.

6 The Lord is the keeper of little ones:
I was humbled, and he deliverd me.

7 Turn, 0 my soul, into thy rest: for
the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.

8 For he hath delivered my soul from
death: my eyes from tears, my feet from
falling.

9 I will please the Lord in the land of
the living.

PSALM 115.

Credidi.

This in the Hehreto is joined with the foregoing
psalm, and continues to express the faith and
gratitude of the psalmist.

Alleluia.

10 X HAVE c believed, therefore have
X I spoken; but I have been hum-
bled exceedingly.

II I said in my excess: ^ Every man is
a liar.

12 What shall I render to the Lord, for
all the things that he hath rendered to
me?

13 I will take the chalice of salvation;
and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

14 I will pay my vows to the Lord be-
fore all his people: 15 precious in th(
sight of the Lord is the death of his
saints.

16 0 Lord, for I am thy servant: I am
thy servant, and the son of thy hand-
maid.

Thou hast broken my bonds: 17 I wil
sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise
and I will call upon the name of tl
Lord.

18 I will pay my vows to the Lord il
the sight of all his people: 19 in tW
courts of the house of the Lord, in th^
midst of thee, 0 Jerusalem.

PSALM 116

Laudate Dominum.

All nations are called upon to praise Ood ji
his mercy and truth.

Alleluia.

O PRAISE 6 the lord, all ye nations
praise him, all ye people.

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C 2 Cor. 4. 13. — d Rom. 3. 4.
eBom. 15. 11.

Trust in God

PSALMS

The comer stone

2 For his mercy is confirmed upon us :
^ and the truth of the Lord remaineth for
ever.

PSALM 117.

Confitemini Domina

<Ae psalmist praiseth God for his delivery from
evils: putteth his xvhole trust in him; aiid /ore-
telleth the coming of Christ,
Alleluia.

GIVE praise to the Lord, for he is good:
for his mercy endureth for ever.

2 Let Israel now say, that he is good :
that his mercy endureth for ever.

3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that
hib mercy endureth for ever.

4 Let them that fear the Lord now say,
that his mercy endureth for ever.

6 In my trouble I called upon the Lord:
and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.

6 The Lord is my helper : I wiUnot fear
what man can do unto me.

7 - The Lord is my helper : and I will
Jock over my enemies.

8 It is good to confide in the Lord,
rather than to have confidence in man.

9 It is good to trust in the Lord, rather
vhan to trust in princes.

10 All nations compassed me about ; and
in the name of the Lord I have been
revenged on them.

11 Surrounding me they compassed me
about: and in the name of the Lord I
,have been revenged on them.

12 They surrounded me like bees, and
they burned like fire among thorns: and
in the name of the Lord I wae revenged
on them,

13 Being pushed I was overturned that
I might fall : but the Lord supported me.

14 "^The Lord is my strength and my
praise : and he ie become my salvation.

15 The voice of rejoicing and of salva-
tion is in the tabernacles of the Just.

16 The right hand of the Lord hath
wrought strength : the right hand of the
--ord hath exalted me : the right hand of
he Lord hath wrought strength.

/ John 12. 34. — g Heb. 13. 6.
h Ex. 15. 2.

Psalm lis. Aleph. The first eight verses of this
^alra in the original begin with Aleph, which is the
nie of the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet The
'ond eight verses begin with Beth, the name of the
cond letter of the Hebrew alphabet ; and so to the
Id of the whole alphabet, in all twenty-two letters,
■ch letter having eight verses. This order is vari-
isly expounded by the holy fathers ; which shews
e difliculty of cuderstaiiding the holy scr»>tures,

17 I shaH not die, but live: and shaii
declare the works of the Lord,

18 The Lord chastising hath chastised
me : but he hath not delivered me over
to death.

19 Open ye to me the gates of justice:
I will go in to them, and give praise tc
the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the
Lord, the just shall enter into it.

21 1 will give glory to thee because thoQ
hast heard me : and art become my sal-
vation.

22 *The stone which the builders re»
jected ; the same is become the head of
the corner.

23 This is the Lord's doing: and it 16
wonderful in our eyes.

24 This is the day which the Lord hath
made: let us be glad and rejoice therein,

25 O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good
success. 26 Blessed be he that cometh
in the name of the Lord.

We have blessed you out of the house
of the Lord. 27 The Lord is God, and he
hath shone upon us.

Appoint a solemn day, with shady
boughs, even to the horn of the altar.

28 Thou art my God, and I wiU praise
thee: thou art my God, and I will exall
thee.

1 will praise thee, because thou hast
heard me, and art become my salva-
tion.

29 O praise ye the Lord, for he is good:
for his mercy endureth for ever.

PSALM 118.

Beati immaculate.

Of the excellence of virtue consisting in the love and

observance of the commandmerUs of Ood

Alleluia.

ALEPH.

BLESSED are the undefiled in the way,
who walk in the law of the Lordc

2 Blessed are they that search hie testi-
monies : that seek him with their whck
heart.

i Isa. 28. 16 ; Matt. 21. 42 ; Luke 20. 17 • Acts 4. ll j
Rom. ». 33 • 1 Peter 2. 7.

and consequently with what humility, and submis
sion tc the Church they are to be read.

Ver. 2. His testim,onies. The commandments oJ
God are called his testimonies, because they tes
tify his holy will unto us. Note here, that in almost
every verse of this psalm (which in number are
176) the word and law of God, and the love and
observance of it, is perpetually inculcated, under a
variety of denominations, all signifying the sassm
' thing

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Meditating on the law oj God

PSALMS Prayer for light and guidance

5 For they ihs^ vsKuA ifiSqcdtgr, itt.T6 not

walked in his ways.

4 Thou hast commaiiGSCi thy command-
ments tc be kept most diligently.

6 O ! that my waye may be directed to
keep thy justifications.

6 Then shall I not be confounded, when
I shall look into all thy commandments.

7 I will praise thee with uprightness of
heart, when I shall have learned the judg-
ments of thy justice.

8 I will keep thy justificaticnE' : O f do
sot thou utterly forsake me.

BETH.

9 By what doth a young man correct Me
way ? by observing thy words.

10 With my whole heart have I eought
after thee: let me not etray from Siy
commandments.

11 Thy words have I hidden in my heartj
that I may not sin against theec

12 Blessed art thou, O Lord : teach me
thy justifications.

13 With my lips I have pronounced all
the judgments of thy mouth.

14 1 have been delighted in the way of
thy testimonies, as in aii riches.

15 I will meditate on thy command-
ments ! and I will consider thy ways.

16 I will think of thy justificationes I
will not forget thy words.

GIMEL.

17 Give bountifully to thy servant, en-
liven me: and I shall keep thy words.

18 Open thou my eyesi and I will con-
sider the wondrous things of thy law.

19 I am a sojourner on the earth: hide
not thy commandments from me.

20 My soul hath coveted to long for thy
justifications, at all times.

21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : they
are cursed who decline from thy com-
mandments.

32 Remove from me reproach and eon-
tempt : because I have sought after thy
testimonies.

23 For princes sat, and spoke against
me: but thy servant was employed in
thy justifications.

24 For thy testimonies are my medita-
tion: and thy Justifications my ccunseL

DALETH.

26 My soul hath cleaved to the pave-
ment: quicken thou me according to thy

uos?^^

£G I have dedai^d my ways, and thou
haeC heard me : teach me thy justifica-
tions.

27 Mako me to understand the way of
thy justifications: and I shall be exer-
cised in thy wondrous works.

28 My soul hath slumbered through
heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy
words.

2S Remove from me the way of iniquity:
and out of thy law have mercy on me.

SOI have chosen the way of truth : thy
judgments I have not forgotten.

31 I have stuck to thy testimonies, O
Lord : put me not to shame.

S2 I have 3run the way of thy command-
ments, when thou didst enlarge my heart

HE.

33 Set before me for a law the way of
thy justifications, O Lord? and I will al-
ways seek after it.

34 Give me understanding, and I will
search thy law ; and I will keep it with
my whole heart.

35 Lead me into the path of thy com-
mandments; for this same I have desired.

36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies
and not to covetousness.

87 Turn away my eyes that they may
not behold vanity: quicken me in thy
way.

38 Establish thy word to thy servant, in
thy fear.

39 Turn away my reproach, which I ha ve
apprehended : for thy judgments are de-
lightfulo

40 Behold I have longed after thy pre*
cepts: quicken me in thy justice.

VAU.

41 Let thy mercy also come upon me, O
Lord: thy salvation according to thy
word.

42 So shall I answer them that reproach
me in any thing; that I have trusted in
thy words.

43 And take not thou the word of truth
utterly out of my mouth : for in thy words,
I have hoped exceedingly.

44 So shall I always keep thy ls,w, for
ever and ever.

45 And I walked at large: because I
have sought after thy commandments.

46 And I spoke of thy testimonies be-
fore kings : and I was not ashamed.

47 I meditated also on thy command'
ments, which I loved.

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God's law our comfort

4d And I lifted up my hands to thy com-
mandments, which I loved : and I was
exercised in thy justificationa

ZAIN

49 Be thoa mmdful of thy word to thy
servant, in which thou hast given me
hope.

50 This hath comforted me !n my hn-
miliation : because thy word hatb enliv-
ened me.

51 The proud did iniquitously alto-
gether : but I declined not from thy law.

62 I remembered, O Lord, thy judg-
ments of old : and I was comforted,

53 A fainting hath taken hold of me, be-
cause of the wicked that forsake thy law.

54 Thy justifications were the subject of
my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.

55 In the night I have remembered thy
name, O Lord : and have kept thy law.

56 This happened to me : because I
sought after thy justifications.

HETH.
67 O Lord, my portion, I have said, I
would keep thy law.

58 I entreated thy face with all my
heart: have mercy on me according to
thy word.

59 I have thought on my ways: and
turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

60 I am ready, and am not troubled :
that I may keep thy commandments.

61 The cords of the wicked have encom-
passed me: but I have not forgotten thy
law.

62 I rose at midnight to give praise to
thee ; for the judgments of thy justifica-
tion.

63 I am a partaker with all them that
fear thee, and that keep thy command-
ments

64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy \
teach me thy justifications

TETH.

65 Thou hast done well with thy ser-
vant, O Lord, according to thy word.

66 Teach me goodness and discipline
and knowledge ; for I have believed thy
commandments.

67 Before I was humbled I offended ;
therefore have I kept thy word.

68 Thou art good ; and in thy goodness
teach me thy justifications.

^^ Ths iniquity of the proud hath been

PSAT^MS Our need of Gods comforting law

multiplied over me: but I will seek thy

commandments with my whole heart.

70 Their heart is curdled like tnill? : but
I have meditated on thy law.

71 It is good for me that thou hast hum-
bled me, that I may learn thy justifica-
tions.

72 The law of thy mouth is good to me,
above thousands of gold and silver.

JOD.

73 Thy hands have made me and formed
me; give me understanding, and I will
learn thy commandments.

74 They that fear thee shall see me, and
shall be glad : because I have greatly
hoped in thy words.

75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments
are equity : and in thy truth thou hast
humbled me.

76 01 let thy mercy be for my comfort,
according to thy word unto thy servant.

77 Let thy tender mercies come unto
me, and I shall live : for thy law is my
meditation.

78 Let the proud be ashamed, because
they have done unjustly towards me:
but I will be employed in thy command-
ments.

79 Let them that fear thee turn to me:
and they that know thy testimonies.

80 Let my heart be undefiled in thy jus-
tifications, that I may not be confounded.

CAPH.

81 My soul hath fainted after thy sal-
vation: and in thy word I have very
much hoped.

82 My eyes have failed for thy word,
saying : When wilt thou comfort me ?

83 For I am become like a bottle in the
frost: I have not forgotten thy justifica-
tions.

84 How many are the days of thy ser-
vant : when wilt thou execute judgment
on them that persecute me ?

85 The wicked have told me fables : but
not as thy law.

86 All thy statutes are truth: they have
persecuted me unjustly, do thou help
me.

87 They had almost made an end of me
upon earth : but I have not forsaken thy
commandments.

88 Quicken thou me according to thy
mercy : and I shall keep the testimoniei
of thy mouth.

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God'^s law gives wisdom and strength PSALMS No communion with the wicked

LAMED.

89 For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth
firm in heaven.

90 Thy truth unto all generations : thou
hast founded the earth, and it continu-
eth.

'^l By thy ordinance the day goeth on:
for all things serve thee.

92 Unless thy law had been my medita-
'jion, I had then perhaps perished in my
abjection.

93 Thy justifications I will never forget:
for by them thou hast given me life.

94 I am thine, save thou me : for I have
sought thy justifications.

95 The wicked have waited for me to
f* jBtroy me : hut I have understood thy
lestimonies.

96 I have seen an end of all perfection :
thy commandment is exceeding broad.

MEM.

97 O how have I loved thy law, O Lord !
it is my meditation all the day.

98 Through thy commandment, thou
hast made me wiser than my enemies:
for it is ever with me.

99 I have understood more than all my
teachers : because thy testimonies are
my meditation.

100 1 have had understanding above
■mcients; because I have sought thy
commandments.

101 I have restrained my feet from
every evil way: that I may keep thy
words.

102 I have not declined from thy judg-
ments, because thou hast set me a law.

103 How sweet are thy words to my pal-
ate ! more than honey to my mouth.

104 By thy commandments I have had
understanding: therefore have I hated
every way of iniquity.

NUN.
106 Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and
% light to my paths.

106 I have sworn and am determined
to keep the judgments of thy justice,

107 I have been humbled, O Lord, ex-
ceedingly: quicken thou me according
to thy word.

108 The free offerings of my mouth
make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me
thy judgments.

109 My soul is continually in my hands:
%ud I have not forgotten thy law.

110 Sinners have laid a snare for me •
but I have not erred from thy precepts.

111 I have purchased thy testimonies
for an inheritance for ever: because
they are the joy of my heart.

112 I have inclined my heart to do thy
justifications for ever, for the reward.

SAMECH.

113 I have hated the unjust: and have
loved thy law.

114 Thou art my helper and my pro-
tector: and in thy word I have greatly
hoped.

115 Depart from me, ye malignant:
and I will search the commandments of
my God.

116 Uphold me according: to thy word,
and I shall live : and let me not be con-
founded in my expectation.

117 Help me, and I shall be saved: and I
will meditate always on thy justifications.

118 Thou hast despised all them that
fall off from thy judgments; for their
thought is unjust.

119 I have accounted all the sinners of
the earth prevaricators: therefore have
I loved thy testimonies.

120 Pierce thou my fiesh with thy feax:
for I am afraid of thy judgments»

AIN.

121 1 have done judgment and justice;
give me not up to them that slander me.

122 Uphold thy servant unto good : let
not the proud calumniate me.

123 My eyes have fainted after thy sal*
vation : and for the word of thy justice.

124 Deal with thy servant according t**
thy mercy: and teach me thy JT-istificzn
tions.

125 I am thy servant: give me under-
standing that I may know thy testimo-
nies.

126 It is time, O Lord, to do; they
have dissipated thy law.

127 Therefore have I loved thy com-
mandments above gold and the topaz.

128 Therefore was I directed to all thy

commandments: I have hated all wicked

ways.

PHE.

129 Thy testimonies are wonderful'
therefore my soul hath sought them.

130 The declaration of thy words giveth
light ! and giveth understanding to little
ones.

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The prophet cries to God

131 I opened my mouth, and panted :
because I longed for thy commandments.

132 Look thou upon me, and have
mercy on me, according to the judgment
of them that love thy name.

133 Direct my steps according to thy
word : and let no iniquity have dominion
over me.

134 Redeem me from the calumnies of
men: that I may keep thy command-
ments.

135 Make thy face to shine upon thy
servant : and teach me thy justifications.

136 My eyes have sent forth springs of
water : because they have not kept thy
law.

SADE.

137 Thou art just, O Lord: and thy
judgment is right.

138 Thou hast commanded justice thy
testimonies : and thy truth exceedingly.

139 My zeal hath made me pine away :
because my enemies forgot thy words.

140 Thy word is exceedingly refined:
and thy servant hath loved it.

141 I am very young and despised; hut
I forget not thy justifications.

142 Thy justice is justice for ever: and
thy law is the truth.

143 Trouble and anguish have found me:
thy commandments are my meditation.

144 Thy testimonies are justice for

ever : give me understanding, and I shall

live.

COPH.

145 I cried with my whole heart, hear
me, O Lord : I will seek thy justifica-
tions.

146 I cried unto thee, save me : that I
may keep thy commandments.

147 I prevented the dawning of the day,
and cried : because in thy words I very
much hoped.

148 My eyes to thee have prevented
the morning : that I might meditate on
thy words.

149 Hear thou my voice, O Lord, ac-
cording to thy mercy : and quicken me
iccording to thy judgment.

150 They that persecute me have drawn
ligh to iniquity ; but they are gone far
)ff from thy law.

151 Thou art near, O Lord : and all thy
eays are truth.

152 I have known from the beginning
oncerning thy testimonies: that thou
ast founded them for ever.

PSALMS The prophefs love for God's law

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RES.

153 See my humihation and deliver me :
for I have not forgotten thy law.

154 Judge my judgment and redeem
me: quicken thou me for thy word's
sake.

156 Salvation is far from sinners; be-
cause they have not sought thy justifi-
cations.

156 Many, O Lord, are thy mercies:
quicken me according to thy judgment.

157 Many are they that persecute me,
and afflict me ; hut I have not declined
from thy testimonies.

158 I beheld the transgressors, and I
pined away ; because they kept not thy
word.

159 Behold I have loved thy command-
ments, O Lord ; quicken me thou in thy
mercy.

160 The beginning of thy words is
truth: all the judgments of thy justice
are for ever.

SIN.

161 Princes have persecuted me with-
out cause: and my heart hath been in
awe of thy words.

162 I will rejoice at thy words, as one
that hath found great spoil.

163 I have hated and abhorred iniquity;
but I have loved thy law.

164 Seven times a day I have given
praise to thee, for the judgments of thy
justice.

165 Much peace have they that love thy
law, and to them there is no stumbling-
block.

166 I looked for thy salvation, O Lord:
and I loved thy commandments.

167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies :
and hath loved them exceedingly.

168 I have kept thy commandments and
thy testimonies : because all my ways are
in thy sight.

TAU.

169 Let my supphcation, O Lord, come
near in thy sight : give me understanding
according to thy word.

170 Let my request come in before thee;
deliver thou me according to thy word.

171 My lips shall utter a hymn, when
thou Shalt teach me thy justifications.

172 My tongue shall pronounce thy
word*, because all thy commandments are
justice.

173 Let thy hand be with me to save
me ; for I have chosen thy precepts.

God our keeper

174 I have longed for thy salvation, O |
Lord ; and thy law is my meditation.

175 My soul shall live and shall praise
thee : and thy judgments shall help me.

176 I have gone astray like a sheep that
is lost : seek thy servant, because I have
not forgotten thy commandments.

PSALM 119.

Ad Dominum.

A prayer in tribulation,

A gradual canticle.

IN my trouble I cried to the Lord : and
he heard me.

2 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked
lips, and a deceitful tongue.

3 What shall be given to thee, or what
shall be added to thee, to a deceitful
tongue ?

4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with
coals that lay waste.

5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is pro-
longed ! I have dwelt with the inhabitants
of Cedar : 6 my soul hath been long a
sojourner.

7 With them that hated peace I was
peaceable : when I spoke to them they
fought against me without cause.

PSALM 120.

Levavi oculos.

God is the keeper of his servants.

A gradual canticle.

I HAVE lifted up my eyes to the
mountains, from whence help shall
come to me.

2 My help is from the Lord, who made
heaven and earth.

3 May he not suffer thy foot to be moved :
neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

4 Behold he shall neither slumber nor
sleep, that keepeth Israel.

5 The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is
thy protection upon thy right hand.

6 The sun shall not burn thee by day :
nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord keepeth thee from all evil :
may the Lord keep thy soul.

8 May the Lord keep thy coming in and
thy going out ; from henceforth now and
for ever.

PSALMS The blessedness of Jerusalem

PSALM 121.

Laetatus sum in his.

TJie dciyire and hope of the just for the coming of the
kiiKjdom of God, and the peace of his church.

A gradual canticle.

I REJOICED at the things that were
said to me: We shall go into the house
of the Lord.

2 Our feet were standing in thy courts,
O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem, which is built as a city,
which is compact together.

4 For thither did the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord : the testimony
of Israel, to praise the name of the
Lord.

5 Because their seats have sat in judg-
ment, seats upon the house of David.

6 Pray ye for the things that are for the
peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for
them that love thee.

7 Let peace be in thy strength: and
abundance in thy towers.

8 For the sake of my brethren, and of
my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

9 Because of the house of the Lord our
God, I have sought good things for thee.

Psalm 119. A gradual canticle. The following
psalms, in number fifteen, are called gradual psalms,
or canticles, from the word gradus, signifying steps,
ascensions, or degrees : either because they were
appointed to be sung on the fifteen steps, by which
the people ascended to the temple : or, that in the
singing of them the voice was to be raised by cer-
tain steps or ascensions : or, that they were to be I

PSALM 122.

Ad te levavi.
A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God.
A gradual canticle.

thee have I lifted up my eyes, who
dwellest in heaven.

2 Behold as the eyes of servants are on
the hands of their masters.

As the eyes of the handmaid are on the
hands of her mistress: so are our eyes
unto the Lord our God, until he havo
mercy on us.

3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have
mercy on us: for we are greatly filled
with contempt.

4 For our soul is greatly filled : we are
a reproach to the rich, and contempt to
the proud.

PSALM 123.

Nisi quia Dominus.

The church giveth glory to God for her deliverance

from the hands of her enemies.

A gradual canticle.

sung by the people returning from their captivity
and ascending to Jerusalem, which was seated
amongst mountains. The holy fathers, in a mysti-
cal sense, understand these steps, or ascensions, of
the degrees by which Christians spiritually ascend
to virtue and perfection ; and to the true temple oi
God in the heavenly Jerusalem.

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Security of the just

IF it had not been that the Lord waa
with us, let Israel now say : 2 If it
had not been that the Lord was with
us,

When men rose up against us, 3 per-
haps they had swallowed us up alive.

When their fury was enkindled against
us, 4 perhaps the waters had swallowed
us up.

6 Our soul hath passed through a tor-
rent : perhaps our soul had passed through
a water insupportable.

6 Blessed be the Lord, who hath not
given us to be a prey to their teeth.

7 Our soul hath been delivered as a
sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers.

The snare is broken, and we are de-
livered.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

PSALMS

Our need of God

3 The Lord hath done great things for
us : we are become joyful.

4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a
stream in the south.

6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

6 Going they went and wept, casting
their seeds.

7 But coming they shall come with joy-
fulness, carrying their sheaves.

PSALM 124.
Qui confidant.
The just are always under God\s protection.
A gradual canticle.

THEY that trust in the Lord shall be as
mount Sion : he shall not be moved
for ever that dwelleth 2 in Jerusalem.
Mountains are round about it : so the
Lord is round about his people from
aenceforth now and for ever.

3 For the Lord will not leave the rod of
linners upon the lot of the just : that the
ust may not stretch forth their hands to
aiquity.

4 Do good, O Lord, to those that are
iOod, and to the upright of heart.

5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the
ord shall lead out with the workers of
liquity : peace upon Israel.

PSALM 126.

Nisi Dominus.

Nothing can be done vnthout God's grace and bless-
ing.
A gradual canticle of Solomon.

UNLESS the Lord build the house,
they labour in vain that build it.

Unless the Lord keep the city, he
watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

2 It is vain for you to rise before light :
rise ye after you have sitten, you that
eat the bread of sorrow.

When he shall give sleep to his beloved :
3 behold the inheritance of the Lord are
children: the reward, the fruit of the
womb.

4 As arrows in the hand of the mighty,
so the children of them that have been
shaken,

5 Blessed is the man that hath filled his
desire with them ; he shall not be con-
founded when he shall speak to his ene-
mies in the gate.

^ PSALM 125.

fl In convertendo.

m^people of God rejoice at their delivery from

captivity.

A gradual canticle.

VHEN the Lord brought back the
captivity of Sion, we became like
im comforted.

Then was our mouth filled with glad-
^38 ; and our tongue with joy.

hen shall they say among the Gentiles :
Je Lord hath done great things for
u-m.

b€'rfi!!,h\^\Z?- '^- ^* '^ vain for you to rise
at S,L^^^' ^^^^ ^^' y®"^ early rising, your labour
ai -worldly solicitude, will be vain, thit is, wiUavaS

PSALM 127.

Beat! omnes.

The fear of God is the way to happiness.

A gradual canticle.

BLESSED are all they that fear the
Lord : that walk in his ways.
2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thy
hands : blessed art thou, and it shall be
weU with thee.

I 3 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the
I sides of thy house.

Thy children as olive plants, round
about thy table.

4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
that feareth the Lord.

5 May the Lord bless thee out of Sion :
and mayst thou see the good things of
Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

6 And mayst thou see thy children's
children, peace upon Israel.

o?Go£*^^°^' ^^^^^^^ *^® "gbt' grace, and blessing

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Appeal to God's mercy for pardon PSALMS

God's promises to David

PSALM 128.

Saepe expugnaverunt.

The cJmrch of God is invincible : her persecutors

come to nothing.

A gradual cauticle.

OFTEN have they fought against me
from my youth, let Israel now say.

2 Often have they fought against me
from my youth : but they could not pre-
vail over me.

3 The wicked have wrought upon my
back: they have lengthened their ini-
quity.

4 The Lord who is just will cut the necks
of sinners: 5 let them all be confounded
and turned back that hate Sion.

6 Let them be as grass upon the tops i
of houses : which withereth before it be
plucked up:

7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his
hand : nor he that gathereth sheaves his

bosom.

8 And they that passed by have not
said : The blessing of the Lord be upon
you: we have blessed you in the name of
the Lord.

PSALM 129.

De profundi».

Avrayerof a sinner, trusting in the mercies of

God. The sixth penitential psalm.

A gradual canticle.

OUT of the depths I have cried to
thee, O Lord : 2 Lord, hear my voice.
Let thy ears be attentive to the voice
of my supplication.

3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities :
Lord, who shall stand it.

4 For with thee there is merciful for

giveness :

have waited for thee, O Lord.

My soul hath relied on his word : 5 my
soul hath hoped in the Lord.

6 From the morning watch even until
night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

7 Because with the Lord there is mercy :
and with him plentiful redemption.

8 And he shall redeem Israel from all
his iniquities.

PSALM 130.
Domine, non est.
The propheVs humility.
A gradual cantiole of David.

nor

LORD, ray heart is not exalted
are my eyes lofty.
Neither have I walked in great mattsrs,
nor in wonderful things above me.

2 If I was not humbly minded, but ex-
alted my soul :

As a child that is weaned is towards his
mother, so reward in my soul.

3 Let Israel hope in the Lord, from
henceforth now and for ever.

PSALM 131.

Memento, Domine.

A 'may er for the fulfilling of the promise made to

David.

A gradual canticle.

OLORD, remember David, and all
his meekness.
2 How he swore to the Lord, he vowed
a vow to the God of Jacob :

3-?' If I shall enter into the tabernacle
of my house : if I shall go up into the
bed wherein I lie:

4 If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or
slumber to my eyelids,

5 Or rest t( My temples: until I find
out a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for
the God of Jacob.

6 Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata •
we have found it inihe fields of the wood.

7 We will go into his tabernacle: we will
adore in the place where his feet stood.

8 ^ Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place :
thou and the ark, which thou hast sanc-
tified, . ^.

9 Let thy priests be clothed with justice :
and let thy saints rejoice.

10 For thy servant David's sake, turn

-;V-o: '-.r.aw,i ^^^:^^.^^-^-^^,

11 The Lord hath sworn truth to David,
and he will not make it void : ^ of the
fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy
throne.

12 If thy children will keep my cove
nant, and these my testimonies which J
shall teach them :

Their children also for evermore snai.
sit upon thy throne.

13 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: m
hath chosen it for his dwelhng.

14 This is my rest for ever and ever
here will I dwell, for I have chosen it.

j 2 Kings 7. 2. — fc 2 Par. 6. 41.

Psalm 131. Ver. 6. We have heard j>f2l'^
Ephrata. When I was young, and I'^ed i»^.»^*^^^^^
hem, otherwise called Ephrata, I heard of God s
tobernacle and ark. and had a devout desire of seek-

I 2 Kings 7. 12 ; Luke 1. 55 ; Acts 2. 30^

ing it; and accordingly I found it at CartathiaHn^
the city of the woods : where it was till it was n
moved to Jerusaleir. Ses 1 Far. 13-

The happiness of brotherly love PSALMS

The vanity of idols

16 Blessing I will bless Her widow: I
will satisfy her poor with bread.

16 I will clothe her priests with salva-
tion : and her saints shall rejoice with
exceeding great joy.

17 "* There will I bring forth a horn to
David : I have prepared a lamp for my
anointed.

18 His enemies I will clothe with confu-
sion : but upon him shall my sanctifica-
tion flourish.

PSALM 132.

Ecce quam bonum

The happiness of brotherly love and concord.

A gradual canticle of David.

BEHOLD how good and how pleasant
il is for brethren to dwell together
in unity:

2 Like the precious ointment on the
head, that ran down upon the beard, the
beard of Aaron,

Which ran down to the skirt of his gar-
ment : 3 as the dew of Hermon, which
descendeth upon mount Sion.

For there the Lord hath commanded
blessing, and life for evermore.

PSALM 133.

Ecce nunc benedicitCo

4n exhortation to praise God continually,

A gradual canticle.

BEHOLD now bless ye the Lord, all ye
servants of the Lord :
Who stand in the house of the Lord, in
I the courts of the house of our God.

2 In the nights lift up your hands to
the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.

3 May the Lord out of Sion bless thee,
tie that made heaven and earth.

PSALM 134,

Laudate nomen.
(n exhortation to praise God , the vanity of idols.
1 Alleluia.

PRAISE ye the name of the Lord : 0
you his servants, praise the Lord:
2 You that stand in the house of the
ord, in the courts of the house of our
od,

J Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is
X)d : sing ye to his name, for it is sweet.

m Mai a. 1

Lnke 1. 69. — n Jer, 10. 13.
o Ex 12. 29.

Psalm 135c Ver l, 2, and 3. Praise the Lord. By

3 invitation to praise the Lord, thrice repeated,

'?TOtQQ» tbe BlMtMl Trinity. One God in tluree

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4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto
himself : Israel for his own possession.

5 For I have known that the Lord is
great, and our God is above all gods.

6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath
done, in heaven, in earth, in the sea. and
in all the deeps.

7 ^ He bringeth up clouds from the end
of the earth: he hath made lightnings
for the rain.

He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:
8 ° He slew the firstborn of Egypt frovL
man even unto beast.

9 He sent forth signs and wonders in
the midst of thee, O Egypt : upon Pharao.
and upon all his servants

10 2^ He smote many nations, and slew
mighty kings:

11 ^Sehon king of the Amorrhites, an^i
Og king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of
Ohanaan.

12 And gave their land for an inherit-
ance, for an inheritance to his people
Israel.

13 Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy
memorial, O Lord, unto all generations.

14 For the Lord will judge his people»
and will be entreated in favour of his
servants.

15 **The idols of the Gentiles are silver
and gold, the works of men's hands.

16 *They have a mouth, but they speak
not : they have eyes, but they see not.

17 They have ears, but they hear not;
neither is there any breath in their
mouths.

18 Let them that make them be like to
them: and every one that trusteth in
them.

19 Bless the Lord, O house of Israel ;
bless the Lord, O house of Aaron.

20 Bless the Lord, O house of Levi ; you
that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.

21 Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who
dwelleth in Jerusalem.

PSALM 136.

Confitemini Domino.

God is to be praised for his wonderful works.

Alleluia.

PRAISE the Lord, for he is good: for
his mercy endureth for ever.

p Jos. 12. 1, 7, — g Num. 21. 24, 34.
r Supra 113. 4. — s Wisd. 15. 15.

distinct Persons, the Father, and the Son. and tli9
Holy Ghost

God's f (wore to Israel

PSALMS Song of the captives of Babylon

2 Praise ye the God of gods i for his
mercy endureth for ever,

3 Pi-aise ye the Lord of lords : for his
mercy endurjeth for ever.

4 Who alone doth great wonders : for
his mercy endureth for ever.

5 ^ Who made the heavens in understand-
ing . for his mercy endureth for ever.

6 Who estabhshed the earth above the
waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

7 Who made the great lights: for his
mercy endureth for ever,

8 The sun to rule the day : for his mercy
endureth for ever.

9 The moon and the stars to rule the
night t for his mercy endureth for ever.

10 ^ Who smote Egypt with their first-
born: for his mercy endureth for ever.

11 ^ Who brought out Israel from among
them I for his mercy endureth for ever.

12 With a mighty hand and with a
stretched out arm: for his mercy endur-
eth for ever.

13 Who divided the Red Sea into parts :
for his mercy endureth for ever.

14 And brought out Israel through the
midst thereof: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

15 ^ And overthrew Pharao and his host
m the Red Sea: for his mercy endureth
for ever.

16 Who led his people through the
desert : for his mercy endureth for ever.

17 Who smote great kings : for his mercy
endureth for ever.

18 ^ And slew strong kings i for his mercy
endureth for ever.

19 Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for
his mercy endureth for ever.

20 y And Og king of Basan : for his mercy
endureth for ever.

21 ^ And he gave their land for an in-
heritance : for his mercy endureth for
9ver.

22 For an inheritance to his servant
Israel : for his mercy endureth for ever.

23 For he was mindful of us in our afflic-
tion: for his mercy endureth for ever.

24 And he redeemed us from our ene-
mies : for his mercy endureth for ever.

25 Who giveth food to all flesh : for his
mercy endureth for ever.

t Gen. 1. 1.— w Ex. 1'2. 29.
V Ex. 13. 17.— w Ex. 14. 28.

Psalm 136, For Jeremias. For the time of Jere-
jQias, and the captivity of Babylon.

Ver. 9, Dash thy little ones, &c. In the spiritual
lense, we dasb the little ones of Babylon against the

26 Give glory to the God of heaven . for
his mercy endureth for ever.

27 Give glory to the Lord of lords : for
his mercy endureth for ever

PSALM 136.

Super flumina.

The lamentation of the people of God in their cap»

tivity in Babylon.

A psalm of David, for Jeremias.

UPON the rivers of Babylon, there W6
sat and wept: when we remem-
bered Sion :

2 On the willows in the midst thereof
we hung up our instruments. 3 For there
they that led us into captivity required
of us the words of songs.

And they that carried us away, said:
Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of
Sion.

4 How shall we sing the song of thej
Lord in a strange land ?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my|
right hand be forgotten.

6 Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if 1 1
do not remember thee :

If I make not Jerusalem the beginning!
of my joy.

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of I
Edom, in the day of Jerusalem:

Who say : Rase it, rase it, even to the
foundation thereof.

8 O daughter of Babylon, miserable:
blessed shall he he who shall repay thee
thy payment which thou hast paid us.

9 Blessed be he that shall take and dash
thy little ones against the rock.

PSALM 137.

Confitebor tibi.

Thanksgiving to God for his benefits.

For David himself

I WILL praise thee, O Lord, with my
whole heart : for thou hast heard the
words of my mouth.

I will sing praise to thee in the sight of
the angels '. 2 I will worship towards thy
holy temple, and I will give glory to thy
name.

For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for
thou hast magnified thy holy name above
all.

X Num. 21. 24. — y Num. 21. 33.
z Jos. 13. 7.

rock, when we mortify our passions, and Stifle the
first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to tb6
rock whiclr Is Christ.

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Nothing is hidden from God

PSALMS

Nothing is hidden from God

3 In what day soever I shall call upon
thee, hear me: thou ehalt multiply
strength in my soul.

4 May all the kings of the earth rjive
glory to thee: for they have heard all the
words of thy mouth.

6 And let them sing in the ways of the
Lord : for great is the glory of the Lord.

6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on
the low : and the high he knoweth afar
off.

7 If I shall walk in the midst of tribula-
tion, thou wilt quicken me: and thou
hast stretched forth thy hand against the
^rath of my enemies: and thy right
hand hath saved me.

8 The Lord will repay for me: thy
mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever : O
despise not the works cl thy hands.

PSALM 1S8.

Domine, prcbastt
Ood*3 special providence over his servants.
1 Uuto the end» a psalm of David.

LORD, thou hast proved me, and known
me: 2 thou hast known my sitting
down, and my rising up.

3 Thou hast understood my thoughts
afar off : my path and my line thou hast
searched out.

4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways :
for there is no speech in my tongue.

6 Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all
things, the last and those of old: thou
hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand
upon me.

6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful
to me : it is high, and I cannot reach to
it.

7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
or whither shall I flee from thy face ?

8 ^If I ascend into heaven, thou art
there: if T descend into hell, thou art
present.

9 If I take my wings early in the morn-
ing, and dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea !

10 Even there also shall thy hand lead
ne : and thy right hand shall hold me.

11 And I said • Perhaps darkness shall

a Amos 9. 2.

Psalm 138, Vero4. There is no speech, &e. Viz^
nknown to thee t or when there is no speech in my
"«ngue ; yet my whole interior and my most secret
'lights are known to thee.

Ver 20. liecanse you say in thovght, &c. Depart
om me, you wicked-, who plot against the servants
f Grod^ and UunK to cast them outi ct tbe ciues, vt

cover me : and night shall be my light in
my pleasures.

12 But darkness shall not be dark to
thee, and night shall be light as the day :
the darkness thereof, and the light there-
of are alike to thee.

13 For thou hast possessed my reins:
thou hast protected me from my mother^s
wombc

14 I will praise thee, for thou art fear-
fully magnified : wonderful are thy works,
and my soul knoweth right well.

16 My bone is not hidden from thee,
which thou hast made in secret : and my
substance in the lower parts of the earth.

16 Thy eyes did see my imperfect being,
and in thy book all shall be written: days
shall be formed, and no one in them.

17 But to me thy friends, O God, are
made exceedingly honourable: their
principality is exceedingly strengthened.

18 I will number them, and they shall
be multiplied above the sand: I rose up
and am still with thee.

19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God:
ye men of blood, depart from me :

20 Because you say in thought: They
shall receive thy cities in vain.

21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that
hated thee : and pined away because of
thy enemies?

22 I have hated them with a perfect
hatred: and they are become enemies to
me.

23 Prove me, O God, and know my
heart: examine me, and know my paths.

24 And see if there be in me the way of
iniquity : and lead me in the eternal way.

PSALM 139.

Eripe me, Domine.

A prayer to be delivered from the wicked.

1 Unto the end, a psalm of David-

2 TPvELIVER me, O Lord, from the evil
JlJ man: rescue me from the unjust
man.

3 Who have devised iniquities in their
hearts: all the day long they designed
battles.

4 ^They have sharpened their tongues

h Supra 5. 11 ; Rom. 3. 13.

their habitation ; as if they have received them in
vain, and to no purpose.

Ver. 22. / have hated them. Not with an hatred
of malice, but a zeal for the observance of God's
commandments^ which he saw were despised by
the wicked, who are to be considered enemies to
God.

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Prayer for protection

PSALMS Prayer of one in extreme danger

Jike a serpent: the veuom of aspe is
under their lips.

5 Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of
the wicked : and from unjust men deliver
me.

Who have proposed to supplant my
steps ; 6 the proud have hidden a net for
oae.

And they have stretched out cords for
a snare : they have laid for me a stum-
blingblock by the wayside.

7 I said to the Lord : Thou art my God :
hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.

8 O Lord, Lord, the strength of my sal-
vation : thou hast overshadowed my head
in the day of battle.

9 Give me not up, O Lord, from my de-
sire to the wicked: they have plotted
against me ; do not thou forsake me, lest
they should triumph.

10 The head of them compassing me
about : the labour of their lips shall over-
whelm them.

11 Burning coals shall fall upon them;
thou wilt cast them down into the fire:
In miseries they shall not be able to stand.

12 A man full of tongue shall not be es-
tablished in the earth: evil shall catch
the unjust man unto destruction.

13 I know that the Lord will do justice
CO the needy, and will revenge the poor.

14 But as for the just, they shall give
glory to thy name : and the upright shall
dwell with thy countenance.

PSALM 140.

Domine, clamavi

A pray&r against sinful words^ and deceitful flat-
terers.

A psalm of David.

I HAVE cried to thee, O Lord, hear
me: hearken to my voice, when I cry
to thee.

2 Let my prayer be directed as incense
in thy sight ; the lifting up of my hands,
as evening sacrifice.

3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth
and a door round about my lips.

4 Incline not my heart to evil words ;
to make excuses in sins.

Psalm 140. Ver. 5. Let not the oil of the sinner,
&c. That is, the flattery, or deceitful praise. — Ibid.
For my prayer, &c. So far from coveting their

S raises, who are never well pleased but with things
aat are evil; I shall continually pray to be pre
ferved from such things as they are delighted with.
"*"^l; 6. Their judges. &e Their rulers, or chiefs,

With men that work Iniquity* and I
will not communicate with the choicest
of them.

5 The lust man shall correct me In
mercy, and shaD reprove me* but let not
the oil of the sinner fatten my head.

For my prayer also shall still be against
the things with which they are well
pleased : 6 their judges falling upon the
rock have been swallowed up.

They shall hear my words, for they
have prevailed: 7 as when the thickness
of the earth is broken up upon the
ground:

Our bones are scattered by the side of
hell. 8 But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my
eyes : in thee have I put my trust, take
not away my soul.

9 Keep me from the snare, which the>
have laid for me, and from the stum-
blingblocks of them that work iniquity.

10 The wicked shall fall in his net: I
am alone until I passo

PSALM 141.

Voce mea.

A prayer of David in extremity of danger.

I Of understanding for David. A prayer when he

was in the cave. [1 Kings 24.]

2 T CRIED *^ to the Lord with my voice
A with my voice I made supplication
to the Lord.

3 In his sight I pour out my prayer,
and before him I declare my trouble :

4 When my spirit failed me. then thou
knewest my paths.

In this way wherein I walked, they
have hidden a snare for me.

6 I looked on my right hand, and be" [
held, and there was no one that would
know me.

Flight hath failed me : and there is no
one that hath regard to my soul.

6 I cried to thee. O Lord : I said i Thon
art my hope, my portion in the land of
the living.

7 Attend to my supplication ' for T am
brought very low.

DeHver me from m-r persecutors; for
they are stronger thar 1.

c Suprf* 'b.2.

qui#kly vanish and perish dke ships dashed against
the rocks, and swallowed i.p *:y the waves. Let them
then hear my words, for they are powerful and will
prevail : or^ as it is Id the Hebrew» for they are

Ver. 10. / am alone, &c, Singidarly protected by
the Almighty until I past all their nets aad snare»

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Prayer of one in tribulation

PSALMS

d Bring my soul out of prison, that 1
may praise thy name : the just wait for
me, until thou reward me.

PSALM 142.

Domine, exaudL

ThepscUmlst in tribulation calleth upon Oodfor his

delivery. The seventh penitential psalm.

I A. psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued
hinL [2 Kings 17.]

HEAR, O Lord, my prayer* give ear to
my supplication in thy truth? hear
me in ihy justice.

2 And enter not into judgment with Shy
oervant r for in thy sight no man living
shall be justified.

3 For the enemy hath persecuted my
Boul : he hath brought down my life to
the earth.

He hath made me to dwell in darkness
as those that have been dead of old:
4 and ray spirit is in anguish within me :
my heart within me is troubled.

5 I remembered the days of old, I medi-
tated on all thy works : I meditated upon
the works of thy hands.

6 I stretched forth my hands to thee :
my soul is as earth without water unto
thee,

I 7 Hear me speedily O Lord : my spirit
'lath fainted away.

Turn not away thy face from me, lest I
)e hke unto them that go down into the
)it.

8 Cause me to liear thy mercy in the
Qorning ^ for in thee have I hoped.
iMake the way known to me, wherein I
hould walk : for I have lifted up my soul
3 thee,

9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord,
) thee have I fled : 10 teach me to do
ly will, for thou art my God.

Thy good spirit shall lead me into the
ght land. 11 for thy name's sake, O
)rd, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice,
^hou wilt bring my soul out of trouble :

and in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my
I emies.

.nd thou wilt cut off all them that aflaict
V soul: for I am thy servant,

PSALM 143.

Benedictus Dominus.
-5 prophet praiseth God^ and prayeth to be .telin-
•ed from his enemies. No worldly happiness is
• be com,pared with that of serviuff God..

A psalm of David against Goliath

Prayer for help

BLESSED he the Lord my God, who
teacheth my hands to fight, and my
fingers to war.

2 My mercy, and my refuge* my sup-
port, and my dehverer :

My protector, and I have hoped in him *
who subdueth my people under me.

3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made
known to him? or the sou of man, thai
thou makest account of him ?

4 Man is like vo vanity : ^ his days pass
away like a shadow.

5 Lord, bow down thy heavenc and de»
scend: touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke.

6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt
scatter them : shoot out thy arrows, and
thou shalt trouble them.

7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take
me out, and deliver me from many waters
from the hand of strange children :

8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity:
and their right hand is the right hand of
iniquity.

9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new can-
ticle : on the psaltery and an instrument
of ten strings I will sing praises to
thee.

10 Who givest salvation to kings ; who
hast redeemed thy servant David from
the malicious sword: 11 Deliver me.

And rescue me out of the hand of strange
children ; whose mouth hath spoken van-
ity i and their right hand is the right hand
of iniquity :

12 Whose 3ons are as new plants in their
youth I

Their daughters decked out, adorned
round about after the similitude of a
temple :

i3 Their storehouses full, flowing out of
this into that.

Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding
in their goings forth* 14 their oxen
fato

There is no breach of wall nor passage,
nor crying out in their streets.

15 They have called the people happy,
that hath these things: 6w* happy '^ that
people whose God is the Lord,

PSALM 144.

Exaltabo te, I>2rU3

A psalm 5/ praise^ to the infinite majesty of CfiA

Praise, for D»^/id himself.

d job I. ). and
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A.X.

David praises the goodness of God PSALMS

Our trust should he in God

IWILLaxtoS thee, O Gocimy king; and the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy
I will bless thy name for ever; yea, name for ever; yea, for ever and ever,
for ever and ever.

2 Every day will I bless thee ; and I will
praise iihy name for ever ; yea, for ever
and ever.

3 Great ia the Lord, and greatly to be
liaised t and of his greatness there is no
end.

4 Generation and generation shall praise
thy works* and they shall declare thy
power.

6 They shall speak of the magnificence
of the glory of thy holiness: and shall
tell thy wondrous works.

6 And they shall speak of the might of
thy terrible acts : and shall declare thy
greatness.

7 They shall publish the memory of the
abundance of thy sweetness: and shall
rejoice in thy justice.

8 The Lord is gracious and merciful;
patient and plenteous in mercy.

9 The Lord is sweet to all ; and his ten-
der mercies are over all his works.

10 Let all thy works, O Lord, praise
thee • and let thy saints bless thee.

11 They shall speak of the glory of thy
kingdom! and shall tell of thy power:

12 To make thy might known to the
sons of men: and the glory of the mag-
nificence of thy kingdom.

13 Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages :
and thy dominion endureth throughout
all generations.

The Lord is faithful in ail his words'
and holy in all his works,

14 The Lord lifteth up all that fall t and
setteth up all that are cast down.

16 The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord :
and thou givsst them meat in due sea-
son.

16 Thou openest ohy hand, and fillest
with blessing every living creature.

17 The Lord is just in all his ways: and
holy in all his works.

13 The Lord is nigh unto all them that
call upon him i bo aB that call upon him
in truth.

19 He will do the will of them that fear
him: and he will bear cheir prayer, and
save them.

20 The Lord keepeth all them that love
him ] but all the wicked he will destroy,

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of

« Supra 144. z.

PSALM 145.

Lauda. aniraa.

Wb are not to trust in men. but in Ood aUmA

I Alleluia» of A.ggeus and Zacharias-

2 T>RAISB ®the Lord, O my soul, in my

X life I will praise the Lord: I wiW

sing to my God as long as I shall be.

Put not your trust in princes : 3 in the
children of men, in whom there is no sal
vation.

4 His spirit shall go forth, and he shall
return into his earth: in that day all
their thoughts shall perish.

6 Blessed is he who hath the God of Ja-
cob for his helper, whose hope is in the
Lord his God; 6«^ who made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all things that are in
them,

7 Who keepeth truth for ever : who
executeth judgment for them that suffer
wrong : who giveth food to the hungry.

The Lord loose th them that are fet-
tered : 8 the Lord enlighteneth the blind.

The Lord lifteth up them that are cast
down : the Lord loveth the just.

9 The Lord keepeth the strangers, he
will support the fatherless and thei
widow : and the ways of sinners he will|
destroy,

10 The Lord shall reign for ever: thj,
God, O Sion, unto generation and gener
tion.

PSALM 143.

Laudate Dominum.

An exhortation to praise Ood for his benefits-

Alleluia.

PRAISE ye the Lord, because psalm \
good: to our God be joyful an
comely praise.

2 The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: k
will gather together the dispersed of Ij
rael.

3 Who healeth the broken of heart, arj
bindeth up their bruises.

4 Who telleth the number of the stari
and calleth them all by their names

6 Great is our Lord, and great Is i\
power" and of his wisdom there ifl a
number.

8 The Lord lifteth up the meek, a
bringeth the wicked down even to t\
ground.

/Acts 14. 14 1 Apoc

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God's mercies to His people

PSALMS

Invitation to praise God

7 Sing ye tc the Lord with praise sing
to our God upon the harp.

8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds,
and prepareth rain for the earth.

Who maketh grass to grow on the
mountains, and herbs for the service of
men.

9 Who giveth to beasts their food : and
to the young ravens that call upon him.

10 He shall not delight in the strength
of the horse ,
legs of a man.

11 The Lord
that fear him :
his mercy.

nor take pleasure in the

taketh pleasure in them
and in them that hope in

PSALM 147.

Lauda, Jerusalem.

i77ie church is called upon to praise Ood for his
peculiar graces and favours to his people. In the
Hebrew^ this psalm is joined to the foregoing.

Alleluia.

12 T>RAISB the Lord, O Jerusalem:
' X praise thy God, O SioUc

13 Because he hath strengthened the
>olts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy
hildren within thee.

14 Who hath placed peace in thy bor-
ers : and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

15 Who sendeth forth his speech to the
jirth : his word runneth swiftly.

16 Who giveth snow like wool : scatter-
,h mists like ashes,

'iL7 He sendeth his crystal like morsels :
'ho shall stand before tha face of his
Jd?

8 He shall send out; his word, and shall
. 3lt them : his wind shall blow, and the
Hters shall run

9 Whc declare th his word to Jacob :
li justices and his judgments to Israel.

) He hath not done in like manner to
esry nation : and his judgments he hath
D'; made manifest tc them. Alleluia.

PSALM 148.

Laudate Dominum de csBlie.
I creatures are invited to praise their Creator.

Alleluia.

I RAISE ye the Lord from the heavens:
praise ye him in the high places,
^^aise ye him, all his angels; praise
Vfiim., all his hosts,

3*rai8e ye him, O sun and moon : praise
'^i , all ye stars and light.

4 ^ Praise him, ye heavensj of heavens :

and let all the waters that aro above the
heavens 6 praise the name of the Lord.
For he spoke,, and they were made : ho
commanded, and they were created.

6 He bath established them for ever,
and for ages of ages : he hath made a
decree, and it shaU not pass away.

7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye
dragons, and all ye deeps :

8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds,
which fulfil hie word •

9 Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees
and all cedars r

10 Beasts and all cattle • serpents and
feathered fowjis :

11 Kings of the earth and all people :
princes and all judges cf the earth :

12 Young men and maidens . let the old
with the younger, praise the name of the
Lord : 13 for his name alone is exalted.

14 The praise of him is above heaven
and oarth : and be hath exalted the horn
of his people.

A hymn to all his saints : to the chil'
dren of Israel, a people approaching to
him. Alleluia.

PSALM 149.

Cantata Donijno.
The church ie particularly bound to praise God.
Alleiluia.

INQ ye to the Lord a new canticle,
Ms praise be in the church of the
saints.

2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made
him: and let the children ot Sion be joy-
ful in their king.

3 Let them praise his name fn choir:
let them sing to him with the timbrel
and the psaltery.

4 For the Lord is well pleased with his
people* and he will exalt the meek unto
salvation.

6 The saints shall rejoice in glory j they
shall be ioyfu) in their beds.

6 The high praises of God shall be in
their mouth : and two-edged swords in
their bands :

7 To execute vengeance upon the na-
tions, chastisements among the people :

8 To bind their kings with fetters, and
their nobles with manacles of iron

9 To execute upon them the judgment

SING
let

^ Klmi« Ver.17

g Dan. 3. 59, 60.

Ue acndeih his crystal That IS, his ice. Some understaEu it Di hail, whict is,
ar it werOc <c«, divided Into particles or moraeltk

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PEOVERBS nnmpanii of wicked to he avoided

: — 7 n^vui 9 Praise ve him for his mighty acts;

that is written: this glory is to all ^^^ 1 ^ j//y^ him according to the multitude
saints. Alleluia. ^^ ^.^ greatness.

PSALM 150. 3 Praise him with sound of trumpet:

strnments. .^^ y^^^ ^j^j^ strings and organs.

Alleluia. ^». c Pvaise him on high sounding cymbals:

T>KAISE ye the Lord in his holy place 5 Pmse^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^

l* praise ye him in the firmament of h.s P^f^f^^^'j™ ^^he Lord. Alleluia,
power. '

THE

BOOK OF PROVERBS

Tkis Book is .0 eaim, ,>ecause j* -^^if^/Sorfn^f/^f A^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ItXtj/errA^atEf b"Sf;r^*t%X^ are often coucHea in tkem unier
certain figures and similitudes.

CHAPTER 1.

to the voice of wisdom

rp\HE parables of Solomon, the son of
X David, king of Israel.

2 To know wisdom, and instruction:

3 To understand the words of prudence:
and to receive the instruction of doc-
trine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

4 To give subtilty to little ones, to the
young man knowledge and understand-

Ta wise man shall hear and shall ^^
wiser: and he that understandeth, shall
possess governments.

6 He shall understand a parable, and
the interpretation, the words of the wise,
and their mysterious sayings. ,

7 h The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom ancl|

instruction. . ^. ^ +i,tt

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy
father, and forsake not the law of thy

T That grace may be added to thy head,
and a chain of gold to thy neck.

10 My son, if sinners shall entice thee,
consent not to them.

11 If they shall say: Come with us, let

fc PB. 110. 10 ; Eccli. 1. 16.

US lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares
for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow him up alive like hell,
and whole as one that goeth down into

^^3 W*e shall find all precious substance
we shall fill our houses with spoils
14 Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have

'll My'son, walk not thou with then,
restrain thy foot from their paths

16 i For their feet run to evil, and mak
haste to shed blood. ^ .

17 But a net is spread m vam before tn|
eyes of them that have wings.

18 And they themselves be in wait f
their own blood, and practise decei
aeainst their own souls. I

19 So the ways of every covetous m.
destroy the souls of the possessors.

20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she utt(
eth her voice in the streets:

21 At the head of multitudes she en
out, in the entrance of the gates of 1
city she uttereth her words, saying.

22 0 children, how long will you J
childishness, and fools covet those thii
which are hurtful to themselves, and
unwise hate knowledge? , , ,^ t .

23 Turn ye at my reproof: behoia J

{ Isa. 69. 7.

Refusal to heed wisdom punished PROVERBS

Wisdom protects from evil

atter ray spirit tc you, and will shew you
my wordSc

2^ ^ Because I called, and you refused •
X stretohed out my hand, and there was
.lone that regarded.

25 You have despised all my counsel,
and have neglected my reprehensions.

26 I also will laugh in your destruction,
and will mock when that shall come to
you which you feared.

27 When sudden calamity shall fall on
you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall
be at hand: when tribulation and dis-
tress shall come upon you:

28 Then shall they call upon me, and
I will not hear J they shall rise in the
morning and shall not find me :

29 Because they have hated instruction,
and received not the fear of the Lord,

30 Nor consented to my counsel, but
despised all my reproof.

31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of
bheir own way, and shall be filled with
;heir own devices.

32 The turning away of little ones shall
all them, and the prosperity of fools
hall destroy them.

33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest
Tithoufe terror, and shall enjoy abmn-
ance, without fear of evils.

CHAPTER 2.

j^ advantages of vnsdom and the evils from
I which it delivers

L/TY son, if thou wilt receive my words,
jTjL and wilt hide my commandments
'ith thee,

That thy ear may hearken to wisdom :
cline thy heart to know prudence:

For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and
l,3line thy heart to prudence :

If thou shalt seek her as money, and
I lit dig for her as for a treasure :

Then shalt thou understand the fear
c the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge
cGod.

Because the Lord giveth wisdom : and
0; of his mouth cometh prudence and
k)wledge.

^ He will keep the salvation of the
Phteous, and protect them that walk in
^i plicityc

f Keeping the paths of justice, and
girding the ways of saintri.

5 Chen shalt thou understand justice.

^ Is.-). 65. l:;, and 66. <L ; Jer. 7 ia

and judgment, and equity, and every
good path.

10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart,
and knowledge please thy soul:

11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence
shall preserve thee,

12 That thou mayst be delivered from
the evil way, and from the man that
speaketh perverse things:

13 Who leave the right way, and walk
by dark ways:

14 Who are glad when they have done
evil, and rejoice in most wicked things :

16 Whose ways are perverse, and their
steps infamous.

16 That thou mayst be delivered from
the strange women, and from the stranger,
who softeneth her words :

17 And forsaketh the guide of her
youth,

18 And hath forgotten the covenant of
her God: for her house inclineth unto
death, and her paths to helL

19 None that go in unto her shall re-
turn again, neither shall they take hold
of the paths of lite.

20 That thou mayst walk in a good way^
and mayst keep the paths of the Just.

21 For they that are upright shall dwell
in the earth, and the simple shall con-
tinue in it.

22 '^ But the wicked shall be destroyed
from the earth: and they that do unjustly
shall be taken away from it

CHAPTER 3.

An exhortation to the practice of virtue.
Y son, forget not my law, and le*
thy heart keep my commandments

2 For they shall add to thee length o
days, and years of hfe and peace.

3 Let not mercy and truth leave thee,
put them about thy neck, and write them
in the tables of thy heart :

4 And thou shalt find grace and good
understanding before God and men.

5 Have confidence in the Lord with all
thy heart, and lean not upon thy own
prudencCc

6 In ali thy ways think on him, and he
will direct thy steps.

7 * Be not wise in thy own conceit fear
God, and depart from evil :

8 For it shall be health to thy navel, and
moistening to thy bones.

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k Job 18. 17.-4 Rom. 12. 16.

The benefits of wisdom

PROVERBS

Exhortation to seek wisdom

S '" Honoui the Lord with thy substance,
and give him of the first of all thy fruits ;

10 And thy barns shall be filled with
abundance, and thy presses shall run
over with wine.

11 **My son, reject not the correction
of the Lord ; and do not faint when thou
art chastised by him :

12 For whom the Lord loveth, be chas-
tiseth; and as a father in the son he
pleaseth himself.

13 Blessed is the man that findeth wis-
dom and is rich in prudence:

14 The purchasing thereof is better than
the merchandise of silver, and her fruit
than the chiefest and purest gold ;

15 She is more precious than all riches :
and all the things that, are desired, are
not to be compared with her.

16 Length of days is in her right hand,
and in her left hand riches and glory.

17 Her ways are beautiful ways, and all
her paths are peaceable.

18 She is a tree of life to them that lay
bold cr her: and he that shall retain her
is blessed,

19 The Lord by wisdom hath founded
the earth, hath established the heavens
by prudence.

2C By hie wisdom the depths have
broken out, and the clouds grow thick
with dew,

21 My son, let not these things depart
from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel :

22 And there shall be life to thy soul,
and grace to thy mouthc

2S Then shalt thou walk confidently in
thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble :

24 If thou sleep, thou ehalt not fear :
thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be
Bweet.

25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of
the power of the wicked falling upon
thee.

26 For the Lord will be at thy side, and
will keep thy foot that thou be not
taken,

27 Do not withhold him from doing
good, who is able: if thou art able, do
good thyself also.

28 Say not to thy friend: Go, and come
again : and to morrow I will give to thee :
when thou canst give at present.

29 Practise not evil against thy friend,
when he hrth confidence in thee.

m Tob. 4c 1 i Luke 14. 13.

bC Strive ncu agamst- a man without
cause, when he hath aon, thee no eviL

31 ^ Envy not the anjust man, and do
not follow his ways:

32 For every mocker is an abomination
to the Lord, and hie communication is
with the simple.

33 Want is from the Lord in the house
of the wicked : but the habitations zt the
just shall be blessed.

34 He shall scorn the scorners, and to
the meek he will give grace.

35 The wise shall possess glory r the
promotion of fools is disgrace.

CHAPTER 4.

A further exhortation to seek after wisdom

HEAR, ye children, the instruction of
a father, and attend that you may
know prudence.

2 I will give you a good gift, forsake
not my law.

3 For I also was my father's son, tender
and as an only son in the sight of my
mother :

4 And he taught me, and said : Let thy
heart receive my words, keep my com
mandments, and thou shalt live.

5 Get wisdom, get prudence ; forget|
not, neither decline from the words oil
my mouth.

6 Forsake her not, and she shall keep|
thee : love her, and she shall preserv(j
theOc

7 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom
and with all thy possession purchas
prudence.

8 Take hold on her, and she shall exa]
thee: thou shalt be glorified by he;
when thou shalt embrace her.

9 She shall give to thy head increase <
graces, and protect thee with a nob
crown.

10 Hear, O my eon, and receive n
words, that years of life may be muli
plied to thee.

11 I will shew thee the way of wisdo)
I will lead thee by the paths of equity:

12 Which when thou shalt have enters
thy steps shall not be straitened, a
when thou runnest thou shalt not m(|*
a stumblingblock.

13 Take hold on instruction, leave i<
not : keep it, because it is thy life.

14 Be not deUghted in the paths of <|3

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n Heb. 12. 5{ Apoc U 29. — o Ps. 36. 1.

Warning to flee icicked luatjs PROVERBS Exhortation to avoid unchastity

wicked, neither let the way of evil men
please thee.

15 Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside,
and forsake it.

16 For they sleep not except they have
done evil: and their sleep is taken away
unless they have made some to fall.

17 They eat the bread of wickedness,
and drink the wine of iniquity.

18 But the path of the just, as a shining
light, goeth forwards and increaseth even
to perfect day.

19 The way of the wicked is darksome:
they know not where they fall.

20 My son, hearken to my words, and
incline thy ear to my sayings.

21 Let them not depart from thy eyes,
keep them in the midst of thy heart:

22 For they are life to those that find
them, and health to all flesh.

23 With all watchfulness keep thy heart,
because life issueth out from it.

24 Remove from thee a forward mouth,
and let detracting lips be far from thee.

25 Let thy eyes look straight on, and
let thy eyelids go before thy steps.

26 Make straight the path for thy feet,
and all thy ways shall be established.

27 Decline not to the right hand, nor to
the left: turn away thy foot from evil.
For the Lord knoweth the ways that are
on the right hand : but those are perverse
which are on the left hand. But he will
make thy courses straight, he will bring
forward thy ways in peace.

CHAPTER 5.

An exhortation to fly unlawful lust, and the
occasions of it,

MY son, attend to my wisdom, and
incline thy ear to my prudence.
2 That thou mayest keep thoughts, and
thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind
I not the deceit of a woman.
I 3 For the lips of a harlot are like a
(honeycomb dropping, and her throat is
smoother than oil.

4 But her end is bitter as wormwood,
,and sharp as a twoedged sword.

5 Her feet go down into depth, and her
steps go in as far as hell.

6 They walk not by the path of life, her
steps are wandering, and unaccountable.

7 Now therefore, my son, hear me, and
depart not from the words of my mouth.

8 Remove thy way far from her, and
come not nigh the doors of her house.

9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and
thy years to the cruel.

10 Lest strangers be filled with thy
strength, and thy labours be in another
man's house,

11 And thou mourn at the last, when
thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy
body, and say:

12 Why have I hated instruction, and
my heart consented not to reproof,

13 And have not heard the voice of
them that taught me, and have not in-
clined my ear to masters ?

14 I have almost been in all evil, in the
midst of the church and of the congre-
gation.

15 Drink water out of thy own cistern,
and the streams of thy own well:

16 Let thy fountains be conveyed
abroad, and in the streets divide thy
waters.

17 Keep them to thyself alone, neither
let strangers be partakers with thee.

18 Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice
with the wife of thy youth:

19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most
agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate
thee at all times; be thou delighted con-
tinually with her love.

20 Why art thou seduced, my son, by a
strange woman, and art cherished in the
bosom of another?

21 PThe Lord beholdeth the ways of
man, and considereth all his steps.

22 His own iniquities catch the wicked,
and he is fast bound with the ropes of
his own sins.

23 He shall die, because he hath not re-
ceived instruction, and in the multitude of
his folly he shall be deceived.

CHAPTER 6.
Documents on several heads.

MY son, if thou be surety for thy
friend, thou hast engaged fast thy
hand to a stranger.

2 Thou art ensnared with the words of
thy mouth, and caught with thy own
words.

3 Do therefore, my son, what I say, and
deliver thyself: because thou art fallen
into the hands of thy neighbour. Run
about, make haste, stir up thy friend;

p Job 14. 16, and 31. 4, and 34. 21,
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Sloth and mischief mahing

PROVERBS

4 Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let
thy eyelids slumber.

6 Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand,
and as a bird from the hand of the
fowler.

6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider
her ways, and learn wisdom:

7 Which, although she hath no guide,
nor master, nor captain,

8 Provideth her meat for herself in the
summer, and gathereth her food in the
harvest.

9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ?
when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep ?

10 ^Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt
slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands
a little to sleep :

11 And want shall come upon thee, as a
traveller, and poverty as a man armed.
But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall
come as a fountain, and want shall flee
far from thee.

12 A man that is an apostate, an unpro-
fitable man, walketh with a perverse
mouth,

13 He winketh with the eyes, presseth
with the foot, speaketh with the finger.

14 With a wicked heart he deviseth evil,
and at all times he soweth discord.

15 To such a one his destruction shall
presently come, and he shall suddenly be
destroyed, and shall no longer have any
remedy.

16 Six things there are, which the Lord
nateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth :

17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands
that shed innocent blood,

18 A heart that deviseth wicked plots,
feet that are swift to run into mischief,

19 A deceitful witness that uttereth lies,
and him that soweth discord among bre-
thren.

20 My son, keep the commandments of
thy father, and forsake not the law of thy
mother.

21 Bind them in thy heart continually,
and put them about thy neck.

22 When thou walkest, let them go with
thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep
thee ; and when thou awakest, talk with
them.

23 Because the commandment is a lamp,

q Infra 24. 33.

Chap. 6. Ver. 30. The fault is not so great, &c.
The sin of theft is not so great, as to be compared
«^ith adiiltery: especially when a person pressed
Idth hunger (which is the case here spoken of)
Iteals to satisfy nature. Moreover the damage done

Against adulteri

and the law a light, and reproofs of in
struction are the way of life :

24 That they may keep thee from th(
evil woman, and from the flatterinj
tongue of the stranger.

25 Let not thy heart covet her beautj
be not caught with her winks :

26 For the price of a harlot is scare
one loaf : but the woman cateheth th
precious soul of a man.

27 Can a man hide fire in his bosom, a:
his garments not burn ?

28 Or can he walk upon hot coals, ar
his feet not be burnt?

29 So he that goeth in to his neighboui
wife, shall not be clean when he shf
touch her.

30 The fault is not so great when a m;
hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill 1
hungry soul :

31 And if he be taken he shall restc
se^T^enfold, and shall give up all the si
stance of his house.

32 But he that is an adulterer, for tl)
folly of his heart shall destroy his o|i
soul:

33 He gathereth to himself shame si
dishonour, and his reproach shall not
blotted out:

34 Because the jealousy and rage of
husband will not spare in the day f
revenge,

35 Nor will he yield to any mi
prayers, nor will he accept for satisi
tion ever so many gifts.

CHAPTER 7.

The love of wisdom is the best preservative
being led astray by temptation.

Y son, keep my words, and lajhp
my precepts with thee. Son,

2 Keep my commandments, and ipu
Shalt hve : and my law as the appl of
thy eye :

3 Bind it upon thy fingers, write it i on
the tables of thy heart.

4 Say to wisdom: Thou art my sijjr:
and call prudence thy friend,

5 That she may keep thee from
woman that is not thine, and fron
stranger who sweeteneth her words

6 For I look out of the window o
house through the lattice,

rhe
«he

by theft may much more easily be repaired, tf
wrong done by adultery. But this does not
but that theft also is a mortal sin, forbidden
of the ten commandments.

the
der
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The harlot and her victim

PROVERBS

The preaching of wisdom

7 And I see little ones, I behold s loolish
young man,

8 Who passeth through the street by the
coT^er, "nd goeth nigh the way of her
house.

9 In the dark, when it grows late, in the
darkness and obscurity of the night,

10 And behold a woman meeteth him in
harlot's attire prepared to deceive souls ;
talkative and wandering,

11 Not bearing to be quiet, not able to
abide still at home,

12 Now abroad, now in the streets» now
lying in wait near the corners.

13 And catching the young man, she
kisseth him, and with an impudent face,
flattereth, saying:

14 I vowed victims for prosperity, this
day I have paid my vows.

16 Therefore I am come out to meet
thee, desirous to see thee, and I have
iWnd thee.

16 I have woven my bed with cords, 1
have covered it with painted tapestry
brought from Egypt.

17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
laloes, and cinnamon.

18 Come, let us be inebriated with the
breasts, and let us enjoy the desired em-
ibraces, till the day appear.

I 19 For my husband is not at home, he is
jone a very long journeyc

20 He took with him a bag of money i he
;will return home the day of the full moon.

21 She entangled him with many words,
md drew him away with the flattery of
ler lips

22 Immediately he followeth her as an
)x led to be a victim, and as a lamb play-
ng the wanton, and not knowing that he
|8 drawn like a fool to bonds,

1 23 Till the arrow pierce his liver: as If a
)ird should make haste to the snare, and
|tnoweth not that his life is in danger

1 24 Now therefore, my son, hear me, and
iittend to the words of my mouth.

25 Let not thy mind be drawn away in
iier ways" neither be thou deceived with
ler paths,

1 26 For she hath cast down many
mounded, and the strongest have been
jlain by her

|27 Her house is the way to hell, reach-
ing even to the inner chambers of death c

CHAPTER 8-
Tht preaching qf wisdom Bm- taPOritongt

DOTH not wisdom 3ry aloud, and pru-
dence put fortJc her voice ?

2 Standing in the top of the highest places
by the way, in the midst of the paths.

3 Beside the gatee of the city, ir the
very doors she speaketh, saying ;

4 O ye men, to you I call^ and my voice
is to the sons of men.

6 O little ones, understand fcubMilty and
ye unwise, take notice.

6 Hear, for I will speak of great things :
and my lips shall be opened to preach
right things.

7 My mouth shall meditate truth, ano
my lips shall hate wickedness.

8 All my words are just, there is nothinf
wicked nor perverse in them.

9 They are right to them that under
stand, and iust to them that find know-
ledge.

10 Receive my Instruction, and not
money choose knowledge rather than
gold.

11 For wisdom Is better than all the
most precious things and whatsoever
may be desired cannot be compared to
it

12 I wisdom dwel) In counsel, and am
present in learned thoughts.

13 The fear o>' the Lord hatetb evil t I
hate arrogance, and pride, and every
wicked way. and a mouth with a double
tongue.

14 Counsel and equity J£ mine, prudence
is mine, strength is mine.

15 By me kings reign, and lawgivers
decree just things,

16 By me princes rule, and the mighty
decree justice.

17 I love them that love me and they
that in the morning early watch for me,
shall find me.

18 With me are riches ana glory, glori»
ous riches and justice

19 For my fruit is better than gold and
the precious stone, and my blossoms
than choice silver

20 I walk in the way of justice, in the
midst of the paths of judgment,

21 That I may enrich them that love
me, and may fill their treasures.

22 The Lord possessed me in the begin-
ning of his ways, before he made any
thing from the beginning,

23 I was set up from eternity, and 0(
old before the earth was made.

84 The depth» were not as yet, ano> I

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Wisdom invites all to her feast PROVERBS

The invitation of folly

was already conceived, neither had the
fountains of waters as yet sprung out ;

25 The mountains with their huge bulk
had not as yet been established : before
the hills I was brought forth :

26 He had not yet made the earth, nor
the rivers, nor the poles of the world.

27 When he prepared the heavens, I
was present: when with a certain law
and compass he enclosed the depths :

28 When he established the sky above,
and poised the fountains of waters

29 When he compassed the sea with its
bounds, and set a law to the waters that
they should not pass their limits , when
he balanced the foundations of the earth ;

SO I was with him forming all things '
and was delighted every day. playing be-
fore him at all times .

31 Playing in the world : and my de-
lights were to be with the children of men.

32 Now therefore, ye children, hear me:
Blessed are they that keep my ways.

33 Hear instruction and be wise, and
refuse it not.

34 Blessed is the man that heareth me,
and that watcheth daily at mv gates,
and waitetb at the posts of my doors.

35 He that shall find me, shall find life,
and shall have salvation from the Lord :

36 But he that shall ein against me, shall
hurt his own eouL All that hate me love
death

CHAPTER €. •

Wisdom inr,Ue& all to he? feast. Folly eaZU another
way

WISDOM hath built herself a house,
she hath hewn her out seven pil-
lars

2 She hath elaiu her victims, mingled
her wine, and set forth her table.

3 She hath sent her maids to invite to
the tower, and to the walls of the city :

4 Whosoever is a little one, let him
come to me. And to the unwise she said :

6 Come, eat my bread, and drink the
wine which I have mingled for you.

6 Forsake childishness, and Uve, and
walk by the ways of prudence,

7 He that teacheth a scorner^ doth an
injury to himself : and he that rebuketh
a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

8 Rebuke not a scorner lest he hate thee
Rebuke a wise man^ and be will love
chee.

' P& no. 10 : Supra L 7 r Eccli '. 1«

9 Give an occasion to a wise man, and
wisdom shall be added to him. Teach
a just man, and he shall make haste to
receive it.

10 ""The fear of the Lord is the begin-
Hing of wisdom : and the knowledge of
the holy is prudence.

11 For by me shall thy days be multi-
plied, and years of life shall be added to
thee.

12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to
thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone
shalt bear the evil.

13 A foolish woman and clamorous, and
full of allurements, and knowing nothing
at all,

14 Sat at the door of her house, upon a
seat, in a high place of the city.

15 To call them that pass by the way,
and go on their journey :

16 He that is a little one, let him turn
to me. And to the fool she said :

17 Stolen waters are sweeter, and hid-
den bread is more pleasant.

18 And he did not know that giants are
there, and that her guests are in the
depths of heli

THE PARABLES OF SOLOMON.

CHAPTER 10.

In the twenty following chapters are contained
many wise sayings and axioms^ relating to ivis-
dam and folly, virtue and vice.

A WISE son maketh the father glad :
but a foolish eon is the sorrow of his
mother.

2 * Treasures of wickedness shall profit
nothing: but fustice shall deliver from
death.

3 The Lord will not afflict the soul of
the just with famine, and he will disap-
point the deceitful practices of the
wicked.

4 The slothful hand hath wrought pov-
erty : but the hand of the industrious
getteth riches.

He that trusteth to lies feedeth the
winds : and the same runneth after birds
that fly away,

5 He that gathered in the harvest, is a
wise son: but he that snorteth in the
summer, is the son of confusion,

e The blessing of the Lord is upon the
head of the just but iniquity covereth
the mouth of the wicked.

• Intra 11. 4,

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Sincerity^ prudence of speech PROVERBS Justice, humility, simplicity

I The memory of the just is with praises :
and the name of the wicked shall rot.

Z The wise of heart receiveth precepts :
a fooJ is beaten with lips.

9 He that walketh sincerely, walketh
confidently: but he that perverteth his
ways, shall be manifest.

10 * He that winketh with the eye shall
cause sorrow: and the foolish in lips
ahall be beaten.

II The mouth of the just is a vein of
Kfe ; and the mouth of the wicked cover-
eth iniquity.

12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: " and
charity covereth all sins.

13 In the lips of the wise is wisdom
'?ound: and a rod on the back of him that
wanteth sense.

14 Wise men lay up knowledge . but the
mcuth of the fool is next to confusion.

15 The substance of a rich man is the
L-ity of his strength • the fear of the poor
[i their poverty.

16 The work of the just is unto life : but
*he fruit of the wicked, unto sin.

17 The way of life, to him that observ-
eth correction : but he that f orsaketh re*
proofs goeth astray.

18 Lying lips hide hatred; he that utter-
eth reproach is foolish.

19 In the multitude of words there
shall not want sin : but he that refraineth
his lips is most wise.

20 The tongue of the just is as choice
silver: but the heart of the wicked is
nothing worth.

21 The lips of the just teach many: but
they that are ignorant, shall die in the
want of understanding.

22 The blessing of the Lord maketh men
rich: neither shall affliction be joined to
them.

23 A fool worketh mischief as it were
for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a
man.

24 That which the wicked feareth, shall
3ome upon him : to the just their desire
3hall be given.

25 As a tempest that passeth, so the
vicked shall be no more : but the just is
s an everlasting foundation.

26 As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke
o the eyes, so is the sluggard to them
hat sent him.

^7 The fear of the Lord shall prolong

-cclL 27. 25. —M 1 Cor. 23. 4; I Peter 4. a

days : and the years of the wicked shall
be shortened.

28 The expectation of the just is joy j
but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

29 The strength of the upright is the
way of the Lord: and fear to them that
work evil.

30 The just shall never be moved: but
the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

31 The mouth of the just shall bring
forth wisdom : the tongue of the perverse
shall perish.

32 The lips of the just consider what is
acceptable : and the mouth of the wicked
uttereth perverse things.

CHAPTER 11.

ADECEITFLTi "balance is an abomi-
nation before the Lord: and a luafc
weight is his wilL

2 Where pride is, there also shall be re-
proach; ^but where humility is, there
also is wisdom.

3 The simplicity of the just shall guide
them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked
shall destroy them.

4 ^ Riches shall not profit in the day ol
revenge; but justice shall deliver from
death.

5 The justice of the upright shall make
his way prosperous r. and the wicked man
shall fall by his own wickedness.

6 The justice of the righteous shall de-
liver them: and the unjust shall be caught
in their own snares,

7 When the wicked man is dead, thef )
shall be no hope any more, and the a? •
pectation of the solicitous shall perish.

8 The just is delivered out of distress:
and the wicked shall be given up for
him.

9 The dissembler with his mouth deceiv-
eth his friend : but the just shall be de-
livered by knowledge.

10 When it goeth well with the just the
city shall rejoice : and when the wicked
perish there shall be praise.

11 By the blessing of the just ihe city
shall be exalted : and by the mouth of the
wicked it shall be overthrown,

12 He that despise th his friend, is mean
of heart • but the wise man will hold his
peace.

13 He that walketh deceitfully, reveal*
eth secrets : but he that is faithful, con

V iijfra 20, ]0. — jj Infra 15. sa ^ x Supra ia
665

Reward of the just and the unjust PROVERBS Reward of the just and the unjust

iealeth the thing committed to him by
bis friend.

14 Where there is no governor, the peo-
ple shall fall : but there is safety where
there is much counsel.

15 He shall be aflSlicted with evil, that is
surety for a stranger: but he that is
aware of the snares, shall be secure,

18 A gracious woman shall find glory?
and the strong shall have riches.

17 A merciful man doth good to his own
soul : but he that is cruel casteth off even
his own kindred.

18 The wicked maketh an unsteady
work: but to him that soweth iustice,
there is a faithful reward.

19 Clemency prepare th life: and the
pursuing of evil things, death.

20 A perverse heart is abominable to
fche Lord i and his will is in them that
walk sincerely.

21 Hand in hand the evil man shall not
be innocent : but the seed of the just shall
be saved.

2C A golden ring in a swine's snout, a
woman fair and foolish,

23 The desire of the just is all good : the
expectation of the wicked is indignation.

24 Some distribute their own goods, and
grow richer : others take away what is
not their own, and are always in want.

25 The soul which blesseth, shall be
made fat : and he that inebriateth, shall
be inebriated also himself.

26 He that hideth up com, shall be
cursed among the people : but a blessing
upon the head of them that sell.

27 Well doth he rise early who seeketh
good things ; but he that seeketh after
evil things shall be oppressed by them.

28 He that trusteth in his riches shall
fall : but the just shall spring up as a green
leaf/

29 He that trouble th his own house,
shall inherit the winds : and the fool shall
serve the wise.

30 The fruit of the just man is a tree of
life : and he that gaineth souls, is wise.

31 y If the just man receive in the earth,
how much more the wicked and the sinner,

CHAPTER 12.

HE that loveth correction, loveth
knowledge ' but he that hateth re-
proof is foolish.

J/ ii JretCi 4c 13,

2 He that is good, shall draw grace from
the Lord i but he that trusteth in his own
devices doth wickedly

3 Men shall not be strengthened by
wickedness: and the root of the ju*"*
shall not be moved.

4 A diligent woman is a crown to her
husband: and she that doth things
worthy of confusion, is a rottenness in
his bones.

5 The thoughts of the just are judg-
ments : and the counsels of the wicked
are deceitful.

6 The words of fche wicked lie in wait
for blood: the mouth of the just shall
deliver them.

7 Turn the wicked, and they shall not
be : but the house of the just shall stand
firm.

8 A man shaiibe known by his learning:
but he that is vain and foolish, shall be
exposed to contempt.

9 ^ Better is the poor man that provid-
eth for himself, than he that is glorious»
and wanteth bread.

10 The just regardeth the lives of his
beasts : but the bowels of the wicked are
cruel.

11 "He that tilleth his land shall be
satisfied with bread : but he that pursu-
eth idleness is very foolish.

He that is delighted in passing his time
over wine, leaveth a reproach in his
strong holds.

12 The desire of the wicked is the forti-
fication of evil men ; but the root of the
just shall prosper.

13 For the sins of the lips ruin draweth
nigh to the evil man : but the just shall
escape out of distress.

14 By the fruit of his own mouth shall a
man be filled with good things, and ac-
cording to the works of his hands it shall
be repaid him.

15 The way of a fool is right in his own
eyes 2 but he that is wise hearkeneth
unto counsels.

16 A fool immediately sheweth his
anger but he that dissembleth injuries
is wise.

17 He that speaketh that which he
knoweth, sheweth forth Justice: but he
that lieth, is a deceitful witness.

18 There is that promiseth, and 1j
pricked as it were with a sword of con*

♦ Eccli. 10. 30. — a Eccli, 20. 30.

666

On truth and deceh

Bcience: bat the tongae of the wise is
health.

19 The lip of truth shall be steadfast for
ever: but he that is a hasty witness,
frameth a lying tongue.

20 Deceit is in the heart of them that
think evil things . but joy f olloweth them
that take counsels of peace.

21 Whatsoever shall befall the just man,
it shall not make him sad: but the
wicked shall be filled with mischief.

22 Lying lips are an abomination to the
Lord : but they that deal faithfully please
him.

23 A cautious man concealeth know-
ledge : and the heart of fools publisheth
folly.

24 The hand of the valiant shall bear
rule : but that which is slothful, shall be
under tribute.

25 Grief in the heart of a man shall
bring him low, but with a good word
he shal] be made glad.

26 He that neglecteth a loss for the
sake of 3 friend, is just : but the way of
the wicked shall deceive them.

27 The deceitful man shall not find
gain* but the substance of a lust man
shall be precious gold

28 In the path of justice i6 life ■ but the
by-way leadeth to death.

CHAPTER 13.

A WISE son heareth the doctrine of fiii
father; but he that is a scomer.
heareth not when he is reproved,

2 Of the fruit of his own mouth shall a
man be filled with good things; but the
Boul of transgressors is wicked

3 He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth
his soul: but he that hath no guard on
his speech shall meet with evilSc

4 The sluggard willeth and willetb not:
but the soul of them that work, shall be
made fat.

5 The just shall hate a lying word ; but
the wicked confoundeth, and shall be
confounded.

6 Justice keepeth the way of the inno-
cent: but wickedness overthroweth the
sinner.

7 One is as it were rich, when he hath
nothing: and another is as it were poor,
when he hath great riches.

8 The ransom of a man's life are his

PROVERBS The prudent and the foolish

riches: but he that is poor beareth ndii
reprehension.

9 The light of the just giveth joy . but
the lamp of the wicked shall be put
out.

10 Among the proud there are always
contentions s but they that do all things
with counsel, are ruled by wisdom.

11 Substance got in haste shall be di-
minished; but that which by little and
little is gathered with the hand shal]
increase.

12 Hope that is deferred afflicteth the
soul: desire when it cometh is a tree of
Ufe.

13 Whosoever speaketh ill of any thing,
bindeth himself for the time to come:
but he that feareth the commandment,
shall dwell in peace.

Deceitful souls go astray in sins: the
just are merciful, and shew mercy.

14 The law of the wise is a fountain of
life, that he may decline from the ruin of
death.

15 €rood instruction shall give graces
in the way of scorners is a deep pit.

16 The prudent man doth all things
with counsel: but he that is a fool, lay-
etb open his folly.

Vt The messenger of the wicked shall
fall into mischief: but a faithful ambas-
sador is health.

18 Poverty and shame to him that re-
fuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth
to reproof, shall be glorified.

19 The desire that is accomplished, de-
lighteth the soul: fools hate them that
flee from evil things

20 He that walketh with the wise, shall
be wise* a friend of fools shall become
like to them.

21 Evil pursueth sinners: and to the
just good shall be repaid.

22 The good man leavetb heirs, sons,
and grandsons and the substance of the
sinner is kept for the just.

23 Much food is in the tillage of fa«
thers : but for others it is gathered with-
out judgment.

24 ° He that spareth the rod hateth his
son : but he that loveth him correctetb
him betimes.

25 The just eateth and fiUeth his soul :
but the belly of the wicked is never tc
be filled.

* Infra 23. 13.

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The wise man and the fool

PROVERBS Fear of the Lord, and mercy

OHAPPBR 14c

A WISE woman buildeth her house-
but the foolish will pull down with
bar hands that also which is built.

2 He that walketh in the right way. and
feareth God, ^is despised by him that
goeth by an infamous way.

3 In the mouth of a fool is the rod of
pride i but the lips of the wise preserve
them.

4 Where there are no oxen, the crib is
empty: but where there is much corn,
there the strength of the ox is manifest.

6 A faithful witness wOl not lie but a
deceitful witness uttereth a lie

6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and find*
eth it not* the learning of the wise is
easy.

7 Go against a foolish man, and he
knoweth not the lips of prudence.

8 The wisdom of a discreet man is to
understand his way : and the imprudence
of fools erreth.

9 A fool will laugh at sin, but among
the just grace shall abide.

10 The heart that knoweth the bitter-
ness of his own soul, in his joy the
stranger shall not intermeddle.

11 The house of the wicked shall be de-
stroyed : but the tabernacles of the just
shall flourish.

12 There is a way which seemeth Just
to a man ; but the ends thereof lead to
death.

13 Laughter shall be mingled with sor-
row, and mourning taketh hold of the
end of joy,

14 A fool shall be filled with his own
ways, and the good man ohall be above
him.

15 The innocent belie veth every word :
the discreet man considereth his steps.

No good shall come to the deceitful
son: but the wise servant shall prosper
in his dealings, and his way shall be
made straight.

16 A wise man feareth and declineth
from evil : the fool leapeth over and is
confident»

17 The impatient man shall work folly:
and the crafty man is hateful.

18 The childish shall possess folly, and
the prudent shall look for knowledge.

39 The evil shall fall down before the

e Job 12. 4

good: anci the wicked before the gates
of the just.

20 The poor man shall be hateful even
to his own neighbour: but the friends of
the rich are many.

21 He that despiseth his neighbour, sin»
neths but he that sheweth mercy to the
poor, shall be blessed.

He that believeth in the Lord, ioveth
mercy-

22 They err that work evil but mercy
and truth prepare good things.

23 In much work there shall be abun-
dance : but where there are many words,
there is oftentimes want.

24 The crown of the wise is their
riches r the folly of fools, imprudence.

25 A faithful witness delivereth souls,
and the double dealer uttereth lies.

26 In the fear of the Lord is confi/3ence
of strength, and there shaU be hope foi
his children.

2? The fear of the Lord is a fountain of
life, to decline from the ruin of deathc

28 In the multitude of people is one
dignity of the king? and in the small
number of people the dishonour ot the
prince.

29 He that ie patient, is governed with
much wisdom : but he that is impatient,
exalteth his folly.

30 Soundness of heart is the life of the
flesh : but envy is the rottenness of the
bones

31 ^He that oppresseth the poor, up-
braideth his Maker: but he that hath
pity on the poor, honoureth him.

32 The wicked man shall be driven out
in his wickedness; but the just hath
hope in his death,

33 In the heart of the prudent resteth
wisdom, and it shall instruct all the igno-
rant.

34 Justice exalteth a nation: but sin
maketh nations miserable.

35 A wise servant is acceptable to the
king : he that is good for nothing shaU I
feel his anger.

CHAPTER 15.

A MILD * answer breaketh wrath . but
a harsh word stirreth up fury
2 The tongue of the wise adornetli
knowledge - hut the mouth of fools bub
bleth out folly

<f InfK u 6. - e iDlra 26 16

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The fool refuses instruction PROVERBS Mercy, faith, fear of the Lcyrd

3 The eyes ^i the Lord in every place
behold the good and the eviL

4 A peaceable tongue is a tree of life^
but that which is immoderate, shall
crush the spirit.

6 A fool laugheth at the instruction of
his father: but he that regardeth re-
proofs shall become prudent.

In abundant justice there is the greatest
strength: but the devices of the wicked
shall be rooted out.

6 The house of the just is very much
strength : and in the fruits of the wicked
13 trouble.

7 The lips of the wise shall disperse
knowledge the heart of fools shall be
unlike.

8 ^The victims of the wicked are abomi-
nable to the Lord : the vows of the just
are acceptable.

9 The way of the wicked is an abomi-
nation to the Lord: he that followeth
justice is beloved by him.

10 Instruction is grievous to him that
forsaketh the way of life : he that hateth
reproof shall die.

11 Hell and destruction are before the
Lord : how much more the hearts of the
children of men ?

12 A corrupt man loveth not one that re-
proveth him : nor will he go to the wise.

13 ^ A glad heart maketh a cheerful
countenance: but by grief of mind the
spirit is cast down.

14 The heart of the wise seeketh in-
struction : and the mouth of fools feed-
eth on foolishness.

15 All the days of the poor are evil : a
secure mind is like a continual feast.

16 Better is a little with the fear of
the Lord, than great treasures without
content.

17 It is better to be invited to herbs
mth love, than to a fatted calf with
hatred.

18 A passionate man stirreth up strifes :
tie that is patient appeaseth those that
ire stirred up.

19 The way of the slothful is as a hedge
:)f thorns \ the way of the just is without
>fifence,

/ Infra 21. 27 ; Eccli. 34. 21.
g Infra 16. 24, and 17. 22.

oHAP. 16. Ver, 1. It is the part of man, &c. That
s, a man should prepare in his heart and soul what
le 18 t^ say : but after all, it must be the Lord that
nust govern his tongue, to speak to the purpose.
sot that we 2an thiok any ttung of good without

20 A wise son maketh a father joyful:
but the foolish man despiseth his mother.

21 Folly is joy to the fool : and the wise
man maketh straight his steps.

22 Designs are brought to nothing
where there is no counsel j but where
there are many counsellors, they are es-
tablished.

23 A man rejoice th in the sentence of
his mouth* and a word in due time is
best.

24 The path of life is above for the
wise, that he may decline from the low-
est hell,

25 The Lord will destroy the house of
the proud : and will strengthen the bor-
ders of the widow.

26 Evii thoughts are an abomination to
the Lord i and pure words most beauti-
ful shall be confirmed by him.

27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth
his own house : but he that hateth bribes
shall live.

'^By mercy and faith sins are purged
away ; and by the fear of the Lord every
one declineth from eviL

28 The mind of the just studieth obedi-
ence : the mouth of the wicked over*
floweth with evils.

29 The Lord is far from the wicked :
and he will hear the prayers of the just.

30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the
soul; a good name maketh the bones
fat.

31 The ear that heareth the reproofs of
life, shall abide in the midst of the wise.

32 He that rejecteth instruction, despis-
eth his own soul: but he that yieldeth
to reproof possesseth understanding.

33 The fear of the Lord is the lesson
of wisdom : and humility goeth before
glory,

CHAPTER 16.

IT * is the part of man to prepare the
soul: and of the Lord to govern the
tongue.

2 •? All the ways of a man are open to
his eyes : the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

3 Lay open thy works to the Lord : and
thy thoughts shall be directed.

h Infra 16. 6. — t Infra ver. 9.
J Infra 20. 24. and 21. 2.

God's grace; but that after we have (with God's
grace) thought and prepared within our souls what
we would speak, if God does not govern our tongue,
we shall not succeed in what we speak.

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Justice and vnsdom

PROVERBS A wiched tongue, and strif

i The Lord batb made all things for
himself : the wicked also for the evil day.

5 Every proud man is an abomination
bo the Lord, though hand should be
joined to hand, he is not innocent.

The beginning of a good way is to do
Justice i and this is more acceptable with
God, than to offer sacrifices,

6 ^By mercy and truth iniquity is re-
deemed : and by the fear of the Lord
men depart from evil,

7 When the ways of man shall please the
Lord, he will convert even his enemies
to peace.

8 Better is a little with justice, than
great revenues with iniquity,

9 ^ The heart of man disposeth his way ;
but the Lord must direct his steps.

10 Divination is in the hps of the king,
his mouth shall not err in judgment.

11 Weight and balance are judgments
of the Lord: and his work all the weights
of the bag.

12 They that act wickedly are abomi-
nable to the king: for the throne is es-
tablished by justice.

13 Just hps are the delight of kings ; he
that speaketh right things shall be loved,

14 The wrath of a king is as messengers
of death : and the wise man will pacify it.

15 In the cheerfulness of the king's
countenance is life : and his clemency is
like the latter rain.

16 Get wisdom, because it is better than
gold ■ and purchase prudence, for it Is
more precious than silver.

17 The path of the just departeth from
evils : he that keepeth his soul keepeth
his way.

18 Pride goeth before destruction: and
the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

19 It is better to be humbled with the
meek, than to divide spoils with the
pro\id.

20 The learned in word shall find good
things : and he that trusteth in the Lord
is blessed.

21 The wise in heart shall be called
prudent: and he that is sweet in words
shall attain to greater things.

22 Knowledge is a fountain of life to
him that possesseth it: the instruction
of fools is foolishness.

23 The heart of the wise shall Instruct
his mouth : and shall add grace to his lips.

* Supra 16. 27.'» 2 Supra, ver. i.— m Supra 15. 13;

24 "* Well ordered words are as a honey
comb : sweet to the soul, and health tc
the bones.

25 There is a way that seemeth to a man
right: and the ends thereof lead to death.

26 The soul of him that laboureth, la-
boureth for himself, because his mouth
hath obhged him to it.

27 The wicked man diggeth evil, and
in his hps is a burning fire.

28 A perverse man stirreth up quarrels:
and one full of words separateth princes.

29 An unjust man allureth his friend :
and leadeth him into a way that is not
good,

30 He that with fixed eyes deviseth
wicked things, biting his hps, bringeth
evil to pass.

31 Old age is a crown Qf dignity, when
it is found in the ways of justice,

32 The patient man is better than the
valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit,
than he that taketh cities.

33 Lots are cast into the lap, but they
are disposed of by the Lord,

CHAPTER 17.

dry morsel with

full of victims

joy,
with

ETTER is a
than a house
strife.

2 ** A wise servant shall rule over fool-
ish sons, and shall divide the inheritance
among the brethren,

3 As silver is tried by fire, and gold
in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the
hearts.

4 The evil man obeyeth an unjust
tongue: and the deceitful hearkeneth to
lying hps.

5 ° He that despiseth the poor, reproach-
eth his Maker; and he that rejoiceth at
another man's ruin, shall not be unpun-
ished.

6 Children's children are the crown o'
old men : and the glory of children are
their fathers,

7 Eloquent words do not become a foo^
nor lying lips a prince.

8 The expectation of him that expect-
eth, is a most acceptable jewel : whither-
soever he turneth himself, he onder-
standeth wisely.

9 He that concealeth a transgression,
seeketh friendships : he that repeateti?
it again, separateth friends.

Infra 17. 22. —n £cclL 10. 28. — o Supra 14. 31.

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The foolish man

10 A reproof availeth more with a wise
man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

11 An evil man always seeketh quar-
rels : but a cruel angel shall be sent
against him.

12 It is better to meet a bear robbed of
her whelps, than a fool trusting in his
own folly.

13 P He that rendereth evil for good,
evil shall not depart from his house.

14 The beginning of quarrels is as when
one letteth out water: before he sufcereth
reproach he forsaketh judgment.

15 5 He that justifieth the wicked, and
he that condemneth the just, both are
abominable before God.

16 What doth it avail a fool to have
riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom ?

He that maketh his house high, seeketh
a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn,
shall fall into evils.

17 He that is a friend loveth at all times;
and a brother is proved in distress.

18 A foolish man will clap hands, when
he is surety for his friend.

19 He that studieth discords, loveth
quarrels: and he that exalteth his dcor,
seeketh ruin.

20 He that is of a perverse heart, shall
not find good : and he that pervertetn his
tongue, shall fall into evil.

21 A fool is born to his own disgrace:
and even his father shall not rejoice in a
fool.

22 *"A joyful mind maketh age flour-
ishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the
bones.

23 The wicked man taketh gifts out of
the bosom, that he may pervert the paths
of judgment.

24 * Wisdom shine th in the face of the
wise : the eyes of fools are in the ends of
the earth.

25 A foolish son is the anger of the
father: and the sorrow of the mother
♦^hat bore him.

26 It is no good thing to do hurt to the
just: nor to strike the prince, who judg-
eth right.

27 * He that setteth bounds to his words,
is knowing and wise: and the man of
understanding is of a precious spirit.

28 Even a fool, if he will hold his peace
shall be counted wise : and if he close his
iips, a man of understanding.

PROVERBS

tmprfidence in speech

3> Kom. 12. vs j a Thess. 5. 15 i Peter a 9
Q Isa & yft- «r Supra. 1& is, andi le 24

CHAPTER 18.

HE that hath a mind to depart from a
friend seeketh occasions: he shall
ever be subject to reproach.

2 A fool receiveth not the words of pru-
dence: unless thou say those things which
are in his heart.

3 The wicked man when he is come into
the depth of sins, contemneth: but igno-
miny and reproach follow him.

4 w Words from the mouth of a man are
as deep water: and the fountain of wis-
dom as an overflowing stream.

5 It is not good to accept the person of
the wicked, to decline from the truth of
judgment.

6 The lips of a fool intermeddle with
strife: and his mouth provoketh quar-
rels.

7 The mouth of a fool is his destruction:
and his lips are the ruin of his soul.

8 The words of the double torigued are
as if they were harmless: and they reach
even to the inner parts of the bowels.

Fear casteth down the slothful: and the
souls of the effeminate shall be hungry.

9 He that is loose and slack in his work,
is the brother of him that wasteth his
own works.

10 The name of the Lord is a strong
tower: the just runneth to it, and shall
be exalted.

11 The substance of the rich man is the
city of his strength, and as a strong wall
compassing him about.

12 ^ Before destruction, the heart of a
man is exalted: and before he be glori-
fied, it is humbled.

13 ^ He that answereth before he hear-
eth sheweth himself to be a fool, and
worthy of confusion.

14 The spirit of a man upholdeth his
infirmity: but a spirit that is easily an-
gered, who can bear?

15 A wise heart shall acquire know-
ledge: and the ear of the wise seeketh
instruction.

16 A man's gift enlarge th his way, and
maketh him room before princes.

17 The just is first accuser of himself:
his friend cometh, and shall search him.

18 The lot suppresseth contentions, and
determineth even between the mighty.

19 A brother that is helped by his bro-

, « EccL 2. 14, and 8. 1. — i; James L 19. — w Infra 20. fc.
I V Supra n. 2; Eccl* m 1& — 1<; Eccli, 11 &.

67X

The rich and the poor

PROVERBS Slothf illness and impatience

ther, is like a strong city: and judgments
are like the bars of cities.

20 Of the fruit of a man's mouth shall
his belly he satisfied: and the offspring
of his lips shall fill him.

21 Death and life are in the power of
the tongue: they that love it, shall eat
the fruits thereof.

22 He that hath found a good wife, hath
found a good thing, and shall receive a
pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth
away a good wife, driveth away a good
thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress,
is foolish and wicked.

23 The poor will speak with supplica-
tions, and the rich will speak roughly.

24 A man amiable in society, shall be
more friendly than a brother.

CHAPTER 19.

BETTER is. the poor man, that walketh
in his simplicity, than a rich man
that is perverse in his lips, and unwise.

2 ^ Where there is no knowledge of the
soul, there is no good: and he that is
hasty with his feet shall stumble.

3 The folly of a man supplanteth his
steps: and he fretteth in his mind against
God.

4 Riches make many friends: but from
the poor man, even they whom he had,
depart.

5 y A false witness shall not be unpun-
ished : and he that speaketh lies shall not
escape.

6 Many honour the person of him that
is mighty, and are friends of him that
giveth gifts.

7 The brethren of the poor man hate
him: moreover also his friends have de-
parted far from him.

He that followeth after words only, shall
have nothing.

8 But he that possesseth a mind, loveth
his own soul, and he that keepeth pru-
dence shall find good things.

9 A false witness shall not be unpun-
ished: and he that speaketh lies, shall
perish.

10 Delicacies are not seemly for a fool:
nor for a servant to have rule over
princes.

11 The learning of a man is known by
patience: and his glory is to pass over
wrongs.

X Infra 21. \<o.—y Dan. 13. 61.

12 As the roaring of a lion, so also in
the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness
as the dew upon the grass.

13 A foolish son is the grief of hi? fa-
ther: and a wrangling wife is like a roof
continually dropping through.

14 House and riches are given by par-
ents : but a prudent wife- is properly from
the Lord.

15 Slothf ulness casteth into a deep sleep,
and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

16 He that keepeth the commandment
keepeth his own soul: but he that neg-
lecteth his own way, shall die.

17 He that hath mercy on the poor, lend-
eth to the Lord : and he will repay him.

18 Chastise thy son, despair not: but to
the killing of him set not thy soul.

19 He that is impatient, shall suffer
damage: and when he shall take away
he shall add another thing.

20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction,
that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.

21 There are many thoughts in the heart
of a man: but the will of the Lord shall
stand firm.

22 A needy man is merciful: and better
is the poor than the lying man.

23 The fear of the Lord is unto life:
and he shall abide in fulness without be-
ing visited with evil.

24 « The slothful hideth his hand under
his armpit, and will not so much as bring
it to his mouth.

25 ^ The wicked man being scourged,
the fool shall be wiser: but if thou re-
buke a wise man he will understand dis-
cipline.

26 He that afflicteth his father, and
chaseth away his mother, is infamous
and unhappy.

27 Cease not, 0 my son, to hear instruc-
tion, and be not ignorant of the words
of knowledge.

28 An unjust witness scorneth judg-
ment: and the mouth of the wicked de-
voureth iniquity.

29 Judgments are prepared for scorners:
and striking hammers for the bodies of
fools.

CHAPTER 20.

WINE is a luxurious thing and drunk-
enness riotous; whosoever is de-
lighted therewith shall not be wise.

z Infra 26. 15.-

Infra 21. 11.

672

SlothfulnebSy fraudy lying

PROVERBS Against revenge and injustice

2 As the roaring of ft lion, so also is the
dread of a king i he that provokett him,
Binneth against his own soul^

3 It is an honour for a man to separate
himself from quarrels * but aU (ools are
meddling with reproaches»

4 Because of the cold the sluggard would
not plough: he shall beg therefore in
the summer, and it shall not be given
him.

5 ^ Counsel in the heart of a man is like
deep water : but a wise man will draw it
out.

6 Many men are called merciful: but
who shall find a faithful man?

7 The just that walketh in his simpli-
city, shall leave behind him blessed chil-
dren,

8 The king, that sitteth on the throne of
judgment, scattereth away all evil with
his look.

9 ^Who can say: My heart is clean, I
am pure from sin?

10 ^Diverse weights and diverse mea-
sures, both are abominable before God

11 By his inclinations a child is known,
If his works be clean and right.

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
the Lord hath made them both.

13 Love not sleep, l<tet poverty oppress
bhee; open thy eyes, and be filled with
bread.

14 It is nought, it is nought, saith every
buyer: and when he is gone away, then
tie will boast.

15 There is gold, and a multitude of
Mwels : but the lips of knowledge are a
precious vessel.

16 *Take away the garment of him that
r surety for a stranger, and take a pledge
Tom him for strangers.

17 The bread of lying is sweet to a man :
)ut afterwards his mouth shall be filled
vith gravel.

18 Designs are strengthened by conn-
els: and wars are to be managed by
governments.

19 Meddle not with him that revealeth
ecrets, and walketh deceitfully, and
>peneth wide his lips.

20 'He that curseth his father, and mo-
ler, his lamp shall be put out in the
aidst of darkness.

, _. b Supra 18. 4.

♦ 3 Kings 8. 46 ; 2 Par. 6. 36 ; EccL 7. 21 ; 1 John 1 fe.
« Supra 11. 1 ! Infra ver. 23. -- e Infra 27. 13
/ Ex. 2L 17 ; Lev. 20. 9 : Matt 1& 4.
43

21 The inheritance gotten hastily in oho
beginning, in the end shall be without s
blessing.

22 ^Say not: I will return evil: wait foi
the Lord and he will deliver thee.

23 ^ Diverse weights are an abomination
before the Lord: a deceitful balance ic
not good,

24 * The steps of man are guided by the
Lord : but who is the man that can un-
derstand his own way?

25 It is ruin to a man to devour holy
ones, and after vows to retract.

26 A wise king scattereth the wicked,
and bringeth over them the wheeL

27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of
the Lord, which searcheth all the bidder
things of the bowels

28 Mercy and truth preserve the king,
and his throne is strengthened by clem-
ency.

29 The joy of young men is their
strength: and the dignity of old men,
their grey hairs.

30 The blueness of a wound shall wipe
away evils : and stripes in the more in
ward parts of the belly,

CHAPTER 21,

AS the divisions of waters, so the heart
J\. of the king is in the hand of the Lord:
whithersoever he will he shall turn it.

2^ Every way of a man seemeth rightj
to himself: but the Lord weigheth the
hearts.

3 To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth
the Lord more than victims.

4 Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlar-
ging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked
is sin.

5 The thoughts of the industrious al'
ways bring forth abundance : but every
sluggard is always in want»

6 He that gathereth treasures by a lying
tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall
stumble upon the snares of death.

7 The robberies of the wicked shall be
their downfall, because they would not
do judgment.

8 The perverse way of a man is strange :
but as for him that is pure, his work is
right.

9 '^ It is better to sit in a cornei of the

673

g Rom. 12. 17 ; i Thess. 6. 15 ? l Peter & 9.

h Supra ver. lo. — i Supra 16c 2.

j Supra 16. 2, and 20, 24

.'c Infra 25. 24.

Refusing the poor, gluttony

PROVERBS

bousetop, than with a brawling woman,
and in a common bouse

30 The sou) of the wicked desireth evil,
be will not have pity on his neighbour.

in *^ When a pestilent man is punished,
the little one will be wiser : and if he
follow the wise, he will receive know-
ledge.

32 The Just considereth seriously the
house of the wicked, that he may with-
draw the wicked from eviL

1 3 He that etoppeth his ear against the
cry of the poor, shall also cry himself
and shall not be heard.

14 A secret present quencheth anger :
and a gift in the bosom the greatest wrath.

15 It is Joy to the just to do judgment :
and dread to them that work iniquity.

16 A man that shall wander out of the
way of doctrine, shall abide in the com-
pany of the giants.

17 He that loveth good cheer, ehall be
in want - he that loveth wine, and fat
things, ehall not be rich.

1 8 The wicked is delivered up for the
just . and the unjust for the righteous.

IS "* It is better to dwell in a wilder-
ness., than with a quarrelsome and pas-
sionate woman.

20 There is a treasure to be desired, and
oil in the dwelling of the just : and the
foolish man shall spend it.

21 He that folio weth justice and mercy ^
fihall find life, justice, and glory.

22 The wise man hath scaled the city
of the strong, and hath cast down the
etrength of the confidence thereof.

23 He that keepeth his mouth and his
tongue, keepeth his soul from distress,

24 The proud and the arrogant is called
ignorant, who in anger worketh pride.

25 Desires kill the slothful: for his
hands have refused to work at all.

26 He longeth and desireth all the day :
but he that is just, will give, and will not
cease.

27 '^The sacrificus of the wicked are
abominable, because they are offered of
wickedness.

28 A lying witness shall perish: an obe-
dient man shall speak of victory.

29 The wicked man impudently hard-
eneth his face r but h© that is righteous,
correcteth hie way.

30 There is no wisdom., there is no pru-

i Supra 19. 25.— m Supra ver. 95 EcclL 25. 23.
n Supra 15. 8 : Ecclt 34. 21.

The rich and the poor

there is no counsel against the

dence,
Lord.

31 The horse is prepared for the day of
battle: but the Lord giveth safety.

CHAPTER 22.

is better than ^'"^at
favour is f^Mve

A GOOD ° name
riches ? and good
silver and goldc

2 PThe rich and poor have met ^^e
another : the Lord is the maker of them
both.

3 The prudent man saw the evil, and
hid himself: the simple passed on, and
suffered loss.

4 The fruit of humility is the fear of the
Lord, riches and glory and life.

5 Arms and swords are in the way of
the perverse: but he that keepeth his
own soul departeth far from them.

6 It is a proverb: A young man ac-
cording to his way, even when he is ol^
he will not depart from iL

7 The rich ruleth over the poor : ana
the borrower is servant to him that
lendeth.

8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap
evils, and with the rod of his anger h€
shall be consumed.

9 ^ He that is inclined to mercy shall be
blessed : for of his bread he hath given
to the poor.

He that maketh presents shall purchase
victory and honour! but he carrietb
away the souls of the receivers.

10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention
shall go out with him, and quarrels and
reproaches shall cease.

11 He that loveth cleanness of heart,
for the grace of hie lips shall have the
king for his friends

12 The eyes of the Lord preserve know*
ledge : and the words of the unjust are
overthrown.

13 The slothful man saith: There is a
lion without, I shall be slain in the midst
of the streets.

14 The mouth of a strange woman is a
deep pit : he whom the Lord js angrj
with, shall fail into it.

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a
child, and the rod of correction shall
drive it away.

16 He that oppresseth the poor, to in-
crease hie own riches, shall himself giv«

o EccL 7. 2.— x> Infra 29. 13,
g EcclL 31. 28.

674

Oppression of the poor

PROVERBS

Envy and intemperance

to one that \3 rioher, :.iid she A i)3 in
need.

17 Incline thy ear, and hear the words
of the wisei and apply thy heart to my
doctrine :

18 Which shall be beautiful for thee, if
thou keep ^.t in ihy bowels, and it shall
flow in ihy lips:

19 That thy trust may be in the Lord,
wherefore I have also shewn it to thee
this day.

20 Behold I have described it to thee
three manner of ways, in thoughts and
knowledge *

21 That I might shew thee the certainty,
and the words of truth, to answer out of
these to them that sent thee.

22 Do no violence to the poor, because
he is poor: and do not oppress the needy
in the gate :

23 Because the Lord will judge his
cause, and will afflict them that have af-
flicted his soul.

24 Be not a friend to an angry man, and
do not walk with a furious man:

25 Lest perhaps thou learn his ways,
and take scandal to thy soul.

26 Be not with them that fasten down
their hands, and that offer themselves
sureties for debts *

27 For if thou have not wherewith to
restore, what cause is there, that he
should take the covering from thy bed?

28 Pass not beyond the ancient bounds
which thy fathers have set.

29 Hast thou seen a man swift in his
work? he shall stand before kings, and
shall not be before those that are ob-
scure.

CHAPTER 23

WHEN thou Shalt sit to eat with a
prince, consider diligently what is
Get before thy face

2 And put a knife to thy throat, if it be
8o that thou have thy soul in thy own
powero

3 Be not desirous of his meats, in which
is the bread of deceit.

4 Labour not to bo rich: but set bounds
60 thy prudencCo

6 lift not up thy eyes to riches which
thou canst not have because they shall
«nake themselves wings like those of an
. agle, and shall fly towards heaven.

r Supra !IB. 24* rSccliSO. 1| j[iifr»3a

6 Eat not with an envious man, and de-
sire not his meats :

7 Because hke a soothsayer, and diviner,
he thinketh that which he knoweth not.
Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and
his mind is not with thee.

8 The meats which thou hadst eaten,
thou shalt vomit up : and shalt loose thy
beautiful words,

9 Speak not in the ears of fools: because
they will despise the instruction of thy
speech.

10 Touch not the bounds of little ones :
and enter not into the field of the father-
less:

11 For their near kinsman is strong: and
he will judge their cause against thee.

12 Let thy heart apply itself to instruc-
tion: and thy ears to words of knowledge,

13 ^Withhold not correction from a
child : for if thou strike him with the rod,
he shall noi die.

14 Thou shalt beat him with the cod, and
dehver his soul from hell,

15 My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart
shall rejoice with thee :

16 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy
lips shall speak what is right.

17 ^ Let not thy heart ©nvy sinners . but
be thou in che fear of the Lord all the
day long :

18 Bocause thou shalt have hope in the
latter end, and thy expectation shall not
be taken away.

19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise ? and
guide thy mind in the way,

20 Be not in the feasts of great drinkers,
nor in their revellings, who contribute
flesh to eat:

21 Because they that give themselves to
drinking, and that club together shall
be consumed; and drowsiness shall be
clothed with rags.

22 Hearken to thy father, that begot
thee : and despise not thy mother whea
she is old.

23 Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom,
and instruction, and understanding.

24 The father of the just rejoiceth
greatly: he that hath begotten a wise
son, shall have joy in him.

25 Let thy father, and thy mother be
joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.

26 My son, give me thy hearts; and let
thy eyes keep my ways.

• Infra 24. 1,

676

Drunkenness

PROVERBS

Detr action y human respect

^7 For a harlot is a deep ditch : and a
strange woman is a narrow pit.

28 She lieth in wait in the way as a rob-
ber, and him whom she shall see unwary,
she will kilL

29 Who hath woe? whose father hath
woe? who hath contentions? who falls into
pits ? who hath wounds without cause ?
who hath redness of eyes?

30 Surely they that pass their time in
wine, and study to drink off their cups.

31 Look not upon the wine when it is
yellow, when the colour thereof shineth
in the glass : it goeth in pleasantly,

32 But in the end, it will bite like a snake,
and will spread abroad poison like a basi-
lisk.

33 Thy eyes shall behold strange women,
and thy heart shall utter perverse things.

34 And thou shalt be as one sleeping in
the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast
asleep, when the stern is lost.

35 And thou shalt say : They have beaten
me, but I was not sensible of pain: they
drew me, and i felt not: when ghall I
awake, and find wine again?

CHAPTER 24.

SEEK * not to be like evil men, neither
desire to be with them:

2 Because their mind studieth robberies,
and their lips speak deceits.

3 By wisdom the house shall be built,
and by prudence it shall be strengthened.

4 By instruction the storerooms shall be
filled with all precious and most beautiful
wealth.

6 A wise man is strong: and a knowing
man, stout and valiant.

6 Because war is managed by due order-
ing : and there shall be safety where there
are many counsels.

7 Wisdom is too high for a fool, in the
gate he shall not open his mouth.

8 He that deviseth to do evils, shall be
called a fool.

9 The thought of a fool is sin ; and the
detracter is the abomination of men.

10 If thou lose hope being weary in the
day of distress, thy strength shall be di-
minished.

11 " Deliver them that are led to death?
and those that are drawn to death forbear
not to deliverc

12 If thou say: I have not steength

' Supra 23. 17,— 2i Ps. 31, ^
It Ira 2& 1 5 and 27.

enough: he that seeth into the heart, he
understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the
keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to
a man according to his works.

13 ^Eat honey, my son, because it ie
good, and the honeycomb most sweet to
thy throat :

14 So also 18 the doctrine of wisdom *■(%
thy soul : which when thou hast found
thou shalt have hope in the end, and thy
hope shall not perish.

15 Lie not in wait, nor seek after wick-'
edness in the house of the just, nor spoil
his rest.

16 For a just man shall fall seven times
and shall rise again ; but the wicked shall
fall down into eviL

17 When thy enemy shall fall, be not
glad, and in his ruin let not thy heart
rejoice:

18 Lest the Lord see, and it displease
him, and he turn away his wrath from
him.

19 Contend not with the wicked, nor
seek to be like the ungodly :

20 For evil men have no hope of things
to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall
be put out.

21 My son, fear the Lord and the king,
and have nothing to do with detracterg,

22 For their destruction shall rise sud-
denly: and who knoweth the ruin of
both?

23 These things also to the wise s ^ It is|
not good to have respect to persons in
judgment.

24 They that say to the wicked mani
Thou art just : shall be cursed by the
people, and the tribes shall abhor them.

25 They that rebuke him, shall be praised
and a blessing shall come upon them.

26 He shall kiss the lips, who an6weretl|
right words.

27 Prepare thy work without, and dili
gently till thy ground : that afterwar(
thou mayst build thy house.

23 Be not witness without cause agains
thy neighbour : and deceive not any ma:
with thy lips.

29 ^ Say not : I will do to him as he hat
done to me : I will render to every od
according to his work.

30 I passed by the field of the slothfi
man, and by the vineyard of the foolie
man:

w Lev. 19k 15 s Deut. 1. 17, and 16. 19; Eccli. 42. i*

676

The slvggard

31 And behold it was aU filled with net-
tles, and thorns had covered the faco
thereof, and the stone wall was broken
down.

32 Which when I had seen, I laid it up
in my heart, and by the example I re-
ceived instructiono

33 Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou
wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy
hands a little to rest:

34 And poverty shall come to thee as a
runner, and beggary as an armed man.

CHAPTER 25.

THESE are also parablep of Solomon,
which the men of Ezechias king of
Juda copied out.

2 It is the glory of God to conceal the
word, and the glory of kings to search
out the speech.

3 The heaven above, and the earth be-
neath, and the heart of kings is unsearch-
able.

4 Take away the rust from silver, and
ihere shall come forth a most pure vessel :

5 Take away wickedness from the face
)f the king, and his throne shall be
established with justice.

6 Appear not glorious before the king,
ind stand not in the place of great men.

7 For it is better that it should be said
0 thee : Come up hither ; than that thou
houldst be humbled before the prince.

8 The things which thy eyes have seen,
,tter not hastily in a quarrel : lest after-
ward thou mayst not be able to make
mends, when thou hast dishonoured thy
lend.

i9 Treat thy cause with thy friend, and
jiscover not the secret to a stranger :
10 Lest he insult over thee, when he hath
pard it, and cease not to upbraid thee,
jrrace and friendship deliver a man:
3ep these for thyself, lest thou fall
ider reproach.

1 To speak a word in due time, is like
pples of gold on beds of silver.
1 2 As an earring of gold and a bright
"|!arl, so is he that reproveth the wise,
> d the obedient ear.

3 ^ As the cold of snow in the time of
jrvest, sois a faithful messenger to him
»at sent him, for he refresheth his soul.

y Infra 26. 6. — z Supra 15. i.

HAP. 25. Ver. 27. Majesty, \\z., of God. For
yearch into that incomprehensible Majesty, and

PROVERBS

Returning good for evil

. and wind, wheis nc rain
is the man that boasteth.

14 As clou !j
followeth, so
and doth not fulfil his promises.

15 By patience a prince shall be ap-
peased, ^and a soft tongue shaU break
hardness.

16 Thou hast found honey, eat what is
sufficient for thee, lest being glutted
therewith thou vomit it up.

17 Withdraw thy foot from the house oi
thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate
thee.

18 A man that beareth false witness
against his neighbour, is like a dart and
a eword and a sharp arrow.

19 To trust to an unfaithful man in the
time of trouble, is like a rotten tooth,
and weary foot,

20 And one that looseth his garment Id
cold weather.

As vinegar upon nitre, so is he that sing-
eth songs to r. very evil heart. As a moth
doth by a garment, and a worm by the
wood ; so the sadness of a man consum-
eth the heart.

21 ** If thy enemy be hungry, give him
to eat : if he thirst, give him water to
drink:

22 For thou shalt heap hot coals upon
his head, and the Lord will reward thee.

23 The north wind driveth away rain,
as doth a sad countenance a backbiting
tongue.

24 ^ It is better to sit in a corner of the
housetop, than with a brawling woman,
and in a common house.

25 As cold water to a thirsty soul, so ie
good tidings from a far country.

26 A just man falling down before the
wicked, is as a fountain troubled with
the foot, and a corrupted spring.

27 As it is not good for a man to eat
much honey, ^so he that is a searcher
of majestj', shall be overwhelmed by
glory.

28 Ae a city that lieth open and is not
compassed with walls, so is a man that
cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking

CHAPTER 26.

AS snow ii^ summer, and rain in har-
. vest, so glory is not seemly for a
fool.

a Rom. 12 20—6 Supra 21 9. — c Eccli. 3. 22.

n^retem* to 3ouxidt^:e aepthr < tbc wisdba» of Go<t i Gcmjgiff'^iead

677

is exposing oui weak understanding to be bhnded
with an exceSi^ oi ligbw and glory, which it cannof

The fool and the sluggard

PROVERBS

The mischief maker

2 As a bird flying to other places, and a ( 21 As coals are to burning coals, and

sparrow going here or there ; so a curse
uttered without cause shall come upon a
man.

3 A whip for a horse, and a snaffle for
an ass, ^ and a rod for the back of fools

4 Answer not a fool according to his
folly, lest thou be made like him

6 Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he imagine himself to be wise.

6 ^ He that sendeth words by a foolish
messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh
iniquity.

7 As a lame man hath fair legs in vain :
BO a parable is unseemly in the mouth of
fools.

8 As he that casteth a stone into the
' heap of Mercury ; so is he that giveth
honour to a fooL

9 As if a thorn should grow in the hand
of a drunkard: so is a parable in the
mouth of fools.

10 Judgment determine th causes: and
he that puttetb a fool to silence, appeas-
eth anger.

ii &As a dog that returneth to his
Tomit, eo is the fool that repeateth his
folly

12 Hast thou seen a man wise in his
own conceit? there shall be more hope
of a f ooJ than of him.

13 The slothful man saith ; There is a lion
in the way, and a lioness in the roads.

14 As the door turneth upon its hinges,
so doth the slothful upon his bed.

15 '^ The slothful hideth his hand under
his armpit, and it grieveth him to turn
it to his mouth.

1 6 The sluggard is wiser in his own con-
ceit, than seven men that speak sen-
tences.

17 A e he that taketb a dog by the ears,
80 is he that passeth by in anger, and
meddleth with another man's quarrel.

1 8 As he is guilty that shooteth arrows,
and lances unto death :

3 9 So is the man that hurteth his friend
deceitfully : and when he is taken, saith :
I did it in jest.

20 When the wood faileth, the fire shall
go out: and when the talebearer is taken
away, contentions shall cease.

d Supra 23. 13. — e Supra 25. 13.
/ That is, heap ol stones at the foot of this Idol.

Cttap. 26. Vor 2. As a bird, &c. The meaning
Is, that » curse uttered without cause shall do no
;'i£.nn tc tbe person tha-t is cursed, but will return

wood to fire, * so an angry man stirreth
up strife.

22 The words of a talebearer are as it
were simple, but they reach to the inner-
most parts of the belly.

23 Swelling lips joined with a corrupt
heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned
with silver dross.

24 An enemy is known by his lips, when
in his heart he entertaineth deceit

25 When he shall speak low, trust him
not : because there are seven mischiefs in
his heart.

26 He that covereth hatred deceitfully,
his malice shall be laid open in the public
assembly.

27 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into
it ; and he that roUeth a stone, it shall
return to him.

28 A deceitful tongue loveth not truth '
and a slippery mouth worketh ruin

CHAPTER 27.

BOAST not for to morrow, for thoi
knowest not what the day to com<
may bring forth.

2 Let another praise thee, and not thy"
own mouth, a stranger, and not thy own
Hps,

3 ^ A stone is heavy, and sand weighty:
Dut the anger of a fool is heavier than
them bo the

4 Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when
it breaketh forth • and who can bear the
violence of one provoked ?

5 Open rebuke is better than hidden
love.

6 Better are the wounds of a friend
than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.

7 '^ A soul that is full shall tread upon
the honeycomb : and a soul that is hungry
shall take even bitter for sweet.

8 As a bird that wandereth from hei
nest, so is a man that leaveth his place.

9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the
heart ; and the good counsels of a friend
are sweet tc the soul.

10 Thy own friend, and thy father's
friend forsake not - and go not into thyj
brother's house in the day of thy afflic*[
tion.

g 2 Peter 2. 22. — h Supra 19. 24.
% Supra 15. 18.— j Eccli. 22. 18.— k Job 6. ? I

upon him that curseth, as whithersoever a bird fliesj
it returns to its own nest.

Ver. 4. Ansv;er noi r. fool, &a Viz., so as to Im»
tate liiiL but only S'' ^ tc reprove his f oU7<

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A contentious woman

Better is a neighbotii tha'c m near, than
a brother 3,far off.

11 Study wisdom, my son, and make my
hearu joyful, that thou mayst give an
answer to him that reproacheth.

12 The prudent man seeing evil hideth
himself: little ones passing on have suf-
fered losses.

13 ^Take away his garment that hath
been surety for a stranger : and take
from him a pledge for strangers.

14 He that blesseth his neighbour with
a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be
like to him that curse th,

15 "* Roofs dropping through in a cold
da/', and a contentious woman are alike.

Id He that retaineth her, is as he that
would hold the wind, and shall call in
the oil of his right hand,

17 Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharp-
eneth the countenance of his friend.

18 He that keepeth the fig tree, shall
eat the fruit thereof and he that is the
keeper of his master, shall be glorified.

19 As the faces of them that look therein,
shine in the water, so the hearts of men
are laid open to the wise,

20 Hell and destruction are never filled ;
^ so the eyes of men are never satis-
aed.

21 ^ As silver is tried in the fining-pot
and gold in the furnace : so a man is tried
by the mouth of him that praiseth.

The heart of the wicked seeketh after
evils, but the righteous heart seeketh
after knowledge.

22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in
the mortar, as when a pestle strike th upon
sodden barley, his folly would not be
taken from him.

23 Be diligent to know the countenance
of thy cattle, and consider thy own
flocks ?

24 For thou shalt not always have
power: but a crown shall be given to
generation and generation.

25 The meadows are open, and the green
herbs have appeared, and the hay is gath-
ered out of the mountains.

26 P Lambs are for thy clothing -• and kids
for the price of the field,

27 Let the milk of the goats De enough
for thy food, and for the necessities of
fchy house, and for maintenance for thy
handmaids.

PROVERBS
1

Confession of sin

I Supra 20 16 - •» Supra 19. 1&— n Eccli. 14. 9.

CHAPTER 28.

THE wicked man fleeth, when qo man
pursueth : but the just, bold as a lion,
shall be without dread.

2 For the sins of the land many are the
princes thereof; and for the wisdom of a
man, and the knowledge of those things
that are said, the life of the prince shall
be prolonged.

3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor,
is like a violent shower, which bringeth
a famine.

4 They that forsake the law, praise the
wicked man: they that keep it, are in-
censed against him.

5 Evil men think not on judgment : but
they that seek atter the Lord, take no-
tice of all things.

6 5 Better is the poor man walking in his
simplicity, than the rich in crooked ways,

7 He that keepeth the law is a wise son •
but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his
father

8 He that heapeth together riches by
usury and loan, gathereth them for him
that will be bountiful to the poor.

9 He that turneth away his ears from
hearing the law, his prayer shall be an
abomination.

10 He that deceive th the just in a wicked
way, shall fall in his own destruction:
and the upright shall possess his goods.

11 The rich man seemeth to himself
wise i but the poor man that is prudent
shall search him out,

12 In the joy of the just there is great
glory : when the wicked reign, men are
ruined.

13 He that hideth his sins, shall not)
prosper,' but he that shall confess, and
forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

14 Blessed is the man that is always
fearful : but he that is hardened in mind,
shall fall into evil.

15 As a roaring lion, and a hungry bear,
so is a wicked prince over the poor
people.

16 A prince void of prudence shall op-
press many by calumny: but he that
hateth covetousness, shall prolong his
days.

17 A man that doth violence to the
blood of a person, if he flee even to the
pit, no man will stay him.

o Supra 17 3.— p 1 Tim. 6. a. — g Supra la 1.

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Idleness, envy, boasting

PROVERBS Imprudence in speech, anger

iS He that walketh uprigrxtly, shall be
saved : he that is perverse in his ways
shall fall at once.

19 *'He that tilleth his ground, shall be
filled with bread: but he that folio weth
idleness shall be filled with poverty,

20 A faithful man shall be much praised:
^but he that maketh haste to be rich,
shall not be innocent.

21 He that hath respect to a person in
judgment, doth not well i such a man
even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the
truth.

22 A man, that maketh haste to be rich,
and envieth others, is ignorant that pov-
erty shall come upon him.

23 He that rebuketh a man, shall after-
ward find favour with him, more than he
Chat by a flattering tongue deceiveth
him,

24 He that stealeth any thing from his
father, or from his mother : and saith,
This is no sin, is the partner of a murderer,

25 He that boasteth, and puffeth up him-
self, stirreth up quarrels ; but he that
trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.

26 He that trusteth in his Dwn heart, is
a fool , but he that walketh wisely, he
shall be saved.

27 He that giveth to the poor, shall not
want ; he that despiseth his entreaty,
shall suffer indigence:

28 When the wicked rise up, men shall
hide themselves : when they perish, the
just shall be multiplied.

CHAPTER 29.

THE man that with a stiff neck de-
spiseth him that reproveth him, shall
suddenly be destroyecl : and health shall
not follow him.

2 When just men increase, the people
shall rejoice : when uhe wicked shall bear
rule, the people shall mourn.

3 A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth
his father i but he that maintaineth har-
lots, shall squander away his substance.

4 A just king setteth up the land: a cov-
etous man shall destroy it.

5 A man that speaketh to his friend
with flattering and dissembling words,
apreadeth a net for his feet.

6 A snare shall entangle the wicked
man when he sinneth: and the "just shall
praise and rejoice.

r Supra 12, 11 , Eccli. 20. yO.
Supra 13 11. aod 20 21 and Cnfra fer. 32c

7 The just taketh notice of tho cause of
the poor: the wicked is void of know-
ledge.

8 Corrupt men bring a city to ruin: but
wise men turn away wrath.

9 If a wise man contend with a fool,
whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall
find no rest.

10 Bloodthirsty men hate the upright J
but just men seek his soul.

11 A fool uttereth all his mind: a wise
man deferreth, and keepeth it till after-
wards.

12 A prince that gladly heareth lying
words, hath all his servants wicked.

13 ' The poor man and the creditor
have met one another : the Lord is the
enlightener of them both.

14 The king that judge th the poor in
truth, his throne shall be established for
ever.

15 **The rod and reproof give wisdom:
but the child that is left to his own will
bringeth his mother to shame^

16 When the wicked are multiplied,
crimes shall be multiplied: but the just
shall see their downfall,

17 Instruct thy son, and he shall refresh
thee, and shall give delight to thy souL

18 When prophecy shall fail, the people
shall be scattered abroad: but he that
keepeth the law is blessed.

19 A slave will not be corrected by
words : because he understandeth what
thou sayest, and will not answer.

20 Hast thou seen a man hasty to
speak? folly is rather to be looked for^
than his amendment.

21 He that nourisheth his servant del
icately from his childhood, afterwards
shall find him stubborn.

22 A passionate man provoketh quarrels
and he that is easily stirred up to wrath,
shall be more prone to sin. j

23 ^Humiliation followeth the proud
and glory shall uphold the humble ol
spirit.

24 He that is partaker with a thief
hateth his own soul; he heareth on<
putting him to his oath, and discoveretlj
not.

25 He that feareth man, shall quickl;
fall . he that trusteth in the Lord, sha
be set on high.

26 Many seek the face of the prince|

e Supra 22. 2, — u Supra 23. 13, and Infra ver. 17.
V Job 22. 29.

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Prayer for the necessaries of life PROVERBS

Parents not to he despised

but the judgment of every ono cometh
forth from the Lord.

27 The just abhor the wicked man : and
the wicked loathe them that are in the
right way.

The son that keepeth the word, shall be
free from destruction.

CHAPTER 30.

The wise man thinketh humbly of him,8elf. His
prayer and sentim,ents upon certain virtues and
vices.

THE words of Gatherer the son of
Vomiter. The vision which the man
dpoke with whom God is, and who being
strengthened by God, abiding with him,
said:

2 I am the most foolish of men, and the
wisdom of men is not with me.
8 I have not learned wisdom, and have
not known the science of saints.

4 Who hath ascended up into heaven,
and descended ? who hath held the wind
in his hands? who hath bound up the
waters together as in a garment? who
hath raised up all the borders of the
earth ? what is his name, and what is the
name of his son, if thou knowest?

5 ^ Every word of God is fire tried: he
is a buckler to them that hope in him.

6 ^ Add not any thing to his words, lest
thou be reproved, and found a liar :

7 Two things I have asked of thee, deny
them not to me before I die,

8 Remove far from me vanity, and lying
words. Give me neither beggary, nor
riches: give me only the necessaries of
Ufe:

9 Lest perhaps being filled, I should be
tempted to deny, and say: Who is the
Lord ? or being compelled by poverty, 1
should steal, and forswear the name of
my God.

10 Accuse not a servant to his master,
lest he curse thee, and thou fall.

11 There ia a generation that curseth
their father, and doth not bless their
mother-

12 A generation that are pure In their

wTs. 11. 7

. Chap. 30. Ver. l. Gatherer, &c., or, as it is in the
^tin, Congregans the son of Vomens. The Latin
Dterpreter has given us in this place the significa-
lon of the Hebrew nanies, instead of the names
nenrisJlves, which are ^w :he Hebrew, ^</t/r */je son
t Jakeh. But whether this Agur be the same per-
311 as Solomon, as many thinlc, or a different per-
5n, whose doctrine was adopted by Solomon, and
iserted among his parable» or proverbs. iA uncer-
im

own eyes, and yet are not washed from
their filthiness.

13 A generation, whose eyes are lofty,
and their eyelids Ufted up on high,

14 A generation, that for teeth hath
swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth,
to devour the needy from off the earth,
and the poor from among men.

15 The horseleech hath two daughters
that say : Bring, bring.

There are three things that never are
satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It
is enough.

16 Hell, and the mouth of the womb, and
the earth which is not satisfied with wa-
ter: and the fire never saith; It is enough.

17 The eye that mocketh at his father,
and that despiseth the labour of his mo-
ther in bearing him, let the ravens of the
brooks pick it out, and the young eagles
eat it.

18 Three things are hard to me, and the
fourth I am utterly ignorant of.

19 The way of an eagle in the air, the
way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of
a ship in the midst of the sea, and the
way of a man in youth.

20 Such is also the way of an adulterous
woman, who eateth, and wipeth her
mouth, and saith : I have done no evil.

21 By three things the earth is disturbed,
and the fourth it cannot bear:

22 By a slave when he rei^eth: by a
fool when he is filled with meat:

23 By an odious woman when she is
married: and by a bondwoman when she
is heir to her mistress.

24 There are four very little things of
the earth, and they are wiser than the
wise:

25 The ants, a feeble people, which pro-
vide themselves food in the harvest:

26 The rabbit, a weak people, which
maketh its bed in the rock:

27 The locust hath no king, yet they all
go out by their bands.

28 The stellio supporteth itself on hands,
and dwelletb in kings' houses.

r Deut. 4. 2, and 12. 32.

Ver. 5. Isfir^ tried ■ that is, most pure, like gold
purified by fire.

Ver. 15. The horseleech. Concupiscence, which
hath two daughters that are never satisfied, viz.,
lust and avarice.

Ver. 28. Thf. stellio. A kind of house lizard
marked with %^qXa like stars, from wheoce it has its
nam».

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Chastity, temperance, mercy PROVERBS The praise of a wise woman

29 There are three Lhings, which go well,
and the fourth that walketh happily :

30 A lion, the strongest of beasts, who
hath no fear of any thing he meeteth :

31 A cock girded about the loins: and a
ram : and a king, whom none can resist.

32 There is that hath appeared a fool
after he was lifted up on high: for if he
had understood, he would have laid his
band upon his mouth.

33 And he that strongly squeezeth the
paps to bring out milk, straineth out but-
ter : and he that violently bloweth his
nose, bringeth out blood: and he that
provoketh wrath bringeth forth strife.

CHAPTER 31.

An exhortation to chastity^ temperance, and works
of mercy . with the praise of a wise woman.

THE words of king LamueL The vision
wherewith his mother instructed
him.

2 What, O my beloved, what, 0 the be-
loved of my womb, what, O the beloved
of my vows ?

3 Give not thy substance to women, and
thy riches to destroy kings.

4 Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not
wine to kings : because there is no secret
where drunkenness reigneth:

6 And lest they drink and forget judg-
ments, and pervert the cause of the chil-
dren of the poor.

6 Give strong drink to them that are
sad : and wine to them that are grieved
in mind.

7 Let them drink, and forget their want,
and remember their sorrow no more.

8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, and
for the causes of all the children that
pass.

9 Open thy mouth, decree that which is
just, and do justice to the needy and poor.

10 Who shall find a valiant woman? far
and from the uttermost coasts is the
price of her.

11 The heart of her husband tmsteth in
iier, and he shall have no need of spoils.

12 She will render him good, and not
•jvil, all the days of her life.

13 She hath sought wool and flax, and

Chap. 31. Ver. 1. Lamuel. This name signifies
God -irith him, and is supposed to have been one of
"ihe names of Solomon.

hath wrought by the counsel of ner
hands.

14 She is like the merchant's ship, she
bringeth her bread from afar.

15 And she hath risen in the night, and
given a prey to her household, and vict-
uals to her maidens.

16 She hath considered a field, and
bought it: with the fruit of her hands
she hath planted a vineyard.

17 She hath girded her loins with
strength, and hath strengthened her arm,

18 She hath tasted and seen that her
traffic is good : her lamp shall not be put
out in the night.

19 She hath pu\^ out her hand to strong
things, and her fingers have taken hold
of the spindle.

20 She hath opened her hand to the
needy, and stretched out her hands to
the poor.

21 She shall not fear for her house in
the cold of snow: for all her domestics
are clothed with double garments.

22 She hath made for herself clothing of
tapestry: fine linen, and purple is her
covering.

23 Her husband is honourable in the
gates, when he sitteth among the sena
tors of the land.

24 She made fine linen, and sold it, and
dehvered a girdle to the Chanaanite,

25 Strength and beauty are her cloth-
ing, and she shall laugh in the latter day.

26 She hath opened her mouth to wis-
dom, and the law of clemency is on her
tongue.

27 She hath looked well to the paths of
her house, and hath not eaten her bread
idle.

28 Her children rose up, and called heij
blessed : her husband, and he praised]
her.

29 Many daughters have gathered to
gether riches : thou hast sui-passed them
all.

30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is
vain : the woman that feareth the Lord.j
she shall be praised.

31 Give her of the fruit of her hands
and let her works praise her in the gates

Ver. 24. The Chanaanite, the merchant:
Chanaanite, in Hebrew, sifinlfies a merchant.

foi

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Vanity of temporal things

Vanity of pleasures

ECCLESIASTES.

This Book is called Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, (in Hebrew, Coheleth,) because
in it Solomon is represented as an excellent preacher, setting forth the vanity of
the things of this world: to withdraw the hearts and affections of men from such
empty toys.

CHAPTER 1.

The vanity oj all temporal things.

THE words of Ecclesiastes, the son of
David, king of Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes :
vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.

3 What hath a man more of all his la-
bour, that he taketh under the sun ?

4 One generation passeth away, and an-
other generation cometh: but the earth
Btandeth for ever.

5 The sun riseth, and goeth down, and
returneth to his place : and there rising
again,

6 Maketh his round by the south, and
turneth again to the north: the spirit
goeth forward surveying all places round
about, and returneth to his circuits,

7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet
the sea doth not overflow: unto the
place from whence the rivers come, they
return, to flow again.

8 All things are hard : man cannot ex-
plain them by word. The eye is not
filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled
with hearing.

9 What is it that hath been? the same
^rfhing that shall be. What is it that
hath been done ? the same that shall be
done.

10 Nothing under the sun is new, nei-
' ther is any man able to say : Behold

this is new : for it hath already gone be-
fore in the ages that were before us.
j 11 There is no remembrance of former
things: nor indeed of those things which
hereafter are to come, shall there be
any remembrance with them that shall
be in the latter end.

12 I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel
in Jerusalem,

13 And I proposed in my mind to seek
.and search out wisely concerning all
ithings tliat are done under the sun.
jThis painful occupation hath God given
Ibo the children of men, to be exercised
Ibherein.

14 I have seen all things that are done
under the sun, and behol<? all is vanity^
and vexation of spirit.

15 The perverse are hard to be cor-
rected, and the number of fools is infi-
nite.

16 I have spoken in my heart, saying:
Behold I am become great, and have
gone beyond all in wisdom, that were
before me in Jerusalem: and my mind
hath contemplated many things wisely,
and I have learned.

17 And I have given my heart to know
prudence, and learning, and errors, and
folly : and I have perceived that in thesf
also there was labour, and vexation o/
spirit,

18 Because in much wisdom there is
much indignation: and he that addetb
knowledge, addeth also labour.

CHAPTER 2.

Tlie vanity of pleasures^ riches^ and worldly la^
hours.

I SAID in my heart: I will go, and
abound with delights, and enjoy good
things. And I saw that this also was
vanity.

2 Laughter I counted error: and C
mirth I said: Why art thou vainly de-
ceived?

3 I thought in my \eart, to withdraw
my flesh from wine, that I might turn
my mind to wisdom, and might avoid
folly, till 1 might see what was profit-
able for the children of men : and what
they ought to do under the sun, all the
days of their life.

4 I made me great works, I built me
houses, and planted vineyards,

6 I made gardens, and orchards, and
set them with trees of all kinds,

6 And I made me ponds of water, to
water therewith the wood of the young
trees,

7 I got me menservants, and maidser-
vants, and had a great family : and herds

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Riches and worldly labors ECCLESIASTES

A time for all things

of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above
all that were before me in Jerusalem ?

8^/1 heaped together for myself silver
and gold, and the wealth of kings, and
provinces . T made me singing men, and
singing women, and the deHghts of the
sons of men, cups and vessels to serve
to pour out wine :

9 And I surpassed in riches all that
were before me in Jerusalem • my wis-
dom also remained with me.

10 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I
refused them not: and I withheld not
my heart from enjoying every pleasure,
and delighting itself in the things which
I had prepared : and esteemed this my
portion, to make use of my own labour.

11 And when I turned myself to all the
works which my hands had wrought, and
to the labours wherein I had laboured in
vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vex-
ation of mind, and that nothing was last-
ing under the sun.

12 I passed further to behold wisdom,
and errors and folly, (What is man, said
1, that he can follow the King his maker?)

13 And I saw that wisdom excelled
folly, as much as light differeth from
darkness.

14 ^The eyes of a wise man are in his
head : the fool walketh in darkness i and
1 learned that they were vo die both
alike.

15 And I said in my heart : If the death
of the fool and mine shall be one, what
doth it avail me, that ! have applied my-
self more to the study of wisdom? And
speaking with my own mind, I perceived
that this also was vanity.

16 For there shall be no remembrance of
fche wise no more than of the fool for
ever, and the times to come shall cover
all things together with oblivion : the
learned dieth in like manner as the un-
learned.

17 And therefore I was weary of my
life, when I saw that all things under the
sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation
of spirit.

18 Again I hated all my application
wherewith I had earnestly laboured under
the sun, being like to have an heir after
me,

19 Whom I know not whether he will
be a wise man or a f ooi, and he shall

V 3 Kings 12. &

have rule over all my labours with which
I have laboured and been sohcitous • and
is there any thing so vain ?

20 Wherefore I left off and my heart
renounced labouring any more under the
sun.

21 For when a man laboureth in wis
dom, and knowledge, and carefulness^ hp
leaveth what he hath gotten to an Idle
man : so this also is vanity, and a great
evil.

22 For what profit shall a man have of
all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with
which he hath been tormented under the
sun?

23 All his days are full of sorrows and
miseries, even in the night he doth not
rest in mind: and is not this vanity?

24 Is it not better to eat and drink, and
to shew his soul good things of his la^-
hours ? and this is from the hand of God

25 Who shall so feast and abound with
delights as I?

26 God hath given to a man that is good
in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and
joy: but to the sinner he hath giver
vexation, and superfluous care, to heap
up and to gather together, and to give
it to him that hath pleased God: but thio
also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude
of the mind.

CHAPTER 3.

All human things are liable to perpetual change».
We are to rest on God's providence, and cast
away fruitless cares.

A LL things have their season, and in
Jl\. their times all things pass under
heaven.

2 A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up
that which is planted.

3 A time to kill, and a time to heaL A
time to destroy, and a time to build

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh,
A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

6 A time to scatter stones, and a time
to gather, A time to embrace, and a
time to be far from embraces.

6 A time to get, and a time to lose. A
time to keep, and a time to cast away.

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew. A
time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

8 A time of love, and a time of hatred-
A time of war, and a time of peace.

9 What hath man more of his labour '? ,

i Frov 17 . Ui£r? K V

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TJie providence of God

ECCLESIASTES

The miseries of human life

10 I have seen the trouble, which God
hath given the sons of men to be exer-
cised in it.

11 He hath made all things good in
their time, and hath delivered the world
to their consideration, so that man can-
not find out the work which God hath
made from the beginning to the end.

12 And I have known that there was no
better thing than to rejoice, and to do
well in this life.

13 For every man that eateth and drink-
eth, and seeth good of his labour, this is
the gift of God.

14 I have learned that all the works
which God hath made, continue for ever
we cannot add any thing, nor take away
from those things which God hath made
that he may be feared.

15 That which hath been made, the j
same continueth : the things that shall
be, have already been : and God restor* |
eth that which is past.

16 I saw under the sun in the place of
judgment wickedness, and in the place
of justice iniquity.

17 And I said in my heart i God shall
judge both the just and the wicked, and
then shall be the time of every thing.

18 I said in my heart concerning the
sons of men, that God would prove
Dhem, and shew them to be like beasts.

19 Therefore the death of man, and of
beasts is one, and the condition of them
both is equal : as man dieth, so they also
die: all things breathe alike, and man
hath nothing more than beast: all things
are subject to vanity.

20 And all things go to one place : of
earth they were made, and into earth
they return together.

21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the
children of Adam ascend upward, and if
the spirit of the beasts descend down-
ward?

22 And I have found that nothing 1b
better than for a man to rejoice in his
work, and that this is his portion. For
who shall bring him to know the things
that shall be after him ?

CHAPTER 4.

Other instances of human miseries.

Chap. 3. Ver 19. Man hath nothing more, &c.
Viz., as to the life of the body.

Ver. 21, Who knoweth, &c. Viz., experimentally .
amce no one in this life can see a spirit. But as to
the spirit of the beasts, which is merely ammai, and

TURNED myself to other things,
X and I saw the oppressions that are
done under the sun, and the tears of the
innocent, and they had no comforter;
and they were not able to resist their
violence, being destitute of help from
any.

2 And I praised the dead rather than
the living:

3 And I judged him happier than them
both, that is not yet born, nor hath seea
the evils that are done under the sun.

4 Again I considered all the labours of
men, and I remarked that their industries
are exposed to the envy of their neigh-
bour: so in this also there is vanity, and
fruitless care.

6 The fool foldeth his hands together,
and eateth his own flesh, saying:

6 Better is a handful with rest, than
both hands full with labour, and vexation
of mind,

7 Considering I found also another van-
ity under the sun :

3 There is but one, and he hath not a
second, no child, no brother, and yet ho
ceaseth not to labour, neither are his
eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth
he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour,
and defraud my soul of good things ? in
this also is /anityj and a grievous \ ^xa-
tion.

9 It is better therefore that two should
be together, than one: for they have the
advantage of their society :

10 If one fall he shall be supported by
the other : woe to him that is alone, for
when he falleth, he hath none to lift him
up.

11 And if two lie together, they shall
warm one another : how shall one alone
be warmed?

12 And if a man prevail against one,
two shall withstand him: a threefold
cord is not easily broken.

13 Better is a child that is poor and
wise, than a king that is old and foolish,
who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

14 Because out of prison and chains
sometimes a man cometh forth to a king-
dom : and another born king is consumed
with poverty

15 I saw all men living, that walk under

becomes extinct by the death of the beast, who can
tell the manner it acts so as to give life and motion,
and by death to descend downward, that is, to be no
more?

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On prudence in speech, vows ECCLESIASTES

Harmful riches

the sun with the second young man, who
shall rise up in his place.

16 The number of the people, of all fchat
were before him is infinite o and they that
shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice
in him : but this also is vanity, and vex-
ation of spirit.

17 Keep thy foot, when thou goest into
the house of God, and draw nigh to hear.
" For much better is obedience, than the
victims of fools, who know not what evil
they do.

CHAP7 iR 5,

Qiutlon in words. Vows are to be paid. Riches
are often pernicious r the moderate use of them is
the gift of God.

SPEAK not any thing rashly, and let
not thy heart be hasty to utter a
word before God, For God is in heaven,
and thou upon earth; therefore let thy
words be few.

2 Dreams follow many cares : and in
many words shall be found folly.

3 If thou hast vowed any thing to God,
defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful
and foolish promise displeaseth him; but
whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.

4 And it is much better not to vow, than
after a vow not to perform the things
promised.

6 Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh
to sin: and say not before the angel:
The^e is no providence: lest God be an-
gry at thy words, and destroy all the
works of thy hands.

6 Where there are many dreams, there
are many vanities, and words without
number : but do thou fear God.

7 If thou shalt see the oppressions of
the poor, and violent judgments, and jus-
tice perverted in the province, wonder
not at this matter: for he that is high
hath another higher, and there are others
still higher than these :

8 Moreover there is the king that reign-
eth over all the land subject to him.

9 A covetous man shall not be satisfied
with money: and he that loveth riches
shall reap no fruit from them; so this
also is vanity.

10 Where there are great riches, there
are also many to eat them. And what
doth it profit the owner, but that he
seeth the riches with his eyes ?

11 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man,

a 1 Kings 15. 22 ; Osee o. 6. .

whether he eat little or much % but the
fulness of the rich will not suffer him to
sleep.

12 ° There is also another grievous evil,
which I have seen under the sun : riches
kept to the hurt of the owner.

13 For they are lost with very great
affliction: he hath begotten a son, who
shall be in extremity of want,

14 ^ As he came forth naked from his
mother's womb, so shall he return, and
shall take nothing away with him of his
laboiu".

15 A most deplorable evil ; as he came,
so shall he return. What then doth it
profit him that he hath laboured for the
wind?

16 All the days of his life he eateth in
darkness, and in many cares, and in. mis-
ery, and sorrow.

17 This therefore hath seemed good to
me, that a man should eat and drink,
and enjoy the fruit of his labour, where-
with he hath laboured under the sun, all
the days of his life, which God hath given
him: and this is his portion.

18 And every man to whom God hath
given riches, and substance, and hatb
given him power to eat thereof, and to
enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his
labour : this is the gift of God.

19 For he shall not much remember the
days of his life, because God entertaineth
his heart with delight.

CHAPTER 6.

The misery of the covetous man.

THERE is also another evil, which I
have seen under the sun, and that
frequent among men.

2 A man to whom God hath given riches,
and substance^ and honour, and his soul
wanteth nothing of all that he desire ths
yet God doth not give him power to eat
thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up.
This is vanity and a great misery.

3 If a man beget a hundred children,
and live many years, and attain to a
great age, and his soul make no use of
the goods of his substance, and he be
without burial : of this man I pronounce,
that the untimely born is better than he.

4 For he came in vain, and goeth to
darkness, and his name shall be wholly
forgotten.

b Job 2J). 20. — c Job L 21 ; 1 Tim. G. 7.

Value of a good name.

ECCLESIASTES

Patience and wisdom

5 He hath not seen the sun-, nor known
the distance of good and evil:

6 Although he lived two thousand years,
and hath not enjoyed good things : do
not all niake haste to one place ?

7 All the labour of man is for his mouth,
but his soul shall not be filled.

8 What hath the wise man more than
the fool ? and what the poor man, but to
go thither, where there is life ?

9 Better it is to see what thou mayst de-
sire, than to desire that which thou canst
not know. But this also is vanity, and
presumption of spirit.

10 ^ He that shall be, his name is al-
ready called: and it is known, that he
is man, and cannot contend in judg-
ment with him that is stronger than him-
self.

11 There are many words that have
much vanity in disputing,

CHAPTER 7.

Prescriptions against worldly vanities : mortifico'
lion, patience^ and seeking wisdom.

XTTHAT needeth a man to seek things
W that are above him, whereas he
knoweth not what is profitable for him
in his life, in all the days of his pilgrim-
ag3, and the time that passeth like a
shadow ? Or who can tell him what shall
be after him under the sun ?

2 ^ A good name is better than precious
ointments: and the day of death than
the day of one's birth.

3 It is better to go to the house of
mourning, than to the house of feasting:
for in that we are put in mind of the
end of all, and the living thinketh what
is to come.

4 Anger is better than laughter : be-
cause by the sadness of the countenance
the mind of the offender is corrected.

5 The heart of the wise is where there
is mourning, and the heart of fools
where there is mirth. >

6 It is better to be rebuked by a wise
man, than to be deceived by the flattery
of fools.

7 For as the crackling of thorns burn-
ing under a pot, so is the laughter of a
lool now this also is vanity.

d 1 Kings 13. 14, and 3 Kings 13. 2. — e Prov. 22= 1.

Chap. 7. Ver. 4. Anger. That is, correction, or
just wrath and zeal against evil.

Ver. 17. Overjitst. Viz., By an excessive rigour
In censuring the ways of God in bearing with the
wicked,

8 Oppression troubleth the wise, and
shall destroy the strength of his heart.

9 Better is the end of a speech than
the beginning. Better is the patient
man than the presumptuous.

10 Be not quickly angry: for anger
resteth in the bosom of a fooL

11 Say not : What thinkest thou is the
cause that former times were better than
they are now ? for this manner of ques-
tion IS foolish.

12 Wisdom with riches is more profit'
able, and bringeth more advantage to
them that see the sun.

13 For as wisdom is a defence, so money
is a defence : but learning and wisdom
excel in this, that they give life to him
that possesseth them.

14 Consider the works of God, that no
man can correct whom he hath despised,

15 In the good day enjoy good things,
and beware beforehand of the evil day!
for God hath made both the one and the
other, that man may not find against
him any just complaint.

16 These things also I saw in the days
of my vanity s A iust man perisheth in
his justice, and a wicked man liveth a
long time in his wickednesse

17 Be not over just; and be not more
wise than is necessary, lest thou become
stupid.

18 Be not overmuch wicked i and be
not foolish, lest thou die before thy time

19 It is good that thou shouldst hold up
the just, yea and from him withdraw not
thy hand : for he that f eareth God, neg-
lecteth nothing

20 Wisdom hath strengthened the wise
more than ten princes of the city.

21 ■'For there is no just man upon
earth, that doth good, and sinneth note

22 But do not apply thy heart to all
words that are spoken: lest perhaps
thou hear thy servant reviling thee.

23 For thy conscience knoweth that
thou also hast often spoken evil of others.

24 I have tried all things in wisdom. I
have said • I will be wise i and it de-
parted farther from me,

25 Much more than it was : t^ is a great
depth, who shall find it out *?

/ ?, Kings 8. 46 ; 2 Par 6. 3fi , Prov. 20. 9 ; 1 Jotin L 8.

Ver. 18. Be not overmuch wicked. That is, lest
by the greatness of your sin you leave no roomfof
mercy.

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Keeping the commandment ECCLESIASTES God's ways are unsearchable

26 I have surveyed all things with my
mind, to know, and consider, and seek
out wisdom and reason: and to know
the wickedness of the fool, and the error
of the imprudent:

27 And I have found a woman more bit-
ter than death, who is the hunter's snare,
and her heart is a net, and her hands are
bands. He that pleaseth God shall es-
cape from her : but he that is a sinner,
shall be caught by her.

28 Lo this have I found, said Ecclesi-
astes, weighing one thing after another,
that I might find out the account,

29 Which yet my soul seeketh, and I
have not found it. One man among a
thousand I have found, a woman among
them all I have not found.

30 Only this I have found, that God
made man right, and he hath entangled
himself with an infinity of questions.
Who is as the wise man ? and who hath
known the resolution of the word?

CHAPTER 8.

True wisdom is to observe God's commandments.
The ways of God arc unsearchable.

THE 9 wisdom of a man shineth in his
countenance, and the most mighty
will change his face.

2 I observe the mouth of the king, and
the commandments of the oath of God.

3 Be not hasty to depart from his face,
and do not continue in an evil work: for
tifc will do all that pleaseth him:

4 And his word is full of power: nei-
ther can any man say to him: Why dost
thou so ?

5 He that keepeth the commandment,
shall find no evil The heart of a wise
man understandeth time and answer.

6 There is a time and opportunity for
every business, and great affliction for
man:

7 Because he ie ignorant of things past,
and things to come he cannot know by
any messenger.

8 It is not in man's power to stop the
«pirit, neither hath he power in the day
of death, neither is he suffered to rest

g Supra 2. 14.

Ver. 30. Of the word. That is, oi this obscure and
difficult matter.

Chap. 8 Ver. 15. No good for a man, &c. Some
commentators think the wise man here speaks in the
person of the libertine : representing the objeetions
of these men against divine providence, and the in-
ferences tii^ draw from thence, which he takes care

when war is at hand, neither shall wick-
edness save the wicked.

9 All these things I have considered,
and applied my heart to all the works
that are done under the sun. Sometimes
one man ruleth over another to his own
hurt.

10 I saw the wicked buried ! who also
when they were yet living were in the
holy place, and were praised in the city
as men of just works? but this also is
vanityc

11 For because sentence is not speedily
pronounced against the evil, the children
of men commit evils without any fear.

12 But though a sinner do evil a hundred
times, and by patience be borne withal,
I know from thence that it shall be well
with them that fear God, who dread his
face.

13 But let it not be well with the wicked,
neither let his days be prolonged, but as
a shadow let them pass away that fear
not the face of the Lord.

14 There is also another vanity, which is
done upon the earth. There are just men
to whom evils happen; as though they
had done the works of the wicked : and
there are wicked men, who are as secure,
as though they had the deeds of the just :
but this also I judge most vain.

15 Therefore I commended mirth, be-
cause there vas no good for a man under
the sun, bi c. to eat, and drink, and be
merry, and \;hat he should take nothing
else with him of his labour in the days of
his life, which God hath given him under
the sun.

16 And I applied my heart to know wis-
dom, and to understand the distraction
that is upon earth : for there are some
that day and night take no sleep with
their eyes.

17 And I understood that man can find
no reason of all those works of God that
are done under the sun : and the more
he shall labour to seek, so much the less
shall he find : yea, though the wise man
shall say, that he knoweth if, he shall
not be able to find it.

afterwards to refute. But it may also he said, that
his meaning is to commend the moderate use of the
goods of this world, preferably to the cares and soil
citudes of worldlings, their attachment to vanity ano
curiosity, and presumptuously diving into the UD
searchable ways of divine providence.

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Death ends all earthly things ECCLESIASTES Wisdom is better than strength

CHAPTER 9.

Manknowsnot certainly that he is in God^s grace.
After death no more work or merit.

A LL these things have I considered in
XX my heart, that I might carefully
understand them : there are just men and
wise men, and their works are in the
hand of God : and yet man knoweth not
whether he be worthy of love, or hatred :

2 But all things are kept uncertain for
the time to come, because all things
equally happen to the just and to the
wicked, to the good and to the evil, to
the clean and to the unclean, to him that
ofifereth victims, and to him that despis-
eth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is
the sinner : as the perjured, so he also
that sweareth truth.

3 This is a very great evil among all
things that are done under the sun, that
the same things happen to all men:
whereby also the hearts of the children
of men are filled with evil, and with con-
tempt while they live, and afterwards
they shall be brought down to hell.

4 There is no man that liveth always,
or that hopeth for this : a living dog is
better than a dead lion.

5 For the living know that they shall
die, but the dead know nothing more, war : and he that shall offend in one,

saw that under the sun, the race is not
to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the
learned, nor favour to the skilful : but
time and chance in all.

12 Man knoweth not his own end : but
as fishes are taken with the hook, and as
birds are caught with the snare, so men
are taken in the evil time, when it shall
suddenly come upon them.

13 This wisdom also I have seen under
the sun, and it seemed to me to be very
great:

14 A little city, and few men in it :
there came against it a great king, and
invested it, and built bulwarks round
about it, and the siege was perfect.

15 Now there was found in it a man poar
and wise, and he delivered the city by his
wisdom, and no man afterward remem-
bered that poor man.

16 And I said that wisdom is better than
strength : how then is the wisdom of the
poor man slighted, and his words not
heard ?

17 The words of the wise are heard in
silence, more than the cry of a prince
among fools.

18 '^ Better is wisdom, than weapons of

neither have they a reward any more :
for the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Their love also, and their hatred, and
their envy are all perished, neither have
they any part in this world, and in the
work that is done under the sun.

7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy,
and drink thy wine with gladness : be-
cause thy works please God.

8 At all times let thy garments be white,
and let not oil depart from thy head.

9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou
lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life,
which are given to thee under the sun,
all the time of thy vanity : for this is thy
portion in life, and in thy labour where-
with thou labourest under the sun.

10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do
do it earnestly: for neither work, nor
reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall
be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

11 1 turned me to another thing, and I

Chap. 9. Ver. 5. Know nothing more. Viz., as
to the transactions of tliis world. In which they have
now no part, unless it be revealed to them ; neither
have they any knowledge or power now d doing

shall lose many good things.

CHAPTER 10.

Observations on wisdom, and folly, ambition and
detraction.

DYING flies spoil the sweetness of the
ointment. Wisdom and glory is
more precious than a small and short-
lived folly.

2 The heart oi a wise man is in his right
hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left
hand.

3 Yea, and the fool when he walketh in
the way, whereas he himself is a fool,
esteemeth all men fools.

4 If the spirit of him that hath power,
ascend upon thee, leave not thy place :
because care will make the greatest sins
to cease.

5 There ie an evil that I have seen under
the sun, as it were by an error proceed-
ing from the face of the prince :

h Supra 7. 20.

any thing to secure their eternal state, (if they have
not taken care of it in their lifetime:) nor can they
now procure themselves any good, as the living al>
Wii|8 may do, by the grace of God.

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Detraction, foolish speech, ECCLESIASTES Charity, remembrance of death

6 A fool set m nign dignity, and the rich
sitting beneath.

7 I have seen «servantr upon horses: and
princes walking on the ground as ser-
vants.

8 * He that diggeth r pit, shall fall into
it : and he that breaketh ? hedge, a ser-
pent shall bite him.

9 He that removeth stones, shall be hurt
by them: and he that cutteth trees, shall
be wounded by them.

10 If the iron be blunt, and be not as
before, but be made blunt, with much
labour it shall be sharpened: and after
industry shall follow wisdom.

11 If a serpent bite in silence, he is
nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

12 The words of the mouth of a wise
man are grace : but the lips of a fool shall
throw him down headlong.

13 The beginning of his words is folly,
and the end of his talk is a mischievous
error.

14 A fool multiplieth words. A man can-
not tell what hath been before him : and
what shall be after him, who can tell him ?

15 The labour of fools shall afflict them
that know not how to go to the city.

16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is
a child, and when the princes eat in the
morning.

17 Blessed is the land, whose king is no-
ble, and whose princes eat in due season
for refreshment, and not for riotousness.

18 By slothfulness a building shall be
brought down, and through the weakness
of hands, the house shall drop through.

19 For laughter they make bread, and
wine that the living may feast: and all
things obey money.

20 Detract not the king, no not in thy
thought ; and speak not evil of the rich
man in thy private chamber: because
even the birds of the air will carry thy
voice, and he that hath wings will tell
what thou hast said.

CHAPTER 11.

Exhortation to works of mercy, rvhile we have tirns,
to diligence in good, and to the remembrance of
death and judgment.

i Prov. 26. 27 ; Eccli. 27. 29.

Chap. 11. Ver. 3. If the tree fall, &c. The state
of the soul is unchangeable when once she comes to
heaven or hell : and a soul that departs this life in
the state of grace, shall never fall from grace : as on
the other side, a soul that dies out of the state ol
grace, shall never come to it. But this does not
exclude a place of temporal punisUments tor such

^AST tny k/read upon the running

water? . for after a long time thou
shalt find it again.

2 Give a portion to seven, and also to
eight? for thoi: knowest not what evil
shall be upon th? earth.

3 If th. clouds be full, they will pour
out rain upon the earth. If the tree fall
to the south, or to the north, in what
place soever it shall fall, there shall it be.

4 He that observeth the wind, shall not
sow : and he that considereth the clouds,
shall never reap.

5 As thou knowest not whab ifj the way
of the spirit, nor how the bonec are joined
together in the womb of her that is with
child: so thou knowest not the works of
God, who is the maker of all.

6 In the morning sow thy seed, and iL
the evening let not thy hand cease : for
thou knowest not which may rather spring
up, this or that : and if both together, i(
shall be the better.

7 The light is sweet, and it i : delightful
for the eyes to see the sun.

8 If a man live many years, and have
rejoiced in them all, he must remember
the darksome time, and the many days :
which when they shall come, the things
past shall be accused of vanity»

9 Rejoice therefore, O young man, in thy
youth, and let thy heart be in that which
is good in the days of thy youth, and
walk in the waye of thy heart, and in the
sight of thy eyes i and know that for all
these God will bring thee into judgment.

10 Remove anger from thy heart, and
put away evil from thy flesh. For youth
and pleasure are vain.

CHAPTER 12.

The Creator is to be remembered in the days of our
youth : all worldly things are vain : we shouldfear
God and keep his commandments.

REMEMBER thy Creator in the days
of thy youth, before the time of
affliction come, and the years c j-aw nigh
of which thou shalt say : They please me
not:
2 Before the sun, and the light, and the

soul:: as die in the state of grace : yet not so as to
be entirely pure i and therefore they shall be saved,
indeed, yet so as by fire. 1 Cor. 3. i:^, 14, 15.

Chap 12. Ver, 2. Before the sun, &c. That is,
before old age: the effects of which upon all the
sensec and faculties are described in tlie following
verses, under a variety of figures.

The time of old age CANTICLE OF CANTICLES Mans whole duty

whence it was, and the spirit return to
God, who gave it.

8 Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes,
and all things are vanity.

9 And whereas Ecclesiastes was very
wise, he taught the people, and declared
the things that he had done : and see)^-
ing out, he set forth many parables.

10 He sought profitable words, and wrote
words most right, and full of truth.

11 The words of the wise are as goads,
and as nails deeply fastened in, which by
the counsel of masters are given from
one shepherd.

12 More than these, my son, require not.
Of making many books there is no end:
and much study is an affliction of the
flesh.

13 Let us all hear together the conclusion
of the discourse. Fear God, and keep
his commandments : for this is all man :

14 And all things that are done, God
will bring into judgment for every error,
whether it be good or evil.

moon, and the stars be darkened, and the
clouds return after the rain :

3 When the keepers of the house shall
tremble, and the strong men shall stag-
ger, and the grinders shall be idle in a
small number, and they that look through
the holes shall be darkened:

4 And they shall shut the doors in the
street, when the grinder^s voice shall be
low, and they shall rise up at the voice
of the bird, and all the daughters of music
shall grow deaf.

6 And they shall fear high things, and
they shall be afraid in the way, the al-
mond tree shall flourish, the locust shall
be made fat, and the caper tree shall be
destroyed : because man shall go into the
house of his eternity, and the mourners
shall go rou^d about in the street.

6 Before the silver cord be broken, and
the golden fillet shrink back, and the
pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and
the wheel be broken upon the cistern,

7 And the dust return into its earth, from

SOLOMON'S
CANTICLE OF CANTICLES.

This Book is called the Canticle of Canticles, that is to say, the most excellent of
all canticles concerning the union of God and His people and particularly of Christ
^ and his spouse: which is here begun by love; and is to be eternal in heaven. The
» spouse of Christ is the church: more especially as to the happiest part of it, viz.,
perfect souls, every one of which is his beloved, but, above all others, the im-
maculate and ever blessed virgin mother.

3 Draw me : we will run after thee to
the odour of thy ointments. The king
hath brought me into his storerooms:
we will be glad and rejoice in thee, re-
membering thy breasts more than wine:
the righteous love thee.

4 I am black but beautiful, O ye daugh-
ters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar,
as the curtains of Solomon.

CHAPTER 1.

The spouse aspires to an union with Christ, their
mutual love for one another.

LET him kiss me with the kiss of his
mouth: for thy breasts are better
than wine,

2 Smelling sweet of the best oint-
ments. Thy name is as oil poured out:

therefore young maidens have loved thee.

> — — — — ^— ^.^^^^^_^^_^_^^_^^^^___^__

Ver. 13. All man. The whole business and duty
of man.

Ver. 14. Error. Or, hidden and secret thing.

Chap. l. Ver. l. Let him kiss me. The church,
the spouse of Christ, prays that he may love and
have peace with her, which the spouse prefers to
every thing howsoever dehcious : and therefore ex-
presses (ver. 2) that young maidens, that is the souls
of the faithful, have loved thee.

Ver. 3. Draw me That is, with thy grace : other-
Wise I should not be able to come to thee. This
metaphor shews that we cannot of ourselves come

to Christ our Lord, unless he draws us by his grace,
which is laid up in his storerooms : that is, in the
mysteries of Faith, which God in his goodness
and love for mankind hath revealed, first by his
servant Moses in the Old Law in figure only, and
afterwards in reality by his only begotten Son Jesus
Christ.

Ver. 4. 7 am black but beautiful. That is, the
church of Christ founded in humility appearing
outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and con-
temptible ; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and
morality, fair and beautifuL

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Beauty of the spouse CANTICLE OF CANTICLES The call to the spouse

6 Do not consider me that I am brown,
because the sun hath altered my colour :
the sons of my mother have fought against
me, they have made me the keeper in
the vineyards : my vineyard I have not
kept.

6 Shew me, O thou whom my soul lov-
eth, where thou feedest, where thou liest
in the midday, lest I begin to wander
after the flocks of thy companions.

7 If thou know not thyself, O fairest
among women, go forth, and follow after
the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids
beside the tents of the shepherds.

8 To my company of horsemen, in Pha-
rao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my
love.

9 Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtle-
dove's, thy neck as jewels.

10 We will make thee chains of gold,
inlaid with silver.

11 While the king was at his repose, my
spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.

12 A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to
me, he shall abide between my breasts.

13 A cluster of cypress my love is to me,
In the vineyards of Engaddi.

14 Behold thou art fair, O my love, be-
hold thou art fair, thy eyes are as those
of doves.

15 Behold thou art fair, my beloved,
and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

16 The beams of our houses are of cedar,
our rafters of cypress trees.

CHAPTER 2.

Christ caresses his spouse : he invites her to him.

I AM the flower of the field, and the
lily of the valleys.

2 As the lily among thorns, so is my
love among the daughters.

3 As the apple tree among the trees of
the woods, so is my beloved among the
sons. I sat down under his shadow,
whom I desired : and his fruit was sweet
to my palate.

4 He brought me into the cellar of wine,
he set in order charity in me.

Ver. 7. // thou know not thyself, &c. Christ en-
courages his spouse to follow and watch her flock :
and though she know not entirely the power at hand
to assist her, he tells her, ver. 8, my com.pany of
horsemen, that is, his angels, are always watching
and protecting her. And in the following verses he
reminds her of the virtues and gifts with which he
has endowed her.

Chap. 2. Ver. 1. I am the flower of the field. Christ
professes himself the flower of mankind, yea, the
Lord of all creatures : and, ver. 2, declares the excel-

5 Stay me up with flowers, compass me
about with apples : because I languish
with love.

6 His left hand is under my head, and
his right hand shall embrace me.

7 I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jeru-
salem, by the roes, and the harts of the
fields, that you stir not up, nor make the
beloved to awake, till she please.

C The voice of my beloved, behold he
Cometh leaping upon the mountains,
skipping over the hills.

9 My beloved is hke a roe, or a young
hart. Behold he standeth behind our
wall, looking through the windows, look-
ing through the lattices.

10 Behold my beloved speaketh to me :
Aris«, make haste, my love, my dove, my
beautiful one, and come.

11 For winter is now past, the rain is
over and gone.

12 The fiowers have appeared in our
land, the time of pruning is come: the
voice of the turtle is heard in our land :

13 The fig tree hath put forth her green
figs : the vines in flower yield their sweet
smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one,
and come :

14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in
the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy
face, let thy voice sound in my ears : for
thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

15 Catch us the little foxes that de-
stroy the vines : for our vineyard hath
flourished.

16 My beloved to me, and I to him who
feedeth among the lilies,

17 Till the day break, and the shadows
retire. Return : be like, my beloved, to
a roe, or to a young hart upon the moun-
tains of Bether.

CHAPTER 3.

The spouse seeks Christ. The glory of his humanity,

JN my bed by night I sought him whom
my soul loveth : I sought him, and
found him not.
2 I will rise, and will go about the city:

lence of his spouse, the true church above all other
societies, which are to be considered as thorns.

Ver. 8. The voice of my beloved: that is, the
preaching of the gospel surmounting difficulties fig-
uratively here expressed by mountains and little

hills. ^,. , i. „.„

Ver. 15. Catch us the liUle foxes. Christ com
mands his pastors to catch false teachers, by hoia
ing forth their fallacy and erroneous doctrine, wnicr
like foxes would bite and destroy the vines.

Chap. 3. Ver. 1. In my bed by night, &c. inf
Gentiles as in the dark, and seeking in heathen aeiu

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The spouse seeks Christ CANTICLE OF CANTICLES Beauty of the spouse

in the streets and the broad ways I will
seek him whom my soul loveth : I sought
him, and I found him not.

3 The watchmen who keep the city,
found me : Havo you seen him, whom my
soul loveth?

4 When I had a little passed by them, I
found him whom my soul loveth; I held
him : and I will not let him go, till I bring
him into my mother's house, and into the
chamber of her that bore me.

5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the roes and the harts of the fields,
tfiat you stir not up, nor awake my be-
loved, till she please.

6 Who is she that goeth up by the desert,
as a pillar of smoke of aromatical spices,
of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all
the powders of the perfumer ?

7 Behold threescore valiant ones of the
most valiant of Israel, surrounded the
bed of Solomon?

8 All holding swords, and most expert
in war : every man's sword upon his
thigh, because of fears in the night.

9 King Solomon hath made him a litter
of the wood of Libanus:

10 The pillars thereof he made of silver,
the seat of gold, the going up of purple :
the midst he covered with charity for
the daughters of Jerusalem.

11 Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and
see king Solomon in the diadem, where-
with his mother crowned him in the day
of his espousals, and in the day of the
joy of his heart.

CHAPTER 4.

Christ sets forth the graces of his spouse : and de-
clares his love for her.

HOW beautiful art thou, my love, how
beautiful art thou! thy eyes are
doves' eyes, besides what is hid within.
Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which
come up from mount Galaad.
2 Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are
shorn, which come up from the washing,

sion what they could not find, the true God, until
Christ revealed his doctrine to them by his watch-
men, (ver, 3,) that is, by the apostles, and teachers,
by whom they were converted to the true faith ; and
holding that faith firmly, the spouse (the Catholic
Church) declares, ver. 4, That she will not let him
go, till she bring him into her mother^s house, &c.,
I that is, till at last, the Jews also shall find him.
i Chap. 4. Ver. l. How beautiful art thou. Christ
agam praises the beauties of his church, which
ithrough the whole of this chapter are exemplified
oy a variety of metaphors, setting forth her purity,
aer simplicity, and her stability.

all with twins, and there is none barren
among them.

3 Thy hps are as a scarlet lace : and
thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as
a piece of a pomegranate, besides that
which lieth hid within.

4 Thy neck is as the tower of David,
which is built with bulwarks : a thousand
bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of
valiant men.

6 Thy two breasts hke two young roes
that are twins, which feed among the
lilies.

6 Till the day break, and the shadows
retire, I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
and to the hill of frankincense.

7 Thou art all fair, O my love, and there
is not a spot in thee.

8 Come from Libanus, my spouse, come
from Libanus, come : thou shalt be
crowned from the top of Amana, from
the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the
dens of the lions, from the mountains of
the leopards.

9 Thou hast wounded my heart, my
sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded my
heart with one of thy eyes, and with one
hair of thy neck.

10 How beautiful are thy breasts, my
sister, my spouse ! thy breasts are more
beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell
of thy ointments above all aromatical
spices.

11 Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping
honeycomb, honey and milk are under
thy tongue ; and the smell of thy gar-
ments, as the smell of frankincense.

12 My sister, my spouse, is a garden en-
closed, a garden enclosed, a fountain
sealed up.

13 Thy plants are a paradise of pome-
granates with the fruits of the orchard.
Cypress with spikenard.

14 Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane
and cinnamon, with all the trees of
Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the
chief perfumes.

Ver. 5. Thy two breasts, &c. Mystically to be
understood: the love of God and the love of our
neighbour, which are so united as twins which feed
among the lilies : that is, the love of God and our
neighbour, feeds on the divine mysteries and the holy
sacraments, left by Christ to his spouse to feed and
nourish her children.

Ver. 12. My sister, &c., a garden enclosed. Figura-
tively the church is enclosed, containing only the
faithful. A fountain sealed up. That none can drink
of its waters, that is, the graces and spiritual benefits
of the holy sacraments, but those who are within itf
walls.

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Christ calls his spouse, CANTICLE OF CANTICLES She praises his beauty

15 The fountain of gardens: the well of
living waters, which run with a strong
stream from Libanus.

16 Arise, O north wind, and come, O
south wind, blow through my garden,
and let the aromatical spices thereof
flow.

CHAPTER 5.

Christ calls his spoicse : she languishes with love :
and describes him by his graces.

LET my beloved come into his garden,
and eat the fruit of his apple trees.
I am come into my garden, O my sister, my
spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with
my aromatical spices : I have eaten the
honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk
my wine with my milk : eat, O friends,
and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly
beloved.

2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the
voice of my beloved knocking : Open to
me, my sister, my love, my dove, my un-
deflled : for my head is full of dew, and
my locks of the drops of the nights.

3 I have put off my garment, how shall
I put it on ? I have washed my feet, how
shall I defile them ?

4 My beloved put his hand through the
key hole, and my bowels were moved at
his touch.

5 I arose up to open to my beloved :
my hands dropped with myrrh, and my
fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.

6 I opened the bolt of my door to my
beloved: but he had turned aside, and
was gone. My soul melted when he
spoke : I sought him, and found him
not : I called, and he did not answer me.

7 The keepers that go about the city
found me : they struck me : and wounded
me: the keepers of the walls took away
my veil from me.

8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusa-
lem, if you find my beloved, that you tell
him that I languish with love.

9 What manner of one is thy beloved
of the beloved, O thou most beautiful

Chap. 5. Ver. l. Let my beloved come into his
garden, &c. Garden, mystically the church of
Christ, abounding y/ith fruit, that is, the good works
of the elect.

Ver. 4. My beloved put his hand through the key
hole, &e. The spouse of Christ, his church, at times
as it were penned up by its persecutors, and in fears,
expecting the divine assistance, here signified by Ms
hand : and ver. 6, but he had turned aside and was
gone, that is, Christ permitting a further trial of suf-
fering : and again, ver. 7, the keepers, &c.. signifying
the violent and cruel persecutors of the church tak*

among women? what manner of one is
thy beloved of the beloved, that the**
hast so adjured us ?

10 My beloved is white and ruddy,
chosen out of thousands.

11 His head is as the finest gold : his
locks as branches of palm trees, black as
a raven.

12 His eyes as doves upon brooks of
waters, which are washed with milk, and
sit beside the plentiful streams.

13 His cheeks are as beds of aromatical
spices set by the perfumers. His lips
are as lilies dropping choice myrrh.

14 His hands are turned and as of gold,
full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory,
set with sapphires.

15 His legs as pillars of marble, that are
set upon bases of gold. His form as of
Libanus, excellent as the cedars.

16 His throat most sweet, and he is all
lovely : such is my beloved, and he is
my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.

17 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou
most beautiful among women ? whither
is thy beloved turned aside, and we will
seek him with thee ?

CHAPTER 6.

The spouse of Christ is but one : she is fair and ter»
rible.

MY beloved is gone down into his
garden, to the bed of aromatical
spices, to feed in the gardens, and to
gather lilies.

2 I to my beloved, and my beloved to
me, who feedeth among the lilies.

3 Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet
and comely as Jerusalem : terrible as
an army set in array.

4 Turn away thy eyes from me, for they
have made me flee away. Thy hair is as
a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad.

5 Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which
come up from the washing, all with twins,
and there is none barren among them.

6 Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pome

ing her veil, despoiling the church of its places oj
worship and ornaments for the divine service.

Ver. 10. My beloved, &c. In this and the follow[
ing verses, the church mystically describes Chris
to those who know him not, that is, to inlidels i
order to convert them to the true faith.

Chap. 6. Ver. l. My beloved is gone down inii
his garden. Christ, pleased with the good works (
his holy and devout servants labouring in his garde
is always present with them : but the words is goyj
down, are to be understood, that after trying h
Church by permitting persecution, he comes toh'j
assistance and she rejoices at his coming.

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The spouse is fair

CANTICLE OF CANTICLES Beaviy of the spouse

granate, beside what is hidden within
thee.

7 There are threescore queens, and four-
score concubines, and young maidens
without number.

8 One is my dove, my perfect one is hut
one, she is the only one of her mother,
the chosen of her that bore her. The
daughters saw her, and declared her most
blessed : the queens and concubines, and
they praised her.

9 Who is she that cometh forth as the
morning rising, fair as the moon, bright
as the sun, terrible as an army set in
array ?

10 I went down into the garden of nuts,
to see the fruits of the valleys, and to
look if the vineyard had flourished, and
the pomegranates budded.

11 I knew not: my soul troubled me for
the chariots of Aminadab.

12 Return, return, O Sulamitess ; return,
return that we may behold thee.

CHAPTER 7.

A further description of the graces of the church the
spouse of Christ.

HAT shalt thou see in the Sulamit-
ess but the companies of camps ?
How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O
prince's daughter! The joints of thy
thighs are like jewels, that are made by
the hand of a skilful workman.

2 Thy navel is like a round bowl never
wanting cups. Thy belly is like a heap
of wheat, set about with lilies.

3 Thy two breasts are like two young
roes that are twins.

4 Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy
eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which
are in the gate of the daughter of the
multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of
Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.

5 Thy head is like Carmel: and the
hairs of thy head as the purple of the
king bound in the channels.

Ver, 8. One is my dove, &c. That is, my church
Is one, and she only is perfect and blessed.

Ver. 9. Who is she. &c. Here is a beautiful meta-
I phor describing the cliurch from the beginning. As,
1 the morning rising, signifying the church before the
; written law; /air as the woo«, shewing her under
I the vyritten law of Moses : bright as the sun, under
^ the light of the gospel: and terrible as an army, the.
power of Christ's church against its enemies.

Chap. 7. Ver. l. Hotv ben nt if id are thy steps, &c.
I By these metaphors are signified the power and mJs-
j sion of the church in propagating the true faith.

Ver. 5. Thy head is like Carmel. Christ, the in-
I visible head of his church, is here signified.

Chap. 8. Ver. 3. Mis left hand, &c Words of

how

6 How beautiful art thou, and
comely, my dearest, in delights !

7 Thy stature is like to a palm tree,
and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

8 I said : I will go up into the palm
tree, and will take hold of the fruit
thereof : and thy breasts shall be as the
clusters of the vine : and the odour of
thy mouth like apples.

9 Thy throat like the best wine, worthy
for my beloved to drink, and for his lips
and his teeth to ruminate.

10 I to my beloved, and his turning is
towards me.

11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth
into the field, let us abide in the villages.

12 Let us get up early to the vineyards,
let us see if the vineyard flourish, if the
flowers be ready to bring forth fruits, if
the pomegranates flourish : there will I
give thee my breasts.

13 The mandrakes give a smell. In our
gates are all fruits : the new and the old,
my beloved, I have kept for thee.

CHAPTER 8.

The love of the church to Christ: his love to her.

WHO shall give thee to me for my
brother, sucking the breasts of my
mother, that I may find thee without,
and kiss thee, and now no man may de-
spise me ?

2 I will take hold of thee, and bring
thee into my mother's house : there thou
shalt teach me, and I will give thee a
cup of spiced wine and new wine of my
pomegranates.

3 His left hand under my head, and his
right hand shall embrace me.

4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusa-
lem, that you stir not up, nor awake my
love tiU she please.

5 Who is this that cometh up from the
desert, flowing with delights, leaning
upon her beloved? Under the apple tree
I raised thee up : there thy mother was

the church to Christ. His left hand, signifying the
Old Testament, and his right hand, the New.

Ver. 5. Who is this, &c. The angels with admira.
tion behold the Gentiles converted to the faith : com-
ing up from the desert, that is, coming from heathen-
ism and false worship : ./?07<'inGr with delights, that
is, abounding with good works which are pleasing
to God : leaning on her beloved, on the promise of
Christ to his Church, that the gates of hell should
not prevail against it ; and supported by his grace
conferred by the sacraments. Under the apple tree
I raised thee up; tha;t is, that Christ redeemed the
Gentiles at the foot of the cross, where the syna.
gogue of the Jews (the mother church) was cor^
rupted by their denying him, and crucifying him.

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The strength of love

WISDOM

Nothing is hid from God

corrupted, there she was defloured that
bore thee.

6 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a
seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as
death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps
thereof are fire and flames.

7 Many waters cannot quench charity,
neither can the floods drown it: if a man
should give all the substance of his house
for love, he shall despise it as nothing.

8 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts.
What shall we do to our sister in the day
when she is to be spoken to ?

9 If she be a wall : let us build upon it
bulwarks of silver : if she be a door, let
us join it together with boards of cedar.

10 I am a wall; and my breasts are as a

' tower since I am become i'^ his presence

I as one finding peace.

11 The peaceable had a vineyard, in
that which hath people: he let out the

I same to keepers, every man bringeth
for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of
silver.

I 12 My vineyard is before me. A thou-
sand are for thee, the peaceable, and

i two hundred for them that keep the

j fruit thereof.

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
I the friends hearken : make me hear thy

voice.

14 Flee away, O my beloved, and be
j like to the roe, and to the young hart

upon the mountains of aromatical spices.

THE

BOOK OF WISDOM.

This Book is so called, because it treats of the excellence of WiSDOM, the means to
obtain it^ and the happy fruits it produces. It is written in the person of Solo-
mon, and contains his sentiments. But it is uncertain who was the writer. It
abounds with instructions and exhortations to kings and all magistrates to min-
ister justice in the commonwealth, teaching all kinds of virtues under the general
names of justice and wisdom. The Book of Wisdom may be divided into three
parts. In the first six chapters, the author admonishes all superiors to love and
exercise justice and wisdom. In the next three, he teaches that wisdom proceedeth
only from God, and is procured by prayer and a good life. In the other ten chap-
ters, he sheweth the excellent effects and utility of wisdom and justice.

CHAPTER 1.

An exhortation to seek God sincerely, who cannot he
deceived, and desireth not our death.

LOVE •?' justice, you that are the judges
of the earth. Think of the Lord in
goodness, and seek him in simplicity of
heart.

2 '^ For he is found by them that tempt
him not: and he sheweth himself to them
that have faith in him.

3 For perverse thoughts separate from
Erod: and his power, when it is tried, re-
proveth the unwise:

4 For wisdom will not enter into a mali-
cious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to
sins.

6 For the Holy Spirit of discipline will

j 3 Kings 3. 9 ; Isa. 56. 1. — fc 2 Par. 15. 2.

Ver. 8. Our sister is little, &c. Mystically signi-
fies the .Jews, who are to be spoken to : that is, con-
verted tor7ards the end of the world; and then shall

flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw
himself from thoughts that are without!
understanding, and he shall not abide!
when iniquity cometh in.

6 ^ For the spirit of wisdom is benevo-
lent, and will not acquit the evil speaker!
from his lips: *^for God is witness of his
reins, and he is a true searcher of hiej
heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

7 "^ For the spirit of the Lord hath filled
the whole world: and that, which conl
taineth all things, hath knowledge of th'|
voice.

8 Therefore he that speaketh unjuEJ
things cannot be hid, neither shaU tbi
chastising judgment pass him by.

9 For inquisition shall be made into tlj

I Gal. 5. 22, — m Jer. 17. 10. — n Isa. 6. 3.

become a wall, that is, a part of the building, tj
church of CSirist.

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God desires not our death

WISDOM

Persecution of the just man

oiioughts of the ungodly : and the hearing
of his words shall come to God, to the
chastising of his iniquities.

10 For the ear of jealousy heareth all
things, and the tumult of murmuring
shall not be hid.

11 Keep yourselves therefore from mur-
muring, which profiteth nothing, and re-
frain your tongue from detraction, for
an obscure speech shall not go for nought:
and the mouth that belieth, killeth the
soul.

12 Seek not death in the error of your
life, neither procure ye destruction by
the works of your hands.

13 ®For God made not death, neither
hath he pleasure in the destruction of
the hving.

14 For he created all things that they
might be: and he made the nations of the
aarth for health: and there is no poison
of destruction in them, nor kingdom of
hell upon the earths

15 For justice is perpetual and immortal.

16 But the wicked with works and words
have called it P to them i and esteeming
it a friend have fallen away, and have
made a covenant with it: because they
are worthy to be of the part thereof.

CHAPTER 2.

The vain reasonings of the wicked their persecut-
ing thejusU especially the Son of God,

FOR they have said, reasoning with
themselves, hut not right : ^ The time
of our life is short and tedious, and in the
end of a man there is no remedy, and no
man hath been known to have returned
from belli

2 For we are born of nothing, and after
this we shall be as if we had not been :
for the breath in our nostrils is smoke :
and speech a spark to move our heart,

3 Which being put out, our oody shall
be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured
abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass
away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be
dispersed as a mist, which is driven away
by the beams of the sun, and overpowered
with the heat thereof :

4 And our name in time shall be for-
gotten, and no man shall have any re-
membrance of our works.

5 *" For our time is as the passing of a
shadow, and there is no going back of

o Ezech. 18. 32, and 33. IL—p Isa. 28. 16.
2 Job 7 1. and U. L— r 1 Par, 29, 1&

OUT end : for it is fast sealed, and no man
returneth.

6 * Come therefore, and let U8 enjoy the
good things that are present, and let ua
speedily use the creatures as in youth.

7 Let us fill ourselves with costly wine,
and ointments : and let not the flower of
the time pass by us.

8 Let us crown ourselves with roses,
before they be withered °. let no meadow
escape our riot.

9 Let none of us go without his part in
luxury: let us everywhere leave tokens of
joy : for this is our portion, and this our lot.

10 Let us oppress the poor just man,
and not spare the widow, nor honour the
ancient grey hairs of the aged.

11 But let our strength be the law of
justice : for that which is feeble, is found
to be nothing worth.

12 Let us therefore lie in wait for the
just, because he is not for our turn, and
he is contrary to our doings, and up-
braideth us with transgressions of the
law, and divulgeth against us the sins of
our way of life.

13 ' He boasteth that he hath the know-
ledge of God, and calleth himself the son
of God.

14 ^He is become a censurer ol our
thoughts,

15 He is grievous unto us, even to be-
hold: for his life is not like other men's,
and his ways are very different.

16 We are esteemed by him as triflerji,
and he abstaineth from our ways as fron>
filthiness, and he preferreth the latter
end of the just, and glorieth that he hath
God for his father.

17 Let us see then if his words be true,
and let us prove what shall happen to
him, and we shall know what his end
shall be.

18 ^ For if he be the true son of God, he
will defend him, and will deliver him
from the hands of his enemies.

19 Let us examine him by outrages and
tortures, that we may know his meek-
ness and try his patience.

20 ^Let us condemn him to a most
shameful death • for there shall be respect
had unto him by his words.

21 These things they thought, and were
deceived: for their own malice blinded
them.

I « Isa. 22. 13, and 56. 12 ^ I Cor. 15. 32. — t Matt. 27. 42
■ u John 7e I. ~ V P& 81. a«i0 Jer. li. 19.

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Happiness of the just

WISDOM

The chaste and the adulterous

22 And they knew not the secrets of
God, nor hoped for the wages of justice,
nor esteemed the honour of holy souls.

23 ^ For God created man incorruptible,
and to the image of his own likeness he
made him.

24 2/ But by the envy of the devil, death
came into the world .

25 And they follow him that are of his
side.

CHAPTER 3.

The happiness of the just: and the unhapptness of
the wicked

BUT ^ the souls of the just are in the
hand of God, and the torment of
death shall not touch them.

2 ^ In the sight of the unwise they
seemed to die : and their departure was
taken for misery :

3 And their going away from us, for
utter destruction ; but they are in peace.

4 And though in the sight of men they
suffered torments, their hope is full of
Immortality.

5 Afflicted in few things, in many they
si nil be ivell rewarded : because God
hath tried them, and found them worthy
of himself.

6 As gold in the furnace he hath proved
them, and as a victim of a holocaust he
hath received them, and in time there
shall be respect had to them.

7 ^The just shall shine, and shall run to
and fro like sparks among the reeds.

8 ° They shall judge nations, and rule
over people, and their Lord shall reign
for ever.

9 They that trust in him, shall under-
stand the truth : and they that are faith-
ful in love shall rest in him : for grace
and peace is to his elect.

10 But the wicked shall be punished ac-
cording to their own devices : who have
neglected the just, and have revolted
from the Lord.

11 For he that rejecteth wisdom, and
discipline, is unhappy : and their hope is
vain, and their labours without fruit, and
their works unprofitable.

12 Their wives are foolish, and their
children wicked.

13 Their offspring is cursed : for happy
is the barren : and the undefiled, that
hath not known bed in sin: she shall
have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.

X Gen. 1. 27, and 2. 7, and 5. i j Eccli. 17. 1.
y GeiL 3. L — 2 Deut. 33. 3. — a InfraS. i^

14 ^ And the eunuch, that hath noc
wrought iniquity with his hands, nor
thought wicked things against God ! for
the precious gift of faith shall be giv^n
to him, and a most acceptable lot in the
temple of God.

16 For the fruit of good labours is glori-
ous, and the root of wisdom never fail
eth.

16 But the children of adulterers shall
not come to perfection, and the seed of
the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.

17 And if they live long, they shall be
nothing regarded, and their last old ag<>
shall be without honour.

18 And if they die quickly, they shrfll
have no hope, nor speech of comfort in
the day of trial.

19 For dreadful are the ends of a wicked
race.

CHAPTER 4.

The difference between the chaste and the adulterous
generations: and between the death of the just
and the wicked.

OHOW beautiful is the chaste gener-
ation with glory: for the memory
thereof is immortal : because it is known
both with God and with men.

2 When it is present, they imitate it :
and they desire it when it hath with-
drawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned
for ever, winning the reward of undefiled
conflicts.

3 But the multiplied brood of the wicked
shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall
not take deep root, nor any fast founda-
tion.

4 ^ And if they flourish in branches for
a time, yet standing not fast, they shall
be shaken with the wind, and through
the force of winds they shall be rooted
out.

5 For the branches not being perfect,
shall be broken, and their fruits shall be
unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for
nothing.

6 For the children that are bom of un-
lawful beds, are witnesses of wickedness
against their parents in their trial.

7 But the just man, if he be prevented
with death, shall be in rest.

8 For venerable old age is not that of
long time, nor counted by the number of
years : but the understanding of a man is
grey hairs.

b Matt. 13. 43. — cl Cor. 6. 2.
<i Isa.56.3.-'«Jer. 17. 6; MattT.sx

698

Death of the just

WISDOM Remorse of the wicked in hell

9 And a spotless life is old age,
10-^ He pleased God and was beloved,
and living among sinners he was trans-
lated.

11 He was taken away lest wickedness
should alter his understanding, or deceit
beguile his soul.

12 For the bewitching of vanity obscm'-
eth good things, and the wandering of
concupiscence overturneth the innocent
mindc

13 Being made perfect in a short space,
he fulfilled a long time :

14 For his soul pleased God : therefore
he hastened to bring him out of the midst
of iniquities : but the people see this, and
understand not, nor lay up such things
in their hearts:

15 That the grace of God, and his mercy
is with his saints, and that he hath re-
spect to his chosen.

16 But the just that is dead, condemneth
the wicked that are living, and youth
soon ended, the long life of the unjust.

17 For they shall see the end of the wise
man- and shall not understand what God
hath designed for him, and why the Lord
hath set him in safety.

18 They shall see him, and shall despise
him : but the Lord shall laugh them to
scorn.

19 And they shall fall after this without
honour, and be a reproach among the
dead for ever: for he shall burst them
puffed up and speechless, and shall shake
them from the foundations, and they
shall be utterly laid waste : they shall
be in sorrow, and their memory shall
perish.

20 They shall come with fear at the
thought of their sins, and their iniquities
shall stand against them to convict them.

CHAPTER 5.

The fruitless repentance of the tvicked in another
ivorld ' the reward of the just.

THEN shall the just stand with great
constancy against those that have
aflaicted them, and taken away their
labours.

2 These seeing it, shall be troubled with
terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the
suddenness of their unexpected salvation.

3 Saying within themselves, repenting,
ftnd groaning for anguish of spirit:

/ Heb. 11. 5. — gr Supra 3. 2.
h S Par 29. 15 Supra 2. 6,

These are they, whom we had some time
in derision, and for a parable of reproach,

4 ^ We fools esteemed their life mad-
ness, and their end without honour.

6 Behold how they are numbered among
the children of God, and their lot is
among the saints.

6 Therefore we have erred from the way
of truth, and the light of justice hath not
shined unto us, and the sun of under-
standing hath not risen upon uSc

7 We wearied ourselves in the way of
iniquity and destruction, and have walked
through hard ways, but the way of the
Lord we have not known.

8 What hath pride profited us ? or what
advantage hath the boasting of riches
brought us ?

9 ^ All those things are passed away like
a shadow, and like a post that runneth
on,

10 * And as a ship that passeth through
the waves : whereof when it is gone by,
the trace cannot be found, nor the path
of its keel in the waters :

11 Or as when a bird flieth through the
air, of the passage of which no mark can
be found, but only the sound of the
wings beating the light air, and parting
it by the force of her flight; she moved
her wings, and hath flown through, and
there is no mark found afterwards of her
way:

12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a
mark, the divided air presently cometh
together again, so that the passage
thereof is not known :

13 So we also being born, forthwith
ceased to be : and have been able to
shew no mark of virtue: but are con-
sumed in our wickedness.

14 Such things as these the sinners said
in hell:

15^ For the hope of the wicked is as
dust, which is blown away with the wind,
and as a thin froth which is dispersed by
the storm : and a smoke that is scattered
abroad by the wind : and as the remem-
brance of a guest of one day that passeth

by.

16 But the just shall live for evermore :
and their reward is with the Lord^ and
the care of them with the most High.

17 Therefore shall they receive a king-
dom of glory, and a crown of beauty at

609

i Prov. 30. 19.
I Pfr t 4. Prov. 10. 28. and IL ?

Exhortation to kings and judges WISDOM Wisdom found hy those that seek

the hand of the Lord: for witk his right
hand he will cover them, and with his
holy arm he will defend them.

18 ^' And his zeal will take armour^ and
he will arm the creature for the revenge
of his enemies.

19 He will put on justice as a breast-
plate, and will take true judgment instead
of a helmet.

20 He wilJ take equity for an invincible
shield :

21 And he will sharpen his severe wrath
for a spear, and the whole world shall
fight with him against the unwise.

22 Then shafts of lightning shall go
directly from the clouds, as from a bow
well bent, they shall be shot out, and
shall fly to the markc

23 And thick hail shall be cast upon
th«m from the etone casting wrath: the
water of the sea shall rage against them,
and the rivers shall run together in a
terrible manner.

24 A mighty wind shall stand up against
them, and as a whirlwind shall divide
them: and their iniquity shall bring all
the earth to a desert, and wickedness
ihall overthrow the thrones of the
liighty.

CHAPTER 6.

$n address to princes to seek after loisdom she is
easily found by those that seek her.

WISDOM 'is better than strength,
and a wise man is better than a
strong man.

2 Hear therefore, ye kings, and under-
stand : learn, ye that are judges of the
ends of the earth.

3 Give ear, you that rule the people,
and that please yourselves in multitudes
of nations:

4 "* For power is given you by the Lord,
and strength by the most High, who will
examine your works, and search out
your thoughts:

5 Because being ministers of his king-
dom, you have not judged rightly, nor
kept the law of justice, nor walked ac-
cording to the will of God.

6 Horribly and speedily will he appear to
you? for a most severe judgment shall be
for them that bear rule.

7 For to him that is little, mercy is
granted : but the mighty shall be might-
ily tormented.

k Ps. 17. 40 , Eph. 6. 13. — I EccL 9. 18.
171 Rom. la I. — n Deut 10. r. 2 Par. 19. 7 \

8 " For God will not except any man's
person, neither will he stand in awe of
any man's greatness for he made the
little and the great, and he hath equally
care of all.

9 But a greater punishment is ready for
the more mighty.

10 To you, therefore, O kings, are these
my words, that you may learn wisdom,
and not fall from it.

11 For they that have kept just things
justly, shall be justified: and they that
have learned these things, shall find what
to answer.

12 Covet ye therefore my words, and
love them, and you shall have instruction.

13 Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth
away, and is easily seen by them that
love her, and is found by them that seek
her.

14 She preventeth them that covet her,
so that she first sheweth herself untc
them.

16 He that awaketh early to seek her,
shall not labour: for he shall find her
sitting at his door.

18 To think therefore upon her, is per-
fect understanding: and he that watch-
eth for her, shall quickly be secure.

2 7 For she goeth about seeking such as
are worthy of her, and she sheweth her*
self to them cheerfully in the ways, an<J
meeteth them with all providence.

18 For the beginning of her is the most
true desire of discipline.

19 And the care of discipline is jove.
and love is the keeping of her laws, and
the keeping of her laws is the firm foun-
dation of incorruption ?

20 And incorruption bringeth near to
God.

21 Therefore the desire of wisdom
bringeth to the everlasting kingdom.

22 If then your delight be in thrones,
and sceptres, O ye kings of the people.
love wisdom, that you may reign for
ever»

23 Love the light of wisdom, all ye that
bear rule over peoples.

24 Now what wisdom is, and what was
her origin, I will declare : and I will not
hide from you the mysteries of God, but
will seek her out from the beginning of
her birth, and bring the knowledge of her
to light, and will not pass over the truth;

EcclL 35. 15 » Acts 10. 34 , Rom. 2. Ij ;
6aL 2. 6 Epb. ii- 9 CoL 3. 25 1 Peter 1. 17

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The birth of man

WISDOM Excellence and power of wisdom

26 Neither will I go with consuming
envy: for such a man shall not be par-
taker of wisdom.

26 Now the multitude of the wise is the
welfare of the whole world : and a wise
king is the upholding of the people.

27 Receive therefore instruction by my
^ords, and it shall be profitable to you.

CHAPTER 7.

The excellence of wisdom : how she is to be found.

I MYSELF also am a mortal man, like
all others^ and of the race of him, that
was first made of the earth, and in the
womb of my mother I was fashioned to
be flesh.

2 In the time of ten months I was com-
pacted in blood, of the seed of man, ** and
the pleasure of sleep concurring.

3 And being born I drew in the common
air, and fell upon the earth, that is made
alike, and the first voice which I uttered
was crying, as all others do.

4 I was nursed in swaddling clothes,
and with great cares.

5 For none of the kings had any other
beginning of birth.

6 ^ For all men have one entrance into
life, and the like going out.

7 Wherefore I wished, and understand-
ng was given me: and I called upon God,
md the spirit of wisdom came upon me :

8 And I preferred her before kingdoms
ind thrones, and esteemed riches nothing
n comparison of her.

9 'Neither did I compare unto her any
)recious stone : for all gold in comparison
tf her, is as a little sand, and silver in
espect to her shall be counted as clay.

10 I loved her above health and beauty,
nd chose to have her instead of light :
Dr her light cannot be put out.

11 ''Now all good things came to me
iDgether with her, and innumerable riches
(tirough her hands,

12 And I rejoiced in all these: for this
isdom went before me, and I knew not
lat she was the mother of them all.

13 Which I have learned without guile,
ad communicate without envy, and her
ches I hide not.

14 For she is an infinite treasure to
len! which they that use, become the
liends of God, being commended for the

ft of disciphne.

o Job 10. 10. — p Job 1. 21 ; 1 Tim.
q Job 28. 15 ; Frov. 8. 11.

6.7.

15 And God hath given to me to speak
as I would, and to conceive thought»
worthy of those things that are given
me : because he is the guide of wisdom,
and the director of the wise :

16 For in his hand are both we, and our
words, and all wisdom, and the know
ledge and skill of works.

17 For he hath given me the true know-
ledge of the things that are : to know
the disposition of the whole world, and
the virtues of the elements,

18 The beginning, and ending, and midst
of the times, the alterations of their
courses, and the changes of seasons,

19 The revolutions of the year, and the
dispositions of the stars,

20 The natures of living creatures, and
rage of wild beasts, the force of winds,
and reasonings of men, the diversities
of plants, and the virtues of roots,

21 And all such things as are hid and
not foreseen, I have learned : for wisdom,
which is the worker of all things, taught
me.

22 For in her is the spirit of understand-
ing: holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent,
active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that
which is good, quick, which nothing hin-
dereth, beneficent,

23 Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, se-
cure, having all power, overseeing all
things, and containing all spirits, intelli-
gible, pure, subtile.

24 For wisdom is more active than all
active things : and reacheth everywhere
by reason of her purity.

25 For she is a vapour of the power of
God, and a certain pure emanation of the
glory of the almighty God : and therefore
no defiled thing cometh into her.

26 ® For she is the brightness of eternal
light, and the unspotted mirror of God's
majesty, and the image of his good-
ness.

27 And being but one, she can do all
things : and remaining in herself the
same, she reneweth all things, and
through nations conveyeth herself into
holy souls, she maketh the friends of God
and prophets.

28 For God loveth none but him that
dwelleth with wisdom.

29 For she is more beautiful than the
sun, and above all the order of the stars :

r 3 Kings 3. 13 ; Matt. 6. 33.
s Hel). 1. 3.

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The praises of wisdom

WISDOM

The fruits of wisdom

being compared with the light, she ic
found before it.

30 For after this cometh night, but no
evil can overcome wisdom.

CHAPTER 8.
Further "praises of wisdom: and her fruits.

SHE reacheth therefore from end to
end mightily, and ordereth all things
sweetly.

2 Her have I loved, and have sought
her out from my youth, and have desired
to take her for my spouse, and I became
a lover of her beauty.

3 She glorifieth her nobility by being
conversant with God : yea and the Lord
of all things hath loved her.

4 For it is she that teacheth the know-
ledge of God, and is the chooser of his
works.

5 And if riches be desired in life, what
is richer than wisdom, which maketh all
things ?

6 And if sense do work : who is a more
artful worker than she of those things
that are ?

7 And if a man love justice : her labours
have great virtues ; for she teacheth tem-
perance, and prudence, and justice, and
fortitude, which are such things as men
can have nothing more profitable in life.

8 And if a man desire much knowledge :
she knoweth things past, and judgeth of
things to come : she knoweth the sub-
tilties of speeches, and the solutions of
arguments : she knoweth signs and won-
ders before they be done, and the events
of times and ages.

9 I purposed therefore to take her to
me to live with me: knowing that she
will communicate to me of her good
things, and will be a comfort in my cares
and grief.

10 For her sake I shall have glory among
the multitude, and honour with the an-
cients, though I be young:

11 And I shall be found of a quick con-
ceit in judgment, and shall be admired
in the sight of the mighty, and the faces
of princes shall wonder at me.

12 They shall wait for me when I hold
my peace, and they shall look upon me
when I speak, and if I talk much they
jhall lay their hands on their mouths.

13 Moreover by the means of her I shall

1 1 Kings 3. 9'

have immortality: and shall leave be-
hind me an everlasting memory to them
that come after me.

14 I shall set the people in order : and
nations shall be subject to me.

15 Terrible kings hearing shall be
afraid of me: among the multitude I
shall be found good, and vaUant in war.

16 When I go into my house, I shall
repose myself with her : for her conver-
sation hath no bitterness, nor her com-
pany any tediousness, but joy and glad-
ness.

17 Thinking these things with myself,
and pondering them in my heart, that tc
be allied to wisdom is immortality,

18 And that there is great delight in
her friendship, and inexhaustible riches
in the works of her hands, and in the
exercise of conference with her, wisdom,
and glory in the communication of her
words: I went about seeking, that I
might take her to myself.

19 And I was a witty child and had re-
ceived a good soul.

20 And whereas I was more good, I
came to a body undefiled.

21 And as I knew that I could not
otherwise be continent, except God gave
it, and this also was a point of wisdom,
to know whose gift it was: I went to
the Lord, and besought him, and said
with my whole heart :

CHAPTER 9.

Solomon^s prayer for wisdom.

GOD *of my fathers, and Lord of
mercy, who hast made all things
with thy word,

2 And by thy wisdom hast appointed
man, that he should have dominion over
the creature that was made by thee,

3 That he should order the world ac-
cording to equity and justice, and exe-
cute justice with an upright heart:

4 Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy
throne, and cast me not off from among
thy children:

5 ^ For I am thy servant, and the son
of thy handmaid, a weak man, and of
short time, and falling short of the un-
derstanding of judgment and laws.

6 For if one be perfect among the chil-
dren of men, yet if thy wisdom be not|
with him, he shall be nothing regarded.

MPs. 115 16.

Solomon's prayer for wisdom WISDOM What wisdom did for the patriarchs

7 ^ Thou hast chosen me to be king of
thy people, and a judge of thy sons and
daughters.

8 And hast commanded me to build a
temple on thy holy mount, and an altar
in the city of thy dwelling place, a re-
semblance of thy holy tabernacle, which
thou hast prepared from the beginning:

9 *^And thy wisdom with thee, which
knoweth thy works, which then also
was present when thou madest the
world, and knew what was agreeable to
thy eyes, and what was right in thy com-
mandments.

10 Send her out of thy holy heaven,
and from the throne of thy majesty, that
she may be with me, and may labour
with me, that I may know what is ac-
ceptable with thee :

11 For she knoweth and understandeth
all things, and shall lead me soberly in
my works, and shall preserve me by her
power.

12 So shall my works be acceptable, and
I shall govern thy people justly, and
shall be worthy of the throne of my
father.

13 ^ For who among men is he that can
know the counsel of God ? or who can
think what the will of God is ?

14 For the thoughts of mortal men are
fearful, and our counsels uncertain.

15 For the corruptible body is a load
upon the soul, and the earthly habita-
tion presseth down the mind that mus-
eth upon many things.

16 And hardly do we guess aright at
things that are upon earth: and with
labour do we find the things that are
before us. But the things that are in
heaven, who shall search out ?

17 And who shall know thy thought,
except thou give wisdom, and send thy
Holy Spirit from above:

18 And so the ways of them that are
I upon earth may be corrected, and men
I may learn the things that please thee?

19 For by wisdom they were healed,
whosoever have pleased thee, O Lord,
from the beginning.

V 1 Par. 28. 4 and 5 ; 2 Par. 1. 9.
w Prov. 8. 22, 27 ; John 1. 1.
X Isa. 40. 13 ; Rom. 11. 34 ; 1 Cor. 2. 16.

Chap. lo. Ver. 3. The unjust. Cain.

Ver. 4. For ivhose rnusfi, viz., for the wickedness
3f the race of Cain. — Ibid. The, just. Noe.

Ver. 5. She knew the just. She found out and ap-
proved Abraham. — Ibid. And kept him strong, &c.
aave him strength to stand firm against the efforts

CHAPTER 10.

What wisdom did for Adam, Noe, Abraham, Lot,
Jacob, Joseph, and the people of Israel.

first
the

SHE ^preserved him, that was
formed by God the father of
world, when he was created alone,

2 ^ And she brought him out of his sin,
and gave him power to govern all things.

3 " But when the unjust went away from
her in his anger, he perished by the fury
wherewith he murdered his brother.

4 ^For whose cause, when water de-
stroyed the earth, wisdom healed it
again, directing the course of the just by
contemptible wood.

5 ^ Moreover when the nations had Con-
spired together to consent to wicked-
ness, she knew the just, and preserved
him without blame to God, and kept
him strong against the compassion for
his son.

6 ^ She delivered the just man who fled
from the wicked that were perishing,
when the fire came down upon Penta-
polis :

7 Whose land for a testimony of their
wickedness is desolate, and smoketh to
this day, and the trees bear fruits that
ripen not, and a standing pillar of salt is
a monument of an incredulous soul.

8 For regarding not wisdom, they did
not only slip in this, that they were
ignorant of good things, but they left
also unto men a memorial of their folly,
so that in the things in which they
sinned, they could not so much as lie hid.

9 But wisdom hath delivered from sor-
row them that attend upon her.

10 ® She conducted the just, when he
fled from his brother's wrath, through
the right ways, and shewed him the
kingdom of God, and gave him the
knowledge of the holy things, made him
honourable in his labours, and accom-
plished his labours.

11 In the deceit of them that over-
reached him, she stood by him, and made
him honourable.

12 She kept him safe from his enemies,
and she defended him from seducers,

y Gen. l. 27. — z Gen. 2. 7. — a Gen. 4. 8.

b Gen. 7. 6. — c Gen. 11. 2.
d Gen. 19. 17 and 22. — e Gen. 28. 5 and 10.

of his natural tenderness, vi'hen he was ordered to
sacrifice his son.

Ver. 6. The just man. Lot. — Ibid. Pentapoli^
The land of the five cities, Sodom, Gomorrha, &c.

Ver. 10. The Just. Jacob.

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IVhat wisdom did for the Israelites WISDOM

and gave him a strong conflict, that he 4
might overcome, and know that wisdom is
mightier than all.

13 -^She forsook not the just when he
was sold, but delivered him from sinners:
she went down with him into the pit.

14 3 And in bands she left him not, till
she brought him the sceptre of the king-
dom, and power against those that op-
pressed him : and shewed them to be
liars that had accused him, and gave him
everlasting glory.

15 ^ She delivered the just people, and
blameless seed from the nations that
oppressed them.

16 She entered into the soul of the ser-
vant of God, and stood against dreadful
kings in wonders and signs.

17 And she rendered to the just the
wages of their labours, and conducted
them in a wonderful way: and she was
to them for a covert by day, and for the
light of stars by night :

18 * And she brought them through the
Red Sea, and carried them over through
a great water.

19 But their enemies she drowned in the
sea, and from the depth of hell she
brought them out. •? Therefore the just
took the spoils of the wicked.

20 '^ And they sung to thy holy name, O
Lord, and they praised with one accord
thy victorious hand.

21 For wisdom opened the mouth of the
dumb, and made the tongues of infants
eloquent.

CHAPTER 11.

Other benefits of wisdom to the people of God.

SHE ^prospered their works in the
hands of the holy prophet.

2 They went through wildernesses that
were not inhabited, and in desert places
they pitched their tents.

3 "^They stood against their enemies,
and revenged themselves of their adver-
saries.

Punishment of the wicked

f Gen. 37. 28. — g Gen. 41. 40 ; Acts 7. 9.
h Ex. 1. 11. — i Ex. 14. 22 ; Ps. 77. 13. —j Ex. 12. 35.

Ver. 12. Conflict, viz., with the angel.

Ver. 13. Thejtist when he was sold, viz., Joseph.

Ver. 16. The servant of God, viz., Moses.

Chap. 11. Ver. 1. The holy prophet. Moses.

Ver. 3. Their enemies. Tlie Amalecites.

Ver. 5. By what things, &c. The meaning is, that
God, who wrought a miracle to punish the Egyp-
tians by thirst, wlien he turned all their waters into
Mood, (at which time the Israelites, who were ex-
empt from those plagues, bad plenty ot waters

^ They were thirsty, and they called
upon thee, and water was given them
out of the high rock, and a refreshment
of their thirst out of the hard stone.

6 For by what things their enemies were
punished, when their drink failed them,
while the children of Israel abounded
therewith and rejoiced :

6 By the same things they in their need
were benefited.

7 For instead of a fountain of an ever
running river, thou gavest human blood
to the unjust.

8 And whilst they were diminished for a
manifest reproof of their murdering the
infants, thou gavest to thine abundant
water unlocked for :

9 Shewing by the thirst that was then,
how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill
their adversaries.

10 For when they were tried, and chas-
tised with mercy, they knew how the
wicked were judged with wrath and tor-
mented.

11 For thou didst admonish and try them
as a father : but the others, as a severe
king, thou didst examine and condemn.

12 For whether absent or present, they
were tormented alike.

13 For a double affliction came upon
them, and a groaning for the remem-
brance of things past.

14 For when they heard that by their
punishments the others were benefited,
they remembered the Lord, wondering
at the end of what was come to pass.

15 For whom they scorned before, when
he was thrown out at the time of his be-
ing wickedly exposed to perish, him they
admired in the end, when they saw the
event : their thirsting being unlike to
that of the just.

16 But for the foolish devices of their|
iniquity, ® because some being deceived!
worshipped dumb serpents and worthlesBJ
beasts, thou didst send upon them a mul-
titude of dumb beasts for vengeance :

k Ex. 1.5. l. — l Ex. 16. l. — m Ex. 17. 12.

n Num. 20. 11. — o Infra 12. 24.

wrought another miracle in favour of his own peo
pie in their thirst, by giving them water out of th<
rock.

Ver. 14, By their punishments, &c. That is, tha
the Israelites had been benefited and miraculous!
favoured in the same kind, in which they had bee
punished.

Ver. 16. Dumb beasts, viz., frogs, scinipns, m&\
and locusts.

704

The power of God

WISDOM Godfs dealings with the Chanaanited

17 That they might know that by wha£
things a man sinneth, by the same also
he is tormented.

18 For thy almighty hand, which made
the world of matter without form, was
not unable to send upon them a multi-
tude of bears, or fierce lions,

19 Or unknown beasts of a new kind,
full of rage : either breathing out a fiery
vapour, Por sending forth a stinking
smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out
of their eyes :

20 Whereof not only the hurt might be
able to destroy them, but also the very
sight might kill them through fear.

21 Yea and without these, they might
have been slain with one blast, perse-
cuted by their own deeds, and scattered
by the breath of thy power: but thou
hast ordered all things in measure, and
number, and weight.

22 For great power always belonged to
thee alone : and who shall resist the
strength of thy arm ?

23 For the whole world before thee is as
vhe least grain of the balance, and as a
drop of the morning dew, that falleth
down upon the earth :

24 But thou hast mercy upon all, be-
cause thou canst do all things, and over-
lookest the sins of men for the sake of
repentance.

25 For thou lovest all things that are,
and hatest none of the things which thou
hast made : for thou didst not appoint,
or make any thing hating it.

26 And how could any thing endure, if
thou wouldst not ? or be preserved, if not
called by thee.

27 But thou sparest all : because they
are thine, O Lord, who lovest souls.

CHAPTER 12.

Ood^s wisdom and mercy in his proceedings with
the Chanaanites.

OHOW good and sweet is thy spirit, O
Lord, in all things !
2 And therefore thou chastisest them
bhat err, by little and little : and admon-
shest them, and speakest to them, con-
!erning the things wherein they offend :
hat leaving their wickedness, they may
»elieve in thee, O Lord.

p Lev. 26. 22 ; Infra 16. 1 ; Jer, 8. 17.
q Deut. 9. 3, and 12. 29, and 18. 12.

3 ' For those ancient inhabitants of thy
holy land, whom thou didst abhor,

4 Because they did works hateful to
thee by their sorceries, and wicked
sacrifices,

6 And those merciless murderers of their
own children, and eaters of men's bowels,
and devourers of blood from the midst of
thy consecration,

6 And i/iose parents sacrificing with their
own hands helpless souls. It was thy
will to destroy by the hands of our
parents,

7 That the land which of all is most
dear to thee might receive a worthy
colony of the children of God.

8 Yet even those thou sparedst as men,
and didst send wasps, forerunners of thy
host, to destroy them by Uttle and little.

9 Not that thou wast unable to bring
the wicked under the just by war, or by
cruel beasts, or with one rough word to
destroy them at once :

10 *■ But executing thy judgments by de-
grees thou gavest them place of repent-
ance, not being ignorant that they were
a wicked generation, and their malice
natural, and that their thought could
never be changed.

11 For it was a cursed seed from the
beginning : neither didst thou for fear of
anj one give pardon to their sins.

12 For who shall say to thee : What
hast thou done ? or who shall withstand
thy judgment ? or who shall come before
thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or
who shall accuse thee^ if the nations
perish, which thou hast made ?

13 For there is no other God but thou, *
who hast care of all, that thou shouldst
shew that thou dost not give judgment
unjustly.

14 Neither shall king, nor tyrant in thy
sight inquire about them whom thou
hast destroyed.

15 For so much then as thou art just,
thou orderest all things justly : thinking
it not agreeable to thy power, to condemn
him who deserveth not to be punished.

16 For thy power is the beginning of
justice: and because thou art Lord of
all, thou makest thyself gracious to all.

17 For thou she west thy power, when

r Ex. 23. 30 ; Deut 7. 22.
s 1 Peter 6. 7.

oHAP. 12. Ver. 5. FrovT, the midst of thy conse- sacred to thee, in which thy temple was to be estab-
ation. Literally, sacrament. That is, the land ( llshed, and man's redemption to be wrought.

•* 705

ifolly and 'punishment of idolatry WISDOM

God is known in His wo/ki

men will not believe thee to be absolute
in power, and thou convincest the bold-
ness of them that know thee not.

18 But thou being master of power,
judgest with tranquillity ; and with great
favom* disposest of us . for thy power is
at hand when thou wilt.

19 But thou hast taught thy people by
such works, that they must be just and
humane, and hast made thy children to
be of a good hope : because in judging
thou givest place for repentance for sins.

20 For if thou didso punish the enemies
of thy servants, and that deserved to die,
with so great deliberation, giving them
time and place whereby they might be
changed from their wickedness :

21 With what circumspection hast thou
judged thy own children, to whose par-
entis thou hast sworn and made cove-
nants of good promises ?

22 Therefore whereas thou chastisest
as, thou scourgest our enemies very
many ways, to the end that when we
judge we may think on thy goodness:
and when we are judged, we may hope
for thy mercy.

23 Wherefore thou hast also greatly
tormented them who in their life have
lived foolishly and unjustly, by the same
things which they worshipped.

24 * For they went astray for a long
time in the ways of error, holding those
things for gods which are the most
worthless among beasts, living after the
manner of children without understand-
ing.

26 Therefore thou hast sent a judgment
upon them as senseless children to mock
them.

26 But they that were not amended by
mockeries and reprehensions, experi-
enced the worthy judgment of God.

27 For seeing with indignation that they
suffered by those very things which they
took for gods, when they were destroyed
by the same, they acknowledged him the
true God, whom in time past they denied
that they knew : for which cause the
end also of thpir condemnation came
upon them.

CHAPTER 13.

idolaters are inexcusable: and those most of all
that worship /or gods the works of the hands of

t 8upra 11. ifi; Rom.
u iiorn. 1. 18-

1.23.

BUT^ all men are vain, in whom there
is not the knowledge of God : and
who by these good things that are seen,
could not understand him that is, neither
by attending to the works have acknow-
ledged who was the workman :

2 ^ But have imagined either the fire,
or the wind, or the swift air, or the circle
of the stars, or the great water, or the
sun and moon, to be the gods that rule
the world.

3 With whose beauty, if they, being de-
lighted, took them to be gods : let them
know how much the Lord of them is more
beautiful than they: for the first author
of beauty made all those things.

4 Or if they admired their power and
their effects, let them understand by
them, that he that made them, is might-
ier than they:

6 For by the greatness of the beauty,
and of the creature, the creator of them
may be seen, so as to be known thereby.

6 But yet as to these they are less to be
blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking |
God, and desirous to find him.

7 ^ For being conversant among his I
works, they search : and they are per-
suaded that the things are good whictj
are seem.

8 But then again they are not to be par-j
doned.

9 For if they were able to know 8(|
much as to make a judgment of thi
world : how did they not more easily fin«(
out the Lord thereof?

10 But unhappy are they, and theil
hope is among the dead, who have callei
gods the works of the hands of me]|
gold and silver, the inventions of art, arj
the resemblances of beasts, or an uj
profitable stone the work of an ancie.j
hand.

11 * Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cl
down a tree proper for his use in t\
wood, and skilfully taken off all the baj.
thereof, and with his art, diligenir
formeth a vessel profitable for the coj
mon uses of life,

12 And useth the chips of his work ()
dress his meat :

13 And taking what was left thertl
which is good for nothing, being a croj
ed piece of wood, and full of knots, ca '•
eth it diligently when he hath notb|

V DeuL 4. 19, and 17. 3. — v Horn. l. 2L
X Isa. 44. 12 ; Jer. 10. 3.

70tf

r/?e folly of idolatry

WISDOM

The origin of idolatry

else to do, and by the skill of his art
fasbioneth it and maketh it like the
image of a man:

14 Or the resemblance of some beast,
laying it over with vermilion, and paint-
ing it red, and covering every spot that
is in it :

15 And maketh a convenient dwelling
place for it, and setting it in a wall, and
fastening it with iron,

16 Providing for it, lest it should fall,
knowing that it is unable to help itself :
for it is an image, and hath need of help.

17 And then maketh prayer to it, in-
quiring concerning his substance, and
his children, or his marriage. And he is
not ashamed to speak to that which hath
no life :

18 And for health he maketh supplica-
tion to the weak, and for life prayeth to
that which is dead, and for help calleth
upon that which is unprofitable:

19 And for a good journey he petition-
eth him that cannot walk : and for get-
ting, and for working, and for the event
of all things he asketh him that is un-
able to do any thing.

CHAPTER 14.

The ber/inning of worshipping idols: and the ef-
fects thereof.

AGAIN, another designing to sail, and
. beginning to make his voyage
through the raging waves, calleth upon
I piece of wood more frail than the
,vood that carrieth him.

2 For this the desire of gain devised,
md the workman built it by his skill.

3 But thy providence, O Father, gov-
Tneth it: ^for thou hast made a way
ven in the sea, and a most sure path
mong the waves,

4 Shewing that thou art able to save
ut of all things, yea though a man went
3 sea without art.

5 But that the works of thy wisdom
ight not be idle: therefore men also
ust their lives even to a little wood,
id passing over the sea by ship are
ived.

> ^ And from the beginning also when
e proud giants perished, the hope of
e world fleeing to a vessel, which was
>verned by thy hand, left to the world
ed of generation.

V Ex. 14. 22.>-2 Gen. 6. 4, and 7. %.

7 For blessed is the wood, by which jus-
tice cometh.

8 * But the idol that is made by hands,
is cursed, as well it, as he that made it :
he because he made it ; and it because be-
ing frail it is called a god.

9 But to God the wicked and his wick-
edness are hateful alike.

10 For that which is made, together
with him that made it, shall suffer tor-
ments.

11 Therefore there shall be no respect
had even to the idols of the Gentiles :
because the creatures of God are turned
to an abomination, and a temptation to
the souls of men, and a snare to the feet
of the unwise.

12 For the beginning of fornication is
the devising of idols : and the invention
of them is the corruption of life.

13 For neither were they from the be-
ginning, neither shall they be for ever.

14 For by the vanity of men they came
into the world: and therefore they shall
be found to come shortly to an end.

15 For a father being afflicted with bit-
ter grief, made to himself the image of
his son who was quickly taken away:
and him who then had died as a man, he
began now to worship as a god, and ap-
pointed him rites and sacrifices among
his servants.

16 Then in process of time, wicked cus-
tom prevailing, this error was kept as a
law, and statues were worshipped by the
commandment of tyrants.

17 And those whom men could not
honour in presence, because they dwelt
far off, they brought their resemblance
from afar, and made an express image of
the king whom they had a mind to hon-
our : that by this their diligence, they
might honour as present, him that was
absent.

18 And to the worshipping of these, the
singular diligence also of the artificer
helped to set forward the ignorant.

19 For he being willing to please him
that employed him, laboured with all his
art to make the resemblance in the best
manner.

20 And the multitude of men, carried
away by the beauty of the work, took
him now for a god that a little before
was but honoured as a man.

a Ps. 113. 4 ; Bar. 6. .?,

707

The effects of idolatry

WISDOM The makers of idols condemned

21 And this was the occasion of deceiv-
ing human life : for men serving either
their affection, or their kings, gave the
incommunicable name to stones and
wood.

22 And it was not enough for them to
err about the knowledge of God, but
whereas they lived in a great war of ig-
norance, they call so many and so great
evils peace.

23 ^ For either they sacrifice their own
cdbildren, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep
watches full of madness,

24 So that now they neither keep life,
nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth
another through envy, or grieveth him
by adultery:

25 And all things are mingled together,
blood, murder, theft and dissimulation,
corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults
and perjury, disquieting of the good,

26 Forgetfulness of God, defiling of
souls, changing of nature, disorder in
marriage, and the irregularity of adul-
tery and uncleannesSo

27 For the worship of abominable idols
is the cause, and the beginning and end
of all evil,

28 For either they are mad when they
are merry : or they prophesy lies, or
they live unjustly, or easily forswear
themselves.

29 For whilst they trust in idols, which
are without life, though they swear
amiss, they look not to be hurt.

30 But for two things they shall be
justly punished, because they have
thought not well of God, giving heed to
idols, and have sworn unjustly, in guile
despising justice.

31 For it is not the power of them, by
whom they swear, but the just vengeance
of sinners always punisheth the trans-
gression of the unjust.

CHAPTER 15.

The servants of God praise him who hath delivered
them from, idolatry ; condem,ning both the m,akers
and the worshippers of idols.

BUT thou, our God, art gracious and
true, patient, and ordering all things
in mercy.

2 For if we sin, we are thine, knowing
thy greatness : and if we sin not, we know
that we are counted with thee.

3 For to know thee is perfect justice:

&Deut.l8. 10; Jer.7.6.

and to know thy justice, and thy power,
is the root of immortality.

4 For the invention of mischievous men
hath not deceived us, nor the shadow of
a picture, a fruitless labour, a graven
figure with divers colours,

6 The sight whereof enticeth the fool to
lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless
figure of a dead image.

6 The lovers of evil things deserve to
have no better things to trust in, both
they that make them, and they that love
them, and they that worship them.

7 ^ The potter also tempering soft earth,
with labour fashioneth every vessel for
our service, and of the same clay he
maketh both vessels that are for clean
uses, and likewise such as serve to the
contrary: but what is the use of these
vessels, the potter is the judge.

8 And of the same clay by a vain labour
he maketh a god: he who a little before
was made of earth himself, and a little
after returneth to the same out of which
he was taken, when his life which was
lent him shall be called for again.

9 But his care is, not that he shall labour,
nor that his life is short, but he striveth
with the goldsmiths and silversmiths:
and he endeavoureth to do like the work°
ers in brass, and counteth it a glory to
make vain things»

10 For his heart is ashes, and his hope
vain earth, and his life more base than
clay:

11 Forasmuch as he knew not his maker
and him that inspired into him the soul
that worketh, and that breathed into him
a living spirit.

12 Yea and they have counted our life a
pastime, and the business of life to be
gain, and that we must be getting every
way, even out of evil.

13 For that man knoweth that he offend°
eth above all others, who of earthly mat"
ter maketh brittle vessels, and graven
gods.

14 But all the enemies of thy people
that hold them in subjection, are foolish,
and unhappy, and proud beyond mea-
sure:

15 *^For they have esteemed all the
idols of the heathens for gods, which
neither have the use of eyes to see, nor
noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear,

c Bom. 9. 21o— ci PSo U& 5 aod 134 16.

708

God's dealings with the Egyptians, WISDOM

and with the Israelites

nor fingers of hands to handle, and as for
their feet, they are slow to walk,

16 For man made them: and he that
borroweth his own breath, fashioned
them. For no man can make a god like
to himself.

17 For being mortal himself, he formeth
a dead thing with his wicked hands. For
he is better than they whom he worship-
peth,because he indeed hath lived, though
he were mortal, but they never.

18 Moreover they worship also the vilest
creatures : but things without sense com-
pared to these, are worse than they.

19 Yea, neither by sight can any man
see good of these beasts. But they have
fled from the praise of God, and from his
blessing,

CHAPTER 16.

God's different dealings with the Egyptian$ and
with his own people.

FOR these things, and by the like things
to these, they were worthily pun-
ished, and were destroyed by a multitude
of beasts.

2 Ihstead of which punishment, dealing
well with thy people, ® thou gavest them
their dosire of delicious food, of a new
taste, preparing for them quails for their
meat:

3 To the end that they indeed desiring
food, by means of those things that were
shewn and sent among them, might loathe
even that which was necessary to satisfy
their desire. But these, after suffering
want for a short time, tasted a new meat.

4 For it was requisite that inevitable
destruction should come upon them that
exercised tyranny : but to these it should
only be shewn how their enemies were
destroyed.

5 •''For when the fierce rage of beasts
came upon these, they were destroyed
with the bitings of crooked serpents.

6 But thy wrath endured not for ever,
but they were troubled for a short time
for their correction, having a sign of
salvation to put them in remembrance of
the commandment of thy law.

7 For he that turned to it, was not

e Num. 11. 31. — / Num. 21. 6.
g Ex. 8. 24, and 10. 4 ; Apoc. 9. 7.

Chap. 16. Ver. 3. They indeed desiring food^ &c.
He means the Egyptians ; who were restrained even
from that food whicli was necessary, by the frogs
\nd the flies that were sent amongst them, and
spoiled all their meats. ~ Ibid. But these^ viz., the
Israelites.

healed by that which ho saw, but by thee
the Saviour of all.

8 And in thig thou didst shew to our
enemies, that thou art he who deliverest
from all eviL

9 ^For the bitings of locusts, and of
flies killed them, and there was found no
remedy for their life : because they were
worthy to be destroyed by such things.

10 But not even the teeth of venomous
serpents overcame thy children? for thy
mercy came and healed them.

11 For they were examined for the re-
membrance of thy words, and were
quickly healed, lest falling into deep for-
getfulness, thej might not be able to use
thy help.

12 For it wa» neither herb, nor molli-
fying plaster that healed them, but thy
word, O Lord, which healeth all things.

13 ^For it is thou, O Lord, that hast
power of life and death, and leadest down
to the gates of death, and bringest back
again:

14 A man indeed killeth through malice,
and when the epirit is gone forth, it shall
not return, neither shall he call back the
soul that is received :

15 But it is Impossible to escape thy
hand.

16 * For the wicked that denied to know
thee, were scourged by the strength of
thy arm, being persecuted by strange
waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed
by fire.

17 And which was wonderful, in water,
which extinguisheth all things, the fire
had more force: for the world fightetb
for the just.

18 For at one time, the fire was miti-
gated, that the beasts which were sent
against the wicked might not be burned,
but that they might see and perceive
that they were persecuted by the iudg-
ment of God.

19 And at another time the fire, above
its own power, burned in the midst of
water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked
land.

20 ^ Instead of which things thou didst

h Deut 32. 39 J 1 Kings 2. 6 j Tob. 13. 2. — i Ex. 9. 23
j Ex. 16. 14 , Num. 11. It Ps. 77. 25 ; John 6. 31

Ver. 6. Sign of salvation. The brazen serpent, an
emblem of Christ our Saviour.

Ver. 17. T/K3 fire had more force^ viz., when the
fire and hail mlngicd together laid waste the laDd ol
Egypt. Ex. St.

709

The plague of hail

WISDOM

teed thy people with the food ©f angels,
and gavest them bread from heaven pre-
pared without labour ; having in it all
that is delicious, and the sweetness of
every taste.

21 For thy sustenance shewed thy sweet-
ness to thy children, and serving every
man's will, it was turned to what every
man liked.

22 ^ But snow and ice endured the force
of fire, and melted noti that they might
know that fire burning in the hail and
flashing in the rain destroyed the fruits
of the enemies.

23 But this same again, that the just
might be nourished, did even forget its
own strength.

24 For the creature serving thee the
Creator, is made fierce against the un-
just for their punishment; and abateth its
strength for the benefit of them that
trust in thecc

25 Therefore even then it was trans-
formed into all things, and was obedient
to thy grace that nourisheth all, accord-
ing to the will of them that desired it of
thee:

26 That thy children, O Lord, * whom
thou lovedst, might know that it is not
the growing of fruits that nourisheth
men, but thy word preserveth them that
believe in thee,

27 For that which could not be de-
stroyed by fire, being warmed with a
little sunbeam presently melted away:

28 That it might be known to all, that
we ought to prevent the sun to bless
thee, and adore thee at ohe dawning of
the light.

29 For the hope of the unthankful shall
melt away as the winter's ice, and shall
run off as unprofitable water.

CHAPTER 17,

The Egyptian darkness.

FOR thy judgments, O Lord, are great,
and thy words cannot be expressed :
therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

2 "* For while the wicked thought to be
able to have dominion over the holy na-
tion, they themselves being fettered with
the bonds of darkness, and a long night,
shut up in their houses, lay there exiled
from the eternal providence

3 And while they thought to Me hid In

The Egyptian darkness

&Ex. 9. 24.— ZDeut. 8. 3. ; Matt. 4. 4.

their obscnre sins, they were scattered
under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being
horribly afraid >nd troubled with exceed-
ing great astc>nishment.

4 For neither did the den that held
them, keep them from fear : for noises
coming down troubled them, and sad vi-
sions appearing to them, affrighted them.

5 And no power of fire could give them
light, neither could the bright flames of
the stars enlighten that horrible night.

6 But there appeared to them a sudden
fire, very dreadful : and being struck with
the fear of that face, which was not seen,
they thought the things which they saw
to be worse:

7 ** And the delusions of their magic art
were put down, and their boasting of
wisdom was reproachfully rebuked.

8 For they who promised to drive away
fears and troubles from a sick soul, were
sick themselves of a fear worthy to be
laughed at.

9 For though no terrible thing disturbed
them : yet being scared with the passing
by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they
died for fear : and denying that they saw
the air, which could by no means be
avoided.

10 For whereas wickedness is fearful,
it beareth witness of its condemnation:
for a troubled conscience always fore-
casteth grievous things.

11 For fear is nothing else but a yield-
ing up of the succours from thought.

12 And while there is less expectation
from within, the greater doth it count
the ignorance of that cause which bring-
eth the torment.

13 But they that during that night, in
which nothing could be done, and which
came upon them from the lowest and
deepest hell, slept the same sleep,

14 Were sometimes molested with the
fear of monsters, sometimes fainted
away, their soul failing them: for a sud-
den and unlocked for fear was come upon
them.

15 Moreover if any of them had fallen
down, he was kept shut up in prisoc
without irons.

16 For if any one were a husbandman
or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field
and was suddenly overtaken, he endured
a necessity from which he could not fly.

mBx. 10. 23. — »Ex. 7. 22, and 8. 7.

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The Israelites dwell in light

WISDOM

The first horn of Egypt slain

1/ For they were all bound together
with one chain of darkness. Whether
it were a whisthng wind, or the melodi-
ous voice of birds, among the spreading
branches of trees, or a fall of water run-
ning down with violence,

18 Or the mighty noise of stones tum-
bling down, or the running that could not
be seen oi' beasts playing together, or the
roaring voice of wild beasts, or a re-
bounding echo from the highest moun-
tains : thesQ things made them to swoon
for fear,

19 For the whole world was enlightened
with a clear light, and none were hin-
dered in their labours.

20 But over them only was spread a
heavy night, an image of that darkness
which was to come upon them. But they
were to themselves more grievous than
the darkness.

CHAPTER 18.

The slaughter of the firstborn In Egypt : the efficacy
of Aaron's intercession, in the sedition on occasion
of Core.

BUT ^ thy saints had a very gieat light,
and they heard their voice indeed,
but did not see their shape. And be-
cause they also did not suffer the same
things, they glorified thee:

2 And they that before had been wrong-
ed, gave thanks, because they were not
hurt now: and asked this gift, that there
might be a difference.

3 ^Therefore they receivec*- a burning
pillar of fire for a guide of the way which
they knew not, and thou gt^vest them a
harmless sun of a good entertainment.

4 The others indeed were worthy to be
deprived of light, and imprisoned in dark-
ness, who kept thy children shut up, by
whom the pure light of the law was to
be given to the world.

5 5 And whereas they thought to kill
the babes of the just, one child being
cast forth, and saved, to reprove them,
thou tookest away a multitude of their
children, *" and destroyedst them all to-
gether in a mighty water.

6 For that night was known before by
our fathers, that assuredly knowing what

o Ex. 10. 23. — p Ex. 1 4. 24 ; Ps. 77. 14, and 104. 39.

Chap. 18. Ver. 3. A harmless sun. A light that
should not hurt or molest them ; but that should be
an agreeable guest to them.

Ver. 5. One child^ viz., Mosea.

Ver. 9. Of good men, viz., of the patriarcta Their
ehildreiutlie Israelites^ o£Eered in private ttie sacri.

oaths they had trusteci to. they might oe
of better courage.

7 So thy people received the salvation
of the just, and destruction of the unjust.

8 For as thou didst punish the adver-
saries : so thou didst also encourage and
glorify us.

9 For the just children of good men were
offering sacrifice secretly, and they unan
imously ordered % law of justice : that the
just should receive both good and evil alike,
singing now the praises of the fathers,

10 But on the other side there sounded
an ill according cry of the enemiefe, and
a lamentable mourning was heard for
the children that were bewailed.

11 * And the servant suffered the same
punishment as the master, and a common
man suffeied in like manner as the king.

12 So all alike had Innumerable dead,
with one kind of death. Neither were
the living suffipient to bury them ; for in
one moment the noblest offspring of
them was destroyed.

13 For whereas they would not believe
any thing before by reason of the en-
chantments, then first upon the destruc-
tion of the firstborn, they acknowledged
the people to be of God.

14 For while all things were in quiet
silence, and the night was in the midst
of her course,

15 Thy almighty word leapt down from
heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce
conqueror into the midst of the land of
destruction,

16 With a sharp sword carrying thy un*
feigned commandment, and he stood and
filled all things with death, and standing
on the earth reached even to heaven.

17 Then suddenly visions of evil dreams
troubled them, and fears unlocked for
came upon them.

18 And one thrown here, another there,
half dead, shewed the cause of his death.

19 For the visions that troubled them
foreshowed these things, lest they should
perish and not know why they suffered
these evils.

20 But the just also were afterwards
touched by an assault of death, and there

q Ex. 1. 16, and 2. 3. — r Ex. 14. 27 — s Ex. 12. 30.

flee of the paschal lamb ; and were regulating what
they were to do in their journey, when that last and
most dreadful plague was coming upon their ene-
mies.

Ver ^ The nobiest offsprins;. Tbat is. the first
bori.-

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Aaron intercedes for the people WISDOM

God^s favor to the Israelites

tvas a disturbance of the multitude in the
wilderness: but thy wrath did not long
continue.

21 *For a blameless man made haste to
pray for the people, bringing forth the
bhield of hie ministry, prayer, and by in-
cense making supplication, withstood the
wrath, and put an end to the calamity,
shewing that he was thy servant.

22 And he overcame the disturbance,
not by strength of body nor with force
of arms, but with a word he subdued him
that punished them, alleging the oaths
and covenant made with th« fathers.

23 For when they were now fallen down
dead by heaps one upon another, he stood
between and stayed the assault, and cut
off the way to the living,

24 '^For in the priestly robe which he
wore, was the whole world . and in the
four rows of the stones the glory of the
fathers was graven, and tjiy majesty was
written upon the diadem of his head.

25 And to these the destroyer gave
place, and was afraid of them: for the
proof only of wrath was enough.

CHAPTER 19.

Why God shewed no mercy to the Egyptians. His
favour to the Israelites. All creatures obey God^s
orders for the service of the good^ and the punish-
ment of the wicked.

BUT as to the wicked, even to the end
there came upon them wrath with-
out mercy. For he knew before also
what they would do:

2 For when they had given ^fehem leave
to depart, and had sent them away with
great care, they repented, and pursued
after them.

3 ^" For whilst they were yet mourning,
and lamenting at the graves of the dead,
they took up another foolish device : and
pursued them as fugitives whom they had
pressed to be gone:

4 For a necessity, of which they were
worthy, brought them to this end : and
they lost the remembrancv' of those
things which had happened, that their
punishment might fill up whaii was want-
ing to their torments :

6 And that thy people might wonder-
fully pass through, but they might find a
new death.

t Num. 16o 46. —w Ex. 28. «
V Ex. 14. 6.

Chap. 19 Ver. 17. Elements a/re changed, &c.
The meaning !s,that whatever changes God wrought

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6 For every creature according to its
kind was fashioned again as from the
beginning, obeying thy commandments,
that thy children might be kept without
hurt.

7 For a cloud overshadowed their camp,
and where water was before, dry land
appeared, and in the Red Sea a way
without hinderance, and out of the great
deep a springing field :

8 Through which all the nation passed
which was protected with thy hand, see-
ing thy miracles and wonders.

9 For they fed on their food like horses,
and they skipped like lambs, praising
thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.

10 For they were yet mindful of those
things which had been done in the time
of their sojourning, how the ground
brought forth flies instead of cattle, and
how the river cast up a multitude of
frogs instead of fishes.

11 '''And at length they saw a new gen-
eration of birds, when being led by their
appetite they asked for delicate meats.

12 For to satisfy their desire, the quail
came up to them from the sea : and pun*
ishments came upon the sinners, not
without foregoing signs by the force of
thunders: for they suffered justly ac-
cording to their own wickedness.

13 For they exercised a more detestable
inhospitaUty than any: others indeed re-
ceived not strangers unknown to them,
but these brought their guests into bond-
age that had deserved well of them.

14 And not only so, but in another re-
spect also they were worse: for the
others against their will received the
strangers

15 But these grievously afflicted them
whom they had received with joy, and
who lived under the same laws.

16 But they were struck with blindness :
* as those others were at the doors of the
just man, when they were covered with
sudden darkness, and every one sought
the passage of his own doorc

17 For while the elements are changed i
in themselves, as in an instrument the|
sound of the quality is changed, yet alJ
keep their sound : which may clearly be
perceived by the very sight.

w Ex. 16. 13 ; Num. 11. 31
X Gen 19. 11.

Supra 16. 2.

in the elements by miracles in favour of his people
they still kept their haxmony by obeying his wUL

All vnsdom is from God

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All vnsdom is from God

18 For the things of the land were
turned into things of the water : and the
things before swam in the water passed
upon the land.

19 The fire had power in water above
its own virtue, and the water forgot its
quenching nature.

20 On the other side, the flames wasted

not the flesh of corruptible animals walk-
ing therein, neither did they melt that
good food, which was apt to melt as ice.
For in all things thou didst magnify thy
people, O Lord, and didst honour them,
and didst not despise them, but didst
assist them at all times, and in every
place.

ECCLESIASTICUS.

I7tis Book is so called from a Greek word that signifies a preacher : because, like an excellent
preacher, it gives admirable lessons of all virtues. The author was Jesus the son of &rach of
Jerusalem, who flourished about two hundred years before Christ. As it was written after tJie
time of Esdras, it is not in the Jewish canon ; but is received as canonical and divine by the
Catholic Church, instructed by apostolical tradition, and directed by the spirit of God. It xcas
first written in the Hebrew, but afterwards translated into Greek by anotJier Jesus^ the grandson
of the author, whose prologue to this book is the following :

THE PROLOGUE.

The knowledge of many and great things hath been shewn us by the law, and the prophets, and others
that have followed them : for which things Israel is to be commended for doctrine and wisdom, because
not only they that speak must needs be skilful, but strangers also, both speaking and writing, may by their
means become most learned. My grandfather Jesus, after he had much given himself to a diligent reading
of the law, and the prophets, and other books, that were delivered to us from our fathers, had a mind also
to write something himself, pertaining to doctrine and wisdom : that such as are desirous to learn, and are
made knowing in these things, may be more and more attentive in mind, and be strengthened to live ac-
cording to the law. I entreat you therefore to come with benevolence, and to read with attention, and to
pardon us for those things wherein we may seem, while we follow the image of wisdom, to come short in
the composition of words ; for the Hebrew words have not the same force in them when translated into
another tongue. And not only these, but the law also itself, and the prophets, and the rest of the books,
have no small difference, when they are spoken in their own language. For in the eight and thirtieth year
coming into Eg^'pt, when Ptolemy Evergetes was king, and continuing there a long time, I found there
books left, of no small nor contemptible learning. Therefore I thought it good, and necessary for me to
bestow some diligence and labour to interpret this book ; and with much watching and study in some
space of time, I brought the book to an end, and set it forth for the service of them that are willing to ap-
ply their mind, and to learn how they ought to conduct themselves, who purpose to lead their life accord-
ing to the law of the Lord.

.A''

CHAPTER 1.

^JUiHsdom, is from God, and is given to them that
fear and love God.

rL y wisdom is from the Lord God,
and hath been always with him,
and is before all time.
2 Who hath numbered the sand of the
sea, and the drops of rain, and the days
of the world ? Who hath measured the
Iheight of heaven, and the breadth of the
earth, and the depth of the abyss ?
i 3 Who hath searched out the wisdom of
God that goeth before all things ?

4 Wisdom hath been created before all
things, and the understanding of pru-
ilenee from everlasting.

5 The word of God on high is the foun-

y 3 Kings 3. 9, and 4. 29.

tain of wisdom, and her ways are ever-
lasting commandments.

6 To whom hath the root of wisdom
been revealed, and who hath known her
wise counsels?

7 To whom hath the discipline of wis-
dom been revealed and made manifest ?
and who hath understood the multiplicity
of her steps ?

8 There is one most high Creator Al-
mighty, and a powerful king, and greatly
to be feared, who sitteth upon his throne,
and is the God of dominion.

9 He created her in the Holy Ghost,
and saw her, and numbered her, and
measured her.

10 And he poured her out upon all his

Ver. 20. That good food. The manna.
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The fear of the Lord

ECCLESIASTICUS

works, and upon all flesh according to
hia gift, and hath given her to them that
love him.

11 The fear of the Lord is honour, and
glory, and gladness, and a crown of joy.

12 The fear of the Lord shall deUght the
heart, and shall give joy, and gladness,
and length of days.

13 With him that feareth the Lord, it
shall go well in the latter end, and in the
day of his death he shall be blessed.

14 The love of God is honourable wis-
dom.

15 And they to whom she shall shew her-
self love her by the sight, and by the
knowledge of her great works.

16 ^The fear of the Lord is the begin-
ning of wisdom, and was created with
the faithful in the womb, it walketh with
chosen women, and is known with the
just and faithful.

17 The fear of the Lord is the religious-
ness of knowledge.

18 Religiousness shall keep and justify
the heart, it shall give joy and gladness.

19 It shall go well with him that feareth
the Lord, and in the days of his end he
shall be blessed.

20 To fear God is the fulness of wisdom,
and fulness is from the fruits thereof.

21 She shall fill all her house with her
increase, and the storehouses with her
treasures.

22 The fear of the Lord is a crown of
wisdom, filling up peace and the fruit of
salvation:

23 And it hath seen, and numbered her .
but both are the gifts of God.

24 Wisdom shall distribute knowledge,
and understanding of prudence : and ex-
alteth the glory of them that hold her.

25 The root of wisdom is to fear the
Lord: and the branches thereof are long-
lived.

26 In the treasures of wisdom is under-
standing, and religiousness of knowledge:
but to sinners wisdom is an abomination.

27 The fear of the Lord driveth out sin:

28 For he that is without fear, cannot
be justified: for the wrath of his high
spirits is his ruin.

29 A patient man shall bear for a time,
and afterwards joy shall be restored to
him.

30 A good understanding will hide his

« Ps. 110^ lo , Prov. 1. 7, and 9. la

Against hypocrisy

words for a time, and the lips of many
shall declare his wisdom.

31 In the treasures of wisdom is the
signification of discipline :

32 But the worship of God is an abomi-
nation to a sinner.

33 Son, if thou desire wisdom, keep jus-
tice, and God will give her to thee.

34 For the fear of the Lord is wisdom
and discipline : and that which is agree-
able to him,

35 Is faith, and meekness : and he will
fill up his treasures.

36 Be not incredulous to the fear of the
Lord : and come not to him with a double
heart.

37 Be not a hypocrite in the sight of
men, and let not thy lips be a stumbUng-
block to thee.

38 Watch over them, lest thou fall, and
bring dishonour upon thy soul,

39 And God discover thy secrets, and
cast thee down in the midst of the con-
gregation.

40 Because thou camest to the Lord
wickedly, and thy heart is full of guile
and deceit.

CHAPTER 2.

God's servants must look for temptations : and mvM
arm themselves with patience and confidence in
God.

SON, " when thou comest to the service
of God, stand in justice and in fear,
and prepare thy soul for temptation.

2 Humble thy heart, and endure : incline
thy ear, and receive the words of under-
standing: and make not haste in the
time of clouds.

3 Wait on God with patience: join thy-
self to God, and endure, that thy life may
be increased in the latter end.

4 Take al' that shall be brought upon
thee : and in thy sorrow endure, and in
thy humiliation keep patience.

5 ^For gold and silver are tried in the
fire, but acceptable men in the furnace ot
humiliation.

6 Believe God, and he will recover thee :[
and direct thy way, and trust in him.
Keep his fear, and grow old therein.

7 Ye that fear the Lord, wait for hif
mercy : and go not aside from him, lesi
ye fall.

8 Ye that fear the Lord, believe hini
and your reward shall not be made void

a Matt. 4. 1 ; 2 Tim. 3. 12. ~ b Wisd. 3. 6.

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Honor due to parents

9 Ye that fear the Lord, hope in him and
mercy shall come to you for your delight.

IC Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and
your hearts shall be enlightened.

11 My children behold the generations
of men • and know ye that no one hath
hoped in the Lord, and hath been con-
founded.

12 ° For who hath continued in his com-
mandment, and hath been forsaken ? or
who hath called upon him, and he de-
Bpised him?

13 For God is compassionate and mer-
ciful, and will forgive sins in the day of
tribulation : and he is a protector to all
that seek him in truth.

14 Woe to them that are of a double
heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands
that do evil, ^and to the sinner that
goeth on the earth two ways.

15 Woe to them that are fainthearted,
who beUeve not God : and therefore they
bhall not be protected by him.

16 Woe to them that have lost patience,
and that have forsaken the right ways,
and have gone aside into crooked ways.

17 And what will they do, when the
Lord shall begin to examine ?

18 They that fear the Lord, will not be
incredulous to his word : * and they that
love him, will keep his way.

19 They that fear the Lord, will seek
after the things that are well pleasing to
him: and they that love him, shall be
filled with his law.

20 They that fear the Lord, will prepare
their hearts, and in his sight will sanctify
their souls

21 They that fear the Lord, keep his
commandments, and will have patience
even until his visitation,

22 Saying: If we do not penance, we
shall fall into the hands of the Lord, and
not into the hands of men.

23 For according to his greatness, so
also is his mercy with him

CHAPTER 3.

Lessons concerning the honour of parents, and hu-
mility, and avoiding curiosity.

THE sons of wisdom are the church
of the just; and their generation,
obedience and love.
2 Children, hear the judgment of your
father, and so do that you may be saved.

• Ps. 30. 1. — d 3 Kings 18. 21. — e John 14. 83.
'iSx.20.i2i I>eut.&.lfti Matt.l&«}

3 For God hath made the father honour*
able to the children: and seeking the
judgment ci ihe mothers, hath confirmed
it upon the children.

4 He that loveth God, shall obtain par-
don for his sins by prayer, and shall
refrain himself from them, and shall be
heard in the prayer of days.

6 And he that honoureth his mother is
as one that layeth up a treasure.

6 He that honoureth his father shall
have joy in his own children, and in the
day of his prayer he shall be heard.

7 He that honoureth his father shall
enjoy a long life : and he that obeyeth the
father, shall be a comfort to his mother.

8 He that feareth the Lord, honoureth
his parents, and will serve them as his
masters that brought him into the world.

9 -^Honour thy father, in work and word,
and all patience,

10 That a blessing may come upon thee
from him, and his blessing may remain
in the latter end.

11 S'The father's blessing establisheth
the houses of the children* but the
mother's curse rooteth up the founda-
tion.

12 Glory not in the dishonour of thy
father for his shame is no glory to thee.

13 For the glory of a man is from the
honour of his father, and a father with*
out honour is the disgrace of the son.

14 Son, support the old age of thy fa-
ther, and grieve him not in his life ;

15 And if his understanding fail, have
patience with him, and despise him not
when thou art in thy strength . for the
relieving of the father shall not be for»
gotten.

16 For good shall be repaid to thee foi
the sin of thy mother.

17 And in justice thou shalt be built up,
and in the day of affliction thou shalt
be remembered : and thy sins shall melt
away as the ice in the fair warm weather.

18 Of what an evil fame is he that for-
saketh his father: and he is cursed of
God that angereth his mother.

19 My son, do thy works in meekness,
and thou shalt be beloved above the glory
of men.

20 '^The greater thou art, the more
humble thyself in all things, and thou
shalt find grace before God :

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ECCLESIASTICUS Exhortation to works of mercy

21 For great is the power of God alone,
and he is honoured by the humble.

22 *Seek not the things ohat are too
high for thee, and search not into things
above thy ability: but the things that
God hath commanded thee, think on them
always, and in many of his works be not
curious.

23 For it is not necessary for thee to see
with thy eyes those things that are hid.

24 In unnecessary matters be not over
curious, and in many of hie works thou
shalt not be inquisitive.

25 For many things are shewn to thee
above the understanding of men.

26 And the suspicion of them hath
deceived many, and hath detained their
minds in vanity.

27 A hard heart shall fear evil at the
last: and he that loveth danger shall
perish in it.

28 A heart that goeth two ways shall
not have success, and the perverse of
heart shall be scandalized therein.

29 A wicked heart shall be laden with
sorrows, and the sinner will add sin to
sin.

30 The congregation of the proud shall
not be healed : for the plant of wicked-
ness shall take root in them, and it shall
not be perceived.

31 The heart of the wiBO is understood
in wisdom, and a good ear will hear
wisdom with all desire.

32 A wise heart, and which hath under-
standing, will abstain from sins, and in
the works of justice shall, have success.

33 -? Water quencheth a flaming fire, and
alms resisteth sins :

34 And God providetb for him that
sheweth favour: he remembereth him
afterwards, and in the time of his fall he
shall find a sure stay.

CHAPTER 4.

An exhortation to works of mercy, and to the love
of wisdom,

SON, ^' defraud not the poor of alms,
and turn not away thy eyes from the
poor.

2 Despise not the hungry soul: and pro-
voke not the poor in his want.

3 Afflict not the heart of the needy, and

i Prov 25. 27,— j Dan. 4. 24.

Chap. 4. Ver 18. Tn tempto tion, &g. The mean-
ing IS, that before wisdom will choose any for her
(iivourite. she will try them by leaaing them through

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defer not to giv^ to him ihat is m dis-
tress.

4 Reject not the petition of the afflicted :
and turn not away thy face from the
needy.

5 Turn not away thy eyes from the poor
for fear of anger : and leave not to them
that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy
back.

6 For the prayer of him that curseth
thee in the bitterness of his soul, shall be
heard, for he that made him will hear him.

7 Make thyself affable to the congrega-
tion of the poor, and humble thy soul to
the ancient, and bow thy head to a great
man.

8 Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the
poor, and pay what thou owest, and an-
swer him peaceable words with mildness.

9 Deliver him that suffereth wrong out
of the hand of the proud: and be not
fainthearted in thy soul.

10 In judging be merciful to the father-
less as a father, and as a husband to their
mother.

11 And thou shalt be as the obedient son
of the most High, and he will have mercy
on thee more than a mother.

12 Wisdom inspire th life into her chil-
dren, and protecteth them that seek
after her, and will go before them in the
way of justice.

13 And he that loveth her, loveth life:
and they that watch for her, shall em-
brace her sweetness.

14 They that hold her fast, shall inherit
life : and whithersoever she entereth, God
will give a blessing.

15 They that serve her, shall be ser-
vants to the holy one : and God loveth
them that love her.

16 He that hearkeneth to her, shall
judge nations: and he that looketh upon
her, shall remain secure.

17 If he trust to her, he shall inherit her,
and his generation shall be in assurance

18 For she walketh with him in tempta-
tion, and at the first she chooseth him.

19 She will bring upon him fear and
dread and trial: and she will scourge
him with the affliction of her discipline,
till she try him by her laws, and trust
his souL

k Tob. 4. 7

contradictions, afflictions, and temptations, the usual
Doviceshli» of the childreu ol God.

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Against 'presumption

20 Then she will strengthen him, and
make a straight way to him, and give
him joy,

21 And will disclose her secrets to him,
and will heap upon him treasures of
knowledge and understanding of justice.

22 But if he go astray, she will forsake
him, and deliver him into the hands of
his enemy.

23 Son, observe the time, and fly from
evil.

24 For thy soul be not ashamed to say
the truth.

25 For there is a shame that bringeth
sin, and there is a shame that bringeth
glory and grace.

26 Accept no person against thy own
person, nor against thy soul a lie.

27 Reverence not thy neighbour in his
fall:

28 And refrain not to speak in the time
of salvation. Hide not thy wisdom in her
beauty.

29 For by the tongue wisdom is dis-
cerned: and understanding, and know-
ledge, and learning by the word of the
wise, and steadfastness in the works of
justice.

30 In nowise speak against the truth,
but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance.

31 Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, '
but submit not thyself to every man for
sin.

32 Resist not against the face of the
mighty, and do not strive against the
stream of the river.

33 Strive for justice for thy soul, and
even unto death fight for justice, and
God will overthrow thy enemies for thee.

34 Be not hasty in thy tongue: and
slack and remiss in thy works.

35 Be not as a lion in thy house, terrify-
ing them of thy household, and oppress-
ing them that are under thee.

36 Let not thy hand be stretched out
to receive, and shut when thou shouldst
give.

CHAPTER 5.

We miist not presume of oxir wealth or strength :
nor of the mercy of God, to go on in sin : we must
bt steadfast in virtue and truth.

SET not thy heart upon unjust posses-
sions, and say not: I have enough to
live on : for it shall be of no service in
the time of vengeance and darkness.

ilnfrae. 6.

2 Follow not in thy strength the desires
of thy heart :

3 And say not: How mighty am I? and
who shall bring me under for my deeds ?
for God will surely take revenge.

4 Say not: I have sinned, and what
harm hath befallen me? for the most
High is a patient rewarder.

5 Be not without fear about sin for°
given, and add not sin upon sin :

6 And say not : The mercy of the Lord
is great, he will have mercy on the mul-
titude of my sins.

7 "* For mercy and wrath quickly come
from him, and his wrath looketh upon
sinners.

8 Delay not to be converted to the
Lord, and defer it not from day to day.

9 For his wrath shall come on a sudden,
and in the time of vengeance he will de-
stroy thee.

10 '"' Be not anxious for goods unjustly
gotten: for they shall not profit thee in
the day of calamity and revenge.

11 Winnow not with every wind, and
go not into every way: for so is every
sinner proved by a double tongue.

12 Be steadfast in the way of the Lord,
and in the truth of thy judgment, and in
knowledge, and let the word of peace
and justice keep with thee.

13 Be meek to hear the word, that thou
mayst understand : and return a true
answer with wisdomo

14 If thou have understanding, answer
thy neighbour : but if not, let thy hand
be upon thy mouth, lest thou be surprised
in an unskilful word, and be confounded.

15 Honour and glory is in the word of
the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his
ruin.

16 Be not called a whisperer, and be
not taken in thy tongue, and confounded.

17 For confusion and repentance is upon
a thief, and an evil mark of disgrace
upon the double tongued, but to the
whisperer hatred, and enmity, and re-
proach.

18 Justify alike the small and the great.

CHAPTER 6.

Of true and false friends : and of the fruits of
vnsdom.

INSTEAD of a friend become not an
enemy to thy neighbour : for an evil

m Prov. 10. 6. — n Prov. 11. 4 and 28.

717

True and false friends

ECCLESIASTIC US Exhortalion to seek vyvsdom

man shall iiihfirit reproach and shame,
so shall every sinner that is envious and
double tongued.

2 ^ Extol not thyself in the thoughts of
thy soul like a bull : lest thy strength be
quashed by folly,

3 And it eat up thy leaves, and destroy
thy fruit, and thou be left as a dry tree
in the wilderness.

4 For a wicked soul shall destroy him
that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy
to his enemies, and shall lead him into
the lot of the wicked.

5 A sweet word multiplieth friends,
and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious
tongue in a good man aboundeth.

6 Be in peace with many, but let one
of a thousand be thy counsellor.

7 If thou wouldst get a friend, try
him before thou takest him, and do not
credit him easily.

8 For there is a friend for his own occa-
sion, and he will not abide in the day of
thy trouble.

9 And there is a friend that turneth to
enmity; and there is a friend that will
disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.

10 And there is a friend a companion at
the table, and he will not abide in the
day of distress.

11 A friend if he continue steadfast,
shall be to thee as thyself, and shall
act with confidence among them of thy
household.

12 If he humble himself before thee,
and hide himself from thy face, thou shalt
have unanimous friendship for good.

13 Separate thyself from thy enemies,
and take heed of thy friends.

14 A faithful friend is a strong defence :
and he that hath found him, hath found a
treasure.

15 Nothing can be compared to a faith-
ful friend, and no weight of gold and
silver is able to countervail the goodness
of his fidelity.

16 A faithful friend is the medicine of
life and immortality : and they that fear
the Lord, shall find him.

17 He that feareth God, shall likewise
have good friendship : because according
to him shall his friend be.

18 My son, from thy youth up receive
instruction, and even to thy grey hairs
thou shalt find wisdom.

o Rom. 12. 6 ; PhiL 2. 3.

19 Come to her as one that plougheth,
and sowet-h, and wait for her good fruits :

20 For in working about her thou shalt
labour a little, and shalt quickly eat o\
her fruits.

21 How very unpleasant is wisdom tc
the unlearned, and the unwise will not
continue with her.

22 She shall be to them as a mightj
stone of trial, and they will cast her
from them before it be long.

23 For the wisdom of doctrine is accord
ing to her name, and she is not manifest
unto many, but with them to whom shf
is known, she continue th even to tht
sight of God.

24 Give ear, my son, and take wise coun
sel, and cast not away my advice.

25 Put thy feet into her fetters, and thj
neck into her chains :

26 Bow down thy shoulder, and bearhei
and be not grieved with her bands.

27 Come to her with all thy mind, am
keep her ways with all thy power.

28 Search for her, and she shall be mad
known to thee, and when thou hast got
ten her, let her not go :

29 For in the latter end thou shalt fin'
rest in her, and she shall be turned t
thy joy.

30 Then shall her fetters be a stron
defence for thee, and a firm foundatioi
and her chain a robe of glory :

31 For in her is the beauty of life, au
her bands are a healthful binding.

32 Thou shalt put her on as a robe (
glory, and thou shalt set her upon th€
as a crown of joy.

33 My son, if thou wilt attend to m
thou shalt learn : and if thou wilt app]
thy mind, thou shalt be wise.

34 If thou wilt incline thy ear, the
shalt receive instruction : and if the
love to hear, thou shalt be wise.

35 ^ Stand in the multitude of ancien
that are wise, and join thyself from i\
heart to their wisdom, that thou may
hear every discourse of God, and tl
sayings of praise may not escape thee.

36 And if thou see a man of understan
ing, go to him early in the morning, ai
let thy foot wear the steps of his doors

37 9 Let thy thoughts be upon the pr
cepts of God. and meditate continual
on his commandments : and he will gi^

j> Infra 8. 9. — g Ps. L 2.

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Various exhortations

ECCLESIASTICUS Duties of parents and children

thee a heart, and the desire of wisdom
shall be given to thee.

CHAPTER 7.

Religious and moral duties.

DO no evils, and no evils shall lay hold
of thee.

2 Depart from the unjust, and evils shall
depart from thee.

3 My son, sow not evils in the furrows of
injustice, and thou shalt not reap them
sevenfold.

4 Seek not of the Lord a pre-eminence,
nor of the king the seat of honour.

5 ^ Justify not thyself before God, for he
knoweth the heart: and desire not to
appear wise before the king.

6 Seek not to be made a judge, unless
thou have strength enough to extirpate
iniquities: lest thou fear the person of
the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock
for thy integrity.

I 7 Offend not against the multitude of
I a city, neither cast thyself in upon the

people,
8 *Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one

thou fihalt not be unpunished.

, 9 Be not fainthearted in thy mind :

I 10 Neglect not to pray, and to give

alms.

. 11 Say not: God will have respect to

the multitude of my gifts, and when I

offer to the most high God, he will accept

my offerings.

12 Laugh no man to scorn in the bitter-
lOess of his soul : * for there is one that
humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth
111.

13 Devise not a lie against thy brother:
neither do the like against thy friend.

14 Be not willing to make any manner
)f lie : for the custom thereof is not
jood.

15 Be not full of words in a multitude
if ancients, and repeat not the word in
hy prayer.

16 Hate not laborious works, nor hus-
andry ordained by the most High.

17 Number not thyself among the multi-
-ide of the disorderly.

18 Remember wrath, for it will not tarry
>ng-

r Job 9. 2 ; Ps. 142. 2 ; Eccl. 7. 7 ; Luke 18. 11.
s Infra 12. l. — t\ Kings 2. 7.

Chap. 7. Ver. 15. Repeat, not, &c. Make not
noh babbline bv repetition of v/ords : but aim more
fervour of heart.
^' er- 33. Thy arms. That is, with all thy power ;

19 Humble thy spirit very much : for
the vengeance on the flesh of the un-
godly is fire and worms.

20 Do not transgress against thy friend
deferring money, nor despise thy dear
brother for the sake of gold.

21 Depart not from a wise and good
wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear
of the Lord : for the grace of her modesty
is above gold.

22 " Hurt not the servant that worketh
faithfully, nor the hired man that giveth
thee his life.

23 Let a wise servant be dear to thee as
thy own soul, defraud him not of liberty,
nor leave him needy.

24 Hast thou cattle ? have an eye to
them : and if they be for thy profit, keep
them with thee.

25 Hast thou children? instruct them,
and bow down their neck from their
childhood.

26 Hast thou daughters ? have a care of
their body, and shew not thy counte-
nance gay towards them.

27 Marry thy daughter well^ and thou
shalt do a great work, and give her to a
wise man.

28 If thou hast a wife according to thy
soul, cast her not off : and to her that is
hateful, trust not thyself. With thy
whole heart,

29 ^ Honour thy father, and forget not
the groanings of thy mother :

30 Remember that thou hadst not been
born but through them : and make a re-
turn to them as they have done for thee.

31 With all thy soul fear the Lord, and
reverence his priests.

32 With all thy strength love him that
made thee : and forsake not his minis-
ters.

33 ^ Honour God with all thy soul, and
give honour to the priests, and purify
thyself with thy arms.

34 Give them their portion, *as it is
commanded thee, of the firstfruits and
of purifications : and for thy negligences
purify thyself with a few.

35 Offer to the Lord the gift of thy
shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctifica-
tion, and the firstfruits of the holy things :

u Lev. 19. 13. — V Tob. 4. 3.
V Deut. 12. 18. — X Lev. 2. 3 ; Num. 18. 15.

or else by arms (hrachiis) are here signified the right
shoulders of the victims, which by the law fell to the
priests. See ver. 35.

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Against strife and contempt ECCLESIASTIC US Cautions with regard to women

36 And stretch out thy hand to the rebuking them, lest thou be burnt with

the flame of the fire of their sins.

14 Stand not against the face of an
injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to
entrap thee in thy words.

15 -^Lend not to a man that is mightier
than thyself: and if thou lendest, count
it as lost.

16 Be not surety above thy power : and
if thou be surety, think as if thou wert to
pay it.

17 Judge not against a judge : for he
judgeth according to that which is just.

18 S'Go not on the way with a bold man,
lest he burden thee with his evils: for he
goeth according to his own will, and thou
Shalt perish together with his folly.

19 ^ Quarrel not with a passionate man,
and go not into the desert with a bold
man : for blood is as nothing in his sight,
and where there is no help he will over-
throw thee.

20 Advise not with fools, for they can-
not love but such things as please them.

21 Before a stranger do no matter of
counsel : for thou knowest not what he
will bring forth.

22 Open not thy heart to every man :
lest he repay thee with an evil turn, an i
speak reproachfully to thee.

CHAPTER 9.

Cautions with regard to women, and dangerous
conversations.

hand to the
poor, that thy expiation and thy bless-
ing may be perfected.

37 A gift hath grace in the sight of all
the living, and restrain not grace from
the dead.

38 2/ Be not wanting in comforting them
that weep, and walk with them that
mourn.

39 ^ Be not slow to visit the sick : for
by these things thou shalt be confirmed
in love.

40 In all thy works remember thy last
end, and thou shalt never sin.

CHAPTER 8.
other lessons of wisdom and virtue.

STRIVE not with a powerful man, lest
thou fall into his hands.

2 ^ Contend not with a rich man, lest he
bring an action against thee.

3 ^ For gold and silver hath destroyed
many, and hath reached even to the
heart of kings, and perverted them.

4 Strive not with a man that is full of
tongue, and heap not wood upon his
fire.

5 Commimicate not with an ignorant
man, lest he speak ill of thy family.

6 Despise not a man that turneth away
from sin, ^ nor reproach him therewith :
remember that we are all worthy of re-
proof.

7 ^ Despise not a man in his old age ;
for we also shall become old.

8 Rejoice not at the death of thy enemy ;
knowing that we all die, and are not will-
ing that others should rejoice at our
death.

9 ^ Despise not the discourse of them
that are ancient and wise, but acquaint
thyself with their proverbs.

10 For of them thou shalt learn wisdom,
and instruction of understanding, and to
serve great men without blame.

11 Let not the discourse of the ancients
escape thee, for they have learned of
their fathers :

12 For of them thou shalt learn under-
standing, and to give an answer in time
of need.

13 Kindle not the coals of sinners by

y Rom. 12. 15. — 2 Matt. 25. 36. — a Matt. 25. 25.
b Infra 31. 6. — c 2 Cor. 2. 6 ; Gal. 6. 1. — d Lev. 19. 32.

Ver. 37. And restrain not grace from the dead.
That is, withhold not from them the benefit of alms,
prayers, and sacrifices. Such was the doctrine and
practice of the church of God even in the time of the

720

E not jealous over the wife of thy
bosom, lest she shew in thy regard
the malice of a wicked lesson.

2 Give not the power of thy soul to a
woman, lest she enter upon thy strength,
and thou be confounded.

3 Look not upon a woman that hath a
mind for many: lest thou fall into her
snares.

4 Use not much the company of her that
is a dancer, and hearken not to her, lest
thou perish by the force of her charms.

6 * Gaze not upon a maiden, lest her
beauty be a stumbhngblock to thee.

6 ^ Give not thy soul to harlots in any
point : lest thou destroy thyself and thy
inheritance.

7 Look not round about thee in the

e Supra 6. 35. — / Infra 29. ^. — g Gen. 4. 8.
h Prov. 22. 24. — t Gen. 6. 2.— j Prov. 6, 2.

Old Testament. And the same has always been con-
tinued from the days of the apostles in the church
of the New Testament

On friends and goodcompany ECCLESIASTICUS

Covetousness and pridd

ways of the city, nor wandoi up and
down in the streets thereof^

8 ^ Turn away thy face from a woman
dressed up, and gaze not about upon
another's beauty.

9 For many have perished by the beauty
of a woman, and hereby lust is enkindled
as a fire.

10 Every woman that is a harlot, ehall
be trodden upon as dung in the way.

11 Many by admiring the beauty of an-
other man's wife, have become reprobate,
for her conversation burneth as fire.

12 Sit not at all with another man*s
wife, nor repose upon the bed with her :

13 And strive not with her over wine,
lest thy heart decline towards her, and
by thy blood thou fall into destruction.

14 Forsake not an old friend, for the
new will not be like to him,

16 A new friend is as new wine : it shall
grow old, and thou shalt drink it with
pleasure.

16 * Envy not the glory and riches of a
sinner: for thou knowest not what his
ruin shall be.

17 Be not pleased with the wrong done
by the unjust, knowing that even to hell
the wicked shall not please.

18 Keep thee far from the man that
liath power to kill, sc thou shalt not sus-
pect the fear of death.

19 And if thou come to him. commit no
fault, lest he take away thy life.

20 Know it to be a communication with
death i for thou art going in the midst
of snares, and walking upon the arms of
them that are grieved :

21 According to thy power beware of
thy neighbour, and treat with the wise
and prudent.

22 Let just men be thy guests, and let
thy glory be in the fear of God.

23 And let the thought of God be in thy
mind, and ali thy discourse on the com-
mandments of the Highest.

24 Works shall be praised for the hand
or tne artificers, and the prince ol the
people for the wisdom of his speech, but
the word of the ancients for the sense,

26 A man full of tongue is terrible in
bis city^ and he that is rash in his word
-shall be hateful

k GeiL 34 2 ; 2 Kings 1 1. 4. and 13. 1 ; Matt 6. 287"
I Judges 9 4 ; 2 Kings 15. 10, — m Prov 29. 12.

Chap. io„ Ver. 1. Judge his people. Id the Greek
t iSi instruct his people.

CHAPTER 10.

in»» virtues and vices o/ men in power the great
evil of pride.

A WISE iudge shall judge his people,
and the government of a prudent
man shall be steady.

2 "^ As the judge of the people is him*
self, so also are his ministers : and what
manner of man the ruler of a city is,
such also are they that dwell therein.

3 ** An unwise Mng shall be the ruin of
his people : and cities shall be inhabited
through the prudence of the rulers.

4 The power of the earth is in the hand
of God, and in his time he will raise up
a profitable ruler over it.

6 The prosperity of man is in the hand
of God, and upon the person of the
scribe he shall lay his honour.

6 Remember not any injury done thee
by thy neighbour, *and do thou nothing
by deeds of injury.

7 Pride is hateful before God and men:
and all iniquity of nations is execrable.

8 PA kingdom is translated from one
people to another, because of injustices,
and wrongs, and injuries, and divers de-
ceits.

9 But nothing is more wicked than the
covetous man. Why is earth and ashes
proud?

10 There is not a more wicked thing
than to love money : for such a one set-
teth even his own soul to sale : because
while he livetb he hath cast away his
bowels.

11 All power is of short life. A long
sickness is troublesome to the physician.

12 The physician cutteth off a short
sickness: so also a king is to day, and to
morrow he shall die.

13 For when a man shall die, he shall
inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.

14 The beginning of the pride of man,
is to fall off from God :

15 Because his heart is departed from
him that made him: 9 for pride is the
beginning of all sin : he that holdeth it,
shall be filled with maledictions, and it
shall ruin him in the end.

16 Therefore hath the Lord disgraced
the assemblies of the wicked, and hath
utterly destroyed them.

n 3 Kings 12, 13. — o Lev. 19. la
p Dan. 4. 14. —9 Prov 18. 11.

Ver. 5. The scribe. That is, the mac that i» wist
and learned in the law

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Punishment of the proud ECCLESIASTICUS

Humility and prudence

17 God hath overturned the thrones of
proud princes, and hath set up the meek
In their stead.

18 God hath made the roots of proud
nations to wither, and hath planted the
bumble of these nations.

19 The Lord hath overthrown the lands
of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed
them even tc the foundation.

20 He hath made some of them to
wither away, and hath destroyed them,
and hath made the memory of them to
cease from the earth.

21 God hath abolished the memory of
the proud, and hath preserved the mem
ory of them that are humble in mind.

22 Pride was not made for men. nor
wrath for the race of women

23 That seed of men shall be honoured,
which feareth God; but that seed shall
toe dishonoured, which transgresseth the
commandments of the Lord.

24 In the midst of brethren their chief
is honourable: so shall they that fear
the Lord, be in his eyes,

25 The fear of God is the glory of the
rich, and of the honourable, and of the
poor:

26 Despise not a juct man that is poor,
and do not magnify a sinfui man that is
rich,

27 The great man, and the judge, and
the mighty ie in honour : and there is
none greater than he that veareth God.

28 ''They that are free shall serve a
servant that is wise: ®and a man that
is prudent and well instructed will not
murmur when he ie reproved; and he
that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.

29 Extol not thyself in doing thy work,
and linger not in the time of distress ;

30 * Better is he that laboureth, and
aboundeth in all things, than he that
boasteth himself and wanteth bread.

31 My son, keep thy soul in meekness,
and give it honour according to its desert.

32 Who will justify him that sinneth
against his own soul? and who will hon-
our him that dishonoureth hie own soul ?

33 The poor man is glorified by hie dis-
cipline and fear, and there is a man that
t8 honoured for his wealth.

34 But he that is glorified in poverty.

r Prov 17. 2. — s 2 Kings 12. 13. — t Prov 12. »

V Gen. 41. 4 , Dan. 6. S ; John 7. X8.

V 1 Kings J6. '< , 2 Cor. 10. 10 ; James a. ) and U

w Actf 12. 12 and 22.

how much more in wealth t and he that
ie glorified in wealth, let bim fear pov^
erty

CHAPTER 11.
Lessom of humility and moderation %n all things.

rnHE " wisdom of the humble shall exalt
JL his head, and shall make him sit in
the midst of great men.

2 * Praise not a man for his beauty, nei-
ther despise a man for his look.

3 The bee is small among flying things,
but her fruit hath the chiefest sweetness,

4 ^ Glory not in apparel at any time,
and be not exalted in the day of thy
honour for the works of the Highest
only are wonderful, and his works are
glorious, and secret, and hidden.

6 Many tyrants have sat on the throne,
and he whom no man would think on,
hath worn the crown.

6 * Many mighty men have been greatly
brought down, and the glorious have
been delivered into the hand of others.

7 Before thou inquire, blame no man : and
when thou hast inquired, reprove justly.

8 y Before thou hear, answer not a word:
and interrupt not others in the midst of
their discourse.

9 Strive not in a matter which doth not
concern thee, and sit not in judgment
with sinners.

10 My son, meddle not with many mat-
ters: ^ and if thou be rich, thou shalt not
be free from sin : for if thou pursue after
thou shalt not overtake : and if thou run
before thou shalt not escape.

11 * There is an ungodly man that la-
boureth, and maketh haste, and is in
sorrow, and is so much the more in want.

12 Again, there is an inactive man that
wanteth help, is very weak in ability,
and full of poverty

13 ^Yet the eye cf God hath looked
upon him for good, and hath lifted him
up from his low estate, and hath exalted
his head, and many have wondered at
him, and have glorified God.

14 ^'Good things and evil, life and death*
poverty and riches, are from God.

16 Wisdom and discipline, and the know-
ledge of the law are with God. Love and
the ways of good things are with him.

« I Kings 16. 28; Esther 6. 7

% Prov 18 l3.<->s 1 Tim. 6. ft

f Bccl 4, 8. • fe Job 4S. la

« Jot % 10.

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Moderation, and God's blessing ECCLESIASTIC US

>J Error and darkness are created with
sinners ' and they that glory in evil things,
▼r^w old in eviL

I'f The gift of God abide th with the
just, and his advancement shall have
success for ever.

18 There is one that is enriched by liv-
ing sparingly, and this is the portion of
his reward.

19 In that he saith: **I have found me
rest, and now I will eat of my goods
alone:

20 And he knoweth not what time shall
pas3, and that death approacheth, and
that he must leave all to others, and
shall die.

21 Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be
conversant therein, and grow old in the
work of thy commandments,

22 Abide not in the works of sinners.
But trust in God, and stay in thy placoc

23 For it is easy in the eyes of God on
a sudden to make the poor man rich.

24 The blessing of God maketh haste to
reward the just, and in a swift hour his
blessing beareth fruit.

25 Say not: What need I, and what
good shall I have by this?

26 Say not: I am sufficient for myself:
and what shall I be made worse by this ?

27 ^In the day of good things be not
unmindful of evils: and in the day of
evils be not unmindful of good things :

28 For it is easy before God in the day
of death to reward every one according
to his ways.

?9 The affliction of an hour maketh one
forget great delights, and in the end of
a man is the disclosing of his works.

30 Praise not any man before death, for
a man is known by his children.

31 Bring not every man into thy house :
for many are the snares of the deceitful.

32 For as corrupted bowels send forth
Stinking breath, and as the partridge is
brought into the cage, and as the roe
Into the snare so also is the heart of
the proud, and as a spy that looketh on
the fall of his neighbouTc

33 For he lieth in wait and turneth good
into evil, and on the elect he will lay a
blot.

34 Of one spark cometh a great fire,
and of one deceitful man much blood:
and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.

< Luke 12. 19.—« Infra IS. 25.

Doing good to others

35 Take heed to thyself of a mischievoua
man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring
upon thee reproach for ever.

36 Receive a stranger in, and he shaU
overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and
shall turn thee out of thy own.

CHAPTER 12.

We are to be liberal to the Jicst and not to trust ihJt
ivickecL

IF thou do good, know to whom thou
dost it, and there shall be much thanks
for thy good deeds.

2 Do good to the just, and thou shalt
find great recompense* and if not of
him, assuredly of the Lord.

3 For there is no good for him that is
always occupied in evil, and that giveth
no alms: for the Highest hateth sinners,
and hath mercy on the penitent.

4-^ Give to the merciful and uphold not
the sinner : God will repay vengeance to
the ungodly and to sinners, and keep
them against the day of vengeance.

6 Give to the good, and receive not a
sinner.

6 Do good to the humble, and give not
to the ungodly! hold back thy bread,
and give it not to him, lest thereby he
overmaster thee.

7 For thou shalt receive twice as much
evil for all the good thou shalt have
done to him : for the Highest also hateth
sinners, and will repay vengeance to the
ungodly.

8 A friend shall not be known in pro-
sperity, and an enemy shall not be hid-
den in adversity.

9 In the prosperity of a man, his ene-
mies are grieved : and a friend is known
in his adversity.

10 Never trust thy enemy for as a brass
pot his wickedness rusteth

11 Though he humble himself and go
crouching, yet take good heed and be-
ware of him.

12 Set him not by thee, neither let him
sit on thy right hand, lest he turn into
thy place, and seek to take thy seat?
and at the last thou acknowledge my
words, and be pricked with my say-
ings.

13 Who will pity an enchanter struck
by a serpent, or any that come near wild
beasts? so is it with him that keepetb

/Gal. «. r

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Caution in choice of company ECCLESIASTIC US Caution in choice of company

company with a wicked man, and is in-
volved in his sins.

14 For an hour he will abide with thee:
but if thou begin to decline, he will not
endure it.

15 ^An enemy speaketh sweetly with
his lips, but in his heart he lieth in wait,
to throw thee into a pit.

16 An onemy weepeth with his eyes:
but if he find an opportunity he will not
be satisfied with blood:

17 And if evils come upon thee, thou
«halt find him there first.

18 An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and
while he pretendeth to help thee, will
undermine thy feet.

19 He will shake his head, and clap his
bands, and whisper much, and change his
countenance.

CHAPTER 13.
Cautions in the choice of company

HE * that touch eth pitch, shall be de-
filed with it: and he that hath fellow-
ship with the proud, shall put on pride.

2 He shall take a burden upon him that
hath fellowship with one more honoiu-
able than himself. And have no fellow-
ship with one that is richer than thyself.

3 What agreement shall the earthen pot
have with the kettle ? for if they knock
one against the other, it shall be broken.

4 The rich man hath done wrong, and
yet he will fume : but the poor is wronged
and must hold his peace.

6 If thou give, he will make use of thee:
and if thou have nothing, he will forsake
thee.

6 If thou have any thing, he will live
with thee, and will make thee bare, and
he will not be sorry for thee.

7 If he have need of thee he will deceive
thee, and smiling upon thee will put thee
in hope ; he will speak thee fair, and will
say : What wantest thou?

8 And he will shame thee by his meats,
till he have drawn thee dry twice or
thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee :
and afterward when he seeth thee, he
will forsake thee, and shake his head at
thee.

9 Humble thyself to God, and wait for
his hands.

10 Beware that thou be not deceived
into folly, and be humbled.

11 Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest be-
ing humbled thou be deceived into folly.

12 If thou be invited by one that is
mightier, withdraw thyself: for so he
will invite thee the more.

13 Be not troublesome to him^ lest thou
be put back : and keep not far from him,
lest thou be forgotten.

14 Affect not to speak with him as an
equal : and believe not his many words:
for by much talk he will sift thee, and
smiling will examine thee concerning thy
secrets,

15 His cruel mind will lay up thy words :
and he will not spare to do thee hurt,
and to cast thee into prison.

16 Take heed to thyself, and attend dil»
igently to what thou hearest: for thou
walkest in danger of thy ruin.

17 When thou hearest those things, see
as it were in sleep, and thou shalt awake

18 Love God all thy life, and call upoii
him for thy salvation.

19 Every beast loveth its like : so also
every man him that is nearest to him-
self.

20 All flesh shall consort with the like
to itself, and every man shall associate
himself to his like.

21 If the wolf shall at any time have
fellowship with the lamb, so the sinner
with the just,

22 * What fellowship hath a holy man
with a dog, or what part hath the rich
with the poor ?

23 The wild ass is the lion's prey in the
desert : so also the poor are devoured by
the rich.

24 And as humility is an abomination to
the proud : eo also the rich man abhor-
reth the poor.

25 When a rich man is shaken, he Is
kept up by his friends : but when a poor
man is fallen down, he is thrust away
even by his acquaintance.

26 When a rich man hath been deceived,
he hath many helpers: he hath spoken
proud things, and they have justified
him. ,

27 The poor man was deceived, and he
is rebuked also : he hath spoken wisely,
and could have no place.

28 The rich man spoke, and all held
their peace, and what he said they extol
even to the clouds.

g Jer. 11. 6. — /i Deut 7. 3.

49Cor.Cwl4.

7d4

Envy and covetousness

ECCLESIASTICUS Works of mercy, and wisdom

29 The poor man spoka, and they say:
Who is this? and if he stumble, they
will overthrow him.

30 Eiches are good to him that hath no
sin in his conscience: and poverty is very
wicked in the mouth of the ungodly.

31 The heart of a man changeth his
countenance, either for good, or for eviL

32 The token of a good heart, and a good
^countenance thou shalt hardly find, and
with labour.

CHAPTER 14.

The evil of avarice: works of mercy wn r^eoni'
mendecU and the love of wisdom^

BLESSED ^is the man that hath not
slipped by a word out of his mouth,
md is not pricked with the remorse of
iin.

2 Happy is he that hath had no sadness
|)f his mind, and who is not fallen from
lis hope.

3 Riches are not comely for a covetous
|aan and a niggard, and what should an
jmvious man do with gold ?

4 He that gathereth together by wrong-
Qg his own soul, gathereth for others,
nd another will squander away his goods
1 rioting.

6 He that is evil to himself, to whom
dll he be good? and he shall not take
leasure in his goods.

3 There is none worse than he that en-
ieth himself, and this is the reward of
18 wickedness:

7 And if he do good, he doth it igno-
mtly, and unwillingly : and at the last
9 discovereth his wickedness.

} The eye of the envious is wicked . and
3 turneth away his face, and despiseth
s own souL

) The eye of the covetous man is insa-
ible in his portion of iniquity : he will
)t be satisfied till he consume his own
ul, drying it up.

0 An evil eye is towards evil things :
d he shall not have his fill of bread,
t shall be needy and pensive at his own

•ble.

1 My son, if thou *have any thing, do
I od to thyself, and offer to God worthy
< 'erings.

2 Remember that death is not slow, and
tat the covenant of hell hath been shewn

Jnfra 19. 17. — A: Supra 4. 1 ; Tob. 4. 7 ; Luke 16. 9.

to thee: for the covenant of this world
shall surely die.

13 * Do good to thy friend before thou
die, and according to thy ability, stretch-
ing out thy hand give to the poor.

14 Defraud not thyself of the good day,
and let not the part of a good gift over-
pass thee.

15 Shalt thou not leave to others to
divide by lot thy sorrows and labours ?

16 Give and take, and justify thy souL

17 Before thy death work justice : for in
hell there is no finding food.

18 * All flesh shall fade as grass, and aa
the leaf that springeth out on a green
tree.

19 Some grow, and some fall off: so is
the generation of flesh and blood, one
Cometh to an end, and another is born.

20 Every work that is corruptible shall
fail in the end: and the worker thereof
shall go with it.

21 And every excellent work shall be
justified: and the worker thereof shall
be honoured therein.

22 "^Blessed is the man that shall con-
tinue in wisdom, and that shall meditate
in his justice, and in his mind shall think
of the all seeing eye of God^

23 He that considereth her ways in his
heart, and hath understanding in her
secrets, who goeth after her as one that
traceth, and stayeth in her ways o

24 He who looketh in at her windows,
and hearkeneth at her door .

25 He that lodgeth near her house, and
fastening a pin in her walls shall set up
his tent nigh unto her, where good things
shall rest in his lodging for everc

26 He shall set his children under h«
shelter, and shall lodge under her
branches :

27 He shall be protected under her cov-
ering from the heat, and shall rest m her
glory.

CHAPTER 15.

Wisdom embraceth them that fear Godc God is not
the author of sin,

HE that feareth God, will do good:
and he that possesseth justice, shall
lay hold on her,

2 And she will meet him as an honour-
able mother, and will receive him as a
wife married of a virgin.

Chap. 14. Vev. t% The covenant qf heli.

I Isa. 40. ?; James 1. 10 ; 1 Peter 1. 24. — m Ps. 1, 2.

The decree by wliici) all are to go down to the regions ot
deatlk

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God not the author of sin ECCLESIASTICUS

Ungodly children

3 With the bread of life an<? understand-
ing, she shaU feed him, ** and give him
the water of wholesome wisdom to drink i
and she shall be made strong in him, and
he shall not be moved'

4 And she shall hold him fast, and be
shall not be confounded* and she ehalJ
exalt him among his neighbours.

6 And in the midst of the church &he
shall open his mouth, and shall fill him
with the spirit of wisdom and understand-
ing, and shall clothe him with a robe of
glory,

6 She shall heap upon him a treasure of
)oy and gladness, and shall cause him to
Inherit an everlasting name.

7 But foolish men shall not obt-aln her,
and wise men shall meet hei, roolish men
shall not see her: for she >8 far from
pride and deceit.

8 Lying men shall DOt be mindful of
her: but men that speak truth shall be
found with her, and shall advance, even
till they come to the sight of God.

9 Praise is not seemly m the mouth of
a sinner:

10 For wisdom came forth from God^
for praise shall be with the wisdom of
God, and shall abound in a faithful mouth,
and the sovereign Lord will give praise
onto it.

11 Say not : It is through God, that she
fs not with mer for do not thou the things
that he hateth.

12 Say not : He hath caused me to eix;
for he hath no need of wicked men.

13 The Lord hateth all abomination of
error, and they that fear him ehall not
love it.

14 God made man from the beginning,
and left him in the hand of his own
counsel

16 He added his commandments and
precepts.

16 ® If thou wilt keep the command-
ments and perform acceptable fidelity for
ever, they shall preserve thee.

17 He hath set water and fire before thee :
stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.

18 P Before man is life and death, good
and evil, that which he shall choose shall
be given him :

19 For the wisdom of God ic great, and

n John 4. 10. — o Matt. 19. 17 ; John 8. 31 and 22.
p Jer. 21. 8.-9 Ps 3;^. K : Heb 4. 13

he is strong in power, seeing all men
without ceasing.

20 9 The eyes of the Lord are towards
them that fear him, and he knoweth aU
the work of man.

21 He hath commanded no man to do
wickedly, and he hath giveo no man li-
cense to sin :

22 For he desireth not a multitude of
faithless and unprofitable children.

CHAPTER 16.

H is better to have none than many vncked chUdret»
Of the justice and mercy of God, BU ways ar%
unsearchable.

REJOICE not in ungodly children, if
they be multiplied: neither be de-
lighted in them:, if the fear of God be not
with them.

2 Trust not to their life, and respect not
their labours.

3 For better is one that feaieth Ood.
than a thousand ungodly children

4 And it is better to die without children,
than to leave ungodly children.

6 By one that is wise a country shall
be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly
shall become desolate.

6 Many such things hath my eyes seen
and greater things than these my eai
hath heard.

7 ^ In the congregation of sinners a fire
shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving
nation wrath shall flame out.

8 *The ancient giants did not obtain
pardon for their sins, who were destroyed
trusting to their own strength

9 And he spared not the place where
Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the
pride of their word

10 He had not pity on them, destroying
the whole nation that extolled them-
selves in their sins.

11 * So did he with the six hundred thou-
sand footmen, who were gathered to-
gether in the hardness of their heart:
and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a
wonder if he had escaped unpunished:

12 For mercy and wrath are with hiiJ.
He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out i
indignation :

13 According as his mercy is, so hisj
correction iudgeth a man according toj
his works.

r Infra 21. 10. — s Gen. 6. 4
t Num. 14. 20, and 26. 51.

Chap. 16. Ver. n.

Six hundred thotLsand footmen, &c. Viz., the children of Israel, wboro he sen
tenced to die in the wilderDess. Num. 14

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No one is hidden from God ECCLESIASTICUS

The creation of man

14 The emner aha .'Aoot escape Id his;
rapines, and the patience of him that
ehewetb mercy shall not be put' off.

15 **Ai' mercy shall make a place for
every man according to the merit of his
works, and according to the wisdom of
his sojournment.

16 Say not: 1 shall be hidden from God,
and who ehall remember me from on
high?

17 In such a multitude I shall not be
known : for what is my 6fOUl in such an
immense creation^

18 Behold the heaven, and the Heavens
of heavens, the deep, and all the earthy
<>nd the things that are in tJiem, ehall be
moved in his sight,

19 The mountains also, and the hills,
and the foundations of the earth : when
God shall Jock upon them, they shall be
shaken with trembling.

20 And in all these things the heart is
senseless and every heart is understood
by him.

21 And hie waye who shall tmderstand,
and the storm, which nc eye of man shall
tee?

22 For many of his worke are hidden ;
but the works of hip justice whc shall
declare? or who shall endure? fo* the
testament is far from some, and the ex-
amination of all is in the end.

23 He that wanteth understanding think-
eth vain things . and the foolish, aii<? err-
ing man, thinketh foolish things.

24 Hearken to me, my flori, and learn
the discipline of underptanding, and at-
tend to my words in. thy heartc

25 And I will shew forth good doctrine
in equity, and will seek to declare wis-
dom : and attend to my words in thy
heart, whilst with equity of spirit I tell
thee the virtues that God hath put upon
his works from the beginning, and I shew
forth in truth bis knowledge.

26 The works of God are done te jtidg-
ment from the beginning, and from the
making of them be distingn^ished their
parts, and their begiimiitgp in their gen-
erations.

27 He beautified their works for ever,
they have neither hungered, nor laboured,
and they have not ceased from their
works-

u Rom. 2. 6 -> V Gen, h 27, and 5. l.

Ver 31 Shewn forth, viz., the glory and power of
PknJ UDor tbp eartjb

28 Nor shall any of them straiten his
neighbour at any time

29 Be not thou incredulous to hie word

30 After this God looked upon the
earth, and filled it with his goods

SI The soul of every living thing hath
shewn forth before the face thereof, and
into It they return again

CHAPTER 17.

The creation and favour of God co man An to-
hortation to turn to God.

GOD ^ created man of the earth, em^
made him after his own image.

2 And he turned him into it again, and
clothed him with strength according to
himself.

8 He gave him the number of his days
and time, and gave him power over aD
things that are upon the earth.

4 He put the fear of him upon all flesh,
and he had dominion over beasts and
fowls.

6 ^ He created of him a helpmate like
to himself c he gave them counsel, and a
tongue, and eyes, and ears, and a heart
to devise : and he filled them with the
knowledge of understanding.

6 He created in them the science of the
spirit, he filled theii b(oart witn wiBdom,
and shewed them both good and evil.

7 He set his eye upon their hearts to
shew them the greatness of his works

8 That they might praise the name which
he hath sanctified; and glory in his won
drous acts, tha they might declare the
glorious things oi his works

9 Moreover he gave them instructions,
and the law of life for an inheritance.

10 He made an everlasting covenant
with them, and he shewed them his ins-
tice and judgments,

11 And their eye saw the majesty of bis
glory, and their ears heard his glorious
voice, and he said to them: Beware of
all iniquity.

12 And he gave to every one of them
commandment concerning his neighbour

13 Their ways are always before him,
they are not hidden from his eyes.

14 * Over every nation he set a ruler.
16 And Israel was made the manifest

portion of God.
16 And all their works are as the sun in

w Gen. 2. 18. — X Rom. 13. i.

Chap. 17. Ver. 11. Their eye saw, Ac viz wbQL
he save the lav or mount Sinai

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Exhortation to turn to God ECCLESIASTICUS

the sight of God ? ind Ms eyes are con-
tinually upon their ways.

17 Their covenants were not hid by
their iniquity, and all their iniquities are
in the sight of God.

18 2^ The alms of a man is as a signet
with him, and shall preserve the grace
of a man as the apple of the eye °

19 ^ And afterward he shall rise up, and
shall render them their reward, to every
one upon their own head, and shall turn
them down into the bowels of the earth.

20 But to the penitent he hath given the
way of justice, and he hath strengthened
them that were fainting in patience, and
hath appointed to them the lot of truth.

21 Turn to the Lord, and forsake thy
sins:

22 Make thy prayer before the face of
the Lord, and offend less.

23 Return to the Lord, and turn away
from thy injustice, and greatly hate
abomination.

24 And know the justices and judgments
of God, and stand firm in the lot est be-
fore thee, and in prayer to the most» high
God.

25 Go to the side of the holy age, ° with
them that live and give praise to God.

26 Tarry not in the error of the angodly,
give glory before death. Praise perisheth
from the dead as nothing.

27 Give thanks whilst thou art living,
whilst thou art alive and in health thou
flhalt give thanks, and shalt praise God,
and shalt glory in his mercies.

28 How great is the mercy of the Lord,
and his forgiveness to them that turn to
him?

29 For all thingg cannot be in men, be-
cause the son of man is not immortal,
and they are delighted with the vanity
of evil

30 What is brighter than the sun ; yet
it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more
wicked than that which flesh and blood
hath invented? and this shall be re-
proved.

31 He beholdeth the power of the
height of heaven : and all men are earth
and ashes.

y Infra 29. 6. — z Matt 25. 35. — a Ps. 6. 6 ; Isa. 38. 19.

Ver, 22. Offend iess : minue offendicula. Tbat is,
remove lins and the occasions of sins.

Ver. 25. Go to the side, &c Fly from the side of
Satan and sin, and join with the holy ones, tbat foi
low God and godliness.

Chap, Vk Yet- l* Then shaU he bsgim, ^ocl Is

God^s works are wonderful
CHAPTSB ia

God '« worki are wond&TfiU • we must serve him,
and not our lusta.

E^'that liveth for ever created all
things together. God only shall be
Justified, and he remaineth an invincible
king for ever,
2 Who is able to declare his works ?
8 For who shall search out his gloriom
acts?

4 And who shall shew forth the power
of his majesty? or who shall be able to
declare his mercy?

5 Nothing may be taken away, nor
added, neither is it possible to find out
the glorious works of Gods

6 When a man hath done, then shall he
begin : and when he leaveth off, he shall
be at a loss»

7 What is man, and what is his grace t
and what is his good, or what is his evil ?

8 *^ The number of the days of men at
the most are a hundred years . as a drop
of water of the sea are they esteemed:
and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few
years compared to eternity.

9 Therefore God is patient in them, and
poureth forth his mercy upon them.

10 He hath seen the presumption of
their heart that it is wicked, and hath
known their end that it is eviL

11 Therefore hath he filled up his mercy
in their favour, and hath shewn them the
way of justice.

12 The compassion of man is toward his
neighbour; but the mercy of God is
upon all flesh.

13 He hath mercy, and teacheth, and
correcteth, as a shepherd doth his flock,

14 He hath mercy on him that receiveth
the discipline of mercy, and that maketh
haste in his judgments.

15 My son, in thy good deeds, make no
complaint, and when thou givest any
thing, add not grief by an evil word.

16 Shall not the dew assuage the heat .
so also the good word is better than the
gift. ^

17 Lo, is not a word better than a gift?
but both are with a justified man.

18 A fool will upbraid bitterly: and a

feGen. 1. L — cPs 89.10.

so great and incomprehensible, that when man has
done all that he can to find out his greatness and
boundless perfections, he is still to begin • for whatj
he has found out, is but a mere nothing in compart
son with his infinity.

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Conduct in sickness, prayer ECCLESIASTICUS Warning against various vices

gift of one ill taught consumeth the
eyes.

19 Before judgment prepare thee justice,
and learn before thou speak.

20 Before sickness take a medicine, ^
and before judgment examine thyself,
and thou shalt find mercy in the sight
of God.

21 Humble thyself before thou art sick,
and in the time of sickness shew thy
conversation.

22 « Let nothing hinder thee from pray-
ing always, and be not afraid to be jus-
tified even to death: for the reward of
God continueth for ever.

23 Before prayer prepare thy soul: and
be not as a man that tempteth God.

24 / Remember the wrath that shall be
at the last day, and the time of repay-
ing when he shall turn away his face.

25 (J Remember poverty in the time of
abundance, and the necessities of poverty
in the day of riches.

26 From the morning until the evening
the time shall be changed, and all these
are swift in the eyes of God.

27 A wise man will fear in every thing,
and in the days of sins will beware cf
sloth.

28 Every man of understanding knoweth
wisdom, and will give praise to him that
findeth her.

29 They that were of good understand-
ing in words, have also done wisely
themselves: and have understood truth
and justice, and have poured forth pro-
verbs and judgments.

30 ^ Go not after thy lusts, but turn
away from thy own will.

31 If thou give to thy soul her desires,
she will make thee a joy to thy enemies.

32 Take no pleasure in riotous assem-
blies, be they ever so small: for their
concertation is continual.

33 Make not thyself poor by borrowing
to contribute to feasts when thou hast
nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt be
an ene«ny to thy own life.

CHAPTER 19.

Admonitions against sundry vices.

A WORKMAN that is a drunkard shall
not be rich : and he tha.t contemneth
small things, shall fall by little and little.

i 1 Cor. 11. 28.— e Luke 18. 1 ; 1 Thess. 5. 17.

/ Supra 7. 18.— fir Supra 11. 27.

h Rom. 6. 12, 13, and 13. 14.

2 » Wine and women make wise men fall
off, and shall rebuke the prudent:

3 And he that joineth himself to harlots,
will be wicked. Rottenness and worms
shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted
up for a greater example, and his soul
shall be taken away out of the number.

4 i He that is hasty to give credit, is
light of heart, and shall be lessened : and
he that sinneth against his own soul,
shall be despised.

5 He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be
censured, and he that hateth chastise-
ment, shall have less life: and he that
hateth babbling, extinguished evil.

6 He that sinneth against his own soul,
shall repent: and he that is delighted
with wickedness, shall be condemned.

7 Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh
word, and thou shalt not fare the worse.

8 Tell not thy mind to friend or foe:
and if there be a sin with thee, disclose
it not. '

9 For he will hearken to thee, and will
watch thee, and as it were defending thy
sin he will hate thee, and so will he be
with thee always.

10 Hast thou heard a word against thy
neighbour? let it die within thee, trust-
ing that it will not burst thee.

11 At the hearing of a word the fool is
in travail, as a woman groaning in the
bringing forth a child.

12 As an arrow that sticketh in a man's
thigh: so is a word in the heart of a
fool.

13 ^ Reprove a friend, lest he may not
have understood, and say: I did it not: or
if he did it, that he may do it no more.

14 Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be
he hath not said it: and if he hath said
it, that he may not say it again.

15 Admonish thy friend: for there is
often a fault committed.

16 And believe not every word. There
is one, that slippeth with the tongue, but
not from his heart.

17 ^ For who is there that hath not of-
fended with his tongue? Admonish thy
neighbour before thou threaten him.

18 And give place to the fear of the
most High: for the fear of God is all
wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and
the disposition of the law is in all wisdom.

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i Gen. 19. 33; 3 Kings 11. 1.
5 Jos. 9. 15, and 22. 11. — k Lev. 19. 17;
Matt. 18. 15 ; Luke 17. 3.— Z James 3. 8.

False wisdom and hypocrisy ECCLESIASTICUS

Discretion in speech

of wickedness is
device of sinners

19 But the learning
not wisdom: and the
is not prudence.

20 There is a subtle wickedness, and the
same is detestable: and there is a man
that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.

21 Better is a man that hath less wis-
dom, and wanteth understanding, with
the fear of God, than he that aboundeth
in understanding, and transgresseth the
law of the most High.

22 There is an exquisite subtilty, and
the same is unjust.

23 And there is one that uttereth an
exact word telling the truth. There is
one that humbleth himself wickedly,
and his interior is full of deceit :

24 And there is one that submitteth
himself exceedingly with a great lowli-
ness : and there is one that casteth down
his countenance, and maketh as if he did
not see that which is unknown :

25 And if he be hindered from sinning
for want of power, if he shall find oppor-
tunity to do evil, he will do it.

26 A man is known by his look, and a
wise man, when thou meetest him, is
known by his countenance.

27 The attire of the body, and the
laughter of the teeth, and the gait of
the man, shew what he is.

28 There is a lying rebuke in the anger
of an injurious man : and there is a
judgment that is not allowed to be good:
and there is one that holdetb his peace,
he is wise.

CHAPTER 20.

Rules with regard to correction^ discretion^ and
avoiding lies.

HOW much better is it to reprove,
than to be angry, and not to hinder
him that confesseth in prayer.

2 ^ The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a
young maiden :

3 So is he that by violence executeth
unjust judgment.

4 How good is it, when thou art re-
proved, to shew repentance ! for so thou
Shalt escape wilful sin,

5 There is one that holdeth his peace,
that is found wise : and there is another
that is hateful, that is bold in speech.

6 There is one that holdeth his peace,
because he knoweth not what to say:

and there is another that holdeth hia
peace, knowing the proper time.

7 A wise man will hold his peace till he
see opportunity : but a babbler, and a
fool, will regard no time.

8 He that useth many words shall hurt
his own soul : and he that taketh author-
ity to himself unjustly shall be hated.

9 There is success in evil things to a
man without discipline, and there is a
finding that turneth to loss.

10 There is a gift that is not profitable :
and there is a gift, the recompense of
which is double.

11 There is an abasement because of
glory: and there is one that shall lift up
his head from a low estate.

12 There is that buyeth much for a small
price, and restoreth the same sevenfold.

13 A man wise in words shall make
himself beloved: but the graces of fools
shall be poured out.

14 The gift of the fool shall do thee no
good : for his eyes are sevenfold.

15 He will give a few things, and up-
braid much: and the opening of his
mouth is the kindling of a fire.

16 To day a man lendeth, and to mor-
row he asketh it again : such a man as
this is hateful.

17 A fool shall have no friend, and there
shall be no thanks for his good deeds.

18 For they that eat his bread, are of a
false tongue. How often, and how many
will laugh him to scorn !

19 For he doth not distribute with right
understanding that which was to be had :
in like manner also that which was not
to be had.

20 The slipping of a false tongue is as
one that falleth on the pavement : so
the fall of the wicked shall come speed-
ily.

21 A man without grace is as a vain

fable, it shall be continually in the mouth
of the unwise.

22 A parable coming out of a fool's
mouth shall be rejected : for he doth not
speak it in due season.

23 There is that is hindered from sin-
ning through want, and in his rest he
shall be pricked.

24 There is that will destroy his own
soul through sharaefacedness, and by
occasion of an unwise person he will

m Infra 30. 21.
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Lying

ECCLESIASTICUS The wise man and the fool

destroy it : and by respect of person he
will destroy himself.

25 There is that for bashfulness pro-
miseth to his friend, and maketh him his
enemy for nothing.

26 A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet
It will be continually in the mouth of
men without discipline.

27 A thief is better than a man that is
always lying: but both of them shall in-
herit destruction.

28 The manners of lying men are with-
out honour : and their confusion is with
them without ceasing.

29 A wise man shall advance himself
with his words, and a prudent man shall
please the great ones.

30 He that tilleth his land shall make a
high heap of corn : and he that worketh
justice shall be exalted : and he that
pleaseth great men shall escape iniquity.

31 ** Presents and gifts blind the eyes of
judges, and make them dumb in the
mouth, so that they cannot correct.

32 ° Wisdom that is hid, and treasure
that is not seen : what profit is there in
them both?

33 Better is he that hideth his folly, than
the man that hideth his wisdom.

CHAPTER 21.

Cautions against sin in generaf^ and some sins in
particular.

MY son, hast thou sinned ? do so no
more : but for thy former sins also
pray that they may be forgiven thee.

2 Flee from sins as from the face of a
serpent: for if thou comest near them,
they will take hold of thee.

3 The teeth thereof are the teeth of a
lion, killing the souls of men.

4 All iniquity is like a two-edged sword,
there is no remedy for the wound there-
of.

5 Injuries and wrongs will waste riches:
and the house that is very rich shall be
brought to nothing by pride : so the sub-
stance of the proud shall be rooted out.

6 The prayer out of the mouth of the
poor shall reach the ears of God, and
judgment shall come for him speedily.

7 He that hateth to be reproved walketh
in the trace of a sinner: and he that
feareth God will turn to his own heart.

8 He that is mighty by a bold tongue is

known afar off, but a wise man knoweth
to shp by him.

9 He that buildeth his house at other
men's charges, is as he that gatheretb
himself stones to build in the winter.

10 P The congregation of sinners is like
tow heaped together, and the end of
them is a flame of fire.

11 The way of sinners is made plain
with stones, and in their end is hell, and
darkness, and pains.

12 He that keepeth justice shall get the
understanding thereof.

13 The perfection of the fear of God is
wisdom and understanding.

14 He that is not wise in good, will not
be taught.

15 But there is a wisdom that abound*
eth in evil : and there is no understand-
ing where there is bitterness.

16 The knowledge of a wise man shall
abound like a flood, and his counsel con-
tinueth like a fountain of life.

17 The heart of a fool is like a broken
vessel, and no wisdom at all shall it hold.

18 A man of sense will praise every
wise word he shall hear, and will apply
it to himself : the luxurious man hath
heard it, and it shall displease him, and
he will cast it behind his back.

19 The talking of a fool is like a burden
in the way: but in the lips of the wise,
grace shall be found.

20 The mouth of the prudent is sought
after in the church, and they will think
upon his words in their hearts.

21 As a house that is destroyed, so is
wisdom to a fool : and the knowledge of
the unwise is as words without sense.

22 Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the
feet, and like manacles on the right hand.

23 A fool hfteth up his voice in laughter :
but a wise man will scarce laugh low to
himself.

24 Learning to the prudent is as an or-
nament of gold, and like a bracelet upon
his right arm.

25 The foot of a fool is soon in his neigh-
bour's house : but a man of experience
will be abashed at the person of the
mighty.

26 A fool will peep through the window
into the house : but he that is well taught
will stand without.

27 It is the folly of a man to hearken at

» Ex. 23. 8 i Deut 16, 19, — o Infra 4L IT. |

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The sluggard and the fool ECCLESIASTICUS

Treatment of friends

the door : and a wise man will be grieved
with the disgrace.

28 The lips of the unwise will be telling
foolish things : but the words of the wise
shall be weighed in a balance.

29 The heart of fools is in their mouth:
and the mouth of wise men is in their
heart.

30 While the ungodly curseth the devil,
he curseth his own soul.

31 The talebearer shall defile his own
soul, and shall be hated by all: and he
that shall abide with him shall be hate-
ful : the silent and wise man shall be
honoured.

CHAPTER 22.

Wise sayings on divers subjects.

THE sluggard is pelted with a dirty
stone, and all men will speak of his
disgrace.

2 The sluggard is pelted with the dung
of oxen : and every one that toucheth
him will shake his hands.

3 A son ill taught is the confusion of the
father : and a /ooKs/i daughter shall be to
his loss.

4 A wise daughter shall bring an inher-
itance to her husband : but she that con-
foundeth, becometh a disgrace to her
father.

5 She that is bold shameth both her fa-
ther and husband, and will not be inferior
to the ungodly : and shall be disgraced
by them both.

6 A tale out of t!me ie like music in
mourning : but the stripes and instruc-
tion of wisdom are never out of time.

7 He that teacheth a fool, is like one
that glueth a potbherd together.

8 He that telleth a word to him that
heareth not, is like one that waketh a
man out of a deep sleep. *

9 He speaketh with one that is asleep,
who uttereth wisdom to a fool : and in
the end of the discourse he saith : Who is
this?

10 9 Weep for the dead, for his light
hath failed : and weep for the fool, for
his understanding faileth.

11 Weep but a little for the dead, for he
is at rest.

q Infra 38. 16.

Chap. 21. Ver. 30, While thfi ungodly, &c. He
condemneth and curseth himself: inasmuch as by
sin he takes part with the devil, and is, as it were,
his member and subject.

Chap. 22. Ver. lo. For *im fool. In the language

12 For the wicked hfe of a wicked fool
is worse than death.

13 '"The mourning for the dead is seveii
days : but for a fool and an ungodly man
all the days of their life.

14 Talk not much with a fool, and go
not with him that hath no sense.

15 Keep thyself from him, that thou
mayst not have trouble, and thou shalt
not be defiled with his sin.

16 Turn away from him, and thou shalt
find rest, and shalt not be wearied out
with his folly.

17 What is heavier than lead ? and what
other name hath he but fool?

18 ® Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is
easier to bear, than a man without sense,
that is both foolish and wicked.

19 A frame of wood bound together in
the foundation of a building, shall not be
loosed : so neither shall the heart that is
established by advised counsel.

20 The thought of him that is wise ai"
all times, shall not be depraved by fear.

21 As pales set in high places, and plas-
terings made without cost, will not stand
against the face of the wind :

22 So also a fearful heart in the imagi-
nation of a fool shall not resist against the
violence of fear.

23 As a fearful heart in the thought of
a fool at all times will not fear, so nei-
ther shall he that continueth always in
the commandments of God.

24 He that pricketh the eye, bringeth
out tears : and he that pricketh the heart,
bringeth forth resentment.

25 He that flingeth a stone at birds,
shall drive them away: so he that up-
braideth his friend, breaketh friendship.

26 Although thou hast drawn a sword
at a friend, despair not : for there may
be a returning. To a friend,

27 If thou hast opened a sad mouth, fear
not, for there may be a reconciliation -
except upbraiding, and reproach, and
pride, and disclosing of secrets, or a
treacherous wound: for in all these cases
a friend will flee away.

28 Keep fidehty with a friend in his
poverty, that in his prosperity also thou
mayst rejoice.

r Gen. 50. 10. — s Prov. 27. 3.

of the Holy Ghost, he Is styled a fool, that turni
away from God to follow vanity and sin. And what
is said by the wise man against fools is meant of
such tools as these.

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Prayer for grace to avoid sin ECCLESIASTICUS

Against swearing

29 In the time of hif trouble continue
faithful to him, that thou mayst also be
heir with him in hie inheritance.

3C As the vapcui of a chimney, and the
smoke of the fiie goeth up before the
fire: so also injuncus words, and re-
proaches, and threats, before blood.

SI I will not be ashamed to salute a
friend, neither will I hide myself from his
face: and if any evil happen to me by
him, I will bear it

82 But every one that shall hear it, will
beware of him.

3S * Who will set a guard before my
mout'n, and a sure seal upon my lips, that
I fall not by them, and that my tongue
destroy me not ?

CHAPTER 23.

A prayer for grace to flee sm : ea^tUons aga4n^
profane swearing and other vices.

OLORD; father, and sovereign ruler
of my life, leave me not to their
counsel : nor suffer me to fall by them.
2 Who will set scourges over my
thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom
over my heart, that they spare me not
in their ignorances, and that their sins
may not appear :

5 Lest my ignorances increase, and my
offences be multiplied, and my sins
abound, and I fall before my adversaries,
and my enemy rejoice over me ?

4 O Lord, father, and God of my life,
leave me not to their devices.

6 Give me not haughtiness of my eyes,
and turn away from me all coveting.

6 Take from me tne greediness of the
belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh
take hold of me, and give me not over to
& shameless and foolish mind.

7 Hear, O ye children, the discipline of
the mouth . and he that will keep it shall
not perish by his lips, nor be brought to
fall into most wicked works.

8 A sinner is caught in his own vanity,
and the proud and the evil speakers shall
fall thereby

9 ^ Let not thy mouth be accustomed to
swearing for in it there are many falls.

10 And let not the naming of God be
usual in thy mouth, and meddle not with

t Ps. 140. 3. — M Ex. 20 7 ; Matt 5. 33.

Chap. 23. Ver l. By them, viz,, the tongue and
the lips, mentioned in the last verse of the foregoing
chapter.

Ver. 2. Thaz they spare me not in their ignoraticea,

the names of eaints, for thou shalt not
escape free from them.

11 For a£ a slave daily put to the ques-
tion, is never without a blue mark: so
every one that sweareth, and nameth,
shall not be wholly pure from sin.

12 A man that sweareth much, shall be
filled with iniquity, and a scourge shall
not depart from his house.

13 And if he make it void, his sin shall
be upon him : and if he dissemble it, he
offendeth double :

14 And if he swear in vain, he shall not
be justified : for his house shall be filled
with his punishment.

16 There is also another speech opposite
to death, let it not be found in the inher-
itance of Jacob

16 For from the merciful all these things
shall be taken away, and they shall not
wallow in sins.

17 Let not thy mouth be accustomed to
indiscreet speech ; for therein is the word
of sin.

18 Remember thy father and thy mo-
ther, for thousittest in the midst of great
men:

19 Iiost God forget thee in their sight,
and thou, by thy daily custom, be infatu-
ated and suffer reproach : and wish that
thou hadst not been born, and curse the
day of thy nativity.

20 * The man that is accustomed to op-
probrious words, will never be corrected
all the days of his life.

21 Two sorts of men multiply sins, and
the third bringeth wrath and destruc-
tion.

22 A hot soul is a burning fire, it will
never be quenched, till it devour some
thing,

23 And a man that is wicked in the
mouth of his flesh, will not leave off till
he hath kindled a fire.

24 To a man that is a fornicator all
bread is sweet, he will not be weary ol
sinning unto the end.

26 Every man that passeth beyond nis
own bed, despising his own soul, and
saying: ^ Who seeth me ?

26 Darkness compasseth me about, and
the walls cover me, and no man seeth me .

V 2 Kings 16. 7 — w Isa. 29. 15.

&c That is. that the scourges and disciphne of wis-
dom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips
and oSences which are usually committed bjr tin
tongue ^nd the lips.

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God sees the sinner

ECCLESIASTICUS

Wisdom praises herselj

whom dc I tear- V tke most High will not
remember mj' sins.

27 And h€ onderstandeth not that his
eye seetb alJ things, for such a man's fear
clriveth from him the fear of God, and
the eyes ot men fearing him:

2b iind he knoweth not that the eyes of
the Lord are fat brighter than the sun.
beholding round about all the ways of
men, and the bottom of the deep, and
looking into the hearts of men , into the
most hidden parts.

29 For all things were known to the
Lord God, before they were created : so
also after they were perfected he behold-
eth all things.

30 This man shall be punished in the
streets of the city, and he shall be chased
ae a colt and where he suspcted not,
he shall be taken.

31 And he shall be in disgrace with all
men, because he understood not the fear
of the Lord.

32 ^ So every woman also that leaveth
her husband, and bringeth in an heir by
another •

33 For first she hath been unfaithful to
the law of the most High : and secondly,
she hath offended against her husband ;
thirdly^ she hath fornicated in adultery,
and hath gotten her children of another
man.

34 This woman shall be brought into
the assembly, and inquisition shall be
made of her childreuc

35 Her children shall not take root, and
her branches shall bring forth no fruit.

36 She shall leave her memory to be
cursed, and her infamy shall not be blotted
out.

37 And they that remain shall know,
that there is nothing better than the fear
of God : and that there is notning sweeter
than to have regard to the command-
ments of the Lord

38 It IS great glory to follow the Lord :
for length of days shaJl be received from
him.

CHAPTER 24.

Wisdom, prarsetn herself her origin^ her dwelling^

her dignity, and her fruits.

WISDOM shall praise hei own self,
and shall be honoured in God, and
shall glory in the midst of her people,
2 And shall open her mouth in the

churches of the most High, and shall
glorify herself in the sight of hie power,

3 And in the midst of her own people
she shall be exalted, and shall be ad-
mired in the holy assembly.

4 And in the multitude of the elect she
shall have praise, and among the blessed
she shall be blessed, saying :

5 I came out «f the mouth of the most
High, the firstborn before all creatures :

6 I made that in the heavens there
should rise light that never faileth, and
as a cloud I covered all the earth '■

7 I dwelt in the highest places, and my
throne is in a pillar of a cloud.

8 I alone have compassed the circuit Oi
heaven, and have penetrated into the
bottom of the deep, and have walked in
the waves of the sea,

9 And have stood in all the earth : and
in every people,

10 And in every nation I have had the
chief rule :

11 And by my power I have trodden
under my feet the hearts of all the high
and low: and in all these I sought rest, and
I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lordc

12 Then the creator of all things com-
manded, and said to me: and he that
made me, rested in my tabernacle,

13 And he said to me: Let thy dwelling
be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel,
and take root in my elect.

14 y Prom the beginning» and before the
world, was I created, and unto the world
to come I shall not cease to be, and in
the holy dwelling place I have ministered
before him.

15 And so was I established in Sion, and
in the holy city likewise I rested, and my
power was in Jerusalem.

16 And I took root in an honourable
people, and in the portion of my God hit
inheritance, and my abode is in thr full
assembly of saints.

17 1 was exalted like a cedar in Libanus.
and as a cypress tree on mount Sion,

18 I was exalted like a palm tree ID
Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho

19 As a fair ohve tree in the plains, and
as a plane tree by the water in the streets,
was I exalted.

20 I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon
and aromatical balm : 1 yielded a pweet
odour like the best myrrh :

r Lev 20. 10 Deut 2? n

V Prov 8. 22

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The fruits of vnsdom

21 And T perfumed my dwelling as
(jtorax, and galbanum, and onyx, and
aloes, and as the frankincense not cut,
and my odour is as the purest balm.

22 I have stretched out my branches as
the turpentine tree, and my branches are
of honour and grace.

23 As the vine I have brought forth a
pleasant odour: and my flowers are the
fruit of honour and riches.

24 I am the mother of fair love, and
of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy
hope.

25 In me is all grace of the way and of
the truth, in me is all hope of life and of
virtue.

26 Come over to me, all ye that desire
me, and be filled with my fruits.

27 For my spirit is sweet above honey,
and my inheritance above honey and the
honeycomb.

28 My memory is unto everlasting gen-
erations.

29 ® They that eat me, shall yet hunger :
and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

30 He that hearkeneth to me, shall not
be confounded : and they that work by
me, shall not sin.

31 They that explain me shall have hfe
everlasting.

32 All these things are the book of life,
and the covenant of the most High, and
the knowledge of truth.

33 Moses commanded a law in the pre-
cepts of justices, and an inheritance to
the house of Jacob, and the promises to
Israel.

34 He appointed to David his servant
to raise up of him a most mighty king,
and sitting on the throne of glory for
ever.

35 * Who filleth up wisdom as the Phi-
eon, and as the Tigris in the days of the
new fruits.

36 Who maketh understanding to abound
as the Euphrates, ^ who mnltiplieth it as
the Jordan in the time of harvest.

37 Who sendeth knowledge as the light,
and riseth up as Gehon in the time ot the
vintage.

33 Who first hath perfect knowledge of
her, and a weaker shall not search her
out.

« John g. 35. — g Gen. 2. ll.

Ohap. 24. Ver. 34. A most Tnighty kimj^ viz.,
Christ, who by his prospel, like an overflowing river,
las enriched the earth with heavenly wisdom.

ECCLESIASTICUS

Old age

39 Fov her thoughts are more vas*"- than
the sea, and her counsels more deep than
the great ocean.

40 I, wisdom, have poured out rivers.

41 I, like a brook out of a river of a
mighty water ; I, like a channel of a river^
and like an aqueduct, came out of para*
dise.

42 I said: I will water my garden of
plants, and I will water abundantly the
fruits of my meadow.

43 And behold my brook became a great
river, and my river came near to a sea ;

44 For I make doctrine to shine forth to
aU as the morning light, and I will declare
it afar off.

46 I will penetrate to all the lower parts
of the earth, and will behold all that
sleep, and will enhghten all that hope in
the Lord.

46 I will yet pour out doctrine as pro-
phecy, and will leave it to them that seek
wisdom, and will not cease to instruct
their offspring even to the holy age.

47 ^' See ye that I have not laboured for
myself only, but for all that seek out the
truth.

CHAPTER 25.

Documents of wisdom, cm several subjects.

WITH three things my spirit is
pleased, which are approved be-
fore God and men:

2 The concord of brethren, and the love
of neighbours, and man and wife that
agree well together.

3 Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am
greatly grieved at their life :

4 A poor man that is proud : a rich man
that is a liar : an old man that is a fool,
and doting.

6 The things that thou hast not gath-
ered in thy youth, how shalt thou find
them in thy old age ?

6 O how comely is judgment for a grey
head, and for ancients to know counsel I

7 O how comely is wisdom for the aged,
and understanding and counsel to men
of honour !

8 Much experience is the crown of old
men, and the fear of God is their glory.

9 Nine things that are not to be ima-
gined by the heart have I magnified, and

6 Jos 3. 15. — 0 Infra 33. 18.

Ver. 38. Who first hath perfect knowledqe of her,
Christ was the first that ^d perfect knowledge ot
heavenly wisdom.

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The fear of God, anger

ECCLESIASTICUS

Good and had women

the tenth I will utfcer to men with my
tongue.

10 A man that hath joy of his children:
and he that liveth and seeth the fall of
his enemies.

11 ^Blessed is he that dwelleth with a
wise woman, ^ and that hath not slipped
with his tongue, and that hath not served
such as are unworthy of him.

12 Blessed is he that findeth a true
friend, and that declareth justice to an
ear that heareth.

13 How great is he that findeth wisdom
and knowledge ! but there is none above
him that feareth the Lord.

14 The fear of God hath set itself above
all things :

15 Blessed is the man, to whom it is
given to have the fear of God: he that
holdeth it, to whom shall he be likened?

16 The fear of God is the beginning of
his love : and the beginning of faith is to
be fast joined unto it.

17 The sadness of the heart is every
plague : and the wickedness of a woman
is all evil.

18 And a man will choose any plague,
but the plague of the heart :

19 And any wickedness, but the wicked-
ness of a woman :

20 And any affliction, but the affliction
from them that hate him :

21 And any revenge, but the revenge
of enemies.

22 There is no head worse than the head
of a serpent :

23 And there is no anger above the
mger of a woman. •'^It will be more
Agreeable to abide with a lion and a dra-
gon, than to dwell with a wicked woman.

24 The wickedness of a woman changeth
her face : and she darkeneth her counte-
nance as a bear: and sheweth it like
sackcloth. In the midst of her neigh-
bours,

25 Her husband groaned, and hearing
he sighed a little.

26 All malice is short to the malice of a
woman, let the lot of sinners fall upon
her.

27 As the climbing of a sandy way is to
the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of
tongue to a quiet man.

28 Look not upon a woman's beauty,
and desire not a woman for beauty.

29 i' A woman's anger, and impudence,
and confusion is great.

30 A woman, if she have superiority, is
contrary to her husband.

31 A wicked woman abate th the cour-
age, and maketh a heavy countenance,
and a wounded heart.

32 Feeble hands, and disjointed knees, a
woman that doth not make her husband
happy.

33^ From the woman came the begin-
ning of sin, and by her we all die.

34 Give no issue to thy water, no, not
a little : nor to a wicked woman liberty
to gad abroad.

35 If she walk not at thy hand, she
will confound thee in the sight of thy
enemies.

36 Cut her off from thy flesh, lest she
always abuse thee.

CHAPTER 26.

Of good and bad women,

HAPPY is the husband of a good wife :
for the number of his years is double.

2 A virtuous woman rejoiceth her hus-
band, and shall fulfil the years of his life
in peace.

3 A good wife is a good portion, she
shall be given in the portion of them that
fear God, to a man for his good deeds.

4 Rich or poor, if his heart is good, his
countenance shall be cheerful at all times.

6 Of three things my heart hath been
afraid, and at the fourth my face hath
trembled :

6 The accusation of a city, and the gath-
ering together of the people :

7 And a false calumny, all are more
grievous than death.

8 A jealous woman is the grief and
mourning of the heart. |

9 With a jealous woman is a scourge of
the tongue which communicateth with
all.

10 As a yoke of oxen that is moved to
and fro, so also is a wicked woman : he
that hath hold of her, is as he that taketl:
hold of a scorpion.

11 A drunken woman is a great wrath
and her reproach and shame shall not b(
hid.

12 The fornication of a woman shall b<
known by the haughtiness of her eye£
and by her eyelids.

4 Infra 26. 1.—« Supra 14. 1. aod id. 16 ; James 3. 2.

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/Prov. 21. 19.—^ Infra 42. &—* Gen- 3. 6

A good wife

ECCLESIASTICUS

Evil speech

la ^ On a Janght^ that tnmetb not
iway herself, set a S-iict watch : lest
finding an opportunity she abuse herself.

14 Take heed of the impudence of her
eyes, and wonder not if she slight thee.

15 She will open her mouth as a thirsty
traveller to the fountain, and will drink
of every water near her. and will sit
down by every hedge, and open her
quiver against every arrow, until she faiL

16 The grace of a diligent woman shall de-
light her husband, and shall fat his bones.

17 Her discipline is the gift of God.

18 Such is a wise and silent woman, and
there is nothing so much worth as a well
Instructed soul.

19 A holy and shamefaced woman is
grace upon grace.

20 And no price is worthy o? a continent
louL

21 As the sun when it risetb to the world
In the high places ol God, so is the beauty
of a good wife for the ornament of her
house.

22 As the lamp shining upon tba boly
candlestick, so is the beauty of tha face
in a ripe age»

23 As golden pillars upon bases of silver,
80 are the firm feet upon Che soles of a
«teady woman.

24 As everlasting foundations upon a
solid rock, so the commandments ol God
In the heart of a holy won^an.

25 At two things my heart is grieved,
and the third bringeth anger upon me .

26 A man of war fainting through pov-
erty* and a man of sense despised:

27 And he that passe th over from justice
to sin, God hath prepared such an one for
Che sword.

23 Two sorts of callings have appeared
to me hard and dangerous ; a merchant
is hardly free from negligence : and a
huckster shall not ise justified firom the
tins of the lips.

CHAPTER 27.

Dangers of sin from, several heads the fear of 9od
is the best preservative. He that diggetfi a fytJt,
shall fall into it.

THROUGH poverty many have sinnad ,
and he that seeketh to be enriched,
turneth away his eye.

^ i Infra 42. U.

Chap. 26. Ver. 28 From negligence. That is,
from the neglect of the service of God : becaase the

eager pursuit of the mammon of this world, is apt . „

toinake men of that calling forget the great duties | accessary to the siDS o« others.
"* ^vTiQ^ God above all thioes. and tijeir neighbours I

9 As a stake stic^setub fast in. zhQ midst oi
the loining of stones, so also in the midst
of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.

3 Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner

4 Unless thou hold thyself diligently in
the fear of ihe Lord, thy house shall
quickly be overthrown,

6 As when one sifteth with a sieve, tha
dust will remain : so will the perplexity
of a man in his thoughts.

6 The furnace trieth the potter^s vessels,
and the oriai of affliction just men,

? As Che dressing of a tree sbeweth the
fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought
of the heart of man.

8 Praise not a man before he speaketh,
for this is the trial of men.

9 If thou foUowest justice, thou shall
obtain her* and shalt put heron as a long
robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell
with her : and she shall protect thee for
ever, and in the day of acknowledgment
thou Shalt find a strong foundation.

10 Birds resort unto their like i so trutb
will return to them that practise her.

11 The lion always lieth in wait tot
prey: so do sins tor them that ^ork
Iniquities»

12 A holy man continueth in wisdom as
the sun : but a fool ia changed a£ tba
moon.

13 In the midst of the unwise keep in
the word till its time: bu*? be contin^ially
among men that think,

ll The discourse of sinners is hateful,
and their laughter is at the pleasures of
sin.

15 The speech that sweareth much shall
make the hair of the aead stand upright :
and Its irreverence shall make one stop
his ears.

16 In the quarrela of the proud is the
shedding of blood : and their eursing is a
grievous heariag,

17 He that discloseth the secret of a
friend ioseth his credit, and shall never
find a friend to his mindc

13 Love thy neighbour, and be joined
to him with tideUty.

19 But if thou discover his secrets,
follow no more after him.

20 For as a man that destroyeth his

as themselves. — Ibid. A huckster, or, a retailer ol
wine. Men of that profession are both greatly ex-
posed to danger of sin themselves, and are too oft«»ii

«t

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Evil returns to the doer ECCLESIASTICUS Revenge and quarreling

friend, so also is he that destroyeth the
friendship of his neighbour.

21 And as one that letteth a bird go out
of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour
go, and thou shalt not get him again.

22 Follow after him no more, for he is
gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped
out of the snare: because his soul is
wounded,

23 Thou canst no more bind him up.
And of a curse there is reconciliation :

24 But to disclose the secrets of a friend,
leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul.

25 He that winketh with the eye f orgeth
wicked things, and no man will cast him
off:

26 In the sight of thy eyes he will
sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy
words : but at the last he will writhe his
mouth, and on thy words he will lay a
stumblingblock.

27 I have hated many things, but not
like him, and the Lord will hate him.

28 If one cast a stone on high, it will
fall upon his own head: and the deceit-
ful stroke will wound the deceitful.

29 He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into
it: and he that setteth a stone for his
neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he
that layeth a snare for another, shall
perish in it.

30 A mischievous counsel shall be rolled
back upon the author, and he shall not
know from whence it cometh to him.

31 Mockery and reproach are of the
proud, and vengeance as a lion shall lie
in wait for him.

32 They shall perish in a snare that are
delighted with the fall of the just: and
sorrow shall consume them before they
die.

33 Anger and fury are both of them
abominable, and the sinful man shall be
subject to them.

CHAPTER 28.

Le$$oiM against revenge and quarrels. The evils of
the tongue.

HE ithat seeketh to revenge himself,
shall find vengeance from the Lord,
and he will surely keep his sins in re-
membrance.

3 Duet. 32. 35; Matt. 6. 14.

Chap. 27. Ver. 23. And of a curse there is recon-
ciliation. That is, it is easier to obtain a reconcilia-
tion after a curse than after disclosing a secret.

Chap. 28. Ver. 7. In his commandments. Sup-

2 Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt
thee : and then shall thy sins be forgiven
to thee when thou prayest.

3 Man to man reserveth anger, and doth
he seek remedy of God?

4 He hath no mercy on a man like him-
self, and doth he entreat for his owri
sins?

5 He that is but flesh, nourisheth anger,
and doth he ask forgiveness of God? who
shall obtain pardon for his sins?

6 Remember thy last things, and let
enmity cease:

7 For corruption and death hang over
in his commandments.

8 Remember the fear of God, and be not
angry with thy neighbour.

9 Remember the covenant of the most
High, and overlook the ignorance of thy
neighbour.

10 Refrain from strife, and thou shalt
diminish thy sins:

11 For a passionate man kindleth strife,
and a sinful man will trouble his friends,
and bring in debate in the midst of them
that are at peace.

12 For as the wood of the forest is, so
the fire burneth : and as a man's strength
is, so shall his anger be, and according to
his riches he shall increase his anger.

13 A hasty contention kindleth a fire
and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and
a tongue that beareth witness bringeth
death.

14 If thou blow the spark, it shall bum
as a fire : and if thou spit upon it, it shall
be quenched: both come out of the
mouth.

15 The whisperer and the double tonguedj
is accursed: for he hath- troubled many|
that were at peace.

16 The tongue of a third person hath dis-,
quieted many, and scattered them from!
nation to nation.

17 It hath destroyed the strong cities of,
the rich, and hath overthrown the housesj
of great men.

18 It hath cut in pieces the forces of!
people, and undone strong nations.

19 The tongue of a third person hath
cast out valiant women, and deprivec
them of their labours.

Mark 11. 25; Rom. 12. 19.

ply the sentence out of the Greek thus : Remembei
corruption and death, and abide in the Command
ments.

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ECCLESlASflCTJS

20 He that hearkeneth to it, shall never
have rest, neither shall he have a friend
Sn whom he may repose.

21 The stroke of a whip maketh a blue
mark: but the stroke of the tongue will
break the bones.

22 Many have fallen by the edge of the
sword but not so many as have perished
by their own tongue.

23 Blessed is he that is defended from a
-wicked tongue, that hath not passed into
the wrath thereof, and that hath not
-drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not
"been bound in its bands.

* 24 For its yoke is a yoke of iron : and
its bands are bands of brass.

25 The death thereof is a most evil
death: and hell is preferable to it.

26 Its continuance shall not be for along
time, but it shall possess the ways of the
Tinjust: and the just shall not be burnt
with its flame.

27 They that forsake God shall fall into
it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not
be quenched, and it shall be sent upon
them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall
tear them»

28 Hedge in thy ears with thorns, hear
not a wicked tongue, and make doors
and bars to thy mouth.

29 Melt down thy gold and silver, and
make a balance for thy words, and a just
bridle for thy mouth :

30 And take heed lest thou slip with thy
tongue, and fall in the sight of thy ene-
mies who lie in wait for thee, and thy fall
be incurable unto death,

CHAPTER 29.

Of charity in lending money, and justice in repay»
ing. Of alms ^ and of being surety.

HE that sheweth mercy, lendeth to his
neighbour : and he that is stronger
in hand, keepeth the commandments.

2 Lend to thy neighbour in the time of
his need, and pay thou thy neighbour
again in due time.

3 Keep thy word, and deal faithfully
with him: and thou, shalt always find
that which is necessary for thee.

4 Many have looked upon a thing lent
as a thing found, and have given trouble
to them that helped them.

5 Till they receive, they kiss the hands

Almsgiving

of the lender, and In promises they hum-
ble their voice :

6 But when they should repay, they will
ask time, and will return tedious and
murmuring words, and will complain of
the time :

7 And if he be able to pay, he will stand
off, he will scarce pay one half, and will
count it as if he had found it :

8 But if not, he will defraud him of Mb
money, and he shall get him for an enemy
without cause .

9 And he will pay him with reproaches
and curses, and instead of honour and
good turn will repay him injuries.

10 Many have refused to lend, not out
of wickedness, but they were afraid to be
defrauded without cause.

11 But yet towards the poor be thou
more hearty, and delay not to shew
him mercy.

12 Help the poor because of the com-
mandment: and send him not away
empty handed because of his poverty

13 Lose thy money for thy brother and
thy friend: and hide it pot under a ^tone
to be lost.

14 ^ Place thy treasxu-e in the command-
ments of the most High, and it shaU
bring thee more profit than gold.

15 Shut up alms in the heart of the
poor, and it shall obtain help for thee
against all evil.

16 Better than the shield of the mighty,
and better than the spear :

17 It shall fight for thee against thy
enemy.

18 A good man is surety for his neigh-
bour: and he that hath lost shame, will
leave him to himself.

19 Forget not the kindness of thy sure-
ty : for he hath given his life for thee

20 The sinner and the unclean fleetli
from his surety

21 A sinner attribute th to himself the
goods of his surety : and he that is of an
unthankful mind will leave him that de-
livered him.

22 A man is surety for his neighbour;
and when he hath lost all shame, he
shall forsake him.

23 Evil suretyship hath undone many of
good estate, and hath tossed them as a
wave of the sea.

k Tob. 4. 10 ; Supra 17. 18.

Chap 29. Ver. l» Jnd he that is stronger in hand. That is, he that is hearty and bouatUuJ to

lending to hli neighbour in his necessity.

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Better to fare at home

ECCLESIASTICUS

Correction of children

24 It hatb made powerfru men to go
from place to pJact roimd about, and
fchey have wandered in strange coun-
tries.

25 A sinner that transgressetb the com-
mandment ot the Lord, shall fall into an
evil suretyship and he that undertaketb
many things, shall faD into judgment

26 Recovei thy neighbour according to
thy power, and take heed to thyeeW that
thou fal? note

27 The chief thing tor mao'e life is wa-
ter and bread, and clothing, and a house
to cover shame.

28 * Better is the poor man'g^ fare under
ft roof of boards, than sumptuouB cheer
abroad in another man*e house.

29 Be contented with little inE>tead of
much, and thou ehalt not bear the re-
proach of going abroad.

30 It is a miserable life to go a^ fi guest
from house to house • for where a man
is a stranger, he shall not deaJ conh
dently* nor open his mouth.

31 He shall entertain, and feed, and give
drink to the unthankful, and moreover
he shall hear bitter words,

32 Go, stranger, and furnish the table,
and give others to eat what thou hast In
thy hand.

33 Give place to the honourable pre-
sence of my friends s for 1 wani^: my
house, my brother being tc De lodged
with me.

34 These things arc grievouE to a man
of understanding: die upbraiding of
houseroom, and the r«p)H>actnng of the
lender

CHAPTER 30.

Of correction of children. Health U oettt» HMn
wealth Excessive grief is hurtSvL

HE ^ that loveth his son, frequently
chastiseth him, that he may rejoice
In his latter end, and not grope after the
doors of his neighbours.

2 He that instructeth his sor shaD be
praised in him, and shall glory ir him in
the midst of them of his household.

8 ** He that teacheth his son, maketh
his enemy jealous, and in the midst of
his friends he shal! glory in hinio

4 His father is dead, and he ie as if he
were not dead : for he hath left one be
hind him that ie like himself.

5 While he lived he saw and rejoiced

I Infra 39, 31. —m, Prov. IS. 24, and 23. 1»
n Deut 6 7.— cSupr* T 26.

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in him: and when he died he was not
sorrowful, neither was he confounded
before his enemies.

6 For he left behind him a defender of
hie house against his enemies, and one
that will requite kindness to his friends.

7 For the souls of his sons he shall bind
up his wounds, and at every cry his
bowels shalJ be troubled,

8 A horse not broken becometh stub-
born, and a child left to himself will be-
come headstrong,

9 Give thy son his way, and he shall
make thee afraid: play with him, and he
shaU mako thee sorrowfuL

30 Laugh not with him, lest thou have
sorrow, and at the last thy teeth be set
on edge.

11 Give him not liberty in his youth,
and wink not at his devices.

12 **Bow down his neck while he is
young, and beat his sides while he is a
child, lest he grow stubborn, and regard
thee not, and eo be a sorrow of heart to
thee.

13 Instruct thy son, and labour about
him, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence
to thee.

14 Better is a poor man who is sound,
and strong of constitution, than a rich
man who ie weak and afflicted with evils.

15 Health o^ the sou! in holiness of jus-
tice, is better than aE gold and silver:
and a sound body, f3han immense reve-
nues.

16 There is no richec above the riches
of the health of the body: and there is
no pleasure above the joy of the heart.

17 Better is death than a bitter life?
and everlasting rest, than continual sick*
ness.

18 Good things that are hidden in ft
mouth that is shut, are as messes of
meat set about a grave.

19 ^ What good shall an offering do to
an idojf for it can neither eat, nor
smell;

20 So is he that is persecuted by the
Lord bearing the reward of his iniquity:

2i ? He seeth with his eyes, and groan-
eth. ae an eunuch embracing a virgin,
and sighing.

22 *"Give not up thy soul to sadness,
and afflict not thyself in thy own coun-
seL ^^^^^^^

p Dan. 14. 6. — y tSupra 20. 2
r Prov 12. % and 16 13. and W» 9

Desire of riches

ECCLESIASTICUS

Temperance

23 The joyfulness of the heart, is the
life of a man, and a never failing trea-
sure of holiness; and the joy of a man is
length of life.

24 Have pity on thy ov^n soul, pleasing
God, and contain thyself: gather up thy
heart in his holiness: and drive away
sadness far from thee.

25 « For sadness hath killed many, and
there is no profit in it.

26 Envy and anger shorten a man's
days, and pensiveness will bring old age
before the time.

27 A cheerful and good heart is always
feasting: for his banquets are prepared
with diligence.

CHAPTER 31.

Of the desire of riches, and of moderation in eat-
ing and drinking.

WATCHING for riches consumeth the
flesh, and the thought thereof driv-
eth away sleep.

2 The thinking before hand tumeth away
the understanding, and a grievous sick-
ness maketh the soul sober.

3 The rich man hath laboured in gather-
ing riches together, and when he resteth
he shall be filled with his goods.

4 The poor man hath laboured in his
low way of life, and in the end he is still
poor.

5 He that loveth gold, shall not be justi-
fied: and he that followeth after corrup-
tion, shall be filled with it.

6 * Many have been brought to fall for
gold, and the beauty thereof hath been
their ruin.

7 Gold is a stumbling block to them that
sacrifice to it: woe to them that eagerly
follow after it, and every fool shall perish
by it.

8 Blessed is the rich man that is found
without blemish : and that hath not gone
after gold, nor put his trust in money nor
in treasures.

9 Who is he, and we vdll praise him?
for he hath done wonderful things in his
life.

10 Who hath been tried thereby, and
made perfect, he shall have glory ever-
lasting. He that could have transgressed,
and hath not transgressed : and could do
evil things, and hath not done them:

11 Therefore are his goods established

* 2 Cor. 7. 10. — t Supra 8. 3.

in the Lord, and all the church of the
saints shall declare his alms.

12 Art thou set at a great table? be not
the first to open thy mouth upon it.

13 Say not: There are many things
which are upon it.

14 Remember that a wicked eye is evil.

15 What is created more wicked than an
eye? therefore shall it weep over all the
face when it shall see.

16 Stretch not out thy hand first, lest
being disgraced with envy thou be put to
confusion.

17 Be not hasty in a feast.

18 Judge of the disposition of thy neigh-
bour by thyself.

19 Use as a frugal man the things that
are set before thee: lest if thou eatest
much, thou be hated.

20 Leave off first, for manners' sake:
and exceed not, lest thou offend.

21 And if thou sittest among many,
reach not thy hand out first of all: and
be not the first to ask for drink.

22 How sufficient is a little wine for a
man well taught, and in sleeping thou
shalt not be uneasy with it, and thou
shalt feel no pain.

23 Watching, and choler, and gripes,
are with an intemperate man:

24 Sound and wholesome sleep with a
moderate man: he shall sleep till morn-
ing, and his soul shall be delighted with
him.

25 And if thou hast been forced to eat
much, arise, go out, and vomit: and it
shall refresh thee, and thou shalt not
bring sickness upon thy body.

26 Hear me, my son, and despise me
not: and in the end thou shalt find my
words.

27 In all thy works be quick, and no in-
firmity shall come to thee.

28 The lips of many shall bless him that
is liberal of his bread, and the testimony
of his truth is faithful.

29 Against him that is niggardly of his
bread, the city will murmur, and the tes-
timony of his niggardliness is true.

30 Challenge not them that love wine : «
for wine hath destroyed very many.

31 Fire trieth hard iron: so wine drunk
to excess shall rebuke the hearts of the
proud.

32 Wine taken with sobriety is equal life

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tt Judith 13. 4.

Drunkenness

ECCLESIASTICUS Fear of God, and counsel

to men : if thou drink it moderately, thou
Shalt be sober.

33 What is his life, who is diminished
with wine ?

34 What taketh away life ? death.

35 "" Wine was created from the begin-
ning to make men joyful, and not to
make them drunk.

36 Wine drunken with moderation is the
joy of the soul and the heart.

37 Sober drinking is health to soul and
body.

38 Wine drunken with excess raise th
quarrels, and wrath, and many ruins.

39 Wine drunken with excess is bitter-
ness of the soul.

40 The heat of drunkenness is the stum-
blingblock of the fool, lessening strength
and causing wounds.

41 Rebuke not thy neighbour in a ban-
quet of wine : and despise him not in his
mirth.

42 Speak not to him words of reproach:
and press him not in demanding again.

CHAPTER 32.

Lessons for superiors and inferiors. Advantages
of fearing God, and doing nothing without coun-
sel.

HAVE they made thee ruler ? be not
lifted up : be among them as one of
them.

2 Have care of them, and so sit down,
and when thou hast acquitted thyself of
all thy charge, take thy place :

3 That thou mayst rejoice for them,
and receive a crown as an ornament of
grace, and get the honour of the contri-
bution.

4 Speak, thou that art elder : for it be-
eometh thee,

5 To speak the first word with careful
knowledge, and hinder not music.

6 Where there is no hearing, pour not
out words, and be not lifted up out of
season with thy wisdom.

7 A concert of music in a banquet of
Wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.

8 As a signet of an emerald in a work of
gold: so is the melody of music with
pleasant and moderate wine.

9 Hear in silence, and for thy reverence
good grace shall come to thee.

10 Young man, scarcely speak in thy
own cause.

vPs. 103. 15; Prov. 31.4.

11 If thou be asked twice, let thy an-
swer be short.

12 In many things be as if thou wert
ignorant, and hear in silence and withal
seeking.

13 In the company of great men take
not upon thee: and when the ancients
are present, speak not much.

14 Before a storm goeth lightning : and
before shamefacedness goeth favour : and
for thy reverence good grace shall come
to thee.

15 And at the time of rising be not
slack: but be first to run home to thy
house, and there withdraw thyself, and
there take thy pastime.

16 And do what thou hast a mind, but
not in sin or proud speech.

17 And for aU these things bless the
Lord, that made thee, and that replenish-
eth thee with all his good things.

18 He that fear eth the Lord, will re-
ceive his discipline : and they that will
seek him early, shall find a blessing.

19 He that seeketh the law, shall be
filled with it : and he that dealeth deceit-
fully, shall meet with a stumblingblock
therein.

20 They that fear the Lord, shall find
just judgment, and shall kindle justice as
a light.

21 A sinful man will flee reproof, and
will find an excuse according to his wilL

22 A man of counsel will not neglect
understanding, a strange and proud man
will not dread fear :

23 Even after he hath done with feai
without counsel, he shall be controllec
by the things of his own seeking.

24 My son, do thou nothing withouj
counsel, and thou shalt not repent whei
thou hast done.

25 Go not in the way of ruin, and thoi|
shalt not stumble against the stones |
trust not thyself to a rugged way, lee,
thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul. |

26 And beware of thy own childrer;
and take heed of them of thy househok

27 In every work of thine regard th
soul in faith: for this is the keeping c
the commandments.

28 He that believeth God, taketh heed t
the commandments : and he that trustet
in him, shall fare never the worse.

C^AP. 32. Ver. 27. In faith. That is, follow sincerely thy soul in her faith and conscience.

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Times and men

ECCLESIASTICUS Care of oneself and one's slaves

CHAPTER 33.

The /ear of God is the best security. Times and
men are in the hands of God. Take care of thy-
self as long as thou livest, and look to thy servants.

NO evils shall happen to him that
feareth the Lord, but in temptation
God will keep him, and dehver him from
evils.

2 A wise man hateth not the command-
ments and justices, and he shall not be
dashed in pieces as a ship in a storm.

3 A man of understanding is faithful to
the law of God, and the law is faithful to
him.

4 He that cleareth up a question, shall
prepare what to say, and so having
prayed he shall be heard, and shall keep
discipline, and then he shall answer.

6 ^ The heart of a fool is as a wheel of
a cart : and his thoughts are like a roll-
ing axletree.

6 A friend that is a mocker, is like a
stallion horse : he neigheth under every
one that sitteth upon him.

7 Why doth one day excel another, and
one Ught another, and one year another
year, when all come of the sun ?

8 By the knowledge of the Lord they
were distinguished, the sun b^ing made,
and keeping his commandment.

9 And he ordered the seasons, and holi-
days of them, and in them they cele-
brated festivals at an hour.

; 10 Some of them God made high and
^^eat days, and some of them he put in
the number of ordinary days. And all
men are from the ground, * and out of the
barth, from whence Adam was created.

11 With much knowledge the Lord hath
livided them and diversified their ways.

12 Some of them hath he blessed, and
exalted : and some of them hath he
ianctifled, and set near himself: and
iome of them hath he cursed and brought
ow, and turned them from their station.

13 ^ As the potter's clay is in his hand,
0 faohion and order it :

14 All his ways are according to his
•rdering : so man is in the hand of him
hat made him, and he will render to him
ccording to his judgment.

15 Good is set against evil, and life
gainst death : so also is the sinner against

just man. And so look upon all the

w Supra 21. 17. — X Gen. 2. 7< - y Rom. 9. 21.

Chap. 33. Ver 2L Change thee.
) nave tMs power over thee.

works of the most High. Two and two,
and one against another.

16 And I awaked last of all, and as one
that gathereth after the grapegatherers.

17 In the blessing of God I also have
hoped : and as one that gathereth grapes»
have I filled the winepress.

18 ^ See that I have not laboured for my-
self only, but for all that seek disciphne.

19 Hear me, ye great men, and all ye
people, and hearken with your ears, ye
rulers of the church.

20 Give not to son or wife, brother or
friend, power over thee while thou livest ;
and give not thy estate to another, lest
thou repent, and thou entreat for the
same.

21 As long as thou livest, and hast
breath in thee, let no man change thee.

22 For it is better that thy children
should ask of thee, than that thou look
toward the hands of thy children.

23 In all thy works keep the pre-emi-
nence.

24 Let no stain sully thy glory. In the
time when thou shalt end the days of thy
Ufe, and in the time of thy decease, dis-
tribute thy inheritance,

25 Fodder, and a wand, and a burden
are for an ass; bread, and correction, and
work for a slave.

26 He worketh under correction, and
seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle,
and he seeketh liberty.

27 The yoke and the thong bend a sti^
neck, and continual labours bow a slave.

28 Torture and fetters are for a. mali-
cious slave : send him to work, that he
be not idle :

29 For idleness hath taught much evil.

30 Set him to work : for so it is fit for
him. And if he be not obedient, bring
him down with fetters, but be not exces-
sive towards any one : and do no griev-
ous thing without judgment.

31 " If thou have a faithful servant, let
him be to thee as thy own soul: treat
him as a brother : because in the blood
of thy soul thou hast gotten him.

32 If thou hurt him unjustly, he will
run away :

33 And if he rise up and depart, thou
knowest not whom to ask, and In what
way to seek him.

2 Supra 24. 47. — a Supra 7. 23.

That is, so as Ver. 23. The pre-eminence. That is. be master iir
thy own house, and part not with thy authority^

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The vanity of dreams

CHAPTER 34.

The vanity of dreams. The advantage of expert-
ence, and of the fear of God.

rPHE hopes of a man that is void of
JL understanding are vain and deceit-
ful : and dreams lift up fools.

2 The man that giveth heed to lying
visions, is like to him that catcheth at a
shadow, and followeth after the wind.

3 The vision of dreams is the resem-
blance of one thing to another : as when a
man's likeness is before the face of a man.

4 What can be made clean by the un-
clean? and what truth can come from
that which is false?

5 Deceitful divinations and lying omens
and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity :

6 And the heart fancieth as that of a
woman in travail : except it be a vision
sent forth from the most High, set not
thy heart upon them.

7 For dreams have deceived many, and
they have failed that put their trust in
them.

8 The word of the law shall be fulfilled
without a lie, and wisdom shall be made
plain in the mouth of the faithful.

9 What doth he know, that hath not
been tried ? A man that hath much ex-
perience, shall think of many things:
and he that hath learned many things,
shall shew forth understanding.

10 He that hath no experience, knoweth
little: and he that hath been experienced
in many things, multiplieth prudence.

11 He that hath not been tried, what
manner of things doth he know ? he that
hath been surprised, shall abound with
subtlety.

12 I have seen many things by travel-
ling, and many customs of things.

13 Sometimes I have been in danger of
death for these things, and I have been
delivered by the grace of God.

14 The spirit of those that fear God, is
sought after, and by his regard shall be
blessed.

15 For their hope is on him that saveth
them, and the eyes of God are upon them
that love him.

16 He that feareth the Lord shall trem-
ble at nothing, and shall not be afraid :
for he is his hope.

17 The soul of him that feareth the Lord
is blessed.

ECCLESIASTICUS

Defrauding the laborer

b Ps. 33. 16. — c Prov. 21. 27.
d Prov. l& 1&

18 To whom doth he look, and who is
his strength ?

19 * The eyes of the Lord are upon them
that fear him, he is their powerful pro-
tector, and strong stay, a defence from
the heat, and a cover from the sun at
noon,

20 A preservation from stumbling, and
a help from falling ; he raiseth up the
soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giv-
eth health, and life, and blessing.

21 ^The offering of him that sacrifice th
of a thing wrongfully gotten, is stained,
and the mockeries of the unjust are not
acceptable.

22 The Lord is only for them that wait
upon him in the way of truth and jus-
tice.

23 d ipjjg most High appro veth not the
gifts of the wicked : neither hath he re-
spect to the oblations of the unjust, nor
will he be pacified for sins by the multi-
tude of their sacrifices.

24 He that offereth sacrifice of the
goods of the poor, is as one that sacrifi-
ceth the son in the presence of his father.

25 The bread of the needy, is the life
of the poor : he that defraudeth them
thereof, is'a man of blood.

26 He that taketh away the bread got-
ten by sweat, is like him that killeth his
neighbour.

27 He that sheddeth blood, * and he that
defraudeth the labourer of his hire, are
brothers.

28 When one buildeth up, and another
puUeth down : what profit have they but
the labour ?

29 When one prayeth, and another curs-
eth : whose voice will God hear?

30 He that washeth himself after touch-
ing the dead, if he toucheth him again,
what doth his washing avail?

31 -^ So a man that fasteth for his sins,
and doth the same again, what doth his
humbling himself profit him? who will
hear his prayer ?

CHAPTER 35.

What sacrifices are pleading to Ood.
E that keepeth the law, multiplieth
offerings.

2 ^ It is a wholesome sacrifice to take
heed to the commandments, and to de-
part from all iniquity.

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e DeuL 24. U; Supra 7. 22.-/2 Peter 2. 21.
g 1 Kings 15 22.

The sacrifices pleasing to God ECCLESIASTIC US A prayer for God's people

3 And to depart from injustice, is to of-
fer a propitiatory sacrifice for injustices,
and a begging of pardon for sins.

4 He shall return thanks, that offereth
fine flour: and he that doth mercy, offer-
eth sacrifice.

5 ^ To depart from iniquity is that
which pleaseth the Lord, and to depart
from injustice, is an entreaty for sins.

6 * Thou shalt not appear empty in the
Bight of the Lord.

7 For all these things are to be done
because of the commandment of God.

8 The oblation of the just maketh the
altar fat, and is an odour of sweetness in
the sight of the most High.

9 The sacrifice of the just is acceptable,
and the Lord will not forget the memo-
rial thereof.

10 Give glory to God with a good heart:
and diminish not the firstfruits of thy
bands.

11 -^ In every gift shew a cheerful coun-
tenance, and sanctify thy tithes with

joy.

12 Give to the most High according to
what he hath given to thee, and with a
good eye do according to the ability of
thy hands :

13 For the Lord maketh recompense,
and will give thee seven times as much.

14 ^ Do not offer wicked gifts, for such
he will not receive.

15 And look not upon an unjust sacri-
fice, for the Lord is judge, ' and there is
not with him respect of person.

16 The Lord will not accept any person
against a poor man, and he will hear the
prayer of him that is wronged.

17 He will not despise the prayeis of
the fatherless ; nor the widow, when she
poureth out her complaint.

18 Do not the widow's tears run down
the cheek, and her cry against him that
causeth them to fall ?

19 For from the cheek they go up even
to heaven, and the Lord that heareth
will not be delighted with them.

20 He that adoreth God with joy, shall
be accepted, and his prayer shall ap-
proach even to the clouds.

21 The prayer of him that humbleth
himself, shall pierce the clouds: and till
it come nigh he will not be comforted:

h Jer. 7. 3, and 26. 13.

i Ex. 23. 15, and 34. 20 ; Deut 16. 16.

1 2 Cor. a. 7 J Tob. 4. 9. — & Lev. 22. ill» Deut 16. 21.

and he will not depart till the most Hign
behold.

22 And the Lord will not be slack, but
will judge for the just, and will do judg-
ment: and the Almighty will not have
patience with them, that he may crush
their back:

23 And he will repay vengeance to the
Gentiles, till he have taken away the
multitude of the proud, and broken
the sceptres of the unjust,

24 Till he have rendered to men ac-
cording to their deeds: and according to
the works of Adam, and according to his
presumption,

25 Till he have judged the cause of his
people, and he shall delight the just with
his mercy.

26 The mercy of God is beautiful in the
time of affliction, as a cloud of rain in
the time of drought.

CHAPTER 36.

A prayer for the church of God. Of a good heart,
and a good fvife.

HAVE mercy upon us, O God of all,
and behold us, and shew us the
light of thy mercies:

2 And send thy fear upon the nations,
that have not sought after thee: that
they may know that there is no God be-
side thee, and that they may shew forth
thy wonders.

3 Lift up thy hand over the strange na-
tions, that they may see thy power.

4 For as thou hast been sanctified in us
in their sight, so thou shalt be magnified
among them in our presence,

5 That they may know thee, as we also
have known thee, that there is no God
beside thee, O Lord.

6 Renew thy signs, and work new mira-
cles.

7 Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm.

8 Raise up indignation, and pour out
wrath.

9 Take away the adversary, and crush
the enemy.

10 Hasten the time, and remember the
end, that they may declare thy wonder-
ful works.

11 Let him that escapeth be consumed
by the rage of the fire: and let them
perish that oppress thy people.

I Deut la 17; 2 Par. 19. 7; Job 34. 19 ; Wisd. 6. 8;

£om.2.U; 6aL2.6; CoL3.25; Acts 10.34;

1 f eter 1. 17,

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A prayer for God's people ECCLESIASTICUS

True and false friends

12 Crush the head of the princes of the
enemies that say: There is no other be-
side us.

13 Gather together all the tribes of Ja-
cob : that they may know that there is
no God besides thee, and may declare
thy great works: and thou shalt inherit
them as from the beginning.

14 Have mercy on thy people, upon
whom thy name is invoked: and upon
Israel, "* whom thou hast raised up to be
thy firstborn.

15 Have mercy on Jerusalem, the city
which thou hast sanctified, the city of
thy rest.

16 Fill Sion with thy unspeakable words,
and thy people with thy glory.

17 Give testimony to them that are thy
creatures from the beginning, and raise
up the prophecies which the former pro-
phets spoke in thy name.

18 Reward them that patiently wait for
thee, that thy prophets may be found
faithful: and hear the prayers of thy ser-
vants,

19 ^* According to the blessing of Aaron
over thy people, and direct us into the
way of justice, and let all know that
dwell upon the earth, that thou art God
the beholder of all ages.

20 The belly will devour all meat, yet
one is better the.n another.

21 The palate taste th venison and the
wise heart false speeches.

22 A perverse heart will cause grief,
and a man of experience will resist it.

23 A woman will receive every man:
yet one daughter is better than an-
other.

24 The beauty of a woman cheereth the
countenance of her husband, and a man
desireth nothing more.

25 If she have a tongue that can cure,
and likewise mitigate and shew mercy :
her husband is not like other men.

26 He that possesseth a good wife, be-
ginneth a possession: she is a help like
to himself, and a pillar of rest.

27 Where there is no hedge, the posses-
sion shall be spoiled : and where there is
no wife, he mourneth that is in want.

28 Who will trust him that hath no rest,
and that lodgeth wheresoever the night

m Ex. 4. 22.

taketh him, as a robber well appointed,
that skippeth from city to city.

CHAPTER 37.

O/ the choice of friends and counsellors.

EVERY friend will say : I also am his
friend : but there is a friend, that is
only a friend in name. Is not this a grief
even to death?

2 But a companion and a friend shall
be turned to an enemy,

3 O wicked presumption, whence earn-
est thou to cover the earth with thy
malice, and deceitfulness?

4 There is a companion who rejoiceth
with his friend in his joys, but in the
time of trouble, he will be against him.

5 There is a companion who condoleth
with his friend for his belly's sake, and
he will take up a shield against the
enemy.

6 Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and
be not unmindful of him in thy riches.

7 Consult not with him that layeth a
snare for thee, and hide thy counsel
from them that envy thee.

8 Every counsellor giveth out counsel,
but there is one that is a counsellor for
himself.

9 Beware of a counsellor. And know
before what need he hath: for he will
devise to his own mind :

10 Lest he thrust a stake into the
ground, and say to thee :

11 Thy way is good; and then stand on
the other side to see what shall befall
thee.

12 Treat not with a man without reli-
gion concerning holiness, nor with an
unjust man concerning justice, nor with
a woman touching her of whom she is
jealous, nor with a coward concerning
war, nor with a merchant about traflSic,
nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an
envious man of giving thanks,

13 Nor with the ungodly of piety, not
with the dishonest of honesty, nor with
the field labourer of every work,

14 Nor with him that worketh by the
year of the finishing of the year, nor
with an idle servant of much business;
give no heed to these in any matter of
counsel.

n Num. 6. 24.

Chap. 36. Ver. 23. A woman will receive every
man. That is, any man that her parents propose to
ber to marry, though she does not I) He him, but mar> I

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ries in obedieoce to tier pareaUi, who make the choice
for her.

The wise man

ECCLESIASTICUS

Conduct in sickness

16 But be continually with a holy man,
whomsoever thou shalt know to observe
the fear of God,

16 Whose soul is according to thy own
soul : and who, when thou shalt stumble
in the dark, will be sorry for thee.

17 And estabhsh within thyself a heart
of good counsel; for there is no other
tKing of more worth to thee than it.

18 The soul of a holy man disco vereth
sometimes true things, more than seven
watchmen that sit in a high place to
watch.

19 But above all these things pray to
the most High, that he may direct thy
way in truth.

20 In all thy works let the true word
go before thee, and steady counsel be-
fore every action.

21 A wicked word shall change the
hearc: out of which four manner of
things arise, good and evil, life and
death : and the tongue is continually the
ruler of them. There is a man that is
subtle and a teacher of many, and yet is
unprofitable to his own soul.

.''. A skilful man hath taught many,
and is sweet to his own soul.

23 He that speaketh sophistically, is
hateful: he shall be destitute of every
thing.

24 Grace is not given him from the
Lord: for he is deprived of all wisdom.

25 There is a wise man that is wise to
his own soul : and the fruit of his under-
standing is commendable.

26 A wise man instructeth his own peo-
ple, and the fruits of his understanding
are faithful.

27 A wise man shall be filled with bless-
ings, and they that see shall praise him.

28 The life of a man is in the number
of his days: but the days of Israel are
innumerable.

29 A wise man shall inherit honour
among his people, and his name shall
live for ever. 0,4 oi;

30 My son, prove thy soul in thy life:
and if it be wicked, give it no power :

3 For all things are not expedient for
all, and every kind pleaseth not every
BouL

i 32 Be not greedy in any feasting, and
pour not out thyself upon any meat:
33 For in many meats there will be

0 Ex, 16. 25.

sickness, and greediness will turn to
choler.

34 By surfeiting many have perished:
but he that is temperate, shall prolong
life.

CHAPTER 38.

Of physicians and ,nedicines : what is to be done
in sickness, and how we are to mourn for the
dead. Of the employments of labourers and
artificers.

HONOUR the physician for the need
thou hast of him: for the most
High hath created him.

2 For all healing is from God, and he
shall receive gifts of the king.

3 The skill of the physician shall lift up
his head, and in the sight of great men
he shall be praised.

4 The most High hath created medi-
cines out of the earth, and a wise man
will not abhor them.

5 **Was not bitter water made sweet
with wood ?

6 The virtue of these things is come to
the knowledge of men, and the most
High hath given knowledge to men, that
he may be honoured in his wonders.

7 By these he shall cure and shall allay
their pains, and of these the apothecary
shall make sweet confections, and shall
make up ointments of health, and of his
works there shall be no end.

8 For the peace of God is over all the
face of the earth.

9 P My son, in thy sickness neglect not
thyself, but pray to the Lord, and he
shall heal thee.

10 Turn away from sin and order thy
hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from
all offence.

11 Give a sweet savour, and a memo-
rial of fine flour, ajLd make a fat offering,
and then give place to the physician.

12 For the Lord created him: and let
him not depart from thee, for his works
are necessary.

13 For there is a time when thou must
fall into their hands :

14 And they shall beseech the Lord,
that he would prosper what they give
for ease and remedy, for their conversa-
tion.

15 He that sinneth in the sight of his
Maker, shall fall into the hands of the
physician.

p Isa. 38. 3.

Mourninq for the dead

ECCLESIASTICUS The smith and the potter

16 My son, shed tears over the dead,
and begin to lament as if thou hadst suf-
fered some great harm, and according
to judgment cover his body, and neglect
not his burial.

17 And for fear of being ill spoken of
weep bitterly for a day, and then com-
fort thyself in thy sadness.

18 And make mourning for him ac-
cording to his merit for a day, or two,
for fear of detraction.

19 ^For of sadness cometh death, and
it overwhelmeth the strength, and the
sorrow of the heart boweth down the
neck.

20 In withdrawing aside sorrow remain-
eth : and the substance of the poor is
according to his heart.

21 Give not up thy heart to sadness,
but drive it from thee : and remember
the latter end.

22 Forget it not : for there is no re-
turning, and thou shalt do him no good,
and shalt hurt thyself.

23 Remember my judgmen- : for thine
also shall be so : yesterday for me, and
to day for thee.

24 *" When the dead is at rest, let his re-
membrance rest, and comfort him in the
departing of his spirit.

25 The wisdom of a scribe cometh by
his time of leisure : and he that is less
in action, shall receive wisdom.

2« With what wisdom shall he be fur-
nished that holdeth the plough, and that
glorieth in the goad, that driveth the
oxen therewith, and is occupied in their
labours, and his whole talk is about the
offspring of bulls?

27 He shall give his mind to turn up
furrows, and his care is to give the kine
fodder.

28 So every craftsman and workmaster
that laboureth night and day, he who
maketh graven seals, and by his con-
tinual diligence varieth the figure: he
shall give his mind to the resemblance
of the picture, and by his watching shall
finish the work.

29 So doth the smith sitting by the an-
vil and considering the iron work. The
vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and
he flghteth with the heat of the furnace.

30 The noise of the hammer is always

q Prov. 15. 13, and 17. 22.

in his ears, and his eye is upon the pat*
tern of the vessel he maketh.

31 He setteth his mind to finish his
work, and his watching to polish them to
perfection.

32 So doth the potter sitting at his
work, turning the wheel about with his
feet, who is always carefully set to his
work, and maketh all his work by num-
ber:

33 He fashioneth the clay with his arm,
and boweth down his strength before hia
feet:

34 He shall give his mind to finish the
glazing, and his watching to make clean
the furnace.

35 All these trust to their hands, and
every one is wise in his own art.

36 Without these a city is not built.

37 And they shall not dwell, nor walk
about therein, and they shall not go up
into the assembly.

38 Upon the judges* seat they shall not
sit, and the ordinance of judgment they
shall not understand, neither shall they
declare discipline and judgment, and
they shall not be found where parables
are spoken:

39 But they shall strengthen the state
of the world, and their prayer shall be
in the work of their craft, applying their
soul, and searching in the law of the
most High.

CHAPTER 39.

The exercises of the wise man. The Lord is to bt
glorified /or his works.

THE wise man will seek out the wisdom
of all the ancients, and will be occu-
pied in the prophets.

2 He will keep the sayings of renowned
men, and will enter withal into the sub-
tilties of parables.

3 He will search out the hidden mean-
ings of proverbs, and will be conversant|
in the secrets of parables.

4 He shall serve among great men, and|
appear before the governor.

5 He shall pass into strange countries :l
for he shall try good and evil among rnen

6 He will give his heart to resort eax'ljj
to the Lord that made him, and he wi]
pray in the sight of the most High.

7 He will open his mouth in prayer, an(|
will make supplication for his sins.

r 2 Kings 12. 21.

Chat. 3ft. yer.26. Ascribe

That is, a doctor of the law, or, » learned man.
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The wise man

ECCLESIASTICUS The works of God are good

8 For if it shall please the great Lord,
ie will fill him with the spirit of under-
standing :

C And ho will pour forth the words of
Mc wisdom as showers, and in his prayer
he will confess to the Lord.

10 And he shall direct his counsel, and
his knowledge, and in his secrets shall he
meditate.

11 He shall shew forth the discipline he
hath learned, and shall glory in the law
of the covenant of the Lord.

12 Many shall praise his wisdom, and it
shall never be forgotten.

13 The memory of him shall not depart
away, and his name shall be in request
from generation to generation,

14 Nations shall declare his wisdom, and
the church shall shew forth his praise.

15 If he continue, he shall leave a name
above a thousand : and if he rest, it shall
be to his advantage.

16 I will yet meditate that T may de-
clare : for I am filled as with a holy
transport.

17 By a voice he saith : Hear me, ye
divine offspring, and bud forth as the
rose planted by the brooks of waterSo

18 Give ye a sweet odour as frankin-
cense.

19 Send forth flowers, as the lily, and
yield a smell, and bring forth leaves in
grace^ and praise with canticles, and
bless the Lord in his works.

20 Magnify his name, and give glory to
him with the voice of your lips, and with
the canticles of your mouths, and with
harps, and in praising him, you shall say
in this manner:

21 *A11 the works of the Lord are ex-
ceeding good.

22 *At his word the waters stood as a
heap : and at the words of his mouth the
receptacles of waters:

23 For at his commandment favom» is
shewn, and there is no diminishing of his
salvation.

24 The works of all flesh are before him,
and there is nothing hid from his eyes.

25 He seeth from eternity to eterni*"jy,
and there is nothing wonderful before
him.

26 There is no saying : "What is this, or

s Gen. 1. 31 ; Mark 7. 37.
t Gen. 8. 3.

Chap. 39. Ver. 17. Ye divine offspring. He

what is that? for all things shall be
sought m their time.

27 His blessing hath overflowed like a
river.

28 **And as a flood hath watered the
earth; so shall his wrath inherit the
nations, that have not sought after him :

29 ^ Even as he turned the waters into
a dry land, and the earth was made dry :
and his ways were made plain for their
journey : so to sinners they are stumbling-
blocks in his wrath.

30 Good things were created for the
good from the beginning, so for the
wicked, good and evil things.

31 *^The principal things necessary for
the life of men, are water, fire, and iron,.
salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey,
and the cluster of the grape, and oil, and
clothing.

32 All these things shall be for good to
the holy, so to the sinners and the un-
godly they shall be turned into evil.

33 There are spirits that are created for
vengeance, and in their fury they lay on
grievous torments.

34 In the time of destruction they shall
pour out their force ; and they shall
appease the wrath of him that made
the mo

35 Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these
v/ere created for vengeance.

36 The teeth of beasts, and scorpions,
and serpents, and the sword taking ven-
geance upon the ungodly imto destruc-
tion,

37 In his commandments they shall
feast, and they shall be ready upon earth
when need is, and when their time is
come they shall not transgress his word.

38 Therefore from the beginning I was
resolved, and I havt meditated, and
thought on these thiagF and left them
in writings

39 * All the works or the Lord are good,
and he will furnish every work in due
time.

40 It is not to be said : This ie worse
than that: for all shall be well approved
in their time.

41 Now therefore with the whole heart
and mouth praise ye him, and bless the
name of the Lord,

V Gen. 7 21. > x Ex. 14. 21.

w Supra 29. 28. - .« Gsn. 1. 31 \ Mark 7. 37.

speaks to the children of Israel^ the people of God ; tue.

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whom he exhorts tc bud forth and flourish with vl^

The miseries of life

ECCLESIASTICUS

CHAPTER 40.

The miseriei of the life of man are relieved by the
grace of God and his fear.

GREAT labour is created for all men,
and a heavy yoke is upon the chil-
dren of Adam, from the day of their
coming out of their mother's womb, until
the day of their burial into the mot iier of
all.

2 Their thoughts, and fears of the heart,
their imagination of things to come, and
the day of their end :

3 From him that sitteth on a glorious
throne, unto him that is humbled in earth
and ashes :

4 From him that weareth purple, and
beareth the crown, even to him that is
covered with rough linen : wrath, snvy,
trouble, unquietness, and the fear of
death, continual anger, and strife,

5 And in the time of rest upon his bed,
the sleep of the night changeth his know-
ledge.

6 A little and as nothing is his rest, and
afterward in sleep, as in the day of keep-
ing watch.

7 He is troubled in the vision of his
heart, as if he had escaped in the day of
battle. In the time of his safety he rose
up, and wondereth that there is no fear :

8 Such things happen to all flesh, from
man even to beast, and upon sinners are
sevenfold more.

9 2/ Moreover, death, and bloodshed,
strife, and sword, oppressions, famine,
and affliction, and scourges :

10 All these things are created for the
wicked, ^and for their sakes came the
flood.

11 ® All things that are of the earth,
shall return to the earth again, ^ and all
waters shall return to the sea.

12 All bribery, and injustice shall be
blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for
ever.

13 The riches of the unjust shall be dried
up like a river, and shall pass away with
a noise like a great thunder in rain.

14 While he openeth his hands he shall
rejoice: but transgressors shall pine away
in the end.

15 The offspring of the ungodly shall
not bring forth many branches, and make
a noise as unclean roots upon the top of
a rock.

y Supra 39. 35 and 36. — « Gea, 7. 10.

The blessings of life

16 The weed growing over every water,
and at the bank of the river, shall be
pulled up before all grass.

17 Grace is Hke a paradise in blessings,,
and mercy remaineth for ever.

18 The life of a labourer that is content
with what he hath, shall be sweet, and in
it thou shalt find a treasure.

19 Children, and the building of a city
shall establish a name, but a blameless
wife shall be counted above them both.

20 Wine and music rejoice the heart,
but the love of wisdom is above them both.

21 The flute and the psaltery make a
sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is
above them both.

22 Thy eye desireth favour and beauty,
but more than these green sown fields.

23 A friend and companion neeting to-
gether in season, but above liiem both is
a wife with her husband.

24 Brethren are a help in the time of
trouble, but mercy shall deliver more
than they.

26 Gold and silver make the feet stand
sure: but wise counsel is above them
both.

26 Riches and strength lift up the heart:
but above these is the fear of the Lord.

27 There is no want in the fear of the
Lord, and it needeth not to seek for help.

28 The fear of the Lord is like a para-
dise of blessing, and they have covered
it above all glory.

29 My son, in thy lifetime be not indi-
gent : for it is better to die than to want.

30 The life of him that looketh toward
another man's table is not to be counted
a life : for he feedeth his soul with an-
other man's meat.

31 But a man, well instructed and taught,
will look to himself.

32 Begging will be sweet in the mouth
of the unwise, but in his belly there shall
biu'n a fire.

CHAPTER 41.

Of the remembrance of death : of an evil and of a
good name: of what things we ought to be
ashamed.

0 DEATH, how bitter is the remem-
brance of thee to a man that hath
peace in his possessions I

2 To a man that is at rest, and whose
ways are prosperous in all things, and
that is yet able to take meat !

a Infra 41. 13. —6 EccL 1. 7.

On death

ECCLESIASTICUS Things to he ashamed of

20 For it is not good to keep all shame'
facedness: and all things do not please
all men in opinion.

21 Be ashamed of fornication before
father and mother : and of a lie before a
governor and a man in power:

22 Of an offence before a prince, and a
judge : of iniquity before a congregation
and a people :

23 Of injustice before a companion and
friend ; and in regard to the place where
thou dwellest,

24 Of theft, and of the truth of God,
and the covenant: of leaning with thy
elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving
and taking :

26 Of silence before them that salute
thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of
turning away thy face from thy kins-
man.

26 Turn not away thy face from thy
neighbour, and of taking away a portion
and not restoring.

27 ^ Gaze not upon another man's wife,
and be not inquisitive after his hand-
maid, and approach not her bed.

28 JBe ashamed of upbraiding speeches
before friends: and after thou hast given^
upbraid not.

CHAPTER 42.

Of what things we ought not to he ashamed. Cav^
tions with regard to women. The works at id great-
ness of God.

REPEAT not the word which thou hast
heard, and disclose not the thing
that is secret; so shalt thou be truly
without confusion, and shalt find favour
before all men : be not ashamed of any
of these things, -^and accept no person to
sin thereby :

2 Of the law of the most High, and of
his covenant, and of judgment to justify
the ungodly :

3 Of the affair of companions and trav-
ellers, and of the gift of the inheritance
of friends :

4 Of exactness of balance and weights,
of getting much or little:

5 Of the corruption of buying, and of
merchants, and of much correction of
children, and to make the side of a wicked
slave to bleed.

/ Lev. 19. 15 ; Deut. 1. 17, and 16. 19 ; Prov. 24. 23;
James 2. 1.

Chap. 4i. Ver. 19. Have a shame, &c. That is times shamefacedness is not to be indulged: yet it
«^uf^v^* ashamed of doing any of these things, is often good and necessary; as in the following
wnict T an? now going to mention i for though some- 1 cases.

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3 O death, thy sentence is welcome to
the man that is in need, and to him whose
strength faileth:

4 Who is in a decrepit age, and that is
In care about all things, and to the dis-
trustful that loseth patience I

6 Fear not the sentence of death. Re-
jiember what things have been before
thee, and what shall come after thee:
this sentence is from the Lord upon all
flesh.

6 And what shall come upon thee by
the good pleasure of the most High?
whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand
years.

7 For among the dead there is no accus-
ing of lifeo

8 The children of sinners become chil-
dren of abominations, and they that con-
verse near the houses of the ungodly.

9 The inheritance of the children of
sinners shall perish, and with their pos-
terity shall be a perpetual reproach.

10 The children will complain of an un-
godly father, because for his sake they
are in reproach.

11 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have
forsaken the law of the most high Lord.

12 And if you be born, you shall be
born in malediction: and if you die, in
malediction shall be your portion.

13 *^ All things that are of the earth,
shall return into the earth: so the un-
godly shall from malediction to destruc-
tion.

14 The mourning of men is about their
body, but the name of the ungodly shall
be blotted out.

15 Take care of a good name: for this
shall continue with thee, more than a
thousand treasures precious and great.

16 A good life hath its number of days:
but a good name shall continue for ever.

17 My children, keep discipline in peace :
for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure

that is not seen, what profit is there in
them both ?

18 Better is the man that hideth his
folly, than the man that hideth his wis-
dom.

19 Wherefore have a shame of these
things I am now going to speak of.

c Supra 40. 11.
d Supra 20. 32. — e Matt. 5.

28.

Caution about women

ECCLESl ASTICUS The wonderful works of God

a Sure keeping is good ever u wicked
wife.

7 Where there are many hands, shut up,
and deliver all things in number, and
weight: and put all in writing that thou
givest out or receivest in.

8 Be not ashamed to inform the unwise
and foolish, and the aged, that are judged
by young men: and thou shalt be well
instructed in all things, and well ap-
proved in the sight of all men living.

9 The father waketh for the daughter
when no man knoweth, and the care for
her taketh away his sleep, when she is
young, lest she pass away the flower of
her age, and when she is manied, lest she
should be hateful :

10 In her virginity, lest she should be
corrupted, and be found with child in her
father's house : and having a husband,
lest she should misbehave herself, or at
the least become barren.

11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless
daughter : lest at any time she make thee
become a laughingstock to thy enemies,
and a byword in the city, and a reproach
among the people, and she make thee
ashamed before all the multitude.

12 Behold not everybody's beauty i and
tarry not among women.

13 For from garments cometh a moth,
and from a woman the iniquity of a man.

14 For better is the iniquity of a man,
than a woman doing a good turn, and a
woman bringing shame and reproach.

15 I will now remember the works of
the Lord, and I will declare the things I
have seen. By the words of the Lord are
bis works.

16 The sun giving light hath looked
upon all things, and full of the glory of
the Lord is his work.

17 Hath not the Lord made the saints
to declare all his wonderful works, which
the Lord Almighty hath firmly settled to
be established for his glory ?

18 He hath searched out the deep, and
the heart of men: and considered their
crafty devices.

19 For the Lord knoweth all knowledge,
and hath beheld the signs of the world,
he declareth the things that are past,
and the things tha« are to come, and re-
vealeth the traces of hidden tilings.

Chap. 42. Ver, 14. Better is the iniquity^ &c.
That is, there is, commonly speaking, less danger to
be apprehended to the soul from the cburilsbuess.

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20 No thought escapeth him, and no
word can hide itself from him.

21 He hath beautified the glorious works
of his wisdom : and he is from eternity
to eternity, and to him nothing may be
added,

22 Nor can he be diminished, and he
hath no need of any counsellor.

23 O how desirable are all his works,
and what we can know is but as a spark i

24 All these things live, and remain for
ever, and for every use all things obey
him.

25 All things are double, one against
another, and he hath made nothing de-
fective.

26 He hath established the good things
of every one. And who shall be filled
with beholding his glory?

OHAPTER 43

The works of God are exceedingly glorious am
wonderful : no man is able sufficiently to praise
him.

THE firmament on high is his beauty,
the beauty of heaven with its glori-
ous shew.

2 The sun when he appeareth shewing
forth at his rising, an admirable instru-
ment, the work of the most High,

3 At noon he bm-neth the earth, and
who can abide his burning heat? As
one keeping a furnace in the works of
heat;

4 The sun i 'ivQe times as much, burneth
the mountains, breathing out fiery va-
pours, and shining with his beams, he
blindeth the eyes.

5 Great is the Lord that made him, and
at his words he hath hastened his course.

6 And the moon in all in her season, is
for a declaration of times and a sign of
the world.

7 From the moon is the sign of the
festival day, a light that decreaseth in{
her perfection.

8 The month is called after her name,
increasing wonderfully in her perfection.

9 Being an instrument of the armies on
high, shining gloriously in the firmameni
of heaven.

10 The glory of the stars is the beautj
of heaven; the Lord enhghteneth th(
world on high. j i

11 By the words of the holy one thej |

or injuries we receive from men, than from the fla
Bering favours and familiarity ot womea

The wonderful wor/ca of God ECCLESIASTICUS Praises of the great men of old

shall stand in judgn^aent, and shall never
fail in their watches,

12 Look upon the rainbow, and bless
him that made it: ^ it is very beautiful in
its brightness.

13 It encompasseth the heaven about
with the circle of its glory, the hands of
the most High have displayed it.

14 By his commandment he maketh the
snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth
swiftly the hghtnings of his judgment.

16 Through this are the treasures opened,
and the clouds fly out like birds.

16 By his greatness he hath fixed the
clouds, and the hailstones are broken.

17 At his sight shall the mountains be
shaken, and at his will the south wind
shall blow.

18 The noise of his thunder shall strike
the earth, so doth the northern storm,
and the whirlwind:

19 And as the birds lighting upon the
earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling
thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.

20 The eye admireth at the beauty of
the whiteness thereof, and the heart is
astonished at the shower thereof.

21 He shall pour frost as salt upon the
earth : and when it freezeth, it shall be-
come like the tops of thistles.

22 The cold north wind bloweth, and
the water is congealed into crystal; upon
every gathering together of waters it
shall rest, and shall clothe the waters as
a breastplate.

23 And it shall devour the mountains,
and burn the wilderness, and consume
all that is green as with fire.

24 A present remedy of all is the speedy
coming of a cloud, and a dew that meet-
eth it, by the heat that cometh, shall
overpower it.

25 At his word the wind is still, and with
his thought he appeaseth the deep, and
the Lord hath planted islands therein.

26 Let them that sail on the sea, tell
the dangers thereof: and when we hear
with our ears, we shall admire.

27 There are great and wonderful works:
a variety of beasts, and of all living things,
and the monstrous creatures of whales.

28 Through him is established the end
of their journey, and by his word all
things are regulated.

29 We shall say much, and yet shall

g Gea d. 13.

want words : but the oum of our words
is. He is all.

30 What shall we be able to do to glorify
him ? for the Almighty himself is above
all his works.

31 The Lord is terrible, and exceeding
great, and his power is admirable.

32 Glorify the Lord as much as evef
you can, for he will yet far exceed, and
his magnificence is wonderful.

33 Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much
as you can: for he is above all praise.

34 When you exalt him put forth all
your strength, and be not weary: for
you can never go far enough.

35 ^ Who shall see him, and declare
him? and who shall magnify him as he
is from the beginning ?

36 There are many things hidden from
us that are greater than these: for we
have seen but a few of his works.

37 But the Lord hath made all things,
and to the godly he hath given wisdom.

CHAPTER 44.

The praises of the holy fathers, in particular of
Enoch, A^oe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

LET us now praise men of renown
and our fathers in their generation.

2 The Lord hath wrought great glory
through his magnificence from the be-
ginning.

3 Such as have borne rule in their do-
minions, men of great power, and endued
with their wisdom, shewing forth in the
prophets the dignity of prophets,

4 And ruling over the present people,
and by the strength of wisdom instructing
the people in most holy words.

6 Such as by their skill sought out
musical tunes, and published canticles of
the scriptures.

6 Rich men in virtue, studying beautiful-
ness : living at peace in their houses.

7 All these have gained glory in their
generations, and were praised in their
days.

8 They that were born of them have left
a name behind them, that their praises
might be related :

9 And there are some, of whom there
is no memorial: who are perished, as if
they had never been: and are become as
if they had never been born, and their
children with them.

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Henoch, Noe, Abraham

ECCLESIASTICUS

Moses and Aaron

10 But these were men of mercy, whose
godly deeds have not failed:

11 Good things continue with their seed,

12 Their posterity are a holy inheritance,
and their seed hath stood in the cove-
nants.

13 And their children for their sakes re-
main for ever: their seed and their glory
shall not be forsaken.

14 Their bodies are buried in peace, and
their name liveth unto generation and
generation.

15 Let the people shew forth their wis-
dom^ and the church declare their praise.

16 * Henoch pleased God, and was trans-
lated into paradise, that he may give
repentance to the nations.

17 ^ Noe was found perfect, just, and in
the time of wrath he was made a reconcil-
iation.

18 Therefore was there a remnant left
to the earth, when the flood came.

19 '^The covenants of the world were
made with him, that all flesh should no
more be destroyed with the flood.

TD ^Abraham was the great father of a
multitude of nations, and there was not
found the like to him in glory, who kept
the law of the most High, and was in
covenant with him.

21 ^ In his flesh he established the cov-
enant, ^ and in temptation he was found
faithful.

22 Therefore by an oath he gave him
glory in his posterity, that he should in-
crease as the dust of the earth,

23 And that he would exalt his seed as
the stars, and they should inherit from
sea to sea, and from the river to the ends
of the earth.

24 And he did in like manner with Isaac
for the sake of Abraham his father.

25 The Lord gave him the blessing of
all nations, and confirmed his covenant
upon the head of Jacob.

26 He acknowledged him in his bless-
ings, and gave him an inheritance, and
divided him his portion in twelve tribes.

27 And he preserved for him men of
mercy, that found gracf. in the eyes of all
flesh.

CHAPTER 45.
The praises of Moses, of Aaron, and ofPhinees.

i Gen. 5. 24 ; Heb. 11. 5. —j Gen. 9. 9.

k Gen. 6. 14, and 7. 1 ; Heb. 11. 7.

I Gen. 12. 2 ; 15, 5, and 17. 4.

m Gen. 17. 10 ; GaL 3. 6.

MOSES ° was beloved of God, and men?
whose memory is in benediction.

2 He made him Uke the saints in glory,
and magnified him in the fear of his ene-
mies, and with his words he made prodi-
gies to cease.

3 P He glorified him in the sight of kings,
and gave him commandments in the sight
of his people, and shewed him his glory.

4 ^ He sanctified him in his faith, and
meekness, and chose him out of all flesh.

5 For he heard him, and his voice, and
brought him into a cloud.

6 And he gave him commandments be-
fore his face, and a law of life and in-
struction, that he might teach Jacob his
covenant, and Israel his judgments.

7 He exalted Aaron his brother, and
hke to himself of the tribe of Levi :

8 He made an everlasting covenant with
him, and gave him the priesthood of the
nation, and made him blessed in glory,

9 And he girded him about with a glori-
ous girdle, and clothed him with a robe
of glory, and crowned him with majestic
attire.

10 He put upon him a garment to the
feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he
compassed him with many little bells of
gold all round about,

11 '"That as he went there might be
a sound, and a noise made that might be
heard in the temple, for a memorial to
the children of his people.

12 He gave him a holy robe of gold, and
blue, and purple, a woven work of a wise
man, endued with judgment and truth :

13 Of twisted scarlet the work of an
artist, with precious stones cut and set in
gold, and graven by the work of a lapi-
dary for a memorial, according to the
number of the tribes of Israel.

14 And a crown of gold upon his mitre
wherein was engraved Holiness, an orna-
ment of honour : a work of power, and
delightful to the eyes for its beauty.

15 Before him there were none so beau-
tiful, even from the beginning.

16 No stranger was ever clothed with
them, but only his children alone, and his
grandchildren for ever.

17 His sacrifices were consumed with
fire every day.

n Gen. 22. 2. — o Ex. 11. 3.

p Ex. 6. 7 and 8.

q Num. 12. 3 and 7 ; Heb. 3.2 and 6.

r Ex. 28. 36.

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ECCLESIASTICUS

Josue and Caleb

18 "^ Moses filled his hands and anointed
him with holy oil.

19 This was made to him for an ever-
lasting testament, and to his seed as the
days of heaven, to execute the office of
the priesthood, and to have praise, and
to glorify his people in his name.

20 He chose him out of all men living,
to offer sacrifice to God, incense, and a
good savour, for a memorial to make
reconciUation for his people :

21 And he gave him power in his com-
mandments, in the covenants of his judg-
ments, that he should teach Jacob his
testimonies, and give Ught to Israel in his
law.

22 ' And strangers stood up against him,
and through envy the men that were with
Dathan and Abiron, compassed him about
in the wilderness, and the congregation
of Core in their wrath.

23 The Lord God saw and it pleased him
not, and they were consumed in his
wrathful indignation.

24 He wrought wonders upon them, and
consumed them with a flame of fire.

^5 And he added glory to Aaron, and
gave him an inheritance, and divided
unto him the firstfruits of the increase
of the earth.

26 He prepared them bread in the first
place unto fulness : for the sacrifices also
of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave
to him, and to his seed.

27 But he shall not inherit among the
people in the land, and he hath no por-
tion among the people : for he himself is
his portion and inheritance.

28 ^ Phinees the son of Eleazar is the
third in glory, by imitating him in the
fear of the Lord :

29 And he stood up in the shameful fall
of the people : in the goodness and readi-
ness of his soul he appeased God for Is-
rael.

30 Therefore he made to him a covenant
of peace, to be the prince of the sanctu-
ary, and of his people, that the dignity of
priesthood should be to him and to his
seed for ever.

31 And a covenant to David the king,
the son of Jesse of the tribe of Juda, an
inheritance to him and to his seed, that

s Lev. 8. 12. — t Num. 16. 1 and 3. — w Num. 25. 7 ;

Chap. 46. Ver. l. Jesus the son of Nave. So
Josue is named in the Greek Bibles. For Josue and
Jesus signify the same thing, viz., a saviour.

he might give wisdom into our heart to
judge his people in justice, that their
good things might not be abolished, and
he made their glory in their nation ever-
lasting.

CHAPTER 46.

The praise of Josue, of Caleb, and of Samuel.

VALIANT in war was Jesus the son of
Nave, who was successor of Moses
among the prophets, who was great ac-
cording to his name,

2 Very great for the saving the elect of
God, to overthrow the enemies that roso
up against them, that he might get tb)
inheritance for Israel. i

3 How great glory did he gain when he
lifted up his hands, and stretched out
swords against the cities? i

4 Who before him hath so resisted ? for
the Lord himself brought the enemies.

5 ^ Was not the sun stopped in his anger,»
and one day made as two?

6 He called upon the most high Sover-
eign when the enemies assaulted him on
every side, and the great and holy God
heard him by hailstones of exceeding
great force.

7 He made a violent assault against the-
nation of his enemies, and in the descent
he destroyed the adversaries.

8 That the nations might know his
power, that it is not easy to fight against
God. And he followed the mighty one:

9 ^ And in the days of Moses he did a
work of mercy, he and Caleb the son of
Jephone, in standing against the enemy,
and withholding the people from sins,
and appeasing the wicked murmuring, i

10 And they two being appointed, were
delivered out of the danger from among
the number of six hundred thousand men
on foot, to bring them into their inherit-
ance, into the land that fioweth with milk
and honey.

11 And the Lord gave strength also to
Caleb, and his strength continued even
to his old age, so that he went up to the
high places of the land, and his seed ob-
tained it for an inheritance :

12 That all the children of Israel might
see, that it is good to obey the holy God.

13 Then all the judges, every one by

1 Mac. 2. 26, 54. — V Jos. 10. 14. — w Num. 14. 6.

Ver. 7. And in the descent of Beth-horon (Jos.
10.).

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ECCLESIASTICUS

David and Solomon

name, whose heart was not corrupted :
who turned not away from the Lord,

14 That their memory might be blessed,
and their bones spring up out of their
place,

15 And their name continue for ever,
the glory of the holy men remaining
unto their children.

16 Samuel the prophet of the Lord, the
beloved of the Lord his God, established
a new government, and anointed princes
over his people.

17 By the law of the Lord he judged the
congregation, and the God of Jacob be-
held, and by his fidelity he was proved a
prophet.

18 And he was known to be faithful in
his words, because he saw the God of
Ught:

19 ^ And called upon the name of the
Lord Almighty, in fighting against the
enemies who beset him on every side,
when he offered a lamb without blemish.

20 And the Lord thundered from hea-
ven, and with a great noise made his
voice to be heard.

21 And he crushed the princes of the
Tyrians, and all the lords of the Philis-
tines :

22 y And before the time of the end of
his life in the world, he protested before
the Lord, and his anointed: money, or
any thing else, ^ even to a shoe, he had
not taken of any man, and no man did
accuse him.

23 And after this he slept, ** and he
made known to the king, and shewed
him the end of his life, and he lifted up
his voice from the earth in prophecy to
blot out the wickedness of the nation.

CHAPTER 47.

The praise of Nathan, of David, and of Solomon:

of his fall and punishment.

THEN ^Nathan the prophet arose in
the days of David.

2 And as the fat taken away from the
flesh, so was David chosen from among
the children of Israel.

3 ^ He played with lions as with lambs :
and with bears he did in like manner as
with the lambs of the flock, in his youth.

4 ^ Did not he kill the giant, and take
away reproach from his people ?

X 1 Kings l. — yl Kings 12. — z Gen. 14. 23.
a 1 Kings 38. 18. — 6 2 Kings 12. 1.
c 1 Kings 17. 34. — d 1 Kings 17. 49.

5 In lifting up his hand, with the stone
in the sling he beat down the boasting of
Goliath:

6 For he called upon the Lord the Al-
mighty, and he gave strength in his right
hand, to take away the mighty warrior,
and to set up the horn of his nation.

7 * So in ten thousand did he glorify him,
and praised him in the blessings of the
Lord, in offering to him a crown of glory:

8 For he destroyed the enemies on every
side, and extirpated the Philistines the
adversaries unto this day : he broke their
horn for ever.

9 In all his works he gave thanks to the
holy one, and to the most High, with
words of glory.

10 With his whole heart he praised the
Lord, and loved God that made him : and
he gave him power against his enemies :

11 And he set singers before the altar,
and by their voices he made sweet mel-
ody.

12 And to the festivals he added beauty,
and set in order the solemn times even
to the end of his life, that they should
praise the holy name of the Lord, and
magnify the holiness of God in the
morning.

13-^ The Lord took away his sins, and
exalted his horn for ever : and he gave
him a covenant of the kingdom, and a
throne of glory in Israel.

14 After him arose up a wise son, and
for his sake he cast down all the power
of the enemies.

15 s' Solomon reigned in days of peace,
and God brought all his enemies under
him, that he might build a house in his
name, and prepare a sanctuary for ever:
O how wise wast thou in thy youth !

16 ^ And thou wast filled as a river with
wisdom, and thy soul covered the earth,

17 And thou didst multiply riddles in
parables: thy name went abroad to the
islands far off, and thou wast beloved in
thy peace.

18 The countries wondered at thee for
thy canticles, and proverbs, and parables,
and interpretations,

19 And at the name of the Lord God,
whose surname is, God of Israel.

20 * Thou didst gather gold as copper,
and didst multiply silver as lead,

e 1 Kings 18. 7. — / 2 Kings 12. 13.

g 3 Kings 3. 1. — /i 3 Kings 4. 3L

i 3 Kings 10. 27.

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EUseus and Ezechia»

21 And thou didst bow thyself to wo-
men: and by thy body thou wast brought
under subjection.

22 Thou hast stained thy glory, and de-
filed thy seed so as to bring wrath upon
thy children, and to have thy folly kin-
dled,

23 That thou shouldst make the king-
dom to be divided, ^ and out of Ephraim
a rebellious kingdom to rule.

24 But God will not leave off his mercy,
•^nd he will not destroy, nor abolish his

own works, neither will he cut up by the
roots the offspring of his elect : and he
will not utterly take away the seed of
him that loveth the Lord.

25 Wherefore he gave a remnant to Ja-
cob, and to David of the same stock.

26 And Solomon had an end with his
fathers.

27 And he left behind him of his seed,
the folly of the nation,

28 Even Roboam that had little wisdom,
who turned away the people through his
counsel:

29 ^ And Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who
caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim
the way of sin, and their sins were multi-
phed exceedingly.

30 They removed them far away from
their land.

31 And they sought out all iniquities,
till vengeance came upon them, and put
an end to all their sins.

CHAPTER 48.

The praise of Elias, of Elisetis^ of Ezechias^ and of
Isaias.

AND ' Elias the prophet stood up, as a
- fire, and his word burnt like a torch.

2 He brought a famine upon them, and
they that provoked him in their envy,
were reduced to a small number, for they
could not endure the commandments of
the Lord.

3 "*By the word of the Lord he shut
ap the heaven, and he brought down fire
from heaven thrice.

4 Thus was Elias magnified in his won-
drous works. And who can glory like to
thee?

6 ** Who raisedst up a dead man from
below, from the lot of death, by the word
of the Lord God.

j 3 Kings 12. 16. — fc 3 Kings 12. 28.

1 3 Kings 17. L

m S Kings 17. 1 : 4 Kings L 10 ao4 12.

6 Who broughtest down kings to de-
struction, and brokest easily their power
in pieces, and the glorious from their
bed.

7 Who heardest judgment In Sina, and
in Horeb the judgments of vengeance.

8 Who anointedst kings to penance, and
madest prophets successors after thee.

9 ° Who wast taken up in a whirlwind
of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.

10 Wno art registered in the judgments
of times to appease the wrath of the Lord,
P to reconcile the heart of the father to
the son, and to restore the tribes of
Jacob.

11 Blessed are they that saw thee, and
were honoured with thy friendship.

12 For we live only in our hfe, but after
death our name shall not be such.

13 ^ Elias was indeed covered with the
whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in
Eliseus : in his days he feared not the
prince, and no man was more powerful
than he.

14 No word could overcome him,*" and
after death his body prophesied.

15 In his life he did great wonders, and
in death he wrought miracles.

16 For all this the people repented not,
neither did they depart from their sins
till they were cast out of their land, and
were scattered through all the earth.

17 And there was left but a small peo-
ple, and a prince in the house of David.

18 Some of these did that which pleased
God : but others committed many sins.

19 Ezechias fortified his city, and brought
in water into the midst thereof, and he
digged a rock with iron, and made a well
for water.

20 ' In his days Sennacherib came up,
and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand
against them, and he stretched out his
hand against Sion, and became proud
through his power.

21 Then their hearts and hands trem-
bled, and they were in pain as women in
travail.

22 And they called upon the Lord who
is merciful, and spreading their hands,
they lifted them up to heaven : and
the holy Lord God quickly heard their
voice.

23 He was not mindful of their sins,

n 3 Kings 17. 22. — o 4 Kings 2. 11.

p Mai. 4. 6. — 5^4 Kings 2. 12,
r 4 Kings 13. 21. — « 4 Kinss 18. 13

Josias and Jeremias

ECCLESIASTICUSEzecHeZ. ZorohaheU Nehemias

neither did be deliver them up to their
enemies, but he purified them by the
hand of Isaias, the holy prophet.
24 ' He overthrew the army of the Assyr-
ians, and the angel of the Lord destroyed
them,

25 For Ezechias did that which pleased
God, and walked vaUantly in the way of
David his father, which Isaias, the great
prophet, and faithful in the sight of God,
had commanded him.

26 " In his days the sun went backward,
and he lengthened the king's life.

27 With a great spirit he saw the things
that are to come to pass at last, and com-
forted the mourners in Sion.

28 He shewed what should come to pass
for ever, and secret things before they
came.

CHAPTER 49.

The praise of Josias, of Jeremias, Ezechiel, and the
twelve prophets. Also of Zorobabel, Jesus the son
of Josedech, Nehemias, Enoch, Joseph, Seth, Sem,
and Adam.

THE ''memory of Josias is like the
composition of a sweet smell made
by the art of a perfumer:

2 His remembrance shall be sweet as
honey in every mouth, and as music at
a banquet of wine,

3 He was directed by God unto the
repentance of the nation, and he took
away the abominations of wickedness.

4 And he directed his heart towards the
Lord, and in the days of sinners he
strengthened godUness.

6 Except David, and Ezechias, and
Josias, aU committed sin.

6 For the kings of Juda forsook the law
of the most High, and despised the fear
of God.

7 So they gave their kingdom to others,
and their glory to a strange nation.

8 ^They burnt the chosen city of holi-
ness, and made the streets thereof deso-
late according to the prediction of Jere-
mias.

9 For they treated him evil, who was
consecrated a prophet from his mother's
womb, to overthrow, and pluck up, and
destroy, and to build again, and renew.

10 ^ It was Ezechiel that saw the glori-

1 4 Kings 19. 35 ; Tob. 1. 21 ; Isa. 37. 36 ; I Mac T. 41 :

2 Mac. 8. 19.

u 'i Kings 20. 11 . Isa. 38. 1. — v 4 Kings 22. 1.

r^;4 Kings 25. 9. — a: Ezech. 1. 4.

ous vision, which wag shewD him upon
the chariot of cherubims.

11 For he made mention of the enomic»
under the figure of rain, and of doing
good to them that shewed right ways.

12 And may the bones of the twelve
prophets spring up out of their places
for they strengthened Jacob, and re-
deemed themselves by strong faith.

13 2/ How shall we magnify Zorobabel?
for he was as a signet on the right hand ;

14 *In like manner Jesus the son of
Josedec? who in their days built the
house, and set up a holy temple to the
Lord, prepared for everlasting glory.

15 And let Nehemias be a long time
remembered, who raised up for us our
wails that were cast down, and set up
the gates and the bars, who rebuilt our
houses,

16 No man was born upon earth like
Henoch: for he also was taken up from
the earth.

17 ® Nor as Joseph, who was a man born
prince of his brethren, the support of his
family, the ruler of his brethren, the stay
of the people;

18 And his bones were visited, and after
death they prophesied,

19 * Seth and Sem obtained glory among
men : and above every soul Adam in the
beginning.

CHAPTER 60.

The praises of Simofn t?is high priest 7%e cor^
elusion.

SIMON «the high priest, the son ot
Onias, who in his life propped up the
house, and in his days fortified the
temple.

2 By him also the height of the temple
was founded, the double building and the
high walls of the temple.

3 In his days the wells of water flowed
out, and they were filled as the sea above
measure.

4 He took care of bis cation, and de-
livered it from destruction.

5 He prevailed to enlarge the city, and
obtained glory in his conversation with
the people: and enlarged the entrance of
the house and the court.

6 He shone in his days as the morning

y 1 Esd. a 2 ; Agg. I. 14, and 2. 3, 6, and 22, 24.

z Zach. 3. L

a Gen. 41. 40 ; 42. 3 ; 45. 5, and 50. 20.

b Gen. 4. 25. — c 1 Mac. 12. 6 , 2 Mac. 3. 4.

Chap. 49. VeMa

They prophesied. That Is, by their being carried out of Egypt they verified the
prophetic predictioD ol Josepli. Gea. 60.

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Simon the high priest

star in the midst of a cloud, and as the
moon at the full.

7 And as the sun when it shineth, so did
he shine in the temple of God.

8 And as the rainbow giving light in the
bright clouds, and as the flower of roses
in the days of the spring, and as the lilies
that are on the brink of the water, and
as the sweet smelling frankincense in
the time of summer.

9 As a bright fire, and frankincense
burning In the fire.

10 As a massy vessel of gold, adorned
with every precious stone.

11 As an olive tree budding forth, and
acj^ress tree rearing itself on high, when
he put on the robe of glory, and was
clothed with the perfection of power.

12 When he went up to the holy altar,
he honoured the vesture of holiness.

13 And wheD he took the portions out
of the hands of the priests, he himself
stood by the altar. And about him was
the ring of his brethren: and as the cedar
planted in mount Libanus,

14 And as branches of palm trees, they
stood round about him, and all the sons
of Aaron in their glory.

15 And the oblation of the Lord was in
their hands, before all the congregation
of Israel: and finishing his service, on
the altar, to honour the offering of the
most high King,

16 He stretched forth his hand to make
a libation, and offered of the blood of
the grape.

17 He poured out at the foot of the
altar a divine odour to the most high
Prince.

18 Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they
sounded with beaten trumpets, and made
a great noise to be heard for a remem-
brance before God.

19 Then all the people together made
haste, and fell down to the earth upon
their faces, to adore the Lord their God,
and to pray to the Almighty God the
most High.

20 And the singers lifted up their voices,
and in the great house the sound of sweet
melody was increased.

21 And the people in prayer besought
the Lord the most High, until the wor

Chap. 50. Ver. ll. Clothed with the perfection of

Sower. That Is, with all the vestments denoting his
ignity and authority.

Ver. 27. Jbhorreth, viz., with a holy Indignation,
M euemiM of QoA void persecutcn of Itti people

ECCLESIASTICUS Praygr /or peace in Israel

ship of the Lord was perfected, and the^
had finished their office.

22 Then coming down, he lifted up his
hands over all the congregation of the
children of Israel, to give glory to God
with his lips, and to glory in his name :

23 And he repeated his prayer, willing
to shew the power of God,

24 And now pray ye to the God of all,
who hath done great things in all the
earth, who hath increased our days from
our mother's womb, and hath done with
us according to his mercy.

25 May he grant us joyfulness of heart,
and that there be peace in our days in
Israel for ever :

26 That Israel may believe that the
mercy of God is with us, to deliver us in
his days,

27 There are two nations which my soul
abhorreth: and the third is no nation,
which I hate;

28 They that sit on mount Seir, and the
Philistines, and the foolish people that
dwell in Sichem.

29 Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem,
hath written in this book the doctrine of
wisdom and instruction, who renewed
wisdom from his heart.

30 Blessed is he that is conversant in
these good things • and he that layeth
them up in his heart, shall be wise al-
ways.

31 For if he do them, he shall be strong
to do all things : because the light of God
guideth his steps.

CHAPTER 61.
A prayer of praise and thanksgiviiiQ,

A PRAYER of Jesus the son of Sirach.
I will give glory to thee, O Lord, O
King, and I will praise thee, O God my
Saviour.

2 I will give glory to thy name: for
thon hast been a helper and protector to
me.

3 And hast preserved my body from de-
struction, from the snare of an unjust
tongue, and from the lips of them that
forge lies, and in the sight of them that
stood by, thou hast been my helper.

4 And thou hast delivered me, accord*
ing to the multitude of the mercy of thy

Such were then the Edomites wno aoocie in mount
Seir, the Philistines, and the Samaritans who dwelt
in Sichem, and had Uieir SCliismaUcai temple In tbat
neighbouibood

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Praise and thanksgiving ECCLESIASTICUS Praise and thanksgigiving

name, from them that did roar, prepared
to devour.
6 Out of the hands of them that sought
my life, and from the gates of afflictions,
which compassed me about:

6 From the oppression of the flame
which surrounded me, and in the midst
of the fire I was not burnt.

7 From the depth of the belly of hell,
and from an unclean tongue, and from
lying words, from an unjust king, and
from a slanderous tongue :

8 My soul shall praise the Lord even to
death.

9 And my life was drawing near to hell
beneath.

10 They compassed me on every side,
and there was no one that would help
me. I looked for the succour of men,
and there was none.

11 I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and
thy works, which are from the beginning
of the world.

12 How thou deliverest them that wait
for thee, O Lord, and savest them out of
the hands of the nations.

13 Thou hast exalted my dwelling place
upon the earth and I have prayed for
death to pass away.

14 I called upon the Lord, the father of
my Lord, that he would not leave me in
the day of my trouble, and in the time of
the proud without help.

15 I will praise thy name continually,
and will praise it with thanksgiving, and
my prayer was heard.

16 And thou hast saved me from destruc-
tion, and hast dehvered me from the
evil time.

17 Therefore I will give thanks, and
praise thee, and bless the name of the
Lord.

18 When I was yet young, before I wan-
dered about, I sought for wisdom openly
in my prayer.

19 I prayed for her before the temple,
and unto the very end I will seek after
her, and she flourished as a grape soon
ripe,

20 My heart delighted in her, my foot

walked in the right way, from my youth
up I sought after her.

21 I bowed down my ear a little, and
received her.

22 I found much wisdom in myself, and
I profited much therein.

23 To him that giveth mo wisdom, will
I give glory.

24 For I have determined to follow her:
I have had a zeal for good, and shall not
be confounded.

26 My soul hath wrestled for her, and in
doing it I have been confirmed.

26 I stretched forth my hands on high,
and I bewailed my ignorance of her.

27 I directed my soul to her, and in
knowledge I found her.

28 I possessed my heart with her from
the beginning: therefore I shall not be
forsaken.

29 My entrails were troubled in seeking
her : therefore shall I possess a good pos-
session.

30 The Lord hath given me a tongue for
my reward : and with it I will praise
him.

31 Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and
gather yourselves together into the house
of discipline.

32 Why are ye slow? and what do you
say of these things ? your souls are ex-
ceeding thirsty.

33 I have opened my mouth, and have
spoken : buy her for yourselves without
silver,

34 And submit your neck to the yoke,
and let your soul receive discipline: for
she is near at hand to be found.

35 Behold with your eyes how I have
laboured a little, and have found much
rest to myself.

36 Receive ye discipline as a great sum
of money, and possess abundance of gold
by her.

37 Let your soul rejoice in his mercy
and you shall not be confounded in hie
praise.

38 Work your work before the time, an(
he will give you your reward in hii
time.

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*b'm5 of Juda and Jerusalem

God rejects their sacrifices

THE

PROPHECY OF ISAIAS.

This inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, the ^reat prophet, (Ecclesiasticus
48. 25,) from the greatness of his prophetic spirit, by which he hath foretold so
long before, and in so clear a manner, the coming of Christ, the mysteries of our
redemption, the calling of the Gentiles, and the glorious establishment, and per-
petual flourishing of the Church of Christ: insomuch that he may seem to have
been rather an evangelist than a prophet. His very name is not without mysteiry;
for Isaias in Hebrew signifies the salvation of the Lord. He preached confidence.
He was, according to the tradition of the Hebrews, of the blood royal of the
kings of Juda: and after a most holy life, ended his days by a glorious martyr-
dom; being sawed in two, at the command of his wicked son in law, King Manas-
ses, for reproving hie evU ways.

CHAPTER 1. 19 ^Except the Lord of hosts had left us

seed, ^we had been as Sodom, and we
should have been like to Gomorrha.

T?ie prophet complains of the sins ofJttda and Jeru-
salem: and exhorts them to a sincere conversion.

rpHE vision of Isaias the 3on of Amos,
JL which he saw concerning Juda and
Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, ^Joa-
than, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.

2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O
earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have
brought up children,* and exalted them:
but they have despised me.

3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the
acs his master's crib^ but Israel hath not
known me, and my people hath not un-
derstood.

4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, un-
gracious children : they have forsaken
the Lord, they have blasphemed the
Holy One of Israel, they are gone away
backwards.

6 For what shall I strike you any more,
you that increase transgression? the
whole head is sick, and the whole heart
issao.

6 From the sole of the foot unto the
top of the head, there is no soundness
therein: wounds and bruises and swell-
ing sores: they are not bound up, nor
dressed, nor fomented with oil.

7 ^ Your land is desolate, your cities are
burnt with fire: your country strangers
devoiu" before your face, and it shall be
desolate as when wasted by enemies.

8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left
W a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge
In a garden of cucumbers, and as a city
that is laid waste.

d B. C. 785-698.-6 Osee ILi

/ lofra 6. 6.-0 Bom. 9. 29.

10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers
of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God,
ye people of Gomorrha.

11 * To what purpose do you 3ffer me
the multitude of your victims, saith the
Lord ? I am tull, I desire not holocausts
of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of
calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

12 When you came to appear before
me, who required these things at your
hands, that you should walk in my
courts ?

13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: in-
cense is an abomination to me. The new
moons, and the sabbaths, and other fes-
tivals I will not abide, your assemblies
are wicked.

14 My soul hateth your new moons, and
your solemnities : they are become trou-
blesome to me, I am weary of bearing
them.

15 And when you stretch forth your
hands, I will turn away my eyes from
you: and when you multiply prayer, I
will not hear: -^ for your hands are full
of blood.

16 '^ Wash yourselves, be clean, take
away the evil of your devices from my
eyes: cease to do perversely,

17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, re-
lieve the oppressed, judge for the father-
less, defend the widow.

18 And then come, and accuse me, saith
the Lord : if your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be made as white as snow : and if

h Gen. 19. 24. — i Jer. 6. 20 ; Amos 5. 21.
i I2i£ra 6a 3. — * 1 Peter a. 11.

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Punishment threatened

ISAIAS All nations shall come to the church

tiiey be red as crimson, they shall be
white as wool.

19 If you be willing, and will hearken
to me, you shall eat the good things of
the land.

20 But if you will not, and will provoke
me to wrath: the sword shall devour you
because the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.

21 How is the faithful city, that was
full of judgment, become a harlot? jus-
tice dwelt in it, but now murderers.

22 Thy silver is turned into dross: thy
wine is mingled with water.

23 Thy princes are faithless, compan-
ions of thieves : they all love bribes, they
run after rewards. ^ Tliey judge not for
the fatherless : and the widow's cause
Cometh not in to them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord the God of
hosts, the mighty one of Israel : Ah I I
will comfort myself over my adversaries :
and I will be revenged of my enemies.

25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and
I will clean purge away thy dross, and I
will take away all thy tin.

26 And I will restore thy judges as they
were before, and thy counsellors as of
old. After this thou shalt be called the
cJ^y of the just, a faithful city.

27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment,
and they shall bring her back in justice.

28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and
the sinners together : and they that have
forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.

29 For they shall be confounded for the
idols, to which they have sacrificed : and
you shall be ashamed of the gardens
which you have choseUo

30 When you shall be as an oak with the
leaves falling off, and as a garden with-
out water.

31 And your strength shall be as the
ashes of tow, and your work as a spark :
ind both shall burn together, and there
ihall be none to quench it.

CHAPTER 2.

All nations shall floiv to the church of Christ. The
Jews shall be rejected for their sins. Idolatry shall
be destroyed.

THE word that Isaias the son of Amos
saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.

I Jer. 5. 28.

Chap. 2. Ver. 2. The last days. The whole time
of the new law, from the coming of Christ till the end
of the world, is called in the scripture the last days;
because no other age or time sliall come after it, but

2 '^ And in the last days the mountain
of the house of the Lord shall be prepared
on the top of mountains, and it shall be
exalted above the hills, anji all nations
shall flow unto it. f j i '^i

3 And many people shall go, and say:
Come and let us go up to the mountain
of the Lord, and to the house of the God of
Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and
we will walk in his paths : for the law
shall come forth from Sion, and the word
of the Lord from Jerusalem.

4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and
rebuke many people : and they shall turn
their swords into ploughshares, and their
spears into sickles: nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall
they be exercised any more to war.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us
walk in the light of the Lord.

6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the
house of Jacob: because they are filled
as in times past, and have had sooth-
sayers as the Philistines, and have ad-
hered to strange children.

7 Their land is filled with silver and
gold : and there is no end of their trea-
sures.

8 And their land is filled with horses:
and their chariots are innumerable.
Their land also is full of idols : they have
adored the work of their own hands,
which their own fingers have made.

9 And man hath bowed himself down,
and man hath been debased: therefore
forgive them not.

10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide
thee in the pit from the face of the fear
of the Lord, and from the glory of his
majesty.

11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled,
and the haughtiness of men shall be made
to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be
exalted in that day.

12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts
shall be upon every one that is proud
and highminded, and upon every onf
that is arrogant, and he shaU be hum-
bled.

13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars
of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of
Basan.

m Mich. 4. 1.

only eternity. — Ibid. On the top of mountains, &e.
This shews the perpetual visibility of the church of
Christ: for a mountain upon the top of mouuta»^u8
cannot be bid.

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Idols shall he destroyed

14 And upon all iSae high mountains,
and upon all the elevated hills.

15 And upon every high tower, and
every fenced wall.

16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis,
and upon all that is fair to behold.

17 And the loftiness of men shall be
bowed down, and the haughtiness of
men shall be humbled, and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that day.

18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.

19 "^ And they shall go into the holes of
rocks, and into the caves of the earth
from the face of the fear of the Lord,
and from the glory of his majesty, when
he shall rise up to strike the earth.

20 In that day a man shall cast away
his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which he had made for himself to adore,
moles and bats.

21 And he shall go into the clefts of
rocks, and into the holes of stones from
the face of the fear of the Lord, and
from the glory of his majesty, when he
shall rise up to strike the earth.

22 Cease ye therefore from the man,
whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is
reputed high.

CHAPTER 3.

The confusion and other evils that shall come upon
the Jeivs for their sins. The pride of their women
shall be punished.

FOR behold the sovereign the Lord of
hosts shall take away from Jerusa-
lem, and from Juda the vahant and the
strong, the whole strength of bread, and
the whole strength of water.

2 The strong man, and the man of war,
the judge, and the prophet, and the cun-
ning man, and the ancient.

3 The captain over fifty, and the hon-
ourable in countenance, and the counsel-
lor, and the architect, and the skilful in
eloquent speech.

4 ° And I will give children to be their
princes, and the effeminate shall rule
over them.

5 And the people shall rush one upon
another, and every man against his
neighbour: the child shall make a tu-
mult against the ancient, and the base
against the honourable.

ISAIAS The evils that shall come upon Juda
6 For a man shall take hold of his bro~

n Osce 10. 8 ; I,uke 23. 30 ; Apoc. 6. 16.

Ver. 18. Idols shall be utterly destroyed ; or utterly
pass away. This was verified by the establishment
Of Christianity. And by this and other texts of the
like nature, the wild system of some moderu secta-

ther, one of the house of his father, say-
ing: Thou hast a garment, be thou our
ruler, and let this ruin be under thy
hand.

7 In that day he shall answer, saying:
I am no healer, and in my house there
is no bread, nor clothing : make me not
ruler of the people.

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is
fallen: because their tongue, and their
devices are against the Lord, to provoke
the eyes of his majesty.

9 The shew of their countenance hath
answered them: and they have pro-
claimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and
they have not hid it : woe to their souls,
for evils are rendered to them.

10 Say to the just man that it is well^
for he shall eat the fruit of his do-
ings.

11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for
the reward of his hands shall be given
him.

12 As for my people, their oppressors
have stripped them, and women have
ruled over them. O my people, 2^ they
that call thee blessed, the same de-
ceive thee, and destroy the way of thy
steps.

13 The Lord standeth up to judge, and
he standeth to judge the people. a^

14 The Lord will enter into judgment
with the ancients of his people, and its
princes : for you have devoured the
vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in
your house.

15 Why do you consume my people,
and grind the faces of the poor? saith
the Lord the God of hosts.

16 And the Lord said: Because the
daughters of Sion are haughty, and have
walked with stretched out necks, and
wanton glances of their eyes, and made
a noise as they walked with their feet
and moved in a set pace :

17 The Lord will make bald the crown
of the head of the daughters of Sion, and
the Lord will discover their hair.

18 In that day the Lord will take away
the ornaments of shoes, and Uttle
moons.

o Eccli. 10. IG. — p Ezech. 13. 18.

ries is abunda,ntly confuted, who charge the whole
Christian cliurcli with worsbippiDg idols, for mauy
ages.

763

Remnant of Sion shall be comforted ISAIAS

Parable of the vineyard

19 And chains and necklaces, and brace-
lets, and bonnets,

20 And bodkins, and ornaments of the
legs, and tablets, and sweet balls, and
earrings,

21 And rings, and jewels hanging on
the forehead,

22 And changes of apparel, and short
cloaks, and fine linen, and crisping pins,

23 And looking-glasses, and lawns, and
headbands, and fine veils.

24 And instead of a sweet smell there
shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a
cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness,
and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.

25 Thy fairest men also shall fall by the
sword, and thy valiant ones in battle.

26 And her gates shall lament and
mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the
ground.

CHAPTER 4.

After an extremity of evils that shall fall upon the
Jews, a remrvant shall be comforted by Christ,

AND in that day seven women shall
XjL take hold of one man, saying: We
will eat our own bread, and wear our
own apparel: only let us be called by
thy name, take ?*.way our reproach.

2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall
be in magnificence and glory, and the
fruit of the earth shall be high, and a
great joy to them that shall have es-
caped of Israel.

3 And it shall come to pass, that every
one that shall be left in Sion, and that
shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called
holy, every one that is written in life in
Jerusalem.

4 If the Lord shall wash away the filth
of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash
away the blood of Jerusalem out of the
midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment,
and by the spirit of burning.

5 And the Lord will create upon every
place of mount Sion, and where he is
called upon, a cloud by day, and a smoke
and the brightness of a flaming fire in
the night : for over all the glory shall be
a protection.

6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a
shade in the daytime from the heat, and
for a security and covert from the whirl-
wind, and from rain.

Chap. 4. Ver. 2. The bud of the Lord, That is,
Christ.
CBAi^G. Ver.L Afy cousin. So tbe prophet calls

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CHAPTER 5.

The reprobation of the Jews isforeshewn under the
parable of a vineyard. A woe ic pronounced
against sinners : the army God shall send against
them.

19 WILL sing to my beloved the canticle
of my cousin concerning his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a
fruitful place.

2 And he fenced it in, and picked the
stones out of it, and planted it with the
choicest vines, and built a tower in the
midst thereof, and set up a winepress
therein : and he looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it brought forth
wild grapes.

3 And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusa-
lem, and ye men of Juda, judge between
me and my vineyard.

4 What is there that I ought to do more
to my vineyard, that I have not done to
it? was it that I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, and it hath brought
forth wild grapes ?

6 And now I will shew you what I will
do to my vineyard. I will take away the
hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted : I
will break down the wall thereof, and it
shall be trodden down.

6 And I will make it desolate : it shall
not be pruned, and it shall not be digged:
but briers and thorns shall come up : and
I will command the clouds to rain no rain
upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel : and the man of
Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked
that he should do judgment, and behold
iniquity: and do justice, and behold a
cry.

8 Woe to you that join house to house
and lay field to field, even to the end of
the place : shall you alone dwell in the
midst of the earth ?

9 These things are in my ears, saith the
Lord of hosts: Unless many great and
fair houses shall become desolate, with-
out an inhabitant.

10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield
one little measure, and thirty bushels of
seed shall yield three bushels.

11 Woe to you that rise up early in the
morning to follow drunkenness, and to

q Jer. 2. 21 ; Matt. 21. 33.

Christ, as being of his family and kindred, by de-
scending from the house of David. — Ibid. On a
hiUt&c Literally, in t/ieAor»,tA0 «on «i^otf.

Woe against the sinners

ISAIAS The prophet* s vision of seraphim

drink till the evoning, to b« inflamed
with wine.

12 The harp, and the lyre, and the tim-
brel, and the pipe^ and wine are in your
Leasts I and the work of the Lord you
regard not, nor do you consider the
works of his hands» '*

13 Therefore is my people led away cap-
tive, because they had not knowledge,
and their nobles have perished with fam-
ine, and their multitude were dried up
with thirst.

14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her
soul, and opened her mouth without any
bounds, and their strong ones, and their
people, and their high and glorious ones
shall go down into it.

15 And man - shall be brought down,
and man * shaU be humbled, and the eyes
of the lofty shall be brought low.

16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalt-
ed in judgment, and the holy God shaU
be sanctified in justice.

17 And the lambs shall feed according
to their order, and strangers shall eat the
deserts turned into iruitfulness.

18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with
cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a
cart.

19 That say i Let him make haste, and
let his work come quickly, that we may
see it: and let the counsel of the Holy
One of Israel come, that we may know it.

20 Woe to you that call evil good, and
good evih that put darkness for light,
and hght for darkness : that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

21 ** Woe to you that are wise in your
own eyes, and prudent in your own con-
ceits.

22 Woe to you that are mighty to drink
wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and
lake away the justice of the just from
him.

I 24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire
devoureth the stubble, and the heat of
the flame consumeth it : so shall their

I root be as ashes, and their bud shall go
up as dust : for they have cast away the
law of the Lord of hosts, and have blas-

I phemed the word of the Holy One of Is-

I rael.
25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord

I kindled against his people, and he hath

r Amos 6. 6. —5 That is, mean.
t That is, Qobleman.^« Prov^ 3. 7 s Bom, 12, 16.

stretched out hie hand upon them, and
struck them : and the mountains were
troubled, and their carcasses became as
dung in the midst c the streets. For all
this his anger is noD turned away, but his
hand is stretched out still.

26 And he will lift up a sign to the na-
tions afar off, and will whistle to them
from the ends of the earth : and behold
they shall come with speed swiftly.

27 There is none that shall faint, nor
labour among them : they shall not slum-
ber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of
their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of
their shoes be broken.

28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their
bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses
shall be like the fiint, and their wheels
like the violence of a tempest.

29 Their roaring like that of a Hon,
they shall roar hke young lions : yea
they shall roar, and take hold of the
prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it,
and there shall be none to deliver it.

30 And they shall make a noise against
them that day, hke the roaring of the
sea ; we shall look towards the land, and
behold darkness of tribulation, and the
hght is darkened with the mist thereof.

CHAPTER 6.

A glorious vision, in which the prophet's lips are
cleansed: he foretelleth the obstinacy of the Jews.

IN the year that king Ozias died, ^I
saw the Lord sitting upon a throne
high and elevated : and his train filled
the temple.

2 Upon it stood the seraphims : the one
had six wings, and the other had six
wings : with two they covered his face,
and with two they covered his feet, and
with two they flew.

3 And they cried one to another, and
said : ^ Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God
of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.

4 And the lintels of the doors were
moved at the voice of him that cried,
and the house was filled with smoke.

5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have
held my peace ; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of
a people that hath unclean Hps, and 1
have seen with my eyes the King the
Lord of hosts.

6 And one of the seraphims flew to me,

V B. C. 735.
IV Apoc. 4. 8.

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Obstinacy of the Jews

ISAIAS

Emmanuel

and in his hand was a live coal, which he
had taken with the tongs off the altar.

7 And he touched my mouth, ^ and said :
Behold this hath touched thy lips, and
thy iniquities shall be taken away, and
thy sin shall be cleansed.

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord,
saying : Whom shall I send ? and who
shall go for ua ? And I said : Lo, here am
1, send me.

9 And he said : Go, and thou shalt say
to this people : ^ Hearing, hear, and
understand not : and see the vision, and
know it not.

10 Bhnd the heart of this people, and
make their ears heavy, and shut their
eyes : lest they see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and be converted and I
heal them.

11 And I said: How long, O Lord?
And he said: Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses with-
out man, and the land shall be left
desolate.

12 And the Lord shall remove men far
away, and she shall be multiplied that
was left in the midst of the earth.

13 And there shall be still a tithing
therein, and she shall turn, and shall be
made a show as a turpentine tree, and as
an oak that spreadeth its branches: that
which shall stand therein, shall be a holy
seed.

CHAPTER 7.

The prophet assures king Achaz that the two kings
his enemies shall not take Jerusalem. A virgin
shall conceive and bear a son.

A ND ^ it came to pass in the days of
J\. Achaz the son of Joathan, the son
of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king
of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia
king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to
fight against it : but they could not prevail
over it.

2 And they told the house of David, say-
ing: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim,
and his heart was moved, and the heart
of his people, as the trees of the woods
are moved with the wind.

3 And the Lord said to Isaias : Go forth
to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub thy son
that is left, to the conduit of the upper
pool, " in the way of the fuller's field.

4 And thou shalt say to him: See thou

X Jer. 1.9. — y Matt. 13. 14 ; Mark 4. 12 ; Luke 8. 10 ;
John 12. 40 i Acts 28. 26 i Kom. 11. 8.

be quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart
be afraid of the two tails of these fire-
brands, smoking with the wrath of the
fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of th:
son of Romelia.
6 Because Syria hath taken counsel
against thee, unto the evil oi: Ephraim
and the son of Romelia, sayings

6 Let us go up to Juda, and rouso it up,
and draw it away to us, and make the
son of Tabeel king in the miast thereof.

7 Thus saith the Lord God : It shall not
stand, and this shall not be.

8 But the head of Syria it Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rasin : and
within threescore and five years, Ephraim
shall cease to be a people:

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria the sou of
Romelia. If you wiU not believe^ yoo
shall not continue.

10 And the Lord spoke again to Achaz,
saying:

11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God,
either unto the depth of hell, or unto the
height above.

12 And Achaz said : I will not ask, and I
will not tempt the Lord.

13 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O
house of David : Is it a small thing for
you to be grievous to men, that you are
grievous to my God also ?

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give
you a sign. ^ Behold a virgin shall con-
ceive, and bear a son, and his name shall
be called Emmanuel.

15 He shall eat butter and honey, that
he may know to refuse the evil, and to
choose the good.

16 For before the child know to refuse
the evil, and to choose the good, the
land which thou abhorrest shall be for-
saken of the face of her two kings.

17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and
upon thy people, and upon the house of
thy father, days that have not come since
the time of the separation of Ephraim
from Juda with the king of the Assyrians.

18 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly,
that is in the uttermost parts of the
rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is
in the land of Assyria.

19 And they shall come, and shall all of
them rest in the torrents of the valleys-

z About 733, before the death of Joathan. 4 Kings
16. 15.— a 4 Kings 18. 17.— 6 Matt. 1. 23 ; Luke 1. 31.

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The name of the child

ISAIAS Many evils shall come upon Juda

and in tho holes ot tbe rocks, and upon
all places set with shrubs, and in all
hollow places.

2C In thafc day the Lord shall shave with
a razor tha(i is hired by them that are
beyond the river, by the king of the
AssyrianSg ijhc head and the hairs of the
leet; and the whole beard.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day,
t^iiat a man shall nourish a young cow,
and two sheep.

22 And for the abundance of milk he
shall eat butter: for butter and honey
^all every one eat that shall be left in
^he midst of the land.

23 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that every place where there were a
thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of
silver, shall become thorns and briers.

24 With arrows and with bows they
ohall go in thither : for briers and thorns
shall be in all the land.

26 And as for all the hills that shall be
raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and
briers shall not come thither, but they
shall be for the ox to feed on, and the
lesser cattle to tread upon,

CHAPTER 8.

The name of a child that is to he bom : many evils
shall comeupon the Jews for their sins.

AND the Lord said to me: Take thee a
J\. great book, and write in it with a
man's pen. Take away the spoils with
speed, quickly take the prey.

2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses,
tJrias the priest, and Zacharias the son of
Barachias.

3 And I went to the prophetess, and
she conceived, and bore a son. And the
Lord said to me: Call his name. Hasten
to take away the spoils: Make haste to
take away the prey.

4 For before the child know to call his
fttther and his mother, the strength of
Damascus, and the spoils of Samaria
shall be taken away before the king of
the Assyrians.

5 And the Lord spoke to me again, say-
ing:

6 Forasmuch as this people hath cast
away the waters of Siloe, that go with

ChaPo 8. Ver. 19. Seek of pythons. That is,
people pretending to tell future things by a pro-
phesying spirit Should not the people seek of their
Oodtfor the living of the dead? Here is signified.

silence, and hath rather taken Rasin, :ind
the son of Romelia :

7 Therefore behold the Lord will bring
upon them the waters of the river strong
and many, the king of the Assyrians, and
all his glory: and he shall come up over
all his channels, and shall overflow all
his banks,

8 And shall pass through Juda, over-
flowing, and going over shall reach even
to the neck. And the stretching out of
his wings shall fill the breadth of thy
land, O Emmanuel.

9 Gather yourselves together, O ye peo-
ple, and be overcome, and give ear, all
ye lands afar off : strengthen yourselves,
and be overcome, gird yourselves, and
be overcome.

10 Take counsel together, and it shall
be defeated : speak a word, and it shall
not be done : because God is with us.

11 For thus saith the Lord to me : As
he hath taught me, with a strong arm,
that I should not walk in the way of this
people, saying :

12 Say ye not : A conspiracy : for all
that this people speaketh, is a conspir-
acy: neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid.

13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself:
and let him be your fear, and let him be
your dread.

14 And he shall be a sanctification to
you. ^ But for a stone of stumbling, and
for a rock of offence to the two houses
of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.

15 And very many of them shall stum-
ble and fall, and shall be broken in
pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.

16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law
among my disciples.

17 And I will wait for tho Lord, who
hath hid his face from the house of Ja-
cob, and I will look for him.

18 Behold I and my children, whom the
Lord hath given me for a sign, and for a
wonder in Israel from the Lord of hosts,
who dwelleth in mount Sion.

19 And when they shall say to you:
Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who
mutter in their enchantments : should

c Luke 2. 34 ; Rom. 9. 32 ; 1 Peter 2. 6.

that it is to God we should pray to be directed, and
not to seek of the dead, (that is, of fortune-tellers
dead in sin,) for the health of the living. - ^" "-

767

The birth and reign of Christ

ISAIAS The judgments of God upon Israel

not the people 3eek of their God, for the
dying of the dead?

20 To the law rather, and to the testi-
mony. And if they speak not according
to this word, they shall not have the
morning light.

21 And they shall pass by it, they shall
fall, and be hungry: and when they shall
be hungry, they will be angry, and curse
their king, and their God, and look up-
wards.

22 And they shall look to the earth, and
behold trouble and darkness, weakness
and distress, and a mist following them,
and they cannot fly away from their dis-
tress.

CHAPTER 9.

What joy shall come after afflictions by the birth
and kingdom of Christ ; which shall flourish for
ever. Judgments upon Israel for their sins.

A T '^ the first time the land of Zabulon,
Jl\. and the land of Nephtali was light-
ly touched : and at the last the way of
the sea beyond the Jordan of the Galilee
of the Gentiles was heavily loaded.

2 The people that walked in darkness,
have seen a great hght: to them that
dwelt in the region of the shadow of
death, light is risen.

3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and
hast nsit increased the joy. They shall
rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice
in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice
after taking a prey, when they divide
ate spoils.

4 For the yoke of their burden, and the
rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of
their oppressor thou hast overcome, ^ as
in the day of Madian.

6 For every violent taking of spoils, with
tumult, and garment mingled with blood,
shall be burnt, and be fuel for the fire.

6 For a child is born to us, and a son
is given to us, and the government is
upon his shoulder: and his name shall be
called. Wonderful, Counsellor, God the
Mighty, the Father of the world to come,
the Prince of Peace.

7 His empire shall be multiplied, and
there shall be no end of peace : he shall
Bit upon the throne of David, and upon
his kingdom ; to establish it and strength-
en it with judgment and with justice,
from henceforth and for ever : the zeal
of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

d Matt 4. 15. — e Judges 7. 22.

8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and
it hath lighted upon Israel.

9 And all the people of Ephraim shall
know, and the inhabitants of Samaria
that say in the pride and haughtiness of
their heart :

10 The bricks are fallen down, but we
will build with square stones: they have
cut down the sycamores, but we will
change them for cedars.

11 And the Lord shall set up the ene-
mies of Rasin over him, -^and shall bring
on his enemies in a crowd :

12 The Syrians from the east, and the
PhiUstines from the west : and they
shall devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his indignation is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out
stilL

13 And the people are not returned to
him who hath struck them, and have
not sought after the Lord of hosts.

14 And the Lord shall destroy out of Is-
rael the head and the tail, him that bend-
eth down, and him that holdeth back, in
one day.

15 The aged and honourable, he is the
head: and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he is the tail.

16 And they that call this people bless-
ed, shall cause them to err: and they
that are called blessed, shall be thrown
down headlong.

17 Therefore the Lord shall have no
joy in their young men: neither shall he
have mercy on their fatherless, and
widows: for every one is a hypocrite
and wicked, and every mouth hath
spoken folly. For all this his indigna-
tion is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.

18 For wickedness is kindled as a fire,
it shall devour the brier and the thorn:
and shall kindle in the thicket of the
forest, and it shall be wrapped up in
smoke ascending on high.

19 By the wrath of the Lord of hosts
the land is troubled, and the people shall
be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare
his brother.

20 And he shall turn to the right hand,
and shall be hungry: and shall eat on
the left hand, and shall not be filled*
every one shall eat the flesh of his own
arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim

/4 Kings 16. a

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PVoe to tyrants

ISAIAS The pride of Assyria jynnished

Manasses, and they together shall be
against Juda.

21 After all these things his indignation
is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.

CHAPTER 10.

Woe to the makers of wicked laws. The Assyrians
shall be a rod for punishing Israel: but for their
pride they shall be destroyed: and a remnant of
Israel saved.

'r^TOE to them that make wicked laws :
V T and when they write, write injus-
tice:

2 To oppress the poor in judgment, and
do violence to the cause of the humble
of my people: that widows might be
their prey, and that they might rob the
r'atherless.

3 What will you do in the day of visita-
tion, and of the calamity which cometh
from afar? to whom will ye flee for help?
and where will ye leave your glory ?

4 That you be not bowed down under
the bond, and fall with the slain? In all
these things his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.

5 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod
and the staff of my anger, and my indig-
nation is in their hands.

6 I will send him to a deceitful nation,
and I will give him a charge against the
people of my wrath, to take away the
spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and
to tread them down like the mire of the
streets.

7 But he shall not take it so, and his
heart shall not think so: but his heart
shall be set to destroy, and to cut off
nations not a few.

8 For he shall say:

9 Are nof my princes as so many kings?
is not Calano as Charcamis : and Emath
as Arphad ? is not Samaria as Damascus ?

10 As my hand hath found the king-
doms of the idol, so also their idols of
Jerusalem, and of Samaria.

11 Shall I not, as I have done to Sama-
ria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and
her idols ?

12 And it shall come to pass, that when
the Lord shall have performed all his
works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem,

g 4 Kings 19. 35 ; Infra 37. 36.

Chap. lo. Ver. 22. A remnant of them shall be
converted. This was partly verified in the children
of Israel who remained after the devastations of the
A-ssyrians, in the time of king Ezechias : and partly
vn the conversion of a remnant of the Jews to

I will vioit the fruit of the proud heart
Di th" king of ^ Assyria, and the glory of
the haughtiness of his eyes.

13 For he hath said : By the strength of
my own hand I have done it, and by my
own wisdom I have understood: and I
have removed the bounds of the people,
and have taken the spoils of the princes,
and as a mighty man hath pulled down
them that sat on high.

14 And my hand hath found the strength
of the people as a nest ; and as eggs are
gathered, that are left, so have I gathered
all the earth : and there was none that
moved the wing, or opened the mouth,
or made the least noise.

15 Shall the axe boast itself against him
that cutteth with it? or shall the saw
exalt itself against him by whom it is
drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up
against him that hfteth it up, and a staff
exalt itself, which is but wood.

16 Therefore the sovereign Lord, the
Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among
his fat ones: and uuder his glory shall be
kindled a burning, is it were the burning
of a fire.

17 And the light of Israel shall be as a
fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame :
and his thorns and his briers shall be set
on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.

18 And the glory of his forest, and of
his beautiful hill, shall be consumed from
the fjoul even to the flesh, and he shall
run away through fear.

19 And they that remain of the trees of
his forest shall be so few, that they shall
easily be numbered, a*id a child shall
write them down.

20 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the remnant of Israel and they
that shall escape of the house of Jacob,
shall lean no more upon him that strik-
eth them: but they shall lean upon the
Lord the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

21 The remnant shall be converted, the
remnant, I say, of Jacob, to the mighty
God.

22 ^ For if thy people, O Israel, shall be
as the sand of he sea, a remnant of
them shall be con s^erted, the consumption
abridged shall overflow with justice.

h Infra 11. 11 ; Rom. 9. 27.

the faithful of Christ. — Ibid. The consnmption
abridged, &c. That is, the number of them cut
short, and reduced to few^ shall flourish Id abuo
dance of justice.

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The remnant of Israel savtJ .^^^^^^

23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make
a consumption, and an abridgment in the
midst of all the land.

24 Therefore, thus saith the Lord the
God of hosts : O my people that dwellest
in Sion, be not afraid of the Assyrian:
he shall strike thee with his rod, and he
shall lift up his staff over thee in the
way of Egypt.

25 For yet a little and a very little while,
and my indignation shall cease, and my
wrath shall be upon their wickedness.

26 *And the Lord of hosts shall raise
up a scourge against him, ^ according to
the slaughter of Madian in the rock of
Oreb, and his rod over the sea, and he
shall lift it up in the way of Egypt.

27 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that his burden shall be taken away
from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from
off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrify
at the presence of the oil.

28 He shall come into Aiath, he shall
pass into Magron : at Machmas he shall
lay up his carriages.

29 They have passed in haste, Gaba is
our lodging : Rama was astonished, Gab-
aath of Saul fled away.

30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of
Gallim, attend, O Laisa, poor Anathoth.

31 Medemena is removed : ye inhabit-
ants of Gabim, take courage.

32 It is yet day enough, to remain in
Nobe : he shall shake his hand against
the mountain of the daughter of Sion,
the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts
shall break the earthen vessel with ter-
ror, and the tal' of stature shall be cut
down, and the la)fty shall be humbled.

34 And the thickets of the forest shall
be cut down with iron, and Libanus with
its high ones shall fall.

CHAPTER 11.

Of the spiritual kingdom of Christy to which all
nations shall repair.

A ND ^ there shall come forth a rod out
JljL of the root of Jesse, and a flower
shall rise up ont of his root.

2 And the sp \rit of the Lord shall rest
upon him: th6 spirit of wisdom, and of

The kingdom of Christ

i Infra 3*. 'o6.—j Judges 7. 25.
k Acts 13. 23 ; Infra 53. 2.

Ver. 27. At the presence of the oil. That is, by the
^weet unction of divine mercy.
Voi 28. Into Aiath, &c. Here the prophet de>

understanding, the spirit of counsel, ci::d
ef fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, SiYH^
of godliness.

3 And he shall be filled with the spirit
of the fear of the Lord. He shall not
judge according to the sight of the eyes,
nor reprove according to the hearing of
the ears.

4 But he shall judge the poor with jus-
tice, and shall reprove with equity for
the meek of the earth: ^and he shall
strike the earth with the rod of his
mouth, and with the breath of his lips
he shall slay the wicked.

5 And justice shall be the girdle of his
loins : and faith the girdle of his reins.

6 '"^ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb:
and the leopard shall lie down with the
kid : the calf and the lion, and the sheep
shall abide together, and a little child
shall lead them.

7 The calf and the bear shall feed:
their young ones shall rest together: and
the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on
the hole of the asp : and the weaned
child shall thrust his hand into the den
of the basilisk.

9 They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill
in all my holy mountain, for the earth is
filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as
the covering waters of the sea.

10 '^ In that day the root of Jesse, who
standeth for an ensign of the people, him
the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepul-
chre shall be glorious.

11 And it shall come to pase in that day,
that the Lord shall set his hand the sec-
ond time to possess the remnant of his
people, which shall be left from the
Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from
Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and froi
Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emathf
and from the islands of the sea.

12 And he shall set up a standard unto
the nations, and shall assemble the fugi-f
tives of Israel, and shall gather togethei
the dispersed of Juda from the foU
quarters of the earth,

13 And the envy of Ephraim shall b(
taken away, and the enemies of Judf,
shall perish: Ephraim shall not ,env^

1 2 Thess. 2. 8. — w Infra 65. 25.
n Kom. 15. 12.

scribes the march of the Assyrians under ,<;ennach<
lib; and the terror they should carry with tliem; an
bow they sliould sudd Jiiv be destroyed.

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A canticle of thanksgiving

ISAIAS

The desolation of Babylon

Juda, and Juda shall not fight against
Ephraim.

14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders
of the Philistines by the sea, they to-
gether shall spoil the children of the
east: Edom, and Moab shall be under
the rule of their hand, and the children
of Ammon shall be obedient.

15 And the Lord shall lay waste the
tongue of the sea of Egypt, and shall lift
up his hand over the river in the strength
of his spirit: and he shall strike it in the
seven streams, so that men may pass
through it in their shoes.

16 And there shall be a highway for the
remnant of my people, which shall be
left from the Assyrians: as there was for
Israel in the day that he came up out of
the land of Egypt.

CHAPTER 12.

A canticle of thanksgiving for the benefits of Christ.

AND thou shalt say in that day: I will
xV. give thanks to thee, O Lord, for
thou wast angry with me : thy wrath is
turned away, and thou hast comforted
me.

2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal
confidently, and will not fear : ^ because
the Lord is my strength, and my praise,
and he is become my salvation.

3 You shall draw waters with joy out of
the saviour's fountains :

4 And you shall say in that day: Praise
ye the Lord, and call upon his name:
make his works known among the peo-
ple : remember that his name is high.

5 Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath done
great things : shew this forth in all the
earth.

6 Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation
of Sion : for great is he that is in the
midst of thee, the Holy One of IsraeL

CHAPTER 13.

The desolation of Babylon.

THE burden of Babylon, which Isaias
the son of Amos saw.

2 Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a
banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand,
and let the rulers go into the gates.

3 I have commanded my sanctified ones,
and have called my strong ones in my
wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.

oEx. 15. 2; Ps. 117. 14.
_p Ezech. 32. 7; Joel 2. 10, and 3. 15; Matt. 24. 29 ;

Chap. is. Ver. l.

4 TTie noise of a multitude in the moun-
tains, as it were of many people, the
noise of the sound of kings, of nations
gathered together: the Lord of hosts
hath given charge to the troops of war.

5 To them that come from a country
afar off, from the end of heaven : the
Lord and the instruments of his wrath,
to destroy the whole land.

6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is
near : it shall come as a destruction from
the Lord.

7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and
every heart of man shall melt,

8 And shall be broken. Gripings and
pains shall take hold of them, they shall
be in pain as a woman in labour. Every
one shall be amazed at his neighbour,
their countenances shall be as faces
burnt.

9 Behold, the day of the Lord shall
come, a cruel day, and full of indigna-
tion, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the
land desolate, and to destroy the sinners
thereof out of it.

10 ^ For the stars of heaven, and their
brightness shall not display their light:
the sun shall be darkened in his rising,
and the moon shall not shine with her
Ught.

11 And I will visit the evils of the
world, and against the wicked for their
iniquity: and I will make the pride of
infidels to cease, and will bring down the
aiTogancy of the mighty.

12 A man shall be more precious than
gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

13 For this I will trouble the heaven:
and the earth shall be moved out of her
place, for the indignation of the Lord of
hosts, and for the day of his fierce wrai/h.

14 And they shall be as a doe fleeing
away, and as a sheep : and there shall be
none to gather them together : every
man shall turn to his own people, and
every one shall flee to his own land.

15 Every one that shall be found, shall
be slain : and every one that shall come
to their aid, shall fall by the sword.

16 ^ Their infants shall be dashed in
pieces before their eyes : their houses
shall be pillaged, and their wives shall
be ravished.

17 Behold I will stir up the Medea

Mark la. 24 ; Luke 21. 25.
q Ps. 136. 9.

The burden of Babylon.

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Tiiat is, a prophecy against Babylon,

The restoration of Israel

ISAIAS

Parable against Babylon

against thorn, who shall not seek silver,
nor desire gold:

18 But with their arrows they shall kill
the children, and shall have no pity upon
the sucklings of the womb, and their eye
shall not spare their sons.

19 And that Babylon, glorious among
kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chal-
deans, ''shall be even as the Lord de-
stroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.

20 It shall no more be inhabited for
ever, and it shall not be founded unto
generation and generation : neither shall
the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor
shall shepherds rest there.

21 But wild beasts shall rest there, and
their houses shall be filled with serpents,
and ostriches shall dwell there, and the
hairy ones shall dance there:

22 And owls shall answer one another
there, in the houses thereof, and sirens
in the temples of pleasure.

CHAPTER 14.

The restoration of Israel after their captivity. The
parable or song insulting over the king of Baby-
lon. A prophecy against the Philistines.

HER time is near at hand, and her
days shall not be prolonged. For
the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and
will yet choose out of Israel, and will
make them rest upon their own ground :
and the stranger shall be joined with
them, and shall adhere to the house of
Jacob.

2 And the people shall take them, and
bring them into their place: and the
house of Israel shall possess them in the
land of the Lord for servants and hand-
maids: and they shall make them cap-
tives that had taken them, and shall sub-
due their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that when God shall give thee rest from
thy labour, and from thy vexation, and
from the hard bondage, wherewith thou
didst serve before,

4 Thou Shalt take up this parable against
the king of Babylon, and shalt say : How
is the oppressor come to nothing, the
tribute hath ceased ?

5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the
wicked, the rod of the rulers,

6 That struck the people in wrath with

r Gen. 19. 24.

Chap. 14. Ver. 12. O Lucifer. O day star. All
this, according to the letter, is spoken of the king
Of Babylon. It may also be applied, in a spiritual

an incurable wound, that brought nations
under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel
manner.

7 The whole earth is quiet and still, it is
glad and hath rejoiced.

8 The fir trees also have rejoiced over
thee, and the cedars of Libanus, saying :
Since thou hast slept, there hath none
come up to cut us down.

9 Hell below was in an uproar to meet
thee at thy coming, it stirred up the
giants for thee. All the princes of the
earth are risen up from their thrones, all
the princes of nations.

10 All shall answer, and say to thee:
Thou also art wounded as well as we,
thou art become like unto us.

11 Thy pride is brought down to hell,
thy carcass is fallen down: under thee
shall the moth be strewed, and worms
shall be thy covering.

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning?
how art thou fallen to the earth, that
didst wound the nations ?

13 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God, I will sit
in the mountain of the covenant, in the
sides of the north.

14 I will ascend above the height of the
clouds, I will be like the most High.

15 But yet thou shalt be brought down
to hell, into the depth of the pit.

16 They that shall see thee, shall turn
toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the
man that troubled the earth, that shook
kingdoms,

17 That made the world a wilderness,
and destroyed the cities thereof, that
opened not the prison to his prison-
ers?

18 All the kings of the nations have all
of them slept in glory, every one in his
own house.

19 But thou art cast crut of thy grave,
as an unprofitable branch defiled, and
wrapped up among them that were slain
by the sword, and art gone down to the
bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

20 Thou shalt not keep company witt
them, even in burial : for thou hast de-
..troyed thy land, thou hast slain thy peo

sense, to Lucifer the prince of devils, who wa
created :. bright angel, but fell by pride and reoeJ
lion against God.

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The Assyrian and ihePhilistme ISAIAS

The desolation of Moah

pie : the seed of the wicked shall not be
named for ever.

21 Prepare his children for slaughter
for the iniquity of their fathers : they
shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor
fill the face of the world with cities.

22 And I will rise up against them, saith
the Lord of hosts : and I will destroy the
name of Babylon, and the remains, and
the bud, and the offspring, saith the
Lord.

23 And I will make it a possession for
the ericius and pools of waters, and I will
sweep it and wear it out with a besom,
saith the Lord of hosts.

24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, say-
ing: Surely as I have thought, so shall it
be : and as I have purposed,

25 So shall it fall out : That I will de-
stroy the Assyrian in my land, and upon
my mountains tread him under foot : and
his yoke shall be taken away from them,
and his burden sha^" -:e taken off their
shoulder.

26 This is the counsel, that I have pur-
posed upon all the earth, and this is the
hand that is stretched out upon all na-
tions.

27 For the Lord of hosts hath decreed,
and who can disannul it ? and his hand is
stretched out: and who shall turn it
away ?

28 In the ® year that king Achaz died,
was this burden :

29 Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that
the rod of him that struck thee is broken
in pieces: for out of the root of the ser-
pent shall come forth a basilisk, and his
seed shall swallow the bird.

30 And the firstborn of the poor shall
)e fed, and the poor shall rest with con-
idence : and I will make thy root perish
vith famine, and I will kill thy remnant.

31 Howl, O gate ; cry, O city : all Philis-
ia is thrown down: for a smoke shall
ome from the north, and there is none
hat shall escape his troop.

32 And what shall be answered to the
lessengers of the nations? That the
ord hath founded Sion, and the poor of
is people shall hope in him.

CHAPTER 15.

A prophecy of the desolation of the Modbites.

rriHE burden of Moab. Because in the
X night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is
silent : because the wall of Moab is de-
stroyed in the night, it is silent.

2 The house is gone up, and Dibon to
the high places to mourn over Nabo, and
over Medaba, Moab hath howled : * on all
their heads shall be baldness, and every
beard shall be shaven.

3 In their streets they are girded with
sackcloth : on the tops of their houses,
and in their streets all shall howl and
come down weeping.

4 Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their
voice is heard even to Jasa. For this
shall the well appointed men of Moab
howl, his soul shall howl to itself.

5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars
thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of
three years old : for by the ascent of Luith
they shall go up weeping : and in the way
of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of
destruction.

6 For the waters of Nemrim shall be
desolate, for the grass is withered away,
the spring is faded, all the greenness is
perished.

7 According to the greatness of their
work, is their visitation also : they shall
lead them to the torrent of the willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the
border of Moab: the howling thereof
unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim
the cry thereof.

9 For the waters of Dibon are filled with
blood: for I will bring more upon Dibon:
the lion rpon them that shall flee of
Moab, auvi iipon the remnant of the land.

CHAPTER 16.

The prophet prayeth for ChrisVs coming. The af-
fliction of the Moahites for their j}ri6e.

SEND forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler
of the earth, from Petra of the desert,
to the mount of the daughter of Sion.

2 And it shall come to pass, that as a
bird fleeing away, and as young ones fly-
ing out of the nest, so shall the daughters
of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.

3 Take counsel, gather a council : make
th-^ shadow as the night in the midday:
hide them that flee, and betray not them
that wander about.

4 My fugitives shall dwell with thee : O

s B. C. 727.

t Jer. 48. 37 ; Ezech. 7. 18.

Chap. 15. Ver. 7,

Torrent of the vnllows. That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon : others
render It, a yalley of the ArabiaDS.

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The pride of Moah punished

ISAIAS Judgment on Syria and Israel

Moab, be thou a covert to them from
the face of the destroyer : for the dust
is at an end, the wretch is consumed:
he hath failed, that trod the earth under
foot.

5 And a throne shall be prepared in
mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth
in the tabernacle of David, judging and
seeking judgment and quickly rendering
that which is just.

6 " We have heard of the pride of Moab,
he is exceeding proud : his pride and his
arrogancy, and his indignation is more
than his strength.

7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab,
every one shall howl; to them that re-
joice upon the brick walls, tell ye their
stripes.

8 For the suburbs of Hesebon are deso-
late, and the lords of the nations have
destroyed the vineyard of Sabama : the
branches thereof have reached even to
Jazer ; they have wandered in the wil-
derness, the branches thereof are left,
they are gone over the sea.

9 Therefore I wiU lament with the weep-
ing of Jazer the vineyard of Sabama : I
will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon,
and Eleale : for the voice of the treaders
hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and
upon thy harvest.

10 And gladness and joy shall be taken
away from Carmel, and there shall be no
rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards.
He shall not tread out wine in the press
that was wont to tread it out : the voice
of the treaders I have taken away.

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like
a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for
the brick wall.

12 And it shall come to pass, when it is
seen that Moab is wearied on his high
places, that he shall go in to his sanctu-
aries to pray, and shall not prevail.

13 This is the word, that the Lord spoke
to Moab from that time:

14 And now the Lord hath spoken, say-
ing : In three years, as the years of a
hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken
away for all the multitude of the people,
and it shall be left small and feeble, not
many.

CHAPTER 17.

TJie

Judgments upon Damasctis and Sa/maricu
overthrow of the Assyrians.

THE burden of Damascus. Behold Da-
mascus shall cease to be a city, and
shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.

2 The cities of Aroer shall be left for
flocks, and they shall rest there, and
there shall be none to make them afraid,

3 And aid shall cease from Ephraim, and
the kingdom from Damascus : and the
remnant of Syria shall be as the glory of
the children of Israel: saith the Lord of
hosts.

4 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the glory of Jacob shall be made
thin, and the fatness of his flesh shaU
grow lean.

6 And it shall be as when one gathereth
in the harvest that which remaineth, and
his arm shall gather the ears of corn : and
it shall be as he that seeketh ears in the
vale of Raphaim.

6 And the fruit thereof that shall be left
upon it, shall be as one cluster of grapes,
and as the shaking of the olive tree, two
or three berries in the top of a bough, op
four or five upon the top of the tree, saith
the Lord the God of Israel.

7 In that day man shall bow down him-
self to his Maker, and his eyes shall loob
to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look to the altars
which his hands made : and he shall not
have respect to the things that his fingers
wrought, such as groves and temples.

9 In that day his strong cities shall be
forsaken, as the ploughs, and the corn
that were left before the face of the
children of Israel, and thou shalt b€|
desolate.

10 Because thou hast forgotten God thj,
saviour, and hast not remembered thj|
strong helper: therefore shalt thou plan
good plants, and shalt sow strange seed

11 In the day of thy planting shall b
the wild grape, and in the morning th
seed shall flourish: the harvest is take
away in the day of inheritance, and sha
grieve thee much.

12 Woe to the multitude of many peopl'
like the multitude of the roaring sei

u .ler. 48. 29.

Chap. 16. Ver. 10. Carmel. This name is often
taken to signify a fair and fruitful hill or field, such
as mount Carmel is. , , ,.

Chap. 17. Ver. 9. That, were left, viz., by the

Chanaanites, when the children of Israel came iu,
their land. „, . j „n fiJ

Ver. 12. The wnUifudc, &c. This and all tn(
follows to the end of the chapter, relates to the i
S3rrian army imder Sennacherib.

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Woe to the Ethiopians

ISAIAS

The punishme7it of Egypt

and the tumult of crowds, like the noise
of many waters.

13 Nations shall make a noise like tho
noise of waters overflowing, but he shall
rebuke him, and he shall flee far off : and
he shall be carried away as the dust of
the mountains before the wind, and as a
whirlwind before a tempest.

14 In the time of the evening, behold
there shall be trouble : the morning shall
come, and he shall not be: this is the
portion of them that have wasted us, and
the lot of them that spoiled us.

CHAPTER 18.

d woe to the Ethiopians, who fed Israel with vain
hopes, their future conversion.

WOE to the land, the winged cymbal,
which is beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia,

2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea,
and in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation
rent and torn in pieces : to a terrible
people, after which there is no other: to
a nation expecting and trodden under
foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

3 All ye inhabitants of the world, who
dwell on the earth, when the sign shall
be lifted up on the mountains, you shall
see, and you shall hear the sound of the
trumpet.

4 For thus saith the Lord to me : I will
bake my rest, and consider in my place,
as the noon light is clear, and as a cloud
of dew in the day of harvest.

5 For before the harvest it was all flour-
ishing, and it shall bud without perfect
ripeness, and the sprigs thereof shall
be cut off with pruning hooks : and what
is left shall be cut away and shaken
out.

6 And they shall be left together to the
birds of the mountains, and the beasts of
the earth: and the fowls shall be upon
them all the summer, and all the beasts
of the earth shall winter upon them.

] 7 At that time shall a present be brought
to the Lord of hosts, from a people rent
and torn in pieces : from a terrible peo-
ple, after which there hath been no other :
fiom a nation expecting, expecting and
tirodden under foot, whose land the rivers
have spoiled, to the place of the name of
the Lord of hosts, to mount Sion.

CHAPTER 19.

The jiunishment of Egypt : their call to the church.

THE burden of Egypt. Behold the
Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud,
and will enter into Egypt, and the idols
of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,
and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the
midst thereof.

2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight
against the Egyptians : and they shall
fight brother against brother, and friend
against friend, city against city, kingdom
against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken
in the bowels thereof, and I will cast
down their counsel: and they shall con-
sult their idols, and their diviners, and
their wizards, and soothsayers.

4 And I will deliver Egypt into the
hand of cruel masters, and a strong king
shall rule over them, saith the Lord the
God of hosts.

5 And the water of the sea shall be dried
up, and the river shall be wasted and dry.

6 And the rivers shall fail : the streams
of the banks shall be diminished, and be
dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall
wither away.

7 The channel of the river shall be laid
bare from its fountain, and every thing
sown by the water shall be dried up, it
shall wither away, and shall be no more.

8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all
that cast a hook into the river shall
lament, and they that spread nets upon
the waters shall languish away.

9 They shall be confounded that wrought
in fiax, combing and weaving fine linen.

10 And its watery places shall be dry,
all they shall mourn that made pools to
take fishes.

11 The princes of Tanis are become
fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have
given foolish counsel : how will you say
to Pharao : I am the son of the wise, the
son of ancient kings ?

12 Where are now thy wise men ? let
them tell thee, and shew what the Lord
of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

13 The princes of Tanis are become
fools, the princes of Memphis are gone
astray, they have deceived Egypt, the
stay of the people thereof.

14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst

Chap. 18. Ver. 2. Angels. Or messengers.
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Egypt shall turn to the Lord

tiicireof the spirit of giddiness : apd they
have caused Egypt to err in all its works, ac
a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.

15 And there shall be no work for Egypt,
to make head or tail, him that bendeth
down, or that holdeth back.

16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto
women, and they shall be amazed, and
afraid, because of the moving of the hand
of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move
over it.

17 And the land of Juda shall be a terror
to Egypt: everyone that shall remember
it shall tremble because of the counsel of
the Lord of hosts, which ho nath deter-
mined concerning it.

18 ^ In that day there shall be tive cities
in the land of Egypt, speaking the lan-
guage of Chanaan, and swearing by the
Lord of hosts; one shall be called the
city of the sun.

19 In that day there shall be an altar of
the Lord in the midst of the land of
Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at
the borders thereof :

20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testi-
mony to the Lord of hosts in the land of
Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord
because of the oppressor, and he shall
Bend them a Saviour and a defender to
deliver them.

21 And the Lord shall be known by
Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the
Lord in that day, and shall worship him
with sacrifices and offerings : and they
shall make vows to the Lord, and per-
form them.

22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with
a scourge, and shall heal it, and they
shall return to the Lord, and he shall be
pacified towards them, and heal them.

23 In that day there shall be a way from
Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian
shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian
to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall
serve the Assyrian.

24 In that day shall Israel be the third
to the Egyptian and the Assyrian: a
blessing in the midst of the land,

25 Which the Lord of hostB hath blessed,
saying : Blessed be my people of Egypt,
and the work of my hands to the As-
syrian : but Israel is my inheritance.

V Ezech, cap, 30. — w Sargon B. C. 722-705.

Chap. 21. Ver. 1. The desert of the sea. So Baby-
(oii is here called, because from a dty as full of

ISAIAS Captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia

CHAPTER 20. "

The ignominious captivity of the Egyptians^ and tht
Ethiopians.

IN ^'^the year that Tharthan entered
into Azotus, when Sa^cgon the king of
the Assyrians had sent Idm, and he had
fought against Azotus, ind had taken
it:

2 At that same time the Lord spoke by
the hand of Isaias the son of Amos, say-
ing : ^ Go, and loose the sackcloth from
off thy loins, and take off thy shoes from
thy feet. And he did so, and went
naked, and barefoot.

3 And the Lord said : As my servant
Isaias hath walked, naked and barefoot,
it shall be a sign and a wonder of three
years upon Egypt, and upon Ethiopia,

4 So shall the king of the Assyrians lead
away the prisoners of Egypt, and the
captivity of Ethiopia, young and old,
naked and barefoot, with their buttocks
uncovered to the shame of Egypt.

5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed
of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt
their g? :)ry. i

6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall |
say in that day : Lo this was our hope,
to whom we fled for help, to deliver us
from the face of the king of the Assyri-
ans : and how shall we be able to escape?,

CHAPTER 21. I

The destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Per-\
sians : a prophecy against the Edomites and the]
Arabians.

THE burden of the desert of the sea.
As whirlwinds come from the south,!
it Cometh from the desert from a terribk,
land.

2 A grievous vision is told me : he thalj
is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully : and h(
that is a spoiler, spoileth. Go up, Q
Elam, besiege, O Mede : I have made al
the mourning thereof to cease.

3 Therefore are my loins filled witl
pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, a
the anguish of a woman in labour : I fel
down at the hearing of it, I was trouble»
at the seeing of it.

4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me
Babylon my beloved is become a wonde
to me.

6 Prepare the table, behold in the watcl

X Zach, 13, 4 ; Matt. 3. 4.

people as the sea is with water, it was become
Ver. 2. OElam. That is. O Persia.

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Babylon, Edom, and Arabia

ISAIAS

The devastation of Juda

tower them that eat and drink : arise, ye
princes, take up the shield.

6 For thus hath the Lord said to me :
Go, and set a watchman : and whatsoever
he shall see, let him tell.

7 And he saw a chariot with two horse-
men, a rider upon an ass, and a rider
upon a camel : and he beheld them dili-
gently with much heed.

8 And a lion cried out: I am upon the
watchtower of the Lord, standing con-
tinually by day : y and I am upon my
wrard, standing whole nights.

9 Behold this man cometh, the rider
iCipon the chariot with two horsemen,
md he answered, and said : ^ Babylon is
fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven
»ods thereof are broken unto the ground.

10 O my thrashing, and the children of
ny floor, that which I have heard of the
liord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have
ieclared unto you.

11 The burden of Duma calleth to me
)ut of Seir: Watchman, what of the
light ? watchman, what of the night ?

12 The watchman said : The morning
jometh, also the night : if you seek, seek :
•eturn, come.

13 The burden in Arabia. In the forest
it evening you shall sleep, in the paths
i>f Dedanim.

14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water,
'ou that inhabit the land of the south,
Qeet with bread him that fleeth.

16 For they are fled from before the
words, from the sword that hung over
hem, from the bent bow, from the face
I'f a grievous battle.

16 For thus saith the Lord to me : With-
1 a year, according to the years of a
ireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be
aken away.

17 And the residue of the number of
brong archers of the children of Cedar
hall be diminished: for the Lord the God
f Israel hath spoken if.

CHAPTER 22.

he prophet laments the devastation of Juda. He
foretells the deprivation of Sohna,a.nd the substi-
tution of Eliacim, a figure of Christ.

y Hab. 2. 1.
2 Jer. 51. 8: Apoc. 14.8.

|Ver. 7. A rider upon an ass, &c. These two
ders are the kings of the Persians and Medes.
Ver. 8. And a lion cried out. That is, I Isaias
eing the approachiug ruin of Babylon, have cried
it as a lion roaring.

Ver. 11. Duma. That is, Idumea, or Edom.
Ver. 16. Cedar: Arabia.

THE burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee also, that thou too
art wholly gone up to the housetops ?

2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a
joyous city : thy slain are not slain by the
sword, nor dead in battle.

3 All the princes are fled together, and
are bound hard: all that were found, are
bound together, they are fled far off.

4 Therefore have I said: Depart from
me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to
comfort me, for the devastation of the
daughter of my people.

6 For it is a day of slaughter and of tread-
ing down, and of weeping to the Lord
the God of hosts in the valley of vision,
searching the wall, and magnificent upon
the mountain.

6 And Elam took the quiver, the chariot
of the horseman, and the shield was
taken down from the wall.

7 And thy choice valleys shall be full of
chariots, and the horsemen shall place
themselves in the gate.

8 And the covering of Juda shall be
discovered, and thou shalt see in that
day the armoury of the house of the
forest.

9 And you shall see the breaches of the
city of David, that they are many: and
you have gathered together the waters
of the lower pool,

10 And have numbered the houses of
Jerusalem, and broken down houses to
fortify the wall.

11 " And you made a ditch between the
two walls for the water of the old pool :
and you have not looked up to the maker
thereof, nor regarded him even at a dis-
tance, that wrought it long ago.

12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in
that day shall call to weeping, and to
mourning, to baldness, and to girding
with sackcloth :

13 And behold joy and gladness, killing
calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh,
and drinking wine : ^ Let us eat and
drink ; for to morrow we shall die.

14 And the voice of the Lord of hosts
was revealed in my ears : Surely this in-

a 4 Kings 20. 20 ; 2 Par. 32. 30.
b Wisd. 2. 6 ; Infra 56. 12 ; 1 Cor. 15. .32.

Chap. 22, Ver. 1. The valley o/ vision. Jerusa.
lem. The temple of .Jerusalem was built upon mount
Moria, or the mountain of vision. But the city is
here called the valley of vision ; either because it
was lower than the temple, or because of the low
couditioo to wMch it was to be reduced.

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Sobna deposed, Eliacim chosen TSAIAS

Destruction of Tyre

iquity shall not be forgiven you till you
die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

16 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts:
Go, get thee in to him that dwelleth in
the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the
temple : and thou shalt say to him :

16 What dost thou here, or as if thou
wert somebody here? for thou hast
hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou
hast hewed out a monument carefully in
a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a
rock.

17 Behold the Lord will cause thee to be
carried away, as a cock is carried away,
and he will lift thee up as a garment.

18 He will crown thee with a crown of
tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball
into a large and spacious country : there
shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot
of thy glory be, the shame of the house
of thy Lord.

19 And I will drive thee out from thy
station, and depose thee from thy min-
istry.

20 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will call my servant Eliacim the
son of Helcias,

21 And I will clothe him with thy robe,
and will strengthen him with thy girdle,
and will give thy power into his nand :
and he shall be as a father to the inhab-
itants of Jerusalem, and to the house of
Juda.

22 ^ And I will lay the key of the house
of David upon his shoulder: and he shall
open, and none shall shut: and he shall
shut, and none shall open.

23 And I will fasten him as a peg in a
sure place, and he shall be for a throne
of glory to the house of his father.

24 And they shall hang upon him all the
glory of his father's house, divers kinds
of vessels, every little vessel, from the
vessels of cups even to every instrument
of music.

25 In that day, saith the Lord of nosts,
shall the peg be removed, that was fas-
tened in the sure place : and it shall be
broken and shal] fall : and that which
hung thereon, shall perish, because the
Lord hath spoken it.

CHAPTER 23.

0 he destnicflryn of Tyre. It shall be repaired again
after seventy years.

THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of
the sea, for the house is destroyed,
from whence they were wont to come :
from the land of Cethim it is revealed to
them.

2 Be silent, you that dwell in the island :
the merchants of Sidon passing over the
sea, have filled thee.

3 The seed of the Nile in many waters,
the harvest of the river is her revenue:
and she is become the mart of the
nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Sidon: for the
sea speaketh, even the strength of the
sea, saying : I have not been in labour,
nor have I brought forth, nor have I
nourished up young men, nor brought
up virgins.

5 When it shall be heard in Egypt, they
will be sorry when they shall hear of
Tyre:

6 Pass over the seas, howl, ye inhabitants
of the island.

7 Is not this your city, which gloried
from of old in her antiquity? her feet
shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

8 Who hath taken this counsel against
Tyre, that was formerly crowned, whose
merchants were princes, and her traders
the nobles of the earth ?

9 The Lord of hosts hath designed it, to
pull down the pride of all glory, and
bring to disgrace all the glorious ones of
the earth.

10 Pass thy land as a river, O daughter
of the sea, thou hast a girdle no more.

11 He stretched out his hand over the
sea, he troubled kingdoms : the Lord
hath given a charge against Chanaan, to
destroy the strong ones thereof.

12 And he said : Thou shalt glory no
more, O virgin daughter of Sidon, who!
art oppressed : arise and sail over to
Cethim, there also thou shalt have no
rest.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans,
there was not such a people, the Assyr-
ian founded it : they have led away the
strong ones thereof into captivity, they
have destroyed the houses thereof, they
have brought it to ruin.

14 Howl, O ye ships of the sea, for yoiu
strength is laid waste.

15 And it shall come to pass in that da]
that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotteii

• Apoo. 3. 7 ; Job 12. 14.

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Desolation of the earth

seventy years, according to the days of
one king : but after seventy years, there
shall be unto Tyre as the song of a
harlot.

16 Take a harp, go about the city, thou
larlot that hast been forgotten : sing
«rell, sing many a song, that thou mayst
36 remembered.

17 And it shall come to pass after sev-
mty years, that the Lord will visit Tyre,
ind will bring her back again to her
raflBc : and she shall commit fornication
gain with all the kingdoms of the world
ipon the face of the earth.

18 And her merchandise and her hire
hall be sanctified to the Lord: they shall
ot be kept in store, nor laid up : for her
lerchandise shall be for them that shall
well before the Lord, that they may eat
nto fulness, and bo clothed for a con-
nuance.

CHAPTER 24.

he judgments of God upon all the sinners of the
world. A remnant shall joyfully jxraise him.

3EH0LD the Lord shall lay waste the
earth, and shall strip it, and shall
Bict the face thereof, and scatter abroad
16 inhabitants thereof.
} ^ And it shall be as with the people,
> with the priest: and as with the ser-
mt, so with his master : as with the
indmaid, so with her mistress : as with
e buyer, so with the seller: as with the
Qder, so with the borrower: as with him

at calleth for his money, so with him
at oweth.

With desolation shall the earth be laid

iste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for
18 Lord hath spoken this word.

The earth mourned, and faded away,
id is weakened: the world faded away,
1 3 height of the people of the earth is
^ akened.

And the earth is infected by the in-
1 jitants thereof : because they have
t nsgressed the laws, they have changed
ti ordinance, they have broken the
e ^Hasting covenant.

Therefore shall a curse devour the
eth, and the inhabitants thereof shall
B : and therefore they that dwell there-
in shall be mad, and few men shall be

ISAIAS The remnant shall praise God

hath languished away, all the merry-
hearted have sighed.

8 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased,
the noise of them that rejoice is ended,
the melody of the harp is silent.

9 They shall not drink wine with a
song : the drink shall be bitter to them
that drink it.

10 The city of vanity is broken down,
every house is shut up, no man cometh
in.

11 There shall be a crying for wine in
the streets : all mirth is forsaken : the
joy of the earth is gone away.

12 Desolation is left in the city, and
calamity shall oppress the gates.

13 For it shall be thus in the midst of
the earth, in the midst of the people, as
if a few olives, that remain, should be
shaken out of the ohve tree : or grapes,
when the vintage is ended.

14 These shall lift up their voice, and
shall give praise : when the Lord shall be
glorified, they shall make a joyful noise
from the sea.

15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in in-
struction: the name of the Lord God of
Israel in the islands of the sea.

16 From the ends of the earth we have
heard praises, the glory of the just one.
And I said: My secret to myself, my
secret to myself, woe is me : the prevari-
cators have prevaricated, and with the
prevarication of transgressors they have
prevaricated.

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are
upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the
eartho

18 And it shall come to pass, ^that he
that shall flee from the noise of the fear,
shall fall into the pit: and he that shall
rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken
in the snare : for the flood-gates from on
high are opened, and the foundations of
the earth shall be shaken.

19 With breaking shall the earth be
broken, with crushing shall the earth be
crushed, with trembling shall the earth
be moved.

20 With shaking shall the earth be
shaken as a drunken man, and shall be
rjmoved as the tent of one night: and

; the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon
^The vintage hath mourned, the vine [ it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

c:Oc;e'i. 9.

e Jer. 48. 44.

Ch.*Pc'^3. Ver. 18. Saricti/ied to the Lard. Tfais aUades to the conversion of the Gentiles.

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Canticle of praise to God

ISAIAS

Confidence in God

21 And it -hail come to pass, that in
that day the Lord shall visit upon tho
host of heaven on high, and upon the
kings of the earth, on the earth.

22 And they shall be gathered together
as in the gathering of one bundle into
the pit, and they shall be shut up there
in prison : and after many days they
shall be visited.

23-^ And the moon shall blush, and the
sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of
hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in
Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the
sight of his ancients.

CHAPTER 26.

A canticle of thanksgiving for God^s judgments and

benefits.

OLORD, thou art my God, I will exalt
thee, and give glory to thy name:
for thou hast done wonderful things, thy
designs of old faithful, amen.

2 For thou hast reduced the city to a
heap, the strong city to ruin, the house
of strangers, to be no city, and to be no
more built up for ever.

3 Therefore shall a strong people praise
thee, the city of mighty nations shall
fear thee.

4 Because thou hast been a strength to
the poor, a strength to the needy in his
distress : a refuge from the whirlwind, a
shadow from the heat. For the blast of
the mighty is like a whirlwind beating
against a wall.

5 Thou Shalt bring down the tumult of
strangers, as heat in thirst : and as with
heat under a burning cloud, thou shalt
make the branch of the mighty to wither
away.

6 And the Lord of hosts shall make unto
all people in this mountain, a feast of fat
things, a feast of wine, of fat things full
of marrow, of wine purified from the
lees.

7 And he shall destroy in this mountain
the face of the bond with which all peo-
ple were tied, and the web that he began
over all nations.

8 He shall cast death down headlong for
ever : ^ and the Lord God shall wipe away
tears from every face, and the reproach

/ Joel 2. 31 ; Acts 2. 20.

Chap. 24. Ver. 21. The host of heaven on high.
The stars, which in many places of the Scripture are
BO called. 8ome commentators explain that these
words here signify the demons of the air.

of his people ho shall take away from
off the whole earth : for the Lord hath
spoken it.

9 And they shall say in that day: Lo,
this is our God, we have waited for him,
and he will save us : this is the Lord, we
have patiently waited for him, we shall
rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.

10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest
in this mountain: and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, as straw it
broken in pieces with the wain.

11 And he shall stretch forth his hands
under him, as he that swimmeth stretch-
eth forth his hands to swim: and he
shall bring down his glory with the dash-
ing of his hands.

12 And the bulwarks of thy high walls
shall fall, and be brought low, and shall
be pulled down to the ground, even to
the dust.

CHAPTER 26.

A canticle of thanks for the deliverance of Go^$
people.

IN that day shall this canticle be sung
in the land of Juda. Sion the city of
our strength a saviour, a wall and a bul-
wark shall be set therein.

2 Open ye the gates, and let the just
nation, that keepeth the truth, enter in.

3 The old error is passed away: then
wilt keep peace : peace, because we have
hoped in thee.

4 You have hoped in the Lord for ever-
more, in the Lord God mighty for ever.

5 For he shall bring down them that
dwell on high, the high city he shall lay
low. He shall bring it down even to the
ground, he shall pull it down even to the
dust.

6 The foot shall tread it down, the feet
of the poor, the steps of the needy.

7 The way of the just is right, the path
of the just is right to walk in.

8 And in the way of thy judgments, 0
Lord, we have patiently waited for thee:
thy name, and thy remembrance are the
desire of the soul.

9 My soul hath desired thee in the
night: yea, and with my spirit within
me in the morning early I will watch to
thee. When thou shalt do thy judg-

g Apoc. 7. 17, and 21. 4.

Chap. 25. Ver.io. Moah. That is, the reprobate,
whose eternal punishment, from which they can DO
way escape, is described under these figureSi

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God's favor to His people

ISAIAS

God*s care for His vineyard

ments on the earth, the inhabitants of
the world shall learn justice.

10 Let us have pity on the wicked, but
he will not learn justice : in the land of
the saints he hath done wicked things,
and he shall not see the glory of the
Lord.

11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and
let them not see : let the envious people
see, and be confounded : and let fire de-
vour thy enemies.

12 Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for
thou hast wrought all our works for us.

13 O Lord our God, other lords besides
thee have had dominion over us, only in
thee let us remember thy name.

14 Let not the dead live, let not the
giants rise again: therefore hast jhou
visited and destroyed them, and nast
destroyed all their memory.

15 Thou hast been favourable to the
nation, O Lord, thou hast been favour-
able to the nation: art thou glorified?
thou hast removed all the ends of the
earth far off.

16 Lord, they have sought after thee in
distress, in the tribulation of murmuring
thy instruction was with them.

17 As a woman with child, when she
draweth near the time of her delivery,
is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs:
BO are we become in thy presence, O
Lord.

18 We have conceived, and been as it
were in labour, and have brought forth
wind: we have not wrought salvation on
the earth, therefore the inhabitants of
the earth have not fallen.

19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain
shall rise again: awake, and give praise,
ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew
is the dew of the light : and the land of
the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

Chap. 26. Ver. 21. Shall cover her slain no more.
This is said with relation to the martyrs, and their
happy resurrection.

Chap. 27. Ver. 1. Leviathan. That is, the devil,
the great enemy of the people of God. He is called
the bar serpent from his strength, and the crooked
serpent from his wiles •, and the whale of the sea,
from the tyranny he exercises in the sea oi this
world. He was spiritually slain by the death of
Christ, when his power was destroyed.

Ver. 2. The vineyard, &c. The church of Christ

Ver. 3. / loill suddenly give it drink. Or, as the
Hebrew may also be rendered, I will continually
water it

Ver. 4. No indignation in me, &a Viz., against
the church : nor shall I become as a thorn or brier
In its regard-* or march against it, or set it on Jire^

20 Go, my people, enter into thy cham-
bers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thy-
self a Uttle for a moment, until the in-
dignation pass away,

21 ^ For behold the Lord will come out
of his place, to visit the iniquity of the
inhabitant of the earth against him: and
the earth shall disclose her blood, and
shall cover her slain no more.

CHAPTER 27.

The punishment of the oppressors of God's people.
The Lord's favour to his church.

IN that day the Lord with his hard,
and great, and strong sword shall
visit leviathan the bar serpent, and le-
viathan the crooked serpent, and shall
slay the whale that is in the sea.

2 In that day there shaU be singing to
the vineyard of pure wine.

3 I am the Lord that keep it, I will sud-
denly give it drink : lest any hurt come
to it, I keep it night and day.

4 There is no indignation in me : who
shall make me a thorn and a brier in
battle : shall I march against it, shall I
set it on fire together?

6 Or rather shall it take hold of my
strength, shall it make peace with me,
shall it make peace with me ?

6 When they shall rush in unto Jacob,
Israel shall blossom and bud, and they
shall fill the face of the world with seed.

7 Hath he struck him according to the
stroke of him that struck him? or is he
slain, as he killed them that were slain
by him?

8 In measure against measure, when it
shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He
hath meditated with his severe spirit in
the day of heat,

9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity
of the house of Jacob be forgiven : and

h Mich. 1. 3.

but it shall always take fast hold of me, and keep an
everlasting peace with me.

Ver. 6. When they shall rush in, Sid. Some under-
stand this of the enemies of the true Israel, that shall
Invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual invasion
made by the apostles of Christ.

Ver, 7= Hath he struck him, &c. Hath God pun»
Ished the carnal persecuting Jews, in proportion to
their doings against Christ and his saints?

Ver. 8, When it shall be cast of, &c. When the
synagogue shall be cast off, thou" shalt judge it in
measure, and in proportion to its crimes, — Ibid, He
hath meditated, &c. God hath designed severe pun^
ishments in the day of his wrathc

Ver. 9o Of the house of Jacob, Viz*, o£ sucli of
them as shall be converted.

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God shall gather his people again ISAIAS

Infidelity of the Jews

this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof
should be taken away, when he shall
have made all the stones of the altar, as
burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves
and temples shall not stand.

10 For the strong city shall be desolate,
the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and
shall be left as a wilderness: there the
calf shall feed, and there shall he lie
down, and shall consume its branches.

11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with
drought, women shall come and teach it:
for it is not a wise people, therefore he
that made it, shall not have mercy on it:
and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

12 And it shall come to pass, that in
that day the Lord will strike from the
channel of the river even to the torrent
of Egypt, and you shall be gathered to-
gether one by one, 0 ye children of
Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass, that in
that day a noise shall be made with a
great trumpet, and they that were lost,
shall come from the land of the Assyrians,
and they that were outcasts in the land
of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord
in the holy mount in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 28.

The punishment of the Israelites, for their pride,
intemperance, and contempt of religion. Christ
the corner stone.

WOE to the crown of pride, to the
drunkards of Ephraim, and to the
fading flower the glory of his joy, who
were on the head of the fat valley, stag-
gering with wine.

2 Behold the Lord is mighty and strong,
as a storm of hail: a destroying whirl-
wind, as the violence of many waters
overflowing, and sent forth upon a spa-
cious land.

3 The crown of pride of the drunkards
of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet.

4 J^d. the fading flower the glory of his
joy, who is on the head of the fat valley,
shall be as a hasty fruit before the ripe-
ness of autumn: which when he that
seeth it shall behold, as soon as he taketh
it in his hand, he will eat it up.

i 1 Cor. 14. 21.— j Ps. 117. 22 ; Matt. 21. 42.

Ver, 10. The strong city. Jerusalem.

Ver. 13. A great trumpet. The preaching of the
gospel for the conversion of the Jews.

Chap. 28. Ver. 1. Ephraim. That is, the king-
dom of the ten tribes. — Ibid. The head of the fat
valley. Samaria, situate on a hill, having under it a
most fertile valley.

5 In that day the Lord of hosts shall be
a crown of glory, and a garland of joy to
the residue of his people:

6 And a spirit of judgment to him that
sitteth in judgment, and strength to
them that return out of the battle to the
gate.

7 But these also have been ignorant
through wine, and through drunkenness
have erred: the priest and the prophet
have been ignorant through drunkenness,
tV'^y are swallowed up with wine, they
have gone astray in drunkenness, they
have not known him that seeth, they
have been ignorant of judgment.

8 For all tables were full of vomit and
filth, so that there was no more place.

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and
whom shall he make to understand the
hearing? them that are weaned from the
milk, that are drawn away from the
breasts.

10 For command, command again; com-
mand, command again; expect, expect
again; expect, expect again: a little
there, a little there.

11 * For with the speech of lips, and
with another tongue he will speak to this
people.

12 To whom he said: This is my rest,
refresh the weary, and this is my refresh-
ing: and they would not hear.

13 And the word of the Lord shall be to
them: Command, command again: com-
mand, command again: expect, expect
again ; expect, expect again : a little there,
a little there : that they may go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared,
and taken.

14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord,
ye scornful men, who rule over my people
that is in Jerusalem.

15 For you have said : We have entered
into a league with death, and we have
made a covenant with hell. When the
overflowing scourge shall pass through,
it shall not come upon us: for we have
placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood
we are protected.

16 :? Therefore thus saith the Lord God:

Acts 4. 11 ; Rom. 9. 33 ; 1 Peter 2. 6.

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Ver. 7. These also. The kingdom of Juda.

Ver. 10. Commamd, command again, &c. This is
said in the person of the Jews, resisting the repeated
commands of God, and still putting him off.

Ver. 16. A stone in the foundations, viz., Christ. —
Ibid. Let him not hapten, &c. Let him expect his
coming with patience.

Christ the cornerstone

ISAIAS God^s judgment upon Jerusalem

Behold I will lay a stone in the founda-
tions of Sion, a tried stone, a corner
stone, a precious stone, founded in the
foundation. He that beheveth, let him
not hasten.

17 And I will set judgment in weight,
and justice in measure : and hail shall
overturn the hope of falsehood: and
waters shall overflow its protection.

18 And your league with death shall be
abolished, and your covenant with hell
shall not stand : when the overflowing
scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden
down by it.

19 Whensoever it shall pass through, it
shall take you away: because in the
morning early it shall pass through, in
the day and in the night, and vexation
alone shall make you understand what
you hear,

20 For the bed is straitened, so that one
must fall out, and a short covering can-
not cover both.

21 *! For the Lord shall stand up as in
the mountain of divisions: ^he shall be
angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon :
that he may do his work, his strange
work : that he may perform his work, his
<vork is strange to him.

22 And now do not mock, lest your
bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of
the Lord the God of hosts a consumption
and a cutting short upon all the earth.

23 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken,
and hear my speech.

24 Shall the ploughman plough all the
c'ay to sow, shall he open and harrow his
ground?

25 Will he not, when he hath made plain
the surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter
cummin, and put wheat in order, and
barley, and millet, and vetches in their
bounds ?

26 For he will instruct him in judgment :
his God will teach him.

27 For gith shall not be thrashed with
saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn
about upon cummin: but gith shall be
beaten out with a rod, and cummin with
a staff.

k 2 Kings 5. 20; I Par. 14. 11.

Ver. 20. The bed is straitened, &c. It is too nar-
"ow to hold two : God will have the bed of our heart
ill to himself.

Ver. 21. As in the rnmintnin, &c. As the Lord
[ought against the Philistines in Baal Pharasim, 2
things &., and against the Chanaanites, in the valley
3f Gabao]3,Jos.lO.

28 But bread com shall be broken small :
but the thrasher shall not thrash it for
ever, neither shall the cartwheel hurt it,
nor break it with its teeth.

29 This also is come forth from the
Lord God of nosts, to make his counse)
wonderful, and magnify justice.

CHAPTER 29.

God's heavy judgments upon Jerusalem, for their
blind obstinacy : with aprophecy of the conversion
of the Gentiles,

WOE to Ariel, to Ariel the city which
David took : year is added to year ;
the solemnities are at an end.

2 And I will make a trench about Ariel,
and it shall be in sorrow and mourning,
and it shall be to me as Ariel.

3 And I will make a circle round about
thee, and will cast up a rampart against
thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege
thee.

4 Thou shalt be brought down, thou
shalt speak out of the earth, and thy
speech shall be heard out of the ground :
and thy voice shall be from the earth
Uke that of the python, and out of the
ground thy speech shall mutter.

5 And the multitude of them that fan
thee, shall be Hke small dust: and as ashes
passing away, the multitude of them that
have prevailed against thee.

6 And it shall be at an instant suddenly.
A visitation shall come from the Lord of
hosts in thunder, and with earthquake,
and with a great noise of whirlwind and
tempest, and with the flame of devour-
ing fire.

7 And the multitude of all nations that
have fought against Ariel, shall be as the
dream of a vision by night, and all that
have fought, and besieged and prevailed
against it.

8 And as he that is bungry dreameth,
and eateth, but when he is awake, his
soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty
dreameth, and drinketh, and after he is
awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his
soul is empty : so shall be the multitude
of all the Gentiles, that have fought
against mount Sion.

I Jos. 10. 13.

Ver. 29. This also, &c. Such also is the proceed.
ing of the Lord with his land, and the divers seeds he
sows therein.

Chap. 29. Ver. 1. Ariel. This word signifies,
the lion of God^ and bere is takeD for tlie strong ci^
of Jerusalem.

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Hypocrisy of the Jews

ISAIAS Their confidence in Egypt vrin

9 Be astonished, and wonder, wavor, and
stagger: be drunk, and not with wine;
stagger, and not with drunkenness.

10 For the Lord hath mingled for you
the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up
your eyes, he will cover your prophets
and princes, that see visions.

11 And the vision of all shall be unto
you as the words of a book that is sealed,
which when they shall deliver to one that
is learned, they shall say : Read this : and
he shall answer: I cannot, for it is aoaled.

12 And the book shall be given to one
that knoweth no letters, and it shall be
said to him : Read i and he shall answer:
I know no letters.

13 '^ And the Lord said: Forasmuch as
this people draw near me with their
mouth, and with their lips glorify me,
but their heart is far from me, and they
have feared me with the commandment
and doctrines of men:

14 Therefore behold I will proceed to
cause an admiration in this people, by a
great and wonderful miracle : ** for wis-
dom shall perish from their wise men,
and the understanding of their prudent
men shall be hid.

15 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to
hide your counsel from the Lord : and
their works are in the dark, and they
say : ® Who seeth us, and who knoweth us ?

16 This thought of yours is perverse:
as if the clay should think against the
potter, and the work should say to the
maker thereof : Thou madest me not : or
the thing framed should say to him that
fashioned it : Thou understandest not.

17 Is it not yet a very little whilo, and
Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and
charmel shall be esteemed as a forest ?

18 And in that day the deaf shall hear
the words of the book, and out of dark-
ness and obscurity the eyes of the blind
shall see.

19 And the meek shall increase their
joy in the Lord, and the poor men shall
rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For he that did prevail hath failed,
the scorner is consumed, and they are all
cut off that watched for iniquity :

21 That made men sin by word, and sup-
planted him that reproved them in the
gate, and decUned in vain from the just.

m Matt 15. 8; Mark 7. 6. — » 1 Cor. 1. 19 ; Abd. 1. 8.

22 Therefore thus saith the Lord to the
house of Jacob, he that redeemed Abra-
ham : Jacob shall not now be confounded,
neither shall his countenance now be
ashamed:

23 But when he shall see his children,
the work of my hands in the midst of
him sanctifying my name, and they shall
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall
glorify the God of Israel :

24 And they that erred in spirit, shall
know understanding, and they that mur-
mured, shall learn the law.

CHAPTER 30.

The people are blamed for their confidence in Egypt,
God's mercies towards his church: the punish-
m,ent of sinners.

WOE to you, apostate children, saith
the Lord, that you would take
counsel, and not of me: and would begin
a web, and not by my spirit, that you
might add sin upon sin :

2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and
have not asked at my mouth, hoping for
help in the strength of Pharao, and trust-
ing in the shadow of Egypt.

3 And the strength of Pharao shall be
to your confusion, and the confidence of
the shadow of Egypt to your shame.

4 For thy princes were in Tanis, and thy
messengers came even to Hanes.

6 They were all confounded at a peo-
ple that could not profit them : they were
no help, nor to any profit, but to confu-
sion and to reproach.

6 The burden of the beasts of the south.
In a land of trouble and distress, from
whence come the lioness, and the lion,
the viper and the flying basilisk, they
carry their riches upon the shoulders of
beasts, and their treasures upon the
bunches of camels to a people that shall
not be able to profit them.

7 P For Egypt shall help in vain, and to
no purpose : therefore have I cried con-
cerning this : It is pride only, sit still.

8 Now therefore go in and write for
them upon box, and note it diligently in
a book, and it shall be in the latter days
for a testimony for ever. .

9 For it is a people that provoketh to
wrath, and lying children, children that
will not hear the law of God.

10 Who say to the seers: See not: and

o Eccli. 23. 26. — p Jer. 37. 7.

Ver. 17. CharmeL This word signifies a /mif/u2>le^
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God's mercy to His people ISAIAS Destruction of the Assyrians

to the^^ that behold; Behold not for us
thoso things that aro right : speak unto
U6 pleasant things, see errors for us.

11 Take away from me the way, turn
away the path from me, let the Holy One
of Israel cease from before us.

13 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of
Israel: Because you have rejected this
word, and have trusted in oppression
and tumult, and have leaned upon it:

13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to
you as a breach that falleth, and is found
wanting in a high wall, for the destruc-
tion thereof shall come on a sudden,
when it is not looked for.

14 And it shall be broken small, as the
potter's vessel is broken all to pieces
with mighty breaking, and there shall
not a sherd be found of the pieces there-
of, wherein a little fire may be carried
from the hearth, or a little water be
drawn out of the pito

15 For thus saith the Lord God the Holy
One of Israel : If you return and be quiet,
you shall be saved: in silence and in
hope shali your strength be. And you
would not:

16 But have saia: No, but we will flee
to horseo : therefore shall you flee. And
we will mount upon swift ones: there-
fore shall they be swifter that shall pur-
sue after you.

17 A thousand men shall flee for fear
of one: and for fear of five shall you flee,
till you be left as the mast of a ship on
the top of a mountain, and as an ensign
upon a hill.

18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that be
may have mercy on you : and therefore
shall he bo exalted sparing you : because
the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed
are all they that wait for him.

19 For the people of Sion shall dwell in
Jerusalem : weeping thou shalt not weep,
he will surely have pity on thee : at the
voice of thy cry, as soon ao he shall hear,
he will answer thee.

20 And the Lord will give you spare
bread, and short water: and will not
cause thy teacher to flee away from
thee any more, and thy eyes shall see
thy teacher.

21 And thy ear^- shall hear the word of
one admonishing thee behind thy back :
This is the way, walk ye in it: and go

not aside neither to the right hand, nor

to th-e left.

22 And thou shalt defile the plates of
thy graven things of silver, and the gar-
ment of thy molten things of gold, and
shalt cast them away as the uncleanness
of a menstruous woman. Thou shalt say
to it: Get thee hence.

23 And rain shall be given to thy seed,
wheresoever thou shalt sow in the land :
and the bread of the corn of the land
shall be most plentiful,' and fat. The
lamb in that day shall feed at large in
thy possession :

24 And thy oxen, and the ass colts that
till the ground, shall eat mingled pro-
vender as it was winnowed in the floor.

26 And there shall be upon every high
mountain, and upon every elevated hill
rivers of running waters in the day of
the slaughter of many, when the tower
shall fall. oii

26 And the light of the moon shall bd
as the Ught of the sun, and the light of
the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
of seven days : in the day when the Lord
shall bind up the wound of his people,
and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

27 Behold the name of the Lord cometh
from afar, his wrath burneth, and is heavy
to bear: his lips are filled with indigna-
tion, and his tongue as a devouring fire.

28 His breath as a torrent overflowing
even to the midst of the neck, to destroy
the nations unto nothing, and the bridle of
error that was in the jaws of the people.

29 You shall have a song as in the night
of the sanctified solemnity, and joy of
heart, as when one goeth with a pipe, to
come into the mountain of the Lord, to
the Mighty One of Israel.

30 And the Lord shall make the glory
of his voice to be heard, and shall shew
the terror of his arm, in the threatening
of wrath, and the flame of devouring
fire : he shall crush to pieces with whirl-
wind, and hailstones.

31 For at the voice of the Lord the As-
syrian shall fear being struck with the rod.

32 And the passage of the rod shall be
strongly grounded, which the Lord shall
make to rest upon him with timbrels and
harps, and in great battles he shall over-
throw them.

33 For Topheth is prepared from yes-

Chap. 3a Vcr.ca Topheth. It is the same as 6e/ienna, and is taken lor heU.

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Israel warned not to trust to Egypt ISAIAS

Chrisfs reign

terday, prepared by the king, deep, and
wide. The nourishment thereof is fire
and much wood: the breath of the Lord
as a torrent of brimstone kindling it.,

CHAPTER 31.

The folly of trusting to Egypt, and forgetting God,
He will fight for his people against the Assyrians.

WOE to them that go down to Egypt
for help, trusting in horses, and
putting their confidence in chariots, be-
cause they are hiany: and in horsemen,
because they are very strong: and have
not trusted in the Holy One of Israel,
and have not sought after the Lord.

2 But he that is the wise one hath
brought evil, and hath not removed his
words: and he will rise up against the
house of the wicked, and against the aid
of them that work iniquity.

3 Egypt is man, and not God : and their
horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the
Lord shall put down his hand, and the
helper shall fall, and he that is helped
shall fall, and they shall all be con-
founded together.

4 For thus saith the Lord to me : Like
as the lion roareth, and the lion's whelp
upon his prey, and when a multitude of
shepherds shall come against him, he
will not fear at their voice, nor be afraid
of their multitude : so shall the Lord of
hosts como down to fight upon mount
Sion, and upon the hill thereof,

5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of
hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and
delivering, passing over and saving.

6 Return as you had deeply revolted,
O children of Israel.

7 For in that day a man shall cast away
his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which your hands have made for you to
Bin.

8 ^And the Assyrian shall fall by the
sword not of a man, and the sword not of
a man shall devour him, and he shall flee
not at the face of the sword: and his
young men shall be tributaries.

9 And his strength shall pass away with
dread, and his princes fleeing shall be
afraid : the Lord hath said it, whose fire
is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 32.

The blessings of the reign of Christ. The desolation
of the Jews, and prosperity of the church of Christ.

BEHOLD a king shall reign in justice
and princes shall rule in judgment.

2 And a man shall be as when one is hid
from the wind, and hideth himself from a
storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and
the shadow of a rock that standeth out
in a desert land.

3 The eyes of them that see shall not be
dim, and the ears of them that hear shall
hearken diligently,

4 And the heart of rools shall under-
stand knowledge, and the tongue of
stammerers shall speak readily and plain.

6 The fool shall no more be called
prince: neither shall the deceitful be
called great :

6 For the fool will speak foolish things,
and his heart will work iniquity, to prac-
tise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord de-
ceitfully, and to make empty the soul ot
the hungry, and take away drink from
the thirsty.

7 The vessels of the deceitful are most
wicked : for he hath framed devices to
destroy the meek, with lying words, when
the poor man speaketh judgment.

8 But the prince will devise such things
as are worthy of a prince, and he shall
stand above the rulers.

9 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my
voice: ye confident daughters, give ear
to my speech.

10 For after days and a year, you that
are confident shall be troubled : for the
vintage is at an end, the gathering shall
come no more.

11 Be astonished, ye rich women, be
troubled, ye confident ones : strip you,
and be confounded, gird your loins.

12 Mourn for your breasts, for the de-
lightful country, for the fruitful vine-
yard.

13 Upon the land of my people shall
thorns and briers come up: how much
more upon all the houses of joy, of the
city that rejoiced ?

14 For the house is forsaken, the multi-
tude of the city is left, darkness and
obscurity are come upon its dens for
ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures
of flocks,

15 Until the spirit be poured upon us
from on high : and the desert shall be as
a charmel, and charmel shall be counted
for r, forest.

« Infra, SS< 86« «lUngs 18. 8&< s Irai. h'j^ 21.
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The enemies of the church punished ISAIAS

Reward of the just

16 And judgment shall dwell in the wil-
derness, and justice shall sit in charmel.

17 And the work of justice shall be
peace, and the service of justice quiet-
ness, and security for ever.

18 And my people shall sit in the beauty
of peace, and in the tabernacles of con-
fidence, and in wealthy rest.

19 But hail shall be in the descent of
the forest, and the city shall be made
very low.

20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all
waters, sending thither the foot of the
ox and the ass.

CHAPTER 33.

God*s revenge against the enemies of his church.
The happiness of the heavenly Jerusalem.

WOE to thee that spoilest, shalt not
thou thyself also be spoiled? and
thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also
be despised? When thou shalt have made
and end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled :
when being wearied thou shalt cease to
despise, thou shalt be despised.

2 0 Lord, have mercy on us: for we
have waited for thee: be thou our arm
in the morning, and our salvation in the
time of trouble.

3 At the voice of the angel the people
fled, and at the lifting up thyself the na-
tions are scattered.

4 And your spoils shall be gathered to-
gether as the locusts are gathered, as
when the ditches are full of them.

5 The Lord is magnified, for he hath
dwelt on high : he hath filled Sion with
judgment and justice.

6 And there shall be faith in thy times :
riches of salvation, wisdom and know-
ledge : the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

7 Behold they that see shall cry with-
,out, the angels of peace shall weep
bitterly.

8 The ways are made desolate, no one
passeth by the road, the covenant is
made void, he hath rejected the cities, he
hath not regarded the men.

9 The land hath mourned, and lan-
guished: Libanus is confounded, and be-
come foul, and Saron is become as a
Jesert : and Basan and Carmel are shaken.

rPs. 14. 2.

. Chap. 33 Ver. 1. That spoilest, &c. This is par-
icularly directed to Sennacherib.

Ver. 7. The angels of peace. The messengers or
leputies sent to negotiate a peace.

10 Now will I rise up, saith the Lord:
now will I be exalted, now will I lift up
myself.

11 You shall conceive heat, you shall
bring forth stubble: your breath as fire
shall devour you.

12 And the people shall be as ashes
after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they
shall be burnt with fire.

13 Hear, you that are far off, what I
have done, and you that are near know
my strength.

14 The sinners in Sion are afraid, trem-
bling hath seized upon the hypocrites.
Which of you can dwell with devouring
fire? which of you shall dwell with ever-
lasting burnings?

15 »• He that walketh in justices, and
speaketh truth, that casteth away avarice
by oppression, and shaketh his hands
from all bribes, that stoppeth his ears
lest he hear blood, and shutteth his eyes
that he may see no evil.

16 He shall dwell on high, the fortifica-
tions of rocks shall be his highness:
bread is given him, his waters are
sure.

17 His eyes shall see the king in his
beauty, they shall see the land far off.

18 Thy heart shall meditate fear: «where
is the learned? where is he that ponder-
eth the words of the law? where is the
teacher of little ones?

19 The shameless people thou shalt not
see, the people of profound speech: so
that thou canst not understand the elo-
quence of his tongue, in whom there is
no wisdom.

20 Look upon Sion the city of our solem-
nity: thy eyes shall see Jerusalem, a rich
habitation, a tabernacle that cannot be
removed: neither shall the nails thereof
be taken away for ever, neither shall any
of the cords thereof be broken:

21 Because only there our Lord is mag-
nificent : a place of rivers, very broad and
spacious streams : no ship with oars shall
pass by it, neither shall the great galley
pass through it.

22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord
is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he
will save us.

s 1 Cor. 1. 20.

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Ver 21. Of rivers. He speaks of the rivers of end-
less joys that flow from the throne of God to water
the heavenly Jerusalem, where no enemy's ship can
come, &c.

Punishment of the vncked

ISAIAS

23 Thy tacklings are loosed, and they
shall be of no strength : thy mast shall
be in such condition, that thou shalt not
be able to spread the flag. Then shall the
spoils of much prey be divided: the lame
shall take the spoil.

24 Neither shall he that is near, say : I
am feeble. The people that dwell therein,
shall have their iniquity taken away from
them.

CHAPTER 34.
T?ie general judgment of the wicked.

COME near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and
hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein, the world,
and every thing that cometh forth of it.

2 For the indignation of the Lord is
upon all nations, and his fury upon all
their armies: he hath killed them, and
delivered them to slaughter.

3 Their slain shall be cast forth, and out
of their carcasses shall rise a stink : the
mountains shall be melted with their
blood.

4 And all the host of the heavens shall
pine away, and the heavens shall be
folded together as a book : and all their
host shall fall down as the leaf falleth
from the vine, and from the fig tree.

5 For my sword is inebriated in heaven:
behold it shall come down upon Idumea,
and upon the people of my slaughter unto
judgment.

6 The sword of the Lord is filled with
blood, it is made thick with the blood of
lambs and buck goats, with the blood of
rams full of marrow : for there is a vic-
tim of the Lord in Bosra and a great
slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 And the unicorns shall go down with
them, and the bulls with the mighty :
their land shall be soaked with blood, and
their ground with the fat of fat ones.

8 For it is the day of the vengeance of
the Lord, the year of recompenses of the
judgment of Sion.

9 And the streams thereof shall be
turned into pitch, and the ground there-
of into brimstone : and the land thereof
shall become burning pitch.

Ver. 23. Thy tacklings. He speaks of the enemies
of the church, under the allegory of a ship that is
disabled.

Chap. 34. Ver. 4, And all the host of the heavens.
That is, the sun, moon, and stars.

Ver. 5. Idumea. Under the name of Idum,ea, or
Edom, a people that were enemies of the Jews, are

Punishment of the wicked

10 Night and day it shall not be
quenched, the smoice thereof ehall go up
for ever : from generation to goneriition
it shall lie waste, none shall pac3 through
it for ever and ever.

11 The bittern and ericius shall possese
it : and the ibis and the raven shall dwell
in it : and a line shall be stretched out
upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a
plummet, unto desolation.

12 The nobles thereof shall not be there:
they shall call rather upon the king, ani'
all the princes thereof shall be nothing.

13 And thorns and nettles shall grow
up in its houses, and the thistle in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be the
habitation of dragons, and the pasture
of ostriches.

14 And demons and monsters shall meet,
and the hairy ones shall cry out one to
another, there hath the lamia lain down,
and found rest for herself.

15 There hath the ericius had its hole,
and brought up its young ones, and hath
dug round about, and cherished them in
the shadow thereof: thither are the kites
gathered together one to another.

16 Search ye diligently in the book of
the Lord, and read : not one of them was
wanting, one hath not sought for the
other : for that which proceedeth out of
my mouth, he hath commanded, and his
spirit it hath gathered them.

17 And he hath cast the lot for them,
and his hand hath divided it to them by
line : they shall possess it for ever, from
generation to generation they shall dwell
therein.

CHAPTER 35.

The joyful flourishing of ChrisVs kingdom : in hit
church shall be a holy and secure way.

THE land that was desolate and impass-
able shall be glad, and the wilder-
ness shall rejoice, and shall flourish like
the lily.

2 It shall bud forth and blossom, and
shall rejoice with joy and praise: the
glory of Libanus is given to it: the
beauty of Oarmel, and Saron, they shall
see the glory of the Lord, and the beauty
of our God.

here understood the wicked In general, the enemies
of God and his church. .

Ver. 7. The unicorns. That is, the great ana
mighty. .

Ver. 8. The year of rccompensea, &c. When tne
persecutors of Sion, that is, of the church, sbau
receive their reward.

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The happiness of Chrisfs kingdom ISAIAS

9 Strengthen ye the feeble handc, and
confirm the weak knees.

4 Say to the fainthearted : Take cour-
age, and fear not: behold your God will
bring the revenge of recompense : God
himself will come and will save you.

6 Then shall the eyes of the blind be
opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped.

6 Then shall the lame man leap as a
hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall
be free : for waters are broken out in the
desert, and streams in the wilderness.

7 And that which was dry land, shall
become a pool, and the thirsty land
springs of water. In the dens where
dragons dwelt before, shall rise up the
verdure of the reed and the bulrush.

8 And a path and a way shall be there,
and it shall be called the holy way : the
unclean shall not pass over it, and this
shall be unto you a straight way, so that
tools shall not err therein.

9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any
mischievous beast go up by it, nor be
iound there : but they shall walk there
that shall be delivered.

10 And the redeemed of the Lord shall
return, and shall come into Sion with
praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon
fcheir heads : they shall obtain joy and
gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall
flee away.

The message of Rahsaces

CHAPTER 36.

Sennacherib Invades Juda • his blasphemies.

AND it came to pass in the fourteenth
L yeai' ' of king Ezechias, that Sen-
nacherib king of the Assyrians came up
against all the fenced cities of Juda, and
6ook them.

2 And the king of the Assyrians sent
Rabsaces from Lachis to Jerusalem, to
king Ezechias with a great army, and he
^tood by the conduit of the upper pool
in the way of the fuller's field.

3 And there went out to him Eliacim
the son of Helcias, who was over the
house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe
the son of Asaph the recorder.

.4 And Rabsaces said to them : Tell Eze-
chias : Thus saith the great king, the
king of the Assyrians: What is this con-
fidence wherein thou trustest?
»5 Or with what counsel or strength dost

thou prepare for war? on whom dost
thou trust, that thou art revolted from
me?

6 Lo thou trustest upon this broken
staff of a reed, upon Egypt : upon which
if a man lean, it will go into his hand,
and pierce it : so is Pharao king of
Egypt to all that trust in him.

7 But if thou wilt answer me : We trust
in the Lord our God : is it not he whose
high places and altars Ezechias hath
taken away, and hath said to Juda and
Jerusalem : You shall worship before this
altar?

8 And now deliver thyself up to my
lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will
give thee two thousand horses, and thou
wilt not be able on thy part to find riders
for them.

9 And how wilt thou stand against the
face of the judge of one place, of the
least of my master's servants? But if
thou trust in Egypt, in chariots and m
horsemen :

10 And am I now come up without the
Lord against this land to destroy it?
The Lord said to me : Go up against this,
land, and destroy it.

11 And Eliacim, and Sobna, and Joahe
said to Rabsaces : Speak to thy servants
in the Syrian tongue : for we understand
it: speak not to us in the Jews' lan-
guage in the hearing of the people, that
are upon the wall.

12 And Rabsaces said to them: Hath
my master sent me to thy master and to
thee, to speak all these words ; and not
rather to the men that sit on the wall ;
that they may eat their own dung, and
drink their urine with you?

13 Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out,
with a loud voice in the Jews' language,
and said : Hear the words of the great
king, the king of the Assyrians.

14 Thus saith the king: Let not Eze-
chias deceive you, for he shall not be
able to deliver you.

15 And let not Ezechias make you trust
in the Lord, saying : The Lord will surely
deliver us, arid this city shall not be^
given into the hands of the king of the
Assyrians.

18 Do not hearken to Ezechias : for
thus said the king of the Assyrians : Do
with me that which is for your advan-

t B. C. 701. 4 Kings 18. 13 ; 2 Par. 32. 1 ; Eccli. 48. 20. There is some confusion in the chronology of
Kinss and Isaias at this point.

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Grief of Ezechias

ISAIAS

Isaias comforts Ezechias

tage, and come out to me, and eat ye
every one of his vine, and every one of
his fig tree, and drink ye every one the
water of his cistern,

17 Till I come and take you away to a
land, like to your own, a land of corn and
of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 Neither let Ezechias trouble you,
saying! The Lord will deliver us. Have
any of the gods of the nations delivered
their land out of the hand of the king of
the Assyrians?

19 Where is the god of Emath and of
Arphad? where is the god of Sephar-
vaim ? nave they delivered Samaria out
of my hand ?

20 Who is there among ull the gods of
these lands, that hath delivered his coun-'
try out of my hand, that the Lord may
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ?

21 " And they held their peace, and an-
swered him not a word. For the king had
commanded, saying: Answer him not.

22 And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that
was over the house, and Sobna the scribe,
and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder,
went in to Ezechias with their garments
rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.

CHAPTER 37.

Ezechias, his mourning and 'prayer. God's pro-
mise of protection. The Assyrian army is de-
stroyed. Sennacherib is slain.

4 ND ^ it came to pass, when king Eze-
J\. chias had heard it, that he rent his
garments and covered himself with aack-
cloth, and went into the house of the
Lord.

2 And he sent Eliacim who was over
the house, and Sobna the scribe, and the
ancients of the priests covered with sack-
cloth, to Isaias the son of Amos the pro-
phet.

3 And they said to him : Thus saith Eze-
-jhiasr This day is a day of tribulation,
and of rebuke, and of blasphemy : for
the children are come to the birth, and
there is not strength to bring forth.

4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear
the words of Rabsaces, whom the king
of the Assyrians his master hath sent to
blaspheme the living God, and to re-
proach with words which the Lord thy
God hath heard: wherefore lift up ^hy
oraver for the remnant that is left.

n 4 Kines 18. 36.
V 4 Kings 19. 1. B. C. 701.

5 And the servants of Ezechias imme
Isaias.

6 And Isaias said to them: Thub JaJl
you say to your master: Thus saith tnc
Lord: Be not afraid of the words that
thou hast heard, with which the servants
of the king of the Assyrians have blas-
phemed me.

7 Behold, I wiU send a spirit upon him,
and he shall hear a message, and shall
return to his own country, and I will
cause him to fall by the sword m his
own country.

8 And Rabsaces returned, and found the
king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna.
^ For he had heard that he was departed
from Lachis.

9 And he heard say about Tharaca the
king of Ethiopia: He is come forth to
fight against thee. And when he heard
it, he sent messengers to Ezechias, say-
ing:

10 Thus shall you speak to Ezechias
the king of Juda, saying : Let not thy
God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest,
saying: Jerusalem shall not be given
into the hands of the king of the Assyri-
ans.

11 Behold thou hast heard all that tbe
kings of the Assyrians have done to all
countries which they have destroyed,
and canst thou be delivered?

12 Have the gods of the nations deliv-
ered them whom my fathers have de-
stroyed, Gozam, and Haram, and Reeeph,
and the children of Eden, that were in
Thalassar ?

13 Where is the king of Emath, and the
king of Arphad, and the king of the city
of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava ? *

14 And Ezechias took the letter from
the hand of the messengers, and read it,
and went up to the house of the Lord,
and Ezechias spread it before the Lord.

15 And Ezechias prayed to the Lord,
saying :

16 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who
sittest upon the cherubims, thou aloni
art the God of all the kingdoms of th
earth, thou hast made heaven and earth.1

17 Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear:
open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see, and hear
all the words of Sennacherib, which he
hath sent to blaspheme the living God.

18 For of a truth, O Lord, the kings o\

w 4 Kings 19. 8.
«4Kiiig»l«.M.

The answerto the prayer of Ezechias ISAIAS Destruction of the Assyrian army

the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and
their countries.

19 And they have cast their gods into
the fire, for they were not gods, but the
works of men's hands, of wood and stone :
and they broke them in pieces.

20 And now, 0 Lord our God, save us
out of his hand: and let all the kingdoms
of the earth know, that thou only art the
Lord.

21 And Isaias the son of Amos sent to
Ezechias, saying: Thus saith the Lord the
God of Israel: For the prayer thou hast
made to me concerning Sennacherib the
king of the Assyrians:

22 This is the word which the Lord hath
spoken of him: The virgin the daughter
of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed
thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem
hath wagged the head after thee.

23 Whom hast thou reproached, and
whom hast thou blasphemed, and against
whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and
lifted up thy eyes on high ? Against the
Holy One of Israel.

24 By the hand of thy servants thou hast
reproached the Lord: and hast said:
With the multitude of my chariots I have
gone up to the height of the mountains,
to the top of Libanus: and I will cut
down its tall cedars, and its choice fir
trees, and will enter to the top of its
height, to the forest of its Carmel.

25 I have digged, and drunk water, and
have dried up with the sole of my foot,
all the rivers shut up in banks.

26 Hast thou not heard what I have done
to him of old ? from the days of old I have
formed it: and now I have brought it to
effect: and it hath come to pass that hills
fighting together, and fenced cities should
be destroyed.

27 The inhabitants of them were weak
of hand, they trembled, and were con-
founded: they became like the grass of
the field, and the herb of the pasture,
and like the grass of the housetops,
which withered before it was ripe.

28 I know thy dwelling, and thy going
out, and thy coming in, and thy rage
against me.

29 When thou wast mad against me,
thy pride came up to my ears: therefore

y Supra 31. 8 ; 4 Kings 19. 35 ; Tob. 1. 21 ;
Eccli. 48. 24 ; 1 Mac. 7. 41 ; 2 Mac. 8. 19.

Chap. 37. Ver. 24.

I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit
between thy lips, and I will turn thee
back by the way by which thou camest.

30 But to thee this shall be a sign: Eat
this year the things that spring of them-
selves, and in the second year eat fruits:
but in the third year sow and reap, and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of
them.

31 And that which shall be saved of the
house of Juda, and which is left, shall
take root downward, and shall bear fruit
upward:

32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and salvation from mount Sion:
the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do
this.

33 Wherefore thus saith the Lord con-
cerning the king of the Assyrians: He
shall not come into this city, nor shoot an
arrow into it, nor come before it with
shield, nor cast a trench about it.

34 By the way that he came, he shall re-
turn, and into this city he shall not come,
saith the Lord.

35 And I will protect this city, and will
save it for my own sake, and for the sake
of David my servant.

36 y And the angel of the Lord went out
and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a
hundred and eighty-five thousand. And
they arose in the morning, and behold
they were all dead corpses.

37 And Sennacherib the king of the
Assyrians went out and departed, and
returned, and dwelt in Ninive.

38 And it came to pass, as he was wor-
shipping in the temple of Nesroch his
god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his
sons slew him with the sword: and they
fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhad-
don his son reigned in his stead.

CHAPTER 38.

Ezechias being advertised that he shall die, oh-
tains hy prayer a prolongation of his life: in
confirmation of which the sun goes hack. The
canticle of Ezechias.

IN ^ those days Ezechias was sick even
to death, and Isaias the son of Amos
the prophet came unto him, and said to
him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order
with thy house, for thou shalt die, and
not live.

z 4 Kings 20. 1 ; 2 Par. 32. 24.

Carmel. See these figurative expressions explained in the annotations on
the nineteenth chapter of the fourth book of Kings.

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The prayer of Ezechias

ISAIAS

Ezechias shows his treasures

2 And Ezechias turned Ms face toward
the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

3 And said : I beseech thee, O Lord, re-
member how I have walked before thee
in truth, and with a perfect heart, and
have done that which is good in thy sight.
And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

4 And the word of the Lord came to
Isaias, saying;

5 Go and say to Ezechias : Thus saith
the Lord the God of David thy father ; I
have heard thy prayer, and I have seen
thy tears : behold I will add to thy days
fifteen years :

6 And I will deliver thee and this city
out of the hand of the king of the Assyr-
ians, and I will protect it.

7 And this shall be a sign to thee from
the Lord, that the Lord will do this word
which he hath spoken :

8 '^ Behold I will bring again the shadow
of the lines, by which it is now gone
down in the sun dial of Achaz with the
sun, ten lines backward And the sun
returned ten lines by the degrees by
which it was gone down.

9 The writing of Ezechias king of Juda,
when he had been sick, and wag recov-
ered of his sickness.

10 I said : In the midst of my days I
shall go to the gates of hell: I sought
for the residue of my years.

11 I said : I shall not see the Lord God
in the land of the living. I shall behold
man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.

12 My generation is at an end, and it
is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's
tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver :
whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut
me off : from morning even to night thou
wilt make an end of me.

13 1 hoped till morning, as a lion so hath
he broken all my bones : from morning
even to night thou wilt make an end of
me.

14 I will cry like a young swallow, I will
meditate like a dove : my eyes are weak-
ened looking upward : Lord, I suffer vio-
lence, answer thou for me.

15 What shall I say, or what shall he
answer for me, whereas he himself hath
done it? I will recount to thee all my
years in the bitterness of my soul.

16 0 Lord, if man's life be such, and the

life of my spirit be in such things as
these, thou shalt correct me, and make
me to live.

17 Behold in peace is my bitterness
most bitter : but thou hast delivered my
soul that it should not perish, thou hast
cast all my sins behind thy back.

18 For hell shall not confess to thee,
neither shall death praise thee : nor shall
they that go down into the pit, look for
thy truth.

19 The living, the living, he shall give
praise to thee, as I do this day : the fa-
ther shall make thy truth known to the
children.

20 O Lord, save me, and we will sing
our psalms all the days of our life in the
house of the Lord.

21 Now Isaias had ordered that they
should take a lump of figs, and lay it as
a plaster upon the wound, and that he
should be healed.

22 And Ezechias had said : What shall
be the sign that I shall go up to the
house of the Lord?

aEccli. 48. 26.

CHAPTER 39.

Ezechias shews all his treasures to the ambassadorg
of Babylon : upon which Isaias foretells the Baby»
lonish captivity.

T ^ that time Merodach Baladan, the
son of Baladan king of Babylon,
sent letters and presents to Ezechias:
for he had heard that he had been sick
and was recovered.

2 And Ezechias rejoiced at their com-
ing, and he shewed them the storehouses
of his aromatical spices, and of the sil-
ver, and of the gold, and of the sweet
odours, and of the precious ointment,
and all the storehouses of his furniture,
and all things that were found in his
treasures. There was nothing in his
house, nor in all his dominion that Eze-
chias shewed them not.

3 Then Isaias the prophet came to king
Ezechias, and said to him : What said
these men, and from whence came they
to thee? And Ezechias said: From a far
country they came to me, from Babyloa

4 And he said: What saw they in thy
house? And Ezechias said: All things
that are in my house have they seen,
there was not any thing which I have
not shewn them in my treasures.

6 4 Kings 20. 12.

Chap. 38. Ver. 10. Hell, Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead.

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^The voice crying in the wilderness ISAIAS

God^s greatness

6 And Isaias said to Ezeohias: Hear the
word of ihe Lord of hosts.

0 Behold the days shall come, that all
that lA in thy house, and that thy fathers
have laid up m store until this day, shall
be carried away into Babylon : there shall
not any thing be left, saith the Lord.

7 And of thy children, that shall issue
from thee, whom thou shalt beget, they
shall take away, and they shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the king of Babylon.

8 And Ezechias said to Isaias : The word
of the Lord, which he hath spoken, is
good. And he said: Only let peace and
truth be in my days.

CHAPTER 40.

The prophet comforts the people with the promise
of the coming of Christ to forgive their sins. God^s
almighty power and majesty.

BE comforted, be comforted, my peo-
ple, saith your God.

2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem,
and call to her : for her evil is come to
an end, her iniquity is forgiven : ^ she
hath received of the hand of the Lord
double for all her sins.

3 ^The voice of one crying in the des-
ert : Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
•nake straight in the wilderness the
paths of our God.

4 Every valley shall be exalted, and
every mountain and hill shall be made
low, and the crooked shall become
otraigho, and the rough ways plain.

5 And the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed, and all flesh together shall see,
that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.

6 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And
I said: What shall I cry? «All flesh is
grass, and all the glory thereof as the
flower of the field.

7 The grass is withered, and the flower
is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord
habh blown upon it. Indeed the people
is grass i

8 The grass is withered, and the flower
is fallen : but the word of our Lord en-
dureth for ever.

9 Get thee up upon a high mountain,
thou that bringest good tidings to Sion :
lift up thy voice with strength, thou that
bringest good tidings to Jerusalem : lift
it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda:
Behold your God:

c Apoc. 18.

d Matt. 3. 3 ; M^irk l. 3 ; Luke 3. 4 ; John 1. 23.

e EcclL 14. IS { James 1. 10 ; 1 Peter 1. 24.

10 Behold the Lord God shall come wi'-h
strength, and his arm shall rule : Behold
his reward is with him and his work is
before him.

11 -^He shall feed his flock like a shep-
herd : he shall gather together the lambs
with his arm, and shall take them up
in his bosom, and he himself shall carry
them that are with young.

12 Who hath measured the waters in
the hollow of his hand, and weighed the
heavens with his palm ? who hath poised
with three fingers the bulk of the earth,
and weighed the mountains in scales, and
the hills in a balance ?

13 ^ Who hath forwarded the spirit of
the Lord ? or who hath been his counsel-
lor, and hath taught him ?

14 With whom hath he consulted, and
who hath instructed him, and taught him
the path of justice, and taught him know-
ledge, and shewed him the way of under-
standing ?

15 Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of
a bucket, and are counted as the smallest
grain of a balance : behold the islands
are as a little dust.

16 And Libanus shall not be enough to
burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for
a burnt offering.

17 All nations are before him as if they
had no being at all, and are counted t'^
him as nothing, and vanity.

18 ^To whom then have you likened
God? or what image will you make for
him?

19 Hath the workman cast a graven
statue ? or hath the goldsmith formed it
with gold, or the silversmith with plates
of silver ?

20 He hath chosen strong wood, and
that will not rot: the skilful workman
seeketh how he may set up an idol that
may not be moved.

21 Do you not know? hath it not been
heard? hath it not been told you from
the beginning ? have you not understood
the foundations of the earth ?

22 It is he that sitteth upon the globe
of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof
are as locusts : * he that stretcheth out
the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth
them out as a tent to dwell in.

23 He that bringeth the searchers of

/ Ezech. 34. 23, and 37. 24 ; John 10. 11.

ff Wisd. 9. 13 ; Rom. 11. 34 ; 1 Cor. 2. 16,

h Acts 17. 29,— < Gen. 1. 6,

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God's greatness ISAIAS

secrets to nothing, that hath made the
judges of the earth as vanity.

24 And surely their stock was neither
planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the
earth : suddenly he hath blown upon
them, and they are withered, and a
whirlwind shall take them away as
stubble.

25 And to whom have ye likened me,
or made me equal, saith the Holy One ?

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see
who hath created these things: who
bringeth out their host by number, and
calleth them all by their names: by the
greatness of his might, and strength, and
power, not one of them was missing.

27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speak-
est, O Israel: My way is hid from the
Lord, and my judgment is passed ovsr
from my God ?

28 Knowest thou not, or hast thou not
heard ? the Lord is the everlasting God,
who hath created the ends of the earth :
he shall not faint, nor labour, neither
is there any searching ouU; of his wisdom.

29 It is he that giveth strength to the
weary, and increaseth force and might to
them that are not.

30 Youths shall faint, and labour, and
young men shall fall by infirmity.

31 But they that hope in the Lord shall
renew their strength, Hhey shall take
wings as 3agles, they shall run and not
be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

CHAPTER 41.

The reign of the just one : the vanity of idols.

LET the islands keep silence before
me, and the nations take new
strength: let them come near, and then
speak, let us come near to judgment
together.

2 Who hath raised up the just one from
the east, hath called him to follow him ?
he shall give the nations in his sight, and
he shall rule over kings: he shall give
them as the dust to his sword, as stubble
driven by the wind, to his bow.

3 He shall pursue them, he shall pass
in peace, no path shall appear after his
feet.

4 Who hath wrought and done these
things, calling the generations from the
beginning ? ^ I the Lord, I am the first
and the last.

God our helper

/ Fa. la 6b

5 The islands saw it, and feared, the
ends of the earth were astonished, they
drew near, and came.

6 Every one shall help his neighbour,
and shall say to his brother: Be of good
courage.

7 The coppersmith striking with the
hammer encouraged him that forged at
that time, saying: It is ready for solder-
ing: and he strengthened it with nails,
that it should not be moved.

8 But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob
whom I have chosen, the seed of Abra-
ham my friend :

9 In whom I have taken thee from the
ends of the earth, and from the remote
parts thereof have called thee, and said
to thee: Thou art my servant, I have
chosen thee, and have not cast thee away

10 Fear not, for I am with thee : turn
not aside, for I am thy God : I have
strengthened thee, and have helped
thee, and the right hand of my just one
hath upheld thee.

11 Behold all that fight against thee
shall be confounded and ashamed, they
shall be as nothing, and the men shall
perish that strive against thee.

12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not
find the men that resist thee : they shall
be as nothing: and as a thing consumed
the men that war against thee.

13 For I am the Lord thy God, who take
thee by the hand, and say to thee : Fear
not, I have helped thee.

14 Fear not, thou worm of Jacob, you
that are dead of Israel: I have helped
thee, saith the Lord : and thy Redeemer
the Holy One of Israel.

16 I have made thee as a new thrashing
wain, with teeth like a saw : thou shalt
thrash the mountains, and break them in
pieces : and shalt make the hills as chaff.

16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind
shall carry them away, and the whirlwind
shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice
in the Lord, in the Holy One of Israel
thou shalt be joyful.

17 The needy and the poor seek for wa-
ters, and there are none: their tongue
hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord
will hear them, I the God of Israel will
not forsake them.

18 I will open rivers in the high hills,
and fountains in the midst of the plains :

4c Infra 44. 6, and 48. 12; Apoc 1. 8, 17, and 22. 13.
794

The vanity of idols

ISAIAS

The mission of Christ

X will turn the desert into pools of waters,
and the impassable land into streams of
waters.

19 I will plant in the wilderness the
cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and
the olive tree : I will set in the desert the
fir tree, the elm, and the box tree to-
gether :

20 That they ma}'- see and know, and
consider, and understand together that
the hand of the Lord hath done this, and
the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

21 Bring your cause near, saith the
Lord : bring hither, if you have any thing
to allege^ saith the King of Jacob,

22 Let them come, and tell us all things
that are to come: tell us the former
things what they were : and we will set
our heart upon them, and shall know the
latter end of them, and tell us the things
that are to come.

23 Shew the things that are to come
hereafter, and we shall know that ye are
gods. Do ye also good or evil, if you
can: and let us speak, and see together.

24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your
work of that which hath no being: he
that hath chosen you is an abomina-
tion.

25 I have raised up one from the north,
and he shall come from the rising of the
flun : he shall call upon my name, and he
shall make princes to be as dirt, and as
the potter treading clay.

26 Who hath declared from the begin-
ning, that we may know : and from time
of old, that we may say : Thou art just.
There is none that sheweth, nor that fore-
telleth, nor that heareth your words.

27 The first shall say to Sion : Behold
they are here, and to Jerusalem I will
give an evangelist.

28 And I saw, and there was no one even
among them to consult, or who, when I
asked, could answer a word.

29 Behold they are all in the wrong, and
their works are vain: their idols are wind
and vanity.

CHAPTER 42.

The office of Christ. The preaching of the gospel to
the Gentiles. The blindness and reprobation of
the Jews.

I Matt. 12. 18.

Chap. 41. Ver. 19. The thorn. In Hebrew, tbe
thitta, or setim, a tree resembling the white thorn.

Chap. 42. Ver. 1. My servant. Christ, who ac-
cording to his humaoity* is the servaDt of God

BEHOLD 'my servant, I will uphold
him : my elect, my soul delighteth in
him: I have given my spirit upon him,
he shall bring forth judgment to the
Gentiles.

2 He shall not cry, nor have respect to
person, neither shall his voice be heard
abroad.

3 The bruised reed he shall not break,
and smoking flax he shall not quench : he
shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome,
till he set judgment in the earth : and the
islands shall wait for his law.

5 Thus saith the Lord God that created
the heavens, and stretched them out:
that established the earth, and the things
that spring out of it : that giveth breath
to the people upon it, and spirit to them
that tread thereon.

6 I the Lord have called thee in justice,
and taken thee by the hand, and pre-
served thee. "* And I have given thee
for a covenant of the people, for a light
of the Gentiles :

7 That thou mightest open the eyes ol
the blind, and bring forth the prisoner
out of prison, and them that sit in dark-
ness out of the prison house.

8 " I the Lord, this is my name : I will
not give my glory to another, nor my
praise to graven things.

9 The things that were first, behold they
are come : and new things do I declare ;
before they spring forth, I will make you
hear them.

10 Sing ye to the Lord a new song, his
praise is from the ends of the earth: you
that go down to the sea, and all that are
therein: ye islands, and ye inhabitants of
them.

11 Let the desert and the cities thereof
be exalted : Cedar shall dwell in houses r
ye inhabitants of Petra, give praise, they
shall cry from the top of the mountains.

12 They shall give glory to the Lord,
and shall declare his praise in the is-
lands.

13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty
man, as a man of war shall he stir up
zeal : he shall shout and cry : he shall
prevail against his enemies.

m Infra 49. 6. — n Infra 48. ii.

Ver. 11.
Petrsea.

Petra. A city that gives name t<) Arabia

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Blindness of the Jews punished ISAIAS

God comforts His church

14 I have always held my peace, I have
kept silence, I have been patient, I will
speak now as a woman in labour ; I will
destroy, and swallow up at once.

15 I will lay waste the moantains and
hills, and will make all their grass to
wither : and I will turn rivers into islandSj
and will dry up the standing pools.

16 And I will lead the blind into the way
which they know not : and in the paths
which they were ignorant of I will make
them walk J I will make darkness light
before them, and crooked things straight :
these things have I done to them, and
have not forsaken them.

17 They are turned back: let them be
greatly confounded, that trust in a graven
thing, that say to a molten thing : You are
our god.

18 Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold
that you may see,

19 Who is blind, but my servant? or
deaf, but he to whom 1 have sent my
messengers? Who is blind, but he that
is sold ? or who is blind, but the servant
of the Lord ?

20 Thou that cieest many things, wilt
thou not observe them? thou that hast
ears open, wilt thou not hear ?

21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify
him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.

22 But this is a people that is robbed
and wasted: they are all the snare of
young men, and they are hid in the
houses of prisons : they are made a prey,
?ind there is none to deliver them: a
spoil, and there is none that saith : Re-
store.

23 Who is there among you that will
give ear to this, that will attend and
hearken for times to come ?

24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil,
and Israel to robbers ? hath not the Lord
himself, against whom we have sinned ?
And they would not walk in his ways,
and they have not hearkened to his law.

25 And he hath poured out upon him
the indignation of his fury, and a strong
battle, and hath burnt him round about,
and he knew not : and set him on fire,
and he understood not.

CHAPTER 43.

Ood comforts his church, promisinff to protect her
forever, he expostulates with the Jews for their
ingratitude

AND now thus saith the Lord that
x\. created thee, O Jacob, and formed
thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have re-
deemed thee, and called thee by thy
name : thou art mine.

2 When thou shalt pasc through the wa-
ters, I will be with thee, and the rivere
shall not cover thee: when thou shalt
walk in the fire^ thou shalt not be burnt,
and the flames shall not burn in thee :

3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy
One of Israel, thy Saviour : I have given
Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and
Saba for thee.

4 Since thou becamest honourable in my
eyes, thou art glorious : I have loved
thee, and I will give men for thee, and
people for thy life.

5 Fear not, for I am with thee: I will
bring thy seed from the east, and gather
thee from the west.

6 I will say to the north : Give up : and
to the south : Keep not back : bring my
sons from afar, and my, daughters from
the ends of the eartho

7 And every one that calleth upon mj
name, I have created him for my glory.
I have formed him, and made him.

8 Bring forth the people that are blind,
and have eyes: that are deaf, and have
ears.

9 All the nations are assembled tO'
gether, and the tribes are gathered: who
among you can declare this, and shall
make us hear the former things? let
them bring forth their witnesses, let them
be justifiedj and hear, and say : It is
truth.

10 You are my witnesses, saith the
Lord, and my servant whom I have
chosen : that you may know, and believe
me, and understand that I myself am.
Before me there was no God formed, and
after me there shall be none.

11 *^ I am, I am the Lord: and there is
no saviour besides me.

12 I have declared, and have saved. I
have made it heard, and there was no
strange one among you. You are my
witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God.

13 And from the beginning I am the
same, and there is none that can deliver
out of my hand : I will work, and who
shall turn it away ?

14 Thus saith the Lord your redeemer,

o Osee 13. 4.
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Ingratitude of the Jews

ISAIAS

God!* s favor to His people

the Holy One of Israel : For your sake I
sent to Babylon, and have brought down
all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying
in their ships.

16 I am the Lord your Holy One, the
Creator of Israel, your King.

16 Thus saith the Lord, who made away
in the sea, and a path in the mighty
waters.

17 Who brought forth the chariot and
the horse, the army and the strong: they
lay down to sleep together, and they
shall not rise again : they are broken as
flax, and are extinct.

18 Remember not former things, and
look not on things of old.

19 ^Behold I do new things, and now
they shall spring forth, verily you shall
know them : I will make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

20 The beast of the field shall glorify
me, the dragons and the ostriches: be-
cause I have given waters in the wilder-
ness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to
my people, to my chosen.

21 This people have I formed for my-
self, they shall shew forth my praise.

22 But thou hast not called upon me, O
Jacob, neither hast thou laboured about
me, O Israel.

23 Thou hast not offered me the ram

A ND ' now hear, O Jacob, my servant,
jL\. and Israel whom I have chosen.

2 Thus saith the Lord that made and
formed thee, thy helper from the womb :
Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou
most righteous whom I have chosen.

3 For I will pour out waters upon the
thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry
land : I wiU pour out my spirit upon thy
seed, and my blessing upon thy stock.

4 And they shall spring up among the
herbs, as willows beside the running
waters.

6 One shall say: I am the Lord's, and
another shall call himself by the name of
Jacob, and another shall subscribe with
his hand. To the Lord, and surname him-
self by the name of Israel.

6 Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel,
and his redeemer the Lord of hosts : *" I
am the first, and I am the last, and be-
sides me there is no God.

7 Who is like to me ? let him call and
declare : and let him set before me the
order, since I appointed the ancient peo-
ple : and the things to come, and that
shall be hereafter, let them shew unto
theiric

3 Fear yo not, neither be ye troubled
from uhat time I have made thee to hear^
and have declared : you are my wit-

of thy holocaust, nor hast thou glorified nesses. Is there a God besides me. a

me with thy victims : I have not caused
thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied
thee with incense.

24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane
with money, neither hast thou filled mo
with the fat of thy victims. But thou
hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou
hast wearied me with thy iniquities.

25 I am, I am he that blot out thy ini-
quities for my own sake, and I will not
remember thy sins.

26 Put me in remembrance, and let
us plead together : tell if thou hast any
thing to justify thyself.

27 Thy first father sinned, and thy
teachers have transgressed against me.

28 And I have profaned the holy princes,
I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Is-
rael to reproach.

CHAPTER 44.

God's favour to his church. The folly of idolatry.
The people shaft he delivered from captivity.

p2 Cor 5. 17; Apoc. 21. 5.
q Jer. 30. 10, and 46. 27.

maker, whom I have not known ?

9 The makers of idols are all of them
: othing, and their best beloved things
shall not profit them. They are their
witnesses, that they do not see, nor un-
derstand, that they may be ashamed.

10 Who hath formed a god, and made
a graven thing that is profitable for no-
thing ?

11 Behold, all the partakers thereof
shall be confounded: for the makers are
men : they shall all assemble together,
they shall stand and fear, and shall be
confounded together.

12 * The smith hath wrought with his
file, with coals, and with hammers he
hath formed it, and hath wrought with
the strength of his arm : he shall hunger
and faint, he shall drink no water, and
shall be weary.

13 The carpenter hath stretched out his
rule, he hath formed it with a plane : he
hath made it with corners, and hath fash-

r Supra 41. 4 ; Infra 48. 12 ; Apoc. 1. 8, 17, and 22. 13.
« Wisd. 13. 11.

797

The folly of idolatry

ISAIAS

God^s message to Cyruf?

ioned it round with the compass : and he
hath made the image of a man as it were
a oeaatiful man dwelling in a house.

14 He hath cut down cedars, taken the
holm, and the oak that stood among the
trees of the forest: he hath planted the
pine tree, which the rain hath nourished.

15 And it hath served men for fuel : he
took thereof, and warmed himself : and
he kindled it, and baked bread: but of
the rest he made a god, and adored it:
he made a graven thing, and bowed down
before it.

16 Part of it he burnt with fire, and
with part of it he dressed his meat: he
boiled pottage, and was filled, and was
warmed, and said: Aha, I am warm, I
have seen the fire.

17 But the residue thereof he made a
god, and a graven thing for himself: he
boweth down before it, and adoreth it,
and prayeth unto it, saying; Deliver me,
for thou art my God.

18 They have not known, nor under-
stood: for their oyes are covered that
they may not see, and that they may not
understand with their heart.

19 They do not consider in their mind,
nor know, nor have the thought to say:
I have burnt part of it in the fire, and I
have baked bread upon the coals thereof:
I have broiled flesh and have eaten, and
of the residue thereof shall I make an
idol ? shall I fall down before the stock
of a tree ?

20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart
adoreth it, and he will not save his soul,
nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my
right hand.

21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and
Israel, for thou art my servant. I have
formed thee, thou art my servant, O Is-
rael, forget me not.

22 I have blotted out thy iniquities as
a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to
me, for I have redeemed thee.

23 Give praise, O ye heavens, for the
Lord hath shewn mercy : shout with joy,
ye ends of the earth : ye mountains, re-
sound with praise, thou, O forest, and
every tree therein: for the Lord hath
redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glo-
rified.

24 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer,
and thy maker, from the womb : I am the

Lord, that make all things, that alono
stretch out the heavens, that estabfisb
the earth, and there is none with me.

25 That make void the tokens of divin-
ers, and make the soothsayers mad.
That turn the wise backward, and that
make their knowledge foolish.

26 That raise up the word of my servant
and perform the counsel of my messen-
gers, who say tc Jerusalem : Thou shalt
be inhabited : and to the cities of Juda :
You shall be built, and I will raise up the
wastes thereof.

27 Who say to the deep: Be thou deso-
late, and I will dry up thy rivers.

28 Who say to Gyrus: Thou art my shep-
herd, and thou shalt perform all my plea-
sure. Who say to Jerusalem : Thou shalt
be built : and to the temple : Thy founda-
tions shall be laid.

CHAPTER 45.

A prophecy of Cyrus, as a figure of Christ, the great
deliverer of God's people.

rilHUS saith the Lord to my anointed
X Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken
hold of, to subdue nations before his face,
and to turn the backs of kings, and to
open the doors before him, and the gates
shall not be shut.

2 I will go before thee, and will humble
the great ones of the earth: I will break
in pieces the gates of brass, and will
burst the bars of iron.

3 And I will give thee hidden treasures,
and the concealed riches of secret places:
that thou mayest know that I am the
Lord who caU thee by thy name, the God
of Israel.

4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and
Israel my elect, I have even called thee
by thy name: I have made a likeness of
thee, and thou hast not known me.

5 I am the Lord, and there is none else :
there is no God besides me : I girded
thee, and thou hast not known me :

6 That they may know who are from the
rising of the sun, and they who are from
the west, that there is none besides me.
I am the Lord, and there is none else :

7 I form the light, and create darknesa
I make peace, and create evil : I the Lord
that do all these things.

8 Drop down dew, ye heavens, fro
above, and let the clouds rain the just

CuAP. 46. Ver. 7. Cre€Ue evil, &c. The evils of afflictions and pimisluneDts, but not the evil of slfl.

798

God*s greatness commands obedience ISAIAS God^s promise in save Israel

let the earth be opened, and bnd toith a draw near together, ye that are saved of

saviour: and let justice spring up to-
gether : I the Lord have created him.

9 'Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker,
a sherd of the earthen pots : shall the
clay say to him that fashioneth it : What
art thou making, and thy work is without
hands?

10 Woe to him that saith to hie father :
Why begettest thou? and to the woman:
Why dost thou bring forth ?

11 Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of
Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to
come, concerning my children, and con-
cerning the work of my hands give ye
charge to me.

12 1 made the earth : and I created man
upon it: my hand stretched forth the
heavens, and I have commanded all their
host.

13 I have raised him up to justice, and I
will direct all his ways: he shall build my
city, and let go my captives, not for ran-
som, nor for presents, saith the Lord the
God of hosts.

14 Thus saith the Lord : The labour of
Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come
over to thee, and shall be thine : they
ghall walk after thee, they shall go bound
with manacles: and they shall worship
thee, and shall make supplication to thee :
only in thee is God, and there is no God
besides thee.

15 Verily thou art a hidden God, the
God of Israel the saviour.

16 They are all confounded and ashamed :
the forgers of errors are gone together
into confusion.

17 Israel is saved in the Lord with an
eternal salvation : you shall not be con-
founded, and you shall not be ashamed
for 3ver and ever.

18 For thus saith the Lord that created
the heavens, God himself that formed
the earth, and made it, the very maker
thereof: he did not create it in vain : he
formed it to be inhabited. I am the
Lord, and there is no other.

the Gentiles: they have no knowledge
that set up ^he wood of their graven
work, and pray to a god that cannot save.

21 Tell ye, and come, and consult to-
gether: who hath declared this from the
beginning, who hath foretold this irom
that time? Have not I the Lord, and
there is no God else besides me ? A just
God and a saviour, there is none besides
me.

22 Be converted to me, and you shall
be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for
I am God, and there is no other.

23 I have sworn by myself, the word of
justice shall go out of my mouth, and
shall not retm'n :

24 " For every knee shall be bowed to
me, and every tongue shall swear.

25 Therefore shall he say: In the Lord
are my justices and empire : thev shall
come to him, and all that resi-^t him
shall be confounded.

26 In the Lord shall all the seed of la-
rael be justified and praised.

CHAPTER 46.

Tlie idols of Babylon shall be destroyed. Salvation
is promised through Christ.

EL is broken, Nebo is destroyed:
their idols are put upon beasts and
cattle, your burdens of heavy weight
even unto weariness.

2 They are consumed, and are broken
together: they could not save him that
carried them, and they themselves shall
go into captivity.

3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who are carried by my bowels, are borne
up by my womb.

4 Even to your old age I am the same,
and to your grey hairs I will carry you:
I have made you, and I will bear : I will
carry and will save.

5 To whom have you likened me, and
made me equal, and compared me, and
made me like ? ,

6 You that contribute gold out of the

19 I have not spoken in secret, in a i bag, and weigh out silver in the scales :
dark place of the earth: I have not said and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and

00 the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain, they fall down and worship.

1 am the Lord that speak justice, that 7 ^They bear him on their shoulders
declare right things. and carry him, and set him in his place

20 Assemble yourselves, and come, and and he shall stand, and shall not stir ovf!

ijeci&6; iiU>m.a.20i

u £om. 14. U; FbiL & 10.— v Bar. t». 26.

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God*s judgment on Babylon

ISAIAS

God's judgment on Babylon

of his place. Yea, when they sliall cry
also unto him, he shall not hear : h" shall
not save them from tribulation.

8 Remember this, and be ashamed : re-
turn, ye transgressors, to the heart.

9 Remember the former age, for I am
God, and there is no God beside, neither
is there the like to me:

10 Who shew from the beginning the
things that shall be at last, and from
ancient times the things that as yet
are not done, saying : My counsel shall
stand, and all my will shall be done :

11 Who call a bird from the east, and
from a far country the man of my own
will, and I have spoken, and will bring
it to pass : I have created, and I will do
it. Hear me, O ye hardhearted, who are
far from justice.

12 I have brought my justice near, it
shall not be afar off: and my salvation
shall not tarry, I will give salvation in
Bion, and my glory in Israel.

CHAPTER 47.

Gocfs judgment upon Babylon,

COME down, sit in the dust, O virgin
daughter of Babylon, sit on the
ground : there is no throne for the
daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou
Shalt no more be called dehcate and ten
der.

2 Take a millstone and grind meal:
uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder,
make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

3 ^Thy nakedness shall be discovered,
and thy shame shall be seen : I will take
vengeance, and no man shall resist me.

4 Our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is
his name, the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into dark-
ness, O daughter of the Chaldeans : for
thou shalt no more be called the lady of
kingdoms.

6 I was angry with my people, I have
polluted my inheritance, and have given
them into thy hand: thou hast shewn
no mercy to them: upon the ancient
thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

7 And thou hast said : 1 shall be a lady
for ever : thou hast not laid these things
to thy heart, neither hast thou remem-
bered thy latter end.

8 And now hear these things, thou that
art delicate, and dwellest confidently,

that sayest in thy heart: *I am, and
thero is none else besides me: I shall
not 3it as a widow, and I shall not know
barrenness.

9 ^ These two things shall come upon
thee suddenly in one day, barrennesE
and widowhood. All things are come
upon thee, because of the multitude of
thy sorceries, and for the great hardness
of thy enchanters.

10 And thou hast trusted in thy wick-
edness, and hast said: There is none
that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy
knowledge, this hath deceived thee.
And thou hast said in thy heart: I am,
and besides me there is no other.

11 Evil shall come upon thee, and thou
shalt not know the rising thereof: and
calamity shall fall violently upon thee,
which thou canst not keep off: misery
shall come upon thee suddenly, which
thou shalt not know.

12 Stand now with thy enchanters, and
with the multitude of thy sorceries, in
which thou hast laboured from thy
youth, if so be it may profit thee any
thing, or if thou mayst become stronger.

13 Thou hast failed in the multitude of
thy counsels: let now the astrologers
stand and save thee, they that gazed at
the stars, and counted the months, that
from them they might tell the things
that shall come to thee.

14 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath
burnt them, they shall not deliver them-
selves from the power of the flames:
there pre no coals wherewith they may
be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit
thereat.

15 Such are all the things become to
thee, in which thou hast laboured : thy
merchants from thy youth, every one
hath erred in his own way, there is none
that can save thee.

CHAPTER 48.

He reproaches the Jews for their obstinacy : he iviU
deliver them out of their captivity, for his own
name''s sake.

HEAR ye these things, O house of
Jacob, you that are called by the
name of Israel, and are come forth out
of the waters of Juda, you who swear by
the name of the Lord, and make mention
of the God of Israel, but not in truth,
nor in justice.

w Nab. 3. 6.

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X Apoc. IS. 7. ' y Infra 51. 19.

Obstinacy of the Jews reproved ISAlAS They will he redeemed from captivity

2 For they are called of the holy city,
and are established upon the God of Is-
rael : the Lord of hosts is his name.

3 The former things of old I have de-
clared, and they went forth out of my
mouth, and I have made them to be
heard : I did them suddenly and they

lame to pass.

I For I knew that thou art stubborn,
nd thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy
orehead as brass.

5 I foretold thee of old, before they
3ame to pass I told thee, lest thoushouldst
say : My idols have done these things,
and my graven and molten things have
commanded them.

6 See now all the things which thou hast
heard: but have you declared them? I
have shewn thee new things from that
time, and things are kept which thou
knowest not:

7 They are created now, and not of old :
and before the day, when thou heardest
them not, lest thou shouldst say: Behold
I knew them.

8 Thou hast neither heard, nor known,
neither was thy ear opened of old. For
I know that transgressing thou wilt trans-
gress, and I have called thee a transgres-
sor from the womb.

9 For my name's s''ike I will remove my
wrath far off : and for my praise I will
bridle thee, lest thctu shouldst perish.

10 Behold I have refined thee, but not
as silver, I have cliosen thee in the fur-
nace of poverty.

II For my own sake, for my own sake
will I do it, that I may not be blas-
phemed : ' and I will not give my glory
tc another.

12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou
Israel whom I call ; " I am he, I am the
first, and I am the last.

13 My hand also hath founded the earth,
and my right hand hath measured the
heavens : I shall call them, and they shall
stand together.

14 Assemble yourselves together, all
you, and hear: who among them hath
declared these things? the Lord hath
loved him, he will do his pleasure in
Babylon, and his arm shall be on the
Chaldeans.

15 1, even I have spoken and called him :

z Supra 42. 8.
c Supra 41. 4, and 44. 6 ; Apoc. 1. 8, 17, and 22. 13.
b Jer. 51. 6 J Apoc. 18. 4.

I have brought him, and his way is made
prosperous.

16 Come ye near unto me, and hear this :
I have not spoken in secret from the
beginning : from the time before it was
done, I was there, and now the Loid God
hath sent me, and his spirit.

17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord
thy God that teach thee profitable things,
that govern thee in the way that thou
walkest.

18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my
commandments: thy peace had been as
a river, and thy justice as the waves of
the sea,

19 And thy seed had been as the sand,
and the offspring of thy bowels like the
gravel thereof : his name should not have
perished, nor have been destroyed from
before my face.

20 ^ Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye
from the Chaldeans, declare it with the
voice of joy: make this to be heard, and
speak it out even to the ends of the earth
Say: The Lord hath redeemed his ser-
vant Jacob.

21 They thirsted not in the desert, when
he led them out : ^ he brought forth
water out of the rock for them, and he
elove the rock, and the waters gushed
out.

22 ** There is no peace to the wicked,
saith the Lord.

CHAPTER 49.

Christ shall bring the Gentiles to salvation, God'^9
love to his church is perpetual.

GIVE ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye
people from afar. ®The Lord hath
called me from the womb, from the
bowels of my mother he hath been mind-
ful of my name.

2-^ And he hath made my mouth like a
sharp sword : in the shadow of his hand
he hath protected me, and hath made
me as a chosen arrow : in his quiver he
hath hidden me.

3 And he said to me: Thou art my ser-
vant Israel, for in thee will I glory.

4 And I said : I have laboured in vain,
I have spent my strength without cause
and in vain: therefore my judgment is
with the Lord, and my work with my God.

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c Ex. 17. 6; Num. 20. 11. — cf Infra 57 21.

e Jer. l. 5 ; Gal. 1. 15.

/iDfr:^ Clc IZ i Sph. & 26 1 Hcb. 4. 12 ; Apoc 1. 16.

Christ's mission to the Gentiles ISAIAS

6 And now saith the Lord, that formed
me from the womb to be his servant,
that I may bring back Jacob unto him,
and Israel will not be gathered together :
and I am glorified in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God is made my strength.

6 And he said : It is a small thing that
thou shouldst be my servant to raise up
the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the
dregs of Israel. ^ Behold, I have given
thee to be the light of the Gentiles,
that thou mayst be my salvation even to
the farthest part of the earth.

7 Thus saith the Lord the redeemer of
Israel, his Holy One, to the soul that is
despised, to the nation that is abhorred,
to the servant of rulers : Kings shall see,
and princes shall rise up, and adore for
the Lord's sake, because he is faithful, and
for the Holy One of Israel, who hath
chosen thee.

8 Thus saith the Lords '"In an accept-
able time I have heard thee, and in the
day of salvation I have helped thee : and
I have preserved thee, and given thee to
be a covenant of the people, that thou
tliightest raise up the earth, and possess
the inheritances that were destroyed :

9 That thou mightest say to them that
are bound: Come forth: and to them
that are in darkness: Shew yourscxves.
They shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures shall be in every plain.

1.0 *They shall not hunger, nor thirst,
neither shall the heat nor the sun strike
them : for he that is merciful to them,
shall be their shepherd, and at the foun-
tains of waters he shall give them drink.

11 And I will make all my mountains a
way, and my paths shall be exalted.

12 Behold these shall come from afar,
and behold these from the north and
from the sea, and these from the south
country.

13 Give praise, O ye heavens, and re-
joice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise
with jubilation: because the Lord hath
comforted his people, and will have
mercy on his poor ones.

14 And Sion said: The Lord hath for-
saken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me.

15 Can a woman forget her infant, so as
aot to have pity on the son of her womb?
and if she should forget, yet will not I
forget thee.

i/ Supra 42. 6 ; Acts 13. 47.
h 2 Cor. 6. 2, — i Apoc. 7. 16.

God*s love for His people

16 Behold, I have graven thee iu my
hands: <^thy walls are always before my
eyes.

17 Thy builders are come: they that
destroy thee and make thee waste shall
go out of thee.

18 *^Lift up thy eyes round about, and
see all these are gathered together, they
are come to thee: I live, saith the Lord,
thou shalt be clothed with all these as
with an ornament, and as a bride thou
shalt put them about thee.

19 For thy deserts, and thy desolate
places, and the land of thy destruction
shall now be too narrow by reason of
the inhabitants, and they that swallowed
thee up shall be chased far away.

20 The children of thy barrenness shall
still say in thy ears: The place is too
strait for me, make me room to dwell
in.

21 And thou shalt say in thy heart:
Who hath begotten these ? I was barren
and brought not forth, led away, and
captive : and who hath brought up these ?
I was destitute and alone: and these,
where were they?

22 Thus saith the Lord God : Behold I
will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and
will set up my standard to the people.
An'i they shall bring thy sons in their
aruis, and carry thy daughters upou their
sh(»ulders.

2<i And kings shall bd thy nursing fa-
thers, and queens thy nurses: chey shall
worship thee with their face toward the
earth, and they shall lick up the dust of
thy feet. ^And thou shalt know that I
am the Lord, for they shall not be con-
founded that wait for him.

24 Shall the prey be taken from the
strong ? or can that which was taken by
the mighty be delivered ?

26 For thus saith t?ie Lord : Yea verily,
even the captivity shall be taken away
from the strong: and that which was
taken by the mighty, shall be delivered.
But I will judge those that have judged
thee, and thy children I will save.

26 And I will feed thy enemies with
their own flesh : and they shall be made
drunk with their own blood, as with new
wine : and all flesh shall know, that I an
the Lord that save thee, and thy Ke* ,
deemer the Mighty One of Jacob.

j Ex. 13. 9. — A; Infra 60. 4.
iPs.71. 9; Infra C3. 14.

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Chrisfs patience in affliction

ISAIAS

Exhortation to trust in Christ

CHAPTER 50.

The synagogue shall be divorced for her iniquities.
Christ /or her sake will endure ignominious af-
flictions.

THUS saith the Lord: What is this biU
of the divorce of your mother, with
which I have put her away? or who is
my creditor, to whom I sold you : behold
you are sold for your iniquities, and for
your wicked deeds have I put your mo-
ther away.

2 Because I came, and there was not a
man : I called, and there was none that
would hear. "* Is my hand shortened and
become little, that I cannot redeem? or
is there no strength in me to dehver?
Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea
a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry
land: the fishes shall rot for want of
water, and shall die for thirst,

3 I will clothe the heavens with dark-
ness, and will make sackcloth their cov-
ering.

4 The Lord hath given me a learned
tongue, that I should know how to up-
hold by word him that is weary: he
wakeneth in the morning, in the morn-
ing he wakeneth my ear, that I may
hear him as a master.

5 The Lord God hath opened my ear,
and I do not resist: I have not gone
back.

6^1 have given my body to the strik-
ers, and my cheeks to them that plucked
them : I have not turned away my face
from them that rebuked me, and spit
upon me.

7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore
am I not confounded: therefore have I
Bet my face as a most hard rock, and I
know that I shall not be confounded.

8 ° He is near that justifieth me, who
will contend with me? let us stand to-
gether, who is my adversary? let him
come near to me.

9 Behold the Lord God is my helper:
who is he that shall condemn me? Lo,
they shall all be destroyed as a garment,
the moth shall eat them up.

10 Who is there among you that feareth
the Lord, that heareth the voice of his
servant, that hath walked in darkness,
and hath no light? let him hope in the
name oi the Lord, and lean upon his God.

11 Behold all you that kindle a fire, en-

compassed with flames, walk in the light
of your fire, and in the flames which you
have kindled : this is done to you by my
hand, you shall sleep in sorrows.

CHAPTER 61.

An exhortation to trust in Christ. He shall protect
the children of his church.

GIVE ear to me, you that follow that
which is just, and you that seek the
Lord: look unto the rock whence you
are hewn, and to the hole of the pit
from which you are dug out.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and
to Sara that bore you: for I called him
alone, and blessed him, and multiplied
him.

3 The Lord therefore will comfort Sion,
and will comfort all the ruins thereof:
and he will make her desert as a place
of pleasure, and her wilderness as the
garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and
the voice of praise.

4 Hearken unto me, O my people, and
give ear to me, O my tribes: ^for a law
shall go forth from me, and my judgment
shall rest to be a light of the nations.

6 My just one is near at hand, my savioui'
is gone forth, and my arms shall judge
the people : the islands shall look for me,
and shall patiently wait for my arm.

6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look
down to the earth beneath: for the hea-
vens shall vanish like smoke, and the
earth shall be worn away like a garment,
and the inhabitants thereof shall perish
in like manner: ^but my salvation shall
be for ever, and my justice shall not faiL

7 Hearken to me, you that know what
is just, my people who have my law in
your heart: fear ye not the reproach of
men, and be not afraid of their blas-
phemies.

8 For the worm shall eat them up as a
garment: and the moth shall consume
them as wool: but my salvation shall be
for ever, and my justice from generation
to generation.

9 Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou
arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of
old, in the ancient generations. Hast
not thou struck the proud one, and
wounded the dragon?

10 *" Hast not thou dried up the sea, th€

m Infra 69. L— n Mitt 26. 67.~o Bom 8. 33. p Supra 2. 3. —q Ft. 36. Sl.'-r Ex. 14. 21.

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Cod will comfort His people

ISAIAS

The redemption of Israel

water of the mighty deep, who madest the
depth of the sea a way, that the delivered
might pass over ?

11 And now they that are redeemed by
tho Lord, shall return, and shall come
into Sion singing praises, and joy ever-
lasting shall be upon their heads, they
shall obtain joy and gladness, sorrow and
mourning shall flee away.

12 I, I myself will comfort you : who
art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of
a mortal man, and of the son of man, who
shall wither away like grass ?

13 And thou hast forgotten the Lord
thy maker, who stretched out the hea-
vens, and founded the earth: and thou
hast been afraid continually all the day
at the presence of his fury who afliicted
thee, and had prepared himself to de-
stroy thee : where is now the fury of the
oppressor?

14 He shall quickly come that is going
to open unto you^ and he shall not kill
unto utter destruction, neither shall his
bread fail.

15 But I am the Lord thy God, who
trouble the sea, and the waves thereof
swell: the Lord of hosts is my name.

16 * I have put my words in thy month,
and have protected thee in the shadow
of my hand, that thou mightest plant the
heavens, and found the earth : and might-
est say to Sion : Thou art my people.

17 Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem,
which hast drunk at the hand of the
Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast
drunk even to the bottom of the cup of
dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to
the dregs»

18 There is none that can uphold her
among all the children that she hath
brought forth: and there is none that
taketh her by the hand among all the
children that she hath brought up.

19 * There are two things that have hap-
pened to thee : who shall be sorry for
thee? desolation, and destruction, and
the famine, and the sword, who shall com-
fort thee ?

20 Thy children are cast forth, they
have slept at the head of all the ways,
as the wild ox that is snared : full of the
indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of
thy God.

21 Therefore hear this, thou poor little

8 Supra 49. 2. — t Supra 47. 9.
M Gen. 46. 6,

one, and thou that art drunk but nof
with wine.

22 Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord,
and thy God, who will fight for his peO"
pie : Behold I have taken out of thy
hand the cup of dead sleep, the dregs of
the cup of my indignation, thou shalt not
drink it again any more.

23 And I will put it in the hand of them
that have oppressed thee, and have said
to thy soul : Bow down, that we may go
over : and thou hast laid thy body as the
ground, and as a way to them that went
over.

CHAPTER 52.

Under the figure of the deliverance from the Baby,
lonish captivity, the church is invited to rejoice
for her redemption from sin. ChrisVs kingdom,
shall be exalted.

ARISE, arise, put on thy strength, 0
. Sion, put on the garments of thy
glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy
One: for henceforth the uncircumcisedL,
and unclean shall no more pass through
thee.

2 Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit
up, O Jerusalem : loose the bonds from
off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion.

3 For thus saith the Lord : You were
sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed
without money.

4 For thus saith the Lord God : ** My
people went down into Egypt at the be-
ginning to sojourn there: and the Assyr-
ian hath oppressed them without any
cause at all.

6 And now what have I here, saith the
Lord : for my people is taken away gratis.
They that rule over them treat them un-
justly, saith the Lord, and ^ my name is
continually blasphemed all the day long.

6 Therefore my people shall know my
name in that day: for I myself that spoke^
behold I am here.

7 ^ How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, and that preacheth peace: of
him that sheweth forth good, that preach-
eth salvation, that saith to Sion: Thy
God shall reign !

8 The voice of thy watchmen : they
have lifted up their voice, they shall
praise together: for they shall see eye
to eye when the Lord shall convert Sion.

9 Rejoice, and give praise together, 0

V Ezech. 36. 20 ; Rom. 2. 24.
w NalL 1. 15 ; Horn. 10. 16.

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The sufferings of Christ

ISAIAS

The sufferings of Christ

ye deserts of Jerusalem: for the Lord
hath comforted his people: he hath re-
deemed Jerusalem,

10 The Lord hath prepared his holy arm
in the sight of all the Gentiles : ^ and all
the ends of the earth shall see the salva-
tion of our God.

11 Depart, depart, go ye out from
thence, ^ touch no unclean thing : go out
of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that
carry the vessels of the Lord.

12 For you shall not go out in a tumult,
neither chall you make haste by flight:
for the Lord will go before you, and the
God of Israel will gather you together.

13 Behold my servant shall understand,
he shall be exalted, and extolled, and
shall be exceeding high.

14 As many have been astonished at
thee, so shall his visage be inglorious
among men, and his form among the sons
of men.

15 He shall sprinkle many nations,
kings shall shut their mouth at him : ^ for
they to whom it was not told of him,
have seen : and they that heard not,
have beheld.

CHAPTER 53.

A prophecy of the passion of Christ.

WHO * hath believed our report ?
and to whom is the arm of the
Lord revealed ?

2 And he shall grow up as a tender
plant before him, and as a root out of a
thirsty ground: there is no beauty in
him, nor comeliness : and we have seen
him, and there was no sightliness, that
;we should be desirous of him:
, 3 * Despised, and the most abject of
men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted
;with infirmity: and his look was as it
jwere hidden and despised, whereupon
we esteemed him not.

4 '^ Surely he hath borne our infirmities
|and carried our sorrows: and we have
jbhought him as it were a leper, and as
one struck by God and afflicted.
i 5 ^ But he was wounded for our iniqui-
|)ies, he was bruised for our sins : the
I'/hastisement of our peace was upon him,
lind by his bruises we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray.

..: Ps. 97. 3. — y 2 Cor. 6. 17.
2 Rom. 15. 21. — a John 12. 38 ; Rom. 10. 16.
b Mark 9. 11. — c Matt. 8. 17. — d 1 Cor. 15. 3.

e Matt 26. 63 ; Acts & 33.

every one hath turned aside into his own
way : and the Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all.

7 He was offered because it was his own
will, and he opened not his mouth: he
shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter,
and shall be dumb as a lamb before his
shearer, ^ and he shall not open his
mouth.

8 He was taken away fr®m distress, and
from judgment: who shall declare his
generation? because he is cut off out of
the land of the living: for the wicked-
ness of my people have I struck him.

9 And he shall give the ungodly for his
burial, and the rich for his death: -^be-
cause he hath done no iniquity, neither
was there deceit in his mouth.

10 And the Lord was pleased to bruise
him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his
life for sin, he shall see a long-lived seed,
and the will of the Lord shall be prosper-
ous in his hand.

11 Because his soul hath laboured, he
shall see and be filled: by his knowledge
shall this my just servant justify many,
and he shall bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore will I distribute to him
very many, and he shall divide the spoils
of the strong, because he hath delivered
his soul unto death, S'and was reputed
with the wicked : and he hath borne the
sins of many, ^ and hath prayed for the
transgressors.

CHAPTER 54.

The Gentiles, who were barren before, shall multi'
ply in the church of Christ: from which GodJ's
mercy shall never depart.

GIVE Upraise, O thou barren, that
bearest not: sing forth praise, and
make a joyful noise, thou that didst not
travail with child: for many are the chil-
dren of the desolate, more than of her
that hath a husband, saith the Lord.

2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and
stretch out the skins of thy tabernacles,
spare not: lengthen thy cords, and
strengthen thy stakes.

3 For thou shalt pass on to the right
hand, and to the left: and thy seed shall
inherit the Gentiles, and shall inhabit the
desolate cities.

4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be con-

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/ 1 Peter 2. 22 ; 1 John 3. 5.

0 Mark 15. 28 ; Luke 22. 37.

h Luke 23. 34.

< Luke 23. 29 ; GaL 4. 87.

God's mercy to His people

ISAIAS Exhortation to turn to the Lord

founded, nor blush : for thou shalt not
be put to shame, because thou shalt for-
get the shame of thy youth, and shalt
remember no more the reproach of thy
widowhood.

5 For he that made thee shall rule over
thee, ^ the Lord of hosts is his name : and
thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
shall be called the God of all the earth.

6 For the Lord hath called thee as a
woman forsaken and mourning in spirit,
and as a wife cast off from her youth,
said thy God.

7 For a small moment have I forsaken
thee, but with great mercies will I gather
thee.

8 In a moment of indignation have I hid
my face a little while from thee, but with
everlasting kindness have I had mercy
on thee, said the Lord thy Redeemer.

9 ^ This thing is to me as in the days of
Noe, to whom I swore, that I would no
more bring in the waters of Noe upon
the earth : so have I sworn not to be
angry with thee, and not to rebuke thee.

10 For the mountains shall be moved,
and the hills shall tremble ; but my mercy
shall not depart from thee, and the cove-
nant of my peace shall not be moved:
said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

11 O poor little one, tossed with tem-
pest, without all comfort, behold I will
lay thy stones in order, and will lay thy
foundations with sapphires,

12 And I will make thy bulwarks of jas-
per : and thy gates of graven stones, and
all thy borders of desirable stones.

13 ^ All thy children shall be taught of
the Lord : and great shall be the peace
of thy children.

14 And thou shalt be founded in justice :
depart far from oppression, for thou shalt
not fear ; and from terror, for it shall not
come near thee.

15 Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who
was not with me, he that was a stranger
to thee before, shall be joined to thee.

16 Behold, I have created the smith that
bloweth the coals in the jftre, and bringeth
forth an instrument for his work, and I
have created the killer to destroy.

17 No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper: and every tongue
that resisteth thee in judgment, thou
shalt condemn. This is the inheritance

j Luke 11. 32. — * Gen. 9. 15.
{ John 6. 45.— m John 7. 37( EcclL 6L 33;

of the servants of the Lord, and their
justice with me, saith the Lord.

CHAPTER 55.

God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the
faithful, that shall believe in Christ out of all
nations, and sincerely serve him.

A LL "* you that thirst, come to the
*C\- waters : and you that have no
money make haste, buy, and eat : come
ye, buy wine and milk without money,
and without any price.

2 Why do you spend money for that
which is not bread, and your labour for
that which doth not satisfy you ? Hearken
diligently to me, and eat that which is
good, and your soul shall be dehghted in
fatness.

3 Incline your oar and come to me :
hear and your soul shall hve, and I wiU
make an everlasting covenant with yo" ^
" the faithful mercies of David.

4 Behold I have given him for a witness
to the people, for a leader and a master
to the Gentiles. 1

5 Behold thou shalt call a nation, which
thou knewest not : and the nations that
knew not thee shall run to thee, because
of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy
One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.

6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be
found : call upon him, while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unjust man his thoughts, and let him
retm*n to the Lord, and he will have
mercy on him, and to our God : for he is
bountiful to forgive.

8 For my thoughts are not your
thoughts : nor your ways my ways, saith
the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are exalted above
the earth, so are mj^ ways exalted above
your ways, and my thoughts above your
thoughts.

10 And as the rain and the snow come
down from heaven, and return no more
thither, but soak the earth, and water it,
and make it to spring, and give seed to
the sower, and bread to the eater :

11 So shall my word be, which shall go
forth from my mouth : it shall not return
to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I
please, and shall prosper in the things
for which I sent it.

12 For you shall go out with joy, and be
led forth with peace : the mountains and

Apec 22. 17 i Jer. 15. 16 ; Ezech. S. 3 ; Prov. 9. 6.
» Acts 13. 34.

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The reward of serving God

ISAIAS

Wickedness of the Jews

the hills shall sing praise before you, and
all the trees of the country shall clap
their hands.

13 Instead of the shrub, shall come up
the fir tree, and instead of the nettle,
shall come up the myrtle tree : and the
Lord shall be named for an everlasting
sign, that shall not be taken away.

CHAPTER 66.

God invites all to keep his commandments : the Gen-
tiles that keep them shall be the people of God : the
Jewish pastors are reproved.

rpHUS ° saith the Lord : Keep ye judg-
JL ment, and do justice : for my salva-
tion is near to come, and my justice to
be revealed.

2 Blessed is the man that doth this, and
the son of man that shall lay hold on
this : that keepeth the sabbath from pro-
faning it, that keepeth his hands from
doing any evil.

3 And let not the son of the stranger,
that adhereth to the Lord, speak, saying:
The Lord will divide and separate me
from his people. And let not the eunuch
say : Behold I am a dry tree.

4 For thus saith the Lord to the eu-
nuchs. They that shall keep my sabbaths,
and shall choose the things that please
me, and shall hold fast my covenant :

5 I will give to them in my house, and
within my walls, a place, and a name bet-
ter than sons and daughters : I will give
them an everlasting name which shall
never perish.

6 And the children of the stranger that
adhere to the Lord, to worship him, and
to love his name, to be his servants :
every one that keepeth the sabbath from
profaning it, and that holdeth fast my
covenant :

7 I will bring them into my holy mount,
and will make them joyful in my house
of prayer: their holocausts, and their
victims shall please me upon my altar :
P for my house shall be called the house
of prayer, for all nations.

8 The Lord God, ^ who gathereth the
scattered of Israel, saith : I will still gath-
er unto him his congregation.

9 All ye beasts of the field come to de-
vour, all ye beasts of the forest.

10 *■ His watchmen are all blind, they
are all ignorant : dumb dogs not able to

o Wisd. 1. 1 ; Matt. 23. 23.
p Jer. 7. 11 : Matt 2L 13; Mark IL 17 ; Luke 19. 46.

bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and
loving dreams.

11 And most impudent dogs, they never
had enough : the shepherds themselves
knew no understanding : all have turned
aside into their own way, ® every one
after his own gain, from the first even to
the last.

12 Come, let us take wine, and be filled
with drunkenness : and it shall be as to
day, so also to morrow, and much more.

CHAPTER 57.

The infidelity of the Jews : their idolatry. Prom,ises
to humble peniteiits.

THE just perisheth, and no man lay-
eth it to heart, and men of mercy
are taken away, because there is none
that understandeth ; for the just man is
taken away from before the face of
evil.

2 Let peace come, let him rest in his
bed that hath walked in his uprightness.

3 But draw near hither, you sons of the
sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and
of the harlot.

4 Upon whom have you jested ? upon
whom have you opened your mouth wide,
and put out your tongue ? are not you
wicked children, a false seed,

5 Who seek your comfort in idols under
every green tree, sacrificing children in
the torrents, under the high rocks ?

6 In the parts of the torrent is thy por-
tion, this is thy lot : and thou hast poured
out libations to them, thou hast offered
sacrifice. Shall I not be angry at these
things ?

7 Upon a high and lofty mountain thou
hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither
to offer victims.

8 And behind the door, and behind the
post thou hast set up thy remembrance :
for thou hast discovered thyself near me,
and hast received an adulterer : thou
hast enlarged thy bed, and made a cove-
nant with them: thou hast loved their
bed with open hand.

9 And thou hast adorned thyself for the
king with ointment, and hast multiplied
thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy mes-
sengers far off, and wast debased even
to hell.

10 Thou hast been wearied in the mul-
titude of thy ways : yet thou saidst not :

q Jolin 11. 52. — r Ezech. 3. 17, and 32. 2, and 6, 7.
8 Jer. 6. 13, and 8. 10.

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God's mercy to the penitent ISAIAS The fast acceptable to God

I will rest: thou has found life of thy
hand, therefore thou hast not asked.

11 For whom hast thou been solicitous
and afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast
not been mindful of me, nor thought on
me in thy heart? for I am silent, and as
one that seeth not, and thou has forgot-
ten me.

12 I will declare thy justice, and thy
works shall not profit thee.

13 When thou shalt cry, let thy compa-
nies deliver thee, but the wind shall carry
them all off, a breeze shall take them
away, but he that putteth his trust in me,
shall inherit the land, and shall possess
my holy mount.

14 And I will say: * Make a way: give
free passage, turn out of the path, take
away the stumblingblocks out of the
way of my people.

15 For thus saith the High and the Emi-
nent that inhabiteth eternity: and his
name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high
and holy place, and with a contrite and
humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the
humble, and to revive the heart of the
contrite.

16 For I will not contend for ever, nei-
ther will I be angry unto the end: be-
cause the spirit shall go forth from my
face, and breathings I will make.

17 For the iniquity of his covetousness I
was angry, and I struck him: I hid my
face from thee, and was angry: and he
went away wandering in his own heart.

18 I saw his ways, and I healed him, and
brought him back, and restored comforts
to him, and to them that mourn fo»him.

19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace,
peace to him that is far off, and to him
that is near, said the Lord, and I healed
him.

20 But the wicked are like the raging
sea, which cannot rest, and the waves
thereof cast up dirt and mire.

21 « There is no peace to the wicked,
saith the Lord God.

CHAPTER 58.

Ood rejects the hypocritical fasts of the Jews:
recommends works of mercy, and sincere godli-
ness.

CRY, cease not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and shew my people their
wicked doings, and the house of Jacob
their sins.

t Infra 62. 10. — u Supra 48. 22. — v Zach. 7. 5.

2 For they seek me from day to day, and
desire to know my ways, as a nation that
hath done justice, and hath not forsaken
the judgment of their God: they ask of
me the judgments of justice: they are
willing to approach to God.

3 Why have we fasted, and thou hast
not regarded: have we humbled our
souls, and thou hast not taken notice?
Behold in the day of your fast your own
will is found, and you exact of all your
debtors.

4 Behold you fast for debates and strife,
and strike with the fist wickedly. Do
not fast as you have done until this day,
to make your cry to be heard on high.

5 ^ Is this such a fast as I have chosen:
for a man to afflict his soul for a day ? is
this it, to wind his head about like a
circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes ?
wilt thou call this a fast, and a day ac-
ceptable to the Lord?

6 Is not this rather the fast that I have
chosen? loose the bands of wickedness,
undo the bundles that oppress, let them
that are broken go free, and break asun-
der every burden.

7 ^ Deal thy bread to the hungry, and ^
bring the needy and the harbourless into
thy house: when thou shalt see one
naked, cover him, and despise not thy
own flesh.

8 Then shall thy light break forth as the
morning, and thy health shall speedily
arise, and thy justice shall go before thy
face, and the glory of the Lord shall
gather thee up.

9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord
shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall
say. Here I am. If thou wilt take away
the chain out of the midst of thee, and
cease to stretch out the finger, and to
speak that which profiteth not.

10 When thou shalt pour out thy soul
to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the
afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up
in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as T
the noonday. '

11 And the Lord will give thee rest con-
tinually, and will fill thy soul with bright- I
ness, and deliver thy bones, and thou '
shalt be like a watered garden, and like

a fountain of water whose waters shall
not fail.

12 a; And the places that have been deso-

W'Ezech, 18. Tandae ;Matt. 25. 36.— <pliifnu61.4.

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Sin separates us from God

I S A I A S Evil nature and effects of sin

late for ages shall be built in thee : thou
shalt raise up the foundations of genera-
tion and generation : and thou shalt be
called the repairer of the fences, tiu-n-
ing the paths into rest.

13 If thou turn away thy foot from the
sabbath, from doing thy own will in my
holy day, and call the sabbath delightful,
and the holy of the Lord glorious, and
glorify him, while thou dost not thy
own ways, and thy own will is not found,
to speak a word :

14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the
Lord, and I will lift thee up above the
high places of the earth, and will feed
thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy
father. For the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.

CHAPTER 59.

The dreadful evil of sin is displayed, as the great
obstacle to all good from God : yet he will send a
Redeemer, and make an everlasting covenant with
his church.

BEHOLD ^the hand of the Lord is not
shortened that it cannot save, nei-
ther is his ear heavy that it cannot hear.

2 But your iniquities have divided be-
tween you and your God, and your sins
have hid his face from you that he should
not hear.

3s^ ^ For your hands are defiled with
blood, and your fingers with iniquity :
your lips have spoken lies, and your
tongue uttereth iniquity.

4 There is none that calleth upon jus-
tice, neither is there any one that judgeth
truly: but they trust in a mere nothing,
and speak vanities : they have conceived
labour, and brought forth iniquity.

5 They have broken the eggs of asps,
"and have woven the webs of spiders:
he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die:
and that which is brought out, shall be
hatched into a basilisk.

6 Their webs shall not be for clothing,
neither shall they cover themselves with
their works : their works are unprofitable
works, and the work of iniquity is in their
hands.

7 ^ Their feet run to evil, and make haste
to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
are unprofitable thoughts* wasting and
destruction are in their ways.

8 They have not known the way of
peace, and there is no judgment in their

V Num. 11. 23 ; Supra 50. 2.
a Job 8. 4.

z Supra 1. 16.

steps : their paths are become crooked to
them, every one that treadeth in them,
knoweth no peace.

9 Therefore is judgment far from us,
and justice shall not overtake us. We
looked for light, and behold darkness:
brightness, and we have walked in the
dark.

10 We have groped for the wall, and like
the blind we have groped as if we had no
eyes : we have stumbled at noonday as
in darkness, we are in dark places as dead
men.

1 1 We shall roar all of us like bears, and
shall lament as mournful doves. We
have looked for judgment, and there is
none : for salvation, and it is far from us.

12 For our iniquities are multiplied be-
fore thee, and our sins have testified
against us: for our wicked doings are
with us, and we have known our iniqui-
ties:

13 In sinning and lying against the Lord :
and we have turned away so that we
went not after our God, but spoke
calumny and transgression : we have con-
ceived, and uttered from the heart, words
of falsehood.

14 And judgment is turned away back-
ward, and justice hath stood far off : be-
cause truth hath fallen down in the
street, and equity could not come in.

15 And truth hath been forgotten : and
he that departed from evil, lay open to
be a prey : and the Lord saw, and it ap-
peared evil in his eyes, because there is
no judgment.

16 And he saw that there is not a man :
and he stood astonished, because there
is none to oppose himself : and his own
arm brought salvation to him, and his
own justice supported him.

17 ^ He put on justice as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation upon his head:
he put on the garments of vengeance,
and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.

18 As unto revenge, as it were to repay
wrath to his adversaries, and a reward
to his enemies : he will repay the like to
the islands.

19 And they from the west, shall fear
the name of the Lord : and they from
the rising of the sun, his glory : when he
shall come as a violent stream, which the
spirit of the Lord driveth on :

b Prov. 1, 16 ; Rom, 3. 15.
c Eph. 6. 17 i 1 Thess. 6. 8.

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20 ^ And there shall come a redeemer
to Sion, and to them that return from
iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.

21 This is my covenant with them, saith
the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and
my words that I have put in thy mouth,
shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor
out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of
the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith t\ie
Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

CHAPTER 60.

The light of true faith shall shine forth in the
church of Christ, and shall be spread through all
nations, and continue for all ages.

ARISE, be enlightened, O Jerusalem:
. for thy light is come, and the glory
of the Lord is risen upon thee.

2 For behold darkness shall cover the
earth, and a mist the people : but the
Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee.

3 And the Gentiles shall walk in thy
light, and kings in the brightness of thy
rising.

4 ^ Lift up thy eyes round about, and
see : all these are gathered together,
they are come to thee : thy sons shall
come from afar, and thy daughters shall
rise up at thy side.

6 Then shalt thou see, and abound, and
thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged,
when the multitude of the sea shall be
converted to thee, the strength of the
Gentiles shall come to thee.

6 The multitude of camels shall cover
thee, the dromedaries of Madian and
Epha: all they from Saba shall come,
bringing gold and frankincense : and
shewing forth praise to the Lord.

7 All the flocks of Cedar shall be gath-
ered together unto thee, the rams of Na-
baioth shall minister to thee: they shall
be offered upon my acceptable altar, and
I will glorify the house of my majesty.

8 Who are these, that fiy as clouds, and
as doves to their windows ?

9 For, the islands wait for me, and the
ships of the sea in the beginning: that I
may bring thy sons from afar : their sil-
ver, and their gold with them, to the
name of the Lord thy God, and to the

ISAIAS All nations shall come to the chmch

d Rom. 11. 26. — e Supra 49. 18.

CiiAP. 59. Ver. 21. This is my covenant, &c.
Note here a clear promise of perpetual orthodoxy to
the church of Christ.

Ohap. 60. Ver. 19. Thou shalt no more, &c. In

Holy One of Israel, because he hath glo-
rified thee.

10 And the children of strangers shall
build up thy walls, and their kings shall
minister to thee : for in my wrath have
I struck thee, and in my reconciliation
have I had mercy upon thee. )

11-^' And thy gates shall be open con-
tinually : they shall not be shut day nor
night, that the strength of the Gentiles
may be brought to thee, and their kings
may be brought.

12 For the nation and the kingdom that
will not serve thee, shall perish : and the
Gentiles shall be wasted with desolation.

13 The glory of Libanus shall come to
thee, the fir tree, and the box tree, and
the pine tree together, to beautify the
place of my sanctuary : and I will glorify
the place of mv feet.

14 And the children of them that afflict
thee, sh^ll come bowing down to thee,
and all that slandered thee shall worship
the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee
the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy-
One of Israel. f |

15 Because thou wast forsaken, and
hated, and there was none that passed
through theC; I will make thee to be an
everlasting glory, a joy unto generation
and generation :

16 And thou shalt suck the milk of the
Gentiles, and thou shalt be nursed with
the breasts of kJTigs : and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord thy Saviour,
and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of
Jacob.

17 For brass I will bring gold, and for
iron I will bring silver: and for wood
brass, and for stones iron : and I will
make thy visitation peace, and thy over-
seers justice.

18 Iniquity shall no more be heard in
thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy
borders, and salvation shall possess thy
walls, and praise thy gates.

19 9' Thou shalt no more have the sun
for thy light by day, neither shall the
brightness of the moon enhghten thee:
but the Lord shall be unto thee for an
everlasting light, and thy God for thj
glory.

/ Apoc. 21. 25. — g Apoc. 21. 23, and 22. 5.

this latter part of the chapter, the prophet passes
from the illustrious promises made to the church
militant on earth, to the glory of the church trium»
phant in heaven.

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ISAIAS

The glories of the church

20 Thy sun shall go down no more, and
thy moon shall not decrease : for the
Lord shall be unto thee for an everlasting
light, and the days of thy mourning shall
be ended.

21 And thy people shall be all just, they
shall inherit the land for ever, the branch
of my planting, the work of my hand to
glorify Tne.

22 The least shall become a thousand,
and a little one a most strong nation: I
the Lord will suddenly do this thing in
its time.

CHAPTER 61.

The office of Christ : the mission of the Apostles ;
the happiness of their converts.

THE ^* spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because the Lord hath anointed me:
he hath sent me to preach to the meek,
to heal the contrite of heart, and to
preach a release to the captives, and de-
liverance to them that are shut up.

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the
Lord, and the day of vengeance of our
God: *to comfort all that mourn:

3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion,
and to give them a crown for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, a garment of
praise for the spirit of grief: and they
shall be called in it the mighty ones of
justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify
him.

4 ^ And they shall build the places that
have been waste from of old, and shall
raise up ancient ruins, and shall repair
the desolate cities, that were destroyed
for generation and generation.

5 And strangers shall stand and shall
feed your flocks : and the sons of stran-
gers shall be your husbandmen, and the
dressers of your vines.

6 But you shall be called the priests of
the Lord : to you it shall be said : Ye
ministers of our God : you shall eat the
riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride
yourselves in their glory.

7 For your double confusion and shame,
they shall praise their part : therefore
shall they receive double in their land,
everlasting joy shall be unto them.

8 For I am the Lord that love judgment,
and hate robbery in a holocaust : and I
will make their work in truth, and I will
make a perpetual covenant with them.

9 And they shall know their seed among

h Luke 4. 18. —i Matt. fi. k

the Gentiles, and their offspring in the
midst of peoples: all that shall see them,
shall know them, that these are the seed
which the Lord hath blessed.

10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and
my soul shall be joyful in my God : for
he hath clothed me with the garments of
salvation: and with the robe of justice
he hath covered me, as a bridegroom
decked with a crown, and as a bride
adorned with her jewels.

11 For as the earth bringeth forth her
bud, and as the garden causeth her boed
to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God
make justice to spring forth, and praise
before all the nations.

CHAPTER 62.

The prophet will not cease from preaching Christ:
to whom all nations shall be converted : and whose
church shall continue for ever.

FOR Sion's sake I will not hold my
peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem,
I will not rest till her just one come forth
as brightness, and her saviour be lighted
as a lamp.

2 And the Gentiles shall see thy just
one, and all kings thy glorious one: and
thou shalt be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

3 And thou shalt be a crown oJ glory in
the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem
in the hand of thy God.

4 Thou shalt no more be called For-
saken: and thy land shall no more be
called Desolate : but thou shalt be called
My pleasure in her, and thy land in-
habited. Because the Lord hath been
well pleased with thee: and thy land
shall be inhabited.

5 For the young man shall dwell with
the virgin, and thy children shall dwell
in thee. And the bridegroom shall re-
joice over the bride, and thy God shall
rejoice over thee.

6 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have
appointed watchmen all the day, and all
the night, they shall never hold their
peace. You that are mindful of the
Lord, hold not your peace,

7 And give him no silence till he estab-
lish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.

8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand,
and by the arm of his strength : Surely I
will no more give thy corn to be meat

i&npras&tai

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Christ's victory over His enemies ISAIAS

Eis mercies to His people

i'or thy enemies: and the sons of the
strangers shall not drink thy wine, for
which thou hast laboured.

9 For they that gather it, shall eat it,
and shall praise the Lord : and they that
bring it together, shall drink it in my
holy courts.

10 Go through, go through the gates,
^ prepare the way for the people, make
the road plain, pick out the stones, and
lift up the standard to the people.

11 ^Behold the Lord hath made it to be
heard in the ends of the earth, tell the
daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour
Cometh : behold his reward is with him,
and his work before him.

12 And they shall call them. The holy
people, the redeemed of the Lord. But
thou shalt be called: A city sought after,
and not forsaken.

CHAPTER 63.

Christ's victory over his enemies : his mercies to his
people : their com,plaint.

WHO is this that cometh from Edom,
with dyed garments from Bosra,
this beautiful one in his robe, walking in
the greatness of his strength. I, that
speak justice, and am a defender to save.

2 "* Why then is thy apparel red, and
thy garments like theirs that tread in
the winepress?

3 I have trodden the winepress alone,
and of the Gentiles there is not a man
with me : I have trampled on them in my
indignation, and have trodden them down
in my wrath, and their blood is sprinkled
upon my garments, and I have stained
all my apparel.

4 '^ For the day of vengeance is in my
heart, the year of my redemption is come.

5 I looked about, and there was none to
help : I sought, and there was none to give
aid : and my own arm hath saved for me,
and my indignation itself hath helped me.

6 And I have trodden down the people
in my wrath, and have made them drunk
in my indignation, and have brought
down their strength to the earth.

k Supra 57. 14.— I Zach. 9. 9 ; Matt. 21. 5.
m Apoc. 19. 13. — n Supra 34. 8.

Chap. 63. Ve». 1 Edom. Edom and Bosra (a
strong city of Edom) are here taken in a mystical
sense for the enemies of Christ and his church.

Ver. 15. They have held back, &c. This is spoken
by the prophet in the person of the Jews at the time
when, for their sins, they were given up to their
enemies.

Ver. 16. Abraham hath noUknown us, &c. That

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7 I will remember the tender mercies of
the Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the
things that the Lord hath bestowed upon
us, and for the multitude of his good
things to the house of Israel, which he
hath given them according to his kind-
ness, and according to the multitude of
his mercies.

8 And he said : Surely they are my peo*
pie, children that will not deny: so he
became their saviour.

9 In all their affliction he was not trou-
bled, and the angel of his presence saved
them : in his love, and in his mercy he
redeemed them, and he carried them and
hfted them up all the days of old.

10 But they provoked to wrath, and af-
flicted the spirit of his Holy One : and he
was turned to be their enemy, and he
fought against them.

11 And he remembered the days of old
of Moses, and of his people : ^ Where is
he that brought them up out of the sea,
with the shepherds of his flock ? where
is he that put in the midst of them the
spirit of his Holy One ?

12 He that brought out Moses by the
right hand, by the arm of his majesty :
that divided the waters before them, to
make himself an everlasting name.

13 He that led them out through the
deep, as a horse in the wilderness that
stumbleth not.

14 As a beast that goeth down in the
fleld, the spirit of the Lord was their
leader : so didst thou lead thy people to
make thyself a glorious name.

15 ^'Look down from heaven, and be-
hold from thy holy habitation and the
place of thy glory: where is thy zeal,
and thy strength, the multitude of thy
bowels, and of thy mercies ? they have
held back themselves from me.

16 For thou art our father, and Abra-
ham hath not known us, and Israel hath I
been ignorant of us : thou, O Lord, art
our father, our redeemer, from everlast-[
ing is thy name.

17 Why hast thou made us to err,

o Ex. 14. 29.
p Deut. 26. 15 ; Bar. 2. 16.

is, Abraham will not now acknowledge us for
children, by reason of our degeneracy ; but thou,
Lord, art our true father and our redeemer, and I
other can be called our parent in comparison wit
thee.

Ver. 17. Made us to err, &c. Hardened our hearti
&c. The meaning is, that God in punishment of theiil
great and manifold crimes, and their long abuMO/f

Prayer for God's people

ISAIAS The Je^vs punished for obstinacy

Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou
hardened our heart, that we should
not fear thee? return for the sake of
thy servants, the tribes of thy inherit-
ance.

18 They have possessed thy holy people
as nothing: our enemies have trodden
down thy sanctuary.

19 We are become as in the beginning,
when thou didst not rule over us, and
when we were not called by thy name.

CHAPTER 64.

The ■prophet prays for the release of his people;
and for the remission of their sins.

OTHAT thou wouldst rend the hea-
vens, and wouldst come down: the
mountains would melt away at thy pre-
sence.

2 They would melt as at the burning of
fire, the waters would burn with fire,
that thy name might be made known to
thy enemies: that the nations might
tremble at thy presence.

3 When thou shalt do wonderful things,
we shall not bear them: thou didst come
down, and at thy presence the moun-
tains melted away.

4 From the beginning of the world they
have not heard, nor perceived with the
ears : Q the eye hath not seen, 0 God, be-
sides thee, what things thou hast pre-
pared for them that wait for thee.

5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and
doth justice: in thy ways they shall
remember thee: behold thou art angry,
and we have sinned: in them we have
been always, and we shall be saved.

6 And we are all become as one unclean,
and all our justices as the rag of a men-
struous woman: and we have all fallen
as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the
wind, have taken us away.

7 There is none that calleth upon thy
name: that riseth up, and taketh hold
of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us,
and hast crushed us in the hand of our
iniquity.

8 And now, O Lord, thou art our fa-
ther, and we are clay: and thou art our
maker, and we all are the works of thy
hands.

gl Cor. 2. 9.— rPs. 78.8.

his mercy and grace, had withdrawn his graces from
them, and so given them up to error and hardness of
heart.

Chap. 64. Ver. 6. Our justices, &c. That is, the
works by which we pretended to make ourselves

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9 ^ Be not very angry, 0 Lord, and re-
member no longer our iniquity: behold,
see we are all thy people.

10 The city of thy sanctuary is become
a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusa-
lem is desolate.

11 The house of our holiness, and of
our glory, where our fathers praised
thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely
things are turned into ruins.

12 Wilt thou refrain thyself, 0 Lord,
upon these things, wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict us vehemently?

CHAPTER 65.

The Gentiles shall seek and find Christ, but the
Jews will persecute him, and be rejected, only
a remnant shall be reserved. The church shall
multiply, and abound with graces,

THEY shave sought me that before
asked not for me, they have found
me that sought me not. I said: Behold
me, behold me, to a nation that did not
call upon my name.

2 I have spread forth my hands all the
day to an unbelieving people, who walk
in a way that is not good after their own
thoughts.

3 A people that continually provoke me
to anger before my face: that inunolate
in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in
the temple of idols: that eat swine's
flesh, and profane broth is in their ves-
sels. *

5 That say: Depart from me, come not
near me, because thou art unclean:
these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire
burning all the day.

6 Behold it is written before me: I will
not be silent, but I will render and re-
pay into their bosom.

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of
your fathers together, saith the Lord,
who have sacrificed upon the mountains,
and have reproached me upon the hills;
and I will measure back their first work
in their bosom.

8 Thus saith the Lord : As if a grain be
found in a cluster, and it be said: De-
stroy it not, because it is a blessing: so
will I do for the sake of my servants,
that I may not destroy tiie whole.

s Rom. 10. 20.

just. This is spoken particularly of the sacrifices,
sacraments, and ceremonies of the Jews, after the
death of Christ, and the promulgation of the new
law.

"Wiclced punished, faitlifulrewarded ISAIAS

Happy state of the jus't

9 And I will bring* forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of Juda a possessor of my
mountains: and my elect shall inherit
it, and my servants shall dwell there.

10 And the plains shall be turned to
folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor
into a place for the herds to lie down in,
for my people that have sought me.

11 And you, that have forsaken the
Lord, that have forgotten my holy mount,
that set a table for fortune, and offer
libations upon it,

12 I will number you in the sword, and
you shall all fall by slaughter: * because
I called and you did not answer: I spoke,
and you did not hear: and you did evil
in my eyes, and you have chosen the
things that displease me.

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold my servants shall eat, and you
shall be hungry: behold my servants
shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.

14 Behold my servants shall rejoice, and
you shall be confounded: behold my
servants shall praise for joyfulness of
heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of
heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.

15 And you shall leave your name for
an execration to my elect: and the Lord
God shall slay thee, and call his servants
by another name.

16 In which he that is blessed upon the
earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and
he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear
by God, amen: because the former dis-
tresses are forgotten, and because they
are hid from my eyes.

17 « For behold I create new heavens,
and a new earth: and the former things
shall not be in remembrance, and they
shall not come upon the heart.

18 But you shall be glad and rejoice for
ever in these things, which I create: for
behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing,
and the people thereof joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and
joy in my people, and the voice of weep-
ing shall no more be heard in her, nor
the voice of crying.

20 There shall no more be an infant of

t Prov. 1. 24 : Infra 66. 4 ; Jer. 7. 13.
u Infra. 66. 22 ; Apoc. 21. 1.

Chap. 66. Ver. 1. What is this house, &c.
This is a prophesy that the temple should be
cast off.

Ver. 3. He that sacriflceth an ox, &c. This is
a prophecy that the sacrifices which were of-
fered in the old law should be abolished in the

days there, nor an old man that shall not
fill up his days: for the child shall die a
hundred years old, and the sinner being
a hundred years old shall be accursed.

21 And they shall build houses, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.

22 They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and another
eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be
the days of my people, and the works of
their hands shall be of long continuance.

23 My elect shall not labour in vain, nor
bring forth in trouble; for they are the
seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their
posterity with them.

24 V And it shall come to pass, that be-
fore they call, I will hear; as they are
yet speaking, I will hear.

25 ^The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together; the lion and the ox shall eat
straw; and dust shall be the serpent's
food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all
my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

CHAPTER 66.

More of the reprotation of the Jews, and of the
call of the Oentiles.

THUS ''^ saith the Lord: Heaven is my
throne, and the earth my footstool:
what is this house that you will build to
me ? and what is this place of my rest ?

2 My hand made all these things, and
all these things were made, saith the
Lord. But to whom shall I have respect,
but to him that is poor and little, and of
a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at
my words?

3 He that sacriflceth an ox, is as if he
slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in
sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he
that offereth an oblation, as if he should
offer swine's blood; he that remembereth
incense, as if he should bless an idol. All
these things have they chosen in their
ways, and their soul is delighted in their
abominations.

4 Wherefore I also will choose their
mockeries, and will bring upon them the
things they feared: i/because I called, and

V Ps. 31. 5. — to Supra 31. 6. — a? Acts 7. 49, and
17. 24 — y Prov. 1. 24 ; Supra 65. 12 ; Jer. 7. 13.

new ; and that the offering of them should be *
crime. — Ibid. Remembereth incense, viz., to offer
it in the way of a sacrifice.

Ver. 4. / will choose their mockeries. I will
turn their mockeries upon themselves : and will
cause them to be mocked by their enemies.

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God loill comfort His people ISATAS

there \7as none that would answer ; I h^vc

Calling of the Gentiles

spoken, and they heard not; and '.hey
have done evil in my eyes, and have
chosen the things that displease me.

5 Hear the word of the Lord, you that
tremble at his word: Your brethren that
hate you, and cast you out for my name's
sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified,
and we shall see in your joy: but they
shall be confounded.

6 A voice of the people from the city, a
voice from the temple, the voice of the
Lord that rendereth recompense to his
enemies.

7 Before she was in labour, she brought
forth; before her time came to be de-
livered, she brought forth a man child.

8 Who hath ever heard such a thing ?
and who hath seen the like to this?
shall the earth bring forth in one day ?
or shall a nation be brought forth at
once, because Sion hath been in labour,
and hath brought forth her children ?

9 Shall not I that make others to bring
*crth children, myself bring forth, saith
'iho Lord? shall I, that give generation to
other3,be barren, saith the Lord thy God ?

10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad
with her, all you that love her : rejoice
for joy with her, all you that mourn for
her.

11 That you may suck, and be filled
with the breasts of her consolations :
that you may milk out, and flow with
delights, from the abundance of her
glory.

12 Fo? thus saith the Lord : Behold I
will bring upon her as it were a river of
peace, and as an overflowing torrent the
glory of the Gentiles, which you shall
suck ; yor shall be carried at the breasts,
and upon the knees they shall caress
you.

13 A£] one whom the mother caresseth,
80 will I comfort you, and you shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.

14 You shall see and your heart shall
rejoice,-^ and your bones shall flourish like
an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall
be known to his servants, and he shall be
angry with his enemies.

z Ezech. cap. 37.

15 For beholJ tho Lord ^iH come vith
fire, and hia chariots aro lit d a \/hirlwind,
to render his wrath in indignation, nud
his rebuke with flames of fire.

16 For the Lord shall judge by fire, and
by his sword unto all flesh, and the slain
of the Lord shall be many.

17 They that were sanctified, and
thought themselves clean in the gardens
behind the gate within, they that did eat
swine's flesh, and the abomination, and
the mouse : they shall be consumed to-
gether, saith the Lord.

18 But I know their works, and their
thoughts : I come that I may gather them
together with all nations and tongues:
and they shall come and shall see my
glory.

19 And I will set a sign among them,
and I will send of them that shall be
saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into
Africa, and Lydia them that draw the
bow : into Italy, and Greece, to the
islands afar off, to them that have not
heard of me, and have not seen my
glory. And they shall declare my glory
to the Gentiles :

20 And they shall bring all your bre-
thren out of all nations for a gift to the
Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and
in litters, and on mules, and in coaches,
to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith
the Lord, as if the children of Israel
should bring an offering in a clean vessel
into the house of the Lord.

21 And I will take of them to be priests,
and Levites, saith the Lord.

22 '^For as the new heavens, and the
new earth, which I will make to stand
before me, saith the Lord : so shall your
seed stand, and your name.

23 And there shall be month after
month, and sabbath after sabbath : and
all flesh shall come to adore before my
face, saith the Lord.

24 And they shall go out, and see the
carcasses of the men that have trans-
gressed against me : ^ their worm shall
not die, and their fire shall not be
quenched: and they shall be a loath-
some sight to all flesh.

a Apoc. 21. 1. — 6 Mark 9. 45.

Ver.

Before she was in labour, &c. This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, who were born»
as it were, all ou a sudden to the church of God.

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The calling of Jeremias

The visions of Jeremias

THE

PROPHECY OF JEREMIAS.

Jeremias was a pt'iest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city in the tribe of Benja^
min: and was chosen from his mother's womh, to he a prophet of God. He began
his ministry during the reign of Josias; when that pious king was carrying out
his reform after the discovery of the Book of the Law in 624 B. C. Jeremias must
have been a powerful helper. Chapter 11 probably refers to his activity after
this period. But after Josias' death in 610 Jeremias was usually in opposition to
the policy of the government and the ideas of most of his contemporaries. He had
much to suffer.

CHAPTER 1.

The time, and the calling, of Jeremias: his pro-
phetical visions. God encourages him.

THE words of Jeremias the son of Hel-
cias, of the priests that were in Ana-
thoth, in the land of Benjamin.

2 The word of the Lord which came to
him in the days of Josias the son of Amon
king of Juda, in the thirteenth year ^ of
his reign.

3 And which came to him in the days of
Toakim the son of Josias king of Juda,
anto the end of the eleventh year of
Sedecias the son of Josias king of Juda,
even unto the carrying away of Jerusa-
lem captive, in the fifth month.

4 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

5 Before I formed thee in the bowels of
thy mother, I knew thee : and before
thou camest forth out of the womb, I
sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet
unto the nations.

6 And I said ; Ah, ah, ah. Lord God : be-
hold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.

7 And the Lord said to me: Say not: I
am a child : for thou shalt go to all that
I shall send thee : and whatsoever I shall
command thee, thou shalt speak.

8 Be not afraid at their presence : for I
am with thee to deliver thee, saith the
Lord.

9 And the Lord put forth his hand, and
touched my mouth : ^ and the Lord said
to me : Behold I have given my words in
thy mouth:

10 Lo, I have set thee this day over the
nations, and over kingdoms^ to root up,
® and to pull down, and to waste, and to
destroy^ and to build, and to plant.

c B. C. 629. — d Isa. 6.7. — e Infra 18. 7.

11 And the word of the Lord came to

me, saying : What seest thou, Jeremias ?
And I said : I see (X rod watching.

12 And the Lord said to me : Thou hast
seen well : for I will watch over my word
to perform it.

13 And the word of the Lord came to
me a second time, saying: What seest
thou? And I said: -^I see a boiling cal-
dron, and the face thereof from the face
of the north.

14 And the Lord said to me: S'From the
north shall an evil break forth upon all
the inhabitants of the land.

15 For behold I will call together all the
families of the kingdoms of the north,
saith the Lord : and they shall come, and
shall set every one his throne in the
entrance ol the gates of Jerusalem, and
upon all the walls thereof round alDout,
and upon all the cities of Juda.

16 And I will pronounce my judgments
against them, touching all their wicked-
ness, who have forsaken me, and have
sacrificed to strange gods, and have
adored the work of their own hands.

17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and
arise, and speak to them all that I com-
mand thee. Be not afraid at their pre-
sence : for I will make thee not to fear
their countenance.

18 ^* For behold I have made thee this
day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron,
and a wall of brass, over all the land, to
the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof,
and to the priests, and to the people of
the land.

19 And they shall fight against theo,
and shall not prevail : for I am with thee,
saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

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/ Ezech. 11. 7. — g Infra 4.6. — h Infra 6. 27»

God reproves the Jews

JEREMIAS Ingratitude and infidelity of Jews

CHAPTER 2.

God expostulates with the Jews for their ingrati-
tude and infidelity

AND the word of the Lord came to me,
. saying:

2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem,
saying: Thus saith the Lord: I have re-
membered thee, pitying thy youth, and
the love of thy espousals, when thou fol-
lowedst me in the desert, in a land that
is not sown.

3 Israel is holy to the Lord, the first-
fruits of his increase : all they that devour
him offend: evils shall come upon them,
saith the Lord.

4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, 0 house
of Jacob, and all ye families of the house
of Israel:

5 Thus saith the Lord: ^What iniquity
have your fathers found in me, that they
are gone far from me, and have walked
after vanity, and are become vain?

6 And they have not said: Where is
the Lord that made us come up out of the
land of Egypt? that led us through the
desert, through a land uninhabited and
unpassable, through a land of drought,
and the image of death, through a land
wherein no man walked, nor any man
dwelt?

7 And I brought you into the land of
Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the
best things thereof: and when ye entered
in, you defiled my land, and made my in-
heritance an abomination.

8 The priests did not say: Where is the
Lord? and they that held the law knew
me not, and the pastors transgressed
against me : and the prophets prophesied
in Baal, and followed idols.

9 Therefore will I yet contend in judg-
ment with you, saith the Lord, and I
will plead with your children.

10 Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and
see: and send into Cedar, and consider
diligently: and see if there hath been
done any thing like this.

11 If a nation hath changed their gods,
and indeed they are not gods: but my
people have changed their glory into an
idol.

12 Be astonished, 0 ye heavens, at this,
and ye gates thereof, be very desolate,
saith the Lord.

tMich. 6. 3.

Chap. 2. Ver, 7. Carmel. That is, a fruitful,
plentiful land.

13 For my people have done two evils.
They have forsaken me, the fountain of
living water, and have digged to them-
selves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can
hold no water.

14 Is Israel a bondman, or a homebom
slave? why then is he become a prey?

15 The lions have roared upon him, and
have made a noise, they have made his
land a wilderness: his cities are burnt
down, and there is none to dwell in
them.

16 The children also of Memphis, and of
Taphnes have defloured thee, even to the
crown of the head.

17 Hath not this been done to thee, be-
cause thou hast forsaken the Lord thy
God at that time, when he led thee by
the way?

18 And now what hast thou to do in the
way of Egypt, to drink the troubled
water? And what hast thou to do with
the way of the Assyrians, to drink the
water of the river?

19 Thy own wickedness shall reprove
thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee.
Know thou, and see that it is an evil
and a bitter thing for thee, to have left
the Lord thy God, and that my fear is
not with thee, saith the Lord the God of
hosts.

20 Of old time thou hast broken my
yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou
saidst : I will not serve, o For on every
high hill, and under every green tree
thou didst prostitute thyself.

21 ^ Yet I planted thee a chosen vine-
yard, all true seed: how then art thou
turned unto me into that which is good
for nothing, 0 strange vineyard?

22 Though thou wash thyself with nitre,
and multiply to thyself the herb borith,
thou art stained in thy iniquity before
me, saith the Lord Grod.

23 How canst thou say: I am not pol-
luted. I have not walked after Baalim?
see thy ways in the valley, know what
thou hast done : as a swift runner pursu-
ing his course.

24 A wild ass accustomed to the wilder-
ness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up
the wind of his love: none shall turn her
away: all that seek her shall not fail: in
her monthly filth they shall find her.

j Infra. 8. 6. — k Isa. 5. 1 ; Matt. 21. 33.

Ver. 22. Borith. An herb used to clean clothes,
and take out spots and dirt.

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Blindness and obstinacy of Jews JEKEMIAS God calls them to repentance

25 Keep thy toot from being bare, and
thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst:
I have lost all hope, I will not do it : for
I have loved strangers, and I will walk
after them.

26 As the thief is confounded when he
is taken, so is the house of Israel con-
founded, they and their kings, their
princes and their priests, and their pro-
phets.

27 Saying to a stock : Thou art my fa-
ther : and to a stone : Thou hast begotten
me : ^ they have turned their back to me,
and not their face : and in the time of
their affliction they will say : Arise, and
deliver us.

28 Where are the gods, whom thou hast
made thee? let them arise and deliver
thee in the time of thy affliction : '^ for
according to the number of thy cities
were thy gods, O Juda.

29 Why will you contend with me in
judgment? you have all forsaken me,
saith the Lord.

30 In vain have I struck your children,
they have not received correction : your
sword hath devoured your prophets, your
freneration is like a ravaging lion.

31 See ye the word of the Lord : Am I
become a wilderness to Israel, or a late-
ward springing land ? why then have my
people said: We are revolted, we will
come to thee no more ?

32 Will a virgin forget her ornament, or
a bride her stomacher? but my people
hath forgotten me days without number.

33 Why dost thou endeavour to shew
thy way good to seek my love, thou who
hast also taught thy malices to be thy
ways,

34 And in thy skirts is found the blood
of the souls of the poor and innocent ?
not in ditches have I found them, but
in all places, which I mentioned before.

35 And thou hast said : I am without sin
and am innocent : and therefore let thy
anger be turned away from me. Behold,
I will contend with thee in judgment,
because thou hast said: I have not
sinned.

36 How exceeding base art thou be-
come, going the same ways over again!
and thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as
thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

37 For from thence thou shalt go, and

i Infra 32. 33. — m Infra IL 13.

thy hand shall be upon thy head : for the
Lord hath destroyed thy trust, and thou
shalt have nothing prosperous therein.

CHAPTER 3.

Ood invites the rebel Jews to return to him, tidth a
promise to receive them : he/orettlls the conveV'
sion of the Gentiles.

IT is commonly said : If a man put away
his wife, and she go from him, and
marry another man, shall he return to
her any more? shall not that woman be
polluted, and defiled ? but thou hast pro-
stituted thyself to many lovers: never-
theless return to me, saith the Lord, and
I will receive thee.

2 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see
where thou hast not prostituted thyself:
thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for
them as a robber in the wilderness : and
thou hast polluted the land with thy
fornications, and with thy wickedness.

3 Therefore the showers were with
holden, and there was no late ward rain:
thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou
wouldst not blush.

4 Therefore at the least from this time
call to me : Thou art my father, the
guide of my virginity :

5 Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt
thou continue unto the end ? Behold, thou
hast spoken, and hast done evil things,
and hast been able.

6 And the Lord said to me in the days
of king Josias: '^Hast thou seen what
rebellious Israel hath done? she hath
gone of herself upon every high moun-
tain, and under every green tree, and
hath played the harlot there.

7 And when she had done all these
things, I said: Return to me, and she did
not return. And her treacherous sister
Juda saw,

8 That because the rebellious Israel had
played the harlot, I had put her away,
and given her a bill of divorce : yet her
treacherous sister Juda was not afraid,
but went and played the harlot also her-
self.

9 And by the facility of her fornication
she defiled the land, and played the har-
lot with stones and with stocks.

10 And after aU this, her treacherous
sister Juda hath not returned to me with
her whole heart, but with falsehood, saitb
the Lord.

n Supra 2. 20.

Si»

God's promises to the penitent JEREMIAS Exhortation to repentance

11 And the Lord said to me: The rebel-
lious Israel hath justified her soul, in
comparison of the treacherous Juda.

12 Go, and proclaim these words towards
the north, and thou shalt say: Return, O
rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will
not turn away my face from you: for I
am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be
angry for ever.

13 But yet acknowledge thy iniquity,
that thou hast transgressed against the
Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered
thy ways to strangers under every green
tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith
the Lord.

14 Return, O ye revolting children, saith
the Lord : for I am your ^ husband : and
I will take you, one of a city, and two of
a kindred, and will bring you into Sion.

15 And I will give you pastors accord-
ing to my own heart, and they shall feed
you with knowledge and doctrine.

16 And when you shall be multiplied,
and increase in the land in those days,
saith the Lord, they shall say no more:
The ark of the covenant of the Lord:
neither shall it come upon the heart,
neither shall they remember it, neither
shall it be visited, neither shall that be
done any more.

17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called
the throne of the Lord : and all the na-
tions shall be gathered together to it, in
the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and
they shall not walk after the perversity
of their most wicked heart.

18 In those days the house of Juda shall
go to the house of Israel, and they shall
come together out of the land of the
north tc the land which I gave to your
fathers.

19 But I said: How shall I put thee
among the 3hildren, and give thee a
lovely land, the goodly inheritance of
the armies of the Jentiles ? And I said :
Thou shalt call me father and shalt not
cease to walk after me.

20 But as a woman that despise th hor
lover, so hath the house of Israel de-
Dpised me, saith the Lord.

21 A voice was heard in the highways,
weeping and howling of the children of
Israel: because they have made their
way wicked, they have forgotten the Lord
their God.

22 Return, you rebellious children, and
I will heal your rebellions. Behold we
come to thee : for thou art the Lord our
God.

23 In very deed the hills were liars, and!
the multitude of the mountains : truly in
the Lord our God is the salvation of
Israel.

24 Confusion hath devoured the labour
of our fathers from our youth, their flocks
and their herds, their sons and their
daughters.

25 We shall sleep in our confusion, and
our shame shall cover us, because we
have sinned against the Lord our God,
we and our fathers from our youth even
to this day, and we have not hearkened
to the voice of the Lord our God.

CHAPTER 4.

An admonition to sincere repentance, and cireuin-
cision of the heart, with threats of girievous pun^
ishment to those that persist in sin.

IF thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the
Lord, return to me : if thou wilt take
away thy stumblingblocks out of my
sight, thou shalt not be moved.

2 And thou shalt swear : As the Lord
liveth, in truth, and in judgment, and in
justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him,
and shall praise him.

3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of
Juda and Jerusalem : p Break up anew
your fallow ground, and sow not upon
thorns :

4 Be circumcised to the Lord, and take
away the foreskins of your hearts, yo
men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jeru-
salem : lest my indignation come forth
like fire, and burn, and there be none
that can quench it: because of the wick-
edness of your thoughts.

5 Declare ye in Juda, and make it heard
in Jerusalem : speak, and sound with the
trumpet in the land : cry aloud, and say :
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into
strong cities.

3 Set up the standard in Sion. Strength-
en yourselves, stay not : ^ for J. bring evil
from the north, and grea' Costruction.

7 The lion is come up u of his den,
and the robber of nation.: Lath roused
himself: he is come forth out oi Iiis
place, to make thy land desolate : thy
cities shall be laid waste, remaining
without an inhabitant.

o That is, lord.

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p Osee 10. 12. — (j[ Supra L 14.

Punishment threatened

JEREMIAS

Desolation of the land

8 For this gird yourselves with hair-
cloth, lament and howl: for the fierce
anger of the Lord is not turned away
from us.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord: That the heart of the
king shall perish, and the heart of the
princes: and the priests shall be aston-
ished, and the prophets shall be amazed.

10 And I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord
God, hast thou then deceived this peo-
ple and Jerusalem, saying: You shall
have peace: and behold the sword reach-
eth even to the soul?

11 At that time it shall be said to this
people, and to Jerusalem: A burning
wind is in the ways that are in the des-
ert of the way of the daughter of my
people, not to fan, nor to cleanse.

12 A full wind from these places shall
come to me: and now I will speak my
judgments with them.

13 Behold he shall come up as a cloud,
and his chariots as a tempest: his horses
are swifter than eagles: woe unto us,
for we are laid waste.

14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, 0
Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved : how
long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

15 For a voice of one declaring from
Dan, and giving notice of the idol from
mount Ephraim.

16 Say ye to the nations: Behold it is
heard in Jerusalem, that guards are com-
ing from a far country, and give out
their voice against the cities of Juda.

17 They are set round about her, as
keepers of fields: because she hath pro-
voked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

18 ^ Thy ways, and thy devices have
brought these things upon thee: this is
thy wickedness, because it is bitter, be-
cause it hath touched thy heart.

19 My bowels, my bowels are in pain,
the senses of my heart are troubled
within me, I will not hold my peace, for
my soul hath heard the sound of the
trumpet, the cry of battle.

20 Destruction upon destruction is
called for, and all the earth is laid waste :
my tents are destroyed on a sudden, and
my pavilions in a moment.

21 How long shall I see men fleeing
away, how long shall I hear the sound of
the trumpet?

22 For my foolish people have not
known me: they are foolish and sense-
less children: they are wise to do evil,
but to do good they have no knowledge.

23 I beheld the earth, and lo it was
void, and nothing: and the heavens, and
there was no light in them.

24 I looked upon the mountains, and
behold they trembled: and all the hills
were troubled.

25 I beheld, and lo there was no man:
and all the birds of the air were gone.

26 I looked, and behold Carmel was a
wilderness: and all its cities were de-
stroyed at the presence of the Lord, and
at the presence of the wrath of his in-
dignation.

27 For thus saith the Lord : All the land
shall be desolate, but yet I will not ut7
terly destroy.

28 The earth shall mourn, and the hea-
vens shall lament from above: because I
have spoken, I have purposed, and 1
have not repented, neither am I turned
away from it.

29 At the voice of the horsemen, and
the archers, all the city is fled away:
they have entered into thickets and
have climbed up the rocks: all the cities
are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a
man in them.

30 But when thou art spoiled what
wilt thou do? though thou clothest thy-
self with scarlet, though thou deckest
thee with ornaments of gold, and paint-
est thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shall
dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers
have despised thee, they will seek thj
life.

31 For I have heard the voice as oi|
a woman in travail, anguishes as of
woman in labour of a child. The voice
of the daughter of Sion, dying awayl
spreading her hands: Woe is me, for mjj
soul hath fainted because of them tha(
are slain.

CHAPTER 5.

The judgments of God shall fall upon the Jews fo\
their manifold sins. i

GO about through the streets of Jeruj
salem, and see, and consider, an:
seek in the broad places thereof, if yo|
can find a man that executeth judgmeni,
and seeketh faith: and I will be mere?
ful unto it.

JJli

r Wisd. 1. 3. and 5.

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Obstinacy and adultery of the Jews JEREMIAS

Infidelity of the Jews

2 And though they say: The Lord liv-
eth; this also they will swear falsely.

3 0 Lord, thy eyes are upon truth : thou
hast struck them, and they have not
grieved: thou hast bruised them, and
they have refused to receive correction:
they have made their faces harder than
the rock, and they have refused to return.

4 But I said: Perhaps these are poor
and foolish, that know not the way of
the Lord, the judgment of their God.

5 I will go therefore to the great men,
and will speak to them: for they have
known the way of the Lord, the judg-
ment of their God: and behold these
have altogether broken the yoke more,
and have burst the bonds.

6 Wherefore a lion out of the wood
hath slain them, a wolf in the evening
hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth
for their cities: every one that shall go
out thence shall be taken, because their
transgressions are multiplied, their re-
bellions are strengthened.

7 How can I be merciful to thee? thy
children have forsaken me, and swear
by them that are not gods: I fed them
to the full, and they committed adultery,
and rioted in the harlot's house.

8 They are become as amorous horses
and stallions : « every one neighed after
his neighbour's wife.

9 Shall I not visit for these things, saith
the Lord? and shall not my soul take
revenge on such a nation?

10 Scale the walls thereof, and throw
them down, but do not utterly destroy:
take away the branches thereof, be-
cause they are not the Lord's.

11 For the house of Israel, and the house
of Juda have greatly transgressed against
me, saith the Lord.

12 They have denied the Lord, and said,
It is not he : and the evil shall not come
upon us: we shall not see the sword and
famine.

13 The prophets have spoken in the
wind, and there was no word of God in
them: these things therefore shall befall
them.

14 Thus saith the Lord the God of hosts :
Because you have spoken this word, be-
hold I will make my words in thy mouth
as fire, and this people as wood, and it
shall devour them.

«Ezedu 22. 11./

15 Behold I will bring upon you a na-
tion from afar, O house of Israel, saith
the Lord: a strong nation, an ancient
nation, a nation whose language thou
shalt not know, nor understand what
they say.

16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre,
they are all valiant.

17 And they shall eat up thy corn, and
thy bread: they shall devour thy sons,
and thy daughters : they shall eat up thy
flocks, and thy herds, they shall eat thy
vineyards, and thy figs: and with the
sword they shall destroy thy strong cities,
wherein thou trustest.

18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the
Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruc-
tion.

19 * And if you shall say : Why hath the
Lord our God done all these things to us?
thou shalt say to them: As you have for-
saken me, and served a strange god in
your own land, so shall you serve stran-
gers in a land that is not your own.

20 Declare ye this to the house of Jacob,
and publish it in Juda, saying:

21 Hear, 0 foolish people, and without
understanding: who have eyes, and see
not: and ears, and hear not.

22 Will not you then fear me, saith the
Lord: and will you not repent at my
presence? I have set the sand a bound for
the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which
it shall not pass over: and the waves
thereof shall toss themselves, and shall
not prevail: they shall swell, and shall
not pass over it.

23 But the heart of this people is be-
come hard of belief and provoking, they
are revolted and gone away.

24 And they have not said in their
heart: Let us fear the Lord our Gk)d, who
giveth us the early and the latter rain in
due season : who preserveth for us the ful-
ness of the yearly harvest.

25 Your iniquities have turned these
things away, and your sins have with-
holden good things from you.

26 For among my people are found
wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers,
setting snares and traps to catch men.

27 As a net is full of birds, so their
houses are full of deceit: therefore are
they become great and enriched.

28 They are grown gross and fat: and

S21

t Infra 16. 10.

Jerusalem threatened

JEREMIA

Obstinacy of the people

have most wickedly transgressed my
words. ^They have not judged the cause
of the widow, they have not managed
the cause of the fatherless, and they have
not judged the judgment of the poor.

29 Shall I not visit for these things,
Baith the Lord ? or shall not my soul take
revenge on such a nation ?

30 Astonishing and wonderful things
have been done in the land.

31 The prophets prophesied falsehood,
and the priests clapped their hands : and
my people loved such things : what then
shall be done in the end thereof ?

CHAPTER 6.

The evils that threaten Jerusalem. She is invited
to return, and walk in the good way, and not to
rely on sacrifices without obedience.

STRENGTHEN yourselves, ye sons of
Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem,
and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set-
up the standard over Bethacarem: for
ovil is seen out of the north, and a great
destruction.

2 I have likened the daughter of Sion to
a bea utif ul and delicate 'voman.

3 The shepherds shall come to her with
their flocks : they have pitched their tents
against her round about: every one shall
feed them that are under his hand.

4 Prepare ye war against her : arise, and
let us go up at midday : woe unto us, for
the day is declined, for the shadows of
the evening are grown longer.

5 Arise, and let us go up in the night,
and destroy her houses.

6 For thus saiththe Lord of hosts: Hew
down her trees, cast up a trench about
Jerusalem : this is the city to be visited,
all oppression is in the midst of her.

7 As a cistern maketh its water cold,
BO hath she made her wickedness cold :
violence and spoil shall be heard in her,
infirmity and stripes are continually be-
fore me.

8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest
my soul depart from thee, lest I make
thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They
shall gather the remains of Israel, as in
a vine, even to one cluster: turn back
thy hand, as a grapegatherer into the
basket.

10 To whom shall I speak? and to whom
shall I testify, that he may hear ? behold.

%! Isa. L 23 i Zacb. 7. 10. ~ v Isa. 66. ll ; Infra 8. 10.

their ears are uncircumcised, and they
cannot hear: behold the word of tho
Lord is become unto them a reproach:
and they will not receive it.

11 Therefore am I full of the fury of
tho Lord, I am weary with holding in :
pour it out upon the child abroad, and
upon the council of the young men
together: for man and woman shall be
taken, the ancient and he that is full of
days.

12 And their houses shall be turned
over to others, with their lands and their
wives together: for I will stretch forth
my hand upon the inhabitants of the
land, saith the Lord.

13 ^ For from the least of them even to
the greatest, all are given to covetous-
ness : and from the prophet even to the
priest, all are guilty of deceit.

14 And they healed the breach of the
daughter of my people disgracefully, say-
ing : Peace, peace : and there was no
peace.

15 They were confounded, because they
committed abomination : yea, rather tbey
were not confounded with confusion, and
they knew not how to blush : wherefore
they shall fall among them that fall:
in the time of their visitation they shall
fall down, saith the Lord.

IG Thus saith the Lord : Stand ye on the
ways, and see, and ask for the old paths,
which is the good way, and walk ye in it :
^ and you shall find refreshment for your
souls. And they said: We will not wall; ,

17 And I appointed watchmen over you,
saying : Hearken ye to the sound of the
trumpet. And they said: We will not
hearken.

18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know,
O congregation, what great things I will
do to them.

19 Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring
evils upon this people, the fruits of their
own thoughts: because they have not
heard my words, and they have cast
away my law.

20 *To what purpose do you bring me
frankincense from Saba, and the sweet
smelhng cane from a far country ? your
holocausts are not acceptable, nor are
your sacrifices pleasing to me.

21 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Be-
hold I will bring destruction upon thig

w Matt. 11. 29.~x Isa. 1. 11«

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Prophecy against Jerusalem JEREMIAS The temple will not shield them

temple of the Lord, the temple of the

people, by which fathers and sons to-
gether shall fall, neighbour and kinsman
shall perish.

22 Thus saith the Lord : Behold a people
Cometh from the land of the north, and a
great nation shall rise up from the ends
of the earth.

23 They shall lay hold on arrow and
shield : they are cruel, and will have no
mercy. Their voice shall roar like the
sea: and they shall mount upon horses,
prepared as men for war, against thee,
O daughter of Sion.

24 We have heard the fame thereof,
our hands grow feeble: anguish hath
taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.

25 Go not out into the fields, nor walk
in the highway: for the sword of the
enemy, and fear is on every side.

26 Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter
of my people, and sprinkle thee with
ashes: make thee mourning as for an
only son, a bitter lamentation, because
the destroyer shall suddenly come upon
us.

27 I have set thee for a strong trier
among my people : and thou shalt know,
and prove their way.

28 AH these princes go out of the way,
they walk deceitfully, they are brass and
iron: they are all corrupted.

29 The bellows have failed, the lead is
consumed in the fire, the founder hath
melted in vain: for their wicked deeds
are not consumed.

30 Call them reprobate silver, for the
Lord hath rejected them,

CHAPTER 7.

The temple of God shall not protect a sinful people,
without a sincere conversion. The Lord will not
receive the prayers of the prophet for them: be-
cause they are obstinate in their sins.

rriHE word that came to Jeremias from

i the Lord, saying:

£ Stand in the gate of the house of the
Lord, and proclaim there this word, and
say: Hear ye the word of the Lord, all
ye men of Juda, that enter in at these
gates, to adore the Lord.

3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel: ^Make your ways and your
doings good: and I will dwell with you
in this place.

4 Trust not in lying words, saying : The

z Matt 21.

y Infra 26. 13.
13 ; Mark 11. 17 ;

Luke 19. 46.

Lord, it is the temple of the Lord.

5 For if you will order well your ways,
and your doings: if you will execute
judgment between a man and his neigh-
bour,

6 If you oppress not the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, and shed not
innocent blood in this place, and walk
not after strange gods to your own hurt,

7 I will dwell with you in this place : in
the land, which I gave to your fathers
from the beginning and for evermore.

8 Behold you put your trust in lying
words, which shall not profit you :

9 To steal, to murder, to commit adul-
tery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim,
and to go after strange gods, which you
know not.

10 And you have come, and stood before
me in this house, in which my name is
called upon, and have said: We are de-

livered, because we have
abominations.
11^ Is this house then.

done all these

in which my
name hath been called upon, in your
eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am
he : I have seen it, saith the Lord.

12 Go ye to my place in Silo, where my
name dwelt from the beginning : and see
what I did to it for the wickedness of
my people Israel :

13 And now, because you have done all
these works, saith the Lord : and I have
spoken to you rising up early, and
speaking, and you have not heard : " and
I have called you, and you have not an-
swered :

14 ^ I will do to this house, in which my
name is called upon, and in which you
trust, and to the place which I have
given you and your fathers, as I did to
Silo.

15 And I will cast you away from be-
fore my face, as I have cast away all
your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.

16 ''Therefore do not thou pray for this
people, nor take to thee praise and sup-
plication for them: and do not withstand
me : for I will not hear thee.

17 Seest thou not what they do in the
cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jeru-
salem ?

18 The children gather wood, and the

aProv. 1.24; Isa. 65. 12.
6 1 Kings 4. 2 and 10. — c Infra 11. 14, and 14. 11.

Chap. 7. Ver.l& The queen qf heawru

liiat is, the mooo, whioh. Uiey worsiiipped uiidai' tiuttaame»
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Obstinacy of the Jews

JEREMIAS

Their punishment

fathers kindle the fire, and the women
knead the dough, to make cakes to the
queen of heaven, and to offer hbations
to strange gods, and to provoke me to
anger.

19 Do they provoke me to anger, saith
the Lord? is it not themselves, to the
confusion of their own countenance ?

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold my wrath and my indignation is
enkindled against this place, upon men
and upon beasts, and upon the trees of
the field, and upon the fruits of the land,
and it shall burn, and shall not be
quenched.

21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to
your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh.

22 For I spoke not to your fathers, and
I commanded them not, in the day that
I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning the matter of burnt offerings
and sacrifices.

23 But this thing I commanded them,
saying : Hearken to my voice, and I will
be your God, and you shall be my peo-
ple: and walk ye in all the way that I
have commanded you, that it may be
well with you.

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear : but walked in their own will,
and in the perversity of their wicked
heart : and went backward and not for-
ward,

25 From the day that their fathers came
out of the land of Egypt, even to this
day. And I have sent to you all my
servants the prophets ''rom day to day,
rising up early and sending.

26 And they have not hearkened to me :
nor inclined their ear : but have hard-
ened their neck, ^ and have done worse
than their fathers.

27 And thou shalt speak to them all
these words, but they will not hearken
to thee : and thou shalt call them, but
they will not answer thee.

28 And thou shalt say to them: This is
a nation which hath not hearkened to
the voice of the Lord their God, nor re-
ceived instruction : faith is lost, and is
taken away out of their mouth.

29 Cut off thy hair, and cast it away :

d Infra 16. 12.

Ver. 22. I commanded them not. Viz., such sacri-
fices as the Jews at this time offered, without obedi-
ence; wbiob was tbe tbiiig principally (^ommandeci :

and take up a lamentation on high : for
the Lord hath rejected, and forsaken the
generation of his wrath,

30 Because the children of Juda have
done evil in my eyes, saith the Lord.
They have set their abominations in the
house in which my name is called upon,
to pollute it ;

31 And they have built the high places
of Topheth, which is in the valley of the
son of Ennom. to burn their sons, and
their daughters in the fire: which I
commanded not, nor thought on in my
heart.

32 Therefore behold the days shall come,
saith the Lord, and it shall no more be
called Topheth, nor the valley of the son
of Ennom : but the valley of slaughter :
and they shall bury in Topheth, because
there is no place.

33 And the carcasses of this people shall
be meat for the fowls of the air, and for
the beasts of the earth, and there shall
be none to drive them away.

34 ^ And I will cause to cease out of the
cities of Juda, and out of the streets of
Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice
of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
and the voice of the bride : for the land
shall be desolate.

CHAPTER 8.

other evils that shall fall upon the Jews for their
impenitence.

AT that time, saith the Lord, they shall
xX cast out the bones of the kings of
Juda, and the bones of the princes there-
of, and the bones of the priests, and the
bones of the prophets, and the bones of
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their
graves.

2 And they shall spread them abroad to
the sun, and the moon, and all the host
of heaven, whom they have loved, and
whom they have served, and after whom
they have walked, and whom they have
sought, and adored : they shall not be
gathered, and they shall not be buried:
they shall be as dung upon the face of
the earth.

3 And death shall be chosen rather than
life by all that shall remain of this wicked
kindred in all places, which are left, to

e Ezech. 26. 13.

so that in comparison with it, the offering of the
holocausts and sacrifices was of small account.

^2«

Impenitence of the Jews

which I have cast them out, saith the
Lord of hosts.

4 And thou shalt say to them : Thus
saith the Lord : Shall not he that fall-
eth, rise again? and he that is turned
away, shall he not turn again ?

5 Why then is this people in Jerusalem
turned away with a stubborn revolting ?
they have laid hold on lying, and have
refused to return.

6 I attended, and hearkened ; no man
speaketh what is good, there is none that
doth penance for his sin, saying : What
have I done? They are all turned to
their own course, as a horse rushing to
the battle.

7 The kite in the air hath known her
time : the turtle, and the swallow, and
the stork have observed the time of their
coming : but my people have not known
the judgment of the Lord.

8 How do you say : We are wise, and
the law of the Lord is with us ? Indeed
the lying pen of the scribes hath wrought
falsehood.

9 The wise men are confounded, they
are dismayed, and taken : for they have
cast away the word of the Lord, and there
is no wisdom in them.

10 -^Therefore will I give their women
to strangers, their fields to others for an
inheritance : because from the least even
to the greatest all follow covetousness :
from the prophet even to the priest all
deal deceitfully.

11 And they healed the breach of the
daughter of my people disgracefully,
saying: Peace, peace : when there was
no peace.

12 They are confounded, because they
have committed abomination: yea rather
they are not confounded with confusion,
and they have not known how to blush :
therefore shall they fall among them that
fall ; in the time of their visitation they
shall fall, saith the Lord.

13 Gathering I will gather them together,
saith the Lord, there is no grape on the
vines, and there are no figs on the fig
taree, the leaf is fallen : and I have given
them the things that are passed away.

14 Why do we sit still? assemble your-
selves, and let us enter into tne fenced
city, and let us be silent there : for the
Lord our God bath put us to silence, and

JEREMIAS

The prophet's great sorrow

/ iaa. 56. II i Supra 6. 13^

hath given us ^ water of gall to drink :
for we have sinned against the Lord.

15 '^We looked for peace and no good
came ; for a time of healing, and behold
fear.

16 The snorting of his horses was heard
from Dan, all the land was moved at the
sound of the neighing of his warriors:
and they came and devoured the land,
and all that was in it : the city and its
inhabitants.

17 For behold I will send among you ser-
pents, basilisks, against which there is no
charm : and they shall bite you, saith the
Lord.

18 My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart
mourneth within me.

19 Behold the voice of the daughter of
my people from a far country : Is not the
Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her?
why then have they provoked me to
wrath with their idols, and strange vani-
ties?

20 The harvest is past, the summer is
ended, and we are not saved.

21 For the affliction of the daughter of
my people I am afflicted, and made sor-
rowful, astonishment hath taken hold on
me.

22 Is there no balm in Galaad ? or is
there no physician there ? Why then is
not the wound of the daughter of my
people closed?

CHAPTER 9.

The prophet laments the miseries of his people ' and
their sins, which are the cause of them. He ea>
horts them, to repevtance.

WHO will give water to my head, and
a fountain of tears to my eyes?
and I will weep day and night for the
slain of the daughter of my people.

2 Who will give me in the wilderness
a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I
will leave my people, and depart from
them? because they are all adulterers,
an assembly of transgressors.

3 And they have bent their tongue, as a
bow, for hes, and not for truth : they have
strengthened themselves upon the earth,
for they have proceeded from evil to evil,
and me they have not known, saith the
Lord.

4 Let every man take heed of his neigh-
bour, and let him not trust in any bro-
ther of his : for every brother will ut

g Infra d. ib.—h Inira 1<L 19.

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^ins of the Jews cause of their woes JEREMIAS

They are called to mourn

terly supplant, and every friend will walk
deceitfully.

6 And a man shall mock his brother, and
they will not speak the truth : for they
have taught their tongue to speak lies:
they have laboured to commit iniquity.

6 Thy habitation is in the m' ist of de-
ceit : through deceit they have refused
to know me, saith the Lord,

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts :
Behold I will melt, and try them: for
what else shall I do before the daughter
of my people ?

8 * Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it
bath spoken deceit : with his mouth one
speaketh peace with his friend, and se-
cretly ho lieth in wait for him.

9 Shall I not visit them for these things,
saith the Lord ? or shall not my soul be
revenged on such a nation ?

10 For the mountaino I will take up
weeping and lamentation, and for the
beautiful places of the desert, mourning:
because they are burnt up, for that there
is not a man that passoth through them :
and they have not heard the voice of the
owner : from the fowi of the air to the
beasts they are gone away and departed.

11 And I will mako Jerusalem to be
heaps of sand, and dens of dragons : and
I will make the cities of Juda desolate,
for want of an inhabitant.

12 Who is the wise man, that may un-
derstand this, and to whom the word of
the mouth of the Lord may come that he
may declare this, why the land hath per-
ished, and is burnt up like a wilderness,
which none passeth through ?

13 And the Lord said : Because they
have forsaken my law, which I gave
them, and havo not heard my voice, and
have not walked in it.

14 But they have gone after the per-
verseness of their own heart, and after
Baahm, which their fathers taught them.

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of
hosts the God of Israel : ^ Behold I will
feed this people with wormwood, and
give them water of gall to drink.

16 And I will scatter them among the
nations, which they and their fathers
have not known : and I will send the
^word after them till they be consumed.

17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the

i Ps. 27. 3. — j Infra 23. 15.

mourning women, and let them come:
and send to them that are wise women,
and let them make haste :

18 Let them hasten and take up a lam-
entation for us : let our eyes shed tears,
and our eyelids run down with waters.

19 For a voice of wailing is heard out
of Sion : How are we wasted and greatly
confounded? because we have left the
land, because our dwellings are cast
down.

20 Hear therefore, ye women, the word
of the Lord : and let your ears receive
the word of his mouth : and teach your
daughters wailing : and every one her
neighbour mourning.

21 For death is come up through our
windows, it is entered into our houses to
destroy the children from without, the
young men from the streets.

22 Speak: Thus saith the Lord? Even
the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon
the face of the country, and as grass be-
hind the back of the mower, and there
is none to gather it.

23 Thus saith the Lord: '^ Let not the
wise man glory in his wisdom, and let
not the strong man glory in his strength,
and let not the rich man glory in his
riches :

24 But let him that glorieth glory in
this, that he understandeth and knowetb
me, for I am the Lord that exercise
mercy, and judgment, and justice in the
earth : for these things please me, saith
the Lord.

25 Behold, the days come, saith
Lord, and I will visit upon every
that hath the foreskin circumcised.

26 Upon Egypt, and upon Juda,
upon Edom, and upon the children of
Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all
that have their hair polled round, that
dwell in the desert : for all the naticiis
are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the
house of Israel are uncircumcised in the
heart,

CHAPTER 10.

Neither stars nor idols are to be feared, but the
great Creator of all things. The chastisement of
Jerusalem for her sins.

EAR ye the word which the Lord

hath spoken concerning you, 0

house of Israel.

2 Thus saith the Lord : Learn not ao-

the
one

and

k 1 Cor. 1. 31 i ?. Cor. lo. I7.

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Vanity of idols

cording to the ways of the Gentiles : and
be not afraid of the signs of heaven,
which the heathens fear :

3 For the laws of the people are vain:
' for the works of the hand of the work-
man hath cut a tree out of the forest
with an axe.

4 He hath decked it with silver and
gold : he hath put it together with nails
and hammers, that it may not fall asun-
der.

5 They are framed after the likeness of
a palm tree, and shall not speak: they
must be carried to be removed, because
^hey cannot go. Therefore fear them
not, for they can neither do evil nor good.

6 "* There is none like to thee, O Lord:
thou art great, and gueat is thy name in
might.

7 " Who shall not fear thee, O king of
nations ? for thine is the glory : among
all the wise men of the nations, and in
all their kingdoms there is none like unto
thee.

8 They shall be all proved together to
oe senseless and foolish: the doctrine of
their vanity is wood.

9 Silver spread into plates is brought
from Tharsis, and gold from Ophaz: the
work of the artificer, and of the hand of
the coppersmith : violet and purple is
their clothing : all these things are the
work of artificers.

10 But the Lord is the true God: he is
the living God, and the everlasting king :
at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and
the nations shall not be able to abide his
threatening.

11 Thus then shall you say to them :
The gods that have not made heaven and
earth, let them perish from the earth,
and from among those places that are
under heaven.

12 °He that maketh the earth by his
power, that prepareth the world by his
wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens
by his knowledge.

13 At his voice he giveth a multitude of
waters in the heaven, and lifteth up the
clouds from the ends of the earth : P he
maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth
forth the wind out of his treasures.

JEREMIAS

Jvda vnll he laid waste

Wisd. 13. 11, and 14. 8. — m Mich. 7. 18.
n Apoc. 15. 4.

Chap. lO, Ver. 2.3. The v;oy of a man is not his.
^ho meaning is, that notwithstanding man's free
Will, yet he can do no good without God's help, nor
CTil without his permission. So that, in the present

14 Every man is become a fool for
knowledge, every artist is confounded
in his graven idol: tor what he hath cast
is false, and there is no spirit in them.

15 They are vain things, and a ridicu-
lous work : in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.

16 The portion of Jacob is not like
these : for it is he who formed all things :
and Israel is the rod of his inheritance :
the Lord of hosts is his name.

17 Gather up thy shame out of the land,
thou that dwellest in a siege.

18 For thus saith the Lord: Behold I
will cast away far off the inhabitants of
the land at this time : and I will afllict
them, so that they may be found.

19 Woe is me for my destruction, my
wound is very grievous. But I said :
Truly this is my own evil, and I will bear it.

20 My tabernacle is laid waste, all my
cords are broken : my children are gone
out from me, and they are not: there is
none to stretch forth my tent any more,
and to set up my curtains.

21 Because the pastors have done fool-
ishly, and have not sought the Lord:
therefore have they not understood- and
all their flock is scattered.

22 Behold the sound of a noise cometh,
a great commotion out of the land of
the north: to make the cities of Juda a
desert, and a dwelling for dragons.

23 I know, O Lord, that the way of a
man is not his: neither is it in a man to
walk, and to direct his steps.

24 CoiTect me, O Lord, but yet with
judgment : and not in thy f lu-y, lest thou
bring me to nothing.

25 Pour out thy indignation upon the
nations that have not known thee, and
upon the provinces that have not called
upon thy name : because they have eaten
up Jacob, and devoured him, and con-
sumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

CHAPTER 11.

The prophet proclaims the covenant of God: and
denounces evils to the obstivatc transgressors of
it. The conspiracy of the Jews against him, a
figtire of their conspiracy against Christ.

THE word that came from the Lord to
Jereraias, saying:

o Gen. 1. 1 ; Infra 51. 15.
p Ps. l.'^4. 7; Infra 51. IG.

case, all the evils whioli Njibnchodonosor was about
to brine npnn Jerusalem, could not have come but
by the will of God.

Chap. 11. Ver. 1. Probably about 624 B. C.

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Ood^s covenant

2 Hear ye the words of this covenant,
and speak to the men of Juda, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,

3 And thou shalt say to them : Thus
saith the Lord the God of Israel : Cursed
is the man that shall not hearken to the
words of this covenant,

4 Which I commanded your fathers in
the day that I brought them out of the
land of Egypt, from the iron furnace,
saying : Hear ye my voice, and do all
things that I command you : and you
shall be my people, and I will be your
God:

6 That I may accomplish the oath which
I swore to your fathers, to give them a
land flowing with milk and honey, as it
is this day. And I answered and said:
Amen, O Lord.

6 And the Lord said to me: Proclaim
aloud all these words in the cities of
Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying : Hear ye the words of the cove-
nant, and do them :

7 For protesting I conjured your fathers
in the day that I brought them out of the
land of Egypt even to this day: rising
early I conjured them, and said : Hearken
ye to my voice :

8 And they obeyed not, nor inclined
their ear : but walked every one in the
perverseness of his own wicked heart :
and I brought upon them all the words
of this covenant, which I commanded
them to do, but they did them not.

9 And the Lord said to me: A con-
spiracy is found among the men of Juda,
and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

10 They are returned to the former in-
iquities of their fathers, who refused to
hear my words: so these likewise have
gone after strange gods, to serve them :
the house of Israel, and the house of Juda
havc) made void my covenant, which I
made with their fathers.

11 Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Be-
hold I will bring in evils upon them,
which they shall not be able to escape :
and they shall cry to me, and I will not
heiirken to them.

12 And the cities of Juda, and the in-
habitants of Jerusalem shall go, and cry
to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice,

q Supra 2. 28. — r Supra 7. 16 ; Infra 14. 11.

JEREMIAS The conspiracy against Jeremias

Chap. 11. Ver. 20. Sabaoth. That is, of hosts or
armies, a name frequently given to God in the scrip-
tures. — TbicL Thy revenffe. 'Kius was rather a pre-

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and they shall not save them in the time
of their affliction.

13 5 For according to the number of thy
cities were thy gods, O Juda : and accord-
ing to the number of the streets of Jeru-
salem thou hast set up altars of confusion,
altars to offer sacrifice to Baalim.

14 ''Therefore do not thou pray for this
people, and do not take up praise and
prayer for them: for I will not hear
them in the time of their cry to me, in
the time of their affliction.

15 What is the meaning that my beloved
hath wrought much wickedness in my
house? shall the holy flesh take away
from thee thy crimes, in which thou hast
boasted?

16 The Lord called thy name, a plenti-
ful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beauti-
ful: at the noise of a word, a great fire
was kindled in it, and the branches there-
of are burnt.

17 And the Lord of hosts that planted
thee, hath pronounced evil against thee :
for the evils of the house of Israel, and
of the house of Juda, which they have
done to themselves, to provoke me, of-
fering sacrifice to Baalim.

18 But thou, O Lord, hast shewn me,
and I have known i then thou shewedst
me their doings.

19 And I was as a meek lamb, that is
carried to be a victim : and I knew not
that they had devised counsels against
me, saying : Let us put wood on his
bread, and cut him off from the land of
the living, and let his name be remem-
bered no more.

20 * But thou, O Lord of Sabaoth, who
judgest justly, and triest the reins and
the hearts, let me see thy revenge on
them : for to thee have I revealed my
cause.

21 Therefore thus saith the Lord to the
men of Anathoth, who seek thy life, and
say : Thou shalt not prophesy in the
name of the Lord, and thou shalt not die
in our hands.

22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of
hosts: Behold I will visit upon them:
their young men shall die by the sword,
their sons and their daughters shall die
by famine.

s Infra 17. 10, and 20. 12.

diction of what was to happen, with an approbatioD
of the divine justice, than an imprecatdoii.

Temporal prosperity of wicked JEREMIAS Return of Jews from captivity

23 And there shall be no remains of
them: for I will bring in evil upon the
men of Anathoth, the year of their visi-
tation.

CHAPTER 12.

The prosperity of the wicked shall be but for a
short time. The desolation of the Jews for their
sins. Their return from their captivity.

THOU indeed, O Lord, art just, if I
plead with thee, *but yet I will
speak what is just to thee : ** Why doth
the way of the wicked prosper : why is
it well with all them that t:^ansgress,
and do wickedly ?

2 Thou hast planted them, and they
have taken root: they prosper and bring
forth fruit : thou art near in their mouth,
and far from their reinso

3 And thou, O Lord, hast known me,
thou hast seen me, and proved my heart
with thee : gather them together as
flheep for a sacrifice, and prepare them
J or the day of slaughter.

^ How long shall the land mourn, and
the herb of every field wither for the
TTickedness of them that dwell therein ?
The beasts and the birds are consumed :
because they have said: He shall not
:ee our last end.

5 If thou hast been wearied with run-
ning with footmen, how canst thou con-
tend with horses ? and if thou hast been
secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou
do in the swelling of the Jordan ?

6 For even thy brethren, and the house
of thy father, even they have fought
against thee, and have cried after thee
\vith full voice: believe them not when
they speak good things to thee.

7 I have forsaken my house, I nave left
my inheritance: I have given my dear
soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 My inheritance is become to me as
a lion in the wood: it hath cried out
against me, therefore have I hated it.

9 Is my inheritance to me as a speckled
bird? is it as a bird dyed throughout?
come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye
beasts of the earth, make haste to de-
vour.

10 Many pastors have destroyed my
vineyard, they have trodden my portion
under foot : they have changed my de-
lightful portion into a desolate wilder-
ness.

t Ps. 51. 6.

11 They have laid it waste, and it hath
mourned for mo. With desolation is all
the land made desolate ; because there is
none that considereth in the heart.

12 The spoilers are come upon all the
ways of the wilderness, for the sword of
the Lord shall devour from one end of
the land to the other end thereof : there
is no peace for all flesh.

13 They have sown wheat, and reaped
thorns : they have received an inherit-
ance, and it shall not profit them: you
shall be ashamed of your fruits, because
of the fi.erce wrath of the Lord.

14 Thus saith the Lord against all m^
wicked neighbours, that touch the in*
heritance that I have shared out to my
people Israel: Behold I will pluck them
out of their land, and I will pluck the
house of Juda out of the midst of them.

15 And when I shall have plucked them
out, I will return, and have mercy on
them : and I will bring them back, every
man to his inheritance, and every man
into his land.

16 And it shall come to pass, if they
will be taught, and will learn the ways of
my people, to swear by my name: The
Lord liveth, as they have taught my peo-
ple to swear by Baal : that they shall be
built up in the midst of my people.

17 But if they will not hear, I will
utterly pluck out and destroy that na-
tion, saith the Lord.

CHAPTER 13.

Under the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the
destruction of the Jews. Their obstinacy in
sin brings all miseries upon them.

THUS saith the Lord to me: Go, and
get thee a linen girdle, and thou
shalt put it about thy loins, and shalt
not put it into water.

2 And I got a girdle according to the
word of the Lord, and put it about my
loins.

3 And the word of the Lord came to
me the second time, saying :

4 Take the girdle which thou hast got,
which is about thy loins, and arise, go to
the Euphrates, and hide it there in a
hole of the rock.

5 And I went, and hid it by the Euphra-
tes, as the Lord had commanded me.

6 And it came to pass after many days,
that the Lord said to me : Arise, go to

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uJob21.7;Hab.l.l3,

The girdle and the wine bottles JEREMIAS

Sins of the Jews punished

the Euphrates, and take from thence the
girdle, which I commanded thee to hide
there.

7 And I went to the Euphrates, and
digged, and took the girdle out of the
place where I had hid it : and behold the
girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for
no use.

8 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying :

9 Thus saith the Lord : After this man-
ner will I make the pride of Juda, and
the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.

10 This wicked people, that will not
hear my words, and that walk in the
perverseness of their heart, and have
gone after strange gods to serve them,
and to adore them : and they shall be as
this girdle which is fit for no use.

11 For as the girdle sticketh close to the
loins of a man, so have I brought close
to me all the house of Israel, and all the
house of Juda, saith the Lord: that they
might be my people, and for a name, and
for a praise, and for a glory : but they
would not hear.

12 Thou shalt speak therefore to them
this word; Thus saith the Lord the God
of Israel : Every bottle shall be filled
with wine. And they shall say to thee :
Do we not know that every bottle shall be
filled with wine ?

13 And thou shalt say to them: Thus
saith the Lord : Behold I will fill all the
inhabitants of this land, and the kings of
the race of David that sit upon his throne,
and the priests, and the prophets, and
all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with
drunkenness.

14 And I will scatter them every man
from his brother, and fathers and sons
in Uke manner, saith the Lord: I will
not spare, and I will not pardon: nor
will I have mercy, but to destroy them,

15 Hear ye, and give ear : Be not proud,
for the Lord hath spoken.

16 Give ye glory to the Lord your God,
before it be dark, and before your feet
stumble upon the dark mountains : you
shall look for light, and he will turn it
into the shadow of death, and into dark-
ness.

17 But if you will not hear this, my soul
shall weep in secret for your pride :
"weeping it shall weep, and my eyes

V Lam. 1. 2.

shall run down with tears, because the
fiock of the Lord is carried away captive.

18 Say to the king, and to the queen:
Humble yourselves, sit down: for the
crown of your glory is come down from
yovu" head.

19 The cities of the south are shut up,
and there is none to open them : all Juda
is carried away captive with an entire
captivity.

20 Lift up your eyes, and see, you that
come from the north : where is the flock
that is given thee, thy beautiful cattle ?

21 What wilt thou say when he shall
visit thee? for thou hast taught them
against thee, and instructed them against
thy own head: shall not sorrows lay
hold on thee, as a woman in labour ?

22 And if thou shalt say in thy heart :
Why are these things come upon me ?
^ For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy
nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy
feet are defiled.

23 If the Ethiopian can change his skin,
or the leopard his spots : you also may
do well, when you have learned evil.

24 And I will scatter them as stubble,
which is carried away by the wind in the
desert.

25 This is thy lot, and the portion of
thy measure from me, saith the Lord,
because thou hast forgotten me, and
hast trusted in falsehood.

26 Wherefore I have also bared thy
thighs against thy face, and thy shame
hath appeared.

27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy
neighing, the wickedness of thy fornica-
tion : and thy abominations, upon the
hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem,
wilt thou not be made clean after me:
how long yet ?

CHAPTER 14.

A grievous famine: and the propheVs prayer on
that occasion. Evils denounced to false prophets.
The prophet mourns for his people.

THE word of the Lord that came to
Jeremias concerning the words ot
the drought.

2 Judea hath mourned, and the gates
thereof are fallen, and are become ob-
scure on the ground, and the cry of Je-
rusalem is gone up.

3 The great ones sent their inferiors to
the water: they came to draw, they

w Infra 30. 14.

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The drought

JEREMIAS The prophct^s lamentation

found no water, they carried back their
vessels empty: they were confounded
and afflicted, and covered their heads.

4 For the destruction of the land, be-
cause there came no rain upon the earth,
the husbandmen were confounded, they
covered their heads.

5 Yea, the hind also brought forth In
the field, and left it, because there was
no grass.

6 And the wild asses stood upon the
rocks, they snuffed up the wind like
dragons, their eyes failed, because there
was no grass.

7 If our iniquities have testified against
us, 0 Lord, do thou it for thy name's
sake, for our rebellions are many, we
have sinned against thee.

8 0 expectation of Israel, the Saviour
thereof in time of trouble: why wilt
thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a
wayfaring man turning in to lodge?

9 Why wilt thou be as a wandering man,
as a mighty man that cannot save? but
thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy
name is called upon by us, forsake us
not.

10 Thus saith the Lord to this people,
that have loved to move their feet, and
have not rested, and have not pleased
the Lord: He will now remember their
iniquities, and visit their sins.

11 And the Lord said to me: ^ Pray not
for this people for their good.

12 When they fast I will not hear their
prayers: and if they offer holocausts and
victims, I will not receive them: for I
will consume them by the sword, and by
famine, and by the pestilence.

13 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, 0 Lord God,
the prophets say to them: 2/ You shall
not see the sword, and there shall be no
famine among you, but he will give you
true peace in this place.

14 And the Lord said to me : ^ The pro-
phets prophesy falsely in my name: I
sent them not, neither have I commanded
them, nor have I spoken to them: they
prophesy unto you a lying vision, and
divination and deceit, and the seduction
of their own heart.

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord con-
cerning the prophets that prophesy in
my name, whom I did not send, that say:
Sword and famine shall not be in this

w Supra 7. 16, and 11. 14.
y Supra 5. 12 ; Infra 23. 17.

land: By sword and famine shall those
prophets be consumed.

16 And the people to whom they pro-
phesy, shall be cast out in the streets of
Jerusalem because of the famine and the .
sword, and there shall be none to bury
them: they and their wives, their sons
and their daughters, and I will pour out
their own wickedness upon them.

17 And thou shalt speak this word to
them: «Let my eyes shed down tears
night and day, and let them not cease,
because the virgin daughter of my peo-
ple is afflicted with a great affliction, with
an exceeding grievous evil.

18 If I go forth into the fields, behold
the slain with the sword: and if I enter
into the city, behold them that are con-
sumed with famine. The prophet also and
the priest are gone into a land which they
knew not.

19 Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or
hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then
hast thou struck us, so that there is no
healing for us ? & we have looked for
peace, and there is no good: and for
the time of healing, and behold trou-
ble.

20 We acknowledge, 0 Lord, our wick-
edness, the iniquities of our fathers, be-
cause we have sinned against thee.

21 Give us not to be a reproach, for thy
name's sake, and do not disgrace in us
the throne of thy glory: remember,
break not thy covenant with us.

22 Are there any among the graven
things of the Gentiles that can send rain ?
or can the heavens give showers ? art not
thou the Lord our God, whom we have
looked for ? for thou hast made all these
things.

CHAPTER 15.

Ood is determined to punish the Jews for their
sins. The prophets complaint, and God's prom-
ise to him.

AND the Lord said to me: If Moses and
- Samuel shall stand before me, my
soul is not towards this people : cast them
out from my sight, and let them go
forth.

2 And if they shall say unto thee: Whi-
ther shall we go forth? thou shalt say
to them: Thus saith the Lord: c Such as
are for death, to death: and such as are
for the sword, to the sword: and such as

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z Infra. 29. 9 — a Lam. 1. 16, and 2. 18.
b Supra 8. 15. — c Zach. 11. 9.

God's rejection of the Jews

JEREMIAS

Jeremias prays for himself

ere for famine, to famine: and such as
CjTg for captivity, to captivity.

o And I will visit them with four kinds,
saith the Lord : The sword to kill, and
the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the
air, and the beasts of the earth, to de-
vour and to destroy.

4 And I will give them up to the rage
of all the kingdoms of the earth: ^be-
cause of Manasses the son of Ezechias
the king of Juda, for all that he did in
Jerusalem.

5 For who shall have pity on thee, O
Jerusalem ? or who shall bemoan thee ?
or who shall go to pray for thy peace ?

6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the
Lord, thou art gone backward : and I will
stretch out my hand against thee, and I
will destroy thee : I am weary of entreat-
ing thee.

V And I will scatter them with a fan in
the gates of the land : I have killed and
destroyed my people, and yet they are
not returned from their ways.

8 Their widows are multiplied unto me
above the sand of the sea : I have brought
upon them against the mother of the

foung man a spoiler at noonday : I have
3ast a terror v^n Cj sudden upon the
cities.

9 * She that hath borne seven is become
weak, her soul hath fainted :!;Way: -^her
sun is gone down, while it was yet day :
she is confounded, and ashamed : and the
residue of them I will give up to the
sword in the sight of their enemies, saith
the Lord.

10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast
thou borne me a man of strife, a man
of contention to all the earth? I have
not lent on usury, neither hath any man
lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

11 The Lord saith to me: Assuredly it
shall be well with thy remnant, assuredly
I shall help thee in the time of aflliction,
and in the time of tribulation against the
enemy.

12 Shall iron be allied with the iron from
the north, and the brass ?

13 Thy riches and thy treasures I will
give unto spoil for nothing, because of all
thy sins, even in all thy borders.

d 4 Kings 21. 11 and 12.
Chap. 15.

■ e 1 Kings 2. 5.

v/xi^x. M.^. Ver. 12. Shall iron be allied, &c.
Shall the iron, that is, the strength of Judea, stand
against the stronger iron of the north, that is, of
Babylon : or enter into an alliance upon equal foot-
ing with It ? No certainly : but it must be brokeu by it.

14 And I will bring thy enemies out of
a land, which thou knowcst not : for a
fire is kindled in my rage, it shall burn
upon yoUo

15 O Lord, thou knowest, remember me,
and visit me, and defend me from ehem
that persecute me, do not defend me in
thy patience : know that for thy sake I
have suffered reproach.

16 Thy words were found, and I did
eat them, and thy word was to me a
joy and gladness of my heart : for thy
name is called upon me, O Lord God of
hosts.

17 S' I sat not in the assembly of jesters,
nor did I make a boast of the presence
of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou
hast filled me with threats.

18 '^Why is my sorrow become per-
petual, and my wound desperate so as to
refuse to be healed ? it is become to me
as the falsehood of deceitful waters that
cannot be trusted,

19 Therefore thus satth the Lord : If
thou wilt be converted, I will convert
thee, and thou shalt stand before my
face ; and if thou wilt separate the pre-
cious from the vile, thou shalt be as my
mouth: they shall be turned to thee, and
thou shalt not be turned to them.

20 And I will make thee to this people
as a strong wall of brass : and they shall
fight against thee, and shall not prevail :
for I am with thee to save thee, and to
deliver thee, saith the Lord.

21 And I will deliver thee out of the
hand of the wicked, and I will redeem
thee out of the hand of the mighty.

CHAPTER 16.

The prophet is forbid to marry. The Jews shall be
utterly ruined for their idolatry: but shall at
length be released from their captivity^ and the
Gentiles shall be converted.

A ND the word oi the Lord came to me,
J\, saying:

2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, nei-
ther shalt thou have sons and daughters
in this place.

3 For thus saith the Lord concerning
the sons and daughters, that are born in
this place, and concerning their mothers
that bore them: and concerning their

/ Amos 8. 9. — y Fs. 1. 1, and 25. 4. — h Infra 30. 15.
Ver. 15. JDo not defend me in thy patience. That
is, let not thy patience and longsuffering, which thou
usest towards sinners, keep thee from making haste
to my assistance.

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JEREMIAS

lathers, of whom they were bom in this
land :

4 They shall die by the death of griev-
ous illnesses : they shall not be lamented,
and they shall not be buried, they shall
be as dung upon the face of the earth :
ind they shall be consumed with the
iword, and with famine : and their car-
casses 3hall be meat for the fowls of the
rir, and for the beasts of the earth.

5 For ohus saith the Lord: Enter not
into tho house of feasting, neither go
thou to mourn, nor to comfort them:
because I have taken away my peace
from this people, saith the Lord, my
mercy and commiserations.

6 Both the great and the little shall die in
this land : they shall not be buried nor
lamented, and men shall not cut them-
selves, nor make themselves bald for
them.

7 And they shall not break bread among
them to him that mourneth, to comfort
him for the dead : neither shall they give
them to drink of the cup, to comfort
them for their father and mother.

8 And do not thou go into the house of
{easting, to sit with them, and to eat and
Irink:

9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
^od of Israel: Behold I will take a\7ay
i/Ut of this place in your sight, and in
your days the voice of mirth, and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bride-
groom, and the voice of the bride.

10 And when thou shalt tell this people
all these words, and they shall say to
thee: * Wherefore hath the Lord pro-
nounced against us all this great evil?
what is our iniquity? and what is our
sin, that we have sinned against the
Lord our God ?

11 Thou shalt say to them: Because your
fathers forsook me, saith the Lord : and
went after strange gods, and served them,
and adored them : and they forsook me,
and kept not my law.

12 ^ And you also have done worse than
your fathers: for behold every one of
you walketh after the perverseness of
his evil heart, so as not to hearken to
tue.

13 So I will cast you forth out of this
' ..nd, into a land which you kwow not, nor
rour fathers : and there you shall serve

Their release from captivity

strange gods day ttud night, which shall
not give you any rest.

14 Therefore behold the days come,
saith the Lord, when it shall be said no
more : The Lord liveth, that brought forth
the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt*.

15 But, The Lord liveth, that brought
the children of Israel out of the land of
the north, and out of all the lands to
which I cast them out : and I will bring
them again into their land, which I gave
to their fathers.

16 Behold I will send many fishers, saith
the Lord, and they shall fish them: and
after this I will send them many hunters,
and they shall hunt them from every
mountain, and from every hill, and out
of the holes of the rocks.

17 For my eyes are upon all their ways:
they are not hid from my face, and their
iniquity hath not been hid from my
eyes.

18 And I will repay first their double
iniquities, and their sins: because they
have defiled my land with the carcasses
of their idols, and they have filled my
inheritance with their abominations.

19 O Lord, my might, and my strength,
and my refuge in the day of tribulation:
to thee the Gentiles shall come from the
ends of the earth, and shal? say: Surely
our fathers have possessed lies, a vaniiiv
which hath not profited them.

20 Shall a man make gods unto himseli,
and they are no gods ? "

21 Therefore behold I will this once
cause them to know, I will shew them
my hand and my power: and thev shall
know that my name is the Lord»

CHAPTER 17.

For their obstinacy in sin the Jews shall be led cap-
tive. He is cursed that trusteth in flesh. God alone
searcheth the heart, giving to every one as he de-
serves. The prophet prayeth to be delivered from
his enemies^ and preacheth up the observance of
the sabbath.

THE sin of Juda is written with a pen
of iron, with the point of a diamond,
it is graven upon the table of their heart,
upon the horns of their altars.

2 When their children shall remember
their altars, and their groves, and theil
green trees upon the high mountains,

3 Sacrificing in the field : I will give thy

i Supra 5. 19

^Supra7.36i

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Trust in God

JEREMIAS

Observing the Sabbath

strength, and all thy treasures to the
spoil, and thy high places for sin in all
thy borders.

4 And thou shalt be left stripped of thy
inheritance, which I gave thee : and I will
make thee serve thy enemies in a land
which thou knowest not: because thou
hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall
burn for over.

6 Thus saith the Lord : ^ Cursed be the
man that trusteth in man, and maketh
flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth
from the Lord.

6 ' For he shall be like tamaric in the
desert, and he shall not see when good
shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness
in the desert in a salt land, and not in-
habited.

7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in
the Lord, and the Lord shall be his con-
fidence.

8 "*And he shall be as a tree that is
planted by the waters, that spreadeth
out its roots towards moisture: and it
shall not fear when the heat cometh.
And the leaf thereof shall be green, and
in the time of drought it shall not be
solicitous, neither shall it cease at any
time to bring forth fruit.

9 The heart is perverse above all things,
and unsearchable, who can k>iow it?

10 I am the Lord ^* who search the heart,
and prove the reins: who give to every
one according to his way, and according
to the fruit of his devices.

11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs
which she did not lay : so is he that hath
gathered riches, and not by right : in the
midst of his days he shall leave them,
and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

12 A high and glorious throne from the
beginning is the place of our sanctifica-
tion:

13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that
forsake thee shall be confounded: they
that depart from thee, shall be written in
the earth: because they have forsaken
the Lord, the vein of living waters.

14 Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be
healed: save me, and I shall be saved:
for thou art my praise.

k Isa. 30. 2, and 31. 1 ; Infra 48. 7.
I Infra 48. 6.

Chap. 17. Ver. 6. Tamaric. A l)arren shrub
that grows in the driest parts of the wilderness.

Ver. 18. Let them be confounded, &c. Such ex-
pressions as these in the writings of the prophets,
are not to be understood as imprecations proceeding

15 Behold they say to me : Where is the
word of the Lord ? let it come.

16 And I am not troubled, following thee
for my pastor, and I have not desired tho
day of man, thou knowest. That which
went out of my lips, hath been ri/^ht in
thy sight.

17 Be not thou a terror unto me, thou
art my hope in the day of aflliction.

18 Let them be confounded that perse-
cute me, and let not me be confounded:
let them be afraid, and let not me be
afraid : bring upon them the day of aflaic-
tion, and with a double destruction, de-
stroy them.

19 Thus saith the Lord to me : Go, and
stand in the gate of the children of the
people, by which the kings of Juda come
in, and go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem :

20 And thou shalt say to them : Hear
the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda,
and all Juda, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.

21 Thus saith the Lord : Take heed to
your souls, and carry no burdens on the
sabbath day : and bring them not in by
the gates of Jerusalem,

22 And do not bring burdens out of your
houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye
any work : sanctify the sabbath day, as
I commanded your fathers.

23 But they did not hear, nor incUne
their ear : but hardened their neck, that
they might not hear me, and might not
receive instruction.

24 Audit shall come to pass : if you will
hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring
in no burdens by the gates of this city on
the sabbath day i and if you will sanctify
the sabbath day, to do no work therein :

25 Then shall there onter in by the gates
of this city kings and princec, citting upon
the throne of David, and riding in chari-
ots and on horses, they and their princes,
the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhab-
ited for evero

26 And they shall come from the citi©,/
of Juda, and from the places round about
Jerusalem, and from tho land of Benja-

m Ps. 1. 3.
n 1 Kings 16. 7 ; Ps. 7. 10 ; Apoc. 2. 23.

from malice or desire of revenge : but as prophetic
predictions of evils that were about to fall upoi.
impenitent sinners, vjid approbations of tio uays ol
divine justice.

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The clay and the potter

JEREMIAS

The prophet*s prayer

min, and from tho plains, and from the
mountains, and from the south, bringing
holocausts, and victimo, and sacrifices,
and frankincense, and they shall bring in
an offering into the house of the Lord.

27 But if you will not hearken to me, to
sanctify the sabbath day, and not to carry
burdens, and not to bring them in by the
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day : I
will kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and
it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem,
and it shall not be quenched.

CHAPTER 18.

/is clay in the hand of the potter^ so is Israel in
GofVs hand. He pardoneth penitents^ and punish-
cth tho obstinate. They conspire against Jeremias^
/or which he denounceth to them the miseries that
hang over them.

THE word that came to Jeremias from
the Lord, saying:

2 Arise, and go down into the potter's
house, and there thou shalt hear my words.

3 And I went down into the potter's
house, and behold he was doing a work
on tho wheel.

1- Ancl the vessel was broken which he
wao making of clay with his hands : and
iurninfv he made another vessel, as it
jeemed good in his eyes to make it.

5 Then the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :

6 ° Cannot I do with you, as this potter,
O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold
as clay is in the hand of the potter, so
are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

7 I will suddenly speak against a na-
tion, and against a kingdom, ^to root
out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.

8 If that nation against which I have
spoken, shall repent of their evil, I also
will repent of the evil that I have
thought to do to them.

9 And I will suddenly speak of a nation
and of a kingdom, to build up and plant
it.

10 If it shall do evil in my sight, that it
obey not my voice : I will repent of the
good that I have spoken to do untc it.

11 Now therefore teU the men ot Juda,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
Thus saith the Lord : Behold I frame evil
against you, and devise a device against
yon: 9 let every man of you return from

o Isa. 45. 9 ; Kom. 9. 20. — p Supra 1. 10.
q 4 Kings 17. 13 ; Infra 25. 5, and 35. 15 ;

Chap. 18. Ver. 20. Remember^ &c. This is
'poken in the person of Christ, persecuted by the

his ovil way, and make ye your ways and
your doinga good.

12 And they said : We have no hopes:
for we will go after our own thoughts,
and we will do overy one according to
the perversenesa of his evil heart.

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask
among the n.itions : Who hath heard such
horrible things, as tho virgin of Israel
hath dono to excess V

14 Shall ohe snow of Libanus fail from
the rock of the field ? or can the cold wa-
ters that gush out and run down, be taken
away?

16 Because my people havo forgotten
me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbhng in
their ways, in ancient pathn, to walk by
them in a way not trodden :

16 '"That their land might be given up
to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing;
every one that shall pass by it, shall be
astonished, and wag his head.

17 As a burning wind will I scatter them
before the enemy : I will shew them tho
back, and not the face, in the day of
their destruction.

18 And they said : Come, and let us in-
vent devices against Jeremias : for the
law shall not perish fi'om the priest, nor
counsel from the wise, nor the word from
the prophet : come, and let us strike him
with tho tongue, and let us give no heed
to all hi^, words.

19 Give heed to me, O Lordj and hear
the voice of my adversaries.

20 Shall evil be rendered for good, be»
cause they have digged a pit for mj
soul? Remember that I have stood in
thy sight, to speak good for them, and
to turn away thy indignation from them.

21 Therefore deliver up their children
to famine, and bring them into the hands
of the sword : let their wives be bereaved
of childron and widows : and let their
husbands bo elain by death: let their
young men bo stabbed with the sword in
battle.

22 Let a cry be heard out of theii
houses : for thou shalt bring the robber
upon them suddenly : because they have
digged 9 pit to take me, and have hid
snares for my feet.

23 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their

Jonas 3. 9.
r Infra 19. 8, and 49. 13, and 50. 13,

Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that
should fall upon them io puoishment of their criine£:

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Destruction of the Jews

JEREMIAS

The potter*s vessel

counsel against me nnto dea>tb : forgive
not their iniquity, and let not their sin
bo blotted out from thy sight : let them
oe overthrown before thy eyes, in the
time of thy wrath do thou destroy ttienL

CHAPTER 19.

Under the type of breaking a potter^o vessel, the pro-
phet foresheweth the desolation of tho Jews for
their sins,

THUS saith the Lord : Go, and take a
potter's earthen boCtl©, and lake of
the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests :

2 And go forth into the valley of the
son of Ennom, which ie by the entry of
the earthen gate : and there thou shalt
proclaim the words that I shall teU thee.

3 And thou shalt say: Hear the word
of the Lord, O ye kings of Juda, and ye
inhabitants of Jerusalem : Thus saith tho
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel : Behold
I will bring an affliction upon this place :
so that whosoever shall hear it, his ears
shall tingle :

4 Because they have forsaken me, and
have profaned this place : and have
sacrificed therein to strange gods, whom
neither they nor their fathers knew, nor
the kings of Juda: and they have filled
this place with the blood of innocents.

5 And they have built the high places
oi Baalim, to burn their children with
^'G for a holocaust to Baalim : which I
did not command, nor speak of, neither
did it once come into my mind.

G Therefore behold the days come, saith
fcho Lord, that this place shall no more
be called Topheth, nor the valley of the
son of Ennom, but the valley of slaugh-
ter.

7 And I will defeat the coimoel of Judr,
imd of Jerusalem in thic place: and I
will destroy them with the sword ix? the
sight of their enemies, and by the handc
of thorn that seek their lives: and I will
give their carcasses to be meat lOr the
fowls of the air, and for the beasts of
the earth.

8 ' And I will make this city an aston-
ishment, and a hissing: every one that
shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and
shall hiss because of all the plagues
thereof.

s Supra 18. 16 ; Infra 49. 13, and 50. 13.

Chap. 20. Ver. 3. Phassur. Thio name signiii^js
increase and principality: and therefore is here
otaaBged to Moffor-Misaabib, oi Fea/r on eve/i"u side: 1

0 Aud il will feed them with the flesh of
thoir cons, and with the flosh of their
daughters : and they shall eat every one
the flesh of his friend in the siege, and
in the distress wherewith their enemies,
and they that seek their lives, shall
straiten them,

10 And thou shalt break the bottle in
the sight of the men that shall go with
thee.

11 And thou shalt say to them: Thug
saith the Lord of hosts: Even so will I
break this people, and this city, as the
potter's vessel is broken, which cannot
be made whole again: and they shall bo
buried in Topheth, because there is ao
other place to bury in.

12 Thus will I do to this place, saith the
Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof:
and i will make this city as Topheth.

13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and
the houses of the kings of Juda shall
be unclean as the place of Topheth: all
the houses upon whose roofs they have
sacrificed to all the host of heaven,
and have poured out drink offerings to
strange gods.

14 Then Jeremias came from Topheth,
whither the Lord had sent him to pro-
phesy, and he stood in the court of the
house of the Lord, and said to all the
people :

15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel: Behold I will bring in
upon this city, and upon all the cities
thereof all the evils that I have spoken
against it : because they have hardened
their necks, that they might not hear
my words.

CHAPTER 20.

The prophet is persecuted: he denounces captivity
to his persecutors, and bemoans himself.

"VTOW Phassur the son of Emmer, the
JL^ priest, who was appointed chief in
the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias
prophesying these words.

2 An Phassur struck Jeremias the pro-
phet, and put him in the stocks, that
were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in
the house of the Lord.

3 And when it was light the next day,
Phassur brought Jeremias out of the
stocks. And Jeremias said to him : The

Iv. denote the evils that should come upon him ll
punishment of his opposing the word of God,

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Jeremias* complaint to God

Lord hath not ealled thy name Phassur,
bat fear on every side.

4 For thus saith the Lord : Behold I will
deliver thee up to fear, thee and all thy
friends : and they shall fall by the sword
of their enemies, and thy eyes shall see
if, and I will give all Juda into the hand
of the king of Babylon: and he shall
carry them away to Babylon, and shall
strike them with the sword.

5 And I will give all the substance of
this city, and all its labour, and every
precious thing thereof, and all the trea-
sures of the kings of Juda will I give
into the hands of their enemies: and
they shall pillage them, and take them
away, and carry them to Babylon.

6 But thou Phassur, and all that dwell
in thy house, shall go into captivity, and
thou shalt go to Babylon, and there thou
Shalt die, and there thou shalt be buried,
thou and all thy friends, to whom thou
hast prophesied a lie.

7 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and
I am deceived: thou hast been stronger
than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am
become a laughing-stock all the day, all
scoff at me.

8 For I am speaking now this long time,
crying out against iniquity, and I often
proclaim devastation: and the word of
the Lord is made a reproach to me, and
a derision all the day.

9 Then I said : I will not make mention
of him, nor speak any more in his name :
and there came in my heart as a burn-
ing fire, shut up in my bones, and I was
wearied, not being able to bear it.

10 For I heard the reproaches of many,
and terror on every side : Persecute him,
and let us persecute him: from all the
men that were my familiars, and contin-
ued at my side : if by any means he may
be deceived, and we may prevail against
him, and be revenged on him.

11 But the Lord is with me as a strong
warrior: therefore they that persecute
me shall fall, and shall be weak: they
shall be greatly confounded, * because
they have not understood the everlast-

t Infra 23. 40.

JEREMIAS

Jeremias* complaint to God

Ver. 7. Thou hast deceived, &c. The meaning of
the prophet, is not to charge God with any untruth ;
but what lie calls deceiving, was only the conceal-
ing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical
commission, the greatness of the evils which the
execution of that commission was to bring upon
him.

ing reproach, which never shall be ef-
faced.

12 And thou, O Lord of hosts, ** prover
of the just, who seest the reins and the
heart: let me see, I beseech thee, thy
vengeance on them : for to thee I have
laid open my oause.

13 Sing ye to the Lord, praise the Lord :
because he hath delivered the soul of the
poor out of the hand of the wicked.

14 '^ Cursed be the day wherein I was
born : let not the day in which my mo-
ther bore me, be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man that brought the
tidings to my father, saying : A man child
is born to thee: and made him greatly
rejoice.

16 Let that man be as the cities which
the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not
repented : let him hear a cry in the
morning, and howling at noontide :

17 Who slew me not from the womb,
that my mother might have been my
grave, and her womb an everlasting con-
ception.

18 Why camo I out of the womb, to see
labour and sorrow, and that my days
should be spent in confusion?

CHAPTER 21.

The prophet's answer to the messengers of Sedecias,
when Jerusalem was besieged.

THE word that came to Jeremias from
the Lord, when king Sedecias sent
unto him Phassur, the son of Melchias,
and Sophonias, the son of Maasias the
priest, saying :

2 Inquire of the Lord for us, for Nabu-
chodonosor king of Babylon maketh war
against us: if so be the Lord will deal
with us according to all his wonderful
works, that he may depart from us.

3 And Jeremias said to them : Thus
shall you say to Sedecias :

4 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel :
Behold I will turn back the weapons of
war that are in your hands, and with
which you fight against the king of Bab-
ylon, and the Chaldeans, that besiege
you round about the walls : and I will

u Supra 11- 20, and 17. 10. — v Job 3. 3.

Ver. 12. Let me see, &c. This prayer proceeded
not from hatred or ill will, but zeal of justice.

Ver. 14. Cursed be the day, &c. In these, and the
following words of the prophet, there is a certain
figure of speech to express with more energy the
greatness of the eyils to which his birth bad exposed
him.

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Promises and threats

gather them together in the midst of this
city.

5 And I myself will fight against you
with an outstretched hand, and with a
strong arm, and in fury, and in indigna-
tion, and in great wrath.

6 And I will strike the inhabitants of
this city, men and beasts shall die of a
great pestilence.

7 And after this, saith the Lord, I will
give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his
servants, and his people, and such as are
left in this city from the pestilence, and
the sword, and the famine, into the hand
of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon,
and into the hand of their enemies, and
into the hand of them that seek their life,
and he shall strike them with the odgo
of the sword, and he shall not be moved
to pity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy
to them.

8 And to this people thou shalt say:
Thus saith the Lord : Behold I set before
you the way of life, and the way of death.

9 ^ He that shall abide in this city, shall
die by the sword, and by the famine, and
by the pestilence : but he that shall go
out and flee over to the Chaldeans, that
besiege you, shall live, and his life shall
be to him as a spoil.

10 For I have set my face against this
city for evil, and not for good, saith the
Lord : it shall be given into the hand of
the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it
with fire.

11 And to the house of the king of Juda :
Hear ye the word of the Lord,

12 O house of David, thus saith the
Lord: ^ Judge ye judgment in the morn-
ing, and deliver him that is oppressed by
violence out of the hand of the oppres-
sor : lest my indignation go forth like a
fire, and be kindled, and there be none
to quench it, because of the evil of your
ways.

13 Behold I come to thee that dwellest
in a valley upon a rock above a plain,
saith the Lord : and you say : Who shall
strike us ? and who shall enter into our

houses ?

w Infra 38. 2.—x Infra 22. 3.

Chap. 21. Ver. 13. To thee that dwellest, &c.
He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the strength
of her situation upon roclcs, surrounded with a deep
valley.

Chap. 22. Ver. 1. Oo down, &c. The contents
of this chapter are of a more ancient date than those
of the foregoing chapter : for the order of time is not
Always observed in tlie writings of the prophets.

888

14 But I will visit upon you according
to the fruit of your doings, saith the
Lord : and I will kindle a fire in the forest
thereof: and it shall devour all things
round about it.

CHAPTER 22.

An exhortation both to king and people to return to
God. The sentence of God upon Joachaz, Joakim^
and Jechonias.

THUS saith the Lord : Go down to the
house of the king of Juda, and there
thou shalt speak this word,

2 And thou shalt say: Hear the word
of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sittest
upon the throne of David: thou and thy
servants, and thy people, who enter in
by these gates.

3 Thus saith the Lord : y Execute judg-
ment and justice, and deliver him that
is oppressed out of the hand of the op-
pressor : and afflict not the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress
them unjustly: and shed not innocent
blood in this place.

4 For if you will do this thing indeed,
then shall there enter in by the gates of
this house, kings of the race of David
sitting upon his throne, and riding in
chariots and on horses, they and their
servants, and their people.

5 But if you will not hearken to these
words : I swear by myself, saith the Lord,
that this house shall become a desolation.

6 For thus saith the Lord to the house
of the king of Juda : Thou art to me Gal-
aad the head of Libanus : yet surely I
will make thee a wilderness, and cities
not habitable.

7 And I will prepare against the© the
destroyer and his weapons: and they
shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and
shall cast them headlong into the fire.

8 And many nations shall pass by this
city : and they shall say every man to
his neighbour : ^ Why hath the Lord done
so to this great city ?

9 And they shall answer: Because they
have forsaken the covenant of the Lord
their God, and have adored otrange gods,
and served them.

y Supra 21. 12. — 2 Deut. 29. 24 ; 3 Kings 9. 8.

Ver. 6. Galaad the head of Libanvs. By Galaad,
a rich and fruitful country, is here signified the royal
palace of the kings of the house of David : by Liba-
nus, a high mountain abounding in cedar trees, tli«
populous city of Jerusalem.

Ver, 7. Prepare. Literally, aano*%/V»

Judgment on Sellum and J oaHm »JEREM IAS Jvdgment upon Jechaaias

10 Weep not for him that is dead, nor
bemoan him with your tears : lament him
that goeth away, for he shall retm'n no
more, nor see his native country.

11 For thus saith the Lord to Sellum
the son of Josias the king of Juda, who
reigned instead of his father, who went
forth out of this place : He shall return
hither no more :

12 But in the place, to which I have
removed him, there shall he die, and he
shall not see this land any more.

13 Woe to him that buildeth up his
house by injustice, and his chambers not
in judgment: that will oppress his friend
without cause, and will not pay him his
wages.

14 Who saith : I will build me a wide
house, and large chambers : who openeth
to himself windows, and maketh roofs of
cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.

15 Shalt thou reign, because thou com-
parest thyself to the cedar ? did not thy
father eat and drink, and do judgment
and justice, and it was then well with
him?

16 He judged the cause of the poor and
needy for his own good : was it not
therefore because he knew me, saith the
Lord?

17 But thy eyes and thy heart are set
upon covetousness, and upon shedding
innocent blood, and upon oppression,
and running after evil works.

18 Therefore thus saith the Lord con-
cerning Joakim the son of Josias king of
Juda : They shall not mourn for him,
Alas, my brother, and, Alas, sister : they
shall not lament for him, Alas, my lord,
or, Alas, the noble one.

19 He shall be buried with the burial of
an ass, rotten and cast forth "^ without
the gates of Jerusalem.

20 Go up to Libanus, and cry : and lift
up thy voice in Basan, and cry to them
that pass by, for all thy lovers are de-
stroyed.

21 I spoke to thee in thy prosperity:
and thou saidst : I will not hear : this
hath been thy way from thy youth, be-
cause thou hast not heard my voice.

22 The wind shall feed all thy pastors,
a Infra 36. 30.

Ver. 10. Weej) not for him that is dead, &c. He
means the good king Josias, who by death was taken
away, so as not to see the miseries of his country. —
Ibid. Him that goeth away, viz., SeMum,^ alias
Joacbaz, who was carried captive into Egypt

and thy lovers shall go into captivity :
and then shalt thou be confounded, and
ashamed of all thy wickedness.

23 Thou that sittest in Libanus, and
makest thy nest in the cedars, how hast
thou mourned when sorrows came upon
thee, as the pains of a woman in labour?

24 As I live, saith the Lord, if Jechonias
the son of Joakim the king of Juda were
a ring on my right hand, I would pluck
him thence.

25 And I will give thee into the hand of
them that seek thy life, and into the
hand of them whose face thou fearest,
and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon, and into the hand of
the Chaldeans.

26 And I will send thee, and thy mother
that bore thee, into a strange country, in
which you were not born, and there you
shall die :

27 And they shall not return into the
land, whereunto they lift up their mind
to return thither.

28 Is this man Jechonias an earthen and
a broken vessel ? is he a vessel wherein
is no pleasure? why are they cast out,
he and his seed, and are cast into a land
which they know not ?

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word
of the Lord.

30 Thus saith the Lord: Write this man
barren, a man that shall not prosper in
his days : for there shall not be a man of
his seed that shall sit upon the throne of
David, and have power any more in Juda.

CHAPTER 23.

God reproves evil governors ; and promises to send
good pastors; and Christ himself the prince of
the pastors. He inveighs against false prophets
preaching without being sent.

WOE ^to the pastors, that destroy
and tear the sheep of my pasture,
saith the Lord.

2 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God
of Israel to the pastors that feed my peo-
ple: You have scattered my flock, and
driven them away, and have not visited
them: behold I will visit upon you for
the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.

3 And I will gather together the rem-
nant of my flock, out of all the lands into

ft Ezech. 13. 3, and 34. 2.

Ver. 30. Write this m,an barren. That is, child.
less : not that he had no children, but that his chil-
dreu should never sit oa tbe throne of Juda.

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Christ is 'promised

which T have cast them out: and I will
make them return to their own fields,
and they shall increase and be multiplied.

4 ^ And I will set up pastors over them,
and they shall feed them : they shall fear
no more, and they shall not be dismayed:
and none shall be wanting of their num-
ber, saith the Lord.

6 *^ Behold the days come., saith the
Lord, and I will raise up to David a just
branch: and a king shall reign, and shall
be wise : and shall execute judgment and
justice in the earth.

6 In those ^days shall Juda be saved,
and Israel shall dwell confidently: and
this is the name that they shall call him :
The Lord our just one.

7 Therefore behold the days come, saith
the Lord, and they shall say no more :
The Lord hveth, who brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt:

8 But, ^The Lord liveth, who hath
brought out, and brought hither the seed
of the house of Israel from the land of
the north, and out of all the lands, to
which I had cast them forth: and they
shall dwell in their own land.

9 To the prophets : My heart Is broken
within me, all my bones tremble : I am
become as a drunken man, and as a man
full of wine, at the presence of the Lord,
and at the presence of his holy words.

10 Because the land is full of adulterers,
because the land hath mourned by reason
of cursing, the fields of the desert are
dried up : and their course is become
evil, and their strength unlike.

11 For the prophet and the priest are
defiled: and in my house I have found
their wickedness, saith the Lord.

12 Therefore their way shall be as a
slippery way in the dark : for they shall
be driven on, and fall therein : for I will
bring evils upon them, the year of their
visitation, saith the Lord.

13 And I have seen folly in the prophets
of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal, and
deceived my people Israel.

14 And I have seen the likeness of adul-
terers, and the way of lying in the pro-
phets of Jerusalem: and they strength-
ened the hands of the wicked, that no

JEREMIAS

The false prophets

c Supra 3. 16.

d Isa. 4. 2, and 40. 11, and 45. 8 ; Infra 33. 14;

Ezech. 34. 10, 11 ; Dan. 9. 24 : John L 46.

o Deut 33. 2ft.— /Supra 1& 14.

man should return from his evil doings .
they are all l^ecome unto me as Sodom,
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha,

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts
to the prophets: S' Behold I will feed them
with wormwood, and will give them gall
to drink : for from the prophets of Jeru-
salem corruption is gone forth into all
the land.

16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : ^ Heark-
en not to the words of the prophets that
prophesy to you, and deceive you : they
speak a vision of their own heart, and
not out of the mouth of the Lord.

17 They say to them that blaspheme
me : The Lord hath said : * You shall have
peace : and to every one that walketh in
the perverseness of his own heart, they
have said : No evil shall come upon you.

18 For who hath stood in the counsel
of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his
word? Who hath considered his word
and heard it?

19 •? Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's
indignation shall come forth, and a tem-
pest shall break out and come upon the
head of the wicked.

20 The wrath of the Lord shall not re-
turn till he execute it, and till he accom-
plish the thought of his heart: in the
latter days you shall understand his
counsel.

21 '^ I did not send prophets, yet they
ran: I have not spoken to them, yet
they prophesied.

22 If they had stood in my counsel, and
had made my words known to my peo-
ple, I should have turned them from their
evil way, and from their wicked doings.

23 Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith
the Lord, and not a God afar off?

24 Shall a man be hid in secret places,
and I not see him, saith the Lord ? do not
I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord ?

25 I have heard what the prophets said,
that prophesy lies in my name, and say:
I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

26 How long shall this be in the heart
of the prophets that prophesy lies, and
that prophesy the delusions of their own
heart?

27 Who seek to make my people forget
my name through their dreams, which

g Supra 9. 15.— h Infra 27. 9, and 29. 8.
i Supra 5. 12, and 14. 13.

j Infra 30. 14.
4; Infra 27. !£• and 2d. 9L

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God is against the false prophets JEREMTAS

The good and the had figs

they tell every man to his neighbour : as
their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

28 The prophet that hath a dream, let
him tell a dream : and he that hath my
word, let him speak my word with truth :
what hath the chaff to do with the wheat,
saith the Lord?

29 Are not my words as a fire, saith the
Lord: and as a hammer that breaketh
the rock in pieces ?

30 Therefore behold I am against the
prophets, saith the Lord : who steal my
words every one from his neighbour.

31 Behold I am against the prophets,
saith the Lord : who use their tongues,
and say : The Lord saith it.

32 Behold I am against the prophets
that have lying dreams, saith the Lord :
and tell them, and cause my people to
err by their lying, and by their wonders :
when I sent them not, nor commanded
them, who have not profited this people
at all, saith the Lord.

33 If therefore this people, or the pro-
phet, or the priest shall ask thee, saying :
What is the burden of the Lord? thou
ghalt say to them : You are the burden :
for I will cast you away, saith the Lord.

34 And as for the prophetj and the
priest, and the people that shall say :
The burden of the Lord: I will visit
upon that man, and upon his house.

35 Thus shall you say every one tc his
neighbour, and to hie brother: What
hath the Lord answered? and whaij hath
the Lord spoken?

36 And the burden oi the Lord shall be
mentioned no more, for every man's
word shall be his burden : for you have
perverted the words of the living God,
•f the Lord of hosts our God.

87 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet :
What hath the Lord answered thee ? and
what hath the Lord spoken?

38 But if you shall say : The burden of
the Lord : therefore thus saith the Lord :
Because you have said this word: The
burden of the Lord : and I have sen* to
you, saying : Say not, The burden of the
Lord:

39 Therefore behold I will take you
away carrying you, and will forsake yon,

and the city which I gave to you, and to
your fathers, out of ray presence.

40 ^ And I will bring an everlasting re-
proach upon you, and a perpetual shame
which shall never be forgotten.

CHAPTER 24.

Under the type of good and bad figs, he foretells the
restoration of the Jews that had been carried
away cajttive with Jechonias, and the desolation
of those that were left behind.

THE Lord shewed me : and behold two
baskets full of figs, set before the
temple of the Lord: after that "*Nabu-
chodonosor king of Babylon had carried
away Jechonias the son of Joakim the
king of Juda, and his chief men, and the
craftsmen, and engravers of Jerusalem,
and had brought them to Babylon.

2 One basket had very good figs, like
the figs of the first season : and the other
basket had very bad figs, which could
not be eaten, because they were bad.

3 And the Ix)rd said to me : What seest
thou, Jeremias? And I said: Figs, the
good figs, very good: and the bad figs,
very bad, which cannot be eaten because
they are bad.

4 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

5 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:
Like these good figs, so will I regard the
captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth
out of this place into the land of the
Ohaldeans, for their good.

6 And I will set my eyea upon them to
be pacified, and I will bring them again
into this land : and I will build them up,
and not pull them down : and I will plant
them, and not pluck them up.

7 And I will give them a heart to know
me, that I am the Lord : ''* and they shall
be my people, and I will be their God:
because they shall return to me with
their whole heart.

8 ^ And as the very bad figs, that cannot
be eaten, because they are bad: thus
saith the Lord : So will I give Sedecias
the king of Juda, and his princes, and
the residue of Jerusalem, that have re-
mained in this city, and that dwell in the
land of Egypt.

9 And I will deliver them up to vexation,

I Supra 20. 11. — m B. C. 59S.

Chap. 23. Ver. 34. Burden of the Lord. This
expression is here rejected and^isallowed, at least
for those times : because it was then used in mock-
VTi ?,ud contempt by the false prophets, and unbe-

n Snpra 7. 23 ; Infra 28 6. — o Infra 29. 17.

lieving people, who ridiculed tlie repeated threats c
Jeremias undei the name of hi? burdens.

Ver, 39. O-ut of waj presence. That is, the Lord
declart-s that out of his presence he will cast them,
and bnnji tiiera *x> captivity for thei^ transgressions,
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Obstinacy of the Jews

JEREMIAS

The seventy years* Goptmty

and affliction, to all the kingdoms of the
earth : to be a reproach, and a byword,
and a proverb, and to be a curse in all
places, to which I have cast them out.

10 And I will send among them the
sword, and the famine, and the pesti-
lence : till they be consumed out of the
land which I gave to them, and their
fathers.

CHAPTER 25.

The prophet foretells the seventy years* captivity ;
and after that the destruction qf Babylon, and
other nations.

THE word that came to Jeremias con-
cerning all the people of Juda, in
the P fourth year of Joakim the son of
Josias king of Juda, (the same is the first
year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, )

2 Which Jeremias the prophet spoke to
all the people of Juda, and to all the in-
habitants of Jerusalem, saying :

3 From the thirteenth year of Josias
the son of Ammon king of Juda until
this day; this is the three and twentieth
year, the word of the Lord hath come to
me, and I have spoken to you, rising be-
fore day, and speaking, and you have not
hearkened.

4 And the Lord hath sent to you all his
servants the prophets, rising early, and
sending, and you have not hearkened,
nor inclined your ears to hear.

6 When he said : ^ Return ye, every one
from his evil way, and from your wicked
devices, and you shall dwell in the land
which the Lord hath given to you, and
your fathers for ever and ever.

6 And go not after strange gods to serve
them, and adore them: nor provoke me
to wrath by the works of your hands,
and I will not afflict you.

7 And you have not heard me, saith the
Lord, that you might provoke me to
anger with the works of your hands, to
your own hurt.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts:
Because you have not heard my words :

9 Behold I will send, and take all the
kindreds of the north, saith the Lord,
and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon
my servant : and I will bring them against
this land, and against the inhabitants

p B. C. 607.
q 4 Kings 17. 13 ; Supra 18. 11 ; Infra 35. 15.

Chap. 26. Ver. 9. My servant. So this wicked
king is here called ; because God made him his
Sostrument iu punishing the sins of his people.

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thereof, and against all the nations that
are round about it: and I will destroy
them, and make them an astonishment
and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

10 And I will take away from them the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride, the sound of the mill,
and the light of the lamp.

11 *■ And all this land shall be a desola-
tion, and an astonishment: and all these
nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years.

12 And when the seventy years shall be
expired, I will punish the king of Baby-
lon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for
their iniquity, and the land of the Chal-
deans: and I will make it perpetual deso-
lations.

13 And I will bring upon that land all
my words, that I have spoken against it,
all that is written in this book, all that
Jeremias hath prophesied against all
nations :

14 For they have served them, whereas
they were many nations, and great kings :
and I will repay them according to their
deeds, and according to the works of
their hands.

15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel : Take the cup of wine of
this fury at my hand: and thou shalt
make all the nations to drink thereof,
unto which I shall send thee.

16 And they shall drink, and be troubled,
and be mad because of the sword, which
I shall send among them.

17 And I took the cup at the hand of
the Lord, and I presented it to all the
nations to drink of it, to which the Lord
sent me :

18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of
Juda, and the kings thereof, and the
princes thereof : to make them a desola-
tion, and an astonishment, and a hissing
and a curse, as it is at this day.

19 Pharao the king of Egypt, and his
servants, and his princes, and all his
people,

20 And all in general: all the kings of
the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the
land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and

r 2 Par. 36. 22 ; 1 Esd. 1. 1 ; Infra 26. 6, and
29. 10 ; Dan. 9. 2.

Yer. 12. Funiah. LiteraUy, vi«i£ upon.

Destruction of the nations

JEREMIAS

Destruction of the nations

Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of
Azotus.

21 And Edom, and Moab, and the chil-
dren of Ammon.

22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all
the kings of Sidon: and the kings of the
land of the islands that are beyond the sea.

23 And Dedan, and Thema, and Buz, and
all that have their hair cut round.

24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all
the kings of the west, that dwell in the
desert.

25 And all the kings of Zambri, and all
the kings of Elam, and all the kings of
the Medes:

26 And all the kings of the north far
and near, every one against his brother:
and all the kingdoms of the earth, which
are upon the face thereof : and the king
of Sesac shall drink after them.

27 And thou shalt say to them: Thus
Baith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel :
Drink ye, and be drunken, and vomit:
a^d fall, and rise no more, because of the
sword, which I shall send among you.

28 And if they refuse to take the cup
at thy hand to drink, thou shalt say to
them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
Drinking you shall drink:

29 * For behold I begin to bring evil on
the city wherein my name is called upon :
and shall you be as innocent and escape
free ? you shall not escape free : for I
will call for the sword upon all the in-
habitants of the oarth, saith the Lord of
hosts.

30 And thou shalt prophesy unto them
all these words, and thou shalt say to
them : * The Lord shall roar from on high,
and shall utter his voice from his holy
habitation: roaring he shall roar upon
the place of his beauty : the shout as it
were of them that tread grapes shall be
given out against all the inhabitants of
the earth.

31 The noise is come even to the ends
of the earth : for the Lord entereth into
judgment with the nations : he entereth
into judgment with all flesh ; the wicked
I have delivered up to the sword, saith
the Lord.

s 1 Peter 4. 17. — t Joel 3. 16 ; Amos 1. 2.

Ver. 26. Sesac. That is, Babel, or Babylon ; which
after bringing all these people under her yoke, should
quickly fall and be destroyed herself.

Ver. 38. The dove. This is commonly understood
of Nabucho<1onos<Mr, whose military standard, it is
said, was a dove. But the Hebrew word Jonah» which

32 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Behold
evil shall go forth from nation to nation :
and a great whirlwind shall go forth fror»
the ends of the earth.

33 And the slain of the Lord shall be
at that day from one end of the earth
even to the other end thereof : they shall
not be lamented, and they shall not be
gathered up, nor buried : they shall lie
as dung upon the face of the earth.

34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry: and
sprinkle yourselves with ashes, ye lead-
ers of the flock: for the days of your
slaughter and your dispersion are accom-
plished, and you shall fall like precious
vessels.

35 And the shepherds shall have no way
to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to
save themselves.

36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds,
and a howling of the principal of the
flock : because the Lord hath wasted their
pastures.

37 And the fields of peace have been
silent because of the fierce anger of the
Lord.

38 He hath forsaken his covert as the
lion, for the land is laid waste because
of the wrath of the dove, and because of
the fierce anger of the Lord.

CHAPTER 26.

The prophet is appi-ehended and accused by the
priests : but discharged by the princes.

IN ^the beginning of the reign of
Joakim the son of Josias king of
Juda, came this word from the Lord,
saying :

2 Thus saith the Lord : Stand in the
court of the house of the Lord, and speak
to all the cities of Juda, out of which
they come, to adore in the house of the
Lord, all the words which I have com-
manded thee to speak unto them : leave
not out one word.

3 If so be they will hearken and be con-
verted every one from his evil way ; that
I may repent me of the evil that I think
to do unto them for the wickedness of
their doings.

4 And thou shalt say to them : Thus

u B. C. 610.

is here rendered a dove, may also signify a waster or
oppressor, which name better agrees to that unmer-
ciful prince; or by comparison, as a dove's flight is
the swiftest, so would their destruction come upon
them.

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The prophet apprehended

JEREMIAS

He is acquitted

saith the Lord : If you will not hearken I thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me
to me to walk in my law, which I have I to you, to speak all these words in your

given you :

5 To give ear to the wordo of my ser-
vants the prophets, whom I sent to you
rising up early : and sending, and you
have not hearkened:

6^1 will make this house like Silo :
^ and I will make this city a curse to all
the nations of the earth.

7 And the priests, and the prophets,
and all the people heard Jeremias speak-
ing these words in the house of the
Lord.

8 And when Jeremias had made an end
of speaking all that the liOrd had com-
manded him to speak to all the people,
the priests, and the prophets, and all the
people laid hold on him, saying: Let him
be put to death.

9 Why hath he prophesied in the name
of the Lord, saying : This house shall be
like Silo; and this city shall be made
desolate, without an inhabitant? And all
the people were gathered together
against Jeremias in the house of the
Lord.

10 And the princes of Juda heard these
words: and they went up from the king's
house into the house of the Lord, and sat
in the entry of the new gate of the house
of the Lord.

11 And the priests and the prophets
spoke to the princes, and to all the peo-
ple, saying : The judgment of death is for
this man : because he hath prophesied
against this city, as you have heard with
your ears.

12 Then Jeremias spoke to all the
princes, and to all the people, saying :
"'The Lord sent me to prophesy concern-
ing this house, and concerning this city
all the words that you have heard.

13 ^Now therefore amend your ways,
and yoiu* doings, and hearken to the
voice of the Lord your God : and the
Lord will repent him of the evil that he
hath spoken against you.

14 But as for me, behold I am in your
hands : do with me what is good and
right in your eyes :

15 But know ye, and understand, that
if you put me to death, you will shed in-
nocent blood against your own selves,
and against this city, and the inhabitants

V 1 Kings 4. 2 and lo. — w Supra 7. 13.
X Supra 25. 11»

hearing.

16 Then the princes, and all the people
said to the priests, and to the prophets :
There is no judgment of death for this
man: for he hath spoken to us in the
name of the Lord our God.

17 And some of the ancients of the land
rose up: and they spoke to all the as-
sembly of the people, saying :

18 Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet
in the days of Ezechias king of Juda, and
he spoke to all the people of Juda, say-
ing : Thus saith the Lord of hosts : " Sion
shall be ploughed like a field, and Jeru-
salem shall be a heap of stones : and the
mountain of the house the high places
of woods. "

19 Did Ezechias king of Juda, and all
Juda, condemn him to death ? did they
not fear the Lord, and beseech the face
of the Lord: and the Lord repented of
the evil that he had spoken against
them? therefore we are doing a great
evil against our souls.

20 Thero was also a man that prophe-
sied in the name of the Lord, Urias the
son of Semei of Cariathiarim : and he
prophesied against this city, and against
this land, according to all the words of
Jeremias.

21 And Joakim, and all his men in
power, and his princes heard these words:
and the king sought to put him to death.
And Urias heard it, and was afraid, and
fled and went into Egypt.

22 And king Joakim sent men into
Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achobor, and
men with him into Egypt.

23 And they brought Urias out of Egypt:
and brought him to king Joakim, and he
slew him with the sword : and he cast
his dead body into the graves of the com-
mon people,

24 So the hand of Ahicam the son of
Saphan was with Jeremias, that he should
not be delivered into the hands of the
people, to put him to death.

CHAPTER 27.

The prophet sends chains to divers kings, signify-
ing that they must bend their necks under the yoke
of the king of Babylon. The vessels of the temple
shall not be brought back till all the rest are car-
ried away.

y Suora 7. 3.
« Mich. 3. 12.

The yoke of Babylon

JEREMIAS

The false prophets

IN ®the beginning of the reign of
Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda,
this word came to Jeremias from fche
Lord, saying:

2 Thus saith the Lord tome: Make thee
bands, and chains: and thou shalt put
them on thy neck.

3 And thou shalt send them to the king
of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and
to the king of the children of Ammon,
and to the king of Tyre, and to the !iing
of Sidom : by the hand of the messengero
that are come to Jerusalem to Sedecias
the king of Juda.

4 And thou shalt command them to
speak to their masters: Thus saith the
Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus
shall you say to your masters:

6 I made the earth, and the men, and
the beasts that njce upon tho face of tho
earth, by my great power, and by my
stretched out arm: and I have given it to
whom it seemed good in my eyes.

6 And now I have given all these lands
into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon my servant: moreover also
the beasts of the field I have given him
to serve him.

7 And all nations shall serve him, and
his son, and his son's son: till the time
come for his land and himself: and many
nations and great kings shall serve
him.

8 But the nation and kingdom that will
not serve Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-
lon, and whosoever will not bend his
neck under the yoke of the king of Baby-
lon : I will visit upon that nation with
the sword, and with famine, and with
pestilence, saith the Lord : till I consume
them by his hand.

9 ^ Therefore hearken not to your pro-
phets, and diviners, and dreamers, and
soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to
you: You shall not serve the king of
Babylon.

10 For they prophesy lies to you : to
remove you far from your country, and
cast you out, and to make you perish.

11 But the nation that shall bend down
their neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, and shall serve him : I will let

aB. C. 610.
b Supra 23. 16 ; Infra 29. 8.

them remain in their own land, saith the
Lord : and they shall till it, and dwell in
it.

12 And I spoke to Sedecias the king of
Juda according to all these words, say-
ing; Bend down your necks under the
yoke of tho liing of Babylon, and serve
him, and his pGoplo, and you shall live.

13 Why will you die, thou and thy peo»
pie by the sword, and by famine, and by
the pestilence, as the Lord hath spokea
against the nation that will not serve
the king of Babylon?

14 Hearken not to the words of the pro-
pheta that say to you : You shall not serve
the king of Babylon : for they tell you a
lie.

15 ^ For I have not sent them, saith tho
Lord: and they prophesy in my name
falsely: to drive you out, and that you
may perish, both you, and the prophets
that prophesy to you.

16 I spoke also to the priests, and to
this people, saying : Thus saith the Lord :
Hearken not to the words of your ppo-
pheto, that prophesy to you, saying: Be-
hold the vessels of tho Lord shall now in
a ohorfc time bo brought again from Baby-
lon : for ohey prophesy a lie unto you.

17 Therefore hearken not to them, but
serve the king of Babylon, that you may
live. Why should thi£; city bo given up
to desolation ?

18 But if they be prophets, and the
word of the Lord be in them: let them
interpose themselves before the Lord of
hosts, that the vessels which were left in
the house of tho Lord, and in the house
of the king of Juda, and in Jerusalem,
may not go to Babylon.

19 For thus saith the Lord of hosts ^ to
the pillars, and to tho sea, and to the
[:>ases, and to the rest of the vessels that
remain in this city :

20 Which Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon did not take, when he carried
away Jechonias the son of Joakim the
king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon,
and all the great men of Juda and Jeru-
salem.

21 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel, to the vessels that are left

c Supra 14. 14, and 23. 21 ; Infra 29. 9.
d 4 Kings 25. 13.

Cha p. 27. Ver. i. Joakim. This revelation was
made to the prophet in the beginning of the reign of
Joakim : but the bands were not sent to the princes
here named before the reign of Sedeciae, rer.d.

840

Ver. 7. 7/tsson, viz., Evilmerodach; and his son's
son, Nabonydus, or Nabonadius, the Baltassar ol
Daniel, chap. 6., and the last of the Chaldean Icings.

The false prophecy of Hananias JEREMIAS

Death of Hananias

ill the house of Ihe Lord, and in the house
of the king of Juda and Jerusalem:

22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and
there they shall be until the day of their
visitation, saith the Lord: and I will
cause them to be brought, and to be re-
stored in this place.

CHAPTER 28.

The false jyrophecy of Hananias : he dies that same
7/ear, as Jeremias foretold.

AND it came to pass in that year, in
J\. the beginning Ox the reign o* Sede-
cias king of Juda, in the lourth year, - in
the fifth month, that Hananias the son
of Azur, a prophet of Grabaon spoke to
me, in the house of the Lord before the
priests, and all the people, saying :

IJ Thus saith the Lord of liosts the God
of Israel : I have broken the yoke of the
*. ing of Babylon.

3 As yet two years ol days, and I will
cause all the vessels of the houso of the
Lord to be brjur^^^c back into this place,
which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon
took away from this place, and carried
tjhem to Babylon.

4 And I will bring back to thic place
Jechonias the son of Joakim king of
Juda, and all the captives of Juda, that
are gone to Babylon, saith the Lord : for
I will break the yoke oi" the king of
Babylon.

5 And Jeremias the prophet said to
Hananias the prophet in the presence of
the priests, and in the presence of all the
people that stood in the house of the
Lord:

6 And Jeremias the prophet said : Amen,
the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy
words, which thou hast prophesied : that
the vessels may be brought again into the
houso of the Lord, and all the captives
may return out of Babylon to this place.

7 Nevertheless hear this word that I
tfpeak in thy ears, and in the ears of all
the people :

8 The prophets that have been before
me, and before thee from the beginning,
and have prophesied concerning many
countries, and concerning great king-
doms, of war, and of affliction, and of
famine.

9 The prophet that prophesied peace :
when his word shall come to pass, the

lis. J
to J
o-fl

t A. M. 3408. Ante C. 596.

prophet shall be known, whom the Lord
hath sent in truth.

10 And Hananias the prophet took the
chain from the neck of Jeremias the pro-
phet, and broke it.

11 And Hananias spoke in the presence
of all the people, saying: Thus saith the
Lord : Even so will I break the yoke of
Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon
after two full years from off the neck of
all the nations.

12 And Jeremias the prophet went his.
way. And the word of the Lord came
Jeremias, after that Hananias the pr
phet had broken the chain from off the
neck of Jeremias the prophet, saying:

13 Go, and tell Haiianias : Thus saith the
Lord : Thou hast broken chains of wood,
and thou shalt make for them chains of
iron.

14 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel: I have put a yoke of
iron upon iihe neck of all these nations,
to serve Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-
lon, and they shall serve him: moreover
also I have given him the beasts of the
3arth.

15 And Jeremias the prophet said to
Hananias the prophet: Hear now, Hana-
nias: the Lord hath not sent thee, and
thou hast made this people to trust in
a lie.

16 Therefore thus spich the Lord: Be-
hold I will send thee away from off the
face of the earth: this year shalt thou
die: for thou hast spoken against the
Lord.

17 And Hananias the prophet died in
that year, in the seventh month.

CHAPTER 29.

Jeremias writeth to the captives in Babylon, exhort-
ing them to be easy there, and not to hearken to
false prophets. That they shall be delivered after
seventy years. But those that remain in Jerusalem
shall perish by the sword, famine, and jjestilencc.
And that Achab, Sedecias, and Semeias, false pro- '
phets, shall die miserably.

n^OW-^ these are the words of the let
l\ ter which Jeremias the prophet sent
from Jerusalem to the residue of the an-
cients that were carried into captivity,
and to the priests, and to the prophets,
and to all the people, whom Nabucho-
donosor had carried away from Jerusalem
to Babylon :

/B.C. 598.

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Jeremias* leffer to

JEREMIAS

the captives in Babylon

2 After that Jechonias the king, and the
queen, and the eunuchs, and the princes of
Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen,
and the engravers were departed out of
Jerusalem:

3 By the hand of Elasa the son of Sa-
phan, and Gamarias the son of Helcias,
whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to
Babylon to Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon, saying:

4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel, to all that are carried away
captives, whom I have caused to be car-
ried away from Jerusalem to Babylon :

5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them :
and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of
them.

6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and
daughters : and take wives for your sons,
and give your daughters to husbands, and
let them bear sons and daughters : and
be ye multiplied there, and be not few in
number.

7 And seek the peace of the city, uO
which I have caused you to be carried
away captives ; and pray to the Lord for
it: for in the peace thereof shall be your
peace.

8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel : ^ Let not your prophets
that are in the midst of you, and ycm*
diviners deceive you : and give nc heed
to your dream: which you dream :

9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my
name: and I have not sent them, saith
the Lord.

10 '^For thus saith the Lord: When the
seventy years shall begin to be accom-
plished in Babylon, I will visit you : and
I will perform my good word in your
favour, to bring you again to this place.

11 For I know the thoughts that I think
towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of
peace, and not of affliction, to give you
an end and patience.

12 And you shall call upon me, and you
shall go : and you shall pray to me, and I
will hear you.

13 You shall seek me, and shall find
me : when you shall seek me with all
your heart.

14 And I will be found by you, saith the
Lord: and I will bring back your cap-
tivity, and I will gather you out of all na-
tions, and from all the places to which I

g Supra 14. 14, and 23. 16, and 27. 16,
ASupra25.12; 2 Par. 36. 21;

have dri-venyon out, saith the Lord : and
I will bring you back from the place to
which I caused you to be carried away
captive.

15 Because you have said: The Lord
hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:

16 For thus saith the Lord to the king
that sitteth upon the throne of David,
and to all the people that dwell in this
city, to your brethren that are not gone
forth with you into captivity.

17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: * Be-
hold I will send upon them the sword,
and the famine, and the pestilence : and I
will make them like bad figs that cannot
be eaten, because they are very bad.

18 And I will persecute them with the
sword, and with famine, and with the
pestilence : and I will give them up unto
affliction to all the kingdoms of the
earth : to be a curse, and an astonish-
ment, and a hissing, and a reproach te
all the nations to which I have driven
them out :

i9 Because they have not hearkened to
my words, saith the Lord : which I sent
to them by my servants the prophets,
rising by night, and sending: and you
have not heard, saith the Lord.

20 Hear ye therefore the word of the
Lord, all ye of the captivity, whom I have
sent out from Jerusalem to Babylon.

21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel, to Achab the son of Colias, and
to Sedecias the son of Maasias, who pro-
phesy unto you in my name falsely : Be-
hold I will deliver them up into the hands
of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon:
and he shall kill them before your eyes.

22 And of them shall be taken up a curse
by all the captivity of Juda, that are in
Babylon, saying : The Lord make tnee
like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the
king of Babylon fried in the fire :

23 Because they have acted folly in Is-
rael, and have committed adultery with
the wives of their friends, and have
spoken lying words in my name, which
I commanded them not : I am the judge
and the witness, saith the Lord.

24 And to Semeias the Nehelamite thou
shalt say :

25 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel : Because thou hast sent letters
in thy name to all the people that are in

847

1 Esd. 1. 1 ; Dan. 9. 2.
iSupra24.9an(iiO>

Judgment against Semeias

Jerusalem, and to Sophonlas the son of
Maasias the priest, and to all the priests,
saying :

26 The Lord hath made thee priest in-
stead of Joiada the priest, that thou
shouldst be ruler in the house of the
Lord, over every man that raveth and
prophesieth, to put him in the stocks,
and into prison.

27 And now why hast thou not rebuked
Jeremias the Anathothite, who prophesi-
eth to you ?

28 For he hath also sent to us in Baby-
lon, saying : It is a long time : build ye
houses, and dwell in them: and plant
gardens, and eat the fruits of them.

29 So Sophonias the priest read this
letter, in the hearing of Jeremias the
prophet.

30 And the word of the Lora came to
Jeremias, saying :

31 Send to all them of the captivity, say-
ing : Thus saith the Lord to Semeias the
Nehelamite : Because Semeias hath pro-
phesied to you, and I sent him not : and
hath caused you to trust in a lie :

32 Therefore thus saith the Lord : be-
hold I will visit upon Semeias the Nehe-
lamite, and upon his seed : he shall not
have a man to sit in the midst of this
people, and he shall not see the good
that I will do to my people, saith the
Lord : because he hath spoken treason
against the Lord.

OHAFTER 30.

Oed will deliver his people from their captivity :
Christ shall be their king : and his church shall
be glorious/or ever,

THIS ^ is the word that came to Jere-
mias from the Lord, saying :

2 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel,
saying : Write thee all the words that I
have spoken to thee, in a book.

3 For behold the days come, saith the
Lord, and I wiU bring again the captivity
of my people Israel and Juda, saith the
Lord : and I will cause them to return to
the land which I gave to their fathers,
and they shall possess it.

4 And these are the words that tne
Lord hath spoken to Israel and to Juda:

6 For thus saith the Lord : We have
heard a voice of terror : there is fear and
no peace.

JEREMIAS Betnrn from captivity promised

6 Ask ye, and see if a man bear children ?
why then have I seen every man with his
hands on his loins, like a woman in labour,
and all faces are turned yellow ?

7 ^ Alas, for that day is great, neither is
there the like to it ; and it is the time of
tribulation to Jacob, but he shall be saved
out of it.

8 And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break
his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst
his bands : and strangers shall no more
rule over him :

9 But they shall serve the Lord their
God, and David their king, whom I will
raise up to them.

10 * Therefore fear thou not, my servant
Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be dis-
mayed, O Israel : for behold, I will save
thee from a country afar off, and thy
seed from the land of their captivity:
and Jacob shall return, and be at rest,
and abound with all good things, and
there shall be none whom he may fear:

11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord,
to save thee : for I will utterly consume
all the nations, among which I have scat-
tered thee: but I will not utterly con-
sume thee : but I will chastise thee in
judgment, that thou mayst not seem to
thyself innocent.

12 For thus saith the Lord : Thy bruise
is incurable, thy wound is very grievous.

13 There is none to judge thy judgment
to bind it up : thou hast no healing medi-
cines.

14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee,
and will not seek after thee : ^ for I have
wounded thee with the wound of an
enemy, with c.. cruel chastisement: by
reason of the multitude of thy iniquities,
thy sins are hardened.

16 Why criest thou for thy affliction?
thy sorrow is incurable: for the multi-
tude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened
sins I have done these things to thee.

16 Therefore all they that devour thee,
shall be devoured: and all thy enemies
shall be carried into captivity : and they
that waste thee shall be wasted, and all
that prey upon thee will I give for a
prey.

17 For I will close up thy scar, aoci wil!
heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord

k Joel. 2. 11

jB. C. 598.
Amos 5. 18

Soph. 1. 15.

I Isa. 43. 1, and 44. 2 ; Luke 1. 70.
m Supra 23. 19.

Chap. 30. Ver. 9. David,

That is, Christ of the bouse of David.
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Glories of the restored kingdom JEREMIAS

The restoration of Israel

Because they have called thee, O Sion, an
outcast: This is she that hath none to
seek after her.

18 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will
bring back the captivity of the pavilions
of Jacob, and will have pity on his houses,
and the city shall be built in her high
place, and the temple shall be founded
according to the order thereof.

19 And out of them shall come forth
praise, and the voice of them that play :
and I will multiply them, and they shall
not be made few : and I will glorify them,
and they shall not be lessened.

20 And their children shall be as from
the beginning, and their assembly shall
be permanent before me : and I will visit
against all that afflict them.

21 And their leader shall be of them-
selves : and their prince shall come forth
from the midst of them : and I will bring
him near, and he shall come to me: for
who is this that setteth his heart to ap-
proach to me, saith the Lord ?

22 And you shall be my people : and I
will be your God»

23 Behold the whirlwind of the Lord,
his fury going forth, a violent storm, it
shall rest upon the head of the wicked.

24 The Lord will not turn away the
wrath of his indignation, till he have
executed and performed the thought of
his heart : in the latter days you shall
understand these things.

CHAPTER 3L

The restoration of Israel. Rachel shall cease from
mourning. The new covenant. The church shall
never fail.

AT "" that time, saith the Lord, I will be
XJL the God of all the families of Israel,
and they shall be my people.

2 Thus saith the Lord: The people that
were left and escaped from the sword,
found grace in the desert i Israel shall go
to his rest.

3 The Lord hath appeared from afar to
me. Yea I have loved thee with an
everlasting love, therefore have I drawn
thee, taking pity on thee.

4 And I will build thee again, and thou
Shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou
shalt again be adorned with thy tim-
brels, and shalt go forth in the dances of
them that make merry.

6 Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the

nB. C. 598.-

o Isa. 2. 8 : Mich. 4. 2.

mountains of Samaria : the planters shall
plant, and they shall not gather the vin-
tage before the time.

6 For there shall be a day, in which the
watchmen on mount Ephraim, shall cry :
^ Arise, and let us go up to Sion to the
Lord our God.

7 For thus saith the Lord: Rejoice ye in
the joy of Jacob, and neigh before the
head of the Gentiles : shout ye, and sing,
and say: Save, O Lord, thy people, the
remnant of IsraeL

8 Behold I will bring them from the
north country, and will gather them from
the ends of the earth: and among them
shall be the blind, and the lame, the wo-
man with child, and she that is bringing
forth, together, a great company of them
returning hither.

9 They shall come with weeping : and I
will bring them back in mercy: and I will
bring them through the torrents of waters
in a right way, and they shall not stum-
ble in it : for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn.

10 Bear the word of the Lord, O ye na-
tions, and declare it in the islands that
are afar off, and say: He that scattered
Israel will gather him: and he will keep
him as the shepherd doth his flock.

11 For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob,
and delivered him out of the hand of one
that was mightier than he.

12 And they shall come, and shall give
praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow
together to the good things of the Lord,
for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the
increase of cattle and herds, and their
soul shall be as a watered garden, and
they shall be hungry no more.

13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the
dance, the young men and old men
together: and I will turn their mourn-
ing into joy, and will comfort them, and
make them joyful after their sorrow.

14 And I will flU the soul of the priests
with fatness: and my people shall be
filled with my good things, saith the
Lord.

15 Thus saith the Lord : P A voice was
heard on high of lamentation, of mourn-
ing, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for
her children, and refusing to be com-
forted for them, because they are not.

16 Thus saith the Lord : Let thy voice

p Matt 2. 18.

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Epkraim is converted to God JEREMIAS

The new covenant

cease from weeping, and thy eyeo from
tears : for there is a reward for thy work,
Baith the Lord : and they shall return out
of the land of the enemy.

17 And there is hope for thy last end,
saith the Lord : and the children shall
return to their own borders.

18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he
went into captivity : thou hast chastised
me, and I was instructed, as a young bul-
lock unaccustomed to the yoke. Con-
vert me, and I shall be converted, for
thou art the Lord my God.

19 For after thou didst convert me, I
did penance : and after thou didst shew
unto me, I struck my thigh : I am con-
founded and ashamed, because I have
borne the reproach of my youth.

20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son
to me, surely he is a tender child: for
Bince I spoke of him, I will still remem-
ber him. Therefore are my bowels trou-
bled for him: pitying I will pity him,
saith the Lord.

21 Set thee up a watch tower, make to
thee bitterness : direct thy heart into the
right way, wherein thou hast walked :
return, O virgin of Israel, return to these
thy cities.

22 How long wilt thou be dissolute in
deliciousness, O wandering daughter? for
the Lord hath created a new thing upon
the earth: a woman shall compass a

MAN.

23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God
of Israel : As yet shall they say this word
in the land of Juda, and in the cities
thereof, when I shall bring back their
captivity : The Lord bless thee, the
beauty of justice, the holy mountain.

24 And Juda and all his cities shall dwell
therein together: the husbandmen and
they that drive the flocks.

25 For I have inebriated the weary soul :
and I have filled every hungry soul.

26 Upon this I was as it were awaked
out of a sleep, and I saw, and my sleep
was sweet to me.

27 Behold the days come, saith the
Lord : and I will sow the house of Israel
and the house of Juda with the seed of
men, and with the seed of beasts.

28 And as I have watched over them, to
pluck up, and to throw down, and to scat-
ter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I

9 Ezech. 18. 2.— r Heb^ & 9.

watch over them, to build up, and to
plant them, saith the Lord.

29 In those days they shall say no more :
5 The fathers have eaten a sour grape,
and the teeth of the children are set on
edge.

30 But every one shall die for his own
iniquity : every man that shall eat the
sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

31 ''Behold the days shall come, saith
the Lord, and I will make a new cove-
nant with the house of Israel, and with
the house of Juda:

32 Not according to the covenant which
I made with their fathers, in the day that
I took them by the hand to bring them
out of the land of Egypt : the covenant
which they made void, and I had domin-
ion over them, saith the Lord.

33 But this shall be the covenant that I
will make with the house of Israel, after
those days, saith the Lord : * I will give
my law in their bowels, and I will write
it in their heart : and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

34 And they shall teach no more every
man his neighbour, and every man his
brother, saying : Know the Lord : for all
shall know me from the least of them
even to the greatest, saith the Lord ?
* for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
will remember their sin no more.

36 Thus saith the Lord, who giveth the
sun for the light of the day, the order of
the moon and of the stars, for the light
of the night: who stirreth up the sea,
and the waves thereof roar, the Lord of
hosts is his name.

36 If these ordinances shall fail before
me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of
Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation
before me for ever.

37 Thus saith the Lord : If the heavens
above can be measured, and the founda-
tions of the earth searched out beneath,
I also will cast away all the seed of Israel,
*or all that they have done, saith the
Lord.

38 Behold the days come, saith the Lord,
that the city shall be built to the Lord
from the tower of Hanameel even to the
gate of the corner.

39 And the measuring line shall go out
farther in his sight upon the hill Gareb :
and it shall compass Goatha,

• Heb. 10. 16. — t Acts 10. 43.

BSD

Jeremias purchases afield

JEREMTAS Restoration of Israel prophesied

40 And the whole valley of dead bodies,
and of ashes, and all the country of
death, even to the torrent Cedron, and to
the corner of the horse gate towards the
east, the Holy of the Lord: it shall not
be plucked up, and it shall not be de-
otroyed any more for ever.

CHAPTER 32.

Jeremias by Gocfs commandment, purchases afield
of his kinsman : and prophesies the return of the
people out of captivity : and the everlasting cove-
nant Ood will make with his church.

THE "word that came to Jeremias
from the Lord in the tenth year of
Sedecias king of Juda : the same is the
eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor.

2 At that time the army of the king of
Babylon besieged Jerusalem: and Jer-
emias the prophet was shut up in the
court of the prison, which was in the
house of the king of Juda.

3 For Sedecias king of Juda had shut
him up, saying: Why dost thou prophesy,
saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I
will give this city into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and he shall take it ?

4 And Sedecias king of Juda shall not
escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans :
but he shall be delivered into the hands
of the king of Babylon: and he shall
speak to him mouth to mouth, and his
eyes shall see his eyes.

5 And he shall lead Sedecias to Baby-
lon : and he shall be there till I visit him,
saith the Lord. But if you will fight against
the Chaldeans, you shall have no success.

C And Jeremias said : The word of the
Lord came to me, saying:

7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Solium
thy cousin shall come to thee, saying :
Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth,
for it is thy right to buy it, being next
akin.

8 And Hanameel my uncle's son came
to me, according to the word of the Lord,
to the entry of the prison, and said to
me : Buy my field, which is in Anathoth
in the land of Benjamin : for the right of
inheritance is thine, and thou art next of
kin to possess it. And I understood that
this was the word of the Lord.

9 And I bought the field of Hanameel
my uncle's son, tha^ is in Anathoth : and
I weighed him the money, seven staters,
and ten pieces of silver.

M B. C. 688.

10 And I wrote it in a book and sealed
it, and took witnesses: and I weighed him
the money in the balances.

11 And I took the deed of the purchase
that was sealed, and the stipulations,
and the ratifications with the seals that
were on the outside.

12 And I gave the deed of the piu*chase
to Baruch the son of Neri the son of Ma-
asias in the sight of Hanameel my uncle's
son, in the presence of the witnesses that
subscribed the book of the purchase, and
before all the Jews that sat in the court
of the prison.

13 And I charged Baruch before them,
saying:

14 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel : Take these writings, this deed
of the purchase that is 'sealed up, and
this deed that is open : and put them in
an earthen vessel, that they may continue
many days.

15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel: Houses, and fields, and
vineyards shall be possessed again in
this land.

16 And after I had delivered the deed
of purchase to Baruch the son of Neri, I
prayed to the Lord, saying:

17 Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, behold
thou hast made heaven and earth by thy
great power, and thy stretched out arm:
no word shall be hard to thee :

18 ^Thou she west mercy unto thousands,
and returnest the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after
them : O most mighty, great, and power-
ful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

19 Great in counsel, and incomprehen-
sible in thought : whose eyes are open
upon all the ways of the children of
Adam, to render unto every one accord-
ing to his ways, and according to the
fruit of his devices.

20 Who hast set signs and wonders in
the land of Egypt even until this day,
and in Israel, and amongst men, and
hast made thee a name as at this day.

21 And hast brought forth thy people
Israel, out of the land of Egypt with
signs, and with wonders, and with a
strong hand, and a otretched out arm,
and with great terror.

22 And hast given them this land which
thou didst swear to their fathers, to give

V Ex. 34. 7.

Destruction of Jerusalem foretold JEREMIAS Return frcym captivity promised

them a land flowing with milk and
honey.

23 And they came in, and possessed it:
but they obeyed not thy voice, and they
walked not in thy law: and they did not
any of those things that thou didst com-
mand them to do, and all these evils are
come upon them.

24 Behold works are built up against
the city to take it : and the city is given
into the hands of the Chaldeans, who
fight against it, by the sword, and the
famine, and the pestilence : and what
thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as
thou thyself seest.

25 And say est thou to me, O Lord God:
Buy a field for money, and take witnesses,
whereas the city is given into the hands
of the Chaldeans ?

26 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias, saying :

27 Behold I am the Lord the God of
all iesh •, shall any thing be hard for
me?

28 Therefore thus saith the Lord : Be-
hold I will deliver this city into the
hands of the Chaldeans, and into the
hands of the king of Babylon, and they
shall take it.

29 And the Chaldeans that fight against
this city, shall come and set it on fire,
and burn it, with the houses upon whose
roofs they offered sacrifice to Baal, and
poured out drink offerings to strange
gods, to provoke me to wrath.

30 For the children of Israel, and the
children of Juda, have continually done
evil in my eyes from their youth : the
children of Israel who even till now pro-
voke me with the work of their hands,
saith the Lord.

31 For this city hath been to me a provo-
cation and indignation from the day that
they built it, until this day, in which it
shall be taken out of my sight.

32 Because of all the evil of the chil-
dren of Israel, and of the children of
Juda, which they have done, provoking
me to wrath, they and their kings, their
princes, and their priests, and their
prophets, the men of Juda, and the in-
habitants of Jerusalem.

33 And they have turned their backs to
me, and not their faces : when I taught
them early in the morning, and instruct-

ed them, and they would not hearken to
receive instruction.

34 ^ And they have set their idols In
the house, in which my name is called
upon, to defile it.

35 And they have built the high places
of Baal, which are in the valley of the
son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons
and their daughters to Moloch : which I
commanded them not, neither entered it
into my heart, that they should do this
abomination, and cause Juda to sin.

36 And now, therefore, thus saith the
Lord the God of Israel to this city,
whereof you say that it shall be deliv-
ered into the hands of the king of Baby-
lon by the sword, and by famine, and by
pestilence :

37 Behold I will gather them together
out of all the lands to which I have cast
them out in my anger, and in my wrath,
and in my great indignation : and I will
bring them again into this place, and
will cause them to dwell securely.

38 And they shall be my people, and I
will be their God.

39 And I will give them one heart, and
one way, that they may fear me all days :
and that it may be well with them, and
with their children after them.

40 And I will make an everlasting cove-
nant with them, and will not cease to do
them good : and I will give my fear in
their heart, that they may not revolt
from me.

41 And I will rejoice over them, when
I shall do them good : and I will plantl
them in this land in truth, with my whole
heart, and with all my soul.

42 For thus saith the Lord : As I have
brought upon this people all this great
evil: so will I bring upon them all the
good that I now speak to them.

43 And fields shall be purchased in this
land: whereof you say that it is desolate,
because there remaineth neither man nor
beast, and it is given into the hands
of the Chaldeans.

44 Fields shall be bought for money,
and deeds shall be written, and sealed,
and witnesses shall be taken, in the land
of Benjamin, and round about Jerusa-
lem, in the cities of Juda, and in the
cities on the mountains, and in the citica
of the plains, and in the cities that r.rc

W 4 Kings 21.^
852

The restoration foretold

towards the south : for I will bring back
their captivity, saith the Lord.

CHAPTER 33.

Ood promises reduction from captivity, and other
blessings: especially the coming of Christ, whose
reign in his church shall be glorious and per-
petual.

AND *the word of the Lord came to

J\. Jeremias the second time, while he

was yet shut up in the court of the

prison, saying :

2 Thus saith the Lord, who will do, and
will form it, and prepare it, the Lord is
his name.

3 Cry to me and I will hear thee: and
2 will shew thee great things, and sure
things which thou knowest not.

4 For thus saith the Lord the God of
Israel to the houses of this city, and to
the houses of the king of Juda, which
are destroyed, and to the bulwarks, and
to the sword.

5 Of them that come to fight with the
Chaldeans, and to fill them with the
dead bodies of the men whom I have
slain in my wrath, and in my indignation,
hiding my face from this city because of
all their wickedness.

6 Behold I will close their wounds and
give them health, and I will cure them :
and I will reveal to them the prayer of
peace and truth.

7 And I will bring back the captivity
of Juda, and the captivity of Jerusalem :
and I will build them as from the be-
ginning.

8 And I will cleanse them from all their
iniquity, whereby they have sinned
against me : and I will forgive all their
iniquities, whereby they have sinned
against me, and despised me.

9 And it shall be to me a name, and a
joy, and a praise, and a gladness before
all the nations of the earth, that shall
hear of all the good things which I will
do to them : and they shall fear and be
troubled for all the good things, and for
all the peace that I will make for them.

10 Thus saith the Lord : There shall be
heard again in this place (which you say

X B. C. 588.

JEREMIAS Happiness of the restoration

is desolate, because there is neither man
nor beast: in the cities of Juda, and with-
out Jerusalem, which are desolate with-
out man, and without inhabitant, and
without beast)

11 The voice of joy and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
and the voice of the bride, the voice of
them that shall say: Give ye glory to
the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good,
for his mercy endureth for ever : and of
them that shall bring their vows into the
house of the Lord : for I will bring back
the captivity of the land as at the first,
saith the Lord.

12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : There
shall be again in this place that is des*
olate without man, and without beast,
and in all the cities thereof, an habita-
tion of shepherds causing their flocks to
lie down.

13 And in the cities on the mountains,
and in the cities of the plains, and in the
cities that are towards the south: and
in the land of Benjamin, and round
about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Juda shall the flocks pass again under
the hand of him that numbereth them,
saith the Lord.

14 Behold the days come, saith the
Lord, that I will perform the good word
that I have spoken to the house of Is-
rael, and to the house of Juda.

15 In those days, and at that time, I
will make the bud of justice to spring
forth unto David, and he shall do judg-
ment and justice in the earth.

16 In those days shall Juda be saved,
and Jerusalem shall dwell securely: and
this is the name that they shall call him,
The Lord our just one.

17 For thus saith the Lord : There shall
not be cut off from David a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel.

18 Neither shaU there be cut off from
the priests and Levites a man before my
face to offer holocausts, and to bum sa©-
rifices, and to kill victims continually.

19 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias, saying:

Chap. 33. Ver. 6. Ths prayer of peace. That is,
we peace and welfare which they pray for.

Ver. 17. There shall not be cut o^from David, &c.
This was verified in Christ, who is of the house of
I>avid ; and whose Icingdom in his church shall have
no end.

Veio 18. If either shall there be cut off from, the

priests, &c. This promise relates to the Christian
priesthood ; which shall also continue for ever : the
functions of which (more especially the great sacri-
fice of the altar) are here expressed by the name
of holocausts, and other offerings of the law, which
were so many figures of the Christian sacrifice.

853

God's covenant with David

JEREMIAS The remission of Hebrew servants

20 Thus saith the Lord: If my cove-
nant with the day can be made void, and
my covenant with the night, that there
should not be day and night in their sea-
son:

21 Also my covenant with David my
servant may be made void, that he
should not have a son to reign upon his
throne, and with the Levites and priests
my ministers.

22 As the stars of heaven cannot be
numbered, nor the sand of the sea be
measured : so will I multiply the seed of
David my servant, and the Levites my
ministers.

23 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias, saying:

24 Hast thou not seen what this people
hath spoken, saying: The two families
which the Lord had chosen, are cast off:
and they have despised my people, so
that it is no more a nation before them?

25 Thus saith the Lord : If I have not
set my covenant between day and night,
and laws to heaven and earth :

26 Surely I will also cast off the seed of
Jacob, and of David my servant, so as
not to take any of his seed to be rulers
of the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Ja-
cob : for I will bring back their captiv-
ity, and will have mercy on them.

CHAPTER 34.

The prophet foretells that Sedecias shall fall into
the hands of Nabuchodonosor : God's sentence
upon the princes and people that had broken his
covenant.

ri^HE ^word that came to Jeremias
X from the Lord, (when Nabuchodono-
sor king of Babylon, and all his army,
and all the kingdoms of the earth, that
were under the power of his hand, and
all the people fought against Jerusalem
and against all the cities thereof,) saying:

2 Thus saith the Lord, the God of Is-
rael: Go, and speak to Sedecias king of
Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the
Lord : Behold I will deliver this city into
the hands of the king of Babylon, and he
shall burn it with fire.

3 And thou shalt not escape out of his
hand : but thou shalt surely be taken,
and thou shalt be delivered into his
hand : and thy eyes shall see the eyes of
the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall

y B. C. 689-687.

Ver. 24. Two families, &c., viz., the families of
the kings and priests.

speak with thy mouth, and thou shalt go
to Babylon.

4 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O
Sedecias king of Juda: Thus saith tho
Lord to thee : Thou shalt not die by tho
sword.

5 But thou shalt die in peace, and ac-
cording to the burnings of thy fathers,
the former kings that were before thee,
so shall they bxwn thee: and they shall
mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for
I have spoken the word, saith the Lord.

6 And Jeremias the prophet spoke all
these words to Sedecias the king of Juda
in Jerusalem.

7 And the army of the king of Babylon
fought against Jerusalem, and against
all the cities of Juda that were left,
against Lachis, and against Azecha: for
these remained of the cities of Juda,
fenced cities.

8 The word that came to Jeremias from
the Lord, after that king Sedecias had
made a covenant with all the people in
Jerusalem making a proclamation :

9 That every man should let his man-
servant, and every man his maidser-
vant, being a Hebrew man or a Hebrew
woman, go free: and that they should
not lord it over them, to wit, over the
Jews their brethren.

10 And all the princes, and all the peo-
ple who entered into the covenant, heard
that every man should let his manser-
vant, and every man his maidservant go
free, and should no more have dominion
over them: and they obeyed, and let
them go free.

11 But afterwards they turned : and
brought back again their servants and
their handmaids, whom they had let go
free, and brought them into subjection
as menservants and maidservants.

12 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias from the Lord, saying :

13 Thus saith the Lord the God of Is
rael: I made a covenant with your fa
thers in the day that I brought them out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage, saying :

14 * At the end of seven years, let ye
go every man his brother being a He
brew, who hath been sold to thee, so he
shall serve thee six years : and thou

« Ex. 21. 2 : Deut. 15. 12.

Chap. 34. Ver. 5. Die in peace.
natural death.

That is, by f

854

The covenant of the Jews broken JEREMIAS

Obedience of the RechahUes

Bhalt let him go free from thee : and
your fathers did not hearken to me, nor
did they incline their ear.

15 And you turned to day, and did that
which was right in my eyes, in proclaim-
ing liberty every one to his brother : and
you made a covenant in my sight, in the
house upon which my name is invocated.

16 And you are fallen back, and have
defiled my name : and you have brought
back again every man his manservant,
and every man his maidservant, whom
you had let go free, and set at liberty:
and you have brought them into subjec-
tion to be your servants and handmaids.

17 Therefore thus saith the Lord: You
have not hearkened to me, in proclaim-
ing liberty every man to his brother and
every man to hi^ friend : behold I pro-
claim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to
the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
famine : and I will cause you to be re-
moved to all the kingdoms of the earth.

18 And I will give the men that have
transgressed my covenant, and have not
performed the words of the covenant
which they agreed to in my presence,
when they cut the calf in two ^ and
passed between the parts thereof :

19 The princes of Juda, and the princes
of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the
priests, and all the people of the land
that passed between the parts of the calf:

20 And I will give them into the hands
of their enemies, and into the hands of
them that seek their life : and their dead
bodies shall be for meat to the fowls of
the air, and to the beasts of the earth.

21 And Sedecias the king of Juda, and
his princes, I will give into the hands of
their enemies, and into the hands of them
that seek their hves, and into the hands
of the armies of the king of Babylon,
which are gone from you.

22 Behold I will command, saith the
Lord, and I will bring them again to this
city, and they shall fight against it, and
take it, and burn it with fire : and I will
make the cities of Juda a desolation,
without an inhabitant.

CHAPTER 35.

The obedience of the Rechabites condemns the
disobedience of the Jews. The reward of the Re-
chabites.

a Gen, 15. 20.

rpHE ^ word that came to Jeremias from
Jl the Lord in the days of Joakim the
son of Josias king of Juda, saying :

2 Go to the house of the Rechabites:
and speak to them, and bring them into
the house of the Lord, into one of the
chambers of the treasures, and thou shalt
give them wine to drink.

3 And I took Jezonias the son of Jere-
mias the son of Habsanias, and his bre-
thren, and all his sons, and the whole
house of the Rechabites.

4 And I brought them into the house of
the Lord, to the treasure house of the
sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the
man of God, which was by the treasure
house of the princes, above the treasure
of Maasias the son of Solium, who was
keeper of the entry.

5 And I set before the sons of the house
of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and
cups: and 1 said to them: Drink ye
wine.

• 6 And they answered : We will not drink
wine: because Jonadab the son of Re-
chab, ^ our father, commanded us, saying :
You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor
your children, for ever:

7 Neither shall ye build houses, nor sow
seed, nor plant vineyards, nor have any :
but you shall dwell in tents all your days,
that you may live many days upon the
face of the earth, in which you are stran-
gers.

8 Therefore we have obeyed the voice
of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father,
in all things that he commanded us : so
as to drink no wine all our days : neither
we, nor our wives, nor our sons, nor our
daughters :

9 Nor to build houses to dwell in, nor
to have vineyard, or field, or seed :

10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have
been obedient according to all that Jona-
dab our father commanded us.

11 But when Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon came up to our land, we said*.
Come, let us go into Jerusalem from the
face of the army of the Chaldeans, and
from the face of the army of Syria : and
we have remained in Jerusalem.

12 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias, saying:

13 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God

h B. C. 610-598.— c 4 Kings 10. 15.

C2LA.P. 35. Ver. 2. RechoMUs, These were of the race of Jethro, father in law to Moses.

Reward of the Rechabites

JEREMIAS Baruch reads Jeremtas* prophecies

of Israel: Go, and say to the monof Juda,
and to the inhabitants of Jemsalem:
Will you not receive instruction, to obey
my words, saith the Lord ?

14 The words of Jonadab the son of Re-
chab, by which he commanded his sons
not to drink wine, have prevailed : and
they have drunk none to this day, because
they have obeyed the commandment of
their father: but I have spoken to you,
rising early and speaking, and you have
not obeyed me.

J ' 15 And I have sent to you all my ser-
vants the prophets, rising early, and
sending and saying : *^ Return ye every
man from his wicked way, and make
your ways good: and follow not strange
gods, nor worship them, and you shall
dwell in the land, which I gave you and
your fathers: and you have not inclined
your ear, nor hearkened to me.

16 So the sons of Jonadab the son of
Rechab have constantly kept the com-
mandment of their father, which he com-
manded them: but this people hath not
obeyed me.

17 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts
the God of Israel: Behold I will bring
upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pro-
nounced against them, because I have
spoken to them, and they have not heard :
I have called to them, and they have not
answered me.

"18 And Jeremias said to the house of
the Rechabites : Thus saith the Lord of
hosts the God of Israel : Because you have
obeyed the commandment of Jonadab
your father, and have kept all his pre-
cepts, and have done all that he com-
manded you :

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts
the God of Israel: There shall not be
wanting a man of the race of Jonadab
fche son of Rechab, standing before me
for ever.

CHAPTER 36.

Jeremias sends Baruch to read his prophecies in
the temple ; the book is brought to king Joakim,
who hums it. The prophet denounces his judg-
ment, and causes Baruch to write a new copy.

ND ^it came to pass in the fourth
year of Joakim the son of Josias

d Supra 18. 11, and 25. 5,

C H A p. 36. Ver. 5. Shut up. Not that the prophet
was now in prison ; for the contrary appears from
ver. 19, but that he kept himself shut up, by reason

king of Juda, that this word came to Jere-
mias by the Lord, saying:

2 Take thee a roll of a book, and thou
shalt write in it all the words that I have
spoken to thee against Israel and Juda,
and against all the nations from the day
that I spoke to thee, from the days of
Josias even to this day.

3 If so be, when the house of Juda shall
hear all the evils that I purpose to do
unto them, that they may return every
man from his wicked way: and I will
forgive their iniquity, and their sin.

4 So Jeremias called Baruch the son
of Nerias : and Baruch wrote from the
mouth of Jeremias all the words of the
Lord, which he spoke to him, upon the
roll of a book.

5 And Jeremias commanded Baruch,
saying : I am shut up, and cannot go into
the house of the Lord.

6 Go thou in therefore, and read out oi
the volume, which thou hast written from
my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the
hearing of all the people in the house of
the Lord on the fasting day : and also
thou shalt read them in the hearing of
all Juda that come out of their cities :

7 If so be they may present their sup-
phcation before the Lord, and may re-
turn every one from his wicked way:
for great is the wrath and indignation
which the Lord hath pronounced against
this people.

8 And Baruch the son of Nerias did ac-
cording to all that Jeremias the prophet
had commanded him, reading out of the
volume the words of the Lord in the
house of the Lord.

9 And it came to pass in the fifth year
of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda,
in the ninth month, that they proclaimed
a fast before the Lord to all the people
in Jerusalem, and to all the people that
were come together out of the cities of
Juda to Jerusalem.

10 And Baruch read out of the volume
the words of Jeremias in the house of
the Lord, in the treasury of Gamarias
the son of Saphan the scribe, in the up-
per court, in the entry of the new gate
of the house of the Lord, In the hearing
of all the people.

cB. C. 607.

of the persecutions he had lately met with,
chap. 26.

See

taruch reads Jeremias* prophecies JEREMIAS

• The king hums the hook

11 And when Micheas the oon of Qama-
rias the son of Saphan had heard out of
the book all the words of the Lord,

12 He went down into the kind's house
to the secretary's chamber: and behold
all the princes sat there, Elisama the
scribe, and Dalaias the son of Semeias,
and Elnathan the son of Achobor, and
Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sede-
cias the son of Hananias, and all the
princes.

13 And Micheas told them all the words
that he had heard when Baruch read out
of the volume in the hearing of the peo-
ple.

14 Therefore all the princes sent Judi the
son of Nathanias, the son of Selemias, the
son of Chusi, to Baruch, saying: Take in
thy hand the volume in which thou hast
read in the hearing of the people, and
come. So Baruch the son of Nerias took
the volume in his hand, and came to
them.

15 And they said to him: Sit down and
read these things in our hearing. And
Baruch read in their hearing.

16 And when they had heard all the
words, they looked upon one another
with astonishment, and they said to Ba-
ruch : We must tell the king all these
words.

17 And they asked him, saying : Tell us
how didst thou write all these words
from his mouth.

18 And Baruch said to them : With his
mouth he pronounced all these words as
If he were reading to me : and I wrote in
a volume with ink.

19 And the princes said to Baruch : Go,
and hide thee, both thou and Jeremias,
and let no man know where you are.

20 And they went in to the king into
the court : but they laid up the volume
in the chamber of Elisama the scribe :
and they told all the words in the hear-
ing of the king.

21 And the king sent Judi that he should
take the volume : who bringing it out of
the chamber of Elisama the scribe, read
it in the hearing of the king, and of all
the princes that stood about the king.

22 Now the king sat in the winter house,
in the ninth month : and there was a
hearth before him full of burning coals.

23 And when Judi had read three or

Ver. 30. He shall have none, &c. Because his son
Joachin or Jechonias, within thiee months after the

four pages, ho cut it with the penknife,
and he cast it into the fire, that was upon
the hearth, till all the volume was con-
sumed with the fire that was on the
hearth.

24 And the king and all his servants
that heard all these words were not
afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

25 But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and
Gamarias spoke to the king, not to burn
the book : and he heard them not.

26 And the king commanded Jeremiel
the son of Amelech, and Saraias the son
of Ezriel, and Selemias the son of Abdeel,
to take up Baruch the scribe, and Jere-
mias the prophet : but the Lord hid
them.

27 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias the prophet, after that the king
had burnt the volume, and the words
that Baruch had written from the mouth
of Jeremias, saying :

28 Take thee again another volume:
and write in it all the former words that
were in the first volume which Joakim
the king of Juda hath burnt.

29 And thou shalt say to Joakim the
king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord : Thou
hast burnt that volume, saying: Why
hast thou written therein, and said: The
king of Babylon shall come speedily,
and shall lay waste this land : and shall
cause to cease from thence man and
beast ?

30 Therefore thus saith the Lord against
Joakim the king of Juda : He shall have-
none to sit upon the throne of David:
and his dead body shall be cast out to*
the heat by day, and to the frost by
night.

31 And I will punish him, and his seed
and his servants, for their iniquities, and
I will bring upon them, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the
men of Juda all the evil that I have pro-
nounced against them, but they have not
heard.

32 And Jeremias took another volume,
and gave it to Baruch the son of Nerias
the scribe : who wrote in it from the
mouth of Jeremias all the words of the
book which Joakim the king of Juda had
burnt with fire : and there were added
besides many more words than had been
before.

death of his father, was carried away to Babylon, s(
that his reign is not worthy of notice.

867

Return of Chaldeans foretold JEREMIAS

CHAPTER 37.

Jeremias proi^hesies that the Chaldeans, who had
departed jrom Jerusalem, would return end burn
the city. He is cast into prisotu His conference
with Sedecias.

NOW king Sedecias the ^ son of Josias
reigned instead of Jechonias the son
of Joakim. ; whom Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon made king in the land of Juda.

2 ^ But neither he, nor his servants, nor
the people of the land did obey the words
of the Lord, that he spoke in the hand of
Jeremias the prophet.

3 And ^king Sedecias sent Juchal the
son of Selemias, and Sophonias the son of
Maasias the priest to Jeremias the pro-
phet, saying: Pray to the Lord our God
for us.

4 Now Jeremias walked freely in the
midst of the people : for they had not as
yet cast him into prison. And the army
of Pharao was come out of Egypt: and
the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem,
hearing these tidings, departed from
Jerusalem.

5 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias the prophet, saying:

6 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel :
Thus shall you say to the king of Juda,
who sent you to inquire of me : Behold
the army of Pharao, which is come forth
to help you, shall return into their own
land, into Egypt.

7 And the Chaldeans shall come again,
and fight against this city, and take it,
and burn it with fire.

8 Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your
souls, saying : The Chaldeans shall surely
depart and go away from us: for they
shall not go away.

9 But if you should even beat all the
army of the Chaldeans that fight against
you, and there should be left of them
some wounded men: they shall rise up,
every man from his tent, and burn this
city with fire.

10 Now when the army of the Chaldeans
was gone away from Jerusalem, because
of Pharao's army,

11 Jeremias went forth out of Jerusalem
to go into the land of Benjamin: and to
divide a possession there in the presence
of the citizens»

12 And when he was come to the gate
of Benjamin, the captain of the gate, who

/ 4 Kings 24. 17 ; Infra 52. l.—g2 Par. 36. 15.
A A. M. 3414. Ante C. 590o

Jeremias cast into prison

was there in his turn, was one named
Jerias, tho son of Selemias, the son of
Hananias : and he took hold of Jeremias
the prophet, saying : Thou art fleeing to
the Chaldeans.

13 And Jeremias answered : It is not so,
I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans. But
he hearkened not to him : so Jerias took
Jeremias and brought him to the princes.

14 Wherefore the princes were angry
with Jeremias, and they beat him, and
cast him into the prison that was in the
house of Jonathan the scribe : for he was
chief over the prison.

15 So Jeremias went into the house of
the prison, and into the dungeon : and
Jeremias remained there many days.

16 Then Sedecias the king, sending, took
him : and asked him secretly in his house,
and said : Is there, thinkest thou, any
word from the Lord ? And Jeremias said ;
There is. And he said : Thou shalt be
delivered into the hands of the king of
Babylon.

17 And Jeremias said to king Sede-
cias : In what have I offended against
thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that
thou hast cast me into prison ?

18 Where are your prophets that pro-
phesied to you, and said: The king of
Babylon shall not come against you, and
against this land ?

19 Now therefore hear, I beseech thee,
my lord the king : let my petition be ac-
cepted in thy sight : and send me not
back into the house of Jonathan the
scribe, lest I die there.

20 Then king Sedecias commanded that
Jeremias should be committed into the
entry of the prison : and that they should
give him daily a piece of bread, beside
broth, till all the bread in the city were
spent: and Jeremias remained in the
entry of the prison.

CHAPTER 38.

The prophet at the instance of the great men is cai>.
into a filthy dungeon : he is drawn out by Abdem^
elech, and has another conference with the king.

OW *Saphatias the son of Mathan,

and Gedelias the son of Phassur, and

Juchal the son of Selemias, and Phassur

the son of Melchias heard the words that

Jeremias spoke to all the people, saying :

2 Thus saith the Lord : J Whosoever shall

remain in this city, shall die by the sword

t B. C. 589-587.
i Supra 21. 9.

858

Jeremias cast into dungeon to die JEREMIAS His conference with the king

and by famine, and by pestilence : but he
that shall go forth to the Chaldeans, shall
live, and his life shall be safe, and he shall
live.

3 Thus saith the Lord: This city shall
surely be delivered into the hand of the
army of the king of Babylon, and he shall
take it.

4 And the princes said to the king : We
beseech thee that this man may be put
to death: foronpurposeheweakeneththe
hands of the men of war, that remain in
this city, and the hands of the people,
speaking to them according to these
words : for this man seeketh not peace to
this people, but evil.

5 And king Sedecias said : Behold he is
in your hands : for it is not lawful for the
king to deny you any thing.

6 Then they took Jeremias and cast him
into the dungeon of Melchias the son of
Amelech, which was in the entry of the
prison : and they let down Jeremias by
ropes into the dungeon, wherein there
was no water, but mire. And Jeremias
sunk into the mire.

7 Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an
eunuch that was in the king's house,
heard that they had put Jeremias in the
dungeon : but the king was sitting in the
gate of Benjamin.

8 And Abdemelech went out of the king's
house, and spoke to the king, saying :

9 My lord the king, these men have
done evil in all that they have done
against Jeremias the prophet, casting
him into the dungeon to die there with
hunger, for there is no more bread in the
city.

10 Then the king commanded Abdeme-
lech the Ethiopian, saying : Take from
hence thirty men with thee, and draw up
Jeremias the prophet out of the dungeon,
before he die.

11 So Abdemelech taking the men with
him, went into the king's house that was
under the storehouse : and he took from
thence old rags, and old rotten things,
and he let them down by cords to Jere-
mias into the dungeon.

12 And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said
to Jeremias : Put these old rags and
♦^^hese rent and rotten things under thy
J-rms, and upon the cords : and Jeremias
did so.

Chap. 38. Ver. 22. Thy men of veace. Viri
pacifici tui. That is, thy false friends promising

13 And they drew up Jeremias with the
cords, and brought him forth out of the
dungeon. And Jeremias remained in
the entry of the prison.

14 And king Sedecias sent, and took
Jeremias the prophet to him to the third
gate, that was in the house of the Lord:
and the king said to Jeremias : I will ask
thee a thing, hide nothing from me.

15 Then Jeremias said to Sedecias : If I
shall declare it to thee, wilt thou not put
me to death ? and if I give thee counsel,
thou wilt not hearken to me.

16 Then king Sedecias swore to Jere-
mias, in private, saying : As the Lord
hveth, that made us this soul, I will not
put thee to death, nor will I deliver thee
into the hands of these men that seek
thy life.

17 And Jeremias said to Sedecias : Thus
saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
If thou wilt take a resolution and go out
to the princes of the king of Babylon,
thy soul shall live, and this city shall not
be burnt with fire : and thou shalt be
safe, and thy house.

18 But if thou wilt not go out to the
princes of the king of Babylon, this city
shall be delivered into the hands of the
Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with
fire: and thou shalt not escape out of
their hands.

19 And king Sedecias said to Jeremias :
I am afraid because of the Jews that are
fled over to the Chaldeans : lest I should
be delivered into their hands, and they
should abuse me.

20 But Jeremias answered : They shall
not deliver thee: hearken, I beseech
thee, to the word of the Lord, which I
speak to thee, and it shall be well with
thee, and thy soul shall live.

21 But if thou wilt not go forth, this is
the word which the Lord hath shewn
me:

22 Behold all the women that are left in
the house of the king of Juda, shall be
brought out to the princes of the king of
Babylon : and they shall say : Thy men
of peace have deceived thee, and have
prevailed against thee, they have plunged
thy feet in the mire, and in a slippery
place, and they have departed from thee.

23 And all thy wives, and thy children
shall be brought out to the Chaldeans,

thee peace and happiness, and by their evil counsels
involving thee in misery.

9d9

Siege and capture of Jerusalem JEREMIAS People carried away to Babylon

and thou shalt not escape their hands,
but thou shalt be taken by the hand of
the king of Babylon : and he shall burn
this city with Are.

24 Then Sedecias said to Jeremias : Let
no man know these words, and thou shalt
not die.

25 But if the princes shall hear that I
have spoken with thee, and shall come
to thee, and say to thee : Tell us what
thou hast said to the king, hide it not
from us, and we will not kill thee : and
also what the king said to thee :

26 Thou shalt say to them : I presented
my supplication before the king, that he
would not command me to be carried
back into the house of Jonathan, to die
there.

27 So all the princes came to Jeremias,
and asked him: and he spoke to them
according to all the words that the king
had commanded him : and they left him :
for nothing had been heard.

28 But Jeremias remained in the entry
of the prison, until the day that Jerusa-
lem was taken: and it came to pass that
Jerusalem was taken.

CHAPTER 39.

Afier two years'* siege Jerusalem is taken. Sedecias
is rarried before Nabuchodonosor,who kills his
sons in his sight, and then puts out his eyes. Jere-
mias is set at liberty.

IN the ninth year ^ of Sedecias king of
Juda, in the tenth month, came Nabu-
chodonosor king of Babylon, and all his
army to Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

2 And in the * eleventh year of Sedecias,
in the fourth month, the fifth day of the
month, the city was opened.

3 And all the princes of the king of
Babylon came in, and sat in the middle
gate : Neregel, Sereser, Semegarnabu,
Sarsachim, Rabsares, Neregel, Serezer,
Rebmag, and all the rest of the princes
of the king of Babylon.

4 And when Sedecias the king of Juda
and all the men of war saw them, they
fled: and they went forth in the night
out of the city by the way of the king's
garden, and by the gate that was between
fche two walls, and they went out to the
way of the desert.

5 But the army of the Chaldeans pur-
sued after them: and they took Sedecias
in the plain of tho desert of Jericho, and

k B. C. 589. 4 Kings 25. 1 ; Infra 52. 1.

when they had taken him, they brought
him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon
to Reblatha, which is in the land of
Emath: and he gave judgment upon
him.

6 And the king of Babylon slew the
sons of Sedecias, in Reblatha, before his
eyes: and the king of Babylon slew all
the nobles of Juda.

7 He also put out the eyes of Sedecias :
and bound him with fetters, to be carried
to Babylon.

8 And the Chaldeans burnt the king's
house, and the houses of the people with
fire, and they threw down the wall of
Jerusalem.

9 And Nabuzardan the general of the
army carried away captive to Babylon
the remnant of the people that remained
in the city, and the fugitivxrjs that had
gone over to him, and the rest of the
people that remained.

10 But Nabuzardan the general left some
of the poor people that had nothing at
all, in the land of Juda, and he gave
them vineyards, and cisterns at that
time.

11 Now Nabuchodonosor king of Baby-
lon had given charge to Nabuzardan the
general concerning Jeremias, saying :

12 Take him, and set thy eyes upoD
him, and do him no harm i but as he hath
a mind, so do with him.

13 Therefore Nabuzardan the genera]
sent, and Nabusezban, and Rabsares, and
Neregel, and Sereser, and Rebmag, and
all the nobles of the king of Babylon,

14 Sent, and took Jeremias out of the
court of the prison, and committed him
to Godolias the son of Ahicam the son oi
Saphan, that he might go home, and
dwell among the people.

15 But the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias, when he was yet shut up in the
court of the prison, saying : Go, and tel]
Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying :

16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel : Behold I will bring ray words
upon this city unto evil, and not unto
good: and they shall be accomplished ip
thy sight in that day. |

17 And I will deliver thee in that day
saith the Lord: and thou shalt not be
given into the hands of the men whon-
thon fearest:

I B. C. 587.

860

Jeremias remains with Godolias JEREMIAS The Jews come to Godolias

18 But delivering, I will deliver thee,

and thou ehalt not fall by the sword : but

thy life shall be saved for thee, because

thou hast put thy trust in nae, saith the

Lord.

CHAPTER 40.

Jeremias remains with Godolias the governor ; who
receives all the Jews that resort to him.

THE "*word that came to Jeremias
from the Lord, after that Nabuzar-
dan the general had let him go from
Rama, when he had taken him, being
bound with chains, among all them that
were carried away from Jerusalem and
Juda, and were carried to Babylon.

2 And the general of the army taking
Jeremias, aaid to him : The Lord thy God
hath pronounced this evil upon this
place,

3 And he hath brought it : and the Lord
hath done as he hath said : because you
have sinned against the Lord, and have
not hearkened to his voice, and this word
is come upon you.

4 Now then behold I have loosed thee
this day from the chains which were upon
thy hand& : if it please thee to come with
me to Babylon, come : and I will set my
eyes upon thee : but if it do not please
thee to come with me to Babylon, stay
here : behold all the land is before thee,
as thou Shalt choose, and whither it
ehall please thee to go, thither go.

5 And come not with me : but dwell with
Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of
Saphan, whom the king of Babylon hath
mad-e governor over the cities of Juda :
dwell therefore with him in the midst
of the people : or whithersoever it shall
please thee to go, go. And the general
of the army gave him victuals and pre-
sents, and let him go.

6 And Jeremias went to Godolias the
son of Ahicam to Masphath : and dwelt
With him in the midst of the people that
were left in the land.

7 And when all the captains of the army
that were scattered through the countries,
they and their companions, had heard that
the king of Babylon had made Godolias
the son of Ahicam governor of the coun-
try, and that he had committed unto him
men and women, and children, and of the
poor of the land, them that had not been
carried away captive to Babylon:

m B. C. 587.

8 They cam« to Godolias to Masphath .
and Ismahel the son of Nathanias, and
Johanan, and Jonathan, the sons of Caree
and Sareas the son of Thanehumeth, and
the children of Ophi, that were of Netoph-
athi, and Jezonias the son of-Maachati,
they and their men.

9 ** And Godolias the son of Ahicam the
son of Saphan swore to them and to their
companions, saying: Fear not to serve
the Chaldeans : dwell in the land, and
serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be
well with you.

10 Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I
may answer the commandment of the
Chaldeans that are sent to us : but as for
you, gather ye the vintage, and the har-
vest, and the o^l, and lay it up in your
vessels, and abide in your cities which
you hold.

11 Moreover all the Jews that were in
Moab, and among the children of Ammon,
and in Edom, and in all the countries,
when they heard that the king of Baby-
lon had left a remnant in Judea, and that
he had made Godolias the son of Ahi-
cam the son of Saphan ruler over them :

12 All the Jews, I say, returned out of
all the places to which they had fled, and
they came into the land of Juda to Go-
dolias to Masphath: and they gathered
wine, and a very great harvest.

13 Then Johanan the son of Caree, and
all the captains of the army, that had
been scattered about in the countries,
came to Godolias to Masphath.

14 And they said to him: Know that
Baalis the king of the children of Ammon
hath sent Ismahel the son of Nathanias
to kill thee. And Godolias the son of
Ahicam believed them not.

15 But Johanan the son of Caree, spoke
to Godolias privately in Masphath, say-
ing : I will go, and I will kill Ismahel the
son of Nathanias, and no man shall know
it, lest he kill thee, and all the Jews bo
scattered, that are gathered unto thee,
and the remnant of Juda perish.

16 And Godolias the son of Ahicam said
to Johanan the son of Caree : Do not this
thing : for what thou sayst of Ismahel is
false.

CHAPTER 41.

Godolias is slain : the Jews that \vere vdfh him are
apprehensive of the Chaldeans.

861

n 4 Kings 25. 24.

Conspiracy of Ismahel

JEREMIAS Jews determine to flee to Egypt

A ND "it came to pass in the seventh
J\. month, that Ismahel the son of Na-
thanias, the son of Ellsama of the royal
blood, and the nobles of the king, and
ten men with him, came to Godolias the
son of Ah'icam into Masphath: and they
ate bread there together in Masphath.

2 And Ismahel the son of Nathanias
arose, and the ten men that were with
him, and they struck Godolias the son of
Ahicam, the son of Saphan with the
sword, and slew him whom the king of
Babylon had made governor over the
land.

3 Ismahel slew also all the Jews that
were with Godolias in Masphath, and the
Chaldeans that were found there, and the
soldiers.

4 And on the second day after he had
killed Godohas, no man yet knowing it,

5 There came some from Sichem, and
from Silo, and from Samaria, fourscore
men, with their beards shaven, and their
plothes rent, and mourning: and they
had offerings and incense in their hand,
to offer in the house of the Lord.

6 And Ismahel the son of Nathanias
went forth from Masphath to meet them,
weeping all along as he went : and when
he had met them, he said to them : Come
to Godohas, the son of Ahicam.

7 And when they were come to the
midst of the city, Ismahel the son of
Nathanias, slew them, and cast them into
the midst of the pit, he and the men that
were with him.

8 But ten men were found among them,
that said to Ismahel : Kill us not : for we
have stores in the field, of wheat, and
barley, and oil, and honey. And he for-
bore, and slew them not with their bre-
thren.

9 And the pit into which Ismahel cast all
the dead bodies of the men whom he slew
because of Godohas, is the same that
king Asa made, for fear of Baasa the king
of Israel : the same did Ismahel the son
of Nathanias fill with them that were
slain.

10 Then Ismahel carried away captive
all the remnant of the people that were
in Masphath : the king's daughters, and
all the people that remained in Masphath :
whom Nabuzardan the general of the
army had committ/cd to Godolias the son

o B. C. September 587.

of Ahicam. And Ismahel the son of Na-
thanias took them, and he departed, to
go over to the children of Anmaon.

11 But Johanan the son of Caree, and
all the captains of the fighting men that
were with him, heard of the evil that
Ismahel the son of Nathanias had done.

12 And taking all the men, they went
out to fight against Ismahel the son of
Nathanias, and they found him by the
great waters that are in Gabaon.

13 And when all the people that were
with Ismahel, had seen Johanan the son
of Caree, and all the captains of the
fighting men that were with him, they
rejoiced.

14 And all the people whom Ismahel
had taken, went back to Masphath : and
they returned and went to Johanan the
son of Caree.

15 But Ismahel the son of Nathanias
fled with eight men, from the face of Jo-
hanan, and went to the children of Am-
mon.

16 Then Johanan the son of Caree, and
all the captains of the soldiers that were
with him, took all the remnant of the
people whom they had recovered from
Ismahel the son of Nathanias, from Mas-
phath, after that he had slain Godolias
the son of Ahicam : vahant men for war,
and the women, and the children, and
the eunuchs, whom he had brought back
from Gabaon :

17 And they departed, and sat as so-
journers in Chamaam, which is near
Bethlehem : in order to go forward, and
enter into Egypt,

18 From the face of the Chaldeans: fori
they were afraid of them, because Isma-
hel the son of Nathanias had slain Godo-
lias the son of Ahicam, whom the king
of Babylon had made governor in thel
land of Juda.

CHAPTER 42.

Jeremias assures the remnant of the people, that i^
they will stay in Juda, they shall be safe ; but if
they go down into Egypt, they shall perish.

THEN P all the captains of the warriors
and Johanan the son of Caree, and
Jezonias the son of Osaias, and the rest
of the people from the least to the great
est came near :

2 And they said to Jeremias the pro
phet: Let our supplication fall befori

p B. C. 687.

862

The warning of Jeremias

JEREMIAS

thee : and pray thou for us to the Lord
thy God for all this remnant, for we are
left but a few of many, as thy eyes do
behold us.

3 And let the Lord thy God shew us
the way by which we may walk, and the
thing that we must do.

4 And Jeremias the prophet said to
them: I have heard you: behold I will
pray to the Lord your God according to
your words; and whatsoever thing he
shall answer me, I will declare it to you :
and I will hide nothing from you.

5 And they said to Jeremias : The Lord
be witness between us of truth and faith-
fulness, if we do not according to every
thing for which the Lord thy God shall
send thee to us.

6 Whether it be good or evil, we will
obey the voice of the Lord our God, to
whom we send thee : that it may be well
with us when we shall hearken to the
voice of the Lord our God.

7 Now after ten days, the word of the
Lord came to Jeremias.

8 And he called Johanan the son of
Caree, and all the captains of the fight-
ing men that were with him, and all
the people from the least to the great-
est.

9 And he said to them : Thus saith the
Lord the God of Israel, to whom you
sent me, to present your supplications
before him:

10 If you will be quiet and remain in
this land, I will build you up, and not
pull you down : I will plant you, and not
pluck you up: for now I am appeased
for the evil that I have done to you.

11 Fear not because of the king of
Babylon, of whom you are greatly afraid :
fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am

The warning of Jeremias
hunger: and there we will

with

you, to save you, and to deliver
you from his hand.

12 And I will shew mercies to you, and
will take pity on you, and wiU cause you
to dwell in your own land.

13 But if you say: We will not dwell in
this land, neither will we hearken to the
voice of the Lord our God,

14 Saying : No, but we will go into the
land of Egypt: where we shaU see no
war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet.

Oood or evil. That is, agree-

Chap. 42. Ver. 6.
»ble or disagreeable
Vm. t^ / am appeased for the evU that I have

nor suffer
dwell.

15 For this now hear the word of the
Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus saith
the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If
you set your faces to go into Egypt, and
enter in to dwell there ;

16 The sword which you fear, shall
overtake you there in the land of Egypt .
and the famine, whereof you are afraid,
shall cleave to you in Egypt, and there
you shall die.

17 And all the men that set their faces
to go into Egypt, to dwell there, shall
die by the sword, and by famine, and by
pestilence; none of them shall remain,
nor escape from the face of the evil that
I will bring upon them.

18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel : As my anger and my in-
dignation hath been kindled against the
inhabitants of Jerusalem : so shall my in-
dignation be kindled against you, when
you shall enter into Egypt, and you shall
be an execration, and an astonishment,
and a curse, and a reproach: and you
shall see this place no more.

19 This is the word of the Lord con-
cerning you, O ye remnant of Juda: Go
ye not into Egypt : know certainly that
I have adjured you this day.

20 For you have deceived your own
souls : for you sent me to the Lord our
God, saying : Pray for us to the Lord our
God, and according to all that the Lord
our God shall say to thee, so declare
unto us, and we will do it.

21 And now I have declared it to you
this day, anc you have not obeyed the
voice of the Lord your God, with regard
to all the things for which he hath sent
me to you.

22 Now therefore know certainly that
you shall die by the sword, and by fam-
ine, and by pestilence in the place to
which you desire to go to dwell there.

CHAPTER 43.

The Jews, contrary to the orders of God by the pro»
phet, go into Egypt, carrying Jeremias with them.
He foretells the devastation of that land by the hitb§
of Babylon.

A ND 9 it came to pass, that when Jere-
X\. mias had made an end of speaking

q B. C. 587.

done to you. That is, I am appeased, as I have
sufficiently punished you, and now I am recoiiciled
with you.

863

./■

Jeremias taken into Egypt

■oo the people all the words of the Lord
their God, for which the lord their God
had sent him to them, all these words :

2 Azarias the son of Osaias, and Jo-
hanan the son of Caree, and all the
proud men, made answer, saying tc Jere-
mias : Thou tellest a lie : the Lord our
God hath not sent thee, saying : Go not
into Egypt, to dwell there.

3 But Baruch the son of Nerlas setfeeth
thee on against us, to deliver us into the
hands of the Ohaldeans, to kill us, and to
cause us to be carried away captives to
Babylon.

4 So Johanan the eon of Caree, and all
the captains of the soldiers, and all the
people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord,
to remain in the land of Juda.

6 But Johanan the son of Caree, and all
the captains of the soldiers took all the
remnant of Juda, that were returned out
of all nations, to which they had before
been scattered, to dwell in the land of
Juda:

6 Men, and women, and children, and
the king's daughters, and every soul,
which Nabuzardan the general had left
with Godolias the son of Ahicam the son
of Saphan, and Jeremias the prophet, and
Baruch the son of Nerias.

7 And they went into the land of Egypt,
for they obeyed not the voice of the
Lord : and they came as far as Taphnis.

8 And the word of the Lord came to
Jeremias in Taphnis, saying :

9 Take great stones in thy hand, and
thou Shalt hide them in the vault that
is under the brick wall at the gate of
Pharao's house in Taphnis: in the sight
of the men of Juda.

10 And thou shalt say to them: Thus
saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel :
Behold I will send, and take Nabucho-
donosor the king of Babylon my servant:
and I will set his throne over these stones
which I have hid, and he shall set his
throne over them.

11 And he shall come and strike the
land of Egypt : such as are for death %o
death : and such as are for captivity, to
captivity : and such as are for the sword,
to tihe sword,

12 And he shall kindle a fire in the tem-
ples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall
burn them, and he shall carry them away
captives : and he shall array himself with
*iie ^« ad of Egypt, as a aheph<3rd putteth

JEREMIAS Desolation of Juda and Jerusalem

on his garment: and he shall go forth
from thence in peace.

13 And he shall break tho statues oi ibC
house of the sun, that are in the land of
Egypt ; and the temples of the god£ of
Egypt he shall burn with fire.

OHAPTER 44.

Tho "prophet^s admonition to the Jews in Egypt
againtf idolatry is not regarded: he denounces
to thevn their destruction.

THE word that came to Jeremias, con-
cerning all the Jews that dwelt in
the land of Egypt, dwelUng in Magdal,
and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in
the land of Phatures, saying :

2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel: You have seen all this evil that
I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon
all the cities of Juda: and behold they
are desolate this day, and there is not aa
inhabitant in them :

3 Because of the wickedness which they
have committed, to provoke me to wrath,
and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship
other gods, which neither they, nor you,
nor your fathers knew.

4 And I sent to you aU my servants the
prophets, rising early, and sending, and
saying: Do not commit this abominable
thing, which I hate.

5 But they heard not, nor inclined their
oar to turn from their evil ways, and not
to sacrifice to strange gods.

6 Wherefore my indignation and my
fury was poured forth, and was kindled
in the cities of Juda, and in the streets
of Jerusalem : and they are turned to
desolation and waste, as at this day.

7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts
the God of Israel: Why do you commit
this great evil against your own souls,
that there should die of you man and
woman, child and suckling out of the
midst of Juda, and no remnant should be
left you :

8 In that you provoke me to wrath with
the works of your hands, by sacrificing
tc other gods in the land of Egypt, into
which you are come to dwell there : and
that you should perish, and be a curse,
and a reproach to all the nations of the
earth?

9 Have you forgotten the evils of your
fathers, and the evils of the kings of
Juda, and the evils of their wives, and
your evils, and the evils of your wives^

864

Prophecy against Jews in Egypt JEREMIAS Their sins cause of li.ei/ woes

all things, and have been consumed by
the sword, and by famine.

19 And if we offer sacrifice to the queen
of heaven, and pour out driuK offerings
to her: did we make cakes to worship
her, to pour out drink offerings to her,
without our husbands ?

20 And Jeremias sj)oke to all the peoplSj
to the men, and to the women, and to
all the people which had given him that
answer, saying:

21 Was it not the sacrifice that you
offered in the cities of Juda, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers,
your kings, and your princes, and the
people of the land, which the Lord bath
remembered, and hath it not entered
into his heart ?

22 So that the Lord could no longer
bear, because of the evil of yoiu* doings,
and because of the abominations which
you have committed: therefore your
land is become i desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without an
inhabitant, as at this day

23 Because you have sacrificed to idols,
and have sinned against the Lord: and
have not obeyed the voice of the Lord,
and have not walked in his law, and in
his commandmenoB, and in his testi*
monies : therefore are these evils como
upon you, as at this day.

24 And Jeremias said to all the people»,
and to all the women : Hear ye the word
of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in
the land oi Egypt :

26 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God
of Israel, saying: You and your wives
have spoken with your mouth, and ful-
filled with your hands, saying: Let us
perform our vows which we have made,
to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven,
and to pour out drink offerings to her :
you have fulfilled your vows, and have
performed tnem indeed.

26 Therefore hear ye the word of the
Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the
land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by
my great name, saith the Lord : that my
name shall no more be named in the
mouth of any man of Juda, in the land
of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.

27 Behold I will watch over them for
evil, and not for good : and all the men

that they have done in the land of Juda,
and in the streets of Jerusalem?

10 They are not cleansed even to this
day : neither have they feared, nor
walked in the law of the Lord, nor in
my commandments, which I set before
you and your fathers.

11 Therefore thus saith the Lord of
hosts the God of Israel : *" Behold I will
set my face upon you for evil : and I will
destroy all Juda.

12 And I will take the remnant of Juda
that have set their faces to go into the
land of Egypt, and to dwell there: and
they shall be all consumed in the laud of
Egypt : they shall fall by the sword, and
by the famine : and they shall be con-
sumed from the least even to the great-
est, by the sword, and by the famine shall
they die: and they shall be for an exe-
cration, and for a wonder, and for a
curse, and for a reproach.

13 And I will visit them that dwell in
the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jeru-
aalem by the sword, and by famine, and
by pestilence.

14 And there shall be none that shall
escape, and remain of the remnant of
the Jews that are gone to sojourn in the
land of Egypt: and that shall return into
the land of Juda, to which they have a
desire to return to dwell there: there
shall none return but they that shall flee.

15 Then all the men that knew that
their wives sacrificed to other gods : and
all the women of whom there stood by
a great multitude, and all the people of
them that dwelt in the land of Egypt in
Phatures, answered Jeremias, saying:

16 As for the word which thov hast
spoken to us in the name of tho Lord,
we will not hearken to thee :

17 But we will certainly do every word
that shall proceed out of our own mouth,
to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and
%o pour out drink offerings to her, as we
and our fathers have done, our kings, and
our princes in the cities of Juda, and in
the streets of Jerusalem : and we were
filled with bread, and it was well with us,
and we saw no evil.

18 But since we left off to offer sacrifice
to the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink offerings to her, we have wanted

r Amos 9, 4.

Chap. 44. Ver. 17, The queen of heaven. The moon, which they worshipped under this name.

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The prophet comforts Banich JEREMIAS

A prophecy against Egypt

of Juda that are in the land of Egypt,
shall be consumed, by the sword, and by
famine, till there be an end of them.
28 And a few men that shall flee from

Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, which
was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis,
whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Bab-
ylon defeated, in the fourth year * of Joa-

the sword, shall return out of the land of kim the son of Josias king of Juda

Egypt into the land of Juda : and all the
remnant of Juda that are gone into the
land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know
whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

29 And this shall be a sign to you, saith
the Lord, that I will punish you in this
place : that you may know that my
words shall be accomplished indeed
against you for evil.

30 Thus saith the Lord : Behold I will
deliver Pharao Ephree king of Egypt into
the hand of his enemies, and into the
hand of them that seek his life : as I
delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the
hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon big enemy, and that sought his
life»

CHAPTER 45.
The prophet comforts Baruch in his affliction.

THE word that Jeremias the prophet
spoke to Baruch the son of Nerias,
j^hen he had written these words in a
Dook, out of the mouth of Jeremias, in
the fotirth year of Joakim the son of
Josias king of Juda, saying :

2 Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel
to thee, Baruch :

3 Thou hast said : Woe is me, wretch
that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow
to nay sorrow: I am wearied with my
groans, and I find no rest.

4 Thus saith the Lord : Thus shalt thou
say to him: Behold jhem whom I have
built, I do destroy and them whom I
have planted, I do piuck up, and all this
land.

5 And dost thou seek great things for
thyself ? Seek not : for behold I will bring
evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord ! but I
will give thee thy life, and save thee in
all places whithersoever thou shalt go.

CHAPTER 46.

A prophfcy against Egypt. The Jeivs shall return
frotn captivity.

THE word of the Lord that came ^o
Jeremias the prophet against t>«
Gentiles,
2 Against Egypt, against the army of

.s B. C. 607

3 Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and
go forth to battle.

4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye
horsemen: stand forth with helmets,
furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.

6 What then ? I have seen them dis-
mayed, and turning their backs, theii
valiant ones slain : they fled apace, and
they looked not back : terror was round
about, saith the Lord.

6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the
strong think to escape : they are over-
thrown, and fallen down, towards the
north by the river Euphrates.

7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood :
and his streams swell like those of rivers ?

8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and the
waves thereof shall be moved as rivers,
and he shall say : I will go up and wiU
cover tlic ^arth : I will destroy the city,
and its inhabitants.

9 Get ye up on horses, and glory in
chariots, and let the valiant men come
forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans
that hold the shield, and the Lydians
that take, and shoot arrows.

10 For this is the day of the Lord the
God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that
he may revenge himself of his ene mies :
the sword shall devour, and shall be
filled, and shall be drunk with their blood:
for there is a sacrifice of the Lord God of
hosts in the north country, by the river
Euphrates.

11 Go up into Galaad, and take balm, 0
virgin daughter of Egypt : in vain dost
thou multiply medicines, there shall be
no cure for thee.

12 The nations have heard of thy dis-
grace, and thy howling hath filled the
land: for the strong hath stumbled
against the strong, and both are fallen
together.

13 The word that the Lord spoke to
Jeremias the prophet, how Nabuchodon-
osor king of Babylon should come and
strike the land of Egypt :

14 Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it
in Magdal, * and let it be known in Mem-
phis, and in Taphnis : say ye : Stand up,

t Supra 4^. ^

666

A propheci/ again. ^f Egypt

and prepare thyself: for the sword shall
devour all round about thee.

15 Why are thy valiant men come to
nothing? they stood not: because the
Lord hath overthrown them.

16 He hath multiplied them that fall,
and one hath fallen upon another, and
they shall say: Arise, and let us return
to our own people, and to the land of
our nativity, from the sword of the dove.

17 Call ye the name of Pharao king of
Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.

18 ^8 I live, (saith the King, whose
name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is
among the mountains, and as Carmel by
the sea, so shall he come.

19 Furnish thyself to go into captivity,
thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for
Memphis shall be made desolate, and
shall be forsaken and uninhabited.

20 Egypt is like a fair and beautiful
heifer : there shall come from the north
one that shall goad her.

21 Her hirelings also that lived in the
midst of her, like fatted calves are
turned back, and are fled away together,
and they could not stand, for the day of
their slaughter is come upon them, the
time of their visitation.

22 Her voice shall sound like brass, for
they shall hasten with an army, and
with axes they shall come against her,
as hewers of wood.

23 They have cut down her forest, saith
the Lord, which cannot be counted: they
are multipUed above locusts, and are
without number.

24 The daughter of Egypt is confounded,
and delivered into the hand of the peo-
ple of the north.

25 The Lord of hosts the Goo of Israel
hath said : Behold I will visit upon the
tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao,
and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and
upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and
upon them that trust in himc

26 And I will deliver them into the
hand of them that seek their lives, and
into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon, and into the hand of his
servants : and afterwards it shall be in-
habited, " as in the days of old, saith the
Lord.

JEREMIAS Prophecy against the PMUstines

u Ezech. 20. 13.

Chap. 46. Ver. 16. The dove. See the annota-
tion on chap. 25., ver. 38.
Ver. 25. Visit upon. That is, punish. Ibid. Alex-

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27 ''And thou my servant Jacob, fear
not and be not thou dismayed, O Israel :
for behold I will save thee from afar off,
and thy seed out of the land of thy cap-
tivity : and Jacob shall return and be at
rest, and prosper: and there shall be
none to terrify him.

28 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear
not, saith the Lord : because I am with
thee, for I will consume all the nations
to which I have cast thee out: but thee
I wiU not consume, but I will correct
thee in judgment, neither will I spare
thee as if thou wert innocent.

CHAPTER 47.

A prophecy of the desolation of the Philistines^ €(f
Tyre, Sidon^ Gaza, and Ascalon.

THE word of the Lord that came to
Jeremias the prophet against the
people of Palestine, before Pharao took
Gaza.

2 Thus saith the Lord: Behold there
come up waters out of the north, and
they shall be as an overflowing torrent,
and they shall cover the land, and all
that is therein, the city and the inhabit-
ants thereof: then the men shall cry,
and all the inhabitants of the land sh^
howl,

3 At the noise of the marching of armSi
and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his
chariots, and the multitude of his wheels.
The fathers have not looked back to the
children, for feebleness of hands,

4 Because of the coming of the day, la
which all the Philistines shall be laid
waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be de-
stroyed, with all the rest of their helpers.
For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines,
^ the remnant of the isle of Cappadocia.

5 Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon
hath held her peace with the remnant of
their valley: how long shalt thou cut
thyself?

6 O thou sword of the Lord, how long
wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy
scabbard, rest, and be still.

7 How shall it be quiet, when the Lord
hath given it a charge against Ascalon,
and against the countries thereof by the
sea side, and there hath made an ap
pointment for it ?

V Isa. 43. 1, and 'i4.2.—w Dent. 2. 23 ; Amos 9. 7,

andria. In the Hebrew, No, which was the ancient
name of the city, to which Alexander gave after-
wards the name of Alexandria.

Desolation of Moah foretold JEREMIAS Desolation of Moah foretold

CHAPTER 48.

J prophecy of the desolation of Moab for their
pride: but their captivity shall at last he re-
leased.

4 GAINST ^ Moab thus saith the Lord
J\. of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to
Nabo, for it is laid waste, and con-
founded : Cariathaim is taken : the
strong city is confounded and hath trem-
bled.

2 There is no more rejoicing in Moab
over Hesebon: they have devised evil.
Come, and let us cut it off from being a
nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence
hold thy peace, and the sword shall fol-
low thee.

3 A voice of crying from Oronaim:
waste, and great destruction.

4 Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry
for her little ones.

5 For by the ascent of Luith shall the
mourner go up with weeping : for in the
descent of Oronaim the enemies have
heard a howling of destruction.

6 Flee, save your lives: aad be ^as
heath in the wilderness.

7 For because thou hast trusted in thy
bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou
also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall
go into captivity, his priests, and his
princes together.

8 And the spoiler shall come upon every
city, and no city shall escape : and the
valleys shall perish, and the plains shaU
be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken:

9 Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower
it shall go out: and the cities thereof
shall be desolate, and uninhabited.

10 Cursed be he that doth the work of
the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he
that withholdeth his sword from blood.

11 Moab hath been fruitful from his
youth, and hath rested upon his lees : and
hath not been poured out from vessel
to vessel, nor hath gone into captivity :
therefore his taste hath remained in him,
and his scent is not changed.

12 Therefore behold the days come,
saith the Lord, and I will send him men
that shall order and overturn his bottles,

X Supra 27 ; Ezech. 25.-7/ Supra 17. 6.

Chap. 48. Ver. 7. Chamos. The idol of the
Moabites.

Ver. 10. Deeeitfiilhf. In the Greek, nenl^nevthi.
The wcyrk of Ond here spoken of, is the punishment
of the Moabites.

Ver. 11. Moab hath been fruitful. That is, rich
md flourishing And hath rested upon his lees.

and they shall cast him down, and shall
empty his vessels, and break their bottles
one against another.

13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Cha-
mos, ^ as the house of Israel was ashamed
of Bethel, in which they trusted.

14 How do you say : * We are valiant,
and stout men in battle ?

15 Moab is laid waste, and they have
cast down her cities : and her choice
young men are gone down to the slaugh-
ter: saith the king, whose name is the
Lord of hosts.

16 The destruction of Moab is near to
come : the calamity thereof shall come
on exceeding swiftly.

17 Comfort him, all you that are round
about him, and all you that know his
name, say: How is the strong staff
broken, the beautiful rod ?

18 Come down from thy glory, and sit
in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of
Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is
come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy
bulwarks.

19 Stand in the way, and look out, O
habitation of Aroer : inquire of him that
fleeth : and say to him that hath escaped :
What is done ?

20 Moab is confounded, because he is
overthrown : howl ye, and cry, tell ye it
in Arnon, that Moab is wasted.

21 And judgment is come upon the
plain country : upon Helen, and upon
Jasa, and upon Mephaath.

22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and
upon the house of Deblathaim,

23 And upon Cariathaim, and upon
Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon,

24 And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra:
and upon all the cities of the land of
Moab, far or near.

25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his
arm is broken, saith the Lord.

26 Make him drunk, because he lifted
up himself against the Lord : and Moab
shall dash his hand in his own vomit,
and he also shall be in derision.

27 For Israel hath been a derision unto
thee : as though thou hadst found him

2 3 Kings 12. 29. — a Isa. 16, 6.

That is, remained in its bad morals; as wine not
decanted has its lees mixed and remains muddy.

Ver. 13. Of Bethel. That is, of their golden calf
which they worshipped in Bethel.

Ver. 25. The horn of Moab is cut off. That is,
the strenfrth of Moab is cut off. A metaphor drawn
from animals whose strength is in their horns.

S6S

The pride of Moah punished JEREMTAS The captivity of Moab released

amongst thieves : for thy words there-
fore, which thou hast spoken against
him, thou shalt be led away captive.

28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the
rock, you that dwell in Moab : and be ye
like the dove that maketh her nest in the
mouth of the hole in the highest place.

29 ^ We have heard the pride of Moab,
he is exceeding proud : his haughtiness,
and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the
loftiness of his heart.

30 I know, saith the Lord, his boasting,
and that tire strength thereof is not ac-
cording to it, neither hath it endeavoured
to do according as it was able.

31 Therefore will I lament for Moab,
and I will cry out to all Moab, for the
men of the brick wall that mourn.

32 O vineyard of Sabama, I will weep
for thee, with the mourning of Jazer :
thy branches are gone over the sea, they
are come even to the sea of Jazer : the
robber hath rushed in upon thy harvest
and thy vintage.

33 ^ Joy and gladness is taken away from
Carmel, and from the land of Moab, and
I have taken away the wine out of the
presses: the treader of the grapes shall
not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.

34 From the cry of Hesebon even to
Eleale, and to Jasa, they have uttered
their voice : from Segor to Oronaim, as
a heifer of three years old : the waters
also of Nemrim shall be very bad.

35 And I will take away from Moab,
Baith the Lord, ham that ofifereth in the
high places, and that sacrificeth to his
gods.

36 Therefore my heart shall sound for
Moab like pipes: and my heart shall
Bound hke pipes fc r the men of the brick
wall : because he hath done more than
he could, therefore they have perished.

37 ^ For every head shall be bald, and
every beard shall be shaven: all hands
shall be tied together, and upon every
back there shall be haircloth.

38 Upon all the housetops of Moab, and
in the streets thereof general mourning :
because I have broken Moab as an use-
less vessel, saith the Lord.

39 How is it overthrown, and they have

6 Isa. 16. 6. — C Isa. 16. 10.
d Isa. 15. 2 ; Ezech. 7. 18.

Ver. 43. Fpor. That is, the sword of the enemy
TJie pit. That is, unforeseen calamities. The snare
That is, the ambushes laid by tlie enemy.

howled! How hath Moab bowed down
the neck, and is confounded ! And Moab
shall be a derision, and an example to all
round about him.

40 Thus saith the Lord: Behold he shall
fly as an eagle, and shall stretch forth his
wings to Moab.

41 Carioth is taken, and the strongholds
are won: and the heart of the valiant
men of Moab in that day shall be as the
heart of a woman in labour.

42 And Moab shall cease to be a people :
because he hath gloried against the
Lord.

43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare come
upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith
the Lord.

44 ^ He that shall flee from the fear,
shall fall into the pit: and he that shall
get up out of the pit, shall be taken in
the snare : for I will bring upon Moab
the year of their visitation, saith the
Lord.

45 They that fled from the snare stood
in the shadow of Hesebon: but there
came a fire out of Hesebon, and a flame
out of the midst of Seon, and it shall de-
vour part of Moab, and the crown of the
head of the children of tumult.

46 Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast per-
ished, O people of Chamos : for thy sons,
and thy daughters are taken captives.

47 And I will bring back the captivity
of Moab in the last days, saith the Lord.
Hitherto the judgments of Moab.

CHAPTER 49.

The like desolation of Ammon, of Tdumea, of the
Syrians, of the Agarenes, and of the Ela/mifes.

AGAINST -^the children of Ammon.
i. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no
sons? or hath he no heir? Why then
hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his
people dwelt in his cities ?

2 Therefore behold the days come, saith
the Lord, and I will cause the noise of
war to be heard in Rabbath of the chil-
dren cf Ammon, and it shall be destroyed
into a heap, and her daughters shall be
burnt with fire, and Israel shall possess
them that have possessed him, saith the
Lord.

e Isa. 24. 18.
/ Supra 27. ; Ezech. 25.

Chap. 49.
Ammonites.

Ver. L Melchom. The idol of the

Against Ammon and Edom

3 Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted.
Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird your-
selves with haircloth : mourn and go
about by the hedges: for Melchom shall
be carried into captivity, his priests, and
his princes together.

4 Why gloriest thou in the valleys ? thy
valley hath flowed away, O delicate
daughter, that hast trusted in thy trea-
sures, and hast said: Who shall come to
me?

5 Behold I will bring a fear upon thee,
saith the Lord God of hosts, from all that
are round about thee: and you shall be
scattered every one out of one another's
sight, neither shall there be any to gather
together them that flee.

6 And afterwards I will cause the cap-
tives of the children of Ammon to return,
saith the Lord.

7 ^ Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord
of hosts : Is wisdom no more in Theman?
counsel is perished from her children:
their wisdom is become unprofitable.

8 Flee and turn your backs, go down
into the deep hole, ye inhabitants of
Bedan : for I have brought the destruc-
tion of Esau upon him, the time of his
visitation.

9 If grapegatherers had come to thee,
would they not have left a bunch? if
thieves in the night, they would have
taken what was enough for them.

10 But I have made Esau bare, I have
revealed his secrets, and he cannot be
hid: his seed is laid waste, and his bre-
thren, and his neighbours, and he shall
not be.

11 Leave thy fatherless children: I will
make them live : and thy widows shall
hope in me.

12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold they
whose judgment was not to drink of the
cup, shall certainly drink : and shalt thou
come off as innocent? thou shalt not come
off as innocent, but drinking thou shalt
drink.

13 For I have sworn by myself, saith
the Lord, that Bosra shall become a deso-
lation, and a reproach, and a desert, and
a curse : and aU her cities shall be ever-
lasting wastes.

14 '^ I have heard a rumour from the
Lord, and an ambassador is sent to the
nations: Gather yourselves together, and

JEREMIAS The pride of Edom humbled

come against her, and let us rise up to
battle.

15 For behold I have made thee a little
one among the nations, despicable among
men.

16 Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee,
and the pride of thy heart : O thou that
dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and en-
deavourest to lay hold on the height of
the hill : '^ but though thou shouldst make
thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring
thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

17 And Edom shall be desolate: every
one that shall pass by it, shall be aston-
ished, and shall hiss at all its plagues.

18 -^ As Sodom was overthrown and Go-
morrha, and the neighbours thereof, saith
the Lord : there shall not a man dwell
there, and there shall no son of man in-
habit it.

19 Behold one shall come up as a lion
from the swelling of the Jordan, against
the strong and beautiful : for I will make
him run suddenly upon her: and who
shall be the chosen one whom I may ap-
point over her ? for who is like to me ?
and who shall abide me ? ^ and who is
that shepherd that can withstand my
countenance ?

20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the
Lord, which he hath taken concerning
Edom : and his thoughts which he hath
thought concerning the inhabitants of
Theman: surely the little ones of the
flock shall cast them down, of a truth
they shall destroy them with their habi-
tation.

21 The earth is moved at the noise of
their fall : the cry of their voice is heard
in the Red Sea.

22 Behold he shall come up as an eagle,
and fly: and he shall spread his wings
over Bosra : and in that day the heart of
the valiant ones of Edom shall be as the
heart of a woman in labour.

23 Against Damascus. Emath is con-
founded and Arphad : for they have heard
very bad tidings, they are troubled as in
the sea: through care they could not rest.

24 Damascus is undone, she is put to
flight, trembling hath seized on her: an-
guish and sorrows have taken her as a
woman in labour.

25 How have they forsaken the city of
renown, the city of joy !

^ A. M. 3417.~A Abd. 1. 1.

1 i Abd. 1. 4.— j Gen, 19. 24. — A; Job 4L t.

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Against Damascus y Asor, Elam JEREMIAS

Prophecy against Babylon

26 Therefore her young men shall fall
in her streets: and all the men of war
shall be silent in that day, saith the Lord
of hosts.

27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of
Damascus, and it shall devour the strong
holds of Benadad.

28 Against Cedar and against the king-
doms of Asor, which Nabuchodonosor king
of Babylon destroyed. Thus saith the
Lord : Arise, and go ye up to Cedar, and
waste the children of the east.

29 They shall take their tents, and their
flocks : and shall carry off for themselves
their curtains, and all their vessels, and
their camels : and they shall call fear
upon them round about.

30 Flee ye, get away speedily, sit in deep
holes, you that inhabit Asor, saith the
Lord : for Nabuchodonosor king of Bab-
ylon hath taken counsel against you, and
hath conceived designs against you.

31 Arise, and go up to a nation that is
at ease, and that dwelleth securely, saith
the Lord: they have neither gates, nor
bars: they dwell alone.

32 And their camels shall be for a spoil,
and the multitude of their cattle for a
booty, and I will scatter into every wind
them that have their hair cut round, and
I will bring destruction upon them from
all their confines, saith the Lord.

33 And Asor shall be a habitation for
dragons, desolate for ever: no man shall
abide there, nor son of man inhabit it.

34 The word of the Lord that came to
Jeremias the prophet against Elam, in
the beginning of the reign of Sedecias
king of Juda, saying :

35 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Behold
I will break the bow of Elam, and their
chief strength.

36 And I will bring upon Elam the four
winds from the four quarters of heaven:
and I will scatter them into all these
winds : and there shall be no nation, to
which the fugitives of Elam shall not
come.

37 And I will cause Elam to be afraid
before their enemies, and in the sight
of them that seek their life : and I will
bring evil upon them, my fierce wrath,

Ver. 28. Cedar and Asor were parts of Arabia :
which with Moab, Ammon, Edom, &c., were all
brought under the yoke of Nabuchodonosor.

Ver. 34. Elam, A part ol Persia.

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saith the Lord : and 1 will send the sword
after them, till I consume them.

38 And I will set my throne in Elam,
and destroy kings and princes from
thence, saith the Lord.

39 But in the latter days I will cause
the captives of Elam, to return, saith the
Lord.

CHAPTER 60.

Babylon, which hath afflicted the Israelites, after
their restoration, shall be utterly destroyed.

THE word that the Lord hath spoken
against Babylon, and against the land
of the Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias
the prophet.

2 Declare ye among the nations, and
publish it, lift up a standard : proclaim,
and conceal it not : say : Babylon is taken,
Bel is confounded, Merodach is over-
thrown, their graven things are con-
founded, their idols are overthrown.

3 For a nation is come up against her
out of the north, which shall make her
land desolate : and there shall be none
to dwell therein, from man even to
beast : yea they are removed, and gone
away.

4 In those days, and at that time, saith
the Lord, the children of Israel shall
come, they and the children of Juda to-
gether: going and weeping they shall
make haste, and shall seek the Lord their
God.

5 They shall ask the way to Sion, their
faces are hitherward. They shall come,
and shall be joined to the Lord by an
everlasting covenant, which shall never
be forgotten.

6 My people have been a lost flock, their
shepherds have caused them to go astray,
and have made them wander in the moun-
tains : they have gone from mountain to
hill, they have forgotten their resting
place.

7 All that found them, have devoured
them : and their enemies said : We have
not sinned in so doing : because they have
sinned against the Lord the beauty of
justice, and against the Lord the hope of
their fathers.

8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon,
and go forth out of the land of the Chal-

Chap. 50. Ver. 2. Bel, «fee. Bel and Merodach
were worshipped for gods by the men of Babylon.
Ver. 3. A nation, &c., viz., the Medes.

Prophecy against Babylon

JEREMIAS

Prophecy against Babylon

deans : and be ye as kids at the head of
the flock.

9 For behold I raise up, and will bring
against Babylon an assembly of great
nations from the land of the north: and
they shall be prepared against her, and
from thence she shall be taken: their
arrows, like those of a mighty man, a de-
stroyer, shall not return in vain.

10 And Chaldea shall be made a prey :
all that waste her shall be filled, saith the
Lord.

11 Because you rejoice, and speak great
things, pillaging my inheritance : be-
cause you are spread abroad as calves
upon the grass, and have bellowed as
bulls.

12 Your mother is confounded exceed-
ingly, and she that bore you is made even
with the dust: behold she shall be the
last among the nations, a wilderness un-
passable, and dry.

13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it
shall not be inhabited, but shall be wholly
desolate : every one that shall pass by
Babylon, shall be astonished, and shall
hiss at all her plagues.

14 Prepare yourselves against Babylon
round about, all you that bend the bow ;
fight against her, spare not arrows : be-
cause she hath sinned against the Lord.

15 Shout against her, she hath every
where given her hand, her foundations
are fallen, her walls are thrown down,
for it is the vengeance of the Lord.
Take vengeance upon her ; as she hath
done, so do to her.

16 Destroy the sower out of Babylon,
and him that holdeth the sickle in the
time of harvest : for fear of the sword of
the dove every man shall return to his
people, and every one shall flee to his
own land.

17 Israel is a scattered flock, the lions
have driven him away: first the king of
Assyria devoured him : and last this
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath
broken his bones.

18 Therefore thus saith the Lord of
hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will
visit the king of Babylon and his land,
as I have visited the king of Assyria.

19 And I will bring Israel again to his
habitation: and he shall feed on Carmel,

and Bason, and his soul shall be satisfied
in mount Ephraim, and Galaad.

20 In those days, and at that time, saith
the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be
sought for, and there shall be none : and
the sin of Juda, and there shall none be
found: for I will be merciful to them,
whom I shall leave.

21 Go up against the land of the rul-
ers, and punish the inhabitants thereof,
waste, and destroy all behind them, saith
the Lord : and do according to all that I
have commanded thee.

22 A noise of war in the land, and a
great destruction.

23 How is the hammer of the whole
earth broken, and destroyed! how is
Babylon turned into a desert among the
nations I

24 I have caused thee to fall into a
snare, and thou art taken, O Babylon,
and thou wast uDt aware of it: thou art
found and caught, because thou hast pro-
voked the Lord.

25 The Lord hatn opened his armoury,
and hath brought forth the weapons of
his wrath : for the Lord the God of hosts
hath a work to be done in the land of
the Chaldeans.

26 Come ye against her from the utter-
most borders: open that they may go
forth that shall tread her down: take
the stones out of the way, and make
heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing
of her be left.

27 Destroy all her valiant men, let them
go down to the slaughter : woe to them,
for their day is come, the time of their
visitation.

28 The voice of them that flee, and of
them that have escaped out of the land
of Babylon: to declare in Sion the re-
venge of the Lord our God, the revenge
of his temple.

29 Declare to many against Babylon, to
all that bend the bow: stand together
against her round about, and let none
escape ; pay her according to her work :
'^ according to all that she hath done, do
ye to her : for she hath lifted up herself
against the Lord, against the Holy One
of Israel.

30 Therefore shall her young men fall
in her streets: and aU her men of war

m Infra 51. 49.

Ver. 16. The dove. Or the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the one or the other

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Desolation of Babylon

JEREMIAS God*s judgment upon Babylon

shall hold their peace in that day, saith
the Lord.

31 Behold I come against thee, O proud
one, saith the Lord the God of hosts : for
thy day is come, the time of thy visita-
tion.

32 And the proud one shall fall, he shall
fall down, and there shall be none to lift
him up: and I will kindle a fire in his
cities, and it shall devour all round about
him.

33 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : The
clr^ldren of Israel, and the children of
Juda are oppressed together: all that
have taken them captives, hold them
fast, they will not let them go.

34 Their redeemer is strong, the Lord
of hosts is his name : he will defend their
cause in judgment, to terrify the land,
and to disquiet the inhabitants of Baby-
lon.

35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith
the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of
Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon
her wise men.

36 A sword upon her diviners, and they
shall be foolish: a sword upon her valiant
ones, and they shall be dismayed.

37 A sword upon their horses, and upon
their chariots, and upon all the people
that are in the midst of her: and they
shall become as women: a sword upon
her treasures, and they shall be made a
spoil.

38 A drought upon her waters, and they
shall be dried up : because it is a land of
idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

39 Therefore shall dragons dwell there
with the fig fauns: and ostriches shall
dwell therein, and it shall be no more
inhabited for ever, neither shall it be
built up from generation to generation.

40 ^ As the Lord overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrha, and their neighbour cities,
saith the Lord : no man shall dwell there,
neither shall the son of man inhabit it.

41 Behold a people cometh from the
north, and a great nation, and many
kings shall rise from the ends of the
earth.

42 They shall take the bow and the
shield: they are cruel and unmerciful:
their voice shall roar like the sea, and

n Gen. 19. 24. — o Supra 49. 19.

Ver. 39. Fig fav/ns. Monsters of the desert, or
ilemans in monstrous shapes : such as the ancients
called/auns smd satyrs ,' and as they imagined them

they shall ride upon horses: like a man
prepared for battle against thee, O daugh-
ter of Babylon.

43 The king of Babylon hath heard the
report of them, and his hands are grown
feeble : anguish hath taken hold of him,
pangs as a woman in labour.

44 ^ Behold he shall come up like a lion
from the swelling of the Jordan to the
strong and beautiful: for I will make
him run suddenly upon her: and who
shall be the chosen one whom I may ap-
point over her? for who is like to me?
and who shall bear up against me ? P and
who is that shepherd that can withstand
my countenance ?

45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the
Lord, which he hath taken against Baby-
lon: and his thoughts which he hath
thought against the land of the Chal-
deans : surely the little ones of the flocks
shall pull them down, of a truth their
habitation shall be destroyed with them.

46 At the noise of the taking of Baby-
lon the earth is moved, and the cry is
heard amongst the nations.

CHAPTER 51.

The miseries that shall fall upon Babylon from the
Medes : the destruction of her idols.

rnnUS saith the Lord: Behold I will
JL raise up as it were a pestilential
wind against Babylon and against the
inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up
their heart against me.

2 And I will send to Babylon fanners,
and they shall fan her, and shall destroy
her land : for they are come upon her on
every side in the day of her affliction.

3 Let not him that bendeth, bend his
bow, and let not him go up that is armed
with a coat of mail : spare not her young
men, destroy all her army.

4 And the slain shall fall in the land of
the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the
regions thereof.

5 For Israel and Juda have not been
forsaken by their God the Lord of hosts :
but their land hath been filled with sin
against the Holy One of Israel.

6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon,
and let every one save his own life : be
not silent upon her iniquity : for it is the

p Job 41. 1.

to live upon wild figs, they called XhemfauniftcariU
or Jig fauns.

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The Medes sent against Babylon JEREMIAS Babylon shall be destroyed

time of revenge from the Lord, he will
render unto her what she hath deserved.

7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in
the hand of the Lord, that made all the
earth drunk : the nations have drunk of
her wine, and therefore they have stag-
gered.

8 ''Babylon is suddenly fallen, and de-
stroyed : howl for her, take balm for her
pain, if so she may be healed.

9 We would have cured Babylon, but
she is not healed : let us forsake her, and
let us go every man to his own land: be-
cause her judgment hath reached even
to the heavens, and is lifted up to the
clouds.

10 The Lord hath brought forth our
justices; Come, and let us declare in
Sion the work of the Lord our God.

11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers,
the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the
kings of the Medes : and his mind is
against Babylon to destroy it, because it
is the vengeance of the Lord, the ven-
geance of his temple.

12 Upon the walls of Babylon set up
the standard, strengthen the watch : set
up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes :
for the Lord hath both purposed, and
done all that he spoke against the in-
habitants of Babylon.

13 O thou that dwellest upon many
waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come
for thy entire destruction.

14 * The Lord of hosts hath sworn by
himself, saying : I will fill thee with men
as with locusts, and they shall lift up a
joyful shout against thee.

15 * He that made the earth by his
power, that hath prepared the world by
his wisdom, and stretched out the hea-
vens by his understanding.

16 When he uttereth his voice the wa-
ters are multiphed in heaven : he lifteth
up the clouds from the ends of the earth,
he hath turned lightning into rain : and
hath brought forth the wind out of his
treasures.

17 Every man is become foolish by his
knowledge : every founder is confounded
by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie,
and there is no breath in them.

18 They are vain works, and worthy to
be laughed at, in the time of their visita-
tion they shall perish.

r Isa. 2L 9 i Apoc. 14. 8.

19 The portion of Jacob is not like them:
for he that made all things he it is, and
Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance :
the Lord of hosts is his name.

20 Thou dashest together for me the
weapons of war, and with thee I will dash
nations together, and with thee I will
destroy kingdoms ;

21 And with thee I will break in pieces
the horse, and his rider, and with thee
I will break in pieces the chariot, and
him that getteth up into it :

22 And with thee I will break in pieces
man and woman, and with thee I will
break in pieces the old man and the
child, and with thee I will break in
pieces the young man and the virgin :

23 And with thee I will break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock, and with thee
I will break in pieces the husbandman
and his yoke of oxen, and with thee I
will break in pieces captains and rulers.

24 And I will render to Babylon, and to
all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their
evil, that they have done in Sion, b*^fore
your eyes, saith the Lord.

25 Behold I ccyme against thee, thou de-
stroying mountain, saith the Lord, which
corruptest the whole earth ; and I will
stretch out my hand upon thee, and will
roll thee down from the rocks, and will
make thee a burnt mountain.

26 And they shall not take of thee a
stone for the corner, nor a stone for
foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed
for ever, saith the Lord.

27 Set ye up a standard in the land:
sound with the trumpet among the na-
tions : prepare the nations against her :
call together against her the kings of
Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez : number
Taphsar against her, bring the horse as
the stinging locust.

28 Prepare the nations against her, the
kings of Media, their captains, and all
their rulers, and all the land of their do-
minion.

29 And the land shall be in a commo-
tion, and shall be troubled ; for the de-
sign of the Lord against Babylon shall
awake, to make the land of Babylon des-
ert and uninhabitable.

30 The vaUant men of Babylon have
forborne to fight, they have dwelt in
holds : their strength hath failed, and

9 Amos 6w 8. — t Gen. L L.

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The desolation of Babylon

JEREMIAS The destruction of her idols

they are become as women : her dwell-
ing places are burnt, her bars are broken.

31 One running post shall meet another,
and messenger shall meet messenger : to
tell the king of Babylon that his city is
taken from one end to the other :

32 And that the fords are taken, and
the marshes are burnt with fire, and the
men of war are affrighted.

33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the
God of Israel : The daughter of Babylon
is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time
of her thrashing : yet a little while, and
the time of her harvest shall come,

34 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath
eaten me up, he hath devoured me : he
hath made me as an empty vessel : he
hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he
hath filled his belly with my delicate
meats, and he hath cast me out.

35 The wrong done to me, and my flesh
he upon Babylon, saith the habitation of
Sion : and my blood upon the inhabitants
of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.

36 Therefore thus saith the Lord : Be-
hold I will judge thy cause, and will take
vengeance for thee, and I will make her
flea desolate, " and will dry up her spring.

37 And Babylon shall be reduced to
heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an
astonishment and a hissing, because there
is no inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions,
they shall shake their manes like young
lions.

39 In their heat I will set them drink :
and I will make them drunk, ^ that they
may slumber, and sleep an everlasting
sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to
the slaughter, and like rams with kids.

41 How is Sesach taken, and the re-
nowned one of all the earth surprised?
How is Babylon become an astonishment
among the nations ?

42 The sea is come up over Babylon :
she is covered with the multitude of the
waves thereof.

43 Her cities are become an astonish-
ment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a
land wherein none can dwell, nor son of
man pass through it.

44 And I will visit against Bel in Baby-
lon, and I will bring forth out of his
mouth that which he had swallowed

u Supra 50. 38.

down: and the nations shall no more
flow together to him, for the wall also of
Babylon shall fall.

45 Go out of the midst of her, my peo-
ple : that every man may save his life
from the fierce wrath of the Lord.

46 And lest your hearts faint, and ye
fear for the rumour that shall be heard
in the land : and a rumour shall come in
one year, and after this year another ru-
mour : and iniquity in the land, and ruler
upon ruler.

47 Therefore behold the days come, and
I will visit the idols of Babylon : and her
whole land shall be confounded, and all
her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

48 And the heavens and the earth, and
all things that are in them shall give
praise for Babylon : for spoilers shall
come to her from the north, saith the
Lord.

49 And as Babylon caused that there
should fall slain in Israel : so of Babylon
there shall fall slain in all the earth.

50 You that have escaped the sword,
come away, stand not still: remember
the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come
into your mind.

51 We are confounded, because we have
heard reproach: shame hath covered our
faces: because strangers are come upon
the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.

52 Therefore behold the days come,
saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven
things, and in all her land the wounded
shall groan:

53 If Babylon should mount up to
heaven, and establish her strength on
high : from me there should come spoil-
ers upon her, saith the Lord.

54 The noise of a cry from Babylon, and
great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans :

55 Because the Lord hath laid Babylon
waste, and destroyed out of her the great
voice : and their wave shall roar like
many waters: their voice hath made a
noise :

56 Because the spoiler is come upon her,
that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant
men are taken, and their bow is weak-
ened, because the Lord, who is a strong
revenger, will surely repay.

57 And I will make her princes drunk,
and her wise men, and her captains, and

V Inira ver. 57.

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The hook of prophecies

JEREMIAS Jerusalem besieged and taken

her rulers, and her valiant men: and
they shall sleep an everlasting sleep,
and shall awake no more, saith the king
whose name is Lord of hosts.

58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : That
broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly
broken down, and her high gates shall
b© burnt with fire, and the labours of the
people shall come to nothing, and of the
nations shall go to the fire, and shall
perish.

59 The word that Jeremias the prophet
commanded Saraias the son of Nerias,
the son of Maasias, when he went with
king Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth
year of his reign : now Saraias was chief
over the prophecy.

60 And Jeremias wrote in one book all
the evil that was to come upon Babylon :
all these words that are written against
Babylon.

61 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When
thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt
see, and shalt read all these words,

62 Thou shalt say : O Lord, thou hast
spoken against this place to destroy it :
so that there should be neither man nor
beast to dwell therein, and that it should
be desolate for ever.

63 And 'when thou shalt have made an
end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a
stone to it, and shalt throw it into the
midst of the Euphrates :

64 And thou shalt say : Thus shall Baby-
lon sink, and she shall not rise up from
the affliction that I will bring upon her,
and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus
far are the words of Jeremias.

CHAPTER 52.

A recapitulation of the reign of Sedecias, and the
destruction of Jerusalem. The number of the
captives.

SEDECIAS ^ was one and twenty years
old when he began to reign : and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem : and
the name of his mother was Amital, the
daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

2 And he did that which was evil in the
eyes of the Lord, according to all that
Joakim had done.

3 For the wrath of the Lord was against
Jerusalem, and against Juda, till he cast
them out from his presence : and Sedecias
revolted from the king of Babylon.

4 *And it came to pass in the ninth

w B. C."598. 4 Kings 24. 18 ;

year of his reign, in the tenth month, the
tenth day of the month, that Nabucho-
donosor the king of BalDylon came, he
and all his army, against Jerusalem, and
they besieged it, and built forts against
it round about.

5 And the city was besieged until the
eleventh year of king Sedecias.

6 And in the fourth month, the ninth
day of the month, a famine overpowered
the city : and there was no food for the
people of the land.

7 And the city was broken up, and the
men of war fled, and went out of the city
in the night by the way of the gate that
is between the two walls, and leadeth to
the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieg-
ing the city round about, ) and they went
by the way that leadeth to the wilder-
ness.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pur-
sued after the king : and they overtook
Sedecias in the desert which is near Jeri-
cho: and all his companions were scat-
tered from him.

9 And when they had taken the king,
they carried him to the king of Babylon
to Reblatha, which is in the land of
Emath : and he gave judgment upon
him.

10 And the king of Babylon slew the
sons of Sedecias before his eyes : and he
slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha.

11 And he put out the eyes of Sedecias,
and bound him with fetters, and the king
of Babylon brought him into Babylon,
and he put him in prison till the day of
his death.

12 And in the fifth month, the tenth
day of the month, the same is the nine-
teenth year of Nabuchodonosor, king of
Babylon, came Nabuzardan the general
of the army, who stood before the king
of Babylon in Jerusalem.

13 And he burnt the house of the Lord,
and the king's house, and all the houses
of Jerusalem, and every great house he
burnt with fire.

14 And all the army of the Chaldeans
that were with the general broke down
all the wall of Jerusalem round about.

15 But Nabuzardan the general carried
away captives some of the poor people, j
and of the rest of the common sort wko |
remained in the city, and of the fu^tives

2 Par. 36. IL — ac 4 Kings 25. 1 ; Supra 89. L

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Vessels of the temple taken away JEREMIAS Number of the captive^

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that were fled over to the king of Baby
Ion, and the rest of the multitude.

16 But of the poor of the laud, Nabuzar-
dan the general left some for vinedress-
ers, and for husbandmen.

17 The Chaldeans also broke in pieces
the brazen pillars that were in the house
of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea
of brass that was in the house of the
Lord: and they carried all the brass of
them to Babylon.

18 And they took the caldrons, and the
fleshhooks, and the psalteries, and the
bowls, and the Uttle mortars, and all
^he brazen vessels that had been used in
the ministry: and

19 The general took away the pitchers,
and the censers, and the pots, and the
basins, and the candlesticks, and the
mortars, and the cups: as many as were
of gold, in gold: and as many as were of
silver, in silver:

20 And the two pillars, and one sea, and
twelve oxen of brass that were under the
bases, which king Solomon had made in
the house of the Lord : there was no
weight of the brass of all these vessels.

21 And concerning the pillars, one pil-
lar was eighteen cubits high: and a cord
of twelve cubits compassed it about :
but the thickness thereof was four fin-
gers, and it was hollow within.

32 And chapiters of brass were upon
both : and the height of one chapiter was
five cubits : and network, and pome-
granates were upon the chapiters round
about, all of brass. The same of the
second pillar, and the pomegranates.

23 And there were ninety-six pomegran-
ates hanging down; and the pomegran-
ates being a hundred in all, were com-
passed with network.

24 And the general took Saraias the
chief priest, c-nd Sophonias the second
priest, and the three keepers of the entry.

25 He also took out of the city one eu-
nuch that was chief over the men of war :
and seven men of them that were near
the king's person, that were found in the
city : and a scribe, an officer of the army
who exercised the young soldiers : and
threescore men of the people of the land,
that were found in the midst of the city.

26 And Nabuzardan the general took
them, and brought them to the king of
Babylon, to Reblatha.

27 And the king of Babylon struck them,
and put them to death in Reblatha, in the
land of Emath: and Juda was carried
away captive out of his land.

28 This is the people whom Nabucho-
donosor carried away captive : in the sev-
enth year, three thousand and twenty-
three Jews.

29 In the eighteenth year of Nabucho-
donosor, eight hundred and thirty-two
souls from Jerusalem.

30 In the three and twentieth year of
Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan the general
carried away of the Jews seven hundred
and forty-five souls. So all the souls were
four thousand six hundred.

31 And it came to pass in the seven and
thirtieth ^ year of the captivity of Joachin
king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the
five and twentieth day of the month, that
Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the
first year of his reign, lifted up the head
of Joachin king of Juda, and brought
him forth out of prison.

32 And he spoke kindly Co him, and he
set his throne above the thrones of the
kings that were with him in Babylon.

33 And he changed his prison garments,
and he ate bread before him always all
the days of his life.

34 And for his diet a continual provision
was allowed him by the king of Babylon,
every day a portion, until the day of his
death, all the days of his life.

y 4 Kings 25. 27 ; B. C. 561.

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The sad state of Jerusalem

Jerusalem punished for her sins

THE

LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS.

In these Jeremias laments in a most pathetical manner the miseries of his people, and the
destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, in Hebrew verses, beginning with different letters
according to the order of the Hebrew alphabet.

And it came to pass, after Israel was carried into captivity, and Jerusalem was desolate, that Jeremias
the prophet sat weeping, and mourned with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and with a sorrowfui
mind, sighing and moaning, he said :

CHAPTER 1.
Aleph. TTOW doth the city sit solitary
JLl that was full of people ! how is
the mistress of the Gentiles become as a
widow; the princes of provinces made
liributary !

2 Beth. ^ Weeping she hath wept in the
night, and her tears are on her cheeks :
there is none to comfort her among all
them that were dear to her : all her friends
have despised her, and are become her
enemies.

3 Ghimel, Juda hath removed her dwell-
ing place because of her affliction, and
the greatness of her bondage: she hath
dwelt among the nations, and she hath
found no rest : all her persecutors have
taken her in the midst of straits.

4 Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, be-
cause there are none that come to the
solemn feast; all her gates are broken
down: her priests sigh: her virgrrs are
in affliction, and she is oppressed with
bitterness.

6 He. Her adversaries are become hor
lords, her enemies are enriched : because
the Lord hath spoken against her for the
multitude of her iniquities : her children
are led into captivity: before the face of
the oppressor.

6 Vau. And from the daughter of Sion
all her beauty is departed : her princes
are become like rams that find no pas-
tures ; and they are gone away without
strength before the face of the pursuer.

7 Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered
the days of her affliction, and prevarica-
tion of all her desirable things which she
had from the days of old, when her peo-
ple fell in the enemy's hand, and there

z Jer. 13. 17.

And it came to pass, &c. This preface was not
written by Jeremias, but was added by the seventy

was no helper : the enemies have seen
her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.

8 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously
sinned, therefore is she become unstable :
all that honoured her have despised her,
because they have seen her shame: but
she sighed and turned backward.

9 Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and
she hath not remembered her end: she
is wonderfully cast down, not having a
comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction,
because the enemy is lifted up.

10 Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand
to all her desirable things: for she hath
seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctu-
ary, of whom thou gavest commandment
that they should not enter into thy
church.

11 Caph. All her people sigh, they seek
bread; they have given all their precious
things for food to relieve the soul: see,
O Lord, and consider, for I am become
vile.

12 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way,
attend, and see if there be any sorrow
like to my sorrow : for he hath made a
vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the
day of his fierce anger.

13 Mem. From above he hath sent fire
into my bones, and hath chastised me:
he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath
turned me back : he hath made me deso-
late, wasted with sorrow all the day
'ong.

14 Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath
watched : they are folded together in his
hand, and put upon my neck : my strength
is weakened : the Lord hath delivered
me into a hand out of which I am not
able to risG,

interpreters, to give the reader to understand upon
what occasion the Lamentations were published.

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There is none to comfort her LAMENTATIONS God has become her enemy

15 Samech, The Lord hath taken away
all my mighty men out of the midst of
me : he hath called against me the time,
to destroy my chosen men : the Lord
hath trodden the winepress for the vir-
gin daughter of Juda,

16 Ain. " Therefore do I weep, and my
eyes run down with water : because the
comforter, the relief of my soul, is far
from me : my children are desolate be-
cause the enemy hath prevailed.

17 Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands,
there is none to comfort her : the Lord
hath commanded against Jacob, his ene-
mies are round about him : Jerusalem is
as a menstruous woman among them.

18 Sade. The Lord is just, for I have
provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I
pray you, all ye people, and see my sor-
row : my virgins, and my young men are
gone into captivity.

19 Coph. I called for my friends, but
they deceived me: my priests and my
ancients pined away in the city: while
they sought their food, to reheve their
souls.

20 Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in dis-
tress, my bowels are troubled : my heart
is turned within me, for I am full of bit-
terness : abroad the sword destroyeth,
and at home there is death alike.

21 Sin. They have heard that I sigh,
and there is none to comfort me : all my
enemies have heard of my evil, they
have rejoiced that thou hast done it :
thou hast brought a day of consolation,
and they shall be hke unto me.

22 Thau. Let all their evil be present
before thee : and make vintage of them,
as thou hast made vintage of me for all
my iniquities: for my sighs are many,
and my heart is sorrowful.

CHAPTER 2.

OW hath the Lord covered
with obscurity the daughter
of Sion in his wrath ! h(yw hath he cast
down from heaven to the earth the glo-
rious one of Israel, and hath not remem-
bered his footstool in the day of his
anger !

2 Beth. The Lord hath cast down head-
long, and hath not spared, all that was
beautiful in Jacob : he hath destroyed in

Aleph.

a Jer. 14. 17.

his wrath the strong holds of the virgin
of Juda, and brought them down to the
ground : he hath made the kingdom un-
clean, and the princes thereof.

3 Ghiinel. He hath broken in his fierce
anger all the horn of Israel: he hath
drawn back his right hand from before
the enemy : and he hath kindled in Jacob
as it were a flaming fire devouring round
about.

4 Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an
enemy, he hath fixed his right hand as an
adversary: and he hath killed all that
was fair to behold in the tabernacle of
the daughter of Sion, he hath poured out
his indignation hke fire.

6 He. The Lord is become as an enemy:
he hath cast down Israel headlong, he
hath overthrown all the walls thereof :
he hath destroyed his strong holds, and
hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda
the afflicted, both men and women.

3 Vau. And he hath destroyed his tent
as a garden, he hath thrown down his
tabernacle: the Lord hath caused feasts
and sabbaths to be forgotten in Sion:
and hath delivered up king and priest
to reproach, and to the indignation of
his wrath.

7 Zain. The Lord hath cast off his altar,
he hath cursed his sanctuary : he hath
delivered the walls oi the towers thereof
into the hand of the enemy : they have
made a noise in the house of the Lord, as
in the day of a solemn feast.

8 Heth. The Lord hath purposed to de-
stroy the wall of the daughter of Sion :
he hath stretched out his line, and hath
not withdrawn his hand from destroying :
and the bulwark hath mourned, and the
wall hath been destroyed together.

9 Teth. Her gates are sunk into the
ground: he hath destroyed, and broken
her bars: her king and her princes are
among the Gentiles : the law is no more,
and her prophets have found no vision
from the Lord.

10 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of
Sion sit upon the ground, they have held
their peace: they have sprinkled their
heads with dust, they are girded with
haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang
down their heads to the ground.

11 Caph. My eyes have failed with weep-

Chap. 2. "Ver. 7. Be hath cursed his sanctuary. That is, he permitted his sanctuary to be destroyed,

as if it bad not been consecrated, but execrable.

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Desolation of Jerusalem

LAMENTATIONS The prophet's complaint

ing, my bowels are troubled s my liver is
poured out upon the earth, for the de-
struction of the daughter of my people,
when the children, and the sucklings,
fainted away in the streets of the city.

12 Lamed, They said to their mothers:
Where is corn and wine? when they
fainted away as the wounded in the
streets of the city : when they breathed
out their souls in the bosoms of their
mothers.

13 Mem. To what shall I compare thee?
or to what shall I liken thee, O daughter
of Jerusalem ? to what shall I equal
thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin
daughter of Sion ? for great as the sea is
thy destruction: who shall heal thee?

14 Nun. Thy prophets have seen false
and foolish things for thee: and they
have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite
thee to penance : but they have seen for
thee false revelations and banishments.

15 Samech. All they that passed by the
way have clapped their hands at thee:
they have hissed, and wagged their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying : Is
this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of
all the earth ?

16 Phe. All thy enemies have opened
their mouth against thee : they have
hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and
have said : We will swallow her up : lo,
this is the day which we looked for:
we have found it, we have seen it.

17 ^ Ain. The Lord hath done that
which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his
word, which he commanded in the days
of old : he hath destroyed, and hath not
spared, and he hath caused the enemy to
rejoice over thee, and hath set up the
horn of thy adversaries.

18 Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord
upon the walls of the daughter of Sion:
^ Let tears run down like a torrent day
and night: give thyself no rest, and let
not the apple of thy eye cease.

19 Coph, Arise, give praise in the night,
in the beginning of the watches: pour
out thy heart like water before the face
of the Lord : lift up thy hands to him for
the life of thy little children, that have
fainted for hunger at the top of all the
streets.

20 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider
Whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall

women then eat their own fruit, theii
children of a span long ? shall the priest
and the prophet be slain in the sanctu-
ary of the Lord ?

21 Sin. The child and the old man lie
without on the ground : my virgins and
my young men are fallen by the sword:
thou hast slain them in the day of thy
wrath : thou hast killed, and shewn them
no pity.

22 Thau. Thou hast called as to a festi-
val, those that should terrify me round
about, and there was none in the day of
the wrath of the Lord that escaped and
was left: those that I brought up, and
nourished, my enemy hath consumed
them.

CHAPTER 3.

AM the man that see my pov-
erty by the rod of his indig-

AlepH.

nation.

2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought
me into darkness, and not into light.

3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned,
and turned again his hand all the day,

4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath
made old, he hath broken my bones.

5 Beth. He hath built round about me,
and he hath compassed me with gall and
labour.

6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places
as those that are dead for ever.

7 Ghimel. He hath built against me
round about, that I may not get out : he
hath made my fetters heavy=

8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and en-
treat, he hath shut out my prayer.

9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways
with square stones, he hath turned my
paths upside down.

10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear
lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

11 Daleth. He hath turned^ aside my
paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he
hath made me desolate.

12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and
set me as a mark for his arrows.

13 He. He hath shot into my reins bhe
daughters of his quiver.

14 He. I am made a derision to all my
people, their song all the day long.

15 He. He hath filled me with bitter-
ness, he hath inebriated me with worm-
wood.

b Lev. 26. 14 ; Deut 28. 15.

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c Jer. l4o 17 ; Supra 1. 16.

Hope in GocTs mercy

LAMENTATIONS

Punished for their sins

«16 Vau, And he hath broken my teeth
one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

17 Vau, And my soul is removed far
off from peace, I have forgotten good
things.

18 Vau. And I said : My end and my
hope is perished from the Lord.

19 Zain, Remember my poverty, and
transgression, the wormwood, and the
gall.

20 Zain. I will be mindful and remem-
ber, and my soul shall languish within
me.

21 Zain. These things I shall think over
in my heart, therefore will I hope.

22 Hetho The mercies of the Lord that
we are not consumed : because his com-
miserations have not failed.

23 Heth. They are new every morning,
great is thy faithfulness.

24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said
my soul : therefore will I wait for him.

25 Teth. The Lord is good to them
that hope in him, to the soul that seek-
eth him.

26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence
for the salvation of God.

27 Teth. It is good for a man, when he
hath borne the yoke from his youth.

28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold
his peace: because he hath taken it up
upon himself.

29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the
dust, if so be there may be hope.

30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him
that striketh him, he shall be filled with
reproaches.

31 Caph. For the Lord will not cast off
for ever

32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will
also have mercy, according to the multi-
tude of his mercies.

33 Caph. For he hath not willingly af-
flicted, nor cast off the children of men.

34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all
the prisoners of the land,

» 36 Lamed. To turn aside the judgment
Of a man before the face of the most
High,

36 Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully
in his judgment, the Lord hath not ap-
proved.

37 ^Mem. Who is he that hath com-
manded a thing to be done, when the i
Lord commandeth it not ?

38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good
proceed out of the mouth of the High-
est?

39 Mem. Why hath a living man mur-
mured, man suffering for his sins ?

40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and
seek, and return to the Lord.

41 JSfun. Let us lift up our hearts with
our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and
provoked thee to wrath i therefore thou
art inexorable.

43 Samech. Thou hast covered in thy
wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast
killed and hast not spared.

44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud be-
fore thee, that our prayer may not pass
through.

45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an
outcast, and refuse in the midst of the
people.

46 Phe. All our enemies have opened
their mouths against us.

47 Phe. Prophecy is become to us a
fear, and a snare, and destruction.

48 Phe. My eye hath run down with
streams of water, for the destruction of
the daughter of my people.

49 Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath
not been quiet, because there was no
rest:

60 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and
looked down from the heavens.

51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul
because of all the daughters of my city.

52 Sade. My enemies have chased me
and caught me like a bird, without cause.

53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit,
and they have laid a stone over me.

54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my
head : I said : I am cut off.

55 Coph. I have called upon thy name,
O Lord, from the lowest pit.

56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice:
turn not away thy ear from my sighs,
and cries.

57 Coph. Thou drewest near In the day
when I called upon thee, thoj saidst.
Fear note

58 Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the
cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of
my life.

59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their
iniquity against me *. judge thou my
judgment.

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d Amos 3. 6.
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Sad state of the children ofSion LAMENTATIONS

Punished for their sins

60 ReSo Thou hast seen all their fury,
and all their thoughts against me.

61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach,
O Lord, all their imaginations against
me.

62 Sin, The lips of them that rise up
against me : and their devices against
me all the day.

63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and
their rising up, I am their song.

64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a
recompense, O Lord, according to the
works of their hands.

65 Thau. Thou shalt give them ^ a buck-
ler of heart, thy -^labour.

66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in
anger, and shalt destroy them from
under the heavens, O Lord,

Aleph.

CHAPTER 4.

OW is the gold become dim,
the finest colour is changed,
the stones of the sanctuary are scat-
tered in the top of every street?

2 Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and
they that were clothed with the best
gold: how are they esteemed as earthen
vessels, the work of the potter's hands?

3 Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have
drawn out the breast, they have given
suck to their young: the daughter of
my people is cruel, like the ostrich in
the desert.

4 Daleth, The tongue of the sucking
child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: the little ones have asked for
bread, and there was none to break it
unto them.

5 He. They that were fed delicately
have died in the streets ; they that were
brought up in scarlet have embraced the
dung.

6 Vau. And the iniquity of the daugh-
ter of my people is made greater than
the sin of Sodom, S' which was over-
thrown in a moment, and hands took
nothing in her.

7 Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than
snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than
the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.

8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker
than coals, and they are not known in
the streets: their skin hath stuck to

e That is, affliction.— /That is, punishment.

Chap. 4. Ver. 20. Christ, &c. This, according to
the letter, is spoken of their king, who is called the
ChrUU that is, the ADointed of the Lord. But it

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their bones, it ie withered, and is become
like wood.

9 Teth. It was better with them that
were slain by the sword, than with them
that died with hunger: for these pined
away being consumed for want of the
fruits of the earth.

10 Jod. The hands of the pitiful women
have sodden their own children: they
were their meat in the destruction of
the daughter of my people.

11 Caph. The Lord hath accomplished
his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce
anger: and he hath kindled a fire in
Sion, and it hath devoured the founda-
tions thereof.

12 Lamed. The kings of the earth, and
all the inhabitants of the world would
not have believed, that the adversary
and the enemy should enter in by the
gates of Jerusalem.

13 Mem. For the sins of her prophets,
and the iniquities of her priests, that
have shed the blood of the just in the
midst oi er.

14 Nun. They have wandered as blind
men in the streets, they were defiled with
blood : and when they could not help
walking in it, they held up their skirts.

15 Samech. Depart you that are defiled,
they cried out to them: Depart, get ye
hence, touch not: for they quarrelled,
and being removed, they said among the
Gentiles : He will no more dwell among
them.

16 Phe. The face of the Lord hath di-
vided them, he will no more regard
them: they respected not the persons
of the priests, neither had they pity on
the ancient.

17 Ain. While we were yet standing,
our eyes failed, expecting help for us in
vain, when we looked attentively towards
a nation that was not able to save.

18 Sade. Our steps have slipped in the
way of oiu* streets, our end draweth
near : our days are fulfilled, for our end
is come.

19 Coph, Our persecutors were swifter
than the eagles of the air : they pursued
us upon the mountains, they lay in wait
for us in the wilderness.

20 Res. The breath of oar mouth, Christ

g Gen. 19. 24.

also relates, in the spiritual sense, to Christ our
Lord, suffering for our sins.

The reproach of Israel BARUCH

the Lord, is taken in our sins : to whom
we said : Under thy shadow we shall
live among the Gentiles.

21 Sin. Rejoice, and be glad, O daugh-
ter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of
Hes: to thee also shall the cup come,
thou shalt be made drunk, and naked.

22 Thau. Thy iniquity is accomplished,
O daughter of Sion, he will no more
carry thee away into captivity: he hath
visited thy iniquity, O daughter of
Edom, he hath discovered thy sins.

Woe to Juda for her sins

THE PRAYER OF JEREMIAS THE
PROPHET.

CHAPTER 5.

OEMEMBER, O Lord, what is come
JlL upon us: consider and behold our
reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens:
our houses to strangers.

3 We are become orphans without a
father: our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunk our water for money:
we have bought our wood.

6 We were dragged by the necks, we
were weary and no rest was given us.

6 We have given our hand to Egypt,
and to the Assjrrians, that we might be
satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not:
and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us : there

was none to redeem us out of their
hand.

9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our
lives, because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by
reason of the violence of the famine.

11 They oppressed the women in Sion,
and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

12 The princes were hanged up by their
hand: they did not respect the persons
of the ancient.

13 They abused the young men '* inde-
cently : and the children fell under the
wood.

14 The ancients have ceased from the
gates : the young men from the choir of
the singers.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our
dancing is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head :
woe to us, because we have sinned.

17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful,
therefore are our eyes become dim,

18 For mount Sion, because it is de-
stroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for
ever, thy throne from generation to gen-
eration.

20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever ?
why wilt thou forsake us for a long time ?

21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we
shall be converted: renew our days, as
from the beginning.

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us,
thou art exceedingly angry against us.

THE

PROPHECY OF BARUCH.

Baruch was a man of noble extraction, and learned in tJie law, secretary and disciple to tlie
prophet Jeremias, and a sharer in his labours and 'persecutions : which is the reason why
the ancient fathers have considered this book as a part of the prophecy of Jeremias, and ham
usually quoted it under his name.

CHAPTER 1.

The Jews of Babylon send the book of Baruch vMh
money to Jerusalem, requesting their brethren
there to offer sacrifice, and to pray for the kinq
and for them, acknowledging their manifold sins.

ND * these are the words of the book,
which Baruch the son of Nerias, the

h That is, made them grind naked in the miU.

son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the
son of Sedei, the son of Helcias, wrote in
Babylonia.

2 In the fifth year, in the seventh day
of the month, at the time that the Chal-
deans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with
fire.

t After B. C. 587.

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Jews of Babylon send money

BARUCH

Acknowledgment of sin

3 And Bamch read the words of this
book in the hearing of Jechonias the son
of Joakim king of Juda, and in the hear-
ing of all the people that came to hear
the book.

•i And in the hearing of the nobles, the
sons of the kings, and in the hearing of
the ancients, and in the hearing of the
people, from the least even to the great-
est of them that dwelt in Babylonia, by
the river Sedi.

6 And when they heard it they wept,
and fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

6 And they made a collection of money,
according to every man's power.

7 And they sent it to Jerusalem to Joa-
kim the priest, the son of Helcias, the son
of Salom, and to the priests, and to all
the people, that were found with him in
Jerusalem:

8 At the time when he received the
vessels of the temple of the Lord, which
had been taken away out of the temple,
to return them into the land of Juda the
tenth day of the month Sivan, the silver
vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias
king of Juda had made,

9 After that Nabuchodonosor the king
of Babylon had carried away Jechonias,
and the princes, and all the powerful
men, and the people of the land from
Jerusalem, and brought them bound to
Babylon.

10 And they said : Behold we have sent
you money, buy with it holocausts, and
frankincense, and make meat offerings,
and offerings for sin at the altar of the
Lord our God ;

11 And pray ye for the life of Nabucho-
donosor the king of Babylon, and for
the life of Balthasar his son, that their
days may be upon earth as the days of
heaven:

12 And that the Lord may give us
strength, and enlighten our eyes, that
we may live under the shadow of Nab-
uchodonosor the king of Babylon, and
under the shadow of Balthasar his son,
and may serve them many days, and may
find favour in their sight.

13 And pray ye for us to the Lord our
God : for we have sinned against the
Lord our God, and his wrath is not turned
away from us even to this day.

14 And read ye this book, which we

j Infra 2. 6. — A; Dan. 9. 5,

have sent to you to be read in the temple
of the Lord, on feasts, and proper days.

15 •'And you shall say: To the Lord our
God belongeth justice, but to us confusion
of our face : as it is come to pass at this
day to all Juda, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem,

16 To our kings, and to our princes, and
to our priests, and to our prophets, and
to oiu* fathers.

17 ^ We have sinned before the Lord
our God, and have not believed him, noi
put our trust in him :

18 And we were not obedient to him,
and we have not hearkened to the voice
of the Lord our God, to walk in his com-
mandments, which he hath given us.

19 From the day that he brought our
fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to
this day, we were disobedient to the
Lord our God : and going astray we
turned away from hearing his voice.

20 * And many evils have cleaved to us,
and the curses which the Lord foretold
by Moses his servant: who brought our
fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give
us a land flowing with milk and honey,
as at this day.

21 And we have not hearkened to the
voice of the Lord our God according to
all the words of the prophets whom he
sent to us:

22 And we have gone away every man
after the inclinations of his own wicked
heart, to serve strange gods, and to do
evil in the sight of the Lord oiu* God.

CHAPTER 2.

A further confession cf the sins of the people, and oj
the justice of God.

WHEREFORE the Lord our God hath
made good his word, that he spoke
to us, and to our judges that have judged
Israel, and to our kings, and to our
princes, and to all Israel and Juda:

2 That the Lord would bring upon us
great evils, such as never happened under
heaven, as they have come to pass ir
Jerusalem, ^ according to the things that
are written in the law of Moses :

3 That a man should eat the flesh of hif'
own son, and the flesh of his own daugh
ter.

4 And he hath delivered them up to bf^
under the hand of all the kings that arc

I Deut 28. 15. -- m Deut 28. 53.

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Acknowledgment of sin

BARUCH Acknowledgment of God^s justice

round about ns, to be a reproach, and
desolation among all the people, among
whom the Lord hath scattered us.

5 And we are brought under, and are
not uppermost: because we have sinned
against the Lord our God, by not obeying
his voice.

6 " To the Lord our God belongeth justice:
but to us, and to our fathers confusion of
face, as at this day.

7 For the Lord hath pronounced against
us all these evils that are come upon us:

8 And we have not entreated the face
of the Lord our God, that we might re-
turn every one of us from our most
wicked ways.

9 And the Lord hath watched over us
for evil, and hath brought it upon us:
for the Lord is Justin all his works which
he hath commanded us :

10 And we have not hearkened to his
voice to walk in the commandments of
the Lord which he hath set before us.

11 ° And now, O Lord God of Israel,
who hast brought thy people out of the
land of Egypt with a strong hand, and
with signs, and with wonders, and with
thy great power, and with a mighty arm,
and hast made thee a name as at this
day,

12 We have sinned, we have done
wickedly, we have acted unjustly, 0 Lord
our God, against all thy justices.

13 Let thy wrath be turned away from
us: for we are left a few among the
nations where thou hast scattered us.

14 Hear, O Lord, our prayers, and our
petitions, and deUver us for thy own
sake : and grant that we may find favour
in the sight of them that have led us
away:

15 That all the earth may know that
:hou art the Lord our God, and that thy
lame is called upon Israel, and upon his
Dosterity.

16 P Look down upon us, O Lord, from
hy holy house, and incline thy ear, and
lear us.

17 5 Open thy eyes, and behold : *" for
he dead that are in hell, whose spirit is
aken away from their bowels, shaU not
•ive glory and justice to the Lord:

18 But the soul that is sorrowful for

n Supra 1. 15. — o Dan. 9. 15.
p Deut 26. 15 ; Isa. 63. 15.

Chap. 2. Ver. 17. Justice, &c They that are in
all shall not give justice to God ; that is, they shall

the greatness of evil she hath done^ and
goeth bowed down, and feeble, and the
eyes that fail, and the hungry soul giveth
glory and justice to thee the Lord.

19 For it is not for the justices of our
fathers that we pour out our prayers,
and beg mercy in thy sight, O Lord our
God:

20 But because thou hast sent out thy
wrath, and thy indignation upon us, as
thou hast spoken by the hand of thy ser-
vants the prophets, saying:

21 Thus saith the Lord : Bow down your
shoulder, and your neck, and serve the
king of Babylon : and you shall remain
in the land which I have given to your
fathers.

22 But if you will not hearken to the
voice of the Lord your God, to serve the
king of Babylon : I will cause you to de-
part out of the cities of Juda, and from
without Jerusalem.

23 And I will take away from you the
voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, and
the voice of the bridegroom, and the
voice of the bride, and all the land shall
be without any footstep of inhabitants.

24 And they hearkened not to thy voice,
to serve the king of Babylon : and thou
hast made good thy words, which thou
spokest by the hands of thy servants the
prophets, that the bones of our kings,
and the bones of our fathers should be
removed out of their place:

25 And behold they are cast out to the
heat of the sun, and to the frost of the
night: and they have died in grievous
pains, by famine, and by the sword, and
in banishment.

26 And thou hast made the temple, in
which thy name was called upon, as it is
at this day, for the iniquity of the house
of Israel, and the house of Juda.

27 And thou hast dealt with us, O Lord
our God, according to all thy goodness,
and according to all that great mercy of
thine :

28 As thou spokest by the hand of thy
servant Moses, in the day when thou
didst command him to write thy law be-
fore the children of Israel,

29 Saying: *If you will not hear my
voice, this great multitude shall be turned

q Isa. 37. 17, and 64. 9. — r Ps. 113. 17.
S Lev. 26. 14 ; Deut. 28. 15.

not acknowledge and glorify his justice as peoitent
sinners do upon earth.

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B ARUCH Israel has forsaken way of wisdom

into a very small number among the na-
tions, where I will scatter them:

30 For I know that the people will not
hear me, for they are a people of a stiff
neck : but they shall turn to their heart
in the land of their captivity :

31 And they shall know that I am the
Lord their God : and I will give them a
heart, and they shall understand : and
ears, and they shall hear.

32 And they shall praise me in the land
of their captivity, and shall be mindful
of my name.

33 And they shall turn away themselves
from their stiff neck, and from their
wicked deeds : for they shall remember
the way of their fathers, that sinned
against me.

34 And I will bring them back again
into the land which I promised with an
oath to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and they shall be masters
thereof: and I will multiply them, and
they shall not be diminished.

35 And I will make with them another
covenant that shall be everlasting, to be
their God, and they shall be my people:
and I will no more remove my people,
the children of Israel, out of the land
that I have given them.

CHAPTER 3.

They pray for mercy, acknowledging that they are
justly punished for forsaking true wisdom. A
prophecy of Christ.

A ND now, O Lord Almighty, the God
J\. of Israel, the soul in anguish, and
the troubled spirit crieth to thee:

2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy, for
thou art a merciful God, and have pity
on us: for we have sinned before thee.

3 For thou remainest for ever, and shall
we perish everlastingly ?

4 O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel,
hear now the prayer of the dead of Isra-
el, and of their children, that have sinned
before thee, and ha\e not hearkened to
the voice of the Lord their God, where-
fore evils have cleaved fast to us.

5 Remember not the iniquities of our
fathers, but think upon thy hand, and
upon thy name at this time :

6 For thou art the Lord our God, and
we will praise thee, O Lord :

7 Because for this end thou hast put thy
fear in our hearts, to the intent that we

Chap. 3. Ver. 22. Theman. The capital city of
Edom.

should call upon thy name, and praise
thee in our captivity, for we are con-
verted from the iniquity of our fathers,
who sinned before thee.

8 And behold we are at this day in our
captivity, whereby thou hast scattered
us to be a reproach, and a curse, and an
offence, according to all the iniquities of
our fathers, who departed from thee, O
Lord our God.

9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of
hf e : give ear, that thou mayst learn wis-
dom.

10 How happeneth it, O Israel, that
thou art in thy enemies' land ?

11 Thou art grown old in a strange
country, thou art defiled with the dead :
thou art counted with them that go
down into hell.

12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of
wisdom :

13 For if thou hadst walked in the way
of God, thou hadst surely dwelt in peace
for ever.

14 Learn where is wisdom, where is
strength, where is understanding: that
thou mayst know also where is length of
days and hfe, where is the Jight of the
eyes, and peace.

15 Who hath found out her place ? and
who hath gone in to her treasures ?

16 Where are the princes of the nations,
and they that rule over the beasts that
are upon the earth?

17 That take their diversion with the
birds of the air.

18 That hoard up silver and gold, where-
in men trust, and there is no end of their
getting ? who work in silver and are so-
licitous, and their works are unsearch-
able.

19 They are cut off, and are gone down
to hell, and others are risen up in their
place.

20 Young men have seen the light, and
dwelt upon the earth: but the way of
knowledge they have not known,

21 Nor have they understood the paths
thereof, neither have their children re-
ceived it, it is far from their face.

22 It hath not been heard of in the land
of Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in
Theman.

23 The children of Agar also, that search
after the wisdom that is of the earth, the

Ver. 23. Agar. The mother of the Ismaelites.

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Wisdom is from God

merchants of Merrha, and of Theman,
and the tellers of fables, and search-
ers of prudence and understanding:
but the way of wisdom they have not
known, neither have they remembered
her paths.

24 O Israel, how great is the house of
God, and how vast is the place of his
possession!

25 It is great, and bath no end: it is
high and immense.

26 There were the giants, those re-
nowned men that were from the begin-
ning, of great stature, expert in war.

27 The Lord chose not them, neither
did they find the way of knowledge:
therefore did they perish.

28 And because they had not wisdom,
they perished through their folly.

29 Who hath gone up into heaven, and
taken her, and brought her down from
the clouds?

30 Who hath passed over the sea, and
found her, and brought her preferably
to chosen gold?

31 There is none that is able to know
her ways, nor that can search out her
paths :

32 But he that knoweth all things,
knoweth her, and hath found her out
with his understanding : . e that pre-
pared the earth for evermore, and filled
it with cattle and fourfoo^ed beasts :

33 He that sendeth forth light, and it
goeth : and hath called it, and it obeyeth
him with trembling.

34 And the stars have given light in
their watches, and rejoiced :

35 They were called, and they said :
Here we are : and with cheerfulness
they have shined forth to him that made
them.

36 This is our God, and there shall no
other be accounted of in comparison of
him.

37 He found out all the way of know-
ledge, and gave it to Jacob his servant,
and to Israel his beloved.

38 Afterwards he was seen upon earth,
and conversed with men.

CHAPTER 4.

The prophet exhorts to the keeping of the law of
wisdom, and encourages the people to be patient,
and to hope for their deliverance.

Ver. 38. Was seen upon earth, &c., viz., by the
mystery of the incarnation, by means of which the
son of God came visibly amongst us, and coDversed

BARUCH Exhortation to Jceep law of wisdom

rpHIS is the book of the command-
X ments of God, and the law, that is
for ever: all they that keep it, shall
come to life: but they that have for-
saken it, to death.

2 Return, O Jacob, and take hold of it,
walk in the way by its brightness, in the
presence of the light thereof.

3 Give not thy honour to another, nor
thy dignity to a strange nation.

4 We are happy, O Israel : because the
things that are pleasing to God, are made
known to us.

5 Be of good comfort, O people of God,
the memorial of Israel:

6 You have been sold to the Gentiles,
not for your destruction: but because
you provoked God to wrath, you are de-
livered to your adversaries.

7 For you have provoked him who made
you, the eternal God, offering sacrifice to
devils,, and not to God.

8 For you have forgotten God, who
brought you up, and you have grieved
Jerusalem that nursed you.

9 For she saw the wrath of God coming
upon you, and she said : Give ear, all you
that dwell near Sion, for God hath brought
upon me great mourning :

10 For I have seen the captivity of my
people, of my sons, and my daughters,
which the Eternal hath brought upon
them.

11 For I nourished them with joy : but
I sent them away with weeping and
mourning.

12 Let no man rejoice over me, a widow,
and desolate : I am forsaken of many for
the sins of my children, because they de-
parted from the law of God.

13 And they have not known his jus-
tices, nor walked by the ways of God^s
commandments, neither have they en-
tered by the paths of his truth and justice.

14 Let them that dwell about Sion come,
and remember the captivity of my sons
and daughters, which the Eternal hath
brought upon them.

15 For he hath brought a nation upon
them from afar, a wicked nation, and of
a strange tongue :

16 Who have neither reverenced the
ancient, nor pitied children, and have
carried away the beloved of the widow.

with men. The prophets often speak of things to
come as if they were past, to express the certainty
of the event of the things foretold.

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Exhortation to hope and patience BARUCH

and have left me all alone without chil
dren.

The return from captivity

17 But as for me, what help can I give
you?

18 But he that hath brought the evils
upon you, he will deUver you out of the
hands of your enemies.

19 Go your way, my children, go your
way: for I am left alone.

20 I have put off the robe of peace, and
have put upon me the sackcloth of sup-
plication, and 1 will cry to the most High
in my days.

21 Be of good comfort, my children, cry
to the Lord, and he will deliver you out
of the hand of the princes your enemies.

22 For my hope is in the Eternal that
he will save you : and joy is come upon
me from the Holy One, because of the
mercy which shall come to you from our
everlasting Saviour.

23 For I sent you forth with mourning
and weeping : but the Lord will bring you
back to me with joy and gladness for ever.

24 For as the neighbours of Sion have
now seen your captivity from God: so
shall they also shortly see your salvation
from God, which shall come upon you
with great honour, and everlasting glory.

25 My children, suffer patiently the
Wrath that is come upon you: for thy
enemy hath persecuted thee, but thou
Shalt quickly see his destruction : and
thou shalt get up upon his neck.

26 My delicate ones have walked rough
ways, for they were taken away as a flock
made a prey by the enemies.

27 Be of good comfort, my children, and
cry to the Lord : for you shall be remem-
bered by him that hath led you away.

28 For as it was your mind to go astray
from God ; so when you return again you
shall seek him ten times as much.

29 For he that hath brought evils upon
you, shall bring you everlasting joy again
with your salvation.

30 Be of good heart, O Jerusalem : for
he exhorteth thee, that named thee.

31 The wicked that have afflicted thee,
shall perish : and they that have rejoiced
at thy ruin, shall be punished.

32 The cities which thy children have
served, shall be punished : and she that
received thy sons.

t Infra 5. 5.

33 For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and
was glad of thy fall : so shall she be
grieved for her own desolation.

34 And the joy of her multitude shall
be cut off : and her gladness shall be
turned to mourning.

35 For fire shall come upon her from the
Eternal, long to endure, and she shall be
inhabited by devils for a great time.

36 *Look about thee, O Jerusalem, to-
wards the east, and behold the joy that
Cometh to thee from God.

37 For behold thy children come, whom
thou sentest away scattered, they come
gathered together from the east even to
the west, at the word of the Holy One
rejoicing for the honour of God.

CHAPTER 6.

Jerusalem is invited to rejoice and behold the return
of her children out of their captivity.

PUT off, O Jerusalem, the garment of
thy mourning, and affliction : and
put on the beauty, and honour of that
everlasting glory which thou hast from
God.

2 God will clothe thee with the double
garment of justice, and will set a crown
on thy head of everlasting honour.

3 For God will shew his brightness in
thee, to every one under heaven.

4 For thy name shall be named to thee
by God for ever : the peace of justice, and
honour of piety.

5 Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on
high : '^ and look about towards the east,
and behold thy children gathered to-
gether from the rising to the setting sun,
by the word of the Holy One rejoicing in
the remembrance of God.

6 For they went out from thee on foot,
led by the enemies : but the Lord will
bring them to thee exalted with honour
as children of the kingdom.

7 For God hath appointed to bring down
every high mountain, and the everlasting
rocks, and to fill up the valleys to make
them even with the ground : that Israel
may walk diligently to the honour of
Godo

8 Moreover the woods, and every sweet-
smelling tree have overshadowed Israel
by the commandment of God.

9 For God will bring Israel with joy in

u Supra 4. 36.

Chap. 4, Ver.32, /Sfte e^a« received, &c» viz^ Babylon.
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Jeremias warns against idolatry BARUCH

Vanity of idols

the light of his majesty, with mercy, and
justice, that cometh from him.

CHAPTER 6.

The epistle of Jeremias to the captives, as a present
ative against idolatry.

A COPY ^ of the epistle that Jeremias
sent to them that were to be led
away captives into Babylon, by the king
of Babylon, to declare to them according
to what was commanded him by God.

1 FOR the sins that you have com-
mitted before God, you shall be carried
away captives into Babylon by Nabu-
chodonosor the king of Babylon.

2 And when you are come into Babylon,
you shall be there many years, and for a
long time, even to seven generations:
and after that I will bring you away
from thence with peace.

3 ^ But now, you shall see in Babylon
gods of gold, and of silver, and of stone,
and of wood borne upon shoulders, caus-
ing fear to the Gentiles.

4 Beware therefore that you imitate not
the doings of others, and be afraid, and
the fear of them should seize upon you.

6 But when you see the multitude be-
hind, and before, adoring them, say you
in your hearts: Thou oughtest to be
adored, O Lord.

6 For my angel is with you: And I my-
self will demand an account of your souls.

7 For their tongue that is polished by
the craftsman, and themselves laid over
with gold and silver, are false things,
and they cannot speak.

8 And as if it were for a maiden that
loveth to go gay : so do they take gold
and make them up.

9 Their gods have golden crowns upon
their heads : whereof the priests secretly
convey away from them gold, and silver,
and bestow it on themselves.

10 Yea and they give thereof to prosti-
tutes, and they dress out harlots: and
again when they receive it of the har-
lots, they adorn their gods.

11 And these gods cannot defend them-
selves from the rust, and the moth.

12 But when they have covered them
with a purple garment, they wipe their
face because of the dust of the house,
which is very much among them.

V See Jer. 25. 9.

13 This holdeth a sceptre as a man, as
a judge of the country, but cannot put
to death one that offendeth him.

14 And this hath in his hand a sword,
or an axe, but cannot save himself from
war, or from robbers, whereby be it
known to you, that they are not gods.

15 Therefore fear them not. For as a
vessel that a man uses when it is broken
becometh useless, even so are their gods :

16 When they are placed in the house,
their eyes are full of dust by the feet of
them that go in.

17 And as the gates are made sure on
every side upon one that hath offended
the king, or like a dead man carried to the
grave, so do the priests secure the doors
with bars and locks, It/St they be stripped
by thieves.

18 They light candles to them, and in
great number, of which they cannot see
one : but they are like beams in the house.

19 And they say that the creeping things
which are of the earth, gnaw their hearts,
while they eat them and their garments,
and they feel it not.

20 Their faces are black with the smoke
that is made in the house.

21 Owls, and swallows, and other birds
fly upon their bodies, and upon their
heads, and cats in like manner.

22 Whereby you may know that they
are no gods. Therefore fear them not.

23 The gold also which they have, is
for shew, but except a man wipe off the
riist, they will not shine: for neither
when they were molten, did they feel it.

24 Men buy them at a high price,
whereas there is no breath in them.

25 ^ And having not the use of feet
they are carried upon shoulders, declar-
ing to men how vile they are. Be they
confounded also that worship them.

26 Therefore if they fall to the ground,
they rise not up again of themselves,
nor if a man set them upright, will they
stand by themselves, but their gifts shall
be set before them, as to the dead.

27 The things that are sacrificed to them,
their priests sell and abuse : in like man-
ner also their wives take part of them,
but give nothing of it either to the sicl^
or to the poor.

28 The childbearing and menstruous

w Isa. 44. 10. — X Isa. 46. 7.

Chap. 6. Ver. 2. Seven {fenerations. That is, seventy years.

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BARUCH

women touch their sacrifices: knowing
therefore by these things that they are
not gods, fear them not.

29 For how can they be called gods?
because women set offerings before the
gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood :

30 And priests sit in their temples, hav-
ing their garments rent, and their heads
and beards shaven, and nothing upon
their heads.

31 And they roar and cry before their
gods, as men do at the feast when one is
dead.

32 The priests take away their garments,
and clothe their wives and their children.

33 And whether it be evil that one doth
unto them, or good, they are not able to
recompense it : neither can they set up
a king nor put him down :

34 In like manner they can neither give
riches, nor requite evil. If a man make
a vow to them, and perform it not, they
cannot require it.

35 They cannot deliver a man from death
nor save the weak from the mighty.

36 They cannot restore the blind man to
his sight: nor deliver a man from distress.

37 They shall not pity the widow, nor
do good to the fatherless.

38 Their gods, of wood, and of stone,
and of gold, and of silver, are like the
stones that are hewn out of the moun-
tains : and they that worship them shall
be confounded.

39 How then is it to be supposed, or to
be said, that they are gods ?

40 Even the Chaldeans themselves dis-

Vanity of idols

them, are false: how is it then to be
thought, or to be said, that they ar<
gods?

45 And the> are made by workmen, and
by goldsmiths. They shall be nothing
else but what the priests will have them
to be.

46 For the artificers themselves that
make them, are of no long continuance.
Can those things then that are made by
them be gods?

47 But they have left false things and
reproach to them that come after.

48 For when war cometh upon them, or
evils, the priests consult with them-
selves where they may hide themselves
with them.

49 How then can they be thought to be
gods, that can neither deliver themselves
from war, nor save themselves from evils?

50 For seeing they are but of wood, and
laid over with gold, and with silver, it
shall be known hereafter that they are
false things, by all nations and kings:
and it shall be manifest that they are no
gods, but the work of men's hands, and
that there is no work of God in them.

51 Whence therefore is it known tha*
they are not gods, but the work of men's
hands, and no work of God is in them?

52 They cannot set up a king over the
land, nor give rain to men.

53 They determine no causes, nor de-
Hver countries from oppression ; because
they can do nothing, and are as daws
between heaven and earth.

54 For when fire shall fall upon the

honour them: who when they hear of house of these gods of wood, and of sil-

one dumb that cannot speak, they pre-
sent him to Bel, entreating him, that he
may speak,

41 As though they could be sensible
that have no motion themselves : and
they, when they shall perceive this, will
leave them: for their gods themselves
have no sense.

42 The women also with cords about
them, sit in the ways, burning olive
stones.

43 And when any one of them, drawn
away by some passenger, lieth with him,
she upbraideth her neighbour, that she
was not thought as worthy as herself,
nor her cord broken.

44 But all things that are done about

ver, and of gold, their priests indeed will
flee away, and be saved : but they them-
selves shall be burnt in the midst like
beams.

55 And they cannot withstand a king
and war. How then can it be supposed,
or admitted that they are gods ?

56 Neither are these gods of wood, and
of stone, and laid over with gold, and
with silver, able to deliver themselves
from thieves or robbers: they that are
stronger than them

57 Shall take from them the gold, and
silver, and the raiment wherewith they
are clothed, and shall go their way, nei-
ther shall they help themselves.

58 Therefore it is better to be a king

Ver. 56. They that are stronger than them. That is, robbers and thieves are stronger than these

idols, being things without life or motion.

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Helplessness of idols

that sheweth his power: or else a profit-
able vessel in the house, with which the
owner thereof will be well satisfied: or
a door in the house, to keep things safe
that are therein, than such false gods.

59 The sun, and the moon, and the stars
being bright, and sent forth for profit-
able uses, are obedient.

60 In like manner the lightning, when
it breaketh forth, is easy to be seen : and
after the same manner the wind bloweth
in every country.

61 And the clouds when God command-
eth them to go over the whole world, do
that which is commanded them.

62 The fire also being sent from above
to consume mountains and woods, doth
as it is commanded. But these neither
in shew, nor in power are like to any one
of them.

63 Wherefore it is neither to be thought,
nor to be said, that they are gods : since
they are neither able to judge causes,
nor to do any good to men.

64 Knowing therefore that they arc not
gods, fear them not.

65 For neither can they curse kings, nor
bless them.

66 Neither do they shew signs in the
heaven to the nations, nor shine as the
sun, nor give light as the moon.

67 Beasts are better than they, which
can fly under a covert, and help them-
selves.

68 Therefore there is no manner of ap-
pearance that they are gods: so fear
them noto

69 For as a scarecrow in a garden of
cucumbers keepeth nothing, so are their
gods of wood, and of silver, and laid over
with gold.

70 They are no better than a white
thorn in a garden, upon which every bird
sitteth. In like manner also their gods
of wood, and laid over with gold, and
with silver, are like to a dead body cast
forth in the dark.

71 By the purple also and the scarlet
which are motheaten upon them, you
shall know that they are not gods. And
they themselves at last are consumed,
and shall be a reproach in the coun-
try.

72 Better therefore is the just man that
hath no idols : for he shall be far from
reproach.

THE

PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL.

EZECHIEL was of the j/riestly race; and of the number of captives that were carried
av)ay to Babylon with king Joachin in B. C. 598. He was chosen to act as God's
spokesman in B.C. 594; and continued his ministry till at least B.C. 572. Some
of his prophecies were addressed to his fellow -captives, some to those who had
remained in the Holy Land, and some to the entire nation.

CHAPTER 1.

The time of EzechieVs prophecy ;
vision.

he sees a glorious

NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth
year, y in the fourth month., on the
fifth day of the month, when I was in the
midst of the captives ^ by the river Cho-
bar, the heavens were opened, and I saw
the visions of God.

2 On the fifth day of the month, the
same was the fifth year of the captivity
ef king Joachin,

y B. C. 594.

Chap. l. Ver. l. The thirtieth year. Either of
the age of Ezechiel ,• or, as others will have it, fiom

3 The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel
the priest the son of Buzi in the land of
the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and
the hand of the Lord was there upon
him.

4 And I saw, and behold a whirlwind
came out of the north: and a great cloud,
and a fire infolding if, and brightness
was about it: and out of the midst
thereof, that is, out of the midst of the
fire, as it were the resemblance of am-
ber:

g Infra 3. 23, and 10. 20, and 43. 3.

the solemn covenant made in the eighteenth year ol
the reign of Josias. 4 Kings 23.

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Vio'ion of the cherubim

EZECHIEL

Vision of the cherubim

5 And in the midst thereof the likeness
of four living creatures: and this was
their appearance : there was the likeness
of a man in them.

6 Every one had four faces, and every
one four wings,

7 Their feet were straight feet, and the
sole of their foot was like the sole of a
calf's foot, and they sparkled like the ap-
pearance of glowing brass.

B And they had the hands of a man under
their wings on their four sides : and they
had faces, and wings on the four sides,

9 And the wings of one were joined to
the wings of another. They turned not
when they went: but every one went
straight forward.

10 And as for the likeness of their faces:
there was the face of a man, and the face
of a lion on the right side of all the four :
and the face of an ox, on the left side of
all the four : and the face of an eagle
over all the four.

11 And their faces, and their wings were
stretched upward : two wings of every
one were joined, and two covered their
bodies :

12 And everyone of them went straight
forward: whither the impulse of the
spirit was to go, thither they went : and
they turned not when they went»

13 And as for the Ukeness of the living
creatures, their appearance was like that
of burning coals of fire, and like the ap-
pearance of lamps. This was the vision
running to and fro in the midst of the
living creatures, a bright fire, and light-
ning going forth from the fire.

14 And the living creatures ran and
returned like flashes of lightning.

15 Now as I beheld the living creatures,
there appeared upon the e»rth by the
living creatures one wheel with four
faces.

16 And the appearance of the wheels,
and the work of them was like the ap-
pearance of the sea: and the four had
all one likeness: and their appearance
and their work was as it were a wheel in
the midst of a wheel.

Ver. 5. Living creatures, Chernbims (as appears
from Ecclesiasticus 49. 10) represented to the prophet
under these mysterious shapes, as supporting the
throne of God, and as it were drawing his chariot.
All this chapter appeared so obscure, and full of
mysteries, to the ancient Hebrews, that, as we learn

17 When they went, they went by their
four parts: and they turned not when
they went.

18 The wheels had also a size, and a
height, and a dreadful appearance : " and
the whole body was full of eyes round
about all the four.

19 And when the living creatures went,
the wheels also went together by them :
and when the living creatures were lifted
up from the earth, the wheels also were
hfted up with them.

20 Whithersoever the spirit went, thi-
ther as the spirit went the wheels also
were lifted up withal, and followed it:
for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

21 When those went these went, and
when those stood these stood, and when
those were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels also were lifted up together, and
followed them : for the spirit of life was
in the wheels.

22 And over the heads of the living
creatures was the likeness of the firma-
ment, as the appearance of crystal terri
ble to behold, and stretched out over
their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their
wings straight, the one toward the other,
every one with two wings covered his
body, and the other was covered in like
manner.

24 And I heard the noise of their wings,
like the noise of many waters, as it were
the voice of the most high God: when
they walked, it was like the voice of a
multitude, like the noise of nn army, and
when they stood, their wings were let
down.

25 For when a voice came from above
the firmament, that was over their heads,
they stood, and let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that wae
over their heads, was the likeness of a
throne, as the appearance of the sap
phire stone, and upon the likeness of the
throne, was a likeness as of the appear
ance of a man above upon it.

27 And I saw as it were the resemblance
of amber as the appearance of fire withir

a Infra 10. 12.

from St. Jerome, (Ep. ad Paulin.,) they suffered non
to read it before they were thirty years old.

Ver. 17. When they v)ent, they went by their fou
parts. That is, indifferently to any of their side
either forward or backward: to the riglit or to th
left

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The prophefs commission

EZECHIEL

The prophet eats the book

it round about: from his loins and up-
ward, and from his loins downward, I saw
as it were the resemblance of fire shining
round about.
28 As the appearance of the rainbow
when it is in a cloud on a rainy day : this
was the appearance of the brightness
round about.

CHAPTER 2.

The prophet receives his commission.

THIS * was the vision of the likeness
of the glory of the Lord» And I saw,
and I fell upon my face, and I heard the
voice of one that spoke. And he said to
me: Son of man, stand upon thy feet,
and I will speak to thee.

2 And the spirit entered into me after
that he spoke to me, and he set me upon
my feet: and I heard him speaking to
me,

3 And saying : Son of man, I send thee
to the children of Israel, to a rebellious
people, that hath revolted from me, they,
and their fathers, have transgressed my
covenant even unto this day.

4 And they to whom I send thee are
children of a hard face, and of an obsti-
nate heart : and thou shalt say to them :
Thus saith the Lord God :

5 If so be they at least will hear, and if
BO be they will forbear, for they are a
provoking house : and they shall know
that there hath been a prophet in the
midst of them.

6 And thou, O son of man, fear not, nei-
ther be thou afraid of their words : for
thou art among unbelievers and destroy-
ers, and thou dwellest with scorpions.
Fear not their words, neither be thou
dismayed at their looks : for they are a
provoking house.

7 And thou shalt speak my words to
them, if perhaps they will hear, and for-
bear : for they provoke me to anger.

8 But thou, O son of man, hear all that
I say to thee : and do not thou provoke
me, as that house provoketh me : open
thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.

9 And I looked, and behold, a hand was
sent to me, wherein was a book rolled
up : and he spread it before me, ^ and it
was written within and without : and

bB. C. 594. — c Apoc. 5. l. — d A. M. 3409.

Chap. 3. Ver. 1, Eat this book, and go speak to
therhiJdren of Israel. By this eating of the book
was signified * the diligent attention and affection

there were written in it lamentations,
and canticles, and woe.

CHAPTER 3.

The prophet eats the book, and receives further in-
structions : the office of a watchman.

AND ^ he said to me : Son of man, eat
_ all that thou shalt find: eat this
book, and go speak to the children of
Israel.

2 And I opened my mouth, and he
caused me to eat that book :

3 And he said to me : Son of man, thy
belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be
filled with this book, which I give thee.
* And I did eat it : and it was sweet as
honey in my mouth.

4 And he said to me : Son of man, go to
the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak
my words to them.

5 For thou art not sent to a people of
a profound speech, and of an unknown
tongue, but to the house of Israel :

6 Nor to many nations of a strange
speech, and of an unknown tongue,
whose words thou canst not understand:
and if thou wert sent to them, they would
hearken to thee.

7 But the house of Israel will not heark-
en to thee : because they will not hearken
to me : for all the house of Israel are of
a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.

8 Behold I have made thy face stronger
than their faces : and thy forehead harder
than their foreheads.

9 I have made thy face like an adamant
and like flint : fear them not, neither be
thou dismayed at their presence : for
they are a provoking house.

10 And he said to me : Son of man, re-
ceive in thy heart, and hear with thy
ears, all the words that I speak to thee :

11 And go get thee in to them of the
captivity, to the children of thy people,
and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt
say to them : Thus saith the Lord : If so
be they will hear and will forbear.

12 And the spirit took me up, and I
heard behind me the voice of a great
commotion, saying: Blessed he the glory
of the Lord, from his place.

13 And the noise of the wings of the
living creatures striking one against an-

e Apoc. 10. 9 and 10.

with which we are to receive, and embrace the word
of God; and to let it, as it were, sink into our inte-
rior by devout meditation.

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The watchman in Israel

EZECHIEL Figure of the siege of Jerusalem

other, and the noise of the wheels follow-
ing the living creatures, and the noise of
a great commotion.

14 The spirit also lifted me, and took
me up : and I went away in bitterness in
the indignation of my spirit : for the
hand of the Lord was with me, strength-
ening me.

15 And I came to them of the captivity,
to the heap of new corn, to them that
dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat
where they sat : and I remained there
seven days mourning in the midst of
them.

16 And at the end of seven days the
word of the Lord came to me, saying :

17 -^ Son of man, I have made thee a
watchman to the house of Israel : and
thou shalt hear the word out of my
mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

18 If, when I say to the wicked. Thou
shalt surely die: thou declare it not to
kim, nor speak to him, that he may be
converted from his wicked way, and live:
the same wicked man shall die in his
iniquity, but I will require his blood at
thy hand.

19 But if thou give warning to the wick-
ed, and he be not converted from his
wickedness, and from his evil way: he
indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou
hast delivered thy soul.

20 Moreover if the just man shall turn
away from his justice, and shall commit
iniquity; I will lay a stumblingblock be-
fore him, he shall die, because thou hast
not given him warning: he shall die in
his sin, and his justices which he hath
done, shall not be remembered : but I
will require his blood at thy hand.

21 But if thou warn the just man, that
the just may not sin, and he doth not sin:
living he shall Uve, because thou hast
warned him, and thou hast deHvered thy
soul.

22 And the hand of the Lord was upon
me, and he said to me : Rise and go forth
into the plain- and there I will speak to
thee.

23 And I rose up, and went forth into
the plain : and behold the glory of the
Lord stood there, like the glory which
^ I saw by the river Chobar : and I fell
upon my face.

/ Infra 33. 7. — g Supra 1. 3.

24 And the spirit entered into me, and
set me upon my feet : and he spoke to
me, and said to me : Go in ; and shut
thyself up in the midst of thy house.

25 And thou, O son of man, behold they
shall put bands upon thee, and they shall
bind thee with them : and thou shalt not
go forth from the midst of them.

26 And I will make thy tongue stick fast
to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt
be dumb, and not as a man that reprov-
eth : because they are a provoking house.

27 But when I shall speak to thee, I will
open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to
them : Thus saith the Lord God : He that
hearethjlet him hear: and he that for
beareth, let him forbear : for they are a
provoking house.

CHAPTER 4.

A prophetic description of the siege of Jerusalem,
and the famine that shall reign there.

A ND thou, O son of man, take thee a
JL^ tile, and lay it before thee ; and
draw upon it the plan of the city o^
Jerusalem.

2 And lay siege against it, and build forts,
and cast up a mount, and set a camp
against it, and place battering rams rounc
about it

3 And take unto thee an iron pan, anc
set it for a wall of iron between thee anc
tho city: and set thy face resolutelj
against it, and it shaU be besieged, anc
thou shalt lay siege against it: it is i
sign to the house of Israel.

4 And thou shalt sleep upon thy lef
side, and shalt lay the iniquities of th(
house of Israel upon it, according to th€ || j
number of the days that thou shalt sleej * ''
upon it, and thou shalt take upon thet
their iniquity.

6 And I have laid upon thee the years o
their iniquity, according to the numbe:
of the days three hundred and ninety
days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity o
the house of Israel.

6 And when thou hast accomplishes
this, thou shalt sleep again upon th^
right side, * and thou shalt take upon the»
the iniquity of the house of Juda fort^
days : a day for a year, yea, a day for
year I have appointed to thee."^

7 And thou shalt turn thy face to th«

i Num. 13. 34. — j Jer. 52. 30.

Ver. 15. The heap of new corn. It was the name of a place ; in Hebrew, tel abib.

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Figure of the famine of Jerusalem EZECHIEL

Figure of the shorn hair

siege of Jerusalem, and thy arm shall be
stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy
against it.

8 Behold I have encompassed thee with
bands: and thou shalt not turn thyself
from one side to the other, till thou hast
ended the days of thy siege.

9 And take to thee wheat and barley,
and beans, and lentils, and millet, and
fitches, and put them in one vessel, and
make thee bread thereof according to
the number of the days that thou shalt
lie upon thy side: three hundred and
ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy meat that thou shalt eat,
shall be in weight twenty staters a day :
from time to time thou shalt eat it.

11 And thou shalt drink water by mea-
sure, the sixth part of a hin : from time
to time ;}hou shalt drink it,

12 And thou shalt eat it as barley bread
baked under the ashes: and thou shalt
cover it, in their sight, with the dung
that Cometh out of a man.

13 And the Lord said: So shall the chil-
dren of Israel ^ eat their bread all filthy
among the nations whither I will cast
them outc

14 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God,
beholQ my soul hath not been defiled,
«md from my infancy even till now, I
have not eaten any thing that died of
itself, or was torn by beasts, and no
unclean flesh hath entered into my
mouth.

15 And he said to me : Behold I have
l^iven thee neat's dung for man's dung,
and thou shalt make thy bread there-
with.

16 And he said to me: Son of man:
' Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of
bread in Jerusalem : and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care : and they
shall drink water by measure, and in dis-
tress.

17 So that when bread and water fail,
every man may fall against his brother,
and they may pine away in their iniqui-
ties.

CHAPTER 5.

The judgments of God upon the Jews arc foreshewn
under the type of the propheVs hair.

AND thou, son of man, take thee a
f^ sharp knife that shaveth the hair :

k Osee 9. 4. — i Infra 5. 16, and 14. 13.

and cause it to pass over thy head, and
over thy beard : and take thee a balance
to weigh in, and divide the hair.

2 A third part thou shalt burn with fire
in the midst of the city, according to the
fulfilling of the days of the siege : and
thou shalt take a third part, and cut it
in pieces with the knife all round about:
and the other third part thou shalt scatter
in the wind, and I will draw out the sword
after them.

3 And thou shalt take thereof a small
number: and shalt bind them in the
skirt of thy cloak.

4 And thou shalt take of them again,
and shalt cast them in the midst of the
fire, and shalt burn them with fire : and
out of it shall come forth a fire into all
the house of Israel.

5 Thus saith the Lord God: This is Je-
rusalem, I have set her in the midst of
the nations, and the countries round
about her.

6 And she hath despised my judgments,
so as to be more wicked than the Gen-
tiles; and my commandments, more than
the countries that are round about her :
for they have cast off my judgments,
and have not walked in my command-
ments.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Because you have surpassed the Gentiles
that are round about you, and have not
walked in my commandments, and have
not kept my judgments, and have not
done according to the judgments of the
nations that are round about you :

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Behold I come against thee, and I myself
will execute judgments in the midst of
thee in the sight of the Gentiles.

9 And I will do in thee that which I
have not done : and the like to which I
will do no more, because of all thy
abominations.

10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the
sons in the midst of thee, and the sons
shall eat their fathers : and I will execute
judgments in thee, and I wiU scatter thy
whole remnant into every wind.

11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord
God : Because thou hast violated my sanc-
tuary with all thy offences, and with all
thy abominations : I will also break thee

Chap. 4. Ver. IL Hin.

That is, a measure of liquids containing about ten pints.
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The judgment of Jerusalem EZECHIEL Israel punished for her idolatry

in pieces, and my eye shall not spare,
and I will not have any pity.

12 A third part of thee shall die with
the pestilence, and shall be consumed
with famine in the midst of thee : and a
third part of thee shall fall by the sword
round about thee : and a third part of
thee will I scatter into every wind, and I
will draw out a sword after fchem.

13 ** And I will accomplish my fury, and
will cause my indignation to rest upon
them, and I will be comforted : and fchey
shall know that I the Lord have spoken
it in my zeal, when I shall have accom-
plished my indignation in them.

14 And I will make thee desolate, and
a reproach among the nations that are
round about thee, in the sight of every
one that passe th by.

15 And thou shalt be a reproach, and a
scoff, an example, and an astonishment
amongst the nations that are round about
thee, when I shall have executed judg-
ments in thee in anger, and in indigna-
tion, and in wrathful rebukes.

16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I
shall send upon them the grievous ar-
rows of famine, which shall bring death,
and which I will send to destroy you :
and I will gather together famine against
you: *^and I will break among you the
staff of bread.

17 And I will send in upon you famine,
and evil beasts unto utter destruction:
and pestilence, and blood shall pass
through thee, and I will bring in the
sword upon thee. I the Lord have spo-
ken it.

CHAPTER 6.

The punishment of Israel for their idolatry: a
remnant shall he blessed.

AND the word of the Lord came to
. me, saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face towards the
mountains of Israel, and prophesy against
them.

3 And say : ^ Ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord God : Thus
Baith the Lord God to the mountains,
and to the hills, and to the rocks, and
the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon
you the sword, and I will destroy your
high places.

4 And I will throw down your altars,
and your idols shall be broken in pieces :

n Zach. 1. 8. — o Supra 4. 16 ; Infra 14. 13.

and I will cast down your slain before
your idols.

6 And I will lay the dead carcasses of
the children of Israel before your idols:
and I will scatter your bones round about
your altars,

6 In all your dwelling places. The cities
shall be laid waste, and the high places
shall be thrown down, and destroyed,
and your altars shall be aboHshed, and
shall be broken in pieces : and your idols
shall be no more, and your temples shall
be destroyed, and your works shall be
defaced.

7 And the slain shall fall in the midst
of you : and you shall know that I am
the Lord.

8 And I will leave in you some that
shall escape the sword among the na-
tions, when I shall have scattered you
through the countries.

9 And they that are saved of you shal)
remember me amongst the nations to
which they are carried captives : because
I have broken their heart that was faith-
less, and revolted from me: and their
eyes that went a fornicating after their
idols : and they shall be displeased with
themselves because of the evils which
they have committed in all their abomi
nations.

10 And they shall know that I the Lord
have not spoken in vain that I would dc
this evil to them.

11 Thus saith the Lord God : Strike witl
thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, anc
say: Alas, for all the abominations o
the evils of the house of Israel i for the;
shall fall by the sword, by the famine
and by the pestilence.

12 He that is far off shall die of the pes
tilence : and he that is near, shall fall b;
the sword : and he that remaineth, an
is besieged, shall die by the famine : an
I will accomplish my indignation upo
them.

13 And you shall know that I am tb
Lord, when your slain shall be amongf
your idols, round about your altars, i
every high hill, and on all the tops (
mountains, and under every woody tre
and under every thick oak, the pla(
where they burnt sweet smelhng franl
incense to all their idols.

14 And I will stretch forth my har

g Infra 36. 2.

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Final desolation of Israel

upon them: and I will make the land
Jeeolate, a,nd abandoned from the desert
jf Deblatha in all their dwelling places :
and they shall know that I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 7.

Th,e final desolation of Israel : from which few
shall escape.

AND the word of the Lord came to
/x me, saying:

2 And thou son of man, thus saith the
Lord God to the land of Israel: The end
Id come, the end is come upon the four
quarters of the land,
f Now is an end come upon thee, and
i ;rill send my wrath upon thee, and I
will judge thee according to thy ways :
and I will set all thy abominations against
thee.

4 And my eye shall not spare thee, and
I will shew thee no pity : but I will lay
thy ways upon thee, and thy abomina-
tions shall be in the midst of thee : and
vQu shall know that I am the Lord.

5 Thus saith the Lord God : One aflflic-
tion, behold an affliction is come.

6 An end is come, the end is come, it
hath awaked against thee: behold it is
come.

7 Destruction is come upon thee that
dwellest in the land : the time is come,
the day of slaughter is near, and not of
the joy of mountains.

8 Now very shortly I will pour out my
wrath upon thee, and I will accomplish
my anger in thee : and I will judge thee
according to thy ways, and I will lay
apon thee all thy crimes.

9 And my eye shall not spare, neither
,«^ill I shew mercy: but I will lay thy
vays upon thee, and thy abominations
ihall be in the midst of thee : and you
ihall know that I am the Lord that
itrike.

10 Behold the day, behold it is come:
ilestruction is gone forth, the rod hath
•lossomed, pride hath budded.

11 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of
tnpiety : nothing of them shall remain,
lor of their people, nor of the noise of
|hem: and there shall be no rest among
|hem.

12 The time is come, the day is at hand :
ft not the buyer rejoice : nor the seller

EZECHIEL

s Isa. 15. 2 ; Jer. 48. 37.

Chap t. Ver. 22. Secret place^ &c.
^ard sanctuary, the holy of holies.

A Jew shall escape

mourn : for wrath is upon all the people
thereof.

13 For the seller shall not return to
that which he hath sold, although their
life be yet among the living. For the
vision which regardeth all the multitude
thereof, shall not go back : neither shall
man be strengthened in the iniquity of
his Hfe.

14 Blow the trumpet, let all be made
ready, yet there is none to go to the bat-
tle: for my wrath shaU be upon aU the
people thereof.

^6 The sword without: and the pesti-
lence, and the famine within: he that is
in the field shall die by the sword : and
they that are in the city, shall be de-
voured by the pestilence, and the famine.

16 And such of them as shall flee shall
escape : and they shall be in the moun-
tains like doves of the valleys, all of
them trembling, every one for his in-
iquity.

17 All hands shall be made feeble, and
all knees shall run with water.

18 ®And they shall gird themselves
with haircloth, and fear shall cover them,
and shame shall be upon every face, and
baldness upon all their heads.

19 Their silver shcill be cast forth, and
their gold shall become a dunghill.
* Their silver and their gold shall not be
able to deliver them in the day of the
wrath of the Lord. They shall not sat-
isfy their soul, and their bellies shall not
be filled : because it hath been the stum-
blingblock of their iniquity.

20 And they have turned the ornament
of their jewels into pride, and have made
of it the images of their abominations,
and idols : therefore I have made it an
uncleanness to them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of
strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of
the earth for a prey, and they shall defile
it.

22 And I will turn away my face from
them, and they shall violate my secret
place: and robbers shaU enter into it, and
defile it.

23 Make a shutting up : for the land is
full of the judgment of blood, and the
city is full of iniquity.

24 And I will bring the worst of the

t Prov. 11. 4; Soph. 1. 18 ; Eccli. 5. 10 and 13.

Viz., the Ver. 23. Make a shutting up. In Hebrew, a
chain, viz., for imprisonment and captivity.

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The vision

EZECHIEL The aborn {nations in Jerusalem

Rations, and fchey shall possess t!!ioir
houses: and I will make the pride of the
mighty to cease, and they shall possess
their sanctuary.

25 When distress cometh upon them,
they will seek for peace and there shall
be none.

26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and
rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek
a vision of the prophet, and the law shall
perish from the priest, and counsel from
the ancients.

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince
shall be clothed with sorrow, and the
hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled. I will do to them according to
their way, and will judge them according
to their judgments : and they shall know
that I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 8.

The prophet sees in a vision the abominations com'
mitted in Jerusalem ; which determine the Lord to
spare them, no longer.

AND ^it came to pass in the sixth
XjL year, in the sixth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I sat in my house,
and the ancients of Juda sat before me,
that the hand of the Lord God fell there
upon me.

2 And I saw, and behold a likeness as
the appearance of fire: from the appear-
ance of his loins, and downward, fire : and
from his loins, and upward, as the appear-
ance of brightness, as the appearance of
amber.

3 ^ And the likeness of a hand was put
forth and took me by a lock of my head :
and the spirit lifted me up between the
earth and the heaven, and brought me in
the vision of God into Jerusalem, near
the inner gate, that looked toward the
north, whore was set the idol of jealousy
to provoke to jealousy.

4 And behold the glory of the God of
Israel was there, according to the vision
which I had seen in the plain.

6 And he said to me : Son of man, lift
Up thy eyes towards the way of the north.
And I lifted up my eyes towards the way
of the north : and behold on the north
side of the gate of the altar the idol of
jealousy in the very entry.

u B. C. 593.

Chap. 8. Ver. 14. Adonis. The favourite of
Venus, slain by a wild boar, as feigned by the hea-
then poets, and which being here represented by an

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6 And he said to me : Son of man, dost
thou see, thinkest thou, what these are
doing, the great abominations that the
house of Israel committeth here, that I
should depart far off from my sanctuary?
and turn thee yet again and thou shalt
see greater abominations.

7 And he brought me in to the door of
the court: and I saw, and behold a hole
in the wall.

8 And he said to me: Son of man, dig
in the wall. And when I had digged in
the wall, behold a door.

9 And he said to me • Go in, and gee the
wicked abominations which they commit
here.

10 And I went in and saw, and behold
every form of creeping things, and of
living creatures, the abomination, and all
the idols of the house of Israel, were
painted on the wall all round about.

11 And seventy men of the ancients of
the house of Israel, and Jezonias the son
of Saaphan stood in the midst of them,
that stood before the pictures : and every
one had r censer in his hand : and a cloud
of smoke went up from the incense.

12 And he said to me: Surely thouseest,
O son of man, what the ancients of the
house of Israel do in the dark, every one
in private in his chamber : for they say :
The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath
forsaken the earth.

13 And he said to me : If thou turn thee
again, thou shalt see greater abomina-
tions which these commit.

14 And he brought me in by the door of
the gate of the Lord's house, which looked
to the north : and behold women sat
there mourning for Adonis.

15 And he said to me : Surely thou hasi
seen, O son of man : but turn thee again,
and thou shalt see greater abominatJoni
than these.

16 And he brought me into the inne:
court of the house of the Lord : and be
hold at the door of the temple of the
Lord, between the porch and the altar,
were about five and twenty men having
their backs towards the temple of the
Lord, and their faces to the east: arc
they adored towards the rising of th€
sun.

V Dan. 14. 35.

idol, is lamented by the female worshippers of tha
goddess. In the Hebrew, the name is Tammuz.

The mark upon the forehead

EZECHIEL

The coals of fire

17 And he said to me: Surely thou hast
seen, O son of man : is this a light thing
to the house of Juda, that they should
commit these abominations which they
have committed here : because they have
filled the land with iniquity, and have
turned to provoke me to anger? and
behold they put a branch to their nose.

18 Therefore I also will deal with them
in my wrath: my eye shall not spare
them, neither will I shew mercy: and
when they shall cry to my ears with a
loud voice, I will not hear them.

CHAPTER 9.

All are ordered to be destroyed that are not marked
in their foreheads. God will not be entreated for
them.

A ND he cried in my ears with a loud
xV. voice, saying : The visitations of the
city are at hand, and every one hath a
destroying weapon in his hand.

2 And behold six men came from the
way of the upper gate, which looketh to
the north : and each one had his weapon
of destruction in his hand: and there was
one man in the midst of them clothed
with linen, with a writer's inkhorn at
his reins: and they went in, and stood
by the brazen altar,

3 And the glory of the Lord of Israel
went up from the cherub, upon which he
was, to the threshold of the house : and
he called to the man that was clothed
with linen, and had a writer's inkhorn at
his loins.

4 And the Lord said tc him : Go through
the midst of the city, through the midst
of Jerusalem : ^ and mark Thau upon the
foreheads of the men that sigh, and
mourn for all the abominations that are
committed in the midst thereof.

5 And to the others he said in my hear-
ing: Go ye after him through the city,
and strike : let not your eyes spare, nor
be ye moved with pity.

6 tjtterly destroy old and young, maid-
ens, children and women: but upon whom-
soever you shall see Thau, kill him not,
and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they
began at the ancient men who were be-
fore the house.

7 And he said to them : Defile the house,

X Ex. 12. 7 ; Apoc. 7. 3.

Chap. 9. Ver. 4. Mark Thau. Thau, or Tau, is
{the last letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and signifies
'ci sign, or a mark; which is the reason why some
transbtors render this place set a mark, or mark a

and fill the courts with the slain : go ye
forth. And they went forth, and slew
them that were in the city.

8 And the slaughter being ended I was
left : and I fell upon my face, and crying,
I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt
thou then destroy all the remnant of Is-
rael, by pouring out thy fury upon Jeru-
salem ?

9 And he said to me: The iniquity of
the house of Israel, and of Juda, is ex-
ceeding great, and the land is filled with
blood, and the city is filled with per-
verseness : for they have said: The Lord
hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord
seeth not.

10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare,
nor will I have pity : I will requite their
way upon their head.

11 And behold the man that was clothed
with linen, that had the inkhorn at his
back, returned the word, saying: I have
done as thou hast commanded me.

CHAPTER 10.

Fire is taken from the midst of the wheels under
the cherubim,s, and scattered over the city. A
description of the cherubimso

AND I saw and behold in the firma-
. ment that was over the heads of the
cherubims, there appeared over them as
it were the sapphire stone, as the appear-
ance oi the likeness of a throne.

2 And he spoke to the man, that was
clothed with linen, and said: Go in be-
tween the wheels that are under the
cherubims and fill thy hand with the
coals of fire that are between the cheru-
bims, and pour them out upon the city.
And he went in, in my sight :

3 And the cherubims stood on the right
side of the house, when the man went in,
and a cloud filled the inner coiu't.

4 And the glory of the Lord was lifted
up from above the cherub to the thresh-
old of the house: and the house was
filled with the cloud, and the court was
filled with the brightness of the glory of
the Lord.

6 And the sound of the wings of the
cherubims was heard even to the out-
ward court as the voice of God Almighty
speaking.

mark, without specifying what this mark was. But
St. Jerome, and other interpreters, conclude it was
the form of the letter Thau, which in the ancienl
Hebrew character; was the form of a cross.

899

The cherubim

EZECHIEL

Presumption of the ^princes

6 And when he had commanded the man
that was clothed with hnen, saying : Take
fire from the midst of the wheels that are
between the cherubims : he went in and
stood beside the wheel»

7 And one cherub stretched out his arm
from the midst of the cherubims to the
fire that was between the cherubims :
and he took, and put it into the hands
of him that was clothed with linen : who
took it and went forth.

8 And there appeared in the cherubims
the likeness of a man's hand under their
wings.

9 And I saw, and behold there were four
wheels by the cherubims : one wheel by
one cherub, and another wheel by an-
other cherub: and the appearance of the
wheels was to the sight like the chryso-
lite stone ;

10 And as to their appearance, all four
were alike : as if a wheel were in the
midst of a wheel.

11 And when they went, they went by
four ways : and they turned not when
they went: but to the place whither they
first turned, the rest also followed, and
did not turn back.

12 And their whole body, and their
necks, and their hands, and their wings,
and the circles were full of eyes, round
about the four wheels.

13 And these wheels he called voluble,
in my hearing.

14 And every one had four faces : one
face was the face of a cherub, and the
second face, the face of a man: and in
the third was the face of a lion: and in
the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 And the cherubims were lifted up :
this is the living oreatui'e that I had seen
by the river Chobar.

16 And when the cherubims went, the
wheels also went by them: and when the
cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount
up from the earth, the wheels stayed not
behind, but were by them.

17 When they stood, these stood: and
when they were lifted up, these were

2 Supra 1. 1 and 3.

Chap. 10. Ver. 11. By four ways. That is, by
any of the four ways, forward, backward, to the right
or to the left

Ver. 13. Voluble. That is, rolling wheels, galgal.

Chap. 11. Ver. 3. Were not houses lately fmift,
&c. These men despised the predictions and threats
of the prophets; who declared to them from God,
that the city should be destroyed, and the inhabit-
ants carried into captivity ; and they made use of

lifted up: for the spirit of life was in
them.

18 And the glory of the Lord went forth
from the threshold of the temple: and
stood over the cherubims.

19 And the cherubims lifting up their
wings, were raised from the earth before
me : and as they went out, the wheels
also followed : and it stood in the entry
of the east gate of the house of the Lord :
and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them.

20 ^ This is the living creature, which I
saw under the God of Israel by the river
Chobar : and I understood that they were
cherubims.

21 Each one had four faces, and each
one had four wings: and the likeness of
a man's hand was under their wings.

22 And as to the likeness of their faces,
they were the same faces which I had
seen by the river Chobar, and their looks,
and the impulse of every one to go
straight forward.

CHAPTER 11.

A prophecy against the presumptuous assurance of
the great ones. A remnant shall be saved, and re-
ceive a new spirit, and a new heart.

AND the spirit lifted me up, and
XX brought me into the east gate of
the house of the Lord, which looketh to-
wards the rising of the sun : and behold
in the entry of the gate five and twenty
men: and I saw in the midst of them
Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the
son of Banaias, princes of the people.

2 And he said to me : Son of man, these
are the men that study iniquity, and
frame a wicked counsel in this city,

3 Saying : Were not houses lately built?
This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

4 Therefore prophesy against them, pro
phesy, thou son of man.

6 And the spirit of the Lord fell upon
me, and said to me: Speak: Thus saitb
the Lord : Thus have you spoken, O house
of Israel, for I know the thoughts of youi
heart.

6 You have killed a great many in thif

this kind of argument against the prophets, that thf
city, so far from being like to be destroyed, haci
lately been augmented by the building of ne\
houses ; from whence they further inferred, by waj
of a proverb, using the similitude of a caldron, out c
which the flesh is not taken, till it is thoroughl
boiled, and fit to be eaten, that they should not b
carried away out of their city, but there end thei
days in poice.

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God''s jvdgment upon the people

city, and you have filled the streets
thereof with the slain.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Your slain, whom you have laid in the
midst thereof, they are the flesh, and
this is the caldron : and I will bring you
forth out of the midst thereof.

8 You have feared the sword, and I will
bring 11. 8 sword upon you, saith the Lord
God.

9 And I will cast you out of the midst
thereof, and I will deliver you into the
hand of the enemies, and I will execute
judgments upon you.

10 You shall fall by the sword : I will
judge you in the borders of Israel, and
you shall know that I am the Lord.

11 This shall not be as a caldron to you,
and you shall not be as flesh in the midst
thereof: I will judge you in the borders
of Israel.

12 And you shall know that I am the
Lord: because you have not walked in
my commandments, and have not done
my judgments, but you have done accord-
ing to the judgments of the nations that
are round about you.

13 And it came to pass, when I prophe-
sied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias
died : and I fell down upon my face, and
cried with a loud voice : and said : Alas,
alas, alas, O Lord God : wilt thou make an
end of all the remnant of Israel ?

14 And the word of the Lord came to
Jie, saying :

15 Son of man, thy brethren, thy bre-
thren, thy kinsmen, and all the house of
Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants
of Jerusalem have said : Get ye far from
the Lord, the land is given in possession
to us.

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because I have removed them far off
among the Gentiles, and because I have
scattered them among the countries : I
will be to them a little sanctuary in the
countries whither they are come.

17 Therefore speak to them: Thus saith
the Lord God : I will gather you from

b Jer. 31. 33 ; Infra 36. 26.

EZECHIEL

A remnant shall he saved

Ver. 10. Tn the borders of Israel. They pretended
that they should die in peace in Jerusalem; God
tells them it should not be so ; but that they should
be judged and condemned, and fall by the sword in
the borders of Israel : viz., in Reblatha in the land
of Emath, where all their chief men were put to
death by order of Nabuchodonosor. 4 Kings 25.. and
Jer. 52. 10, 27.

among the peoples, and assemble you
out of the countries wherein you are
scattered, and I will give you the land of
Israel. '''

18 And they shall go in thither, and
shall take away all the scandals, and all
the abominations thereof from thence.

19 ^ And I will give them one heart, and
will put a new spirit in their bowels : and
I will take away the stony heart out of
their flesh, and will give them a heart of
flesh:

20 That they may walk in my command-
ments, and kctop my judgments, and do
them : and that they may be my people,
and I may be their God.

21 But as for them whose heart walketh
after their scandals and abominations, I
will lay their way upon their head, saith
the Lord God.

22 And the cherubims lifted up their
wings, and the wheels with them : and the
glory of the God of Israel was over
them.

23 And the glory of the Lord went up
from the midst of the city, and stood
over the mount that is on the east side
of the city.

24 And the spirit lifted me up, and
brought me into Chaldea, to them of the
captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God :
and the vision which I had seen was
taken up from me.

25 And I spoke to them of the captivity
all the words of the Lord, which he had
shewn me.

CHAPTER 12.

The prophet foresheweth, by signs, the captivity of
Sedecias, and the desolation of the people : all
which shall quickly come to pass.

ND the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :

2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst
of a provoking house : who have eyes to
see, and see not: and ears to hear, and
hear not: for they are a provoking
house.

3 Thou, therefore, O son of man, pre-
pare thee all necessaries for removing,

Ver. 15. Thy brethren, &c. He speaks of them
that had been carried away captives before ; wlio
were despised by them that remained in Jerusalen» :
but as the prophet here declares to them from God.
should be in a more happy condition than they, an»
after some time return from their captivity.

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Figure of the captivity of Sedecias EZECHIEL Desolation of the land foretold

and remove by day ir their sight : and
thou shalt remove ouc of thy place to
another place in their sight, if so be they
will regard it . for they are a provoking
house.

4 And thou shalt bring forth thy furni-
ture as the furniture of one that is re-
moving by day in their sight : and thou
rjhalt go forth in the evening in their
presence, as one goeth forth that remov-
eth his dwelling»

5 Dig thee a way through the wall be-
fore their eyes : and thou shalt go forth
through it.

6 In their sight thou shalt be carried
out upon men^s shoulders, thou shalt be
carried out in the dark : thou shalt cover
thy face, and ohalt not see the ground:
for I have set thee for a sign of things to
come to the house of Israel.

7 I did therefore as he had commanded
me : I brought forth my goods by day,
as the goods of one that removeth • and
in the evening I digged through the
wall with my hand : and I went forth
in the dark, and was carried on men^s
shoulders in their sight.

8 And the word of the Lord came to
me in the morning, saying :

9 Son of man, hath not the house of
Israel, the provoking house, said to
thee: What art thou doing?

10 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord
God : This burden concerneth my prince
that is in Jerusalem, and all the house
of Israel, that are among them.

11 Say : I am a sign of things to come
to you : as I have done, so shall it be
done to them: they shall be removed
from their dwellings, and go into cap-
tivity.

12 And the prince that is in the midst
of them, shall be carried on shoulders,
he shall go forth in the dark : they shall
dig through the wall to bring him out :
his face shall be covered, that he may
not see the ground with his eyes.

13 ^ And I will spread my net over him,
and he shall be taken in my net : and I
will bring him into Babylon, into the
land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not
see it, and there he shall die.

14 And all that are about him, his
guards, and his troops I will scatter into

d Infra 17. 20.

every wind : and I will draw out the
sword after them.

15 And they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have dispersed them
among the nations, and scattered them
in the countries.

16 And I will leave a few men of them
from the sword, and from the famine,
and from the pestilence: that they may
declare all their wicked deeds among the
nations whither they shall go : and th-^y
shall know that I am the Lord.

17 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

18 Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble
and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow

19 And say to the people of the land.
Thus saith the Lord God to them that
dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel:
They shall eat their bread in care, and
drink their water in desolation: that
the land may become desolate from the
multitude that is therein, for the iniquity
of all that dwell therein,

20 And the cities that are now inhab-
ited shall be laid waste, and the land
shall be desolate: and yon shall know
that I am the Lord.

21 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :

22 Son of man, what is this proverb
that you have in the land of Israel ? say-
ing: The days shall be prolonged, and
every vision shall fail.

23 Say to them therefore : Thus saith
the Lord God : I will make this proverb
to cease, neither shall it be any more a
common saying in Israel : and tell them
that the days are at hand, and the effectj
of every vision.

24 For there shall be no more any vain
visions, nor doubtful divination in thel
midst of the children of Israel.

25 For I the Lord will speak: and what
word soever I shall speak, it shall come
to pass, and shall not be prolonged anj
more : but in your days, ye provoking
house, I will speak the word, and will dc
it, saith the Lord God.

26 And the word of the Lord came t<
me, saying:

27 Son of man, behold the house of Is
rael, they that say: The vision that thi
man seeth, is for many days to come

'Chap. 12. Yer. 13. H9 shall not see it.

Because his eyes shall be put out by Kabuchodonosor,
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The false prophetesses

and this man prophesieth of times afar
off.

28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith
the Lord God : • Not one word of mine
shall be prolonged any more : the word
that I shall speak shall be accomplished,
saith the Lord God.

CHAPTER 13.

Ood declares against false prophets and prophet-
esses, that deceive the people with lies.

ND the word of the Lord came to

me, saying:

2 Son of man, prophesy thou against
the prophets of Israel that prophesy:
and thou shalt say to them that pro-
phesy out of their own heart: Hear ye
the word of the Lord :

3 Thus saith the Lord God: -^Woe to
the foolish prophets that follow their
own spirit, and see nothing.

4 Thy prophets, O Israel, were like
foxes in the deserts.

5 You have not gone up to face the
enemy, nor have you set up a wall for
the house of Israel, to stand in battle in
the day of the Lord.

6 They see vain things, and they fore-
tell lies, saying : The Lord saith : whereas
the Lord hath not sent them : and they
have persisted to confirm what they
have said.

7 Have you not seen a vain vision and
spoken a lying divination: and you say:
The Lord saith: whereas I have not spo-
ken.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Because you have spoken vain things,
and have seen lies : therefore behold
I come agains*^^ you, saith the Lord
God.

9 And my hand shall be upon the pro-
phets that see vain things, and that
divine lies : they shall not be in the
council of my people, nor shall they be
written in the writing of the house of
Israel, neither shall they enter into the
land of Israel, and you shall know that
I am the Lord God.

10 Because they have deceived my peo-
ple, saying: Peace, and there is no
peace: and the people built up a wall.

Chap. 13. Ver. 18. Sew cushions, &c., viz., by
making people easy in their sins, and promising
them impunity. — Ibid. They gave life to their souls.
That is, they flattered them witti promises of life,
peace, and security.

and they daubed it with dirt without
straw.

11 Say to them that daub without tem-
pering, that it shall fall : for there shall
be an overflowing shower, and I will
cause great hailstones to fall violently
from above, and a stormy wind to throw
it down.

12 Behold, when the wall is fallen : shall
it not be said to you : Where is the daub-
ing wherewith you have daubed it ?

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Lo, I will cause a stormy wind to break
forth in my indignation, and there shall
be an overflowing shower in my anger :
and great hailstones in my wrath to
consume.

14 And I will break down the wall that
you have daubed with untempered mor-
tar: and I will make it even with the
ground, and the foundation thereof shall
be laid bare : and it shall fall, and shall
be consumed in the midst thereof : and
you shall know that I am the Lord.

16 And I will accomplish my wrath
upon the wall, and upon them that daub
it without tempering the mortar, and I
will say to you: The wall is no more,
and they that daub it are no more.

16 Even the prophets of Israel that pro-
phesy to Jerusalem, and that see visions
of peace for her : and there is no peace,
saith the Lord God.

17 And thou, son of man, set thy face
against the daughters of thy people that
prophesy out of their own heart : and do
thou prophesy against them,

18 And say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Woe to them that sew cushions under
every elbow: and make pillows for the
heads of persons of every age to catch
souls: and when they caught the souls
of my people, they gave hfe to their
souls.

19 And they violated me among my
people, for a handful of barley, and a
piece of bread, to kill souls which should
not die, and to save souls alive which
should not live, telling lies to my people
that believe lies.

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Behold I declare against your cushions,

/ Jer. 23. 1 ; Infra 14. 9, and 34. 2.

Ver. 19. Violated me. That is, dishonoured and
discredited me. — Ibid. To kill souls, &c. That is,
to sentence souls to death, which are not to die ; ana
to promise life to them who are not to live.

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•therewith you catch flying souls : and I
will tear them off from your arms: and
I will let go the soulc; that you catch, the
3oulc tha''. should fly.

21 And I will tear your pillows, and will
deliver my people out of your hand, nei-
ther chall they be any more in your
hands to be a prey : and you shall know
that I am the Lord.

22 Because with lies you have made the
heart of the just to mourn, whom I have
not made sorrowful : and have strength-
ened the hands of the wicked, that he
should not return from his evil way, and
live.

23 Therefore you shall not see vain
things, nor divine divinations any more,
and I will deliver my people out of your
hand : and you shall know that I am the
Lord.

CHAPTER 14.

God suffers the wicked to be deceived in punishment
of their wickedness. The evils that shall come
upon them for their sins : for which they shall not
be delivered by the prayers of Noe^ Daniel^ and Job.
But a remnant shall be preserved.

AND some of the ancients of Israel
XA. came to me, and sat before me.
. 2 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

3 Son of man, these men have placed
their uncleannesses in their hearts, and
have set up before their face the stum-
blingblock of their iniquity : and shall I
answer when they inquire of me ?

4 Therefore speak to them, and say to
them : Thus saith the Lord God : Man,
man of the house of Israel that shall
place his uncleannesses in his heart, and
set up the stumblingblock of his iniquity
before his face, and shall come to the
prophet inquiring of me by him : I the
Lord will answer him according to the
multitude of his uncleannesses :

5 That the house of Israel may be caught
in their own heart, with which they
have departed from me through all their
idols.

6 Therefore say to the house of Israel:
Thus saith the Lord God : Be converted,
and depart from your idols, and turn
h Supra 13. 3.

Chap. 14. Ver. 3. Uncleannesses. That is, their
filthy idols, upon which they have set their hearts :
and which are a stumblingblock to their souls.

Ver. 4. Man^ man. That is, every man^ an He-
brew expression

Ver. 9. The prophet shall err, &c. He speaks of
false prophets, answering out of their own heads a nd
n,ccrrding to their own corrupt inclinations. — Ibid.

away your faces from all your abomina-
tions.

7 For every man of the house of Israel,
and every stranger among the proselytes
in Israel, if he separate himself from me,
and place his idols in his heart, and set
the stumblingblock of his iniquity before
his face, and come to the prophet to in-
quire of me by him : I the Lord will an-
swer him by myself.

8 And I will set my face against that
man, and will make him an example, and
a proverb, and will cut him off from the
midst of my people : and you shall know
that I am the Lord.

9 ^ And when the prophet shall err, and
speak a word : I the Lord have deceived
that prophet : and I will stretch forth my
hand upon him, and will cut him off from
the midst of my people Israel.

10 And they shall bear their iniquity :
according to the iniquity of him that in-
quireth, so shall the iniquity of the pro-
phet be.

11 That the house of Israel may go no
more astray from me, nor be polluted
with all their transgressions : but may be
my people, and I may be their God, saith
the Lord of hosts.

12 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

13 Son of man, when a land shall sin
against me, so as to transgress grievously,
I will stretch forth my hand upon it,
*and will break the staff of the bread
thereof : and I will send famine upon it,
and will destroy man and beast out of it.

14 And if these three men, Noe, Daniel,;
and Job, shall be in it : they shall deliver
their own souls by their justice, saith the
Lord of hosts.

15 And if I shall bring mischievouE
beasts also upon the land to waste it, and
it be desolate, so that there is none thai
can pass because of the beasts:

16 If these three men shall be in it, cm
I hve, saith the Lord, they shall delivej
neither sons nor daughters: but thej
only shall be delivered, and the lane
shall be made desolate.

i Supra 4. 16, and 5. 16.

/ have deceived that prophet. God Almighty rfi
ceives false prophets, partly by withdrawing nis ligl!
from them; and abandoning them to their own co
rupt inclinations, wliich push them on to proplies
such things as are agreeable to those who consu
them : and partly by disappointing them, and cau
ing all things to happen contrary to what they nav
said.

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Figure of the useless vine

17 Or if I bring the sword upon that
land, and say to the sword : Pass through
the land : and I destroy man and beast
out of it :

18 And these three men be in the midst
thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daugh-
ters, but they themselves alone shall be
delivered.

19 Or if I also send the pestilence upon
that land, anc pour out my indignation
upon it in biood, to cut off from it man
and beast :

20 And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in
' the midst thereof : a» I live, saith the

Lord God, they shall dehver neither son
nor daughter : but they shall only deliver
their own souls by their justice.

21 For thus saith the Lord : Although I
shall send in upon Jerusalem my four
grievous judgments, the sword, and the
famine, and the mischievous beasts, and
the pestilence, to destroy out of it man

1 and beast,

22 Yet there shall be left in it some that
shall be saved, who shall bring away
their sons and daughters : behold they
shall come among you, and you shall see
their way, and their doings : and you
shall be comforted concerning the evil
that I have brought upon Jeruealem, in
all things that I have brought upon it.

i 23 And they shall comfort you, whwn

' you shall see their ways, and their doings :

and you shall know that I have not done

without cause all that I have done in it,

saith the Lord God.

CHAPTER 15.

At a vine cut down is fit for nothing but the fire ; so
it shall be with Jerusalem, for her sins.

AND the word of the Lord came to
. me, saying:
' 2 Son of man, what shall be made of the
'wood of the vine, out of all the trees of
the woods that are among the trees of
the forests ?

3 Shall wood be taken of it, to do any
jWork, or shall a pin be made of it for
'my vessel to hang thereon ?

4 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel:
|ihe fire hath consumed both ends there-
of, and the midst thereof is reduced to
|whes : shall it be useful for any work ?

5 Even when it was whole it was not fit
for work : how much less, when the fire
hath devoured and consumed it, shall
any work be made of it ?

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
As the vine tree among the trees of the
forests which I have given to the lire to
be consumed, so will I deliver up the inr
habitants of Jerusalem.

7 And I will set my face against thenj :
they shall go out from fire, and fire shall
consume them ; and you shall know that
I am the Lord, when I shall have set my
face against them.

8 And I shall have made their land a
wilderness, and desolate, because they
have been transgressors, saith the Lor<]
God.

CHAPTER 16.
Under the figure of an unfaithful wife, God up-
braids Jerusalem with her ingratitude and mani-
fold disloyalties : but promiseth mercy by a new
covenant.

AITD the word of the Lord came to
XA- me, saying:

2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem
her abominations.

3 And thou shalt say : ThoL saith the
Lord God to Jerusalem : Thy root, and
thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan,
thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy
mother a Oethite.

4 And when thou wast bom, in the day
of thy nativity thy navel was not cut,
neither wast thou washed with water for
thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swadr
died with clouts.

6 No eye had pity on thee to do any of
these things for thee, out of compassion
to thee : but thou wast cast out upon the
fac'°( of the earth in the abjection of thy
soul, in the day that thou wast born.

6 And passing by thee, I saw that thou
wast trodden under foot in thy own blood:
and I said to thee when thou wast in thy
blood : Live : I have said to thee : Live
in thy blood.

7 I caused thee to multiply as the bud
of the field : and thou didst increase and
grow great, and advancedst, and camest
to woman's ornament : thy breasts were
fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou
wast naked, and full of confusion.

8 And I passed by thee, and saw thee r
and behold thy time was the time of lov-

!^Ap. 16. Ver. 2. Make known to Jerusalem That is, by letters, for the prophet was then in Babyloa

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Figure of the tvickedness

EZECHIEL

of Jerusalem

ers : and I spread my garment over thee, | me : and hast sacrificed the same to

and covered thy ignominy. And I swore
to thee, and I entered into a covenant
with thee, saith the Lord God : and thou
becamest mine.

9 And I washed thee with water, and
cleansed away thy blood from thee : and
I anointed thee with oil.

10 And I clothed thee with embroidery,
and shod thee with violet coloured shoes :
and I girded thee about with fine hnen,
and clothed thee with fine garments.

11 I decked thee also with ornaments,
and put bracelets on thy hands, and a
chain about thy neck.

12 And I put a jewel upon thy forehead
and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful
crown upon thy head.

13 And thou wast adorned with gold, and
silver, and wast clothed with fine linen,
and embroidered work, and many colours:
thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and
oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful :
and wast advanced to be a queen.

14 And thy renown went forth among
the nations for thy beauty : for thou wast
perfect through my beauty, which I had
put upon thee, saith the Lord God.

15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou play-
edst the harlot because of thy renown,
and thou hast prostituted thyself to every
passenger, to be his.

16 And taking of thy garments thou hast
made thee high places sewed together on
each side: and hajst played the harlot
upon them, as hath not been done before,
nor shall be hereafter.

17 And thou tookest thy beautiful ves-
sels, of my gold, and my silver, which I
gave thee, and thou madest thee images
of men, and hast committed fornication
with them.

18 And thou tookest thy garments of
divers colours, and coveredst them : and
settest my oil and my sweet incense be-
fore them.

19 And my bread which I gave thee, the
fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith
I fed thee, thou hast set before them for
a sweet odour; and it was done, saith
the Lord God.

20 And thou hast taken thy sons, and
thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to

Ver. 11. / decked thee also with ornaments, &c.
That is, with spiritual benefits, giving you a law with
sacrifices, sacraments, and other holy rites.

"^'er. 21. Thnii. hast snrrifrpd, &c. As thP'"'» is
r.nriiing more base and abominable than the crimep

them to be devoured. Is thy fornication
small ?

21 Thou hast sacrificed and given my
children to them, consecrating them by
fire.

22 And after all thy abominations, and
fornications, thou hast not remembered
the days of thy youth, when thou wast
naked, and full of confusion, trodden
under foot in thy own blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy
wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the
Lord God)

24 That thou didst also build thee a
common stew, and madest thee a brothel
house in every street.

25 At every head of the way thou hast
set up a sign of thy prostitution: and
hast made thy beauty to be abominable:
and hast prostituted thyself to every one
that passed by, and hast multiplied thy
fornications.

26 And thou hast committed fornication
with the Egyptians thy neighbours, men
of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy
fornications to provoke me.

27 Behold, I will stretch out my hand
upon thee, and will take away thy justi-
fication: and I will deliver thee up to
the will of the daughters of the Philistines
that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy
wicked way.

28 Thou hast also committed fornication
with the Assyrians, because thou wast
not yet satisfied : and after thou hadsti
played the harlot with them, even S0|
thou wast not contented.

29 Thou hast also multiplied thy forni
cations in the land of Chanaan with th
Chaldeans : and neither so wast the
satisfied.

30 Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart
saith the Lord God : seeing thou dost al
these the works of a shameless prostitute']

31 Because thou hast built thy brothe
house at the head of every way, an(
thou hast made thy high place in even
street : and wast not as a harlot that b^
disdain enhanceth her price,

32 But as an adulteress, that bringetl
in strangers over her husband.

33 Gifts are given to all harlots: bu

mentioned throughout this chapter ; so the infidelitit
of the Israelites in forsaking God. and sacrincin
even their children to idols, are strongly figured t
these allegories.

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More wicked than Sodom

thou hast given hire to all thy lovers,
and thou hast given them gifts to come
to thee from every side, to commit forni-
cation with thee.

34 And it hath happened in thee con-
trary to the custom of women in thy
fornications, and after thee there shall
be no such fornication, for in that thou
gavest rewards, and didst not take re-
wards, the contrary hath been done in
thee.

35 Therefore, 0 harlot, hear the word
of the Lord.

36 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
thy money hath been poured out, and
thy shame discovered through thy forni-
cations with thy lovers, and with the
idols of thy abominations, by the blood
of thy children whom thou gavest them:

37 Behold, I will gather together all thy
lovers with whom thou hast taken plea-
sure, and all whom thou hast loved, with
all whom thou hast hated: and I will
gather them together against thee on
every side, and will discover thy shame
in their sight, and they shall see all thy
nakedness.

38 ^ And I will judge thee as adulteresses,
and they that shed blood are judged:
and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy.

39 And I will deliver thee into their
hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel
house, and throw down thy stews: and
they shall strip thee of thy garments,
and shall take away the vessels of thy
beauty: and leave thee naked, and full
of disgrace.

40 And they shall bring upon thee a
multitude, and they shall stone thee with
stones, and shall slay thee with their
swords.

41 m And they shall burn thy houses
with fire, and shall execute judgments
jpon thee in the sight of many women:
and thou shalt cease from fornication,
md shalt give no hire any more.

42 And my indignation shall rest in thee:
ind my jealousy shall depart from thee,
ind I will cease and be ang^T ^o more.

43 Because thou hast not remembered
he days of thy youth, but hast provoked

me in all these things: wherefore I also
have turned thy ways upon thy head,
saith the Lord God, and I have not done
according to thy wicked deeds in all thy
abominations.

44 Behold every one that useth a com-
mon proverb, shall use this against thee,
saying: As the mother was, so also is
her daughter.

45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that
cast off her husband, and her children:
and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who
cast off their husbands, and their chil-
dren: your mother was a Cethite, and
your father an Amorrhite.

46 And thy elder sister is Samaria, she
and her daughters that dwell at thy left
hand: and thy younger sister that dwell-
eth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her
daughters.

47 But neither hast thou walked in their
ways, nor hast thou done a little less
than they according to their wickednesses :
thou hast done almost more wicked
things than they in all thy ways.

48 As I live, saith the Lord God, thy
sister Sodom herself, and her daughters,
have not done as thou hast done, and
thy daughters.

49 n Behold this was the iniquity of
Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread,
and abundance, and the idleness of her,
and of her daughters: and they did not
put forth their hand to the needy, and to
the poor.

50 And they were lifted up, and com-
mitted abominations before me: and I
took them away as thou hast seen,

51 And Samaria committed not half thy
sins: but thou hast surpassed them with
thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters
by all thy abominations which thou hast
done.

52 Therefore do thou also bear thy con-
fusion, thou that hast surpassed thy sis-
ters with thy sins, doing more wickedly

(than they: for they are justified above
thee, therefore be thou also confounded,
and bear thy shame, thou that hast justi-
fied thy sisters.

53 And I will bring back and restore
them by bringing back Sodom, with her

I Infra 23. 10. — m 4 Kings 25. 9.

Ver. 49. TTUs teas the iniquity of Sodom, &c.
nat is, these were the steps by which the So-
omites came to fall into those abominations for
'hich they were destroyed. For pride, gluttony,
nd idlemess are the highroad to all kinds of

n Gen. 19. 24.

lust ; especially when they were accompanied
with a neglect of the works of mercy.

Ver. 53. / will bring hack, &c. This relates to
the conversion of the Gentiles out of all natloms,
and of many of the Jews, to the church of Christ.

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EZECHIEL The two eagles and the vine

daughters, and by bringing back Samaria,
and her daughters: and I will bring thoso
that return of thee in the midst of them.

64 That thou mayest bear thy shame,
and mayest be confounded in all that thou
hast done, comforting them.

55 And thy sister Sodom and her daugh-
ters shall return to their ancient state:
and Samaria and her daughters shall
return to their ancient state: and thou
and thy daughters shall return to your
ancient state.

66 And Sodom thy sister was not heard
of in thy mouth, in the day of thy pride,

67 Before thy malice was laid open : as
it is at this time, making thee a reproach
of the daughters of Syria, and of all the
daughters of Palestine round about thee,
that encompass thee on all sides.

58 Thou hast borne thy wickedness,
and thy disgrace, saith the Lord God.

69 For thus saith the Lord God : I will
deal with thee, as thou hast despised the
oath, in breaking the covenant:

60 And I will remember my covenant
with thee in the days of thy youth : and
I will establish with thee an everlasting
covenant.

61 And thou shalt remember thy ways,
and be ashamed : when thou shalt receive
thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger :
and I will give them to thee for daugh-
ters, but not by thy covenant.

62 And I will establish my covenant
with thee: and thou shalt faiow that I
am the Lord, ..^,,,/ v^rfi

63 That thou mayest remember, and be
confounded, and mayest no more open
thy mouth because of thy confusion,
when I shall be pacified toward thee for
all that thou hast done, saith the Lord
God.

CHAPTER 17.

The parable of the two eagles and the vine. A pro-
mise of the cedar of Christ and his church.

ND the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

Ver. 55. Ancient state. That is, to their former
state of liberty, and their ancient possessions. In
the sjA-itual sense, to the true liberty, and the happy
inheritance ol the children of God, through faith in
Christ

Chap. 17. Ver. 3. A large eagle. Nabuchodono-
sor king of Babylon. — Ibid. Came to Libanxis.
That is, to Jerusalem. — Ibid. Took away the mar-
voir of the cedar. King Jechonias.

Ver. 4. Chanaan. This name, which signifies
traffic, i3 QOt takeo bere for Palestine» but for Cbal*

2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and
speak a parable to the house of Israel,

3 And say : Thus saith the Lord God : A
large eagle with great wings, long-limbed,
full of feathers, and of variety, came to
Libanus, and took away the marrow of
the cedar.

4 He cropped off the top of the twigs
thereof: and carried it away into the
land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city
of merchants.

6 And he took of the seed of the land,
and put it in the ground for seed, that it
might take a firm root over many waters :
he planted it on the surface of the earth.

6 And it sprung up and grew into a
spreading vine of low stature, and the
branches thereof looked towards him :
and the roots thereof were under him.
So it became a vine, and grew into
branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7 And there was another large eagle,
with great wings, and many feathers:
and behold this vine, bending as it were
her roots towards him, stretched forth
her branches to him, that he might water
it by the furrows of her plantation.

8 It was planted in a good ground upon
many waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and bear fruit, that it might
become a large vine.

9 Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God:
Shall it prosper then ? shall he not pull
up the roots thereof, and strip off its
fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath
shot forth, and make it wither: and this
without a strong arm, or many people,
to pluck it up by the root? \

10 Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper
then? shall it not be dried up when the
burning wind shall touch it, and shall it
not wither in the furrows where it grew'.

11 And the word of the Lord came tc
me, saying:

12 Say to the provoking house : Kno\\i
you not what these things mean? Tel
them: Behold the king of Babylon com I

dea: and the city of merchants here mentioned i
Babylon. ^ .

Ver. 5. Of the seed of the land, &c., viz., Sede
cias, whom he made king.

Ver. 6. Towards him. Nabuchodonosor, to whor
Sedecias swore allegiance.

Ver. 7. Another large eagle, viz., the king c
Egypt

Ver 12. Shall take avay, or hath taJcen awa\
&C., for all tills was now dobe.

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Judgment upon the king

EZECHIEL

The just man shall live

eth to Jerusalem: and he shall take away
the king and the princes thereof, and
carry them with him to Babylon.

13 And he shall take one of the king's
seed, and make a covenant with him,
and take an oath of him. Yea, and he
shall take away the mighty men of the
land,

14 That it may be a low kingdom and
not Uft itself up, but keep his covenant,
and observe it.

15 But he hath revolted from him and
Bent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might
give him horses, and much people. And
shall he that hath done thus prosper, or
be saved? and shall he escape that hath
broken the covenant?

16 ^8 I live, saith the Lord God: In the
place where the king dwelleth that made
him king, whose oath he hath made
void, and whose covenant he broke,
even in the midst of Babylon shall he die.

17 And not with a great army, nor with
much people shall Pharao fight against
him : when he shall cast up mounts, and
build forts, to cut off many souls.

18 For he had despised the oath, break-
ing his covenant, and behold he hath
given his hand: and having done all
these things, he shall not escape.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
As I live, I will lay upon his head the
oath he hath despised, and the covenant
he hath broken.

20 P And I will spread my net over him,
and he shall be taken in my net : and I
will bring him into Babylon, and will
judge him there for the transgression by
which he hath despised me.

21 And all his fugitives with all his
bands shall fall by the sword: and the
residue shall be scattered into every
wind: and you shall know that I the
Lord have spoken.

22 Thus saith the Lord God : I myself
Will take of the marrow of the high
cedar, and will set it : I will crop off a
tender twig from the top of the branches
thereof, and I will plant it on a mountain
high and eminent.

23 On the high mountains of Israel will
I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into

p Supra 12. 13 ; Infra 3'2. Z. — q A. M. 3411.

Ver. 11. Of the marrow of the high cedar, «&c. Of
the royal stock of David.— Ibid. A tender twig,
viz., Jesus Christ, whom God hath planted in raouht
Sion, that is, the high mouutain of tiia churcli, to
which ail nations flow.

branches, and shall bear fruit, and it
shall become a great cedar : and all birds
shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall
make its nest under the shadow of the
branches thereof.

24 And all the trees of the country shall
know that I the Lord have brought down
the high tree, and exalted the low tree :
and have dried up the green tree, and
have caused the dry tree to flourish. I
the Lord have spoken and have done it.

CHAPTER 18.

One man shall not bear the sins of another^ but every
one his own ; if a wicked man truly repent, he
shall be saved ; and if a just man leave his justice^
he shall perish.

ND 5 the word of the Lord came to
me, saying: What is the meaning?

2 That you use among you this parable
as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying :
''The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and
the teeth of the children are set on edge,

3 ^s I live, saith the Lord God, this
parable shall be no more to you a pro-
verb in Israel.

4 Behold all souls are mine : as the soul
of the father, so also the soul of the son
is mine : the soul that sinneth, the same
shall die.

5 And if a man be just, and do judgment
and justice,

6 And hath not eaten upon the moun-
tains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of
the house of Israel : and hath not defiled
his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a
menstruous woman :

7 And hath not wronged any man: but
hath restored the pledge to the debtor,
hath taken nothing away by violence :
* hath given his bread to the hungry, and
hath covered the naked with a garment :

8 Hath not lent xapon usury, nor taken
any increase: hath withdrawn his hand
from iniquity, and hath executed true
judgment between man and man :

9 Hath walked in my commandments,
and kept my judgments, to do truth : he
is just, he shall surely hve, saith the
Lord God.

10 And if he beget a son that is a rob-
ber, a shedder of blood, and that hath
done some one of these things :

r Jer. 31. 29. — s Isa. 58. 7 ; Matt. 25. 35.

Chap. 18. Ver. 6. Xnt eaten upon the moun-
tains. That is, of the sacrifices there offered to idols.

Ver. 9. To do truth. That is, to act according to
truth : for the Hebrews called every ttnnz th«t was
ju^t, truth.

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Each man shall hear his own sins EZECHIEL

God^s judgments are just

11 Though he doth not all these things,
but that eateth upon the mountains, and
that defileth his neighbour's wife :

12 That grieve th the needy and the poor,
that taketh away by violence, that re-
storeth not the pledge, and that lifteth
up his eyes to idols, that committeth
abomination :

13 That giveth upon usury, and that
taketh an increase ; shall such a one live ?
he shall not live. Seeing he hath done
all these detestable things, he shall
surely die, his blood shall be upon him.

14 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all
his father's sins, which he hath done, is
afraid, and shall not do the like to them :

15 That hath not eaten upon the moun-
tains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols
of the house of Israel, and hath not de-
filed his neighbour's wife :

16 And hath not grieved any man, nor
Withholden the pledge, nor taken away
with violence, but hath given his bread
to the hungry, and covered the naked
with a garment :

17 That hath turned away his hand from
injuring the poor, hath not taken usury
and increase, but hath executed my
judgments, and hath walked in my com-
mandments: this man shall not die for
the iniquity of his father, but living he
shall live.

18 As for his father, because he op-
pressed and offered violence to his bro-
ther, and wrought evil in the midst of his
people, behold he is dead in his own in-
iquity.

19 And you say : Why hath not the son
borne the iniquity of his father? Verily,
because the son hath wrought judgment
and justice, hath kept all my command-
ments, and done them, living, he shall
live.

20 * The soul that sinneth, the same
shall die : the son shall not bear the in-
iquity of the father, and the father shall
not bear the iniquity of the son: the
justice of the just shall be upon him, and
the wickedness of the wicked shall be
upon him.

21 But if the wicked do penance for all
his sins which he hath committed, and
keep all my commandments, and do
judgment, and justice, living he shall live,
and shall not die.

t Dent. 24. 16 ; 4 Kings 14. 6 ; 2 Par. 26. 4.
u Infra 18. 32, and 33. U ; 2 Pet 3. 9.

22 I will not remember all his iniqui-
ties that he hath done : in his justice
which he hath wrought, he shall live.

23 ** Is it my will that a sinner should
die, saith the Lord God, and not that he
should be converted trom his ways, and
live?

24 But if the just man turn himself away
from his justice, and do iniquity accord-
ing to all the abominations which the
wicked man useth to work, shall he live ?
all his justices which he hath done, shall
not be remembered : in the prevarica-
tion, by which he hath prevaricated, and
in his sin, which he hath committed, in
them he shall die.

25 And you have said: ^The way of the
Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O
house of Israel : Is it my way that is not
right, and are not rather your ways per-
verse ?

26 For when the just turneth himself
away from his justice, and committethi
iniquity, he shall die therein : in the in-,
justice that he hath wrought he shall die

27 And when the wicked turneth him
self away from his wickedness, which he
hath wrought, and doeth judgment, ancj
justice : he shall save his soul alive.

28 Because he considereth and turnetl
away himself from all his iniquities whicl
he hath wrought, he shall surely live, an<
not die.

29 And the children of Israel say : Th
way of the Lord is not right. Are no
my ways right, O house of Israel, and ar
not rather your ways perverse ?

30 Therefore wiU I judge every man a(
cording to his ways, O house of Israej
saith the Lord God. ^ Be converted, an
do penance for all your iniquities: an
iniquity shall not be your ruin.

31 Cast away from you all your tram
gressions, by which you have tran
gressed, and make to yourselves a ne
heart, and a new spirit: and why wi
you die, O house of Israel ?

32 ^ For I desire not the death of hi
that dieth, saith the Lord God, return 3
and live.

CHAPTER 19.

The parable of the young lions, and of the vine th
is wasted.

MOREOVEE take thou up a lame
tation for the princes of Israel,

V Infra 33. 20. — w Matt. 3. 2 ; Luke 3. 3.
X Supra 5. 23 ; Infra 33. 11 ; 2 Fet. 3. 9.

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The young Hon.9 and the vine EZECHIEL God refuses to answer the ancients
2 And say: Why did thy mother the

lioness lie down among the lions, and
bring up her whelps in the midst of
young lions ?

3 And she brought out one of her whelps,
and he became a lion : and he learned to
catch the prey, and to devour men.

4 And the nations heard of him, and
took him, but not without receiving
wounds : and they brought him in chains
into the land of Egypt.

5 But she seeing herself weakened, and
that her hope was lost, took one of her
young Uons, and set him up for a Uon.

6 And he went up and down among the
lions, and became a lion : and he learned
to catch the prey, and to devour men.

7 He learned to make widows, and to
lay waste their cities : and the land be-
came desolate, and the fulness thereof
by the noise of his roaring.

8 And the nations came together against
him on every side out of the provinces, and
they spread their net over him, in their
wounds he was taken.

9 And they put him into a cage, they
brought him in chains to the king of
Babylon: and they cast him into prison,
that his voice should no more be heard
upon the mountains of Israel.

10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood
planted by the water : her fruit and her
branches have grown out of many waters.

11 And she hath strong rods to make
sceptres fo^ them that bear rule, and her
statute was exalted among the branches :
and sJie saw her height in the multitude
of her branches.

12 But she was plucked up in wrath, and
cast on the gi'ound, ^and the burning wind
dried up her fruit : her strong rods are
withered, and dried up : the fire hath de-
voured her.

13 And now she is transplanted into the
desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

14 And a fire is gone out from a rod of
her branches, which hath devoured her
fruit: so that she now hath no strong
rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a
lamentation, and it shall be for a lamen-
tation.

z Osee 13. 15.

Chap. 19. Ver. 2. Thy mother the lioness. Jeru-
salem.
Ver. 3. One of her whelps. Viz., Joachaz, alias

Sellnm.
Vpr .") One. ^^ hvr yf^-iirta Jinnft. Joakfm,
ZoAy 2j, Vex. ^ ij ucou jwlge-^c t/cem. Or. i' '

CHAPTER 20.

God refuses to answer the ancients of Israel inquir-
ing by the prophet : but by him setteth h is benefits
before their eyes, and their heinous sins : threaten-
ing yet greater punishments : but still mixed with
mercy.

AND " it came to pass in the seventh
- year, in the fifth months the tenth
day of the month: there came men of the
ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord,
and they sat before me.

2 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of
Israel, and say to them : Thus saith the
Lord God: Are you come to inquire of
me 'i As 1 live, I will not answer you,
saith the Lord God.

4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest,
O son of man, declare to them the abom-
inations of their fathers.

5 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord
God : In the day when I chose Israel, and
lifted up my hand for the race of the
house of Jacob : and appeared to them in
the land of Egypt, and Ufted up my hand
for them, saying: I am the Lord your
God:

6 In that day I lifted up my hand for
them, to bring them out of the land of
Egypt, into a land which I had provided
for them, flowing with milk and honey,
which excelleth amongst all lands.

7 And I said to them: Let every man
cast away the scandals of his eyes, and
defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

8 But they provoked me, and would
not heai'ken to me : they did not every
man cast away the abominations of his
eyes, neither did they forsake the idols
of Egypt : and I said I would pour out
my indignation upon them, and accom-
plish my wrath against them in the midst
of the land of Egypt.

9 But I did otherwise for my name's sake,
that it might not be violated before the
nations, in the midst of whom they were,
and among whom I made myself known
to them, to bring them out of the land
of Egypt.

10 Therefore I brought them out from

a B. C. 592.

thou wilt enter into the cause and plead against
them.

Ver. 7o Scandals, &C. Offensiones. That is, the
abominations or idols, to the worship of which they
were alluded by their eyes.

Rebellion and ingratitude of Jews EZECHIEL

Idolatry of the Jews

the land of Egypt, and brought them into
the desert.

11^ And I gave them my statutes, and
I shewed them my judgments, which if a
man do, he shall live in them.

12 ^ Moreover I gave them also my sab-
baths, to be a sign between me and them:
and that they might know that I am the
Lord that sanctify them.

13 But the house of Israel provoked me
in the desert: they walked not in my
statutes, and they cast away my judg-
ments, which if a man do he shall live in
them : and they grievously violated my
sabbaths. I said therefore that I would
pour out my indignation upon them in
the desert, and would consume them.

14 But I spared them for the sake of
my name, lest it should be profaned be-
fore the nations, from which I brought
them out, in their sight.

15 So I lifted up my hand over them
in the desert, not to bring them into the
land which I had given them flowing with
milk and honey, the best of all lands.

16 Because they cast off my judgments,
and walked not in my statutes, and vio-
lated my sabbaths: for their heart went
after idols.

17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I
destroyed them not ; neither did I con-
sume them in the desert.

18 And I said to their children in the
wilderness : Walk not in the statutes of
your fathers, and observe not their judg-
ments, nor be ye defiled with their
idole:

19 I am the Lord your God : walk ye in
my statutes, and observe my judgments,
and do them.

20 And sanctify my sabbaths, that they
may be a sign between me and you : and
that you may know that I am the Lord
your God.

21 But their children provoked me, they
walked not in my commandments, nor ob-
served my judgmente to do them: which
if a man do, he shall Uve in them : and
they violated my sabbaths : and I threat-
ened to pour out my indignation upon
them, and to accomplish my wrath in
them in the desert.

b Lev. 18. 5 ; Rom. 10. 5.

Ver. 25. Statutes that were not good, &c. Viz.,
the laws and ordinances of their enemies ; or those
Imposed upon them by that cruel tyrant the devil, to
whose power tdey were delivered up for their sins.

Vefc 26, / poUuted them, &c. That is, * gave

22 But I turned away my hand, and
wrought for my name's sake, that it might
not be violated before the nations, out of
which I brought them forth in their
sight.

23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them
in the wilderness, to disperse them among
the nations, and scatter them through the
countries :

24 Because they had not done my judg-
ments, and had cast off my statutes, and
had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes
had been after the idols of their fathers.

25 Therefore I also gave them statutes
that were not good, and judgments, in
which they shall not Hve.

26 And I polluted them in their own
gifts, when they offered all that opensd
the womb, for their offences : and they
shall know that I am the Lord.

27 Wherefore speak to the house of Is-
rael, O son of man, and say to them:
Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in
this also your fathers blasphemed me,
when they had despised and contemned
me;

28 And I had brought them into the
land, for which I lifted up my hand to
give it them : they saw every high hill, and
every shady troe, and there they sacrificed
their victimo : s-nd there they presented
the provocation of their offerings, and
there they set their sweet odours, and
poured forth their libations.

29 And I said to them : What meaneth
the high place to which you go? and the
name thereof was called High-place even
to this day. |

30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel :!
Thus saith the Lord God : Varily, you are,
defiled in the way of your fathers, and
you commit fornication with their abomi-
nations.

31 And you defile yourselves with al
your idols unto this day, in the offering
of your gifts, when you make your chil
dren pass through the fire : and shall !j
answer you, O house of Israel? As I live
saith the Lord God, I wiK not answe:
you.

32 Neither shall the thought o. you
mind come to pass, by which you say

c Ex. 20. 8, and 31. 13 ; Deut. 5. 12.

them lip to such blindness in punisliment of tlie;
offences, as to pollute themselves with the blood (
all their firstborn, whom they offered up to the
idols in compUaDce with their wicked devices

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God threatens them with Bis anger EZECHIEL God vnll bring hack His people

We will be as the Gentiles, and as the
families of the earth, to worship stocks
and stones.

33 As I live, saith the Lord God, I will
reign over you with a strong hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.

34 And I will bring you out from the
people, and I will gather you out of the
countries, in which you are scattered, I
will reign over you with a strong hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with
fury poured out»

35 And I will bring you into the wilder-
ness of people, and there will I plead with
you face to face.

36 As I pleaded against your fathers in
the desert of the land of Egypt ; even so
will I judge you, saith the Lord God.

37 And I will make you subject to my
Bceptre, and will bring you into the
bands of the covenant.

38 And I will pick out from among you
the transgressors, and the wicked, and
will bring them out of the land where
they sojourn, and they shall not enter
into the land of Israel: and you shall
know that I am the Lord.

39 And as for you, O house of Israel :
thus saith the Lord God ; Walk ye every
one after your idols, and serve them.
But if in this also you hear me not, but
defile my holy name any more with your
gifts, and with your idols ;

40 In my holy mountain, in the high
mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God,
there shall all the house of Israel serve
me ; all of them I say, in the land in
which they shall please me, and there will
I require your firstfruits, and the chief of
your tithes with all your sanctifications.

41 1 will a,ccept of you for an odour of
sweetness, when I shall have brought you
out from the people, and shall have gath-
ered you out of the lands into which you
are scattered, and I will be sanctified in
you in the sight of the nations.

Ver. 35. The wilderness of people. That is, a
desert in whicli there are no people.

/er. 39. Walk ye every one, &c. It is not an
allowance, much less a commandment to serve idols ;
Dnt a figure of speech, by which God would have
them to understand that if they would walk after
their idols, they must not pretend to serve him at
the same time : for that he would by no means suf-
fer such a mixture of worship.

Ver. 40. In my holy mountain, &c. The fore-
goinc vorse, to mal'e tho sense complete, muL!; toe

42 And you shall know that I am the

Lord, when I shall have brought you into
the land of Israel, into the land for which
I lifted up my hand to give it to youi'
fathers.

43 And there you shall remember your
ways, and all your wicked doings with
which you have been defiled; and you
shall be displeased with yourselves in
your own sight, for all your wicked deeds
which you committed.

44 And you shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have done well by you
for my own name's sake, and not accord-
ing to your evil ways, nor according to
your wicked deeds. O house of Israel,
saith the Lord God,

45 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :

46 Son of man, set thy face against the
way of the south, and drop towards the
so'ith, and prophesy against the forest of
the r.outh field.

47 And say to the south forest : Hear
the word of the Lord : Thus saith the
Lord God : Behold I will kindle a fire in
thee, and will burn in thee every green
tree, and every dry tree : the flame of
the fire shall not be quenched: and every
face shall be burned in it, from the south
even to the north.

48 And all fiesh shall see, that I the
Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be
quenched.

49 And I said : Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God :
they say of me: Doth not this man speak
by parables?

CHAPT3R 21.

The destruction of Jerusalem by the sword is fuV'
ther described : the ruin also of the Ammonites is
fore-shewn. And finally Babylon, the destroyer of
others, shall be destroyed.

^ND the word of the Lord came to
±\ me, saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jeru-
salem, and let thy speech flow towards

understood so as to condemn and reject that mix.
ture of worship which the Jews then followed. In
this verse God promises to the true Israelites, espe-
cially to those of the Christian church, that they
cjhall serve him in another manner, in his holy mouiv
tain, the spiritual Slon : and shall be accepted of by
him.

Ver. 46. Of the smith, Jeru£n.lem lay towards the
south of Babylon, (where the prophet then was,) and
is here called ihr, forest of the south field, and is
threatened with utter desolatioo.

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Figure of the sword

the holy places, and prophesy against
the land of Israel;

3 And say to the land of Israel: Thus
saith the Lord God : Behold I come
against thee, and I will draw forth my
sword out of its sheath, and will cut off
in thee the just, and the wicked.

4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in
thee the just, and the wicked, therefore
shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
against all flesh, from the south even to
the north.

5 That all flesh may know that I the
Lord have drawn my sword out of its
sheath not to be turned back.

6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the
breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness
sigh before them.

7 And when they shall say to thee:
Why mournest thou? thou shalt say:
For that which I hear: because it ccm-
eth, and every heart shall melt, and all
hands shall be made feeble, and every
spirit shall faint, and water shall run
down every knee : behold it cometh,
and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

8 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus
saith the Lord God : Say : The sword, the
sword is sharpened, and furbished.

10 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is
furbished that it may glitters thou re-
movest the sceptre of my son, thou hast
cut down every tree.

11 And I have given it to be furbished,
that it may be handled: this sword is
sharpened, and it is furbished, that it
may be in the hand of the slayer.

12 Cry, and howl, O son of man, for this
sword is upon my people, it is upon all
the princes of Israel, that are fled: they
are delivered up to the sword with my
people, strike therefore upon thy thigh,

13 Because it is tried: and that when it
shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall
not be, saith the Lord God.

14 Thou therefore, O son of man, pro-
phesy, and strike thy hands together,
and let the sword be doubled, and let
the sword of the slain be tripled: this

Chap. 21. Ver. lO. Thou removest the sceptre of
m,y son. He speaks (according to St. Jerome) to the
swora ol Nabuchodonosor: which was about to
remove the oceptre of I;:rael, whom God here calls
his .son.

''or- ^5. Thfiv. profane^ &c. He speaks it> k'op

EZECHIEL Against Ammon and Jerusalem

is the sword of a great slaughter, that
maketh them stand amazed,

15 And languish in heart, and that mul-
tiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have
set the dread of the sharp sword, the
sword that is furbished to glitter, that is
made ready for slaughter.

16 Be thou sharpened, go to the right
hand, or to the left, which way soever
thou hast a mind to set thy face.

17 And I will clap my hands together,
and will satisfy my indignation: I the
Lord have spoken.

18 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

19 And thou son of man, set thee two
ways, for the sword of the king of Baby-
lon to come : both shall come forth out
of one land: and with his hand he shall
draw lots, he shall consult at the head of
the way of the city.

20 Thou shalt make a way that the
sword may come to Rabbath of the chil-
dren of Ammon, and to Juda unto Jeru-
salem the strong city.

21 For the king of Babylon stood in the
highway, at the head of two ways, seek-
ing divination, shuffling arrows: he in-
quired of the idols, and consulted entrails.

22 On his right hand was the divinatiop
for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, ^C
open the mouth in slaughter, to lift vf
the voice in howling, to set engine»
against tho gates, to oast up a mount, oo
build forts.

23 And he shall be in their eyes as one
consulting the oracle in vain, and imitat-
ing the leisure of sabbaths: but he will
call to remembrance the Iniquity that
they may be taken.

24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because you have remembered your in-
iquity, and have discovered your pre
varications, and your sins have ai^peared
in all your devices : because, I say you
have remembered, you shall be taken
with the hand.

25 But thou profane wicked prince of
Israel, whose day is come that hath been
appointed in the time of iniquity:

26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove

Sedecias, who had broken his oath, and was other»
wise a wicked prince.

Yer. 26. Is it not this that hath exalted the low
one ? The royal crown of Juda had exalted Se^cjas
from a private state and condition to the sovereigp
P'uvor a.L f»k 4>sf >f if had brought down Jecnonias

The sword itself shall he destroyed EZECHIEL The wickedness of Jerusalem

the diadem, take off the crown : is it not
this that hath exalted the low one, and
brought down him that was high ?

27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity,
iniquity : but this was not done till he
came to whom judgment oelongeth, and
I will give it him.

28 * And thou son of man, prophesy, and
say: Thus saith the Lord God concern-
ing the children of Ammon, and concern-
ing their reproach, and thou shalt say :

0 sword, O sword, come out of the scab-
bard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and
to glitter,

29 Whilst they see vain things in thy
regard, and they divine lies : to bring
thee upon the necks of the wicked that
are woujided, whose appointed day is
come in the time of iniquity.

30 Return into thy sheath. I will iudge
thee in the place wherein thou wast
created, in the land of thy nativity.

31 And I will pour out upon thee my
indignation : in the fire of my rage will I
blow upon thee, and will give thee into
the hands of men that are brutish and
contrive thy destruction.

32 Thou Shalt be fuel for the fire, thy
blood shall be in the midst of the land,
thou shalt be forgotten ; for I the Lord
have spoken iU

CHAPTER 22.

The general corruption of the inhabitants of Jeru-
salem : for which God vnll consume them, as dross
in his furnace.

ND the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :
j 2 And thou son of man, dost thou not
udge, dost thou not judge the city of
)lood ?

1 3 And thou shalt shew her all her abomi-
lations, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord
Tod : Thi8 is the cfty that sheddeth blood
Q the midst of her, that her time may
ome : and that hath made idols against
erself, to defile herself.

4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood
'hich thou hast shed : and thou art de-
led in thy idols which thou hast made :

e Gen. 49. 10.

Ver. 27. / will shew it to be iniquity, &c., or, I
ill overturn it, viz., the crown of Juda for the
anlfolrt iniquities of the kings : but it shall not be
terly removed, till Christ come whose right it is :
d who shall reign in the spiritual house of Jacob,
at is, in his church, for evermore.
Ver. 28. Concerning their reproach. By which

lA^

and thou hast made thy days to dra\;«
near, and hast brought on the time of
thy years : therefore have I made thee a
reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery
to all countries.
6 Those that are near, and those that
are far from thee, shall triumph over
thee : thou filthy one, infamous, great in
destruction.

6 Behold the princes of Israel, every
one hath employed his arm in thee to
shed blood.

7 They have abused father and mother
in thee, they have oppressed the stranger
in the midst of thee, they have grieved
the fatherless and widow in thee.

8 Thou hast despised my sanctuaries,
and profaned my sabbaths.

9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed
blood, and they have eaten upon the
mountains in thee, they have committed
wickedness in the midst of thee.

10 They have discovered the nakedness
of their father in thee, they have hum-
bled the uncleanness of the menstruous
woman in thee.

11 fl'And every one hath committed
abomination with his neighbour's wife,
and the father in law hath wickedly de-
filed his daughter in law, the brother
hath oppressed his sister the daughter of
his father in thee.

12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed
blood : thou hast taken usury and in-
crease, and hast covetously oppressed
thy neighbours : and thou hast forgotten
me, saith the Lord God.

13 Behold, I have clapped my hands at
thy covetousness, which thou hast exer-
cised : and at the blood that hath been
shed in the midst of thee.

14 Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy
hands prevail in the days which I will
bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken,
and will do it.

15 And I will disperse thee in the na-
tions, and will scatter thee among the
countries, and I will put an end to thy
uncleanness in thee.

16 And I will possess thee in the sight

g Jer. 5. 8.

they had reproached and insulted over the Jews, at
the time of the destruction of Jerusalem.

Ver. .30. Return into thy sheath, &c. The sword
of Babylon, after raging against many nations, was
shortly to be judged and destroyed at home by the
Medes and Persians.

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God will consume Israel as dross EZECHIEL

The two harlots

of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that
I am the Lord.

17 And the word of the Lord came to
me, sayings

18 Son of man, the house of Israel is
become dross to me: all these are brass,
and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst
of the furnace : they are become the
Jross of silver.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because you are all turned into dross,
therefore behold I will gather you to-
gether in the midst of Jerusalem.

20 As they r;ather silver, and brass, and
tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of
the furnace : that I may kindle a fire in
it to melt it . .'O will I gather you to-
r^ether in my fury and in my wrath, and
vzill take my rest, and I will melt y^'i
down.

21 And I will gather you together, and
will burn you in tne fire of my wrath, and
you shall be melted in the midst thereof.

22 A3 silver is melted in the midst of
the furnace, so shall you be in the midst
thereof: and you shall know that I am
the Lord, when I have poured out my
indignation upon you.

23 And the word of the Lord came to
me, caying:

24 Son of man, say to her : Thou art a
land that is unclean, and not rained upon
in the day of wrath.

25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in
th3 midst thereof: like a lion that roareth
and catcheth the prey, they havQ de-
voured souls, they have taken riches and
hire, they have made many widows in
the midst thereof.

26 Her priests have despised my law,
and have defiled my sanctuaries: they
have put no difference between holy and
profane : nor have distinguished between
the polluted and the clean: and they have
turned away their eyes from my sabbaths,
and I was profaned \n the midst of them.

27 ^ Her princes in the midst of her, are
like wolves ravening the prey to shed
blood, and to destroy souls, and to run
after gains through covetousness.

h Mich. 3. 11 ; Soph. 3. 3.

Chap. 23. Ver. 3. Committed fornication. That

i3, idolatry.

Ver. 4. Oolla and Ooliba. God calls the kingdom
)f isrcsl Oolla, which signifies t^eirot^n habitatiori,
becau£9 they separated themselves from his temple :
and the )^gdom ol Judu, Ooliba^ which signifies his

28 And hor prophets have daubed then>
without tempering the mortar^ seeing vain
things, and divining lies unto them, say-
ing : Thus saith the Lord God : when the
Lord hath not spoken.

29 The people of the land have used
oppression, and committed robbery: they
afflicted the needy and poor, and they
oppressed the stranger by calumny with-
out judgment.

30 And I sought among them for a man
that might set up a hedge, and stand In
the gar) before me in favour of the land,
that I might not destroy it : and I found
none.

31 And I poured out my indignation
upon them, in the fire of my wrath I con-
sumed them : I have rendered their way
upon their own head, saith the Lord
God.

CHAPTER 23.

Under the names of the two harlots, Oolla and
Ooliba^ are described the m^anifold disloyalties of
Sam,aria and Jervsalem^ with the punishment of
them. both.

AND the word of the Lord came tc
. me, saying:

2 Son of man, there were two women,
da ighters of one mother.

3 And they committed fornication ii?
Egypt, in their youth they committed
fornication : there were their breasts
pressed down, and the teats of their vir-
gin'ty were bruised.

4 And their names were Oolla the elder,
and Ooliba her younger sister: and I
took them, and the/ bore sons and
daughters. Now fo} their names, Sa-
maria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba.

6 And Oolla committed fornication
against me, and doted on her lovers, on
the Assyrians that came to her,

6 Who were clothed with blue, princec.
and rulers, beautiful youths, all horse*
men, mounted upon horses.

7 And she committed her fornications
with those chosen men, all sons of the
Assyrians: and she defiled herself with
the uncleanness of all them on whom she
doted

habitation in h&r^ because of his temple among them
in Jerusalem.

Ver. 6. On the Assyrians, &c. That is, the idols
of the Assyrians : for all ihat is said in this chapter
of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is to be under
stood in a spiritual sense, of their disloyalty to tne
Lord, by wur8lu(*piiig sUiaii£e gods.

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Ooliba the greater sinner

EZECHIEL

Her punishment

8 Moreover also she did not forsake her
fornications which she had committed in
Egypt : for they also lay with her in her
youth, and they bruised the breasts of
her virginity, and poured out their for-
nication upon her.

9 Therefore have I dehvered her into
the hands of her lovers, into the hands
of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose
lust she doted.

lO-^They discovered her disgrace, took
away her sons and daughters, and slew
her with the sword: and they became
infamous women, and they executed
y dgments in her.

11 And when her sister Ooliba saw this,
she was mad with lust more than she:
and she carried her fornication beyond
the fornication of her sister.

12 Impudently prostituting herself to
the children of the Assyrians, the princes,
and rulers that came to her, clothed with
divers colours, to the horsemen that rode
upon horses, and to young men all of
gi-eat beauty.

13 And I saw that she was denied, and
that they both took one way.

14 And she increased her fornicationf: :
and when she had seen men painted on
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans
set forth in colours,

16 And girded with girdles about their
reins, and with dyed turbans on their
heads, the resemblance of all the cap-
tains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon,
and of the land of th3 Chaldeans wherein
they were born,

16 She doted upon them with the lust
of her eyes, and she sent messengers to
them into Chaldaa.

17 And when the sons of Babylon were
come to her to the bed of love, they de-
filed her with their fornications, and she
was polluted by them, and her soul was
glutted with them.

18 And she discovered her fornications,
and discovered her disgrace : and my
soul was ahenated from her, as my soul
was ahenated from her sister.

19 For she multiplied her fornications,
remembering the days of her youth, in
which she played the harlot in the land
of Egypt.

20 And she was mad with lust after ly-
ing with them whose flesh is as the flesh

of asses : and whose issue as the issue
of horftes.

21 And thou hast renewed the wicked-
ness of thy youth, when thy breasts were
pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy
virginity broken.

22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the
Lord God: Behold I will raise up against
thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul
hath been glutted: and I will gather
them together against thee round about.

23 The children of Babylon, and all the
Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings,
and princes, all the sons of the Assyri-
ans, beautiful young men, all the cap-
tains, and rulers, the princes of princes,
and the renowned horsemen.

24 And they shall come upon thee well
appointed with chariot and wheel, a mul-
titude of people : they shall be armed
against thee on every side with breast-
plate, and buckler, and helmet : and I
will set judgment before them, and they
shall judge thee by their judgments.

25 And I will set my jealousy against
thee, which they shall execute upon thee
with fury: they shall cut off thy nose
and thy ears: and what remains shall
fall by the sword: they shall take thy
sons, and thy daughters, and thy resi-
due shall be devoured by lire.

26 And they shall strip thee of thy gar-
ments, and take away the instruments
Oi thy glory.

27 And I will put an end to thy wicked-
ness in thee, and thy fornication brought
out of the land of Egypt : neither shalt
thou Hft up thy eyes to them, nor re-
member Egypt any more.

28 For thus saith the Lord ^od : Be-
hold, I will deliver thee into che hands
of them whom thou hatest, into heir
hands with whom thy soul hath been
glutted.

29 And they shall deal with thee in
hatred, and they shall take away all thy
labours, and shall let thee go naked,
and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of
thy fornication shall be discovered, thy
wickedness, and thy fornications.

30 They have done these things to thee,
because thou hast played the harlot with
the nations among which thou wast de-
filed with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy

j Supra 16w 3&
917

Wickedness of the two harlots EZECHIEL Punishment of the two harlots

Slower, and I will give her cup into thy
hand.

32 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt
drink thy sister's cup, deep, and wide:
thou shalt be had in derision and scorn,
which containeth very much.

33 Thou shalt be filled with drunken-
ness, and sorrow : with the cup of grief,
and sadness, with the cup of thy sister
Samaria.

34 And thou shalt drink it, and shalt
drink it up even to the dregs, and thou
shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou
shalt rend thy breasts: because I have
spoken it, saith the Lord God.

35 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Because thou hast forgotten me, and
hast cast me off behind thy back, bear
thou also thy wickedness, and thy forni-
cations.

36 And the Lord spoke to me, saying:
Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and
Ooliba, and dosb thou declare to them
their wicked deeds ?

37 Because they have committed adul-
tery, and blood is in their hands, and
they have committed fornication with
their idols : moreover also their children,
whom they bore to me, they have of-
fered to them to be devoured.

38 Yea, and they have done this to me.
They polluted my sanctuary on the same
day, and profaned my sabbaths.

39 And when they sacrificed their chil-
dren to their idols, and went into my
sanctuary the same day to profane it :
they did these things even in the midst
of my house.

40 They sent for men coming from afar,
to whom they had sent a messenger: and
behold they came: for whom thou didst
wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes,
and wast adorned with women's orna-
ments.

41 Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and
a table was decked before thee : where-
upon thou didst set my incense, and my
ointment.

42 And there was in her the voice of a
multitude rejoicing : and to some that
were brought of the multitude of men,
and that came from the desert, they put
bracelets on their hands, and beautiful
crowns on their heads.

43 And I said to her that was worn out

k That Is, ministers of the divine justice.

in her adulteries : Now will this woman
still continue in her fornication.

44 And they went in to her, as to a
harlot : so went they in unto Oolla, and
Ooliba, wicked women.

45 They therefore are ^ just men : these
shall judge them as adulteresses are
judged, and as shedders of blood are
judged: because they are adulteresses,
and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus saith the Lord God : Bring
a multitude upon them, and deliver them
over to tumult and rapine :

47 And let the people stone them with
stones, and let them be stabbed with
their swords: they shall kill their sons
and daughters, and their houses they
shall burn with fire.

48 And I will take away wickedness out
of the land : and all women shall learn,
not to do according to the wickedness of
them.

49 And they shall render your wicked*
ness upon you, and you shall bear the
sins of your idols : and you shall know
that I am the Lord God.

CHAPTER 24.

Under the parable of a boiling pot is shewn the utter
destruction of Jerusalem : for which the Jews at
Babylon shall not dare to mourn.

A ND ^ the word o/ the Lord came to me
XA- in the ninth year, in the tenth
month, the tenth day of the month, say-
ing:

2 Son of man, write thee the name of
this day, on which the king of Babylon
hath set himself against Jerusalem to
day.

3 And thou shalt speak by a figure a
parable to the provoking house, and say
to them : Thus saith the Lord God : Set
on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water
into it.

4 Heap together into it the pieces
thereof, every good piece, the thigh and
the shoulder, choice pieces and full of
bones.

5 Take the fattest of the flock, and lay
together piles of bones under it : the
seething thereof is boiling hot, and the
bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in
the midst of it.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God;
Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose
rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out

I B. C. 590.

918

Figure of the hoiling pot

EZECHIEL The people forbidden to mourn

of it cast it out 'piece by piece, there
hath no lot fallen upon it.

7 For her blood is in the midst of her,
she hath shed it upon the smooth rock :
she hath not shed it upon the ground,
that it might be covered with dust.

8 And that I might bring my indignation
upon her, and take my vengeance i I
have shed her blood upon the smooth
rock, that it should not be covered.

9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God : "^
Woe to the bloody city, of which I will
make a great bonfire.

10 Heap together the bones, which I
will burn with fire : the flesh shall be
consumed, and the whole composition
shall be sodden, and the bones shall be
consumed.

11 Then set it smpty upon burning coals,
that it may be hot, and the brass thereof
may be melted: and let the filth of it be
melted in the midst thereof, and let ohe
rust of it be consumed.

12 Great pains have been taken, and the
great rust thereof is not gone out, not
even by fire.

13 Thy uncleanness is execrable: be-
cause I desired to cleanse thee, and thou
art not cleansed from thy filthiness : nei-
ther shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause
my indignation to rest in thee.

14 I the Lord have spoken: it shall
come to pass, and I will do it : I will not
pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I
will judge thee according to thy ways,
and according to thy doings, saith the
Lord.

15 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

16 Son of man, behold I take from thee
the desire of thy eyes with a stroke . and
thou shalt not lament, nor weep : neither
shall thy tears run down.

17 Sigh in silence, make no mourning
for the dead : let the tire of thy head be
upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and
cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of
mourners.

18 So I spoke to the people in the
morning, and my wife died in the even-
ing: and I did in the morning as he had
commanded me.

19 And the people said to me: Why
dost thou not tell us what these things
mean that thou doest ?

i.r --'ai -. s. i i BiiM. 2. i».

20 And I said to them : The word of the
Lord came to me, sajdng :

21 Speak to the house of Israel : Thus
saith the Lord God: Behold I will pro-
fane my sanctuary, the glory of your
realm, and the thing that your eyes de-
sire, and for whick your soul feareth:
your sons, and your daughters, whom
you have left, shall fall by the sword.

22 And you shall do as I have done:
you shall not cover your faces, nor shall
you eat the meat of mourners.

23 You shall have crowns on your heads,
and shoes on your feet: you shall not la-
ment nor weep, but you shall pine away
for your iniquities, and every one shall
sigh with his brother.

24 And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a
sign of things to come i according to all
that he hath done, so shall you do, when
this shall come to pass : and you shall
know that I am the Lord God.

25 And thou, O son of man, behold 'n
the day wherein I will take away from
them their strength, and the joy of their
glory, and the desire of their eyes, upon
which their souls rest, their sons and
their daughters.

26 In that day when he that escape th
shall come to thee, to tell thee :

27 In that day, I say, shall thy mouth
be opened to him that hath escaped, and
thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no
more and thou shalt be unto them for
a sign of things to come, and you shal]
know that I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 25.

A prophecy against the Ammonites, Moabites^
Edomites, and Philistines^ for their m,alice
against the Israelites.

4 ND the word of the Lord came to me,
XjL saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face against the
children of Ammon, and thou shalt pro-
phesy of them.

3 '^ And thou shalt say to the children
of Ammon : Hear ye the word of the
Lord God : Thus saith the Lord God :
Because thou hast said ; Ha, ha, upon my
sanctuary, because it was profaned : and
Upon the land of Israel, because it was
laid waste : and upon the house of Juda,
because they are led into captivity :

4 Therefor© will I deliver thee to tho
men of the east for an inheritance, and

Jn'iK- t^7. a !)i,aa 49. 1.

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Against Ammon, Moah, Edom EZECHIEL

Tyre shall be destroyed

tney shall placo their sheepcotes in thee,
and shall set up their tents in thee: they
shall eat thy fruits: and they shall drink
thy milk.

6 And I will make Rabbath a stable for
camels, and the children of Ammon a
couching place for flocks: and you shall
know that I am the Lord.

6 For thus saith the Lord God : Because
5hor hast clapped thy hands and stamped
with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with all
thy heart against the land of Israel :

y Therefore behold I will stretch forth
my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee
to be the spoil of nations, and will cut
thee off from among the people, and de-
stroy thee out of the lands, and break
thee in pieces: and thou shalt know that
^ r.m the Lord.

3 Thus saith the Lord God : Because
Moab and Seir have said: Behold the
house fit Judn, is like all other nations :

9 Therefore behold I will open the shoul-
der of Moab from the cities, from his
cities, I say, and his borders, the noble
cities of the land of Bethiesimoth, and
Beelmeon, and Cariathaim,

10 To the people of the east with the
children of Ammon, and I will give it
5hem for an inheritance : that there may
be no more any remembrance of the
children of Ammon among the nations.

11 And I will execute judgments in
Moab . and they shall know that I am the
Lord.

12 ** Thus saith the Lord God : Because
Edom hath taken vengeance to revenge
herself of the children of Juda, and hath
greatly offended, and hath sought re-
venge of them :

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom,
and will take away out of it man and
beast, and will make it desolate from the
south : and they that are in Dedan shall
fall by the sword.

14 And I will lay my vengeance upon
Edom by the hand of my people Israel :
and they shall do in Edom according to
my wrath, and my fury: and they shall
know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.

15 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
the Philistines have taken vengeance,
and have revenged themselves with all

o Jer. 49. 7.

their mind, destroying and satisfying old
enmities :

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I will stretch forth my hand upon
the Philistines, and will kill the killers,
and will destroy the remnant of the sea
coast.

17 And I will execute great vengeance
upon them, rebuking them in fury : and
they shall know that I am the Lord, when
I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

CHAPTER 26.

A prophecy of the destruction of the famous city of
Tyre by Nabuchodonosor.

A ND P it came to pass in the eleventh
a\. year, the first day of the month,
that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying :

2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said
of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the peo-
ple are broken, she is turned to me : I
shall be filled, now she is laid waste.

3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and
I will cause many nations to come up to
thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.

4 And they shall break down the walls
of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof:
and I will scrape her dust from her, and
make her like a smooth rock.

5 She shall be a drying place for nets
in the midst of the sea, because I have
spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she
shall be a spoil to the nations.

6 Her daughters also that are in the field,
shall be slain by the sword: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.

7 For thus saith the Lord God : Behold
I will bring against Tyre Nabuchodono-
sor king of Babylon, the king of kings,
from the north, with horses, and chariots,
and horsemen, and companies, and much
people.

8 Thy daughters that are in the field,
he shall kill with the sword : and he shall
compass thee with forts, and shall cast
up a mount round about : and he shal)
lift up the buckler against thee.

9 And he shalJ set engines of war and
battering rams against thy walls, and|
shall destroy thy towers with his arms. |

IC By reason of the multitude of hiej
horses, their dust shall cover thee: thyj

p B. C. 588.

Chap. 25. Ver. 5. Rabbath. The capital city of the Ammonites: it was afterwards called Philadelphia

920

The desolation of Tyre

EZECHIEL

The greatness of Tyre

walls shall shake at the noise of the horse-
men, and wheels, and chariots, when they
shall go in at thy gates, as by the en-
trance of a city that is destroyed.

11 With the hoofs of his horses he shall
tread down all thy streets : thy people
he shall kill with the sword, and thy fa-
mous statues shall fall to the ground.

12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall
make a spoil of thy merchandise : and
they shall destroy thy walls, and pull
down thy fine houses : and they shall lay
thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust
in the midst of the waters.

13 5 And I will make the multitude of
thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy
harps shall be heard no more.

14 And I will make thee like a naked
rock, thou shalt be a drying place for
nets, neither shalt thou be built any more :
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre :
Shall not the islands shake at the sound of
thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when
they shall be killed in the midst of thee ?

16 Then all the princes of the sea shall
come down from their thrones : and take
off their robes, and cast away their broid-
ered garments, and be clothed with aston-
ishment: they shall sit on the ground,
and with amazement shall wonder at thy
sudden fall.

17 And taking up a lamentation over
thee, they shall say to thee: How art
thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, re-
nowned city that wast strong in the sea,
with thy inhabitants whom all did dread ?

18 Now shall the ships be astonished in
the day of thy terror: and the islands in
the sea shall be troubled because no one
Cometh out of thee.

19 For thus saith the Lord God : When
I shall make thee a desolate city like the
cities that are not inhabited : and shall
bring the deep upon thee, and many
waters shall cover thee:

20 And when I shall bring thee down
with those that descend into the pit to
the everlasting people, and shall set thee
in the lowest parts of the earth, as places
desolate of old, with them that are
brought down into the pit, that thou be
not inhabited : and when I shall give
::lory in the land of the living,

g Jer. 7. 34.

Chap. 27. Ver. 5. Sea planks.
brought by sea to build the city.

That is, timber

21 I will bring thee to nothing, and
thou shalt not be, and if thou be sought
for, thou shalt not be found any more
for ever, saith the Lord God.

CHAPTER 27.

A description of the glory and riches of Tyre •* and
of her irrecoverable fall.

A ND the word of the Lord came to
J\ me, saying:

2 Thou therefore., O son of man, take
up a lamentation for Tyre :

3 And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the
entry of the sea, being the mart of the
people for many islands : Thus saith the
Lord God : O Tyre, thou hast said i I am
of perfect beauty,

4 And situate in the heart of the sea.
Thy neighbours, that built thee, have
perfected thy beauty:

5 With fir trees of Sanir they have built
thee with all sea planks : they have
taken cedars from Libanus to make thee
masts.

6 They have cut thy oars out of the oaks
of Basan: and they have made thee
benches of Indian ivory and cabins with
things brought from the islands of Italy.

7 Fine broidered linen from Egypt was
woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy
mast : blue and purple from the islands
of Elisa, were made thy covering.

8 The inhabitants of Sidon, and the
Arabians were thy rowers : thy wise men,
O Tyre, were thy pilots.

9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise
men thereof furnished mariners for the
service of thy various furniture : all the
ships of the sea, and their mariners were
thy factors.

10 The Persians, and Lydians, and the
Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army :
they hung up the buckler and the helmet
in thee for thy ornament.

11 The men of Arad were with thy army
upon thy walls round about : the Pyg-
means also that were in thy towers, hung
up their quivers on thy walls round
about : they perfected thy beauty.

12 The Carthaginians thy merchants
supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all
kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and
lead.

13 Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they

Ver. 11. The Pycfmeans. That is, strong and
valiant men. In Hebrew. Gammadim.

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The riches of Tyre

EZECHIEL Lamentation ewer the fall of Tyre

were thy merchants : they brought to
thy people slaves and vessels of brass.

14 From the house of Thogorma they
brought horses, and horsemen, and mules
to thy market.

15 The men of Dedan were thy mer-
chants : many islands were the traffic of
thy hand, they exchanged for thy price
teeth of ivory and ebony.

16 The Syrian was thy merchant: by
reason of the multitude of thy works,
they set forth precious stones, and pur-
ple, and broidered works, and fine linen,
and silk, and chodchod in thy market.

17 Juda and the land of Israel, they
were thy merchants with the best corn :
they set forth balm, and honey, and oil,
and rosin in thy fairs.

18 The men of Damascus were thy mer-
chants in the multitude of thy works, in
the multitude of divers riches, in rich
wine, in wool of the best colour.

19 Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have
set forth in thy marts wrought iron:
stacte, and calamus were in thy market.

20 The men of Dedan were thy mer-
chants in tapestry for seats.

21 Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar,
they were the merchants of thy hand :
thy merchants came to thee with lambs,
and rams, and kids.

22 The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they
were thy merchants : with all the best
spices, and precious stones, and gold,
which they set forth in thy market.

23 Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy
merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad
sold to thee.

24 They were thy merchants in divers
manners, with bales of blue cloth^ and of
embroidered work, and of precious riches,
which were wrapped up and bound with
cords : they had cedars also in thy mer-
chandise.

25 The ships of the sea, were thy chief
in thy merchandise : and thou wast re-
plenished, and glorified exceedingly in
the heart of the sea.

26 Thy rowers have brought thee into
great waters : the south wind hath
broken thee in the heart of the sea.

27 Thy riches, and thy treasures, and
thy manifold furniture, thy mariners,
and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and

were chief over thy people: thy men of
war also, that were in thee, with all thy
multitude that is in the midst of thee :
shall fall in the heart of the sea in the
day of thy ruin.

28 Thy fleets shall be troubled at the
sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29 And all that handled the oar shall
come down from their ships : the mariners,
and all the pilots of the sea shall stand
upon the land:

30 And they shall mourn over thee with
a loud voice, and shall cry bitterly : and
they shall cast up dust upon their heade
and shall be sprinkled with ashes.

31 And they shall shave themselves bala
for thee, and shall be girded with hair-
cloth : and they shall weep for thee with
bitterness of soul, with most bitter weep-
ing.

32 And they shall take up a mournful
song for thee, and shall lament thee:
What city is like Tyre, which is become
silent in the midst of the sea?

33 Which by thy merchandise that went
from thee by sea didst fill many people:
which by the multitude of thy riches,
and of thy people didst enrich the kings
of the earth.

34 Now thou art destroyed by the sea,
thy riches are in the bottom of the wa-
ters, and all the multitude that was in
the midst of thee is fallen.

35 All the inhabitants of the islands are
astonished at thee: and all their kinge
being struck with the storm have changed
their countenance.

36 The merchants of people have hissed
at thee : thou art brought to nothing, and
thou shalt never be any more.

CHAPTER 28.

The king of Tyre, uho affected to he like to God,
shall fall under the like sentence with Lucifer.
The judgment of Sidon. The restoration of Is-
rael.

A ND the word of the Lord came to
J\ me, saying:

2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre :
Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy
heart is lifted up, and thou hast said : I
am God, and I sit in the chair of God in
the heart of the sea : whereas thou art a
man, and not God : and hast set thy heart
as if it were the heart of God.

Ver. 16. Chodchod, It is the Hebrew name for some precious stone -, but of wbat kind in particulax

interpreters are not agreed.

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Pride of the king of Tyre punished EZECHIEL Prophecy against Sidon

: 1

3 Behold thou art wiser than Daniel :
no secret is hid from thee.

4 In thy wisdom and thy understanding
thou hast made thyself strong : and hast
gotten gold and silver into thy treasures.

5 By the greatness of thy wisdom, and
by thy traffic thou hast increased thy
strength : and thy heart is lifted up with
thy strength.

6 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God :
Because thy heart is lifted up as the
heart of God :

7 Therefore behold, I will bring upon
thee strangers the strongest of the na-
tions : and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and
they shall defile thy beauty.

8 They shall kill thee, and bring thee
down: and thou shalt die the death of
them that are slain in the heart of the sea.

9 Wilt thou yet say before them that
slay thee : I am God ; whereas thou art a
man, and not God, in the hand of them
that slay thee ?

10 Thou shalt die the death of the un-
circumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

11 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying : Son of man, take up a lamen-
tation upon the king of Tyre :

12 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord
God : Thou wast the seal of resemblance,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the
paradise of God: every precious stone
was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz,
and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the
onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and
the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the
W^ork of thy beauty : and thy pipes were
prepared in the day that thou wast cre-
ated.

14 Thou a cherub stretched out, and
protecting, and I set thee in the holy
mountain of God, thou hast walked in
the midst of the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from
the day of thy creation, until iniquity
was found in thee.

Chap. 28. Ver. 3. Thou art wiser than Daniel,
viz., in thy own conceit. The wisdom of Daniel was
so much celebrated in liis days, that it became a pro-
verb amongst the Chaldeans, when any one would
express an extraordinary wisdom, to say he was as
U'ise as Daniel.

Ver. 12. Thou wast the seal of resemblance. The
king of Tyre, by his dignity and his natural perfec-
tions, bore in himself a certain resemblance of God,
oy reason of which he might be called the seal of

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise,
thy inner parts were filled with iniquity,
and thou hast sinned: and I cast thee
out from the mountain of God, and de-
stroyed thee, O covering cherub, out ^f
the midst of the stones of fire.

17 And thy heart was lifted up with
thy beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom
in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the
ground: I have set thee before the
face of kings, that they might behold
thee.

18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by
the multitude of thy iniquities, and by
the iniquity of thy traffic : therefore I
will bring forth a fire from the midst of
thee, to devour thee, and I will make
thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight
of all that see thee.

19 All that shall see thee among the
nations, shall be astonished at thee : thou
art brought to nothing, and thou shalt
never be any more.

20 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

21 Son of man, set thy face against Si-
don : and thou shalt prophesy of it,

22 And shalt say : Thus saith the Lord
God : Behold I come against thee, Sidon,
and I will be glorified in the midst of
thee : and they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall execute judgments in
her, and shall be sanctified in her.

23 And I will send into her pestilence,
and blood in her streets : and they shall
fall being slain by the sword on all sides
in the midst thereof: and they shall
know that I am the Lord.

24 And the house of Israel shall have
no more a stumblingblock of bitterness,
nor a thorn causing pain on every side
round about them, of them that are
against them : and they shall know that
I am the Lord God.

25 Thus saith the Lord God: When I
shall have gathered together the house
of Israel out of the people among whom
they are scattered : I will be sanctified in
them before the Gentiles : and they shall

resemblance, &c. But what is here said to him is
commonly understood of Lucifer, the king over all
the children of pride,

Ver. 14. A cherub stretched out. That is, thy
wings extended. This alludes to the figure of the
cherubims in the sanctuary, which with stretched out
wings covered the ark. — Ibid. The stones of fire.
That is, bright and precious stonec which sparkJ''
like fire.

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Prophecy against Pkarao

EZECHlfclL Egypt given to Nabuchodonosor

dwell in their own land, which I gave to
my servant Jacob.

26 And they shall dwell therein secure,
and they jhall build houses, and shall
plant vineyards, and shall dwell with
confidence, when I shall have executed
judgments upon all that are their enemies
round about : and they shall know that I
am the Lord their God.

CHAPTER 29.

The Mng of Egypt shall be overthrown, and his
kingdom ivastcd: it shall be given to Nabuchodo-
nosor for his service against Tyre.

IN ' the tenth year, the tenth month,
the eleventh day of the month, the
word of the Lord came to me, saying :

2 Son of man, set thy face against Pha-
rao king of Egypt : and thou shalt pro-
phesy of him, and of all Egypt:

3 Speak, and say : Thus saith the Lord
God : Behold, I come against thee, Pharao
king of Egypt, thou great dragon that
liest in the midst of thy rivers, and say-
est: The river is mine, and I made my-
self,

4 But I will put a bridle in thy jaws :
and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to
stick to thy scales : and I will draw thee
out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy
fish shall stick to thy scales.

6 And I will cast thee forth into the des-
ert, and all the fish of thy river: thou
shalt fall upon the face of the earth,
thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered
together: I have given thee for meat to
the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls
of the air.

6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall
know that I am the Lord : ^ because thou
hast been a staff of a reed to the house
of Israel.

7 When they took hold of thee with the
hand thou didst break, and rent all their
shoulder : and when they leaned upon
thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all
their loins.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee :
and cut off man and beast out of thee.

9 And the land of Egypt shall become a
desert, and a wilderness : and they shall
know that I am the Lord : because thou
hast said : The river is mine, and I made
it.

10 Therefore, behold I coTue against thee.

t B. C. 590. — u Isa. 36. 6.

and thy rivers : and I will make the land
of Egypt utterly desolate, arvd wasted by
the sword, from the tower of Syene, even
to the borders of Ethiopia.

11 The foot of man shall not pass through
it, neither shall the foot of beasts go
through it : nor shall it be inhabited dur-
ing forty years.

12 And I will make the land of Egypt
desolate in the midst of the lands that are
desolate, and the cities thereof in the
midst of the cities that are destroyed, and
they shall be desolate for forty years:
and I will scatter the Egyptians among
the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.

13 For thus saith the Lord God: At the
end of forty years I will gather the
Egyptians from the people among whom
they had been scattered.

14 And I will bring back the captivity
of Egypt, and will place them in the land
of Phatures, in the land of their nativity,
and they shall be there a low kingdom;

15 It shall be the lowest among other
kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted
over the nations, and I will diminisli
them that they shall rule no more over
the nations.

16 And they shall be no more a confi-
dence to the house of Israel, teaching
iniquity, that they may fiee, and follow
them : and they shall know that I am
the Lord God.

17 And it came to pass in the seven and
twentieth year, ^ in the first months in
the first of the month : that the word of
the Lord came to me, saying :

18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon hath made his army to undergo
hard service against Tyre : every head
was made bald, and every shoulder was
peeled : and there hath been no reward
given him, nor his army for Tyre, for
the service that he rendered me against
it.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the
king of Babylon in the land of Egypt
^and he shall take her multitude, anc
take the booty thereof for a prey, anc
rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall b<
wages for his army.

20 And for the service that he hatl
done me against it: I have given him th<

V B. C. 572. — to Jer. 46. 2.

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frophecy against Egypt and allies EZECHIEL

Her cities shall he wasted

their swords upoi; Egypt : and shall fill
the land with the slain.

12 And I will make the channels of the
rivers dry, and will deliver the land into
the hand of the wicked: and will lay
waste the land and all that is therein by
the hands of strangers, I the Lord have
spoken it,

13^ Thus saith the Lord God : I will
also destroy the idols, and I will make an
end of the idols of Memphis : and there
shalj be no more a prince of the land of
Egypt : and I will cause a t-error in the
land of Egypt.

14 And I will destroy the land of Pha-
tures, and will make a fire in Taphnis,
and will execute judgments in Alexandria.

15 And I will pour out my indignation
upon Pelusium the strength of Egj^pt,
and will cut off the multitude of Alexan-
dria.

16 And I wiU make a fire in EgjT)t : Pe-
lusium shall be in pain like a woman
in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid
waste, and in Memphis there shall bo
daily distresses.

17 The young men of Heliopolis, and of
Bubastus shall fall by the sword, and they
themselves shall go into captivity.

18 And in Taphnis the day shall be dark-
ened, when I shall break there the scep>
tres of Egypt, and the pride of her power
shall cease in her : a cloud shall cover
her, and her daughters shall be led into
captivity.

19 And I will execute judgments in
Egypt: and they shall know that I am
the Lord.

20 And it came to pas£ in the eleventh
year, ^ in the first month, in the seventh
day of the month, that the word of the
Lord came to me, saying :

21 Son of man, I have broken the arm
of Pharao king of Egypt : and behold it
is not bound up, to be healed, to be tied
up with clothes, and swathed with linen,
that it might recover strength, and hold
the sword.

22 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God :
Behold, I come against Pharao king of
Egypt, and I will break into pieces his
strong arm, which is already broken : and

land of Egypt, because he hath laboured
for me, saith the Lord God.
21 In that day a horn shall bud forth to
the house of Israel, and I will give thee
an open mouth in the.nidst of them : and
they shall know that 1 am the Lord.

CHAPTER 3C.

The desolation of Egypt and her nelperf> • aU her
cities shall be wasted.

AND * the word of the Lord came to
. me, saying:

2 Son of man prophesy, and say : Thus
saith the Lord God : Howl ye, Woe, woe
to the day :

3 For the day is near, yea the day of the
Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be
the time of the nations.

4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt :
and there shall be dread in Ethiopia,
when the wounded shall fall in Egypt,
and the multitude thereof shall be taken
away, and the foundations thereof shall bo
destroyed.

5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and
all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and
the children of the ^and of the covenant,
shall fall with them by the sword.

6 Thus saith the Lord God : They also
that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride
of her empire shall be brought down:
from the tower of Syene shall they fall
in it by the sword, saith the Lord the
God of hosts.

7 And they shall be desolate in the
midst of the lands that are desolate, and
the cities thereof shall be in the midst of
the cities that are wasted.

8 And they shall know that I am the
Lord : when I shall have set a fire in
Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall
be destroyed.

9 In that day shall messengers go forth
from my face in ships to destroy the
confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall
be dread among them in the day of Egypt :
because it shall certainly come.

10 Thus saith the Lord God : I will make
the multitude of Egypt to cease by the
hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon.

11 He and his people with him, the

strongest of nations, shall be brought to I will cause the sword to fall out cf his
destroy the land : and they shall draw

T Jer. 43.. and 44., and 46.

hand

Chap. 30. Ver. 14. Alexandria. In the Hebrew,
Vo : which was the ancient name of that city, which

y Zach. 13. 2.

B. C. 588.

was afterwards relniilt \\ Alexander the GreaLaod
frum his name called Alexandria.

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Greatness of Assyria

EZECHIEL

Her fall

23 And I will disperse. Egypt among the
nations, and scatter them through the
countries.

24 And I will strengthen the arms of the
king of Babylon, and will put my sword
in his hand: and I will break the arms
of Pharao, and they shall groan bitterly
being slain before his face.

25 And I will strengthen the arms of the
king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao
shall fall : and they shall know that I am
the Lord, when I shall have given my
sword into the hand of the king of Baby-
lon, and he shall have stretched it forth
upon the land of Egypt.

26 And I will disperse Egypt among the
nations, and will scatter them through
the countries, and they shall know that
I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 31.

The Assyrian empire fell for their pride: the Egyp-
tian shall fall in like manner.

AND «it came to pass in the eleventh
year, the third month, the first day
of the month, that the word of the Lord
came to me, saying;

2 Son of man, speak to Pharao king of
Egypt, and to his people : To whom art
thou like in thy greatness?

3 Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar
in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of
leaves, of a high stature, and his top was
elevated among the thick boughs.

4 The waters nourished him, the deep
set him up on high, the streams thereof
ran round about his roots, and it sent
forth its rivulets to all the trees of the
country.

5 Therefore was his height exalted above
all the trees of the country: and his
branches were multiplied, and his boughs
were elevated because of many waters.

6 And when he had spread forth his
shadow, all the fowls of the air made
their nests in his boughs, and all the
beasts of the forest brought forth their
young under his branches, and the as-
sembly of many nations dwelt under his
shadow.
7 And he was most beautiful for his
greatness, and for the spreading of his
branches: for his root was near great
waters.

a B. C. 588.

Chap. 31. Ver. 11. / have delivered. Here the
time pact i» put for the future, i. e., / shall deliver. —

8 The cedars in the paradise of God were
not higher than he, the fir trees did not
equal his top, neither were the plane
trees to be compared with him for
branches: no tree in the paradise of
God was like him in his beauty.

9 For I made him beautiful and thick
set with many branches: and all the
trees of pleasure, that were in the para-
dise of God, envied him.

10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because he was exalted in height, and
shot up his top green and thick, and his
heart was lifted up in his height:

11 I have delivered him into the hands
of the mighty one of the nations, he shall
deal with him: I have cast him out ac-
cording to his wickedness.

12 And strangers, and the most cruel of
the nations shall cut him down, and cast
him away upon the mountains, and his
boughs shall fall in every valley, and his
branches shall be broken on every rock
of the country: and all the people of the
earth shall depart from his shadow, and
leave him.

13 All the fowls of the air dwelt upon
his ruins, and all the beasts of the field
were among his branches.

14 For which cause none of the trees by
the waters shall exalt themselves for their
height: nor shoot up their tops among
the thick branches and leaves, neithe
shall any of them that are watered stand
up in their height: for they are all de-
livered unto death to the lowest parts of
the earth, in the midst of the children of
men, with them that go down into the
pit.

15 Thus saith the Lord God : In the daj
when he went down to hell, I brought ir|
mourning, I covered him with the deep:!
and I withheld its rivers, and restrainecj
the many waters: Libanus grieved foi
him, and all the trees of the field trem
bled.

16 I shook the nations with the sound o
his fall, when I brought him down to hel
with them that descend into the pit: an
all the trees of pleasure, the choice an(
best in Libanus, all that were moistenet
with waters, were comforted in the low
est parts of the earth.

17 For they also shall go down with hir

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The mighty one, &c., viz., Nabuchodonosor, who cor
quered both the Assyrians and Egyptians.

fjamentation over the

EZECHIEL

fall of Egtjpt

to hell to them that are slain by the
sword : and the arm of every one shall
ait down under his shadow in the midst
of the nations.

18 To whom art thou like, O thou that
art famous and lofty among the trees of
pleasure ? Behold, thou art brought down
with the trees of pleasure to the lowest
parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the
midst of the uncircumcised, with them
that are slain by the sword : this is Pha-
rao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord
God.

CHAPTER 32.

The prophet*8 lamentation for the king of EgyjA.

A ND ^ it came to pass in the twelfth
XJL year, in the twelfth month, in the
first, day of the month, that the word of
the Lord came to me, saying :

2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for
Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to
him : Thou art like the lion of the nations,
and the dragon that is in the sea : and
thou didst push with the horn in thy
rivers, and didst trouble the waters with
thy feet, and didst trampl* upon their
streams.

3 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God :
'I will spread out my net over thee with
the multitude of many people, and 1 will
draw thee up in my net.

* And I will throw thee out on the land,
I will cast thee away into the open field:
and I will cause all the fowls of the air to
dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts
of all the earth with thee.

5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the moun-
tains, and will fill thy hills with thy cor-
ruption,

6 And I will water the earth with thy
stinking blood upon the mountains, and
the valleys shall be filled with thee.

7 ^ And I will cover the heavens, when
thou shalt be put out, and I will make
the stars thereof dark : I will cover the
Ban with a cloud, and the moon shall not
give her light.

8 I will make all the lights of heaven to
txourn over thee : and I will cause dark-
ness upon thy land, saith the Lord God,
when thy wounded shall fall in the midst
of the land, saith the Lord God.

9 And I shall provoke to anger the heart
:)f many people, wheni shall have brought

6 B. C. 587.
c Supra 12. 18, and 17. 20.

in thy destruction among the nations
upon the lands, which thou knowest not.

10 And I will make many people to be
amazed at thee, and their kings shall be
horribly afraid for thee, when my sword
shall begin to fly upon their faces : and
they shall be astonished on a sudden,
every one for his own Ufe, in the day of
their ruin.

11 For thus saith the Lord God : The
sword of the king of Babylon shall como
upon thee,

12 By the swords of the mighty I /i
overthrow thy multitude : all these na-
tions are invincible : and they shall waste
the pride of Egypt, and the multitude
thereof shall be destroyed.

13 1 wJU destroy also all the beasts thero-
of that were beside the great waters : and
the foot of man shall trouble them no
more, neither shall the hoof of beasts
trouble them.

14 Then will I make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oiL
saith the Lord God :

15 When I shall have made the lanL \*i
Egypt desolate : and the land shall be
destitute of her fulness, when I shall
have struck all the inhabitants thereof :
and they shall know that I am the Lord.

16 This is the lamentation, and they
shall lament therewith : the daughters of
the nations shall lament therewith : for
Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they
shall lament therewith, saith the Lord
God.

17 And it came to pass in the twelfth
year, * in the fifteenth day of the month,
that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying :

18 Son of man, sing a mournful song
for the multitude of Egypt : and cast
her down, hoih, her, and the daughters of
the mighty nations to the lowest part
of the earth, with them that go down
into the pit.

19 Whom dost thou excel in beauty ? go
tV)wn and sleep with the uncircumcisecl.

20 They shall fall in the midst of them
that are slain with the sword : the sword
is given, they have drawn her down, and
all her people.

21 The most mighty among the strong
ones shall speak to him from the midst
of hell, they that went down with hie

a Isa. 13. 10 ; Joel 2. lO, and 3.. 15 ; Matt 24. 29.
e A. M. 341Y.

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Duty of the watchman

helpers and slept uncircumcised, slain by
the sword.

22 Assur is there, and all his multitude:
their graves are round about him, all of
them slain, and that fell by the sword.

23 Whose graves are set in the lowest
parts of the pit: and his multitude lay
round about his grave: all of them slain,
and fallen by the sword, they that here-
tofore spread terror in the land of the
living.

24 There is Elam and all his multitude
round about his grave, all of them slain,
and fallen by the sword; that went
down uncircumcised to the lowest parts
of the earth: that caused their terror in
the land of the living, and they have
borns their shame with them that go
down into the pit.

25 In the midst of the slain they have
set him a bed among all his people: their
graves are round about him: all these
are uncircumcised, and slain by the
sword: for they spread their terror in
the land of the living, and have borne
their shame with them that descend into
the pit: they are laid in the midst of the
slain.

26 There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and
all their multitude: their graves are
round about him: all of them uncircum-
cised and slain, and fallen by the sword:
though they spread their terror in the
land of the living.

27 And they shall not sleep with the
brave, and wdth them that fell uncircum-
cised, that went down to hell with their
weapons, and laid their swords under
their heads, and their iniquities were in
their bones, because they were the terror
of the mighty in the land of the living.

28 So thou also shalt be broken in the
midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt
sleep with them that are slain by the
sword.

29 There is Edom, and her kings, and
all her princes, who with their army are
joined with them that are slain by the
sword: and have slept with the uncir-
cumcised, and with them that go down
into the pit.

30 There are all the princes of the north,
and all the hunters: who were brought
down with the slain, fearing, and con-
founded in their strength: who slept un-

circumcised with them that are slain by
the sword, and have borne their shame
with them that go down into the pit.

31 Pharao saw them, and he was com-
forted concerning all his multitude, which
was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all
his army, saith the Lord God:

32 Because I have spread my terror in
the land of the living, and he hath slept
in the midst of the uncircumcised vdth
them that are slain by the sword: Pharao
and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

CHAPTER 33.

The duty of the watchman appointed ty God:
the justice of God's wa/ya: his judgments upon
the Jews.

A ND the word of the Lord came to me,
-l\. .saying:

2 Son of man, speak to the children of
thy people, and say to them: When 1
bring the sword upon a land, if the peo-
ple of the land take a man, one of their
meanest, and make him a watchman over
them:

3 And he sees the sword coming upon
the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell
the people:

4 Then he that heareth the sound of the
trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not
look to himself, if the sword come, and
cut him off: his blood shall be upon his
own head.

5 He heard the sound of the trumpet,
and did not look to himself, his blood
shall be upon him: but if he look to him-
self, he shall save his life.

6 And if the watchman see the sword
coming, and sound not the trumpet: and
the people look not to themselves, and
the sword come, and cut off a soul from
among them: he indeed is taken away
in his iniquity, but I will require his
blood at the hand of the watchman.

7 / So thou, O son of man, I have made
thee a watchman to the house of Israel:]
therefore thou shalt hear the word from
my mouth, and shalt tell it them from
me.

8 When I say to the wicked: 0 wicked
man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dosti
not speak to warn the wicked man from|
his way: that wicked man shall die inj
his iniquity, but I will require his blood
at thy hand.

9 But if thou tell the wicked man, that

/ Supra 3. 17.
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Ood^s ways are just EZECHIEL God^s judgment upon Israel

liG tnay be converted from his ways, and 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth

liG tnay be converted from his ways, and
hs be not converted from his way? he
Bhall die in his iniquity: but thou hast
delivered thy souL

10 Thou therefore, O son of man, say
to the house of Israel: Thus you have
8jK)ken, saying: Our iniquities, and our
ixns are upon us, and we pine away in
them : how then can we live ?

11 ''Say to them: As I live, saith the
Lord God, I desire not the death of the
wicked, but that the wicked turn from
his way, and Uve Turn ye, turn ye from
your evil ways : and why will you die, O
house of Israel?

12 Thou therefore, O son of man. say to
the children of thy people: The justice of
the just shall not deliver him, in what
day soever he shall sin : and the wicked-
ness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in
what day soever he shall turn from his
vickedness : and the just shall not be
able to Uve in hi£ justice, in what day
«oever he shall sin.

13 Yea, if I shall say to the just that he
shall surely Uve, and he, trusting in his
justice, commit iniquity : all his justices
shall be forgotten, and in his iniquity,
which he hath committed; in the same
shall he die.

14 And if I shall say to the wicked:
Thou Shalt surely die : and he do pen-
ance for his sin, and do judgment and
^tico,

15 And if that wicked man restore the
pledge, and render what he had robbed,
and walk in the commandments of Ufe,
and dc no unjust thing : he shall surely
Uve, and shall not die.

16 None of his sins, which he hath com-
mitted, shall be imputed to him : he hath
done judgment and justice, he shall surely
Hve.

17 And the children of thy people have
said : The way of the Lord is not equi-
table : whereas their own way is unjust.

18 For when the just shall depart from
Ms justice, and commit iniquiUes, he shaU
die in them.

19 And when the wicked shall depart
from his wickedness, and shall do judg-
nents, and justice i he shall live in them.

30 ^ And you say : The way of the Lord
d not rightj I will judge every one of you
'ccordinj^^ to his ways, O house of Israel.

7 Supra U. 32. —> A Supra 18. 25,

year *of our captivity, in the tenth
month, in the fifth day of the month,
that there came to me one that was fled
from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid
waste.

22 And the hand of the Lord had been
upon me in the evening, before he that
was fled came: and he opened my mouth
tiU he came to me in the morning, and
my mcuth being opened, I was silent no
more.

23 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :

24 Son of man, they that dwell in these
ruinous places in the land of Israel, speak,
saying : Abraham was one. and he inher-
ited the land, but we are many, the land
is given us in possession.

26 Therefore say to them: Thus saith
the Lord God, You that eat with the
blood and lift up your eyes to your un-
cleannesses, and that shed blood: shall
you possess the land by inheritance ?

26 You stood on your swords, you have
committed abominations, and every one
hath defiled his neighbour's wife ; and
shall you possess the land by inherit*
ance?

27 Say thou thus to them : Thus saith
the Lord God : As I live, they that dwell
in the ruinous places, shall fall by the
sword : and he that is in the field, shall
be given to the beasts to be devoured:
amd they that are in holds, and caves,
shall die of the pestilence,

28 And I will make the land a wilder-
ness, and a desci^;, and the proud strength
thereof shall fa'l, and the mountains of
Israel shall be desolate, because there ie
none to pass by them.

29 And they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have made their land
waste and desolate, for all their abomina-
tions which they have committed.

30 And thou son of man: the children
of thy people, that talk of thee by the
walls, and in the doors of the houses, and
speak one to another each man to his
neighbour, saying: Come, and let us heai'
what is the word that cometh forth from
the Lord.

31 And they come to thee, as if a people
were coming in, and my people sit before
thee: and hear thy words, and do them

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God reproves the evil shepherds

not : for they turn them into a song of
their mouth, and their heart goeth after
their covetousness.

32 And thou art to them as a musical
song which is sung with a sweet and
agreeable voice ; and they hear thy
words, and do them not.

33 And when that which was foretold
shall come to pass, (for behold it is com-
ing, ) then shall they know that a prophet
hath been among them.

CHAPTER 34.

Evil pastors an reproved: Christ the true pastor
shall covie, and gather together his flock from all
parts of the earthy and preserve it for ever.

^ND the word ol the Lord came to me,
Jla. saying;

2 Son of man, prophesy concerning the
shepherds of Israel : prophesy, and say
to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord
God: J Woe to the shepherds of Israel,
that fed themselves: should not the
flk)cks be fed by the shepherds ?

3 You ate the milk, and you clothed
yourselves with the wool, and you killed
that which was fat i but my flock you did
not feedo

4 The weak you have not strengthened,
and that which was sick you have not
healed, that which was broken you have
not bound up, ano that which was driven
away you have not brought again, neither
have you sought rhat which was lost:
but you ruled over them with rigour, and
with a high hand.

6 And my sheep were scattered, because
there was no shepherd: and they became
the prey of all the beasts of the field,
and were scatteredo

6 My sheep have wandered in every
mountain, and in every high hill: and
my flocks were scattered upon the face
of the earth, and there was none that
sought them, there was none, I say, that
sought tnemo

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the
word of the Lord :

8 4s I live, saith the Lord God, foras-
much as my flocks have been made a
spoil, and my sheep are become a prey
to all the beasts of the field, because
there was no shepherd : for my shepherds
did not seek after my flock, but the

j Jer. 23. 1 ; Supra 13. 3.

EZECHIEL

God's care for His sheep

themselves, and fed not
shepherds, hear the

shepherds fed
my flocks :

9 Therefore, ye
word of the Lord :

10 Thus saith the Lord God : Behold I
myself come upon the shepherds, I will
require my flock at their hand, and I will
cause them to cease from feeding the flock
any more, neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more : and I will deliver
my flock from their mouth, and it shall
no more be meat for them.

11 For thus saith the Lord God : Behold
I myself will seek my sheep, and wil]
visit them.

12 As the shepherd visiteth his flock ir
the day when he shall be in the midst ol
his sheep that were scattered, so will
visit my sheep, and will deliver then
out of all the places where they hav<
been scattered in the cloudy and darl
day.

13 And I will bring them out from th
peoples, and will gather them out of th
countries, and will bring them to *^^heii
own land: and I will feed them in th
mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and i
all the habitations of the land.

14 I will feed them in the most fruitfi
pastures, and their pastures shall be
the high mountains of Israel : there sha
they rest on the green grass, and be fe
in fat pastures upon the mountains
Israel.

15 I will feed my sheop : and I will cau!
them to lie down, saith the Lord God.

16 I will seek that which was lost : ai
that which was driven away, I will brii
again : and I will bind up that which w
broken, and I will strengthen that whi
was weak, and that which was fat a:
strong I will preserve i and I will fe
them in judgment.

17 And as for you, O my flocks, tb
saith the Lord God: Behold I judge I
tween cattle and cattle, of rams and
he goats.

18 Was it not enough for you to fe
upon good pastures ? but you must a||
tread down with your feet the residue I
your pastures: and when you drank f !»
clearest water, you troubled the rest w
your feet,

19 And my sheep were fed with t.

Chap. 34. Ver.2. Shepherds, Tliat is, princes, Ciagistratea, cliief priests, awi scribes.

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Christ, the good Shepherd

EZECHIEL Prophecy against mount Set?

jrhich you had trodden with your feet :
and they drank what your feet had trou-
bled.

20 Therefore thus saith whe Lord God to
you: Behold, I myself will judge between
the fat cattle and the lean.

21 Because you thrusted with sides and
shoulders, and struck all the weak cattle
with your horns, till they were scattered
abroad :

22 I will save my flock, and it shall be
no more a spoil, and I will judge between
cattle and cattle.

23 ^ And I will set up one shepherd
OVER THEM, and he shall feed them- even
my servant David : he shall feed them,
and he shall be their shepherd.

24 And I the Lord wiU be their God :
and my servant David the prince in the
midst of them: I the Lord have spoken it.

25 And I will make a covenant of peace
with them, and will cause the evil beasts
ko cease out of the land : and they that
dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure
in the forests.

26 And I will make them a blessing
round about my hill: and I will send down
the rain in its season, there shall be
showers of blessing.

27 And the tree of the field shall yield
its fruit, and the earth shall yield her in-
crease, and they shall be in their land
without fear: and they shall know that
I am the Lord, when I shall have bjroken
the bonds of their yoke, and shall have
deUvered them out of the hand of those
that rule over them.

28 And they shall be no more for a spoil
to the nations, neither shall the beasts of
the earth devour them: but they shall
dwell securely without any terror.

29 And I will raise up for them a bud of
renown : and they shall be no more con-
sumed with famine in the land, neither
shall they bear any more the reproach of
the Gentiles.

30 And they shall know that T the Lord
•their God am with them, and that they

are my people the house of Israel: saith
'*^^he Lord God.

31 * And you my flocks, the flocks of my
pasture are men: and I am the Lord
'your God, saith the Lord God.

k Isa. 40. 11 ; Osee 3. 5; John 1. 45,

CHAPTER 35.

The judgment of mount Seir, /or their hatred oj
Israel.

ND the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face against mount
Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say
to it:

3 Thus saith the Lord God : Behold I
come against thee, mount Seir, and I will
stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I
will make thee desolate and waste.

4 I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt
be desolate : and thou shalt know that I
am the Lord.

5 Because thou hast been an everlast-
ing enemy, and hast shut up the chil-
dren of Israel in the hands of the sword
in the time of their affliction, in the
time of their last iniquity.

6 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord
God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and
blood shall pursue thee: and whereas
thou hast hated blood, blood shaU pur-
sue thee.

7 And I will make mount Seir waste
and desolate : and I will take away from
it him that goeth and him that returu-
eth.

8 And I will fill his mountains with his
men that are slain : in thy hills, and in
thy valleys, and in thy torrents they
shaU fall that are slain with the sword.

9 I will make thee everlasting desola-
tions, and thy cities shall not be inhab-
ited : and thou shalt know that I am the
Lord God.

10 Because thou hast said: The two na-
tions, and the two lands shall be mine,
and I will possess them by inheritance:
whereas the Lord was there.

11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord
God, I will do according to thy wrath,
and according to thy envy, which thou
hast exercised in hatred to them : and I
will be made known by them, when I
shall have judged thee.

12 And thou shalt know that I the
Lord have heard all thy reproaches,
that thou hast spoken against the moun-
tains of Israel, saying: They are deso-
late, they are given to us to consume.

13 And 3^ou rose up against me with

and 10. 11, and 14.— ? John 10. 11,

^er. 23. David, Christ, who is of the house of j He speaks of Christ our Lord, the illustrious bud of
!r^ the house of David, renowned over all the ear*-»*

ver. 29, A bud of renovm. Germen nominatum. I See Jer. 33. 15.

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The restoration of Israel

EZECHIEE^

The restor action of Israel

your mouth, and have derogated from
me by your words: I have heard them.

14 Thus saith the Lord God: When the
whole earth shall rejoice, I will make
thee a wilderness.

15 As thou hast rejoiced over the inher-
itance of the house of Israel, because it
was laid waste, so will I do to thee:
thou shalt be laid waste, 0 mount Seir,
and all Idumea: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 36.

The restoration of Israel, not for their merits,
but by Ood's special grace. Christ's baptism.

A ND thou son of man, prophesy to the
-x3l. mountains of Israel, and say: '"^ Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord:

2 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the
everlasting heights are given to us for
an inheritance.

3 Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus
saith the Lord God: Because you have
been desolate, and trodden under foot
on every side, and made an inheritance
to the rest of the nations, and are be-
come the subject of the talk, and the re-
proach of the people:

4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord God: Thus
saith the Lord God to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the brooks, and to
the valleys, and to desolate places, and
ruinous walls, and to the cities that are
forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided
by the rest of the nations round about.

5 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of
the rest of the nations, and of all Edom,
who have taken my land to themselves,
for an inheritance with joy, and with all
the heart, and with the mind: and have
cast it out to lay it waste.

6 Prophesy therefore concerning the
land of Israel, and say to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the
valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Be-
hold I have spoken in my zeal, and in
my indignation, because you have borne
the shame of the Gentiles.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I

m Supra 6. 3.

Chap. 36. Ver. 15. Nor lose thy nation any
more. This whole promise principally relates to
the church of Christ, and God's perpetual pro-

have lifted up my hand, that the Gen-
tiles who are round about you, shall
themselves bear their shame.

8 But as for you, O mountains of Israel,
shoot ye forth your branches, and yield
your fruit to my people of Israel: for
they are at hand to come.

9 For lo I am for you, and I will turn
to you, and you shall be ploughed and
sown.

10 And I will multiply men upon you,
and all the house of Israel: and the cities
shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places
shall be repaired.

11 And I will make you abound with
men and with beasts: and they shall be
multiplied, and increased: and I will
settle you as from the beginning, and]
will give you greater gifts, than you had
from the beginning: and you shall kno"W|
that I am the Lord.

12 And I will bring men upon you, mj
people Israel, and they shall possess the^
for their inheritance: and thou shalt b<j
their inheritance, and shalt no mor«|
henceforth be without them.

13 Thus saith the Lord God: Becaus
they say of you: Thou are a devourer o
men, and one that suffiocatest thy na
tion:

14 Therefore thou shalt devour men n
more, nor destroy thy nation any mor<j
saith the Lord God:

15 Neither will I cause men to hear i
thee the shame of the nations any mor
nor shalt thou bear the reproach of tl:
people, nor lose thy nation any mor
saith the Lord God. |

16 And the word of the Lord came i
me, saying:

17 Son of man, when the house of I
rael dwelt in their own land, they d
filed it with their ways, and with the(
doings: their way was before me li
the uncleanness of a menstruous woma

18 And I poured out my indignati
upon them for the blood which they h
shed upon the land, and with their id(
they defiled it.

19 And I scattered them among the r
tions, and they are dispersed throu
the countries: I have judged them i
cording to their ways, and their devic

tection of her : for as to the carnal Jew, t
have been removed out of their land these i
teen hundred years.

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EZECHIEL

The plain of dry hones

20 And when they entered among the
lations whither they went, '^they pro-
aned my holy name, when it was said
>f them : This is the people of the Lord,
nd they are come forth out of his
and.

21 And I have regarded my own holy
lame, which the house of Israel hath
rofaned among the nations to which
bey went in.

,22 Therefore thou shalt say to the
ouse of Israel: Thus saith the Lord
od ; It is not for your sake that I will
0 this^ O house of Israel, but for my
oly name's sake, which you have pro-
med among the nations whither you
ent.

23 And I will sanctify my great name,
hich was profaned among the Gentiles,
hich you have profaned in the midst of
lem: that the Gentiles may know that
am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts,
hen I shall be sanctified in you before
leir eyes.

14 For I will take you from among the
antiles, and will gather you together
it of all the countries, and will bring
)U into your own land.

5 And I will pour upon you clean
iter, and you shall be cleansed from all
>ur filthiness, and I will cleanse you
Dm all your idols.

6 ° And I will give you a new heart, and
it a new spirit within you : and I will
ke away the stony heart out of your

J sh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

7 And I will put my spirit in the midst
< you: and I will cause you to walk
i my commandments, and to keep my
jlgments, and do them.

i And you shall dwell in the land
^ dch I gave to your fathers, and you
Hi] be my people, and I will be your
(d.

) And I will save you from all your
«cleannesses: and I will call for corn,
a i will multiply it, and will lay nofam-
i upon you.

' And I will multiply the fruit of the
t e, and the increase of the field, that
yi bear no more the reproach of fam-
ii among the nations.

And you shall remember your wicked
^78, and your doings that were not

n Isa. 52. 5 ; Rom. 2. 24.

good: and your iniquities, and your
wicked deeds shall displease you.

32 It is not for your sakes that I will
do this, saith the Lord God, be it known
to you : be confounded, and ashamed at
your own ways, O house of Israel.

33 Thus saith the Lord God : In the day
that I shall cleanse you from all your in-
iquities, and shall cause the cities to be
inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous
places,

34 And the desolate land shall be tilled,
which before was waste in the sight of
all that passed by,

36 They shall say : This land that was
untilled is become as a garden of plea-
sure: and the cities that were abandoned,
and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled
and fenced.

36 And the nations, that shall be left
round about you, shall know that I the
Lord have built up what was destroyed,
and planted what was desolate, that I
the Lord have spoken and done it.

37 Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover
in this shall the house of Israel find me,
that I will do it for them : I will multi-
ply them as a flock of men,

38 As a holy flock, as the flock of Jeru-
salem in her solemn feasts : so shall the
waste cities be full of flocks of men : and
they shall know that I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 37.

A vision of the resurrection of dry bones, foreshew-
ing the deliverance of the people from their captiv»
ity. Juda and Israel shall be all one kingdom
under Christ. God's everlasting covenant with
the church.

THE hand of the Lord was upon me,
and brought me forth in the spirit
of the Lord : and set me down in the
midst of a plain that was full of bones.

2 And he led me about through them
on every side : now they were very many
upon the face of the plain, and they were
exceeding dry.

3 And he said to me : Son of man, dost
thou think these bones shall live ? And I
answered : O Lord God, thou knowest.

4 And he said to me : Prophesy con-
cerning these bones; and say to them:
Ye dry bones, hear the word of the
Lord.

5 Thus saith the Lord God to these

o Supra 11. 19.

Chap. 37. Ver.S. Spirit. That is, soul, life, and breath.

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The resurrection of the dry hones EZECHIEL

The restoration of Israel

bones: Behold, I will send spirit into
you, and you shall live.

6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and
will cause flesh to grow over you, and
will cover you with skin : and I will give
you spirit and you shall live, and you
shall know that I am the Lord.

7 And I prophesied as he had com-
manded me : and as I prophesied there
was a noise, and behold a commotion :
and the bones came together, each one
tc'ifcs joint.

i) And I saw, and behold the sinews, and
the flesh came up upon them : and the
skin was stretched out over them, but
there was no spirit in them.

9 And he said to me: Prophesy to the
spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say
to the spirit : Thus saith the Lord God :
Come, spirit, from the four winds, and
blow upon these slain, and let them live
again.

10 And I prophesied as he had com-
manded me : and the spirit came into
them, and they lived: and they stood up
upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

1 1 And he said to me : Son of man : All
these bones are the house of Israel : they
say : Our bones are dried up, and our
hope is lost, and we are cut off.

12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them :
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will
open your graves, and will bring you out
of your sepulchres, O my people : and will
bring you into the land of Israel.

13 And you shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have opened your
sepulchres, and shall have brought you
out of your graves, O my people :

14 And shall have put my spirit in you,
and you shall live, and I shall make you
rest upon your own land: and you shall
know that I the Lord have spoken, and
done it, saith the Lord God :

15 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

16 And thou son of man, take thee a
stick : and write upon it : Of Juda, and of
the children of Israel his associates : and
take another stick and write upon it: For
Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all
the house of Israel, and of his associates.

17 And join them one to the other into
one stick, and they shall become one in
thy hand.

p John 10, 16.
q Isa. 40. 11 ; Jer. 23. 6 ; Supra 34. 23t

18 And when the children of thy peo-
ple shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou
not tell us what thou meanest by this ?

19 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord
God : Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel that are associat-
ed with him, and I will put them together
with the stick of Juda, and will make
them one stick : and they shall be one
in his hand.

20 And the sticks whereon thou haet
written, shall be in thy hand, before their
eyes.

21 And thou shalt say to them: TLhas
saith the Lord God : Behold, I will tal b
the children of Israel from the midst of
the nations whither they are gone : and
I will gather them on every side, and
will bring them to their own land.

22 P And I will make them one nation
in the land on the mountains of Israel,
and one king shall be king over them all:
and they shall no more be two nations,
neither shall they be divided any more
into two kingdoms.

23 Nor shall they be defiled any more
with their idols, nor with their abomina-
tions, nor with all their iniquities : and
I will save them out of all the places
in which they have sinned, and I will
cleanse them : and they shall be my peo
pie, and I will be their God.

24 5 And my servant David shall be king
over them, and they shall have one shep-
herd : they shall walk in my judgments,
and shall keep my commandments, andl
shall do them.

25 And they shall dwell in the land
which I gave to my servant Jacob
wherein your fathers dwelt, and thej
shall dwell in it, they and their children
and their children's children, for ever
and David my servant shall be thei
prince for ever.

26 ^" And I will make a covenant o
peace with them, it shall be an everlast
ing covenant with them : and I will ee
tablish them, and will multiply then
and will set my sanctuary in the mide
of them for ever.

27 And my tabernacle shall be wit
them : and I will be their God, and the
shall be my people.

28 And the nations shall know that I ai

Dan. 9. 24 ; John 1. 25.
r Ps. 109. 4. and 116. 2; John 12. 3L

^wphecy against Gog

EZECHIEL

he Lord the sanctifier of l3rael, when my

anctuary shall be in the midst of them

or ever.

CHAPTER 38.

^og shall persecute the church in the latter days.
He shall be overthrown.

AND the word of the Lord came to me,
L saying *

2 ® Son of man, set thy face against Gog,
he land of Magog, the chief prince of
losoch and Thubal : and prophesy of
im,

3 And say to him : Thus saith the Lord
^od : Behold, I come against thee, O Gog,
lie chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.

4 And I will turn thee about, and I will
ut a bit in thy jaws : and I will bring
lee forth, and aU thy army, horses and
orsemen all clothed with coats of mail,
great multitude, armed with spears and

aields and swords.

j5 The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans

ith them, all with shields and helmets.

6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of
hogorma, the northern parts and all his
irength, and many peoples with thee.

7 Prepare and make thyself ready, and
11 thy multitude that is assembled about
lee, and be thou commander over them.

5 After many days thou shalt be visited :
,j the end of years thou shalt come to
16 land that is returned from the sword,
ad is gathered out of many nations, to
le mountains of Israel which have been
.jntinually waste : but it hath been
rought forth out of the nations, and
ley shall all of them dwell securely in

) And thou shalt go up and come like a
orm, and like a cloud to cover the land,
|iou and all thy bands and many people
ith thee.

10 Thus saith the Lord God : In that day
^ojects shall enter into thy heart, and
lou shalt con3eive a mischievous design.

1 And thou shalt say.: I will go up to
(16 land which is without a wall, I will
Dme to them that are at rest, and dwell

curely : all these dwell without a wall,
jiey have no bars nor gates :
.2 To take spoils, and lay hold on the
'Qy, to lay thy hand upon them that had
s Infra 39. 1 ; Apoc. 2»). 7.

I;hap. 38. Ver. 2. Gng. This name, which sid-
les hidden or covered, is taken in this place, either
■ tho persecutors of the church of God in general,
some arch-persecutor in particular : such as Antl-
ri-t shall be in the latter days. See Apoc. 20. 8.

His invasion of Israel

been wasted, and afterwards restored, and
upon the people that is gathered together
out of the nations, which hath begun to
possess and to dwell in the midst of the
earth.

13 Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants
of Tharsis, and all the lions thereof shall
say to thee : Art thou come to take
spoils? behold, thou hast gathered thy
multitude to take a prey, to take silver,
and gold, and to carry away goods and
substance, and to take rich spoils.

14 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy
and say to Gog : Thus saith the Lord
God : Shalt thou not know, in that day,
when my people of Israel shall dwell
securely ?

15 And thou shalt come out of thy place
from the northern parts, thou and many
people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company and a mighty
army.

16 And thou shalt come upon my people
of Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth.
Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I
will bring thee upon my land : that the
nations may know me, when I shall be
sanctified in thee, O Gog, be fore their eyes.

17 Thus saith the Lord God : Thou then
art he, of whom I have spoken in the
days of old, by my servants the prophets
of Israel, who prophesied in the days of
those times that I would bring thee upon
them.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day,
in the day of the coming of Gog upon
the land of Israel, saith the Lord God,
that my indignation shall come up in my
wrath.

19 And I have spoken in my zeal, and
in the fire of my anger, that in that day
there shall be a great commotion upon
the land of Israel :

20 * So that the fishes of the sea, and the
birds of the air, and the beasts of the
field, and every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the ground, and all men
that are upon the face of the earth, shall
be moved at my presence : and the moun-
tains shall be thrown down, and the
hedges shall fall, and every wall shall fall
to the ground.

t Matt. 24. 29 ; Luke 21. 25.

And what is said of the punishment of Gog, is veri-
fied by the unhappy ends of persecutors. — Ibid.
Macfog. Scythia or Tartary, from whence the Turks,
and other enemies of the church of Christ, originally
sprung.

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The fall of Gog

EZECHIEL Burial of the multitude of Gog

21 And I will call in the sword against] of the countries, nor cut down out of the

him in all my mountains, saith the Lord
God : every man's sword shall be pointed
against his brother.

22 And I will judge him with pestilence,
and with blood, and with violent rain, and
vast hailstones : I will rain fire and brim-
stone upon him, and upon his army, and
upon the many nations that are with
him.

23 And I will be magnified, and I will be
sanctified : and I will be known in the
eyes of many nations : and they shall
know that I am the Lord.

CHAPTER 39.

God's judgments upon Gog. God's people were pun-
ished for their sins : but shall be favoured vrlth
everlasting kindness.

A ND thou, son of man, prophesy against
XjL Gog, and say: Thus saith the Lord
God : Behold, I come against thee, O Gog,
the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.

2 And I will turn thee round, and I will
lead thee out, and will make thee go up
from the northern parts : and will bring
thee upon the mountains of Israel.

3 And I will break thy bow in thy left
hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall
out of thy right hand.

4 Thou Shalt fall upon the mountains of
Israel, thou and all thy bands, and thy
nations that are with thee: I have given
thee to the wild beasts, to the birds, and
to every fowl, and to the beasts of the
earth to be devoured.

5 Thou Shalt fall upon the face of the
field: for I have spoken if, saith the
Lord God.

6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and
on them that dwell confidently in the
islands : and they shall know that I am
the Lord.

7 And I will make my holy name known
in the midst of my people Israel, and my
holy name shall be profaned no more:
and the Gentiles shall know that I am
the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

8 Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith
the Lord God : this is the day whereof I
have spoken.

9 And the inhabitants shall go forth of
the cities of Israel, and shall set on fire
and burn the weapons, the shields, and
the spears, the bows and the arrows, and
the handstaves and the pikes: and they
shall burn them with fire seven years.

10 And they shall not bring wood out

forests: for they shall burn the weapons
with fire, and shall make a prey of them
to whom they had been a prey, and they
shall rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord God.

11 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that I will give Gog a noted place
for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of
the passengers on the east of the sea,
which shall cause astonishment in them
that pass by: and there shall they bury
Gog, and all his multitude, and it shall
be called the valley of the multitude of
Gog.

12 And the house of Israel shall bury
them for seven months to cleanse the
land.

13 And all the people of the land shall
bury him, and it shall be unto them a
noted day, wherein I was glorified, saith
the Lord God.

14 And they shall appoint men to go
continually about the land, to bury and
to seek out them that were remaining
upon the face of the earth, that they
may cleanse it : and after seven months
they shall begin to seek.

15 And they shall go about passing
through the land: and when they shal
see the bone of a man, they shall set uj
a sign by it, till the buriers bury it ii
the valley of the multitude of Gog.

16 And the name of the city shall 6(
Amona, and they shall cleanse the land.

17 And thou, O son of man, saith th(
Lord God, say to every fowl, and to al
the birds, and to all the beasts of th<
field: Assemble yourselves, make haste
come together from every side to m]
victim, which I slay for you, a great vie
tim upon the mountains of Israel: to ea
flesh, and drink blood.

18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty
and you shall drink the blood of th»
princes of the earth, of rams, and o
lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, an«
of all that are well fed and fat.

19 And you shall eat the fat till you b'
full, and shall drink blood till you b'
drunk of the victim which I shall sla;
for you.

20 And you shall be filled at my tabl
with horses, and mighty horsemen, ani
all the men of war, saith the Lord God.

21 And I will set my glory among th
nations: and all nations shall see m;

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Israel shall he brought hack

EZECHIEL

Measuring the temple

judgment that I have executed, and my
hand that I have laid upon them.

22 And the house of Israel shall know
that I am the Lord their God from that
day and forward.

23 And the nations shall know that the
house of Israel were made captives for
their iniquity, because they forsook me,
and I hid my face from them: and I
delivered them into the hands of their
enemies, and they fell all by the sword.

24 I have dealt with them according to
their uncleanness, and wickedness, and
hid my face from them.

26 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God :
Now will I bring back the captivity of
Jacob, and wiU have mercy on all the
house of Israel : and I will be jealous for
my holy name.

26 And they shall bear their confusion,
and all the transgressions wherewith they
have transgressed against me, when they
shall dwell in their land securely fearing
no man:

I 27 And I shall have brought them back
from among the nations, and shall have
gathered them together out of the lands
3f their enemies, and shall be sanctified
n them, in the sight of many nations.
I 28 " And they shall know that I am the
Liord their God, because I caused them
0 be carried away among the nations ;
md I have gathered them together unto
iheir own land, and have not left any of
hem there.

29 And I will hide my face no more from
hem, for I have poured out my spirit
ipon aU the house of Israel, saith the
jord God.

CHAPTER 40.

""he prophet sees in a vision the rebuilding of the
temple : the dimensions of several parts thereof.

FN the five and twentieth year of our

L captivity, in the beginning of the

ear, the tenth day of the month, the

)urteenth year ^ after the city was de-

:royed : in the selfsame day the hand of

le Lord was upon me, and he brought

le thither.

2 In the visions of God he brought me

ito the land of Israel, and set me upon

very high mountain : upon which there

as as the building of a city, bending

)wards the south.

J And he brought me in thither, and

u Supra 36. 23.

behold a man, whose appearance was
like the appearance of brass, with a line
of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed
in his hand, and he stood in the gate.

4 And this man said to me : Son of man,
see with thy eyes, and hear with thy
ears, and set thy heart upon all that I
shall shew thee: for thou art brought
hither that they may be shewn to thee:
declare all that thou seest, to the house
of Israel.

5 And behold there was a wall on the
outside of the house round about, and in
the man's hand a measuring reed of six
cubits and a handbreadth: and he mea-
sured the breadth of the building one
reed, and the height one reed.

6 And he came to the gate that looked
toward the east, and he went up the steps
thereof : and he measured the breadth of
the threshold of the gate one reed, that
is, one threshold was one reed broad :

7 And every little chamber was one reed
long, and one reed broad: and between
the little chambers v)ere five cubits:

8 And the threshold of the gate by the
porch of the gate within, was one reed.

9 And he measured the porch of the gate
eight cubits, and the front thereof two
cubits: and the porch of the gate was
inward.

10 And the little chambers of the gate
that looked eastward were three on this
side, and three on that side: all three
were of one measure, and the fronts of
one measure, on both parts.

11 And he measured the breadth of the
threshold of the gate ten cubits : and the
length of the gate thirteen cubits :

12 And the border before the little cham-
bers one cubit : and one cubit was the
border on both sides: and the little
chambers were six cubits on this side
and that side.

13 And he measured the gate from the
roof of one little chamber to the roof of
another, in breadth five and twenty cu-
bits: door against door.

14 He made also fronts of sixty cubits :
and to the front the court of the gate on
every side round about.

15 And before the face of the gate which
reached even to the face of the porch of
the inner gate, fifty cubits.

16 And slanting windows in the little

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Dimensions of the parts

EZECHTEL

of the temple

chambers, and in thieir fronts, which
were within the gate on every side round
about: and in like manner there were
also in the porches windows round about
within, and before the fronts the repre-
sentation of palm trees.

17 And he brought me into the outward
court, and behold there were chambers,
and a pavement of stone in the court
round about: thirty chambers encom-
passed the pavement.

18 And the pavement in the front of
the gates according to the length of the
gates was lower.

19 And he measured the breadth from
the face of the lower gate to the front
of the inner court without, a hundred
cubits to the east, and to the north.

20 He measured also both the length
and the breadth of the gate of the out-
ward court, which looked northward.

21 And the little chambers thereof
three on this side, and three on that side :
and the front thereof, and the porch
thereof according to the measure of the
former gate, fifty cubits long, and five
and twenty cubits broad.

22 And the windows thereof, and the
porch, and the gravings according to the
measure of the gate that looked to the
east, and they went up to it by seven
steps, and a porch was before it.

23 And the gate of the inner court was
over against the gate of the north, and
that of the east: and he measured from
gate to gate a hundred cubits.

24 And he brought me out to the way
of the south, and behold the gate that
looked to the south : and he measured the
front thereof, and the porch thereof ac-
cording to the former measures.

25 And the windows thereof, and the
porches round about, as the other win-
dows : the length was fifty cubits, and
the breadth five and twenty cubits.

* 26 And there were seven steps to go up
to it : and a porch before the doors
thereof : and there were graven palm
trees, one on this side, and another on
that side in the front thereof.

27 And there was a gate of the inner
court towards the south: and he mea-
«ured from gate to gate towards the
south, a hundred cubits.

28 And he brought me into the inner

Chap. 40. Ver. 17. There were charnhers. Ga-
tophylacia, so called, because the priests and

court at the south gate : and he measured
the gate according to the former mea-
sures.

29 The little chamber thereof, and the
front thereof, and the porch thereof with
the same measures : and the windows
thereof, and the porch thereof round
about it was fifty cubits in length, and
five and twenty cubits in breadth.

30 And the porch round about was five
and twenty cubits long, and five cubits
broad.

31 And the porch thereof to the out-
ward court, and the palm trees thereof
in the front : and there were eight steps
to go up to it.

32 And he brought me into the inner
court by the way of the east : and he
measured the gate according to the for-
mer measures.

33 The little chamber thereof, and the
front thereof, and the porch thereof as
before: and the windows thereof, and
the porches thereof round about it wa8'
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty'
cubits broad.

34 And the X)orch thereof, that is, ol'
the outward court : and the graven palnj
trees in the front thereof on this side anc]
on that side: and the going up thereo
was by eight steps.

35 And he brought Tie into the gat
that looked to the north : and he measurec
according to the former measures.

36 The little chamber thereof, and th'|
front thereof, and the porch thereof, an
the windows thereof round about it wa
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cv
bits broad.

37 And the porch thereof lOoked to th
outward court : and the graving of pah
trees in the front thereof was on this Bid
and on that side : and the going up to :
was by eight steps,

38 And at every chamber was a door i
the forefronts of the gates : there the
washed the holocaust.

39 And in the porch of the gate we?
two tables on this side, and two tabl(
on that side : that the holocaust, and tl
sin offering, and the trespase offerii
might be slain thereon.

40 And on the outwarc^ side, which g
eth up to the entrj"^ of the gate that loo
eth toward the north, were two table

Levites kept In them the stores and vessels tt
belonged to tlie temple.

Dimensions of the 'parts

EZECHIEL

of the temple

and r.t the other side before the porch of
the gate were two tables.

41 Four .o-bleo were on this side, and four
tables on that side • at the sides of the
gate were eight tables, upon which they
slew the victims.

42 And the four tables for the holocausts
were made of square stones : one cubit
and a half long, and one cubit and a half
broac], and one cubit high : to lay the
vessels upon, in which the holocaust and
the victim is slain.

43 And the borders of them were of
one handbreadth, turned inwards round
about : and upon the tables was the flesh
of the offering.

44 And without the inner gate were the
chambers of the singing men in the inner
court, which was on the side of the gate
that looketh to the north : and their
prospect was towards the south, one at
the side of the east gate, which looketh
toward the north.

45 And he said to me : This chamber,
which looketh toward the south shall be
for the priests that watch in the wards of
bhe temple.

, 46 But the chamber that looketh towards
bhe north shall be for the priests that
svatch over the ministry of the altar.
Chese are the sons of Sadoc, who among
ihe sons of Levi, come near to the Lord,
io minister to him.

47 And he measured the court a hun-
Ired cubits long, and a hundred cubits
)road foursquare : and the altar that was
)efore the face of the temple.

48 And he brought me into the porch of
he temple : and he measured the porch
ive cubits on this side, and five cubits on
hat side: and the breadth of the gate
hree cubits on this side, and three cubits
n that side.

49 And the length of the porch was
vv^enty cubits, and the breadth eleven
ubits, and there were eight steps to go
p to it. And there were pillars in the
onts : one on this side, and another on
lat side.

CHAPTER 41.

description of the temple, and of all the parts of it.

Chap. 41. Ver. l. The temple. This plan of a
inple, which was here shewn to the prophet in a
■ion, partly had relation to the material temple,
iich was to be rebuilt : and partly, in a mystical
tise, to the spiritual temple of God, the church of
inst.

Ver. 6. One by another, or one over another; lit-
illy, side to side^ or aide upon «ide.

A ND he brought me into the temple,
a\. and he measured the fronts six
cubits broad on this side, and six cubits
on that side, the breadth of the taber-
nacle.

2 And the breadth of the gate was ten
cubits: and the sides of the gate five
cubits on this side, and five cubits on
that side : and he measured the length
thereof forty cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits.

3 Tben going inward he measured the
front of the gate two cubits: and the
gate six cubits, and the breadth of the
gate seven cubits.

4 And he measured the length thereof
twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty
cubits, before the face of the temple:
and he said to me : This is the holy of
holies.

5 And he measured the wall of the
house six cubits . and the breadth of
every side chamber four cubits round
about the house on every side.

6 And the side chambers one by an-
other, were twice thirty- three: and they
bore outwards, that they might enter in
through the wall of the house in the
sides round about, to hold in, and not
to touch the wall of the temple.

7 And there was a broad passage round
about, going up by winding stairs, and it
led into the upper loft of the temple all
round : therefore was the temple broader
in the higher parts : and so from the
lower parts they went to the higher by
the midst.

8 And I saw in the house the height
round about, the foundations of the side
chambers which were the measure of a
reed the space of six cubits:

9 And the thickness of the wall for the
side chamber without, which was five
cubits: and the inner house was within
the side chambers of the house.

10 And between the chambers was the
breadth of twenty cubits round about
the house on every side.

11 And the door of the side chambers
was turned towards the place of prayer:
one door was toward the north, and an-

Ver. 9. And the inner house was within the side
chambers of the house. Because these side cham-
bers were in the very walls of the temple all round.
Or, it may also be rendered (more agreeably to the
Hebrew) so as to signify that the thickness of the
wall for the side chamber within, was the same as
that of the wall without; that is, equally five cubits-

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Adornment of the walls

EZECHIEL The outer court and the chambers

other door was toward the south: and
the breadth of the place for prayer, was
five cubits round about.

12 And the building that was separate,
and turned to the way that looked toward
the sea, was seventy cubits broad: and
the wall of the building, five cubits thick
round about: and ninety cubits long.

13 And he measured the length of the
house, a hundred cubits : and the separate
building, and the walls thereof, a hundred
cubits in length.

14 And the breadth before ^he face
of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, a hundred "^bits.

15 And he measured the length of the
building over against»*, which was sep-
arated at the back of iv : and the galleries
on both sides a hundred cubits : and the
inner temple, and the porches of the court.

16 The thresholds, and the oblique win-
dows, and the galleries round about on
three sides, over against the threshold of
every one, and floored with wood all
round about : and the ground was up to
the windows, and the windows were shut
over the doors.

17 And even to the inner house, and
without all the wall round about within
and without, by measure.

18 And there were cherubims and palm
trees wrought, so that a palm tree was
between a cherub and a cherub, and
every cherub had two faces.

19 The face of a man was toward the
palm tree on one side, and the face of a
lion was toward the palm tree on the
other side : set forth through all the
house round about.

20 From the ground even to the upper
parts of the gate, were cherubims and
palm trees wrought in the wall of the
temple.

21 The threshold was foursquare, and
the face of the sanctuary, sight to sight.

22 The altar of wood was three cubits
high: and the length thereof was two
cubits : and the corners thereof, and the
length thereof, and the walls thereof
were of wood. And he said to me :
This is the table before the Lord.

23 And there were two doors in the
temple, and in the sanctuary.

24 And in the two doors on both sides
were two little doors, which were folded

two

within each other: for there were
wickets on both sides of the doors.

25 And there were cherubims also
wrought in the doors of the temple, and
the figures of palm trees, like as were
made on the walls : for which cause also
the planks were thicker in the front of
the porch without.

26 Upon which were the oblique win-
dows, and the representation of palm
trees on this side, and on that side in the
sides of the porch, according to the sides
of the house, and the breadth of the
walls.

CHAPTER 42.

A description of the courts, chambers, and other
places belonging to the temple.

ND he brought me forth into the out-
ward court by the way that leadeth
to the north, and he brought me into the
chamber that was over against the sepa-
rate building, and over against the house
toward the north.

2 In the face of the north door was the
length of a hundred cubits, and the
breadth of fifty cubits.

3 Over against the twenty cubits of the
inner court, and over against the pave-
ment of the outward court that wae
paved with stone, where there was a gal^
lery joined to a triple gallery. i

4 And before the chambers was a walli
ten cubits broad, looking to the inne;
parts of a way of one cubit. And theij
doors were toward the north. I

5 Where were the store chambers lowe!
above : because they bore up the galleij
ies, which appeared above out of ther[
from the lower parts, and from the mide
of the building.

6 For they were of three stories, an
had not pillars, as the pillars of tb
courts : therefore did they appear abo\
out of the lower places, and out of th
middle places, fifty cubits from tl
ground.

7 And the outward wall that went abo;
by the chambers, which were towar<
the outward court on the forepart of tl
chambers, was fifty cubits long.

8 For the length of the chambers of t\
outward court was fifty cubits: and t
length before the face of the temple,
hundred cubits.

9 And there was under thes.e chambe

Ver. 21. The threshold was foursquare. That is, the gate of the temple was foursquare : and so
placed as to answer the gate of the sanctuary within.

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The chambers are for the 'priests EZECHIEL Glory of God comes into the temple

an entrance from the east, for them that
went into them out of the outward court.

10 In the breadth of the outward wall
of the court that was toward the east,
over against the separate building, and
there were chambers before the building.

11 And the way before them was like
the chambers which were toward the
north : they were as long as they, and as
broad as they : and all the going in to
them, and their fashions, and their doors
were alike.

12 According to the doors of the cham-
bers that were towards the south : there
was a door in the head of the way, which
way was before the porch, separated to-
wards the east as one entereth in.

13 And he said to me: The chambers
of the north, and the chambers of the
south, which are before the separate
building: they are holy chambers, in
which the priests shall eat, that approach
to the Lord into the holy of holies :
there they shall lay the most holy things,
and the offering for sin, and for trespass :
for it is a holy place.

I 14 And when the priests shall have en-
tered in, they shall not go out of the
holy places into the outward court: but
there they shall lay their vestments,
wherein they minister, for they are holy:
and they shall put on other garments,
and so they shall go forth to the people.

15 Now when he had made an end of
measuring the inner house, he brought
Qie out by the way of the gate that
looked toward the east: and he mea-
sured it on every side round about.

16 And he measured toward the east
inth the measuring reed, five hundred
•eeds with the measuring reed round
ibout.

17 And he measured toward the north
ive hundred reeds with the measuring
eed round about.

18 And towards the south he measured
Ive hundred reeds with the measuring
eed round about.

19 And toward the west he measured
Ive hundred reeds, with the measuring
eed.

20 By the four winds he measured the
7all thereof on every side round about,
ve hundred cubits long and five hun-
red cubits broad, making a separation

w Supra 9. L

between the sanctuary and the place of
the people.

CHAPTER 43.

The glory of God returns to the new temple. The
Israelites shall no more profane God^s name by
idolatry: the prophet is commanded to shew
them the dimensions, and form of the temple,
and of the altar, with the sacrifices to be offered
thereon.

A ND he brought me to the gate that
XX looked towards the east.

2 And behold the glory of the God of
Israel came in by the way of the east :
and his voice was like the noise of many
waters, and the earth shone with his
majesty.

3 ^ And I saw the vision according to
the appearance which I had seen when
he came to destroy the city : and the ap-
pearance was according to the vision
* which I had seen by the river Chobar;
and I fell upon my face.

4 And the majesty of the Lord went
into the temple by the way of the gate
that looked to the east.

5 And the spirit lifted me up and brought
me into the inner court : and behold the
house was filled with the glory of the
Lord.

6 And I heard one speaking to me out
of the house, and the man that stood by
me,

7 Said to me : Son of man, the place of
my throne, and the place of the soles of
my feet, where I dwell in the midst of
the children of Israel for ever: and the
house of Israel shall no more profane my
holy name, they and their kings by their
fornications, and by the carcasses of their
kings, and by the high places.

8 They who have set their threshold by
my threshold, and their posts by my
posts: and there was but a wall between
me and them: and they profaned my
holy name by the abominations which
they committed: for which reason I con-
sumed them in my wrath.

9 Now therefore let them put away
their fornications, and the earcasses of
their kings far from me : and I will dwell
in the midst of them for ever.

10 But thou, son of man, shew to the
house of Israel the temple, and let them
be ashamed of their iniquities, and let
them measure the building :

11 And be ashamed of all that they have

041

X Supra 1. 1.

Dimensions of the altar

EZECHIEL The east gale to be kept shut

done. Shew them the form of the
house, and of the fashion thereof, the
goings out and the comings in, and the
whole plan thereof, and all its ordinances,
and all its order, and all its laws, and
thou shalt write it in their sight; that
they may keep the whole form thereof,
and its ordinances, and do them.

12 This is the law of the house upon the
top of the mountain : All its border round
about is most holy : this then is the law
of the house.

13 And these are the measures of the
altar by the truest cubit, which is a cubit
and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof
was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit : and
the border thereof unto its edge, and
round about, one handbreadth : and this
was the trench of the altar.

14 And from the bottom of the ground
to the lowest brim two cubits, and the
breadth of one cubit : and from the lesser
brim to the greater brim four cubits, and
the breadth of one cubit.

15 And the Ariel itself was four cubits :
and from the Ariel upward were four
horns.

16 And the Ariel was twelve cubits long,
and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with
equal sides.

17 And the brim was fourteen cubits
long, and fourteen cubits broad in the
four corners thereof : and the crown
round about it was half a cubit, and the
bottom of it one cubit round about : and
its steps turned toward the east.

18 And he said to me : Son of man, thus
eaith the Lord God : These are the cere-
monies of the altar, in what day soever
it shall be made: that holocausts may be
offered upon it, and blood poured out.

19 And thou shalt give to the priests,
and the Levites, that are of the race of
Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the
Lord God, to offer to me a calf of the
herd for sin.

20 And thou shalt take of his blood, and
shalt put it upon the four horns thereof,
and upon the four corners of the brim,
and upon the crown round about: and
thou shalt cleanse, and expiate it.

21 And thou shalt take the calf, that is
offered for sin: and thou shalt burn him

Chap. 43. Ver. 15. The Ariel. That is, the altar
itself, or rather the highest part of It, upon which
the burnt offerings were Iain, In the Hebrew it is
Hnrei, that is, the mfrmit/j.in nf Gnd: but in the fol-
lowing verse Oaariett Uiat is, the lion o/ God . a

in a separate place of the house withoat
the sanctuary.

22 And in the second day thou shalt
offer a he goat without blemish for sin:
and they shall expiate the altar, as they
expiated it with the calf.

23 And when thou shalt have made an
end of the expiation thereof, thou shalt
offer a calf of the herd without blemish,
and a ram of the flock without blemish.

24 And thou shalt offer them in the
sight of the Lord : and the priests shall
put salt upon them, and shall offer them
a holocaust to the Lord.

26 Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat
for sin daily : they shall offer also a calf
of the herd, and a ram of the flock with-
out blemish.

26 Seven days shall they expiate the
altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall
consecrate it.

27 And the days being expired, on
the eighth day and thenceforward, the
priests shall offer your holocausts upon
the altar, and the peace offerings: and I
will be pacified towards you, saith the
Lord God.

CHAPTER 44.
The east gate of the sanctuary shall be aluraya shut.
The uncireumcised shall not enter into the sano
tuary : nor the Levites that have served idols . bid
the sons of So doc shall do the jn-iestly functions,
vho stood firm in the worst of times. j

AND he brought me back to the way
. of the gate of the outward sanctu-
ary, which looked towards the east: and
it was shut.

2 And the Lord said to me: This gate
shall be shut, it shall not be opened, anc
no inan shall pass through it : because
the Lord the God of Israel hath enterec
in by it, and it shall be shut

3 For the prince. The prince hiraselj
shall sit in it, to eat bread before Ibj
Lord: he shall enter in by the way o|
the porch of the gate, and shall go ou
by the same way. (

4 And he brought me by the way of tli
north gate, in the sight of the house
and I saw, and behold the glory of tb
Lord filled the house of the Lord : and
fell on my face.

6 And the Lord said to me : Son of ma
attend with thy heart, and behold wit

figure, from it» consuming:, and as it were devourn
the sacrrfices, as a lion devours its prey

Ver. 26. Conserrnfe it. Literally, /i/l tt/> hnn
that IS, dedicate and apply it to boly service.

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The unfaithful Levites barred EZECHIEL The faithful priests and Levites

thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, all that
I say to thee concerning all the cere-
monies of the house of the Lord, and
concerning all the laws thereof: and
mark well the ways of the temple, with
all the goings out of the sanctv.ary.

6 And thou shalt say to the house of
Israel that provoketh me: Thus saith the
Lord God: Let all your wicked doings
Buflftce you, O house of Israel :

7 In that you have brought in strangers
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircum-

' cised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and
to defile my house: and you offer my
bread, the fat, and the blood: and you
have broken my covenant by all your
wicked doings.

8 And you have not kept the ordinances
of my sanctuary: but you have set keep-
ers of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.

9 Thus saith the Lord God : No stranger
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircum-
cised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctu-
ary, no stranger that is in the midst of
the children of Israel.

10 Moreover the Levites that went away
far from me, when the children of Israel
«^ent astray, and have wandered from
ne after their idols, and have borne
:heir iniquity:

11 They shall be officers in my sanctu-
iry, and doorkeepers of the gates of the
lOuse, and ministers to the house : they
ihall slay the holocausts, and the victims
)f the people : and they shall stand in

heir sight, to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them be-
ore their idols, and were a stumbling-
>lock of iniquity to the house of Israel :
heref ore have I lifted up my hand against
hem, saith the Lord God, and thsy shall
ear their iniquity :

13 And they shall not come near to me,
3 do the oflace of priest to me, neither
lall they come near to any oi my holy
lings that are by the holy of holies : but
ley shall bear their shame, and their
'ickednesses which they have commit-
3d.

14 And I will make them doorkeepers
f the house, for all the service thereof,
nd for all that shall be done therein.
l5But the priests, and Levites, the sons

Chap. 44. Ver- 19.
ith their vestments.

Shall not sanctify the people
By exposing them to the dan-

of Sadoo, who kept the ceremonies of
my sanctuary, when the children of Is-
rael went astray from me, they shall
come near to me, to minister to me: and
they shall stand before me, to offer me
the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord
God.

16 They shall enter into my sanctuary,
and they shall come near to my table, to
minister unto me, and to keep my cere-
monies.

17 And when they shall enter in at the
gates of the inner court, they shall be
clothed with linen garments: neither shall
any woollen come upon them, when they
minister in the gates of the inner court
and within.

18 They shall have linen mitres on their
heads, and linen breeches on their loins,
and they shall not be girded with any
thing that causeth sweat.

19 And when they shall go forth to the
outward court to the people, they shall
put off their garments wherein they min-
istered, and lay them up in the store
chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall
clothe themselves with other garments:
and they shall not sanctify the people
with their vestments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads,
nor wear long hair: but they shall only
poll their heads.

21 And no priest shall drink wine when
he is to go into the inner court.

22 2/ Neither shall they take to wife a
widow, nor one that is divorced, but they
shall take virgins of the seed of the house
of Israel: but they may take a widow
also, that is, the widow of a priest.

23 And they shall teach my people the
difference between holy and profane, and
shew them how to discern between clean
and unclean.

24 And when there shall be a contro-
versy, they shall stand in my judgments,
and shall judge : they shall keep my laws,
and my ordinances in all my solemnities,
and sanctify my sabbaths.

25 And they shall come near no dead
person, lest they be defiled, only their
father and mother, and son and daughter,
and brother and sister, that hath not
had another husband: for whom they
may become unclean,

y Lev. 21. 14. ^

ger of touching the sacred vestments, which nonC
were to touch but they that were sanctified.

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Land set aside for the sanctuary EZECHIEL

26 And after one is cleansed, they shall
reckon unto him seven days.

27 And in the day that he goeth into
liie sanctuary, to the inner court, to
minister unto me in the sanctuary, he
flhall offer for his sin, saith the Lord
God.

28 ^ And they shall have no inheritance,
I am their inheritance: neither shall you
give them any possession in Israel, for I
am their possession.

29 They shall eat the victim both for
sin and for trespass: and every vowed
thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 " And the firstfruits of all the first-
born, and all the libations of all things
that are offered, shall be the priest's: and
you shall give the firstfruits of your
meats to the priest, that he may return
a blessing upon thy house.

31 ^The priests shall not eat of any
thing that is dead of itself or caught by a
beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.

CHAPTER 45.

Portions ofla/ndfor the sanctuary, for the city, and
for the prince. Ordinances for the prince.

A ND when you shall begin to divide
xV the land by lot, separate ye first-
fruits to the Lord, a portion of the land
to he holy, in length twenty-five thousand
and in breadth ten thousand : it shall
be holy in all the borders thereof round
about.

2 And there shall be for the sanctuary
on every side five hundred by five hun-
dred, foursquare round about: and fifty
cubits for the suburbs thereof round
about.

3 And with this measure thou shalt
measure the length of five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth of ten thou-
sand, and in it shall be the temple and
the holy of holies.

4 The L Dly portion of the land shall be
for the priests the ministers of the sanc-
tuary, who come near to the ministry of
the Lord : and it shall be a place for
their houses, and for the holy place of
the sanctuary.

6 And five and twenty thousand of
length, and ten thousand of breadth shall
be for the Levites, that minister in the

2 Num. 18. 20 ; Deut. 18. 1. — a Ex. 22. 29.

Chap. 45. Ver. 1. Twenty-five thorisand. Viz.,
reeds or cubitt.
Ver. 11. The tphi and the bate.

Laws for the princei

house: they shall possess twenty store
chambers.

6 And you shall appoint the possession
of the city five thousand broad, and five
and twenty thousand long, according to
the separation of the sanctuary, for the
whole house of Israel.

7 For the prince also on the one side
and on the other side, according to the
separation of the sanctuary, and accord-
ing to the possession of the city, over
against the separation of the sanctuary,
and over against the possession of the
city: from the side of the sea even to
the sea, and from the side of the east
even to the east. And the length accord-
ing to every part from the west border
to the east border.

8 He shall have a portion of the land in
Israel: and the princes shall no more rob
my people : but they shall give the land
to the house of Israel according to their
tribes :

9 Thus saith the Lord God : Let it suf-
fice you, O princes of Israel : cease from
iniquity and robberies, and execute judg
ment and justice, separate your confines
from my people, saith the Lord God.

10 You shall have just balances, and a
just ephi, and a just bate.

11 The ephi and the bate shall be equal,
and of one measure : that the bate may
contain the tenth part of a core, and the
ephi the tenth part of a core: their weighl
shall be equal according to the measure
of a core.

12 ^ And the side hath twenty obols
Now twenty sides, and five and twenty
sides, and fifteen sides make a mna. j

13 And these are the firstfruits, whicl
you shall take : the sixth part of an eph
of a core of wheat, and the sixth part o
an ephi of a core of barley.

14 The measure of oil also, a bate

of a core: and te
for ten bates fill

©il is the tenth part
bates make a core :
core.

15 And one ram out of a flock of tw
hundred, of those that Israel feedeth fc
sacrifice, and for holocausts, and fc
peace offerings, to make atonement fc
them, saith the Lord God.

16 All the people of the land shall t

b Lev. 22. 8. — c Ex. 30. 13 ; Lev. 27. 25 ; Num. 3. 4

These measures

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were of equal capacity, but the bate
liquids, aud the ephi for dry thinss.

served i

Offerings for sacrifice

EZECHIEL The sacrifices of the prince

bound to these firstfniits for the prince
in Israel.

17 And the prince shall give the holo-
caust, and the sacrifice, and the hbations
on the feasts, and on the new moons, and
on the sabbaths, and on all the solemni-
ties of the house of Israel : he shall offer
the sacrifice for sin, and the holocaust,
and the peace offerings to make expia-
tion for the house of Israel.

18 Thus saith the Lord God : In the first
month, the first of the month, thou shalt
bake a calf of the herd without blemish,
ind thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.

19 And the priest shall take of the blood
)f the sin offering : and he shall put it on
:he posts of the house, and on the four
jorners of the brim of the altar, and on
:he posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 And so shalt thou do in the seventh
lay of the month, for every one that hath
}een ignorant, and hath been deceived
)y error, and thou shalt make expiation
:or the house.

21 In the first month, the fourteenth
lay of the month, you shall observe the
lolemnity of the pasch : seven days un-
eavened bread shall be eaten.

22 And the prince on that day shall offer
or himself, and for all the people of the
and, a calf for sin.

23 And in the solemnity of the seven
lays he shall offer for a holocaust to the
^ord, seven calves, and seven rams with-
>ut blemish daily for seven days : and for
in a he goat daily.

24 And he shall offer the sacrifice of an
phi for every calf, and an ephi for every
am : and a hin of oil for every ephi.

25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth
lay of the month, in the solemn feast, he
hall do the Uke for the seven days : as
veU. in regard to the sin offering, as to
he holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the
IL

CHAPTER 46.

tAer ordinances for the prince and for the sacri-
fices.

rHUS saith the Lord God : The gate of
the inner court that looketh toward
tie east, shall be shut the six days, on
'hich work is done ; but on the sabbath
ay it shall be opened, yea and on the
ay of the new moon it shall be opened.
2 And the prince shall enter by the way
f the porch of the gate from without,
tid he shall stand at the threshold of the

gate : and the priests shall offer his holo*
canst, and his peace offerings : and he
shall adore upon the threshold of the
gate, and shall go out : but the gate shall
not be shut till the evening.

3 And the people of the land shall adore
at the door of that gate before the Lord
on the sabbaths, and on the new moons.

4 And the holocaust that the prince shall
offer to the Lord on the sabbath day, shall
be six lambs without blemish, and a ram
without blemish.

6 And the sacrifice of an ephi for a ram:
but for the lambs what sacrifice his hand
shall allow : and a hin of oil for every ephi.

6 And on the day of the new moon a
calf of the herd without blemish : and the
six lambs, and the rams shall be without
blemish.

7 And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi
for a calf, an ephi also for a ram : but for
the lambs, as his hand shall find : and a
hin of oil for every ephi.

8 And when the prince is to go in, let him
go in by the way of the poKJh of the gate,
and let him go out the same way.

9 But when the people of the land shall
go in before the Lord in the solemn feasts,
he that goeth in by the north gate to
adore, shall go out by the way of the
south gate : and he that goeth in by the
way of the south gate, shall go out by
the way of the north gate : he shall not
return by the way of the gate whereby
he came in, but shall go out at that over
against it.

10 And the prince in the midst of them,
shall go in when they go in, and go out
when they go out.

11 And in the fairs, and in the solemnities
there shall be the sacrifice of an ephi to
a calf, and an ephi to a ram : and to the
lambs, the sacrifice shall be as his hand
shall find : and a hin of oil to every ephi.

12 But when the prince shall offer a vol-
untary holocaust, or voluntary peace of-
ferings to the Lord : the gate that look-
eth towards the east shall be opened to
him, and he shall offer his holocaust, and
his peace offerings, as it is wont to be
done on the sabbath day: and he shall go
out, and the gate shall be shut after he
is gone forth.

13 And he shall offer every day for a
holocaust to the Lord, a lamb of the same
year without blemish : he shall offer it
always in the morning»

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Placefor prevarinq the sacrifices

14 And he shall offer the sacrifice for it

morning by morning, the sixth part of an
ephi : and the third part of a hin of oil to
be mingled with the fine flour : a sacrifice
to the Lord by ordinance continual and
everlasting.

15 He shall offer the lamb, and the sac-
rifice, and the oil morning by morning :
an everlasting holocaust.

16 Thus saith the Lord God : If the
prince give a gift to any of his sons :
the inheritance of it shall go to his chil-
dren, they shall possess it by inheritance.

17 But if he give a legacy out of his in-
heritance to one of his servants, it shall
be his until the year of release, and it
shall return to the prince : but his inher-
itance shall go to his sons.

18 And the prince shall not take of the
people's inheritance by violence, nor of
their possession : but out of his own pos-
session he shall give an inheritance to
his sons : that my people be not dispersed
every man from his possession.

19 And he brought me in by the entry
that was at the side of the gate, into the
chambers of the sanctuary that were for
the priests, which looked toward the
north. And there was a place bending
to the west.

20 And he said to me : This is the place
where the priests shall boil the sin offer-
ing, and the trespass offering : where they
shall dress the sacrifice, that they may
not bring it out into the outward court,
and the people be sanctified.

21 And he brought me into the outward
court, and he led me about by the four
corners of the court : and behold there
was a little court in the corner of the
court, to every corner of the court there
was a Httle court.

22 In the four corners of the court were
little courts disposed, forty cubits long,
and thirty broad, all the four were of one
measure.

23 And there was a wall round about
compassing the four little courts, and
there were kitchens built under the rows
round about.

24 And he said to me : This is the house
of the kitchens wherein the ministers of

EZECHIEL The water issuing from the temple

the house of the Lord shall boil the vic-
tims of the people.

CHAPTER 47,

Chap. 47. Ver. l. Waters. These waters are
not to be understood literally (for there were none
such that flowed from the temple) ; bnt mystically,
of the baptism of Christ, and of his doctrine and his
grace : the trees that grow on the banks are Chris-
tian virtues: the fishes are Christians, that spiritually

The vision of the holy waters issuing out from under
the temple : the borders of the land to be divided
among the twelve tribes.

A ND he brought me again to the gate
x\ of the house, and behold waters is-
sued out from under the threshold of the
house toward the east: for the forefront
of the house looked toward the east : but
the waters came down to the right side
of the temple to the south part of the
altar.

2 And he led me out by the way of the
north gate, and he caused me to turn to
the way without the outward gate to the
way that looked toward the east: and
behold there ran out waters on the right
side.

3 And when the man that had the line
in his hand went out towards the east
he measured a thousand cubits : and he
brought me through the water up to the
ankles.

4 And again he measured a thousandj
and he brought me through the water up
to the knees.

5 And he measured a thousand, and he
brought me through the water up to the
loins. And he measured a thousand, and
it was a torrent, which I could not pass
over : for the waters were risen so as to
make a deep torrent, which could not be
passed over.

6 And he said to me : Surely thou hast
seen, O son X)f man. And he brought me
out, and he caused me to turn to the bank
of the torrent.

7 And when I had turned myself, behold
on the bank of the torrent were very
many trees on both sides.

8 And he said to me : These waters that
issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to
the east, and go down to the plains of the
desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go
out, and the waters shall be healed.

9 And every living creature that creep-
eth whithersoever the torrent shall come,
shall live: and there shall be fishes in
abundance after these waters shall come
thither, and they shall be healed, and all

live in and by these holy waters ; the fishermen are
the apostles, and apostolic preachers: the fenny
places, where there is no health, are such as by bemg
out of the church are separated from these wateri
of life.

The borders of the land

E2^Ch1EL The borders of the seven^ tribes

things shall live to which the torrent
shall come.

10 And the fishers shall stand over these
vjaters, from Engaddi even to Engallim
tiiere shall be drying of nets: there shall
be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as
the fishes of the great sea, a very great
multitude :

11 But on the shore thereof, and in the
fenny places they shall not be healed, be-
cause they shall be turned into saltpits.

12 And by the torrent on the banks
thereof on both sides shall grow all trees
that bear fruit : their leaf shall not fall
off, and their fruit shall not fail : every
month. shall they bring forth firstfruits,
because the waters thereof shall issue out
of the sanctuary : and the fruits thereof
shall be for food, and the leaves thereof
for medicine^

13 Thus saith the Lord God : This is the
border, by which you shall possess the
land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel : for Joseph hath a double portion.

14 And you shall possess it, every man
in Uke manner as his brother : concern-
ing which I lifted up my hand to give it
to your fathers : and this land shall fall
imto you for a possession.

15 And this is the border of the land :
toward the north side, from the great
eea by the way of Hethalon, as jnen go
to Sedada,

16- Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is
between the border of Damascus and the
border of Emath, the house of Tichon,
wKich is by the border of Auran.

17 And the border from the sea even to
the court of Euan, shall be the border of
Damascus, and from the north to the
north: the border of Emath, this is the
north side.

18 And the east side is from the midst
of Auran, and from the midst of Damas-
cus, and from the midst of Galaad, and
from the midst of the land of Israel, Jor-
dan making the bound to the east sea,
and thus you shall measure the east side.

19 And the south side southward is. from
Thamar even to the waters of contradic-
tion of Cades : and the torrent even to
the great sea: and this is the south side
southward.

20 And the side toward the sea, is the
great sea from the borders straight on,
till thou come to Emath: M^ is the side
of the sea.

21 And yon shall divide this land unto
you by the tribes of Israel :

22 And you shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance to you, and to the strangers
that shair come over to you, that shall
beget children among you: and they
shall be unto you as men of the same
country born among the children of Is-
rael: they shall divide the possession
with you in the midst of the tribes of
Israel.

23 And in what tribe soever the stranger
shall be, there shall you give him posses'
sion, saith the Lord God.

CHAPTER 48.

The portions of the twelve tribes^ of the sanctuary^
of the city^ and of the prince. The dimensions
and gates of the city.

ND these are the names of the tribes
from the borders of the north, by
the way of Hethalon, as they go to
Emath^ the- court of Enan the border
of Damascus northward, by the way of
Emath. And from the east side thereof
to the sea, shall be one portion for Dan.

2 And by the border of Dan, from the
east side even to the side of the sea, one
portion for'Aser:

3 And by the border of Aser, from the
east side even to the side of the sea, one
portion for Nephthali.

4 And by the border of Nephthali, from
the east side even to the side of the sea,
one portion for Manasses.

6 And by the border oi Manasses, from
the east side even to the side of the sea,
one portion for Ephraim.

6 And by the border of Ephraim, from
the east side even to the side of the sea,
one portion for Ruben.

7 And by the border of Ruben, from the
east Edde^ even to the side of the sea, one
portion' for Jnda.

8 And by the border of Juda, from the
east side even to the side.of the sea, shall
be the firstfruits which you shall set
apart, five and ' twenty thousand in
breadth, and in length, as every one of
the portions from the east side to the side
of the sea : and the sanctuary shall be in
the midst thereof.

9 The firstfruits which, you shall set
apart for the Lord : shall he the length of
five and twenty thousand, and the breadth
of ten thousand.

10 And ihese shall be the firstfruits of
the saactuaiy f or ^e priests : toward the

The portion of priests and Levites EZECHIEL The borders of the five other tribes

north five and twenty thousand in length,
and toward the sea ten thousand in
breadth, and toward the east also ten
thousand in breadth, and toward the
south five and twenty thousand in length :
and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in
the midst thereof.

11 The sanctuary shall be for the priests
of the sons of Sadoc, who kept my cere-
monies, and went not astray when the
children of Israel went astray, as the
Levites also went astray.

12 And for them shall be the firstfruits
of the firstfruits of the land holy of
holies, by the border of the Levites.

13 And the Levites in like manner shall
have by the borders of the priests five
and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth. All the length shall
be five and twenty thousand, and the
breadth ten thousand.

14 And they shall not sell thereof, nor
exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of
the land be alienated, because they are
sanctified to the Lord.

15 But the five thousand that remain in
the breadth over against the five and
twenty thousand, shall be a profane place
for the city for dwelling, and for suburbs:
and the city shall be in the midst
thereof.

16 And these are the measures thereof:
on the north side four thousand and five
hundred: and on the south side four
thousand and five hundred : and on the
east side four thousand and five hun-
dred : and on the west side four thousand
and five hundred.

17 And the suburbs of the city shall be
to the north two hundred and fifty, and
% ) the south two hundred and fifty, and
to the east two hundred and fifty, and to
the sea two hundred and fifty.

18 And the residue in length by the first-
fruits of the sanctuary, ten thousand to-
ward the east, and ten thousand toward
the west, shall be as the firstfruits of the
sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall
be for bread to them that serve the
city.

19 And they that serve the city, shall
serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

20 All the firstfruits, of five and twenty
thousand, by five and twenty thousand
foursquare, shall be set apart for the
firstfruits of the sanctuary, and for the
possession of the city.

21 And the residue shall be for the prince
on every side of the firstfruits of the
sanctuary, and of the possession of the
city over against the five and twenty
thousand of the firstfruits unto the east
border : toward the sea also over against
the five and twenty thousand, unto the
border of the sea, shall likewise be the I
portion of the prince: and the firstfruitsf
of the sanctuary, and the sanctuary
of the temple shall be in the midst
thereof.

22 And from the possession of the Le-
vites, and from the possession of the
city which are in the midst of the prince'e
portions : what shall be to the border ol
Juda, and to the border of Benjamin
shall also belong to the prince.

23 And for the rest of the tribes : fron
the east side to the west side, one portioi
for Benjamin.

24 And over against the border of Benj
jamin, from the east side to the west side'
one portion for Simeon.

25 And by the border of Simeon, fronj
the east side to the west side, one por-
tion for Issachar.

26 And by the border of Issachar, fror
the east side to the west side, one poi
tion for Zabulon.

27 And by the border of Zabulon, froi
the east side to the side of the sea, on
portion for Gad.

28 And by the border of Gad, the sout
side southward : and the border shall t
from Thamar, even to the waters of coi
tradiction of Cades, the inheritance ov(
against the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall d
vide by lot to the tribes of Israel: ar
these are the portions of them, saith tl
Lord God.

30 And these are the goings out of tl
city : on the north side thou shalt me
sure four thousand and five hundred.

31 And the gates of the city accordii
to the names of the tribes of Israel, thr
gates on the north side, the gate of Rubi
one, the gate of Juda one, the gate
Levi one.

32 And at the east side, four thousa:
and five hundred : and three gates, t
gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjaa
one, the gate of Dan one.

33 And
measure
dred;

at the south side, thou sh;
four thousand and five be

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DANIEL

Daniel and his companions

and three gates, the gato of Simeon one,
the gate of Issachar one, the gate of
Zabulon one.
34 And at the west side, four thousand
and five hundred, and their three gates.

the gate of Gad one, the gate of Aser one.
the gate of Nephthali one.

35 Its circumference was eighteen thou-
sand : and the name of the city from that
day, The Lord is there.

THE

PROPHECY OF DANIEL.

Daniel was of the royal blood of the kings ofJuda: and one of those that were first
of all carried away into captivity. He was so renowned for wisdom and knowl-
edge, that it became a proverb among the Babylonians, As wise as Daniel
(Ezech. 28. 3). And his holiness was so great from his very childhood, that at
the time when he was as yet but a young man, he is joined by the Spirit of God
with NOE and Job, as three persons most eminent for virtue and sanctity, Ezech.
14. He is not commonly numbered by the Hebrews among the prophets; but
Our Lord gives him the title, Matt. 24., Mark 13., Luke 21. He wrote to encourage
his persecuted fellow-countrymen.

CHAPTER 1.

Daniel and his companions are taken into the pal-
ace of the king of Babylon : they abstain from his
meat and wine, and succeed better with pulse and
water. Their excellence and wisdom.

IN ^ the third year of the reign of Joa-
kim king of Juda, Nabuchodonosor
kirg of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and
besieged it.

2 And the Lord delivered into his hands
Joakim the king of Juda, and part of the
vessels of the house ®of God: and he
carried them away into the land of Sen-
naar, to the house of his god, and the
vessels he brought into the treasure
house of his god.

3 And the king spoke to Asphenez the
master of the eunuchs, that he should
bring in some of the children of Israel,
and of the king's seed and of the princes,

4 Children in whom there was no blem-
ish, well favoured, and skilful in all wis-
dom, acute in knowledge, and instructed

I in science, and such as might stand in
the king's palace, that he might teach
them the learning, an<? the tongue of the
Chaldeans.

dB. C. 608.

Chap. 48. Ver. 35. The Lord is there. Tbis name
M here given to the city, that is, to the church of
I Christ: because the Lord is always with her till the
1 end of the world. Matt 28. 20.

6 And the king appointed them a daily
provision, of his own meat, and of the
wine of which he drank himself, that
being nourished three years, afterwards
they might stand before the king.

6 Now there were among them of the
children of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, Misael,
and Azarias.

7 And the master of the eunuchs gave
them names : to Daniel, Baltassar : to
Ananias, Sidrach: to Misael, Misach:
and to Azarias, Abdenago.

8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that
he would not be defiled with the king's
table, nor with the wine which he drank :
and he requested the master of the eu-
nuchs that he might not be defiled.

9 And God gave to Daniel grace and
mercy in the sight of the prince of the
eunuchs.

10 And the prince of the eunuchs said
to Daniel: I fear my lord the king, who
hath appointed you meat and drink : who
if he should see your faces leaner than
those of the other youths your equals,
you shall endanger my head to the king.

11 And Daniel said to Malasar, whom

e Jer. 25. 1. "

Chap. l. Ver. 2. His god. Bel or Belus, the
principal idol of the Chaldeans.

Ver. 8. Be defiled, &c. Viz., either by eating
meat forbidden by the law, or which liad before been
o^ered to idols.

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DANIEL

They refuse the king*s food

the prince of the eunuchs had appointed
over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Aza-
rias:

12 Try, I beseech thee, thy servants for
ten days, and let pulse be given us to
eat, and water to drink :

13 And look upon our faces, and the
faces of the children that eat of the
king's meat: and as thou shalt see, deal
with thy servants.

14 And when he had heard these words,
he tried them for ten days

15 And after ten days theii faces ap-
peared fairer and fatter than all the chil-
dren that ate of the king's meat.

16 So Malasar too^ their portions, and
the wine that they should drink - and tie
gave them pulse.

17 And to these children God djave
knowledge, and understanding in every
book, and wisdom but to Daniel the
understanding aUfC of all visions and
dreams.

1 8 And when ohe lays were ended, after
which the king had ordered they should
be brought in : the prince of the eu-
nuchs brought them in before Nabucho-
donosor.

19 And when the king had spoken to
them, there were not found among them
all such as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and
Azarias . and they stood in the king's
presence.

20 And in all matters of wisdom and
understanding, that the king inquired of
them, he found them ten times better
than ail the diviners, and wise men, that
were in all his kingdom.

21 ^ And Daniel continued even to the
first year of king Cyrus.

CHAPTER 2.

Daniel, by divine revelation, declares the dream of
Nahuchodonosor, and the interpretation of it.
He is highly honoured by the king.

IN ^ the second year of the reign of Nab-
uchodonosor, Nabuchodonosor had
a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and
his dream went out of his mind.

2 Then the king commanded to call to-
gether the diviners and the wise men,
and the magicians, and the Chaldeans :

g Infra 6. 28.

Ver. 12. Pulse. That is, pease, beans, and such
like.

Chap. 2. Ver. l. The second year. Viz., from
the death of his father Nabopolaissar : for he bad

The Chaldeans

to declare to the king his dreams: so
they came and stood before the king.

3 And the king said to them: I saw a
dream and being troubled in mind
know not what I saw

4 And the Chaldeans answered the king
in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell tc
thy servants thy dream, and we will de-
clare the interpretation thereof.

5 And the king answering said to the
Chaldeans ; The thing is gone out of my
mind, unless you tell me the dream,
and the meaning thereof, you shall be
put to death, and your houses shall be
confiscated

^ But it yrou tell the dream, and the
meaning of it, you shall receive of me
rewards, and gifts, and great honour
therefore tell me the dream, and the in
terpretation thereof.

7 They answered again and said: Lei
the king tell his servants the dream, anc
we will declare the interpretation of it.

8 The king answered, and said : I kno\i
for certain that you seek to gain time
since you know that the thing is gom
from me.

9 If therefore you tell me not th<
dream, there is one sentence concerninj
you, that you have also framed a lyiDi
interpretation, and full of deceit, U
speak before me till the time pass away
Tell me therefore the dream, that I ma^
know that you also give a true interprei
tation thereof. j

10 Then the Chaldeans answered beforH
the king, and said: There is no mai
upon earth, that can accomplish th;|
word, O king, neither doth any king
though great and mighty, ask such i
thing of any diviner, or wise man, o
Chaldean.

11 For the thing that thou askest,
king, is difficult; nor
found that can shew it
except the gods, whose conversation i
not with men.

12 Upon hearing this, the king in furj
and in great wrath, commanded that aj
the wise men of Babylon should be pu
to death.

13 And the decree being gone forth, th

(

can any one b'
before the king

h B. C. 604.

reigned before as nartner with dis father in tb
empire. , ^,.

Ver. 2. The Chaldeans. That is. the astrologei
that pretended to divine by stars

9S&

Daniel promises to explain dream DANIEL

The king^s dream

wise men were slain: and Daniel and
his companions were sought for, to be
put to death.

14 Then Daniel inquired concerning the
law and the sentence, of Aricch the gen-
eral of the king's army, who was gone
forth to kill the wise men of Babylon.

15 And he asked him that had received
the ordere of the king, why so cruel a
sentence was gone forth from the face
of the king. And when Arioch had told
the matter to Daniel,

16 Daniel went in and desired o) the
king, that he would give him time tc re-
solve the question and declare it tc the
king.

17 And he went into his house, and told
the matter to Ananias and Misael, anc
Azarias his companions :

18 To the end that they should ask
mercy at the face of the God of heaven
concerning this secret, and that Daniel
and his companions might not perish
with the rest of the wise men of Baby-
lon.

IP Then was the mystery revealed to
Daniel by a vision in the night: and
Daniel blessed the God of heaven,

20 And speaking he said: Blessed be
:he name o*^ the Lord from eternity and
:or evermore : for wisdom and fortitude
ure his.

21 And he change th times and agee:
aketh away kingdoms and establisheth
hem, giveth wisdom to the wise, and
cnowledge to them that have under-
tanding.

22 He revealeth deep and hidden
hlngs, and knoweth what is in dark-
less : and light is with him. *

23 To thee, O God of our fathers, I give
hanks, and I praise thee: because thou
ast given me wisdom and strength:
nd now thou hast shewm me what we
esired of thee, for thou hast made
nowr ^ us. the king's discourse

24 After this Daniel went in tc Arioch,
3 whom the kino* Liad given orders to
estroy tne wise men ci Babj'^ion, and
e spoke thus tc him Destroy not the
ise men oi Babyion bring me in be-
)re the kinf mc' ' wiL tell the solution
p the king

125 Then Arioch in haste brought in Dan-
)lto the King, and said to him I have

found a man of the children of the cap
tivity of Juda, that wilJ resolve the ques-
tion to the king.

26 The king answered, and said to Dan-
iel, whose name was Baltassar: Think-
est thou indeed that thou canst tell me
the dream that X saw, and the interpre-
tation thereof?

27 And Daniel made answer before the
king, and said • The secret that the king
desireth tc know, none of the wise men,
or the philosophers, or the diviners, or
the soothsayers can declare to the king.

28 But there is a God in heaven that
revealeth mysteries, who hath shewn to
thee, O king Nabuchodonosor, what is to
come to pass in the latter times. Thy
dream, and the visions of thy head upon
thy bed, are these :

29 Thou, O king, didst begin to think
in thy bed, what should come to pass
hereafter: and he that revealeth mys-
teries shewed thee what shall come to
pass.

30 To me also this secret is revealed,
not by any wisdom that I have more
than all men alive: but that the inter-
pretation might be made manifest to
the king, and thou mightest know the
thoughts of thy mind.

31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold
there was as it were a great statue : this
statue, which was great and high, tall of
stature, stood before thee, and the look
thereof was terrible,

32 The head of this statue wae of fine
gold, but the breast and the armr of sil-
ver, and the belly and the thighs oi
brass:

33 And the legs of iron, the feet part of
iron and part of clay

34 Thus thou sawest, till a stone was
cut out of a mountain without hands:
and it struck the statue upon the feet
thereof that were of iron and of clay,
and broke them in pieces.

35 Then was the iron, the clay, the
brass, the silver and the golc' broken to
pieces together, and became xiR. the
chaff of a summer's thrashingfioor, and
they were carried away by the wind
and there was no place found for them
but the stone that struck the statue, be-
came 9 ^reat mountain, vxud tilled the
whole earth.

1 1 Cor. 4. fi : 1 John l. 6 ; John l. 9, and 8. 1?.
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Interpretation of the dream

36 This is the dream: we will also tell
the interpretation thereof before thee,
O king.

37 Thou art a king of kings: and the
God of heaven hath given thee a king-
dom, and strength, and power, and glory :

38 And all places wherein the children
of men, and the beasts of the field do
dwell : he hath also given the birds of
the air into thy hand, and hath put all
things under thy power : thou therefore
art the head of gold.

39 And after thee shall rise up another
kingdom, inferior to thee, of silver : and
another third kingdom of brass, which
shall rule over all the world.

40 And the fourth kingdom shall be as
iron. As iron breaketh into pieces, and
subdueth all things, so shall that break
and destroy all these.

41 And whereas thou sawest the feet,
and the toes, part of potter's clay, and
part of iron : the kingdom shall be divid-
ed, but yet it shall take its origin from
the iron, according as thou sawest the
iron mixed with the miry clay.

42 And as the toes of the feet were part
of iron, and part of clay, the kingdom
shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

43 And whereas thou sawest the iron
mixed with miry clay, they shall be
mingled indeed together with the seed
of man, but they shall not stick fast one
to another, as iron cannot be mixed with
clay.

44 But in the days of those kingdoms
the God of heaven will set up a kingdom
that shall never be destroyed, and his
kingdom shall not be delivered up to an-
other people, and it shall break in pieces,
and shall consume all these kingdoms,
and itself shall stand for ever.

45 According as thou sawest that the
stone was cut out of the mountain with-
out hands, and broke in pieces, the clay,
and the iron, and the brass, and the
silver, and the gold, the great God hath
shewn the king what shall come to pass
hereafter, and the dream is true, and the
interpretation thereof is faithful.

46 Then king Nabuchodonosor fell on
his face, and worshipped Daniel, and com-

DANIEL

The golden stat'i

Ver. 39. Another kivgdow,. Viz., that of the
Medes and Persians. — Ibid. Third kingdom. Viz.,
that of Alexander the Great.

Ver. 40. The fourth kingdom, &c. Some under-
•tand this of the successors of Alexander, tlio kings

manded that they should offer in saci
fice to him victims and incense.

47 And the king spoke to Daniel, ar
said : Verily your God is the God
gods, and Lord of kings, and a reveali
of hidden things : seeing thou could
discover this secret.

48 Then the king advanced Daniel to
high station, and gave him many ar
great gifts: and he made him govern(|
over all the provinces of Babylon, ar
chief of the magistrates over all the wie
men of Babylon.

49 And Daniel requested of the kin,
and he appointed Sidrach, Misach, ai
Abdenago over the works of the proviiK
of Babylon : but Daniel himself was i
the king's palace.

CHAPTER 3.

Nabuchodonosor sets up a golden statue ; which
commands all to adore : the three children for
fusing to do it are cast into the fiery furnace ;
are not hurt by the flames. Their prayer and a
tide of praise.

ING Nabuchodonosor made a stati
of gold, of sixty cubits high, a:
six cubits broad, and he set it up in t
plain of Dura of the province of Babylo

2 Then Nabuchodonosor the king sent
call together the nobles, the magistral
and the judges, the captains, the rule
and governors, and all the chief men
the provinces, to come to the dedicati
of the statue which king Nabuchodonos
had set up.

3 Then the nobles, the magistrates, a
the judges, the captains, and rulers, a:
the great men that were placed in a
thority, and all the princes of the pr<
vinces, were gathered together to co
to the dedication of the statue, wM
king Nabuchodonosor had set up. Ad
they stood before the statue which kin
Nabuchodonosor had set up.

4 Then a herald cried with a stron
voice : To you it is commanded, O nation»
tribes, and languages:

5 That in the hour that you shall hea
the sound of the trumpet, and of th
flute, and of the harp, of the sackbu<
and of the psaltery, and of the symphonj
and of all kind of music; ye fall dowJ

of Syria and Epypt: others of the Roman empirt
and its civil wars. ,

Ver. 44. A kingdom. Viz., the kingdom of Cnria
in the Catholic Church, which cannot be destroyed.

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\laniers companions

\ nd adore the golden statue which king
Tabuchodonosor hath set up.

6 But if any man shall not fall down and
dore, he shall the same hour be cast
ito a furnace of burning fire.

7 Upon this therefore, at the time when
11 the people heard the sound of the
rumpet, the flute, and the harp, of the
ackbut, and the psaltery, of the sym-
hony, and of all kind of music : all the
ations, tribes, and languages fell down
nd adored the golden statue which king
I'abuchodonosor had set up.

8 And presently at that very time
ome Chaldeans came and accused the
^ews,

9 And said to king Nabuchodonosor : O
ung, Uve for ever:

10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree
hat every man that shall hear the sound
if the trumpet, the flute, and the harp,
»f the sackbut, and the psaltery, of the
ymphony, and of all kind of music,
hall prostrate himself, and adore the
[olden statue :

11 And that if any man shall not fall
[own and adore, he should be cast into
I furnace of burning fire.

12 Now there are certain Jews whom
ihou hast set over the works of the pro-
Tince of Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and
Vbdenago: these men, O king, have
ilighted thy decree : they worship not
hy gods, nor do they adore the golden
itatue which thou hast set up.

13 Then Nabuchodonosor in fury, and
n wrath, commanded that Sidrach,
Vlisach, and Abdenago should be brought :
ffho immediately were brought before
:he king.

14 And Nabuchodonosor the king spoke
;o them, and said: Is it true, O Sidrach,
Misach, and Abdenago, that you do not
Worship my gods, nor adore the golden
jtatue that I have set up ?

15 Now therefore if you be ready at
what hour soever you shall hear the
jound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sack-
out, and psaltery, and symphony, and of
all kind of music, prostrate yourselves,
and adore the statue which I have made :
but if you do not adore, you shall be
3a8t the same hour into the furnace of

Chap. 3. Ver. 24. And they walked, &c. Here
St. Jerome takes notice, that from this verse, to ver.
31, was not in the Hebrew in his time. But as it was
n all the Greek Bibles, (which were originally trans-
lated from the Hebrew,) it is more than probable

DANIEL They are cast into the fiery furnace

burning fire : and who is the God that
shall deliver you out of my hand ?

16 Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago an-
swered and said to king Nabuchodonosor:
We have no occasion to answer thee con-
cerping this matter.

17 For behold our God, whom we wor-
ship, is able to save us from the furnace
of burning fire, and to deliver us out of
thy hands, O king.

18 But if he will not, be it known to
thee, O king, that we will not worship
thy gods, nor adore the golden statue
which thou hast set up.

19 Then was Nabuchodonosor filled with
fury: and the countenance of his face
was changed against Sidrach, Misach, and
Abdenago, and he commanded that the
furnace should be heated seven times
more than it had been accustomed to be
heated.

20 And he commanded the strongest
men that were in his army, to bind the
feet of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago,
and to cast them into the furnace of
burning fire.

21 And immediately these men were
bound and were cast into the furnace of
burning fire, with their coats, and their
caps, and their shoes, and their garments.

22 For the king's commandment was
urgent, and the furnace was heated ex-
ceedingly. And the flame of the fire
slew those men that had cast in Sidrach,
Misach, and Abdenago.

23 But these three men, that is, Sidrach,
Misach, and Abdenago, fell down bound
in the midst of the furnace of burning
fire.

24 And they walked in the midst of the
flame, praising God and blessing the
Lord.

25 Then Azarias standing up prayed in
this manner, and opening his mouth in
the midst of the fire, he said:

26 Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of
our fathers, and thy name is worthy of
praise, and glorious for ever :

27 For thou art just in all that thou
hast done to us, and all thy works are
true, and thy ways right, and all thy
judgments true.

28 For thou hast executed true judg-

that it had been formerly in the Hebrew or rather
in the Chaldaic, in which the book of Daniel was
written. But this is certain : that it is, and has been
of old, received by the church, and read as canonical
scripture in her liturgy, and divine offices.

953

Canticle of the

DANIEL

three children

ments in all the things that thou hast
brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem
the holy city of our fathers : for accord-
ing to truth and judgment, thou hast
brought all these things upon us for our
sins.

29 For we have sinned, and committed
iniquity, departing from thee: and we
have trespassed in all things:

30 And we have not hearkened to thy
commandments, nor have we observed
nor done as thou hadst commanded us,
that it might go well with us.

31 Wherefore all that thou hast brought
upon us, and every thing that thou hast
done to us, thou hast done in true judg-
ment:

32 And thou hast dehvered us into the
hands of our enemies that are unjust, and
most wicked, and prevaricators, and to
a king unjust, and most wicked beyond
all that are upon the earth.

33 And now we cannot open our mouths :
we are become a shame and reproach to
thy servants, and to them that worship
thee.

34 Deliver us not up for ever, we be-
seech thee, for thy name's sake, and
abolish not thy covenant.

35 And take not away thy mercy from
us for the sake of Abraham thy beloved,
and Isaac thy servant, and Israel thy
holy one :

36 To whom thou hast spoken, promis-
ing that thou wouldst multiply their seed
as the stars of heaven, and as the sand
that is on the sea shore.

37 For we, O Lord, are diminished more
than any nation, and are brought low in
all the earth this day for our sins.

38 Neither is there at this time prince,
or leader, or prophet, or holocaust, or
sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place
of firstfruits before thee,

39 That we may find thy mercy: never-
theless in a contrite heart and humble
spirit let us be accepted.

40 As in holocausts of rams, and bul-
locks, and as in thousands of fat lambs :
so let our sacrifice be made in thy sight
this day, that it may please thee: for
there is no confusion to them that trust
in thee.

41 And now we follow thee with all our
heart, and we fear thee, and seek thy
face.

42 Put us not to confusion, but deal

with us according to thy meeknesb, an(
according to the multitude of thy mer
cies.

43 And deliver us according to th
wonderful works, and give glory to th
name, O Lord :

44 And let all them be confounded tha
shew evils to thy servants, let them b
confounded in all thy might, and le'
their strength be broken.

45 And let them know that thou ar
the Lord, the only God, and gloriou
over all the world.

46 Now the king's servants that ha
cast them in, ceased not to heat the fui
nace with brimstone, and tow, and pitcl
and dry sticks,

47 And the flame mounted up abov
the furnace nine and forty cubits :

48 And it broke forth, and burnt such c
the Chaldeans as it found near the f urnact

49 But the angel of the Lord wen
down with Azarias and his companioD
into the furnace : and he drove the flam
of the flre out of the furnace,

60 And made the midst of the furnac
like the blowing of a wind bringing de^nj
and the fire touched them not at all, no
troubled them, nor did them any harm.

61 Then these three as with one mout
praised, and glorified, and blessed Go
in the furnace, saying:

62 Blessed art thou, O Lord the God c
our fathers: and worthy to be praisec
and glorified, and exalted above all fo
ever: and blessed is the holy name
thy glory : and worthy to be praised, an
exalted above all in all ages.

63 Blessed art thou in the holy tempi
of thy glory: and exceedingly to b
praised, and exceeding glorious for evei

64 Blessed art thou on the throne
thy kingdom, and exceedingly to b
praised, and exalted above all for ever.

65 Blessed art thou, that beholdest th
depths, and sittest upon the cherubims
and worthy to be praised and exalte
above all for ever.

66 Blessed art thou in the firmament c
heaven : and worthy of praise, and gloij
ous for ever.

67 All ye works of the Lord, bless th
Lord : praise and exalt him above all fo
ever.

68 O ye angels of fche Lord, bless th
Lord : praise and exalt him above all fo
ever.

954

DANIEL

three children

Canticle of the

59 * O ye heavens, bless the Lord : praise j Lord : praise and exalt him above all for
nd exalt him above all for ever.

60 O all ye waters that are above the
eavens, bless the Lord : praise and exalt
im above all for ever.
i61 O all ye powers of the Lord, bless the
lord: praise and exalt him above all for
ver.
32 O ye sun and moon, bless the Lord :

jraise and exalt him above all for ever.

53 O ye stars of heaven, bless the Lord;
raise and exalt him above all for ever.

54 O every shower and dew, bless ye the
ord : praise and exalt him above all for
/er.

)5 O all ye spirits of God, bless the Lord:
raise and exalt him above all for ever.
56 O ye fire and heat, bless the Lord :
-aise and exalt him above all for ever.
i7 O ye cold and heat, bless the Lord :
•aise and exalt him above all for ever.
,»8 O ye dews and hoar frosts, bless the
)rd : praise and exalt him above all for
'er.

|i9 O ye frost and cold, bless the Lord :
•aise and exalt him above all for ever.

0 O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord :
aise and exalt him above all for ever.

1 O ye nights and days, bless the Lord:
aise and exalt him abovo all for ever.

2 O ye light and darkness, bless the
->rd: praise and exalt him above all for
ver.

3 O ye lightnings and clouds, bless the
rd : praise and exalt him above all for

«er.

4 O let the earth bless the Lord : let it
liaise and exalt him above all for ever.

,5 0 ye mountains and hills, bless the
Jrd : praise and exalt him above all for
Cer.

5 O all ye things that spring up in the
(rth, bless the Lord : praise and exalt
tin above all for ever.

^ 0 ye fountains, bless the Lord : praise
a i exalt him above all for ever.

^ 0 ye seas and rivers, bless the Lord :
F lise and exalt him above all for ever.

' 0 ye whales, and all that move in the
^ ters, bless the Lord : praise and exalt
hi above all for ever.

> 0 all ye fowls of the air, bless the
t :d : praise and exalt him above all for

(J. O all ye beasts and cattle, bless the

ever.

82 O ye sons of men, bless the Lord :
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

83 O let Israel bless the Lord : let them
praise and exalt him above all for ever.

84 O ye priests of the Lord, bless the
Lord : praise and exalt him above all for
ever.

85 O ye servants o' the Lord, bless the
Lord : praise and Fxalt him above all for
ever.

86 O ye spirits and souls of the just,
bless the Lord: praise and exalt him
above all for ever.

87 O ye holy and humble of heart, bless
the Lord : praise and exalt him above all
for ever.

88 O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless
ye the Lord : praise and exalt him above
all for ever. For he hath delivered us
from hell, and saved us out of the hand
of death, and delivered us out of the midst
of the burning flame, and saved us out of
the midst of the fire.

89 O give thanks to the Lord, because
he is good: because his mercy endureth
for ever and ever.

90 O all ye religious, bless the Lord the
God of gods : praise him and give him
thanks, because his mercy endureth for
ever and ever.

91 Then Nabuchodonosor the king was
astonished, and rose up in haste, and said
to his nobles : Did we not cast three men
bound into the midst of the fire ? They
answered the king, and said : True, O
king.

92 He answered, and said : Behold I see
four men loose, and walking in the midst
of the fire, and there is no hurt in them,
and the form of the fourth is like the Son
of God.

93 Then Nabuchodonosor came to the
door of the burning fiery fm-nace, and
said : Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye
servants of the most high God, go ye
forth, and come. And immediately Si-
drach, Misach, and Abdenago went out
from the midst of the fire.

94 And the nobles, and the magistrates,
and the judges, and the great men of the
king being gathered together, considered
these men, that the fire had no power on
their bodies, and that not a hair of their

k Ps. 148.^
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The Tcing*s decree

DANIEL

N ahuchodonosor* s drear

head had been singed, nor their garments
altered, nor the smell of the fire had
passed on them.

95 Then Nabuchodonosor breaking forth,
said : Blessed be the God of them, to wit,
of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who
hath sent his angel, and delivered his
servants that believed in him : and they
changed the king's word, and delivered
up their bodies that they might not serve,
nor adore any god, except their own
God.

96 By me therefore this decree is made,
that every people, tribe, and tongue,
which shall speak blasphemy against the
God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago,
shall be destroyed, and their houses laid
waste: for there is no other God that
can save in this manner.

97 Then the king promoted Sidrach, Mi-
sach, and Abdenago, in the province of
Babylon.

98 Nabuchodonosor the king, to all peo-
ples, nations, and tongues, that dwell in
all the earth, peace be multiplied unto
you.

99 The most high God hath wrought
signs and wonders toward me. It hath
seemed good to me therefore to publish

100 His signs, because they are great :
and his wonders, because they are mighty:
and his kingdom is an everlasting king-
dom, ^ and his power to all generations.

CHAPTER 4.

Nahuchodonosor''s dream, by which the judgments
of God, are denounced against him for his pride,
is interpreted by Daniel, and verified by the event.

I NABUCHODONOSOR was at rest in
my house, and flourishing in my
palace :

2 I saw a dream that affrighted me :
and my thoughts in my bed, and the vi-
sions of my head troubled me.

3 Then I set forth a decree, that all the
wise men of Babylon should be brought
in before me, and that they should shew
me the interpretation of the dream.

4 Then came in the diviners, the wise

I Infra 4. 31, and 7. 14.

Ver. 08. Nabuchodonosor, &c. These last three
verses are a kind of preface to the following chapter,
which is written in the style of an epistle from the
king.

Chap. 4. Ver. 5. Baltasanr, according to the
name of my god. He says this, because the name
of Baltassnr, or Belfeshazzar, is derived from the
name of Jiel, the chief god of the Babylonians.

Ver. 10. A watcher. A vigilant angel, perhaps
the guardian of IsraeL

men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayen
and I told the dream before them : bu
they did not shew me the interpretatio
thereof :

5 Till their colleague Daniel came in btt*
fore me, whose name is Baltassar, accon i
ing to the name of my god, who hath i i
him the spirit of the holy gods : and J
told the dream before him.

6 Baltassar, prince of the diviners, b
cause I know that thou hast in thee tl
spirit of the holy gods, and that no si
cret is impossible to thee: tell me tl
visions of my dreams that I have see
and the interpretation of them.

7 This was the vision of my head in n
bed : I saw, and behold a tree in the mid
of the earth, and the height thereof w,
exceeding great. j

8 The tree wae< great, and strong: ai|
the height thereof reached unto heave;
the sight thereof was even to the en
of all the earth.

9 Its leaves were most beautiful, and J
fruit exceeding much : and in it was f o
for all : under it dwelt cattle, and beas
and in the branches thereof the fowls
the air had their abode : and all flesh c
eat of it.

10 1 saw in the vision of my head up
my bed, and behold a watcher, and a he
one came down from heaven.

11 He cried aloud, and said thus : C
down the tree, and chop off the brand
thereof : shake off its leaves, and scati
its fruits: let the beasts fly away that ^
under it. and the birds from its branch

12 Nevertheless leave the stump of
roots in the earth, and let it be tied w
a band of iron, and of brass, among 11
grass, that is without, and let it be \
with the dew of heaven, and let its p
tion be with the wild beasts in the gr
of the earth.

13 Let his heart be changed from maj
and let a beast's heart be given him ;
let seven times pass over him.

14 This is the decree by the sentence

Ver. 13. Let his heart be changed, &c. It <
not appear by scripture that Nabuchodonosor
changed from human shape; much less that lie
changed into an ox ; but only that he lost his rea
and became mad ; and in this condition rema
abroad in the company of beasts, eating grass
an ox, till his hair grew in such manner at- t(
semble the feathers of eagles, and his nails V
like birds' claws.

956

Interpretation of the dream

DANIEL

Fulfilment of the dream

the watchers, and the word and demand

of the holy ones ; till the living know

ihat the most High ruleth in the king-

iom of men ; and he will give it to whom-

joever it shall please him, and he will

ippoint the basest ^ man over it.

15 1 king Nabuchodonosor saw this

Iream: thou, therefore, O Baltassar, tell

Qe quickly the interpretation : for all the

nse men of my kingdom are not able to

'eclare the meaning of it to me : but

hou art able, because the spirit of the

oly gods is in thee.

18 Then Daniel, whose name was Baltas-
ir, began silently to think within him-
3lf for about one hour : and his thoughts
'oubled him. But the king answering,
lid: Baltassar, let not the dream and
le interpretation thereof trouble thee,
altassar answered, and said: My lord,
le dream be to them that hate thee, and
16 interpretation thereof to thy ene-
ies.

7 The tree which thou sawest which was
gh and strong, whose height reached to
e skies, and the sight thereof into all
e earth :

8 And the branches thereof were most
autiful, and its fruit exceeding much,
d in it was food for all, under which the
asts of the field dwelt, and the birds
the air had their abode in its branches.
) It is thou, O king, who art grown

1 3at and become mighty : for thy great-
ns hath grown, and hath reached to
1 wen, and thy power unto the ends of
1> earth.

) And whereas the king saw a watcher,
s i a holy one come down from heaven,
a I say : Cut down the tree and destroy
'but leave the stump of the roots
eof in the earth, and let it be bound
iron and brass among the grass
hout, and let it be sprinkled with the
^ of heaven, and let his feeding be
the wild beasts, till seven times
3 over him.

This is the interpretation of the sen-

«3e of the most High, which is come

^]n my lord the king.

', They shall cast thee out from among

», and thy dwelling shall be with cat-

ind with wild beasts, ° and thou shalt

?ra8s as an ox, and shalt be wet with

lew of heaven: and seven times shall

n 1 Kings 2. 8, and 16. 11, et seq.
o Infra 5. 21.

pass over thee, till thou know that th©
most High ruleth over the kingdom of
men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

23 But whereas he commanded, that the
stump^f the roots thereof, that is, of the
tree, should be left : thy kingdom shall
remain to thee after thou shalt have
known that power is from heaven.

24 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel
be acceptable to thee, ^ and redeem thou
thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities
with works of mercy to the poor: per-
haps he will forgive thy offences.

25 All these things came upon king
Nabuchodonosor.

26 At the end of twelve months he was
walking in the palace of Babylon.

27 And the king answered, and said : Is
not this the great Babylon, which I have
built to be the seat of the kingdom, by
the strength of my power, and in the
glory of my excellence?

28 And while the word was yet in the
king's mouth, a voice came down from
heaven: To thee, O king Nabuchodono-
sor, it is said: Thy kingdom shall pass
from thee,

29 And they shall cast) thee out from
among men, and thy dwelling shall be
with cattle and wild beasts: thou shalt
eat grass like an ox, and seven times
shall pass over thee, till thou know that
the most High ruleth in the kingdom of
men, and giveth it to whomsoever he wilL

30 The same hour the word was fulfilled
upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven
away from among men, and did eat grass
hke an ox, and his body was wet with
the dew of heaven : till his hairs grew
like the feathers of eagles, and his nails
like birds' claws.

31 Now at the end of the days, I Nabu-
chodonosor lifted up my eyes to heaven,
and my sense was restored to me : and
I blessed the most High, and I praised
and glorified him that liveth for ever:
"^ for his power is an everlasting power,
and his kingdom is to all generations.

32 And all the inhabitants of the earth
are reputed as nothing before him : for he
doth according to his will, * as well with
the powers of heaven, as among the in-
habitants of the earth : and there is none
that can resist his hand, and say to him :
Why hast thou done it ?

7) Eccli. 3. 33.

r Supra 3. 100.—« Jer. 23. 13 ; Fs. 115. 3.

957

Baltasar*s banquet

DANIEL

Daniel is summonei

33 At the same time my sense returned
to me, and I came to the honour and glory
of my kingdom : and my shape returned
to me : and my nobles, and my magis-
trates sought for me, and I was restored
to my kingdom : and greater majesty was
added to me.

34 Therefore I Nabuchodonosor do now
praise, «nd magnify, and glorify the King
of heaven : because all his works are true,
and his ways judgments, and them that
walk in pride he is able to abase.

CHAPTER 5.

BcUtasar^s profane banquet: his sentence is de-
nounced by a handwriting on the wall, which
Daniel reads and interprets.

BALTASAR the king made a great
feast for a thousand of his nobles :
and every one drank according to his age.

2 And being now drunk he commanded
that they should bring the vessels of gold
and silver which Nabuchodonosor his
father had brought away out of the tem-
ple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king
and his nobles, and his wives and his
concubines, might drink in them.

3 Then were the golden and silver ves-
sels brought, which he had brought away
out of the temple that was in Jerusalem:
and the king and his nobles, his wives
and his concubines, drank in them.

4 They drank wine, and praised their
gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of
iron, and of wood, and of stone.

5 In the same hour there appeared fin-
gers, as it were of the hand of a man,
writing over against the candlestick upon
the surface of the wall of the king's pal-
ace: and the king beheld the joints of
the hand that wrote.

6 Then was the king's countenance
changed, and his thoughts troubled him :
and the joints of his loins were loosed,
and his knees struck one against the
other.

7 And the king cried out aloud to bring
in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the
soothsayers. And the king spoke, and
said to the wise men of Babylon : Who-
soever shall read this writing, and shall
make known to me the interpretation

Ver. 34. / Nabuchodonosor do now, &c. From
this place some commentators infer that this king
became a true convert, and dying not long after,
was probably saved.

Chap. 5. Ver. 1. BcUtaaar. He is believed to
be the same as Nabonydue, the last of the Chai-

thereof, shall be clothed with purple, an<
shall have a golden chain on his nech
and shall be the third man in my king
dom.

8 Then came in all the king's wise mei
but they could neither read the writing
nor declare the interpretation to th
king.

9 Wherewith king Baltasar was muc
troubled, and his countenar'^s wi
changed: and his nobles also were ^roi
bled.

10 Then the queen, on occasion of whi
had happened to the king, and his noble
came into the banquet house: and si
spoke and said: O king, live for eve
let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neith
let thy countenance be changed.

11 There is a man in thy kingdom th|
hath the spirit of the holy gods in
and in the days of thy father knowled
and wisdom were found in him: for ki:
Nabuchodonosor thy father appoin
him prince of the wise men, enchan
Chaldeans, and soothsayers, thy fathe:
say, O king:

12 Because a greater spirit, and kn
ledge, and understanding, and interp
tation of dreams, and shewing of secrtl
and resolving of diflBcult things, w<|
found in him, that is, in Daniel: wh
the king named Baltassar. Now the|
fore let Daniel be called for, and he 'sj
tell the interpretation.

13 Then Daniel was brought in bef
the king. And the king spoke, and
to him: Art thou Daniel of the child
of the captivity of Juda, whom my fat r
the king brought out of Judea ?

14 I have heard of thee, that thou 1
the spirit of the gods, and excel]
knowledge, and understanding, and ^
dom are found in thee.

15 And now the wise men the magici
have come in before me, to read
writing, and shew me the interpreta
thereof: and they could not declare
me the meaning of this writing.

16 But I have heard of thee, that t
canst interpret obscure things, and
solve diflBcult things : now if thou

uean kings, grandson to Nabuchodonosor. K
called his son, ver. 2, 11, &c., according to the
of the scriptures, because he was a descen
from him. He reigned from 556 to 539 B. C
Ver. 10. The queen. Not the wife but the nw
of the king.

958

ifi

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nt

Ihe punishment of pride

ible to read the writing, and to shew me
he interpretation thereof, thou shalt I^e
jlothed with purple, and shalt have a
;hain of gold about thy neck, and shalt
)e the third prince in my kingdom.

17 To which Daniel made answer, and
aid before the king : Thy rewards be to
hyself, and the gifts of thy house give
0 another: but the writing I will read to
hee, O king, and shew thee the interpre-
ation thereof.

18 O king, the most high God gave fco
^^abuchodonosor thy father a kingdom,
nd greatness, and glory, and honour.

19 And for the greatness that he gave
0 him, all people, tribes, and languages
rembled, and were afraid of him : whom
e would, he slew : and whom he would,
e destroyed : and whom he would, he
9t up : and whom he would, he brought
own.

20 But when his heart was lifted up,
nd his spirit hardened unto pride, he
^as put down from the throne of his
ingdom, and his glory was taken away.

21 " And he was driven out from the
DOS of men, and his heart was made like
le beasts, and his dwelling was with the
■ild asses, and he did eat grass like an
X, and his body was wet with the dew
f heaven : till he knew that the most
•Jgh ruled in the kingdom of men, and
lat he will set over it whomsoever it
'mil please him.

32 Thou also his son, O Baltasar, hast

ot humbled thy heart, whereas thou

newest all these things :

^3 But hast lifted thyself up against the

ord of heaven: and the vessels of his

.^use have been brought before thee:

'id thou, and thy nobles, and thy wives,

'id thy concubines have drunk wine in

lem: and thou hast praised the gods of

Iver, and of gold, and of brass, of iron,

id of wood, and of stone, that neither

e, nor hear, nor feel : but the God who

ith thy breath in his hand, and all thy

'ays, thou hast not glorified.

!4 Wherefore he hath sent the part of

e hand which hath written this that is

t down.

5 And this is the writing that is writ-
ti : Mane, Thecel, Phares.

6 And this is the interpretation of the
u Supra 4. 22.

DANIEL

Interpretation of the writing

word. IMane s God hath numbered thy
kingdom, and hath finished it.

27 Thecel: thou art weighed in the
balance, and art found wanting.

28 Phases : thy kingdom is divided, and
is given to the Medes and Persians.

29 Then by the king's command Daniel
was clothed with purple, and a chain of
gold was put about his neck : and it was
proclaimed of him that he had power as
the third man in the kingdom.

30 The same night Baltasar the Chaldean
king was slain. ^

31 And Darius the Mede succeeded to
the kingdom, being threescore and two
years old.

CHAPTER 6.

Daniel ti Zffornoted by Darius: his enemies procure
a law forbidding prayer ; for the transgression of
this law Daniel is cast into the lions^ den: but
miraculously delivered.

IT seemed good to Darius, and he ap-
pointed over the kingdom a hundred
and twenty governors to be over his
whole kingdom.

2 And three princes over them, of whom
Daniel was one : that the governors might
give an account to them, and the king
might have no trouble.

3 And Daniel excelled all the princes,
and governors : because a greater spirit
of God was in him.

4 And the king thought to set him over
all the kingdom : whereupon the princes,
and the governors sought to find occa-
sion against Daniel with regard to the
king: and they could find no cause, nor
suspicion, because he was faithful, and
no fault, nor suspicion was found in him.

6 Then these men said : We shall not find
any occasion against this Daniel, unless
perhaps concerning the law of his God.

6 Then the princes, and the governors
craftily suggested to the king, and spoke
thus unto him: King Darius, live for
ever:

7 All the princes of the kingdom, the
magistrates, and governors, the senators,
and judges have consulted together, that
an imperial decree, and an edict be pub-
lished: That whosoever shall ask any
petition of any god, or man, for thirty
days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast
into the den of lions.

V B. C. 539.

Ver. 31. Darius, He is called Cyaxares by the historians ; and was the son of Astyages, and uncle

to Cyrus.

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Daniel cast into the lions* den DANIEL Daniel delivered from the lioi

8 Now, therefore, O king, confirm the
sentence, ^ and sign the decree : that
what is decreed by the Medes and Per-
sians may not be altered, nor any man
be allowed to transgress it.

9 So king Darius set forth the decree,
and established it.

10 Now when Daniel knew this, that is
to say, that the law was made, he went
into his house : and opening the windows
in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem,
he knelt down three times a day, and
adored, and gave thanks before his God,
as he had been accustomed to do before.

11 Wherefore those men carefully watch-
ing him, found Daniel praying and mak-
ing supplication to his God.

12 And they came and spoke to the
king concerning the edict : O king, hast
thou not decreed, that every man that
should make a request to any of the
gods, or men, for thirty days, but to thy-
self, O king, should be cast into the den
of the lions? And the king answered
them, saying: The word is true accord-
ing to the decree of the Medes and Per-
ians, which it is not lawful to violate.

13 Then they answered, and said before
the king : Daniel^ who is of the children
of the captivity of Juda, hath not re-
garded thy law, nor the decree that thou
hast made : but three times a day he
maketh his prayer.

14 Now when the king had heard these
words, he was very much grieved, and in
behalf of Daniel he set his heart to de-
liver him and even till sunset he laboured
to save him.

15 But those men perceiving the king's
design, said to him : Know thou, O king,
that the law of the Medes and Persians
is, that no decree which the king hath
made, may be altered.

16 Then the king commanded, and they
brought Daniel, and cast him into the
den of the lions. And the king said to
Daniel: Thy God, whom thou always
servest, he will deliver thee.

17 And a stone was brought, and laid
upon the mouth of the den: which the
king sealed with his own ring, and with
the ring of his nobles, that nothing
should be done against Daniel.

18 And the king went away to his house
and laid himself down without taking

w Estber 1. 19.

supper, and meat was not set befow
him, and even sleep departed from him.

19 Then the king rising very early ii
the morning, went in haste to the lions
den:

20 And coming near to the den, crie
with a lamentable voice to Daniel, ani
said to him : Daniel, servant of the livini
God, hath thy God, whom thou serve
always, been able, thinkest thou, to de
liver thee from the lions ?

21 And Daniel answering the king, 8ai<
O king, live for ever :

22 ^My God hath sent his angel, a;
hath shut up the mouths of the lion
and they have not hurt me : forasmui
as before him justice hath been found
me : yea and before thee, O king, I ha
done no offence.

23 Then was the king exceeding g"
for him, and he commanded that D
should be taken out of the den: a
Daniel was taken out of the den, and ji
hurt was found in him, because he nft
lieved in his God. ■■

24 And by the king's commandmei
those men were brought that had
cused Daniel : and they were cast ir
the lions' den, they and their childr<
and their wives : and they did not rea i
the bottom of the den, before the lic|i
caught them, and broke all their boi
in pieces.

25 Then king Darius wrote to all p
pie, tribes, and languages, dwelling
the whole earth: Peace be multipl
unto you.

26 It is decreed by me, that in all
empire and my kingdom all men dr« i
and fear the God of Daniel. For h€
the living and eternal God for ever : {
his kingdom shall not be destroyed, {
his power shall be for ever.

27 He is the deliverer, and saviour,
ing signs and wonders in heaven, anc
earth : who hath delivered Daniel ou
the lions' den.

28 2/ Now Daniel continued unto
reign of Darius, and the reign of Cy
the Persian.

CHAPTER 7.

DanieVs vision of the four beasts, signifying
kingdoms : of God sitting on his throne:
of the opposite kingdoms of Christ ana
Christ.

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X 1 Mac. 2. 60. —1/ Supra 1. 21.

>^ vision of the four beasts

N the first year of Baltasar king of
Babylon, Daniel saw a dream : and the
islon of his head was upon his bed : and
riting the dream, he comprehended it in
)W words : and relating the sum of it in
lort, he said :

1 1 saw in my vision by night, and be-
3ld the four winds of the heaven strove
pon the great sea.

\ And four great beasts, different one
om another, came up out of the sea
[ The first was like a honess, and had
le wings of an eagle : I beheld till her
ings were plucked off, and she was
"ted up from the earth, and stood upon
3r feet as a man, and the heart of a man
as given to her.

i And behold another beast like a bear
ood up on one side: and there were
iree rows in the mouth thereof, and in
le teeth thereof, and thus they said to
: Arise, devour much flesh.
) After this I beheld, and lo, another
le a leopard, and it had upon it four
ings as of a fowl, and the beast had
ur heads, and power was given to it.
' After this I beheld in the vision of the
ght, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and
'onderful, and exceeding strong, it had
eat iron teeth, eating and breaking in
eces, and treading down the rest with its
et: and it was unlike to the other beasts
bich I had seen before it, and had ten
)nis,

I I considered the horns, and behold
lother Uttle horn sprung out of the
idst of them: and three of the first
)rii8 were plucked up at the presence
ereof : and behold eyes like the eyes of
man were in this horn, and a mouth
eaking great things.
' I beheld till thrones were placed, and
e Ancient of days sat: his garment was
tiJte as snow, and the hair of his head
le clean wool : his throne like flames of
'•e: the wheels of it like a burning fire.
OA swift stream of fire issued forth
om before him; * thousands of thou-
'nds ministered to him, and ten thou-
nd times » hundred thousand stood

DANIEL Meaning of the beasts and the horns
before him: tiis judgL-.nt sat. &nd the

2 Apoc. 5. 11.

HAP. 7. Ver. 3. Fonr great beasts. Viz., the
:^Mean, F rsian, Grecian, and Roman empires,
some Teacher choose to understand the fourth
1st of the successors of Alexander the Gieat, more
>ecially of them that • eigned in Asia and Syria,
«er. 'j. Ter horns. That is, ten kingdoniSj (as
K>c 17. 12,) amons ^i^icb tbe empire oi tJDe lourth

books were opened.

11 1 beheld because of the voice cf the
great words which that horn spoke : and
I saw that the beast was slain, and the
body thereof was destroyed, and given
to the fire to be burnt :

12 And that the power of the other
beasts was taken away : and that timec
of life were appointed them for a time,
and a time.

13 I beheld therefore in the vision of
the night, and lo, one like the son of
man came with the clouds of heaven,
and he came even to the Ancient of days:
and they presented him before him.

14 And he gave him power, and glory,
and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes
and tongues shall serve him: ** his power
is an everlasting power that shall not bo
taken away: and his kingdom that shall
not be destroyed.

15 My spirit trembled, I Daniel was af-
frighted at these things, and the visions
of my head troubled me.

16 I went near to one of them that stood
by, and asked the truth of him concern-
ing all these things, and he told me the
interpretation of the words, and in*
structed me:

17 These four great beasts are four kingp*
doms, which shall arise out of the earth.

18 But the saints of the most high God
shall take the kingdom : and they shall
possess the kingdom for ever and ever.

19 After this I would dihgently learn
concerning the fourth beast, which was
very different from alL and exceeding
terrible: his teeth and claws were of iron,
he devoured and broke in pieces, and
t^e rest he stamped upon with his feet :

i ^ And concerning the ten horns that
ht had on his head : and concerning the
oti »r that came up, before which three
hoi is fell: and of that horn that had
eye , and a mouth speaking great things,
and vas greater than the rest,

21 ■ beheld, and lo, that horn made war
agai) st the saints, and prevailed over
then»

a Si >ra 3. 100, and 4. 31 : Mich. 4. 7 ; Luke 1. 32.

beast 8 all be parcelled. Or ten kings of the numbei
of the r iccessors of Alexander ; as figures of such as
ahallb- about the time of Antichrist

Ver, i. Another little horn. This !s commonl;
understood of Antichrist It may also be applied
to that great persecutor Antiodius Epiphanea %» •

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Kingdoms of Christ and Antichrist DANIEL The vision of the ram and the goa
22 Till the Aucieut of days came and

gave judgment to the saints of the most
High, and the time came, and the saints
obtained the kingdom.

23 And thus he said: The fourth beast
shall be the f om*th kingdom upon earth,
which shall be greater than all the king-
doms, and shall devour the whole earth,
4ind shall tread it down, and break it in
pieces.

24 And the ten horns of the same king-
dom., shall be ten kings: and another
shall rise up after them, and he shall be
mightier than the former, and he shall
bring down three kings.

25 And he shall speak words against the
High One, and shall crush the saints of
the most High: and he shall think him-
self able to change times and laws, and
they shall be dehvered into hie hand
until a time, and times, and half a time.

26 And judgment shall sit, that his power
may be taken away, and be broken in
pieces, and perish even to the end.

27 And that the kingdom, and power,
fcnd the greatness of the kingdom, under
the whole heaven, may be given to the
people of the saints of the most High :
whose kingdom is an everlasting king-
dom, and all kings shall serve hUn, and
shall obey liim.

28 Hitherto is the end of the word. I
Dam'el was much troubled with my
thoughts, and my countenance was
changed in me : but I kept the word in
my heart.

CHAPTER 8.

DaniePs vision of the ram and he goat interpreted
by the angel GabrieL

IN ^ the third year of the reign of king
Baltasar, a vision appeared to me. I
Daniel, after what I had seen in the be-
ginning,
2 Saw in my vision when I was in the
castle of Susa, which is in the province
of Elam : and I saw in the vision that I
was over the gate of Ulai.

6 B. C. 554.

Ver. 25. A time, and times, and half a time.
That is, three years and a half ; which is supposed
to be the length of the duration of the persecution
of Antichrist.

Chap. 8. Ver. 3. A ram. The empire of the
Medes and Persians.

Ver. 5. A he goat The empire of the Greeks, or
Macedonians. — Ibid. He touched not the arr/iind.
He conquered all before him, with so much rapidity,
that Le seemed rather to fly, than to walk upon
the earth. — I3>id. A notabU horn ▲lexaiMler tb«

8 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw : an^
behold a ram stood before the watei
having two high horns, and one highe:
than the other, and growing up. After
ward

4 1 saw the ram pushing with his horn
against the west, and against the nortlj
and against the south: and no beast
could withstand him, nor be delivers»
out of his hand : and he did according t*
his own will, and became great.

6 And I understood : and behold a h
goat came from the west on the face c
the whole earth, and he touched not th
ground, and the he goat had a notabl
horn between his eyes.

6 And he went up to the ram that ha
the horns, which I had seen standing b(
fore the gate, and he ran towards him i
the force of his strength.

7 And when he was come near the ran
he was enraged against him, and struc
the ram : and broke his two horns, an
the ram could not withstand him: an
when he had cast him down on tt
ground, he stamped upon him, and nor
could deliver the ram out of his hand.

8 And the he goat became exceedir
great: and when he was grown, the gre?
horn was broken, and there came up f oi
horns under it towards the four winds <
heaven.

9 And out of one of them came forth
little horn: and it became great again
the south, and against the east, ai
against the strength.

10 And it was magnified even nnto t1
strength of heaven : and it threw doTS
of the strength, and of the stars, and tr(
upon them.

11 And it was magnified even to tl
prince of the strength : and it took awj
from him the continual sacrifice, and ca
down the place of his sanctuary.

12 And strength was given hira again
the continual sacrifice, because of sin
and truth shall be cast down on t

Ver. 8. Four horns. Seleucus, Aiitigonus, Phi
and Ptolemeus, the successors of Alexander, w
divided his empire among them.

Ver. 9. /* Utile horn. Antiochus Epiphanes
descendant of Seleueus. He grew against the sou
and the east, by his victories over the kings of Eg:
and Armenia: and against the strength, that
against Jerusalem and the people of God.

Ver. 10. Unto the strength of heaven . or, agar
the strength of heaven. So are here called the ari
of the Jews» the people oi God.

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Gabriel interprets the vision

DANIEL

DanieVa confession

and do more than can be believed. And
he shall destroy the mighty, and the peo-
ple of the saints,

25 According to his will, and craft shall
be successful in his hand : and his heart
shall be puffed up, and in the abundance
of all things he shall kill many: and he
shall rise up against the prince of princes,
and shall be broken without hand.

26 And the vision of the evening and
the morning, which was told, Is true:
thou therefore seal up the vision, because
it shall come to pass after many days.

27 And I Daniel languished, and was
sick for some days: and when I was risen
up, I did the king's business, and I was
astonished at the vision, and there was
none that could interpret it.

CHAPTER 9.

DanieVs confessian and prayer: Gabriel informs
him concerning the seventy weeks to the com,in(f
of Christ.

IN the first year of Darius the son of
Assuerus of the seed of the Modes,
who reigned over the kingdom of the
Chaldeans:

2 The first year of his reign, I Daniel
understood by books the ^ number of the
years, concerning which the word of the
Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, that
seventy years should be accomplished of
the desolation of Jerusalem.

3 And I set my face to the Lord my
God, to pray and make supplication with
fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

4 And I prayed to the Lord my God,
and I made my confession, and said : ^ I
beseech thee, O Lord God, great and ter-
rible, who keepest the covenant, and
mercy to them that love thee, and keep
thy commandments.

5 -^We have sinned, we have committed
iniquity, we have done wickedly, and
have revolted: and we have gone aside
from thy commandments, and thy judg-
ments.

6 We have not hearkened to thy ser^
vants the prophets, that have spoken in
thy name to our kings, to our princes,
to our fathers, and to all the people of
the land.

7 To thee, O Lord, justice : but to ua
confusion of face, as at this day to the

ground, and he shall do and shall pro-
sper.

13 And I heard one of the saints speak-
ing, and one saint said to another, I know
not to whom that was speaking: How
long shall be the vision, concerning the
continual sacrifice, and the sin of the
desolation that is made : and the sanctu-
ary, and the strength be trodden under
foot?

14 And he said to him: Unto evening
and morning two thousand three hun-
dred days: and the sanctuary shall be
cleansed.

15 And it came to pass when I Daniel
saw the vision, and sought the meaning,
that behold there stood before me as it-
were the appearance of a man.

16 And I heard the voice of a man
between Ulai : and he called, and said :
Gabriel, make this man to understand
the vision.

17 And he came and stood near where
I stood: and when he was come, I fell
on my face trembling, and he said to
me : Understand, O son of man, for in the
time of the end the vision shall be ful-
flUed.

18 And when he spoke to me I fell flat
on the ground : and he touched me, and
set me upright,

19 And he said to me: I will shew thee
what things are to come to pass in the
end of the malediction: for the time hath
its end.

20 The ram, which thou sawest with
horns, is the king of the Modes and Per-
sians.

21 And the he goat, is the king of the
Greeks, and the great horn that was
between his eyes, the same is the first
king.

22 But whereas when that was broken,
there arose up four for it: four kings
shall rise up of his nation, but not with
his strength.

23 And after their reign, when iniquities
shall be grown up, there shall arise a king
of a shameless face, and understanding
dark sentences.

24 And his power shall be strengthened,
' but not by his own force : and he shall

^y all things waste, and shall prosper,

d Jer. 25. 11, and 29. 10.

.y^^' 14- Unto evenin/j and morning two thousand

three hundred days. That is, six years and almost

, lOLT months ^ which was the whole time from the

c 2 Esd. 1. 5. — / Bar. l. 17.

beginning of the persecution of ^Jitiochus till hif
death.

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DanieVs grayer

DANIEL

The seventy week

men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that
are near, and to them that are far off
in all the countries whither thou hast
driven them, for their iniquities by which
they have sinned against thee.

8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of
face, to our princes, and to our fathers
that have sinned.

9 But to thee, the Lord our God, mercy
and forgiveness, for we have departed
from thee :

10 And we have not hearkened to the
voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his
law, which he set before us by his ser-
vants the prophets.

11 And all Israel have transgressed thy
law, and have turned away from hearing
thy voice, and the malediction, and the
curse, fl' which is written in the book of
Moses the servant of God, is fallen upon
us, because we have sinned against him.

12 And he hath confirmed his words
which he spoke against us, and against
our princes that judged us, that he would
bring in upon us a great evil, such as
never was under all the heaven, accord-
ing to that which hath been done in Jeru-
salem.

13 As it is written in the law of Moses,
all this evil is come upon us : and we en-
treated not thy face, O Lord our God, that
we might turn from our iniquities, and
think on thy truth.

14 And the Lord hath watched upon the
evil, and hath brought it upon us : the
Lord our God is just in all his works
which he hath done : for we have not
hearkened to his voice.

15 ^ And now, O Lord our God, who hast
brought forth thy people out of the land
of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast
made thee a name as at this day: we
have sinned, we have committed iniquity,

16 O Lord, against all thy justice : let
thy wrath and thy indignation be turned
away, I beseech thee, from thy city Jeru-
salem, and from thy holy mountain. For

"" g Deut 27. 14.
h Bar. 2. 11; Ex. 14. 22.

Chap. 9. Ver. 21. The wan Gabriel. The angel
Gabriel in the shape of a man.

Ver. 23. Man of desires, that is, ardently praying
for the Jews then in captivity.

Ver. 24. Seventy weeks, viz., of years, (or seventy
times seven, that is, 490 years,) are shortened ; that
is, fixed and determined, so that the time shall be no
longer.

Ver. 25. From the going forth of the word, &c.
That is, from the twentietk year of king Artaxerxes,

by reason of our sins, and the iniquitie
of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy peo
pie are a reproach to all that are rount
about us.

17 Now therefore, O our God, hear th
supplication of thy servant, and hi
prayers : and shew thy face upon thy sane
tuary which is desolate, for thy own sakt

18 Incline, O my God, thy ear, and heai
open thy eyes, and see our desolatioi
and the ^ city upon which thy name j
called: *for it is not for our justificc'
tions that we present our prayers befoi
thy face, but for the multitude of tb
tender mercies.

19 O Lord, hear: O Lord, be appeasec
hearken and do : delay not for thy ow
sake, O my God: because thy name
invocated upon thy city, and upon tb
people.

20 Now while I was yet speaking, ar
praying, and confessing my sins, and tl
sins of my people of Israel, and preBen
ing my supplications in the sight of n
God, for the holy mountain of my God

21 As I was yet speaking in prayer, b
hold the man Gabriel, whom I had set
in fche vision at the beginning, «^flyii
swiftly touched me at the time of t]
evening sacrifice.

22 And he instructed me, and spoke
me, and said: O Daniel, I am now cor
forth to teach thee, and that thou migl
est understand.

23 From the beginning of thy pray€
the word came forth : and I am come
shew it to thee, because thou art a m
of desires: therefore do thou mark t
word, and understand the vision.

24 ^ Seventy weeks are shortened up
thy people, and upon thy holy city, tl
transgression may be finished, and f
may have an end, and iniquity may
abolished; and everlasting justice m
be brought; and vision and prophe
may be fulfilled ; and the saint of sail
may be anointed.

25 Know thou therefore, and take i

i Jer. 25. 29 ; Ps. 48. 2, 9, and 101. 3.
j Supra 8. 16. — k Matt. 24. 15 ; John 1. 45.

when by his commandment Neheniias rebuilt
walls of Jerusalem, 2 Esd. 2. From which ti
according to the best chronology, there were j
sixty-nine weeks of years, that is, 483 years to
baptism of Christ, when he first began to preach :
execute the office of Messias. — Ibid. In strait7
of times ; ang-tistia tem-porum, : which may all
both to the difficulties and opposition they met v
in building: and to the shortness of the time
whicb they finished the wall, viz., flf ty4wo days.

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DanieVs fasting

DANIEL Angel speaks to Daniel in a vision

tice: that from the going forth of the
word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto
Christ the prince, there shall be seven
weeks, and sixty-two weeks : and the
street shall be built again, and the walls
in straitness of times.

26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ
shall be slain: and the people that shall
deny him shall not be his. And a peo-
ple with their leader that shall come,
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary :
and the end thereof shall be waste, and
after the end of the war the appointed
desolation.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant
with many, in one week : and in the half
of the week the victim and the sacrifice
shall fail : and there shall be in the tem-
ple the abomination of desolation : and
the desolation shall continue even to the
oonsummation, and to the end.

CHAPTER 10.

Daniel having humbled himself by fasting and
penance seeth a vision, with which he is much
Urrified ; but he is com^forted by an angel.

IN * the third year of Cyrus king of the
Persians, a word was revealed to
Daniel surnamed Baltassar, and a true
word, and great strength : and he under-
Btood the word: for there is need of
understanding in a vision.

2 In those days I Daniel mourned the
days of three weeks.

3 I ate no desirable bread, and neither
flesh, nor wine entered into my mouth,
neither was I anointed with ointment:
till the days of three weeks were ac-
complished.

4 And in the four and twentieth day of
the first month I was by the great river
Which is the Tigris.

6 And I lifted up my eyes, and I saw:
and behold a man clothed in linen, and
his loins were girded with the finest
gold:

6 And his body was like the chrysolite,
and his face as the appearance of light-

l B. C. 536.

Ver. 26. A people with their leader. The Romans
nnder Titus.

Ver. 27. In the half of the week, or, in the middle
of the week, &c. Because Christ preached three
years and a half : and then by his sacrifice upon the
cross abolished all the sacrifices of the law. — Ibid.
The abomination of desolation. Some understand
this of the profanation of the temple by the crimes
of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of the zealots.
Others of the bringing in thither the ensigns and
•tandard of tbe pagan Bomanf), Ottiers, in fine, dis*

ning, and his eyes as a burning lamp :
and his arms, and all downward even to
the feet, like in appearance to glittering
brass: and the voice of his word like the
voice of a multitude.

7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision : for
the men that were with me saw it not:
but an exceeding great terror fell upon
them, and they fled away, and hid them-
selves.

8 And I being left alone saw this great
vision: and there remained no strength
in me, and the appearance of my coun-
tenance was changed in me, and I fainted
away, and retained no strength.

9 And I heard the voice of his words :
and when I heard, I lay in a consterna-
tion, upon my face, and my face was
close to the ground.

10 And behold a hand touched me, and
lifted me up upon my knees, and upon
the joints of my hands.

11 And he said to me : Daniel, thou man
of desires, understand the words that I
speak to thee, and stand upright : for I
am sent now to thee. And when he had
said this word to me, I stood trembling.

12 And he said to me : Fear not, Daniel:
for from the first day that thou didst set
thy heart to understand, to afflict thyself
in the sight of thy God, thy words have
been heard: and I am come for thy
words.

13 But the prince of the kingdom of the
Persians resisted me one and twenty
days: and behold Michael, one of the
chief princes, came to help me, and I re-
mained there by the king of the Per-
sians.

14 But I am come to teach thee what
things shall befall thy people in the latter
days, for as yet the vision is for days.

15 And when he was speaking such
words to me, I cast down my counte-
nance to the ground, and held my peace.

16 And behold, as it were the likeness of
a son of man touched my lips : then I

tinguish three different times of desolation : viz.,
that under Antiochus; that when the temple was
destroyed by the Romans ; and the last near the end
of the world under Antichrist. To all which, as they
suppose, this prophecy may have a relation.

Chap. 10. Ver. 13. The prince, &c. That is, the
angel guardian of Persia : who according to his
office, seeking the spiritual good of the Persians,
was desirous that many of the Jews should remain
among them.

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The angel comforts Daniel

DANIEL Angel reveals many things to come

opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to
him that stood before me : O my Lord,
at the 3ight of thee my joints are loosed,
and no strength hath remained in me.

17 And how can the servant of my lord
speak with my lord ? for no strength re-
maineth in me, moreover my breath is
stopped.

18 Therefore he that looked like a man
touched me again, and strengthened me.

19 And he said : Fear not, O man of de-
sires, peace be to thee : take courage and
be strong. And when he spoke to me, I
grew strong : and 1 said : Speak, O my
lord, for thou hast strengthened me.

20 And he said : Dost thou know where-
fore I am come to thee ? and now I will
return, to fight against the prince of the
Persians. When I went forth, there
appeared the prince of the Greeks com-
ing.

21 But I will tell thee what is set down
in the scripture of truth : and none is my
helper in all these things, but "^ Michael
your prince.

CHAPTER 11.

The angel declares to Daniel many things to come,
vnth regard to the Persian and Grecian kings :
more especially vrith regard to Antiochiis as a fig-
ure of Antichrist.

A ND from the first year of Darius the
l\. Mede I stood up that he night be
strengthened and confirmed.

2 And now I will shew thee tho truth.
Behold there shall stand yet three kings
in Persia, and the fourth shall be en-
riched exceedingly above them all : and
when he shall be grown mighty by his
riches, he shall stir up all against the
kingdom of Greece.

3 But there shall rise up a strong king,
and shall rule with great power : and he
shall do what he pleaseth.

4 And when he shall come to his height,
his kingdom shall be broken, and it shall

m, Apoc. 12. 7.

Ver. 21. Michael your prince. The guardian
general of the church of God.

Chap. 11. Ver. 2. Three kings. Viz., Cambyses,
Smerdes Magus, and Darius, the son of Hystaspes. —
Ibid. The fourth. Xerxes.

Ver. 3. A strong king. Alexander.

Ver. 5. The king of the sovth. Ptolemeus the son
of Lagus, king of Egypt, which lies south of Jerusa-
lem. — Ibid. One of his princes, that is, one of Alex-
ander's princes, shall prevail ovpt him, : that is, sha 11
be stronger than the king of Egypt. He speaks of
Beleucus Nicator, king of Asia and Syria, whose
successors are here called the kings of the north,
because their dominions lay to Uie north in respect
*■<) Jerusalem.

be divided towards the four winds of the
heaven : but not to his posterity, nor ac-
cording to his power with which he
ruled. For his kingdom shall be rent in
pieces, even for strangers, beside these.

5 And the king of the south shall be
strengthened, and one of his princes shall
prevail over him, and he shall rule with
great power: for his dominion shall be
great.

6 And after the end of years they shall
be in league together : and the daughter
of the king of the south shall come to
the king of the north to make friendship,
but she shall not obtain the strength ot
the arm, neither shall her seed stand :
and she shall be given up, and her young
men that brought her, and they that
strengthened her in these times.

7 And a plant of the bud of her roots
shall stand up : and he shall come with
an army, and shall enter into the pro-
vince of the king of the north : and he
shall abuse them, and shall prevail.

8 And he shall also carry away captive
into Egypt their gods, and their graven
things, and their precious vessels of
gold and silver : he shall prevail against
the king of the north.

9 And the king of the south shall enter
into the kingdom, and shall return to
his own land.

10 And his sons shall be provoked, and
they shall assemble a multitude of great
forces : and he shall come with haste
like a flood: and he shall return and be
stirred up, and he shall join battle with
his forces.

11 And the king of the south being
provoked shall go forth, and shall fight
against the king of the north, and shaU
prepare an exceeding great multitude,
and a multitude shall be given into his
hand.

12 And he shall take a multitude, and

Ver. 6. The daughter of the king of the south
Viz., Berenice, daughter of Ptolemeus Philadelphus.
given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, grandson of
Seleucus.

Ver. 7. A plant, &c. Ptolemeus Evergetes, the
son of Philadelphus.

Ver. 8. The king of the north. Seleucus Callmi-
cus. ^ ,

Ver. 10. His sons. Seleucus Ceraunuis, and An-
tiochus the Great, the sons of Callinicus.— Ibid.
He shall come. Viz., Antiochus the Great.

Ver. 11. The king of the south. Ptolemeus Pm-
lopator, son of Evergetes.

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DANIEL The wicked king Antiochus

his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall
cast down many thousands : but he shall
not prevail.

13 For the king of the north shall re-
turn and shall prepare a multitude much
greater than before: and in the end of
times and years, he shall come in haste
with a great army, and much riches.

14 " And in those times many shall rise
up against the king of the south, and
the children of prevaricators of thy peo-
ple shall lift up themselves to fulfil the
vision, and they shall falL

15 And the king of the north shall
come, and shall cast up a mount, and
shall take the best fenced cities: and
the arms of the south shall not with-
stand, and his chosen ones shall rise up
to resist, and they shall not have strength.

16 And he shall come upon him and
do according to his pleasure, and there
shall be none to stand against his face :
and he shall stand in the glorious land,
and it shall be consumed by his hand.

17 And he shall set his face to come to
possess all his kingdom, and he shall
make upright conditions with him : and
he shall give him a daughter of women,
to overthrow it : and she shall not stand,
neither shall she be for him.

18 And he shall turn his face to the is-
lands, and shall take many: and he shall
cause the prince of his reproach to cease,
and his reproach shall be turned upon
him,

19 And he shall turn his face to the em-
pire of his own land, and he shall stum-
ble, and fall, and shall not be found.

20 And there shall stand up in his
place, one most vile, and unworthy of
kingly honour : and in a few days he
shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in
battle.

21 And there shall stand up in his place

n Isa. 19. 1.

Ver. 16. He shall come npon him. Viz., Anti-
ochus shall come upon the king of the south. — Ibid.
The glorioxis laiid, Judea.

Ver. 17. All his kingdom. Viz., all the kingdom
of Ptolemeus Epiphanes, son of Philopator. — Ibid.
A daughter of xvom.en. That is. a most beautiful
woman, viz., his daughter Cleopatra. — Ibid. To
overthrown. Viz., the kingd'am of Epiphanes: but
his policy shall not succeed ; for Cleopatra shall take
more to heart the interest of her husband, than that
of her father.

Ver. 18. The prince of his reproach. Scipio the
Roman general, called, the prince of his reproach,
because he overthrew Antiochus, and obliged him to
submit to very dishonourable terms, before he would
cease from the war.

one despised, and the kingly honour
shall not be given him: and he shall
come privately, and shall obtain the
kingdom by fraud.

22 And the arms of the fighter shall be
overcome before his face, and shall be
broken ; yea also the prince of the cove-
nant.

23 And after friendships, he will deal
deceitfully with him: and he shall go
up, and shall overcome with a small
people.

24 And he shall enter into rich and
plentiful cities: and he shall do that
which his fathers never did, nor his fa-
thers' fathers: he shall scatter their
spoils, and their prey, and their riches,
and shall forecast devices against the
best fenced places : and this until a time.

25 And his strength and his heart shall
be stirred up against the king of the
south with a great army : and the king
of the south shaU be stirred up to battle
with many and very strong succours:
and they shall not stand, for they shall
form designs against him.

26 And they that eat bread with him,
shall destroy him., and his army shall be
overthrown • and many shall fall down
slain.

27 And the heart of the two kings shall
be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at
one table, and they shall not prosper:
because as yet the end is unto another
time.

28 And he shall return into his land
with, much riches : and his heart shall be
against the holy covenant, and he shall
succeed and shall return into his own
land.

29 At the time appointed he shall re-
turn, and he shall come to the south, but
the latter time shall not be like the for-
mer.

Ver. 20. One most vile. Seleucus Philopator, who
sent Heliodorus to plunder the temple : and was
shortly after slain by the same Heliodorus.

Ver. 21 One despised. Viz., Antiochus Epi-
phanes, who at first was despised and not received
for king. What is here said of this prince, is accom-
modated by St. Jerome and others to Antichrist; of
whom this Antiochus was a figure.

Ver. 22. Of the fighter. That is, of them that
shall oppose him, and shall fight against him. — Ibid.
The prince of the covenant, or of the league. The
chief of them that conspired against him: or th€
king of Egypt his most powerful adversary.

Ver. 26. The king. Ptolemeus Philometor.

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The vnchedness of Antiochns DANIEL

30 And the galleys and the Romans
shall come upon him, and he shall be
struck, and shall return, and shall have
indignation against the covenant of the
sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he
shall return and shall devise againp.t
them that have forsaken the covenant
of the sanctuary.

31 And arms shall stand on his part,
and they shall defile the sanctuary of
strength, and shall take away the con-
tinual sacrifice, and they shall place
there the abomination unto desolation.

32 And such as deal wickedly against
the covenant shall deceitfully dissemble :
but the people that know their God shall
prevail and succeed.

33 And they that are learned among the
people shall teach many : and they shall
fall by the sword, and by fire, and by
captivity, and by spoil for many days.

34 And when they shall have fallen they
shall be relieved with a small help: and
many shall be joined to them deceitfullyo

35 And some of the learned shall fall,
that they may be tried, and may be
chosen, and made white even to the ap-
pointed time, because yet there shall be
another time.

36 And the king shall do according to
his will, and he shall be lifted up, and
shall magnify himself against every god :
and he shall speak great things against
the God of gods, and shall prosper, till
the wrath be accomplishedc For the de-
termination is made.

37 And he shall make no account of the
God of his fathers : and he shall follow
the lust of wom^n, and he shall not re-
gard any gods : for he shall rise up
against all things.

38 But he shall worship the god Maozim
in his place : and a god whom his fathers
knew not, he shall worship with gold,
and silver, and precious stones, and
things of great price.

39 And he shall do this to fortify Mao-
zim with a strange god, whom he hath

The resurrection

acknowledged, and he shall increase glory
and shall give them power over many,
and shall divide the land gratis.

40 And at the time prefixed the king of
the south shall fight against him, and the
king of the north shall come against him
Uke a tempest, with chariots, and with
horsemen, and with a great navy, and he
shall enter into the countries, and shall
destroy, and pass through.

41 And he shall enter into the glorious
land, and many shall fall: and these only
shall be saved out of his hand, Edom,
and Moab, and the principality of the
children of Ammon.

42 And he shall lay his hand upon the
lands : and the land of Egypt shall not
escape.

43 And he shall have power over the
treasures of gold, and of silver, and all
the precious things of Egypt: and he
shall pass through Libya, and Ethiopia.

44 And tiaings out of the east, and out
of the north shall trouble him: and he
shall come with a great multitude to
destroy and slay many.

46 And he shall fix his tabernacle Apad-
no between the seas, upon a glorious
and holy mountain: and he shall come
even to the top thereof, and none shall
help him.

CHAPTER 12.

Michael shall stand up for the people of God : vAth
other things relating to Antichrist, and the end of
the world,

BUT ^'at that time shall Michael rise
up, the great prince, who standeth
for the children of thy people: and a
time shall come such as never was from
the time that nations began even untH
that time. And at that time shall thy
people be saved, every one that shall be
found written in the book.

2 And many of those that sleep in the
dust of the earth, shall awake : ^ some
unto life everlasting, and others unto
reproach, to see it always.

3 But they that are learned ^ shall shine

o Apoc. 12. 7.

Ver. 30. The galleys and the Romans. Popilius,
and the other iRoman ambassadors, who came in
galleys, and obliged him to depart from Egypt.

Ver. 31. They shall place there the abomination,
<fec. The idol of Jupiter Olympius, which Antiochus
ordered to be set up in the sanctuary of the temple :
which is here called the sanctuary of strength, from
the Almighty that wa.s worshipped there.

Ver. 38. The god Maozim. That is, the god of
forces or ttrong holds.

p Matt. 25. 46 ; John 5. 29. — q Wisd. 3. 7.

Ver. 39. And he shall increase glory, &c. He shaU
bestow honours, riches and lands, upon them that
shall worship his god.

Ver. 45. Apadno. Some take it for the proper
name of a place : others, from the Hebrew, translate

it" TjiG Tycttct CS

Chap. 12. ' Ver. 3. Learned. Viz., in the law of
God and true wisdom, which consists in knowing
and loving God.

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DANIEL

The two wicked elders

as the brightness of the firmament : and
they that instruct many to justice, as
stars for all eternity.

4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words,
and seal the book, even to the time
appointed : many shall pass over, and
knowledge shall be manifold.

5 And I Daniel looked, and behold as it
were two others stood : one on this side
upon the bank of the river, and another on
that side, on the other bank of the river.

6 And I said to the man that was clothed
in linen, that stood upon the waters of
the river: How long shall it be to the
end of these wonders ?

7 And I heard the man that was clothed
in linen, that stood upon the waters of
the river: '"when he had lifted up his
right hand, and his left hand to heaven,
and had sworn, by him that liveth for
ever, that it should he unto a time, and
times, and half a time. And when the
scattering of the band of the holy peo-
ple shall be accomplished, all these things
shall be finished.

8 And I heard, and understood not.
And I said: O my lord, what shall be
after these things ?

9 And he said: Go, Daniel, because the
words are shut up, and sealed until the
appointed time.

10 Many shall be chosen, and made
white, and shall be tried as fire: and the
wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of
the wicked shall understand, but the
learned shall understand.

11 And from the time when the con-
tinual sacrifice shall be taken away, and
the abomination unto desolation shall be
set up, there shall be a thousand two
hundred ninety days.

12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and
Cometh unto a thousand three hundred
thirty- five days.

13 But go thou thy ways until the time
appointed: and thou shalt rest, and stand
in thy lot unto the end of the days.

CHAPTER 13.

The history of Susanna and the two elders.
OW there was a man that dwelt in
Babylon, and his name was Joakim :

r Apoc. 10. 5.

Chap. 13. This history of Susanna, in all the
ancient Greek and Latin Bibles, was placed in the
beginning of the book of Daniel : till St. Jerome, in
Ws translation, detached it from thence ; because he
•Ud not find it in the Hebrew : which is also the case

2 And he took a wife whose name was
Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a very
beautiful woman, and one that feared
God.

3 For her parents being just, had in-
structed their daughter according to the
law of Moses.

4 Now Joakim was very rich, and had an
orchard near his house: and the Jews re-
sorted to him, because he was the most
honourable of them all.

5 And there were two of the ancients of
the people appointed judges that year, of
whom the Lord said: Iniquity came out
from Babylon from the ancient judges,
that seemed to govern the people.

6 These men frequented the house of
Joakim, and all that had any matters of
judgment came to them.

7 And when the people departed away
at noon, Susanna went in, and walked in
her husband's orchard.

8 And the old men saw her going in
every day, and walking: and they were
inflamed with lust towards her :

9 And they perverted their own mind
and turned away their eyes that they
might not look unto heaven, nor remem-
ber just judgments.

10 So they were both wounded with the
love of her, yet they did not make known
their grief one to the other:

11 For they were ashamed to declare to
one another their lust, being desirous to
have to do with her.

12 And they watched carefully every
day to see her. And one said to the
other :

13 Let us now go home, for it is dinner
time. So going out they departed one
from another.

14 And turning back again, they came
both to the same place : and asking one
another the cause, they acknowledged
their lust ; and then they agreed upon a
time, when they might find her alone.

15 And it fell out, as they watched a fit
day, she went in on a time, as yesterday
and the day before, with two maids only,
and was desirous to wash herself in the
orchard : for it was hot weather.

16 And there was nobody there, but the

of the history of P,el and the Dragon. But both the
one and the other are received by the Catholic
Church : and were from the very beginning a part of
the Christian Bible.

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They tempt Susanna

DANIEL They accuse Susanna of crime

two old men that had hid themselves and
were beholding her.

17 So she said to the maids: Bring me
oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors
of the orchard, that I may wash me.

18 And they did as she bade them : and
they shut the doors of the orchard, and
went out by a back door to fetch what
she had commanded them, and they
knew not that the elders were hid
within.

19 Now when the maids were gone
forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her,
and said :

20 Behold the doors of the oi'chard are
shut, and nobody seeth us, a l we are in
love with thee : wherefore consent to us,
and lie with us.

21 But if thou wilt not, we will bear
witness against thee, that a young man
was with thee, and therefore thou didst
send away thy maids from thee.

22 Susanna sighed, and said: I am
straitened on every side : for if I do this
thing, it is death to me : and if I do it not,
I shall not escape your hands.

23 But it is better for me to fall into your
hands without doing it, than to sin in the
sight of the Lord.

24 With that Susanna cried out with a
loud voice : and the elders also cried out
against her.

25 And one of them ran to the door of
the orchard, and opened it.

26 So when the servants of the house
heard the cry in the orchard, they rushed
in by the back door to see what was the
matter.

27 But after the old men had spoken,
the servants were greatly ashamed: for
never had there been any such word said
of Susanna. And on the next day,

28 When the people were come to
Joakim her husband, the two elders
also came full of wicked device against
Susanna, to put her to death.

29 And they said before the people:
Send to Susanna daughter of Helcias the
wife of Joakim. And presently they sent.

30 And she came with her parents, and
children, and all her kindred.

31 Now Susanna was exceeding delicate,
and beautiful to behold.

32 But those wicked men commanded
that her face should be uncovered, (for
she was covered,) that so at least they
might be satisfied with her beauty.

33 Therefore her friends and all her ac-
quaintance wept.

34 But the two elders rising up in the
midst of the people, laid their hands upon
her head.

36 And she weeping looked up to hea-
ven, for her heart had confidence in the
Lord.

36 And the elders said: As we walked in
the orchard alone, this woman came in
with two maids, and shut the doors of
the orchard, and sent away the maids
from her.

37 Then a young man that was there hid
came to her, and lay with her.

38 But we that were in a corner of the
orchard, seeing this wickedness, ran up
to them, and we saw them lie together.

39 And him indeed we could not take,
because he was stronger than us, and
opening the doors he leaped out :

40 But having taken this woman, we
asked who the young man was, but she
would not tell us: of this thing we are
witnesses.

41 The multitude believed them as being
the elders and the judges of the people,
and they condemned her to death.

42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud
voice, and said : O eternal God, who
knowest hidden things, who knowest all
things before they come to pass,

43 Thou knowest that they have borne
false witness against me: and behold I
must die, whereas I have done none of
these things, which these men have ma-
liciously forged against me.

44 And the Lord heard her voice.

45 And when she was led to be put
to death, the Lord raised up the holy
spirit of a young boy, whose name was
Daniel.

46 And he cried out with a loud voice :
I am clear from the blood of this woman,

47 Then all the people turning them-
selves towards him, said : What meaneth
this word that thou hast spoken ?

48 But he standing in the midst of them,
said : Are ye so foolish, ye children of Is-
rael, that without examination or know-
ledge of the truth, you have condemned
a daughter of Israel ?

49 Return to judgment, for they have
borne false witness against her.

50 So all the people turned again in
haste, and the old men said to him : Come,
and sit thou down among us, and shew ii

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The judgment of Daniel

DANIEL

The idol Bel

us : seeing God hath given thee the honour
of old age.

51 And Daniel said to the people: Sepa-
rate these two far from one another, and
I will examine them.

62 So when they were put asunder one
from the other, he called one of them,
and said to him : O thou that art grown
old in evil days, now are thy sins come
outj which thou hast committed before :

i53 In judging unjust judgments, oppress-
ing the innocent, and letting the guilty
to go free, whereas the Lord saith : * The
innocent and the just thou shalt not kill.

54 Now then, if thou sawest her, tell
me under what tree thou sawest them
conversing together. He said: Under a
mastic tree.

55 And Daniel said : Well hast thou lied
against thy own head: for behold the
angel of God having received the sen-
tence of him, shall cut thee in two.

56 And having put him aside, he com-
manded that the other should come, and
he said to him : O thou seed of Chanaan,
and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived
thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart :

57 Thus did you do to the daughters of
Israel, and they for fear conversed with
you : but a daughter of Juda would not
abide your wickedness^

58 Now therefore tell me, under what
tree didst thou take them conversing
together. And he answered: Under a
holm tree.

59 And Daniel said to him: Well hast
thou also lied against thy own head : for
the angel of the Lord waiteth with a
sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy
you.

60 With that all the assembly cried out
with a loud voice, and they blessed God,
who saveth them that trust in him.

61 And they rose up against the two
elders, (for Daniel had convicted them
of false witness by their own mouth,)
and they did to them as they had mali-
ciously dealt against their neighbour,

62 «To fulfil the law of Moses: and
they put them to death, and innocent
blood was saved in that day.

63 But Helcias and his wife praised
God, for their daughter Susanna, with
Jt akim her husband, and all her kindred,

t Ex. 23. 7.

Chap. 14. Ver. l. The king's guest. It seems
most probable, that the king here spoken of was

because there was no dishonesty found
in her.

64 And Daniel became great in the sight
of the people from that day, and thence-
forward.

65 And king As ty ages was gathered to
his fathers, and Cyrus the Persian received
his kingdom.

CHAPTER 14.

The history of Bel; and of the great serpent won
shipped by the Babylonians.

yiND Daniel was the king's guest, and
jLjl was honoured above all his friends.

2 Now the Babylonians had an idol called
Bel : and there were spent upon him every
day twelve great measures of fine flour,
and forty sheep, and sixty vessels of
wine.

3 The king also worshipped him, and
went every day to adore him: but Daniel
adored his God, And the king said to
him: Why dost thou not adore Bel?

4 And he answered, and said to him:
Because I do not worship idols made
with hands, but the living God, that ere
ated heaven and earth, and hath power
over all flesh.

5 And the king said to him: Doth not
Bel seem to thee to be a living god?
Seest thou not how much he eateth and
drinketh every day?

6 Then Daniel smiled and said : O king,
be not deceived: for this is but clay
within, and brass without, neither hath
he eaten at any time.

7 And the king being angry called for
his priests, and said to them : If you tell
me not, who it is that eateth up these
expenses, you shall die»

8 But if you can shew that Bel eateth
these things, Daniel shall die, because he
hath blasphemed against Bel. And Dan-
iel said to the king: Be it done according
to thy word.

9 Now the priests of Bel were seventy,
besides their wives, and little ones, and
children. And the king went with Dan-
iel into the temple of Bel.

10 And the priests of Bel said: Behold
we go out: and do thou, O king, set on
the meats, and make ready the wine,
and shut the door fast, and seal it with
thy own ring :

u Deut 19. 18 and 19.

Evilmerodach, the son and successor of Nabuch»
donosor, and a great favourer of the Jepws.

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DANIEL Daniel destroys the great dragon

11 And when thon comest in the morn-
ing, if thou findest not that Bel hath
eaten up all, we will suffer death, or else
Daniel that hath lied against us.

12 And they little regarded it, because
they had made under the table a secret
entrance, and they always came in by it,
and consumed those things.

13 So it came to pass after they were
gone out, the king set the meats before
Bel : and Daniel commanded his servants,
and they brought ashes, and he sifted
them all over the temple before the
king: and going forth they shut the
door, and having sealed it with the
king's ring, they departed.

14 But the priests went in by night, ac-
cording to their custom, with their wives
and their children: and they ate and
drank up all.

15 And the king arose early in the
morning, and Daniel with him»

16 And the king said: Are the seals
whole, Daniel? And he answered: They
are whole, O king,

17 And as soon as he had opened the
door, the king looked upon the table,
and cried out with a loud voice: Great
art thou, O Bel, and there is not any
deceit with thee.

18 And Daniel laughed: and he held
the king that he should not go in: and
he said : Behold the pavement, mark
whose footsteps these are.

19 And the king said: I see the foot-
steps of men, and women, and children.
And the king was angry.

20 Then he took the priests, and their
wives, and their children: and they
shewed him the private doors by which
they came in, and consumed the things
that were on the table.

21 The king therefore put them to
death, and delivered Bel into the power
of Daniel: who destroyed him, and his
temple,

22 And there was a great dragon in
that place, and the Babylonians wor-
shipped him.

23 And the king said to Daniel : Behold
thou canst not say now, that this is not
a living god : adore him therefore.

Ver. 30. The den of lions. Daniel was twice cast
into the den of lions ; once under Darius the Mede,
because he had transgressed the king's edict, by
praying three times a day : and another time under
Bvilmerodach by a sedition of the people. This time

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24 And Daniel said: I adore the Lord
my God: for he is the living God: but
that is no living god.

25 But give me leave, O king, and I will
kill this dragon without sword or club,
And the king said: I give thee leave.

26 Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and
hair, and boiled them together: and he
made lumps, and put them into the
dragon's mouth, and the dragon burst
asunder. And he said : Behold him whom
you worshipped.

27 And when the Babylonians had heard
this, they took great indignation: and
being gathered together against the king,
they said: The king is become a Jew. He
hath destroyed Bel, he hath killed the
dragon, and he hath put the priests to
death.

28 And they came to the king, and said:
Deliver us Daniel, or else we will destroy
thee and thy house.

29 And the king saw that they pressed
upon him violently : and being con-
strained by necessity he delivered Daniel
to them.

30 And they cast him into the den of
lions, and he was there six days.

31 And in the den there were seven
Uons, and they had given to them two
carcasses every day, and two sheep : but
then they were not given unto them, that
they might devour Daniel.

32 Now there was in Judea a prophet
called Habacuc, and he had boiled pot-
tage, and had broken bread in a bowl :
and was going into the field, to carry it
to the reapers.

33 And the angel of the Lord said to
Habacuc : Carry the dinner which thou
hast into Babylon to Daniel, who is in the
lions' den.

34 And Habacuc said: Lord, I never saw
Babylon, nor do I know the den.

35 ^ And the angel of the Lord took him
by the top of his head, and carried him
by the hair of his bead, and set him in
Babylon over the den in the force of his
spirit.

36 And Habacuc cried, saying : O Dan-
iel, thou servant of God, take the dinner
that God hath sent thee.

V Ezech. 8. 3.

he remained six days in the lions' den ; the other
time only one night.

Ver. 32. Habacuc. The same, as some think,
whose prophecy is found among the lesser prophets
but others believe him to be different.

Osee commanded to marry a harlot OSEE Rejection and restoration of Israel

37 And Daniel said: Thou hast remem-
bered me, O God, and thou hast not for-
saken them that love thee.

33 And Daniel arose and ate. And the
angel of the Lord presently set Habacuc
again in his own place.

39 And upon the seventh day the king
came to bewail Daniel: and he came to
the den, and looked in, and behold Dan-
iel was sitting in the midst of the lions.

40 And the king cried out with a loud
voice, Playing •- 9reat art thou, O Lord the

God of Daniel. And he drew him out of
the lions' den.

41 But those that had been the cause of
his destruction, he cast into the den, and
they were devoured in a moment before
him.

42 Then the king said : Let all the in-
habitants of the whole earth fear the God
of Daniel: for he is the Saviour, working
signs, and wonders in the earth : who
hath delivered Daniel out of the lions'
den.

THE

PROPHECY OF OSEE.

CHAPTER 1.

By marrying a harlot, and by the names of his chil-
dren, the prophet sets forth the crimes of Israel
and their punishment. He foretells their redemp-
tion by Christ.

THE word of the Lord, that came to
Osee the son of Beeri, in the days of
Ozias., Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias kings
of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the
son of Joas king of Israel.

2 The beginning of the Lord's speaking
by Osee : and the Lord said to Osee : Go,
take thee a wife of fornications, and have
of her children of fornications: for the
land by fornication shall depart from the
Lord.

3 So he went, and took Gomer the
daughter of Debelaim : and she conceived
and bore him a son.

4 And the Lord said to him : Call his
name Jezrahel: for yet a little while, and
I will visit the blood of Jezrahel upon
the house of Jehu, and I will cause to
cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

5 And in that day I will break in pieces

Osee, or Hosea is among those who are commonly called lesser prophets, because
their prophecies are short. He prophesied in the kingdom of Israel, that is, of the
ten tribes, shortly after Amos. His ministry began toward the end of the reign
of Jeroboam the second (789-749 B. C.) and ended before the campaign of Teg-
LATH-Phalasar in 733-732 B. C. It was a period of anarchy and confusion.

ttie bow of Israel in the valley of Jezra-
hel.

6 And she conceived again, and bore a
; daughter, and he said to him : Call her

name. Without mercy : for I will not add
any more to have mercy on the house of
Israel, but I will utterly forget them.

7 And I will have mercy on the house
of Juda, and I will save them by the Lord
their God : and I will not save them by
bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by
horses, nor by horsemen.

8 And she weaned her that was called
Without mercy. And she conceived, and
bore a son.

9 And he said: Call his name. Not my
people : for you are not my people, and I
will not be yours.

10 And the number of the children of
Israel shall be as the sand of the sea,
that is without measure, and shall not be
numbered. * And it shall be in the place
where it shall be said to them : You are
not my people: it shall be said to them:
Ye are the sons of the living God.

Chap. l. Ver. 2. A vrife of fornications. That
Is, a wife that hath been given to fornication. This
was to represent the Lord's proceedings with his
people Israel, who, by spiritual fornication, were
continually offending him. — Ibid. Children of for-
nications. So called from the character of their

X Rom. 9. 26.

mother, if not also from their own wicked disposi-
tions.

Ver. 6. Without mercy. Ln.Ruhamah.

Ver. 9. Not m.y people. Lo-ammi.

Ver. 10. The number. Sec. Viz., of the true Isrfr
elites, the children of the church of Christ.

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The punishment of Israel

11 And the children of Juda, and the
children of Israel shall be gathered to-
gether : and they shall appoint themselves
one head, and shall come up out of the
land: fer great is the day of Jezrahel.

CHAPTER 2.

Israel is justly punished for leaving God. The
abundance of grace in the church of Christ.

SAY ye to your brethren: You are my
people, and to your sister : Thou hast
obtained mercy.

2 Judge your mother, judge her: be-
cause she is not my wife, and I am not her
husband. Let her put away her fornica-
tions from her face, and her adulteries
from between her breasts.

3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as
in the day that she was born : and I will
inake her as a wilderness, and will set her
'iB SL land that none can pass through,
And will kill her with drought.

4 And I will not have mercy on her
children : for they are the children of
fornications.

5 For their mother hath committed for-
nication, she that conceived them is cov-
ered with shame : for she said : I will go
after my lovers, that give me my bread,
and my water, my wool, and my flax, my
oil, and my drink.

6 Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy
way with thorns, and I will stop it up
with a wall, and she shall not find her
paths.

7 And she shall follow after her lovers,
and shall not overtake them : and she
shall seek them, and shall not find, and
she shall say : I will go, and return to my
first husband, because it was better with
me then, than now.

8 And she did not know that I gave her
corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied
her silver, and gold, which they have
used in the service of Baal.

9 Therefore will I return, and take away

Ver. 11. One head, viz., Christ. — Ibid. Great
is the day of Jezrahel. That is, of the seed of God;
for Jezrahel signifies the seed of God.

Chap. 2. Ver. 1. Say to your brethren, &c., or,
Call your brethren, My people : and your sister. Her
that hath obtained inerey. This is connected with
the latter end of the foregoing chapter, and relates
to the converts of Israel.

Ver. 2. Your mother. The synagogue.

Ver. 14. / vyill allure her, &c. After all her dis-
loyalties, I will still allure her l>y my grace, &c., and
send her irinedressers, viz., the apostles; originally
her own children, who shall open to her the gates of
hope ; as heretofore at her coming into the land of
promise, she bad all good success after she had satis-

9?4

my corn in its season, and my wine in
its season, and I will set at hberty my
wool, and my flax, which covered her
disgrace.

10 And now I will lay open her felly in
the eyes of her lovers : and no man shal
deliver her out of my hand :

11 And I will cause all her mirth to
cease, her solemnities, her new moons,
her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

12 And I will destroy her vines, and her
fig trees, of which she said : These are
my rewards, which my lovers have given
me : and I will make her as a forest, and
the beasts of the field shall devour her.

13 And I will visit upon her the days of
Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and
decked herself out with her earrings,
and with her jewels, and went after her
lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

14 Therefore, behold I will allure her,
and will lead her into the wilderness:
and I will speak to her heart.

15 And I will give her vinedressers out
of the same place, and the valley of
Achor for an opening of hope : and she
shall sing there according to the days of
her youth, and according to the days of
her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

16 And it shall be in that day, saith the
Lord, That she shall call me : My husband,
and she shall call me no more Baali.

17 And I will take away the names of
Baalim out of her mouth, and she shall
no more remember their name.

18 And in that day I will make a cove-
nant with them, with the beasts of the
field, and with the fowls of the air, and
with the creeping things of the earth:
and I will destroy the bow, and the sword,
and war out of the land : and I will make
them sleep seciure.

19 And I will espouse thee to me for
ever: and I will espouse thee to me in
justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and
in commiserations.

fied the divine justice by the execution of Achan in
the valley of Achor. Jos. 7.

Ver. 16. My husband. In Hebrew, Ishi. Baali,
my lord. The meaning of this verse Is : tluit where-
as Ishi and Baali were used indifferently in those
days by wives speaking to their husbands ; the syna-
gogue, whom God was pleased to consider as his
spouse, should call him only Ishi, and abstain from
the name of Baali, because of Its affinity with the
name of the idol Baal.

Ver. 17. Baalim. It is the plural number of Baal :
for there were dhvers idols of Baal.

Ver. 19. / unll efipouse thee, &c. This relates to
the happy espousals of Christ with his church : whict
shall never be dissolved.

Figure of desolation of Israel

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Go(Vs judgment against Israel

20 And I will espouse thee to me in
faith : and thou shalt know that I am the
Lord.

21 And it shall come to pass in that
day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will
hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
earth.

22 And the earth shall hear the corn,
and the wine, and the oil, and these shall
hear Jezrahel.

23 And I will sow her unto me in the
earth, and I will have mercy on her that
was without mercy.

24 y And I will say to that which was
not my people : Thou art my people :
and they shall say : Thou art my God.

CHAPTER 3.

The prophet is commanded again to love an adul-
teress; to signify God^s love to the synagogue. The
wretched state of the Jews for a long time^ till at
last they shall be converted.

A ND the Lord said to me : Go yet again,
j\. and love a woman beloved of her
Ifr.iend, and an adulteress : as the Lordlov-
eth the children of Israel, and they look
to strange gods, and love the husks of
the grapes.

2 And I bought her to me for fifteen
pieces of silver, and for a core of barley,
and for half a core of barley.

3 And I said to her : Thou shalt wait for
me many days : thou shalt not play the
harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and
T also will wait for thee.

4 For the children of Israel shall sit
many days without king, and without
prince, and without sacrifice, and without
altar, and without ephod, ard without
theraphim.

5 ^ And after this the children of Israel
shall return, and shall seek the Lord their
God, and David their king : and they
shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in
the last days.

CHAPTER 4.

God's judgment against the sins of Israel : Juda is
warned not to follow their example.

HEAR the word of the Lord, ye chil-
dren of Israel, for the Lord shall

y Rom. 9. 25 ; 1 Peter 2. lo.

Ver. 21. Hear the heavens, &c. All shall conspire
in favour of the church, which in the following verse
Is called Jezrahel, that is, the seed of God.

Ver. 24. That which was not w,y people, &c. This
relates to the conversion of the Gentiles.

Chap. 3. Ver. 4. Theraphim. Images or repre-
mentations.

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enter into judgment with the inhabitants
of the land : for there is no truth, and
there is no mercy, and there is no know-
ledge of God in the land.

2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and
theft, and adultery have overflowed, and
blood hath touched blood.

3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and
every one that dwelleth in it shall lan-
guish with the beasts of the field, and
with the fowls of the air : yea, the fishes
of the sea also shall be gathered together.

4 But yet let not any man judge : and
let not a man be rebuked : for thy peo-
ple are as they that contradict the priest.

5 And thou shalt fall to day, and the
prophet also shall fall with thee : in
the night I have made thy mother to be
silent.

6 My people have been silent, because
they had no knowledge : because thou
hast rejected knowledge, I will reject
thee, that thou shalt not do the office of
priesthood to me : and thou hast forgot-
ten the law of thy God, I also will forget
thy children.

7 According to the multitude of them
so have they sinned against me : I will
change their glory into shame.

8 They shall eat the sins of my people,
and shall lift up their souls to their in-
iquity.

9 " And there shall be like people like
priest: and I will visit their ways upon
them, and I will repay them their devices.

10 And they shall eat and shall not be
filled : they have committed fornication,
and have not ceased : because they have
forsaken the Lord in not observing his
law.

11 Fornication, and wine, and drunken-
ness take away the understanding.

12 My people have consulted their
stocks, and their staff hath declared
unto them : for the spirit of fornication
hath deceived them, and they have com-
mitted fornication against their God.

13 They offered sacrifice upon the tops
of the mountains, and burnt incense upon
the hills : under the oak, and the poplar,

2 Ezech. 34. 23. — a Isa. 24. 2.

Ver. 5. David their king. That is, Christ, who is
of the house of David.

Chap. 4. Ver. 4. Let not any man judge, &e.
As if he would say : It is in vain to strive with them,
or reprove them, tbey are so obstinate in evlL

Warning to Juda

O SEE The Jews threatened with great woes

and the turpentine tree, because the sha-
dow thereof was good: therefore shall
your daughters commit fornication, and
your spouses shall be adulteresses.

14 I will not visit upon your daughters
when they shall commit fornication,
and upon your spouses when they shall
commit adultery: because themselves
conversed with harlots, and offered sac-
rifice with the effeminate, and the people
that doth not understand shall be beaten.

15 If thou play the harlot, 0 Israel, at
least let not Juda offend: and go ye not
into Galgal, and come not up into Beth-
aven, and do not swear: The Lord liveth.

16 For Israel hath gone astray like a
wanton heifer: now will the Lord feed
them, as a lamb in a spacious place.

17 Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let
him alone.

18 Their banquet is separated, they have
gone astray by fornication: they that
should have protected them have loved
to bring shame upon them.

19 The wind hath bound them up in its
wings, and they shall be confounded be-
cause of their sacrifices.

CHAPTER 5.

GotTs threats against the priests, the people, and
princes of Israel, for their idolatry.

HEAR ye this, 0 priests, and hearken,
0 ye house of Israel, and give ear,
0 house of the king: for there is a judg-
ment against you, because you have been
a snare to them whom you should have
watched over, and a net spread upon
Thabor.

2 And you have turned aside victims
into the depth: and I am the teacher of
them all.

3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid
from me: for now Ephraim hath com-
mitted fornication, Israel is defiled.

4 They will not set their thoughts to re-
turn to their God: for the spirit of for-
nication is in the midst of them, and they
have not known the Lord.

5 And the pride of Israel shall answer in

Ver. 15. Galgal and Bethaven. Places where
idols were worshipped. Bethel, which signifies the
house of God, is called by the prophet, Bethaven,
that is, the house of vamity from Jeroboam's golden
calf that was worshipped there. ^ . , -

Chap. 6. Ver. 1. O priests. What is said of
priests in this prophecy is chiefly understood of the
priests of the kingdom of Israel ; who were not true

his face: and Israel and Ephraim shall
fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall
with them.

6 With their flocks, and with their herds,
they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall
not find him : he is withdrawn from them.

7 They have transgressed against the
Lord, for they have begotten children
that are strangers: now shall a month
devour them with their portions.

8 Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trum-
pet in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, be-
hind thy back, 0 Benjamin.

9 Ephraim shall be in desolation in the
day of rebuke: among the tribes of Is-
rael I have shewn that which shall surely
be.

10 The princes of Juda are become as
they that take up the bound: I will pour
out my wrath upon them like water.

11 Ephraim is under oppression and
broken in judgment: because he began
to go after filthiness.

12 And I will he like a moth to Ephraim:
and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

13 And Ephraim saw his sickness, and
Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the
Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king:
and he shall not be able to heal you nei-
ther shall he be able to take off the band
from you.

14 For I will be like a lioness to Ephra-
im, and like a lion's whelp to the house
of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will
take away, and there is none that can
rescue.

15 I will go and return to my place:
until you are consumed, and seek my
face.

CHAPTER 6.

Affliction shall he a means to bring many to Christ :
a complaint of the untowardness of the Jews.
God loves mercy more than sacrifice.

IN their affliction they will rise early
to me: Come, and let us return to
the Lord:

2 For he hath taken us, and he will heal
us: he will strike, and he will cure us.
3 6 He will revive us after two days: on

b 1 Cor. 15. 4.

priests of the race of Aaron ; but served the calves
at Bethel and Dan.

Ver. 7. Children that are strangers. That is,
aliens from God : and therefore they are threatened
with speedy destruction.

Ver. 10. As they thwt take up the bound.^ That
is, they that remove the boundary, encroaching on
the property of their neighbors : figuratively, their
going beyond the boundary of the laws of God.

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OSEE Sins of Jews cause of their woes

the third day he will raise us up, and we
shall live in his sight. We shall know,
and we shall follow on, that we may
know the Lord. His going forth is pre-
pared as the morning light, and he will
come to us as the early and the latter
rain to the earth.

4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim ?
what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your
mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the
dew that goeth away m the morning.

5 For this reason have I hewed them by
the prophets, I have slain them by the
words of my mouth: and thy judgments
shall go forth as the light.

6 ° For I desired mercy, and not sacri-
fice: and the knowledge of God more
than holocausts.

7 But they, like Adam, have trans-
gressed the covenant, there have they
dealt treacherously against me.

8 Galaad is a city of workers of idols,
supplanted with blood.

9 And Uke the jaws of highway robbers,
they conspire with the priests who mur-
der in the way those that pass out of
Sichem: for they have wrought wicked-
ness.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in the
house of Israel : the fornications of Ephra-
im there : Israel is defiled.

11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a
harvest, when I shall bring back the
captivity of my people.

CHAPTER 7.

The manifold sins of Israel, and of their kings,
hinder the Lord from healing them.

WHEN I would have healed Israel,
the iniquity of Ephraim was dis-
covered, and the wickedness of Sama-
ria, for they have committed falsehood,
and the thief is come in to steal, the rob-
ber is without.

2 And lest they may say in their hearts,
that I remember all their wickedness :
their own devices now have beset them
about, they have been done before my
face.

3 They have made the king glad with

c 1 Kings 15. 22 ; Eccl. 4. 17; Matt. 9. 13.

Chap. 6. Ver. 8. Supplanted with blood. That
Is, undermined and brought to ruin, for shedding of
blood: and, as it is signified in the following verse,
for conspiring v-ith the priests (of Bethel) like rob-
bers, to murder in the way such as passed out of
Sichem to go towards the temple of Jerusalem. Or
else supplcarii0d with bloody signifies flowing in such

their wickedness: and the princes with
their lies.

4 They are all adulterers, Uke an oven
heated by the baker : the city rested a
little from the mingling of the leaven,
till the whole was leavened.

5 The day of our king, the princes be-
gan to be mad with wine : he stretched
out his hand with scomers.

6 Because they have applied their
heart like an oven, when he laid snares
for them : he slept all the night baking
them, in the morning he himself was
heated as a flaming fire.

7 They were all heated like an oven,
and have devoured their judges : all their
kings have fallen: there is none amongst
them that calleth unto me.

8 Ephraim himself is mixed among
the nations : Ephraim is become as bread
baked under the ashes, that is not turned.

9 Strangers have devom^ed his strength,
and he knew it not : yea, grey hairs also
are spread about upon him, and he is
ignorant of it.

10 And the pride of Israel shall be
humbled before his face : and they have
not returned to the Lord their God, nor
have they sought him in all these.

11 And Ephraim is become as a dove
that is decoyed, not having a heart :
they called upon Egypt, they went to
the Assyrians.

12 And when they shall go, I will spread
my net upon them : I will bring them
down as the fowl of the air, I will strike
them as their congregation hath heard.

13 Woe to them, for they have departed
from me : they shall be wasted because
they have transgressed against me : and
I redeemed them : and they have spoken
lies against me.

14 And they have not cried to me with
their heart, but they howled in their
beds : they have thought upon wheat
and wine, they are departed from me.

15 And I have chastised them, and
strengthened their arms: and they have
imagined evil against me.

16 They returned, that they might be

manner with blood, as to suffer none to walk there
without imbruing the soles of their feet in blood.

Chap. 7. Ver. 3. Marie the king glad, &c. To
please Jeroboam, and their other kings they have
given themselves up to the wicked worship of idols,
which are mere falsehood and lies.

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The captivity of Israel

without yoke: they became like a de-
ceitful bow: their princes shall fall by
the sword, for the rage of their tongue.
This is their derision in the land of
Egypt.

CHAPTER 8.

The Israelites are threatened with destruction for
their impiety and idolatry.

LET there be a trumpet in thy throat
like an eagle upon the house of the
Lord: because they have transgressed my
covenant, and have violated my law.

2 They shall call upon me: 0 my God,
we, Israel, know thee.

3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is
good, the enemy shall pursue him.

4 They have reigned, but not by me:
they have been princes, and I knew not:
of their silver, and their gold they have
made idols to themselves, that they
might perish.

5 Thy calf, 0 Samaria, is cast off, my
wrath is kindled against them. How
long will they be incapable of being
cleansed ?

6 For itself also is the invention of Is-
rael: a workman made it, and it is no
god: for the calf of Samaria shall be
turned to spiders' webs.

7 For they shall sow wind, and reap a
whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in
it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if
it should yield, strangers shall eat it.

8 Israel is swallowed up: now is he be-
come among the nations like an unclean
vessel.

9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a
wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath
given gifts to his lovers.

10 But even though they shall have
hired the nations, now will I gather
them together: and they shall rest a
while from the burden of the king, and
the princes.

11 Because Ephraim has made many
altars to sin: altars are become to him
unto sin.

12 I shall write to him my manifold
laws, which have been accounted as for-
eign.

13 They shall offer victims, they shall
sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the
Lord will not receive them: now will he
remember their iniquity, and will visit
their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14 And Israel hath forgotten his Maker,
and hath built temples: and Juda hath
built many fenced cities: and I vrill send
a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour
the houses thereof.

CHAPTER 9.

The distress amd captivity of Israel for their sins
and idolatry.

REJOICE not, 0 Israel: rejoice not as
the nations do: for thou hast com-
mitted fornication against thy God, thou
hast loved a reward upon every corn-
floor.

2 The floor and the winepress shall not
feed them, and the wine shall deceive
them.

3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's
land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and
hath eaten unclean things among the
Assyrians.

4 They shall not offer wine to the Lord,
neither shall they please him: their sac-
rifices shall be like the bread of mourn-
ers: all that shall eat it shall be defiled:
for their bread is life for their soul, it
shall not enter into the house of the
Lord.

5 What will you do in the solemn day,
in the day of the feast of the Lord ?

6 For behold they are gone because of
destruction: Egypt shall gather them to-
gether, Memphis shall bury them: nettles
shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur
shall be in their tabernacles.

7 The days of visitation are come, the
days of repaying are come: know ye, 0
Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the
spiritual man was mad, for the multitude
of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy
madness.

8 The watchman of Ephraim was with
my God: the prophet is become a snare
of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in
the house of his God.

9 «^They have sinned deeply, as in the
days of Gabaa: he will remember their
iniquity, and will visit their sin.

10 I found Israel like grapes in the des-
ert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits
of the fig tree in the top thereof: but
they went in the Beelphegor, and alien-
ated themselves to that confusion, and
became abominable, as those things were
which they loved.

d Judges 19. 26.
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Sin and punishment of Israel

11 As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown
away like a bird from the birth, and from
the womb, and from the conception.

12 And though they should bring up
their children, I will make them without
children among men: yea, and woe to
them, when I shall depart from them.

13 Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre
founded in beauty : and Ephraim shall
bring out his children to the murderer.

14 Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou
give them? Give them a womb without
children, and dry breasts.

16 ^AU their wickedness is in Galgal,
for there I hated them : for the wicked-
ness of their devices I will cast them
forth out of my house : I will love them
ao more, all their princes are revolters.

16 Ephraim is struck, their root is dried
Dp, they shall yield no fruit. And if they
should have issue, I will slay the best
beloved fruit of their womb.

17 My God will cast them away, because
they hearkened not to him : and they
shall be wanderers among the nations.

CHAPTER 10.

After many benefits, great affliction shall fall upon
the ten tribes, for their ingratitude to God.

ISRAEL a vine full of branches, the
fruit is agreeable to it : according to
the multitude of his fruit he hath mul-
tiplied altars, according to the plenty of
his land he hath abounded with idols.

2 Their heart is divided: now they shall
perish: he shall break down their idols,
he shall destroy their altars.

3 For now they shall say : We have no
king : because we fear not the Lord : and
what shall a king do to us?

4 You speak words of an unprofitable
vision, and you shall make a covenant :
and judgment shall spring up as bitter-
ness in the furrows of the field.

5 The inhabitants of Samaria have wor-
v^hipped the kine of Bethaven : for the
people thereof have mourned over it,
and the wardens of its temple that re-
joiced over it in its glory because it is
departed from it.

e 1 Kings 8. 5.
^ / Isa. 2. 19 ; T.Tike 23. 30 ; Apoc. 6. Ifi.

Chap. lO. Ver, 5. The kine of Bethaven. The
goltlen calves of Jeroboam.

Ver. 6. Itself also is carried, &c. One of the
golden calves was given by king Manahem, to Phul,
kins: of the Assyrians, to engage him to stand by
him.

Ver. 10. Their two iniquities. Their two calves.

6 For itself also is carried into Assyria,
a present to the avenging king: shame
shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall
be confounded in his own will.

7 Samaria hath made her king to pass
as froth upon the face of the water.

8 And the high places of the idol, the
sin of Israel shall be destroyed : the bur
and the thistle shall grow up over their
altars : and they shall say to the moun-
tains : -^ Cover us ; and to the hills : Fall
upon us.

9 ^ From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath
sinned, there they stood: the battle in
Gabaa against the children of iniquity
shall not overtake them.

10 According to my desire I will chas-
tise them : and the nations shall be gath-
ered together against them, when they
shall be chastised for their two iniqui-
ties.

11 Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to
tread out corn, but I passed over upon
the beauty of her neck : I will ride upon
Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall
break the furrows for himself.

12 '^ Sow for yourselves in justice, and
reap in the mouth of mercy, break up
your fallow ground : but the time to seek
the Lord is, when he shall come that shall
teach you justice.

13 You have ploughed wickedness, you
have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the
fruit of lying : because thou hast trusted
in thy ways, in the multitude of thy
strong ones.

14 A tumult shall arise among thy peo-
ple: and all thy fortresses shall be de-
stroyed as * Salmana was destroyed, by
the house of him that judged Baal in the
day of battle, the mother being dashed
in pieces upon her children.

15 So hath Bethel done to you, because
of the evil of your iniquities.

CHAPTER 11.

God proceeds in threatening Israel for their ingrati-
tude : yet he will not utterly destroy them.

AS the morning passeth, so hath the
king of Israel passed away. Because

g Judges 20. l. — h Jer. 4. 3.
i Judges 8. 12.

Ver. 14. As Salmana, king of the Midianites, was
destroyed by the house, that is, by the followers of
him that judged Baal ; that is, of Gideon, who threw
down the altar of Baal; and was therefore called
Jerubaal. See Judges 6. and 8.

Chap. 11. Ver. L / called, my son. Viz., TsraeL
But as the calling of Israel out of Egypt, was a figure

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God's favors to His people

Israel was a child, and ^ I loved Mm ; and
I called my son out of Egypt.

2 As they called them, they went away
from before their face : they offered vic-
tims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

3 And I was like a foster father to
Ephraim, I carried them in my arms : and
they knew not that I healed them.

4 I will draw them with the cords of
Adam, with the bands of love : and I will
be to them as one that taketh off the
yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat
to him that he might eat.

5 He shall not return into the land of
Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his
king: because they would not be con-
verted.

6 The sword hath begun in his cities,
and it shall consume his chosen men, and
shall devour their heads.

7 And my people shall long for my re-
turn : but a yoke shall be put upon them
together, which shall not be taken off.

8 How shall I deal with thee, O Ephra-
im, shall I protect thee, O Israel ? ^ how
shall I make .thee as Adama, shall I set
thee as Seboim? my heart is turned
within me, my repentance is stirred up.

9 I will not execute the fierceness of
my wrath : I will not return to destroy
Ephraim: because I am God, and not man:
the holy one in the midst of thee, and I
will not enter into the city.

10 They shall walk after the Lord, he
shall roar as a lion: because he shall roar,
and the children of the sea shall fear.

11 And they shall fly away like a bird
out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the
land of the Assyrians : and I wiU place
them in their own houses, saith the Lord.

12 Ephraim hath compassed me about
with denia ^smd the house of Israel with
deceit : bi7 uda went down as a witness
with God, i**id is faithful with the saints.

CHAPTER 12.

Israel is reproved for sin. God^s favours to them.

"J^PHRAIM feedeth on the wind, and
Pj foUoweth the burning heat : all the

k Matt. 2. 15.— I Gen. 19. 24.
m Gen. 25. 25, and 32. 24.

of the calling of Christ from thence; therefore this
text is also applicable to Christ, as we learn from
Matt. 2. 15.

Ver. 2. They called. Viz., Moses and Aaron
called; but they went away after other gods and
would not hear.

Ver. 8. Adamat &c. Adama and Seboim, were

day long ho multiplied lies and desola-
tion : and be hath made ci, covenant
with the Assyrians, and carried oil into
Egypt.

2 Therefore there is a judgment of the
Lord with Juda, and a visitation for Ja-
cob: he will render to him according to
his ways, and according to his devices.

3 '^ In the womb he supplanted his bro-
ther : and by his strength he had success
with an angel.

4 And he prevailed over the angel, and
was strengthened: he wept, and made
supplication to him: he found him in
Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

6 Even the Lord the God of hosts, the
Lord is his memorial.

6 Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep
mercy and judgment, and hope in thy
God always.

7 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful
balance in his hand, he hath loved op-
pression.

8 And Ephraim said : But yet I am be-
come rich, I have found me an idol : all
my labours shall not find me the iniquity
that I have committed.

9 And I that am the Lord thy God from
the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to
dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the
feast.

10 And I have spoken by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions, and I have
used similitudes by the ministry of the
prophets.

11 If Galaad be an idol, then in vain
were they in Gal gal offering sacrifices
with bullocks : for their altars also are
as heaps in the furrows of the field.

12 ** Jacob fled into the country of Syria,
and Israel served for a wife, and was
a keeper for a wife.

13 ° But the Lord by a prophet brought
Israel out of Egypt : and he was pre-
served by a prophet.

14 Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath
with his bitterness, and his blood shall
come upon him, and his Lord will render
his reproach unto him.

n Gen. 28. 5.
o Ex. 14. 21 and 22.

two cities in the neighbourhood of Sodom: and
underwent the like destruction.

Chap. 12. Ver. 11. If Galaad be an idol, &c
That is, if Galaad with all its idols and sacrifices be
like a mere idol itself, being brought to nothmg by
Theglathphalasar : how vain is it to expect, that the
idols worshipped in Galgal shall be of any service to
the tribes that remain.

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CHAPTER 13.

The judgments of God upon Israel for their sins.
Christ shall one day redeem them,.

HEN Ephraim spoke, a horror seized
Israel: and he sinned in Baal and

died.

2 And now they have sinned more and
more : and they haye made to themselves
a molten thing of their silver as the like-
ness of idols : the whole is the work of
craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice
men, ye that adore calves.

3 Therefore they shall be as a morning
cloud, and as the early dew that passe th
away, as the dust that is driven with a
whirlwind out of the floor, and as the
smoke out of the chimney.

4 P But I am the Lord thy God from the
land of Egypt : and thou shalt know no
God but me, and there is no saviour be-
side me.

5 I knew thee in the desert, in the land
of the wilderness.

6 According to their pastures they were
filled, and were made full : and they lifted
up their heart, and have forgotten me.

7 And I will be to them as a lioness,
as a leopard in the way of the Assyr-
ians.

8 I will meet them as a bear that is
robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the
inner parts of their liver: and I will de-
vour them there as a lion, the beast of
the field shall tear them.

9 Destruction is thy own, O Israel : thy
help is only in me.

10 Where is thy king ? now especially
let him save thee in all thy cities : and
thy judges, of whom thou saidst: ^ Give
me kings and princes.

11 I will give thee a king in my wrath,
and will take him away in my indigna-
tion.

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up,
his sin is hidden.

13 The sorrows of a woman in labour
shall come upon him, he is an unwise
son : for now he shall not stand in the
breach of the children.

14 I will dehver them out of the hand
of death. I will redeem them from death :
^O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will

p Isa. 43. 11.— g 1 Kings 8. 5.

Chap. 14. Ver. l. Perish, because she hath
stirred up her God to bitterness. It is not a curse or

be thy bite : comfort is hidden from my
eyes.

15 Because he shall make a separation
between brothers : * the Lord will bring
a burning wind that shall rise from the
desert, and it shall dry up his springs,
and shall make his fountain desolate, and
he shall carry off the treasure of every
desirable vessel.

CHAPTER 14.

Sa/maria shall be destroyed. An exhortation to
repentance : God's favour throu^gh Christ to the
penitent.

LET Samaria perish, because she hath
stirred up her God to bitterness : let
them perish by the sword, let their little
ones be dashed, and let the women with
child be ripped up.

2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy
God : for thou hast fallen down by thy
iniquity.

3 Take with you words, and return to
the Lord, and say to him : Take away all
iniquity, and receive the good: and we
will render the calves of our lips.

4 Assyria shall not save us, we will net
ride upon horses, neither will we say any
more: The works of our hands are our
gods, for thou wilt have mercy on the
fatherless that is in thee.

6 I will heal their breaches, I will love
them freely : for my wrath is turned away
from them.

6 I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring
as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth
as that of Libanus.

7 His branches shall spread, and his
glory shall be as the olive tree : and his
smell as that of Libanus.

8 They shall be converted that sit under
his shadow : they shall live upon wheat,
and they shall blossom as a vine: his me-
morial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

9 Ephraim shall say. What have I to do
any more with idols? I will hear him,
and I will make him flourish like a green
fir tree : from me is thy fruit found.

10 Who is wise, and he shall understand
these things ? prudent, and he shall know
these things ? for the ways of the Lord
are right, and the just shall walk in them :
but the transgressors shall fall in them.

r 1 Cor. 15. 54 ; Heb. 2. 14, —s Ezech. 19. 12.

imprecation, but a prophecy of wliat should come to
pass.

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Destruction shall come upon the land

Exhortation to mourn and fast

THE

PROPHECY OF JOEL

Joel prophesied in the kingdom of Judea. He foretells under figure the great evils
that were coming upon the people for their sins: earnestly exhorts them to re-
pentance: and comforts them with the promise of a teacher of justice, viz.,
Christ Jesus our Lord, and of the coming down of his holy Spirit. The period
of the ministry of Joel cannot be determined with certainty; it was probably
after the Babylonian exile.

CHAPTER 1.

The prophet describes the judgments that shall /all
upon the people, and invites thenn to fasting and
prayer.

THE word of the Lord that came to
Joel the son of Phatuel.

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear,
all ye inhabitants of the land: did this
ever happen in your days, or in the days
of your fathers?

3 Tell ye of this to your children, and
let your children tell their children, and
their children to another generation.

4 That which the palmerworm hath
left, the locust hath eaten: and that
which the locust hath left, the bruchus
hath eaten : and that which the bruchus
hath left, the mildew hath destroyed.

6 Awake, ye that are drunk, and weep,
and mourn all ye that take delight in
drinking sweet wine : for it is cut off from
your mouth.

6 For a nation is come up upon my
land, strong and without number: his
teeth are like the teeth of a lion : and
his cheek teeth as of a lion's whelp.

7 He hath laid my vineyard waste, and
hath pilled off the bark of my fig tree : he
hath stripped it bare, and cast it away ;
the branches thereof are made white.

1 i Lament like a virgin girded with sack-
cloth for the husband of her youth.

9 Sacrifice and libation is cut off from
the house of the Lord : the priests, the
Lord's ministers, have mourned :

10 The country is destroyed, the ground
hath mourned : for the corn is wasted,
the wine is confounded, the oil hath
langruished.

Chap. l. Ver. 4. That which the palmerworm
hath left, &c. Some understand this literally of the
desolation of the land by these insects : others under-

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11 The husbandmen are ashamed, the
vinedressers have howled for the wheat,
and for the barley, because the harvest
of the field is perished.

12 The vineyard is confounded, and the
fig tree hath languished : the pomegran-
ate tree, and the palm tree, and the
apple tree, and all the trees of the field
are withered : because joy is withdrawn
from the children of men.

13 Gird yourselves, and lament, O ye
priests, howl, ye ministers of the altars :
go in, lie in sackcloth, ye ministers of
my God : because sacrifice and libation is
cut off from the house of your God.

14 ** Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly;
gather together the ancients, all the in-
habitants of the land into the house of
your God : and cry ye to the Lord :

15 Ah, ah, ah, for the day : because the
day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall
come like destruction from the mighty.

16 Is not your food cut off before your
eyes, joy and gladness from the house of
our God ?

17 The beasts have rotted in their dung,
the barns are destroyed, the storehouses
are broken down: because the corn is
confounded.

18 Why did the beast groan, why did the
herds of cattle low ? because there is no
pasture for them : yea, and the flocks of
sheep are perished.

19 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because
fire hath devoured the beautiful places
of the wilderness, and the flame hath
burnt all the trees of the country.

20 Yea and the beasts of the field have
looked up to thee, as a garden bed that

u Infra 2. 15.

stand it of the different iavasions of the Chaldeans»
or other enemies.

The terrible day of the Lord

JOEL Exhortation to he converted to Lord

thirsteth after rain, for the springs of
waters are dried up, and fire hath de-
voured the beautiful places of the wilder-
ness.

CHAPTER 2.

The prophet foretells the terrible day of the Lord :
exhorts sinners to a sincere conversion : and com-
forts God^s people with, promises of future bless-
ings under Christ.

BLOW ye the trumpet in Sion, sound
an alarm in my holy mountain, let
all the inhabitants of the land tremble:
because the day of the Lord cometh, be-
cause it is nigh at hand.

2 A day of darkness, and of gloominess,
a day of clouds and whirlwinds : a numer-
ous and strong people as the morning
spread upon the mountains : the like to
it hath not been from the beginning, nor
shall be after it even to the years of
generation and generation.

3 Before the face thereof a devouring
^re, and behind it a burning flame : the
land is like a garden of pleasure before it,
and behind it a desolate wilderness,
neither is there any one that can escape
it.

4 The appearance of them is as the
appearance of horses, and they shall run
like horsemen.

5 They shall leap like the noise of char-
iots upon the tops of mountains, like the
noise of a flame of fire devouring the
stubble, as a strong people prepared to
battle.

6 At their presence the people shall be
in grievous pains : all faces shall be made
like a kettle.

7 They shall run like valiant men: like
men of war they shall scale the wall : the
men shall march every one on his way,
and they shall not turn aside from their
ranks.

8 No one shall press upon his brother :
they shall walk every one in his path :
yea, and they shall fall through the win-
dows, and shall take no harm.

9 They shall enter into the city : they
shall run upon the wall, they shall climb
up the houses, they shall come in at the
windows as a thief.

V Isa. 13. 10 ; Ezech. 32. 7 ; Infra 3. 15 ; Matt. 24. 29 ;
Mark 13. 24 ; Luke 21. 25. — w Jer. 30. 7 ;

Chap. 2. Ver. l. The cloy of the Lord. That is,
the time when he will execute justice- upon sinners.

Ver. 2. A numerous and strong people. The
Assyrians, or Chaldeans. Others understand all tMs
of an army of locusts laying waste tlie land.

10 At their presence the earth hath
trembled, the heavens are moved : ^ the
sun and moon are darkened, and the
stars have withdrawn their shining.

11 And the Lord hath uttered his voice
before the face of his army : for his armies
are exceeding great, for they are strong
and execute his word: "' for the day of
the Lord is great and very terrible : and
who can stand it?

12 Now therefore saith the Lord: Be
converted to me with all your heart, in
fasting, and in weeping, and in mourn-
ing.

13 And rend your hearts, and not your
garments, and turn to the Lord your
God : ^ for he is gracious and merciful,
patient and rich in mercy, and ready to
repent of the evil.

14 2/ Who knoweth but he will return^
and forgive, and leave a blessing behind
him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord
your God?

15 Blow the trumpet in Sion, ^ sanctify
a fast, call a solemn assembly,

16 Gather together the people, sanctify
the church, assemble the ancients, gather
together the little ones, and them that
suck at the breasts : let the bridegroom
go forth from his bed, and the bride out
of her bride chamber.

17 Between the porch and the altar the
priests the Lord's ministers shall weep,
and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy
people: and give not thy inheritance to
reproach, that the heathen should rule
over them. Why should they say among
the nations : Where is their God ?

18 The Lord hath been zealous for his
land, and hath spared his people.

19 And the Lord answered and said to
his people : Behold I will send you corn,
and wine, and oil, and you shall be filled
with them : and I will no more make
you a reproach among the nations.

20 And I will remove far off from you
the northern enemy : and I will drive him
into a land unpassable, and desert, with
his face towards the east sea, and his
hinder j^iart towards the utmost sea: and
his stench shall ascend, and his rotten-

Amos 5. 18 ; Soph. 1. 15. — X Ps. 85. 5 ; John 4. 2.
y John 3. 9. — 2 Supra 1. 14.

Ver. 20. The northern enemy. Some understand
this of Holofernes and his army: others, of the
locusts.

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God*s gracious promises to His people JOEL

The valley of Josaphat

ness shall go up, because he hath done
proudly.

21 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice:
for the Lord hath done great things.

22 Fear not, ye beasts of the fields: for
the beautiful places of the wilderness are
sprung, for the tree hath brought forth
its fruit, the fig tree, and the vine have
yielded their strength.

23 And you, O children of Sion, rejoice,
and be joyful in the Lord your God: be-
cause he hath given you a teacher of
justice, and he will make the early and
the latter rain to come down to you as in
the beginning.

24 And the floors shall be filled with
wheat, and the presses shall overflow
with wine and oil.

25 And I will restore to you the ears
which the locust, and the bruchus, and
the mildew, and the palmerworm have
eaten ; my great host which I sent upon
you.

26 And you shall eat in plenty, and shall
be filled : and you shall praise the name
of the Lord your God, who hath done
wonders with you, and my people shall
not be confounded for ever.

27 And you shall know that I am in the
midst of Israel : and I am the Lord your
God, and there is none besides: and
my people shall not be confounded for
ever.

28 And it shall come to pass after this,
" that I will pour out my spirit upon all
flesh : and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy: your old men shall dream
dreams, and your young men shall see
visions.

29 Moreover upon my servants and
handmaids in those days I will pour forth
my spirit.

30 And I will shew wonders in heaven ;
and in earth, blood, and fire, and vapour
of smoke.

31 ^The sun shall be turned into dark-
ness, and the moon into blood : before
the great and dreadful day of the Lord
doth come.

32 And it shall come to pass, ^ that every
one that shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved : for in mount Sion,
and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as
the Lord hath said, and in the residue
whom the Lord shall call.

a Isa. 44. 3 : Acts 2. 17. —b Supra 2. 10 j

CHAPTER 3.

The Lord shall judge all nations in the valley of Jos-
aphat. The evils that shall fail upon the enemies
of God's people : his blessing upon the church of
the saints.

FOR behold in those days, and in that
time when I shall bring back the
captivity of Juda and Jerusalem :

2 I will gather together all nations, and
will bring them down into the valley of
Josaphat : and I will plead with them
there for my people, and for my inher-
itance Israel, whom they have scattered
among the nations, and have parted my
land.

3 And they have cast lots upon my peo-
ple : and the boy they have put in the
stews, and the girl they have sold for
wine, that they might drink.

4 But what have you to do with me, O
Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the
Philistines ? will you revenge yourselves
on me? and if you revenge yourselves
on me, I will very soon return you a re-
compense upon your own head.

5 For you have taken away my silver
and my gold: and my desirable and most
beautiful things you have carried into
your temples.

6 And the children of Juda, and the
children of Jerusalem you have sold to
the children of the Greeks, that you
might remove them far off from their
own country.

7 Behold, I will raise them up out of the
place wherein you have sold them : and
I will return your recompense upon your
own heads.

8 And I will sell your sons, and your
daughters by the hands of the children
of Juda, and they shall sell them to the
Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord
hath spoken it.

9 Proclaim ye this among the nations:
prepare war, rouse up the strong: lei
them come, let all the men of war come
up.

10 Cut your ploughshares into swords,
and your spades into spears. Let the
weak say : I am strong.

11 Break forth, and come, all ye nations,
from round about, and gather yourselve£
together: there will the Lord cause all
thy strong ones to fall down.

12 Let them arise, and let the nations

Matt. 24. 2fl ; Luke 2L 25 • ActS 2. 20. — c Rom. 10. 13,

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The valley of Josaphat

AMOS

The Lord will dwell in Sion

come up into the valley of Josaphat: for
there I will sit to judge all nations round
about.

13 ^ Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest
is ripe : come and go down, for the press
is full, the fats run over ; for their
wickedness is multiplied.

14 Nations, nations in the valley of de-
struction : for the day of the Lord is
near in the valley of destruction.

16 ® The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars have withdrawn their shin-
ing.

16 'And the Lord shall roar out of Sion,
and utter his voice from Jerusalem : and
the heavens and the earth shall be
moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of
his people, and the strength of the chil-
dren of Israel.

17 And you shall know that I am the
Lord your God, dwelling in Sion my

holy mountain : and Jerusalem shall be
holy and strangers shall pass through it
no more.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day,
s'that the mountains shall drop down
sweetness, and the hills shall flow with
milk : and waters shall flow through all
the rivers of Juda : and a fountain shall
come forth of the house of the Lord, and
shall water the torrent of thorns.

19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and
Edom a wilderness destroyed: because
they have done unjustly against the chil-
dren of Juda, and have shed innocent
blood in their land.

20 And Judea shall be inhabited for
ever, and Jerusalem to generation and
generation.

21 And I will cleanse their blood which
I had not cleansed: and the Lord will
dwell in Sion.

THE

PROPHECY OF AMOS.

Amos prophesied in Israel before OSEE, during the latter part of the reign of Jero-
boam the second (789-749 B.C.). He was called from following the flock to de-
nounce God's judgments to the people of Israel, and the neighbouring nations,
for their repeated crimes, in which they continued without repentance.

CHAPTER 1.

The prophet threatens Damascus, Gaza, Tyre,
Edom, and Amnion with the judgments of God,
for their obstinacy in sin.

THE words of Amos, who was among
the herdsmen of Thecua: which he
Baw concerning Israel in the days of
Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of
Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel
two years before the earthquake.
2 And he said: '^The Lord will roar

d Apoc. 14. 15.— e Supra 2. 10 and 31.
/ Jer. 25. 30 ; Amos 1.2. — g Amos 9. 13.

Chap. 3. Ver. 18. A fountain shall come forth
of the house of the Lord, &c. Viz., the fountain of
grace in the church militant, and of glory in the
church triumphant: which shall water the torrent
or valley of thorns, that is, the souls that before, like
Darren ground brought forth nothing but thorns ; or
that were afflicted with the thorns of crosses and
tribulations.

Ver. 20. Judea — and Jerusalem. That is, the
spiritual Jerusalem, viz., the church of Christ.

Chap. l. Ver. l. The earthquake. Many under-
atand this of a great earthquake^ whicli they say was

from Sion, and utter his voice from Je-
rusalem: and the beautiful places of the
shepherds have mourned, and the top of
Carmel is withered.

3 Thus saith the Lord : For three crimes
of Damascus, and for four I will not con-
vert it : because they have thrashed Ga-
laad with iron wains. <<

4 And I will send a fire into the house
of Azael, and it shall devour the houses
of Benadad.

k Jer. 25. 30 ; Joel 3. 16.

felt at the time that king Ozias attempted to offer
incense in the temple. But the best chronologists
prove that the earthquake here spoken of must have
been before that time: because Jeroboam the sec-
ond, under whom Amos prophesied, was dead long
before that attempt of Ozias.

Ver. 3. For three crimes — and for four. That is,
for their many unrepented of crimes. — Ibid. / will
not convert it. That is, I will not spare them, nor
turn away the punishments I design to inflict upon
them.

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Judgment against the nations

AMOS Judgment against Moaby Juda, Israel

5 And I will break the bar of Damascus :
and I will cut off the inhabitants from
the plain of the idol, and him that hold-
eth the sceptre from the house of plea-
sure : and the people of Syria shall be
carried away to Cyrene, saith the Lord.

6 Thus saith the Lord : For three crimes
of Gaza, and for four I will not convert
it : because they have carried away a per-
fect captivity to shut them up in Edom.

7 And I will send a fire on the wall of
Gaza, and it shall devour the houses
thereof.

8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from
Azotus, and him that holdeth the sceptre
from Ascalon : and I will turn my hand
against Accaron, and the rest of the
Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord
God.

9 Thus saith the Lord : For three crimes
of Tyre, and for four I will not convert
it : because they ha*^e shut up an entire
captivity in Edom, and have not remem-
bered the covenant of brethren.

10 And I will send a fire upon the wall
[)f Tyre, and it shall devour the houses
thereof.

11 Thus saith the Lord: For three
crimes of Edom, and for four I will not
convert him: because he hath pursued
his brother with the sword, and hath
cast off all pity, and hath carried on his
fury, and hath kept his wrath to the end.

12 1 will send a fire into Theman : and
it shall devour the houses of Bosra.

13 Thus saith the Lord: For three
crimes of the children of Ammon, and
for four I will not convert him : because
he hath ripped up the women with child
of Galaad to enlarge his border.

14 And I will kindle a fire in the wall
of Rabba : and it shall devour the houses
thereof with shouting in the day of bat-
tle, and with a whirlwind in the day of
trouble.

15 And Melchom shall go into captivity,
both he, and his princes together, saith
the Lord.

CHAPTER 2.

The judgments with which God threatens Moah,
Juda, and Israel for their sins, and their ingrati-
tude.

I Num. 21. 24 ; Deut. 2. 24.

Ver. 15. Melchom. The god or idol of the Am-
monites, otherwise called Moloch, and Melech:
which in Hebrew signifies a king, and Melchom
their king.

Chap. 2. Ver. 13. I iviU screak. Unable to bear

THUS saith the Lord: For three
crimes of Moab, and for four I will
not convert him : because he hath burnt
the bones of the king of Edom even to
ashes.

2 And I will send a fire into Moab, and
it shall devour the houses of Carioth:
and Moab shall die with a noise, with
the sound of the trumpet :

3 And I will cut off the judge from the
midst thereof, and will slay all his
princes with him, saith the Lord.

4 Thus saith the Lord : For three crimes
of Juda, and for four I will not convert
him : because he hath cast away the law
of the Lord, and hath not kept his com-
mandments : for their idols have caused
them to err, after which their fathers
have walked.

5 And I will send a fire into Juda, and
it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

6 Thus saith the Lord : For three crimep
of Israel, and for four I will not convert
him : because he hath sold the just man
for silver, and the poor man for a pair of
shoes.

7 They bruise the heads of the poor
upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside
the way of the humble : and the son and
his father have gone to the same young
woman, to profane my holy name.

8 And they sat down upon garments laid
to pledge by every altar : and drank the
wine of the condemned in the house of
their God.

9 ^ Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before
their face : whose height was like the
height of cedars, and who was strong as
an oak : and I destroyed his fruit from
above, and his roots beneath.

10 '^ It is I that brought you up out of
the land of Egypt, and I led you forty
years through the wilderness, that you
might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

11 And I raised up of your sons for pro-
phets, and of your young men for Naza-
rites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel,
saith the Lord ?

12 And you will present wine to the
Nazarites : and command the prophets,
saying: Prophesy not.

13 Behold, I will screak under you as

m Ex. 14. 22 ; Deut. 8. 14.

any longer the enormous load of your sins, &c. The
spirit of God, as St. Jerome takes notice, accomnio-
dates himself to the education of the prophet, and
inspires him with comparisons taken from country
affairs.

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Israel vas God's chosen people

AMOS

Punishment of their infidelity

a wain screaketh that is laden with
hay.

14 And flight shall perish from the swift,
xnd the valiant shall not possess his
strength, neither shall the strong save
his life.

15 And he that holdeth the bow shall not
stand, and the swift of foot shall not es-
cape, neither shall the rider of the horse
save his life.

16 And the stout of heart among the
valiant shall flee away naked in that day,
saith the Lord.

CHAPTER 3.

The evils that shall fall upon Israel for their sins.

HEAR the word that the Lord hath
spoken concerning you, O ye chil-
dren of Israel: concerning the whole
family that I brought up out of the land
of Egypt, saying:

2 You only have I known of all the fam-
ilies of the earth: therefore will I visit
upon you all your iniquities.

3 Shall two walk together except they
be agreed ?

4 Will a lion roar in the forest, if he
have no prey ? will the lion's whelp cry
out of his den, if he have taken nothing ?

5 Will the bird fall into the snare upon
the earth, if there be no fowler? Shall
tne snare be taken up from the earth,
before it hath taken somewhat ?

6 Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and
the people not be afraid ? Shall there be
evil in a city, which the Lord hath not
done?

7 For the Lord God doth nothing with-
out revealing his secret to his servants
the prophets.

8 The lion shall roar, who will not fear ?
The Lord God hath spoken, who shall not
prophesy ?

9 Publish it in the houses of Azotus,
and in the houses of the land of Egypt,
and say: Assemble yourselves upon the
mountains of Samaria, and behold the
many folUes in the midst thereof, and
them that suffer oppression in the inner
rooms thereof.

10 And they have not known to do the
right thing, saith the Lord, storing up
iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

Chap. 3. Ver. 2. Visit vpon. That is, punish.

Ver. 6. Evil in a city. He speaks of the evil of
punishments of war, famine, pestilence, desolation,
Ac, but not of the evil of sin^ of which God is not
^he author.

11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God :
The land shall be in tribulation, and shall
be compassed about : and thy strength
shall be taken away from thee, and thy
houses shall be spoiled.

12 Thus saith the Lord : As if a shep-
herd should get out of the lion's mouth
two legs, or the tip of the ear : so shall
the children of Israel be taken out that
dwell in Samaria, in a piece of a bed, and
in the couch of Damascus.

13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of
Jacob, saith the Lord the God of hosts :

14 That in the day when I shall begin
to visit the transgressions of Israel, I
will visit upon him, and upon the altars
of Bethel: and the horns of the altars
shall be cut off, and shall fall to the
giround.

15 And I will strike the winter house
with the summer house : and the houses
of ivory shall perish, and many houses
shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.

CHAPTER 4.

The Israelites are reproved for their oppressing
the poor, for their idolatry, and their incorrigt-
bleness.

HEAR this word, ye fat kine that are
in the mountains of Samaria : you
that oppress the needy, and crush the
poor : that say to your masters : Bring,
and we will drink.

2 The Lord God hath sworn by his holi-
ness, that lo, the days shall come upon
you, when they shall lift you up on
pikes, and what shall remain of you in
boiling pots.

3 And you shall go out at the breaches
one over against the other, and you shall
be cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord.

4 Come ye to Bethel, and do wickedly :
to Galgal, and multiply transgressions:
and bring in the morning your victims,
your tithes in three days.

5 And offer a sacrifice of praise with
leaven : and call free offerings, and pro-
claim it : for so you would do, O children
of Israel, saith the Lord God.

6 Whereupon I also have given you dul-
ness of teeth in all your cities, and want
of bread in all your places : yet you have
not returned to me, saith the Lord.

7 I also have withholden the rain from

Chap. 4. Ver. 1. Fat kine. He means the great
ones that lived in plenty and wealth.

Ver. 3. Arrn.on. A foreign country ; some under
stand it of Armenia.

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Obstinacy of the Jews

AMOS

Exhortation to return to God

you, when there were yet three months
to the harvest: and I caused it to rain
upon one city, and caused it not to rain
upon another city : one piece was rained
upon : and the piece whereupon I rained
not, withered.

8 And two and three cities went to one
city to drink water, and were not filled :
yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

9 "^I struck you with a burning wind,
and with mildew, the palmerworm hath
eaten up your many gardens, and your
vineyards : your oUve groves, and fig
groves : yet you returned not to me, saith
the Lord.

10 I sent death upon you in the way of
Egypt, I slew your young men with the
sword, even to the captivity of your
horses : and I made the stench of your
camp to come up into your nostrils : yet
you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

11 I destroyed some o/ycu, °as God de-
stroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you
were as a firebrand plucked out of the
burning : yet you returned not to me,
saith the Lord.

12 Therefore I will do these things to
thee, O Israel : and after I shall have
done these things to thee, be prepared to
meet thy God, O Israel.

13 For behold he that formeth the moun-
tains and createth the wind, and declar-
eth his word to man, he that maketh the
morning mist, and walketh upon the
high places of the earth : the Lord the
God of hosts is his name.

CHAPTER 5.

A lamentation for Israel : an exhortation to return
to God.

HEAR ye this word, which I take up
concerning you for a lamentation.
The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall
rise no more.

2 The virgin of Israel is cast down upon
her land, there is none to raise her up.

3 For thus saith the Lord God : The
city, out of which came forth a thousand,
there shall be left in it a hundred : and
out of which there came a hundred, there
shall be left in it ten, in the house of
Israel.

n Ajrg. 2. 18. — o Gen. 19, 24. — p Infra 9. 6.

Chap. 5. Ver. 5. Bethel, — Galgal, — Bersahee.
The places where they worshipped their idois.
Ver. 8, Arcturus and Orion. Areturus is a bright

4 For thus saith the Lord to the house
of Israel : Seek ye me, and you shall
live.

6 But seek not Bethel, and go not into
Galgal, neither shall you pass over to
Bersabee : for Galgal shall go into cap-
tivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.

6 Seek ye the Lord, and live : lest the
house of Joseph be burnt with fire, and
it shall devour, and there shall be none
to quench Bethel.

7 You that turn judgment into worm-
wood, and forsake justice in the land,

8 Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and
Orion, and that turneth darkness into
morning, and that changeth day into
night : ^ that calleth the waters of the
sea, and poureth them out upon the face
of the earth : The Lord is his name.

9 He that with a smile bringeth destruc
tion upon the strong, and waste upon the
mighty.

10 They have hated him that rebuketh
in the gate : and have abhorred him that
speaketh perfectly.

11 Therefore because you robbed thel
poor, and took the choice prey from him:
^ you shall build houses with square
stone, and shall not dwell in them : you
shall plant most delightful vineyards
and shall not drink the wine of them.

12 Because I know your manifold crimes,
and your grievous sins : enemies of the
just, taking bribes, and oppressing th«
poor in the gate.

13 Therefore the prudent shall keep si-
lence at that time, for it is an evil time.

14 Seek ye good, and not evil, that yoi
may live : and the Lord the God of hostf
will be with you, as you have said.

15 ^" Hate evil, and love good, and es
tablish judgment in the gate : it may bt
the Lord the God of hosts may hav<
mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord the Goc
of hosts the sovereign Lord : In everj
street there shall be wailing : and in al
places that are without, they shall say
Alas, alas! and they shall call the hus
bandman to mourning, and such as an
skilful in lamentation to lament.

17 And in all vineyards there shall b<

q Soph. 1. 13. — r Ts. 9G. 10 ; Rom. 12. 9.

star in the north ; Orion a beautiful constellation i:
the south.

Ver. 9. With a smile. That is, with all ease, an»
without making any effort.

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Gpd will rejeet their aaerifices

AMOS Their luxury and pride punished

wailing : because I will pass through in
the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

18 * Woe to them that desire the day of
the Lord : to what end is it for you ? the
day of the Lord is darkness, and not hght.

19 As if a man should flee from the face
of a lion, and a bear should meet him :
or enter into the house, and lean with his
hand upon the wall, and a serpent should
bite him.

20 Shall not the day of the Lord be dark-
ness, and not light : and obscurity, and
no brightness in it ?

21 ' I hate, and have rejected your fes-
tivities : and I will not receive the odour
of your assemblies.

22 And if you offer me holocausts, and
your gifts, I will not receive them : nei-
ther will I regard the vows of your fat
beasts.

23 Take away from me the tumult of
thy songs : and I will not hear the canti-
clkjs of thy harp.

24 But judgment shall be revealed as
water, and justice as a mighty torrent.

25 ^ Did you offer victims and sacrifices
to me in the desert for forty years, O
house of Israel ?

26 But you carried a tabernacle for your
Moloch, and the image of your idols, the
star of your god, which you made to
yourselves.

27 And I will cause you to go into cap-
tivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord,
the God of hosts is his name.

CHAPTER 6.

The desolation of Israel for their pride and luxury.

WOE *to you that are wealthy in
Sion, and to you that have confi-
dence in the mountain of Samaria: ye
great men, heads of the people, that go
in with state into the house of Israel.

2 Pass ye over to Chalane, and see, and
go from thence into Emath the great:
and go down into Geth of the Philistines,
and to all the best kingdoms of these: if
their border be larger than your border.

3 You that are separated unto the evil
day : and that approach to the throne of
iniquity ;

8 Jer. 30. 7 ; Joel 2. li ; Soph. 1. 15.
t Isa. 1. 11 ; Jer. 6. 20 ; Mai. 1. 12.

Ver. 25. Did yoH offer, &c. Except the sacrifices
that were offered at the first, in the dedication of the
tabernacle, the Israelites offered no sacrifices in the
desert.

4 You that sleep upon beds of ivory,
and are wanton on your couches: that
eat the lambs out of the flock, and the
calves out of the midst of the herd ;

6 You that sing to the sound of the
psaltery: they have thought themselves
to have instruments of music like David ;

6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint
themselves with the best ointments : and
they are not concerned for the affliction
of Joseph.

7 Wherefore now they shall go captive
at the head of them that go into captiv-
ity: and the faction of the luxurious
ones shall be taken away.

8 *^The Lord God hath sworn by his
own soul, saith the Lord the God of
hosts : I detest the pride of Jacob, and I
hate his houses, and I will deliver up the
city with the inhabitants thereof.

9 And if there remain ten men in one
house, they also shall die.

10 And a man's kinsman shall take kirn
up, and shall burn him, that he may cairy
the bones out of the house ; and he shall
say to him that is in the inner rooms of
the house : Is there yet any with thee ?

11 And he shall answer: There is an
end. And he shall say to him : Hold thy
peace, and mention not the name of the
Lord.

12 For behold the Lord hath com-
manded, and he will strike the greater
house with breaches, and the lesser
house with clefts.

13 Can horses run upon the rocks, or
can any one plough with buffles ? for you
have turned judgment into bitterness,
and the fruit of justice into wormwood.

14 You that rejoice in a thing of nought:
you that say : Have we not taken unto
us horns by our own strength ?

15 But behold, I will raise up a nation
against you, O house of Israel, saith the
Lord the God of hosts; and they shall
destroy you from the entrance of Emath,
even to the torrent of the desert.

CHAPTER 7.

The prophet sees, in three visions, evils coming upon
Israel : he is accused of treason by the false priest
of Bethel.

u Acts 7. 42. — V Luke 6. 24.
w Jer. 51. 14.

Ver. 26. A tabernacle, &c. All this alludes to the
idolatry which they committed, when they were
drawn away by the daughters of Moab to the wor-
ship of their gods. Num. 25.

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Figures of evil to come upon Israel AMOS

THESE things the Lord God shewed
to me : and behold the locust was
formed in the beginning of the shooting
up of the latter rain, and lo, it was the
latter rain after the king's mowing.

2 And it came to pass, that when they
had made an end of eating the grass of
the land, I said: O Lord God, be merci-
ful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up
Jacob, for he is very little ?

3 The Lord had pity upon this : It shall
not be, said the Lord.

4 These things the Lord God shewed to
me : and behold the Lord called for judg-
ment unto fire, and it devoured the great
deep, and ate up a part at the same time.

5 And I said : O Lord God, cease, I be-
seech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for
he is a little one ?

6 The Lord had pity upon this : Yea this
also shall not be, said the Lord God.

7 These things the Lord shewed to me :
and behold the Lord was standing upon
a plastered wall, and in his hand a
mason's trowel.

8 And the Lord said to me: What seest
thou, Amos? And I said: A mason's
trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I
will lay down the trowel in the midst of
my people Israel. I will plaster them
over no more.

9 And the high places of the idol shall
be thrown down, and the sanctuaries of
Israel shall be laid waste : and I will rise
up against the house of Jeroboam with
the sword.

10 And Amasias the priest of Bethel
sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying :
Amos hath rebelled against thee in the
midst of the house of Israel: the land is
not able to bear all his words.

11 For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall
die by the sword, and Israel shall be car-
ried away captive out of their own land.

12 And Amasias said to Amos: Thou
seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda :
and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

13 But prophesy not again any more in
Bethel : because it is the king's sanctuary,
and it is the house of the kingdom.

The vision of the hook

Chap. 7. Ver. l. The locust, &c. These judg-
ments by locusts and fire, which, by the prophet's
intercession, were moderated, signify the former in-
vasions of the Assyrians under Phnl and Theglath-
phalasar, before the utter desolation of Israel by
Salmanasar.

Ver. 11. Jeroboam shall die by the sivord. The
prophet did not say this ; but that the Lord would
ri$e up mf ainst the house of Jeroboam, with the

14 And Amos answered and said to
Amasias : I am not a prophet, nor am I
the son of a prophet : but I am a herds-
man plucking wild figs.

16 And the Lord took me when I fol-
lowed the flock, and the Lord said to
me : Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

16 And now hear thou the word of the
Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt not pro-
phesy against Israel, and thou shalt not
drop thy word upon the house of the idol.

17 Therefore thus saith the Lord : Thy
wife shall play the harlot in the city, and
thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by
the sword, and thy land shall be measured
by a line : and thou shalt die in a polluted
land, and Israel shall go into captivity
out of their land.

CHAPTER 8.

Under the figure of a hook, which bringeth down
the fruit, the approaching desolation of Israel is
foreshewed for their avarice and injustices^

THESE things the Lord shewed to me :
and behold a hook to draw down the
fruit.

2 And he said: What seest thou, Amos?
And I said : A hook to draw down fruit.
And the Lord said to me: The end is
come upon my people Israel : I will not
again pass by them any more.

3 And the hinges of the temple shall _
screak in that day, saith the Lord God :
many shall die : silence shall be cast in
every place.

4 Hear this, you that crush the poor,
and make the needy of the land to fail,

5 Saying : When will the month be over,
and we shall sell our wares: and the
sabbath, and we shall open the corn:
that we may lessen the measure, and
increase the side, and may convey in
deceitful balances,

6 That we may possess the needy for
money, and the poor for a pair of shoes,
and may sell the refuse of the corn?

7 The Lord hath sworn against the pride
of Jacob: surely I will never forget all
their works.

8 Shall not the land tremble for this,
and every one mourn that dwelleth

sword: which was verified, when Zacharias, the son
and successor of Jeroboam, was slain by the sword.
4 Kings 15. 10.

Ver. 14. / am not a prophet. That is, I am not a
prophet by education : nor is prophesying my call-
ing or profession : but I am a herdsman, whom God
was pleased to send hither to prophesy to Israel.

Ver. 16. The house of the idoU Viz., of the calf
worshipped Id Bethel

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The desolation of Israel

AMOS Tabernacle of David will be restored

therein : and rise up altogether as a river,
and be cast out, and run down as the
rivQr of Egypt?

9 And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord God, that the sun shall
go down at midday, and I will make the
fiSLrth dark in the day of hght :

10 * And I will turn your feasts into
mourning, and all your songs into lamen-
tation: and I will bring up sackcloth
upon every back of yours, and baldness
upon every head : and I will make it as
the mourning of an only son, and the
latter end thereof as a bitter day.

11 Behold the days come, saith the
Lord, and I will send forth a famine into
the land : not a famine of bread, nor a
thirst of water, but of hearing the word
of the Lord.

12 And they shall move from sea to sea,
and from the north to the east : they
shall go about seeking the word of the
Lord, and shall not find it.

13 In that day the fair virgins, and the
young men shall faint for thirst.

14 They that swear by the sin of Sa-
maria, and say : Thy God, O Dan, liveth :
and the way of Bersabee liveth : and they
shall fall, and shall rise no more.

CHAPTER 9.

Tfie certainty of the desolation of Israel : therestor-
ing of the tabernacle of David, and the conversion
of the Gentiles to the church; which shall flourish
for ever.

I SAW the Lord standing upon the altar,
and he said : Strike the hinges, and
let the lintels be shook : for there is cov-
etousness in the head of them all, and
I will slay the last of them with the
Bword: there shall be no flight for them:
they shall flee, and he that shall flee of
them shall not be delivered.
.2 J/ Though they go down even to hell,
thence shall my hand bring them out :
and though they chmb up to heaven,
thence will I bring them down.
3 And though they be hid in the top
of Carmel, I will search and take them
away from thence : and though they hide
themselves from my eyes in the depth of

X Tob. 2. 6 ; 1 Mac. 1. 41. -
z Jer. 44. 11.

y Ps. 138. 8.

Chap. 9. Ver. 6. His ascension. That is, his
nigh throne. — Ibid. His bundle. That is, his church
Donnd up together by the bands of one faith and
communion.

Ver. 7. As the children of the Ethiopians, That
IS as black as they, by your Iniquities.

the sea, there will I command the serpent
and he shall bite them.

4 And if they go into captivity before
their enemies, there will I command the
sword, and it shall kill them. ^ And I
will set my eyes upon them for evil, and
not for good.

6 And the Lord the God of hosts is
he who toucheth the earth, and it shall
melt : and all that dwell therein shall
mourn: and it shall rise up as a river,
and shall run down as the river of
Egypt.

6 He that buildeth his ascension in hea-
ven, and hath founded his bundle upon
the earth : " who calleth the waters of the
sea, and poureth them out upon the face
of the earth, the Lord is his name.

7 Are not you as the children of the
Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel,
saith the Lord ? did not I bring up Israel,
out of the land of Egypt : ^ and the Phihs-
tines out of Cappadocia, and the Syrians
out of Gyrene ?

8 Behold the eyes of the Lord God are
upon the sinful kingdom, and I will de-
stroy it from the face of the earth : but
yet I will not utterly destroy the house
of Jacob, saith the Lord.

9 For behold I will command, and I will
sift the house of Israel among all nations,
as corn is sifted in a sieve: and there
shall not a little stone fall to the ground.

10 All the sinners of my people shall
fall by the sword : who say: The evils
shall not approach, and shall not come
upon us.

11 In that day ^ I will raise up the taber-
nacle of David, that is fallen: and I wil)
close up the breaches of the walls thereof,
and repair what was fallen : and I will
rebuild it as in the days of old.

12 That they may possess the remnatAt
of Edom, and all nations, because my
name is invoked upon them: saith the
Lord that doth these things.

13 Behold the days come, saith the Lord,
when the ploughman shall overtake the
reaper, and the treader of grapes him
that soweth seed: and *^the mountains

a Supra 5. 8. — 6 Deut. 2. 23 ; Jer. 47. 4.
c Acts 15. 16. — d Joel 3. 18.

Ver. 13. Shall overtake, &c. By this is meant the
great abundance of spiritual blessings ; which, as
it were, by a constant succession, shall enrich the
church of Christ.

The pride of Edom will he humbled ABDIAS Edom*s share in the ruin of Jacob

shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall
be tilled.

14 And I will bring back the captivity
of my people Israel : and they shall build
the abandoned cities, and inhabit them:
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink

the wine of them: and shall make gar-
dens, and eat the fruits of them. And I
will plant them upon their own land: and
I will no more pluck them out of their
land which I have given them, saith the
Lord thy God.

THE

PROPHECY OF ABDIAS.

Abdias, or Obadiah, may have been written about 500 B. C, after the return of
some of the Babylonian captives to Jerusalem,

CHAPTER 1.

The destruction of Edom for their pride : and the
wrongs they did to Jacob : the salvation and
victory of Israel.

THE * vision of Abdias. Thus saith the
Lord God to Edom :^We have heard
a rumour from the Lord, and he hath
sent an ambassador to the nations : Arise,
and let us rise up to battle against him.

2 Behold I have made thee small among
the nations: thou art exceeding con-
temptible.

3 The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee
up, who dwellest in the clefts of the
rocks, and settest up thy throne on high :
who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring
me down to the ground ?

4 Though thou be exalted as an eagle,
and though thou set thy nest among the
stars: thence wiU I bring thee down,
«aith the Lord.

5 If thieves had gone in to thee, if rob-
bers by night, how wouldst thou have
held thy peace ? would they not have
stolen till they had enough ? if the grape-
gatherers had come in to thee, would they
not have left thee at the least a cluster ?

6 How have they searched Esau, how
have they sought out his hidden things ?

7 They have sent thee out even to the
border : all the men of thy confederacy

e A. M. circ. 3224. Ante C. 780. — / Jer. 49. 14.

Chap. l. Ver. 12. Thou shall not look, &c., or,
thmi should St nnt, &c. It is a reprehension for what
they had done, and at the same time a declaration
that these things should not pass unpunished.—

have deceived thee : the men of thy
peace have prevailed against thee : they
that eat with thee shall lay snares under
thee : there is no wisdom in him.

8 3 Shall not I in that day, saith the
Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and
understanding out of the mount of Esau ?|

9 And thy valiant men of the south!
shall be afraid, that man may be cut o
from the mount of Esau.

10 ^* For the slaughter, and for the in-
iquity against thy brother Jacob, confu
sion shall cover thee, and thou shall
perish for ever.

11 In the day when thou stoodes
against him, when strangers carried!
away his army captive, and foreigners
entered into his gates, and cast lots upoi
Jerusalem: thou also wast as one oJ
them.

12 But thou Shalt not look on in the daj
of thy brother, in the day of his leavinj
his country: and thou shalt not rejoice
over the children of Juda, in the day o;
their destruction : and thou shalt not
magnify thy mouth in the day of dis
tress.

13 Neither shalt thou enter into the
gate of my people in the day of theL
ruin : neither shalt thou also look on ii
his evils in the day of his calamity : an(

a Tsa. 29. 14 ; 1 Cor. 1. 19. — h Gen. 27. 42.

Ibid. Thou shnlt not magnify thy month. That is
thou shalt not speak arrogantly against the childrel
of Juda as insulting them in their distress.

992

Victory of the house of Jacob

JONAS

The tempest

thou shalt not be sent out against his
army in the day of his desolation,

14 Neither shalt thou stand in the cross-
ways to kill them that flee: and thou
Bhalt not shut up them that remain of him
In the day of tribulation.

16 For the day of the Lord is at hand
npon all nations : as thou hast done, so
shall it be done to thee : he will turn thy
reward upon thy own head.

16 For as you have drunk upon my holy
mountain, so all nations shall drink con-
tinually : and they shall drink, and sup
up, and they shall be as though they were
not,

17 And in mount Sion shall be salvation,
and it shall be holy, and the house of
Jacob shall possess those that possessed
them.

18 And the house of Jacob shall be a

firo, anot the house of Joseph a flame, and
the house of Esau stubble : and they shall
be kindled in them, and shall devour
them : and there shall be no remains of
the house of Esau, for the Lord hath
spoken it.

19 And they that are toward the south,
shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they
that are in the plains, the Phihstines:
and they shall possess the country of
Ephraim, and the country of Samaria:
and Benjamin shall possess Galaad.

20 And the captivity of this host of the
children of Israel, all the places of the
Chanaanites even to Sarepta : and the
captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bospho-
rus, shall possess the cities of the south.

21 And saviours shall come up into
mount Sion to judge the mount of Esau:
and the kingdom shall be for the Lord.

THE

PROPHECY OF JONAS.

SofJ AS prophesied in the reign of Jeroboam the second (789-749 B. C.) according to
4 Kings 14. 25. To whom also he foretold his svccess in restoring all the borders
of Israel. He was of Geth Opher in the tribe of Zabulon, and consequently
of Galilee.

CHAPTER 1.

Jonas being sent to preach in Ninive, fleeth away
by sea : a tempest riseth : of which he being to unci,
by lot, to be the cause, is cast into the sea, which
thereupon is calmed.

NOW the word of the Lord came to
Jonas the son of Amathi, saying :
. 2 Arise, and go to Ninive the great city,
and preach in it : for the wickedness
thereof is come up before me.
3 And Jonas rose up to flee into Tharsis
from the face of the Lord, and he went
down to Joppe, and found a ship going
to Tharsis : and he paid the fare thereof,
Pnd went down into it, to go with them
0 Tharsis from the face of the Lord.

Chap. i. Ver. 2. Ninive. The capital city of the
Assyrian empire.

Ver, 3. Tharsis. Which some take to be Tharsus
01 Cilicia, others to be Tartessus of Spain, others to
be Carthage.

4 But the Lord sent a great wind into
the sea: and a great tempest was raised
in the sea, and the ship was in danger to
be broken.

5 And the mariners were afraid, and the
men cried to their god: and they cast
forth the wares that were in the ship,
into the sea, to lighten it of them: and
Jonas went down into the inner part of
the ship, and fell into a deep sleep.

6 And the shipmaster came to him, and
said to him : Why art thou fast asleep ?
rise up, call upon thy God, if so be that
God will think of us, that we may not
perish.

7 And they said every one to his fellow :

Ver. 5. A deep sleep. This is a lively image of the
insensibility of sinners, fleeing fnmi God. and tlireat
eiied on every side with his judgments : and yet
sleeping as if they were secure.

993

Jonas swallowed by the fish

JONAS

Jonas' prayc,

Come, and let us cast lots, thr.t we may
know why this evil is upon us. And they
cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.
8 And they said to him: Tell us for what

cause this evil is upon us, what is thy
business? of what country art thou? and
whither goest thou? or of what people
art thou?

9 And he said to them: I am a Hebrew,
and I fear the Lord the God of heaven,
who made both the sea and the dry land.

10 And the men were greatly afraid,
and they said to him: Why hast thou
done this? (for the men knew that he
fled from the face of the Lord : because
he had told them.)

11 And they said to him : What shall we
do to thee, that the sea may be calm to
as ? for the sea flowed and swelled.

12 And he said to them : Take me up,
and cast me into the sea, and the sea
shall be calm to you : for I know that for
my sake this great tempest is upon you.

13 And the men rowed hard to return
to land, but they were not able : because
the sea tossed and swelled upon them.

14 And they cried to the Lord, and said :
We beseech thee, O Lord, let us not per-
ish for this man's life, and lay not upon
us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord,
hast don 3 as it pleased thee.

15 And they took Jonas, and cast him
into the sea, and the sea ceased from
raging.

16 And the men feared the lord ex-
ceedingly, and sacrificed victimfe to the
Lord, and made vows.

CHAPTER 2.

Jonas is swallowoJ. up by a great fish v he prayeth
with confidence in God; and the fish casteth him
out on the dry land.
"Vf OW the Lord prepared a great fish
iM to swallow up Jonas: «^'and Jonas
was in the belly of the fish three days
and three nights.

2 And Jonas prayed x,o the Lord his God
out of the belly of the fish.

3 And he said : '^ I cried out of my afflic-
tion to the Lord, ''nd he heard me : I
cried out of the beli> of hell, and thou
hast heard my voice.

4 And thou hast cast me forth into the

deep iii the heart of the sea, and a floo<
hath compassed me : all thy billows, an
thy waves have passed over me.

5 And I said : I am cast away out of th
sight of thy eyes : but yet I shall see th
holy temple again.

3 ^The waters compassed me about eve
to the sGul: the deep hath closed n
round about, the sea hath covered k
head.

7 I went down to the lowest parts
the mountains: the bars of the ear
have shut me up for ever : and thou w
bring up my Ufe from corruption, 0 Lo
my God.

8 When my soul was in distress witt

me, I remembered the Lord: that i.
prayer may come to thee, unto thy he
temple. ^ j

9 They that are vain observe vaniti ,
forsake their own mercy.

10 But I with the voice of praise \
sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoevc
have vowed for my salvation to the Loj .

11 And the Lord spoke to the fish: j|i
it vomited out Jonas upon the dry lai

CHAPTER 3.

Jonas is sent again to jpreach in Ninive, Upon t
fasting and repentance, God recalleth the sent
by which they were to be destroyed.

ND the word of the Lord came to
nas the second time, saying :

2 Arise, and go to Ninive the great c
and preach in it the preaching that I
thee.

3 And Jonas arose, and went to Nir
according to the word of the Lord :
Ninive was a great city of three
journey.

4 And Jonas began to enter into the
one day's journey: and he cried,
said: Yet forty days, and Ninive sha
destroyed.

5 "* And the men of Ninive believe
God : and they proclaimed a fast, an(
on sackcloth from the greatest t(

least.

6 And the word came to the ku
Ninive ; and he rose up out of his th
and cast away his robe from him
was clothed with sackcloth, and s
ashes.

j Matt,. 12. 40, and 16. 4 ; Luke 11. 30 : 1 Cor. 15. 4.
k Ps. 119. 1.

Chap. 2. Ver. 11. Spoke to the fish. God's
«peaking to the fish, was nothing else but his will,
■Jifhich all things obey. _ ..

Chap. 3. Ver 3. Of three days\joumey, Bytn*-

I Ps. 68.
m Matt. 12. 41 ;

1.
Luke 11.

32.

computation of some ancient b'stojians, Nm'
about 5fty miles round : so that to go thro
the caief streets and pubUc places was ttire
journey.

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The people of Ninive do penance JONAS

. .xiid he caused it to be proclaimed and
)ubliBhed in Kinive from the mouth of
he king and of his princes, saying: Let
leither men nor beasts, oxen nor sheep,
aste any thing : let them not feed, nor
rink water.

8 And let men and beasts be covered
ith sackcloth, and cry to the Lord with
11 their strength, and let them turn every
ne from his evil way, and from the in-
luity that is in their hands.

9 " Who can tell if God will turn, and
)rgive: and will turn away from his
erce anger, and we shall not perish ?

10 And God saw their works, that they
ere turned from their evil way: and
od had mercy with regard to the evil
hich he had said that he would do to
lem, and he did it not.

The wy and the worm
4 And the Lord said;

CHAPTER 4.
nas.repining to see that his prophecy is not fuU
filled, IS reproved by the type of the ivy.

i ND Jonas was exceedingly troubled,
\. and was angry:

And he prayed to the Lord, and said :
)e8eech thee, O Lord, is not this what
3aid, when I was yet in my own coun-
r? therefore I went before to flee into
•arsis: «for I know that thou art a
acious and merciful God, patient, and
much compassion, and easy to forgive

And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take
i; life from me : for it is better for me
» die than to live.

w Jer. 11. 8; Joel 2. 14.

«AP. 4. Ver. 1. Was exceedingly trovhled S^o
J concern was lest he should pass for a false dto
ft; or rather, lest God's word, by this occLFon'
» ht come to be slighted and disbeUeved. ''''''^^'^°»

Dost thou think
thou hast reason to be angry?

5 Then Jonas went out of the city, and
sat toward the east side of the city: and
he made himself a booth there, and he
sat under it in the shadow, till he might
see what would befall the city.

6 And the Lord God prepared an ivy,
and it came up over the head of Jonas,
to be a shadow over his head, and to
cover him (for he was fatigued) : and Jo-
nas was exceeding glad of the ivy.

7 But God prepared a worm, when the
morning arose on the following day: and
it struck the ivy and it withered.

8 And when the sun was risen, the Lord
commanded a hot and burning wind: and
the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and
he broiled with the heat: and he desired
for his soul that he might die, and said:
It is better for me to die than to live.

9 And the Lord said to Jonas : Dost thou
think thou hast reason to be angry for
the ivy? And he said: I am angry with
reason even unto death.

10 And the Lord said : Thou art grieved
for the ivy, for which thou hast not la-
boured, nor made it to grow, which in
one night came up, and in one night per-
ished. ^

11 And shall not I spare Ninive, that
great city, in which there are more than
a hundred cind twenty thousand persons
that know not how to distinguish between
their right hand and their left, and many
beasts ? ^

oPs.85.5; Joel 2. 13.

rnm^^'in ^^^^^Z"^ ^^? prepared an ivy, Hede
ram In the Hebrew it is Kikajon, which somp

CA^k^ ^'^''^•' ***^''' * Palr^erist^ovVc^Z.

995

The coming of the Lord

The punishment of Samaria

THE

PROPHECY OF MICHEAS.

MiCHEAS, of Morasti, a little town in the tribe of Juda, was contemporary with th\
prophet ISAIAS : whom he resembles both in his spirit and his style. He is diffet
ent from the prophet Micheas mentioned in the third book of Kings, chap. 2i
For that Micheas lived in the days of king Achab, one hwndred and fifty yearl
before the time of EzECHiAS, under whom this Micheas prophesied. His mini^tr^
coincided with the earlier part of that of ISAIAS.

CHAPTER 1.

Samaria for her nns shall be destroyed by the As-
syrians ; they shall also invade Juda and Jerusa-
lem.

THE P word of the Lord that came to
Micheas the Morasthite, iii the days
of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of
Juda : which he saw concerning Samaria
and Jerusalem.

2 ^ Hear, all ye peoplo : and let the earth
give ear, and ail that is therein : and let
the Lord God be a witness to you, the
Ix>rd from his holy temple.

3 *■ For behold the Lord will come forth
out of his place: and he will come down,
and will tread upon the high places of
the earth.

4 And the mountains shall be melted
under him: and the valleys shall be cleft,
AS wax before the fire, and as waters
^Jiat run down a steep place.

5 For the wickedness of Jacob is all
this, and for the sins of the house of
Israel. What is the wickedness of Ja-
cob? is it not Samaria? and what are the
high places of Juda ? are they not Jeru-
salem ?

6 And I will make Samaria as a heap of
stones in the field when a vineyard is
planted; and I will bring down the stones

' p B. C. 735-696.

I thereof into .Vne valley, and will lay he|
foundations bare.

7 And all her graven things shall be c
in pieces, and all her wages shall be bur
with fire, and I will bring to destructio
all her idols: for they were gathered t
gether of the hire of a harlot, and un
the hire of a harlot they shall return.

8 Therefore will I lament and howl :
will go stripped and naked : I will make
wailing like the dragons, and a mour
like the ostriches.

9 Because her wound is desperate, b
cause it is come even to Juda, it ha
touched the gate of my people even
Jerusalem.

10 Declare ye it not in Geth, weep ;
not with tears: in the house of Du
sprinkle yourselves with dust.

11 And pass away, O thou that dwelk
in the Beautiful place, covered with t
shame: she went not forth that dw€
eth in the confines : the House adjoini
shall receive mourning from you, whi
stood by herself.

12 For she is become weak unto gc
that dwelleth in bitterness: for evil
come down from the Lord into the g
of Jerusalem.

13 A tumult of chariots hath astonisl

Chap. I. Ver. 7. Her wages. That is, her dona-
lies or presents offered to her idols: or the hire of
all her traffic and labour. — Ibid. Of the hire of a
harlot, &c. They were gathered together by one
Idolatrous city, viz., Samaria : and they shall be car-
ried away to another idolatrous city, viz., Ninive.

Ver. 9. It hath tovched the gate, &c. That is, the
destruction of Samaria shall be followed by the inva-
sion of my people of Ji^da, and the Assyrians shall
come and lay all waste even to the confines of Jeru-
salem.

Ver. 10. Declare ye it not in Geth. Viz., amongst
the Philistines, lest they rejoice at your calamity.—
Ibid. Weep ye not, &c. Keep in your tears, that

J'ou may not ^ive your enemies an occasion of insult-
ng over you; but in your own houses, or in your
liou.se of dust, your earthly habitation^ sprinkle
yours/ilves with dust, and put on the habit of peni-

'"^t

q Deut. 32. 1 ; Isa. 1. 2. — r Isa. 26. 21.

tents. Some take the house of dust (in Heb;
Aphrah) to be the proper name of a city.

Ver. 11. Thou that dwellest in the Beautiful p
viz., in SamaHa. In the Hebrew the Beaw
place is expressed by the word ^a^^ir, which s
take for the proper name of a city. — Ibid. She -,
not forth, &c., that is, they that dwelt in the
fines came not forth, but kept themselves wi
for fear. — Ibid. The House adjoining, &c.
Judea and Jerusalem, neighbours to Samaria,
partners in her sins, shall share also m her mc
ing and calamity ; though they have pretencK
stand by themselves, trusting in their strengin.

Ver. 12. She is become weak, &c. Jerusaie
become weak unto any good ; because she dwe
the bitterness of sin. m», ♦ -e t ■

Ver. 13. It is the beginning, &c. That is, i^-
was the first city of Juda that learned from 5>ar

998

Punishment of Israel

MICHEAS The remnant of Israel restored

the inhabitants of Lachis: it is the be-
ginning of sin to the daughter of Sion,
for in thee were found the crimes of
Israel.

14 Therefore shall she send messengers
to the inheritance of Geth : the houses of
lying to deceive the kings of Israel.

15 Yet will I bring an heir to thee that
dwellest in Maresa: even to Odollam
shall the glory of Israel come.

16 Make thee bald, and be polled for
thy delicate children : enlarge thy bald-
ness as the eagle : for they are carried
into captivity from thee.

CHAPTER 2.

The Israelites by their crying injustices provoke God
to punish them. He shall at last restore Jacob.

WOE to you that devise that which is
unprofitable, and work evil in your
beds ; in the morning light they execute
, it, because their hand is against God.

2 And they have coveted fields, and
taken them by violence, and houses they
have forcibly taken away : and oppressed
a man and his house, a man and his in-
heritance.

3 Therefore thus saith the Lord : Behold,
I devise an evil against this family : from
which you shall not withdraw your necks,
and you shall not walk haughtily, for
this is a very evil time.

4 In that day a parable shall be taken
up upon you, and a song shall be sung
with melody by them that say: We are
laid waste and spoiled: the portion of
3iy people is changed : how shall he de-
part from me, whereas he is returning

hat will divide our land ?

5 Therefore thou shalt have none that

be worship of idols, and communicated it to Jeru-
alem.

' Ver. 14. Therefore shall she send, &c. Lachis
nau send to Geth for help : but in vain : for Geth,
iistead of helping, shall be found to be a house of
\nng and deceit to Israel.

1 Ver. 15. An heir, &c. Maresa (which was the
i**"® *>f a city of Juda) signifies inheritance: but
'h ,Z ^y ^^^ prophet tells the Jews, that he will
|nng them an heir to take possession of their inher-
i«»wje; and that the glory of Israel shall be obliged
I give place, and to retire even to Odollam, a city
|i me extremity of their dominions. And therefore
! r^ '"^^ *^^^"^ ^^ penance in the following verse.
I^HAP. 2. Ver. 4. Hov shall he depart, &c. How

' •»^**\P^^^®"*^ ^^ ^^y ^^^*- ^'^^ Assyrian is departs
||g; When indeed he is coming to divide our lands
iiongst his sul>jects ?

I Ver. 5. Thou Shalt hove none, &c. Thou shalt
i»ve no longer any lot or inheritance in the land of
le people of the Lord.

shall cast the cord of a lot in the assem-
bly of the Lord.

6 Speak ye not, saying: It shall not
drop upon these, confusion shall not take
them.

7 The house of Jacob saith : Is the spirit
of the Lord straitened, or are these his
thoughts? Are not my words good to
him that walketh uprightly ?

8 But my people, on the contrary, are
risen up as an enemy: you have taken
away the cloak off from the coat : and
them that passed harmless you have
turned to war.

9 You have cast out the women of my
people from their houses, in which they
took delight : you have taken my praise
for ever from their children.

10 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no
rest here for you. For that uncleanness
of the land, it shall be corrupted with a
grievous corruption.

11 Would God I were not a man that
hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke
a lie : I will let drop to thee of wine, and
of drunkenness : and it shall be this peo-
ple upon whom it shall drop.

12 I will assemble and gather together
all of thee, O Jacob : I will bring together
the remnant of Israel, I will put them
together as a flock in the fold, a^ the
sheep in the midst of the *8heepcotes,
they shall make a tumult by re ison of
the multitude of men.

13 For he shall go up that shall open
the way before them : they shall divide,
and pass through the gate, and shall
come in by it : and their king shall pass
before them, and the Lord at the head
of them.

s That is, sheepfold.

Ver. 6. It shall not drop, &c. That is, the pro-
phecy shall not come upon these. Such were the
sentiments of the people that were unwilMng to
believe the threats of the prophets.

Ver. 8. You have to ken a way, &c. You have even
stripped people of their necessary garments: and
have treated such as were innocently passing on the
way, as if they were at war with you.

Ver. 9. You have cast out, &c., either by depriving
them of their houses ; or, by your crimes, given occa-
sion to their being carried away captives, and their
children, by that means, never learning to praise the
Lord.

Ver. 11. Would God, &c. The prophet could have
wished, out of his love to his people, that he might
be deceived in denouncing to them these evils that
were to fall upon them : but by conforming himself
to the will of God, he declares to them, that he is
sent to prophesy, literally to let drop upon them, the
wine of God's indignation, with which they should be
made drunk ; that is, stupefied and cast down.

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The princes and false prophets MICHEAS The glories of Christ's church

CHAPTER 3.

For the sins of the rich oppressing the poor, qf
false prophets flattering for lucre, and of judges
perverting justice, Jerusalem and the temple shall
be destroyed.

AND I said : Hear, O ye princes of Ja-
. cob, and ye chiefs of the house of
Israel : Is it not your part to know judg-
ment,

2 You that hate good, and love evil:
that violently pluck off their skins from
them, and their flesh from their bones ?

3 Who have eaten the flesh of my peo-
ple, and have flayed their skin from off
them: and have broken, and chopped
their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh
in the midst of the pot.

4 Then shall they cry to the Lord, and
he will not hear them : and he will hide
his face from them at that time, as they
have behaved wickedly in their devices.

5 Thus saith the Lord concerning the
prophets that make my people err: that
bite with their teeth, and preach peace:
and if a man give not something into
their mouth, they prepare war against
him.

6 Therefore night shall be to you in-
stead of vision, and darkness to you in-
stead of divination ; and the sun shall go
down uj on the prophets, and the day
shall be ( larkened over them.

7 And ihey shall be confounded that
see visioiiS, and the diviners shall be
confounded: and they shall all cover
their faces, because there is no answer
of God.

8 But yet I am flUed with the strength
of tbe spirit of the Lord, with judgment,
and power: to declare unto Jacob his
''jfickedness, and to Israel his sin.

9 Hear this, ye princes of the house of
Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Is-
rael : you that abhor judgment, and per-
vert all that is right.

10 You that build up Sion with blood,
and Jerusalem with iniquity.

11 *Her princes have judged for bribes,
and her priests have taught for hire, and
her prophets divined for money: and
they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is
not the Lord in the midst of us? no
evil shall come upon us.

t Ezech. 22. 27 ; Soph. 3. 3. — w Jer. 26. 18.
V Isa. 2. 2.

Chap. 4. Ver. 3. Neither shall they learn, &c.
The law of Christ is a law of peace; and all his true

12 Therefore, because of you, ^Sion
shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusa-
lem shall be as a heap of stones, and the
mountain of the temple as the high
places of the forests.

CHAPTER 4.

The glory of the chAirch of Christ, by the conver-
sion of the Gentiles. The Jews shall be carried
captives to Babylon, and be delivered again.

A ND '^ it shall come to pass in the last
XA. days, that the mountain of the
house of the Lord shall be prepared in
the top of mountains, and high above
the hills : and people shall flow to it.

2 And many nations shall come in
haste, and say : Come, let us go up to the
mountain of the Lord, and to the house
of the God of Jacob : and he will teach
us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths : for the law shall go forth out of
Sion, and the word of the Lord out of
Jerusalem.

3 And he shall judge among many peo-
ple, and rebuke strong nations afar off:
and they shall beat their swords into
ploughshares, and their spears into
spades: nation shall not take sword
against nation: neither shall they learn
war any more.

4 And every man shall sit under his
vine, and under his fig tree, and there
shall be none to make them afraid : for
the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spo-
ken.

5 For all people will walk every one in
the name of his god : but we will walk
in the name of the Lord our God for
ever and ever.

6 In that day, saith the Lord, I will
gather up her that halteth: and her
that I had cast out, I will gather up:
and her whom I had afflicted.

7 ^ And I will make her that halted, a
remnant: and her that hath been af-
flicted, a mighty nation : * and the Lord
will reign over them in mount Sion,
from this time now and for ever.

8 And thou, O cloudy tower of the
flock, of the daughter of Sion, unto thee
shall it come : yea the first power shall
come, the kingdom to the daughter of
Jerusalem.

9 Now, why art thou drawn together

w Soph. 3. 19,
X Dan. 7. 14 ; Luke 1. 32.

subjects, as much as lies in them, love and keep
peace with all the world.

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The reign of Christ

with grief? Hast thou no king in thee,
or is thy counsellor perished, because
sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in
labour?

10 Be in pain and labour, O daughter
of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth :
for now shalt thou go out of the city,
and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt
come even to Babylon, there thou shalt
be delivered: there the Lord will re-
deem thee out of the hand of thy ene-
mies.

11 And now many nations are gathered
together against thee, and they say:
Let her be stoned : and let our eye look
upon Sion.

12 But they have not known the thoughts
of the Lord, and have not understood
his counsel: because he hath gathered
them together as the hay of the floor.

13 Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion :
for I will make thy horn iron, and thy
hoofs I will make brass : and thou shalt
beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt
immolate the spoils of them to the Lord,
and their strength to the Lord of the
whole earth.

CHAPTER 5.

The birth of Christ in Bethlehem : his reign and
spiritual conquests.

"VTOW shalt thou be laid waste, O daugh-
Xi ter of the robber: they have laid
fliege against us, with a rod shall they
strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

2 y And thou, Bethlehem Ephrata,
art a little one among the thousands of
Juda: out of thee shall he come forth
unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel:
and his going forth is from the begin-
ning, from the days of eternity.

3 Therefore will he give them up even
bill the time wherein she that travaileth
jhall bring forth : and the remnant of

y Matt. 2. 6 ; John 7. 42.

Chap. 5. Ver. 1, Daughter of the robber. Some
inderstand this of Babylon ; which robbed and pil-
laged the temple of God : others understand it of
feiusalem; by reason of the many rapines and
tppressions committed there.

Ver. 2. His going forth, &c. That Is, he who as
nan shall be born In thee, as God was born of his
Kather from all eternity.

Ver. 5. The Assyrian. That is, the persecutors
f the church : who are here called Assyrians by the
rophet: because the Assyrians were at that time
tie chief enemies and persecutors of the people of
|tod. — Ibid. Seven shepherds, &c. Viz., the pastors
jf (lOd's church, and the defenders of the faith. The
i umber seven in scripture is taken to signify many :
jnd when eight is joined with it, we are to under-
jtand that the number will be very great.
I Ver. 6. They shall feed, &c. They shall make

his brethren shall be converted to the
children of Israel.

4 And he shall stand, and feed in the
strength of the Lord, in the height of
the name of the Lord his God : and they
shall be converted, for now shall he be
magnified even to the ends of the earth.

5 And this man shall be our peace, when
the Assyrian shall come into our land,
and when he shall set his foot in our
houses: and we shall raise against "lim
seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

6 And they shall feed the land of As-
syria with the sword, and the land of
Nemrod with the spears thereof: and he
shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when
he shall come into our land, and when
he shall tread in our borders.

7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in
the midst of many peoples as a dew from
the Lord, and as drops upon the grass,
which waiteth not for man, nor tarrieth
for the children of men.

8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be
among the Gentiles in the midst of many
peoples as a lion among the beasts of
the forests, and as a young lion among
the flocks of sheep : who when he shall
go through and tread down, and take,
there is none to deliver.

9 Thy hand shall be lifted up over thy
enemies, and all thy enemies shall be
cut off.

10 And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord, that I will take away thy
horses out of the midst of thee, and will
destroy thy chariots.

11 And I will destroy the cities of thy
land, and will throw down all thy strong
holds, and I will take away sorceries out
of thy hand, and there shall be no di-
vinations in thee.

12 And I will destroy thy graven things.

spiritual conquests in the lands of their persecutors,
with the sword of the spirit, which is the word of
God. Eph. 6. 17.

Ver. 7. The remnant of Jacob. Viz., the apostles,
and the first preachers of the Jewish nation ; whose
doctrine, like dew, shall make the plants g\ the con-
verted Gentiles grow up, without waiting for any
man to cultivate them by human learning.

Ver. 8. As a lion, &c. This denotes the fortitude
of these first preachers ; and their success in their
spiritual enterprises.

Ver. 10. / will take away thy horses, &c Some
understand this, and all that follows to the end of
the chapter, as addressed to the enemies of the
church. But it may as well be understood of the
converts to the church , who should no longer put
their trust in any of these things.

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Cod's favors to His people

MICHEAS God will punish their ingratitude

and thy statues out of the midst of thee :
and thou shalt no more adore the works
of thy hands.

13 And I will pluck up thy groves out
of the midst of thee : and will crush thy
cities.

14 And I will execute vengeance in
wrath and in indignation among all the
nations that have not given ear.

CHAPTER 6.

Ood expostulates with the Jews for their ingrati-
tude and sins : /or which they shall be punished.

HEAR ye what the Lord saith: Arise,
contend thou in judgment against
the mountains, and let the hills hear thy
voice.

2 Let the mountains hear the judgment
of the Lord, and the strong foundations
of the earth: for the Lord will enter
into judgment with his people, and he
will plead against Israel.

3*0 my people, what have I done to
thee, or in what have I molested thee?
answer thou me.

4 For I brought thee up out of the
land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of
the house of slaves : and I sent before
thy face Moses, and Aaron, and Mary.

5^0 my people, remember, I pray thee,
what Balach the king of Moab purposed :
and what Balaam the son of Beor an-
swered him, from Setim to Galgal, that
thou mightest know the justices of the
Lord.

6 What shall I offer to the Lord that
is worthy ? wherewith shall I kneel be-
fore the high God? shall I offer holo-
causts unto him, and calves of a year
old?

7 May the Lord be appeased with thou-
sands of rams, or with many thousands
of fat he goats? shall I give my first-
born for my wickedness, the fruit of my
body for the sin of my soul?

8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good,
and what the Lord requireth of thee:
** Verily, to do judgment, and to love

z Jer. 2. 5.
a Num. 22. 23.

Chap. 6. Ver. 1. The mountains, &c. That is,
the great ones, the princes of the people.

Ver. 5. From Setim to Galgal. He puts them in
mind of the favour he did them, in not suffering them
to be quite destroyed by the evil purpose of Balach,
and the wicked counsel of Balaam : and then gives
them a hint of the wonders he wrought. In order to
bring them into the land of Promise, by stopping the

mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy
God.

9 The voice of the Lord crieth to the
city, and salvation shall be to them that
fear thy name : hear, O ye tribes, and
who shall approve it?

10 As yet there is a fire in the house of
the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and
a scant measure full of wrath.

11 Shall I justify wicked balances, and
the deceitful weights of the bag?

12 By which her rich men were filled
with iniquity, and the inhabitants there-
of have spoken lies, and their tongue was
deceitful in their mouth.

13 And I therefore began to strike thee
with desolation for thy sins.

14 Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be
filled : and thy humiliation shall be in
the midst of thee: and thou shalt take
hold, but shalt not save : and those whom
thou shalt save, I will give up to the
sword.

15 ^' Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap :
thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not
be anointed with the oil: and the new
wine, but shalt not drink the wine.

16 For thou hast kept the statutes of
Amri, and all the works of the house of
Achab: and thou hast walked according
to their wills, that I should make thee a
desolation, and the inhabitants thereof 9
hissing, and you shall bear the reproach
of my people.

CHAPTER 7.

The prophet laments, that notwithstanding all hia
preaching, the generality are still corrupt in their
manners : therefore their desolation is at hand :
but they shall be restored again and prosper; and
all mankind shall be redeemed by Christ.

WOE is me, for I am become as one
that gleaneth in autumn the grapes
of the vintage : there is no cluster to eat,
my soul desired the firstripe figs.

2 The holy man is perished out of the
earth, and there is none upright among
men : they all he in wait for blood, every
one hunteth his brother to death.

b Zach. 7. 9 ; Matt 23. 23 ; Deut. 6. 2, and 26. 16.
c Deut 28. 31 ; Agg. 1. 6.

course of the Jordan, in their march from Setim to
Galgal.

Ver. 6. What shall I offer, &c. This is spoken in
the person of the people, desiring to be informed
what they are to do to please God.

Ver. 10. Full of wrath, &c. That is, highly pro-
voking in the sight of God. .

Ver. 16. The statutes of Amri, &c. The wlCKOa
ways of Aiuri and Achab, idolatrous kings.

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Corruption of the people

MICHEAS God will bring back His people

3 The evil of their hands they call good :
fche prince requireth, and the judge is for
giving : and the great man hath uttered
the desire of his soul, and they have trou-
bled it.

4 He that is best among them, is as a
brier : and he that is righteous, as the
thorn of the hedge. The day of thy in-
spection, thy visitation cometh: now shall
be their destruction.

5 Believe not a friend, and trust not in
a prince : keep the doors of thy mouth
from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.

6 ^ For the son dishonoureth the father,
and the daughter riseth up against her
mother, the daughter in law against her
mother in law : ® and a man's enemies
are they of his own household.

7 But I will look towards the Lord, I
will wait for God my Saviour : my God
will hear me.

8 Rejoice not, thou, my enemy, over me,
because I am fallen : I shall arise, when
I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light.

9 I will bear the wrath of the Lord, be-
cause I have sinned against him; until
he judge my cause and execute judg-
ment for me : he will bring me forth into
the light, I shall behold his justice.

10 And my enemy shall behold, and she
shall be covered with shame, who saith
to me; Where is the Lord thy God? my
eyes shall look down upon her : now
shall she be trodden under foot as the
mire of the streets.

11 The day shall come, that thy walls
may be built up: in that day shall the
law be far removed,

d Matt. 10. 21. — e Matt. 10. 36.

Chap. 7. Ver. lo. She shall be covered^ &c. Viz.,
Babylon my enemy.

12 In that day they shall come even
from Assyria to thee, and to the fortified
cities : and from the fortified cities even
to the river, and from sea to sea, and
from mountain to mountain.

13 And the land shall be made desolate,
because of the inhabitants thereof, and
for the fruit of their devices.

14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the
flock of thy inheritance, them that dwell
alone in the forest, in the midst of Car-
mel : they shall feed in Basan and Galaad
according to the days of old.

15 According to the days of thy <}oming
out of the land of Egypt I will shew him
wonders.

16 The nations shall see, and shall be
confounded at all their strength: they
shall i5ut the hand upon the mouth, their
ears shall be deaf.

17 They shall lick the dust like serpents,
as the creeping things of the earth, they
shall be disturbed in their houses : they
shall dread the Lord our God, and shall
fear thee.

18 -^ Who is a God like to thee, who tak-
est away iniquity, and passest by the sin
of the remnant of thy inheritance? he
will send his fury in no more, because
he delighteth in mercy.

19 He will turn again, and have mercy
on us : he will put away our iniquities :
and he will cast all our sins into the bot-
tom of the sea.

20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob,
the mercy to Abraham: which thou hast
sworn to our fathers from the days of
old.

/ Jer. 10. 3 ; Acts 10. 43.

Ver. 11. The lav\ Viz., of thy enemies, who haTC
tyrannized over thee.
' Ver. 13. The land, &c Viz., of Babylon.

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The 'power and majesty of God

God will cut off the enemy

THE

PROPHECY OF NAHUM.

Nahum was a native of Elcese, or Elcesai, probably in Judea. He prophesied the
utter destruction of Ninive, by the Babylonians and Medes: which happened in
the reign of Joakim, about 607 B. C. He probably wrote about 625 B, C.

CHAPTER 1.

The majesty of God, his goodness to his people, and
severity to his enemies.

THE burden of Ninive. The book of
the vision of Nahum the Elcesite.

2 The Lord is a jealous God, and a re-
venger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath
wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on
his adversaries, and he is angry with his
enemies.

3 The Lord is patient, and great in
power, and will not cleanse and acquit
the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tem-
pest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the
dust of his feet.

4 He rebuketh the sea, and drieth it
up : and bringeth all the rivers to be
a desert. Basan languisheth and Car-
mel : and the flower of Libanus fadeth
away.

5 The mountains tremble at him, and
the hills are made desolate : and the
earth hath quaked at his presence, and
the world, and all that dwell therein.

6 Who can stand before the face of his
indignation? and who shall resist in the
fierceness of his anger? his indignation
is poured out like fire : and the rocks are
melted by him.

7 The Lord is good and giveth strength
in the day of trouble : and knoweth them
that hope in him. ^

8 But with a flood that passe th by, he
will make an utter end of the place
thereof : and darkness shall pursue his
enemies.

9 What do ye devise against the Lord ?

h 2 Tim. 11. 9.

Chap. 1. Ver. 8. Of the place thereof. Viz., of
Ninive.

Ver. 11. Shall come forth one, &c. Some imder-
stand this of Sennacherib. But as his attempt
against the people seems to have been prior to the
prophecy of Nahum, we may better understand it of
Holofernes.

Ver. 12. Thmirrh they v)ere perfect., &c. That is,
tiowever strong or numerous "their forces may be,

he will make an utter end: there shall
not rise a double aflliction.

10 For as thorns embrace one another:
so while they are feasting and drinking
together, they shall be consumed as
stubble that is fully dry.

11 Out of thee shall come forth one that
imagineth evil against the Lord, contriv-
ing treachery in his mind.

12 Thus saith the Lord : Though they
were perfect : and many ot them so, yet
thus shall they be cut off, and he shall
pass: I have aflSicted thee, and I will
afflict thee no more.

13 And now I will break in pieces his
rod with which he struck thy back, and I
will burst thy bonds asunder.

14 And the Lord will give a command-
ment concerning thee, that no more of
thy name shall be sown : I will destroy
the graven and molten thing out of the
house of thy God, I will make it thy
grave, for thou art disgraced.

16 * Behold upon the mountains the feet
of him that bringeth good tidings, and
that preacheth peace : O Juda, keep thy
festivals, and pay thy vows : for Belial
shall no more pass through thee again,
he is utterly cut off.

CHAPTER 2.

God sends his armies against Ninive to destroy it.

HE is come up that shall destroy be-
fore thy face, that shall keep the
siege : watch the way, fortify thy loins,
strengthen thy power exceedingly.
2 For the Lord hath rendered the prido

i Isa. 52. 7 ; Rom. 10. 15.

they shall be cut off; and their prince or leader sU 11
pass away and disappear.

Ver. 14. IVill give a commandment. That is, i
decree, concerning thee, O king of Ninive, thy seed
shall fail, i&c.

Ver. 15. Belial. The wicked one, viz., the Assyr^
ian. .^ -

Chap. 2. Ver. 2. Hath rendered the pride of
Jacobt &C. He hath punished Jacob for bis pridC}

1002

Siege and destruction of Ninive NAHUM Ninive destroyed for her sins

of Jacob, as the pride of Israel : because
the spoilers have laid them waste, and
have marred their vine branches.

3 The shield of his mighty men is like
fire, the men of the army are clad in
scarlet, the reins of the chariot are flam-
ing in the day of his preparation, and the
drivers are stupefied.

4 They are in confusion in the ways, the
chariots jostle one against another in the
streets : their looks are like torches, like
lightning running to and fro.

5 He will muster up his valiant men,
they shall stumble in their march : they
shall quickly get upon the walls thereof :
and a covering shall be prepared.

6 The gates of the rivers are opened,
and the temple is thrown down to the
ground.

7 And the soldier is led away captive :
and her bondwomen were led away
mourning as doves, murmuring in their
hearts.

8 And as for Ninive, her waters are like
a great pool, but the men flee away.
They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none
that will return back.

9 Take ye the spoil of the silver, take
the spoil of the gold: for there is no
end of the riches of all the precious
furniture.

10 She is destroyed, and rent, and torn :
the heart melteth, and the knees fail,
and all the loins lose their strength : and
the faces of them all are as the blackness
of a kettle.

11 Where is now the dwelling of the
lions, and the feeding place of the young
lions, to which the lion went, to enter in
thither, the young lion, and there was
none to make them afraid?

12 The lion caught enough for his
whelps, and killed for his lionesses : and
he filled his holes with prey, and his den
with rapine.

• 13 Behold I come against thee, saith the
Lord of hosts, and I will burn thy chariots
even to smoke, and the sword shall de-
vour thy young lions : and I will cut off
thy prey out of the land, and the voice

j Mich. 7, 11.

and therefore Ninive must not expect to escape. Or
else, rendering the pride of Jacob means rewarding,
that is, punishing Ninive for the pride they exercised
against Jacob.

Ver. 3. Of his mighty men, &c. He speaks of the
Chaldeans and Medes sent to destroy Ninive. — Ibid.
Stupefied, consopiti. That is, they drive on furiously
like men intoxicated with wine.

of thy
more.-^

messengers shall be heard no

CHAPTER 3.

The miserable destruction of Ninive.
OE ^ to thee, O city of blood, all
full of lies and violence: rapine
shall not depart from thee.

2 The noise of the whip, and the noise
of the rattling of the wheels, and of the
neighing horse, and of the running char-
iot, and of the horsemen coming up,

3 And of the shining sword, and of the
glittering spear, and of a multitude slain,
and of a grievous destruction : and there
is no end of carcasses, and they shall fall
down on their dead bodies.

4 Because of the multitude of the for-
nications of the harlot that was beauti-
ful and agreeable, and that made use of
witchcraft, that sold nations through her
fornications, and famihes through her
witchcrafts.

5 Behold I come against thee, saith the
Lord of hosts : * and I will discover thy
shame to thy face, and will shew thy
nakedness to the nations, and thy shame
to kingdoms.

6 And I will cast abominations upon
thee, and will disgrace thee, and will
make an example of thee.

7 And it shall come to pass that every
one that shall see thee, shall flee from
thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste:
who shall bemoan thee ? whence shall I
seek a comforter for thee ?

8 Art thou better than the populous
Alexandria, that dwelleth among the
rivers? waters are round about it: the
sea is its riches, the waters are its walls.

9 Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength
thereof, and there is no end : Africa and
the Libyans were thy helpers.

10 Yet she also was removed and car-
ried into captivity: her young children
were dashed in pieces at the top of every
street, and they cast lots upon her nobles,
and all her great men were bound in
fetters.

11 Therefore thou also shalt be made

k Ezech. 24. 9; Hab. 2. 12. — Z Isa. 47. 3.

Ver. 5. Stum,ble in their march. By running
hastily on.

Chap. 3. Ver. 8. Populous Alexandria. No-
Ammon. A populous city of Egypt destroyed by the
Chaldeans, and afterwards rebuilt by Alexander, and
called Alexandria. Others suppose No-Ammon to
be the same as Diospolis.

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HABACUC

The Chaldeans

drunk, and shalt be despised : and thou
shalt seek help from the enemy.

12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig
trees with their green figs: if they be
shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of
the eater.

13 Behold thy people in the midst of thee
are women : the gates of thy land shall
be set wide open to thy enemies, the
fire shall devour thy bars.

14 Draw thee water for the siege, build
up thy bulwarks : go into the clay, and
tread, work it and make brick.

15 There shall the fire devour thee :
thou shalt perish by the sword, it shall
devour thee like the bruchus : assemble
together like the bruchus, make thyself
many like the locust.

16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchan-

dises above the stars of heaven: the
bruchus hath spread himself and flown
away.

17 Thy guards are like the locusts : and
thy little ones like the locusts of locusts
which swarm on the hedges in the day
of cold: the sun arose, and they flew
away, and their place was not known
where they were.

18 Thy shepherds have slumbered, O
king of Assyria, thy princes shall be
buried: thy people are hid in the moun-
tains, and there is none to gather them
together.

19 Thy destruction is not hidden, thy
wound is grievous : all that have heard
the fame of thee, have clapped their
hands over thee : for upon whom hath
not thy wickedness passed continually ?

THE

PROPHECY OF HABACUC.

Habacuc prophesied in Jttda about 605-600 B. C, some time before the invasion of
the Chaldeans, which he foretold.

CHAPTER 1.

The prophet complains of the wickedness of the peo-
ple : God reveals to him the vengeance he is going
to take of them by the Chaldeans.

fT 1HE burden that Habacuc the pro-
X phet saw.

2 How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou
wilt not hear ? shall I cry out to thee suf-
fering violence, and thou wilt not save ?

3 Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and
grievance, to see rapine and injustice
before me ? and there is a judgment, but
opposition is more powerful.

4 Therefore the law is torn in pieces,
and judgment cometh not to the end:
because the wicked prevaileth against
the just, therefore wrong judgment goeth
forth.

5 " Behold ye among the nations, and
see : wonder, and be astonished : for a

The locusts of locusts. The young

Ver. 17.
locusts.
CflAP.l. Ver. I. Burden. Such prophecies more

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work is done in your days, which no man
will believe when it shall be told.

6 For behold, I will raise up the Chal-
deans, a bitter and swift nation, march-
ing upon the breadth of the earth, to
possess the dwelling places that are not
their own.

7 They are dreadful, and terrible : from
themselves shall their judgment, and their
burden proceed.

8 Their horses are lighter than leopards,
and swifter than evening wolves; and
their horsemen shall be spread abroad:
for their horsemen shall come from afar,
they shall fly as an eagle that maketh
haste to eat.

9 They shall all come to the prey, their
face id like a burning wind: and they
shall gather together captives as the sand.

10 And their prince shall triumph over

n Acts 13. 34.

especially are called burdens^ as threaten grievous
evils aud punishments.

The prophefs complaint

HABACUC

Woe to the wicked

kings, and princes shall be his laughing-
stock : and he shall laugh at every strong
Hold, and shall cast up a mount, and shall
take it.

11 Then shall his spirit be changed, and
he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength
of his god.

12 Wast thou not from the beginning,
0 Lord my God, my holy one, and we
shall not die ? Lord, thou hast appointed
him for judgment: and made him strong
for correction.

13 Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil,
and thou canst not look on iniquity.
Why lookest thou upon them that do un-
just things, and boldest thy peace when
the wicked devoureth the man that is
more just than himself ?

14 And thou wilt make men as the fishes
of the sea, and as the creeping things
that have no ruler.

15 He lifted up all them with his hook,
he drew them in his drag, and gathered
them into his net: for this he will be
glad and rejoice.

16 Therefore will he offer victims to his
drag, and he will sacrifice to his net : be-
cause through them his portion is made
fat, and his meat dainty.

17 For this cause therefore he spread-
eth his net, and will not spare continually
to slay the nations.

j CHAPTER 2.

The prophet is admonished to wait vfith faith. The
enemies of God's people shall assuredly be pun-
ished.

I WILL stand upon my watch, and fix
my foot upon the tower: and I will
i^atch, to see what will be said to me,
md what I may answer to him that re-
oroveth me.

5? And the Lord answered me, and said :
i^rite the vision, and make it plain upon
•ables : that he that readeth it may run
)ver it.

o John 3. 36 ; Rom. 1. 17 ; Gal. 3. 11 ; Heb. 10. 38.

Ver. H. Then shall his spirit, &c. Viz., the spirit
f the king of Babylon. It alludes to the Judgment
f God upon Nabuchodonosor, recorded Dan. C, and
D the speedy fall of the Chaldean empire.
Chap. 2. Ver. l. Will stand, &c. Waiting to see
hat the Lord will answer to my complaint, viz., that
le Chaldeans, who are worse than the Jews, and
ho attribute all their success to ttieir own strength,
r to their idols, should nevertheless prevail over the
eople of the Lord. The Lord's answer is, that the
rophet must wait with patience and faith ; that all
lould be set right in due time ; and the enemies of

3 For as yet the vision is far off, and it
shall appear at the end, and shall not lie :
if it make any delay, wait for it : for it
shall surely come, and it shall not be
slack.

4 Behold, he that is unbelieving, hie
soul shall not be right in himself: °but
the just shall live in his faith.

5 And as wine deceiveth him that drink-
eth it: so shall the proud man be, and
he shall not be honoured : who hath en-
larged his desire like hell : and is himself
like death, and he is never satisfied: but
wiil gather together unto him all nations,
and heap together unto him all people.

6 Shall not all these take up a parable
against him, and a dark speech concern-
ing him: and it shall be said: Woe to
him that heapeth together that which is
not his own ? how long also doth he load
himself with thick clay ?

7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that
shall bite thee : and they be stirred up
that shall tear thee, and thou shalt be i^
spoil to them?

8 Because thou hast spoiled many na-
tions, aU that shall be left of the people
shall spoil thee: because of men's blood,
and for the iniquity of the land, of the
city, and of all that dwell therein.

9 Woe to him that gathereth together
an evil covetousness to his house, that
his nest may be on high, and thinketh
he may be delivered out of the hand of
evil.

10 Thou hast devised confusion to thy
house, thou hast cut off many people,
and thy soul hath sinned.

11 For the stone shall cry out of the
wall : and the timber that is between the
joints of the building, shall answer.

12 ^ Woe to him that buildeth a town
with blood, and prepareth a city by
iniquity.

13 Are not these things from the Lord

p Ezech. 24. 9 ; Nah. 3. 1.

Ver. 5. As urine deceiveth, &c. Viz., by affording
only a short passing pleasure ; followed by the evlfi
and disgrace that are the usual consequences of
drunkenness : so shall it be with the proud enemies
of the people of God ; whose success affordeth them
only a momentary pleasure, followed by innumer-
able and everlasting evils.

Ver. 6. Thick clay. Ill-gotten goods, that, like
mire, both burden and defile the soul.

Ver. 13. Are not these things, &c. That is, shall
not these punishments that are here recorded, come
from the Lord upon him that is guilty of such crimes.

od and his people punished accordins to their — ibid. The people shall labour^ &c. Viz., the eue*
eserts. * lilies of God's people.

looai

Woe to the idolator

HABACUC

The majesty of God

of hosts? for the people shall labour in
a great fire: and the nations in vain, and
they shall faint.

14 For the earth shall be filled, that
men may know the glory of the Lord, as
waters covering the sea.

15 Woe to him that giveth drink to his
friend, and presenteth his gall, and mak-
eth him drunk, that he may behold his
nakedness.

16 Thou art filled with shame instead of
glory: drink thou also, and fall fast
asleep: the cup of the right hand of the
Lord shall compass thee, and shameful
vomiting shall be on thy glory.

17 For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover
thee, and the ravaging of beasts shall
terrify them because of the blood of men,
and the iniquity of the land, and of the
city, and of all that dwell therein.

18 What doth the graven thing avail,
because the maker thereof hath graven it,
a molten, and a false image ? because the
forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of
his own forging, to make dumb idols.

19 Woe to him that saith to wood:
Awake : to the dumb stone : Arise: can it
teach ? Behold, it is laid over with gold,
and silver, and there is no spirit in the
bowels thereof.

20 5 But the Lord is in his holy temple:
let all the earth keep silence before
bim.

^-^^ — ^-^

q Ps. 10. 5.

Ver. 17. The iniquity of Libanus. That is, the
Iniquity committed by tlie Chaldeans against the
temple of God, signified here by the name of Liba-
nus.

Chap. 3. Ver. 1. For ignorances. That is, for
the sins of his people. In the Hebrew, it is Sigio-
noth : which some take to signify a musical instru-
ment, or tune ; with which this sublime prayer and
canticle was to be sung.

Ver. 2. Thy hearing, &e. That is, thy oracles,
the great and wonderful things thou hast revealed
to me : and I was struck with a reverential fear and
awe.— Ibid. Thy work. The great work of the
redemption of man, which thou wilt bring to life and
light in the midst of the years, when our calamities
and miseries shall be at their height.

Ver. 3. God will come from the south, &c. God
himself will come to give us his law, and to conduct
us into the true land of promise; as heretofore he
came from the South (in the Hebrew Theman) and
from mount Pharan to give his law to his people in
the desert. See Dent. 33. 2.

Ver. 4. Horns, &c. That is, strength and power,
which, by a Hebrew phrase, are called horns. Or
beams of light, which come forth from his hands.
Or it may allude to the cross, in the horns of which
the hands of Christ were fastened, where his strength
was hidden, by which he overcame the world, and
irove out death and the devil.

Ver. 5. Death shall go before his facet &e. Both

CHAPTER 3.

1 A PRAYER OF HABACUC THE PROPHET

FOR IGNORANCES.

2 /^ LORD, 1 have heard thy hearing,
\J and was afraid.

O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the
years bring it to life:

In the midst of the years thou shalt t
make it known : when thou art angry, (
thou wilt remember mercy.

3 God will come from the south, and the
holy one from mount Pharan :

His glory covered the heavens, and the
earth is full of his praise.

4 His brightness shall be as the light:
horns are in his hands :

There is his strength hid : 5 Death shall
go before his face.

And the devil shall go forth before his
feet.

6 He stood and measured the earth.
He beheld, and melted the nations : and

the ancient mountains were crushed to
pieces.
The hills of the world were bowed down
by the journeys of his eternity.

7 I saw the tents of Ethiopia for their
iniquity, the curtains of the land of Ma-
dian shall be troubled.

8 Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the
rivers? or was thy wrath upon the
rivers ? or thy indig^iation in the sea ?

death and the devil shall be the executioners of his
justice against his enemies: as they were heretofore
against the Egyptians and Chanaanites.

Ver. 6. Be beheld, &c. One look of his eye is
enough to melt all the nations, and to reduce them
to nothing. For all heaven and earth disappear
when they come before his light. Apoc. 20. 11. Ibid.
The ancient mountains, &c. By the mountains and
hills are signified the great ones of the world, tliat
persecute the church, whose power was quickly
crushed by the Almighty.

Ver. 7. Ethiop-ia, the land of the Blacks, and Afa-
dian, are here taken for the enemies of God and bis
people : who shall perish for their iniquity.

Ver. 8. With the rivers, &c. He alludes to the
wonders wrought heretofore by the Lord in favour
of his people Israel, when the waters of the rivers.
viz., of Arnon and Jordan, and of the Red Sea, retired
before their face : when he came as it were with hia
horses and chariots to save them when he took up
his bow for their defence, in consequence of the oath
he had made to their tribes: when the mountain»
trembled, and the deep stood with its waves raised
up in a heap, as with hands lifted up to heaven:
when the sun and the moon stood still at his com-
mand, &c., to comply with his anger, not against the
rivers and sea, but against the enemies of his people.
How much more will he do in favour '^f his Son ; ana
against the «nemies of his church?

The anger of God

SOPHONIAS

Who will ride upon thy horses: and
thy chariots are salvationo

9 Thou wilt surely take up thy bow :
according to the oaths which thou hast
spoken to the tribes.

Thou wilt divide the rivers of the earth.

10 The mountains saw thee, and were
grieved : the great body of waters passed
away.

The deep put forth its voice: the deep
lifted up its hands.

11 The sun and the moon stood still in
their habitation, in the light of thy
arrows, they shall go in the brightness
of thy glittering spear.

12 In thy anger thou wilt tread the earth
under foot : in thy wrath thou wilt as-
tonish the nations.

13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation
of thy people: for salvation with thy
Christ.

Thou struckest the head of the house of
the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foun-
dation even to the neck.

14 Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the

God our strength

head of his warriors fchem that came out
as a whirlwind to so ^ tter me.
Their joy was like aat of him that de-
voureth the poor mi. a in secret.

15 Thou madest a vay in the sea for
thy horses, in the m» «d of many waters.

16 I have heard ai d my bowels were
troubled : my lips tr^r aabled at the voice.

Let rottenness ente Into my bones, and
swarm under me.

That I may rest ill he day of tribula-
tion : that I may g< ip to our people
that are girded.

17 For the fig tree >:>nall not blossom:
and there shall be no spring in the vines.
The labour of the olive tree shall fail :
and the fields shall yield no food : the
flock shall be cut off from the fold, and
there shall be no herd in the stalls.

18 But I will rejoice in the Lord : and I
will joy in God my Jesus.

19 The Lord God is my strength : and
he will make my feet like the feet of
harts : and he the conqueror will lead me
upon my high places singing psalms.

THE

PROPHECY OF SOPHONIAS.

SOPHONIAS or Zephaniah prophesied in the beginning of the reign of Josias (641-
610 B. C.) and was consequently a contemporary of Jeremias. He foretold the
punishments of the Jews, for their idolatry and other crimes; also the punish-
m^ents that were to come on divers nations; the coming of messianic times, the
conversion of the Gentiles and of the Jews,

r» CHAPTER 1.

For divers enormous sins, the kingdom of Juda is
threatened with severe judgment.

THE word of the Lord that came to
Sophonias the son of Chusi, the son
of G!)dolias, the son of Amarias, the son

Ver. 13. The head of the house of the wicked. —
Such was Pharao heretofore : such shall Antichrist
be hereafter.

Ver, 15. Thon madest a way in the sea, &e., to
delivei thy people from the Egyptian bondage : and
thou Shalt work the like wonders in the spiritual
way, to rescue the children of the church from their
enemies.

Ver. 16. / have heard, &c. Viz., the evils that
are now coming upon the Israelites for their sins ;
and that shall come hereafter upon all impenitent
sinners. ; and the foresight that I have of these mis-
eries makes me willing to die, that I may be at rest.

of Ezechias, in the days of Josias the son
of Amon king of Juda.

2 Gathering, I will gather together all
things from off the face of the land, saith
the Lord:

3 I will gather man, and beast, I will

before this general tribulation comes, in which all
good things shall be withdrawn from the wicked. — «
Ibid. That I may go up to our people, &c. That C
may join the happy company in the bosom of Abra«
ham, that are girded, that is, prepared for their jour*
ney, by which they shall attend their Lord, when he»,
shall ascend into heaven. To which high and happy?
place, my Jesus, that is, my Saviour, the great con»,
queror of death and hell, shall one day conduct;
me rejoicing and singing psalms of praise, ver. 18
and 19,

Chap. 1. Ver. 2. Gathering, I will gather. Sua,
That is, I will assuredly take away, and wholly con*

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Against Juda and Jerusalem SOPHONIAS

gather the birds of the air, and the fishes
of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet
with ruin : and I will destroy men from
off the face of the land, saith the Lord.

4 And I will stretch out my hand upon
Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jeru-
salem: and I will destroy out of this place
the remnant of Baal, and the names of the
wardens of the temples with the priests:

5 And them that worship the host of
heaven upon the tops of houses, and
them that adore, and swear by the Lord,
and swear by Melchom.

6 And them that turn away from fol-
lowing after the Lord, and that have not
sought the Lord, nor searched after him.

7 Be silent before the face of the Lord
God : for the day of the Lord is near, for
the Lord hath prepared a victim, he hath
sanctified his guests.

8 And it shall come to pass in the day
of the victim of the Lord, that I will visit
upon the princes, and upon the king's
sons, and upon all such as are clothed
with strange apparel.

9 And I will visit in that day upon every
one that entereth arrogantly over the
threshold : them that fill the house of the
Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

10 And there shall be in that day, saith
the Lord, the noise of a cry from the
fish gate, and a howling from the Second,
and a great destruction from the hills.

11 Howl, ye inhabitants of the Morter.
All the people of Chanaan is hushed, all
#.re cut off that were wrapped up in silver.

12 And it shall come to pass at that
time, that I will search Jerusalem with
lamps, and will visit upon the men that
are settled on their lees: that say in
their hearts : The Lord will not do good,
nor will he do evil.

13 And their strength shall become a
booty, and their houses as a desert : ® and
they shall build houses, and shall not
dwell in them : and they shall plant vine-
yards, and shall not drink the wine of
ttiem.

14 The great day of the Lord is near, it
is near and exceeding swift: the voice of

s Amos 5. 11. — t Jer. 30. 7 ; Joel 2. 11 ; Amos 5. 18.

sume, either by captivity, or death, both men and
beasts out of this land.

Ver. 4. The wardens, &c. Viz., of the temples of
the idols. J^dihios, in Hebrew, the Chemorims,
that is, such as kindle the fires, or burn incense.

Ver. 5. Melchom. The idol of the Ammonites.

Ter. 10. The Second. A part of the city so called.

Exhortation to repentance

the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty
man shall there meet with tribulation.

15 * That day is a day of wrath, a day of
tribulation and distress, a day of calamity
and misery, a day of darkness and ob-
scurity, a day of clouds and whirlwinds,

16 A day of the trumpet and alarni!
against the fenced cities, and against the
high bulwarks.

17 And I will distress men, and they
shall walk like blind men, because they
have sinned against the Lord : and their
blood shall be poured out as earth, and
their bodies as dung.

18 ^* Neither shall their silver and their
gold be able to deliver them in the day
of the wrath of the Lord : ^ all the land
shall be devoured by the fire of his jeal-
ousy, for he shall make even a speedy
destruction of all them that dwell in the
land.

CHAPTER 2.

An exhortation to repentance. The judgment of the
Philistines, of the Moabites, and the Ammonites;
of the Ethiopians, and the Assyrians.

A SSEMBLE yourselves together, be
J\. gathered together, O nation not
worthy to be loved :

2 Before the decree bring forth the day
as dust passing away, before the fierce
anger of the Lord come upon you, be-
fore the day of the Lord's indignation
come upon you.

3 Seek the Lord, all ye meek of the
earth, you that have wrought his judg-
ment: seek the just, seek the meek: if
by any means you may be hid in the day
of the Lord's indignation.

4 For Gaza shall be destroyed, and As-
calon shall be a desert, they shall cast
out Azotus at noonday, and Accaron
shall be rooted up.

5 Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast,
O nation of reprobates: the word of the
Lord upon you, O Chanaan, the land of
the Philistines, and I will destroy thee,
so that there shall not be an inhabitant.

6 And the sea coast shall be the resting
place of shepherds, and folds for cattle :

7 And it shall be the portion of him that

u Ezech. 7. 19. — V Infra 3. 8.

Ver. 11. The Morter. MaJctesh. A valley in or
near Jerusalem. — Ibid. The people of Chanaan.
So he calls the Jews, from their following the wicked
ways of the Chanaanites.

Ver. 12. Settled on their lees. That is, the
wealthy, and such as live at their ease, resting upon
their riches, like wine upon the lees.

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Punishment of the nations

SOPHONIAS

Obstinacy of Jerusalem

snail remain of the house of Juda, there
they shall feed: in the houses of Ascalon
they shall rest in the evening: because
the Lord their God will visit them, and
bring back their captivity.

8 I have heard the reproach of Moab,
and the blasphemies of the children of
Ammon, with which they reproached my
people, and have magnified themselves
upon their borders.

9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of
hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as
Sodom, and the children of Ammon as
Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and
heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever :
the remnant of my people shall make a
spoil of them, and the residue of my
nation shall possess them.

10 This shall befall them for their pride :
because they have blasphemed, and have
been magnified against the people of the
Lord of hosts.

11 The Lord shall be terrible upon them,
and shall consume all the gods of the
earth: and they shall adore him every
man from his own place, all the islands
Tjf the Gentiles.

12 You Ethiopians, also shall 3e slain
with my sword.

13 And he will stretch out Ms hand
upon the north, and will destroy Assyria :
and he will make the beautiful city a
wilderness, and as a place not passable,
and as a desert.

14 ^ And flocks shall lie down in the
midst thereof, all the beasts of the na-
tions: and the bittern and the urchin
shall lodge in the threshold thereof: the
voice of the singing bird in the window,
the raven on the upper post, for I will
consume her strength.

15 This is the glorious city that dwelt in
security: that said in her heart: I am,
and there is none beside me : how is she
become a desert, a place for beasts to lie
down in? every one that passeth by her,
shal? hiss, and wag his hand.

CHAPTER 3.

^ woe to Jerusalem for her sins. A prophecy of the
conversion of the Gentiles, and of the poor of Is-
rael : God shall be with them. The Jews shall be
converted at last.

OE to the provoking, and redeemed
city, the dove.

w Isa. 34. 11.

2 She hath not hearkened to the voice,
neither hath she received di«cipline : she
hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew
not near to her God.

3 ^ Her princes are in the midst of her
as roaring lions : her judges are evening
wolves, they left nothing for the morn-
ing.

4 Her prophets are senseless men with-
out faith: her priests have polluted
the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly
against the law.

5 The just Lord is in the midst thereof,
he will not do iniquity : in the morning,
in the morning he will bring his judg-
ment to light, and it shall not be hid:
but the wicked man hath not known
shame.

6 I have destroyed the nations, and
their towers are beaten down: I have
made their ways desert, so that there is
none that passeth by: their cities are
desolate, there is not a man remaining,
nor any inhabitant.

7 I said : Surely thou wilt fear me, thou
wilt receive correction: and her dwell-
ing shall not perish, for all things where-
in I have visited her : but they rose early
and corrupted all their thoughts.

8 Wherefore expect me, saith the Lord,
in the day of my resurrection that is to
come, for my judgment is to assemble
the Gentiles, and to gather the king-
doms: and to pour upon them my indig-
nation, all my fierce anger: yfor with
the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth
be devoured.

9 Because then I will restore to the
people a chosen lip, that all may call
upon the name of the Lord, and may
serve him with one shoulder.

10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
shall my suppliants the children of my
dispersed people bring me an offering.

11 In that day thou shalt not be ashamed
for all thy doings, wherein thou hast
transgressed against me: for then I will
take away out of the midst of thee thy
proud boasters, and thou shalt no more
be Ufted up because of my holy moun-
tain.

12 And I will leave in the midst of thee
a poor and needy people : and they shall
hope in the name of the Lord.

X Ezech. 22. 27 ; Mich. 3. 11. — i/ Supra 1. 18.

Chap. a. Ver. 13. The beautiful city, viz., Ninive, which was destroyed soon after tbis, viz., in the

«ixteenth year of the reign of Josias.

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Remnant of Israel converted

AGGEUS People neglect to rebuild the temple

13 The remnant of Israel shall not do
iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a de-
ceitful tongue be found in their mouth :
for they shall feed, and shall lie down,
and there shall be none to make them
afraid.

14 Give praise, O daughter of Sion:
shout, O Israel : be glad, and rejoice with
all thy heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

16 The Lord hath taken away thy judg-
ment, he hath turned away thy enemies :
the king of Israel the Lord is in the
midst of thee, thou shalt fear evil no
more.

16 In that day it shall be said to Jeru-
salem : Fear not : to Sion : Let not thy
hands be weakened.

17 The Lord thy God in the midst of
thee is mighty, he will save : he will re-

joice over thee with gladness, he will be
silent in his love, he will be joyful over
thee in praise.

18 The triflers that were departed from
the law, I will gather together, because
they were of thee: that thou may est no
more suffer reproach for them.

19 Behold I will cut off all that have
afflicted thee at that time : and I will
save her that halteth, and will gather
her that was cast out: and I will get
them praise, and a name, in all the land
where they had been put to confusion.

20 At that time, when I will bring you :
and at the time that I will gather you:
for I will give you a name, and praise
among all the people of the earth, when
I shall have brought back your captivity
before your eyes, saith the Lord.

THE

PROPHECY OF AGGEUS.

Aggeus was one of tTiose that returned from tJie captimty of Babylon, in the first year of the
reign of king Cyrus. He was sent hy the Lord, in the second year of the reign of king Darius,
the son of Hystaspes, to exhort Zorobabel the prince of Juda, and Jesus the high priest, to the
building of the temple ; which they had begun, but left off again through the opposition of the
Samaritans. In consequence of this exhortation they proceeded in the building and finished
the temple. And the prophet was commissioned by the Lord to assure them that this second
temple should be more glorious than the former, because the Messiah should honour it with his
presence : signifying withal hx)W much the church of the New Testa/ment should excel that of
the Old Testament.

CHAPTER 1.

The 'people are rejyroved for neglecting to build the
temple. They are encouraged to set about the
work.

IN ^the second year of Darius ®the
king, in the sixth month, in the first
day of the month, the word of the Lord
came by the hand of Aggeus the pro-
phet, to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel,
governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of
Josedec the high priest, saying:

2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying:
This people saith: The time is not yet
come for building the house of the Lord.

3 And the word of the Lord came by the
hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying :

4 Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled
houses, and this house lie desolate ?

5 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts:
Set your hearts to consider your ways.

6 ^ You have sowed much, and brought
in little: you have eaten, but have not
had enough : you have drunk, but have
not been fiUed with drink : you have
clothed yourselves, but have not been
warmed : and he that hath earned wages,
put them into a bag with holes.

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Set your
hearts upon your ways:

8 Go up to the mountain, bring timber,
and build the house : and it shall be
acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified,
saith the Lord.

9 You have looked for more, and beholc*
it became less, and you brought it home,
and I blowed it away: why, saith the

f EmA. 6. 1. — a B. C. 610.

h D«at. 28. M : Mieb. C U.

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Aeglect the cause of their woes AGGEUS Greater glory of the new temple

Lord of hosts? becanse my house is deso-
late, and you make haste every man to
his own house.

10 Therefore the heavens over you were
stayed from giving dew, and the earth
was hindered from yielding her fruits:

11 And I called for a drought upon the
land, and upon the mountains, and upon
the corn, and upon the wine, and upon
the oil, and upon all that the ground
bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon
beasts, and upon all the labour of the
hands.

12 Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel,
and Jesus the son of Josedec the high
priest, and all the remnant of the people
hearkened to the voice of the Lord their
God, and to the words of Aggous the
prophet, as the Lord their God sent him
to them: and the people feared before
the Lord.

13 And Aggeus the messenger of the
Lord, as one of the messengers of the
Lord, spoke, saying to the people: I am
with you, saith the Lord.

14 And the Lord stirred up the spirit of
Zorobabel the son of Salathiel governor
of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son
of Josedec the high priest, and the spirit
of all the rest of the people: and they
went in, and did the work in the house of
the Lord of hosts their God.

CHAPTER 2.

Christ by his coming shall make the latter temple
more gloi'ious than the former. The blessing of
God shall reward their labour in building. God's
prom^ise to Zorobabel.

IN ^ the four and twentieth day of the
month, in the sixth month, in the sec-
ond year of Darius the king, they began,

2 And in the seventh month, the word
of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus
the prophet, saying:

3 Speak to Zorobabel the son of Sala-
thiel the governor of Juda, and to Jesus
the son of Josedec the high priest, and to
the rest of the people, saying :

4 Who is left among you, that saw this
house in its first glory ? and how do you
see it now? is it not in comparison to that
as nothing in your eyes ?

c B. C. 520.

Chap. 2. Ver. 14, By occasion of a soul. That
Is, by having touched the dead ; in which case,
according lo the prescription of the law, Num. 19. 13,
22, a person not only became unclean himself, but
made every thing that he touched unclean. The
prophet applies all this to the people, whose souls

6 Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel,
saith the Lord, and take courage, O Jesus
the son of Josedec the high priest, and
take courage, all ye people of the land,
saith the Lord of hosts : and perform (for
I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts)

6 The word that I covenanted with you
when you came out of the land of Egypt:
and my spirit shall be in the midst of
you : fear not.

7 For thus saith the Lord of hosts : ^ Yet
one Uttle while, and I will move the hea-
ven and the earth, and the sea, and the
dry land.

8 And I will move all nations : and the

DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL COME I

and I will fill this house with glory : saith
the Lord of hosts.

9 The silver is mine, and the gold is
mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

10 Great shall be the glory of this last
house more than of the first, saith the
Lord of hosts: and in this place I will
give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

11 In the four and twentieth day of the
ninth month, in the second year of Darius
the king, the word of the Lord came to
Aggeus the prophet, saying:

12 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Ask the
priests the law, saying:

13 If a man carry sanctified flesh in the
skirt of his garment, and touch with his
skirt, bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil,
or any meat : shall it be sanctified ? And
the priests answered, and said : No.

14 And Aggeus said : If one that is un-
clean by occasion of a soul touch any of
all these things, shall it be defiled ? And
the priests answered, and said: It shall
be defiled.

15 And Aggeus answered, and said: So
is this people, and so is this nation before
my face, saith the Lord, and so is all the
work of their hands: and all that they
have offered there, shall be defiled.

16 And now consider in your hearts,
from this day and upward, before there
was a stone laid upon a stone in the tem-
ple of the Lord.

17 When you went to a heap of twenty
bushels, and they became ten: and you

d Hel). 12. 26.

remained unclean by neglecting the temple of God;
and therefore were not sanctified by the flesh they
offered in sacrifice: but rather defiled their sacri-
fices by approaching to them in the state of unclean*
ness.

God's promise to Zorobabel

ZACHARIAS

Exhortation to turn to God

went into the press, to presf out fifty
vessels, and they became twenty.

18 * I struck you with a blasting wind,
and all the works of your hand with the
mildew and with hail, yet there was none
among you that returned to me, saith
the Lord.

19 Set your hearts from this day, and
henceforward, from the four and twenti-
eth day of the ninth month: from the
day that the foundations of the temple
of the Lord were laid, and lay it up in
your hearts.

20 Is the seed as yet sprung up? or
hath the vine, and the fig tree, and the
pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet
flourished? from this day I will bless
you.

21 And the word of the Lord came a
second time to Aggeus in the four and
twentieth day of the month, saying :

22 Speak to Zorobabel the governor of
Juda, saying: I wiU move both heaven
and earth.

23 And I will overthrow the throne of
kingdoms, and will destroy the strength
of the kingdom of the Gentiles: and I
will overthrow the chariot, and him that
rideth therein : and the horses and their
riders shall come down, every one by the
sword of his brother.

24 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts,
I will take thee, -^O Zorobabel the son of
Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and
will make thee as a signet, for I have
chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts.

THE

PROPHECY OF ZACHARIAS.

Zacharias began to prophesr/ in the same year as Aggeus, and upon the same occasion. Hi»
prophecy is full of mysterious figures and promises of blessings, partly relating to the syna-
gogue, and pa/rtly to the church of Christ.

CHAPTER 1.

The prophet exhorts the people to reinim to God^
and declares his visions, by which he puts them
in hopes of better times.

IN ^the eighth month, in the second
year of king Darius, the word of the
Lord came to Zacharias the son of Bar-
achias, the son of Addo, the prophet,
saying :

2 The Lord hath been exceeding angry
with your fathers.

3 And thou shalt say to them : Thus saith
the Lord of hosts : ^ Turn ye to me, saith
the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you,
saith the Lord of hostSc

4 Be not as your fathers, to whom the
former prophets have cried, saying: Thus
saith the Lord of hosts : Turn ye from
your evil ways, and from your wicked
thoughts : but they did not give ear,

e Amos 4. 9.

/ Eccli. 49. 13.

g B. C. 520.

Ver. 24. O Zorobabel. This promise principally
relates U> Christi who was ot the race of ZorobabeL

neither did they hearken to me, saith the
Lord.

5 Your fathers, where are they? and
the prophets, shall they live always?

6 But yet my words, and my ordinances,
which I gave in charge to my servants
the prophets, did they not take hold of
your fathers, and they returned, and
said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do
to us according to our ways, and accord-
ing to our devices, so he hath done to us.

7 In the four and twentieth day of the
eleventh month which is called Sabath,
in the second year of Darius, the word
of the Lord came to Zacharias the son of
Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet,
saying:

8 I saw by night, and behold a man rid-
ing upon a red horse, and he stood among
the myrtle trees, that were in the bottom:

h Isa. 21. 12, and 31. 6, and 45. 22 j Jer. 3. 12 ;

Ezech. 18. 30, and 20. 7, and 33. 11; Osee 14. 2;

Joel 2, 12; MaL3. 7.

Chap. 1. Ver. 8. A man. An angel in the shape
of a man. Tt was probacy St. Michael, Ihe «u«r.
diau augel ot tae ciAorch uL God.

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Vision of the horsea and the horns ZACHARlAb God's 'promise to His people

and behind him were horses, red, spec-
kled, and white.

9 And I said: What are these, my Lord?
and the angel that spoke in me, said to
me: I will shew thee what these are:

10 And the man that stood among the
myrtle trees answered, and said: These
are they, whom the Lord hath sent to
walk through the earth.

11 And they answered the angel of the
Lord, that stood among the myrtle trees,
and said : We have walked through the
earth, and behold all the earth is inhab-
ited, and is at rest.

12 And the angel of the Lord answered,
and said : O Lord of hosts, how long wilt
thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and
on the cities of Juda, with which thou
hast been angry ? this is now the seven-
tieth year.

13 And the Lord answered the angel,
that spoke in me, good words, comfort-
able words.

14 And the angel that spoke in me, said
to me: Cry thou, saying: Thus saith the
Lord of hosts: *I am zealous for Jeru-
salem, and Sion with a great zeal.

15 And I am angry with a great anger
with the wealthy nations : for I was
angry a little, but they helped forward
the evil.

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord : I will
return to Jerusalem in mercies : my
house shall be built in it, saith the Lord
of hosts : and the building line shall be
stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

17 Cry yet, saying: Thus saith the Lord
of hosts : My cities shall yet flow with
good things : and the Lord will yet com-
fort Sion, and he will yet choose Jeru-
salem.

18 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw:
and behold four horns.

19 And I said to the angel that spoke
to me : What are these ? And he said to
me : These are the horns that have scat-
tered Juda, and Israel, and Jerusalem.

20 And the Lord shewed me four smiths.

i Infra 8. 2.

Ver. 10. These are they, &c. The guardian an-
gels of provinces and nations.

Ver. 12. The seventieth year. Viz., from the be-
ginning of the siege of Jerusalem, in the ninth year
of king Sedecias, to the second year of king Darius.
These seventy years of the desolation of Jerusalem
and the cities of Juda, are different from the seventy
years of captivity foretold by Jeremias ; which be-
gan in the fourth year of Joakim, and ended in the
"rst year of king Cyrus.

21 And I said : What come these to do?
and he spoke, saying: These are the
horns which have scattered Juda every
man apart, and none of them lifted up
his head: and these are come to fray
them, to cast down the horns of the
nations, that have lifted up the horn upon
the land of Juda to scatter it.

CHAPTER 2.

Under the name of Jerusalem, he prophesieth the
progress of the church of Christ, by the conversion
of some Jews and many Gentiles.

A ND I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and
1\. behold a man, with a measuring
line in his hand.

2 And I said: Whither goest thou ? and
he said to me : To measure Jerusalem,
and to see how great is the breadth
thereof, and how great the length
thereof.

3 And behold the angel that spoke in
me went forth, and another angel went
out to meet him.

4 And he said to him : Run, speak to
this young man, saying : Jerusalem shall
be inhabited without walls, by reason of
uhe multitude of men, and of the beasts
in the midst thereof.

5 And I will be to it, saith the Lord, a
wall of fire round about: and I will be in
glory in the midst thereof.

e O, O flee ye out of the land of the
north, saith the Lord, for I have scatter-
ed you into the four winds of heaven,
saith the Lord.

7 O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with
the daughter of Babylon :

8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts:
After the glory he hath sent me to the
nations that have robbed you: for he
that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of
my eye :

9 For behold I lift up my hand upon
them, and they shall be a prey to those
that served them: and you shall know
that the Lord of hosts sent me.

10 Sing praise, and rejoice, O daughter
of Sion: for behold I come, and I will

Ver. 18, 20. Four horns, — four smiths. The four
horns represent the empires, or kingdoms, that per.
secute and oppress the people of God : the four
smiths or carpenters (for faher may signify either)
represent those whom God makes his instruments
in bringing to nothing the power of persecutors.

Chap. 2. Ver. 4. Jerusalem shall be inhabited
vnthout walls. This must be understood of the spir*
itual Jerusalem, tbe ehurcU of Christ.

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Jesus the high 'priest

ZACHARIAS The candlestick and olive trees

dwell in the midst of thee : saith the
Lord.

11 And many nations shall be joined to
the Lord in that day, and they shall be
my people, and I will dwell in the midst
of thee: and thou shalt know that the
Lord of hosts hath sent me to thee.

12 And the Lord shall possess Juda his
portion in the sanctified land: and he
shall yet choose Jerusalem.

13 Let all flesh be silent at the presence
of the Lord : for he is risen up out of his
holy habitation.

CHAPTER 3.

In a vision Satan appeareth accusing the high
priest. He is cleansed from his sins. Christ
is promised, and great fruit from his passion.

AND the Lord shewed me Jesus the
. high priest standing before the
angel of the Lord : and Satan stood on
his right hand to be his adversary.

2 And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord
rebuke thee, O Satan : and the Lord that
chose Jerusalem rebuke thee : Is not this
a brand plucked out of the fire ?

3 And Jesus was clothed with filthy
garments : and he stood before the face
of the angel.

4 Who answered, and said to them that
stood before him, saying: Take away
the filthy garments from him. And he
said to him : Behold I have taken away
thy iniquity, and have clothed thee with
change of garments.

5 And he said : Put a clean mitre upon
his head: and they put a clean mitre
upon his head, and clothed him with
garments, and the angel of the Lord
stood.

6 And the angel of the Lord protested
to Jesus, saying :

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : If thou
wilt walk in my ways, and keep my
charge, thou also shalt judge my house.

Chap. 3. Ver. l. Jesus, alias Josue, the son of
Josedec, the high priest of that time.

Ver. 3. With filthy garments. Negligences and
sins.

Ver. 7. / will give thee, &e. Angels to attend and
assist thee.

Ver. 8. Portending m,en. That is, men, who by
words and actions are to foreshew wonders that are
to come. — Ibid. My servant the Orieiit. Christ,
who according to his humanity is the servant of God,
is called the Orient from his rising like the sun in
the east to enlighten the world.

Ver. 9. The stone. Another emblem of Christ, the
rock, foundation, and corner stone of his church. —
Ibid. Seven eye». Tbe manifold providence of

and shalt keep my courts, and I will give
thee some of them that are now present
here to walk with thee.

8 Hear, O Jesus thou high priest, thou
and thy friends that dwell before thee, fop
they are portending men : for behold ^ I

WILL BRING MY SERVANT THE ORIENT.

9 For behold the stone that I have laid
before Jesus: upon one stone there are
seven eyes : behold I will grave the grav-
ing thereof, saith the Lord of hosts : and
I will take away the iniquity of that land
in one day.

10 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts,
every man shall call his friend under the
vine and under the fig tree.

CHAPTER 4.

The vision of the golden candlestick and seven
lamps, and of the two olive trees. Zorobabel shall
finish the building of the temple.

A ND the angel that spoke in me came
XX again : and he waked me, as a man
that is wakened out of his sleep.

2 And he said to me : What seest thou ?
And I said : I have looked, and behold a
candlestick all of gold, and its lamp upon
the top of it : and the seven lights thereof
upon it: and seven funnels for the lights
that were upon the top thereof.

3 And two olive trees over it: one upon
the right side of the lamp, and the other
upon the left side thereof.

4 And I answered, and said to the angel
that spoke in me, saying : What are thes
things, my lord?

6 And the angel that spoke in me an
swered, and said to me : Knowest thou
not what these things are ? And I said:
No, my lord.

6 And he answered, and spoke to me,
saying: This is the word of the Lord tc
Zorobabel, saying : Not with an army, noi
by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord
of hosts.

j Luke 1. 78.

Christ over his church, or the seven gifts of th<
spirit of God. — Ibid. One day. Viz., the day of the
passion of Christ, the source of all our good : whei
this precious stone shall be graved, that is, cut an»
pierced, with whips, thorns, nails, and spear.

Chap. 4. Ver. 2. A candlestick, «&c. The tempi
of God that was then in building; and in a mor
sublime sense, the church of Christ.

Ver. 6. To Zorobabel. This vision was in favou
of Zorobabel : to assure him of success in the buik
ing of the temple, which he had begun, signified b
the candlestick; the lamp of which, without an
other industry, was supplied with oil, dropping fror
the two ohve trees, and distributed by the save
funnels or pipes, to maintain the seven lights.

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The temple vnll he finished

ZACHARIAS

The woman in the vessel

7 Who art thou, O great mountain,
before Zorobabel? thou shalt become a
plain: and he shall bring out the chief
stone, and shall give equal grace to the
grace thereof.

8 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

9 The hands of Zorobabel have laid the
foundations of this house, and his hands
shall finish it : and you shall know that
the Lord of hosts hath sent me to you.

10 For who hath despised little days?
and they shall rejoice, and shall see the
tin plummet in the hand of Zorobabel.
These are the seven eyes of the Lord,
that run to and fro through the whole
earth.

11 And I answered, and said to him:
What are these two olive trees upon the
right side of the candlestick, and upon
the left side thereof?

12 And I answered again, and said to
bim'o What are the two olive branches,
that are by the two golden beaks, in
which are the funnels of gold ?

13 And he spoke to me, saying : Know-
€8t thou not what these are ? And I said :
No, my lord.

14 And he said : These are two sons of oil
who stand before the Lord of the whole
earth.

CHAPTER 5.

The vision of the flying volume, and of the woman
in the vessel.

A ND I turned and lifted up my eyes :
J\. and I saw, and behold a volume
flying.

2 And he said to me : What seest thou ?
And I said : I see a volume flying : the
length thereof is twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof ten cubits.

3 And he said to me : This is the curse
that goeth forth over the face of the
earth : for every thief shall be judged as
is there written: and every one that

Ver. 7. Great mountain. So he calls the opposi-
tion made by the enemies of God's people ; which
nevertheless, without any army or might on their
side, was quashed by divine providence. — Ibid.
Shall give equal grace, &c. Shall add grace to
grace, or beauty to beauty.

Ver. 10. Little days. That is, these small and
feeble beginnings of the temple of God. — Ibid. The
tin plummet. JAteraUy^the stone of tin. He means
the builder's plummet, which Zorobabel shall hold
In his hand for the finishing the building. — Ibid.
The seven eyes. The providence of God, that over-
sees and orders all things.

Ver. 14. Two sons of oil. That is, the two anoint-
ed ones of the Lord ; viz., Jesus the high priest, and
Zorobabel the prince.

swearetb in like manner shall be judged
by it.

4 I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of
hosts: and it shall come to the house of
the thief, and to the house of him that
sweareth falsely by my name : and it
shall remain in the midst of his house,
and shall consume it, with the timber
thereof, and the stones thereof.

5 And the angel went forth that spoke
in me, and he said to me : Lift up thy
eyes, and see what this is, that goeth
forth.

6 And I said t What is it ? And he said:
This is a vessel going forth. And he said :
This is their eye in all the earth.

7 And behold a talent of lead was car-
ried, and behold a woman sitting in the
midst of the vessel.

8 And he said : This is wickedness. And
he cast her into the midst of the vessel,
and cast the weight of lead upon the
mouth thereof.

9 And I lifted up my eyes and looked :
and behold there came out two women,
and wind was in their wings, and they had
wings like the wings of a kite : and they
lifted up the vessel between the earth and
the heaven.

10 And I said to the angel that spoke
in me : Whither do these carry the ves-
sel?

11 And he said to me: That a house
may be built for it in the land of Sennaar,
and that it may be established, and set
there upon its own basiSo

CHAPTER 6.

The vision of the four chariots. Crowns are or-
dered for Jesus the high priest, as a type of Christ.

AND I turned, and lifted up my eyes,
,. and saw : and behold four chariots
came out from the midst of two moun-
tains : and the mountains were mountains
of brass.

Chap. 5. Ver. 1. A volume. That is, a parch-
ment, according to the form of the ancient books,
which, from being rolled up, were called volumes.

Ver. 6. This is their eye. This is what they fix
their eye upon : or this is a resemblance and figure
of them, viz., of sinners.

Ver. 11. The land of Sennaar. Where Babel or
Babylon was built. Gen. 11,, where note, that Baby-
Ion in holy writ is often taken for the city of the
devil : that is, for the whole congregation of the
wicked : as Jerusalem is taken for the city and peo-
ple of God.

Chap. 6. Ver. I. Four chariots. The four great
empires of the Chaldeans, Persians, Grecians, and
Komans. Or perhaps by the fourth chariot a r? '^ft-;

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The chariots and the crovms

2 In the first chariot were red horses,
iind in the second chariot black horses.

3 And in the tnird chariot white horses,
and in the fourth chariot grisled horses,
and strong ones.

4 And I answered, and said to the an-
gel that spoke in me : What are these,
my lord ?

5 And the angel answered, and said to
me : These are the four winds of the
heaven, which go forth to stand before
the Lord of all the earth.

6 That in which were the black horses
went forth into the land of the north,
and the white went forth after them:
and the grisled went forth to the land of
the south.

7 And they that were most strong,
went out, and sought to go, and to run
to and fro through all the earth. And
he said: Go, walk throughout the earth :
and they walked throughout the earth.

8 And he called me, and spoke to me,
saying : Behold they that go forth into
the land of the north, have quieted my
ipirit in the land of the north.

9 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :

10 Take of them of the captivity, of
Holdad, and of Tobias, and of Idaias;
thou Shalt come in that day, and shalt
go into the house of Josias, the son of
Sophonias, who came out of Babylon,

11 And thou shalt take gold and silver:
and shalt make crowns, and thou shalt
set them on the head of Jesus the son of
Josedec, the high priest.

12 And thou shalt speak to him, say-
ing: Thus saith theLordof hosts, saying:
* Behold a man, the Orient is his
NAME : and under him shall he spring
up, and shall build a temple to the
Lord.

13 Yea, he shall build a temple to the
Lord : and he shall bear the glory, and
shall sit, and rule upon his throne : and
he shall be a priest upon his throne,

ZACH ARIAS The people inquire about fasting

of peace shall be be

k Luke 1. 78.

presented the kings of Egypt and of Asia, the de-
scendants of Ptolemeus and Seleucus.

Ver. 6. The land of the noirth. So Babylon is
called ; because it lay to the north in respect of Jeru-
salem. The black horses, that is, the Medes and
Persians : and after them Alexander and his Greeks,
signified by the white horses, went thither because
they conquered Babylon, executed upon it the judg-
ments of God, which is signified, ver. 8, by the expres-
sion of quieting his spirit. — Ibid. The land of the
saiitfu Egypt, which la) to the south of Jerusalem,

and the counsel
tween them both,

14 And the crowns shall be to Helem,
and Tobias, and Idaias, and to Hem, the
son of Sophonias, a memorial in the
temple of the Lord.

15 And they that are far off, shall com^,
and shall build in the temple of the Lord :
and you shall know that the Lord of
hosts sent me to you. But this shall
come to pass, if hearing you will hear
the voice of the Lord your God.

CHAPTER 7.

The people inquire concerning fasting ; they are
admonished to fast from sin,

ND 'it came to pass in the fourth
year of king Darius, that the word
of the Lord came to Zacharias, in the
fourth day of the ninth month, which is
Casleu.

2 When Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and
the men that were with him, sent to the
house of God, to entreat the face of the
Lord:

3 To speak to the priests of the house
of the Lord of hosts, and to the pro-
phets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth
month, or must I sanctify myself as I
have now done for many years ?

4 And the word of the Lord of hosts
came to me, saying:

5 Speak to all the people of the land,
and to the priests, saying: ^ When you
fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the
seventh month for these seventy years :
did you keep a fast unto me ?

6 And when you did eat and drink, did
you not eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves ?

7 Are not these the words which the
Lord spoke by the hand of the former
prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was
inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself
and the cities round about it, and there
were inhabitants towards the south, and
in tho plain?

IB. C. 518.— misa. 58. 5.

and was occupied first by Ptolemeus, and then by
the Romans.

Ver. 13. Between them both. That is, he shall
unite in himself the two offices or dignities of kuig
and priest. ,

Chap. 7. Ver. 3. The fifth month. They fasted
on the tenth day of the fifth month ; because on that
day the temple was burnt. Therefore they inquire
whether they are to continue that fast, after the
temple is rebuilt. See this query answered in tht
19th verse of the following chapteiv

1016'

Refusal to heed God punished ZACHARIAS God vnll bring hack His people

seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of
this people in those days : shall it be hard
in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts ?

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Behold I
will save my people from the land of the
east, and from the land ot the going
down of the sum

8 And I will bring them, and they shall
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem : and
they shall be my people, and I will be
their God in truth and in justice.

9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Let your
hands be strengthened, you that hear in
these days these words by the mouth of
the prophets, in the day that the house
of the Lord of hosts was founded, that
the temple might be built.

10 For before those days there was no
hire for men, neither was there hire for
beasts, neither was there peace to him
that came in, nor to him that went out,
because of the tribulation : and I let all
men go every one against his neighbour,

11 But now I will not deal with the rem-
nant of this people according to the for-
mer days, saith the Lord of hosts.

12 But there shall be the seed of peace :
the vine shall yield her fruit, and the
earth shall give her increase, and the
heavens shall give their dew : and I will
cause the remnant of this people to pos-
sess all these things.

13 And it shall come to pass, that as you
were a curse among the Gentiles, O hou8u*
of Juda, and house of Israel: so will 1
save you, and you shall be a blessing:
fear not, let your hands be strengthened.

14 For thus saith the Lord of hosts : As
I purposed to afflict you, when your fa-
thers had provoked me to wrath, saith
the Lord,

15 And I had no mercy: so turning
again I have thought in these days to do
good to the house of Juda, and Jerusa-
lem : fear not.

16 These then are the things, which you
shall do : P Speak ye truth every one to
his neighbour : judge ye truth and judg-
ment of peace in your gates.

17 And let none of you imagine evil in
your hearts against his friend : and love
not a false oath: for all these are the
things that I hate, saith the Lord.

18 And the word of the Lord of hosts
came to me, saying :

b And the word of the Lord came to
Zachcu-ias, saying:

9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying :
** Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye
mercy and compassion every man to his
brother.

10 ° And oppress not the widow, and
the fatherless, and the stranger, and the
poor : and let not a man devise evil in
his heart against his brother.

11 But they would not hearken, and
they turned away the shoulder to de-
part: and they stopped their ears, not
to hear.

12 And they made their heart as the
adamant stone, lest they should hear the
law, and the words which the Lord of
hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of
the former prophets : so a great indig-
nation came from the Lord of hosts.

13 And it came to pass that as he spoke,
and they heard not : so shall they cry,
and I will not hear, saith the Lord of
hosts.

14 And I dispersed them throughout all
kingdoms, which they know not: and
the land was left desolate behind them,
80 that no man passed through or re-
turned: and they changed the delight-
fol land into a wilderness.

CHAPTER 8.

Joyfxd promises to Jerusalem : fully verified in the
church of Christ,

AND the word of the Lord of hosts
XA. came to me, saying:

2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have
been jealous for Sion with a great jeal-
ousy, and with a great indignation have
I been jealous for her.

3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : I am
returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the
midst of Jerusalem : and Jerusalem shall
be called The city of truth, and the
mountain of the Lord of hosts. The sanc-
tified mountain.

4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : There
shall yet old men and old women dwell
in the streets of Jerusalem : and every
man with his staff in his hand through
multitude of days.

5 And the streets of the city shall be
full of boys and girls, playing in the
streets thereof.

6 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it

n MlclL 6. 8 : Matt 23. 23.

o Ex. 22. 22: Isa. L 23: Jer. 5. 28. — p Epb. 4. 2&

1017

The cities of the Philistines

ZACHARIAS The coming of Christ in meekness

19 Thus saith the Lord of hoets: The
fast of the fourth month, and the fast of
fche fifth, and the fast of the seventh,
and the fast of the tenth shall be to the
house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and
great solemnities : only lovo ye truth
and peace.

20 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until
people come, and dweU in many cities,

21 And the inhabitants go one to an-
other, saying : Let us go, and entreat he
face of the Lord, and let us seek fche
Lord of hosts : I also will go.

22 And many peoples, and strong nations
shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in
Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the
Lord.

23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts : In those
days, wherein ten men of all languages
of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall
hold fast the skirt of one that is a Jew,
saying : We will go with you: for we have
heard that God is with you.

CHAPTER 9.

Ood will defend his church, and bring over even her
enemies to the faith. The meek coming of Christ,
to bring peace, to deliver the captives by his blood,
and to give us all good things.

THE burden of the word of the Lord in
the land of Hadrach, and of Damas-
cus the rest thereof : for the eye of man,
and of all the tribes of Israel is the
Lord's.

2 Emath also in the borders thereof, and
Tyre, and Sidon : for they have taken to
themselves to be exceeding wise.

3 And Tyre hath built herself a strong
hold, and heaped together silver as earth,
and gold as the mire of the streets.

4 Behold the Lord shall possess her, and
shall strike her strength in the sea, and
she shall be devoured with fire.

5 Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and
Gaza, and shall be very sorrowful: and
Accaron, because her hope is confounded :

Chap. 8. Ver. 19. The fast of the fourth month,
&c. They fasted, on the ninth day of the fourth
month, because on that day Nabnchodonosor took
Jerusalem, Jer. 62. 6. On the tenth day of the fifth
month, because on that day the temple was burnt,
Jer. 52. 12. On the third day of the seventh month,
for the murder of Godolias, Jer. 41. 2. And on the
tenth day of the te7},th month, because on that day
the Chaldeans began to besiege Jerusalem, 4 Kings
fc. 1. All these fasts, if they will be obedient for the
future, shall be changed, as is here promised, into
joyful solemnities.

Ver. 23. Ten men, &c. Many of the Gentiles
became proselytes to the Jewish religion before

and the king shall perish from Gaza, and
Ascalon shall not be inhabited.

6 And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and
I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

7 And I will take away his blood on
of his mouth, and his abominations from
between his teeth: and even he shall be
left to our God, and he shall be as a gov-
ernor in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.

8 And I will encompass my house with
them that serve me in war, going and re-
turning, and the oppressor shall no more
pass through them: for now I have seen
with my eyes.

9 ^ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion,
shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem i
BEHOLD THY KiNG wiU come to thee, the
just and saviour : he is poor, and riding
upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of
an ass.

10 And I will destroy the chariot out of
Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusa-
lem, and the bow for war shall be broken:
and he shall speak peace to the Gentiles,
and his power shall be from sea to sea,
and from the rivers even to the end of
the earth.

11 Thou also by the blood of thy testa-
ment hast sent forth thy prisoners out of
the pit, wherein is no water.

12 Return to the strong hold, ye prison-
ers of hope, I will render thee double as
I declare to day.

13 Because I have bent Juda for me as
a bow, I have filled Ephraim : and I wili
raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons,
O Greece, and I wiU make thee as the
sword of the mighty.

14 And the Lord God shall be seen over
them, and his dart shall go forth as light-
ning: and the Lord God will sound the
trumpet, and go in the whirlwind of the
south.

15 The Lord of hosts will protect them :
and they shall devour, and subdue with

q Isa. 62. 11 ; Matt. 21. 5.

Christ: but many more were converted to Christ
by the apostles and other preachers of the Jewish
nation.

Chap. 9. Ver. 1. Hadrach. Syria.

Ver. 7. His blood. It is spoken of the Philistines,
and particularly of Azotus, (where the temple of
Dagon was,) and contains a prophecy of the conver-
sion of that people from their bloody sacrifices and
abominations to the worship of the true God.

Ver. 8. That serve me in war. Viz., the Macha
bees.

Ver. 13. Thy sons, O Sion, &c. Viz., the apostles,
who, in the spiritual way, conquered the Greeks, and
subdued them to Christ.

1018

God to be sought, not idols

ZACHARIAS God will bring bach His people

fche stones of the sling : and drinking they
shall be inebriated as it were with wine,
and they shall be filled as bowls, and as
the horns of the altar.

16 And the Lord their God will save
them in that day, as the flock of his peo-
ple : for holy stones shall be lifted up over
his land.

17 For what is the good thing of him,
and what is his beautiful thing, but the
corn of the elect, and wine springing
forth virgins ?

CHAPTER 10.

God is to be sought to, and not idols. The victo-
ries of his church, which shall arise originally
from the Jewish nation.

ASK ye of the Lord rain in the latter
XJL season, and the Lord will make
snows, and will give them showers of
rain, to every one grass in the field.

2 For the idols have spoken what was
unprofitable, and the diviners have seen
a lie, and the dreamers have spoken van-
ity: they comforted in vain: therefore
they were led away as a flock : they shall
be afflicted, because they have no shep-
herd.

3 My wrath is kindled against the shep-
herds, and I will visit upon the buck
goats : for the Lord of hosts hath visited
his flock, the house of Juda, and hath
made them as the horse of his glory in
the battle.

4 Out of him shall com9 forth the cor-
ner, out of him the pin, out of him the
bow of battle, out of him svery exacter
together.

5 And they shall be as mighty men,
treading under foot the mire of the ways
in battle : and they shall fight, because
the Lord is with them, and the riders of
horses shall be confounded.

6 And I will strengthen the house of
Juda, and save the house of Joseph : and
I will bring them back again, because I
will have mercy on them : and they shall
be as they were when I had cast them off,
for I am the Lord their God, and will
hear them.

Ver. 16. Holy stones. The apostles, who shall be
as pillars and monuments in the church.
^ Ver. 17. The com, &c. His most excellent gift is
tne blessed Eucharist, called here T?ie corn, that is,
the bread of the elect, and the tvine springing forth
virgins; that is, mokefh virgins to bud, or spring
forth, as it were, like flowers among thorns ; because
It has a wonderful efficacy to give and preserve
purity. *^

7 And they shall be as the valiant men
of Ephraim, and their heart shall rejoice
as through wine: and their children shall
see, and shall rejoice, and their heart
shall be joyful in the Lord,

8 I will whistle for them, and I will
gather them together, because I have
redeemed them : and I will multiply them
as they were multiplied before.

9 And I will sow them among peoples:
and from afar they shall remember me :
and they shall live with their children,
and shall return.

10 And I will bring them back out of the
land of Egypt, and will gather them from
among the Assyrians : and will bring them
to the land of Galaad, and Libanus, and
place shall not be found for them.

11 And he shall pass over the strait of
the sea, and shall strike the waves in the
sea, and all the depths of the river shall
be confounded, ** and the pride of Assyria
shall be humbled, and the sceptre of
Egypt shall depart.

12 I will strengthen them in the Lord,
and they shall walk in his name, saith the
Lord.

CHAPTER 11.

The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. God^B
dealings with the Jews, and their reprobation.

OPEN thy gates, O Libanus, and let
fire devour thy cedars.

2 Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is
fallen, for the mighty are laid waste:
howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the
fenced forest is cut down.

3 The voice of the howling of the shep-
herds, because their glory is laid waste:
the voice of the roaring of the lions, be*
cause the pride of the Jordan is spoiled.

4 Thus saith the Lord my God : Feed the
flock of the slaughter,

5 Which they that possessed, slew, and
repented not, and they sold them, saying :
Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich :
and their shepherds spared them not.

6 And I will no more spare the inhabit-
ants of the land, saith the Lord : behold I
will deliver the men, every one into his

r Apoc. 16. 12 ; Isa. 11. 15.

Chap. 11. Ver. 1. O Libanvs. So Jerusalem,
and more particularly the temple, is called by the
prophets, from its height, and from its being built
of the cedars of Libanus. — Ibid. Thy cedars. Thy
princes and chief men.

Ver. 6. Every one into his neighbour''s hand, &c.
This alludes to the last siege of Jerusalem, in which
the different factions of the Jews destroyed one
another: and they that remained fell iuto the hands

1019

The two rods

ZACHARIAS

Gid will help Jerusalem

neighbour's hand, and into the hand of
his king : and they shall destroy the land,
and I will not deliver it out of their hand.

7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter
for this, O ye poor of the flock. And I
took unto me two rods, one I called
Beauty, and the other I called a Cord,
and I fed the flock.

8 And I cut off three shepherds in one
month, and my soul was straitened in
their regard: for their soul also varied
in my regard.

9 And I said : I will not feed you : that
which dieth, let it die : and that which is
cut off, let it be cut off : and let the rest
devour every one the flesh of his neigh-
bour.

10 And I took my rod that was called
Beauty, and I cut it asunder to make void
my covenant, which I had made with all
people.

11 And it was made void in that day :
ai^d so the poor of the flock that keep
for me, understood that it is the word of
the Lord.

12 And I caid to them : If it be good in
your eyes, bring hither my wages : and
if not, be quiet. ^ And they weighed for
my wages thirty pieces of silver.

13 And the Lord said to me : Cast it to
the statuary, a handsome price, that I
was prized at by them. And I took the
thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them
Into the house of the Lord to the statu-
ary.

14 And I cut off my second rod that
was called a Cord, that I might break the
brotherhood between Juda and Israel.

15 And the Lord said to me : Take to
thee yet the instruments of a foolish
shepherd.

16 For behold I will raise up a shepherd
in the land, who shall not visit what is
forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor
heal what is broken, nor nourish that

s Matt. 27. 9.

of their king, that is, of tlie Roman emperor, of whom
they had said, John 19. 15, We have no king bvt
Casar.

Ver. 7. Tiro rods. Or shepherd's staves, meaning
the different ways of God's dealing with his people ;
the one, by sweet means, called the rod of Beauty :
the other, by bands and punishments, called the
Cord. And where both these rods are made of no
use or effect by the obstinacy of sinners, the rods
are broken, and such sinners are given up to a repro-
bate sense, as the Jews were.

Ver. H. Three shepherds in one month. That is,
in a very short time. By these three shepherds prob-

which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh
of the fat ones, and break their hoofs.

17 O shepherd, and idol, that forsake th
the flock : the sword upon his arm and
upon his right eye : his arm shall quite
wither away, and his right eye shall be
utterly darkened.

CHAPTER 12.

God shall protect his church against her persecu"
tors. The mourning of Jerusalem.

rpHE burden of the word of the Lord
J_ upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord,
who stretcheth forth the heavens, and
layeth the foundations of the earth, and
formeth the spirit of man in him :

2 Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel
of surfeiting to all the people round
about : and Juda also shall be in the siege
against Jerusalem.

3 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome
stone to all people : all that shall lift it
up shall be rent and torn, and all the
kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered
together against her.

4 In that day, saith the Lord, I will strike
every horse with astonishment, and his
rider with madness : and I will open my
eyes upon the house of Juda, and will
strike every horse of the nations with
blindness.

5 And the governors of Juda shall say
in their heart : Let the inhabitants of
Jerusalem be strengthened for me in the
Lord of hosts, their God.

6 In that day I will make the governors
of Juda like a furnace of fire amongst
wood, and as a firebrand amongst hay :
and they shall devour all the people
round about, to the right hand, and to
the left : and Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place in Jerusalem.

7 And the Lord shall save the tabernacles
of Juda, as in the beginning : that the

ably are meant the latter princes and high priests
of the Jews, whose reign was short.

Ver. 13. The statuary. The Hebrew word signi
fies also a potter.

Ver. 15. A foolish shepherd. This was to repre-
sent the foolish, that is, the wicked princes and
priests that should rule the people, before theif
utter desolation.

Chap. 12. Ver. 2. A lintel of surfeiting. That
is, a door into which they shall seek to enter, to glut
themselves with blood : but they shall stumble, and
fall like men stupefied with wine. It seems to allude
to the times of Antiochus, and to the victories of the
Machabees.

1020

The mourning of Jerusalem ZACHARIAS

The 'passion of Christ

house of David, and the glory of the in-
habitants of Jerusalem, may not boast
and magnify themselves against Juda.

8 In that day shall the Lord protect the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that
hath offended among them in that day
shall be as David : and the house of Da-
vid, as that of God, as an angel of the
Lord in their sight.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.

10 And I will pour out upon the house
of David, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of
prayers : * and they shall look upon me,
whom they have pierced : and they shall
mourn for him as one mourneth for an
only son, and they shall grieve over him,
as the manner is to grieve for the death
of the firstborn.

11 In that day there shall be a great
lamentation in Jerusalem ^iike the la-
mentation of Adadremmon in the plain of
Mageddon.

12 And the land shall mourn : families
and families apart : the families of the
nouse of David apart, and their women
apart :

13 The families of the house of Nathan
apart, and their women apart : the fam-
ilies of the houso of Levi apart, and
their women apart : the families of Semei
apart, and their women apart.

14 All the rest of the families, families
and families apart, and their women
apart.

CHAPTER 13.

The fountain of Christ. Idols and false prophets
shall be extirpated : Christ shall suffer: his -peo-
ple shall be tried by fire.

IN that day there shall be a fountain
open to the house of David, and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem : for the
washing of the sinner, and of the unclean
woman.

2 ^ And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith the Lord of hosts, that I will destroy
the names of idols out of the earth, and
they shall be remembered no more : and
I will take away the false prophets, and
the unclean spirit out of the earth.

3 And it shall come to pass, that when

t John 19. 37. — V '2 Par. 35. 22.

Ver. 11. Adadremmon. A place near Mageddon,
where the good king Josias was slain, and much
lamented by his people.

1021

any man shall prophesy any more, his
father and his mother that brought him
into the world, shall say to him: Thou
^halt not live : because thou hast spoken
a lie in the name of the Lord. And his
father, and his mother, his parents, shall
thrust him through, when he shall pro-
phesy.

4 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the prophets shall be confounded,
every one by his own vision, when he
shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad
with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive :

5 But he shall say : I am no prophet, I
am a husbandman : for Adam is my ex-
ample from my youth.

6 And they shall say to him : What are
these wounds in the midst of thy hands ?
And he shall say: With these I was
wounded in the house of them that loved
me.

7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
and against the man that cleave th to
me, saith the Lord of hosts: "'strike the
shepherd, and the sheep shall be scat-
tered : and I will turn my hand to the
little ones.

8 And there shall be in all the earth,
saith the Lord, two parts in it shall be
scattered, and shall perish: but the third
part shall be left therein.

9 And I will bring the third part through
the fire, and will refine them as silver is
refined: and I will try them as gold is
tried. They shall call on my name, and
I will hear them. I will say : Thou art
my people : and they shall say : The Lord
is my God.

CHAPTER 14.

After the persecutions of the church shall follow
great prosperity. Persecutors shall be punished :
so shall all that will not serve God in his church.

BEHOLD the days of the Lord shall
come, and thy spoils shall be divided
in the midst of thee.

2 And I will gather all nations to Jeru-
salem to battle, and the city shall be
taken, and the houses shall be rifled, and
the women shall be defiled: and half of
the city shall go forth into captivity, an<J
the rest of the people shall not be taken
away out of the city.

3 Then the Lord shall go forth, and shall

V Ezech. 30. 13.— w Matt. 26. 31 ; Mark 14. 27.

Chap. 14. Ver. 2. I vnll gather, &c. This seems
to be a prophecy of what was done by Antiocbus.

The coming of Christ

ZACHARIAS Enemies of Jerusalem destroyed

fight against those nations, as when he
fought in the day of battle.

4 And his feet shall stand in that day
upon the mount of Olives, which is over
against Jerusalem toward the east : and
the mount of Olives shall be divided in
the midst thereof to the east, and to the
west with a very great opening, and half
of the mountain shall be separated to the
north, and half thereof to the south.

5 And you shall flee to the valley of
those mountains, for the valley of the
mountains shall be joined even to the
next, and you shall flee * as you fled from
the face of the earthquake in the days of
Ozias king of Juda : and the Lord my God
shall come, and all the saints with him.

6 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that there shall be no light, but cold and
frost.

7 And there shall be one day, which is
known to the Lord, not day nor night :
and in the time of the evening there shall
be Ught.

8 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that living waters shall go out from Jeru-
salem: half of them to the east sea, and
half of them to the last sea : tfeey shall
be in summer and in winter.

9 And the Lord shall be ki^/g over all
the earth : in that day there shall be one
Lord, and his name shall be one.

10 And all the land snail return even to
the desert, from the hill to Remmon to
the south of Jerusalem : and she shall be
exalted, and shall dwell in her own place,
from the gate of Benjamin even to the
place of the former gate, and even to the
gate of the corners: and from the tower
of Hananeel even to the king's wine-
presses.

X Amos 1. 1.

Ver. 6. No light. Viz., in that dismal time of per-
secution of Antiochus, when it was neither day nor
night: (ver. 7) because they neither had the com-
fortable light of the day, nor the repose of the night.

Ver. 7. In the time of the evening there shall be
light. An unexpected light shall arise by the means
of the Machabees, when things shall seem to be at
the worst.

Ver. 8. Living waters. Viz., the gospel of Christ.

Ver. 10. All the land shall return, &c. This, in
some measure, was verified by the means of the
Machabees : but is rather to be taken in a spiritual
sense, as relating to the propagation of the church
and Icingdom of Christ, the true Jerusalem, which
alone shall never fall under the anathema of destruc-
tion, or God's curse.

Ver. 12. The flesh of every one shall consume, &c.
Such judgments as these have often fallen upon the
persecutors of God's church, as appears by many
instances in history.

11 And people shall dwell in it, and there
shall be no more an anathema : but Jeru-
salem shall sit secure.

12 And this shall be the plague where-
with the Lord shall strike all nations that
have fought against Jerusalem : the flesh
of every one shall consume away while
they stand upon their feet, and their eyes
shall consume away in their holes, and
their tongue shall consume away in their
mouth.

13 In that day there shall be a great
tumult from the Lord among them : and
a man shall take the hand of his neigh-
bour, and his hand shall be clasped upon
his neighbour's hand.

14 And even Juda shall fight against
Jerusalem : and the riches of all nations
round about shall be gathered together,
gold, and silver, and garments in great
abundance.

15 And the destruction of the horse, ?nd
of the mule, and of the camel, and of the
ass, and of all the beasts, that shall be in
those tents, shall be like this destruction.

16 And all they that shall be left of
all nations that came against Jerusalem,
shall go up from year to year, to adore
the King, the Lord oi hosts, and to keep
the feast of tabernacles.

17 And it shall come to pass, that he that
shall not go up of the famihes of the land
to Jerusalem, to adore the King, the Lord
of hosts, there shall be no rain upon
them.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up
nor come: neither shall it be upon them,
but there shall be destruction wherewith
the Lord will strike all nations that will
not go up to keep the feast of taberna-
cles.

Ver. 14. Even Juda, &c. The carnal Jews, and
other false brothers, shall join in persecuting the
church.

Ver. 15. Shall be like this destruction. That is,
the beasts shall be destroyed as well as the men : the
common soldiers as well as their leaders.

Ver. 16. They that shall be left, &c. That is,
many of them that persecuted the church shall be
converted to its faith and communion. — Ibid. To
keep the feast of tabernacles. This feast was kept
by the Jews in memory of their sojourning forty
years in the desert, in their way to the land of pro.
mise. And in the spiritual sense is duly kept by all
such Christians as in their earthly pilgrimage are
continually advancing towards their true home, the
heavenly Jerusalem ; by the help of the sacraments
and sacrifice of the church. And they tliat neglect
this must not look for the kind showers of divine
grace, to give fruitf ulness to their souls.

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God's love for Israel

19 This shall be the sin of Egypt, and
this the sin of all nations, that will not
go up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

20 In that day that which is upon the bri-
dle of the horse shall be holy to the Lord :
and the caldrons in the house of the Lord
shall be as the phials before the altar.

MALACHIAS Infidelity of people and priests

21 And every caldron in Jerusalem and
Juda shall be sanctified to the Lord of
hosts: and all that sacrifice shall come,
and take of them, and shall seethe in
them : and the merchant shall be no
more in the house of the Lord of hoflta
in that day.

THE

PROPHECY OF MALACHIAS.

Malachias, whose name 'Signifies The Angel of the Lord, was contemporary with
Nehemias, and by some is believed to have been the same person as Esdras. He
was the last of the prophets, in the order of time, and flourished about 450-445
B. C. He foretells the coming of Christ;' the reprobation of the Jews and their
sacrifices; and the calling of the Gentiles, who shall offer up to God in every place
an acceptable sacrifice.

CHAPTER 1.

Ood reproaches the Jeivs with their ingratitude:
and the priests for not offering pure sacrifices.
He xvill accept of i?. sacrifice that shall be offered
ill every place among the Gentiles.

niHE 2/ burden of the word of the Lord
X to Israel by the hand of Malachias.

2 I have ioved you, saith the Lord: and
you have said: Wherein hast thou loved
us ? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith
the Lord, and ^ I have loved Jacob,

3 Bui) have hated Esau ? and I have made
his mountains a wilderness, and given his
inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

4 But if Edom shall say: We are de-
stroyed, but we will return and build up
what hath been destroyed: thus saith
the Lord of hosts : They shall build up,
and I will throw down: and they shall
be called the borders of wickedness, and
the people with whom the Lord is angry
for ever.

5 And your eyes shall see, and you shall
say : The Lord be magnified upon the
border of Israel.

y B. C. 450.

Ver. 20. That which Is upon the bridle, &c. The
golden ornaments of the bridles, &c., shall be turned
nito offerings in the house of God. And there shall
be an abundance of caldrons and phials for the sac-
rifices of the temple : by which is meant, under a
figure, the great resort there shall be to the temple,
that is, to the church of Christ, and her sacrifice.

Ver. 21. The merchant shall he no more, &c. Or,
as some render it, The Chanaanite shall be no more,
&c., that is, the profane and unbelievers shall have
no title to be in the house of the Lord. Or there
shall be no occasion for buvers or sellers of oxen, or

6 The son honoureth the father, and the
servant his master: if then I be a father,
where is my honour ? and if I be a mas-
ter, where is my fear ? saith the Lord of
hosts.

7 To you, O priests, that despise my
name, and have said : Wherein have we
despised thy name ? You offer polluted
bread upon my altar, and you say:
Wherein have we polluted thee ? In that
you say: The table of the Lord is con-
temptible.

8 If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is
it not evil ? and if you offer the lame and
the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy
prince, if he will be pleased with it, or if
he will regard thy face, saith the Lord of
hosts.

9 And now beseech ye the face of God,
that he may have mercy on you, (for by
your hand hath this been done,) if by
any means he will receive yom* faces,
saith the Lord of hosts.

10 Who is there among you, that will
shut the doors, and will kindle the fire

2 Rom. 9. 13.

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sheep, or doves, in the house of God, such as Jesus
Christ cast out of the temple.

Chap. l. Ver. 2. / have loved Jacob, &c. I have
preferred his posterity, to make them my chosen
people, and to lead them with my blessings, without
any merit on their part, and though they have been
always ungrateful ; whilst I have rejected Esau, and
executed severe judgments upon his posterity. Not
that God punished Esau, or his posterity, beyond
their desert: but that by his free election and grace
he loved Jacob, and favoured his posterity abov*
their deserts. See the anDOtations upoD Bom. 9,

The new sacrifice

MALACHIAS God reproves priests of Israel

on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure
in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I
will not receive a gift of your hand.

11 a For from the rising of the sun even
to the going dowr^ my name is great
among the Gentiles, and in every place
there is sacrifice, and there is offered to
my name a clean oblation: for my name
is great among the Gentiles, saith the
Lord of hosts.

12 And you have profaned it in that
you say: The table of the Lord is defiled :
and that which is laid thereupon is con-
temptible with the fire that devoureth
it.

13 And you have said: Behold of our
labour, and you puffed it away, saith the
Lord of hosts, and you brought in of
rapine the lame, and the sick, and
brought in an offering : shall I accept it
at your hands, saith the Lord ?

14 Cursed is the deceitful man that hath
in his flock a male, and making a vow
offereth in sacrifice that which is feeble
to the Lord : for I am a great King, saith
the Lord of hosts, and my name is dread-
ful among the Gentiles.

CHAPTER 2.

The priests are sharply reproved for neglecting
their covenant. The evil of marrying vnth idola-
ters : and too easily putting away their wives.

A ND now, O ye priests, this command-
J\. ment is to you.

2 ^ If you will not hear, and if you will
not lay it to heart, to give glory to my
name, saith the Lord of hosts : I will send
poverty upon you, and will curse your
blessings, yea I will curse them, because
you have not laid it to heart.

3 Behold, I will cast the shoulder to
you, and I will scatter upon your face
the dung of your solemnities, and it shall
take you away with it.

4 And you shall know that I sent you
this commandment, that my covenant
might be with Levi, saith the Lord of
hosts.

5 My covenant was with him of life and
peace : and I gave him fear : and he

a Ps. 112. 3.-6 Lev. 26. 14 ; Deut. 28. 15.

Ver. 11. A clean oblation. Viz., the precious body
and blood of Christ in the eucharistie sacrifice.

Ver. 13. Behold of OUT labour, &c. You pretended
labour and weariness, when you brought your offer-
ing; and so made it of no value, by offering it with
an evil mind. Moreover, what you offered was both
defective in itself, and gotten by rapine and extor-
tion.

Chap. 3. Ver. 3. / will cast the shoulder to you.

feared me, and he was afraid before my
name.

6 The law of truth was in his mouth,
and iniquity was not found in his lips:
he walked with me in peace, and in
equity, and turned many away from
iniquity.

7 For the lips of the priest shall keep
knowledge, and they shall seek the law
at his mouth : because he is the angel of
the Lord of hosts.

8 But you have departed out of the
way, and have caused many to stumble
at the law: you have made void the
covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of
hosts.

9 Therefore have I also made you con-
temptible, and base before all people, as
you have not kept my ways, and hav©
accepted persons in the law.

10 ^' Have we not all one father? hath
not one God created us ? why then doth
every one of us despise his brother,
violating the covenant of our fathers ?

11 Juda hath transgressed, and abomina-
tion hath been committed in Israel, and
in Jerusalem : for Juda hath profaned
the holiness of the Lord, which he loved,
and hath married the daughter of a
strange God.

12 The Lord will cut off the man that
hath done this, both the master, and the
scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob,
and him that offereth an offering to the
Lord of hosts.

13 And this again have you done, you
have covered the altar of the Lord with
tears, with weeping, and bellowing, so
that I have no more a regard to sacri-
fice, neither do T accept any atonement
at your hands.

14 And you have said : For what cause ?
Because "^he Lord hath been witness be-
tween thee, and the wife of thy youth,
whom thou hast despised: yet she was
thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

15 Did not one make her, and she is the
residue of his spirit? And what doth
one seek, but the seed of God? Keep

cMatt. 23. 9; Eph. 4. 6.

I will cast away the shoulder, which in the law was
appointed to be your portion, and fling it at you in
my anger: and will reject both you and your festi-
vals like dung.

Ver. 7. The t^ngel. Viz., the minister and mes-
senger.

Ver. 13. With tears. Viz., by occasion of your
wives, whom you have put away : and who came tc
weep aiid lament before the altar.

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The Lord shall come to Bis temple MALACHIAS Wicked punished^ just rewardetf

fchen your spirit, and despise not the
Vife of thy youth.

16 When thou shalt hate her put her
i,way, saith the Lord the God of Israel :
but iniquity shall cover his garment, saith
the Lord oi hosts, keep your spirit, and
despise not.

■•7 You have wearied the Lord with
your words, and you saidi Wherein have
we wearied him ? In that you say : Every
one that doth evil, is good in the sight of
tne Lord, and such please him : or surely
where is the God of judgment ?

CHAPTER 3.

Christ shall come to his temple, and purify the
^priesthood. They that continue in their evil
ways shall be punished : but true penitents shall
receive a blessing.

BEHOLD ** I send my angel, and he
shall prepare the way before my
face. And presently the Lord, whom
you seek, and the angel of the testament,
whom you desire, shall come to his
temple. Behold he cometh, saith the
Lord of hosts.

2 And who shall be able to think of the
day of his coming ? and who shall stand
to see him ? for he is like a refining fire,
and like the fuller's herb :

3 And he shall sit refining and cleansing
the silver, and he shall purify the sons of
Levi, and shall refine them as gold, and
as silver, and they shall offer sacrifices
to the Lord in justice.

4 And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jeru-
salem shall please the Lord, as in the
days of old, and in the ancient years.

5 And I will come to you in judgment,
and will be a speedy witness against sor-
cerers, and adulterers, and false swearers,
and them that oppress the hireling in his
wages, the widows, and the fatherless:
and oppress the stranger, and have not
feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

6 For I am the Lord, and I change not : and
you the sons of Jacob are not consumed.

7 For from the days of your fathers you
have departed from my ordinances, and
have r\ot kept them: * Return to me, and
I w^^.l return to you, saith the Lord of
hosts. And you have said: Wherein
shall we return ?

d Matt. 11. 10 ; Mark l. 2 ; Luke 1. 17, and 7. 2'

^er. 16. Iniquity shall cover his garment. Viz.,
If every mar *hat piitteth away bis wife without just
-ause ; notwithstanding that God permitted it in the
aw, to prevent the avil oi murder.

8 Shall a man aflflict God? for you afflict
me. And you have said : Wherein do we
afflict thee ? in tithes and in firstfruits.

9 And you are cursed with want, and
you afflict me, even the whole nation of
you.

10 Bring all the tithes into the store-
house, that there may be meat in my
house, and try me in this, saith the Lord :
if I open not unto you the flood-gates of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing even
to abundance.

11 And I will rebuke for your sakes the
devourer, and he shall not spoil the fruit
of your land: neither Lhall the vine in
the field be barren, saith the Lord of hosts.

12 And all nations shall call you blessed:
for you shall be a delightful land, saith
the Lord of hosts.

13 -^ Your words have been unsufferable
to me, saith the Lord.

14 And you have said : What have we
spoken against thee? You have said:
He laboureth in vain that serveth God,
and what profit is it that we have kept
his ordinances, and that we have walked
sorrowful before the Lord of hosts ?

16 Wherefore now we call the proud
people happy, for they that work wicked-
ness are built up, and they have tempted
God and are preserved.

16 Then they that feared the Lord
spoke every one with his neighbour:
and the Lord gave ear, and heard it:
and a book of remembrance was written
before hira for them that fear the Lord,
and think oi his name.

17 And they shall be my special posses-
sion, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day
that I do judgment: and I will spare
them, as a maa spareth his sen that serv
eth him.

18 And you rfhall return, and shall see
the difference between the just and the
wicked: ard between him hat serveth
God, and him that serve! '^. him not.

CHAPTER 4.

The Judgm,ent of the wicked, and reward of the jusU
An exhortation to observe the law. Elias shall
come for the conversion of the Jews.

OR behold the day shall come kin-
dled as a furnace: d all the proud,

e Zach. 1. 3. —

ii- 21. 14.

Chap. 3. Ver. l. i:y onael. Viz., John the
Baptist, I'le messenger of God, and forerunner o»
Christ

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The coming of Elias

1 MACHABEES

The reign of Alexandei

and all that do wickedly shall be stubble :
and the day that cometh shall set them
on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall
not leave them root, nor branch.

2 ^ But unto you that fear my name, the
Sun of justice shall arise, and health in
his wings: and you shall go forth, and
shall leap like calves of the herd.

3 And you shall tread down the wicked
when they shall be ashes under the sole
of your feet in the day that I do this,
saith the Lord of hosts.

4 ^ Remember the law of Moses my ser
vant, which I commanded him in Horel)
for all Israel, the precepts, and judg-
ments.

5 * Behold I will send you Ehas the pro*
phet, before the coming of the great anc
dreadful day of the Lord.

6 And he shall turn the heart of th(
fathers to the children, and the hear
of the children to their fathers: lest
come, and strike the earth with anatb
ema.

THE

FIRST BOOK OF MACHABEES.

These books are so called, because they contain the history of the people of Go
under the command of Judas Machabeus and his brethren: and he was surname
Machabeus, most likely because compared to a hammer (Aramaic Maqqab(V]
It is not known who ivas the author of these books. But as to their authoriti
though they are not received by the Jews, saith St. Augustine, (lib. 18. De Ci>
Dei, c. 36,) they are received by the Church: who, in settling her canon of th
scriptures, chose rather to be directed by the tradition she had received from th
Apostles of Christ, than by that of the scribes and Pharisees. And as the Churc
has declared these two Books canonical, even in two general councils, viz., Florenc
and Trent, there can be no doubt of their authenticity. They cover the perio'
175-136 B. C.

CHAPTER 1.

The reign of Alexander and his sricoessors: Antto-
iihiis rifles and jjrofa nes the temple of God: and
persecutes tinto death all that will not forsake
the law of God, and the religion of their fathers.

NOW -^it came to pass, after that
Alexander the son of Phihp the Ma-
cedonian, who first reigned in Greece,
coming out of the land of Cethim, had
overthrown Darius king of the Persians
and Modes :

2 He fought many battles, and took
the strong holds of all, and slew the kings
of the earth:

3 And he went through even to the
ends of the earth, and took the spoils of
many nations: and the earth was quiet
before him.

4 And he gathered a power, and a very

g Luke 1, 78. — h Ex. 20. ; Deut. 4. 5 and 6.
i Matt. 17. 10; Mark 9. 10; Luke 1. 17.

Chap. 4. Ver. 6. He shall turn the heart, &c. By
'orlnRiiig over the Jews to the faith of Christ, he shall
reconcile them to their fathers, viz., the patriarchs
and prophets; whose hearts for many ages have
been turned away from them, because of their refus-
ing to believe in Christ. — Ibid. With anathema.

strong army: and his heart was exalte
and lifted up.

5 And he subdued countries of nation
and princes: and they became tribut
ries to him.

6 And after these things, he fell dovl
upon his bed, and knew that he should di

7 And he called his servants the nobl
that were brought up with him from Y
youth: and he divided his kingdo
among them, while he was yet alive.

8 And Alexander reigned twelve yea
and he died. *

9 And his servants made themseh
kings every one in his place :

10 And they all put crowns upon the
selves after his death, and their sc
after them many years, and evils w<
multiplied in the earth.

j B. C. 336.
k B. C. 323.

In the Hebrew, Cherem, that is, with utter dest

tion. „ rrv,

Chap.1. Ver. 7. Dimded his kingdom, &C. in
otherwise related by Q. Curtius ; though he acki
ledges that divers were of that opinion, and tn
had been delivered bv some authors, lib. 10. But i
we find irom the sacred text, that he was m em

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jn'i

[niioclius invades Egypt

1 MACHABEES Antiochus despoils the temple

il And there came out of them a
icked root, Antiochus the Illustrious,
16 son of king Antiochus, who had been
hostage at Rome: and he reigned in
16 hundred and thirty-seventh year
of the kingdom of the Greeks.

12 In those days there went out of Is-
lel wicked men, and they persuaded
lany, saying: Let us go, and make a
Dvenant with the heathens that are
)und about us: for since we departed
•cm them, many evils have befallen us.

13 And the word seemed good in their
yes.

14 And some of the people determined
) do this, and went to the king: and he
ave them license to do after the ordi-

F ances of the heathens.

15 And they built a place of oxercise in
3rusalem, according to the laws of the
ations :

16 And they made themselves pre-
Qces, "* and departed from the holy cov-
lant, and joined themselves to the hea-
lens, and were sold to do evil.

17 ^And the kingdom was established
sfore Antiochus, and he had a mind to
;ign over the land of Egypt, that» he
ight reign over two kingdoms.

L8 And he entered into Egypt with a
:eat multitude, with chariots and ele-
iants, and horsemen, and a great num-
3r of ships :

19 And he made war against Ptolemee
ing of Egypt, but Ptolemee was afraid
; his presence, and fled, and many were

. ounded unto death.

f 50 And he took the strong cities in the

I nd of Egypt : and he took the spoils of

f e land of Egypt.

^ .1 And after Antiochus had ravaged
?ypt in the hundred and forty-third
ar, ° he returned and went up against
rael.

2 And he went up to Jerusalem with a
eat multitude.

3 And he proudly entered into the
actuary, and took away the golden
ar, and the candlestick of light; and all
9 vessels thereof, and the table of pro-
)sition, and the pouring vessels, and the

I B. C. 175.
m That is, uncircumcised.

'T. 11. Aivtiochus the Illustrious. Epiphanes,
younger son of Antiochus the Great, who usurped
iunirdom, to the prejudice of his nephew Deme-

^is, son of his elder brother Seleucus Philopatoi.

Lbio. Of the kiiu/dom of th& Greeks, Counting,

vials, and the little mortars or gold, and
the veil, and the crowns, and the golden
ornament that was before the temple : and
he broke them all in pieces.

24 And he took the silver and gold, and
the precious vessels: and he took the
hidden treasures which he found: and
when he had taken all away he departed
into his own country.

25 And he made a great slaughter oi
men, and spoke very proudly.

26 And there was great mourning in
Israel, and in every place where they
were:

27 And the princes, and the ancients
mourned, and the virgins and the young
men were made feeble, and the beauty of
the women was changed.

28 Every bridegroom took up lamenta-
tion : and the bride that sat in the mar-
riage bed, mourned :

29 And the land was moved for the in-
habitants thereof, and all the house oi
Jacob was covered with confusion.

30 And after two full years ^ the king
sent the chief collector of his tributes to
the cities of Juda, and he came to Jerusa-
lem with a great multitude.

31 And he spoke to them peaceable
words in deceit : and they believed
him.

32 And he fell upon the city suddenly,
and struck it with a great slaughter, and
destroyed much people in Israel.

33 And he took the spoils of the city,
and burnt it with fire, and threw down
the houses thereof, and the walls thereof
round about :

34 And they took the women captive,
and the children, and the cattle they
possessed.

35 And they built the city of David with
a great and strong wall, and with strong
towers, and made it a fortress for them :

36 And they placed there a sinful nation,
wicked men, and they fortified them-
selves therein: and they stored up armour,
and victuals, and gathered together the
spoils of Jerusalem ;

37 And laid them up thee: and they
became a great snare.

wB. C. 170. — oB. C. 170.
p B. C. 168.

not from the beginning of the reign of Alexander
but from the first year of Seleucus Nicator.

Ver. 30. The chief collector, SiC. Apollonius.

Ver. 35c The cUy of David. That is, the castle d
SiOQ.

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Persecution of Antiochus

MACHABEES Desecration of the temple

S8 And this was a place to lie in wait
against tiie sanctuary, and an evil devil
in Israel.

39 And they shed innocent blood round
about the sanctuary-, and defiled the holy
place.

40 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem
fled away by reason of them, and the
city was made the habitation of strangers,
and she became a stranger to her own
seed, and her children forsook her.

41 Her sanctuary was desolate like a
wilderness, ^her festival days were turned
into mourning, her sabbaths into re-
proach, her honoui-8 were brought to no-
thing.

42 Her dishonoui was increased accord-
ing to her glory, and her excellency was
turned into mourning.

43 ' And king Antiochus wrote to all
his kingdom, that all the people should be
one : and every one should leave his own
law.

44 And all nations consented according
to the word of king Antiochus.

45 And many of Israel consented to his
service, and they sacrificed to idols, and
profaned the sabbath.

46 And the king sent letters by the
hands of messengers to Jerusalem, and
to all the cities of Juda: that they should
follow the law of the nations of the
earth,

47 And should forbid holocausts and
sacrifices, and atonements to be made in
the temple of God.

48 And should prohibit the sabbath, and
the festival days, to be celebrated.

49 And he commanded the holy places
to be profaned, and the holy people of
Israel.

50 And he commanded altars to be built,
and temples, and idols, and swine's flesh
to be immolated, and unclean beasts.

51 And that they should leave ttieir
children un circumcised, and let their
souls be defiled with all uncleannesses,
and abominations, to the end that they
should forget the law, and should change
all the justifications of God.

62 And that whosoever would not do
according to the word of king Antiochus
should be put to death.

</Tob. 2. 6 ; Amos 8. 10. — r B. C. 168.

Ver. 33. An evil devil. That is, an adversary
watching constantly to do harm, as the evil spirit is
always watching and seeking whom he may devour, i

68 According to all these words he wrote
to his whole kingdom, and he appointed
rulers over the people that should force
them to do these things.

64 And they commanded the cities of
Juda to sacrifice.

55 Then many of the people were gath-
ered to them that had forsaken the law
of the Lord: and they committed evils in
the land :

66 And they drove away the people of
Israel into lurking holes, and into the
secret places of fugitives.

67 On the fifteenth day of the month
Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth
year, ^ king Antiochus set up the abom-
inable idol of desolation upon the altar
of God, and they built altars throughout ■
all the cities of Juda round about:

58 And they burnt incense, and sacri-
ficed at the doors of the houses, and in
the streets.

59 And they cut in pieces, and burnt
with fire the books of the law of God:

60 And every one with whom the books
of the testament of the Lord were found,
and whosoever observed the law of the
Lord, they put to death, according to the
edict of the king.

61 Thus by their power did they dea)
with the people of Israel, that were found
in the cities month after month.

62 And on the five and twentieth day of
the month they sacrificed upon the altar
of the idol that was over against the
altar of God.

63 *Now the women that circumcised
their children, were slain according to
the commandment of king Antiochus.

64 And they hanged the children about
their necks in all their houses : and those
that had circumcised them, they put to
death.

65 And many of the people of Israel
determined with themselves, that they
would not eat unclean things : and they
chose rather to die than to be defiled
with unclean meats.

66 And they would not break the holy
law of God, and they were put tc
death:

67 And there was very greai wrath upor
the people.

s B. C. 168. — f 2 Mac. 6. 10.

Ver. 57. The abominable idoU *<
Statue of Jupiter Olympius.

yiz.. tht

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Mathuthias and his sons 1 MACHABEES Mathathias kills faithless Jew

OHAPTEB 2.

The zeal and success tf Mathathias, HI* sxhorto/-
tia/i to his sona at his death.

IN " those days arose Mathathias the
son of John, the son of Simeon, a
priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jeru-
salem, and he abode in the mountain of
Modin.

2 And he had five sons: John who was
flurnamed Gaddis :

3 And Simon, who was sumamed Thasi:

4 And Judas, who was called Machabeus :
6 And Eleazar, who was surnamed Aha-
ron : and Jonathan, who was surnamed
Apphus.

6 These saw the evils that were done in
the people of Juda, and in Jerusalem.

7 And Mathathias said: Woe is me,
wherefore was I born to see the ruin of
my people, and the ruin of the holy city,
and to dwell there, when it is given into
the hands of the enemies ?

8 The holy places are come into the
hands of strangers : her temple is become
as a man without honour.

9 The vessels of her glory are carried
away captive : her old men are murdered
in the streets, and her young men are
fallen by the sword of the enemies.

10 What nation hath not inherited her
kingdom, and gotten of her spoils?

11 All her ornaments are taken away.
She that was free is made a slave.

12 And behold our sanctuary, and our
beauty, and our glory is laid waste, and
the Gentiles have defiled them.

13 To what end then should we live any
longer ?

14 And Mathathias and his sons rent
their garments, and they covered them-
selves with haircloth, and made great
lamentation.

15 And they that were sent from king
Antiochus came thither, to compel them
that were fled into the city of Modin, to
sacrifice, and to burn incense, and to de-
part from the law of God.

16 And many of the people of Israel con-
sented, and came to them : but Matha-
thias and his sons stood firm.

17 And they that were sent from Antio-
chus, answering, said to Mathathias: Thou
art a ruler, and an honourable, and great
man in this city, and adorned with sons,
and brethren.

w B. C. 168.

18 Theref(»re come thou first, and obey
the king's commandment, as all nations
have done, and the men of Juda, and
they that remain in Jerusalem : and thou,
and thy sons, shall be in the number of
the king's friends, and enriched with
gold, and silver, and many presents.

19 Then Mathathias answered, and said
with a loud voice : Although all nations
obey king Antiochus, so as to depart
every man from the service of the Jaw
of his fathers, and consent to his com-
mandments:

20 I and my sons, and my brethren will
obey the law of our fathers.

21 God be merciful unto us: it is not
profitable for us to forsake the law, and
the justices of God ;

22 We will not hearken to the words of
king Antiochus, neither will we sacrifice,
and transgress the commandments of our
law, to go another way.

23 Now as he left off speaking these
words, there came a certain Jew in the
sight of all to sacrifice to the idols upon
the altar in the city of Modin, according
to the king's commandment.

24 And Mathathias saw and was grieved,
and his reins trembled, and his wrath was
kindled according to the judgment of the
law, and running upon him he slew him
upon the altar:

25 Moreover the man whom king Antio-
chus had sent, who compelled them to
sacrifice, he slew at the same time, and
pulled down the altar,

26 And shewed zeal for the law, ^as
Phinees did by Zamri the son of Salomi.

27 And Mathathias cried out in the city
with a loud voice, saying : Every one that
hath zeal for the law, and maintaineth
the testament, let him follow me.

28 So he, and his sons fled into the
mountains, and left all that they had in
the city.

29 Then many that sought after judg-
ment, and justice, went down into the
desert :

30 And they abode there, they and their
children, and their wives, and their cat-
tle : because afflictions increased upon
them.

31 And it was told to the king's men,
and to the army that was in Jerusalem
in the city of David, that certain men

^uIn.^]L3b

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The haiile on the Sabbath day 1 MACHABEES MathatUas exhorts his sons

who had broken the king's command-
ment, were gone away into the secret
places in the wilderness, and that many
were gone after them.

82 And forthwith they went out to-
wards them, and made war against them
on the sabbath day,

33 And they said to them: Do you still
resist ? come forth, and do according to
the edict of king Antiochus, and you
shall live.

34 And they said : We will not come
forth, neither will we obey the king's
edict, to profane the sabbath day.

35 And they made haste to give them
battle.

36 But they answered them not, neither
did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped
up the secret places,

37 Saying: Let us all die in our inno-
cency: and heaven and earth shall be
witnesses for us, that you put us to death
wrongfully.

38 So they gave them battle on the
sabbath: and they were slain with their
wives, and their children, and their cat-
tle, to the number of a thousand persons.

39 And Mathathias and his friends heard
of it, and they mourned for them exceed-
ingly.

40 And every man said to his neighbour :
If we shall all do as our brethren have
done, and not fight against the heathens
for our lives, and our justifications : they
will now quickly root us out of the earth.

41 And they determined in that day,
saying: Whosoever shall come up against
us to fight on the sabbath day, we will
fight against him : and we will not all die,
as our brethren that were slain in the
secret places.

42 Then was assembled to them the
congregation of the Assideans, the stout-
est of Israel, every one that had a good
will for the law.

43 And all they that fled from the evils,
joined themselves to them, and were a
support to them.

44 And they gathered an army, and slew
the sinners in their wrath, and the wicked
men in their indignation: and the rest
fled to the nations for safety.

45 And Mathathias and his friends went
round about, and they threw down the
altars:

46 And they circumcised all the chil
dren whom they found in the confines ot
Israel that were uncircumcised: and they
did vaUantly.

47 And they pursued after the children
of pride, and the work prospered in their
hands :

48 And they recovered the law out of
the hands of the nations, and out of the
hands of the kings : and they yielded not
the horn to the sinner.

49 Now the days drew near that Matha-
thias should die, and he said to his sons:
Now hath pride and chastisement gotten
strength, and the time of destruction,
and the wrath of indignation :

50 Now therefore, O my sons, be ye
zealous for the law, and give your lives
for the covenant of your fathers.

51 And call to remembrance the works
of the fathers, \7hich they have done in
their generations : and you shall receive
great glory, and an everlasting name.

52 ^ Was not Abraham found faithful in
temptation, and it was reputed to him
unto justice?

53 ^' Joseph in the time of his distress
kept the commandment, and he was
made lord of Egypt.

54: y Phinees our father, by being fervent

in the zeal of God, received the covenant

of an everlasting priesthood.

^5 ^ Jesus, whilst he fulfilled the word,

was made ruler in Israel.

56 "Caleb, for bearing witness before
the congregation, received an inherit-
ance.

57 ^ David by his mercy obtained the
throne of an everlasting kingdom.

58 ^ Elias, while he was full of zeal for
the law, was taken up into heaven.

59 ** Ananias and Azarias and Misaelf
by believing, were delivered out of the!
flame.

60 ^ Daniel in his innocency was deliv-
ered out of the mouth of the lions.

61 And thus consider through all gener-l
ations: that none that trust in him fail'
in strength.

w Gen. 22. 2. — X Gen. 41. 40.
y Num. 25. 13 ; Eccli. 45. 28. — 2 Jos. 1. 2.

Chap. 2. Ver. 42. The Assideans. A set of men
that led a religious life ; and were zealous for the
law and worship of God.

Ver. 48. They yielded not the horn, &c. That is.

a Num. 14. 6 ;
c 4 Kings 2. 11.

Jos. 14. 14. — b2 Kings 2. 4.
— d Dan. 3. 50. — e Dan. 6. 22.

thev suffered not the power of Antiochus, that mai
of sin, to abolish the law and religion of God.
Ver. 55. Jesus. That is, Josue.

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62 And fear not the words of a sinfui
man, tor his glory is dung, and worms :

63 To day he is lifted up, and to morrow
he shall not be found, because he is re-
turned into his earth ; and his thought is
come to nothing.

64 You therefore, my sons, take cour-
age, and behave manfully in the law:
for by it you shall be glorious.

65 And behold, I know that your bro-
ther Simon is a man of counsel ; give ear
to him always, and he shall be a father
to you.

66 And Judas Machabeus who is valiant
and strong from his youth up, let him be
the leader of your army, and he shall
manage the war of the people.

67 And you shall take to you all that
observe the law: and revenge ye the
wrong of your people.

68 Render to the Gentiles their reward,
and take heed to the precepts of the law.

69 And he blessed them, and was joined
to his fathers.

70 And he died in the hundred and forty-
sixth ^ year : and he was buried by his
sons in the eepulchres of his fathers in
Modin, and all Israel mourned for him
with great mourning.

CHAPTER 3.

Judas Machabeics succeeds his father, and over-
throws Apollonitts and Seron, A great army is
sent against him out of Syria. He prepares his
people for battle by fasting and prayer.

THEN his son Judas, called Machabeus,
rose up in his stead.

2 And all his brethren helped him, and
all they that had joined themselves to
his father, and they fought with cheer-
fulness the battle of Israel.

3 And he got his people great honour,
and put on a breastplate as a giant, and
girt his warlike armour about him in
battles, and protected the camp with his
sword.

4 In his acts he was like a lion, and like
a lion's whelp roaring for his prey.

5 And he pursued the wicked and sought
them out, and them that troubled his
people he burnt with fire :

6 And his enemies were driven away
for fear of him, and all the workers of
iniquity were troubled : and salvation
prospered in his hand.

7 And he grieved many kings, and made

1 MACHABEES Judas overcomes Apollonim

Jacob glad with his works, and his mem-
ory is blessed for ever.

8 And he went through the cities of
Juda, and destroyed the wicked out of
them, and turned away wrath from
Israel.

9 And he was renowned even to the ut-
most part of the earth, and he gathered
them that were perishing.

10 And Apollonius gathered together
the Gentiles, and a numerous and great
army from Samaria, to make war against
Israel.

11 And Judas understood it, and went
forth to meet him: and he overthrew
him, and killed him: and many fell down
slain, and the rest fled away.

12 And he took their spoils, and Judas
took the sword of Apollonius, and fought
with it all his lifetime.

13 And Seron captain of the army of
Syria heard that Judas had assembled a
company of the faithful, and a congrega-
tion with him,

14 And he said: I will get me a name,
and will be glorified in the kingdom, and
will overthrow Judas, and those that are
with him, that have despised the edict of
the king.

15 And he made himself ready : and the
host of the wicked went up with him,
strong succours, to be revenged of the
children of Israel.

16 And they approached even as far as
Bethoron: and Judas went forth to meet
him, with a small company.

17 But when they saw the army coming
to meet them, they said to Judas : How
shall we, being few, be able to fight
against so great a multitude and so
strong, and we are ready to faint with
fasting to day ?

18 And Judas said : It is an easy matter
for many to be shut up in the hands of a
few : and there is no difference in the
sight of the God of heaven to deliver
with a great multitude, or with a small
company :

19 For the success of war is not in the
multitude of the army, but strength com-
eth from heaven.

20 They come against us with an inso-
lent multitude, and with pride, to destroy
us, and our wives, and our children, and
to take our spoils.

f B. C. 166.

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Judas overcomes Seron

1 JVIACHABEES

Invasion of Juda

21 But we will fight for our Uvea and
our laws:

22 And the Lord himself will overthrow
them before our face: but as for you,
fear them uot.

23 And as soon as he had made an end
of speaking, he rushed suddenly upon
them: and Seron and his host were over-
thrown before him:

24 And he pursued him by the descent
Of Bethoron even to the plain, and there
fell of them eight hundred men, and the
rest fled into the land of the Philistines.

25 And the fear of Judas and of his bre-
thren, and the dread of them, fell upon all
the nations round about them.

26 And his fame came to the king, and
all nations told of the battles of Judas.

27 Now when king Antiochus heard
these words, he was angry in his mind :
and he sent and gathered the forces of
all his kingdom, an exceeding strong
army.

28 And he opened his treasury, and
gave out pay to the army for a year : and
he commanded them, that they should
be ready for all things.

29 And he perceived that the money of
his treasures failed, and that the tributes
of the country were small because of the
dissension, and the evil that he had
brought upon the land, that he might
take away the laws of old times :

30 And he feared that he should not
have as formerly enough, for charges
and gifts, which he had given before
with a liberal hand : for he had abounded
more than the kings that had been before
him.

31 And he was greatly perplexed in
mind, and purposed to go into Persia,
and to take tributes of the countries,
and to gather much money.

32 And he left Lysias, a nobleman of
the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of
the kingdom, from the river Euphrates
even to the river of Egypt :

33 And to bring up his son Antiochus,
till he came again.

34 And he delivered to him half the
army, and the elephants: and he gave
him charge concerning all that he would
have done, and concerning the inhabit-
ants of Judea, and Jerusalem:

35 And that he should send an army

against them, to destroy and root out
the strength of Israel, and the remnant
of Jerusalem, and to take away the mem-
ory of them from that place :

36 And that he should settle strangers
to dwell in all their coasts, and divide
their land by lot.

37 *So the king took the half of the
army that remained, and went forth
from Antioch the chief city of his king-
dom, in the hundred and forty-seventh
year: and he passed over the river Eu-
phrates, and went through the higher
countries.

38 Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son
of Dorymenus, and Meaner, and Gorgias,
mighty men of the king's friends.

39 And he sent with them forty thou-
sand men, and seven thousand horse-
men : to go into the land Di Juda, and to
destroy it according to ths king's orders.

40 So they went forth with all their
power, and came, and pitched near Em-
maus in the plain country.

41 And the merchants of the countries
heard the fame of them : and they took
silver and gold in abundance, and ser-
vants : and they came into the camp, to
buy the children of Israel for slaves : and
there were joined to them the forces of
Syria, and of the land of the strangers.

42 And Judas and his brethren saw that
evils were multiplied, and that the armies
approached to their borders : and they
knew the orders the king had given to
destroy the people and utterly aboUsh
them.

43 And they said every man to his
neighbour : Let us raise up the low con-
dition of our people, and let us fight for
our people, and our sanctuary.

44 And the assembly was gathered that
they might be ready for battle: and that
they might pray, and ask mercy and
compassion.

45 Now Jerusalem was not inhabited,
but was like a desert: there was none o£
her children that went in or out: and
the sanctuary was trodden down: and
the children of strangers were in the
castle, there was the habitation of the
Gentiles: and joy was taken away from
Jacob, and the pipe and harp ceased 1 1
there.

46 And they assembled together, and

i B. C. 166.

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Judas fasts and prays

1 MACHABEES

Jtidas defeats the enemy

came to Maspha over against Jerusalem:
for in Maspha was a place of prayer
heretofore in Israel.

47 And they fasted that day, and put
on haircloth, and put ashes upon their
heads: and they rent their garments :

48 And they laid open the books of the
law, in which the Gentiles searched for
^he likeness of their idols :

49 And they brought the priestly orna-
ments, and the firstfruits and tithes, and
stirred up the Nazarites that had fulfilled
their days:

50 And they cried with a loud voice to-
ward heaven, saying : What shall we do
with these, and whither shall we carry
them?

61 For thy holies are trodden down,
and are profaned, and thy priests are in
mourning, and are brought low.

52 And behold the nations are come to-
gether against us to destroy us : thou
knowest what they intend against us.

53 How shall we be able to stand be-
fore their face, unless thou, O God, help
us?

64 Then they sounded with trumpets,
and cried out with a loud voice.

55 And after this Judas appointed cap-
tains over the people, over thousands,
and over hundreds, and over fifties, and
over tens.

56 -^ And he said to them that were
building houses, or had betrothed wives,
or were planting vineyards, or were
fearful, that they should return every
man to his house, according to the law.

67 So they removed the camp, and
pitched on the south side of Emmaus.

68 And Judas said: Gird yourselves,
and be valiant men, and be ready against
the morning, that you may fight with
these nations that are assembled against
us to destroy us and our sanctuary.

59 For it is better for us to die in battle,
than to see the evils of our nation, and
of the holies:

60 Nevertheless as it shall be the will
of God in heaven so be it done.

CHAPTER 4.

Judas routs the king''s army. Gorgias flies before
him. Lysias comes against him ivith a great
army, but is defeated. Judas cleanses the tervle,
sets lip a new altar, and fortifies the sanctua.-y.

j Deut. 20. 5 and 6 ; Judges 7. 3.
Ver. 4.

Chap. 4. Ver. 4. The army was dispersed. That
H, in different divisions, not all together «'^camped.

n^lHEN * Gorgias took five thousand
JL men, and a thousand of the best
horsemen : and they removed out of the
camp by night.

2 That they might come upon the camp
of the Jews, and strike them suddenly :
and the men that were of the castle
were their guides.

3 And Judas heard of it, and rose up,
he and the valiant men, to attack the
king's forces that were in Emmaus.

4 For as yet the army was dispersed
from the camp.

5 And Gorgias came by night into the
camp of Judas, and found no man, and
he sought them in the mountains: for
he said : These men flee from us.

6 And when it was day, Judas shewed
himself in the plain with three thousand
men only, who neither had armour nop
swords.

7 And they saw the camp of the Gen-
tiles that it was strong, and the men in
breastplates, and the horsemen round
about them, and these were trained up
to war.

8 And Judas said to the men that were
with him : Fear ye not their multitude,
neither be ye afraid of their assault.

9 * Remember in what manner our fa-
thers were saved in the Red Sea, when
Pharao pursued them with a great army.

10 And now let us cry to heaven : and
the Lord will have mercy on us, and will
remember the covenant of our fathers,
and will destroy this army before our
face this day :

11 And all nations shall know that»
there is one that redeemeth and deliver-
eth Israel.

12 And the strangers lifted up their
eyes, and saw them coming against them.

13 And they went out of the camp to
battle, and they that were with Judas
sounded the trumpet.

14 And they joined battle: and the
Gentiles were routed, and fled into the
plain.

15 But all the hindmost of them fell
by the sword, and they pursued them as
far as Gezeron, and even to the plains
of Idumea, and of Azotus, and of Jamnia :
and there fell of them to the number of
three thousand men.

fcB. C. 166. — Z Ex. 14. 9.

Ver. 6. Who neither had armour nor swords,
such as they wished for.

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The flight of Gorgias

16 4nd Judas returned again with his
army that followed him,

17 And he said to the people: Be not
greedy of the spoils: for there is war
before us :

18 And Gorgias and his army are near
us in the mountain: but stand ye now
against our enemies, and overthrow
them, and you shall take the spoils af-
terwards with safety.

19 And as Judas was speaking these
words, behold part of them appeared
looking forth from the mountain.

20 And Gorgias saw that his men were
put to flight, and that they had set fire
to the camp: for the smoke that was
seen declared what was done.

21 And when they had seen this, they
were seized with great fear, seeing at
tlae same time Judas and his army in the
\ iain ready to fight.

22 So they all fled away into the land
of the strangers.

23 And Judas returned to take the spoils
of the camp, and they got much gold,
and silver, and blue silk, and purple of
the sea, and great riches.

24 And returning home they sung a
hymn, and blessed God in heaven, be-
cause he is good, because his mercy
endureth for ever.

25 So Israel had a great dehverance
that day.

26 And such of the strangers as es-
caped, went and told Lysias all that had
happened.

27 And when he heard these things, he
was amazed and discouraged : because
things had not succeeded in Israel ac-
cording to his mind, and as the king had
commanded.

28 So the year ^ following Lysias gath-
ered together threescore thousand chosen
men, and five thousand horsemen, that
he might subdue them.

29 And they came into Judea, and
pitched their tents in Bethoron, and
Judas met them with ten thousand
men.

30 And they saw that the army was
strong, and he prayed, and said : Blessed
art thou, O Saviour of Israel, " who didst
break the violence of the mighty by the
hand of thy servant David, ^and didst
deliver up the camp of the strangers

1 MACHABEES

w B. C. 165. — n 1 Kings 17. 50.

Judas defeats Lysias

into the hands of Jonathan the son of
Saul and of his armourbearer.

31 Shut up this army in the hands of
thy people Israel, and let them be con-
founded in their host and their horse-
men.

32 Strike them with fear, and cause the
boldness of their strength to languish,
and let them quake at their own destruc-
tion.

33 Cast them down with the sword of
them that love thee: and let all that
know thy name, praise thee with hymns.

34 And they joined battle : and there
fell of the army of Lysias five thousand
men.

35 And when Lysias saw that his men
were put to fiight, and how bold the Jews
were, and that they were ready either to
live, or to die manfully, he went to Anti-
och, and chose soldiers, that they might
come again into Judea with greater num-
bers.

36 Then Judas, and his brethren said :
Behold our enemies are discomfited : let
us go up now to cleanse the holy places
and to repair them.

37 And all the army assembled together,
and they went up into mount Sion.

38 And they saw the sanctuary desolate-,
and the altar profaned, and the gates
burnt, and shrubs growing up in the
courts as in a forest, or on the mountains,
and the chambers joining to the temple
thrown down.

39 And they rent their garments, and
made great lamentation, and put ashes
on their heads :

40 And they fell down to the ground on
their faces, and they sounded with the
trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards
heaven.

41 Then Judas appointed men to fight
against them that were in the castle, till
they had cleansed the holy places.

42 And he chose priests without blemish,
whose will was set upon the law of God :

43 And they cleansed the holy places,
and took away the stones that had been
defiled into an unclean place.

44 And he considered about the altar of
holocausts that had been profaned, what
he should do with it.

45 And a good counsel came into their
minds, to pull it down : lest it should be

» I Kings 1^ 13.

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Judas builds a new altar

1 MACHABEES Judas gains many mdories

a reproach to them, because the Gentiles
had defiled it ; so they threw it down.

46 And they laid up the stones in the
mountain of the temple in a convenient
place, till there should come a prophet,
and give answer concerning them.

47 Then they took whole stones accord-
ing to the law, and built a new altar ac-
cording to the former :

48 And they built up the holy places,
and the things that were within the tem-
ple : and they sanctified the temple, and
the courts.

49 And they made new holy vessels, and
brought in the candlestick, and the altar
of incense, and the table into the temple.

50 And they put incense upon the altar,
and lighted up the lamps that were upon
the candlestick, and they gave light in
the temple.

61 And they set the loaves upon the
table, and hung up the veils, and finished
all the works that they had begun to
make.

52 And they arose before the morning
on the five and twentieth day of the
ninth month (which is the month of Cas-
leu) in the hundred and forty-eighth
year. ^

63 And they offered sacrifice according
to the law upon the new altar of holo-
causts which they had made.

64 According to the time, and accord-
ing to the day wherein the heathens had
defiled it, in the same was it dedicated
anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes,
and cymbals.

65 And all the people fell upon their
faces, and adored, and blessed up to hea-
ven, him that had prospered them.

66 And they kept the dedication of the
altar eight days, and they offered holo-
causts with joy, and sacrifices of salva-
tion, and of praise.

57 And they adorned the front of the
temple with crowns of gold, and escutch-
eons, and they renewed the gates, and
the chambers, and hanged doors upon
them.

58 And there was exceeding great joy
among the people, and the reproach of
the Gentiles was turned away.

59 '"And Judas, and his brethren, and
ill the church of Israel decreed, that the
day of the dedication of the altar should

q B. C. 165. — r John 10. 22.

be kept in its season from year to year
fo:. eight days, from the five and twenti-
eth day of the month of Casleu, with joy
and gladness.

60 They built up also at that time mount
Sion, with high walls, and strong towers
round about, lest the Gentiles should at
any time come, and tread it down as they
did before.

61 And he placed a garrison there to
keep it, and he fortified it to secure Beth-
sura, that the people might have a de-
fence against Idumea.

CHAPTER 5.

Judas and his brethren attack the enemies of their
country, and deliver them that xvere distressed,
Josephus and Azarias, attempting contrary to or*
der to fight against their enemies, are defeated.

lyjOW it came to pass, when the na-
xN tions round about heard that the
altar and the sanctuary were built up as
before, that they were exceeding angry.

2 And they thought to destroy the gen-
eration of Jacob that were among them,
and they began to kill some of the peo-
ple, and to persecute them.

3 Then Judas fought against the chil-
dren of Esau in Idumea, and them that
were in Acrabathane : because they be-
set the Israelites round about, and he
made a great slaughter of them.

4 And he remembered the malice of the
children of Bean : who were a snare and
a stumblingblock to the people, by lying
in wait for them in the way.

5 And they were shut up by him in
towers, and he set upon them, and
devoted them to utter destruction, and
burnt their towers with fire, and all that
were in them.

6 Then he passed over to the children
of Ammon, where he found a mighty
power, and much people, and Timotheus
was their captain :

7 And he fought many battles with
them, and they were discomfited in their
sight, and he smote them:

8 And he took the city of Gazer and
her towns, and returned into Judea.

9 And the Gentiles that were in Galaad,
assembled themselves together against
the Israelites that were in their quarters
to destroy them: and they fled into the
fortress of Datheoian.

10 And they sent letters to Judas and

103a,

Judas sends Simon to Galilee 1 MACHABEES

Judas goes to Galaad

his brethren, saying : The heathens that
are round about are gathered together
against us, to destroy us :

1 1 And they are preparing to come, and
to take the fortress into which we are
fled : and Timotheus is the captain of
their host.

12 Now therefore come, and dehver us
out of their hands, for many of us are
slain.

13 And all our brethren that were in the
places of Tubin, are killed : and they have
carried away their wives, and their chil-
dren, captives, and taken their spoils,
and they have slain there almost a thou-
sand men.

14 And while they were yet reading
these letters, behold there came other
messengers out of Galilee with their gar-
ments rent, who related according to
these words :

15 Saying, that they of Ptolemais, and
of Tyre, and of Sidon, were assembled
against them, and all Galilee is filled with
strangers, in order to consume us.

16 Now when Judas and the people
heard these words, a great assembly met
together to consider what they should do
for their brethren that were in trouble,
and were assaulted by them.

17 And Judas said to Simon his brother:
Choose thee men, and go, and deliver thy
brethren in Galilee : and I, and my bro-
ther Jonathan will go into the country
of Galaad.

18 And he left Joseph the son of Zacha-
rias, and Azarias captains of the people
with the remnant of the army in Judea
to keep it :

19 And he commanded them, saying:
Take ye the charge of this people : but
make no war against the heathens, till we
return.

20 Now three thousand men were allot-
ted to Simon, to go into Galilee: and
eight thousand to Judas to go into the
land of Galaad.

21 And Simon went into Galilee, and
fought many battles with the heathens :
and the heathens were discomfited before
his face, and he pursued them even to
the gate of Ptolemais.

22 And there fell of the heathens almost
three thousand men, and he took the
spoils of them,

23 And he took with him those that
were in Gahlee and in Arbatis with their
wives, and children, and all that they
had, and he brought them into Judea
with great joy.

24 And Judas Machabeus, and Jonathan
his brother passed over the 'Jordan, and
went three days* journey through the
desert.

25 And the Nabutheans met them, and
received them in a peaceable manner,
and told them all that happened to their
brethren in the land of Galaad,

26 And that many of them were shut
up in Barasa, and in Bosor, and in Alima,
and in Casphor, and in Mageth, and in
Carnaim: all these strong and great
cities.

27 Yea, and that they were kept shut
up in the rest of the cities of Galaad, and
that they had appointed to bring their
army on the morrow near to these cities,
and to take them and to destroy them
all in one day.

28 Then Judas and his army suddenly
turned their march into the desert, to
Bosor, and took the city: and he slew
every male by the edge of the sword, and
took all their spoils, and burnt it with
fire.

29 And they removed from thence by
night, and went till they came to the
fortress.

30 And it came to pass that early in tho
morning, when they lifted up their eyes,
behold there were people without num-
ber, carrying ladders and engines to take
the fortress, and assault them.

31 And Judas saw that the fight was be-
gun, and the cry of the battle went up
to heaven like a trumpet, and a great
cry out of the city :

32 And he said to his host : Fight ye to
day for your brethren.

33 And he came with three companies
behind them, and they sounded their
trumpets, and cried out in prayer.

34 And the host of Timotheus under-
stood that it was Machabeus, and they
fled away before his face: and they made
a great slaughter of them: and there fell
of them in that day almost eight thou-
sand men.

35 And Judas turned aside to Maspha,
and assaulted, and took it, and he slew

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Judas defeats enemy in Galaad 1 MACHABEES Joseph and Azarias defeated

every male thereof, and took the spoils
thereof, and burnt it with fire.

36 From thence he marched, and took
Casbon, and Mageth, and Bosor, and the
rest of the cities of Galaad.

37 But after this Tiraotheus gathered
another army, and camped over against
Raphon beyond the torrent.

38 And Judas sent men to view the
army : and they brought him word, say-
ing : All the nations, that are round about
us, are assembled unto him an army ex-
ceeding great :

39 And they have hired the Arabians to
help them, and they have pitched their
tents beyond the torrent, ready to come
to fight against thee. And Judas went
to meet them.

40 And Timotheus said to the captains
of his army: When Judas and his army
come near the torrent of water, if he pass
over unto us first, we shall not be able to
withstand him : for he will certainly pre-
vail over us.

41 But if he be afraid to pass over, and
camp on the other side of the river, we
will pass over to them and shall prevail
against him.

42 Now when Judas came near the tor-
rent of water, he set the scribes of the
people by the torrent, and commanded
them, saying : Suffer no man to stay be-
hind : but let all come to the battle.

43 And he passed over to them first,
and all the people after him, and all the
heathens were discomfited before them,
and they threw away their weapons, and
fled to the temple that was in Carnaim.

44 And he took that city, and the temple
he burnt with fire, with all things that
were therein : and Carnaim was subdued,
and could not stand against the face of
Judas.

45 And Judas gathered together all the
[sraelitee that were in the land of Ga-
aad, from the least even to the greatest,
md their wives, and children, and an
irmy exceeding great, to come into the
and of Juda.

46 And they came as far as Ephron: now
his was a great city situate in the way,
trongly fortified, and there was no
leans to turn from it on the right hand
r on the left, but the way was through
he midst of it.

[

47 And they that were in the city, shut
themselves in, and stopped up the gates
with stones: and Judas sent to them
with peaceable words,

48 Saying : Let us pass through your
land, to go into our country : and no
man shall hurt you : we will only pasa
through on foot. But they would not
open to them.

49 Then Judas commanded proclama-
tion to be made in the camp, that they
should make an assault every man in
the place where he was.

60 And the men of the army drew near,
and he assaulted that city all the day,
and all the night, and the city was de-
Uvered into his hands :

61 And they slew every male with the
edge of the sword, and he razed the city,
and took the spoils thereof, and passed
through all the city over them that were
slain.

52 Then they passed over the Jordan to
the great plain that is over against Beth-
san.

63 And Judas gathered together the
hindmost, and he exhorted the people all
the way through, till they came into the
land of Juda.

64 And they went up to mount Sion
with joy and gladness, and offered holo-
causts, because not one of them was
slain, till they had returned in peace.

66 Now in the days that Judas and
Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and
Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptol-
emais,

66 Joseph the son of Zacharias, and
Azarias captain of the soldiers, beard of
the good success, and the battles that
were fought.

67 And he said: Let us also get us a
name, and let us go fight against the
Gentiles that are round about us.

68 And he gave charge to them that
were in his army, and they .went towards
Jamnia.

59 And Gorgias and his men went out
of the city, to give them battle.

60 And Joseph and Azarias were put to
flight, and were pursued unto the bor-
ders of Judea : and there fell, on that
day, of the people of Israel about two
thousand men, and there was a great
overthrow of the people:

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Death of the priests

1 MACHABEES Remorse and death ofAntiochm

61 Because they did nofc hearken to
Judas, and his brethren, thinking that
they should do manfully.

62 But they were not of the seed of
those men by whom salvation was
brought to Israel.

63 And the men of Juda were magnified
exceedingly in the sight of all Israel,
and of all the nations where their name
was heard.

64 And people assembled to them with
joyful acclamations.

65 Then Judas and his brethren went
forth and attacked the children of Esau,
in the land toward the south, and he
took Chebron, and her towns: and he
burnt the walls thereof and the towers
all round it.

66 And he removed his camp to go into
the land of the aUens, and he went
fchrough Samaria.

67 In that day some priests fell in bat-
tle, while desiring to do manfully they
went out unadvisedly to fight.

68 And Judas turned to Azotus into the
land of the strangers, and he threw
down their altars, and he burnt the
statues of their gods with fire : and he
took the spoils of the cities, and re-
turned into the land of Juda.

CHAPTER 6.

7%e fruitless repentance and death of Antiochus.
His son comes against Judas with a formidable
army. He besieges Sion: but at last makes
peace ivith the Jews.

"T^OW king Antiochus was going
JJM through the higher countries, and he
heard that the city of Elymais in Persia
was greatly renowned, and abounding in
silver and gold.

2 And that there was in it a temple,
exceeding rich : and coverings of gold,
and breastplates, and shields which king
Alexander, son of Philip the Macedonian
that reigned first in Greece, had left
there.

3 Lo, he came, and sought to take the
city and to pillage it: but he was not
able, because the design was known to
them that were in the city.

4 And they rose up against him in bat-
tle, and he fled away from thence, and
departed with great sadness, and re-
turned towards Babylonia.

5 And whilst he was in Persia, there

came one that told Mm^ how the armiei
that were in the land of Juda were pu
to flight:

6 And that Lysias went with a verj
great power, and was put to flight befon
the face of the Jews, and that thej
were grown strong by the armour, an(
power, and store of spoils, which thej
had gotten out of the camps which the^
had destroyed :

7 And that they had thrown down th<
abomination which he had set up upoi
the altar in Jerusalem, and that they ha»
compassed about the sanctuary witlj
high walls as before, and Bethsura alsJ
his city. |

8 And it came to pass when the kini
heard these words, that he was strucl
with fear, and exceedingly moved : an<
he laid himself down upon his bed, an<
fell sick for grief, because it had no
fallen out to him as he imagined.

9 And he remained there many days
for great grief came more and mor
upon him, and he made account that h
should die.

10 And he called for all his friends, an
said to them : Sleep is gone from m
eyes, and I am fallen away, and my hear
is cast down for anxiety.

11 And I said in my heart: Into hoi
much tribulation am I come, and int
what floods of sorrow, wherein now
am : I that was pleasant and beloved i
my power !

12 But now I remember the evils tha
I have done in Jerusalem, from whenc
also I took away all the spoils of goh
and of silver that were in it, and I ser
to destroy the inhabitants of Juda will
out cause.

13 I know therefore that for this caus
these evils have found me: and behol
I perish with great grief in a Strang
land.

14 Then he called PhiHp, one of h
friends, and he made him regent over a
his kingdom.

15 And he gave him the crown, and h
robe, and his ring, that he should go 1
Antiochus his son, and should bring hi
up for the kingdom. !

16 So king Antiochus died there in tl
year one hundred and forty-nine. *

17 And Lysias understood that the kir

X B. C. 164.

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The great armif of

1 MACHABEES

Antiochus the younger

was dead, and he set up Antiochus his
Bon to reign, whom he brought up young:
and he called his name Eupator.

18 Now they that were in the castle,
had shut up the IsraeUtes round about
the holy places : and they were continu-
ally seeking their hurt, and to strengthen
the Gentiles.

19 And Judas purposed to destroy them:
and he called together all the people, to
besiege them.

20 ^ And they came together, and be-
sieged them in the year one hundred and
fifty, and they made battering sUngs and
engines.

21 And some of the besieged got out:
and some wicked men of Israel joined
themselves unto them.

22 And they went to the king, and said:
How long dost thou delay to execute the
judgment, and to revenge our brethren?

23 We determined to serve thy father
and to do according to his orders^ and
obey his edicts :

24 And for this they of our nation are
alienated from us, and have slain as
many of us as they could find, and have
spoiled our inheritances.

25 Neither have they put forth their
hand against us only, but also against all
our borders

26 And behold they have approached
this day to the castle of Jerusalem to
take it, and they have fortified the strong
hold of Bethsura :

27 And unless thou speedily prevent
them, they will do greater things than
these, and thou shalt not be able to sub-
due them.

28 Now when the king heard this, he
(Vas angry : and he called together all
his friends, and the captains of his army,
and them that were over the horsemen.

29 There came also to him from other
realms, and from the islands of the sea
hired troops.

30 And the number of his army was an
hundred thousand footmen, and twenty
thousand horsemen, and thirty-two ele-
phants, trained to battle.

31 And they went through Idumea, and
ipproached to Bethsura, and fought many
lays, and they made engines : but they

yB^ C. 163.

Chap. 6. Ver. 31. Bvt they sallied forth. That
-. the citizens of Bethsura sallied forth and burnt
'icwt, that is, burnt the engines of th*^ besiegers.

ure,

sallied forth and burnt them with
and fought manfully.

32 And Judas departed from the castle,
and removed the camp to Bethzacharam,
over against ty\e king's camp.

33 And the king rose before it was
Ught, and made his troops march on
fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam :
and the armies made themselves ready
for the battle, and they sounded the
trumpets:

34 And they shewed the elephants the
blood of grapes, and mulberries to pro-
voke them to fight.

35 And they distributed the beasts by
the legions: and there stood by every
elephant a thousand men in coats of
mail, and with helmets of brass on their
heads : and five hundred horsemen set in
order were chosen for every beast.

36 These before the time wheresoever
the beast was, they were there: and
whithersoever it went, they went, and
they departed not from it.

37 And upon the beast, there were
strong wooden towers, which covered
every one of them: and engines upon
them: and upon every one thirty-two
valiant men, who fought from above ;
and an Indian to rule the beast.

38 And the rest of the horsemen he
placed on this side and on that side at
the two wings, with trumpets to stir up
the army, and to hasten them forward
that stood thick together in the legions
thereof.

39 Now when the sun shone upon the
shields of gold, and of brass, the moun-
tains glittered therewith, and they shone
hke lamps of fire.

40 And part of the king's army was dis-
tinguished by the high mountains, and
the other part by the low places : and
they marched on warily and orderly.

41 And all the inhabitants of the land
were moved at the noise of their mul-
titude, and the marching of the com-
pany, and the rattling of the armour,
for the army was exceeding great and
strong.

42 And Judas and his army drew near
for battle : and there fell of the king's
army six hundred men.

Ver. 36. These before the time.
were ready for every occasion.

That is, these

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Bravery and death of Eleazar 1 MACHABEES King makes peace with the Jen
43 And

Sleazar tli« son of Saura saw
oue of the beasLo uariiessed with the
king^s harness: and it was higher than
the other beasts: and it seemed to him
that the king was on it;

44 And he exposed himself to deliver
his people and to get himself an ever-
lasting name.

45 And he ran up to it boldly in the
midst of the legion, killing on the right
hand, and on the left, and they fell by
him on this side and that side.

46 And he went between the feet of the
elephant, and put himself under it: and
slew it, and it fell to the ground upon
him, and he died there.

47 Then they seeing the strength of the
king and the fierceness of his army,
turned away from them.

48 But the king's army went up against
them to Jerusalem : and the king's army
pitched their tents against Judea and
mount Sion.

49 And he made peace with them that
were in Bethsura: and they came forth
out of the city, because they had no
victuals, being shut up there, for it was
the year of rest to the land.

60 ^ And the king took Bethsura: and
he placed there a garrison to keep it.

51 And he turned his army against the
sanctuary for many days : and he set up
there battering slings, and engines and
instruments to cast fire, and engines to
cast stones and javelins, and pieces to
shoot arrows, and shngs.

52 And they also made engines against
their engines, and they fought for many
days.

53 But there were no victuals in the
city, because it was the seventh year:
and such as had stayed in Judea of them
that came from among the nations, had
eaten the residue of ail that which had
been stored up.

" 64 And there remained in the holy
places but a few, for the famine had pre-
vailed over them : and they were dis-
persed every man to his own place.

55 ° Now Lysias heard that Philip, whom
king Antiochus while he lived had ap-
pointed to bring up his son Antiochus,
and to reign, to be king,

56 Was returned from Persia, and Media,
with the army that went with him^ and

t B. C. 168. — a Supra ver. 16.

that he sought to take upon him th
affairs of the kingdom : '

57 Wherefore he made haste to go, ani
say to the king and to the captains c;
the army : We decay daily, and our prci
vision of victuals is small, and the plac
that we lay siege to is strong, and it lie t
upon us to take order for the affairs c
the kingdom.

68 Now therefore letuscometo an a
ment with these men, and make pe
with them and with all their nation.

59 And let us covenant with them, t
they may live according to their o
laws as before. For because of our de
spising their laws, they have been pro
voked, and have done all these things.

60 And the proposal was acceptable iij
the sight of the king, and of the princes
and he sent to them to make peace : anc|
they accepted of it.

61 And the king and the princes sword
to them : and they came out of the strong
hold.

62 Then the king entered into mountl
Sion, and saw the strength of the place:
and he quickly broke the oath that he
had taken, and gave commandment tol
throw down the wall round about.

63 And he departed in haste, and re
turned to Antioch, where he found Philipj
master of the city : and he fought againstj
him, and took the city.

CHAPTER 7.

Demetrius is made king, and sends Bacchides and\
Alcirmis the priest into Judea, and after them Nif
canor, who is slain by Judas with all his army.

IN ^ the hundred and fifty-first year De-
metrius the son of Seleucus departed
from the city of Rome, and came up with
a few men into a city of the sea coast,
and reigned there.

2 And it came to pass, as he entered
into the house of the kingdom of his fa-
thers, that the army seized upon Antio-
chus, and Lysias, to bring them untQ
him.

3 An J when he knew it, he said: Let
me not see their face.

4 So the army slew them. And Deme-
trius sp.t upon the throne of his kingdom:

5 And there came to him the wicked and
ungodly men of Israel : and Alcimus was
at the head of them, who desired to be
made high priest.

b B. C. 162.

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1 MACHABEES

Nicanor sent to Judea

6 And they actcused the people to the
king, saying: Judas and his brethren
have destroyed all thy friends, and he
hath driven us out of our land.

7 Now therefore send some man whom
thou trustest, and let him go, and see
all the havock he hath made amongst us,
and in the king's lands : and let him pun-
ish all his friends and their helpers.

8 Then the king chose Bacchides, one of
his friends that ruled beyond the great
river in the kingdom, and was faithful to
the king: and he sent him,

9 To see the havock that Judas had
made : and the wicked Alcimus he made
high priest, and commanded him to take
revenge upon the children of Israel.

10 And they arose, and came with a
great army into the land of Juda: and
they sent messengers, and spoke to Judas
and his brethren with peaceable words
deceitfully,

11 But they gave no heed to their
words: tor they saw that they were come
with a jir^at array,

12 Thei there assembled to Alcimus
and Baoc bides a company of the scribes
to require things that are just :

13 And first the Assideans that were
among the children of Israel, and they
sought peace of them.

14 For they «aid: One that is a priest
of the seed ot aaion is come, he will not
deceive um

15 And 5*-; 'ipoke to them peaceably:
and he s vure co them, saying: We will
do you no oarm nor yom^ friends»

16 And they believed him. And he took
threescore of them, and slew them in one
day, according to the word that is written :

17 ^'The jflesh of thy saints, and the
blood of them they have shed round about
Jerusalem, and there was none to bury
them.

18 Then fear ^nd trembling fell upon all
the people ; foi fchey said : There is no
truth, nor justice among them : for they
have broken Che covenant, and the oath
which they made.

19 And Bacchides removed the camp
from Jerusalem, and pitched in Bethze-
cha: and he sent, and took many ot them
that were fled away from him, and some
of the people he killed, and threw them
into a great pit.

cifs. 78,1.« and 3.

20 Then he comtnftted the country to
Alcimus, and left with him troops to help
him. So Bacchides went away to the king :

21 But Alcimus did what he could to
maintain his chief priesthood.

22 And they that distiu-bed the people
resorted to him, and they got the land of
Juda into their power, and did much hurt
in Israel.

23 And Judas saw all the evils that Alci-
mus, and they that were with him, did to
the children of Israel, much more than
the Gentiles.

24 And he went out into all the coasts
of Judea round about, and took ven-
geance upon the men that had revolted,
and they ceased to go forth any more
into the country.

25 And Alcimus saw that Judas, and they
that were with him prevailed: and ho
knew that he could not stand against
them, and he went back to the king, and
accused them of many crimes.

26 ^ And the king sent Nicanor one of
his principal lords, who was a great
enemy to Israel : and he commanded
him to destroy the people.

27 ^ And Nicanor came to Jerusalem
with a great army, and he sent to Judas
and to his brethren deceitfully with
friendly words,

28 Saying : Let there be no fighting be-
tween me and you : I will come with a
few men to see your faces with peace.

29 And he came to Judas, and they sa-
luted one another peaceably: and the
enemies were prepared to take away
Judas by force.

30 And the thing was known to Judas
that he was come to him with deceit : and
he was much afraid of him, and would
not see his face any more.

31 And Nicanor knew that his counsel
was discovered: and he went out to fight
against Judas near Capharsalama.

32 And there fell of Nicanor's army al-
most five thousand men, and they fled
into the city of David.

33 And after this Nicanor went up into
mount Sion : and some of the priests and
the people came out to salute him peace-
ably, and to shew him the holocausts
that were offered for the king.

34 But he mocked and despised them,
and abused them : and he spoke proudly,

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Nicanor defeated bij Judas 1 MACHABEES Judas hears of the Romans

35 And swore in anger, saying: Unless
Judas and his army be delivered into my
hands, as soon as ever I return in peace,
I will burn this house. And he went out
in a great rage.

36 And the priests went in, and stood
before the face of the altar and the tem-
ple : and weeping, they said :

37 Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house
for thy name to be called upon therein,
that it might be a house of prayer and
BuppHcation for thy people.

38 Be avenged of this man, and his
army, and let them fall by the sword:
remember their blasphemies, and suffer
them not to continue any longer.

39 Then Nicanor went out from Jerusa-
lem, and encamped near to Bethoron:
and an army of Syria joined him.

40 But Judas pitched in Adarsa with
three thousand men : and Judas prayed,
and said :

41-^0 Lord, when they that were sent
by king Sennacherib blasphemed thee, an
angel went out, and slew of them a hun-
dred and eighty-five thousand :

42 Even so destroy this army in our
sight to day, and let the rest know that
he hath spoken ill against thy sanctuary :
and judge thou him according to his
wickedness.

43 And the armies joined battle on
the thirteenth day of th© month Adar:
and the army of Nicanor was defeated,
and he himself was first slain in the bat-
tle.

44 And when his army saw that Nicanor
was slain, they threw away their wea-
pons, and fled :

45 And they pursued after them one
day's journey from Adazer, even till ye
come to Gazara, and they sounded the
trumpets after them with signals.

46 And they went forth out of all the
towns of Judea round about, and they
pushed them with the horns, ^ and they
turned again to them, and they were all
slain with the sword, and there was not
left of them so much as one.

47 And they took the spoils or them for
a booty, and they cut off Nicanor's head,
and his right hand, which he had proudly

/ 4 Kings 19. 35 ; Tob. 1. 21 ; Eccli. 48. 24 :
Isa. 37. OS ; 2 Mac. 8. 19.— g That is, >strength.

Chap. 8. Ver. 2. They heard, &c. What is here
set down of the liistory and character of the ancient
Romans, is Dot an assertion, or affinuatiOD of the

stretched cnt, and they brought it, and
hung it up over against Jerusalem.

48 And the people rejoiced exceedingly,
and they spent that day with great joy.

49 And he ordained that this day should
be kept every year, being the thirteenth
of the month of Adar.

50 And the land of Juda was quiet for a
short time.

CHAPTER 8.

Judas hears of the great character of the Romans i
he makes a league with them.

OW Judas heard of the fame of the
Romans, that they are powerful and
strong, and willingly agree to all things
that are requested of them : and that
whosoever have come to them, they
have made ^mity with them, and that
they are mighty in power.

2 And they heard of their battles, and
their noble acts, which they had done in
Galatia, how they had conquered them,
and brought them under tribute :

3 And how great things they had done
in the land of Spain, and that they had
brought under their power the mines of
silver and of gold that are there, and had
gotten possession of all the place by their
counsel and patience :

4 And had conquered places that were
very far off from them, and kings that
came against them from the ends of the
earth, and had overthrown them with
great slaughter : and the rest pay them
tribute every year.

5 And that they had defeated in battle
Philip, and Perses the king of the Ce-
teans, and the rest that had borne arms
against them, and had conquered them :

6 And how Antiochus the great king of
Asia, who went to fight against them,
having a hundred and twenty elephants,
with horsemen, and chariots, and a very
great army, was routed by them :

7 And how they took him alive, and
appointed to him, that both he and they
that should reign after him, should pay a
great tribute, and that he should give
hostages, and that which was agreed I
upon,

8 And the country of the Indians, and
of the Medes, and of the Lydians, some

sacred writer: but only a relation of what JudaS
had heard of them.

Ver. 5. Ceteans. That is, the MacedoniauS.

Ver.& Eummea. iUug o£ ii'ergamus.

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Judas sends legates to Rome 1 MACHABEES

League with the Romans

of their best provinces : and those which
they had taken from them they gave to
king Eumenes.

9 And that they who were in Greece
had a mind to go and to destroy them :
and they had knowledge thereof,

10 And they sent a general against
them, and fought with them, and many
of them were slain, and they carried
away their wives and their children cap-
tives, and spoiled them, and took posses-
sion of their land, and threw down their
walls, and brought them to be their ser-
vants unto this day.

11 And the other kingdoms, and islands,
that at any time had resisted them, they
had destroyed and brought under their
power.

12 But with their friends, and such as
relied upon them, they kept amity, and
had conquered kingdoms that were near,
and that were far off : for all that heard
their name, were afraid of tnem.

13 That whom they had a mind to help
to a kingdom, those reigned : and whom
they would, they deposed from the king-
dom: and they were greatly oxalued,

14 And none of all these wore a crown,
or was clothed in purple, to be magnified
thereby»

15 And that they had made themselves
a senate house, and consulted daily three
hundred and twenty men, that sat in
council always lo^ the people, that uhoy
might do the things that were rightc

16 And that they committed their gov-
ernment to one man every year, tio rule
over all their country, and they all obey
one, and there is no envy, nor jealousy
amongst them.

17 So Judas chose Eupolemus the son
of John, the son of Jacob, and Jason the
son of Eleazar, and he sent them to Rome
to make a league of amity and confed-
eracy with them,

18 And that they might take off from
them the yoke of the Grecians, for they
saw that they oppressed the kingdom of
Israel with servitude.

19 And they went to Rome, a very long
journey, and they entered into the sen-
ate house, and said:

20 Judas Machabeus, and his brethren.

Ver. 16. To one man. There were two consuls :
but one only ruled at one time, each in his day.
— Ibid. No envy, &c. So Judas had heard : and it
was so far true, with regard to the aucient Komans,

and the people of the Jews have sent us
to you, to make alliance and peace with
you, and that we may be registered your
confederates and friends.

21 And the proposal was pleasing in
their sight.

22 And this is the copy of the writing
that they wrote back again, graven in
tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem,
that it might be with them there for a
memorial of the peace and alliance.

23 Good success be to the Romans,
and to the people of the Jews, by sea
and by land for ever: and far be the
sword and enemy from them.

24 But if there come first any war upon
the Romans, or any of their confederates,
in all their dominions :

25 The nation of the Jews shall help
them according as the time shall direct,
with all their heart:

26 Neither shall they give them, whilst
they are fighting, or furnish them with
wheat, or arms, or money, or ships, as it
hath seemed good to the Romans: and
they shall obey their orders, without
taking any thing of them.

27 In like manner also if war shall come
first upon the nation of the Jews, the
Romans shall help them with all their
heart, according as the time shall permit
tliem.

28 And there shall not be given to them
that come to their aid, either wheat, or
arms, or money, or ships, as it hath
seemed good to the Romans : and they
shall observe their orders without deceit.

29 According to these articles did the
Romans covenant with the people of the
Jews.

30 And if after this one party or the
other shall have a mind to add to these
articles^ or take away any thing, they
may do it at their pleasure : and whatso-
ever they shall add, or take away, shall
be ratified.

31 Moreover concerning the evils that
Demetrius the king hath done against
them, we have written to him, saying:
Why hast thou made thy yoke heavy
upon our friends, and allies, the Jews?

32 If therefore they come again to us
complaining of thee, we will do them

that as yet no envy or jealousy had divided them
into such open factions and civil wars, as they after,
wards experienced iu tbe time of Marius and Sylla,

BaccMdes sent again into Judea 1 MACHABEES Defeat and death of Jvdas

justice, and will make war against thee
by sea and land.

CHAPTER 9.

BaccMdes is sent again into Judea : Juda^ fights
against him with eight hundred men and is slain.
Jonathan s^icceeds him and revenges the murder
of his brother John. He fights against Bacchides.
Alcimu^ dies m^iserably. Bacchides besieges Betio'
bessen. He is forced to raise the siege and leave
the country.

IN -^the mean time when Demetrius
heard that Nicanor and his army were
fallen in battle, he sent again Bacchides
and Alcimus into Judea; and the right
wing of his army with them.

2 And they took the road that leadeth
to Galgal, and they camped in Masaloth,
which is in Arabella: and they made
themselves masters of it, and slew many
people.

3 In the first month of the hundred and
fifty-second year they brought the army
to Jerusalem :

4 And they arose, and went to Berea
with twenty thousand men, and two
thousand horsemen.

5 Now Judas had pitched his tents in
Laisa, and three thousand chosen men
with him :

6 And they saw the multitude of the
army that they were many, and they were
seized with great fear : and many with-
drew themselves out of the cam^v, and
there remained of them no moro thon
eight hundred men.

7 And Judas saw that his army slipped
away, and the battle pressed upon him,
and his heart was cast down: because he
had not time to gather them together,
and he was discouraged.

8 Then he said to them that remained:
Let us arise, and go against our enemies,
if we may be able to fight against them.

9 But they dissuaded him, saying: We
shall not be able, but let us save our
hves now, and return to our brethren,
and then we will fight against them : for
we are but few.

10 Then Judas said: God forbid we
should do this thing, and flee away from
them: but if our time be come, let us die
manfully for our brethren, and let us not
stain our glory.

11 And the army removed out of the
camp, and they stood over against them:
and the horsemen were divided into two

troops, and the slingers, and the archers
went before the army, and they that wero
in the front were all men of valour.

12 And Bacchides was in the right wing,
and the legion drew near on two sides,
and they sounded the trumpets :

13 And they also that were on Judas'
side, even they also cried out, and the
earth shook at the noise of the armies :
and the battle was fought from morning
even unto the evening.

1 4 And Judas perceived that the stronger
part of the army of Bacchides was on the
right side, and all the stout of heart came
■jOgether with him :

15 And the right wing was discomfited
by them, and he pursued them even to
the mount Azotus.

16 And they that were in the left wing
saw that the right wing was discomfited,
and they followed after Judas, and them
that were with him, at their back :

17 And the battle wae hard fought, and
there fell numj wounded of the one side
and of the other.

18 And Judas was slain, and the rest
fled awaj^. -'

19 And Jonathan and Simon took Judas
their brother, and buried him in the
sepulchre of their fathers in the city of
Modin.

20 And all the people of Israel bewailed
him with great lamentation, and they
mourned for him many days.

21 And said: How is the mighty man
fallen, that saved the people of Israel !

22 But the rest of the words of the wars
of Judas, and of the noble acts that he
did, and of his greatness, are not writ-
ten: for they were very many.

23 And it came to pass after the death
of Judas, that the wicked began to put
forth their heads in all the confines o.
Israel, and all the workers of iniquity
rose up.

24 In those days there was a very great
famine, and they and all their country
yielded to Bacchides.

25 And Bacchides chose the wicked men,
and made them lords of the country :

26 And they sought out, and made dill
gent search after the friends of Judas,
and brought them to Bacchides, and he
took vengeance of them, and abused
them.

3 B. C. 161.

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Jurtathan succeeds Judas

1 MACHABEES Jonathan defeats Bacchide»

27 And there was a great tribulation
In Israel, such as was not since the day,
that there was no prophet seen in Is-
rael.

28 And all the friends of Judas came
together, and said to Jonathan:

29 Since thy brother Judas died, there
is not a man like him to go forth against
our enemies, Bacchides, and them that
are the enemies of our nation.

30 Now therefore we have chosen thee
this day to be our prince, and captain in
his stead to fight our battles.

31 So Jonathan took upon him the gov-
ernment at that time, and rose up in
the place of Judas his brother.

32 And Bacchides had knowledge of it,
and sought to kill him.

33 And Jonathan and Simon his brother,
knew it, and all that were with them:
and they fled into the desert of Thecua,
and they pitched by the water of the
lake Asphar,

34 And Bacchides understood it, and
he came himself with all his army over
the Jordan on the sabbath day.

35 And Jonathan sent his brother a cap-
tain of the people, to desire th4 Nabu-
theans his friends, that they would lend
them their equipago, which was copious.

36 And tho children of Jambri came
forth out oi Madaba, and took John, and
all thaf3 he had, and went away with
them.

37 After this it was told Jonathan, and
Simon his brother, that the children of
Jambri made a great marriage, and were
bringing the bride out of Madaba, the
daughter of one of the great princes of
Chanaan, with great pomp.

38 And they remembered the blood of
John their brother : and they went up,
and hid themselves under the covert of
the mountain.

39 And they lifted up their eyes, and
saw: and behold a tumult, and great
preparation : and the bridegroom came
forth, and his friends, and his brethren
to meet them with timbrels, and musical
instruments, and many weapons.

40 And they rose up against them from
the place where they lay in ambush, and
slew them, and there fell many wounded,
and the rest fled into the mountains,
«nd they took all their spoils :

k 2 Par. 20. 3.

41 And the marriage was turned into
mourning, and the noise of their musical
instruments into lamentation.

42 And they took revenge for tho blood
of their brother: and they returned to
the bank of the Jordan.

43 And Bacchides heard it, and he came
on the sabbath day even to the bank of
the Jordan with a great power.

44 And Jonathan said to his company:
Let us arise, and fight against our ene-
mies : for it is not now as yesterday,
and the day before. ^i;^

45 For behold the battle is before us,
and the water of the Jordan on this side
and on that side, and banks, and marshes,
and woods : and there is no place for us
to turn aside.

46 '^Now therefore cry ye to heaven,
that yc may be delivered from the hand
of your enemies. And they joined bat*

Me.

47 And Jonathan stretched forth his
hand to strike Bacchides, but he turned
away from him backwards.

48 And Jonathan, and they that were
with him leaped into the Jordan, and
swam over the Jordan to them:

49 And there fell of Bacchides' side
that day a thousand men : and they re-
turned to Jerusalem,

50 And they built strong cities in Judea,
the fortress that was in Jericho, and in
Ammaus, and in Bethoron, and in Bethel,
and Thamnata, and Phara, and Thopo,
with high walls, and gates, and bars.

51 And he placed garrisons in them,
that they might wage war against Israel :

52 And he fortified the city of Beth-
sura, and Gazara, and the castle, and set
garrisons in them, and provisions of
victuals:

53 And he took the sons of the chief
men of the country f«r hostages, and
put them in the castle in Jerusalem in
custody.

54 * Now in the year one hundred and
fifty-three, the second month, Alcimus
commanded the walls of the inner court
of the sanctuary to be thrown down, and
the works of the prophets to be de-
stroyed: and he began to destroy.

55 At that time Alcimus was struck:
and his works were hindered, and his
mouth was stopped, and he was taken

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I B. C. 160.

Bacchides defeated again

1 MACHABEES

Judea rests in peace

wim a palsy, so that he could no more
speak a word, nor give order concerning
his house.

56 And Alcimus died at that time in
great torment.

57 And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was
dead : and he returned to the king, and
the land was quiet for two years.

68 And all the wicked held a council,
saying : Behold Jonathan, and they that
are with him, dwell at ease, and without
fear: now therefore let us bring Bac-
chides hither, and he shall take them all
in one night.

69 So they went, and gave him counsel.

60 And he arose to come with a great
army : and he sent secretly letters to his
adherents that were in Judea, to seize
upon Jonathan, and them that were with
him : but they could not, for their design
was known to them.

61 And he apprehended of the men of
the country, that were the principal
authors of the mischief, fifty men, and
slew them.

62 And Jonathan, and Simon, and they
that were with him retired into Bethbes-
sen, which is in the desert : and he re-
paired the breaches thereof, and they
fortified it.

63 And when Bacchides knew it, he
gathered together all his multitude : and
sent word to them that were of Judea.

64 And he came, and camped above
Bethbessen, and fought against it many
days, and made engines.

65 But Jonathan left his brother SimoD
in the city, and went forth into the coun-
try: and came with a number of men.

66 And struck Odares, and his brethren,
and the children of Phaseron in their
tents, and he began to slay, and to in-
crease in forces.

67 But Simon and they that were with
him, sallied out of the city, and burnt the
engines.

68 And they fought against Bacchides,
and he was discomfited by them : and
they afflicted him exceedingly, for his
counsel, and his enterprise was in vain.

69 And he was angry with the wicked
men that had given him counsel to come
into their country, and he slew many of
them : and he purposed to return with
the rest into their country.

70 And Jonathan had knowledge of it.
and he sent ambassadors to him to makd
peace with him, and to restore to hin
the prisoners.

71 And he accepted it willingly, and did
according to his words, and swore thai
he would do him no harm all the dayj
of his life.

72 And he restored to him the prisonenj
which he before had taken out of th<
land of Juda : and he returned and went
away into his own country, and he camq
no more into their borders.

73 So the sword ceased from Israel : an<
Jonathan dwelt in Machmas, and Jona
than began there to judge the people
and he destroyed the wicked out of Is
rael.

CHAPTER 10.

Alexander Bales sets himself up for king : boti
he and Demetrius seek to make Jonathan thei
friend. Alexander kills Demetrius in battle, an*
honours Jonathan. His victory over Apolloniua

"VTOW **in the hundred and sixtiet
JlS year Alexander the son of Antio
chus, surnamed the Illustrious, came u]
and took Ptolemais, and they receive<
him, and he reigned there.

2 And king Demetrius heard of it, an<
gathered together an exceeding grea
army, and went forth against him t
fight.

3 And Demetrius sent a letter to Jona
than with peaceable words, to magnif;
him.

4 For he said: Let us first make a peac
with him, before he make one with Ales
ander against us.

6 For he will remember all the evils ths
we have done against him, and againt
his brother, and against his nation.

6 And he gave him authority to gath€|
together an army, and to make arms, an
that he should be his confederate: an
the hostages that were in the castle, b
commanded to be dehvered to him.

7 And Jonathan came to Jerusalem, an
read the letters in the hearing of all th
people, and of them that were in tb
castle.

8 And they were struck with great fea
because they heard that the king ha
given him authority to gather togeth(
an army.

9 And the hostages were delivered t

OT B. C. 153.

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•

Alexander makes peace

1 MACHABEES

Demetrius makes peace

Jonathan, and he restored them to their
parents.

IC And Jonathan dwelt in Jerusalem,
and began to build, and to repair the city.

11 And he ordered workmen to build the
walls, and mount Sion round about with
square stones for fortification '■, and so
they did.

12 And the strangers that were in the
strong holds, which Bacchides had built,
fled away.

13 And every man left his place, and
departed into his own country :

14 Only in Bethsura there remained
some of them, that had forsaken the law,
and the commandments of God : for this
was a place of refuge for them.

16 And king Alexander heard of the
promises that Demetrius had made Jona-
than : and they told him of the battles,
and the worthy acts that he, and his bre-
thren had done, and the labours that they
had endured.

16 And he said : Shall we find such an-
other man ? now therefore we wilJ make
him our friend and our confederate.

17 So he wrote a lotter. and sent it to
him according to these words, saying:

18 King Alexander tc his brother Jona-
than, greeting.

19 We have heard of thee, that thou art
a man of great powor, and fit to b our
friend:

20 Now therefore we make thee ilAj day
high priest of thy nation, and that thou
be called the king's friend, (and he sent
him a purple robe, and a crown of gold,)
and that thou be of one mind with us in
our affairs, and keep friendship with us.

21 Then Jonathan put on the holy vest--
ment in the seventh month, in the year
one hundred and threescore, at the feast
day of the tabernacles : and he gathered
together an army, and made a great
number of arms.

22 And Demetrius heard these words,
and was exceeding sony, and said :

23 What is this that we have done, that
Alexander hath prevented us co gain the
friendship of the Jews to strengthen
himself ?

24 I also will write to them words of
request, and offer dignities, and gifts :
that they may be with me to aid me.

25 And he wrote ro them in these words :
King Demetrius to the nation of the
Jews, greeting.

26 Whereas you have kept covenant
with us, and have continued in our
friendship, and have not joined with our
enemies, we have heard of it, and are
glad.

27 Wherefore now continue still to keep
fidelity towards us, and we will reward
you with good things, for what you have
done in our behalf.

28 And we will remit to you many
charges, and will give you gifts.

29 And now I free you, and all the Jews
from tributes, and I release you from the
customs of salt, and remit the crowns,

f and the thirds o^ the seed :

30 And the half of the fruit of trees,
which is my share, I leave to you from
this day forward, so that it shall not be
taken of the land of Juda, and of the
three cities that are added thereto out of
Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth
and for ever .

31 And let Jerusalem be holy and free,
with the borders thereof : and let the
tenths, and tributes be for itself.

32 I yield up also the power of the castle
that 3 in ^I^crusalem, and I give it to the
high prieet, to place therein such men as
lie Ghall choose to keep it.

33 And every soul of the Jews that hath
been carried captive from the land of
Juda in Al :ay kingdom, I set at liberty
freely, that all be discharged from trib-
utes evan of their cattle.

34 And I will that all the feasts, and the
sabbaths, and the new moons, and the
days appointed, and three days before
the solemn day, and three days after the
solemn day, be all days of immunity and
freedom, for all the Jews that are in my
kingdom:

35 And no man shall have power to do
any thing against them, or to molest any
of them in any cause.

36 And let there be em oiled in the king's
army to the number of thirty thousand
of the Jews : and allowance shall be made
them as is due to all the king's forces,
and certain of them shall be appointed
to be in the fortresses of the great king :

37 And some of them shall be set over
the affairs of the kingdom, that are of
trust, and let the governors be taken from
among themselves, and let them walk in
their own laws, as the king hath com-
manded in the land of Juda.

38 And the three cities that are adde^i

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Demetrius is slain in battle 1 MACHABEES Alexander honors Jonathan

to Judea, out of the country of Samaria,
let them be accounted with Judea : that
they may be under one, and obey no
other authority but that of the high priest:

39 Ptolemais, and the confines thereof,
I give as a free gift to the holy places,
that are in Jerusalem, for the necessary
charges of the holy things.

40 And I give every year fifteen thou-
sand sides of silver out of the king's
accounts, of what belongs to me ;

41 And all that is above, which they that
were over the affairs the years before,
had not paid, from this time they shall
give it to the works of the house.

42 Moreover the five thousand sides
of silver which they received from the
account of the holy places, every year,
shall also belong to the priests that exe-
cute the ministry.

43 And whosoever shall flee Into the
temple that is in Jerusalem, and in all
the borders thereof, being indebted to the
king for any matter, let them be set at
liberty, and all that they have in my
kingdom, let them have it free.

44 For the building also, or repairing the
works of the holy places, the charges
shall be given out of the king's revenues :

45 For the building also of the walls of
Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof
round about, the charges shall be given
out of the king's account, as also for the
building of the walls in Judea.

46 Now when Jonathan, and the people
heard these words, ^ they gave no credit
to them nor received them : because they
remembered the great evil that he had
done in Israel, for he had afflicted them
exceedingly.

47 And their inclination» were towards
Alexander, because he had been the chief
promoter of peace in their regard, and
him they always helped.

48 And king Alexander gathered to-
gether a great army, and moved his camp
near to Demetrius.

49 And the two kings joined battle, and
the army of Demetrius fled away, and
Alexander pursued after him, and pressed
them close.

50 And the battle was hard fought till
the sun went down : and Demetrius was
slain that day.

o Supra 7 11.

51 And Alexander sent ambassadors to
Ptolemee king of Egypt, with woids to
this effect, saying :

52 Forasmuch as I am returned into my
kingdom, and am set in the throne of my
ancestors, and have gotten the dominion^
and have overthrown Demetrius, and
possessed our country,

53 And have joined battle with him, and
both he and hia army have been destroy-
ed by us, and we are placed in the throne
of his kingdom :

54 Now therefore let us make friendship
one with another : and give me now thy
daughter to wife, and I will be thy son
in law, and I will give both thee and her
gifts worthy of thee.

55 And king Ptolemee answered, say
ing : Happy is the day wherein thou did
return to the land of thy fathers, and
sattest in the throne of their kingdom.

56 And now I will do to thee as thou hast
written: but meet me at Ptolemais^ that
we may see one another^^ and I may give
her to thee as thou hast said.

57 So Ptolemsewent out of Egypt, witti
Cleopatra his daughter, and he came tc
Ptolemais in the hundred and sixty-seo-
ond year. ^

58 And king Alexander met him, and he
gave him his daughter Cleopatra ; and h(
celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais
with great glory, after the manner o
kings. I

59 And Idng Alexander wrote to Jonal
than, that he should come and meet him

60 And he went honourably to Ptole
mais, and he met there the two kingc-
and he gave them much silver, and gold
and presents : and he found favour i]
their sight. |

61 And some pestilent men of Israe
men of a wicked life, assembled them
selves against him to accuse him: anj
the king gave no heed to them.

62 And he commanded that Jonathan
garments should be taken off, and that h
should be clothed with purple : and thf
did so. And the king made him sit b
himself.

63 And he said to his princes : Go ov
with him into the midst of the city, an
make proclamation, that no man con
plain against him of any matter, and th?

q B. C. 151.

Chap. 10. Ver. 5i. Ptolemee. Surnamed Pliilometer.
1048

Apollonius challenges Jonathan 1 MACHABEES Jonathan defeats Apollonius

no man irouble him for any manner of
cause.

64 So when his accusers saw his glory
proclaimed, and him clothed with purple,
they all fled away.

65 And the king magnified him, and en-
rolled him amongst his chief friends, and
made him governor and partaker of his
dominion.

66 And Jonathan returned into Jerusa-
lem with peace and joy.

67 ^In the year one hundred and sixty-
five Demetrius the son of Demetrius came
from Crete into the land of his fathers.

68 And king Alexander heard of it, and
was much troubled, and returned to
Antioch.

69 And king Demetrius made Apollonius
his general, who was governor of Cele-
syria : and he gathered uogether a great
army, and came to jamnia : and he sent
to Jonathan the high pri c^t,

70 Saying: Thou lilons sLandest against
ns, and I am laughed at, and reproached,
because thou shewes". 'jhrj power against
us in the mountainSc

71 Now therefore if thou trustest in thy
forces, come down to us into the plain,
and there let us try one another, for
with me is the strength of war.

72 Ask, and learn who I am, and the
?est that help me, who also say that
your foot cannot stand before our face,
for thy fathers have twice been pit to
flight in their own land :

73 Ar ' now how wilt thou be able to
abide the horsemen, and so great an
army in the plain, where there is no
stone, nor rock, nor place to flee to?

74 Now when Jonathan heard the words
of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind :
and he chose ten thousand men, and
went out of Jerusalem, and Simon his
brother met him to help him.

75 And they pitched their tents near
Joppe, but they shut him out of the city:
because a garrison of Apollonius was in
Joppe, and he laid siege to it.

76 And they that were in the city being
itffrighted, opened the gates to him: so
Jonathan took Joppe.

77 And Apollonius heard of it, and he
took three thousand horsemen, and a
great army.

73 And he went to Azotus as one that

was making a journey, and immediately
he went forth into the plain : because he
had a great number of horsemen, and he
trusted in them. And Jonathan followed
after him to Azotus, and they joined
battle.

79 And Apollonius left privately in the
camp a thousand horsemen behind them.

80 And Jonathan knew that there was
an ambush behind him, and they sur-
rounded his army, and cast darts at the
people from morning till evening.

81 But the people stot)d still, as Jona-
than had commanded them: and so their
horses were fatigued.

82 Then Simon drew forth his army,
and attacked the legion: for the horse-
men were wearied: and they were dis"
comflted by him, and fled.

83 And they that were scattered about
the plain, fled into Azotus, and went into
Bethdagon their idol's temple, there to
save themselves.

84 But Jonathan set fire to Azotus, and
the cities that were round about it, and
took the spoils of them, and the temple
of Dagon: and all them that were fled
into it, he burnt with fire.

3o So they thao were slain by the sword,
xvioh. them that were burnt, were almost
air^hf thousand men.

8G And Jonathan removed his army
from thence, and camped against Asca-
Ion: and they went out of the city to
meet him with great honour.

87 And Jonathan returned into Jerusa-
lem with his people, having many spoils,

88 And it came to pass: when Alexan-
der the king heard these words, that he
honoured Jonathan yet more.

89 And he sent him a buckle of gold, as
the custom is, to be given to such as are
of the royal blood. And he gave him
Accaron and all the borders thereof in
possession.

CHAPTER 11.

Ptolemee invades tho kingdom of Alexander : the
latter is slain : and the former dies soon after.
Demetrius honoiirs Jonathnv, and is rescued by
the Jews from his own subjects in Antioch. Anti'
ochus the younger favours Jonathan. JHis eX'
ploits in divers places.

A ND ®the king of Egypt gathered to-
x\ gether an army, like the sand that
lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships .
and he sought to get the kingdom o/

r B. C. 148.

s B. C. 145.

1049

Ptolemee invades Syria

1 MACHABEES Demetrius honors Jonathan

Alexander by deceit, and join it to his
own kingdom.

2 And he went out into Syria with
peaceable words, and they opened to
him the cities, and met him: for king
Alexander had ordered them to go forth
to meet him, because he was his father
in law.

3 Now when Ptolemee entered into the
cities, he put garrisons of soldiers in
every city.

4 And when he came near to Azotus,
they shewed hiA the temple of Dagon
that was burnt with fire, and Azotus, and
the suburbs thereof that were destroyed,
dnd the bodies that were cast abroad,
and the graves of them that were slain
in the battle, which they had made near
the way.

6 And they told the king that Jonathan
had done these things, to make him
odious: but the king held his peace.

6 And Jonathan came to meet the king
at Joppe with glory, and they saluted
one another, and they lodged there.

7 And Jonathan went with the king as
far as the river, called Eleutherus: and
he returned into Jerusalem.

8 And king Ptolemee got the dominion
ot the cities by the sea cide, even to Se-
leucia, and he devised evil designs against
Alexander,

9 And he sent ambassadors to Deme-
trius, saying : Come, let us make a league
between us, and I will give thee my
daughter whom Alexander hath, and
thou Shalt reign in the kingdom of thy
father.

10 For I repent that I have given him
my daughter: for he hath sought to kill
me.

11 And he slandered him, because he
coveted his kingdom.

12 And he took away his daughter, and
gave her to Demetrius, and alienated
himself from Alexander, and his enmities
were made manifest.

13 And Ptolemee entered into Antioch,
and set two crowns upon his head, that
of Ea:ypt, and that of Asia.

14 Now king Alexander was in Cilicia
at that time: because they that were in
those places had rebelled.

15 ^ And when Alexander heard of it,
be came to give him battle^ and king

t B. C. 145.

Ptolemee brought forth his army, and
met him with a strong power, and put
him to flight.

16 And Alexander fled into Arabia, there
to be protected : and king Ptolemee was
exalted.

17 And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Al-
exander's head, and sent it to Ptolemee.

18 And king Ptolemee died the third
day after: and they that were in the
strong holds were destroyed by them
that were within the camp.

19 ^ And Demetrius reigned in the hun-
dred and sixty-seventh year.

20 In those days Jonathan gathered to
gether them that were in Judea, to take
the castle that was in Jerusalem: and
they made many engines of war against it

21 Then some wicked men that hated
their own nation, went away to king
Demetrius, and told him that Jonathanl
was besieging the castle.

22 And when he heard it, he was angry:
and forthwith he came to Ptolemais, an<
wrote to Jonathan, that he should no
besiege the castle, but chould come t<
him in haste, and speik to him.

23 But when Jonathan heard this, he
bade them besiege it still : and he chose
some of the ancients of Israel, and of the
priests, and pou himself in danger.

24 And he took gold, and silver, and
raiment, and many other presents, anc
weno to the Mng to Ptolemais, and h(
found favour in his sight.

25 And certain wicked men of his natioi
made complaints against him.

26 And the king treated him as his pre
decessors had done before : and he ex
alted him in the sight of all his friends.

27 And he confirmed him in the higl
priesthood, and all the honours he ha<
before, and he made him the chief of hi
friends.

28 And Jonathan requested of the kinj
that he would make Judea free from tri
bute, and the three governments, an
Samaria, and the confines thereof: an
he promised him three hundred talents

29 And the king consented : and h
wrote letters to Jonathan of all thei
things to this effect.

30 King Demetrius to his brothel
Jonathan, and to the nation of the Jewi|
greeting.

u B. C. 145.

1050

The letter of Icing Demetrius 1 MACHABEES

The Jews help Demetrius

31 We send you here a copy of the let-
ter, which we have written to Lasthenes
our parent concerning you, that you
might know it.

32 King Demetrius to Lasthenes his
parent, greeting.

33 We have determined to do good to
the nation of the Jews who are our
friends, and keep the things that are
just with us, for their good will which
they bear towards us.

34 We have ratified therefore unto them
all the borders of Judea, and the three
cities, Apherema, Lydda, and Ramatha,
which are added to Judea, out of Sama-
ria, and all their confines, to be set apart
to all them that sacrifice in Jerusalem,
instead of the payments which the king
received of them every year, and for the
fruits of the land, and of the trees.

35 And as for other things that belonged
to us of the tithes, and of the tributes,
from this time we discharge them of
them: the saltpans also, and the crowns
that were presented to us.

36 We give all to them, and nothing
hereof shall be revoked from this time
forth and for ever.

37 Now therefore see that thou make a
copy of these things, and let it be given
to Jonathan, and set upon the holy
mountain, in a conspicuous place.

38 '^ And king Demetrius seeing that
the land was quiet before him, and no-
thing resisted him, sent away all his
forces, every man to his own place, ex-
cept the foreign army, which he had
drawn together from the islands of the
nations: so all the troops of his fathers
hated him.

39 Now there was one Tryphon who had
been of Alexander's party before: who
seeing that all the army mumnured
against Demetrius, went to Emalchuel
the Arabian, who brought up Antiochus
the son of Alexander.

40 And he pressed him much to deliver
him to him, that he might be king in his
father's place: and he told him all that
Demetrius had done, and how his sol-
diers hated him. And he remained there
many days.

41 And Jonathan sent to king Demetrius,
desiring that he would cast out them

V B. C. 144.

that were in the castle in Jerusalem, and
those that were in the strong holds: be-
cause they fought against Israel.

42 And Demetrius sent to Jonathan,
saying: I will not only do this for thee,
and for thy people, but I will greatly
honour thee, and thy nation, when op-
portunity shall serve.

43 Now therefore thou shalt do well if
thou send me men to help me: for all
my army is gone from me.

44 And Jonathan sent him three thou-
sand valiant men to Antioch: and they
came to the king, and the king was very
glad of their coming.

45 And they that were of the city as-
sembled themselves together, to the num-
ber of a hundred and twenty thousand
men, and would have killed the king.

46 And the king fed into the palace,
and they of the city kept the passages
of the city, and began to fight.

47 And the king called the Jews to his
assistance: and they came to him all at
once, and they all dispersed themselves
through the city.

48 And they slew in that day a hundred
thousand men, and they set fire to the
city, and got many spoils that day, and
delivered the king.

49 And they that were of the city saw
that the Jews had got the city as they
would: and they were discouraged in
their minds, and cried to the king, making
supplication, and saying:

50 Grant us peace, and let the Jews
cease from assaulting us, and the city.

51 And they threw down their arms,
and made peace, and the Jews were glo-
rified in the sight of the king, and in the
sight of all that were in his realm, and
were renowned throughout the kingdom,
and returned ta Jerusalem with many
spoils.

52 So king Demetrius sat in the throne
of his kingdom: and the land was quiet
before him.

53 And he falsified all whatsoever he
had said, and alienated himself from
Jonathan, and did not reward him ac-
cording to the benefits he had received
from him, but gave him great trouble.

54 And after this Tryphon returned,
and with him Antiochus the young boy,

Chap. 11. Ver. 34. Apherema is found only In the Greek version.

1051

Antiochus honors Jonathan 1 MACHABEES League with Rome and Spari

w'ho was made king, and put on the dia-
dom.

55 And there assembled unto him all
the hands which Demetrius had sent
away, and they fought against Demetrius,
who turned his back and fled.

66 And Tryphon took the elephants,
and made himself master of Antioch.

57 And young Antiochus wrote to Jona-
than, saying : I confirm thee in the high
priesthood, and I appoint thee ruler over
the four cities, and to be one of the
king's friends.

58 And he sent him vessels of gold for
his service, and he gave him leave to
drink in gold, and to be clothed in pur-
ple, and to wear a golden buckle :

59 And he made his brother Simon gov-
ernor from the borders of Tyre even to
the confines of Egypt.

60 Then Jonathan went forth and passed
through the cities beyond the river: and
all the forces of Syria gathered them-
selves to him to help him, and he came
to Ascalon, and they met him honourably
eut of the city.

61 And he went from thence to Gaza;
and they that were in Gaza shut him
out: and he besieged itj and burnt all
the suburbs round about, and took the
spoils.

62 And the men of Gaza made supplica-
tion to Jonathan, and he gave them the
right hand : and he took their sons for
hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem:
and he went through the country as far
as Damascus.

63 And Jonathan heard that the gen-
erals of Demetrius were come treacher-
ously to Cades, which is in Galilee, with
a great army, purposing to remove him
from the affairs of the kingdom:

64 And he went against them : but left
his brother Simon in the country.

65 And Simon encamped against Beth-
Bura, and assaulted it many days, and shut
them up.

66 And they desired him to make peace,
and he granted it them : and he cast them
out from thence, and took the city, and
placed a garrison in it.

67 And Jonathan, and his army en-
camped by the water of Genesar, and
before it was light they were ready in
the plain of Asor.

68 And behold the army of the strangei
met him in the plain, and they laid a
ambush for him in the mountains: but h
went out against them.

69 And they that lay in ambush rose oi
of their places, and joined battle.

70 And all that were on Jonathan's sid
fled, and none was left of them, bi
Mathathias the son of Absalom, an
Judas the son of Calphi, chief captain (
the army.

71 And Jonathan rent his garments, an
cast earth upon his head, and prayed.

72 And Jonathan turned again to thej
to battle, and he put them to flight, an
they fought.

73 And they of his part that fled sa
this, and they turned again to him, an
they all with him pursued the enemies eve
to Cades to their own camp, and the
came even thither.

74 And there fell of the aliens in thj
day three thousand men : and Jonatha
returned to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER 12.

JoTtathan renews his league vMh the Romans ai
LacedemO'iianj. The forces of Demetrius f\
awayfrorr. him. He is deceived and, r.iadepr
oner by T"'yp/ion.

/»ND Tcnathan saw that the tin
J\. servac. nim, and he chose certa
men trnd sen*^ them to Rome, to confix
an I tc renf w the amity with them :

2 A.nd ho sent letters to the Spartar
and to other places according to the san
form.

3 And they went to Rome, and enterd
into the senate house, and said : Jonathj
the high priest, and the nation of tl
Jews have sent us to renew the amit
and alhance as it was before.

4 And they gave them letters to ths
governors in every place, to condu
them into the land of Juda with peace

5 And this is a copy of the letters whi(
Jonathan wrote to the Spartans ;

6 Jonathan the high priest, and t
ancients of the nation, and the pries
and the rest of the people of the Jev
to the Spartans, their brethren, greetii

7 There were letters sent long ago
Onias the high priest from Arius WJ
reigned then among you, to signify tb
you are our brethren,' as the copy he
underwritten do% specify.

1052

Jonathan's letter to the Spartans 1 MACHABEES Jonathan defeats the enemy

8 And Onias received the ambassador
with houour : and received the letters
wherein there was mention made of the

alliance, and amity.

9 We, though we needed none of these
things, having for our comrort the holy
books that are in our hands,

10 Chose rather to send to you to re-
new the brotherhood and friendship, lest
we should become strangers to you alto-
gether : for there is a long time passed
since you sent to us.

11 We therefore at all times without
ceasing, both in our festivals, and other
days, wherein it is convenient, remember
you in the sacrifices that we offer, and in
our observances, as it is meet, and be-
coming to remember brethren.

12 And we rejoice at your glory.

13 But we have had many troubles and
wars on every side, and the kings that are
round about us, have fought against us.

14 But we would not be troublesome to
you, nor to the rest of our allies and
friends in these wars.

15 For we have had help from heaven,
and we have been delivered, and our en-
emies are humbled.

16 We have chosen therefore Numenius
the son of Antiochus, and Antipater the
Bon of Jason, and have sent them to the
Romans to renew with them the former
amity and alliance.

17 And we have commanded them to
go also to you, and to salute you, and to
deliver you our letters, concerning the
renewing of our brotherhood.

18 And now you shall do well to give
08 an answer hereto.

19 And this is the copy of the letter
Which he had sent to Onias :

20 Arius king of the Spartans to Onias
the high priest, greeting.

21 It is found in writing concerning the
Spartans, and the Jews, that they are
brethren, and that they are of the stock
of Abraham.

22 And now since this is come to our

24 Now Jonathan heard that the gen-
erals of Demetrius were come again with
a greater army than before to fight
against him.

25 So he went out from Jerusalem, and
met them in the land of Amath ; for he
gave them no time to enter into his
country.

26 And he sent spies into their camp,
and they came back and brought him
word that they designed to come upon
them in the night.

27 And when the sun was set, Jonathan
commanded his men to watch, and to be
in arms all night long ready to fight, and
he set sentinels round about the camp.

28 And the enemies heard that Jonathan
and his men were ready for battle, and
they were struck with fear, and dread in
their heart: and they kindled fires in
their camp.

29 But Jonathan and they that were
with him knew it not till the morning:
for they saw the lights burning.

30 And Jonathan pursued after them,
but overtook them not : for they had
passed the river Eleutherus.

31 And Jonathan turned upon the Ara-
bians that are called Zabadeans : and he
defeated them, and took the spoils of
them.

32 And he went forward, and came to
Damascus, and passed through all that
country.

33 Simon also went forth, and came as
far as Ascalon, and the neighbouring
fortresses, and he turned aside to Joppe,
and took possession of it,

34 (For he heard that they designed to
deliver the hold to them that took part
with Demetrius,) and he put a garrison
there to keep it.

35 And Jonathan came back, and called
together the ancients of the people, and
he took a resolution with them to build
fortresses in Judea,

36 And to build up walls in Jerusalem,
and raise a mount between the castle and

knowledge, you do well to write to us of the city, to separate it from the city,

your prosperity.
23 And we also have written back to
you : That our cattle, and our possessions
are yours: and yours, ours. We there-
fore have commanded that these things
ahould be told you.

that so it might have no communication,
and that they might neither buy nor
sell.

37 And they came together to build up
the city: for the wall that was upon
the brook towards the east was broken

1053

Jonathan captured by Tryphon 1

down, and he repaired that which is
called Caphetetha :

38 And Simon built Adiada in Sephela,
and fortified it, and set up gates and
bars.

39 ^ Now when Tryphon had conceived
a design to make himself king of Asia,
and to take the crown, and to stretch out
his hand against king Antiochus :

40 Fearing lest Jonathan would not suf-
fer him, but would fight against him : he
sought to seize upon him, and to kill him.
So he rose up and came to Bethsan.

41 And Jonathan went out to meet him
with forty thousand men chosen for
battle, and came to Bethsan.

42 Now when Tryphon oaw that Jona-
than came with a great army, he durst
not stretch forth his hand against him,

43 But received him with honour, and
commended him to all his friends, and
gave him presents: and he commanded
his troops to obey him, as himself.

44 And he said to Jonathan : Why hast
thou troubled all the people, whereas we
have no war ?

45 Now therefore send them back to
their own houses : and choose thee a few
men that may be with thee, and come
with me to Ptolemais, and I will deliver
it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds,
and the army, and all that have any
charge, and I will return and go away :
for this is the cause of my coming.

46 And Jonathan believed him, and did
as he said : and sent away his army, and
they departed into the land of Juda:

47 But he kept with him three thousand
men : of whom he sent two thousand into
Galilee, and one thousand went with him.

48 Now as soon as Jonathan entered into
Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the
gates of the city, and took him: and all
them that came in with him they slew
with the sword.

49 Then Tryphon sent an army and horse-
men into Galilee, and into the great plain
to destroy all Jonathan's company.

50 But they, when they understood that
Jonathan and all that were with him
were taken and slain, encouraged one
another, and went out ready for battle.

51 Then they that had come after them,
seeing that they stood for their lives,
returned back.

MACHABEES

Simon takes the place of Judas

62 Whereupon they all came peaceably
into the land of Juda. And they bewailed
Jonathan, and them that had been with
him, exceedingly : and Israel mourned
with great lamentation.

53 Then all the heathens that were round
about them, sought to destroy them.
For they said :

54 They have no prince, nor any to help
them: now therefore let us make wai
upon them, and take away the memory
of them from amongst men.

CHAPTER 13.

Simon is made captain general in the room, of hit
brother. Jonathan is slain by Tryphon. Simon
is favoured by Demetrius: he taketh Gaza, and
the castle of Jerusalem.

NOW Simon heard that Tryphon was
gathering together a very great
army, to invaclc the land of Juda, and to
destroy it.

2 And seeing that the people was in
dread, and in fear, he went up to Jerusa-
lem, and assembled the people:

S And exhorted them, saying: Youkno^
what great battles I and my brethren,
find the house of my father, have foughl
for the laws, and the sanctuary, and thq
distressec that we have seen :

4 By reason whereof all my brethreri
have lost their lives for Israel's sake, anq
I am left alone.

5 And noTT far be it from me to sparcl
my lixe In any time of trouble : for I aul
not better than my brethren.

6 I will avenge then my nation and thd
oanctuary, and our children, and wives
for all the heathens are gathered to
gether to destroy us out of mere malice

7 And the spirit of the people was en
kindled as soon as they heard these
words.

8 And they answered with a loud voice
saying: Thou art our leader in the plac<
of Judas, and Jonathan thy brother.

9 Fight thou our battles, and we will d(
whatsoever thou shalt say to us.

10 So gathering together all the men o
war, he made haste to finish all the wall»
of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round
about.

11 And he sent Jonathan the son o
Absalom, and with him a new army int(
Joppe, and he cast out them that were ii
it, and himself remained there.

2 B. C. 143.

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Jonathan is slain hy Tryphon 1 ^L\CHABEES Demetrius* letter to Simon

12 And Tryphon removed from Ptole-
mais with a great army, to invade the
land of Juda, and Jonathan was with him
in custody.

13 But Simon pitched in Addus, over
against the plain.

14 And when Tryphon understood that
8imon was risen up in the place of his
brother Jonathan, and that he meant to
join battle with him, he sent messengers
to him,

15 Saying : We have detained thy bro-
ther Jonathan for the money that he
owed in the king's account, by reason of
the affairs which he had the manage-
ment of.

16 But now send a hundred talents of
silver, and his two sons for hostages,
that when he is set at liberty he may
not revolt from us, and we will release
him.

17 Now Simon knew that he spoke de-
ceitfully to him, nevertheless he ordered
the money, and the children to be sent :
lest he should bring upon himself a great
hatred of the people of Israel, who might
have said :

18 Because he sent not the money, and
the children, therefore is he lost.

19 So he sent the children, and the hun-
dred talents : and he lied, and did not let
Jonathan go.

20 And after this Tryphon entered
Within the country, to destroy it: and
they went about by the way that lead-
eth to Ador: and Simon and his army
marched to every place whithersoever
they went.

21 And they that were in the castle,
flent messengers to Tryphon, that he
should make haste to come through the
desert, and send them victuals.

22 And Tryphon made ready all his
horsemen to come that night : but there
fell a very great snow, and he came not
into the country of Galaad.

23 And when he approached to Bas-
cama, he slew Jonathan and his sons
there.

24 And Tryphon returned, and went
into his own country.

25 And Simon sent, and took the bones
of Jouathan his brother, and buried them
in Modin, in the city of his fathers,

26 And all Israel bewailed him with

Chap. 13, Ver. 20. Simon and his army m,arched
v every place whithersoever they teentt tbat is,

great lamentation : and they mourned
for him many days.

27 And Simon built over the sepulchre
of his father and of his brethren, a build-
ing lofty to the sight, of polished stone
behind and before:

28 And he set up seven pyramids one
against another for his father and his
mother, and his four brethren :

29 And round about these he set great
pillars : and upon the pillars arms lor
a perpetual memory: and by the arms
ships carved, which might be seen by all
that sailed on the sea.

30 This is the sepulchre that he made
in Modin even unto this day.

31 But Tryphon when he was upon a
journey with the young king Antiochus,
treacherously slew him.

32 And he reigned in his place, and put
on the crown of Asia : and brought great
evils upon the land.

33 And Simon built up the strong holds
of Judea, fortifying them with high
towers, and great walls, and gates, and
bars : and he stored up victuals in the
fortresses.

34 And Simon chose men and sent to
king Demetrius, to the end that he
should grant an immunity to the land:
for all that Tryphon did was to spoiL

35 And king Demetrius in answer to this
request, wrote a letter in this manner :

36 King Demetrius to Simon the high
priest, and friend of kings, and to the
ancients, and to the nation of the Jews,
greeting.

37 The golden crown, and the palm,
which you sent, we have received : and
we are ready to make a firm peace with
you, and to write to the king's chief offi-
cers to release you the things that we
have released.

38 For all that we have decreed in your
favour, shall stand in force. The strong
holds that you have built, shall be your
own.

39 And as for any oversight or fault
committed unto this day, we forgive it,
and the crown which you owed : and if
any other thing were taxed in Jerusa-
lem, now let it not be taxed.

40 And if any of you be fit to be en-
rolled among ours, let them be enrolled,
and let there be peace between us.

whithersoever Tryphon and
order to oppose them.

his horsemen went to

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Simon takes Gaza

1 MACHABEES Peace flourishes in Judea

41 "^In the year one hundred and sev-
enty the yoke of the Gentiles was taken
off from Israel.

42 And the people of Israel began to
write in the instruments, and public rec-
ords, The first year under Simon the high
priest, the great captain and prince of
the Jews.

43 In those days Simon besieged Gaza,
and camped round about it, and he made
engines, and set them to the city, and he
struck one tower, and took it.

44 And they that were within the en-
gine leaped into the city: and there was
a great uproar in the city.

45 And they that were in the city went
up with their wives and children upon
the wall, with their garments rent, and
they cried with a loud voice, beseeching
Simon to grant them peace.

46 And they said : Deal not with us ac-
cording to our evil deeds, but according
to thy mercy.

47 And Simon being moved, did not de-
stroy them: but yet he cast them out of
the city, and cleansed the houses where-
in there had been idols, and then he
entered into it with hymns, blessing the
Lord.

48 And having cast out of it all unclean-
ness, he placed in it men that should
observe the law : and he fortified it, and
made it his habitation.

49 But they that were in the castle of
Jerusalem were hindered from going out
and coming into the country, and from
buying and selling : and they were strait-
ened with hunger, and many of them
perished through famine.

50 And they cried to Simon for peace,
and he granted it to them : and he cast
them out from thence, and cleansed the
castle from uncleannesses.

51 ^ And they entered into it the three
and twentieth day of the second month,
in the year one hundred and seventy-
one, with thanksgiving, and branches of
palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and
psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, be-
cause the great <inemy was destroyed
out of Israel.

52 And he ordained that these days
should be kept every year with gladness.

53 And he fortified the mountain of the
temple that was near the castle, and he

a B. C. 143.

dwelt there himself, and they that were
with him.

54 And Simon saw that John his son
was a valiant man for war: and he made
him captain of all the forces: and he
dwelt in Gazara.

CHAPTER 14.

DemetHus is taken by the king of Persia. Judea
flourishes under the government of Simon.

IN ^ the year one hundred and seventy-
two, king Demetrius assembled his
army, and went into Media to get him
succours to fight against Tryphon.

2 And Arsaces the king of Persia and
Media heard that Demetrius was entered
within his borders, and he sent one of his
princes to take him alive, and bring hinj
to him.

3 And he went and defeated the army]
of Demetrius: and took him, and brought
him to Arsaces, and he put him into
custody.

4 And all the land of Juda was at restl
all the days of Simon, and he sought the
good of his nation ; and his power, and!
his glory pleased them well all his days.

6 And with all his glory he took Joppe
for a haven, and made an entrance to the
isles of the sea.

6 And he enlarged the bounds of hig
nation, and made himself master of the
country.

7 And he gathered together a great
number of captives, and had the dominior
of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of th€
castle : and took away all uncleannese
out of it, and there was none that re
sisted him.

8 And every man tilled his land witl
peace : and the land of Juda yielded he)
increase, and the trees of the fields theii
fruit.

9 The ancient men sat all in the streets
and treated together of the good thingi
of the land, and the young men put oi
them glory, an*^ the robes of war.

10 And he provided victuals for th(
cities, and he appointed that they shouL
be furnished with ammunition, so tha
the fame of his glory was renowned evej
to the end of the earth

11 He made peace in the land, an<|
Israel rejoiced with great joy.

12 And every man sat under his vine

6 B.C. 142. — c B.C. 141.

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letter oftJie Spartans to Simon

tnd under his fig tre^s and there was
lone to make them afraid.

13 There was none left in the land to
ight against them : kings were discom-
lited in those days.

14 And he strengthened all those of his
)eople that were brought low, and he
lought the law, and took away every
injust and wicked man.

15 He glorified the sanctuary, and mul-
iplied the vessels of the holy places.

16 And it was heard at Rome, and as
ar as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead:
md they were very sorry.

, 17 But when they heard that Simon nis
iffother was made high priest in his place,
md was possessed of all the country, and
ihe cities therein:

18 They wrote to him in tables of brass,
o renew the friendship and alliance
vhich they had made with Judas, and
nth Jonathan his brethren.

19 And they were read before the as-
lembly in Jerusalem. And this is the
»py of the letters that the Spartans
eut.

20 The princes and the cities of the
Jpartans to Simon the high priest, and to
he ancients, and the priests, and the
est of the people of the Jews their bre-
hren, greeting.

21 The ambassadors that were sent to
rar people, have told us of your glory,
aid honour, and joy: and we rejoiced at
heir coming.

22 And we registered what was said by
hem in the councils of the people in this
laanner : Numenius the son of Antiochus,
ad Antipater the son of Jason, ambassa-
dors of the Jews, came to us to renew
he former friendship with us.

23 And it pleased the people to receive
he men honourably, and to put a copy of
heir words in the public records, to be
i' memorial to the people of the Spartans.
,Lnd we have written a copy of them to
imon the high priest.

24 And after tMs Simon sent Numenius
0 Rome, with a great shield of gold of
ihe weight of a thousand pounds, to con-
irm the league with them. And when
he people of Rome had heard

|25 These words, they said: What thanks
hall we give to Simon, and his sons ?
26 For he hath restored his brethren.

1 MACHABEES The writing of the Romans

and hath driven away in fight the ene*
mies of Israel from them : and they de-
creed him liberty, and registered it in
tables of brass, and set it upon pillars in
mount Sion.

27 And this is a copy of the writing;
The eighteenth day of the month Elul,
in the year ^ one hundred and seventy*
two, being the third year under Simon
the high priest at Asaramel,

28 In a great assembly of the priests,
and of the people, and the princes of the
nation, and the ancients of the country,
these things were notified: Forasmuch
as there have often been wars in our
country,

29 And Simon the son of Mathathias of
the children of Jarib, and his brethren
have put themselves in danger, and re-
sisted the enemies of their nation, for
the maintenance of their holy places, and
the law : and have raised their nation to
great glory.

30 And Jonathan gathered together his
nation, and was made their high priest,
and he was laid to his people.

31 And their enemies desired to tread
down and destroy their country, and to
stretch forth their hands against their
holy places.

32 Then Simon resisted and fought for
hfs nation, and laid out much of hig
money, and armed the valiant men of his
nation, and gave them wages :

33 And he fortified the cities of Judea,
and Bethsura that lieth in the borders of
Judea, where the armour of the enemies
was before : and he placed there a garri-
son of Jews.

34 And he fortified Joppe which lieth
by the sea: and Gazara, which bordereth
Upon Azotus, wherein the enemies dwelt
before, and he placed Jews here: and
furnished them with all things convenient
for their reparation.

35 And the people seeing the acts of
Simon, and to what glory he meant co
bring his nation, made him their prince,
and high priest, because he had done all
these things, and for the justice, and
faith, which he kept to his nation, and
for that he sought by all means to ad-
vance his people.

36 And in his days things prospered in
his hands, so that the heathens w^e

d B. C. 141.

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The tvriting of the Romans I MACHABEES Letter of Antiochus to Simc

taken away out of their country, and
they also that were in the city of David
in Jerusalem in the castle, out of which
they issued forth, and profaned all places
round about the sanctuary, and did much
evil to its purity.

37 And he placed therein Jews for the
defence of the country, and of the city,
and he raised up the walls of Jerusalem.

38 And king Demetrius confirmed him
in the high priesthood.

39 According to these things he made
him his friend, and glorified him with
great glory.

40 For he had heard that the Romans
had called the Jews their friends, and
confederates, and brethren, and that they
had received Simon's ambassadors with
honour •

41 And that the Jews, and their priests,
had consented that he should be their
prince, and high priest for ever, till there
should arise a faithful prophet:

42 And that he should be chief over
them, and that he should have the charge
of the sanctuary, and that he should ap-
point rulers over their works, and over
the country, and over the armour, and
over the strong holds.

43 And that he should have care of the
holy places . and that he should be
obeyed by all, and that all the writings
in the country should be made in his
name: and that he should be clothed
with purple, and gold

44 And that it should not be lawful for
any of the people, or of the priests, to
disannul any of these things, or to gain-
say his words, or to call together an as-
sembly in the country without him : or
to be clothed with purple, or to wear a
buckle of gold:

45 And whosoever shall do otherwise,
or shall make void any of these things
shall be punished.

46 And it pleased all the people to es-
tabhsh Simon, and to do according to
these words.

47 And Simon accepted thereof, and
was well pleased to execute the office of
the high priesthood, and to be captain,
and prince of the nation of the Jews, and
of the priests, and to be chief over all.

48 And they commanded that this writ-
ing should be put in tables of brass, and

e B. C. 138.

that they should be set up within tl
compass of the sanctuary, in a conspic
ous place ;

49 And that a copy thereof should
put in the treasm'y, that Simon and I
sons may have it.

CHAPTER 15.

Antiochtts son of Demetrius honours Simon. 1
Rom,aiis write to divers nations in favour of ;
Jews. Antiochus quarrels vnth Simon, and sei
troops to annoy him.

A ND * king Antiochus tue son of Den
jl\. trius sent letters from the isles
the sea to Simon the priest, and prin
of the nation of the Jews, and to all t
people :

2 And the contents were these: Ki
Antiochus to Simon the high priest, a
to the nation of the Jews, greeting.

3 Forasmuch as certain pestilent m
have usurped the kingdom of our fathe
and my purpose is to challenge the Mr
dom, and to restore it to its former «
tate: and I have chosen a great am
and have built ships of war.

4 And I design to go through the cor
try that I may take revenge of them tl
have destroyed our country, and tl
have made many cities desolate in i
realm.

5 Now therefore I confirm unto thee
the oblations which all the kings bef(
me remitted to thee, and what otl
gifts soever they remitted to thee ;

6 And I give thee leave to coin thy O'
money in thy country •

7 And let Jerusalem be holy and fr
and all the armour that hath been ma
and the fortresses which thou hast bu
and which thou keepest in thy hands,
them rem-ain to thee.

8 And all that is due to the king, £
wha should be the king's hereafter, fr
this i>i'esent and for ever, is forgi's
thee.

9 And when we shall have recove:
our kingdom, we will glorify thee, i
thy nation, and the temple with gr
glory, so that your glory shall be mi
manifest in all the earth.

10 In the year one hundred and sever
four -^Antiochus entered into the land
his fathe/s, and all the forces assemb
to him, so that few were left with T
phon.

/ B. c. 138.

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The letter of the Romans

1 MACHABEES Antiockus quarreUt with Stmom

11 And king Antiochus pursued after
him, and he fled along by the sea coast
and came to Dora.

12 For he perceived that evils were
gathered together upon him, and his
•aroops had forsaken him.

13 And Antiochus camped above Dora
with a hundred and twenty thousand men
of war, and eight thousand horsemen :

, 14 And he invested the city, and the
ships drew near by sea: and they an-
noyed the city by land, and by sea, and
suffered none to come in, or to go out.
i 15 And Numenius, and they that had.
been with him, came from th^e city of
Rome, having letters written to the
kings, and countries, the contents where-
of were these :

16 Lucius the consul of the Romans, to
king Ptolemee, greeting.

17 The ambassadors of the Jews our
friends came to us, to renew the former
friendship and alliance, being sent from
Simon the high priest, and' the people of
the Jews.

18 And they brought also a shield of
gold of a thousand pounds.

19 It hath seeihed good therefore to us
bo write to the kings, and countries, that
bhey should do them no harm, nor fight
against them, their cities, or countries :
and that they should give no aid to them
that fight against them.

20 And it hath seemed good to us to
•eceive the shield of them.

21 If therefore any pestilent men are
led out of their country to you, deliver
'ihem to Simon the high priest, that he
'nay punish them according to tlieir law.
'22 These same things were written to
dng Demetrius, and to Attains, and to
Iriarathe^ and to Arsaces,

23 And to all the countries ; and to
iampsacus, and to the Spartans, and to
)elus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and
/aria, and Samus, and Pamphylia, and
-ycia, and Alicarnassus, and Cos, and
ide, and Aradus, and Rhodes, and Phase-
8, and Gortyna, and Gnidus, and Cyprus,
nd Cvrene.

24 And they wrote a copy thereof to
imon the high priest, and to the people
f the Jews.

'25 But king Antiochus- moved his camp

Chap 15. Ver. 16. PMemop,. Surnamed Phys.

•n. brother and successor to Philometor.

V^ ^ MMuat &a Attulus was king of Pef>

to Dora the second time, assaulting It
continually, and making engines* and
he shut up Tryphon^ that he could not
go out.

26 And Simon sent to him two thousand
chosen men to aid him, silver also, and
gold, and abundance of furniture.

27 And he would not receive them, but
broke all the covenant that he had made
with hi-, before, and alienated hlmselff
from him.

28 And he-sent to him Athenobius one
of his friends, to treat with him, saying:
You hold Joppe, and Gazara, and the
castle that is in Jerusalem, which ar^
cities of my kingdom

29 Their borders you have wasted, and
you have made great havock in the land,
and have. got the dominion of many
places in my kingdom.

30 Now therefore deliver up the cities-
that you have taken, and the tributes
of the places whereof you have gotten
the dominion without the borders of
Jndea.

31 But if not, give me for them five
hundred talents of silver, and for the
havock that yon have made, and the
tributes of the cities other five hundred
talents : or else we will come and fight
against you.

32 So Athenobius the king's friend
came to Jerusalem, and saw the glory of
Simon and his magnificence in gold, and
silver, and his great equipage, and he
was astonished, and told him the king's
words.

33 And Simon answered him, and said
to him! We have neither taken other
men's land, neither do we hold that
which is other men's : but the inherit»'
ance of our fathers, which was for some
time unjustly possessed by our enemies,

34 But we having opportunity claim the
inheritance of our fathers.

35 'And as to thy complaints concerning
Joppe and Gazara, they did great harm
to the people, and to our country: yet
for these we will give a hundred talents- ;
And Athenobius answered him not a*
word :

36 But returning in a rage to the king,
made report to him of these words, and
of the glory of Simon, and of all that hO

gamus; Ariarathes was kin^ of Cappadoclft'
Arsaces was luug of tne Fartiii^ns»

Simon's charge to his sons 1 MACHABEES Simon and two sons are slai

bad seen, and the Mog Wit exceeding
angry.

37 And Tryphon fled away by ship to
Orthosias.

38 And the king appointed Cendebeus
captain of the sea coast, and gave him
ail army of footmen and horsemen.

39 And he commanded him to march
with his army towards Judea: and he
commanded him to build up Gedor, and
to fortify the gates of the city, and to
war against the people. But the king
himself pursued after Tryphon.

40 And Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and
began to provoke the people, and to
ravage Judea, and to take the people
prisoners, and to kill, and to build Gedor.

41 And he placed there horsemen, and
an army: that they might issue forth,
and make incursions upon the ways of
Judea, as the king had commanded him.

CHAPTER 16.

The sons of Simon defeat the troops of Antiochtis.
Simon with two of his sons are treacherously
murdered by Ptolemee his son in law.

THEN John came up from Gazara,
and told Simon his father what Cen-
debeus had done against their people.

2 And Simon called his two eldest sons,
Judas and John, and said to them : I
and my brethren, and my father's house,
have fought against the enemies of Is-
rael from our youth even to this day :
and things have prospered so well in
our hands that we have delivered Is-
rael oftentimes.

3 And now I am old, but be you instead
©f me, and my brethren, and go out, and
fight for our nation : and the help from
heaven be with you.

4 Then he chose out of the country
twenty thousand fighting men, and
horsemen, and they went forth against
Cendebeus : and they rested in Modin.

6 And they arose in the morning, and
went into the plain : and behold a very
great army of footmen and horsemen
oame against them, and there was a run-
ning river between them.

6 And he and his people pitched their
camp over against them, and he saw
that the people were afraid to go over

Chap. 16. Ver. 1. JohTu He was afterwards
sumamed Hircanus, and succeeded his father in
both his dignities of high priest and prince. He con-
quered the Edomites, and obliged them to a con.

the river, so he went over first : then t
men seeing him, passed over after hi

7 And he divided the people, and
the horsemen in the midst of the fo
men : but the horsemen of the enem:
were very numerous.

8 And they sounded the holy trumpe
and Cendebeus and his army were
to flight: and there fell many of th
wounded, and the rest fled into
strong hold.

9 At that time Judas John's brother
wounded: but John pursued after th
till he came to Cedron, which he had b

10 And they fled even to the tow
that were in the fields of Azotus, and
burnt them with fire. And there fell
them two thousand men, and he retur
into Judea in peace.

11 Now Ptolemee the son of Abo
was appointed captain in the plain
Jericho, and he had abundance of sil
and gold,

12 For he was son in law of the
priest.

13 And his heart was lifted up, and
designed to make himself master of 1
country, and he purposed treachi
against Simon, and his sons, to destj
them.

14 Now Simon, as he was going thro
the cities that were in the country
Judea, and taking care for the good
dering of them, went down to Jeri
he and Mathathias and Judas his s
in the year ^ one hundred and seve
seven, the eleventh month : the sami
the month Sabath.

15 And the son of Abobus recei
them deceitfully into a little fortr
that is called Doch which he had b
and he made them a great feast, and
men there.

16 And when Simon and his sons
drunk plentifully, Ptolemee and his
rose up and took their weapons, and
tered into the banqueting place, and sj
him, and his two sons, and some of
servants.

17 And he committed a great treac
in Israel, and rendered evil for good.|

18 And Ptolemee wrote these thi

h B. c. 185.

formity with the Jews in religion: and dest
the schismatical temple of the Samaritans.

Ver. 6. He. Viz., John.

Ver. 9. Cedron. Otherwise called Ge'lor. th«|
that Cendebeus was fortifying.

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2 MACHABEE.. Letter to the Jews in Egypt

and sent to the king that he should send
tiim an army to aid him, and he would
deliver him the country, and their cities,
4nd tributes.

19 And he sent others to Gazaia to
till John : and to the tribunes he sent
letters to come to Jiim, and that he would
^ve them silver, and gold, and gifts.

22 Butwh*^n he heard it he was exceed
ingly afraia . and he apprehended the
men that ame to kill him, and he put
them tc death: for he knew that they
sought to make him away.

23 And as concerning the rest of the
acts of John, and his wars, and the
worthy deeds, which he bravely achieved.

20 And he sent others to take Jerusalem, ! and the building of the walls^ which he

md the mountain ot the temple.
21 Now one running before, told John in
jazara, that his father and his brethren
«rere slain, and that he hath sent men to
kill thee also.

made, and the things that he did :

24 Behold these are written in the book
of the days of his priesthood, from the
time that he was made high priest after
his father.

THE

I SECOND BOOK OF MACHABEES

This second book of Machabees ts not a continuation of the history contained in the first • nor
does it come down so low as the fi^rst does : but relates many of the same facts more at large^
and adds other remarkable particulars, omitted in the first book, relating to the state of the
Jeins, as well before as under the persecution of Antiochus. The author, who is not the same
uith that of the first book, has given (as we learn from chap. 2. 20, &c. ) a short abstract oj
what Jason of Cyrene Tiad written in the five volumes, concerning Judas and his brethren.
He wrote in Greek, and begins with two letters, sent by the Jews of Jerusalem to their brethren
it Egypt.

CHAPTER 1.

letters of the Jews of Jerusalem to them that were
in Egypt. They give thanksfor their delivery from
Antiochus : and exhort their brethren to keep the
feast of the fledication of the altar^ and of the
miraculous fire.

TO the brethren the Jews that are
throughout Egypt, the brethren, the
Tews that are in Jerusalem, and in the
land of Judea, send health, and good peace.

2 May God be gracious to you, and re-
member his covenant that he made with
A-braham, and Isaac, and Jacob, his faith-
ful servants :

3 And give you all a heart to worship
turn, and to do his will with a great heart,
and a willing mind.

4 May he open your heart in his law,
and in his commandments, and send j^ou
peace.

5 May he hear your prayers, and be re-
conciled unto you, and never forsake you
in the evil time.

Chap. 1 Ver. 9. Scenopegia^ Viz., the En cenia,
w feast ot the dedicatioo of the altar called here

6 And now here we are praying for
you.

7 'V\nien Demetrius reigned, in the year
•^ one hundred and sixt^'^-nine, we Jews
wrote to you, in the trouble, and violence,
that came upon us in those years, after
Jason withdrew himself from the holy
land, and from the kingdom.

8 They burnt the gate, and shed inno-
cent blood: then we prayed to the Lord,
and were heard, and we offered sacrifices,
and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and
set forth the loaves.

9 And now celebrate ye the days of Sce-
nopegia in the month of Casleu.

10 In the year ^ one hundred and eighty-
eight, the people that is at Jerusalem,
and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas,
to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king
Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the an-
ointed priests, and to the Jews that are
in Egypt, health and welfare.

j B. C. 148. — A; B. C. 125.

Scenopegid, or feast of tabernacles, from being
celebrated with the like solemnity.

lOSl

The Jews give thanks to God

2 MACHABEES

The prayer of Nehemias

11 Having been delivered by God out of
great dangers, we give him great thanks,
forasmuch as we have been in war with
such a king.

12 For he made numbers of men swarm
out of Persia that have fought against us,
and the holy city.

13 For when the leader himself was in
Persia, and with him a very great army,
he fell in the temple of Nanea, being
deceived by the counsel of the priests
of Nanea.

14 For Antiochus, with his friends, came
to the place as though he would marry
Her, and that he might receive great
sums of money under the title of a
dowry.

15 And when the priests of Nanea had
set it forth, and he with a small company
had entered into the compass of the tem-
ple, they shut the temple,

16 When Antiochus was come in : and
opening a secret entrance of the temple,
they cast stones and slew the leader, and
them that were with him, and hewed
them in pieces, and cutting off their heads
they threw them forth.

17 Blessed be God in all things, who
hath delivered up the wicked.

18 Therefore whereas we purpose to
keep the purification of the temple on
the five and twentieth day of the month
of Casleu, we thought it necessary to
signify it to you: that you also may keep
the day of Scenopegia, and the day of
the fire, that was given when Nehemias
offered sacrifice, after the temple and the
altar was built.

19 For when our fathers were led into
Persia, the priests that then were wor-
shippers of God took privately the fire
from the altar, and hid it in a valley where
there was a deep pit without water, and
there they kept it safe, so that the place
was unknown to all men.

20 But when many years had passed,
and it pleased God that Nehemias should
be sent by the king of Persia, he sent
some of the posterity of those priests
that had hid it, to seek for the fire : and

Ver. 11. Such a king. Viz., Antiochus Sifletes,
who began to make war upon the Jews, whilst Simon
was yet alive, l Mac. 15. 39. And afterwards be-
sieged Jerusalem under John Hircanus. So that
the Judas here mentioned, ver. 10, is not Judas
Machabeus, who was dead long before the year 188
Of the kingdom of the Greeks, for he died In the year
146 of that epoch, (see above, 1 Mac. chap. 2., vtr. 70,

as they told us, they found no fire, bu
thick water.

21 Then he bade them draw it up, ant
bring it to him: and the priest Nehemia
commanded the sacrifices that were lai<
on, to be sprinkled with the same watei
both the wood, and the things that wen
laid upon it.

22 And when this was done, and th
time came that the sun shone out, whie
before was in a cloud, there was a grej
fire kindled, so that all wondered.

23 And all the priests made pray(
while the sacrifice was consuming, Joi
athan beginning, and the rest answering

24 Aixl the prayer of Nehemias ws
after this manner : O Lord God, Create
of all things, dreadful and strong, juf
and merciful, who alone art the goc
king,

25 Who alone art gnracious, who alor
art just, and almighty, and eternal, wt
deliverest Israel from all evil, who did
choose the fathers and didst sanctij
them:

26 Receive the sacrifice for all thy pe|
pie Israel, and preserve thy ownportioj
and sanctify it.

27 Gather together our scattered pe
pie, deliver them that are slaves to t]
Gentiles, and look upon them that a
despised and abhorred : that the Gentil
may know that thou art our God.

28 Punish them that oppress us, ai
that treat us injuriously with pride.

29 Establish thy people in thy ho
place, ' as Moses hath spoken.

30 And the priests sung hymns till t
sacrifice was consumed.

31 And when the sacrifice was consume
Nehemias commanded the water th,
was left to be poured out upon the gre •
stones.

32 Which being done, there was kindl i
a flame from them : but it was consum I
by the light that shined from the altai

33 And when this matter became pub! ,
it was told to the king of Persia, that
the place where the priests that were 1
away, had hid the fire, there appear

I Dent. 30. 3 and 5 ; Infra 2. 18.

also the note on chap, l., ver. 2,) but either Judas
eldest son of John Hircanus, or Judas the Esse
renowned for the gift of prophecy, who flouris!
about that time.

Ver. 13. Nanea. A Persian goddess, which sc
have taken for Diana, others for Venus.

Ver. 19. Persia. Babylonia, called here Per
from being afterwards a part of the Persian emp

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Jeremias hides the ark

% MACHABEES The commentaries of Nehemias

water, with which Nehemias and they
that were with him had pm'ified the sac-
rifices.

34 And the king considering, and dili-
gently examining the matter, made a
temple for it, that he might prove what
had happened.

35 And when he had proved it, he gave
the priests many goods, and divers pre-
sents, and he took and distributed them
to them with his own hand.

36 And Nehemias called this place Neph-
thar, which is interpreted pm*ification.
But many call it Nephi.

CHAPTER 2.

A continuation of the second letter. Of Jeremias^
hiding the ark at the time of the captivity. The
author^s preface.

NOW it is found in the descriptions of
Jeremias the prophet, that he com-
manded them that went into captivity,
to take the fire, as it hath been signified,
and how he gave charge to them that

' were carried away into captivity.
2 And how he gave them the law that

■ they should not forget the command-
ments of the Lord, and that they should
not err in their minds, seeing the idols
of gold, and silver, and the ornaments of
them.

' 3 And with other such like speeches,

^ he exhorted them that they would not
remove the law from their heart.

^ 4 It was also contained in the same
writing, how the prophet, being warned
by God, commanded that the tabernacle
and the ark should accompany him, till
he came forth to the mountain "^ where
Moses went up, and saw the inheritance
:of God.

6 And when Jeremias came thither he
'found a hollow cave : and he carried in
thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and
the altar of incense, and so stopped the
'door.

6 Then some of them that followed him,
came up to mark the place: but they
'Boald not find it.

7 And when Jeremias perceived it, he
plamed them, saying : The place shall be
inknown, till God gather together the

m Deut. 34. 1. — n 3 Kings 8. 11 ; 2 Par. 6. 14.
_ o Lev. 9. 24.

Ver. 34. A temple. That is, an enclosure, or a
''all round about the place where the fire was hid,
(«separate it from profane uses, to the end that it
w^t be respected as a holy place.

Ohap. 2. Ver. I. The <iescripticn$. XhaX is, the

congregation of the people, and receive
them to mercy.

8 And then the Lord will shew these
things, and the majesty of the Lord shall
appear, and there shall be a cloud as it
was also shewed to Moses, "^and he
shewed it when Solomon prayed that the
place might be sanctified to the great
God.

9 For he treated wisdom in a magnifi-
cent manner : and like a wise man, he
offered the sacrifice of the dedication,
and of the finishing of the temple.

10° And as Moses prayed to the Lord,
and fire came down from heaven, and
consumed the holocaust : ^ so Solomon
also prayed, and fire came down from
heaven and consumed the holocaust.

11 And Moses said: ^Because the sin
offering was not eaten, it was consumed.

12 So Solomon also celebrated the dedi-
cation eight days.

13 And these same things were set
down in the memoirs and commentaries
of Nehemias : and how he made a library,
and gathered together out of the coun-
tries, the books both of the prophets, and
of David, and the epistles of the kings,
and concerning the holy gifts.

14 And in like manner Judas also gath-
ered together all such things as were
lost by the war we had, and they are in
our possession.

15 Wherefore if you want these things,
send some that may fetch them to you.

16 As we are then about to celebrate
the purification, we have written unto
you : and you shall do well, if you keep
the same days.

17 And we hope that God who hath de-
livered his people, and hath rendered to
all the inheritance, and the kingdom,
and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,

18 '"As he promised in the law, will
shortly have mercy upon us, and will
gather us together from every land
under heaven into the holy place.

19 For he hath delivered us out of great
perils, and hath cleansed the place.

20 Now as concerning Judas Machabeus,
and his brethren, and the purification ol

p 2 Par. 7. 1, — ^ Lev. 10. 16 and 17.
r Deut. 30. 3 and 5 ; Supra 1. 29.

records or memoirs of Jeremias, a work that is now
lost.

Ver. 16. The puriflration. That is, the feast 0|
the purifying or cleaasing of the temple.

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The five books of Jason g MACHABEES Heliodorus sent to rob temple

the great temple, and the dedication of
the altar :

21 As also the wars against Antiochus
the Illustrious, and his son Eupator :

22 And the manifestations that came
from heaven to them, that behaved
themselves manfully on the behalf of
the Jews, so that, being but a few, they
made themselves masters of the whole
country, and put to flight the barbarous
multitude :

23 And recovered again the most re-
nowned temple in all the world, and de-
livered the city, and restored the laws
that were aboUshed, the Lord with all
clemency shewing mercy to them.

24 And all such things as have been
comprised in five books by Jason of Gy-
rene, we have attempted to abridge in
one book.

25 For considering the multitude of
books, and the difficulty that they find
that desire to undertake the narrations
of histories, because of the multitude of
the matter,

26 We have taken care for those indeed
that are willing to read, that it might be
a pleasure of mind : and for the studious,
that they may more easily commit to
memory: and that all that read might

receive profit. , , . j

27 And as to ourselves indeed, in unaer-
taking this work of abridging, we have
taken in hand no easy task, yea rather a
business of watching and sweat.

28 But as they that prepare a feast, and
seek to satisfy the will of others: for the
sake of many, we willingly undergo the

labour. , ^, .

29 Leaving to the authors the exact
handling of every particular, and as for
oufrselves, according to^ the plan pro-
posed, studying to be brief.

30 For as the master builder of a new
house must have care of the whole build-
ing- but he that taketh care to paint it,
must seek out fit things for the adorning
of it: so must it be judged for us.

31 For to collect all that is to be known,
to put the discourse in order, and curi-
ously to discuss every particular point, is
the duty of the author of a history:

32 But to pursue brevity of speech, and

to avoid nice declarations of things, is
to be granted to him that maketh an
abridgment.

33 Here then we will begin the narra-
tion: let this be enough by way of a
preface : for it is a foolish thing to make
a long prologue, and to be short in the
story itself.

CHAPTER 3.

\:>

Ver. 27. No easy task, &c. The spirit of God- ^^^^
assists the sacred penmen, does not exempt them
from labour in seeking out the matter which they
are to treat of, and the order and manner in which
Sey are to deliver it. So St. Luke writ the gospel

Heliodorus is sent by king Seleucus to take awayth4
treasures deposited in the temple. He is struck 6j»
God, and healed by the prayers of the high priest

THEREFORE when the holy city was
inhabited with all peace, and the
laws as yet were very well kept, because
of the godUness of Onias the high priest,
and the hatred his soul had of evil,

2 It came to pass that even the kings
themselves, and the princes esteemed
the place worthy of the highest honour,
and glorified the temple with very great

gifts: „ ,

3 So that Seleucus king of Asia allowed
out of his revenues all the charges be-
longing to the ministry of the sacrifices.

4 But one Simon of the tribe of Benja
min, who was appointed overseer of the
tomple, strove in opposition to the high jo
priest, to bring about some unjust thinf u,
in the city. ' *e

5 And when he could not overconw jtt
Onias he went to Apollonius the son o .j,,
Tharseas, who at that time was governaj j
of Celesyria and Phenicia:

6 And told him, that the treasury r
Jerusalem was full of immense sums
money, and the common store was inf
nite, which did not belong to the accoui
of the sacrifices : and that it was poss
ble to bring all into the king's hands.

7 Now when Apollonius had given tl
king notice concerning the money th;
he was told of, he called for Hehodon
who had the charge over his affairs, a]
sent him with commission to bring n
the foresaid money=

8 So Hehodorus forthwith began |
journey, under a colour of visiting t
cities of Celesyria and Phenicia, but
deed to fulfil the king's purpose. J

9 And when he was come to Jerusaiep
and had been courteously received in ^ , ^^

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city by the high priest, he toldjum

having diligently attained to all things

ver. 3.

Chap 3. Ver. 3. aeieucus, son ux ""p- j-u.
Great and elder brother of Antioehua EpiP*"
who reigned 187-176 B. C

'hiefoftke priests and people 2 MACHABEES Punishment of Hcliodorus

nformation had been driven concerning
ihe money : and declared the cause for
nrhich he was come : and asked if these
ihings were so indeed.

10 Then the high priest told him that
ihese were sums deposited, and provi-
ions for the subsistence of the widows
ind the fatherless.

11 And that some part of that which
Ticked Simon had given intelligence of,
«longed to Hircanus son of Tobias, a
iQan of great dignity: and that the whole
\7SLB four hundred talents of silver, and
wo hundred of gold :

12 But that to deceive them who had
rusted to the place and temple which is
onoured throughout the whole world,
Dr the reverence and holiness of it, was

thing which could not by any means
e done.

13 But he, by reason of the orders he
ad received from the king, said that by

II means the money must be carried to
16 king.

14 So on the day he had appointed,
[eliodorus entered in to order this mat-
)r. But there was no small terror
iroughout the whole city.

5 And the priests prostrated them-
)lves before the altar in their priests'

Btments, and called upon him from
9aven, who made the law concerning
ings given to be kept, that he would
eserve them safe, for them that had
posited them.

6 Now whosoever saw the countenance
the high priest, was wounded in heart:

r his face, and the changing of his col-
ir declared the inward sorrow of his
ind.

7 For the man was so compassed with
dness and horror of the body, that it
as manifest to them that beneld him,
lat sorrow he had in his heart.

8 Others also came flocking together
it of their houses, praying and making
blic supplication, because the place
18 like to come into contempt.

9 And the women, girded with haircloth
out their breasts, came together in the
:eets. And the virgins also that were

■ut up, came forth, some to Onias, and
■me to the walls, and others looked out
m the windows.

"o And all holding up their hands to-
^irds heaven, made supplication.

III For the expectation of the mixed

multitude, and of the high priest who was
in an agony, would have moved any one
to pity.

22 And these indeed called upon al-
mighty God, to preserve the things that
had been committed to them, safe and
sure for those that had committed them.

23 But Heliodorus executed that which
he had resolved on, himself being present
in the same place with his guard about
the treasury.

24 But the spirit of the almighty God
gave a great evidence of his presence, so
that all that had presumed to obey him.
falling down by the power of God, were
struck with fainting and dread.

25 For there appeared to them a horse
with a terrible rider upon him, adorned
with a very rich covering: and he ran
fiercely and struck Heliodorus with his
fore feet, and he that sat upon him,
seemed to have armour of gold.

26 Moreover there appeared two other
young men beautiful and strong, bright
and glorious, and in comely apparel:
who stood by him, on either side, and
scourged him without ceasing with many
stripes.

27 And Heliodorus suddenly fell to the
ground, and they took him up covered
with great darkness, and having put him
into a litter they carried him out.

28 So he that came with many servants,
and all his guard into the aforesaid trea-
sury, was carried out, no one being able
to help him, the manifest power of God
being known.

29 And he indeed by the power of God
lay speechless, and without all hope of
recovery.

30 But they praised the Lord because
he had glorified his place: and the tem-
ple, that a little before was full of fear
and trouble, when the almighty Lord ap-
peared, was filled with joy and gladness.

31 Then some of the friends of Heliodo-
rus forthwith begged of Onias, that he
would call upon the most High to grant
him his life, who was ready to give up
the ghost.

32 So the high priest considering that
the king might perhaps suspect that
some mischief had been done to Helio-
dorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice of
health for the recovery of the man.

33 And when the high priest was pray-
ing, the same young men in the same

Heliodorus life is spared 2 MACHABEES

The wickedness of Jason

clothing stood by Heliodorus, and said to
him: Give thanks to Onias the priest:
because for his sake the Lord hath
granted thee life.

34 And thou having been scourged by
God, declare unto all men the great
works and the power of God. And hav-
ing spoken thus, they appeared no
more.

35 So Heliodorus after he had offered a
sacrifice to God, and made great vows
to him, that had granted him life, and
given thanks to Onias, taking his troops
with him, returned to the king.

36 And he testified to all men the works
of the great God, which he had seen with
his own eyes.

37 And when the king asked Heliodorus,
who might be a fit man to be sent yet
once more to Jerusalem, he said:

38 If thou hast any enemy or traitor to
thy kingdom, send him thither, and thou
Bhalt receive him again scourged, if so be
he escape : for there is undoubtedly in
that place a certain power of God.

39 For he that hath his dwelling in the
heavens, is the visitor, and protector of
that place, and he striketh and destroy-
eth them that come to do evil to it.

40 And the things concerning Heliodo-
rus, and the keeping of the treasury fell
out in this manner.

CHAPTER 4.

Onias has recourse to the king. The ambition
and wickedness of Jason and Menelaus. Onias is
treacherously murdered.

BUT Simon, of whom we spoke before,
who was the betrayer of the money,
and of his country, spoke ill of Onias, as
though he had incited Heliodorus to do
these things, and had been the promoter
of evils:

2 And he presumed to call him a traitor
to the kingdom, who provided for the
city, and defended his nation, and was
zealous for the law of God.

3 But when the enmities proceeded so
far, that murders also were committed
by some of Simon's friends:

4 Onias considering the danger of this
contention, and that ApoUonius, who
was the governor of Celesyria and Phe-
nicia, was outrageous, which increased
the malice of Simon, went to the king,

5 Not to be an accuser of his country-

8 B. C. 176.

men, but with a view to the common
good of all the people.

6 For he saw that, except the king
took care, it was impossible that matters
should be settled in peace, or that Simon
would cease from his folly.

7 But after the death of Seleucus, when
Antiochus, who was called the Illustrious,
had taken possession of the kingdom,
Jason the brother of Onias ambitiously
sought the high priesthood :

8 *And went to the king, promising
him three hundred and sixty talents of
silver, and out of other revenues four-
score talents.

9 Besides this he promised also a hun-
dred and fifty more, if he might have
license to set him up a place for exercise,
and a place for youth, and to entitle
them, that were at Jerusalem, Antic -
chians.

10 Which when the king had granted,
and he had gotten the rule into hiS:
hands, forthwith he began to bring over
his countrymen to the fashion of the
heathens.

11 And abolishing those things, which
had been decreed of special favour by
the kings in behalf of the Jews, by th€
means of John the father of that Eupole
mus, who went ambassador to Rome tc
make amity and alliance, he disannulled
the lawful ordinances of the citizens, anc
brought in fashions that were perverse.

12 For he had the boldness to set up, *
under the very castle, a place of exer
cise, and to put all the choicest youthi
in brothel houses.

13 Now this was not the beginning, bu
an increase, and progress of heathenisl
and foreign manners, through the abom|
inable and unheard of wickedness of Ja
son, that impious wretch and no priest.

14 Insomuch that the priests were no
now occupied about the offices of th
altar, but despising the temple and neg
lecting the sacrifices, hastened to b
partakers of the games, and of the ur'
lawful allowance thereof, and of the ex
ercise of the discus.

15 And setting nought by the honour I
of their fathers, they esteemed the Ore
cian glories for the best :

16 For the sake of which they incurre
a dangerous contention, and followe

u 1 Mac. 1. 16b

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Menelaus made high 'priest 2 MACHABEES

Onias is slain

earnestly their ordinances, and in all
things they coveted to be like them, who
were their enemies and murderers.

17 For acting wickedly against the laws
of God doth not pass unpunished: but
this the time following will declare.

18 Now when the game that was used
every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the
king being present,

19 The wicked Jason sent from Jerusa-
lem sinful men to carry three hundred
didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of
Hercules ; but the bearers thereof de-
Bired it might not be bestowed on the
sacrifices, because it was not necessary,
but might be deputed for other charges.

20 So the money was appointed by him
that sent it to the sacrifice of Hercules:
but because of them that carried it was
employed for the making of galleys.

21 Now when Apollonius the son of
Mnestheus was sent into Egypt to treat
with the nobles of king Philometor, and
Antiochus understood that he was wlaoUy
excluded from the affairs of the kingdom,
consulting his own interest, he departed
thence and came to Joppe, and from
thence to Jerusalem :

22 Where he was received in a magnifi-
cent manner by Jason, and the city, and
came in with torch lights, and with
praises, and from thence he returned
with his army into Phenicia.

23 Three years afterwards Jason sent
Menelaus, brother of the aforesaid Simon,
to carry money to the king, and to bring
answers from him concerning certain
necessary affairs.

24 But he being recommended to the
king, when he had magnified the appear-
ance of his power, got the high priest-
hood for himself, by offering more than
Jason by three hundred talents of sil-
ver.

25 So having received the king's man-
date, he returned bringing nothing wor-
thy of the high priesthood : but having
tho mind of a cruel tyrant, and the rage
Of a savage beapt.

26 Then Jason, who had undermined his
own brother, being himself undermined,
was driven out a fugitive into the country
of the Ammonites.

27 So Menelaus got the principality :
but as for the money he had promised to

the king he took no care, when Sostratus
the governor of the castle called for
it.

28 For to him appertained the gather-
ing of the taxes: wherefore they were
both called before the king.

29 And Menelaus was removed from the
priesthood, Lysimachus his brother suc-
ceeding: and Sostratus was made gov-
ernor of the Cyprians.

30 When these things were in doing, it
fell out that they of Tharsus and Mallos
raised a sedition, because they were
given for a gift to Antiochis, the king's
concubine.

31 The king therefore went in all haste
to appease them, leaving Andronicus, one
of his nobles, for his deputy.

32 Then Menelaus supposing that he
had found a convenient time, having
stolen certain vessels of gold out of the
temple, gave them to Andronicus, and
others ae had sold at Tyre, and in the
neighbouring cities.

33 Which when Onias understood most
certainly, he reproved him, keeping him-
self in a safe place at Antioch beside
Daphne.

34 Whereupon Menelaus coming to An-
dronicus, desired him to kill Onias. And
he went to Onias, and gave him his righ*;
hand with an oath, and (though he wer o
suspected by him) persuaded him to
come forth out of the sanctuary, and im-
mediately slew him, without any regard
to justice.

35 For which cause not only the Jews,
but also the other nations, conceived in-
dignation, and were much grieved for
the unjust murder of so great a man.

36 And when the king was come back
from the places of Cilicia, the Jews that
were at Antioch, and also the Greeks
went to him : complaining of the unjust
murder of Onias.

37 Antiochus therefore was grieved in
his mind for Onias, and being moved to
pity, shed tears, remembering the so-
briety and modesty of the deceased.

38 And being inflamed to anger, he com-
manded Andronicus to be stripped of his
purple, and to be led about through all
the city ? and that in the same place
wherein he had committed the impiety
against Onias, the sacrilegious wretch

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Lysimachtis is hilled

should be put to death, the Lord repay-
ing him his deserved punishment.

39 Now when many sacrileges had been
committed by Lysimachus in the temple
by the counsel of Menelaus, and the
rumour of it was spread abroad, the
multitude gathered themselves together
against Lysimachus, a great quantity of
gold being already carried away.

40 Wherefore the multitude making an
insurrection, and their minds being filled
with anger, Lysimachus armed about
three thousand men, and began to use
violence, one Tyrannus being captain, a
man far gone both in age, and in mad-
ness.

41 But when they perceived the attempt
of Lysimachus, some caught up stones,
some strong clubs: and some threw
ashes upon Lysimachus.

42 And many of them were wounded,
and some struck down to the ground,
but all were put to flight: and as for the
sacrilegious fellow himself, they slew him
beside the treasury.

43 Now concerning these matters, an
accusation was laid against Menelaus.

44 And when the king was come to
Tyre, three men were sent from the an-
cients to plead the cause before him.

45 But Menelaus being convicted, pro-
mised Ptolemee to give him much money
to persuade the king to favour him.

46 So Ptolemee went to the king in a
certain court where he was, as it were to
cool himself, and brought him to be of
another mind:

47 So Menelaus who wt» guilty of aril
the evil, was acquitted by him of the
accusations: and those poor men, who, if
they had pleaded their cause even before
Scythians, should have been judged inno-
cent, were condemned to death.

48 Thus they that prosecuted the cause
for the city, and for the people, and the
sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust
punishment.

49 Wherefore even the Tyrians being
moved with indignation, were liberal to-
wards their burial.

50 And so through the covetousness of
them that were in power, Menelaus con-
tinued in authority, increasing in malice
to the betraying of the citizens.

2 MACHABEES Wonderful signs seen in the air

CHAPTER 5.

Wonderful signs are seen in the air. Jason^s wick-
edness and end. Antiochus takes Jernsalent, and
plunders the temple.

A T ^ the same time Antiochus prepared
J\. for a second journey into Egypt.

2 And it came to pass that through the
whole city of Jerusalem for the space of
forty days there were seen horsemen
running in the air, in gilded raiment, and
armed with spears, like bands of soldiers.

3 And horses set in order by ranks,
running one against another, with the
shakings of shields, and a multitude of
men in helmets, with drawn swords, and
casting of darts, and glittering of golden
armour, and of harnesses of all sorts.

4 Wherefore all men prayed that these
prodigies might turn to good.

5 Now when there was gone forth a
false rumour, as though Antiochus hac
been dead, Jason taking with him nc
fewer than a thousand men, suddenlj
assaulted the city : and though the citizen?
ran together to the wall, the city a1
length was taken, and Menelaus fled intc
the castle.

6 But Jason slew his countrymen with
out mercy, not considering that pro
sperity against one's own kindred is i^
very great evil, thinking they had beei
enemies, and not citizens, whom he con
quered.

7 Yet he did not get the principality
but received confusion at the end, fo]
the reward of his treachery, and fle(
again into the country of the Ammonites

8 At the last having been shut up bj
Aretas the king of the Arabians, in ordei
for his destruction, flying from city t(
city, hated by all men, as a forsaker o
the laws, and execrable, as an enemy o
his country and countrymen, he wai
thrust out into Egypt :

9 And he that had driven many out o
their country, perished in a strange land
going to Lacedemon, as if for kindrec
sake he should have refuge there:

10 But he that had cast out many un
buried, was himself cast forth both unla
mented and unburied, neither having
foreign burial, nor being partaker of th<
sepulchre of his fathers.

11 Now when these things were done

wB. C. 168.

Chap. 4. Var. 46. PtoUm9$, The son of Dorymenus, a favourite of the king.

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Antiochus 'profanes the temple 2 MACHABEES Judas retreats into wilderness

the king graspected that the Jews would
forsake the alliance: whereupon depart-
ing out of Egypt with a furious mind, he
took the city by force of arms.

12 And commanded the soldiers to kill,
and not to spare any that came in their
way, and to go up into the houses to
«flay.

13 Thus there was a slaughter of young
and old, a destruction of women and
children, and killing of virgins and in-
fants.

14 And there were slain in the space of
three whole days fourscore thousand,
forty thousand were made prisoners, and
as many sold.

15 But this was not enough; he pre-
sumed also to enter into the temple, the
most holy in all the world, Menelaus, that
traitor to the laws, and to his country,
being his guide.

16 And taking in his wicked hands the
holy vessels, which were given by other
kings and cities, for the ornament and
the glory of the place, he unworthily
handled and profaned them.

17 Thus Antiochus going astray in mind,
did not consider that God was angry for
a while, becaiise of the sins of the in-
habitants of the city : and therefore this
contempt had happened to the place:

18 Otherwise had they not been in-
volved in many sins, * as Heliodorus,
Who was sent by king Seleucus to rob the
treasury, so this man also, as soon as he
had come, had been forthwith scourged,
and put back from his presumption.

19 But God did not choose the people
for the place's sake, but the place for the
people's sake.

20 And therefore the place also itself
Was made partaker of the evils of the
people : but afterward shall communicate
in the good things thereof, and as it was
forsaken in the wrath of Almighty God,
shall be exalted again with great glory,
When the great Lord shall be reconciled.

21 So when Antiochus had taken away
out of the temple a thousand and eight
hundred talents, he went back in all haste
to Antioch, thinking through pride, that
he might now make the land navigable,

X Supra 3. 35 and 27.

Chap. 5. Ver. 27. Was the tenth. That is. he
had nine others in his company.

Chap. 6. Ver. 2. That in Gazan'm. Viz^ the
temple of the Samaritans. And as they were origi-

and the sea passable on foot: such was
the haughtiness of his mind.

22 He left also governors to afflict the
people : at Jerusalem, Philip, a Phrygian
by birth, but in manners more barbarous
than he that set him there :

23 And in Gazarim, Andronicus and
Menelaus, who bore a more heavy hand
upon the citizens than the rest.

24 And whereas he was set against the
Jews, he sent that hateful prince Apol-
lonius with an army of two and twenty
thousand men, commanding him to kill
all that were of perfect age, and to sell
the women and the younger sort.

25 Who when he was come to Jerusalem,
pretending peace, rested till the holy day
of the sabbath : and then the Jews keep-
ing holiday, he commanded his men to
take arms.

26 And he slew all that were come forth
to see: and running through the city
with armed men, he destroyed a very-
great multitude.

27 But Judas Machabeus, who was the
tenth, had withdrawn himself into a des-
ert place, and there lived amongst wild
beasts in the mountains with his com-
pany: and they continued feeding on
herbs, that they might not be partakers
of the pollution.

CHAPTER 6.

Antiochus commands the law to be abolished, sets
up an idol in the temple, and persecutes the/aitfO'
fid. The m,artyrdom of Eleazar.

BUT not long after the king sent ^ a
certain old man of Antioch, to com-
pel the Jews to depart from the laws of
their fathers and of God :

2 And to defile the temple that was in
Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of
Jupiter Olympius : and that in Gazarim
of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they
were that inhabited the place.

3 And very bad was this invasion of evils
and grievous to all.

4 For the temple was full of the riot an4
revellings of the Gentiles: and of men
lying with lewd women. And women
thrust themselves of their accord into
the holy places, and brought in things
that were not lawful.

y B. C. 167.

nally strangers, the name of Hospitalis (which sigii|>
fiues of or belongvag to strangers) was applicable to
the idol set up in tlieir temple.

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Antiochus persecutes the Jews 2 MACHABEES The constancy of Eleazar

5 The altar also was filled with unlawful
things, which were forbidden by the laws.

6 And neither were the sabbaths kept,
nor the solemn days of the fathers ob-
served, neither did any man plainly pro-
fess himself to be a Jew.

7 But they were led by bitter constraint
on the king's birthday to the sacrifices;
and when the feast of Bacchus was kept,
they were compelled to go about crowned
with ivy in honour of Bacchus.

8 And there went out a decree into the
neighbouring cities of the Gentiles, by the
suggestion of the Ptolemeans, that they
also should act in like manner against
the Jews, to oblige them to sacrifice:

9 And whosoever would not conform
themselves to the ways of the Gentiles,
should be put to death: then was misery
to be seen.

10 2 For two women were accused to
have circumcised their children: whom,
when they had openly led about through
the city with the infants hanging at their
breasts, they threw down headlong from
the walls.

11 And others that had met together in
caves that were near, and were keeping
the sabbath day privately, being discov-
ered by Philip, were burnt with fire, be-
cause they made a conscience to help
themselves with their hands, by reason
of the religious observance of the day.

12 Now I beeseech those that shall read
this book, that they be not shocked at
these calamities, but that they consider
the things that happened, not as being
for the destruction, but for the correc-
tion of our nation.

13 For it is a token of great goodness
when sinners are not suffered to go on
in their ways for a long time, but are
presently punished.

14 For, not as with other nations (whom
the Lord patiently expecteth, that when
the day of judgment shall come, he may
punish them in the fulness of their sins:)

15 Doth he also deal with us, so as to
suffer our sins to come to their height,
and then take vengeance on us.

16 And therefore he never withdraweth
his mercy from us: but though he chas-
tise his people with adversity, he forsak-
eth them not.

zl Mac. 1. 63.

Ver. 11. Philip. The governor of Jeriisalem.
Ver. 21. Wicked pity. Their pity was wicked.

17 But let this suffice in a few words
for a warning to the readers. And now
we must come to the narration.

18 Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes,
a man advanced in years, ahd of a comely
countenance, was pressed to open his
mouth to eat swine's flesh.

19 But he, choosing rather a most glo-
rious death than a hateful life, went for-
ward voluntarily to the torment.

20 And considering in what manner he
was come to it, patiently bearing, he de-
termined not to do any unlawful things
for the love of life.

21 But they that stood by, being moved
with wicked pity, for the old friendship
they had with the man, taking him aside,
desired that flesh might be brought,
which it was lawful for him to eat, that
he might make as if he had eaten, as the
king had commanded of the flesh of the
sacrifice:

22 That by so doing he might be deliv-
ered from death: and for the sake of
their old friendship with the man they
did him this courtesy.

23 But he began to consider the dignity
of his age, and his ancient years, and the:
inbred honour of his grey head, and his:
good life and conversation from a child:
and he answered without delay, accord-
ing to the ordinances of the holy law
made by God, saying, that he would
rather be sent into the other world.

24 For it doth not become our age, said
he, to dissemble: whereby many young
persons might think that Eleazar, at the
age of fourscore and ten years, was gone
over to the life of the heathens :

25 And so they, through my dissimula-
tion, and for a little time of a corruptible
life, should be deceived, and hereby I
should bring a stain and a curse upon
my old age.

26 For though, for the present time, I
should be delivered from the punish-
ments of men, yet should I not escape
the hand of the Almighty neither alive
nor dead.

27 Wherefore by departing manfully out
of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of
my old age:

28 And I shall leave an example of forti-
tude to young men, with a ready mind

inasmuch as it suggested that wicked proposal of
saving his life by dissimulation.

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The martyrdom of Eleazar 2 MACHABEES?

and constancy I suffer an honourable
death, for the most venerable and most
holy laws. And having spoken thus, he
was forthwith carried to execution.

29 And they that led him, and had been
a little before more mild, were changed
to wrath for the words he had spoken,
which they thought were uttered out of
arrogancy.

30 But when he was now ready to die
with the stripes, he groaned, and said:
O Lord, who hast the holy knowledge,
thou knowest manifestly that whereas I
might be delivered from death, I suffer
grievous pains in body : but in soul am
well content to suffer these things be-
cause I fear thee.

31 Thus did this man die, leaving not
only to young meU; but also to the whole
nation, the memory of his death for an
example of virtue and fortitude.

CHAPTER 7.

The glorious martyrdom of the seven brethren and

their niother.

IT " came to pass also, that seven bre-
thren, together with their mother,
were apprehended, and compelled by
the king to eat swine's flesh against the
law, for which end they were tormented
with whips and scourges.

2 But one of them, who was the eldest,
eaid thus: What wouldst thou ask, or
learn of us ? we are ready to die rather
than to transgress the laws of God, re-
ceived from our fathers.

3 Then the king being angry commanded
fryingpans, and brazen caldrons to be
made hot: which forthwith being heated,

4 He commanded to cut out the tongue
of him that had spoken first: and the
skin of his head being drawn off, to chop
off also the extremities of his hands and
feet, the rest of his brethren, and his
mother, looking on.

5 And when he was now maimed in all
parts, he commanded him, being yet
alive, to be brought to the fire, and to
be fried in the fryingpan : and while he
was suffering therein long torments, the
rest, together with the mother, exhorted
one another to die manfully,

6 Saying : The Lord God will look upon
the truth, and will take pleasure in us,

as Moses declared in the profession of

a B. C. 167.

The seven brothers

the canticle: And in his servants he will
take pleasure.

7 So when the first was dead after this
manner, they brought the next to make
him a mocking stock : and when they
had pulled off the skin of his head with
the hair, they asked him if he would eat,
before he were punished throughout the
whole body in every limb.

8 But he answered In his own language,
and said : I will not do it. Wherefore he
also in the next place, received the tor-
ments of the first:

9 And when he was at the last gasp, he
said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked
man, destroyest us out of this present
life: but the King of the world will raise
us up5 who die for his laws, in the resur-
rection of eternal life.

10 After him the third was made a
mocking stock, and when he was re-
quired, he quickly put forth his tongue,
and courageously stretched out his
hands :

11 And said with confidence: These I
have from heaven, but for the laws of
God I now despise them: because I hope
to receive them again from him.

12 So that the king, and they that were
with him, wondered at the young man's
courage, because he esteemed the tor-
ments as nothing.

13 And after he was thus dead, they
tormented the fourth in the like manner,

14 And when he was now ready to die,
he spoke thus : It is better, being put to
death by men, to look for hope from
God, to be raised up again by him: for,
as to thee thou shalt have no resurrec-
tion unto life.

16 And whe:ii they had brought the fifth,
they tormented him. But he looking
upon the king,

16 Said: Whereas thou hast power
among men, though thou art corrupt-
ible, thou dost what thou wilt: but think
not that our nation is forsaken by
God.

17 But stay patiently a while, and thou
shalt see his great power, in what man-
ner he will torment thee and thy seed.

18 After him they brought the sixth,
and he being ready to die, spoke thus:
Be not deceived without cause: for we
suffer these things for ourselves, having

b Deut. 32. 36.

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The seven brothers

2 MACHABEES The constancy of the youngest

Binned against onr God, and things
worthy of admiration are done to us:

19 But do not think that thou shalt
escape unpunished, for that thou hast
attempted to fight against God.

20 Now the mother was to be admired
above measure, and worthy to be re-
membered by good men, who beheld her
seven sons slain in the space of one day,
and bore it with a, good courage, for the
hope that she had in God:

21 And she bravely exhorted every one
of them in her own language, being filled
with wisdom: and joining a man's heart
to a woman's thought,

22 She said to them : I know not how
you were formed in my womb: for I nei-
ther gave you breath, nor soul, nor life,
neither did I frame the limbs of every
one of you.

23 But the Creator of the world, that
formed tiie nativity of man, and that
found out the origin of all, he will re-
store to you again in his mercy, both
breath and life, as now you despise your-
selves for the sake of his laws.

24 Now Antiochus, thinking himself de-
spised, and withal despising the voice of
the upbraider, when the youngest was yet
alive, did not only exhort him by words,
but also assured him with an oath, that
he would make him a rich and a happy
man, and, if he would turn from the laws
of his fathers, would take him for a friend,
and furnish him with things necessary.

25 But when the young man was not
moved with these things, the king called
the mother, and counselled her to deal
With the young man to save his lifOc

26 And when he had exhortecl her with
many words, she promised that she would
counsel her son.

27 So bending herself towards him,
mocking the cruel tyrant, she said in
her own language : My son, have pity
upon me, that bore thee nine months in
my womb, and gave thee suck three
years, and nourished thee, and brought
thee up unto this age.

28 I beseech thee, my son, look upon
iieaven and earth, and all that is in
them: and consider that God made them
out of nothing, and mankind also:

29 So thou shalt not fear this tormentor,
but being made a worthy partner with

thy brethren, receive death, that in thai
mercy I may receive thee again with thj
brethren.

30 While she was yet speaking thest
words, the young man said : For whon
do you stay ? I will not obey the com
mandment of the king, but the com
mandment of the law, which was givei
us by Moses.

31 But thou that hast been the autho
of all mischief against the Hebrews
shalt not escape the hand of God»

32 For we suffer thus for our sinSo

33 And though the Lord our God ii
angry with us a little while for our chas
tisement and correctiou : yet he will b(
reconciled again to his servants.

34 But thou, O wicked and of aU mei
most flagitious, be not lifted up withou
cause with vain hopes, whilst thou ari
J aging against his servants.

36 For thou hast not yet escaped the
judgment of the almighty God; who be
holdeth all things.

36 For my brethren, having now under
gone a short pain, are under the cove
nant of eternal life: but thou by the
judgment of God shalt receive iust pun
ishment for thy pride.

37 But I, like my brethren, offer up mj
life and my body for the laws of oui
fathers: calling upon God to be speediljj
merciful to '' ur nation, and that thou h}\
torments aLi stripes mayst coniess thai
he alone is God.

38 But in me and in my brethren th(
wrath of the Almighty, which hath justljj
been brought upon all our nation, shall
cease.

39 Then the king being incensed wit!
anger, raged against him more cruellj
than aU the rest, taking it grievouslj
that he was mockedc

40 So thic man also died undefiled
wholly trusting in the Lord.

41 And last of all after the sons th(
mother also was consumed.

42 But now there is enough said of th(
sacrifices, and of the excessive cruelties

CHAPTER 8c

Judas Machaheus gathering an arm/y gains diver,

victories

UT ^ Judas Machabeus, and they tha
were with him, went privately int(

e B. C. 165.
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fJiidas gathers an army

2 MACHABEES Nicanor mar dies against Judas

the towns: and calling together their
kinsmen and friends, and taking unto
them such as continued in the Jews' re-
ligion, they assembled six thousand men.

2 And they called upon the Lord that
he would look upon his people that was
trodden down by all, and would have
pity on the temple, that was defiled by
the wicked:

3 That he would have pity also upon
the city that was destroyed, that was
ready to be made even with the ground,
and would hear the voice of the blood
that cried to him :

4 That he would remember also the
most UDJust deaths of inuocent children,
and the blasphemies offered to his
name, and would shew his indignation
on this occasion.

5 Now when Machabeus had gathered
a multitude, he could not be withstood
by the heathens : for the wrath of the
Lord was turned into mercy.

6 So coming unawares upon the towns
and cities, he set tham on fire, and tak-
ing possession of the most commodious
places, he made no small slaughter of
the enemies :

7 And especially in the nights he went
upon these expeditions, and the fame of
his valour was spread abroad every
where.

8 Then Philip, seeing that the man
gained ground by little ctnd little, and
that things for the most part succeeded
prosperously with him, wrote to Ptol-
emee the governor of Celesyria and
Phenicia, to send aid to the king'g af-
fairs.

9 And he with all speed sent Nicanor
the son of Patroclus, one of his special
friends, giving him no fewer than twenty
thousand armed men of different nations,
to root out the whole race of the Jews,
loining also with him Gorgias. a good
soldier, and of great experience in mat-
ters of war.

10 And Nicanor purposed to raise for
the king the tribute of two thousand tal-

e 4 Kings IS. 35 ; Tob. 1. 21 ;

Chap. 8. Ver, 8. Philip seeina,&c. Thepovernor
Of Jerusalem found himself unable to contend with
Judas, especially after the victories he had obtained
over Apollonius and Seron. 1 Mac. 3.

Ver. 9. Twenty thottsetnd The whole number of
the forces sent at that time into Judea, was 40,000
footmen, and 7000 horsemen, i Mac. 3. 30. But only
20,000 are here taken notice of. because there were
DC more with yicanoi at the time of the battle.

entS; that was to be given to the Romans,
by making so much money of the cap-
tive Jews:

11 Wherefore he sent immediately to
the cities upon the sea coast, to invite
men together to buy up the Jewish
slaves, promising that they should have
ninety slaves for one talent, not reflect-
ing on the vengeance, which was to fol-
low him from the Almighty,

12 Now when Judas found that Nicanoi
was coming, he imparted to the Jews
that were with him, that the enemy was
at hand

13 And some of them being afraid, and
distrusting the justice of God, fled away:

14 Others sold all that they had left,
and withal besought the Lord, that he
would deliver them from the wicked
Nicanor, who had sold them before he
came near them:

15 And if not for their sakes-, yet for
the covenant that he had made with
their fathers, and for the sake of his holy
and glorious name that was invoked
upon them.

16 Eut Machabeus calling together seven
thousand that were with him, exhorted
them not to be reconciled to the ene-
mies, nor to fear the multitude of the
enemies who came wrongfully against
them, but to fight manfully i

17 Setting before their eyes the injury
they had unjustly done the holy place,
and also the injury they had done to the
city, which had been shamefully abused,
besides their destroying the ordinance?
of the fathers,

18 For, said he, they trust in their wea
pons, and in their boldness : but wb
trust in the Almighty Lord, who at a
beck can vitterly destroy both them thai
come against us, and the whole world.

19 Moreover he put them in mind also
of the helps their fathers had received
from God: * and how under Sennacherib
a hundred and eighty-five thousand had
been destroyed.

20 And of the battle that they had

Eccli. 48. 24 ; Isa. 37. 36 ; 1 Mac. 7. 41.

Ver. 16. Seven, thovsnnd. In the Greek it is sir
thmtsand. But then three thousand of them had nc
arms, l Mac. 4. 6.

Ver. 20. Golatians. That is, the Gauls, who
having ravaged Italy and Greece, poTired thcra
selves in upon Asia in immense Rr.ultitudes, where
also they f ouuded the kingdom, of Galatia, or Gallo
Gr^^cia-

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Judas defeats Nicanor

2 MACHABEES

Nicanor flees to Antioch

fought against the Galatians in Babylo-
nia, how they, being in all but six thou-
sand, when it came to the point, and the
Macedonians their companions were at
a stand, slew a hundred and twenty
thousand, because of the help they had
from heaven, and for this they received
many favours

21 With these words they were greatly
encouraged, and disposed even to die for
the laws and their country.

22 So he appointed his brethren captains
over each division of his army, Simon,
and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving to each
one fifteen hundred men.

23 And after the holy Book had been
read to them by Esdras, and he had given
them for a watchword. The help of God:
himself leading the first band, he joined
battle with Nicanor:

24 And the Almighty being their helper,
they slew above nine thousand men: and
having wounded and disabled the greater
part of Nicanor's army, they obliged them
to fly.

25 And they took the money of them
that came to buy them, and they pursued
them on every side.

26 But they came back for want of time:
for it was the day before the sabbath:
and therefore they did not continue the
pursuit.

27 But when they had gathered together
their arms and their spoils, they kept
the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had
delivered tdiem that day, distilling the
beginning of mercy upon them,

28 Then after the sabbath they divided
the spoils to the feeble and the orphanSc,
and the widows: and the rest they took
for themselves and their servants,

29 When this was done, and they had
all made a common supplication, they
besought the merciful Lord to be recon-
ciled to his servants unto the end.

30 Moreover they slew above twenty
thousand of them that were with Timo-
theus and Bacchides who fought against
them, and they made themselves mas-
ters of the high strong holds: and they
divided amongst them many spoils, giv-
ing equal portions to the feeble, the fa-
therless and the widows, yea and the
aged also,

Ver. 24. Above nAne thousand. Viz., including
the three «Jtiousand slain in the pursuit,

Ver, 35. Laying aside his qarment of ffl^ry.
That is, his spleuUid apparel, whick he wore through

31 And when they had carefully gath-
ered together their arms, they laid them
all up in convenient places, and the resi-
due of their spoils they carried to Jeru-
salem :

32 They slew also Philarches who was
with Timotheus, a wicked man, who had
many ways afflicted the Jews.

33 And when they kept the feast of the
victory at Jerusalem, they burnt Callis-
thenes, that had set fire to the holy
gates, who had taken refuge in a certain
house, rendering to him a worthy reward
for his impieties:

34 But as for that most wicked man
Nicanor, who had brought a thousand
merchants to the sale of the Jews,

35 Being through the help of the Lord
brought down by them, of whom he had
made no account, laying aside his gar-
ment of glory, fleeing through the mid-
land country, he came alone to Antioch,
being rendered very unhappy by the de
struction of his army.

36 And he that had promised to levy
the tribute for the Romans by the means
of the captives of Jerusalem, now pro-
fessed that the Jews had God for their
protector, and therefore they could not
be hurt, because they followed the lawe
appointed by him-

CHAPrER 9.

The wretched end, and fruitless repentance of king
Antiochus.

AT that time Antiochus returned with
J\. dishonour out of Persia.

2 For he had entered into the city called
Persepolis, and attempted to rob the tem-
ple, and to oppress the citys but the
multitude running together to arms, put
them to flight: and so it fell out that
Antiochus being put to flight returned
with disgrace.

3 Now when he was come about Ecba-
tana, he received the news of what had
happened to Nicanor and Timotheus.

4 And swelling with anger he thought
to revenge upon the Jews the injury done
by them that had put him to flight. And
therefore he commanded his chariot to
be driven, without stopping in his jour-
ney, the judgment of heaven urging him
forward, because he had spoken so

ostentation ; he now throws it off, lest he should be
known on his flight , _,,-j|

Chap. 9. Ver. 2. Persepolis, Otherwise cauee
ElymaiS»

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The punishment of Antiochus 2 MACHABEES Letter of Antiochus to the Jews

proudly, that he would come to Jerusa- 1 15 And the Jews whom he said he would
lem, a,iid make it a common burying place
of the Jews.

5 ^ But the Lord the God of Israel, that
s'eeth all things, struck him with an in-
curable and an invisible plague. For as
soon as he had ended these words, a
dreadful pain in his bowels came upon
him, and bitter torments of the inner
parts.

6 And indeed very justly, seeing he had
tormented the bowels of others with
many and new torments, albeit he by no
means ceased from his malice.

7 Moreover being filled with pride,
breathing out fire in his rage against the
Jews, and commanding the matter to be
hastened, it happened as he was going
with violence that he fell from the char-
iot, so that his limbs were much pained
oy a grievous bruising of the body.

8 Thus he that seemed to himself to
command even the waves of the sea, be-
ing proud above the condition of man,
and to weigh the heights of the moun-
tains in a balance, now being cast down
to the ground; wac carried in a litter,
bearing witness to the manifest power of
3od in himself t

0 So that worms o wanned out of the
body of this man, and whilst he lived in
sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the
filthiness of his smell was noisome to the
army.

10 And the man that thought a little
before he could reach to the stars of
heaven, no man could endure to carry,
for the intolerable stench.

11 And by this means, being brought
from his great pride, he began to come
to the knowledge of himself, being ad-
monished by the scourge of God, his
pains increasing every moment.

12 And when he himself could not now
abide his own stench, he spoke thus : It is
just to be subject to God, and that a mor-
tal man should not equal himself to God.

13 Then this wicked man prayed to the
Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain
mercy.

14 And the city, to which he was going
in haste to lay it even with the ground,
and to make it a common burying place,
he now desireth to make free.

/ 2 Par. 18. 9.

Ver. 13. O/ whotn he was not like to obtain mercy.
Because bis repentance was not for the offence coin-

not account worthy to be so much as
buried, but would give them up to be
devoured by the birds and wild beasts,
and would utterly destroy them with
their children, he now promiseth to make
equal with the AthenianSc

16 The holy temple also which before
he had spoiled, he promiseth to adorn
with goodly gifts, and to multiply the holy
vessels, and to allow out of his revenues
the charges pertaining to the sacrificesc

17 Yea also, that he would become a
Jew himself, and would go through every
place of the earth, and declare the power
of Godo

18 But his pains not ceasing (for the
just judgment of God was come upon
him) despairing of life he wrote to the
Jews in the manner of a supplication, a
letter in these words i

19 To his very good subjects the Jews,
Antiochus king and ruler wisheth much
health and welfare, and happiness.

20 If you and your children are well,
and if all matters go with you to your
mind, we give very great thanks.

21 As for me, being infirm, but yet
kindly remembering you, returning out
of the places of Persia, and being taken
with s grievous disease, I thought it ne-
cessary tc take care for the common
good:

22 Not distrusting my life, but having
j^reat hope to escape the sicknessc

23 But considering that my father also,
at what time ^h.Q led an army into the
higher countries, appointed who should
reign after him %

24 To the end that if any thing contrary
to expectation should fall out, or any
bad tidings should be brought, they that
were in the countries, knowing to whom
the whole government was left, might
not be troubled

25 Moreover, considering that neigh-
bouring princes and borderers wait foi
opportunities, and expect what shall be
the event, I have appointed my son
Antiochus king, whom I often recom
mended to many of you, when I went
into the higher provinces: and I have
written to him what I have joined here
below.

g B. C. 187-175.

mitted against God; but barely ou accouut of hif»
present sufteriugs.

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Judas purifies the temple 2 MACHABEES Judas attacks the Idumeans

26 I pray you therefore, and request of
you, that remembering favours both
public and private, you will every man
of you continue to be faithful to me and
to my son.

27 For I trust that he will behave with
moderation and humanity, and follow-
ing my intentions, will be gracious unto
you.

28 Thus the murderer and blasphemer,
being grievously struck, as himself had
treated others, ^ died a miserable death
in a strange country among the moun-
tains.

29 But Philip that was brought up with
him, carried away his body: and out of
fear of the son of Antiochus, went into
Egypt to Ptolemee Philometor.

CHAPTER 10.

The 'purification of the temple and city. Other ex-
ploits of Jiidas. His victory over Timotheus.

BUT * Machabeus, and they that were
with him, by the protection of the
Lord, recovered the temple and the city
again.

2 But he threw down the altars, which
the heathens had set up in the streets,
as also the temples of the .^dols.

3 And having purified the temple, they
made another altar: and taking fire out
of the fiery stones, they offered cacrifices
after two years, and set forth incense, and
lamps, and the loaves of proposition.

4 And when they had done these things,
they besought the Lord, lying prostrate
on the ground, that they might no more
fall into such evils ; but if they should at
any time sin, that they might be chastised
by him more gently, and not be deliv-
ered up to barbarians and blasphemous
men.

5 Now upon the same day that the tem-
ple had been polluted by the strangers,
on the very same day it was cleansed
again, to wit, on the five and twentieth
day of the month of Casleu.

6 And they kept eight days with joy,
after the manner of the feast of the tab-
ernacles, remembering that not long
before they had kept the feast of the
tabernacles when they were in the moun-
tains, and in dens like wild beasts.

hB. C. 164.— iB. C. 164.

Chap. 10. Ver. 15, The Jews, &c. He speaks of means or Edomites, kept possession of the stro"^
them that had fallen from their religion, and were holds, and from thenc© annoyed their country^
enemies of their couniry, who joining with the Idu> ' men.

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7 Therefore they now carried boughs,
and green branches, and paims for Hinj
that had given them good success in
cleansing his place.

8 And they ordained by a common
statute, and decree, that all the nation of
the Jews should keep those days every
year.

9 And this was the end of Antiochus
that was called the Illustrious.

10 But now we will relate the acts of
Eupator the son of that wicked Antio-
chus, abridging the account of the evils
that happened in the wars.

11 For when he was come to the crown,
he appointed over the affairs of his realm
one Lysias, general of the army of Phe-
nicia and Syria.

12 For Ptolemee that was called Macer,
was determined to be strictly just to the
Jews, and especially by reason of the
wrong that had been done them, and to
deal peaceably with them.

13 But being accused for this to Eupator
by his friends, and being oftentimes
called traitor, because he had left Cyprus
which Philometor had committed to him,
and coming over to Antiochus the Illus-
trious, had revolted also from him. he put
an end to his life by poison.

14 But Gorgias, who was governor of the
holds, taking with him the strangers,
often fought against the Jews.

16 And the Jews that occupied the most
commodious hold, received those that
were driven out of Jerusalem, and at-
tempted to make war.

16 Then they that were with Macha-
beus, beseeching the Lord by prayers to
be their helper, made a strong attack
upon the strong holds of the Idumeans :

17 And assaulting them with great force,
won the holds, killed them that came in
the way, and slew altogether no fewer
than twenty thousand.

18 And whereas some were fled into
very strong towers, having all manner of
provision to sustain a siege,

19 Machabeus left Simon and Joseph,
and Zacheus, and them that were with
them in sufficient number to besiege
them, and departed to those expeditions
which urged more.

Angels protect Judas in battle 2 MACHABEES

Judas captures Gazara

20 Now they that were with Simon, being
led with covetousness, were persuaded
for the sake of money by some that were
in the towers : and taking seventy thou-
sand didrachmas, let some of them escape.

21 But when it was told Machabeus what
was done, he assembled the rulers of the
people, and accused those men that they
had sold their brethren for money, hav-
ing let their adversaries escape.

22 So he put these traitors to death, and
forthwith took the two towers.

23 And having good success in arms
and in all things he took in hand, he slew
more than twenty thousand in the two
holds.

24 But Timotheus who before had been
overcome by the Jews,-^ having called to-
gether a multitude of foreign troops, and
assembled horsemen out of Asia, came as
though he would take Judea by force of
arms.

25 But Machabeus and they that were
with him, when he drew near, prayed to
the Lord, sprinkling earth upon their
heads and girding their loins with hair-
cloth,

26 And lying prostrate at the foot of the
altar, besought him to be merciful to
them, and to be an enemy to their enemies,
and an adversary to their adversaries, as
the law saith.

27 And so after prayer taking their
arms, they went forth further from the
city, and when they were come very
near the enemies they rested.

28 But as soon as the sun was risen both
sides joined battle: the one part having
with their valour the Lord for a surety of
victory and success: but the other side
making their rage their leader in battle.

29 But when they were in the heat of
the engagement there appeared to the
enemies from heaven five men upon
horses, comely with golden bridles, con-
ducting the Jews :

30 Two of whom took Machabeus be-
tween them, and covered him on every
side with their arms, and kept him safe:
but cast darts and fireballs against the
enemy, so that they fell down, being
both confounded with blindness, and filled
With trouble.

j 1 Mac. 5. 6.

31 And there were slain twenty thousand
five hundred, and six hundred horsemen.

32 But Timotheus fled into Gazara a
strong hold, where Choreas was governor.

33 Then Machabeus, and they that were
with him, cheerfully laid siege to the
fortress four days.

34 But they that were within, trusting
to the strength of the place, blasphemed
exceedingly, and cast forth abominable
words.

35 But when the fifth day appeared,
twenty young men of them that were
with Machabeus, inflamed in their minds
because of the blasphemy, approached
manfully to the wall, and pushing for-
ward with fierce courage got up upon it.

36 Moreovei others also getting up after
them, went to set fire to the towers and
the gates, and to burn the blasphemers
alive.

37 And having for two days together
pillaged and sacked the fortress, they
killed Timotheus, who was found hid in
a certain place: they slew also his bro-
ther Chereas, and Apollophanes.

38 And when this was done, they blessed
the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving,
who had done great things in Israel, and
given them the victory.

CHAPTER 11.

Lysias is overthrown by Judas. He sues for
'peace.

A SHORT ^ time after this Lysias the
king's lieutenant, and cousin, and
who had chief charge over all the affairs,
being greatly displeased with what had
happened,

2 Gathered together fourscore thousand
men, and all the horsemen, and came
against the Jews, thinking to take the
city, and make it a habitation of the
Gentiles:

3 And to make a gain of the temple, as
of the other temples of the Gentiles, and
to set the high priesthood to sale every
year:

4 Never considering the power of God,
but puffed up in mind, and trusting in the
multitude of his foot soldiers, and the
thousands of his horsemen, and his four-
score elephants.

k B. C. 163.

i Ver. 37. Timotheus. This man, who was killed
it the taking of Gazara, is different from that Timo-
tbeus wlio is meutioaed ia tbe filth chapter of ttie

II vm

first book of Machabees, and of wHom tJiere ia me»
tion in the following chapter.

Judas defeats Lysias

2 MACHABEES The Jews are left in peace

5 So he came into Judea, and approach-
ing to Bethsura, which was in a narrow
place, the space of five furlongs from
Jerusalem, he laid siege to that fortress.

6 But when Machabeus and they that
were with him, understood that the
strong holds were besieged, they and all
the people besought the Lord with lamen-
tations and tears, that he would send
a good angel to save Israel.

7 Then Machabeus himself, first taking
his arms, exhorted the rest to expose
themselves together with him, to the
danger, and to succour their brethren.

8 And when they were going forth to-
gether with a willing mind, there ap-
peared at Jerusalem a horseman going
before them in white clothing, with
golden armour, shaking a spear.

9 Then they all together blessed the
merciful Lord, and took great courage,
being ready to break through not only
men, but also the fiercest beasts, and
walls of iron.

10 So they went on courageously, hav-
ing a helper from heaven, and the Lord
Who shewed mercy to them.

11 And rushing violently upon the ene-
my, like lions, they slew of them eleven
thousand footmen, and one thousand six
hundred horsemen :

12 And put all the rest to flight: and
many of them being wounded, escaped
naked: yea and Lysias himself fled away
shamefully, and escaped.

13 And as he was a man of understand-
ing, considering with himself, the loss he
had suffered, and perceiving that the
Hebrews could not be overcome, because
they relied upon the help of the Almighty
God, he sent to them:

14 And promised that he would agree to
all things that are just, and that he would
persuade the king to be their friend.

15 Then Machabeus consented to the
request of Lysias, providing for the com-
mon good in all things, and whatsoever
Machabeus wrote to Lysias concerning
the Jews, the king allowed of.

16 For there were letters written to the
Jews from Lysias, to this effect : Lysias
to the people of the Jews, greeting.

Chap. 11. Ver. 21. In the year 148. Viz., accord
Ing to the computation followed by the Greeks;
jvhioh was different from that of the Hebrews, fol
lowed by the writer of the first book of Machabees.

17 John and Abesalom who were sent
from you, delivering your writings, re-
quested that I would accomplish those
things which were signified by them.

18 Therefore whatsoever things could
be reported to the king I have represent-
ed to him : and he hath granted as much
as the matter permitted.

19 If therefore you will keep yourselves
loyal in affairs, hereafter also I will endea-
vour to be a means of your good.

20 But as concerning other particulars,
I have given orders by word both to
these, and to them that are sent by me,
to commune with you.

21 Fare ye well. In the year one hun-
dred and forty-eight, ^ the four and twen-
tieth day of the month of Dioscorus.

22 But the king's letter contained these
words : King Antiochus to Lysias his bro-
ther, greeting.

23 Our father being translated amongst
the gods, we are desirous that they that
are in our realm should live quietly, and
apply themselves diligently to their own
concerns,

24 And we have heard that the Jews
would not consent to my father to turn
to the rites of the Greeks, but that they
would keep to their own manner of hv-
ing, and therefore that they request us to
allow them to live after their own laws.

25 Wherefore being desirous that this
nation also should be at rest, we have
ordained and decreed, that the temple
should be restored to them, and that they
may live according to the custom of their
ancestors.

26 Thou shalt do well therefore to send
to them, and grant them peace, that our
pleasure being known, they may be of
good comfort, and look to their own
affairs.

27 But the king's letter to the Jews was
in this manner : King Antiochus to the
senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the
Jews, greeting.

28 If you are well, you are as we desire,
we ourselves also are well.

29 Menelaus came to us, saying that
you desired to come down to your coun-
trymen, that are with us.

IB. C. 164.

However, by this date, as well as by other circuro
stances, it appears that the expedition of Lysias,
mentioned in this chapter, is different from tnai
wbict) is recorded, l Mac. 6.

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The letter of the Romans

2 MACHABEES

Victories of Judas

30 We grant therefore a safe conduct to
all that come and go, until the thirtieth
day of the month of Xanthicus,

31 That the Jews may use their own
kind of meats, and their own laws as be-
fore, and that none of them any manner
of ways be molested for things which
have been done by ignorance.

32 And we have sent also Menelaus to
speak to you.

33 Fare ye well. In the year ^ one
hundred and forty- eight, the fifteenth
day of the month of Xanthicus.

34 The Romans also sent them a letter,
to this effect. Quintus Memmius, and
Titus Manilius, ambassadors of the Ro-
mans, to the people of the Jews, greeting.

35 Whatsoever Lysias the king's cousin
hath granted you, we also have granted.

36 But touc.'iing such things as he
thought should be referred to the king,
after you have diligently conferred
among yourselves, send some one forth-
with, that we may decree as it is con-
venient for you: for we are going to
Antioch.

37 And therefore make haste to write
back, that we may know of what mind
you are.

38 Fare ye well. In the year one hun-
dred and forty-eight, the fifteenth day
of the month of Xanthicus.

CHAPTER 12.

The Jews are still molested by their neighbours.
Judas gains divers mctories over them. He orders
sacrifice and prayers for the dead.

WHEN ** these covenants were made,
Lysias went to the king, and the
Jews gave themselves to husbandry.

2 But they that were behind, namely,
Timotheus and Apollonius the son of
Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demo-
phon, and besides them Nicanor the gov-
ernor of Cyprus, would not suffer them
to live in peace, and to be quiet.

3 The men of Joppe also were guilty
of this kind of wickedness : they desired
the Jews who dwelt among them to go
with their wives and children into the
boats, which they had prepared, as
though they had no enmity to them.

4 Which when they had consented to,
according to the common decree of the
city, suspecting nothing, because of the

mB. C. 1G4.— n B. C. 163.

peace : when they were gone forth into
the deep, they drowned no fewer than
two hundred of them.

5 But as soon as Judas heard of this
cruelty done to his countrymen, he com-
manded the men that were with him:
and after having called upon God the
just judge,

6 He came against those murderers of
his brethren, and set the haven on fire
in the night, burnt the boats, and slew
with the sword them that escaped from
the fire.

7 And when he had done these things in
this manner, he departed as if he would
return again, and root out aU the Jop-
pites.

8 But when he understood that the men
of Jamnia also designed to do in like man-
ner to the Jews that dwelt among them,

9 He came upon the Jamnites also by
night, and set the haven on fire with the
ships, so that the light of the fire was
seen at Jerusalem two hundred and forty
furlongs off.

10 And when they were now gone from
thence nine furlongs, and were march-
ing towards Timotheus, five thousand
footmen and five hundred horsemen of
the Arabians set upon them.

11 And after a hard fight, in which by
the help of God they got the victory,
the rest of the Arabians being overcome,
besought Judas for peace, promising to
give him pastures, and to assist him in
other things.

12 And Judas thinking that they might
be profitable indeed in many things,
promised them peace, and after having
joined hands, they departed to their
tents.

13 He also laid siege to a certain strong
city, encompassed with bridges and walls,
and inhabited by multitudes of different
nations, the name of which is Casphin.

14 But they that were within it, trust-
ing in the strength of the walls, and the
provision of victuals, behaved in a more
negligent manner, and provoked Judas
with railing and blaspheming, and utter-
ing such words as were not to be spoken.

15 But Machabeus calling upon the great
Lord of the world, who without any rams
or engines of war threw down the walls

Chat. 12. Ver. 15.

Rams. That is, engines for battering walls, &c., which were used in sieges ia
those times.

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Timotheus defeated by Judas g MACHABEES Further victories of Judas

of Jericho ^ in the time of Josue, fiercely
assaulted the walls.

16 And having taken the city by the
will of the Lord, he made an unspeakable
slaughter, so that a pool adjoining of two
furlongs broad seemed to run with the
blood of the slain.

17 From thence they departed seven
hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to
Characa to the Jews that are called Tu-
bianites.

18 But as for Timotheus, they found him
not in those places, for before he had dis-
patched any thing he went back, having
left a very strong garrison in a certain
hold:

19 But Dositheus, and Sosipater, who
were captains with Machabeus, slew
them that were left by Timotheus in the
hold, to the number of ten thousand
men.

20 And Machabeus having set in order
about him six thousand men, and divided
them by bands, went forth against Timo-
theus, who had with him a hundred and
twenty thousand footmen, and two thou-
fand five hundred horsemen.

21 Now when Timotheus had knowledge
of the coming of Judas, he sent the wo-
men and children, and the other baggage
before him into a fortress, called Carnion :
for it was impregnable and hard to come
at, by reason of the straitness of the
places.

22 But when the first band of Judas
came in sight, the enemies wero ctruck
with fear, by the presence of God, who
Beeth all things, and they were put to
flight one from another, so that they
"were often thrown down by their own
companions, and wounded with the
Strokes of their own swords.

23 But Judas was vehemently earnest in
punishing the profane, of whom he slew
thirty thousand men.

24 And Timotheus himself fell into the
hands of the band of Dositheus and Sosi-
pater, and with many prayers he be-
sought them to let him go with his life,
because he had the parents and brethren
of many of the Jews, who, by his death,
might happen to be deceived.

25 And when he had given his faith that
he would restore them according to the

o Jos. 6. 20.

agreement, they let him go without hurt^
for the saving of their brethren.

26 Then Judas went away to Camion,
where he slew five and twenty thousand
persons.

27 P And after he had put to flight and
destroyed these, he removed his army to
Ephron, a strong city, wherein there
dwelt a multitude of divers nations : and
stout young men standing upon the walls
made a vigorous resistance : and in this
place there were many engines of war,
and a provision of darts.

28 But when they had invocated the
Almighty, who with his power breaketh
the strength of the enemies, they took
the city ; and slew five and twenty thou-
sand of .them that were within.

29 From thence they departed to Scytho-
polls, which heth six hundred furlongs
from Jerusalem.

30 But the Jews that were among the
Scythopolitans testifying that they were
used kindly by them, and that even in
the times of their adversity they had
treated them with humanity :

31 They gave them thanks exhorting
them to be still friendly to their nation,
and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast
of the weeks being at hand.

32 And after Pentecost they marched
against Gorgias the governor of Idumea.

33 And he came out with three thousand
footmen, and four hundred horsemen.

34 And when they had joined battle, it
happened that a few of the Jews were
slain.

35 But Dositheus, a horseman, one of
Bacenor's band, a valiant man, took hold
of Gorgias : and when he would have
taken him alive, a certain horseman of
the Thracians came upon him, and cut
off his shoulder : and so Gorgias escaped
to Maresa.

36 But when they that were with Esdrin
had fought long, and were weary, Judas
called upon the Lord to be their helper,
and leader of the battle:

37 Then beginning in his own language,
and singing hymns with a loud voice, he
put Gorgias' soldiers to flight.

38 So Judas having gathered together
his armj^ came into the city Odollam:
and when the seventh day came, they

2) B. C. 16:

Ver. 29. ScythopolU. Formerly called Bethsan.
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Fraying for the dead

2 MACHABEES

Menelaus is put to death

purified themselves according to tiie cus-
tom, and kept the sabbath in the same
place.

39 And the day following Judas came
with his company, to take away the bod-
ies of them that were slain, and to bury
them with their kinsmen, in the sepul-
chres of their fathers.

40 And they found under the coats of
the slain some of the donaries of the idols
of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to
the Jews : so that all plainly saw, that
for this cause they were slain.

41 Then they all blessed the just judg-
ment of the Lord, who had discovered
the things that were hidden.

42 And so betaking themselves to
prayers, they besought him, that the sin
which had been committed might be for-
gotten. But the most valiant Judas ex-
horted the people to keep themselves
from sin, forasmuch as they saw before
their eyes what had happened, because
of the sins of those that were slain.

43 And making a gathering, he sent
twelve thousand drachmc of silver to Je-
rusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the
sins of the dead, thinking well and reli-
giously concerning the resurrection,

44 (For if he had not hoped that they
that were slain should rise again, it would
have seemed superfluous and vain to pray
for the dead,)

45 And because he considered that they
Who had fallen asleep with godliness, had
great grace laid up for them.

46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome
thought to pray for the dead, that they
may be loosed from sins.

CHAPTER 13.

Antiochus and Lysias agairi invade Judea. Mene-
laus is put to death. The king's great arviy is
xvorsted twice. The peace is renewed.

N 9 the year one hundred and forty-
nine, Judas understood that Antiochus

Q B. C. 163.

Ver. 40. Of the donaries, &c. That is, of the
votive offerings, which had been hung up in the
temples of the idols, which they had taken away
when they burnt the port of Jamnia, ver. 9, contrary
to the prohibition of the law, Dent. 7. 25.

Ver. 45. fVith godliness. Judas hoped ""hat these
men who died fighting for the cause of God and reli-
gion, might find mercy : either because they might
be excused from mortal sin by ignorance ; or might
have repented of their sin, at least at their death.

Ver. 46. It is therefore a holy and wholesome
thought to pray for the dead. Here is an evident
and undeniable proof of the practice of praying for

iiiupator was coming with a multitude
against Judea,

2 And with him Lysias the regent, who
had charge over the affairs of the realm,
having with him a hundred and ten
thousand footmen, five thousand horse-
men, twenty-two elephants, and three
hundred chariots armed with hooks.

3 Menelaus also joined himself with
them: and with great deceitfulness be-
sought Antiochus, not for the welfare of
his country, but in hopes that he should
be appointed chief ruler.

4 But the King of kings stirred up the
mind of Antiochus against the sinner,
and upon Lysias suggesting that he was
the cause of all the evils, he commanded
(as the custom is with them) that he
should be apprehended and put to death
in the same place.

5 Now there was in that place a tower
fifty cubits high, having a heap of ashes
on every side ; this had a prospect steep
down.

6 From thence he commanded the sac-
rilegious wretch to be thrown down into
the ashes, all men thrusting him forward
unto death.

7 And by such a law it happened that
Menelaus the transgressor of the law
was put to death: not having so much
as b^irial in the earth.

8 And indeed very justly, for insomuch
as he had committed many sins against
the altar of God, the fire and ashes of
which were holy: he was condemned to
die in ashes.

9 But the king, with his mind full of
rage, came on to shew himself worse to
the Jews than his father was.

10 Which, when Judas understood, he
commanded the people to call upon the
Lord day and night, that as he had al-
ways done, so now also he would help
them:

11 Because they were afraid to be de-

the dead under the old law, which was then strictly
observed by the Jews, and consequently could not
be Introduced at that time by Judas, their chief and
high priest, if it had not been always their custom.

Chap. 13. Ver. 2. A hundred and ten thousand^
&c. The difference between the numbers here set
down, and those recorded, 1 Mac. 4., is easily ac-
counted for; if we consider that such armies as
these are liable to be at one time more numerous
than at another; either by sending away large de-
tachments, or being diminished by sickness ; or in-
creased by receiving fresh supplies of troops, accord»
ing to difierent exigencies or occurrences.

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Judas engages in battle

2 MACHABEES

Antiochus makes peace

prived of the law, and of their country,
and of the holy temple: and that he
T^^ou]'^ not suffer the people, that had of
late taken breath for a little while, to
be again in subjection to blasphemous
nations.

12 So when they had all done this to-
gether, and had craved mercy of the
Lord with weeping and fasting, lying
prostrate on the ground for three days
continually, Judas exhorted them to
make themselves ready,

13 But he with the ancients determined,
before the king should bring his army
into Judea, and make himself master of
the city, to go out, and to commit the
event of the thing to the judgment of
the Lord.

14 So committing all to God, the creator
of the world, and having exhorted his
people to fight manfully, and to stand
Up even to death for the laws, the tem-
ple, the city, their country, and citizens :
he placed his army about Modin.

15 And having given his company for
a watchword. The victory of God, with
most valiant chosen young men, he set
upon the king's quarter by night, and
slew four thousand men in the camp,
and the greatest of the elephants, with
them that had been upon him,

16 And having filled the camp of the
enemies with exceeding great fear and
tumult, they went off with good success.

17 Now this was done at the break of
day, by the nrotection and help of the
Lord.

18 But the king having taken a taste of
the hardiness of the Jews, attempted to
take the strong places by policy:

19 And he marched with his army to
Bethsura, which was a strong hold of the
Jews: but he was repulsed, he failed, he
lost his men.

20 Now Judas sent necessaries to them
that were within.

21 But Rhodocus, one of the Jews' army,
disclosed the secrets to the enemies, so
he was sought out, and taken up, and
put in prison.

Chap. 14. Ver. 3. No%u Alcimns, who had been
chief priest. This Alcimus was of the stock of
Aaron, but for his apostasy here mentioned was
incapable of the high priesthood, but king Antiochus
Eupator appointed him in place of the high priest,
(see above, 1 Mac. chap. 7., ver. 9,) as Menelaus had
been before him, set up by Antiochus. (above» chap.

22 Again the king treated with them
that were in Bethsura: gave his right
hand: took theirs: and went away.

23 He fought with Judas : and was over-
come. And when he understood that
Philip, who had been left over the affairs,
had rebelled at Antioch, he was in a con-
sternation of mind, and entreating the
Jews, and yielding to them, he swore to
all things that seemed reasonable, and,
being reconciled, offered sacrifices, hon-
oured the temple, and left gifts.

24 He embraced Machabeus, and made
him governor and prince from Ptolemais
unto the Gerrenians.

25 But when he was come to Ptolemais,
the men of that city were much displeased
with the conditions of the peace, being
angry for fear they should break the
covenant.

26 Then Lysias went up to the judg-
ment seat, and set forth the reason, and
appeased the people, and returned to
Antioch: and thus matters went with re-
gard to the king's coming and his return.

CHAPTER 14.

Demetrius challenges the kingdom. Alcimus applies
to him to be made high priest : Nicanor is sent into
Judea: his dealings with Judas : his threats. Thi
history of Jiazias.

UT ** after the space of three years
Judas, and they that were with him,
understood that Demetrius the son of
Seleucus was come up with a great power,
and a navy by the haven of Tripolis to
places proper for his purpose.

2 And had made himself master of the
countries against Antiochus, and his gen-
eral Lysias.

3 Now one Alcimus, who had been chief
priest, but had wilfully defiled himself
in the time of mingling with the heathens^
seeing that there was no safety for him,
nor access to the altar,

4 Came to king Demetrius in the year *
one hundred and fifty, presenting unto
him a crown of gold, and a palm, and
besides these, some boughs which seemed
to belong to the temple. And that day
indeed he held his peace.

r B. C. 162. — sB. C. 162.

4.,) yet neither of them were truly high priests ; foi
the true high priesthood was amongst the Macha»
bees, who were also of the stock of Aaron, and had
strictly held their religion, and were ordained accord-
ing to the rites commanded in the law of Moses. -
Ibid. T Angling with the heathens; that is, in tneu
idolatrous worship^

Nicanor sent against Judas 2 MACHXB'RES Nicanor and Judas friends

5 But having gotten a convenient time
to further his madness, being called to
counsel by Demetrius, and asked what
the Jews relied upon, and what were
their counsels,

6 He answered thereunto: They among
the Jews that are called Assideans, of
whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nour-
ish wars, and raise seditions, and will
not suffer the realm to be in peace.

7 For I also being deprived of my an-
cestors' glory (I mean of the high priest-
hood) am now come hither:

8 Principally indeed out of fidelity to
the king's interest, but in the next
place also to provide for the good of my
countrymen: for all our nation suffereth
much from the evil proceedings of those
men.

9 Wherefore, 0 king, seeing thou know-
est all these things, take care, I beseech
thee, both of the country, and of our na-
tion, according to thy humanity which
is known to all men,

10 For as long as Judas liveth, it is not
possible that the state should be quiet.

11 Now when this man had spoken to
this effect, the rest also of the king's
friends, who were enemies of Judas, in-
censed Demetrius against him.

12 And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the
commander over the elephants, governor
into Judea:

13 Giving him in charge, to take Judas
himself: and disperse all them that
were with him, and to make Alcimus the
high priest of the great temple.

14 Then the Gentiles who had fled out
of Judea from Judas, came to Nicanor
by flocks, thinking the miseries and ca-
lamities of the Jews to be the welfare of
their affairs.

15 Now when the Jews heard of Nica-
nor's coming, and that the nations were
assembled against them, they cast earth
upon their heads, and made supplication
to him, who chose his people to keep
them for ever, and who protected his
portion by evident signs.

16 Then at the commandment of their
captain, they forthvdth removed from
the place where they were, and went to
the town of Dessau, to meet them.

17 Now Simon the brother of Judas
had joined battle with Nicanor, but was
frightened with the sudden coming of
the adversaries.

18 Nevertheless Nicanor hearing of the
valour of Judas' companions, and the
greatness of courage with which they
fought for their country, was afraid to
try the matter by the sword.

19 Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and
Theodotius, and Matthias before to pre-
sent and receive the right hands.

20 And when there had been a consul-
tation thereupon, and the captain had
acquainted the multitude with it, they
were all of one mind to consent to cov-
enants.

21 So they appointed a day upon which
they might commune together by them-
selves: and seats were brought out, and
set for each one.

22 But Judas ordered men to be ready
in convenient places, lest some mischief
might be suddenly practised by the en-
emies: so they made an agreeable confer-
ence.

23 And Nicanor abode in Jerusalem,
and did no wrong, but sent away the
flocks of the multitudes that had been
gathered together.

24 And Judas was always dear to him
from the heart, and he was well affected
to the man.

25 And he desired him to marry a wife,
and to have children. So he married:
he lived quietly, and they lived in com-
mon.

26 But Alcimus seeing the love they
had one to another, and the covenants
came to Demetrius, and told him that
Nicanor assented to the foreign interest,
for that he meant to make Judas, who
was a traitor to the kingdom, his succes-
sor.

27 Then the king being in a rage and
provoked with this man's wicked accusa-
tions, wrote Nicanor, signifying, that
he was greatly displeased with the cove-
nant of friendship: and that he com-
manded him nevertheless to send Mach-
abeus prisoner in all haste to Antioch.

28 When this was known, Nicanor
was in a consternation, and took it
grievously that he should make void the
articles that were agreed upon, having
received no injury from the man.

29 But because he could not oppose the
king, he watched an opportunity to com-
ply with the orders.

30 But when Machabeus perceived that
Nicanor was more stern to him, and that

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2 MACHABEES

when they met together as usual he be-
haved himself in a rough manner: and
was sensible that this rough behaviour
came not of good, he gathered together
a few of his men, and hid himself from
Kicanor.

31 But he finding himself notably pre-
vented by the man, came to the great
and holy temple: and commanded the
priests that were offering the accus-
tomed sacrifices, to deliver him the man.

32 And when they swore unto him, that
they knew not where the man was whom
he sought, he stretched out his hand to
the temple,

33 And swore, saying: Unless you de-
liver Judas prisoner to me, I will lay
this temple of God even with the
ground, and will beat down the altar,
and I will dedicate this temple to Bac-
chus.

34 And when he had spoken thus he
departed. But the priests stretching
forth their hands to heaven, called upon
him that was ever the defender of their
nation, saying in this manner :

35 Thou, O Lord of all things, who want-
est nothing, wast pleased that the tem-
ple of thy habitation should be amongst

VLB.

36 Therefore now, O Lord the holy of

all holies, keep this house for ever unde-
filed which was lately cleansed.

37 Now Razias, one of the ancients of
Jerusalem, was accused to Nicanor, a man
that was a lover of the city, and of good
report, who for his affection was called
the father of the Jews.

38 This man, for a long time, had held
fast his purpose of keeping himself pure
in the Jews' religion, and was ready to
expose his body and life, that he might
persevere therein.

39 So Nicanor being willing to declare
the hatred that he bore the Jews, sent
five hundred soldiers to take him.

40 For he thought by insnaring him to
hurt the Jews very much.
^ 41 Xow as the multitude sought to rush
into his house, and to break open the
door, and to set fire to it, when he was

Death of Razias

ready to be taken, he struck himself with
his sword:

42 Choosing to die nobly rather than to
fall into the hands of the wicked, and to
suffer abuses unbecoming his noble birth.

43 But whereas through haste he missed
of giving himself a sure wound, and the
crowd was breaking into the doors, he
ran boldly to the wall, and manfully
threw himself down to the crowd :

44 But they quickly making room for
his fall, he came upon the midst of the
neck.

45 And as he had yet breath in him,
being inflamed in mind he arose : and
while his blood ran down with a great
stream, and he was grievously wounded,
he ran through the crowd:

46 And standing upon a steep rock,
when he was now almost without blood,
grasping his bowels with both hands, he
cast them upon the throng, calling upon
the Lord of life and spirit, to restore these
to him again : and so he departed this life.

CHAPTER 15.

Judas encouraged hy a vision gains a glorious vi»
tory over Nicanor. The conclusioiu

BUT *when Nicanor understood that
Judas «^as in the places of Samaria»

,^'^^i **!• ^^ stnirk himself, &c. St. Augustine,
(tpist. 61, ad THdcitium, et lib. 2, cap. 23, ad Epist. 2
Gaud,) dis'^ussin? this fact of Razias, says, that the
holy scripture relates it, but doth not praise it, as to
De admired or imitated, and that either it was not

he purposed to set upon him with all
violence on the sabbath day.

2 And when the Jews that were con-
strained to follow him, said: Do not
act so fiercely and barbarously, but give
honour to the day that is sanctified: and
reverence him that beholdeth all things:

3 That unhappy man asked, if there were
a mighty One in heaven, that had com-
manded the sabbath day to be kept.

4 And when thej^ answered: There is
the living Lord himself in heaven, the
mighty One, that commanded the seventh
daj' to be kept,

5 Then he said : And I am mighty upon
the earth, and I command to take arms,
and to do the king's business. Never-
theless he prevailed not to accompHsb
his design.

6 So Nicanor being puffed up with
exceeding great pride, thought to set up

t B. C. 161. 1 Mac. 7. 26.

well done by him, or at least not proper in this time
of grace.

Ver. 44. He came upon the midst of the neck
Venit per medi/im cerrirem. In the Greek it is
«wveii/a, which Signifies a void place, where there ^
no building.

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The vision of Judas

2 MACHABEES Nicanor defeated and slain

a public monument of his victory over
Judas.

7 But Machabeus ever trusted with all
hope that God would help them.

8 And he exhorted his people not to
fear the coming of the nations, but to
remember the help they had before re-
ceived from heaven, and now to hope for
victory from the Almighty.

9 And speaking to them out of the law,
and the prophets, and withal putting
them in mind of the battles they had
fought before, he made them more cheer-
ful:

10 Then after he had encouraged them,
he shewed withal the falsehood of the
Gentiles, and their breach of oaths.

11 So he armed every one of them, not
with defence of shield and spear, but with
very good speeches and exhortations,
and told them a dream worthy to be
believed, whereby he rejoiced them alL

12 Now the vision was in this manner :
Onias who had been high priest, a good
and virtuous man, modest in his looks,
gentle in his manners, and graceful in
hie speech, and who from a child was ex-
ercised in virtues, holding up his hands,
prayed for all the people of the Jews :

13 After this there appeared also an-
other man, admirable for age, and glory,
and environed with great beauty and
majesty:

14 Then Onias answering, said : This is
a lover of his brethren, and of the peo-
ple of Israel : this is he that prayeth much
for the people, and for all the holy city,
Jeremias the prophet of God.

15 Whereupon Jeremias stretched forth
his right hand, and gave to Judas a sword
of gold, saying:

16 Take this holy sword a gift from God,
wherewith thou shalt overthrow the ad-
versaries of my people Israel.

17 Thus being exhorted with the words
of Judas, which were very good, and
proper to stir up the courage, and
strengthen the hearts of the young men,
they resolved to fight, and to set upon
them manfully : that valour might decide
the matter, because the holy city and the
temple were in danger.

18 For their concern was less for their
wives, and children, and for their bre-
thren, and kinsfolks : but their greatest

and principal fear was for the holiness oi
the temple.

19 And they also that were in the city^
had no little concern for them that were
to be engaged in battle.

20 And now when all expected what
judgment would be given, and the ene-
mies were at hand, and the army was
set in arrayj the beasts and the horse-
men ranged in convenient places,

21 Machabeus considering the coming
of the multitude, and the divers prepa-
rations of armour, and the fierceness of
the beasts, stretching out his hands te
heaven, called upon the Lord, thatwork-
eth wonders, who giveth victory to them
that are worthy, not according to the
power of their arms, but according as it
seemeth good to him

22 And in his prayer he said after this
manner: ** Thou, O Lord, who didst send
thy angel in the time of Ezechias king
of Juda, and didst kill a hundred and
eighty-five thousand of the army of Sen-
nacherib :

23 Send now also, O Lord of heaven,
thy good angel before us, for the fear
and dread of the greatness of thy arm,

24 That they may be afraid, who com**
with blasphemy against thy holy people.
And thus he concluded his prayer.

25 But Nicanor, and they that were with
him came forward, with trumpets and
songs.

26 But Judas, and they that were with
him, encountered them, calling upon God
by prayers :

27 So fighting with their hands, but
praying to the Lord with their hearts,
they slew no less than five and thirty
thousand, being greatly cheered with the
presence of God.

28 And when the battle was over, and
they were returning with joy, they un-
derstood that Nicanor was slain in his
armour.

29 Then making a shout, and a great
noise, they blessed the Almighty Lord in
their own language.

30 And Judas, who was altogether
readj% in body and mind, to die for his
countrymen, commanded that Nicanor's
head, and his hand with the shoulder
should be cut off, and carried to Jeru-
salem.

u Supra 8 19.
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2 MACHABEES

The conclusion

31 And when he was come thither, hav- [ decree, by no means to let this day pass
ing called together his coiintr\-men, and i without solemnity:

the priests to the altar, he sent also for
Ihem that were in the castle,

32 And shewing them the head of Nica-
nor, and the wicked hand, which he had
stretched out, with proud boasts, against
the holy house of the Almighty God,

33 He commanded also, that the tongue
of the wicked N:.canor, should be cut out i also will here make an end of my narra
and given by pieces to birds, and the tion.

37 But to celebi-ate the thirteenth day
of the month of Adar, called, in the Syr-
ian language, the day before Mardochiae'
day.

38 So the^ things being done with re-
lation to Nicanor, and from that time the
city being possessed by the Hebrews, I

hand of the furious man to be hanged
up over against the temple.

34 Then all blessed the Lord of heaven,
saying : Blessed be he that hath kept his
own place undefiled.

35 And he hung up Nicanor's head in
the top of the castle, that it might be an
evident and manifest sign of the help of
God.

36 And they all ordained by a common

39 Which if I have done well, and as it
becometh the history, it is what I de-
sired : but if not so perfectly, it most be
pardoned me.

40 For as it is hurtful to drink always
wine, or always water, but pleasant to
use sometimes the one, and sometimes
the other : so if the speech be always
nicely framed, it will not be grateful tc
the readers. But here it shall be ended.

Ch.u*. 15. Ver. 39. If not so perferfhj. &c. This , which in the sacred penmen is not always the most
'^ not said with regard to the truth of the narration ; accurate. See St. Paul, 2 Cor. IL 6.
^t with regard to the style and manner of writing; i

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The genealogy of Christ

ST. MATTHEW

The genealogy of Christ

THE

HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,

ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW.

9t, Matthew, ojie of the twelve Apostles, who from being a publican, that is, a taxgatherer, teoi
called by our Saviour to the Apostleship • in that prof ession his name was Levi. {Luke 5, 27,
and Mark 2. 14) He was the first of the Evangelists that wrote the Gospel, and that in
Hebrew or Syro-Cfhaldaic which the Jews in Palestine spoke at tJiat time. The original is not
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CHAPTER !•

n« genealogy of Christ : heis conceived and bom
of a virgin.

THE book of the generation of Jesus
Christ, the son of "David, the son
of Abraham :

2 ^Abraham begot Isaac. *And Isaac
begot Jacob. ^ And Jacob begot Judas
and his brethren.

3 ^ And Judas begot Phares and Zara of
Ihamar. -^ And Phares begot Esron. And
Esron begot Aram.

4 And Aram begot Aminadab. ^And
A.minadab begot Naapson. And Naasson
aegot Salmon.

6 And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab.
^And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And
Dbed begot Jesse.

6 * And Jesse begot David the king.
And David the king begot Solomon, of
ler that had been the wife of Urias.

7 ^ And Solomon begot Roboam. 'And
?toboam begot Abia. "* And Abia begot
Vsa.

8 And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josa-
)hat begot Joram. And Joram begot
)zias.

9 "And Ozias begot Joatham. ^'And
oatham begot Achaz. ^ And Achaz be-
:ot Ezechias.

lO^AndEzechiasbegotManasses. *'And
lanasses begot Amou. * And Amon be-
,;ot Josias.

11 ' And Josias begot Jechonias and his

o Luke 3. 31. — b Gen. 21. 3. — c Gen. 25. 25. — d Gen.
). 35. — e Gen. 38. 29; 1 Par. 2. 4.—/ Kuth 4. 18;
; Par. 2. 5. — g- Num. 7. 12. — h Ruth 4. 22. — i 1 Kings
j). 1. — j 2 Kings 12. 24. — fc 3 Kings 11.43.-^3 Kings

Chap. l. Ver. 16. The husband of Mary. The
vangehst gives us rather the pedigree of St. Joseph,
lan that of the blessed Virgin, to conform to the
ustom of the Hebrews, who io their geuealogies

brethren in the transmigration of Baby-
lon.

12 And after the transmigration of
Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And
Salathiel begot ZorobabeL

13 And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And
Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim be-
got Azor.

14 And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoo
begot Achim. And Achim begot Ehud.

15 And Ehud begot Eleazar. And Ele-
azar begot Mathan. And Mathan begot
Jacob.

16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband
of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who
is called Christ.

17 So all the generations, from Abraham
to David, are fourteen generations. And
from David to the transmigration of
Bab34on, are fourteen generations: and
from the transmigration of Babylon to
Christ are fourteen generations.

18 Now the generation of Christ was in
this wise. " When as his mother Mary
was espoused to Joseph, before tney
came together, she was found with child,
of the Holy Ghost.

19 Whereupon Joseph her husband, be-
ing a just man, and not wilUng publicly
to expose her, was minded to put her
away privately.

20 But while he thought on these things,
behold the angel of the Lord appeared
to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son

14. 31. — w 3 Kings 15. 8. — n 2 Par. 26. 23. —o 2 Par.
27. 9. — p 2 Par. 28. 27. — g- 2 Par. 32. 33. — r 2 Par.
33. 25. — s 2 Par. 33. 25. — < 2 Par. 36. 2. — m Luke L

27.

took no notice of women ; but as they were neai
akin, the pedigree of the one sheweth that ol th«
other.

The birth of Christ

ST. MATTHEW

Ofering of the Wise Men

01 David, fear not to take unto thee Mary
thj) wife, for that which is conceived in
her, is of the Holy Ghost.

21 And she shall bring forth a son:
*and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
For he shall save his people from their
sins.

22 Now all this was done that it might
be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the
prophet, saying:

23 ^Behold a virgin shall he with child^
and bring forth a son, and they shall call
his name Emmanuel, which being inter-
preted is, God with us.

24 And Joseph rising up from sleep, did
as the angel of the Lord had commanded
hira, and took unto him his wife.

25 And he knew her not till she brought
forth her firstborn son: and he called
his name Jesus.

CHAPTER 2.

The offerirujs of the wise men : the/light into Egijpt :
the massacre of the Innocents.

WHEN * Jesus therefore was born in
Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of
king Herod, behold, there came wise men
from the east to Jerusalem,

2 Saying, Where is he that is born king
of the Jews ? For we have seen his star
in the east, and are come to adore him.

3 And king Herod hearing this, was trou-
bled, and all Jerusalem with him.

4 And assembling together all the chief
priests and the scribes of the people, he
inquired of them where Christ should be
born.

5 But they said to him: In Bethlehem
of Juda. For so it is written by the
prophet:

^y And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda
ai t not the least among the princes of Juda :
for out of thee shall come forth the captain
that shall rule my people Israel.

V Luke 1. 31 ; Acts 4, 12. — w Isa. 7. 14.
xB. C. 8-5. Herod died B. C. 4. Luke 2. 7.

Ver. 25. Till she hrovqht forth her -firstborn son.
From these words Helvidius and other" heretics most
Impiously inferred that the blessed Virghi Mary had
other children besides Christ : but St. Jerome shews,
by divers examples, that this expression of the
Evangelist was a manner of speaking usual among
the Hebrews, to denote by tlie word until, only what
Is done, without any regard to the future. Thus it is
said, Genesis 8. 6 and 7, that JVoe sent forth a raven,
which went forth, and did not return till the waters
■were dried up on the earth. That is, did not re-
turn any more. Also Isaia? 46. 4, God says: / ain
tin you grow old. Who dare infer that (Jod should
tlien cesLse to be ? Also in the first book of Mach-
»^ees 5. SI, And they went up to mount Sion

7 Then Herod, privately calling the vase
men, learned diUgently of them the time
of the star which appeared to them ;

8 And sending them into Bethlehem,
said : Go and diligently inquire after the
child, and when you have found him.
bring me word again, that I also may
come and adore him.

9 Who having heard the king, went
their way ; and behold the star which
they had seen in the east, went before
them, until it came and stood over
where the child was.

10 And seeing the star they rejoiced
with exceeding great joy.

11 And entering into the house, they
found the child with Mary his mother,
and falling down they adored him ; '" and
opening their treasures, they offered him
gifts ; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

12 And having received an answer in
sleep that they should not return to
Herod, they went back another way into
their country.

13 And after they were departed, be-
hold an angel of the Lord appeared in
sleep to Joseph, saying : Arise, and take
the child and his mother, and fly into
Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee.
For it will come to pass that Herod will
seek the child to destroy him.

14 Who arose, and took the child and
his mother by night, and retired into
Egypt : and he was there until the death
of Herod :

15 That it might be fulfilled which the
Lord spoke by the prophet, saying : " Out
of Egypt have I called my son,

16 Then Herod perceiving that he was
deluded by the wise men, was exceeding
angry; and sending killed all the men
children that were in Bethlehem, and in
all the borders thereof, from two years
old and under, according to the time

7. 42. — 2 Ps. 71. 10. — a Osee 11. 1.

y Mich. 5.2; JoliD

with joy and gladness, and offered holocausts, h»
cause not one of them was slain till they had
returned in peace. That is, not one was slain be-
fore or after they had returned. — God saith to his
divine Son: SU on my right hand till / make thy
enemies thy footstool. Shall he sit no longer after
his enemies are subdued? Yea and for all eternity.
St. Jerome also proves by Scripture examples, thai
an only begotten son, was also called firstborn, oi
first begotten : because according to the law, the
firstborn males were to be consecrated to God
Sanctify unto me, saith the Lord, every firstborri
that openeth the womb cumong the children of Israel,
&C. Ex. 13. 2.

The return from Egypt

ST. MATTHEW Jesus is baptized by John

which he had diligently inquired of the
wise men.

17 Then was fulfilled that which was
spoken by Jeremias the prophet, say-
ing:

IS ° A voice in Rama was heard, lamen-
tation and great m^ourning; Rachel bewail-
ing her children, and would not be comforted,
because they are not.

19 But when Herod was dead, behold an
angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to
Joseph in Egypt,

20 Saying: Arise, an^ take the child and
his mother, and go into the land of Israel.
For they are dead that sought the life of
the child.

21 Who arose, and took the child and
his mother, and came into the land of
Israel.

22 But hearing that Archelaus reigned
in Judea in the room of Herod his fa-
ther, he was afraid to go thither : and
being warned in sleep retired into the
quarters of Galilee.

23 And coming he dwelt in a city called
Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which
was said by the prophets: That he shall
be called a Nazarene.

CHAPTER 3.

The preaching of John • Christ is baptized.

A ND * in those days cometh John the
Jtx. Baptist preaching in the desert of
Judea»

2 And saying: *^Do penancv : for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.

3 For this is he that was spok^^n of by
Isaias the prophet, saying: ^ A voice of one
crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of
the Lord, make straight his paths.

4 And the same John had his garment
of camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about
his loins : and his meat was locusts and
wild honey.

5 -^Then went out to him Jerusalem
and all Judea, and all the country about
Jordan :

6 And were baptized by him in the
Jordan, confessing their sins.

7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and

! b Jer. 31. 15. — c A. D. 25-26. — d Mark 1. 4 ; Luke
3. 3.— e Isa. 40. 3 ; Mark 1. 3. ; Luke 3. 41—/ Mark 1.
5.— flf Luke 3. 7. — h John 8. 39.— i Mark 1. 8 ; Luke

Chap. 3. ^Ver. 2. Do penance. Poenitentiam
xg^te, ^teTavoeiTe. Wliich woi'd, according to the use
3f the scriptures and the holy fathers, does not only
Jignify repentance and amendment of life, but also
punishing past sins by fasting, and such like peni-
tential ezeicisesc

Sadducees dooming to his baptism, he
said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who
hath shewed you to flee from the wrath
to come?

8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of
penance.

9 And think not to say within your-
selves, '^We have Abraham for our fa'
ther. For I tell you that God is able
ot these stones to raise up children to
Abraham.

10 For now the axe is laid to the root
of the trees. Every tree therefore that
doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut
down, and cast into the fire.

11 * I indeed baptize you in water unto
penance, but he that shall come after me,
is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not
worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in
the Holy Ghost and fire.

12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will
thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather
his wheat into the barn ; but the chaff he
will burn with unquenchable fire.

13 "^ Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to
the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by
him.

14 " But John stayed him, saying: I
ought to be baptized by thee, and comest
thou to me ?

16 And Jesus answering, said to him:
Suffer it to be so now. For so it becom-
eth us to fulfil all justice. Then he suf-
fered him.

16 And Jesus being baptized, forthwith
came out of the water : and lo, the hea-
vens were opened to him: and he saw
the ^ Spirit, of God descending as a dove,
and coming upon him.

17 ^ And behold h voice from heaven,
saying : This is my beloved Son, in whom
I am well pleased.

CHAPTER 4.

ChrisVsfoKt of forty days: he is tempted- He be-
(fins to preach, to call disciples to him, and to
irorl rniraclcs.

rpHEN ** Jesus was led by the spirit into
JL the desert, to be tempted by the

devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days

3. 16 ; John 1. 26 ; Acts 1. 5.— j Mark 1. 9. — /c A. D.
21. — I Luke 3. 22. — m Mark 1. 11; Luke 9. 35;
2 Peter 1. 17. — n A. D. 27. Luke 4. 1.

Ver. 7. Pharisees and Sadducees. These were
two sects amouf? the Jews: of which the former
were for the most part notorious hypocrites; the
latter, a kind of freethinkers in matters of reli-
gion.

Jesus tempted by the Devil ST. MATTHEW Calling of the first apostles

and forty nights, afterwards he was
hungry.

3 And the tempter coming said to him :
If thou be the Son of God, command that
these stones be made bread.

4 Who answered and said : It is written,
® Not in bread alone doth man live^ but in
every word that proceedeth from the mouth
of God.

5 Then the devil took him up into the
holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle
of the temple,

6 And said to him : If thou be the Son of
God, cast thyself down, for it is written:
P That he hath given his angels charge over
thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee
up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against
a stone.

7 Jesus said to him: It is written again:
' Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.

8 Again the devil took him up into a
very high mountain, and shewed him all
the kingdoms of the world, and the glory
of them,

9 And said to him: All these will I give
thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me.

10 Then Jesus saith to him: Begone,

Satan: for it is written, ** T/ie Lord i/ii/ ^<>^
shalt thou adore, and him only shall thou
serve.

11 Then the devil left him ; and behold
angels came and ministered to him.

12 And when Jesus had heard that John
was delivered up, * he retired into Gali-
lee:

13 And leaving the city Nazareth, he
came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the
sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and
of Nephthahm ;

14 That it might be fulfilled which was
said by Isaias the prophet:

15 ^ Land of Zabulon and land of Neph-
thalim^ the way of the sea beyond the Jor-
dan, Galilee of the Gentiles :

16 The people that sat in darkness, hath
seen great light : and to them that sat in
the region of the shadow of death, light is
sprung up.

17 « From that time Jesus began to
preach, and to say: Do penance, for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.

o Deut. 8. 3; Luke 4. 4. — p Ps. 90. 11. — q Deut. 6.
16. — r Deut 6. 13.— s Mark 1. 14; Luke 4. 14; Johu
4. 43. — t Isa. 9. 1. — M Mark 1. 15. — v Mark 1. 16 ; Luke

Chap. 4. Ver. 8. Sherved him, &c. That is,
pointed out to him where each Icingdom lay ; and set
forth in words what was most glorious and admirable
in each of Uiem. Or also set before his eyes, as it

18 And Jesus walking by the sea of
Galilee, ^ saw two breunreii, Simon who
is called Peter, and Andrew his brother,
casting a net into the sea (for they were
fishers).

19 And he saith to them : Come ye
after me, and I will make you to be
fishers of men.

20 And they immediately leaving their
nets, followed him.

21 And going on from thence, he saw
other two brethren, James the son of
Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship
with Zebedee their father, mending their
nets: and he called them.

22 And they forthwith left their nets
and father, and followed him.

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, and preach-
ing the gospel of the kingdom : and heal
ing all manner of sickness and every in-
firmity, among the people.

24 And his fame went throughout all
Syria, and they presented to him all sick
people that were taken with divers dis-
eases and torments, and such as were
possessed by devils, and lunatics, and
those that had the palsy, and he cured
them:

25 ^ And much people followed him
from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and
from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and
from beyond the Jordan.

CHAPTER 5.

ChrisVs sermon upon the mount. The eight beati-
tudes.

AND ^ seeing the multitudes, he went
XjL up into a mountain, and when he
was set down, his disciples came unto him.

2 And opening his mouth, he taught
them, saying:

3 ^Blessed are the poor in spirit: for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 ^ Blessed are the meek : for they shall
possess the land.

5 * Blessed are they that mourn: foi
they shall be comforted.

6 Blessed are they that hunger and
thirst after justice: for they shall hav€
their fill. ^

5. 2.—W Mark 3. 7 ; Luke 6. 17.— x A. D. 27.— i/ Luke

6. 20.— z Ps. 36. 11. — a Isa. 61. 2.

were in a large map, a lively representation of al
those kingdoms. .

Chap. 5. Ver. 3. The poor inapirif. Thatis,in«
humble ; and they whose spirit is not set upon ncnes

The Sermon on the Mount ST. MATTHEW Against anger and contempt

7 Blessed are the merciful : for they
shall obtain mercy.

8 ^Blessed are the clean of heart: for
they shall see God.

9 Blessed are the peacemakers : for
they shall be called the children of God.

10 ^ Blessed are they that suffer perse-
cution for justice' sake : for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.

11 Blessed are ye when they shall revile
you, and persecute you, and speak all that
is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:

12 Be glad and rejoice, for your reward
is very great in heaven. For so they
persecuted the prophets that were before
you.

13 You are the salt of the earth. ** But
if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall
it be salted ? It is good for nothing any
inore but to be cast out, and to be trod-
den on by men.

14 You are the light of the world. A
3ity seated on a mountain cannot be hid.

15 ^ Neither do men light a candle and
Dut it under a bushel, but upon a candle-
jtick, that it may shine to all that are in
lihe house.

16 So let your light shine before men,
that they may see your good works, and
jlorify your Father who is in heaven.

17 Do not think that I am come to
lestroy the law, or the prophets. I am
lot come to destroy, but to fulfil.

18 ^ For amen I say unto you, till hea-
ven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle
hall not pass of the law, till all be f ul-
illed.

1 19 ^ He therefore that shall break one
:»f these least commandments, and shall
0 teach men, shall be called the least in
he kingdom of heaven. But he that shall

b Ps. 23. 4. — c 1 Peter 2. 20, and 3. 14, and 4. 14. —
Mark 9. 49; Luke 14. 34. — e Mark 4. 21 ; Luke 8. 16,
nd 11. 33. — / 1 Peter 2. 12. — g Luke 16. 17.— h James

Ver. 17. To fulfil. By accomplishing all the

gures and prophecies ; and perfecting all that was

nperfect.

Ver. 18. Amen. That is, assuredly of a truth.

his Hebrew word, amen^ is here retained by the

sample and authority of all the four Evangelists.

■- is used by our Lord as a strong asseveration,

Id affirmation of the truth.

Ver. 20. The scribes and Pharisees. The scribes

ere the doctors of the law of Moses: the Pharisees

ere a precise set of men, making profession of a

ore exact observance of the law: and upon that

!Coimt greatly esteemed among the people.

j Ver. 21. Shall be in danqer of the judgment. That

I, shall deserve to be punished by that lesser tri-

mal among the Jews, called the Judgment, whtGh

ok cognizance of such crimes.

Ver. 22. Raca. A word expressing great indigna-

do and teach, he shall be called great in
the kingdom of heaven.

20 For I tell you, that unless your jus-
tice abound *more than that of the
scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven.

21 You have heard that it was said to
them of old : ^ Thou shalt not kill. And
whosoever shall kill shall be in danger
of the judgment.

22 But I say to you, that whosoever is
angry with his brother, shall be in dan-
ger of the judgment. And whosoever
shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be
in danger of the council. And whosoever
shall say. Thou fool, shall be in danger of
hell fire.

23 If therefore thou offer thy gift at the
altar, and there thou remember that thy
brother hath any thing against thee ;

24 Leave there thy offering before the
altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy
brother : and then coming thou shalt
offer thy gift.

25 ^ Be at agreement with thy adver-
sary betimes, whilst thou art in the way
with him : lest perhaps the adversary
deliver thee to the judge, and the judge
deliver thee to the officer, and thou be
cast into prison.

26 Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not
go out from thence till thou repay the
last farthing.

27 You have heard that it was said to
them of old; 'Thou shalt not commit
adultery.

28 But I say to you, that whosoever
shall look on a woman to lust after her,
hath already committed adultery with
her in his heart.

29 "* And if thy right eye scandalize

2. 10. —i Luke 11. 39.— j Ex. 20. 13; Deut. 5. 17.—
k Luke 12. 58. — i Ex. 20. 14. — m Mark 9.46; Infra
18. 9.

■ — «

tion or contempt. — Shall he in danger of the courts
oil. That is, shall deserve to be punished by the
highest court of judicature, called the Council, or
Sanhedrim^ consisting of seventy -two persons,
where the highest causes were tried and judged,
which was at Jerusalem. — Ibid. Thou fool. This
was then looked upon as a heinous injury, when
uttered with contempt, spite, or malice : and there-
fore is here so severely condemned. — Shall he in
danger of hell fire: literally, according to the Greek,
shall deserve to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
Which words our Saviour made use of to express
the fire and punishments of helL

Ver. 29, Scandalize thee. That is, if it be a stum-
blingblock, or occasion of sin to thee. By which we
are taught to fly the immediate occasions of sin,
though they be a^ dear to us, or as necessary as a
hand or aa eye.

Against divorce

ST. MATTHEW

Love of one*s enemy

thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee.
For it is expedient for thee that one of
thy members should perish, rather than
that thy whole body be cast into hell.

30 And if thy right hand scandalize
thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee :
for it is expedient for thee that one of
thy members should perish, rather than
that thy whole body go into hell.

31 And it hath been said, '"' Whosoever
shall put away his wife, let him give her
a bill of divorce.

32 But I say to you, ^that whosoever
shall put away his wife, excepting for the
cause of fornication, maketh her to com-
mit adultery : and he that shall marry her
that is put away, committeth adultery.

33 Again you have heard that it was
said to them of old, P Thou shalt not for-
swear thyself: but thou shalt perform
thy oaths to the Lord.

34 But I say to you not to swear at all,
neither by heaven, for it is the throne of
God:

35 Nor by the earth, for it is his 'oot-
3tool: nor by Jerusaltjm, for it is Che city
of the great king :

36 Neither shalt thou swear br thy head,
because thou canst not make one hair
white or black.

37 5 But let your speech of. yea, yea:
no, no : and that which iS ovei and above
these, is of evil.

38 You have heard thac it hath been
said, ^ An eye for an eye, and a tooth for
: tooth.

39 But I say to you not to resist evil :
* but if one strike thee on thy right cheek,
turn to him also the other :

40 * And if a man will contend with thee
in judgment, and take away thy coat, let
go thy cloak also unto him.

41 And whosoever will force thee one
mile, go with him other two.

42 ^ Give to him that asketh of thee,
>ind from him that would borrow of thee
ourn not away.

n Deut. 24. 1 ; Infra 19. 7. — o Mark 10. 11 ; Luke 16.
18 ; 1 Cor. 7. 10. —p Ex. 20. 7 ; Lev. 19. 12 ; Deut. 5. 11 ;
James 5. 12. — g James 5. 12. — r Ex. 21. 24 ; Lev. 24.

Ver. 34. Not to svear at all. It is not forbid to
swear in truth, justice and judgment ; to the lionour
of God, or our own or neighbour's just defence : but
only to swear rashly, or profanely, in common dis-
course, and without necessity.

Ver. 39. JVot to reiiist rvil, &c. What is here com-
Daanded, is a Christian patience under injuries and
aUronts, and to be willing even to suffer still more,
radier than to indulge the desire of revenge : but
What is further added does Dot strictly oblige accord-

43 You have heard that it hath been
said, ^ Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and
hate thy enemy.

44 But I say to you, ^ Love your 9ne-
mies : ^ do good to them that hate you :
y and pray for them that persecute and
calumniate you :

45 That you may be the children of your
Father who is in heaven, who maketh his
sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and
raineth upon the just and the unjust.

46 For if you love them tnat love you,
what reward shall you have ? do not even
the publicans this?

47 And if you salute your brethren only,
what do you more? do not also the
heathens this ?

48 Be you therefore perfect, as also
your heavenly Father is perfect.

CHAPTER 6.

A continuation of the sermon on the mount

TAKE heed that you do not your jus-
tice before men, to be seen by them:
otherwise you shall not have a reward of
your Father who is in heaven.

2 Therefore when thou dost an alms-
deed, sound not a trumpet before thee,
as the hypocrites do in the synagogues
and in the streets, that they may be
honoured by men. Amen I say to you,
they have received their reward.

3 But when thou dost alms, let not thy
left hand know what thy right hand
doth.

4 That thy alms may be in secret, and
thy Father who seeth in secret will re-
pay thee.

5 And when ye pray, you shall not be
as the hypocrites, that love to stand
and pray in the synagogues and corners
of the streets, that they may be seen by
men : Amen I say to you, they have re
ceived their reward.

6 But thou when thou shalt pray, enter
into thy chamber, and having shut the
door, pray to thy Father in secret: and

20: Deut. 19. 21. — s Luke 6. 29. — t 1 Cor. 6. 7. -
u Deut. 15. 8. — V Lev. 19. 18. — w Luke 6. 27. — x Rom
12. 20. — y Luke 23. 34 ; Acts 7. 59.

ing to the letter, for neither did Christ nor St. Pau
turn the other cheek. St. John 18., and Acts 23.

Ver. 46. Thepublicans. These were the%atherer«
of the public taxes : a set of men, odious and infa
mous among the Jews, for their extortions anc
injustice.

Chap. 6. Ver. l. Yovr justice, that is, works o\
justice; viz., fasting, prayer, and almsdeeds; whlM
ought to be performed not out of ostentation, or I
view to please men. but solely to please God.

The Lord^s jyrayer

ST. MATTHEW

Vain solicitude

thy Father who seeth in secret will re-
pay thee.

7 And when yon are praying, speak not
much, as the heathens. For they think
that in their much speaking they may
be heard.

8 Be not you therefore like to them,
for your Father knoweth what is need-
ful for you, before you ask him.

9 Thus therefore shall you pray: ^Our
Father who art in heaven, hallowed be
thy name.

10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
I done on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our supersubstantial
^)read.

12 And forgive us our debts, as we also
forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation.
But deliver us from evil. Amen.

i 14 "For if you will forgive men their
offences, your heavenly Father will for-
give you also your offences.

, 16 But if you will not forgive men, nei-
ther will your Father forgive you your
offences.

16 And when you fast, be not as the
hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their
faces, that they may appear unto men
bo fast. Amen I say to you, they have
received their reward.

17 But thou, when thou fastest anoint
thy head, and wash thy face ;

18 That thou appear not to men to fast,
but to thy Father who is in secret : and
thy Father who seeth in secret, will re-
pay thee.

19 Lay not up to yourselves treasures
on earth : where the rust, and moth con-
sume, and where thieves break through
and steal

20 * But lay up to yourselvee treasures
in heaven: where neither the rust nor
oaoth doth consume, and where thieves
do not break through, nor steal.

I 21 For where thy treasure is, there is
iihy heart also.

22 «The Ught of thy body is thy eye.
|[f thy eye be single, thy whole body
Jhall be lightsome.

23 But if thy eye be evil :hy whole

I « Luke 11. 2. — a Eccli. 28. 3, 4. and 5 ; Infra 18. 35 ;
!«ark ll. 25. — b Luke 12. 33 ; l Tim. 6. 19. — c Luke
1. 34. — d Luke IG. 13. — e Ps. 54. 23; Luke 12. 22;

Ver. 11. Svx>*^rsvhsfnvfinl bread. In St Luke the
lanje word is rendered ffnijy bread. It is understood
I'l the bread of life, which we receive in the Rlessed
l*acrameat>

body shall be darksome. If then the
hght that is in thee, be darkness : the
darkness itself how great shall it be !

24 ^No man can serve two masterSc
For either he will hate the one, and love
the other: or he will sustain the one,
and despise the other. You canno^
serve God and mammon.

25 ^ Therefore I say to you, be not soli-
citous for your life, what you shall eat,
nor for your body, what you shall put ©n.
Is not the life more than the meat: and
the body more than the raiment '>

26 Behold the birds of the air, for they
neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gath-
er into barns : and your heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are not you of much
more value than they?

27 And which of you by taking thought,
can add to his stature one cubit ?

28 And for raiment why are you solici-
tous? Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow ; they labour not, neither do
they spin.

29 But I say to you, that not even Sol-
omon in all his glory was arrayed as
one of these.

30 And if the grass of the field, which
is to day, and to morrow is cast into the
oven, God doth so clothe: how much
more you, O ye of little faith?

31 Be not solicitous therefore, saying,
What shall we eat: or what shall we
drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed ?

32 For after all these things do the hea-
thens seek. For your Father knoweth
thaii you have need of all these things.

33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom
of God, and his justice, and all these
things shall be added unto you.

34 Be not therefore solicitous for to
morrow; for the morrow will be solici-
tous for itself. Sufficient for tlie day is
the "Svil thereof.

CHAPTER 7.

The third part of the sermon on the mount.

IJDGE «^not, that you may not be
judged.

2 For with what judgment you judge,
you shall be judged: ^and with what

Phil. 4. G; 1 Tim. 6. 7: 1 Peter 6. 7.— /Luke 6. 37;
Rom. 2.1, — g Mark -i. 24.

Ver. 13.
suffer us i

Ver. 'ii.
interest.

Lead us not info f/imptation. That is,
t to be overcome by temptation.
Mammon. That is, riches, woci^

Prayer, and the narrow gate ST. IVIATTHEW The tree is knovm hy itsfrwU

measure you mete, it shall be measured
to you again.

3 And why seest thou the mote that is
in thy brother's eye ; and seest not the
beam that is in thy own eye ?

4 Or how sayest thou to thy brother:
Let me cast the mote out of thy eye ;
and behold a beam is in thy own eye?

6 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the
beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt
thou see to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye.

6 Give not that which is holy to dogs ;
neither cast ye your pearls before swine,
lest perhaps they trample them under
their feet, and turning upon you, they
tear you.

7 ^ Ask, and it shall be given you : seek,
and you shall find: knock, and it shall
be opened to you.

8 For every one that asketh, receiveth :
and he that seeketh, findeth : and to
him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

9 ^ Or what man is there among you, of
whom if his son shall ask bread, will he
reach him a stone?

10 Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he
reach him a serpent?

11 If you then being evil, know how to
give good gifts to your children: how
much more will your Father who is in
heaven, give good things to them that
ask him?

12 •? AH things therefore whatsoever you
would that men should do to you, do you
also to them. For this is the law and
the prophets.

13 ^ Enter ye in at the narrow gate : for
wide is the gate, and broad w the way
that leadeth to destruction, and many
there are who go in thereat.

14 How narrow is the gate, and strait is
the way that leadeth to life : and few
there are that find it!

15 Beware of false prophets, who come
to you in the clothing of sheep, but in-
wardly they are ravening wolves.

16 By their fruits you shall know them.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs
of thistles ?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth
forth good fruit, and the evil tree bring-
eth forth evil fruit.

^^^^ ■ ■ — ■ ^

h Infra 21. 22; Mark 11. 24; Luke 11. 9; John 14.
13; James 1.6. — i Luke 11. 11.— j Tob. 4. 16; Luke
6. 31. — k Luke 13. 24. — I Supra 3. 10. — m Infra 25. 11 ;
Luk9 6. 46. — » Acta 19. 13. — o Pa 6. 9; Infra. 25. 41;

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth
good fruit.

19 * Every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall
be cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall
know them.

21 "* Not every one that saith to me.
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven : but he that doth the will of
my Father who is in heaven, he shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven.

22 Many will say to me in that day:
Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in
thy name, ^ and cast out devils in thy
name, and done many miracles in thy
name ?

23 And then will I profess unto them, I
never knew you : ° depart from me, you
that work iniquity.

24^ Every one therefore that heareth
these my words, and doth them, shall be
hkened to a wise man that built his house
upon a rock,

25 And the rain fell, and the floods
came, and the winds blew, and they beat
upon that house, and it fell not, for it
was founded on a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these my
words, and doth them not, shall be like
a foolish man that built his house upon
the sand,

27 And the rain fell, and the floods
came, and the winds blew, and they beat
upon that house, and it fell, and great
was the fall thereof.

28 And it came to pass when Jesus had
fully ended these words, the people were
in admiration at his doctrine.

29 ^ For he was teaching them as one
having power, and not as the scribes and
Pharisees.

CHAPTER 8.

Christ cleanses the leper, heals the centurion's ser-
vant, Ppter's mother in law, and many others : he
stills the storm at sea, drives the devils out of two
men possessed, and suffers them to go into th(
swine.

AND ''when he was come down from
^ the mountain, great multitudes fol-
lowed him :
2 * And behold a leper came and adored

Luke 13. 27.— p Luke 6. 48 ; Rom. 2. 13 ; James 1. 22
—q Mark 1. 22 ; Luke 4. 32.— r A. D. 27.—« Mark 1
40 ; Luke 5. 12.

The centurion* s servant healed ST. IVIATTHEW The stilling of the tempest

him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou
canst make me clean.

3 And Jesus stretching forth his hand,
touched him, saying : I will, be thou
made clean. And forthwith his leprosy
was cleansed.

4 And Jesus saith to him : See thou tell
no man : but go, * shew thyself to the
priest, and offer the gift which Moses
commanded for a testimony unto them.

5 " And when he had entered into Ca-
pharnaum, there came to him a centu-
rion, beseeching him,

6 And saying. Lord, my servant lieth at
home sick of the palsy, and is griev-
ously tormented.

7 And Jesus saith to him : I will come
and heal him.

8 And the centurion making answer,
said : ^ Lord, I am not worthy that thou
shouldst enter under my roof: but only
say the word, and my servant shall be
healed.

9 For I also am a man subject to author-
ity, having under me soldiers ; and I say
to this. Go, and he goeth, and to another,
Come, and he cometh, and to my servant.
Do this, and he doeth it.

10 And Jesus hearing this, marvelled ;
and said to them that followed him :
Amen I say to you, I have not found so
great faith in Israel.

11 And I say to you that many shall
come from the ^ east and the west, and
shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac,
and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven :

12 But the children of the kingdom shall
be cast out into the exterior darkness :
there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.

13 And Jesus said to the centurion :
Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it
done to thee. And the servant was
healed at the same hour.

14 And when Jesus was come into
Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother
lying, and sick of a fever :

15 And he touched her hand, and the
fever left her, and she arose and minis-
tered to them.

16 * And when evening was come, they
brought to him many that were possessed
with devils : and he cast out the spirits
with his word : and all that were sick he
healed:

t Lev. 14. 2. — U Luke l.\. — v Luke l.Q. — w MaL
LlL^x Mark L 32. -•y Isa.53.4; 1 Peter 2.24.—

17 That it might be fulfilled, which was
spoken by the prophet ^ Isaias, saying :
He took OUT infirmities^ and bore our dis-
eases.

18 And Jesus seeing great multitudes
about him, gave orders to pass over the
water.

19 And a certain scribe came and said
to him : Master, I will follow thee whi-
thersoever thou shalt go.

20 And Jesus saith to him : ^ The foxes
have holes, and the birds of the air nests:
but the son of man hath not where to lay
his head.

21 And another of his disciples said to
him : Lord, suffer me first to go and bury
my father.

22 But Jesus said to him : Follow me,
and let the dead bury their dead.

23 " And when he entered into the
boat, his disciples followed him :

24 And behold a great tempest arose in
the sea, so that the boat was covered
with waves, but he was asleep.

25 And they came to him, and awaked
him, saying : Lord, save us, we perish.

26 And Jesus saith to them : Why are
you fearful, O ye of little faith ? Then
rising up he commanded the winds, and
the sea, and there came a great calm.

27 But the men wondered, saying : What
manner of man is this, for the winds and
the sea obey him?

28 ^ And when he was come on the other
side of the water, into the country of the
Gerasens, there met him two that were
possessed with devils, coming out of the
sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none
could pass by that way

29 And behold thej; cried out, saying:
What have we to do with thee, Jesus
Son of God? art thou come hither to
torment us before the time ?

30 ^ And there was, not far from them,
an herd of many swine feeding.

31 And the devils besought him, saying:
If thou cast us out hence, send us into
the herd of swine.

32 And he said to them: Go. But they
going out went into the swine, and be-
hold the whole herd ran violently down
a steep place into the sea : and they per*
ished in the waters.

33 And they that kept them fled : and
coming into the city, told every thing,

2 Luke 9. 58. — a Mark 4. 36 ; Luke 8. 22. — b Mark ft»
li Luke 8. 26. ~e Mark 6.11; Luke 8. 32.

The calling of Matthew

ST. MAITHEW

The daughter of Jairvi

and concerning them that had been pos-
sessed by the devils.

34 And behold the whole city went out
to meet Jesus, ^ and when they saw him,
they besought him that he would depart
from their coasts.

CHAPTER 9.

Christ heals or t sick of the palsy : calls Matthew :
cures the Issuci of blood : raises to life the daughter
of Jairus : gives sight to two blind men: and heals
a dumb man possessed by the devil.

AND entering into a boat, he passed
l\. over the water and came into his
own city.

2 ® And behold they brought to him one
sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man
sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, con,
thy sins are forgiven thee.

3 And behold some of the scribes said
within themselves: He blasphemeth.

4 And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said:
Why do you think ovil in your hearts?

6 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins
are forgiven thee : or to say, Arise, and
walk?

6 But that you may know that the Son
of man hath power on earth to forgive
sins, (then said he to the man sick of

14 Then camo to him the disciples of
John, saying : * Why do we and the Phar-
isees fast often, but thy disciples do not
fast?

16 And Jesus said to them: Can the
children of the bridegroom mourn, as
long as the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come, when the bride-
groom shall be taken away from them,
and then they shall fast.

16 And nobody putteth a piece of raw
cloth unto an old garment. For it tak-
eth away the fulness thereof from the
garment, and there is made a greatei
rent.

17 Neither do they put new wine in to
old bottles. Otherwise the bottles break,
and the wine runneth out, and the bot-
tles perish. But new wine they put into
new bottles: and both are preserved.

18-? As he was speaking these things
unto them, behold a certain ruler came
up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my
daughter is even now dead; but come,
lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

19 And Jesus rising up followed him,
with his disciples.

20 '^ And behold a woman who was trou-
bled with an issue of blood twelve years,

the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and | came behind him, and touched the hem

go into thy house.

7 And he arose, and went into his house.

8 And the multitude seeing it, feared,
and glorified God that gave such power
to men.

9-^ And when Tesus passed on from
thence, he saw ^ man sitting .n one cus-

om House, named Matthew: and ne daith
to him: Follow ine. .\nd he arose up
and followed himc

10 And it came to pass as he was sitting
at meat in the house, behold many pub-
licans and sinners came, and sat down
with Jesus and his disciples.

11 And the Pharisees jeeing it, said to

of his garment,

21 For she said within herself: If I sha'tl
touch only his garment, I shall be healed.

22 But Jesus turning and seeing her,
said. Be of good heart, daughter, thy
faith hath made thee whole. And the
woman was made whole from that hour.

23 And when Jesus was come into the
house of the ruler, and saw the minstrels
and the multitude making a rout,

24 He said: Give place, for the girl is
not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed
him to scorn.

25 And when the multitude was put
forth, he went in, and took her by the

his disciples: Why doth your master eat j hand. And the maid arose.

vTith publicans and sinners ?

12 But Jesus hearing it, said : They that
are in health need not a physician, but
they that are ill.

13 Go then and leirn what this meaneth,
^ / voill have mercy aru', noi sacrifice. For I
am not jome to call the just, ^ but sinners.

d Mark 5. 17 : Luke 8. 37. — e Mark 2. 3 ; Luke 5. 18.
-f Mark 2. 14 ; Luke 27. — g Osee 6. 6 ; Infra 12. 7. —

26 And the fame hereof went abroad
into all that country.

27 And as Jesus passed from thence,
there followed him two blind men crying
out and saying, Have mercy on us, O
Son of David.

28 And when he was come to the house.

h 1 Tim. 1. 15. —i Mark 2. 18; Luke 5. 33.—^' Mark &
23 : Luke 8. 41. — A- Mark 5. 25 ; Luke 8. 43.

CHAt. a Ver. li). Can the children of tfie bridegroom. This by a Hebraism, signifies tlie friends *r

companions of the bridegroom.

Jesus heals the dumb man ST. MATTHEW Jesus charges the apostles

the blind men came to him. And Jesus
3aith to them, Do you believe, that I can
do this unto you? They say to him, Yea,
Lord.

29 Then he touched tneir eyes, saying,
According to your faith, be it done unto
you.

30 And their eyes were opened, and
Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See
that no man know this.

31 But they going out, spread his fame
I broad in all that country.

32 And when they were gone out, *be-
lold they brought him a dumb man, pos-
lessed with a devil.

33 And after the devil was cast out, the
iumb man spoke, and the multitudes
wondered, saying, Never was the like
leen in Israel.

34 But the Pharisees said, By the prince
)f devils he casteth out devils.

35 "* And Jesus went about all the cities,
md towns, teaching in their synagogues,
md preaching the gospel of the king-
lom, and heaUng every disease, and
I very infirmity.

36 And seeing the multitudes, he had
ompassion on them : because they were
istressed, and lying like sheep that have
Ito shepherd.

,37 Then he saith to his disciples, ** The

arvest indeed is great, but the labour-

rs are few.

38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the

arvest, that he send forth labourers into

is harvest.

CHAPTER 10,

ifertef sends out his ttvelve apostles, with the power
' of miracles. The lessons he gives them.

AND ® having called his twelve disci-

rV. pies together, he gave them power

ver unclean spirits, to cast them out,

Qd to heal all manner of diseases, and

11 manner of infirmities.

I And the liames of the twelve apostles

'e these: The first, Simon who is called

9ter, and Andrew his brother,

S James the son of Zebedee, and John

.8 brother, Philip and Bartholomew,

,^omas and Matthew the publican, and

imes the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus,

I Simon the Oananean, and Judas Is-

triot, who also betrayed him.

I These twelve Jesus sent: command-

: Infra 12. 22 ; Luke 11. 14. -- m Mark 6.6.— n Luke
^2.-0 Mark 3. 13 ; Luke 6. 13, and 9.1.— p Acts

ing them, saying: Go ye not into the
way of the Gentiles, and into the city of
the Samaritans enter ye not.

6 But go ye rather P to the lost sheep
of the house of Israel.

7 And going, preach, saying: The king-
dom of heaven is at hand.

8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse
the lepers, cast out devils: freely have
you received, freely give.

9 ^ Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor
money in your purses:

10 Nor scrip for your journey, nor two
coats, nor shoes, nor a stafi; for the
workman is worthy of his meat.

11 And into whatsoever city or town
you shall enter, inquire who in it is
worthy, and there abide till you go
thence.

12 And when you come into the house,
salute it, saying : Peace be to this
house.

13 And if that house be worthy, your
peace shall come upon it; but if it bo
not worthy, your peace shall return to
you.

14 And whosoever shall not receive
you, nor hear your words: going forth
out of that house or city shake off the
dust from your feet,

15 Amen I say to you, it shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Go-
morrha in the day of judgment, than for
that city..

16 ** Behold I send you as sheep in the
midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise
as serpents and simple as doves.

17 But beware of men. For they will
deliver you up in councils, and they will
scourge you in their synagogues.

18 And you shall be brought before
governors, and before kings for my
sake, for a testimony to them and to the
Gentiles:

19 But when they shall deliver you up,
*take no thought how or what to speak:
for it shall be given you in that houi
what to speak.

20 For it is not you that speak, but the
Spirit of your Father that speaketh in
you.

21 The brother also shall deliver up the
brother to death, and the father the son
and the children shall rise up against

13. 46. — g Mark 6. 8; Luke 9.
10. 3.— «Luke 12.11.

3, and 10. 4. — r Luke

QBA£>.10. Vei.l6» Simple,

TJaaX ^£. ^Wioiess, plam, aincer^, aod without guile.

Jesus charges the disciples ST. MATTHEW Johns message to Christ

their parent»» and shall put them to
death.

22 And yon shall be hated by all men
for my name's sake : but he that shall
persevere unto the end, he shall be
saved.

23 And when they shall persecute you
in this city, flee into another. Amen I
say to you, you shall not finish all the
cities of Israel, till the Son of man
come.

36 y And a man's enemies shall be thej"
of his own household.

37 ^He that loveth father or mother
mere than me, is not worthy of me ; and,
he that loveth son or daughter more than!
me, is not worthy of me.

38 " And he that taketh not up hip
cross, and foUoweth me, is not worth} j
of m^,

39 He that findeth his life, shal) lose it

^ and he that shall lose his life for me,|

24 'The disciple ifi not above the mas- shall find it.

ter, nor the servant above hie lord.

25 It is enough for the disciple that he
be as his master, and the servant as his
lord. If they have called the goodraan
of the house Beelzebub, hew much more
them of his household?

26 Therefore fear them not. ** For no-
thing is covered that shall not be re-
vealed: nor hid, that shall not be known.

27 That which I tell you in the dark,
speak ye in the light: and that which
you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the
housetops.

28 And fear ye not them that kill the

40 *'He that receiveth you, receiveth
me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth
him that sent me.

41 He that receiveth a prophet in the
name of a prophet, shall receive the re-
ward of a prophet: and he that receiveth
a just man in the name of a just man
shall receive the reward of a just man.

42 ^ And whosoever shall give to drint
to one of these little ones a cup of cok
water only in the name of a disciple
amen I say to you, he shall not lose hii
reward.

CHAPTER 11.

body, and are not able to kill the soul : I j^^^^^^^f^^^^^^^pi^ff, chHst, who upbraids th

but rather feai him that can destroy
both soul and body in hell.

29 ^'Are not two sparrows sold for a
farthing? and not one of them shall fall
on the ground without your Father.

30 But the very hairs of your head are
all numbered.

31 Fear not therefore: better are you
than many sparrows.

32 ^ Every one therefore that shall con-
fess me before men, I will also confess
him before my Father who is in heaven,

33 But he that shall deny me before
men, I will also deny him before my
Father who is in heaven.

34 * Do not think that \ came to send
peace upon earth: I came not to send
peace, but the sword.

35 For I came to set a man at variance
against his father, and the daughter
against her mother, and the daughter in
law against hei mother in law.

t Luke 6. 40 ; John 13. 16. and 15. 20. - u Mark 4. 22 ;
Luke 8. 17, and 12. l. — v 2 Kings 14. 11. - w Mark 8.
38 ; Luke 9. 26, and 12. 8 ; 2 Tim. 2, 12. - x Luke 12. 51.
— y Mich. 7. 6. — 2 Luke 14. 26. — a Infra 16. 24 ; Mark

Jews with their incredulity, and calls to him sui
as are sensible of their burdens.

4ND it came to pass, when Jesus ha(

XjL made an end of commanding hii

twelve disciples, he passed from thence

to teach and preach in their cities.

2 ® Now when John had heard in prisoi
the works of Christ : sending two of hi
disciples he said to him :

3 Art thou he that art to come, or lool
we for another ?

4 And Jesus making answer said t
them: Go and relate to John what yo
have heard and seen.

5 /The blind see, the lame walk, th
lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, th
dead rise again, ^ the poor have the goi
pel preached to them.

6 And blessed is he that shall not b
scandalized in me.

7 ^ And when they went their waj
Jesus began to say to the multitude

Ver 35 / came to set a man at variance, &c.
Not that this was the end or design of the coming of
our Saviour ; but that his coming and his doctrine
would have this effept. by reason di the obstinate
resistance that manv would make, and of thejr pei-
secutuis all sucli as should adhere to Mia

8. .34; Luke 14. 21— b Luke 9. 24, and 17. 33 ; Jol
12. 25. - c Luke 10. 16 : John 13. 20. - d Mark 9. 40.
« Luke 7. 18.—/ Isa. 35. 5. — c Isa. 61. \. — h i^ui
7.24^

CHAP. 11. Ver. 6. '^^'^'^^«'^■2««^ ^■"/',^- JJjfin,
who shall not take occasion of scandal or oDen
from my humilitv. and the disgraceful death or w
cross which I shall endure

Jesus' testimony to John ST. MATTHEW

The invitation of Christ

concerning John : What went yov out
into the desert to see ? a reed shaken
with the wind?

8 But what went you cut to see ? a man
clothed in soft garments? Behold they
that are clothed in soft garments, are in
the houses of kings.

9 But what went you out to see ? a pro-
phet? yea I tell you, and more than a
prophet.

IC For this is he of whom it in written:
* Behold I send my angel before thy face,
who shall prepare thy way before thee.

11 Amen I say to yen. there hath not
risen among them that are born of wo-
men a greater than John the Baptist ■:
yet he that is the lesser in the kingdom
of heaven is greater than he.

12 And from the days of John the Bap-
fist until now, the kingdom of heaven
suffereth violence, and the violent bear
it away.

13 For all the prophets and the law pro-
phesied until John :

14 And if you will receive it,-^ he is Elias
that is to come.

15 He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear.

16 But whereunto shall I esteem this
generation to be Uke ? It is like to chil-
dren sitting in the market place,

17 Who crying to their companions say :
We have piped to you, and you have not
danced : we have lamented, and you have
not mourned.

18 For John came neither eating nor
drinking ; and they aay : He hath a devil.

19 The Son of man came eating and
drinking, and they say t Behold a man
that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a
friend of publicans and sinners. And
wisdom is justified by her children.

20 Then began he to upbraid the cities
wherein were done the most of his mira-
cles, for that they had not done penance.

21 '^ Wee to thee, Corozain, woe to thee,
Bethsaida : for if in Tyre and Sidon had
been wrought the miracles that have
been wrought in you, they had long ago
done penance in sackcloth and ashes.

' 22 But I say unto you, it shall be more

I i Mai. 3. 1 ; Mark l. 2 ; Luke 7. 27. — j Mai. 4. 5. —
fc Luke 10. 13. — I .lohn 6. 46 ; 7. 28 ; 8. 19, and 10. 15. —

' Ver. 12 Suffereth violence, Ac. It is not to be
obtained but by main force, by using violence upon
ourselves, by mortification and penance, and resist-
ling our pe verse iiidinations.

tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day
of judgment, than for you.

23 And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be
exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down
even untr hell. For if in Sodom had been
wrought the miracles that have been
wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained
unto this day.

24 But 1 say unto you, that it shall be
more tolerable for the land of Sodom in
the day of judgment, than for thee.

25 At that time Jesus answered and
said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, because thou hast hid
these things from the wise and prudent,
and hast revealed them to little ones.

26 Yea, Father; for so hath it seemed
good in thy sight.

27 All things are delivered to me by my
Father. ^ And no one knoweth the Son,
but the Father : neither doth any one
know the Father, but the Son, and he to
whom it shall please the Son to reveal
him,

28 Come to me, all you that labour, and
are burdened, and I will refresh you.

29 Take up my yoke upon you, and
learn of me, because I am meek, and
humble of heart : *" and you shall find
rest to your souls.

30 ~ For my yoke is sweet and my bur-
den light.

CHAPTER 12.

Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees., and
confutes their attributing his miracles to Satan.

AT ° that time Jesus went through the
xjL corn on the sabbath : and his disci-
ples being hungry, began to pluck the
ears, and to eat.

2 And the Pharisees seeing them, said
to him: Behold thy disciples do that
which is not lawful to do on the sabbath
days.

3 But he said to them: Have you not
read P what David did when he was hun-
gry, and they that were with him :

4 How he entered into the house of God,
and did eat the loaves of proposition,
which it was not lawful for him to eat,
nor for them that were with him, ^but
for the priests only ?

m Jer. 6.
Luke 6. 1.

16. — ni John
-pi Kings, 21. 6. -

5. 3. — o Mark 2. 23'
- q Lev. 24. 9.

Ver. 14 He is Blias, &c. Not in |>erson, but i»
spirit. St. Luke 1. 17.

Chap. 12. Ver. 4. The loaves of proposition. So
were called the twelve loaves which were placnd
before the sanctuary m the temple of God.

Jesus heals on the Sabbath

ST. JVIATTHEW

5 Or have ye not read in the law, *^ that
on the sabbath days the priests in the
temple break the sabbath, and are with-
out blame ?

6 But I tell you that there is here a
greater than the temple.

7 And if you knew what this meaneth:
'' I will have mercy ^ and not sacrifice: you
would never have condemned the inno-
cent.

8 For the Son of man is Lord even of
the sabbath.

9 And wheu he had passed from thence,
he came into their synagogues.

10 * And behold there was a man who
had a withered hand, and they asked him,
saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sab-
bath days? that they might accuse him.

11 But he said to fchem : **What man
ahall there be among you, that hath one
sheep : and if the same fall into a pit on
the sabbath day, will he not take hold on
it and hf t it up ?

12 How much better is a man than a
sheep ? Therefore it is lawful to do a good
deed on the sabbath days.

13 Then he saith to the man: Stretch
forth thy hand ; and he stretched it forth,
and it was restored to health even as the
cither.

14 And the Pharisees going out made a
consultation against him, how they might
destroy him.

15 But Jesus knowing it, retired from
thence: and many followed him, and he
healed them all.

16 And he charged them that they should
not make him known.

17 That it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying:

18 '"Behold my servant whom I have cho-
sen^ my beloved in whom my soul hath been
well pleaded. I wili put my spirit upon
Mm, and he shall shew judgment to the
Gentiles.

19 He shall not contend^ nor cry out, nei-
ther shall any man hear his voice in the
streets.

r Num. 28. 9 — s 1 Kings 15. 22 ; Eccl. 4. 17 Osee 6.
6 ; Supra 9. 13. — t Mark 3. 1 ; Luke 6. 6.—u Deut. 22.4.

Ver. 81. The blasphemy of the Spirit. The sin
here spoken of is that blasphemy, by which the
Pharisees attributed tlie miracles of Christ, wrought
by the Spirit of God, to Beel^phub the prince of devils.
Now this kina of sin is usually accompanied with so
much obstinacy, and such wilful opposing the Spirit
of God, and the known truth, that men who are
guilty of it, are seldom or never converted : and
Uitf afore are ue?ei f orgiveu, because they will not

Blasphemy of the Spiri

20 The bruised reed he shall not break:
and smoking flax he shall not extinguish
till he send forth judgment unto victory.

21 And in his name the Gentiles shal
hope.

22 Then was offered fco him one pos-
sessed with a devil, blind and dumb: anc
he healed him, so that he spoke and saw

23 And all the multitudes were amazed
and said: Is not this the son of David?

24 "'But the Pharisees hearing it, said;
This man casteth not out devils but b^
Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

26 And Jesus knowing their thoughtsi
said to them: ^ Every kingdom divided
against itself shall be made desolate: auc
every city or house divided against itsel)
shall not stand.

26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he
divided against himself: hoT\ bhen 3h?l
his kingdom stand ?

27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devila
by whom do your children cast then:
out ? Therefore they shall be your judges

28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast ou<
devils, then is the kingdom of God comf
upon you.

29 Or how can any one vvuJei into th(
house of the strong, and rifle his goods
unless he first bind the strong ? and ther
he will rifle his house.

30 He that is not with me, is againsi
me : and he that gathereth not with me
scattereth.

31 2/ Therefore I say to you: Every sii
and blasphemy shall be forgiven men
but the blasphemy of the Spirit shall noi
be forgiven.

32 And whosoever shall speak a won
against the Son of man, it shall be for
given him : but he that shall speak agains
the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgivei
him, neither in this world, nor in th<
world to come.

33 Either make the tree good and iti
fruit good : or make the tree evil, and iti
fruit evil. For by bhe fruit the tree
known.

— V Isa. 42. \. — w Supra 9. 34 ; Mark 3. 22 ; Luke 11
15. — X Luke 11. 17. — y Mark ». 28 and 29 ; Luke 12. K

repent. Otherwise there is no sin, which God cac
not or will not forgive to such as sincerely repent
and have recourse to the keys of the church.

Ver. 32. Nor in the world to come. From tnes
words St. Augustine {De Civ. Dei, lib. 21, c. 13) an'
St. Gregory {Dialog., 4, c. 39) gather, that som
sins may be remitted in the world to come; anc
consequently, that there is a purgatory or a ram»
place.

The sign of Jonas the prophet ST.

34 O generation of vipers, how can you
apeak good things, whereas you are
evil?^ for out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh.

35 A good man out of a good treasure
brlngeth forth good things: and an evil
man out of an evil treasure bringeth
forth evil things.

36 But I saj^ unto you, that every idle
word that men shall speak, they shall
render an account for it in the day of

I judgment.

37 For by thy words thou ?halt be jus-
tified, and by thy words iihou shalt be
condemned.

I 38 Then some of the scribes and Phari-
sees answered him, saying: Master we
would see a sign from thee.

39 Who answering said to them : ® An
evil and adulterous generation seeketh a
sign: and a sign shall not be given lo,
''but the sign of Jonas the nropnet.

40 For as Jonas was in the whale's belly
three days and three nights: so shall the
3on of man be in the heart of the earth
three days and three nights.

41 ^ The men of Mnive shall rise in judg-
ment with this generation, and shall con-
demn it : because they did penance at the
preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater
ihan Jonas here.

I 42 The queen of the south shall rise in
judgment with this generation, and shall
jondemn it : ^ because she came from the
ends of the earth to Dear the wisdom of
tk)lomon, and behold a greater than Sol-
i)mon here.

43 ' And vv^hen an unclean spirit is gone
mt of a man he walketh tlirough dry
)laces seeking rest, and findeth none.
H Than he saith ; I will return into my
louse from whence I came out. And
oming he findeth it empty, swept, and
"amished.

45 Then be goeth, and taketh with him
even other spirits more wicked than
limself, and they enter in and dwell

1 1 Luke 6. 45. — a Intra 16. 4 j Luke 11. 29 ; 1 Cor.
\2i.~h Jonas 2 i. — c Jonas 3. 5. — (/ 3 Kings 10. 1 ;

Ver. 36. Every idle word. This shews there must
3 a place 3f temporal punishment hereafter where
lese slighter fa'ilts shall he punished.
Ver. 38. A ngi'^ That is, a miracle from heaven.
li. Luke 11. d.

Ver. 4a Three dntjK, &c. Not complete days and
ghts; but part of three days, and three nights,
ken according to the way that the Hebrews
•anted their days and aights, viz., from eTening to
r&tting.

MATTHEW

Jesus^ mother and brethren

there: -^and the last state of that man is
made worse than the first. So shall it be
also to this wicked generation.

46 ^ As he was yet speaking to the multi-
tudes, behold hie mother and his brethren
stood without, seeking to speak to him.

47 And one said unto him: Behold thy
mother and thy brethren stand without,
seeking thee.

48 But he answering him that told him,
said : Who is my mother, and who are my
brethren ?

49 And stretching forth his hand to-
wards his disciples, he said : Behold my
mother and my brethrenc

50 For whosoever shall do the will of
my Father, that is in heaven, he is my
brother, and sister, and mother^

CHAPTER 13.

The parables of the sower of the cockle ■ of th
mtLstard seed^ etc.

THE same day Jesus going out of the
house, sat by the sea side.

2 * And great multitudes were gathered
together unto him, so that he went up
into a boat and sat : and aB the multi-
tude stood on the shore.

3 And he spoke to them many things
in parables, saying. Behold the sower
went forth to sow.

4 And whilst he soweth some fell by
the way side, and ohe birds of the air
came and ate them ap.

5 And other 3ome »ell upon stony
ground, where they had not much earth:
and they sprung up immediately, be-
cause bhey had no deepness of earth.

8 And when the sun was up they were
scorched: and because they had not
root, they withered awav^

7 And others fell among thorns: and
the thorns grew up and choked them.

8 And others feU upon good ground'
and they brought forth fruit, some an
hundredfold, some aixtyfold., and some
thirtyfold.

2 Par 9. 1. — e Luke 1 1. 24. —f 2 Peter 2.Q0.—g Mark
3. 31 : Luke S.iit.— h Mark 4. 1 ; Luke 8. 4.

Ver. 48. Who is my mother ? This was not spoken
by way of slighting his mother, but to shew that we
are never to suffer ourselves to be taken from the
service ot God. by any inordinate affection to our
earthly parents, and that which our Lord chiefly
regarded in his mother, was her doing the will of his
Father in heaven. It may also further allude to th^
reprnbnrioii of the Jews> his sarn&l kindred, and the
election oi the Geutiles.

"70

Parable of the sower explained ST. MATTHEW The good seed and the cock

9 He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear,

10 And his disciples came and said to
him I Why speakest thou to them in par-
ables ?

11 Who answered and said to them :
Because to you it is given to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but
to them it is not given.

12 * For he that hath, to him shall be
given, and he shall abound : but he that
hath not, from him shall be taken away
that also which he hath.

13 Therefore do I speak to them in
parables: because seeing they see not,
and hearing they hear not, neither do
they understand.

14 And the prophecy of Isaias is ful-
filled in them, who saith: ^ By hearing
you shall hear, and shall not understand:
and seeing you shall see, and shall not per-
ceive,

15 For the heart of this people is grown
gross, and with their ears they have been
dull of hearing, and their eyes they have
shut: lest at any time they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and be con-
verted, and I should heal them.

16 But blessed are your eyes, because
they see, and your ears, because they
hear.

17 ^ For, amen, I say to you, many pro-
phets and just men have desired to see
the things that you see, and have not
seen them, and to hear the things that
you hear and have not heard them.

18 Hear you therefore the parable of
the sower.

19 When any one heareth the word of
the kingdom, and understandeth it not,
there cometh the wicked one, and catch-
eth away that which was sown in his
heart: this is he that received the seed
by the way side.

20 And he that received the seed upon
stony ground, is he that heareth the
word, and immediately receiveth it with
joy.

21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but
is only for a time: and when there aris-
eth tribulation and persecution because
of the word, he is presently scandalized.

22 And he that received the seed
among thorns, is he that heareth the

i Infra 25. 29.— j Isa. 6. 9; Mark 4. 12; Luke 8. 10;
John 12. 40; Acts 28. 26 ; Rom. ^ & — * Luke la 24.

word, and the care of this world ax
the deceitfulness of riches choke th n
the word, and he becometh fruitless.

23 But he that received the seed upo
good ground, is he that heareth tl
word, and understandeth, and bearel
fruit, and yieldeth the one an hundrec
fold, and another sixty, and anoth
thirtv.

24 ^Another parable he proposed t
them, saying: The kingdom of heave
is likened to a man that sowed goo|
seed in his field.

25 But while men were asleep, his enci
my came and oversowed cockle amonJ
the wheat and went his way.

26 And when the blade was sprung up
and had brought forth fruit, then ap
peared also the cockle.

27 And the servants of the goodman o
the house coming said to him : Sir, dids
thou not sow good seed in thy field
whence then hath it cockle ?

28 And he said to them: An enemj
hath done this. And the servants sai(
to him : Wilt thou that we go and gathe]
it up?

29 And he said : No, lest perhaps gath
ering up the cockle, you root up th(
wheat also together with it.

30 Suffer both to grow until the har
vest, and in the time of the harvest I wil
say to the reapers: Gather up first the
cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn,
but the wheat gather ye into my barn.

31 "* Another parable he proposed unto
them, saying : The kingdom of heaven is
like to a grain of mustard seed, which a
man took and sowed in his field.

32 Which is the least indeed of all
seeds ; but when it is grown up, it is
greater than all herbs, and becometh a
tree, so that the birds of the air come,
and dwell in the branches thereof.

33 Another parable he spoke to them.
** The kingdom of heaven is like to lea-
ven, which a woman took and hid in three
measures of meal, until the whole was
leavened.

34 All these things Jesus spoke in par-
ables to the multitudes : and without
parables he did not speak to them.

35 That it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophet, saying : " / will
open my mouth in parables, I will utter

— I Mark 4. 26.— m Mark 4.31» Lukeia.19.— n Luke
13. 21.—0 Ft», ilc 2.

ST. MATTHEW Jesus teaches in Nazareth

Xing8 hidden from the foundation of the

lorld. ,..

36 P Then having sent away the multi-
ades, he came into the house, and his
isciples came to him, saying: Expound

0 us the parable of the cockle of the field.
137 Who made answer and said to them :
le that soweththe good seed, is the Son

' 38 And the field, is the world. And the
rood seed are the children of the king-
lorn. And the cockle, are the children
)f the wicked one.

39 And the enemy that sowed them, is
ihe devil. « But the harvest is the end
bf the world. And the reapers are the

■ingels. ,

40 Even as cockle therefore is gathered
ap, and burnt with fire : so shall it be at
the end of the world.

1 41 The Son of man shall send his an-
gels, and they shall gather out of his
kingdom all scandals, and them that
iwork iniquity.

I 42 And shall cast them into the furnace
of fire : there shall be weeping and gnash-
ing of teeth.

43 »■ Then shall the just shine as the sun,
in the kingdom of their Father. He that
hath ears to hear, let him hear.
. 44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto

a treasure hidden in a field. Which a
iman having found, hid it, and for joy

thereof goeth, and selleth all that he
I hath, and buyeth that field.
I 46 Again the kingdom of heaven is like
I to a merchant seeking good pearls.
' 46 Who when he had found one pearl

of great price, went his way, and sold all

that he had, and bought it.
47 Again the kingdom of heaven is like

to a net cast into the sea, and gathering
I together of all kind of fishes.
' 48 Which, when it was filled, they drew
' out, and sitting by the shore, they chose

out the good into vessels, but the bad

they cast forth.
49 So shall it be at the end of the world.

The angels shall go out, and shall sepa-
rate the wicked from among the just.

p Mark 4. 34. — q Apoc. 14. 15. - r Wisd. 3. 7 ; Dan.
12: 3. -s Mark 6. 1; Luke 4. 16. -t John 6. 42.-

50 And shall cast them into the furnace
of fire : there shall be weeping and gnash-
ing of teeth.

61 Have ye understood all these things?
They say to him: Yes.

62 He said unto them: Therefore every
scribe instructed in the kingdom of hea-
ven, is like to a man that is a householder,
who bringeth forth out of his treasure
new things and old.

63 And it came to pass: when Jesus
had finished these parables, he passed
from thence.

54 « And coming into his own country,
he taught them in their synagogues, so
that they wondered and said: How came
this man by this wisdom and miracles ?

55 * Is not this the carpenter's son ? Is
not his mother called Mary, and his bre-
thren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and

Jude: , -- ...

66 And his sisters, are they not all witJs
us ? Whence therefore hath he all these

things ? -, . I,-

57 And they were scandalized m his
regard. But Jesus said to them : A pro-
phet is not without honour, save in his
own country, and in his own house.

58 And he wrought not many miracles
there, because of their unbelief.

CHAPTER 14.

Herod puts John to death. Christ feeds five thousand
in the desert. He walks uponthe sea, and heals all
the diseased ivith the touch of his garment.

4T ^that time Herod the Tetrarch
A. heard the fame of Jesus.

2 And he said to his servants: This is
John the Baptist: he is risen from the
dead, and therefore mighty works shew
forth themselves in him.

3 ^For Herod had apprehended John
and bound him, and put him into prison,
because of Herodias, his brother's wife.

4 For John said to him : It is not lawful
for thee to have her.

6 And having a mind to put him to
death, he feared the people: «'because
they esteemed him as a prophet.

6 But on Herod's birthday, the daugh-

Chap. 13. Ver. 55. His brethren. These were
the children of Mary the wife of Cleophas sister to

u Mark 6. 14 ; Luke 9. 7. A. D. 28.—* Mark 6. 17
Luke 3. 19. — w Infra 21. 26.

Ch\p 14 Ver. 1. Tetrarch. This word, derived
from the GreeU, Signifies one^ that r^^^^^

the children of Mary the wife of Cleophas sister to f^^'^.^^^.^.'^^ti^fni o^ as Herod then ruled over
our Blessed Lady, (St. Matt. 27. 56 ; St. John 19 25,) g^^^i^e^tviiirh was bit the fourth part of the king,
and therefore, according to the ,^is"al style of the ^^^*^f 'J"i„l\ier
Scripture, they were called brethren, that is. near dom of ms lainer.
nUUion* to our Saviour. •

Eerod puts John to death ST. MATTHEW

Jesus walks on the water

ter of Herodias danced before them ; and
pleased Herod.

7 Whereupon he promised with an oath,
to give her whatsoever she would ask of
him.

8 But she being instructed before by her
mother, said : Give me here in a dish the
bead of John the Baptist.

9 And the king was struck sad : yet be-
cause of his oath, and for them that sat
with him at table, he commanded it to
be given.

10 And he sent, and beheaded John in
the prison.

11 And his head was brought in a dish :
and it was given to the damsel, and she
brought it to her mother.

12 And his disciples came and took the
body, and buried it, and came and told
Jesus.

13 ^ Which when Jesus had heard, he re-
tired from thence by a boat, into a desert
place apart, and the multitudes having
heard of it, followed him on foot out of
the cities.

14 And he coming forth saw a great
multitude, and had compassion on them,
and healed their sick.

15 And when it was evening, his disci-
ples came to him, saying : This is a desert
place, and the hour is now past: send
away the multitudes, that going into the
towns, they may buy themselves ^actuals.

16 But Jesus said to them. They have
no need to go : give you them to eat.

17 They answered him : ^We have not
here, but five loaves, and two fishes.

18 He said to them : Bring them hither
to me.

19 And when he had commanded the
multitudes to sit down upon the grass,
he took the five loaves and the two fishes,
and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and
brake, and gave the loaves to his disci-
ples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

20 And they did all eat, and were filled.
And they took up what remained, twelve
full baskets of fragments.

21 And the number of them that did eat,
was five thousand men, besides women
and children.

22 ^ And forthwith Jesus obliged his
disciples to go up into the boat, and to
go before him over the water, till he dis-
missed the people.

X Mark 6. 31 ; Luke 9. 10 ; John 6. 3. B. C. 28.
y John 6. 9.-2 Mark 6. 45. — a John 6. 15; Mark 6. 46.

23 And having dismissed the multitude,
* he went into a mountain alone to pray!
And when it was evening, he was there
alone.

24 But the boat in the midst of the sea
was tossed with the waves ; for the wind
was contrary.

25 And in the fourth watch of the night,
he came to them walking upon the sea.

26 And they seeing him walking upon
the sea, were troubled, saying : It is an
apparition. And they cried out for fear.

27 And immediately Jesus spoke to them,
saying: Be of good heart: it is I, fear
ye not.

28 And Peter making answer, said:
Lord, if it be thou, bid me come to thee
upon the waters.

29 And he said: Come. And Peter going
down out of the boat, walked upon the
water to come to Jesus.

30 But seeing the wind strong,, he was
afraid: and when he began to sink, he
cried out, saying: Lord, save me.

31 And immediately Jesus stretching
forth his hand took hold of him, and said
to him : O thou of little faith, why didst
thou doubt ?

32 And when they were come up into
the boat, the wind ceased.

3^ And they that were in the boat came
and adored him, saying ; Indeed thou art
the Son of God.

34 ^ And having passed the water, they
came into the country of Genesar.

35 And when the men of that place had
knowledge of him, they sent into all that
country, and brought to him all that were
diseased.

36 And they besought him that they
might touch but the hem of his garment.
And as many as touched, were made
whole.

CHAPTER 15.

Cfirist reproves the scribes. He nirrs the daiiohter
of the woman of Canaan : and many others and
feeds/our thousand loiih seven loaccs

THEN ^came to him from Jerusalem
scribes and Pharib*>es, saying :

2 ^ Why do thy disciples transgress the
tradition of the ancients ? For they wash
not their hands when they eat bread.

3 But he answering, said to them : Why
do you also transgress the commandment
of God for your tradition ? For God said;

b Mark 6. 53.— c Mark 7. 1.
d Mark 7. 6.

hsus reproves the scribes

ST. MATTHEW

The woman of Canaan

^ Honour thy father and mother : -^ And :
e that shall curse father or mother^ let him
\e the death.

'» But you say: Whosoever shall aay to
ther or mother, The gift whatsoever
•oceedeth from me, shall profit thee.
'» And he shall not honour his father or
8 mother: and you have made void the
)mmandment of God for your tradition.
[' Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophe-
ed of you, saying:

{ ^ This people honoureth me with their
^08 : but their heart is far from me.
) And in vain do they worship me, teach-
g doctrines and commandm,ents of men.
10 And having called together the mul-
tudes unto him, he said to them. Hear
!3 and understand.

LI Not that which goeth into the mouth
3fileth a man • but what 3ometh out of
!ie mouth, this defileth a man.
:L2 Then '^.ame his disciples, and said to
im : Dost --hou iinow that the Pharisees,
hen they heard this word, were scandal-
ed?

13 But he answering, said : ^ Every plant
hich my heavenly Father hath not
[anted, shall be rooted up.
L4 Let them alone : * they are blind, and
aders of the blind. And if the blind
ad the blind, both fall into the pit.

15 J And Peter answering, said to him :
xpound to us this parable.

16 But he said: Are you also yet with-
it understanding?

|17 Do you not understand, that whatso-
/er entereth into the mouth, goeth into
16 belly, and is cast out into the privy ?

s Ex. 20. 12; Deut. 5. 16; Eph. 6. 2.— /Ex. 21, 17;
!V. 20. 9 ; Prov. 20. 20. — g Isa. 29. 13 ; Mark 7. 6. —

Chap. 15. Ver. 5. The gift, &c. That is, the
fering that I shall make to God, shall be instead

that which should be expended for thy profit.
lis tradition of the Pharisees was calculated to
rich themselves ; by exempting children from giv-
? any further assistance to their parents, if they
ce offered to the temple and the priests, that
lich should have been the support of their parents.
It this was a violation of the law of God, and of
ture, which our Saviour here condemns.
Ver. 9. Cotnmandments of men. The doctrines
id commandments here reprehended are such as
e either contrary to the law of God, (as that of
glecting parents, under pretence of giving to God,)

at least are frivolous, unprofitable, and no ways
nducing to true piety, as that of often washing
nds, &c., without regard to the purity of the heart.
it as to the rules and ordinances of the holy church,
uching fasts, festivals, &c., these are no ways re-
ignant to, but highly agreeable to God's holy word,
1(1 all Christian piety: neither are they co be
unted among the doctrines and commandments
men ; becausa they proceed not froio mere immaQ

18 But the things which proceed out of
the mouth, come forth from the heart,
and those things defile a man.

19 For from the heart come forth evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornica-
tions, thefts, false testimonies, blas-
phemies.

20 These are the things that defile a
man. But to eat with unwashed hands
doth not defile a man.

21 ^And Jesus went from thence, and
retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

22 And behold a woman of Canaan who
came out of those eca3ts, crying out, said
to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou
son of David cny daughter is grievously
troubled by a devil.

23 Who answered her not a word. And
his disciples came and besought him,
saying: Send her away, for she crieth
after us :

24 And he answering, said: t was not
sent ^ but to the sheep that are lost of
the house of Israel.

25 But she came and adored aim, say-
ing : Lord, help me.

26 Who answering, said : It is not good
to take the bread of the children, and to
cast it to the dogSc

27 But she said : Yea, Lord ; for the
whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall
from the table of their masters.

28 Then Jesus answering, said to tier : O
woman, great is thy faith : be it aone to
thee as thou wilt : ar.d her daughter was
cured from that hour.

29 And when Jesus had passed away
from thence, he came nigh the sea of

h John 15. 2. — i Luke 6. 39.— j Mark 7. 17. — A; Mark
7. 24. — i Supra 10. 6; John 10. 3.

authority ; but from that which Christ has 3,5tab-
lished in his church; whose pastors he haf com-
manded us to hear and obey, even as himseii. St
Luke 10. 16 J St. Matt. 18. 17.

Ver. 11. Not that which goeth into, &c. No un-
cleanness in meat, nor any dirt contiacted by eating
it with unwashed hands, can defile the soul : but sin
alone; or a disobedience of the heart to the ordi-
nance and will of God. And thus when Adam took
the forbidden fruit, it was not the apple, which en-
tered into the mouth, but the disobedience to the law
of God which defiled him. The same is to be said if
a Jew, in the time of the old law, had eaten swine's
flesh; or a Christian convert, in the days of the
apostles, contrary to their ordinance, had eaten
blood ; or if any of the faithful at present should
transgress the ordinance of God's church, by break-
ing the fasts : for in all these cases the soiil would
be defiled ; not indeed by that which goeth into the
mouth ; but by the disobedience of the heart, in wil.
fully transgressing the ordinance of God, or of tbose
who have their authority from him.

Jesus feeds the multitude

ST. MATTHEW Peters confession of fa^

Galilee. And going up into a mountain,
he sat there.

30 "^ And there came to him great mul-
titudes, having with them the dumb, the
blind, the lame, the maimed, and many
others : and they cast them down at his
feet, and he healed them:

31 So that the multitudes marvelled
seeing the dumb speak, the lame walk,
the blind see: and they glorified the
God of Israel.

32 " And Jesus called together his dis-
ciples, and said: I have compassion on
the multitudes, because they continue
with me now three days, and have not
what to eat, and I will not send them
away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

33 And the disciples say unto him :
Whence then should we have so many
loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a
multitude ?

34 And Jesus said to them: How many
loaves have you ? But they said : Seven,
and a few little fishes.

35 And he commanded the multitude
to sit down upon the ground.

36 And taking the seven loaves and the
fishes, and giving thanks, he brake, and
gave to his disciples, and the disciples
gave to the people.

37 And they did all eat, and had their
fill. And they took up seven baskets
full, of what remained of the fragments.

38 And they that did eat, were four
thousand men, beside children and wo-
men.

39 And having dismissed the multitude,
he went up into a boat, and came into
the coasts of Magedan.

CHAPTER 16.

Vhrist refuses to shew the Pharisees a sign frovi
heaven. Peter's confession is rewarded. He is
rebuked for opposing Christ's passion. All his
followers must deny themselves.

AND ° there came to him the Phari-
Xjl sees and Sadducees tempting: and
they asked him to shew them a sign
from heaven.

2 But he answered and said to them:
P When it is evening, you say. It will be
fair weather, for the sky is red.

3 And in the morning : To day there will

m Isa. 35. 5. — n Mark 8. 1. — c Mark 8. 11. — y> Luke
12. 54. — q Supra 12. 39. — r Jouas 'l.l. — s Mark 8. 15 ;
Luke 12. \. — t Supra 14. 17 ; John 6. 9. — u Supra 15.

Chap. 16. Ver. 18. Thou art Peter, «fee. As St.
Peter, by divine rpvel^ition,here made a solemn pro-

be a storm, for the sky ?s red and loW(
ing. You know then how to discern t
face of the sky : and can you not km
the signs of the times?

4 9 A wicked and adulterous generati
seeketh after a sign: and a sign sh
not be given it, *" but the sign of Jor
the prophet. And he left them, a:
went away.

5 And when his disciples were coT
over the water, they had forgotten
take bread.

6 Who said to them : * Take heed a:
beware of the leaven of the Pharise
and Sadducees.

7 But they thought within themselv
saying: Because we have taken no bres

8 And Jesus knowing it, said: Why
you think within yourselves, O ye
little faith, for that you have no brea

9 Do you not yet understand, neitb
do you remember Hhe five loa"v
among five thousand men, and h(
many baskets you took up ?

10 **Nor the seven loaves among fo
thousand men, and how many baskc
you took up ?

11 Why do you not understand that
was not concerning bread I said to yo
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisej
and Sadducees?

12 Then they understood that he sa
not that they should beware of the le
ven of bread, but of the doctrine of i.
Pharisees and Sadducees.

13*' And Jesus came into the quartej
of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked V
disciples, saying: Whom do men 3;
that the Son of man is ?

14 But they said: ^Some John fcl
Baptist, and other some Elias, and othe
Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

15 Jesus saith to them : But whom (
you say that I am?

16 Simon Peter answered and salt
=^Thou art Christ, the Son of the Hvii
God.

17 And Jesus answering, said to hifi
Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: b
cause flesh and blood hath not reveal<
it to thee, but my Father who is in heave

18 ^And I say to thee: That thou a

34. — V Mark 8. 27. — w Mark 8. 28 . Luke 9. 19.
X John 6. 70. — y John 12. 42.

recompense of this faith and profession, our Lo
here declares ♦^o him the dignity to wbich be

fiession of hi.s faith of the' diviulty of Christ ; so m pleased to raise liim : viz., that he to whom he hi

fesus rphyJces Pder

^ter; and upon this rock I will bnild
ny church, and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.

19 ^ And I will give to thee the keys of
the kingdom of heaven. " And whatso-
ever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall
)e bound also in heaven: and whatso-
Bver thou shalt loose on earth, it shall
be loosed also in heaven.

20 Then he commanded his disciples,
that they should tell no one that he was
^sus the Christ.

21 From that time Jesus began to shew
U) his disciples, that he must go to Jeru-
salem, and suffer many things from the
ancients and scribes and chief priests,
and be put to death, and the third day
rise again.

22 And Peter taking him, began to re-
buke him, say7ng: Lord, be it far from
thee, this shall not be unto thee.

23 Who turning, said to Peter : ^ Go be-
hind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto
me : because thou savourest not the
things that are of God, but the things
.that are of men.

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples ; ^ If
any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and fol-
low me.

25 ^ For he that will save his Ufe, shall
lose it : and he that shall lose his life for
my sake, shall find it.

26 For what doth it profit a man, if he
gain the whole world, and suffer the loss
of his own soul ? Or what exchange shall
a man give for his soul?

27 For the Son of man shall come in the

2 Isa. 22. 22. — a John 20. 23.-6 Mark 8. 33.—
c Supra 10. 38 ; Luke 9. 23 ; and 14. 27. — d Luke 17. 33 ;
John 12. 25. — e Acts 17. 31 ; Kom. 2. 6. — / Mark 8. 39 ;

ST. MATTHEW The tratusfigvration of Jesvs

glory of his Father with his angels : * and
then will he render to every man accord-
ing to his works.

28 Amen I say to you, -^ there are some
of them that stand here, that shall not
taste death, till they see the Son of man
coming in his kingdom.

rlready given the name of Peier, signifying a ror/r,
St John 1. 42, should be a rock indeed, of invincible
(Strength, for the support of the building of the
'church; in which building he should be, next to
Christ himself, the chief foundation stone, in qualitv
of chief pastor, ruler, and governor; and should
have accordingly all fulness of ecclesiastical power,
signified by the keys of the kingdom of heaven. —
Ihid. Upon this rock, &c. The words of Christ to
Peter, spoken in the vulgar language of the Jews
which our Lord made use of, were the same as if he
bad said in English, Tho^l art a Bock, and upon this
, rock I will build my church. So that, by the plain
course of the words, Peter is here declared to be the
rock, upon which the church was to be built: Christ
himself being both the principal foundation and
founder of the same. Where also note, that Christ,
by building his house, that is, his church, upon a
rock, has thereby secured it against all storms and
floods, like the wise builder, St. Matt. 7. 24, 25. — Ibid.
The nates of hell, &c. That is, the powers of dark-
ness, and whatever Satan can do, either by himself,
<» his agents. For as the ciiuroh is h&t% likened to

CHAPTER 17.

The transfiguration of Christ: he cures the ?«-
natic child: foretells his passion: and pays the
didrachma.

AND S' after six days Jesus taketh unto

Xjl him Peter and James, and John his

brother, and bringeth them up into a

high mountain apart :

2 And he was transfigured before them.
And his face did shine as the sun : and
his garments became white as snow.

3 And behold there appeared to them
Moses and EUas talking with him.

4 And Peter answering, said to Jesus :
Lord, it is good for us to be here : if thou
wilt, let us make here three tabernacles,
one for thee, and one for Moses, and one
for EUas.

5 And as he was yet speaking, behold a
bright cloud overshadowed them. ^ And
lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying : This
is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased : hear ye him.

6 And the disciples hearing, fell upon
their face, and were very much afraid.

7 And Jesus came and touched them;
and said to them. Arise, and fear not.

8 And they lifting up their eyes saw on
one but only Jesus.

9 And as they came down from the
mountain, Jesus charged them, saying :

Luke 9. 28.-9' Mark 9. l ; Luke 9.28. — A Supra 3. 17 >
2 Peter 1. 17.

a house, or fortress, built on a rock; so the adverse
powers are likened to a contrary house or fortress,
the gates of which, that is, the whole strength, and
all the efforts it can make, will never be able to pre-
vail over the city or church of Christ. By this pro-
mise we are fully assured, that neither idolatry, her-
esy, nor any pernicious error whatsoever shall at any
time prevail over the church of Christ.

Ver. 19. Loose on earth. The loosing the bands
of temporal punishments due to sins, is called an
indulgence ; the power of which is here granted.

Ver. 22. And Peter taking him. That is, taking
him aside, out of a tender love, respect and zeal for
his Lord and Master's honour, began to expostulate
with him. as it were to rebuke him, saying. Lord, far
be it from thee to suffer death; but the Lord said to
Peter, ver. 23, Go behind me, Satan. These words
may signify, Begone from me ; but the holy Fathers
expound them otherwise, that is, com^e after me, or
follow me ; and by these words the Lord would have
Peter to follow him in his suffering, and not to oppose
the divine will by contradiction ; for the word satan
means in Hebrew an adversary^ or one that opposes.

Jesus cures the lunatic child ST. MATTHEW

Jesus teaches humiVh

Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of
man be _'*isen from the dead.

10 And his disciples asked him, saying:
*Why then do the scribes say that Elias
must come first ?

11 But -^he answering, said to them:
EUas indeed shall come, and restore all
things.

12 But I say to you, ^ that Elias is al-
ready come, and they knew him not,
^but have done unto him whatsoever
they had a mind. So also the Son of
man shall suffer from them.

13 Then the disciples understood, that
he had spoken to them of John the Bap-
tist.

14 "^ And when he was come to the mul-
titude, there came to him a man falling
down on hie knees before him, saying :
Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a
lunatic, and suffereth much : for he fall-
eth of tei» into the fire, and often into the
water.

15 And i brought him to thy disciples,
and they could not cure him.

16 Then Jesus answered and said : O
unbelieving and perverse generation,
how long shall I be with you ? How long
shall I suffer you? bring him hither to
me.

17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil
went out of him, and the child was cured
from that hour.

IS Then came the disciples to Jesus se-
cretly, anr said : Why could not we cast
him out?

19 Jesus; said to them : Because of your
unbelief. '^ For. amen I say to you, if you
have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you
shall say to this mountain, Remove from
hence hither, and it shall remove: and
nothing shall be impossible to you.

20 But this kind is not cast out but by
prayer and fasting.

21 And when they abode together in
Galilee, Jesue said to them : ° The Son of
man shall be betrayed into the hands of
men :

22 And tkey shall kill him, and the third

i Mark 9. 10. —j Mai. A.o. — k Supra 11. 14.-7 Supra
14. 10 - -m Mark 9. 16; Luke 9. 38. — n Luke 17. 6.—
o Infra 9c. x8; Mark 9. 30; Luke 9. 44. — p Mark 9.

Chap. 17. Ver. 19. As a grain of mustard seed.
That is, a perfect faith; which in its properties, and
its fruits, resembles the grain of mustard seed, in the
parable, chap. 13. 31.

Ver. 23. The didra.chmos. A didrachma was
balf a side, ox hall a sUUer ,- that is. about I6d.

day he shall rise again. And they wen
troubled exceedingly.

23 And when they were come to Caphai
naum, they that received the didrachmas
came to Petei and said to him : Doth no
your master pay the didrachmas ?

24 He said • Yes. And when he wa»
come into the house, Jesus preventec
him, saying : What is thy opinion, Simon
The kings ot the earth, of whom do thejj
receive tribute or custom? of their ow;
children, or of strangers ?

26 And he said : Of strangers. Jesm'
said to him : Then the children are free.

26 But that we may not scandalize them
go to the sea, and cast in a hook : anc
that fish which shall first come up, take ;
and when thou hast opened its mouth
thou shalt find a stater : take that, and
give it to them for me and thee.

CHAPTER 18.

Christ teaches humility, to beware of scandal, and
to flee the occasions of sin: to denounce to th(
church incorrigible sinners, and to look upon svch
as refuse to hear the church as heathens. He pro-
mises to his disciples the power of binding ana
loosing . and that he will be in the midst of their
assemblies. No forgiveness for them that will not
forgive.

ATP that hour the disciples came to
J\. Jesus, saying : Who thinkest thou is
the greater in the kingdom of heaven?

2 9 And Jesus calling unto him a little
child, set him in the midst of them,

3 And said : Amen I say to you, *^ unless
you be converted, and become as little
children, you shall not enter into the
kingdom of heaven.

4 Whosoevei therefore shall humble
himself as this little child, he is the
greater in the kingdom of heaven.

5 And hfc that shall receive one such
little child in my name, receiveth me.

6 * But he that shall scandaUze one of
these little ones that believe in me, it
were better for him that a millstone
should be hanged about his neck, and
that he should be drowned in the depth
of the sea

7 Woe to the world because cf scandals

33; Luke 9 46.- Q Infra 19. 14.- / 1 Cor. 14. 20.
* Mark 9. 41 , Luki r '/

English : whic^ was 3 tax iai(' upon every head for
the service of tlit iemple.

Chap 18 Ver. 6. Shall scandalize. That i^,
shall put a stumbhng'biock in their way, and cause
them to fall into sin

Ver ?. /t must neerls 6e, &c. Viz., cousidennfi
1 tbe wickedness aud corruption ot tbe world.

a»

Ip,

Power to hind and loose

ST. MATTHEW

The unforgiving debtor

For it must needs be that scandals come :
but nevertheless woe to that man by
whom the scandal cometh,

8 ' And if thy hand, or thy foot scandal-
'Ize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee.
It is better for thee to go into life
maimed or lame, than having two hands or
two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

9 And if thy eye scandahze thee, pluck
it out, and cast it from thee. It is bet-
ter for thee haviiig one eye to enter into
life, than having two eyes to be cast into
hell fire.

10 See that you despise not one of these
little ones : for I say to you» " that their
angels in heaven always see the face of
my Father who is in heaven.

11 ^ For the Son of man is come to save
that which was lost.

12 ^What think you? If a man have
an hundred sheep, and one of them
should go astray : doth he not leave the
ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to
seek that which is gone astray ?

13 And if it so be that he find it : Amen
I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that,
than for the ninety-nine that went not
astray.

14 Even so it is not the will of your
Father, who is in heaven, that one of
these little ones should per?sh.

15 *But if thy brother shall offend
against thee, go, and rebuke him be-
tween thee and him alone. If he shall
heal- thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

16 And if he will not hear thee, take
with thee one or two more : ^ that in the
mouth of two or three witnesses every
word may stand.

17 ^ And if he will not hear them : tell
the church. And if he will not hear the
church, let him be to thee as the heathen
and pubhcan.

18 ^" Amen I say to you, whatsoever you
shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also
in heaven; and whatsoever you shaU
loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in
heaven.

19 Again I say to you, that if two of

t SuDra 5. 30 ; Mark 9. 42. — u Ps. 33. 8. — r Luke 19.
10. — IV Luke 15. 4. — X Lev. 19. 17 ; Eecli. 19. 13 ; Luke
17. 3 ; James 5. 19. — ?/ Deut. 19. 15 ; John 8. 17 ; 2 Cor.

Ver 8. Scandalize thee. Tlxat is, cause thee to
offend.

Ver, 20. There am Tin the midst of th em. This is
understood of such assemblies only as are gathered
in the name and authority of Christ ; and in unity
->f the church of Christ. St. Cyprian» De Unitate
EcolesicB

you shall consent upon earth, concern-
ing any thing whatsoever they shall ask,
it shall be done to them by my Father
who is in heaven.

20 For where there are two or three
gathered together in my name, there am
I in the midst of them.

21 Then came Peter unto him and said:
^ Lord, how often shall my brother offend
against me, and I forgive him ? tiU seven
times ?

22 Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee,
tiU seven times ; but till seventy timei
seven times.

23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven
likened to a king, who would take an
account of his servants.

24 And when he had begun to take the
account, one was brought to him, that
owed him ten thousand talents.

26 And as he had not wherewith to pay
it, his lord commanded that he should be
sold, and his wife and children and all
that he had, and payment to be made.

26 But that servant falling down, be-
sought him, saying: Have patience with
me, and I will pay thee alL

27 And the lord of that servant being
moved with pity, let him go and forgave
him the debt.

28 But when that servant was gone out,
he found one of his fellow servants that
owed him an hundred pence: and laying
hold of him, he throttled him, saying v
Pay what thou owest.

29 And his feUow servant falling down,
besought him, saying : Have patience
with me, and I will pay thee all.

30 And he would not : but went and
cast him into prison, till he paid the debt.

31 Now his fellow servants seeing what
was done, were very much grieved, and
they came and told their lord all that
was done.

32 Then his lord called him; and said
to him : Thou wicked servant, I forgave
thee all the debt, because thou besought-
est me:

33 Shouldst not thou then have had

13. 1 ; Heb. 10. 28.-2 1 Cor. 5. 9 ; 2 Thess 3. 14. —
a John 20. 23, — 6 Luke 17. 4.

Ver. 24. Talents. A talent was seven hundred
and fifty ounces of silver, which at the rate of five
shillings to the ounce is a hundred and eijrhty-seven
pounds ten shillings sterling.

Ver. 28. Pence. Tlie Roman penny was tlie eighth
part of an ounce, that is. about sevenpence hali
penny English

Marriage is indissoluble

ST. MATTHEW

Jesus blesses the children

compassion also on thy fellow servant,
even as I had compassion on thee ?

34 And his lord being angry, delivered
him to the torturers until he paid all the
debt.

35 So also shall my heavenly Father do
to you, if you forgive not every one his
brother from your hearts.

CHAPTER 19.

Christ declares matrimony to be indissoluble .• he
reeomrnends the making one's self an eunuch for
the kingdom of heave^; and parting with all
things for him. He sheivs the danger of riches,
and the reward pf leaving all to follow him.

4 ND it came to pass when Jesus had
x\ ended^ these words, he departed
from Galilee, ^ and came into the coasts
of Judea, beyond Jordan.

2 And great multitudes followed him:
and he healed them there.

3 '^And there came to him the Phari-
sees tempting him, and saying : Is it law-
ful for a man to put away his wife for
every cause ?

4 Who answering, said to them : Have
ye not read, that he *who made man
from the beginning, Made them male and
female f And he said :

b^ For this cause shall a man leave father
and mother, and shall cleave to his wife^
and they two shall he in one flesh.

6 Therefore now they are not two, but
one flesh. What therefore God hath
joined together, let no man put asunder.

7 They say to him: ^ Why then did
Moses command to give a bill of divorce,
and to put away ?

8 He saith to them: Because Moses by
reason of the hardness of your heart
permitted you to put away your wives :
but from the beginning it was not so.

9 ^ And I say to you, that whosoever
shall put away his wife, except it be for
fornication, and shall marry another,
committeth adultery: and he that shall
marry her that is put away, committeth
adultery.

c Mark 10. l. — d Mark IC. 2. — e Gen. 1. 27. — / Gen.
2. 24; 1 Cor. 6. 16; Eph.5.31. — {7 Deut. 24. 1. — /i Supra

Chap. 19. Ver. 9. Except it he, &c. In the case
of fornication, that is, of adultery, the wife may be
put away : but even then the husband cannot marry
another as long as the wife is living.

Ver. 11. All men take not this word. That is, all
receive not the gift of hving singly and chastely, un-
less they pray for the grace of God to enable them
to live so, and for some it may be necessary to that
end to fast as well as pray : and to those it is given
trom above.

10 His disciples say unto him: If tb
case of a man with his wife be so, it i£
not expedient to marry.

11 Who said to them : All men take not
this word, but they to whom it is given.

12 For there are eunuchs, who were
born so from their mother's womb: and
there are eunuchs, who were made so by
men : and there are eunuchs, who have
made themselves eunuchs for the king
dom of heaven. He that can take, letl
him take it.

13 ^ Then were little children presented
to him, that he should impose hands
upon them and pray. And the disciples
rebuked them.

14 But Jesus said to them: •? Suffer the
little children, and forbid them not to
come to me : for the kingdom of heaven
is for such. .

15 And when he had imposed hands
upon them, he departed from thence.

16 And behold one came and said to
him : Good master, what good shall I do
that I may have life everlasting ?

17 Who said to him : Why askest thou
me concerning good ? One is good, God.
But if thou wilt enter into hfe, keep the
commandments.

18 He said to him: Which? And Jesus
said : ^ Thou shalt do no murder, TJiou shalt
not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness.

19 Honour thy father and thy mother:
and. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy-
self.

20 The young man saith to him : All
these have I kept from my youth, what
is yet wanting to me ?

21 Jesus saith to him : If thou wilt be
perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give
to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure
in heaven : and come follow me.

22 And when the young man had heard
this word, he went away sad : for he had
great possessions.

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples

5. 32; Mark 10. 11 ; Luke iC. 18 ; 1 Cor. 7. 10. — i Mark
10. 13; Luke 18. 15. —j Supra 18. 3. — Ar Ex. 20. 13.

Ver. 12. There ore eunuchs, who have made them-
selves eunuchs,for the kingdom of lieaven. This text
is not to be taken in the literal sense ; but means,
that there are such, who have taken a firm and com-
mendable resolution of leading a single and chaste
life, in order to serve God in a more perfect state
than those who marry: as St. Paul clearly shews,
1 Cor. 7.37,38.

\'he reward of following Christ ST. MATTHEW The labourers in the vineyard

jneu, I say to you, that a rich man shall
ardly enter into the kingdom of hea-
en.

24 And again I say to you: It is easier
3r a camel to pass through the eye of a
eedle, than for a rich man to enter into
he kingdom of heaven.

25 And when they had heard this, the
isciples wondered very much, saying :
Vho then can be saved ?

26 And Jesus beholding, said to them:
Vith men this is impossible : but with
Jod all things are possible.

27 Then Peter answering, said to him :
behold we have left all things, and have
ollowed thee : what therefore shall we
lave ?

28 And Jesus said to them : Amen, I say
0 you, that you, who have followed me,
n the regeneration, when the Son of
nan shall sit on the seat of his majesty,
^ou also shall sit on twelve seats judg-
ng the twelve tribes of Israel.

29 And every one that hath left house,
Dr brethren, or sisters, or father, or mo-
ther, or wife, or children, or lands for my
Qame's sake, shall receive an hundred-
fold, and shall possess life everlasting.

30 ^ And many that are first, shall be
last : and the last shall be first.

CHAPTER 20.

The parable of the labourers in the vineyard. The
ambition of the two sons of Zebedee. Christ gives
sight to two blind men,

rPHE kingdom of heaven is like to an
X householder, who went out early in
the morning to hire labourers into his
vineyard.

2 And having agreed with the labourers
for a penny a day, he sent them into his
vineyard.

3 And going out about the third hour,
he saw others standing in the market
place idle.

4 Ana he said to them: Go you also into
ray vineyard, and I will give you what
shaJl be just.

5 And they went their way. And again
he went out about the sixth and the
ninth hour, and did in like manner.

6 But about the eleventh hour he went

7 They say to him: Because no man hath
hired us. He saith to them : Go you also
into my vineyard.

8 And when evening was come, the lord
of the vineyard saith to his steward : Call
the labourers and pay them their hire,
beginning from the last even to the first.

9 When therefore they were come, that
came about the eleventh hour, they re-
ceived every man a penny.

10 But when the first also came, they
thought that they should receive more:
and they also received every man a
penny.

11 And receiving it they murmured
against the master of the house,

12 Saying: These last have worked hut
one hour, and thou hast made them equal
to us, that have borne the burden of the
day and the heats.

13 But he answering said to one of them:
Friend, I do thee no wrong : didst thou
not agree with me for a penny ?

14 Take what is thine, and go thy way:
I will also give to this last even as to
thee.

15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what
I will? is thy eye evil, because I am
good?

16 '^ So shall the last be first, and the
first last. For many are called, but few
chosen.

17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem,
took the twelve disciples apart, and said
to them:

18 Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and
the Son of man shall be betrayed to the
chief priests and the scribes, and they
shall condemn him to death.

19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles
to be mocked, and scourged, and cruci-
fied, and the third day he shall rise again.

20 ^Then came to him the mother of
the sons of Zebedee with her sons, ador-
ing and asking something of him.

21 Who said to her: What wilt thou?
She saith to him: Say that these my two
sons may sit, the one on thy right hand,
and the other on thy left, in thy king-
dom.

22 And Jesus answering, said : You know
out and found others standing, and he ! not what you ask. Can you drink the

sa^th to them: Why stand you here all
the day idle?

« Infra 20. 16; Mark 10. 31; Luke 13. 30. — m Supra

chalice that I shall drink ? They say to
him: We can.

19. 30 ; Mark 10. 31 ; Luke 13. 30. —n Mark 10. 35.

Chap. 20. Ver. 16. What I wUL Viz., with my own, and in matters that depend on my own bounty.

'i^^^?J!^^±^^.^^!l]M^^ j,,„, ^„^^„ j^^^^^

23 He saith to them : My chalice indeed
you shall drink ; but to sit on my right or
left hand, is not mine to give to you, but
to them for whom it is prepared by mv
Father.

24 <^ And the ten hearing it, were moved
with indignation against the two bre-
thren.

25 P But Jesus called them to him, and
said : You know that the princes of the
Gentiles lord it over them ; and they that
are the greater, exercise power upon
them.

26 It shall not be so among you : but
whosoever will be the greater among
you, let him be your minister :

27 And he that will be first among you
shall be your servant. '

28 9 Even as the Son of man is not come
to be ministered unto, but to minister,
and to give his life a redemption for
many.

29 ''And when they went out from Jeri-
cho, a great multitude followed him.

30 And behold two blind men sitting by
the way side, heard that Jesus passed by,
and they cried out, saying : O Lord, thou
son of David, have mercy on us.

31 And the multitude rebuked them
that they should hold their peace. But
they cried out the more, saying : O Lord,
*hou son of David, have mercy on us.

32 And Jesus stood, and called them,
ind said : What will ye that I do to you ?

33 They say to him : Lord, that our
eyes be opened.

34 And Jesus having compassion on
them, touched their eyes. And imme-
diately they saw, and followed him.

CHAPTER 21.

you, say ye, that the Lord hath need
them : and forthwith he Mill let them i

4 Now all this was done that it might
fulfilled which was spoken by the pi
phet, saying:

5 *• Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behc
thy king cometh to thee, meek, and sitH'
upon an ass, and a colt the foal of her th
is used to the yoke.

6 And the disciples going, did as Jesi
commanded them.

7 And they brought the ass and tl
colt, and laid their garments upon thei
and made him sit thereon.

8 And a very great multitude sprej
their garments in the way: and othe,
cut boughs from the treed, and strewe
them in the way :

9 And the multitudes that went befoi
and that followed, cried, saying: Hosann
to the son of David: "^ Blessed is he thT

of the Lord: Hosannl

Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass: he casts
the Imyers and sellers out of the temple: curses
tnejig tree, and vuts to silence the priests and

SCii OSS»

AND when they drew nigh to Jeru-
. salam, and were come to Bethphage,
unto mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two
disciples,

2 Saying to them : Go ye into the vil-
lage that is over against you, and imme-
diately you shall find an ass tied, and a
colt with her : loose them and bring them
to me.

3 And if any man shall say anything to

o Mark 10. 41. — p Luke 22. 25. — o Phil. 2 7-
rMark 10 46; Luke 18. 35. -«Mark il.i; Luke '19.
2a. - 1 Isa. 62. U ZaclL 9. 9 ; .John 12. 16. -^ u Ps. 117

cometh in the name
in the highest.

10 And when he was come into Jen
salem, the whole city was moved, savine
Who is this? ^

11 And the people said: This is Jesu
the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.

12 ^ And Jesus went into the temple o
God, and cast out all them that sold am
bought in the temple, and overthrew th.
tables of the money changers, and th<
chairs of them that sold doves :

13 And he saith to them : It is written
""My house shall be called the house q
prayer; but you have made it a den o
thieves.

14 And there came to him the blind anc
the lame in the temple ; and he healed
them.

15 And the chief priests and scribes,
seeing the wonderful things that he did,
and the children crying in the temple,
and saying: Hosanna to the son of David',
were moved with indignation,

16 And said to him: Hearest thou what
these say ? And Jesus said to them : Yea,
have you never read : ^ Out of the mouth
of infants and of sucklings thou hast per
fected praise ?

17 And leaving them, he went out of the
city into Bethania, and remained there.

18 And in the morning, returning into
the city, he was hungry.

26; Mark ii. lO; Luke 19. 38 —y Mark 11. 15; Luke
19. 45 ; John 2.1^— w Isa. 56. 1 ; Jer. 7. 11: Luke Ift
46.— a;Ps.8.3.

hsus curses the barren fig tree ST. MATTHEW Parable of the husbandmen

19 y And seeing a certain fig tree by the
l/ay side, he came to it, and found no-
Ihing on it but leaves only, and he saith
\o it : May no fruit grow on thee hence-
forward for ever. And immediately the
lig tree withered away.
[20 ^ And the disciples seeing it won-
dered, saying : How is it presently with-
rred away?

21 And Jesus answering, said to them :
kmen, I say to you, if you shall have

aith, and stagger not, not only this of
he fig tree shall you do, but also if you
hall say to this mountain. Take up and
ast thyself into the sea, it shall be done.

22 * And all things whatsoever you
hall ask in prayer, believing, you shall
eceive.

23 And when he was come into the
ample, there came to him, as he was
eaching, the chief priests and ancients
tf the people, saying : ** By what author-
ty dost thou these things ? and who hath
jiven thee this authority ?
' 24 Jesus answering, said to them: I also
Vill ask you one word, which if you shall
ell me, I will also tell you by what au-
hority I do these things.

25 The baptism of John, whence was it?
rem heaven or from men? But they
hought within themselves, saying :

26 If we shall say, from heaven, he will
lay to us : Why then did you not believe
lim? But if we shall say, from men, we
ire afraid of the multitude; ^for all held
Fohn as a prophet.

27 And answering Jesus, they said : We
mow not. He also said to them : Neither
jlo I tell you by what authority I do these
ihings.

28 But what think you? A certain man
lad two sons ; and coming to the first, he
laid: Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

29 And he answering, said : I will not.
But afterwards, being moved with repent-
ince, he went.

30 And coming to the other, he said in
ike manner. And he answering, said: I
l;o. Sir ; and he went not.

31 Which of the two did the father's
mllf They say to him: The first. Jesus
,}aith to them : Amen I say to you, that
ihe publicans and the harlots shall go
uto the kingdom of God before you.

32 For John came to you in the way of

justice, and you did not believe him. But
the publicans and the harlots believed
him : but you, seeing it, did not even af-
terwards repent, that you might believe
him.

33 Hear ye another parable. ^ There
was a man an householder, who planted
a vineyard, and made a hedge round
about it, and dug in it a press, and built
a tower, and let it out to husbandmen;
and went into a strange country

34 And when the time of the fruits
drew nigh, he sent his servants to the
husbandmen that they might receive the
fruits thereof.

35 And the husbandmen laying hands
on his servants, beat one, and killed an-
other, and stoned another.

36 Again he sent other servants more
than the former ; and they did to them
in like manner.

37 And last of all he sent tc them his
son, saying : They will reverence my son.

38 But the husbandmen seeing the son,
said among themselves : ^ This is the heir :
come, let us kill him, and we shall have
his inheritance.

39 And taking him, they cast him forth
out of the vineyard, and killed him.

40 When therefore the lord of the vine-
yard shall come, what will he do to those
husbandmen?

41 They say to him : He will bring those
evil men to an evil end ; and will let out
his vineyard to other husbandmen, that
shall render him the fruit in due season.

42 Jesus saith to them : Have you never
read in the Scriptures : ^ The stone which
the builders rejected, the same is become the
head of the corner ? By the Lord this has
been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.

y Mark 11. 13. — 2 Mark 11. 20. — a Supra 7. 7 ; Mark
11. 24; John U. 13, 16, 23. — b Mark 11. 28 ; Luke 20. 2.
-e Supra 14. 5. — d lea. 5. ij Jer. 2. 21; Mark 11.

43 Therefore I say to you, that the
kingdom of God shall be taken from you,
and shall be given to a nation yielding
the fruits thereof.

44 And whosoever shall fall on this
stone, shall be broken: but on whomso-
ever it shall fall, it shall grind him to
powder.

45 And when the chief priests and
Pharisees had heard his parables, they
knew that he spoke of them.

46 And seeking to lay hands on him,

32; Luke 20. 5. — e Infra 26. 3, and 27. 2; John 11.
53. _/ Ps. 117. 22 ; Acts 4. 11 ; Rora. 9. 33 } 1 Peter
2.7.

Parable of the marriage feast ST. MATTHEW The resurrection of the de

they feared the multitudes : because they
held him as a prophet.

CHAPTER 22.

The parable of the marriage feast : Christ orders
tribute to be paid to Ccesar : he confutes the Sad-
ducecs: shews which is the first commandment in
the law, and puzzles the Pharisees.

AND ^ Jesus answering, spoke again in
XjL parables to them, saying:

2 '^ The kingdom of heaven is likened to
a king, who made a marriage for his son.

3 And he sent his servants, to call them
that were invited to the marriage; and
they would not come.

4 Again he sent other servants, saying:
Tell them that were invited, Behold, I
have prepared my dinner; my beeves
and fatlings are killed, and all things are
ready: come ye to the marriage.

5 But they neglected, and went their
ways, one to his farm, and another to
his merchandise.

6 And the rest laid hands on his ser-
vants, and having treated them contume-
liously, put them to death.

7 But when the king had heard of it, he
was angry, and sending his armies, he
destroyed those murderers, and burnt
their city.

8 Then he saith to his servants: The
marriage indeed is ready ; but they that
were invited were not worthy.

9 Go ye therefore into the highways;
and as many as you shall find, call to the
marriage.

10 And his servants going forth into
the ways, gathered together all that they
found, both bad and good : and the mar-
riage was filled with guests.

11 And the king went in to see the
guests : and he saw there a man who had
not on a wedding garment.

12 And he saith to him: Friend, how
camest thou in hither not having on a
wedding garment? But he was silent.

13 Then the king said to the waiters:
*Bind his hands and feet, and cast him
into the exterior darkness: there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

14 For many are called, but few are
chosen.

15 -^Then the Pharisees going, consulted

g A. D. 33. — h Luke 14. 16 ; Apoc. 19. 9. — i Supra 8.
12, aud 13. 4 ; Infra 25. 30. —j Mark 12. 13 ; Luke 20.

Chap. 22. Ver. 16. The Herodians. That is,
some that belonged to Herod, and that joined with
him in standing up for the necessity of paying tribute
to Caesar, tliat is« to the Boman emperor. Some are

among themselves how to insnare h

in his speech.

16 And they sent to him their discip
with the Herodians, saying: Master, '
know that thou art a true speaker, a
teachest the way of God in truth, neitl
carest thou for any man : for thou d<
not regard the person of men.

17 Tell us therefore what dost th
think, is it lawful to give tribute to C
sar, or not?

18 But Jesus knowing their wickedne
said : Why do you tempt me, ye hyp
crites?

19 Shew me the coin of the tribu
And they offered him a penny.

20 And Jesus saith to them: Who
image and inscription is this ?

21 They say to him: Caesar's. Then
saith to them: '^Render therefore
Caesar the things that are Caesar's ; a
to God, the things that are God's.

22 And hearing this they wondered, a
leaving him, went their ways.

23 That day there came to him the Sa
ducees, who say ^ there is no resurrectio
and asked him,

24 Saying : Master, Moses said : "^ Ij
man die having no son, his brother sh
marry his vrife, and raise up issue to I
brother,

25 Now there were with us seven bi
thren : and the first having married
wife, died ; and not having issue, left 1
wife to his brother.

26 In like manner the second, and t
third, and so on to the seventh.

27 And last of all the woman died alfl

28 At the resurrection therefore who
wife of the seven shall she be ? for th
all had her.

29 And Jesus answering, said to ther'
You err, not knowing the Scriptures, n|
the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they sh;
neither marry nor be married ; but sh;
be as the angels of God in heaven.

31 And concerning the resurrection
the dead, have you not read that whi
was spoken by God, saying to you:

32 *^ / am the God of Abraham, and t
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob f He

20. — k Rom. 13. 7. — I Acts 23. 6.— m Deut. 25.
Mark 12. 19 -, Luke 20. 28. — n Ex. 3. 6.

of opinion that there was a sect among the Je
called Herodians, from their maintaining that Hei
was the Messias.

"he great commandment ST. IVIATTHEW Scribes arid Pharisees reproved

[qi

ot the God of the dead, but of the liv-

33 And the multitudes hearing it, were

Q admiration at his doctrine.

j34 But the Pharisees hearing that he

jiad silenced the Sadducees, came to-

!;ether :

\Zb ° And one of them, a doctor of the

^aw, asked him, tempting him:

36 Master, which is the great command-
ant in the law ?

>37 Jesus said to him: ^ Thou shall love

lie Lord thy God with thy whole hearty and

^riih thy whole aoul, and with thy whole

i lind,

•38 This is the greatest and the first

ommandment.

39 And the second is like to this : 9 Thou

halt love thy neighbour as thyself.

.40 On these two commandments de-

endeth the whole law and the prophets.

41 And the Pharisees being gathered
Dgether, Jesus asked them,

42 *■ Saying: What think you of Christ ?
/hose sou is he? They say to him: Da-
id's.

43 Ho saith to them: *How then doth
>avid in spirit call him Lord, saying :

.44 * The Lord said to my Lord^ Sit on my
ight hand, until I make thy enemies thy
{botstool f

i45 If David then call him Lord, how is
je his son?

46 And no man was able to answer him
word ; neither durst any man from that
ay forth ask him any more questions.

CHAPTER 23.

\hrlst admonishes the people to follow the good
doctrine, not the bad example of the scribes and
Pharisees : he ivarns his disciples 7iot to im,itate
their am,bition^ and denounces divers woes
against them, for their hypocrisy and blindness.

CIHEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes
and to his disciples,
2 Saying : ^ The scribes and the Phari-
368 have sitten on the chair of Moses.
|3 All things therefore whatsoever they

o Mark 12. 28 ; Luke 10. 25. —p Deut. 6. 5. — g Lev.
U8; Mark 12. 31. — r Mark 12. 35; Luke 20. 41.—
,Luke 20. 42. — t Ps. 109. 1. — w 2 Esd. 8. 4. — v Luke
jU 46; Acts 15. 10. — w Num. 15. 38; Deut. 6. 8, and

I Chap. 23. Ver. 5. Phylacteries, that is, parch-
lents, on which they wrote the ten commandments,
nd carried them on their foreheads before their
yes: which the Pharisees affected to wear broader
lan other men; so to seem more zealous for the
iw.

y®r« 9, 10. Call none your father — Neither be ye
w*«» masters, &c. The meaning is, that our Father

shall say to you, observe and do : but
according to their works do ye not ; for
they say, and do not.

4 ^ For they bind heavy and insupport-
able burdens, and lay them on men's
shoulders ; but with a finger of their own
they will not move them.

6 And all their works they do for to
be seen of men. ^ For they make their
phylacteries broad, and enlarge their
fringes.

6 * And they love the first places at
feasts, and the first chairs in the sjma-
gogues,

7 And salutations in the market place,
and to be called by men, Rabbi.

8 ^ But be not you called Rabbi. For
one is your master ; and all you are bre-
thren.

9 ^ And call none your father upon
earth ; for one is your father, who is in
heaven.

10 Neither be ye called masters ; for
one is your master, Christ.

11 He that is the greatest among you
shall be your servant.

12 " And whosoever shall exalt himself
shall be humbled : and he that shall hum-
ble himself shall be exalted.

13 But woe to you scribes and Phari»
sees, hypocrites ; because you shut the
kingdom of heaven against men, for you
yourselves do not enter in; and those
that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites: ^because you devour the
houses of widows, praying long prayers.
For this you shall receive the greater
judgment.

15 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ; because you go round about
the sea and the land to make one prose-
lyte; and when he is made, you make
him the child of hell twofold more than
yourselves.

16 Woe to you blind guides, that say^
Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it

22.12.-0; Mark 12. 39; Luke 11. 43, and 20. 46.—
y James 3. 1. — z Mai. 1.6. — a Luke 14. 11, and 18. 14.
— b Mark 12. 40; Luke 20- 47.

in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than
any father upon earth : and no master to be followed,
who would lead us away from Christ. But this does
not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have
a due respect both for our parents and spiritual
fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 15,) and for our masters and
teachers.

Scribes and Pharisees reproved

Is nothing : but he that shall swear by
the gold of the temple, is a debtor.

17 Ye foolish and blind ; for whether is
greater, the gold, or the terr pie that
sanctifieth the gold?

18 And whosoevei shaL' swear by the
altar, it is nothinj^ - but whosoever shall
swear by the gifii that ie upon it, is a
debtor.

19 Ye blind : for whether is greater, the
gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift ?

20 He therefore that sweareth by the
altar, sweai*eth by it, and by all things
that are upon it :

21 And whosoever shall swear by the
temple, sweareth by it, and by him that
dwelleth in it:

22 And he that sweareth by heaven,
sweareth by the throne of God. and by
him that dtteth thereon.

23 * Woe t)o you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ; because you tithe mint, and
anise, and cummin, and have left the
weightier things of the law ; ^ judgment,
and mercy, and faith. Thebe things you
ought to have done, and not to leave
those undone.

24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat,
and swallow a camel.

25 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ; because you make clean the
outside of the cup and of the dish, but
within you are full of rapine and unclean-
ness.

26 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean
the inside of the cup and of the dish, that
the outside may become clean.

27 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites; because you are like to
whited sepulchres, which outwardly ap-
pear to men beautiful, but within are
full of dead men's bones, and of ali filthi-
ness.

28 So you also outwardly indeed appear
to men just ; but inwardly you are full of
hypocrisy and iniquity.

^9 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites ; that build the sepulchres of
the prophets, and adorn the monuments
of the just,

ST. MATTHEW Scribes and Pharisees reprovt

c Luke 11. 4'2.
3o 7.— J Gen. 4.

ff Mich. 6. 8; Zach.
; Heb. 11. 4.~g 2

7. f». — e Supra
Par. 24. 22.

Ver. 29. Build the sepulchres, &c. This is not
J blamed, as if it were in itself evil to build or adorn
■ t-he monuments of the prophets: but the hypocrisy
of the Pharisees is here taxed; who, whilst they
pretended to honour the memory of the prophets,
were persecuting even unto death the Lord of the
prophets.

30 And say : If we had beei^ in tLie da;
of our Fathers, we would not have bet
partakers with them in the blood of tl
prophets.

31 Wherefore you are witnesses again
yourselves, that you are the sons of the
that killed the prophets.

32 Fill ye up then the measure of yoi
fathers.

33 * You serpents, generation of vipei
how will you flee from the judgment
hell?

34 Therefore behold I send to you pr»
phets, and wise men, and scribes: ar
some of them you will put to death ar
crucify, and some you will scourge
your synagogues, and persecute fro:
city to city:

35 That upon you may come alJ the joi
blood that hath been shed upon the eart
^ from the blood of Abel the just, ev€
unto the blood of ^ Zacharias the son (
Barachias, whom you killed between tl
temple and the altar.

36 Amen I say to you, all these thini
shall come upon this generation.

37 ^* Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that HI
est the prophets, and stonest them tlu
are sent unto thee, how often would
have gathered together thy children, i
the hen doth gather her chickens imi
her wings, and thou wouldest not?

38 Behold, your house shall be left 1
you, desolate.

39 For I say to you, you shall not sf
me henceforth till you say: Blessed is 1
that Cometh m the name of the Lord.

CHAPTER 24.

Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, tfi
the signs that shall come before it, and before '
1(13^ judgment. We must always watch

ND * Jesus being come out of tt
temple, went away. And his diflCr
pies came to shew him the buildings |
the temple.

2 A.nd he answering, said to them
yoa see all these things? Amen J
to you Hhere shall not be left lert
stone upon a stone that shall not be -i
stroyed.

h Luke 13. 34. — i Mark 13. 1.
j Luke 19. 44.

Ver. 35. That upon you may come, &c. Not tb
they should suffer more than their own sins just
deserved; but that the justice of God should n(
fall upon them with such a final vengeance, once i
all, as might comprise all the different kinds of Juc
ments and punishments, that had at any time befc
been inflicted for the shedding of just blood.

,, of Christ's coming ST. MA'l-TRES^Jignibefor^end^jheworld

.nd when he was sitting on mount
et the disciples came to him pri-
•ly! saying: Tell us when shall these
gs'be? and what shall be the sign of
coming, and of the consummation of

iworld?

md Jesus answering, said to them:
.ke heed that no man seduce you :
i'or many will come in my name say-
I am Christ: and they will seduce

ly. ,

Lnd you shall hear of wars and ru-
irs of wars. See that ye be not trou-
For these things must come to
5, but the end is not yet.
?or nation shall rise against nation,
kingdom against kingdom ; and there
11 be pestilences, and famines, and
phquakes in places :
,^ow all these are the beginnings of

ows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be

19 And woe to them that are with child,
and that give suck in those days.

20 But pray that youi flight be not 5n
the winter, or on the ^ sabbath.

21 For there shall be then great tribu-
lation, such as hath not been from the
beginning of the world until now, neither
shall be.

22 And unless those days had been short-
ened, no flesh should be saved: but for
the sake of the elect those days shaU be
shortened.

23 PThen if any man shall say to you:
Lo here is Christ, or there, do not believe

him. .

24 For there shall arise false Christs
and false prophets, and shall show great
signs and wonders, insomuch as to de-
ceive (if possible) even the elect.

26 Behold I have told it to you, before-
hand.
26 If therefore they shall say to you:

^i^^:^7^ir^l^\^^^^ttts.t^^^'KrJ.

shall be hated by all nations for my
ae's sake.

And then shall many be scandalized :
shall betray one another : and shall
e one another.

And many false prophets shall rise,
shall seduce many.
And because iniquity hath abounded,
charity of many shall grow cold.
But he that shall persevere to the
I, he shall be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom, shall
preached in the wh(;le world, for a
timony to all nations, and then shall
consummation come.
"* When therefore you shall see t^
mination of desolation, which was spo

Behold he is in the closets, believe it not

27 For as lightning cometh out of the
east, and appeareth even into the west:
so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be.

28 «Wheresoever the body shall be,
there shall the eagles also be gathered
together,

29 ^ And immediately after the tribula-
tion of those days, the sun shall be dark-
ened and the moon shall not give her
light, and the stars shall fall from hea-
ven, and the powers of heaven shall be
moved :

30 And then shall appear ♦^^he sign of
the Son of man in heaven: and then
shall all tribes of the earth mourn : * and

n™Dinr:rTh; prophei stinding they shall see the Son of man corning in
Hie holy place: he that readeth let him the clouds of heaven with much power

■-^ - and majesty.

31 * And be shall send his angels with
a trumpet, and a great voice : and they
shall gather together his elect from the
four winds, from the farthest parts of the
heavens to the utmost bounds of tliem.

32 And from the fig tree learn a para-
ble: When the branch thereof is now

lerstand.

Then they that are in Judea, let them

to the mountains:

And he that is on the housetop, let
Q not come down to take any thing out
his house:

And he that is in the field, let him

go back to take liis coat.

Eph. 5. 6 ; Col. 2. 18. — 1 Supra 10. 17 ; Luke 21. 12 ;
in 15. 20, and 16. 2. — m Mark 13. 14; Luke 21. 20.
. Dan. 9. 27. — o Acts 1. 12. —p Mark la. 21; Luke

Jhap. 24. Ver, 28. Wheresoever, &c. The coining i
Chri&t shall be sudden, and manitest to all the
^.id, like lightning; and wheresoever he shall come,
I ther shall all mankind be gathered *« him, as
;le8 are gathered about a dead body.

17 og _o Luke 17. H7 -r Tsa. 13. 10; Kz^'ch. 32, 7;
Joei 2. 10, and 3. 15; Mark 13. 24; Luke 21. 25.—
8 Apoc. 1. 7. — 1 1 Cor. 15. 52 ; I Thess. 4.11.

Ver. 29.
bling stars.
Ver 30.

The stars. Or flaming metoors resem*
The sign, &c. The cross of Christ.

The coming of the Son of man ST. MATTHEW

cender, and the leaves come forth, you
know that summer is nigh.

33 S'^ you also, when you shall see all
these thing's, know ye that it is nigh,
even at the doors.

34 Amen I say to you, that this genera-
tion shall not pass, till all these things
be done.

35 ** Heaven and earth shall pass, but
my words shall not pass.

36 But of that day and hour no one
knoweth, no not the angels of heaven,
but the Father alone.

37 ^ And as in the days of Noe, so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days before the flood,
they were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, even till that
day in which Noe entered into the
ark,

39 And they knew not till the flood
came, and took them all away ; so also
shall the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then two shall be in the field : one
shall be taken, and one shall be left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the
mill : one shall be taken, and one shall
be left.

42 Watch ye therefore, because you
know not what hour youv Lord will
come.

43 But this know ye, ^ tha t if the good-
man of the house knew at what hour
the thief would come, he would certainly
watch, and would not suffer his house to
be broken open.

44 Wherefore be you also ready, because
at what hour you know not the Son of
man will come.

45 Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and
wise servant, whom his lord hath ap-
pointed over his family, to give them
meat in season.

46 ^ Blessed is that servant, whom when
his lord shall come he shall find so doing.

47 Amen I say to you, he shall place
him over all his goods.

48 But if that evil servant shall say in
his heart: My lord is long a coming :

49 And shall begin to strike his fellow
servants, and shall eat and drink with
drunkards :

60 The lord of that servant shall come

u Mark 13. 31. — u Gen. 7. 7 ; Luke 17. 26.
?/' Mark 13. 33; Luke 12. 39. — x Apoc. 16. 15,

Parable of the ten vir

in a day that he hopeth not, and a
hour that he knoweth not:

61 ud shall separate him, and app
his portion with hypocrites, y T
shall be weeping . nd gnashing of tee

CHAPTER 25.
The parable of the ten virgins, and of the tal
the description of the last Judgment

ril HEN shall the kingdom of heavei
JL like to ten virgins, who taking t
lamps went out to meet the bridegrc
and the bride,

2 And five of them were foolish,
five wise.

3 But the five foolish, having ta
their lamps, did not take oil with the

4 But the wise took oil in their ves
with the lamps.

5 And the bridegroom taiTying, the^
slumbered and slept.

6 And at midnight there was a
made : Behold the bridegroom comi
go ye forth to meet him.

7 Then all those virgins arose
trimmed their lamps.

8 And the foolish said to the wise : Q
us of your oil, for our lamps are g«
out.

9 The wise answered, saying : Lest f
haps there be not enough for us and
you, go ye rather to them that sell, i
buy for yourselves.

10 Now whilst they went to buy,
bridegroom came : and they that w
ready, went in with him to the marria
and the door was shut.

11 But at last came also the other ^
gins, saying : Lord, Lord, open to us.

12 But he answering said : Amen I J
to you, I know you not.

13 ^ Watch ye therefore, because j
know not the day nor the hour.

14 ** For even as a man going intc
far country, called his servants, fi
delivered to them his goods;

15 And to one he gave five talents, 8
to another two, and to another one,
every one according to his proper al
ity : and immediately he took his journ

16 And he that had received the f
talents, went his way, and traded w
the same, and gained other five.

^ac 4o. ^aaU pass.

y Supra 13. 42 , Infra 25. 30. —2 Mark 13. 38.
a Luke 19. 12^

Because they shall be changed at the «nd ot the world into a new heaven and
new earth.

arable of the ten talents

ST. MATTHEW

things, I will
enter thou

' And in like manner he that had re-
ved the two, gained other two.
} But he that had received the one,
ing his way digged into the earth, and

his lord's money.
) But after a long time the lord of
)3e servants came, and reckoned with
»m.

) And he that had received the five
ents coming, brought other five tal-
ts, saying : Lord, thou didst deliver to
five talents, behold I have gained

|ier five over and above.

Il His lord said to him: Well done, good

Id faithful servant, because thou hast

Ian faithful over a few

|ice thee over many things :

10 the joy of thy lord.
I And he also that had received the
o talents came and said : Lord, thou
liveredst two talento to me: behold 1
ve gained other two.
3 His lord said to him: Well done,
od and faithful servant: because thou
3t been faithful over a few things, I
jll place thee over many things ; enter
bu into the joy of thy lord.
i But he that had received the one tal-
b, came and said: Lord, I know that
)U art a hard man ; thou reapest where
bu hast not sown, and gatherest where
l)u hast not strewed.
5 And being afraid I went and hid thy
(ent in the earth ; behold here thou
Ist that which is thine,
b And his lord answering, said to him :
'icked and slothful servant, thou knew-
|i that I reap where I sow not, and
bher where I have not strewed :
\l Thou oughtest therefore to have
mmitted my money to the bankers,
id at my coming I should have ro-
ved my own with usury.
3 Take ye away therefore the talent
l>m him, and give it him that hath ten
ents.

»9 * For to every one that hath shall be
|/^en, and he shall abound : but from
|n that hath not, that also which he
umeth to have shall be taken away.
i3 And the unprofitable servan cast ye
it into the exterior darkness. There
ill be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
1 And when the Son of man shall come
his majesty, and all the angels with

! Supra 13. 12 ; Mark 4. 25 ; Luke 8. 18, and 13. 2&
« Iwk fi& 7{ fizech. 18. % «Qd 16.

The last judgmevvt
upon the seat of

him, then shall he sit
his majesty:

32 And all nations shall be gathered to-
gether before him, and he shall separate
them one from another, as the shepherd
separate th the sheep from the goats :

33 And he shall set the sheep on his
right hand, but the goats on his le^ ..

34 Then shall the king say to them that
shall be on his right hand: Come, ye
blessed of my Father, possess you the
kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.

35 ^ For I was hungry, and you gave m©
to eat; I was thirsty^ and you gave me
to drink ; I was a stranger, and you took
me in :

36 Naked, and you covered me: ''sick,
and you visited me : I was in prison, and
you came to me.

37 Then shall the just answer him, say»
ing: Lord, when did we see thee hungry,
and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee
drink?

38 And when did we see thee a stranger,
and took thee in ? or naked, and covered
thee?

39 Or when did we see thee sick or ia
prison, and came to thee?

40 And the king answering, shall say to
them: Amen I say to you, as long as yott
did it to one of these my least brethren,
you did it to me.

41 Then he shall say to them also that
shall be on his left hand: ® Depart from
me, you cursed, into everlasting fire
which was prepared for the devil and
his angels.

42 For I was hungry, and you gave me
not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave
me not to -x'nk.

43 I was a stranger, and you took me
not in : naked, and you covered me not =
sick and in prison, and you did not visit
me.

44 Then they also shall answer him,
saying: Lord, when did we see thee hun-
gry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked,
or sick, or in prison, and did not minis*
ter to thee ?

45 Then he shall answer them, saying:
Amen I say to you, as long as you did it
not to one of these least, neither did yon
do it to me.

46 -^And these shall go into everlasting

d Eccli. ?, 39. — « Ps. 6. 9 i Supra 7. 23 j Luke 13
/DaQ.l2.2s«Iolm3.2a

27.

Jesus in Bethania

ST. MATTHEW

panishment : but the just, into life ever-

lasclug.

CHAPTER 26.

The Jews conspire against Christ. He is anointed
by Mary. The treason of Judas. The last supper.
The prayer in the garden. The apprehension of
our Lord: his treatment in the house of Caiphas.

A ND fl' it came to pass, when Jesus had
JljL ended all these words, he said to
his disciples:

2 ^ You know that after two days shall
be the pasch, and the son of man shall
be delivered up to be crucified:

3 Then were gathered together the
chief priests and ancients of the people
into the court of the high priest, who
was called Caiphas :

4 And they consulted together, that by
Subtilty they might apprehend Jesus,
and put him to death.

5 But they said: Not on the festival
day, lest perhaps there should be a tu-
mult among the people.

6 And when Jesus was in Bethania, in
the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came to him a woman having
an alabaster box of precious ointment,
*and poured it on his head as he was at
table.

8 And the disciples seeing it, had indig-
nation, saying: To what purpose is this
waete?

9 For this might have been sold for
much, and given to the poor.

10 And Jesus knowing if, said to them:
Why do you trouble this woman ? for she
hath wrought a good work upon me.

11 For the poor you have always with
you: but me you have not always.

12 For she in pouring this ointment
upon my body, hath done it for my
burialc

13 Amen I say to you, wheresoever this
gospel shall be preached in the whole
world, that also which she hath done,
shall be told for a memory of her.

g A. D. 29. —h Mark 14. 1, Luke 22. l. — i Mark
14. 8; John 11. 2, and 12. 3.—j Mark 14. 10, Luke
22. 3. — /c Mark 14. 12; Luke 22. 7. — I Mark 14. 17,

Chap. 26. Ver. 11. Me you have not always.
Viz., in a visible manner, as when conversant here
on earth; and as we have the poor, whom we may
daily assist and relieve.

Ver. 17. Azymes. Feast of the unleavened bread.
Pasch. The paschal lamb.

Ver. 26. This is my body. He does not say, This
is the figure of my body — but This is my body. (2
Council of Nice, Act. 6.) Neither does he say in
this, or toith this is m,y body; but absolutely, This is
my body! which plainly implies transubstantiation.

_^ The last sup

14 ^ Then went one of the twelve,
was called Judas Iscariot, to the (
priests,

15 And said to them : What will
give me, and I will deliver him
you? But they appointed him th:
pieces of silver.

16 And from thenceforth he sought
portunity to betray him,

17 ^ And on the first day of the
mes, the disciples came to Jesus, sayi
Where wilt thou that we prepare
thee to eat the pasch ?

18 But Jesus said: Go ye into the
to a certain man, and say to him:
master saith, My time is near at hi
with thee I make the pasch with
disciples.

19 And the disciples did as Jesus
pointed to them, and they prepared
pasch.

20 ^But when it was evening, he
down with his twelve disciples.

21 And whilst they were eating,
said: Amen I say to you, ^** that om
you is about to betray me.

22 And they being very much trout
began every one to say : Is it I, Lord'

23 But he answering, said: He that
peth his hand with me in the dish
shall betray me.

24 The Son of man indeed goeth, '"'
is written of him : but woe to that
by whom the Son of man shall be
trayed: it were better for him, if
man had not been born.

25 And Judas that betrayed him,
swering, jaid: Is it I, Rabbi? He salt
him : Thou hast said it,

26 ®And whilst they were at sup
Jesus took bread, and blessed, and br(
and gave to his disciples, and said: 1
ye, and eat. This is my body.

27 And taking the chalice, he {
thanks, and gave to them, saying : D
ye all of this.

Luke 22. 14. — m John 13. 21. — n Ps. 40. 10. — a
11.24.

Ver. 27. Drink ye all of this. This was spol
the twelve apostles; who were the all then pre
and they all drank of it, says St. Mark 14. 23.
it no ways follows from these words spoken t
apostles, that all the faithful are here commr
to drink of the chalice; any more than that a
faithful are commanded to consecrate, offer an
minister this sacrament; because Christ upoL
same occasion, and at the same time, bid the
ties do so; in these words, St. Luke 22. 19, Do th
a commemoration of me.

le agony in the garden

ST. MATTHEW

8 For this is my blood of the new testa-
ant, which shall be shed for many unto
mission of sins.

9 And I say to you, I will not drink
3m henceforth of this fruit of the vine,
itil that day when I shall drink it with
)U new in the kingdom of my Father.

0 And a hymn being said, they went
it unto mount Olivet.

1 Then Jesus saith to them : P All you
all be scandalized in me this night.
)r it is written : ^ / will stHke the shep-
rd, and the sheep of the flock shall be dis-
rsed.

2 *" But after I shall be risen again, I
Jl go before you into Galilee.

3 And Peter answering, said to him:
though all shall be scandalized in thee,

^ill never be scandalized.

4 Jesus said to him : * Amen I say to
66, that in this night before the cock
OW; thou wilt deny me thrice,

5 Peter saith to him: *Yea, though I
ould die with thee, I will not deny
ee. And in like manner said all the
sciples.

[6 Then Jesus came with them into a

'tun try place which is called Gethsem-

jii; and he said to his disciples : Sit you

pre, till I go yonder and pray.

i7 And taking with him Peter and the

\70 sons of Zebedee, he began to grow

•rrowful and to be sad.

ji8 Then he saith to them: My soul is

[•rrowful even unto death : stay you

3re, and watch with me.

i»9 And going a little further, he fell

pen his face, praying, and saying: My

ither, if it be possible, let this chalice

,188 from me. Nevertheless not as I will,

lit as thou wilt.

jiO And he cometh to his disciples, and

odeth them asleep, and he saith to

,eter : What ? Could you not watch one

pur with me ?

U Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not

ito temptation. The spirit indeed is

illing, but the flesh weak.

\P Mark 14. 27 ; John 16. 32. ~q Zach. 13. 7. — r Mark
,• 28, and 16. 7. — 3 Mark 14. 30 ; John 13. 38. — t IMark

•Ver. 28. Blood of the new testament. As the old
stament was dedicated with the blood of victims,
r Moses, in these words : This is the blood of the
\itament, &c., Heb. 9. 20 ; so here is the dedication
[la institution of the new testament, in the blood of
inst, here mystically shed by these words s This is
e blood of the new testament, &g.
Ver. 29. Fruit of the vine. These words, by the
count of St. Luke 22. 18, were not spoken of the

Jesus betrayed by a kiss

42 Again the second time, he went and
prayed, saying : My Father, if this chal-
ice may not pass away, but I must drink
it, thy will be done.

43 And he cometh again, and findeth
them sleeping : for their eyes were
heavy.

44 And leaving them, he went again:
and he prayed the third time, saying the
selfsame word.

45 Then he cometh to his disciples, and
saith to them: Sleep ye now and take
your rest ; behold the hour is at hand,
and the Son of man shall be betrayed into
the hands of sinners.

46 Rise, let us go : behold he is at hand
that will betray me.

47 ^As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one
of the twelve, came, and with him a
great multitude with swords and clubs,
sent from the chief priests and the an-
cients of the people.

48 And he that betrayed him, gave them
a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss,
that is he, hold him fast.

49 And forthwith coming to Jesus, he
said : Hail, Rabbi. And he kissed him.

50 And Jesus said to him: Friend,
whereto art thou come ? Then they came
up, and laid hands on Jesus, and held
him.

51 And behold one of them that were
with Jesus, stretching forth his hand,
drew out his sword: and striking the
servant of the high priest, cut off his
ear.

52 Then Jesus saith to him: Put up
again thy sword into its place : ^ for all
that take the sword shall perish with the
sword.

53 Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my
Father, and he will give me presently
more than twelve legions of angels ?

54 '^ How then shall the scriptures be
fulfilled, that so it must be done ?

55 In that same hour Jesus said to the
multitudes: You are come out as it were
to a robber with swords and clubs to ap-

14. 31 ; Luke 22. 33. — u Mark 14. 43 ; Luke 22. 47 ; John
18. 3. — V Gen. 9. 6 ; Apoc. 13. 10. — w Isa. 53. 10.

sacramental cup, but of the wine that was drunk
with the paschal lamb. Though the sacramental
cup might also be called the frrdt of the vine, be»
cause it was consecrated from wine, and retains
the likeness, and all the accidents or qualities of
wine.

Ver. 31. Scandalized in we, &c. Forasmuch as
my being apprehended shall make you all run away
and forsake me.

Jesus before Caiphas

ST. MATTHEW

The denial by Pi

prehend me. I sat daily with you, teach-
ing in the temple, and you laid not hands
on me.

56 Now all this was done, that the
•scriptures of the prophets might be
fulfilled. Then the disciples all ^ leaving
him, fled.

57 But they holding Jesus ^ led him to
Caiphas the high priest, where the scribes
and the ancients were assembled.

58 And Peter followed him afar off, even
to the court of the high priest. And
going in, he sat with the servants, that
he might see the end.

59 And the chief priests and the whole
council sought false witness against
Jesus, that they might put him to death:

60 And they found not, whereas many
false witnesses had come in. And last
of all there came two false witnesses:

61 And they said : " This man said, I am
able to destroy the temple of God, and
after three days to rebuild it.

62 And the high priest rising up, said
to him: Answerest thou nothing to the
things which these witness against thee ?

63 But Jesus held his peace. And the
high priest said to him: I adjure thee by
the living God, that thou tell us if thou
be the Christ the Son of God.

64 Jesus saithto him: Thou hast said it.
Nevertheless I say to you, * hereafter
you shall see the Son of man sitting on
the right hand of the power of God, and
coming in the clouds of heaven.

65 Then the high priest rent his gar-
ments, saying: He hath blasphemed;
what further need have we of witnesses ?
Behold, now you have heard the blas-
phemy :

66 What think you ? But they answer-
ing, said : He is guilty of death.

67 ^'Then did they spit in his face, and
buffeted him: and others struck his face
with the palms of their hands,

68 Saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ,
who is he that struck thee ?

69 ^ But Peter sat without in the court:
and there came to him a servant maid,
saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the
Galilean.

70 But he denied before them all, say-
ing : I know not what thou sayest.

71 And as he went out of the gate,
other maid saw him, and she saith
them that were there: This man a
was with Jesus of Nazareth.

72 And again he denied with an oa
I know not the man.

73 And after a little while they ca
that stood by, and said to Peter : Sur
thou also art one of them ; for even
speech doth discover thee.

74 Then he began to curse and to sw»
that he knew not the man. And imi
diately the cock crew.

75 And Peter remembered the wore
Jesus which he had said: Before
cock crow, thou wilt deny me thri
And going forth, he wept bitterly.

CHAPTER 27.

The continuation of the history of the passim
Christ. His death and burial.

22. 55 ; John 18. 17. — e Mark 15. 1 ; Luke 23. 1 ; J
18. 28. — / Acts 1. 18. — g Acts L 19. — h Zacb.
12.

Cbap. 27. Ver. 6. Cwhona. A place in the temple where the people put in their gifts or ofiFeringB.

X Lam. 4. 20. — y Mark 14. 50. — z Luke 22. 54 ; John
18. 24. — a John 2. 19. — ft Supra 16. 27 ; Rom. 14. lo ;
1 Thess. 4. 15. — c Isa. 50. 6 ; Mark 14, 63. — d Luke

A ND when morning was come, all
l\. chief priests and ancients of
people took counsel against Jesus, t
they might put him to death.

2 * And they brought him bound, a
delivered him to Pontius Pilate the g<
ernor.

3 Then Judas, who betrayed him,
ing that he was condemned, repenti
himself, brought back the thirty pieces
silver to the chief priests and ancient

4 Saying: I have sinned in betray:
innocent blood. But they said: Wl
is that to us ? look thou to it.

5 And casting down the pieces of sil"
in the temple, he departed : ^ and w<
and hanged himself with an halter.

6 But the chief priests having taken 1
pieces of silver, said : It is not lawful
put them into the corbona, because il
the price of blood.

7 And after they had consulted togeth
they bought with them the potter's fie
to be a burying place for strangers.

8 ^ For this cause that field was cal
Haceldama, that is. The field of bio
even to this day.

9 Then was fulfilled that which
spoken by Jeremias the prophet, sayii
^ And they took the thirty pieces of sUi
the price of him that was prized, wh
they prized of the children of Israel.

rabbas preferred to Jesus ST. MATTHEW

Jesus is crucified

» And they gave them unto the potter^s
i, as the Lord appointed to me.
. And Jesus stood before the govern-
* and the governor asked him, saying :
j thou the king of the Jews? Jesus
th to him : Thou sayest it.
i And when he was accused by the
ef priests and ancients, he answered
thing.

{ Then Pilate saith to him : Dost not
ju hear how great testimonies they
3ge against thee ?

[ And he answered him to never a
rd; so that the governor wondered
3eedingly.

) Now upon the solemn day the gov-
lor was accustomed to release to the
Dple one prisoner, whom they would.
) And he had then a notorious pris-
Br, that was called Barabbas.
r They therefore being gathered to-
;her, Pilate said : Whom will you that
elease to you, Barabbas, or Jesus that
jailed Christ?

i For he knew that for envy they had
livered him.

) And as he was sitting in the place of
iigment, his wife sent to him, saying:
ive thou nothing to do with that just
in ; for I have suffered many things
8 day in a dream because of him.
i3 ^ But the chief priests and ancients
rsuaded the people, that they should
I Barabbas, and make Jesus away.
I And the governor answering, said to
3m: Whether will you of the two to
released unto you? But they said,
Irabbas.

|2 Pilate saith to them : What shall I
i then with Jesus that is called Christ ?
ey say all : Let him be crucified.
|3 The governor said to them: Why,
liat evil hath he done ? But they cried
t the more, saying : Let him be cruci-
Id.

A And Pilate seeing that he prevailed
thing, but that rather a tumult was
lide ; taking water washed his hands be-
ke the people, saying: I am innocent of
le blood of this just man; look you to it.
|5 And the whole people answering,
id: His blood be upon us and upon our
lildren.
6 Then he released to them Barabbas,

Mark 15. 2 ; Luke 23. 3 ; John 18. 33. —j Mark 15.
Luke 23. 18 ; John 18. 40 ; Acts 3. 14. — k Mark 15.
Ps. 2L 17. ~ I Jotm Id. 2. ~ m Mark 15. 21 ; Luke

and having scourged Jesus, delivered him
unto them to be crucified.

27 Then the soldiers of the governor
taking Jesus into the hall, ^ gathered to-
gether unto him the whole band ;

28 And stripping him, they put a scarlet
cloak about him.

29 ^ And platting a crown of thorns,
they put it upon his head, and a reed in
his right hand. And bowing the knee
before him, they mocked him, saying:
Hail, king of the Jews.

30 And spitting upon him, they took
the reed, and struck his head.

31 And after they had mocked him,
they took off the cloak from him, and
put on him his own garments, and led
him away to crucify him.

32 "* And going out, they found a man
of Cyrene, named Simon: him they
forced to take up his cross.

33 "^ And they came to the place that is
called Golgotha, which is the place of
Calvary.

34 And they gave him wine to drink
mingled with gall. And when he had
tasted, he would not drink.

35 °And after they had crucified him,
they divided his garments, casting lots ;
that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophet, saying : P They
divided my garments among them; and
upon my vesture they east lots.

36 And they sat and watched him.

37 And they put over his head his cause
written : This is Jesus the King of the
Jews.

38 Then were crucified with him two
thieves : one on the right hand, and one
on the left.

39 And they that passed by, blasphemed
him, wagging their heads,

40 And saying: ^Vah, thou that de-
stroyest the temple of God, and in three
days dost rebuild it : save thy own self :
if thou be the Son of God, come down
from the cross.

41 In like manner also the chief priests,
with the scribes and ancients, mocking,
said:

42 He saved others ; himself he cannot
save. *■ If he be the king of Israel, let
him now come down from the cross, and
we will believe him.

23. 26. — n Mark 15. 22 ; Luke 23. 33 ; John 19. 17. -
o Mark 15. 24 ; Luke 23. 34 ; John 19. 23. —p Ps. 21. la
— q John 2. 19. — r Wisd. 2. 18.

Jesus dies on the cross

ST. MATTHEW

The resurrect

43 * He trusted In God ; let him now
deliver him if he will have him ; for he
said : I am the Son of God.

44 And the selfsame thing the thieves
also, that were crucified with him, re-
proached him with.

45 Now from the sixth hour there was
darkness over the whole earth, until the
ninth hour.

46 And Jibout the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying: *Eli,
Eli, lamma sabacthani ? that is. My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?

47 And some that stood there and
heard, said: This man calleth Elias.

48 And immediately one of them run-
ning took a sponge, and filled it with
vinegar ; and put it on a reed, and gave
him to drink.

49 And the others said : Let be, let us
see whether EUas will come to dehver
him.

60 And Jesus again crying with a loud
voice, yielded up the ghost.

51 '^ And behold the veil of the temple
was rent in two from the top even to
the bottom, and the earth quaked, and
the rocks were rent.

52 And the graves were opened : and
many bodies of the saints that had slept
arose,

53 And coming out of the tombs after
his resurrection, came into the holy city,
and appeared to many.

54 Now the centurion and they that were
with him watching Jesus, having seen
the earthquake, and the things that
were done, were sore afraid, saying:
Indeed this was the Son of God.

55 And there were there many women
afar off, who had followed Jesus from
Galilee, ministering unto him :

56 Among whom was Mary Magdalen,
and Mary the mother of James and
Joseph, and the mother of the sons of
Zebedee.

57 ^ And when it was evening, there
came a certain rich man of Arimathea,
named Joseph, who also himself was a
disciple of Jesus.

58 He went to Pilate, and asked the body
of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that
the body should be delivered.

s Ps. 21. 9. — t Ps. 21. 2.
u 2 Par. 3. 14.

59 And Joseph taking the body, wrap
it up in a clean linen cloth.

60 And laid it in his own new monum<
which he had hewed out in a rock,
he rolled a great stone to the doo]
the monument, and went bis way.

61 And there was there Mary Magda!
and the other Mary sitting over agai
the sepulchre.

62 And the next day, which follo"\
the day pf preparation, the chief prit
and the Pharisees came together
Pilate,

63 Saying: Sir, we have remembei
that that seducer said, while he was
alive : After three days I will rise agj

64 Command therefore the sepulchre
be guarded until the third day: lest j
haps his disciples come and steal 1
away, and say to the people : He is ri
from the dead ; and the last error si
be worse than the first.

65 Pilate saith to them: You hav(
guard ; go, guard it as you know.

66 And they departing, made the s
ulchre sure, seahng the stone, and e
ting guards.

CHAPTER 28.

The resurrection of Cnrist. His commission to

disciples.

A ND ^ in the end of the sabbath, wl
xV it began to dawn towards the fi
day of the week, came Mary Magda
and the other Mary, to see the sepulcl

2 And behold there was a great ear
quake. For an angel of the Lord <
scended from heaven, and coming, rol
back the stone, and sat upon it.

3 And his countenance was as lightni
and his raiment as snow.

4 And for fear of him, the guards W<
struck with terror, and became as dc
men.

5 And the angel answering, said to i
women : Fear not you ; for I know tl
you seek Jesus who was crucified.

6 He is not here, for he is risen, as
said. Come, and see the place wh<
the Lord was laid.

7 And going quickly, tell ye his di£
pies that he is risen : and behold he
go before you into Galilee ; there y

V Mark 15. 42 ; Luke 23. 50 ; John 21. 38.
w Mark 16. 1 ; John 20. 11.

Ver. 62. The day of vreparation. The eve of the parerf all things necessary; not being allowed so mi

Sabbath; so called, because on that day they jyre-

as to dress their meat on the sabbath day.

sus meets the holy women ST. UARK^Jems*^onmissionJ^^

^iT^ee^m. Lo, I have foretold it to

And they went out quickly from the
pulchre with fear and great joy, run-
ng to tell his disciples.

And behold Jesus met them, saying:
I hail. But they came up and took
^Id of his feet, and adored him. , "----' .

0 Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. had appointed them.

3, tell my brethren that they go into

ahlee, there they shall see me.

,1 Who when they were departed, be-

)ld some of the guards came into the

ty, and told the chief priests all things

,tat had been done.

.2 And they being assembled together

|ith the ancients, taking counsel, gave

great sum of money to the soldiers,

13 Saying : Say you. His disciples came
f night, and stole him away when we
ere asleep.

14 And if the governor shall hear of

this, we will persuade him, and secure

you. _._

15 So they taking the money, did as
they were taught: and this word was
spread abroad among the Jews even
unto this day. .

16 And the eleven disciples went into
Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus

but

17 And seeing him they adored:
some doubted.

18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them,
saying: All power is given to me in hea-
ven and in earth.

19 «'Going therefore, teach ye all na-
tions; baptizing them in the name ol
the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost.

20 Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and
behold I am with you all days, even to
the consummation of the world.

THE

HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,

ACCORDING TO ST. MARK.

™, Ttr.,>^ /Az, /7/o/.,W/. nn/f iiitermeter of St. Peter, (saith St. Jerome,) cuicording to what Tie

^l^rfAtA't ^rTTple ahrief Gospel at the request of the Brethren about

)ZveaTafUrour Lord's Ascension ; which when Peter had heard, h^ approved of it, and

^tiMsafhJrity published it to the church to be read.^ Baronius «"-^ J^J. ^^f ,^^^^

(mginalwas written in Latin: but the more general opinion is that the Evangelist wrote it m

Greek,

CHAPTER 1.

"he preaching of John the Baptist. Christ is hap-

I tized by him. He calls his disciples, and works
many miracles.

rHE beginning of the gospel of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God.
2 As it is written in Isaias the prophet:
Behold I send my angel before thy face,
oho akdU prepare the way before thee.

X Mark 16. 15

— a Mai. 8.

Luke 7. 27.

1 : Matt. 11. 10

3 * ^ vcdce of one crying in the desert :
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, wake
straight his paths.

4 ^John was in the desert baptizing,
and preaching the baptism of penance,
unto remission of sins.

5 ^ And there went out to him all the
country of Judea, and all they of Je-
rusalem, and were baptized by him in

6 Isa. 40. 3 ; Matt. 3. 3 ; Luke 3. 4 ; John 1. 28.

c A. D. 25-26. — d Matt. 3. 5.

Chap. 28. Ver. 18, &c. All power, &c. See here
ihe warrant and commission of the apostles and
I heir successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's
!:hurch. He received from his Father all power in
heaven and in earth : and in virtue of this power, he
^endsthem (even as his Father sent him, St. John
10. 21) to teach and disciple, /uioeT)Teveiv,not one, out rr/Z
aotton*; i,n<i uisciuut them u^ aU truths ■• auo toat

he may assist them effectually in the execution of
this commission, he promises to be with them, not
for three or four hundred years only, hut all days,
even to the consummation of the world. How then
could the Catholic Church ever go astray ; havmg
always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ
himself, who is the way, the truths and the life. St,
J0I1UI4.

Jesus is baptized by John

the river of Jordan, confessing their
Bins.

6 * And John was clothed with camel's
hair, and a leathern girdle about his
loins; «^and he ate locusts and wild
honey.

7 And he preached, saying: S' There
Cometh after me one mightier than I,
the latchet of whose shoes I am not wor-
thy to stoop down and loose.

8 '^I have baptized you with water;
but he shall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost.

9 And it came to pass, in those days,
Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee,
and was baptized by John in the JordaUo

10 And forthwith coming up out of the
water, he saw the heavens opened, *and
the Spirit as a dove descending, and re-
maining on him.

11 And there came a voice from hea-
ven; Thou art my beloved Son; in thee
I am well pleased.

12 •? And immediately the Spirit drove
him out into the desert.

13 And he was in the desert forty days
and forty nights, and was tempted by
Satan ; and he was with beasts, and the
angels ministered to him.

14 '^ And after that John was delivered
up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching
the gospel of the kingdom of God,

15 And saying: The time is accomplish-
ed, and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent, and believe the gospel.

16 ^ And passing by the sea of Galilee,
he saw Simon and Andrew his brother,
casting nets into the sea (for they were
fishermen).

17 And Jesus said to them : Come after
me, and I will make you to become fish-
ers of men.

18 And immediately leaving their nets,
they followed him.

19 And going on from thence a little
farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee,
and John his brothei who also were
mending their nets in the ship :

20 And forthwith he called them. And
leaving their father Zebedee in the ship
with his hired men, they followed him.

21"^ And they entered into Caphar-
naum, and forthwith upon the sabbath

c Matt. 3. 4. — / Lev. 11. 22, — f7 Matt. 3. 11 ; Luke 3.
16; John 1. 21.— h Acts 1. 5, arid 2. 4, and 11. 16, and
19.4. — ? Luke 3.22; John 1. 32.— j Matt. 4. I: Luke
4.L — ifcMatt4.12: Luke 4. 14; John4.43o— i Matt

ST. MARK

Jesus performs many cu\

days going into the synagogue, he taug
them.

22 "And they were astonished at ]
doctrine. For he was teaching them
one having power, and not as the scrib

23 ° And there was in their synagog
a man with an unclean spirit ; and
cried out,

24 Saying : What have we oo do wi
thee, Jesus of Nazareth ? art thou cor
to destroy us ? I know who thou art, t
Holy One of God.

25 And Jesus threatened him, sayin
Speak no more, and go out of the man.

26 And the unclean spirit tearing hii
and crying out with a loud voice, we:
out of him.

27 And they were all amazed, insomu<
that they questioned among themselvt
saying : What thing is this ? what is th
new doctrine ? for with power he coi
mandeth even the unclean spirits, ai
they obey him.

28 And the fame of him was spref
forthwith into all the country of Galile

29 2» And immediately going out of tl
synagogue they came into the house
Simon and Andrew, with James an
John.

30 And Simon's wife's mother lay in "
fit of a fevei : and forth with they tellhij'
of hei

Hi And coming to her, he lifted her u]
taking her by the hand ; and immediatel
the fever left her, and she ministere
unto them»

32 And when it was evening, after bui
set, they brought to him all that were i.
and that were possessed with devils.

33 And all the city was gathered tc
gether at the door.

34 And he healed many that were tron
bled with divers diseases ; ^ and he cas
out many devils, and he suffered ther
not to speak, because they knew him.

35 And rising very early, going out, h
went into a desert place : and there h'
prayed.

36 And Simon, and they that were wit!
him, followed after him.

37 And when they had found him, thej
said to him : All seek for thee.

38 And he saith to their : Let us go int(

4, 18 ; Luke 5. 2. — m Matt. 4. 13 ; Luke 4. 31, — n Matt
7. 28 ; Luke 4. 32. — o Luke 4. 33. — p Matt. 8. 14 ; Luk<
4.38.— 4 Luke 4. 41.

jms heals the leper

ST. MARK

The calling of Matthew

) neighbouring towns and cities, that 1
y preach there also ; for to this pur-
se am I come.

i And he was preaching in their syna-
gues, and in all Galilee, and casting
i devils.

) *'And there came a leper to him, be-
Kjhing him, and kneeling down said to
in : If thou wilt, thou canst make me
ian.

I And Jesus having compassion on
n, stretched forth his hand; and

jiching him, saith to him : I wiU. Be

pu made clean.

12 And when he had spoken, immedi-

hly the leprosy departed from him, and
was made clean.

3 And he strictly charged him, and
rthwith sent him away.

4 And he saith to him: See thou tell
I one i but go, shew thyself to the high

iest, and offer for thy cleansing * the
ings that Moses commanded, for a
itimony to them.

5 But he being gone out, began to pub-
fa and to blaze abroad the word: so
at he could not openly go into the city,
it was without in desert places: and
ey flocked to him from all sides.

CHAPTER 2.

rist heals the sick of the palsy, calls Matthew;
and excuses his disciples.

^ND 'again he entered into Caphar-
L naum after some days.
! And it was heard that he was in the
')use, and many came together, so that
ere was no room ; no, not even at the
')or ; and he spoke to them the word.
\\ * And they came to him, bringing one
*ck of the palsy, who was carried by four.
I And when they could not offer him
iito him for the multitude, they uncov-
•ed the roof where he was ; and opening
, they let down the bed wherein the
an sick of the palsy lay.
) And when Jesus had seen their faith,
la saith to the sick of the palsy : Son,
ly sins are forgiven thee.
5 And there were some of the scribes
feting there, and thinking in their
earts :

7 Why doth this man speak thus ? he
laspheiaeth. ^ Who can forgive sins,
ut God only ?

8 Which Jesus presently knowing in
his spirit, that they so thought within
themselves, saith to them: Why think
you these things in your hearts ?

9 Which is easier, to say to the sick of
the palsy: Thy sins are forgiven thee;
or to say: Arise, take up thy bed, and
walk?

10 But that you may know that the Son
of man hath power on earth to forgive
sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

111 say to thee : Arise, take up thy bed,
and go into thy house.

12 And immediately he arose ; and tak-
ing up his bed, went his way in the sight
of aU ; so that all wondered and glorified
God, saying : We never saw the like.

13 And he went forth again to the sea
side ; and all the multitude came to him,
and he taught them.

14 "^ And when he was passing by; he
saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting at the
receipt of custom ; and he saith to him:
Follow me. And rising up, he followed
him.

15 And it came to pass, that as he sat
at meat in his house, many publicans and
sinners sat down together with Jesus
and his disciples. For they were many,
who also followed him.

16 And the scribes and the Pharisees,
seeing that he ate with publicans and
sinners, said to his disciples : Why doth
your master eat and drink with publi-
cans and sinners ?

17 * Jesus hearing this, saith to them:
They that are well have no need of a
physician, but they that are sick. For I
came not to call the just, but sinners.

18 And the disciples of John and the
Pharisees used to fast ; and they come
and say to him : Why do the disciples of
John and of the Pharisees fast ; but thy
disciples do not fast?

19 And Jesus saith to them : Can the
children of the marriage fast, as long as
the bridegroom is with them ? As long
as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast.

20 ^But the days will come when the
bridegroom shall be taken away from
them ; and then they shall fast in thoso
days.

21 No man seweth a piece of raw eloth
to an old garment: otherwise the new

rMatt 8. 2 ; Luke 5. 12.— s Lev. 14. 2.— t Matt. 9. 1.
-1» Luke 5. 18,— v Job 14. 4 ; Isa. 43. 25.—«; Matt.

9. 9 ; Luke 5. 27.-
Luke 5. 35.

1 Tim. 1. 15.— y Matt. 9. 15 ;

Jesus justifies His disciples ST. MARK Jesus chooses the twelve aposU

piecing taketh away from the old, and
there is made a greater rent.

22 And no man putteth new wine into
old bottles : otherwise the wine will burst
the bottles, and both the wine will be
spilled, and the bottles will be lost. But
new wine must be put into new bottles.

23 ^ And it came to pass again, as the
Lord walked through the corn fields on
the sabbath, that his disciples began to
go forward, and to pluck the ears of corn.

24 And the Pharisees said to him: Be-
hold, why do they on the sabbath day
that which is not lawful ?

25 And he said to them: " Have you
never read what David did when he had
need, and was hungry himself, and they
that were with him ?

26 How he went into the house of God,
under Abiathar the high priest, and did
eat the loaves of proposition, ^ which was
not lawful to eat but for the priests, and
gave to them who were with him ?

27 And he said to them: The sabbath
was made for man, and not man for the
sabbath.

28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord of
the sabbath also.

CHAPTER 3.

Christ heals the withered hand: he chooses the
confutes the blasphemy of the Phar-

twelve i
isees.

AND °he entered again into the syna-
^ gogue, and there was a man there
who had a withered hand.

2 And they watched him whether he
would heal on the sabbath days ; that
they might accuse him.

3 And he said to the man who had the
withered hand: Stand up in the midst.

4 And he saith to them : Is it lawful to
do good on the sabbath days, or to do
evil? to save life, or to destroy? But
they held their peace.

5 And looking round about on them
with anger, being grieved for the blind-
ness of their hearts, he saith to the man :
Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched
it forth : and his hand was restored unto
him.

6 ^ And the Pharisees going out, imme-
diately made a consultation with the
Herodians against him, how they might
destroy him.

7 But Jesus retired with his disciples to

2 Matt. 12. 1 ; Luke 6. l. — a 1 Kings 21.6.
b Lot. 24. 9. — c Matt 12. 10 1 Luke 6. 6.

the sea ; and a great multitude f ollow'
him from Galilee and Judea,

8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumc
and from beyond the Jordan. And th
about Tyre and Sidon, a great multituc
hearing the things which he did, came
him.

9 And he spoke to his disciples that
small ship should wait on him because
the multitude, lest they should throi
him.

10 For he healed many, so that th<
pressed upon him for to touch him,
many as had evils.

11 And the unclean spirits, when th<
saw him, fell down before him : and the
cried, saying :

12 Thou art the Son of God. And
strictly charged them that they shoii
not make him known.

13 * And going up into a mountain, I
called unto him whom he would lain
self : and they came to him.

14 And he made that twelve should tf
with him, and that he might send them t
preach.

15 And he gave them power to hej
sicknesses, and to cast out devils.

16 And to Simon he gave the nam
Peter:

17 And James the son of Zebedee, an
John the brother of James ; and
named them Boanerges, which is, Th
sons of thunder:

18 And Andrew and Philip, and Barthol
omew and Matthew, and Thomas an
James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, an
Simon the Cananean :

19 And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayer
him.

20 And they come to a house, and th
multitude cometh together again, so tha
they could not so much as eat bread.

21 And when his friends had heard of it
they went out to lay hold on him. Fo
they said : He is become mad.

22 And the scribes who were come dowi
from Jerusalem, said : ^ He hath Beelze
bub, and by the prince of devils he cast
eth out devils.

23 And after he had called them to
gether, he said to them in parables : Ho\^
can Satan cast out Satan ?

24 And if a kingdom be divided againsi
itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

d Matt. 12. 14.— « Matt. 10. 1 ; Luke 6. 13. and 8, 1.
/Matt 9. 34,

asfhemy aaainsttheEoluGhost ST. MARK Parable of the sower and the seed

5 And if a house be divided against it-
£, that house cannot stand.

6 And if Satan be risen up against him-
1, he is divided, and cannot stand, but
,th an end.

No man can enter into the house of a
rong man and rob him of his goods,
iless he first bind the strong man, and
en shall he plunder his house.

8 ^ Amen I say to you, that all sins
all be forgiven unto the sons of men,
id the blasphemies wherewith they shall
aspheme :

9 But he that shall blaspheme against
le Holy Ghost, shall never have forgi ve-
»8, but shall be guilty of an everlasting

He hath an nn-

W Because they said:

ean spirit.

M And his mother and his brethren

ime; and standing without, sent unto

im, calling him.

J 2 And the multitude sat about him ;

nd they say to him : Behold thy mother

nd thy brethren without seek for thee.

33 And answering them, he said : Who
I my mother and my brethren?

34 And looking round about on them
/ho sat about him, he saith: Behold my
lother and my brethren.

35 For whosoever shall do the will of
Jod, he is my brother, and my sister,
ijid mother.

CHAPTER 4.

"he parable of the sower. Christ sHtta the tempest

at sea.

AND ^ again he began to teach by the
sea side ; and a great multitude waa
leathered together unto him, so that he
vent :ip into a ship, and sat in the sea ;
md all the multitude was upon the land
,)y the sea side.

2 And he taught them many things in
iparables, and said unto them in bis doc-
trine :

3 Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out
bo sow.

4 And whilst he sowed, some fell by
the way side, ana the birds of the air
came and ate it up.

6 And other some fell upon stony
ground, where it had not much earth;

and it shot up immediately, because it
had no depth of earth.

6 And when the sun was risen, it was
scorched ; and because it had no root. It
withered away.

7 And some fell among thorns j and the
thorns grew up, and choked it, and it
yielded no fruit.

8 And some fell upon good ground ; and
brought forth fruit that grew up, and in-
creased and yielded, one thirty, another
sixty, and another a hundred.

9 And he said: He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear.

10 And when he was alone, the twelve
that were with him asked him the par-
able.

11 And he said to them: To you it is
given to know the mystery of the king-
dom of God : but to them that are with*
out, all things are done in parables :

12 * That seeing they may see, and not
perceive; and hearing they may hear,
and not understand: lest at any time
they should be converted, and their sins
should be forgiven them,

13 And he saith to them : Are you igno-
rant of this parable? and how shall you
know all parables ?

14 He that soweth, soweth the word.

15 And these are they by the way side,
where the word is sown, and as soon as
they have heard, immediately Satan oom-
eth, and taketh away the word that wa^
sown in their hearts.

16 And these Ukewise are they that are
sown on the stony ground: who when
they have heard the word, immediately
receive it with joy.

17 And they have no rooi in them-
selves, but are only for a time : and then
when tabulation and persecution ariseth
for the word, they are presently scandal-
ized.

18 And others there are who are sown
among thorns; these are they that hear
the word,

19 And the cares of the world, ^ and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after
other things entering in choke the word,
and it is made fruitless.

20 And these are they who are sown

g Matt 12. 31 ; Luke 12. 10 • 1 John 5, 16.
h Matt. 13. 2 ; Luke S, 5.

Chap. 4. Ver. 12. That seeing they may see, ire

In punishment of their wilfully shutting their eyes,

I tSt Matt. 13. 15J God jusUy withdrew ttu>3e lights

i Isa. 6.9; Matt. 13. 14; John 12. 40;
Acts 28. 26 ; Rom. 11. 8. —j 1 Tim. 6 17.

and gi-aces, which otherwise he would have given
them, for their efEectual conversiou.

The grain of mustard seed

ST. MARK

upon the good ground, who hear the
word, and receive it, and yield fruit, the
one thirty, another sixty, and another a
hundred.

21 ^ And he said to them: Doth a candle
<3ome in to be put under a bushel, or
under a bed? and not to be set on a can-
dlestick?

22 ' For there is nothing hid, which
shall not be made manifest: neither was
it made secret, but that it may come
abroad.

23 If any man have ears to hear, let
him hear.

24 And he said to them: Take heed
what you hear. ^ In what measure you
shall mete, it shall be measured to you
again, and more shall be given to you.

25 ^ For he that hath, to him shall be
given: and he that hath not, that also
which he hath shall be taken away from
him.

26 And he said: So is the kingdom of
God, as if a man should cast seed into
the earth,

27 And should sleep, and rise, night and
day, and the seed should spring., and grow
up whilst he knoweth not.

28 For the earth of itself bringetb forth
fruit, first the blade, then the ear, after-
wards the full corn in the ear.

29 And when the fruit is brought forth,
immediately he putteth in the sickle, be-
cause the harvest is come.

30 And he said : To what shall we liken
the kingdom of God ? or to what parable
shall we compare it?

31 ^ It 18 as a grain of mustard seed:
which when it is sown in the earthy is less
than all the seeds that are in the earth :

32 And when it is sown, it groweth
up, and becometh greater than all herbs,
and shooteth out great branches, so that
the birds of the air may dwell under the
shadow thereof.

33 And with many such parables, he
spoke to them the word, according as
they were able to hear.

34 And without parable he did not speak
unto them; but apart, he explained all
things to his disciples.

35 And he saith to them that day, when
evening was come : Let us pass over to
the other side.

Jesus stills the tempt

36 PAnd sending away the multituc
they take him even as he was in the shi
and there were other ships with him.

37 And there arose a great storm
wind, and the waves beat into the sh
so that the ship was filled.

38 And he was in the hinder part of tJ
ship, sleeping upon a pillow; and th«
awake him. and say to him : Master, do
it not concern tnee that we perish ?

39 And rising up, he rebuked the win
and said to the sea: Peace, be still. Ai
the wind ceased : and there was made
great calm.

40 And he said to them : Why are y<
fearful? have you not faith yet? Ai
they feared exceedingly : and they sai
one to another: Who is this (thinkei
thou) that both wind and sea obey him

k Matt. 5. 15 ; Luke 8. 16,aod 11. 33. — I Matt. 10. 2r, ;
Luke 8. n. — m Matt 7. 2; l.uke 6. 38. — n Matt. 1.5.
12, and 26. 29; Luke b. 18, anc 19. 26. — o Matt 13 3i ;

CHAPTER 6.

Christ casts otit a legion of devils: he heals tt
issue of blood, and raises the daughter of Jain
to life.

ND ^ they came over the strait of th
sea into the country of the Gera

sens.

2 And as he went out of the ship, im
mediately there met him out of the moi
uments a man with an unclean spirit,

3 Who had his dwelling in the torabj
and no man now could bind him, not evei
with chains.

4 For having been often bound wit]
fetters and chains, he had burst th
chains, and broken the fetters in piecee
and no one could tame him.

5 And he was always day and night ii
the monuments and in the mountains
crying and cutting himself with stones.

6 And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran anc
adored him.

7 And crying with a loud voice, he said
What have I to do with thee, Jesus tht
Son of the most high God ? I adjure thet
by God that thou torment me not.

8 For he said unto him: Go out of the
man, thou unclean spirit.

9 And he asked him: What is thy name '
And he saith to him : My name is Legion,
for we are many.

10 And he besought him much, that he
would not drive him away out of the
country.

Luke 1.3. 19. —p Matt 8. 23; Luke 8. 22. — o Matt I
28 ; Luke 8. 26.

e unclean spirits enter the svnne ST. MARK Daughter of J aims raised to life

. And there was there neap the moun-
Q a great herd of swine, feeding.
! And the spirits besought him, say-
;: Send us into the swine, that we may
per into them.

) And Jesus immediately gave them
ve. And the unclean spirits going
b, entered into the swine : and the herd
Sh great violence was carried headlong
o the sea, being about two thousand,
jd were stifled in the sea.
|i And they that fed them fled, and
d it in the city and in the fields. And
3y went out to see what was dene :
5 And they came to Jesus, and they see
n that was troubled with the devil,
ting, clothed, and well in his wits, and
ij were afraid.

J And they that had seen it, told them,
what manner he had been dealt with
10 had the devil ; and concerning the
line.

7 And they began to pray him that he
)Tild depart from their coasts.

8 And when he went up into the ship,
that had been troubled with the devil,

gan to beseech him that he might be
th him.

,9 And he admitted him not, but saith
I him : Go into thy house to thy friends,
d tell them how great things the Lord
jth done for thee, and hath had mercy
|i thee.

0 And he went his way, and began to
Jiblish in Decapolis how great things

8U8 had done for him: and all men
)ndered.

1 And when Jesus had passed again in
e ship over the strait, a great multi-
de assembled together unto him, and
^1 was nigh unto the sea»

'2 *■ And there cometh one of the rulers

' the synagogue named Jairus : and see-

g him, falleth down at his feet.

3 And he besought him much, saying:

y daughter is at the point of death,

me, lay thy hand upon her, that she

ay be safe, and may live.

1 4 And he went with him, and a

eat multitude followed him, and they

ronged him.

j!5 And a woman who was under an

|me of blood twelve years,

16 And had suffered many things from

I any physicians ; and had spent all that

r Matt 9. 18: Luke 8. 41.

she had, and was nothing the better, but
rather worse,

27 When she had heard of Jesus, came
in the crowd behind him, and touched
his garment.

28 For she said : If I shall touch but his
garment, I shall be whole.

29 And forthwith the fountain of hep
blood was dried up, and she felt in her
body that she was healed of the evil.

30 And immediately Jesus knowing in
himself the virtue that had proceeded
from him, turning to the multitude, said :
Who hath touched my garments ?

31 And his disciples said to him : Thou
seest the multitude thronging thee, and
sayest thou who hath touched me ?

32 And he looked about to see her who
had done this.

33 But the woman fearing and tremblings
knowing what was done in her, came and
fell down before him, and told him all
the truth.

34 And he said to her : • Daughter, thy
faith hath made thee whole : go in peace,
and be thou whole of thy disease.

35 While he was yet speaking, some
come from the ^'uler of the synagogue's
house, saying: Thy daughter is dead:
why dost thou trouble the master any
further ?

36 But Jesus having heard the word
that was spoken, saith to the ruler of the
synagogue : Fear not, only believe.

37 And he admitted not any man to
follow him, but Peter, and James, and
John the brother of James.

38 And they come to the house of the
ruler of the synagogue ; and he seeth a
tumult, and people weeping and wailing
much.

39 And going in, he saith to them : Why
make you this ado, and weep ? the damsel
is not dead, but sleepeth.

40 And they laughed him to scorn. But
he having put them all out, taketh the
father and the mother of the damsel, and
them that were with him, and entereth
in where the damsel was lying.

41 And taking the damsel by the hand,
he saith to her: Talitha cumi, which is,
being interpreted: Damsel (I say to thee)
arise.

42 And immediately the damsel rose up,
and walked : and she was twelve yearfi

« Luke 7. do, end 2. .o.

Jesus teaches in iXazarvlh

ST. MARK

The daughter of Herodi

old: and they were astonished with a
great astonishment.

4c! And he charged them strictly that no
man should know it: and commanded
that something should be given her to
eat.

CHAPTER 6.

Christ teaches at Nazareth fie sends forth the
twelve apostles: he feeds five thousand Krith five
loaves ; and walks upon the sea.

AND Agoing out from thence, he went
XjLinto his own country; and his dis-
ciples followed him.

2 And when the sabbath was come, he
began to teach in the synagogue: and
many hearing him were in admiration at
his doctrine, saying: How came this man
by all these things ? and what wisdom is
this that is given to him, and auch mighty
works as are wrought by his hands ?

3 ** Is not this the carpenter, the son of
Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph,
and Jude, and Simon ? are not also his
sisters here with us? And they were
scandalized in regard of him.

4 And Jesus said to them : ^' A prophet
is not without honour, but m his own
country, and in his own house, and among
his own kindred.

6 And he could not do any miracles
there, only that he cured a few that
were sick, laying his hands upon them.

6 And he wondered because of their
unbeUef, and he went through the vil-
lages round about teaching.

7 "'And he called the twelve; and be-
gan to send them two and two, and gave
them power over unclean spirits.

8 And he commanded them that they
should take nothing for the way, but a
staff only : no scrip, no bread, nor money
in their purse,

9 *But to be shod with sandals, and
that they should not put on two coats.

10 And he said to them: Wheresoever
you shall enter into an house, thero
abide till you depart from that place.

11 And whosoever shall not receive
you, nor hear you ; ^ going forth from
thence, shake off the dust from your feet
for a testimony to them.

t Matt. 13. 54 ; Luke 4. 16. — m John 6. 42. — v Matt.
13. 57 ; Lnkp 4. 23 John 4. 44. — 1<; Matt. 10. 1 ; Supra
^ 165,Luke 9. 1. — a; Acts 12. 8.— j/ Matt 10. 14; Lake

Chap. 6. Ver. 5. He couia not. Not tor want
of power, but because he would not work miracles
in favour of obstinate and incredulous people, who
were unworthy of such favours.

12 And going forth they preached tl
men should do penance:

13 And they cast out many devils, ^ a
anointed with oil many that were si
and healed them.

14** And king Herod heard, (for
name was made manifest,) and he sa
John the Baptist is risen again from t
dead, and therefore mighty works sh
forth themselves in him.

15 And others said: It is Elias.
others said: It is a prophet, as one
the prophets.

16 Which Herod hearing, said: Jo
whom I beheaded, 'ae is risen again fr^
the dead.

17 ^For Herod himself had sent
apprehended John, and bound him
prison for the sake of Herodias the w
of Philip his brother, because he h
married her.

18 For John said to Herod: ^'It is i
lawful for thee to have thy brothe
wife.

19 Now Herodias laid snares for hi
and was desirous to put him to dea
and could not.

20 For Herod feared John, knowi
him to be a just and holy man: and k«
him, and when he heard him, did ma
things : and he heard him wilUngly.

21 And when a convenient day
come, Hero*^. made a supper for
birthday, foi the princes, and tribun
and chief men of Galilee.

22 And when the daughter of the sai
Herodias had come in, and had danc
and pleased Herod, and them that wi
at table with him, the king said to t
damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, an<
will give it thee.

23 And he swore to her: Whatsoe\
thou Shalt ask I will give thee, thougl
be the half of my kingdom.

24 Who when she was gone out, said
her mother. What shall I ask? Bute
said : The head of John the Baptist.

26 And when she was come in imme
ately with haste to the king, she ask»
saying: I will that forthwith thou gi
me in a dish, the head of John the Baptf

9. 6 ; Acts 13. 51, and 18. 6.-2 James 5. 14. — a M
14 3i Luke & 7.-6 Luke 3. I9.^c Lev. 18. 16.

Ver. 20. And kept him. That is, from the desJi
of Herodias; and for fear of the people, would
put him to death, though she sought it; and throi
her daughter she effected her wish,

Death of John the Baptist

ST. MARK

Jesus walks on the watef

26 And the king was struck sad. Yet
because of his oath, and because of them
that were with him at table, he would
not displease her :

27 But sending an executioner, he com-
manded that his head should be brought
in a dish.

28 And he beheaded him in the prison,
and brought his head in a dish : and gave
it to the damsel, and the damse' ?:ave it
to her mother.

29 ^ Which his disciples hearing came^
and took his body, and laid it in ^ tomb.

30 ® And the apostles coming together
unto Jesus, related to him all things that
they had done and taught.

31 And he said to them: -^Oome apart
into a desert place, and rest a little. For
there were many coming and going: and
they had not so much as time to eat.

32 And going up into a ship, they went
into a desert place apart.

33 And they saw them going away, and
many knew : and they ran flocking thither
on foot from all the cities, and were there
before them.

34 ^ And Jesus going out saw a great
multitude: and he had compassion on
them, because they were as sheep not
having a shepherd, and he began to
teach them many things.

35 And when the day was now far spent,
his disciples came to him, saying : This is
a desert place, and the hour is now past:

36 '^ Send them away, that going into
tJie next villages and towns, they may
buy themselves meat to eat.

37 And he answering said to them: Give
you them to eat. And they said to him :
Let us go and buy bread for two hundred
pence, and we will give them to eat.

38 And he saith to them: How many
loaves have you ? go and see. And when
they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.

39 *And he commanded them that they
should make them all sit down by com-
panies upon the green grass.

40 And they sat down in ranks, by hun-
dreds and by fifties.

41 And when he had taken the five
loaves, and the two fishes: looking up to
heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves,
and gave to his disciples to set before
them: and the two fishes he divided
among them alL

d Matt. 14. 12. — e Luke 9. 10.
/ Matt. 14. 13 ; Luke 9. 10 ; John 6. 1 ; A. D. 28.

42 And they all did eat, and had their fill.

43 And they took up the leavings,
twelve full baskets of fragments, and of
the fishes.

44 And they that did eat, were five
thousand men.

45 And immediately he obliged his:; dis-
ciples to go up into the ship, that they
might go before him over the water to
Bethsaida, whilst he dismissed the people.

4G And when he had dismissed them,
he went up to the mountain to pray.

47 And when it was late, the ship was
in the midst of the sea, and himself alone
on the land.

48 ^ And seeing them labouring in row-
ing, (for the wind was against them,) and
about the fourth watch of the night, he
cometh to them walking upon the sea,
and he would have passed by them.

49 But they seeing him walking upon
the sea, thought it was an apparition,
and they cried out.

50 For they all saw him, and were trou-
bled. And immediately he spoke with
them, and said to them: Have a good
heart, it is I, fear ye not.

61 And he went up to them into the
ship, and the wind ceased : and they
were far more astonished within them-
selves:

52 For they understood not concerning
the loaves ; for their heart was blinded.

63 '''And when they had passed over,
they came into the land of Genezareth,
and set to the shore.

54 And when they were gone out of the
ship, immediately they knew him :

55 And running through that whole coun-
try, they began to carry about in beds
those that were sick, where they heard
he was.

56 And whithersoever he entered, into
towns or into villages or cities, they laid
the sick in the streets, and besought him
that they might touch but the hem of his
garment: and as many as touched him
were made whole.

CHAPTEjc» 7.

Christ rebukes the Pharisees. He heals the daughter
of the vmman of Chanaan ; and the man that was
deaf and dumb,

AND there assembled together unto
^ him the Pharisees and some of the
scribes, coming from Jerusalem.

7 Matt. 9. 36, and 14. 14. — h Luke 9. 12.
i John 6. la ^J Matt 14. 24 - k Matt 14. 34.

Scribes and Pharisees rebuked ST. MARK

2 * And when they had seen some of his
disciples eat bread with common, that
is, with unwashed hands, they found
fault,

3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews eat
not without often washing their hands,
holding the tradition of the ancients :

4 And when they come from the market,
unless they be washed, they eat not : and
many other things there are that have
been delivered to them to observe, the
washings of cups and of pots, and of
brazen vessels, and of beds.

6 And the Pharisees and scribes asked
him : Why do not thy disciples walk
according to the tradition of the ancients,
but they eat bread with common hands ?

6 But he answering, said to them : Well
did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as
it is written : "* This people honoureth me
with their lips, but their heart is far from
me.

7 And in vain do they worship me, teach-
ing doctrines and precepts of men.

8 For leaving the commandment of God,
you hold the tradition of men, the wash-
ings of pots and of cups and many
other things you do hke to these.

9 And he said to them : Well do you
make void the commandment of God.
that you may keep your own tradition.

10 For Moses said ; ^ Honour thy father
and thy mother; and ° He that shall curse
father or Tnother, dying let him die.

11 But you say: If a man shall say to
ids father or mother, Corban, (which is a
gift,) whatsoever is from me, shall profit
thee.

12 And further you suffer him not to do
any thing for his father or mother,

13 Making void the word of God by
your own tradition, which you have
given forth. And many other such like
things you do.

14 P And calling again the multitude
unto him, he said to them : Hear ye me
all, and understand.

15 There is nothing from without a man
that entering into him, can defile him.
But the things which come from a man,
those are they that defile a man.

16 If any man have ears to hear, let him
hear.

17 And when he was come into the

The wo7iia/n of Canaan

I Matt. 15. 2. — m Isa. 29. 13. — n Ex. 20. 12; Deut.
li. 16 ; Eph. 6. 2. — o Ex. 21. 17 ; Lev. 20. 9 ; Prov. 20. 20.

house from the multitude, his disciplea
asked him the parable.

18 And he saith to them : So are you
also without knowledge ? understand you
not that every thing from without, enter-
ing into a man cannot defile him :

19 Because it entereth not into his heart,
but goeth into the belly, and goeth out
into the privy, purging all meats ?

20 But he said that the things which
come out from a man, they defile a man.

21 5 For from within out of the heart of
men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, murders,

22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blas-
phemy, pride, foolishness.

23 All these evil things come from with-
in, and defile a man.

24 *■ And rising from thence he went
into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon : and
entering into a house, he would that no
man should know it, and he could not
be hid.

25 For a woman as soon as she heard
of him, whose daughter had an unclean
spirit, came in and fell down at his feet.

26 For the woman was a Gentile, a Syro-
phenician born. And she besought him
that he would cast forth the devil out of
her daughter.

27 Who said to her: Suffer first the
children to be filled : for it is not good to
take the bread of the children, and cast
it to the dogs.

28 Bu'i she answered and said to him:
Yea, Lord \ for the whelps also eat under
the table of the crumbs of the children.

29 And he ^aid to her: For this saying
go thy way, the devil is gone out of thy
daughter.

30 And when she was come into ^ler
house, she found the gin lying upon the
bed, and that the devil was gone out.

31 And again going out of the coasts
of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of
Galilee, through the midst of the coasts
of Decapolis.

32 * And they bring to him one deaf
and dumb ; and they besought him that
he would lay his hand upon him.

33 And taking him from the multitude
apart, he put his fingers into his ears, and
spitting, he touched his tongue :

—p Matt. 15. 10.-
e Matt. 15. 29.

Gen. 6. 5.

Matt. 15. 21.—

Chap. 7. Ver. 7. Doctrine» and precepts

of men.

See the annotations. Matt. 15. 9. 11.

Jesus feeds the multitude

ST. MAEK

Jesus heals the blind man

34 And looking up to heaven, he groaned,
and said to him: Ephpheta, which is. Be
thou opened.

35 And immediately his ears were
opened, and the string of his tongue was
loosed, and he spoke right.

36 And he charged them that they
should tell no man. But the more he
charged them, so much the more a great
deal did they publish it.

37 And so much the more did they won-
der, saying: He hath done all things
well; he hath made both the deaf to hear,
and the dumb to speak.

CHAPTER 8.

Christ feeds four thousand. He gives sight to a
blind man. He foretells his passion.

IN * those days again, when there was
a great multitude, and had nothing
to eat; calling his disciples together, he
saith to them:

2 I have compassion on the multitude,
for behold they have now been with me
three days, and have nothing to eat.

3 And if I shall send them away fasting
to their home, they will faint in the way;
for some of them came from afar off.

4 And his disciples answered him:
From whence can any one fill them here
with bread in the wilderness?

5 And he asked them: How many
loaves have ye? Who said: Seven.

6 And he commanded the multitude to
sit down upon the ground. And taking
the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke,
and gave to his disciples for to set before
them; and they set them before the people.

7 And they had a few little fishes; and
he blessed them, and commanded them
to be set before them.

8 And they did eat and were filled; and
they took up that which was left of the
fragments, seven baskets.

9 And they that had eaten were about
four thousand; and he sent them away.

10 And immediately going up into a
ship with his disciples, he came into the
parts of Dalmanutha.

11 «And the Pharisees came forth, and
began to question with him, asking him
a sign from heaven, tempting him.

12 And sighing deeply in spirit, he
saith: Why doth this generation seek a
sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall
not be given to this generation.

t Matt. 15. Z2.—U Matt. 16. 1 ; Luke 11. 54.

13 And leaving them, he went up again
into the ship, and passed to the other
side of the water.

14 And they forgot to take bread; and
they had but one loaf with them in the
ship.

15 And he charged them, saying: Take
heed and beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

16 And they reasoned among them-
selves, saying : Because we have no bread.

17 Which Jesus knowing, saith to them :
Why do you reason, because you have
no bread? do you not yet know nor
understand? have you still your heart
blinded?

18 Having eyes, see you not? and hav-
ing ears hear you not? ^ neither do you
remember.

19 When I broke the five loaves among
five thousand, how many baskets full of
fragments took you up? They say to
him, Twelve.

20 When also the seven loaves among
four thousand, how many baskets of
fragments took you up? And they say
to him. Seven.

21 And he said to them: How do you
not yet understand?

22 And they came to Bethsaida; and
they bring to him a blind man, and they
besought him that he would touch him.

23 And taking the blind man by the
hand, he led him out of the town; and
spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands
on him, he asked him if he saw any
thing.

24 And looking up, he said: I see men
as it were trees, walking.

25 After that again he laid his hands
upon his eyes, and he began to see, and
was restored, so that he saw all things
clearly.

26 And he sent him into his house, say-,
ing: Go into thy house, and if thou enter
into the town, tell nobody.

27 ^ And Jesus went out, and his disci-
ples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi.
And in the way, he asked his disciples,
saying to them: «? Whom do men say
that I am?

28 Who answered him, saying: John
the Baptist; but some Elias, and others
as one of the prophets.

Supra 6. 41 ; John 6. 11. — w Matt. 16. 13.-

Luke 9. 18.

Jesus rebukes Peter

ST. MAKK The transfiguration of Jesus

29 Then he saith to them: But whom
do you say that I am? Peter answering
said to him: Thou art the Christ.

30 And he strictly charged them that
they should not tell any man of him.

31 And he began to teach them, that
the Son of man must suffer many things,
and be rejected by the ancients and by
the high priests,, and the scribes, and
be killed: and after three days rise
again.

32 And he spoke the word openly.
V And Peter taking him, began to rebuke
him.

33 Who turning about and seeing his
disciples, threatened Peter, saying: Go
behind me, Satan, because thou savour-
est not the things that are of God, but
that are of men.

34 And calling the multitude together
with his disciples, he said to them: ^li
any man will follow me, let him deny
himself, and' take up his cross, and fol-
low me.

35 «For whosoever will save his life,
shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose
his life for my sake and the gospel, shall
save it.

36 For what shall it profit a man, if
he gain the whole world, and suffer the
loss of his soul?

37 Or what shall a man give in ex-
change for his soul?

38 ^ For he that shall be ashamed of
me, and of my words, in this adulterous
and sinful generation: the Son of man
also will be ashamed of him, when he

shall come in the glory of his Father
with the holy angels.
39 And he said to them: cAmen T say
to you, that there are some of them that
stand here, who shall not taste death,
till they see the kingdom of God coming
in power.

CHAPTER 9.

Christ is transfigured. He casts out the dumb
spirit. He teaches humility and to avoid scan-
dal.

AND «Rafter six days Jesus taketh with
him Peter and James and John,
and leadeth them up into an high moun-
tain apart by themselves, and was trans-
figured before them.
2 And his garments became shining

and exceeding white as snow, so as no
fuller upon earth can make white.

3 And there appeared to them Elias
v/ith Moses; and they were talking with
Jesus.

4 And Peter answering, said to Jesus:
Rabbi, it is good for us to be here: and
let us make three tabernacles, one for
thee, and one for Moses, and one for
Elias.

5 For he knew not what he said: for
they were struck with fear.

6 And there was a cloud overshadowing
them: and a voice came out of the
cloud, saying: This is my most beloved
son; hear ye him.

7 And immediately looking about, they
saw no man any more, but Jesus only
with them.

8 « And as they came down from the
mountain, he charged them not to tell
any man what things they had seen, till
the Son of man shall be risen again from
the dead.

9 And they kept the word to them-
selves; questioning together what that
should mean, when he shall be risen
from the dead.

10 And they asked him, saying: /Why
then do the Pharisees and scribes say
that Elias must come first?

11 Who answering, said to them: Elias,
when he shall come first, shall restore all
things; and as fi'it is written of the Son
of man, that he must suffer many things
and be despised.

12 But I say to you, that Elias also is

y Matt. 16. 23.— z Matt. 10. 38, and 16. 24.— a Luke
9. 23, and 14.27.— 6 Matt. 10.33; Luke 9.26, and 12.9.
— eMatt 16.28; Luke 9.27.— dMatt. 17.1; Luke 9.

come, (and they have done to him what-
soever they would,) as it is written of
him.

13 And coming to his disciples, he saw
a great multitude about them, and the
scribes disputing with them.

14 And presently all the people seeing
Jesus, were astonished and struck with
fear; and running to him, they saluted
him.

15 And he asked them: What do you
question about among you?

16 '«'And one of the multitude, answer-
ing, said : Master, I have brought my son
to thee, having a dumb spirit,

17 Who, wheresoever he taketh him,
dasheth him, and he foameth, and gnash-

28.- -e Matt. 17. 9.—/ Mai. 4. 5 — oIbo.. 53. 3 and 4.
—h Luke 9. 38.

Jesus casts out the dumb spirit ST. MARK

Against scandal

eth with the teeth, and pineth away;
and I spoke to thy disciples to cast him
out, and they could not.

18 Who answering them, said: 0 in-
credulous generation, how long shall I be
with you? how long shall I suffer you?
bring him unto me.

19 And they brought him. And when
he had seen him, immediately the spirit
troubled him; and being thrown down
upon the ground, he rolled about foam-
ing.

20 And he asked his father: How long
time is it since this hath happened unto
him? But he said: From his infancy:

21 And oftentimes hath he cast him
into the fire and into waters to destroy
him. But if thou canst do any thing,
help us, having compassion on us.

22 And Jesus saith to him : If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him
that believeth.

23 And immediately the father of the
boy crying out, with tears said: I do
believe, Lord: help my unbelief.

24 And when Jesus saw the multitude
running together, he threatened the
unclean spirit, saying to him: Deaf and
dumb spirit, I command thee, go out of
him; and enter not any more into him.

25 And crying out, and greatly tearing
him, he went out of him, and he became
as dead, so that many said : He is dead.

26 But Jesus taking him by the hand,
lifted him up; and he arose.

27 And when he was come into the
house, his disciples secretly asked him:
Why could not we cast him out?

28 And he said to them: This kind can
go out by nothing, but by prayer and
fasting.

29 And departing from thence, they
passed through Galilee, and he would
not that any man should know it.

30 »And he taught his disciples, and
said to them: The Son of man shall be
betrayed into the hands of men, and
they shall kill him; and after that he is
killed, he shall rise again the third day.

31 But they understood not the word,
and they were afraid to ask him.

32 And they came to Capharnaum. And
when they were in the house, he asked
them: What did you treat of in the way?

33 But they held their peace, for in the

i Matt. 17. 21 ; Luke 9. 22 and 44.— i Matt. 18. 1 ;
Luke 9. 46.— & Luke 9. 49.— Zl Cor. 12. 3.— m Matt.

way they had disputed among them-
selves, ^^' which of them should be the
greatest.

34 And sitting down, he called the
twelve, and saith to them: If any man
desire to be first, he shall be the last of
all, and the minister of all.

35 And taking a child, he set him in
the midst of them. Whom when he had
embraced, he saith to them: .

36 Whosoever shall receive one such
child as this in my name, receiveth me.
And whosoever shall receive me, receiv-
eth not me, but him that sent me.

37 ^John answered him, saying: Mas-
ter, we saw one casting out devils in thy
name, who followeth not us, and we for-
bade him.

38 But Jesus said: Do not forbid him.
^ For there is no man that doth a miracle
in my name, and can soon speak ill of me.

39 For he that is not against you, is for
you.

40 «* For whosoever shall give you to
drink a cup of water in my name, be-
cause you belong to Christ: amen I say
to you, he shall not lose his reward.

41 »1 And whosoever shall scandalize ore
of these little ones that believe in me;
it were better for him that a millstone
were hanged about his neck, and he
were cast into the sea.

42 o And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut
it off: it is better for thee to enter into
life, maimed, than having two hands to
go into hell, into unquenchable fire:

43 Where their worm dieth not, and the
fire is not extinguished.

44 And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut
it off. It is better for thee to enter lame
into life everlasting, than having two
feet, to be cast into the hell of unquench-
able fire:

45 p Where their worm dieth not, and
the fire is not extinguished.

46 And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck
it out. It is better for thee with one eye
to enter into the kingdom of God, than
having two eyes to be cast into the hell
of fire:

47 Where their worm dieth not, and
the fire is not extinguished.

48 Q For every one shall be salted with
fire: and every victim shall be salted
with salt.

10. 42. — nMatt. 18. 6 ; Luke 17. 2.— o Matt. 5. 30, and
18. 8. — p Isa. 66. 24. — q Lev. 2. 13.

Marriage is indissoluble

ST. MARK

The rich man

49 •'Salt is good. But if the salt be-
come unsavoury; wherewith will you sea-
son it ? Have salt in you, and have peace
among you.

CHAPTER 10.

Marriage is not to be dissolved. The danger of
riches. The ambition of the sons of Zebedee. A
blind man is restored to his sight.

A ND * rising up from thence, he com-
jl\. eth into the coasts of Judea beyond
the Jordan : and the multitudes flock to
him again. And as he was accustomed,
he taught them again.

2 And the Pharisees coming to him
asked him: Is it lawful for a man to put
away his wife ? tempting him.

3 But he answering, saith to them :
What did Moses command you ?

4 Who said : * Moses permitted to write
a bill of divorce, and to put her away.

6 To whom Jesus answering, said : Be-
cause of the hardness of your heart he
wrote you that precept.

d But from the beginning of the crea-
tion, " God made them male and female.

7 For this cause ''' a man shall leave his
father and mother ; and shall cleave to
his wife.

o ^ And they two shall be in one flesh.
Therefore now they are not two, but one
flesh.

5 What -.herefore God hath joined to-
gether, let aot man put asunder.

10 And in the house again his disciples
asked him concerning the same thing.

11 And he saith to them: Whosoever
shall put away his wife and marry an-
other, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if the wife shall put away her
husband, and be married to another, she
committeth adultery.

13 And they brought to him young chil-
dren, that he might touch them» And
the disciples rebuked them that brought
them.

14 Whom when Jesus saw, he was much
displeased, anc ^::'t^ io ohem: Suffer the
little children to come unto me, and for-
bid them not; for of such is the kingdom
of God.

15 Amen I say to you, whosoever shall
not receive the kingdom of God as a
little child, shall not enter into it.

r Matt. 5. 13 ; Luke 14. 34. —s Matt. 19. 1. — t Deut.
24.1. — w Gen. 1. 27. — v Gen. 2. 24; Matt. 19.5; 1 Cor.

r~ii I 'III

Chap. 10. Ver. 18. None is good. Of himself
eatirsly and essentially, but God alone; men may

16 And embracing them, and laying hia
hands upon them, he blessed them.

17 And when he was gone forth into
the way, a certain man running up and
kneeling before him, asked him, ^ Good
Master, what shall I do that I may re-
ceive life everlasting?

18 And Jesus said to him. Why callest
thou me good ? None is good but one, that
is God.

19 ^Thou knowest the commandments:
Do not commit adultery, do not kill., do not
steal, bear not false vntness, do no fraud,
honour thy father and mother.

20 But he answering, said to him : Mas-
ter, all these things I have observed
from my youth.

21 And Jesus looking on him, loved
him, and said to him : One thing is want-
ing unto thee : go, sell whatsoever thou
hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt
have treasure in heaven ; and come, fol-
low me.

22 Who being struck sad at that saying,
went away sorrowful : for he had great
possessions.

23 And Jesus looking round about, saith
to his disciples : How hardly shall they
that have riches, enter into the kingdom
of God!

24 And the disciples were astonished at
his words. But Jesus again answering,
saith to them : Children, how hard is it
for them that trust in riches, to enter
into the kingdom of God ?

25 It is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God.

26 Who wondered the more, saying
among themselves : Who then can be
saved ?

27 And Jesus looking on them, saith:
With men it is impossible ; but not with
God : for all things are possible with God.

28 ^ And Peter began to say unto him :
Behold, we have left all things, and have
followed thee.

29 Jesus answering, said : Amen I say to
you, there is no man who hath left house
or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mo-
ther, or children, or lands, for my sake
and for the gospel,

7. 10 ; Eph. 5. 31. ^ t^ 1 Cor. 6. 16. — x Matt. 19. 10 ; Luke
18. 18. — y Ex. 20. 13. — z Matt. 19. 27 ; Luke 18. 28.

be good also, but only by participation of God's
goodness.

The petition of James andJohn ST. MARK

The blind man of Jericho

30 Who shall not receive an hundred
times as much, now in this time ; houses,
and brethren, and sisters, and mothers,
and children, and lands, with persecu-
tions: and in the world to come life
everlasting.

31 * But many that are first, shall be
last : and the last, first.

32 And they were in the way going up
to Jerusalem: and Jesus went before
them, and they were astonished; and
following were afraid. ^ And taking
again the twelve, he began to tell them
the things that should befall him.

33 Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusa-
lem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed
to the chief priests, and to the scribes
and ancients, and they shall condemn
him to death, and shall deliver him to
the Gentiles.

34 And they shall mock him, and spit
on him, and scourge him, and kill him:
and the third day he shall rise again.

35 ^ And James and John the sons of
Zebedee, come to him, saying: Master,
we desire that whatsoever we shall ask,
thou wouldst do it for us :

36 But he said to them: What would
you that I should do for you ?

37 And they said: Grant to us, that we
may sit, one on thy right hand, and the
other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

38 And Jesus said to them: You know
not what you ask. Can you drink of the
chalice that I drink of: or be baptized
with the baptism wherewith I am bap-
tized?

39 But they said to him : We can. And
Jesus saith to them: You shall indeed
drink of the chalice that I drink of : and
with the baptism wherewith I am bap-
tized, you shall be baptized.

40 But to sit on my right hand, or on
my left, is not mine to give to you, but
to them for whom it is prepared.

41 And the ten hearing it, began to be
much displeased at James and John.

42 But Jesus calling them, saith to
them: ^You know that they who seem
to rule over the Gentiles, lord it over
them: and their princes have power
over them.

43 But it is not so among you: but who-
soever will be greater, shall be your
minister.

a Matt. 19. 30.— 6 Luke 18. 31 ; A- D. 29.
e Matt. 20. 20.

44 And whosoever will be first among
you, shall be the servant of all.

45 For the Son of man also "s not come
to be ministered unto, but to minister,
and to give his life a redemption for
many.

46 ^ And they came to Jericho: and as
he went out of Jericho, with his disciples,
and a very great multitude, Bartimeus
the blind man, the son of Timeus, sat by
the way side begging.

47 Who when he had heard, that it was
Jesus of Nazareth, began to cry out, and
to say : Jesus son of David, have mercy
on me.

48 And many rebuked him, that he
might hold his peace; but he cried a
great deal the more : Son of David, have
mercy on me.

49 And Jesus, standing still, commanded
him to be called. And they call the
blind man, saying to him: Be of better
comfort: arise, he calleth thee.

50 Who casting off his garment leaped
up, and came to him.

51 And Jesus answering, said to him:
What wilt thou that I should do to thee ?
And the blind man said to him : Rabboni,
that I may see.

52 And Jesus saith to him : Go thy way,
thy faith hath made thee whole. And
immediately he saw, and followed him in
the way.

CHAPTER IL

Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass: curses
the barren flg treer and drives the buyers and
sellers out of the temple.

AND f when they were drawing near to
. Jerusalem and to Bethania at the
mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his
disciples,

2 And saith to them: Go into the vil-
lage that is over against you, and imme-
diately at your coming in thither, you
shall find a colt tied, upon which no ir>an
yet hath sat : loose him, and bring him.

3 And if any man shall say to you, What
are you doing ? say ye that the Lord hath
need of him: and immediately he will let
him come hither.

4 And going their way, they found the
colt tied before the gate without, in the
meeting of two ways: and they loose
him.

5 And some of them that stood thore,

d Luke 22. 25. -> 6 Matt 20. 29 ; Luke i& 3&
/Matt 11.4« LukeS8i2&

Jesus* entry into Jerusalem

ST. MARK

Faith in prayer

said to them : What do you loosing the
colt?

6 Who said to them as Jesus had com-
manded them ; and they let him go with
them.

7 ^ And they brought the colt to Jesus ;
and they lay their garments on him, and
he sat upon him.

8 And many spread their garments in the
way: and others cut down bought from
the trees, and strewed them in the way.

9 And they that went before and they
that followed, cried, saying: ^Hosanna^
blessed is he that cometh in the namt of the
Lord.

10 Blessed be the kingdmn o^ (mi father
David that cometh: Hosanna 'm the highest,

11 * And he entered intf «erasalem, into
the temple : and having dewed all things
round about, when novs the eventide was
come, he went out t< liethania with the
twelve.

12 And the next day when they came
out from Bethania, he was hungry.

13 •'And when he had seen afar off a fig
tree having leaves, he came if perhaps
he might find any thing on it. And when
he was come to it, he found nothing but
leaves. For it vas not the time for figs.

14 And answering he said to it : May no
man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more
for ever. And his disciples heard it.

15 And they came to Jerusalem. And
when he was entered into the temple, he
began to cast out them that sold and
bought in the temple, and overthrew the
tables of the moneychangers, and the
chairs oi Chem that sold doves.

16 And he suffered not that any man
should carry a vessel through the temple ;

17 And he taught, saying to them : Is it
not written, ^ My house shall be called the
house of prayer to all nations ? But you
have m^ de it a den of thieves.

18 Which when the chief priests and the
scribes had heard, they sought how they
might Oi stroy him. For they feared him,
because the whole multitude was in ad-
miration at his doctrine.

19 And when evening was come, he
went forth out of the city.

20 And when they passed by in the
morning they saw the fig tree dried up
from the roots.

g John 12. U.-^h Ps. 117. 26 ; Matt. 21. 9 ; Luke 19.
38, — i Matt. 21. 10.— j Matt. 21. 19.— A; Isa. 66. 7;
«ier.7.U.— < Matt 2L 21.— m Matt V. 7. and 21. 22.

21 And Peter remembering, said to him:
Rabbi, behold the fig tree, which thou
didst curse, is withered away.

22 And Jesus answering, saith to them :
' Have the faith of God.

23 Amen I say to you, that whosoever
shall say to this mountain. Be thou re-
moved and be cast into the sea, and shal
not stagger in his heart, but believe, that
whatsoever he saith shall be done; it
shall be done unto him.

24 ^ Therefore I say unto you, all things,
whatsoever you ask when ye pray, be-
Heve that you shall receive ; and they
shall come unto you.

25 ^ And when you shall stand to pray,
forgive, if you have aught against any
man; that your Father also, who is in
heaven, may forgive you your sins.

26 But if you will not forgive, neithei
will your Father that is in heaven, forgive
you your sins.

27 ° And they come again to Jerusalem.
And when he was walking in the temple,
there come to him the chief priests and
the scribes and the ancients,

28 And they say to him: By what au-
thority dost thou these things ? and who
hath given thee this authority that thou
shouldst do these things?

29 And Jesus answering, said to them :
I will also ask you one word, and answer
you me, and I will tell you by what au-
thority I do these things.

30 The baptism of John, was it from
heaven, or from men ? Answer me.

31 But they thought with themselves,
saying : If we say. From heaven ; he
will say, Why then did you not believe
him?

32 If we say, From men, we fear the
people. For all men counted John that
he was a prophet indeed.

33 And they answering, say to Jesus :
We know not. And Jesus answering,
saith to them : Neither do I tell you by
what authority 1 do these things.

CHAPTER 12.

The parable oj the vineyard and husbandmen.
Coisarn right to tribute. The Sadducees are con-\
futed. The first commandment. The widow's^
mite.

NT3 ^he began to speak to them in
parables : A certain man planted a

— n Matt. 6. 14, a-nd 18. 36 ; Luke 11. 9. — o Luke 20. t
— j7lsa.&lt Jor.2.21; Matt 21. 33; Luke 20. 9.

fid

Parable of the husbandmen

ST. MARK

The resurrection of the dead

vineyard and made a hedge about it, and
dug a place for the winefat, and built a
tower, and let it to husbandmen; and
went into a far country.

2 And at the season he sent to the hus-
bandmen a servant to receive of the
husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

3 Who having laid hands on him, beat
him, and sent him away empty.

4 And again he sent to them another
servant ; and him they wounded in the
head, and used him reproachfully.

5 And again he sent another, and him
they killed : and many others, of whom
some they beat, and others they killed.

6 Therefore having yet one son, most
dear to him ; he also sent him unto them
last of all, saying: They will reverence
my son.

7 But the husbandmen said one to an-
other: This is the heir; come let us kill
him ; and the inheritance shall be ours.

8 And laying hold on him, they killed
him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

9 What therefore will the lord of the
vineyard do ? He will come and destroy
those husbandmen ; a>nd will give the vine-
yard to others.

10 And have you not read this scripture,
9 The stone which the builders rejected, the
same is made the head of the comer:

11 By the Lord has this been done, and it
is wonderful in our eyes,

12 And they sought to lay hands on
him, but they feared the people. For
they knew that he spoke this parable to
them. And leaving him, they went their
way.

13 *" And they sent to him some of the
Pharisees and of the Herodians; that
they should catch him in his words.

14 Who coming, say to him : Master,
we know that thou art a true speaker,
and carest not for any man ; for thou
regardest not the person of men, but
teachest the way of God in truth. Is it
lawful to give tribute to Cassar ; or shall
we not give it?

15 Who knowing their wiliness, saith to
them: Why tempt you me ? bring me a
penny that I may see it

16 And they brought it him. And he
eaith to them : Whose is this image and
inscription? They say to him, Caesar's.

q Ps. 117. 22 ; Isa. 28. 16 ; Matt. 21. 42 ; ActS 4. 11 ;
Bom. 9. 33 ; 1 Peter 2. 7. — r Matt 22. 15 ; Luke 20. 20.
- « fioQL 1& 7. — t Matt 22. 23 : Luke m 27. — 1< Deut

17 And Jesus answering, said to them:
* Render therefore to Otesar the things
that are Cassar's, and to God the things
that are God's. And they marvelled at
him.

18 * And there came to him the Saddu-
cees, who say there is no resurrection j
and they asked him, saying :

19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, "that
if any man's brother die, and leave his
wife behind him, and leave no children,
his brother should take his wife, and raise
up seed to his brother.

20 Now there were seven brethren ; and
the first took a wife, and died leaving no
issue.

21 And the second took her, and died :
and neither did he leave any issue. And
the third in like manner.

22 And the seven all took her in like
manner ; and did not leave issue. Last
of all the woman also died.

23 In the resurrection therefore, when
they shall rise again, whose wife shall
she be of them ? for the seven had her
to wife.

24 And Jesus answering, saith to them :
Do ye not therefore err, because you
know not the scriptures, nor the power
of God?

25 For when they shall rise again from
the dead, they shall neither marry, nor
be married, but are as the angels in hea-
ven.

26 And as concerning the dead that they
rise again, have you not read in the book
of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to
him, saying: ^ I am the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob ?

27 He is not the God of the dead, but
of the living. You therefore do greatly
err.

28 ^ And there came one of the scribes
that had heard them reasoning together,
and seeing that he had answered them
well, asked him which was the first com-
mandment of all.

29 And Jesus answered him: The first
commandment of all is, ^ Hear, 0 Israel :
the Lord thy God is one God.

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God,
with thy whole heart, and with thy whole
soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy

25. 5. — V Ex. 3. 6 J Matt 22. 32. — w Matt. 22. 3& -
X Deut 6. 4.

The vndoto*s mite

ST. MARK Signs of destruction of temple

whole strength. This is the first com-
tnandment.

31 y And the second is like to it : Thou
ehalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There
is no other commandment greater than
these.

32 And the scrioc ..aid to him : Well,
Master, thou hast said in truth, that there
is one God, and there is no other besides
him.

33 And that he should be loved with the
whole heart, and with the whole under-
standing, and with the whole soul, and
with the whole strength ; and to love
one's neighbour as one's self, is a greater
thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.

34 And Jesus seeing that he had an-
swered wisely, said to him : Thou art not
far from the kingdom of God. And no
man after that durst ask him any question.

35 And Jesus answering, said, teaching
in the temple : How do the scribes say,
that Christ is the son of David ?

36 For David himself saith by the Holy
Ghost : ^ The Lord said to my Lord^ Sit on
my right hand, until I make thy enemies
thy footstool.

37 David therefore himself calleth him
Lord, and whence is he then his son ? And
a great multitude heard him gladly.

38 And he said to them in his doctrine:
** Beware of the scribes, who love to walk
In long robes, and to be saluted in the
marketplace,

39 And to sit in the first chairs, in the
synagogues, and to have the highest
places at suppers :

40 Who devour the houses of widows
under the pretence of long prayer : these
shall receive greater judgment.

41 ^And Jesus fitting over against the
treasury, beheld how the people cast
money into the treasury, and many that
were rich cast in much.

42 And there came a certain poor widow,
and she cast in two mites, which make a
farthing.

43 And calling his disciples together, he
saith to them: Amen I say to you, this
poor widow hath cast in more than all
they who have cast into the treasury.

44 For all they did cast in of their abun-
dance ; but she of her want cast in all
she had, even her whole living.

y Lev. 19. 18 ; Matt. 22. 39 ; Ro.n. 13. 9 ; Gal. 5. 14 ;
JIames 2. 8. — j; Ps. 109. l ; Matt. 22. 44; Luke 20. 42.
«'O Matt. 2d. C: Luke 11.4 <,and 20. 46.-6 Luke 2L1.

CHAPTER 13.

Christ foretells the destruction of the temple, and
the signs that shall /over an the day of pcdgment.

A ND *^ as he was going out of the tem'
XjL pie, one of his disciples said to him :
Master, behold what manner of stones,
and what buildings are here.

2 And Jesus answering, said to him:
Seest thou all these great buildings?
^ There shall not be left a stone upon a
stone, that shall not be thrown down.

3 And as he sat on the mount of Olivet
over against the temple, Peter and James
and John and Andrew asked him apart:

4 Tell us, when shall these things be ?
and what shall be the sign when all
these things shall begin to be fulfilled ?

5 And Jesus answering, began to say to
them, ^Take heed lest any man deceive
you.

6 For many shall come in my name,
saying, I am he ; and they shall deceive
many.

7 And when you shall hear of wars and
rumours of wars, fear ye not. For such
things must needs be, but the end is not
yet.

8 For nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom, and there
shall be earthquakes in divers places, and
famines. These things are the beginning
of sorrows.

9 But look to yourselves. For they shall
deliver you up to councils, and in the
synagogues you shall be beaten, and you
shall stand before governors and kings
for my sake, for a testimony unto them.

10 And unto all nations the gospel must
first be preached.

11 -^And when they shall lead you and
deliver you up, be not thoughtful before-
hand what you shall speak; but whatso-
ever shall be given you in that hour, that
speak ye. For it is not you that speak,
but the Holy Ghost.

12 And the brother shall betray his bro-
ther unto death, and the father his son ;
and children shall rise up against the
parents, and shall work their death.

13 And you shall be hated by all men
for my name's sake. But he that shall
endure unto the end, he shall be saved.

14 ^ And when you shall see the abomi-
nation of desolation, standing where it

— c Matt. 24. \.— d Luke 19. 44, and 21. 6. — c Epb. &
6; 2 Thess. 2. 3.—/ Matt. lo. 19; Luke 12. 11, ano
21.14. — 9 Dan. 9. 27; Matt 24. 15; Luke 21. 20.

Signs preceding end of the world ST. MARK

Jesus in Betkania

ought not: ho tlr^; readeth let him
understand : then let them that are in
Judea, tlee unto the mountains:

15 And let him that is on the housetop,
not go down into the house, nor enter
therein to take any thing out of the
house :

16 And let him that shall be in the
field, not turn back to take up his gar-
ment.

17 And woe to them that are with child,
and that give suck in those days.

18 But pray ye, that these things happen
not in winter.

19 For in those days shall be such tribu-
lations, as were not from the beginning
of the creation which God created until
now, neither shall be.

20 And unless the Lord had shortened
the days, no flesh should be saved: but
for the sake of the elect which he hath
chosen, he hath shortened the days.

21 ^And then if any man shall say to
you, Lo, here is Christ; lo, he is here: do
not believe.

22 For there will rise up false Christs
and false prophets, and they shall shew
signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were
possible) even the elect.

23 Take you heed therefore : behold I
have foretold you all things.

24 *But in those days, after that tribu-
lation, the sun shall be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light.

25 And the stars of heaven shall be
falhng down, and the powers that are in
heaven, shall be moved.

26 And then shall they see the Son of
man coming in the clouds, with great
power and glory-

27 ^ And then shall he send his angels,
and shall gather together his elect from
the four winds, from the uttermost part
of the earth to the uttermost part of
heaven.

28 Now of the fig tree learn ye a para-
ble. When the branch thereof is now
tender, and the leaves are come forth,
you know that summer is very near.

29 So you also when you shall see these
things come to pass, know ye that it is
very nigh, even at the doors.

fi Matt, 24. 23 ; Luke 17. 23, and 21. S. — i Isa. 13. 10;
gzech. 32. 7 ; Joel 2. 10. —j Matt. 24. 31. — k Matt.

Chap. 13. Ver. 32, Nor the Son. Not that the
Son of God is absolutely ignorant of the day of judg-
ment, but that he kuoweth it not, as our teacher ;

30 Amen, I say to you, that this gener-
ation shall not pass, until all these thingfi
be done.

31 Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my word shall not pass away.

32 But of that day or hour no man
knoweth, neither the angels in heaven,
nor the Son, but the Father.

33 '^Take ye heed, watch and pray. For
ye know not when the time is.

34 Even as a man who going into a far
country, left his house ; and gave author-
ity to his servants over every work, and
commanded the porter to watch.

35 Watch ye therefore, (for you know
not when the lord of the house cometh:
at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-
crowing, or in the morning,)

36 Lest coming on a sudden, ho find
you sleeping.

37 And what I say to you, I say to all:
Watch.

CHAPTER 14.

The first part of the history of the passion of Christ,

"VTOW 'the feast of the pasch, and oi
JJl the Azymes was after two days ; anc*
the chief priests and the scribes sought
how they might by some wile lay hold
on him, and kill him.

2 But they said : Not on the festival day,
lest there should be a tumult among the
people.

3 "* And when he was in Bethania, in
the house of Simon the leper, and was
at meat, there came a woman having an
alabaster box of ointment of precious
spikenard: and breaking the alabaster
box, she poured it out upon his head.

4 Now there were some that had in-
dignation within themselves, and said:
Why was this waste of the ointment
made?

5 For this ointment might have been
sold for more than three hundred pence,
and given to the poor. And they mur-
mured against her.

6 But Jesus said i Let her alone, why do
you molest her? She hath wrought a
good work upon me.

7 For the poor you have always with
you : and whensoever you will, you mar"

24. 42. — / Matt. 26. 2 ; Luke 22. 1. A. D. 33. — m Matt.
26.6. John 12. 1.

that is, he knoweth it not so as to teach it to us. as
not being expedient.

Chap. 14. Ver. l. Azymes. That is, the feast ot
the unleavened bread.

The treachery of Judas

ST. MARK Institution of the Holy Eucharist

do them good: but me you have not
always.

8 She hath done what she could : she is
come beforehand to anoint my body for
the burial.

9 Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this
gospel shall be preached in the whole
world, that also which she hath done,
shall be told for a memorial of her.

IC ** A.nd Judas Iscariot, one of the
twelve, went to the chief priests, to be-
tray him to them.

11 Who hearing it were gladj and they
promised him they would give him
money. And he sought how he might
conveniently betray him.

12 ** Now on the first day of the unlea-
vened bread, when they sacrificed the
pasch, the disciples say to him : Whither
wilt thou that we go, and prepare for
thee to eat the pasch ?

13 And he sendeth two of his disciples,
and saith to them : Go ye into the city ;
and there shall meet you a man carry-
ing a pitcher of water, follow him ;

14 And whithersoever he shall go in,
say to the master of the house. The
master saith. Where is my refectory,
where I may eat the pasch with my dis-
ciples ?

15 And he will shew you a large dining
room furnished ; and there prepare ye
for us.

16 And his disciples went their way,
and came into the city ; and they found
as he had told them, and they prepared
the pasch.

17 P And when evening was come, he
^,ometh with the twelve.

18 And when they were at table and
eating, Jesus saith : Amen I say to you,
9 one of you that eateth with me shall
betray me.

19 But they began to be sorrowful, and
to say to him one by one : Is it I ?

20 Who saith to them : One of the twelve,
who dippeth with me his hand in the dish.

21 And the Son of man indeed goeth,
*" as it is written of him : but woe to that
man by whom the Son of man shall be
betrayed. It were better for him, if that
man had not been born.

n Matt. 26. 14. — o Matt. 26. 17 ; Luke 22. 7. —p Matt.
26. 20; Luke 22. 14. — ^ John 13. 21. — r Ps. 40. 10;

Ver. 30. Crow tivice. The cocks crow at two dif-
ferent times of the night: viz., about midnight for
the first time; and tbea about the time commonly

22 * And whilst they were eating, Jesus
took bread ; and blessing, broke, and gave
to them, and said : Take ye. This is my
body.

23 And having taken the chalice, giving
thanks, he gave it to them. And they
all drank of it.

24 And he said to them : This is my
blood of the new testament, which shall
be shed for many.

25 Amen I say to you, that I will drink
no more of the fruit of the vine, until
that day when I shall drink it new in
the kingdom of God.

26 And when they had said an hymn,
they went forth to the mount of Ol-
ives.

27 And Jesus saith to them: * You will
all be scandalized in my regard this night ;
for it is written, '^ I will strike the shepherd^
and the sheep shall be dispersed.

28 But after I shall be risen again, I will
go before you into Galilee.

29 But Peter saith to him : Although all
shall be scandalized in thee, yet not I.

30 And Jesus saith to him : Amen I say
to thee, to day, even in this night, before
the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me
thrice.

31 But he spoke the more vehemently :
Although I should die together with
thee, I will not deny thee. And in like
manner also said they all.

32 ^ And they came to a farm called
Gethsemani. And he saith to his dis-
ciples : Sit you here, while I pray.

33 And he taketh Peter and James and
John with him ; and he began to fear and
to be heavy.

34 And he saith to them : My soul is
sorrowful even unto death ; stay you
here, and watch.

35 And when he was gone forward a
little, he fell flat on the ground ; and he
prayed, that if it might be, the hour
might pass from him.

36 And he saith: Abba, Father, all things
are possible to thee : remove this chalice
from me ; but not what I will, but what
thou wilt.

37 And he cometh, and findeth them
sleeping. And he saith to Peter : Simon,

Acts 1. 16. — s Matt. 26. 26 ; 1 Cor. 11. 24. — t John IG.
32.— u Zach. 13. 7.—V Matt. 26. 36 ; Luke 22. 40.

called the cock croirinq: and this was the cock
croimng our Saviour spoke of: and therefore the
other Evangelists take oo notice of the first crowing

Jesus arrested in the garden ST. MARK

Jesus before the high priest

sleepest thou? couldst thou not watch
one hour?

38 Watch ye, and pray that you enter
not into temptation. The spirit indeed
is willing, but the flesh is weak.

39 And going away again, he prayed,
saying the same words.

40 And when he returned, he found
them again asleep, (for their eyes were
heavy,) and they knew not what to an-
swer him.

41 And he cometh the third time, and
saith to them : Sleep ye now, and take
your rest. It is enough: the hour is
come : behold the Son of man shall be
betrayed into the hands of sinners.

42 Rise up, let us go. Behold, he that
will betray me is at hand.

43 And while he was yet speaking,
cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve :
*^and with him a great multitude with
swords and staves, from the chief priests
and the scribes and the ancients.

44 And he that betrayed him, had given
them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall
kiss, that is he; lay hold on him, and
lead him away carefully.

45 And when he was come, immediately
going up to him, he saith : Hail, Rabbi ;
and he kissed him.

46 But they laid hands on him, and held
him.

47 And one of them that stood by, draw-
ing a sword, struck a servant of the chief
priest, and cut off his ear.

48 And Jesus answering, said to them :
Are you come out as to a robber, with
swords and staves to apprehend me ?

49 I was daily with you in the temple
teaching, and you did not lay hands on
me. But that the scriptures may be ful-
fllled.

50 *Then his disciples leaving him, all
fled away.

51 And a certain young man followed
him, having a linen cloth cast about his
naked body; and they laid hold on him.

52 But he, casting off the linen cloth,
fled from them naked.

53 ^ And they brought Jesus to the
high priest ; and all the priests and the
scribes and the ancients assembled to-
gether.

54 And Peter followed him afar off,

w Matt. 26. 47 ; Luke 22. 47 ; John 18. Z. — x Matt.
26. 56. — 1/ Matt. 26. 57; Luke 22. 54; John 18. 13.—
z Matt 26. 59. — a John 2. 19. — b Matt. 24. 30, and 26. 1

even into the court of the high priest;
and he sat with the servants at the fire,
and warmed himself.

55 ^ And the chief priests and all the
council sought for evidence against Jesus,
that they might put him to death, and
found none.

56 For many bore false witness against
him, and their evidences were not agree-
ing. .1

57 And some rising up, bore false wit-
ness against him, saying :

58 We heard him say, " I will destroy
this temple made with hands, and with-
in three days I will build another not
made with hands.

59 And their witness did not agree.

60 And the high priest rising up in the
midst, asked Jesus, saying: Answerest
thou nothing to the things that are laid
to thy charge by these men ?

61 But he held his peace, and answered
nothing. Again the high priest asked
him, and said to him : Art thou the
Christ the Son of the blessed God ? .

62 And Jesus said to him : I am. ^ And
you shall see the Son of man sitting on
the right hand of the power of God, and
coming with the clouds of heaven.

63 Then the high priest rending his gar-
ments, saith: What need we any further
witnesses ?

64 You have heard the blasphemy.
What think you? Who all condemned
him to be guilty of death.

65 And some began to spit on him, and
to cover his face, and to buffet him, and
to say unto him : Prophesy : and the ser-
vants struck him with the palms of their
hands.

66 ^Now when Peter was in the court
below, there cometh one of the maid-
servants of the high priest.

67 And when she had seen Peter warm-
ing himself, looking on him she saith:
Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.

68 But he denied, saying: I neither
know nor understand what thou sayest.
And he went forth before the court ; and
the cock crew.

69 ^And again a maidservant seeing
him, began to say to the standers by:
This is one of them.

70 But he denied again. *And after

64. — c Matt. 26. 69; Luke 22. 5fi ; John 18. 17.—
d Matt. 26. 71. — e Luke 22. ,59 ; John 18. 25.

[Jesus before Pilate

ST. MARK

a while they that stood by said again to
Peter : Surely thou art one of them j for
thou art also a Galilean.

71 But he began to curse and to swear,
saying; I know not this man of whom
you speak.

72 And immediately the cock crew
again. «^And Peter remembered the
word that Jesus had said unto him: Be-
fore the cock crow twice, thou shalt
thrice deny me. And he began to weep.

CHAPTER 15.

The continuation of the history of the passion.

A ND ^ straightway in the morning, the
XJL chief priests holding a consulta-
tion with the ancients and the scribes
and the whole council, binding Jesus,
led him away, and delivered him to
Pilate.

2 And Pilate asked him: Art thou the
king of the Jews? But he answering,
saith to him : Thou sayest it,

3 ^ And the chief priests accused him in
many things.

4 And Pilate again asked him, saying :
Answerest thou nothing? behold in how
many things they accuse thee.

6 But Jesus still answered nothing ; so
that Pilate wondered.

6 Now on the festival day he was wont
to release unto them one of the prison-
ers, whomsoever they demanded.

7 And there was one called Barabbas,
who was put in prison with some sedi-
tious men, who in the sedition had com-
mitted murder.

8 And when the multitude was come
up, they began to desire that he would do,
as he had ever done unto them.

9 And Pilate answered them, and said:
Will you that I release to you the king
of the Jews ?

10 For he knew that the chief priests
had delivered him up out of envy.

11 But the chief priests moved the peo-
ple, that he should rather release Barab-
bas to them.

12 * And Pilate again answering, saith
to them : What will you then that I do
to the king of the Jews ?

/ Matt. 26. 76; John 13. 38. — gr Matt. 27. 1 ; Luke
22. 66 ; John 18. 28. — h Matt. 27. 12 ; Luke 23. 2 : John
18. 33. — i Matt. 27. 22 ; Luke 23. 14. —j John 18. 40. —

Chap. 15. Ver. 25. The third hour. The ancient
account divided the day into four parts, which were
named from the hour from which they began: the
first, third, sixth, and nintti hour. Our Lord was

The crucifixion

13 -^But they again cried out: Crucify
him.

14 And Pilate saith to them: Why,
what evil hath he done ? But they cried
out the more : Crucify him.

15 And so Pilate being willing to satisfy
the people, released to them Barabbas,
and delivered up Jesus, when he had
scourged him, to be crucified.

16 ^' And the soldiers led him away into
the court of the palace, and they called
together the whole band :

17 And they clothe him with purple,
and platting a crown of thorns, they put
it upon him.

18 And they began to salute him: Hail,
king of the Jews.

19 And they struck his head with a
reed: and they did spit on him. And
bowing their knees, they adored him.

20 And after they had mocked him,
they took off the purple from him, and
put his own garments on him, and they
led him out to crucify him.

21 ^ And they forced one Simon a Cyre-
nian who passed by, coming out of the
country, the father of Alexander and of
Rufus, to take up his cross.

22 And they bring him into the place
called Golgotha, which being interpreted
is, The place of Calvary,

23 And they gave him to drink wine
mingled with myrrh ; but he took it not.

24 "* And crucifying him, they divided
his garments, casting lots upon them,
what every man should take.

25 And it was the third hour, and they
crucified him.

26 And the inscription of his cause was
written over : The King of the Jews.

27 And with him they crucify two
thieves ; the one on his right hand, and
the other on his left.

28 '^And the scripture was fulfilled,
which saith : And with the wicked he was
reputed.

29 And they that passed by blasphemed
him, wagging their heads, and saying:
°Vah, thou that destroyest the temple
of God, and in three days buildest it up
again ;

k Matt. 27. 27 ; John 19. 2. — I Matt. 27. 32 ;
26. — m Matt. 27. 35; Luke 23. 34; John
n Lsa. 53. 12. — o John 2. 19.

Luke 23.
19. 23.—

crucified a httle before noon ; before the third hour
had quite expire4 ; but when the sixth hour was near
at hand.

Jesus dies on the cross

ST. MARK

The resurrection

30 Save thyself, coming down from the
cross.

31 In like manner also the chief priests
mocking, said with the scribes one to
another: He saved others; himself he
cannot save.

32 Let Christ the king of Israel come
down now from the cross, that we may
see and believe. And the}" that were
crucified with him reviled him

33 And when the sixth hour was come,
there wag darkness over the whole earth
unti? the ninth hour.

i>^. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried
uu*" with a loud voice, saying: ^Eloi,
Eloi. lamma sabacthani? Which is, be-
mg interpreted. My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me ?

35 And some of the standers by hearing,
said : Behold he calleth Elias.

36 And one running and fiUing a sponge
with vinegar, and putting it upon a reed,
gave him to drink, saying: Stay, let us
see if Elias come to take him down,

37 And Jesus having cried out with a
loud voice, gave up the ghost.

38 And the veil of the temple was rent
in two, from the top to the bottom.

39 And the centurion who stood over
against him, seeing that crying out in
this manner he had given up the ghost,
said : Indeed this man was the son of God.

40 ^ And there were also women look-
ing on afar off : among whom was Mary
Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James
the less and of Joseph, and Salome :

41 Who also when he was in Galilee
followed him, ''and ministered to him,
and many other women that came up
with him to Jerusalem.

42 * And when evening was now come,
(because it was the Parasceve, that is,
the day before the sabbath,)

43 Joseph of Arimathea, a noble coun-
sellor, who was also himself looking for
«no kingdom of God, came and went in
boldly to Pilate, and begged the body of
Jesus.

44 But Pilate wonderea that he should
be already dead. And sending for the
centurion, he asked him if he were al-
ready dead.

p Ps. 21. 2 ; Matt. 27. 46.-7 Matt. 27. 55. — r Luke
8. 2. — s Matt. 27. 57; Luke 23. 50; John 19. 38.--
t Matt. 28. 1 ; Luke 24. 1 ; John 20. \. — u Matt 28. 5 ;

Chap. 16. Ver. 2. The sun being now risen.
They set out before it was Ught, to go to the sepul-
chre; but the sun was risen when they arrived there.

45 And when he had understood it by
the centurion, he gave the body to
Joseph.

46 And Joseph buying fine linen, and
taking him down, wrapped him up in the
fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre
which was hewed out of a rock. And he
rolled a stone to the door of the sepul-
chre.

47 And Mary Magdalen, and Mary the
mother of Joseph, beheld where he was
laid.

CHAPTER 16.

ChrisVs resurrection and ascension,

A ND * when the sabbath was past, Mary
l\. Magdalen, and Mary the mother of
James, and Salome, bought sweet spices,
that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

2 And very early in the morning, the
first day of the week, they come to the
sepulchre, the sun being now risen.

3 And they said one to another: Who
shall roll us back the stone from the
door of the sepulchre?

4 And looking, they saw the stone rolled
back. For it was very great.

5 "And entering into the sepulchre,
they saw a young man sitting on the
right side, clothed with a whit© robe;
and they were astonished.

6 Who saith to them: Be not affrighted;
you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was
crucified : ue is risen, he is not here, be-
hold the place where they laid him.

7 But go, tell his v.isciples and Peter
that he goeth before you into Gahlee ;
there you shall see him, ^ as he told you.

8 But they going out, fled from the sep-
ulchre. For a trembling and fear had
seized them: and they said nothing to
any man ; for they were afraid.

9 But he rising '^ early the first day of
the week, appeared first to Mary Mag-
dalen, out of whom he had cast seven
devils.

10 She went and told them that had
been with him, who were mourning and
weeping.

11 And they hearing that he was alive,
and had been seen by her, did not be-
lieve.

Luke 24. 4 ; John 20. 12.
20. 16.

V Supra 14. 28. — w John

Or, figuratively, the sun here spoken of ia the sun oj
Justice, Christ Jesus our Lord, who was risen before
their ooming.

©T

Jesus appears to the eleven

ST. LUKE

The ascension into heaven

12 *And after that he appeared in
another shape to two of them walking,
as they were going into the country.

13 And they going told it to the rest :
neither did they believe them.

14 At length he appeared to the eleven
as they were at table : and he upbraided
them with their incredulity and hardness
of heart, because they did not believe
them who had seen him after he was
risen again.

15 And he said to them: Go ye into the
whole world, and preach the gospel to
every creature.

16 He that believeth and is baptized,
shall be saved : but he that believeth not
shall be condemned.

17 And these signs shall follow them
that beheve : ^ In my name they shall
cast out devils: *they shall speak with
new tongues.

18 "They shall take up serpents ; and il
they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them: ^they shall lay theli
hands upon the sick, and they shall re-
cover.

19 And the Lord Jesus, after he had
spoken to them, ^was taken up into
heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of
God.

20 But they going forth preached every
where : the Lord working withal, and
confirming the word with signs that fol-
lowed.

THE

HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,

ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE

St. Luke was a native of Antioch, tJie capital of Syria. He teas hyprofession a pht/sieian /
and some ancient writers say, that he was very skilful in painting. He was converted by
St. Paul ; and became his disciple and com,panion in his travels, and fellow labourer in the
ministry of the Gospel. He wrote in Qreek^ about twenty four years after our Lord's
Ascension.

CHAPTER 1.

The conception of John the Baptist^ and of Christ:
the visitation and canticle of the Blessed Virgin :
the hiHh of the Baptist^ and the canticle of Zach-
ary.

FORASMUCH as many have taken in
hand to set forth in order a narra-
tion of the things that have been accom-
plished among us ;

2 According as they have delivered them
unto us, who from the beginning were
eyewitnesses and ministers of the word :

3 It seemed good to me also, having
diligently attained to all things from the
beginning, to write to thee in order, most
excellent Theophilus,

4 That thou may est know the verity of

X Luke 24. 13. — y Acts 16. 18.
2 Acts 2. 4, and 10. 46.

Chap. l. Ver. 5. Of the coiime of Abia, that is,
of the rank of Abia. wliich word in the GreelrC is com-
monly pnt for the employment of one day: but here
for the functions of a whole week. For, by the ap-
pointment of David, 1 Far. 24., the descendants from

those words in which thou hast been in-
structed.

5 There was in the days of Herod, the
king of Judea, a certain priest named
Zachary, *^ of the course of Abia ; and his
wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and
her name Elizabeth.

6 And they were both just before God,
walking in all the commandments and
justifications of the Lord without blame.

7 And they had no son, for that Eliza-
beth was barren, and they both were well
advanced in years.

8 And it came to pass, when he exe-
cuted the priestly function in the order
of his course before God,

9 According to the custom of the

a Acts 28. 6. — b Acts 28. 8.
c Luke 24. 61. — d 1 Par. 24. 10.

Aaron were divided into twenty-four families, of
which the eighth was Abia, from whom descended
this Zachary, who at this time was in the week of liis
priestly functions.

le angeVs message to Zachary

iestly office, it was» his lot to offer in-
Qse, going into the temple of the
rd.

0 ^ And all the multitude of the people
18 praying without, at the hour of in-
nse.

1 And there appeared to him an angel
the Lord, standing on the right side of
B altar of incense.

2 And Zachary seeing him, was trou-
3d, and fear fell upon him.

3 But the angel said to him: Fear not,
chary, for thy prayer is heard; and
y wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son,
d thou Shalt call his name John :

4 And thou shalt have joy and glad-
iBs, and many shall rejoice in his na-
aty.

5 For he shall be great before the
)rd ; and shall drink no wine nor strong
ink: and he shall be filled with the
oly Ghost, even from his mother's
Dmb.

6 And he shall convert many of the
lildren of Israel to the Lord their God.

7 And he shall go before him in the
lirit and power of Elias ; -^that he may
rn the hearts of the fathers unto the
lildren, and the incredulous to the wis-
)m of the just, to prepare unto the Lord
perfect people.

L8 And Zachary said to the angel:
'^hereby shall I know this ? for I am an
>d man, and my wife is advanced in
3ars.

L9 And the angel answering, said to
im: I am Gabriel, who stand before
od ; and am sent to speak to thee, and
) bring thee these good tidings.

20 And behold, thou shalt be dumb, and
lalt not be able to speak until the day
herein these things shall come to pass,
ecause thou hast not believed my words,
hich shall be fulfilled in their time.

21 And the people were waiting for
achary; and they wondered that he
irried so long in the temple.

22 And when he came out, he could not
peak to them : and they understood that
e had seen a vision in the temple. And
e made signs to them, and remained
umb.

23 And it came to pass, after the days
f his office were accomplished, he de-
parted to his own house.

ST. LUKE The angeVs message to Mary

24 And after those days, Elizabeth his
wife conceived, and hid herself five
months, saying:

25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in
the days wherein he hath had regard to
take away my reproach among men.

26 And in the sixth month, the angel
Gabriel was sent from God into a city of
Galilee, called Nazareth,

27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose
name was Joseph, of the house of David;
and the virgin's name was Mary.

28 And the angel being come in, said
unto her : Hail, full of grace, the Lord
is with thee: blessed art thou among
women.

29 Who having heard, was troubled at
his saying, and thought with herself
what manner of salutation this should
be.

30 And the angel said to her : Fear not,
Mary, for thou hast found grace with
God.

31 s' Behold thou shalt conceive in thy
womb, and shalt bring forth a son ; ^ and
thou shalt call his name Jesus.

32 He shall be great, and shall be called
the Son of the most High ; and the Lord
God shall give unto him the throne of
David his father ; * and he shall reign in
^he house of Jacob for ever.

33 And of his kingdom there shall be
no end.

34 And Mary said to the angel: Ho^
shall this be done, because I know not
man?

35 And the angel answering, said to
'aer: The Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee, and the power of the most High
shall overshadow thee. And therefore
also the Holy which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God.

36 And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she
also hath conceived a son in her old age ;
and this is the sixth month with her that
is called barren:

37 Because no word shall be impossible
with God.

38 And Mary said : Behold the handmaid
of the Lord ; be it done to me according
to thy word. And the angel departec/
from her.

39 And Mary rising up in those days,
went into the hill country with haste into
a city of Juda.

e Ex. 80. 7 ; Lev. 16. 17.
/ Mai. 4. 6 : Matt. 11. 14.

a Isa. 7. 14. — h Infra 2. 21.
i Dan. 7. 14, and 27 ; Mich. 4. 7 ; Isa. 9. 7»

The Magnificat ST. LtlKl^:

40 And she enterad into the house of
Zachary, and saluted Elizabeth.

41 And it came to pass, that when Eliz-
abeth heard the salutation of Mary, the
infant leaped in her womb. And Eliza-
beth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

42 And she cried out with a loud voice,
and said: Blessed art thou among wo-
men, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

43 And whence is this to me, that the
mother of my Lord should come to me ?

44 For behold as soon as the voice of
thy salutation sounded in my ears, the
infant in my womb leaped for joy.

45 And blessed art thou that hast be-
lieved, because those things shall be
accomplished that were spoken to thee
by the Lord. ^

__ 46 And Mary said : My soul doth mag-
nify the Lord.

47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God
my Saviour.

^ 48 Because he hath regarded the humil-
ity of his handmaid ; for behold from
henceforth all generations shall call me
blessed.

49 Because he that is mighty, hath done
great things to me ; and holy is his name.

60 And his mercy is from generation
unto generations, to them that fear him.

61 He hath shewed might -^ in his arm:
he hath scattered the proud in the con-
ceit of their heart.

62 He hath put down the mighty from
their seat, and hath exalted the humble.

63 ^'He hath filled the hungry with
good things ; and the rich he hath sent
empty away.

64 He hath received Israel his servant,
being mindful of his mercy :

65 As he spoke to our fathers, ' to Abra-
^ ham and to his seed for ever.

66 And Mary abode with 'her about
three months; and she returned to her
own house.

67 Now Ehzabeth's full time of being de-
livered was come, aud she brought forth
a son.

58 And her neiglibonrs and kinsfolks
heard that the Lord ]i;;d shewed his great

j Isa. 51. 9; Ps. ?,•!. 10 ^._ „ ._

— i Gon. 17. 9. and '12. Hi; Ps. i;ji. 11 ; Isa. 41.8.
m Supra 13. — /< Ps. 73. 12. — o Ps. 131. 17. — p Jer.

Ver. 48. Skull call .I'c. hhascd. These words are a
prediction of that honour which the church in all
ages should pay to the Blessed Virgin. Let Protest-
ants examine whe'iher they are any way concerned
in this prophecy.

The Benedicl

mercy towards her, and they congr
lated with her.

59 And it came to pass, that on Ke
eighth day they came to circumcise
child, and they called him by his fath 's
name Zachary.

60 And his mother answering, said: ■
so; but he shall be called John.

61 And they said to her: There is t\ i
of thy kindred that is called by
name.

62 And they made signs to his fatlr,
how he would have him called.

63 And demanding a writing table, le
wrote, ^ saying : John is his name. d
they all wondered.

64 And immediately his mouth f^
opened, and his tongue loosed^ and e
spoke, blessing God.

65 And fear came upon all their neiii-
bours ; and all these things were noi
abroad over all the hill country of Juc

66 And all they that had heard tl:|
laid them up in their heart, sayi
What an one, think ye, shall this cl
be ? For the hand of the Lord was m
him.

67 And Zachary his father was fi]
with the Holy Ghost ; and he prophes -j
saying :

68 ^ Blessed be the Lord God of lsrf|
because he hath visited and wrought
redemption of his people :

69 ° And hath raised up an hori
salvation to us, in the house of Ba
his servant:

70 ^ As he spoke by the mouth of
holy prophets, who are from the beg
ning:

71 Salvation from our enemies, and fr
the hand of all that hate us :

72 To perform mercy to our fathers, i
to remember his holy testament,

73 5 The oath, which he swore to Ab
ham our father, that he would grant to

74 That being delivered from the ha
of our enemies, we may serve him wi
out fear,

75 In holiness and justice before hJ
all our days.

/,• ! Iviligs 2. 5 ; Ps. 33. 11. 23. 6, and 30. 10. — q Geu. 22. id : Jer. 31. 33; Hci
"• -■" '' ' ■ 13 and 17.

Ver. 69. Horn of salvation, that is, A powi
salvation, as Dr. Witham translates it. For in
Scripture, by horn is generally understood atrei
and power.

The birth of Jesus

76 And thon, child, sSi^lt bvi calloi the
^prophet of the Highest: ior thou ihalt
go before the face of the Lord to ^jre^^^^re
his ways :

. 77 *■ To give knowledge of salvation to
his people, unto the remission of their
sins :

78 Through the bowels of the mercy of
uur God, in which * the Orient from on
high hath visited us :

'c'9 To enlighten them that sit in dark-
less, and in the shadow of death : to
direct our feet into the way of peace.

80 And the child grew, and was strength-
ened in spirit; and was in the deserts
until the day of his manifestation to
IsraeL

CHAPTER 2.

TJie birth of Christ: his presetitation in the terti-
! ph : Simeon'' s prophecy. Christ,, at twelve years
of age^ is found amongst the doctors.

AND it came to pass, that in those

fiays there went out a decree from
Caesar Augustus, that the whole world
should be enrolled.

2 This enrolling was first made by Cyri-
nus, the governor of Syria.

?' And all went to be enrolled, every one
into his own city.

4 A.nd Joseph also went up from Galilee,
out of the city of Nazareth into Judea, to
the city of * David, which is called " Beth-
lehem : because he was of the house and
family of David,

5 To be enrolled with Mary his espoused
wife, who was with child.

6 And it came to pass, that when they
were there, her days were accomplished,
that she should be delivered.

7 And she brought forth her firstborn
8on, and wrapped him up in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger ^ be-
cause there was no room for them in the
inn,

8 And there were in the same country
shepherds watching, and keeping the
night watches over their flock.

9 And behold an angel of the Lord stood
by them, and the brightness of God shone
round about them; and they feared with
a great fear.

10 And the angel said to them: Fear

ST. LUKE The prcscnta/ion tn ihc temple

not ; for, behold, I brin^ you good tidings
of great joy, that shall be to all the oeo-
ple:

11 For, this day. w born i^o you ; ~')av*
iour, who is Christ the Lord, in who oity
of David.

12 And this shall be a sign unto yoa
You shall find the infant wrapped ijj
swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger.

13 And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly army,
praising God, and saying:

14 Glory to God in the highest ; and on
earth peace to men of good will.

15 And it came fcc pass, after the angels
departed from them into heaven, the
shepherds said one to another : Let us go
over to Bethlehem, and let us see this
word that is corae to pass, which the
Lord hath shewed to us.

16 And they came with haste; and they
found Mary and Joseph, and the infant
lying in the manger

17 And seeing, they understood of the
word that had been spoken to them con-
cerning this child.

18 And all ^ hat heard, wondered ; and at
those ohings that were f.old them by the
shepherds.

19 But Mary kept all these words, pon-
dering them in her heart.

20 And the shepherds returned, glorify-
ing and praising God, for all the things
they had heard and seen, as it was told
unto them.

21 ^And after eight days were accom-
plished, that the child should be circum-
cised, his name was called w Jesus, which
was called by the angel, before he was
conceived in the womb.

22 And after the days of her purifica-
tion, a: according to the law of Moses, were
accomplished, they carried him to Jeru-
salem, to present him to the Lord:

23 As it is written in the law of the
Lord : v Every male opening the wom^b shall
be called holy to the Lord:

24 And to offer a sacrifice, according as
it is written «in the law of the Lord, a

rMal. 4. 5 ; Supra 17. — sZach. 3. 9, and 6. 12 ; Mai.
4. 2. — «1 Kings 20. 6. — wMich. 5. 2; Matt. 2. 6. —

Ver. 78. The Orient. It is one of the titles of the
Messias, the true light of the world, and the sun of
justice.

Chap. 2. Ver. 7. Her firstborn. The meaning is,

pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons:
25 And behold there was a man in Je-
rusalem named Simeon, and this man was

vGen.17.12; Lev. 12. 3.
«Lev. 12. 6. — i/Ex. 13.

— wMatt,
2 : Num.

1.21; Supra 1.31.—
3. 16. — «Lev. 12. 8.

not that she had afterward any other child ; but it
is a way of speech among the Hebrews, to call them
^Iso the firstborn, who are the only children. See
annotation Matt. 1. 25.

Prophecy of Simeon and Anna ST. J^UKE

just and devout, waiting for the consola-
tion of Israel : and the Holy Ghost was
in him

26 And he had received an answer from
the Holy Ghost, that he should not see
death, before he had seen the Christ of
the Lord.

27 And he came by the Spirit into the
temple. And when his parents brought
in the child Jesus, to do for him accord-
ing to the custom of the law,

28 He also took him into hie arms, and
blessed God, and said :

29 Now thou dost dismiss thy servant,
O Lord, according to thy word in peace ;

30 Because my eyes have seen thy sal-
vation,

31 Which thou hast prepared before the
face of all peoples :

32 A light to the revelation of the Gen-
tiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

33 And his father and mother were won-
dering at those things which were spoken
concerning him.

34 And Simeon blessed them, and said
to Mary his mother: " Behold this child is
set for the fall, and for the resurrection
of many in Israel, and for a sign which
shall be contradicted ;

35 And thy own soul a sword shall
pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts
may be revealed.

36 And there was one Anna, a prophet-
ess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe
bt Aser ; she was far advanced in years,
and had lived with her husband seven
years from her virginity.

37 And she was a widow until fourscore
and four years ; who departed not from
the temple, by fastings and prayers serv-
ing night and day.

38 Now she, at the same hour, coming
in, confessed to the Lord; and spoke of
him to all that looked for the redemption
of Israel.

39 And after they had performed all
things according to the law of the Lord,
they returned into Galilee, to their city
Nazareth.

40 And the child grew, and waxed strong,
full of wisdom ; and the grace of God was
in him.,

a Isa. 8. 14 ; Rom. 9. 33 ; 1 Peter 2. 7.
b Ex. 23. 15, and 34. 18 ; Deut 16. 1.

Ver. 34. For the fall, &c. Christ came for the sal-
vation of all men ; but here Simeon prophesies what
would come to pass, that many through their own
«lltui blindDess and obstinacy would not believe iu

Jesus found in the temj

41 And his parents went every year
Jerusalem, ^ at the solemn day of t
pasch,

42 And when he was twelve years ^
they going up into Jerusalem, accordi
to the custom of the feast,

43 And having fulfilled the days, wh
they returned, the child Jesus remain
in Jerusalem; and his parents knew
not.

44 And thinking that he was in the co
pany, they came a day's journey, a
sought him among their kinsfolks a
acquaintance.

45 And not finding him, they return
into Jerusalem, seeking him.

46 And it came to pass, that, after thi
days, they found him in the temple, sitti
in the midst of the doctors, hearing the
and asking them questions.

47 And all that heard him were astc
ished at his wisdom and his answers.

48 And seeing him, they wonder
And his mother said to him : Son, w
hast thou done so to us ? behold thy
ther and I have sought thee sorrowing

49 And he said to them : How is it tl
you sought me ? did you not know, tl
I must be about my father's business ?

60 And they understood not the wc
that he spoke unto them.

51 And he went down with them, aH
came to Nazareth, and was subject )
them. And his mother kept all thi )
words in her heart.

52 And Jesus advanced in wisdom, si
age, and grace with God and men. i

CHAPTER 3.

John's mission and preaching,
by him.

Christ is baj)! i

NOW in the fifteenth year ** of 3
reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius -
late being governor of Judea, and He. \
being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip a
brother tetrarch of Iturea, and the co -
try of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetra a
of Abilina ;

2 * Under the high priests Annas ji
Caiphas ; the word of the Lord was m;
unto John, the son of Zachary, in
desert.

c A. D. 4-8. — d A. D. 25-26. — e Acts. 4. 6.

Christ, nor receive his doctrine, which there
would be ruin to them : but to others a refnirrcei
by their believing iu him, and obeying his comra
ments.

The preaching of the Baptist ST. LUKE

I i ^ And he came into all the country
I about the Jordan, preaching the baptism

of penance for the remission of sins ;
\ 4 As it was written in the book of the
I Bayings of Isaias the prophet : ^ A voice

of one crying in the wildemess: Prepare ye
I Vie way of the Lord, make straight his
t paths.

5 Every valley shall he filled; and every
mountain and hill shall be brought low;

: and the crooked shall be made straight;
and the rough ways plain;

6 And all flesh shall »£e the salvation of
God.

7 He said therefore to the multitudes
that went forth to be baptized by him :
* Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed
you to flee from the wrath to come ?

8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of
penance ; and do not begin to say. We
have Abraham for our father. For I say
nnto you, that God is able of these stones
to raise up children to Abraham.

9 For now the axe is laid to the root
Of the trees. Every tree therefore that
bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be
cut down and cast into the fire.

10 And the people asked him, saying :
What then shall we do ?

11 And he answering, said to them: 'He
that hath two coats, let him give to him
that hath none ; and he that hath meat,
let him do in like manner.

12 And the publicans also came to be
baptized, and said to him : Master, what
shall we do ?

13 But he said to them: Do nothing
more than that which is appointed you.

14 And the soldiers also asked him,
Baying : And what shall we do ? And he
said to them: Do violence to no man ;
neither calumniate any man; and be
content with your pay.

15 And as the people were of opinion,
and all were thinking in their hearts of
John, that perhaps he might be the
Christ ;

16 John answered, saying unto all: •?!
Indeed baptize you with water ; but
'^ere shall come one mightier than I, the
tetchet of whose shoes I am not worthy

/ Matt 3. 1 , Mark l. 4. — (? Isa. 40. 3 : Jolin 1. -23. —
h Matt 3. 7, and 23. 33.-2 James 2. 15 ; l John .s. 17.
— j Matt 3. 11 ; Mark 1. 8 ; John 1. 26. ~ k Matt 3. 11 ;

The baptism of Jesus

to loose : * he shall baptize yea with th£
Holy Ghost, and with fire :

17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he
will purge his floor, and will gather the
wheat into his barn; but the chaff tie»
will burn with unquenchable fire.

18 And many other things exhorting,
did he preach to the people.

19 ^ But Herod the tetrarch, when he
was reproved by him for Herodias, hie
brother's wife, and for all the evils which
Herod had done ;

20 He added this also above all, and
shut up John in prison.

21 "*Now it came to pass, when all the
people were baptized, that Jesus also
being baptized and praying, heaven was
opened ;

22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a
bodily shape, as a dove upon him ; ana
a voice came from heaven: '^Thou art
my beloved Son ; in thee I am well
pleased.

23 And Jesus himself was beginning
about the age of thirty years ; being (as
it was supposed) the son of Joseph, who
was of Heli, who was of Mathat,

24 Who was of Levi, who was of Melchi,
who was of Janne, who was of Joseph,

25 Who was of Mathathias, who was of
Amos, who was of Nahum, who was of
Hesli, who was of Nagge,

26 Who was of Mahath, who was of
Mathathias, who was of Semei, who was
of Joseph, who was of Juda,

27 Who was of Joanna, who was of
Reza, who was of Zorobabel, who was of
Salathiel, who was of Neri,

28 Who was of Melchi, who was of
Addi, who was of Cosan, who was of
Helmadan, who was of Her,

29 Who was of Jesus, who was of Elie-
zer, who was of Jorim, who was of Ma-
tbat, who was of Levi,

30 Who was of Simeon, who was of
Judas, who was of Joseph, who was of
Jona, who was of Eliakim,

31 Who was of Melea, who was of Men-
na, who was of Mathatha, who was of
Nathan, who was of David,

32 Who was of Jesse, who was of Obed,

Acts 1.5, 11. Ifi, aiul 19. 4. - / M.Ttt. 14. 4 ; Mark 6. 17.
— m Matt 3. 16; Mark l, lO: John 1. 32- — 7i Matt 3.
17. and 17. 5: Infra 9. 35; 2 Feter 1. 17.

Chap. 3. Ver. 23. Who was oj Heli. i>t. .Joseph,
who by nature was the son of Jacob (St. Matt. 1. 16),
in the account of the law. was son of Heli. For Heli
and Jacob were brothers, by the samfi mother; and

Heli, who was the elder, dying without issue, Jacob,
as the law directed, married his widow; in conse-
quence of such marriace, his son Joseph was reputed
i^ the law the son of Heli.

Jesus tempted by the devil

ST. LUKE

Jesus preaches in Nazarei

who was of Booz, who was of Salmon,
who was of Naasson,

33 Who was of Aminadab, who was of
A.ram, who was of Esron, who was of
Phares, who was of Judas,

34 Who was of Jacob, who was of
Isaac, who was of Abraham, who was of
Thare, who was of Nachor,

35 Who was of Sarug, who was of Ra-
gau, who was of Phaleg, who was of
Heber, who was of Sale,

36 Who was of Cainan, who was of Ar-
phaxad, who was of Sem, who was of
Noe, who was of Lamech,

37 Who was of Mathusale, who was of
Henoch, who was of Jared, who was of
Malaleel, who was of Cainan,

38 Who was of Henos, who was of Seth,
who was of Adam, who was of God.

CHAPTER 4.

Christ's fasting and temptation. He is persecuted
in Nazareth : his miracles in Capharnaum.

AND ** Jesus being full of the Holy
x\ Ghost, returned from the Jordan,
and was led by the Spirit into the desert,

2 For the space of forty days ; and was
tempted by the devil. And he ate no-
thing in those days ; and when they were
ended, he was hungry.

3 And the devil said to him : If thou be
the Son of God, say to this stone that it
be made bread.

4 And Jesus answered him : It is writ-
ten, P that Man liveth not by bread alone,
but by every word of God.

5 And the devil led him into a high
mountain, and shewed him all the king-
doms of the world in a moment of time ;

6 And he said to him : To thee will I
give all this power, and the glory of
them ; for to me they are delivered, and
to whom I will, I give them.

7 If thou therefore wilt adore before me,
all shall be thine.

8 And Jesus answering said to him : ^ It
is written : Thou shalt adore the Lord thy
God, and him only shalt thou serve.

9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and
set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and
he said to him: If thou be the Son of
God, cast thyself from hence.

10 ^ For it is written, that He hath given
Ms angels charge over thee, that they keep thee.

o Matt. 4. 1 ; Mark 1. 2. — p Deut. 8. 3; Matt. 4, 4. —
ff Deut. 6. 13, and 10. 20. — r Ps. 90. 11. — s Deut. 6. 16.
—t Matt. 4. 12; Mark 1. 14. — u Matt. 13. 54; Mark

1 1 And that in their hands they shall bee
thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy fot
against a stone.

12 And Jesus answering, said to him
It is said : * Thou shalt not tempt the Lm
thy God.

13 And all the temptation being ende«
the devil departed from him for a time

14 * And Jesus returned in the power <
the spirit, into Gahlee, and the fame (
him went out through the whole country

16 And he taught in their synagogue
and was magnified by all.

16 " And he came to Nazareth, where h
was brought up : and he went into th
synagogue, according to his custom, o
the sabbath day ; and he rose up to rea<

17 And the book of Isaias the proph(
was delivered unto him. And as he ui
folded the book, he found the place whei
it was written:

18 ^ The Spirit of the Lord is upon m
Wherefore he hath anointed me to preai
the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me
heal the contrite of heart,

19 To preach deliverance to the captive
and sight to the blind, to set at liberty the
that are bruised, to preach the acceptab
year of the Lord, and the day of reward.

20 And when he had folded the book, 1
restored it to the minister, and sat dow
And the eyes of all in the synagogi
were fixed on him.

21 And he began to say to them : Th
day is fulfilled this scripture in your ear

22 And all gave testimony to him : ar
they wondered at the words of grac
that proceeded from his mouth, and fch€
said : Is not this the son of Joseph ?

23 And he said to them: Doubtless yc
will say to me this similitude : Physicia
heal thyself : as great things as we ha^
heard done in Capharnaum, do also hei
in thy own country.

24 And he said : Amen I say to you, th;
no prophet is accepted in his own couiitr

25 In truth I say to you, ^ there wei
many widows in the days of Elias in I
rael, when heaven was shut up thr(
years and six months, when there was
great famine throughout all the earth.

26 And to none of them was Elias sen
but to Sarepta of Sidon,to awidowwoma

27 ^ And there were many lepers in I

6. 1; John 4. 45. — v Isa.
X 4 Kings 5. 14.

61. 1. — w 3 Kings 17. 2

The miracles in Caphamaum ST. LUKE The miraculouff draught of fishes

rael in the time of Eliseus the prophet :
and none of them was cleansed but
Naaman the Syrian.

28 And all they in the synagogue, hear-
ing these things, were filled with anger.

29 And they rose up and thrust him out
of the city ; and they brought him to the
brow of the hill, whereon their city was
built, that they might cast him down
headlong.

30 But he passing through the midst of
them, went his way.

31 ^ And he went down into Caphar-
naum, a city of Galilee, and there he
taught them on the sabbath days.

32 ^ And they were astonished at his
doctrine: for his speech was with power.

33 " And in the synagogue there was a
man who had an unclean devil, and he
cried out with a loud voice,

34 Saying : Let us alone, what have we
to do with thee, Jesus of Nazareth ? art
thou come to destroy us ? I know thee
who thou art, the holy one of God.

35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying : Hold
thy peace, and go out of him. And when
the devil had thrown him into the midst,
he went out of him, and hurt him not at
all.

36 And there came fear upon all, and
they talked among themselves, saying:
What word is this, for with authority
and power he commandeth the unclean
spirits, and they go out?

37 And the fame of him was published
into every place of the country.

38 And Jesus rising up out of the syna-
gogue, went into Simon's house. ^ And
Simon's wife's mother was taken with a
great fever, and they besought him for
her.

39 And standing over her, he com-
manded the fever, and it left her. And
immediately rising, she ministered to
them.

40 And when the sun was down, all
they that had any sick with divers dis-
eases, brought them to him. But he lay-
ing his hands on every one of them,
healed them.

41 ^ And devils went out from many,
crying out and saying: Thou art the Son
of God. And rebuking them he suffered
them not to speak, for they knew that he
was Christ.

I/ Matt. 4. 13; Mark 1. 21 —
a Mark 1. 23.

Matt. 7. 28.

42 And when it was day, going out he
went into a desert place, and the multi-
tudes sought him, and came unto him:
and they stayed him that he should not
depart from them.

43 To whom he said : To other cities
also I must preach the kingdom of God ;
for therefore am I sent.

44 And he was preaching in the syna-
gogues of Galilee.

CHAPTER 6.

The miraculous draught of fishes. The cure of the
leper and of the paralytic. The call of Mat-
thew.

AND it came to pass, that when the

J\. multitudes pressed upon him to

hear the word of God, he stood by the

lake of Genesareth,

2 ^ And saw two ships standing by the
lake : but the fishermen were gone out
of them, and were washing their nets.

3 And going into one of the ships that
was Simon's, he desired him to draw
back a little from the land. And sitting
he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

4 Now when he had ceased to speak, he
said to Simon : Launch out into the
deep, and let down your nets for a
draught.

5 And Simon answering said to him:
Master, we have laboured all the night,
and have taken nothing: but at thy
word I will let down the net.

6 And when they had done this, they
enclosed a very great multitude of fishes,
and their net broke.

7 And they beckoned to their partners
that were in the other ship, that they
should come and help them. And they
came, and filled both the ships, so that
they were almost sinking.

8 Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell
down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart
from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

9 For he was wholly astonished, and all
that were with him, at the draught of
the fishes which they had taken.

10 And so were also James and John
the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's
partners. And Jesus saith to Simon:
Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt
catch men.

11 And having brought their ships to
land, leaving all things, they followe(i
him.

b Matt. 8. 14; Mark 1. 31. — c Mark 1. 34.
d Matt. 4. 18; Mark 1. 16.

Cureof the leper and the paralytic ST. LUKE

The calling of Matthei

12 ^ And it came to pass, wben he was
in a certain city, behold a man full of
leprosy, who seeing Jesus, and falling on
his face, besought him, saying : Lord, if
thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

13 And stretching forth his hand, he
touched him, saying: I will. Be thou
jcleansed. And immediately the leprosy
departed from him.

14 And he charged him that he should
tell no man, but. Go, shew thyself to the
priest, -^and offer for thy cleansing ac-
cording as Moses commanded, for a tes-
timony to them.

15 But the fame of him went abroad
the more, and great multitudes came to-
gether to hear, and to be healed by him
of their infirmities.

16 And he retired into the desert, and
prayed.

17 And it came to pass on a certain
day, as he sat teaching, that there were
also Pharisees and doctors of the law
sitting by, that were come out of every
town of Galilee, and Judea and Jerusa-
lem : and the power of the Lord was to
heal them.

18 fl' And behold, men brought in a bed
a man, who had the palsy: and they
sought means to bring him in, and to
lay him before him.

19 And when they could not find by
what way they might bring him in, be-
cause of the multitude, they went up
upon the roof, and let him down through
the tiles with his bed into the midst be-
fore Jesus.

20 Whose faith when he saw, he said :
Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

21 And the scribes and Pharisees began
to think, saying : Who is this who speak-
eth blasphemies? Who can forgive sins,
but God alone ?

22 And when Jesus knew their thoughts,
answering, he said to them: What is it
you think in your hearts?

23 Which is easier to say. Thy sins are
forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and
walk?

24 But that you may know that the
Son of man hath power on earth to for-
give sins, (he saith to the sick of the
palsy,) I say to thee, Arise, take up thy
bed, and go into thy house.

25 And immediately rising up before

e Matt 8. 2 ; Mark i. 40. — / Lev. 14, 4.
g Matt 9. 2; Mark 2. 3.

them, he took up the bed on which b
lay ; and he went away to his own house
glorifying God.

26 And all were astonished; and the;
glorified God. And they were fille
with fear, saying : We have seen won
derful things to day.

27 '^And after these things he wen
forth, and saw a publican named Lev:
sitting at the receipt of custom, and b
said to him : Follow me.

28 And leaving all things, he rose u
and followed him.

29 And Levi made him a great feast i:
his own house; and there was a grea
company of publicans, and of otherj
that were at table with them.

30 * But the Pharisees and scribes mm
mured, saying to his disciples : Why d
you eat and drink with publicans an
sinners ?

31 And Jesus answering, said to them
They that are whole, need not the phj
sician : but they that are sick.

32 I came not to call the just, but siu
ners to penance.

33 And they said to him: «^Why do th
disciples of John fast often, and mak
prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisee
in like manner ; but thine eat and drink

34 To whom he said: Can you mak
the children of the bridegroom fasi
whilst the bridegroom is with them ?

35 But the days will come, when th
bridegroom shall be taken away froi
them, then shall they fast in those dayi

36 And he spoke also a similitude t
them: That no man putteth a piec
from a new garment upon an old gai
ment; otherwise he both rendeth th
new, and the piece taken from the ne^
agreeth not with the old.

37 And no man putteth new wine int
old bottles : otherwise the new wine wi
break the bottles, and it will be spillec
and the bottles will be lost.

38 But new wine must be put into ne^
bottles ; and both are preserved.

39 And no man drinking old, hath pre
sently a mind to new: for he saith, Th
old is better.

CHAPTER 6.

Christ excuses Ms disciples he cures upon the sa
bath day: chooses the twelve, and makes a 86
mon to them.

h Matt. 9. 9 ; Mark 2. 14. — i Mark 2. i6.
J Mark 2. IS

Cure of the withered hand ST. LUKE

, A ND ^ it came to pass on the second
/\. first sabbath, that as he went
hrough the corn fields, his disciples
-)lucked the ears, and did eat, rubbing
^hem in their hands.

^2 And some of the Pharisees said to
;hem: Why do you that which is not law-
ful on the sabbath days?
.3 And Jesus answering them, said: Have
^ou not read so much as this, what David
iid, when himself was hungry, and they
phat were with him:

4 ^ How he went into the house of God,
and took and ate the bread of proposi-
tion, and gave to them that were with
him, which is not lawful to eat «* but only
for the priests?

5 And he said to them : The Son of man
is Lord also of the sabbath.

6 And it came to pass also on another
sabbath, that he entered into the syna-
gogue, and taught, ^ And there was a
man, whose right hand was withered.

7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched
if he would heal on the sabbath ; that they
might find an accusation against him.

8 But he knew their thoughts; and said
to the man v;ho had the withered hand:
Arise, and stand forth in the midst. And
rising he stood forth.

9 Then Jesus said to them : I ask you, if
it be lawful on the sabbath days to do
good, or to do evil; to save life, or to
destroy?

10 And looking round about on them
all, he said to the man : Stretch forth thy
hand. And he stretched it forth: and
his hand was restored.

11 And they were filled with madness;
and they talked one with another, what
they might do to Jesus.

12 And it came to pass in those days,
that he went out into a mountain to pray,
and he passed the whole night in the
prayer of God.

13 0 And when day was come, he called
unto him his disciples; and he chose
twelve of them (whom also he named
apostles) :

14 Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and
Andrew his brother, James and John,
Philip and Bartholomew,

The Sermon on the Mount

A; Matt. 12. 1 ; Mark 2. 23.— Zl Kings 21. 6.— m Ex.
29. 32 : Lev. 24. 5.—n Matt. 12. 10 ; Mark 3. 1.—
oMatt. 10. 1 ; Mark 3. 13.— p Matt. 5. 2.— a Matt. 5.6.

Chap. 6. Ver. 1. The second first sabbath. Some
understand this of the sabbath of Pentecost, which
was the second in course among the great feasts ;

15 Matthew and Thomas, James the son
of Alpheus, and Simon who is called
Zelotes,

16 And Jude, the brother of James, and
Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor.

17 And coming down with them, he
stood in a plain place, and the company
of his disciples, and a very great multi-
tude of people from all Judea and Jeru-
salem, and the sea coast both of Tyre and
Sidon,

18 Who were come to hear him, and to
be healed of their diseases. And they
that were troubled with unclean spirits,
were cured.

19 And all the multitude sought to
touch him, for virtue went out from him,
and healed all.

20 P And he, lifting up his eyes on his
disciples, said: Blessed are ye poor, for
yours is the kingdom of God.

21 Q Blessed are ye that hunger now:
for you shall be filled. Blessed are ye
that weep now: for you shall laugh.

22 ^" Blessed shall you be when men shall
hate you, and when they shall separate
you, and shall reproach you, and cast
out your name as evil, for the Son of
man's sake.

23 Be glad in that day and rejoice; for
behold, your reward is great in heaven.
For according to these things did their
fathers to the prophets.

24 s But woe to you that are rich : for
you have your consolation.

25 * Woe to you that are filled : for you
shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh:
for you shall mourn and weep.

26 Woe to you when men shall bless
you: for according to these things did
their fathers to the false prophets.

27 But I say to you that hear : "Love your
enemies, do good to them that hate you.

28 Bless them that curse you, and pray
for them that calumniate you.

29 And to him that striketh thee on the
one cheek, offer also the other. And him
that taketh away from thee thy cloak,
forbid not to take thy coat also.

30 Give to every one that asketh thee,
and of him that taketh away thy goods,
ask them not again.

— r Matt. 5. 11. — s Eccli. 31. 8 ; Amos 6. 1. — t Isa. 65.
13. — u Matt 5. 44.

others, of a sabbath day that immediately followed
any solemn feast.

The Sermon on the Mount

ST. LUKE

The Centurion* s servant

31 And as you would that men should
do to you, do you also to them in like
manner.

32 And if you love them that love you,
what thanks are to you? for sinners also
love those that love them.

33 And if you do good to them who do
good to you, what thanks are to you?
for sinners also do this.

34 "^ And if you lend to them of whom
you hope to receive, what thanks are to
you? for sinners also lend to sinners, for
to receive as much.

35 But love ye your enemies : do good,
and lend, hoping for nothing thereby:
and your reward shall be great, and you
shall be the sons of the Highest ; for he
is kind to the unthankful, and to the
evil.

36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your
Father also is merciful.

37 ^ Judge not, and you shall not be
judged. Condemn not, and you shall not
be condemned. Forgive, and you shall
be forgiven.

38 Give, and it shall be given to you:
good measure and pressed down and
shaken together and running over shall
they give into your bosom. ^ For with
the same measure that you shall mete
withal, it shall be measured to you
again.

39 And he spoke also to them a simili-
tude : Can the blind lead the blind ? do
they not both fall into the ditch ?

40 y The disciple is liot above his mas-
ter : but every one shall be perfect, if he
be as his master.

41 ^ And why seest thou the mote in thy
brother's eye : but the beam that is in thy
own eye thou considerest not ?

42 Or how canst thou say to thy bro-
ther : Brother, let me pull the mote out
of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not
the beam in thy own eye? Hypocrite,
cast first the beam out of thy own eye ;
and then shalt thou see clearly to take
out the mote from thy brother's eye.

43 " For there is no good tree that bring-
eth forth evil fruit ; nor an evil tree that
bringeth forth good fruit.

44 For every tree is known by its fruit.
For men do not gather figs from thorns ;
nor from a bramble bush do they gather
the grape.

V Deut. 15. 8 ; Matt. 5. 4,2. — w Matt. 7. l. — a; Matt.
7. 2; Mark 4. 24. — ]/ Matt 10. 24} John 13. 16. ~

45 A good man out of the good treasure
of his heart bringeth forth that which ig
good: and an evil man out of the evi
treasure bringeth forth that which is
evil. For out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh.

46 And why call you me, * Lord, Lord
and do not the things which I say ?

47 Every one that cometh to me, anc
heareth my words, and doth them, I wil
shew you to whom he is like.

48 He is like to a man building a house
who digged deep, and laid the foundatioi
upon a rock. And when a flood came
the stream beat vehemently upon thai
house, and it could not shake it ; for i1
was founded on a rock.

49 But he that heareth, and doth not, ie
like to a man building his house upoB
the earth without a foundation : againsi
which the stream beat vehemently, and
immediately it fell, and the ruin of thai
house was great.

CHAPTER 7.

Christ heals the centurion's servant: raises tht
widotv^s son to life : ansivers the messengers sem
by John : and absolves the penitent sinner.

AND ^'when he had finished all hit
JLX. words in the hearing of the people,
he entered into Capharnaum.

2 And the servant of a certain centu-
rion, who was dear to him, being sick,
was ready to die.

3 And when he had heard of Jesus, he
sent unto him the ancients of the Jews,
desiring him to come and heal his ser-
vant.

4 And when they came to Jesus, they
besought him earnestly, saying to him:
He is worthy that thou shouldest do thig
for him.

5 For he loveth our nation ; and he hath
built us a synagogue.

6 And Jesus went with them. And
when he was now not far from the
house, the centurion sent his friends tc
him, saying: ^Lord, trouble not thyself
for I am not worthy that thou shouldest
enter under my roof.

7 For which cause neither did I thini
myself worthy to come to thee ; but saj
the word, and my servant shall be
healed.

8 For I also am a man subject to author-
ity, having under me soldiers : and I say

2 Matt. 7. 3. — a Matt. 7. 18, and 12. 33. — b Matt. 7. 21 ;
Bom. 2. 13 i James l. 22. — c Matt. s.5.—d Matt. 8. a

Jesus restores the widow* s son ST. LUKE Jesus gives testimony to John

to one, Go, and he goeth; and to an-
other, Come, and he cometh ; and to my
servant. Do this, and he doth it.

9 Which Jesus hearing, marvelled : and
tm'ning about to the multitude that fol-
lowed him, he said: Amen I say to you,
I have not found so great faith, not even
in Israel.

10 And they who were sent, being re-
turned to the house, found the servant
whole who had been sick.

11 And it came to pass afterwards, that
he went into a city that is called Naim ;
and there went with him his disciples,
and a great multitude.

12 And when he came nigh to the gate
of the city, behold a dead man was car-
ried out, the only son of his mother;
and she was a widow : and a great mul-
titude of the city was with her.

13 Whom when the Lord had seen, be-
ing moved with mercy towards her, he
said to her: Weep not.

14 And he came near and touched the
bier. And they that carried it, stood
still. And he said: Young man, I say to
thee, arise.

15 And he that was dead, sat up, and
began to speak. And he gave him to his
mother.

16 And there came a fear on them all:
and they glorified God, saying: ^A great
prophet is risen up among us : and, God
bath visited his people.

17 And this rumour of him went forth
throughout all Judea, and throughout all
the country round about.

18 And John's disciples told him of all
these things.

19 -^And John called to him two of his
disciples, and sent them to Jesus, saying :
A.rt thou he that art to come ; or look
we for another?

20 And when the men were come unto
bim, they said: John the Baptist hath
sent us to thee, saying: Art thou he that
art to come ; or look we for another ?

21 (And in that same hour, he cured
many of their diseases, and hurts, and
^vil spirits : and to many that were blind
he gave sight.)

22 And answering, he said to them : Go

e Infra 24. 19 ; Joiin 4. 19, — / Matt. 11. 2.
g Isa. 35. 5.

Chap. 7. Ver. 29. Justified God; that is, praised
toe justice of God, feared and worshipped God, as
put and meroif uL

and relate to John what you have heard
and seen: ^ the blind see, the lame walk,
the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear,
the dead rise again, to the poor the gos-
pel is preached:

23 And blessed is he whosoever shall
not be scandalized in me.

24 And when the messengers of John
were departed, he began to speak to the
multitudes concerning John. What went
ye out into the desert to see? a reed
shaken with the wind?

25 But what went you out to see? a
man clothed in soft garments? Behold
they that are in costly apparel and live
delicately, are in the houses of kings.

26 But what went you out to see? a
prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more
than a prophet.

27 '^This is he of whom it is written:
Behold I send my angel before thy /ace, who
shall prepare thy way before thee,

28 For I say to you : Amongst those
that are born of women, there is not a
greater prophet than John the Baptist.
But he that is the lesser in the kingdom
of God, is greater than he.

29 And all the people hearing, and the
publicans, justified God, being baptized
with John's baptism.

30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers
despised the counsel of God against
themselves, being not baptized by him.

31 And the Lord said : '^ Whereunto then
shall I liken the men of this generation?
and to what are they like ?

32 They are like to children sitting in
the marketplace, and speaking one to
another, and saying : We have piped to
you, and you have not danced : we have
mourned, and you have not wept.

33 •? For John the Baptist came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine ; and you
say: He hath a devil.

34 The Son of man is come eating and
drinking: and you say: Behold a man
that is a glutton and a drinker of wine,
a friend of publicans and sinners.

35 And wisdom is justified by all her
children.

36 And one of the Pharisees desired
him to eat with him. And he went into

h Mai. 3. 1"; Matt 11. ^0 ; Mark 1. 2.
i Matt. 11. 16.— j Matt. 3, 4; Mark 1. 6.

Ver. 36. One o/ the Pharisees: Uiatis,Simoa

Jesus pardons penitent woman ST. LUKE

Parable of sower and seed -

the house of the Pharisee, and sat down
to meat.

37 *And behold a woman that was in
the city, a sinner, when she knew that
he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house,
brought an alabaster box of ointment ;

38 And standing behind at his feet, she
began to wash his feet, with tears, and
wiped them with the hairs of her head,
and kissed his feet, and anointed them
with the ointment.

39 And the Pharisee, who had invited
him, seeing it, spoke within himself, say-
ing: This man, if he were a prophet,
would know surely who and what man-
ner of woman this is that toucheth him,
that she is a sinner.

40 And Jesus answering, said to him:
Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee.
But he said : Master, say it.

41 A certain creditor had two debtors,
the one owed five hundred pence, and
the other fifty.

42 And whereas they had not wherewith
to pay, he forgave them both. Which
therefore of the two loveth him most?

43 Simon answering, said : I suppose that
he to whom he forgave most. And he
eaid to him : Thou hast judged rightly.

44 And turning to the woman, he said
unto Simon: Dost thou see this woman?
I entered into thy house, thou gavest
me no water for my feet ; but she with
tears hath washed my feet, and with her
hairs hath wiped them.

45 Thou gavest me no kiss; but she,
since she came in, hath not ceased to
kiss my feet.

46 My head with oil thou didst not
anoint; but she with ointment hath
anointed my feet.

47 Wherefore I say to thee : Many sins
are forgiven her, because she hath loved
much. But to whom less is forgiven, he
loveth less.

48 And he said to her: 'Thy sins are
forgiven thee.

49 And they that sat at meat with him
began to say within themselves: Who is
this that f orgiveth sins also ?

k Matt 26. 7; Mark 14. 3; John 11, 2, and 12. 3.—
I Matt. U. 2. — m Mark IG. 9.— n Matt. i;j. 3; Mark

Ver. 47. Mnvy sins are forgiven her, becatise she
hath loved murh. In the scripture an effect some-
times seems attributed to one only cause, when there
are divers other concurring dispositions ; for the sins
of this woman, in this verse, are said to be forgiven,
because she loved viw-h ■ but (ver. r>o^ Christ tells

50 And ho said to the woman: Thy faith
hath made thee safe, go in peace.

CHAPTER 8.

The parable of the seed. Christ stills the storm cU
sea : casts out the legion : heals the issue of blood:
and raises the daughter of Jairus to life.

AND it came to pass afterwards, that
XjL he travelled through the cities and
towns, preaching and evangelizing the
kingdom of God; and the twelve with him:

2 And certain women who had been
healed of evil spirits and infirmities;
"^Mary who is called Magdalen, out ol
whom seven devils were gone forth,

3 And Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's
steward, and Susanna, and many othere
who ministered unto him of their sub-
stance.

4 And when a very great multitude waa
gathered together, and hastened out of
the cities unto him, he spoke by a simili-
tude.

5 '^ The sower went out to sow his seed.
And as he sowed, some fell by the way
side, and it was trodden down, and the
fowls of the air devoured it.

6 And other some fell upon a rock : and
as soon as it was sprung up, it withered
away, because it had no moisture.

7 And other some fell among thorns,
and the thorns growing up with it, choked
it.

8 And other some fell upon good ground ;
and being sprung up, yielded fruit a hun-
dredfold. Saying these things, he cried
out: °He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear.

9 And his disciples asked him what this
parable might be.

10 To whom he said: To you it is given
to know the mystery of the kingdom oi
God; but to the rest in parables, that
seeing they may not see, and hearing
may not understand.

11 Now the parable is this: The seed ifi
the word of God.

12 And they by the way side are they
that hear; then the devil cometh, and
taketh the word out of their heart, lest
believing they should be saved.

4. 3. — o Isa. G. 1) ; Matt. 13. 14 ; Mark 4. 12 ; John 1%
40 ; Acts 28. 2(5 ; Rom. 11. 8.

her, Thy faith hathmade thee safe. Hence in a true
conversion are joined faith, hope, love, sorrow foi
sin, and other pious dispositions. ^

Chap. 8. Ver. 10. Seeing they maynct see. SM
the aunotation. Mark 4. 12.

7«

le stilling of the tempest

ST. LUKE Jesus casts out legion of devils

3 Now they npon the rock, are they
bo when they hear, receive the word
th joy: and these have no roots; for
ey believe for a while, and in time of
mptation, they fall away.

4 And that which fell among thorns,
e they who have heard, and going
eir way, are choked with the cares
id riches and pleasures of this life, and
eld no fruit.

.5 But that on the good ground, are
.ey who in a good and perfect heart,
jaring the word, keep it, and bring
rth fruit in patience.
.6 ^Now no man lighting a candle cov-
•eth it with a vessel, or putteth it under
bed ; but setteth it upon a candlestick,
lat they who come in may see the light.
L7 ^ For there is not any thing secret
lat shall not be made manifest, nor hid-
3n, that shall not be known and come
jroad.

L8 Take heed therefore how you hear,
for whosoever hath, to him shall be
LTjen: and whosoever hath not, that
[so which he thinketh he hath, shall be
iken away from him.

19 * And his mother and brethren came
Qto him; and they could not come at
im for the crowd.

20 And it was told him : Thy mother
Qd thy brethren stand without, desiring
> see thee.

21 Who answering, said to them : My
lother and my brethren are they who
ear the word of God, and do it.

22 * And it came to pass on a certain
ay that he went into a little ship with
la disciples, and he said to them: Let
fl go over to the other side of the lake,
ind they launched forth.

23 And when they were sailing, he slept ;
nd there came down a storm of wind
ipon the lake, and they were filled, and
^ere in danger.

24 And they came and awaked him,
aying: Master, we perish. But he aris-
ng, rebuked the wind and the rage of
he water ; and it ceased, and there was
I calm.

25 And he said to them : Where is your
aith ? Who being afraid, wondered, say-
ng one to another: Who is this, (think
rou), that he commandeth both the winds
tnd the sea, and they obey him ?

26 And they sailed to the country ol
the Gerasens, which is over against Gal-
ilee.

27 And when he was come forth to the
land, there met him a certain man who
had a devil now a very long time, and he
wore no clothes, neither did he abide in
a house, but in the sepulchres.

28 And when he saw Jesus, he fell down
before him ; and crying out with a loud
voice, he said : What have I to do with
thee, Jesus, Son of the most high God?
I beseech thee, do not torment mec

29 For he commanded the unclean spirit
to go out of the man. For many times
it seized him, and he was bound with
chains, and kept in fetters ; and breaking
the bonds, he was driven by the devil
into the deserts.

30 And Jesus asked him, saying : What
is thy name? But he said: Legion; be-
cause many devils were entered into him.

31 And they besought him that he
would not command them to go into the
abyss.

32 And there was there a herd of many
swine feeding on the mountain ; and
they besought him that he would suffer
them to enter into them. And he suf-
fered them.

33 The devils therefore went out of the
man, and entered into the swine ; and
the herd ran violently down a steep place
into the lake, and were stifled.

34 Which when they that fed them saw
done, they fled away, and told it in the
city and in the villages.

35 And they went out to see what was
done ; and they came to Jesus, and found
the man, out of whom the devils were
departed, sitting at his feet, clothed, and
in his right mind ; and they were afraid.

36 And they also that had seen, told
them how he had been healed from the
legion.

37 And all the multitude of the country
of the Gerasens besought him to depart
from them ; for they were taken with
great fear. And he, going up into the
ship, returned back again.

38 Now the man, out of whom the devils
were departed, besought him that he
might be with him. But Jesus sent him
away, saying :

39 Return to thy house, and tell how

p Matt. 5. 15 ; Mark 4. 21.
q Matt. .10. 26s Mark 4. 23.

r Matt. 13. 12, and 25. 29. — s Matt. 12. 46 ; Mark 3. 32.
t Matt. 3. 23, Mark 4. 36.

The woman irith an issue of blood ST. LUKE Jesus sends out the twelve apostlt

great things God hath done to thee.
And he went through the whole city,
publishing how great things Jesus had
done to him.

40 And it came to pass, that when Jesus
was returned, the multitude received
him : for they were all waiting for him.

41 ^ And behold there came a man
whose name was Jairus, and he was a
ruler of the synagogue : and he fell down
at the feet of Jesus, beseeching him that
he would come into his house :

42 For he had an only daughter, almost
twelve years old, and she was dying.
And it happened as he went, that he was
thronged by the multitudes.

43 And there was a certain woman
having an issue of blood twelve years,
who had bestowed all her substance on
physicians, and could not be healed by
any.

44 She came behind him, and touched
the hem of his garment ; and immedi-
ately the issue of her blood stopped.

45 And Jesus said : Who is it that
touched me ? And all denying, Peter and
they that were with him. said : Master,
the multitudes throng and press thee,
and dost thou say. Who touched me ?

46 And Jesus said : Somebody hath
touched me ; for I know that virtue is
gone out from me.

47 And the woman seeing that she was
not hid, came trembling, and fell down
before his feet, and declared before all
the people for what cause she had
touched him, and how she was immedi-
ately healed.

48 But he said to her: Daughter, thy
faith hath made thee whole : go thy way
in peace.

49 As be was yet speaking, there com-
eth one to the ruler of the synagogue,
saying to him: Thy daughter is dead,
trouble him not.

60 And Jesus hearing this word, an-
swered the father of the maid : Fear
not ; believe only, and she shall be safe.

61 And when he was come to ^he house,
he suffered not any man to go in with
him, but Peter and James and John, and
the father and mother of the maiden.

62 And all wept and mourned for her.
But he said: Weep not; the maid is not
dead, but sleepethc

u Matt. 9. 18 ; Mark 5. 22.
V Matt 10. 1 ; Mark 3. 15.

53 And they Sanghed him to scor:
knowing that she was dead.

54 But he taking her by the hand, cri i
out, saying- Maid, arise.

55 And her spirit returned, and si
arose immediately. And he bid thei
give her to eat.

56 And her parents were astonishe
whom he charged to tell no man wh.*
was done,

CHAPTER 9.

Christ sends forth his apostles : feeds five thousat
with five loaves : is transfigured : and casts a
a devil.

THEN ' calling together the tweh
apostles, he gave them power ar
authority over all devils, and to cui
diseases.

2 And he sent them to preach the kinj
dom of God, and to heal the sick,

3 ^And he said to them: Take nothin
for your journey; neither staff, nor scri]
nor bread, nor money; neither have t"W
coats.

4 And whatsoever house you shall ent(
into, abide there, and depart not froi
thence.

5 And Whosoever will not receive yc
a^when ye go out of that city, shake o
even the dust of your feet, for a test
mony against them.

6 And going out, they went aboi
through the towns, preaching the gosp€
and healing every where.

7 ^Now Herod, the tetrarch, heard
all things that were done by him; ai
he was in a doubt, because it was said

8 By some, that John was risen fro
the dead : but by other some, that Eli:
had appeared ; and by others, that oi
of the old prophets was risen again.

9 And Herod said: John I have b
headed ; but who is this of whom I he
such things ? And he sought to see hin

10 And the apostles, when they we
returned, told him all they had dor
And taking them, he went aside into
desert place, apart, which belongeth
Bethsaida.

11 Which when the people knew, th<
followed him ; and he received thei
and spoke to them of the kingdom
God, and healed them who had need
healing.

12 Now the day began to decline. Ai

w Matt. 10. 9 ; Mark 6. 8. ~ x Acts 13. 51.
y Matt. 14. li Mark 6. 14.

(iracle of the loaves and fishes ST. LUKE The transfiguration of Jesus

le twelve came and said to him: «Send
way the multitude, that going into the
Dwns and villages round about, they
lay lodge and get victuals; for we are
ere in a desert place,
13 But he said to them: Give you them
) eat. And they said: «^We have no
lore than five loaves and two fishes;
nless perhaps we should go and buy
)od for all this multitude.
L4 Now there were about five thousand
len. And he said to his disciples: Make
lem sit down by fifties in a company.

15 And they did so; and made them all
t down.

16 And taking the five loaves and the
vo fishes, he looked up to heaven, and
lessed them; and he broke, and dis-
ibuted to his disciples, to set before the
lultitude.

L7 And they did all eat, and were filled,
nd there were taken up of fragments
lat remained to them, twelve baskets.

18 *And it came to pass, as he was
lone praying, his disciples also were
dth him : and he asked them, saying:
IThom do the people say that I am?

19 But they answered, and said: John
lie Baptist; but some say Elias; and
thers say that one of the former pro-
hets is risen again.

20 And he said to them : But whom do
ou say that I am ? Simon Peter answer-
ig, said: The Christ of God.

21 But he strictly charging them, com-
landed they should tell this to no man.

22 Saying : '^ The Son of man must suf-
3r many things, and be rejected by the
ncients and chief priests and scribes,
nd be killed, and the third day rise
gain.

23 ^ And he said to all: If any man will
ome after me, let him deny himself, and
ake up his cross daily, and follow me.

24 ® For whosoever will save his life,
ball lose it; for he that shall lose his
ie for my sake, shall save it.

25 For what is a man advantaged, if he
ain the whole world, and lose himself,
nd cast away himself ?

26 -^For he that shall be ashamed of me
nd of my words, of him the Son of man
ball be ashamed, when he shall come in

s Matt. 14..15 ; Mark 6. 36. — a John 6. 9. — 6 Matt.
5.13: Marks. 27.— c Matt. 17. 21: Mark 8. 31, and
30. — d Matt. 10. 38, and 16. 24 ; Mark 8. 34 ; Infra
L27. — « Infra 17. 33; John 12. 25.—/ Matt 10.33;

his majesty, and that of his Father, and
of the holy angels.

27 fl'But I tell you of a Truth: There
are some standing here that shall not
taste death, till they see the kingdom of
God.

28 ^And it came to pass about eight
days after these words, that he took
Peter, and James, and John, and went up
into a mountain to pray.

29 And whilst he prayed, the shape of
his countenance was altered, and his rai-
ment became white and glittering.

30 And behold two men were talking
with him. And they were Moses and
Elias.

31 Appearing in majesty. And they
spoke of his decease that he should ac-
complish in Jerusalem.

32 But Peter and they that were with
him were heavy with sleep. And wak-
ing, that saw his glory, and the two men
that stood with him.

33 And it came to pass, that as they
were departing from him, Peter saith to
Jesus: Master, it is good for us to be
here ; and let us make three tabernacles,
one for thee, and one for Moses, and one
for Elias ; not knowing what he said.

34 And as he spoke these things, there
came a cloud, and overshadowed them;
and they were afraid, when they entered
into the cloud.

35 And a voice came out of the cloud,
saying: *This is my beloved Son; hear
him.

36 And whilst the voice was uttered,
Jesus was found alone. And they held
their peace, and told no man in those days
any of these things which they had seen.

37 And it came to pass the day follow-
ing, when they came down from the
mountain, there met him a great multi-
tude.

38 •? And behold a man among the crowd
cried out, saying : Master, I beseech thee,
look upon my son, because he is my only
one.

39 And lo, a spirit seizeth him, and he
suddenly crieth out, and he thro we th
him down and teareth aim, so that he
foameth; and bruising him, he hardly
departeth from him.

Mark 8.38; 2 Tim. 2. 12. — g Matt. 16. 28; Mark 8. 39t
— h Matt. 17. 1 ; Mark 9. 1.— i 2 Feter 1. 17.— J Mat4
17.14; Markd. !&

Jesus teaches humility

ST. LUKE Jesus sends out the seventy-twc

40 And I desired thy disciples to cast
him out, and they could not.

41 And Jesus answering, said: O faith-
less and perverse generation, how long
shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring
hither thy son.

42 And as he was coming to him, the
devil threw him down, and tore him.

43 And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit,
and cured the boy, and restored him to
his father.

44 And all were astonished at the mighty
power of God. But while all wondered
at all the things he did, he said to his
disciples: Lay you up in your hearts
these words, for it shall come to pass,
that the Son of man shall be delivered
into the hands of men.

45 But they understood not this word;
and it was hid from them, so that they
perceived it not. And they were afraid
to ask him concerning this word.

46 ^ And there entered a thought into
them, which of them should be greater.

47 But Jesus seeing the thoughts of
their heart, took a child and set him by
him,

48 And said to them: Whosoever shall
receive this child in my name, receiveth
me; and whosoever shall receive me, re-
ceiveth him that sent me. For he that is
the lesser among you all, he is the greater.

49 And John, answering, said: Master,
we saw a certain man casting out devils
in thy name, and we forbade him, be-
cause he followeth not with us.

60 And Jesus said to him: Forbid him
not; for he that is not against you, is for
you.

51 And it came to pass, when the days
of his assumption were accomplishing,
that he steadfastly set his face to go to
Jerusalem.

52 And he sent messengers before his
face; and going, they entered into a city
of the Samaritans, to prepare for him.

53 And they received him not, because
his face was of one going to Jerusalem.

54 And when his disciples James and
John had seen this, they said : Lord, wilt
thou that we command fire to come down
from heaven, and consume them?

55 And turning, he rebuked them, say-
ing : You know not of what spirit you are.

56 ^ The Son of man came not to destroy

souls, but to save. And they went int
another town.

57 And it came to pass, as they walke«
in the way, that a certain man said t
him: I will follow thee whithersoeve
thou goest.

58 '^ Jesus said to him : The foxes hav
holes, and the birds of the air nests; bu
the Son of man hath not where to la
his head.

59 But he said to another: Follow m(
And he said: Lord, suffer me first to g
and to bury my father.

60 And Jesus said to him : Let the dea
bury their dead : but go thou, and preae
the kingdom of God.

61 And another said : I will follow the(
Lord; but let me first take my leave o
them that are at my house.

62 Jesus said to him: No man puttin
his hand to the plough, and looking bad
is fit for the kingdom of God.

A: Matt, 18. 1 ; Mark 9.33. — Uohn 3. 17, and 12. 47.
— ntMatt. 8. 20.--» Matt. 9. 37.— o Matt. 10. 16.—

CHAPTER 10.

Christ sends forth, and instructs his seventy-tu
disciples. The good Samaritan.

ND after these things the Lord ai
pointed also other seventy-two
and he sent them two and two befoi
his face into every city and place whithe
he himself was to come.

2 And he said to them: w The harvej
indeed is great, but the labourers ai
few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of th
harvest, that he send labourers into hi
harvest.

3 Go : o Behold I send you as lamt
among wolves.

4 V Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nc
shoes ; « and salute no man by the way

5 Into whatsoever house you enter, firj
say: Peace be to this house.

6 And if the son of peace be there, you
peace shall rest upon him; but if not,
shall return to you.

7 And in the same house, remain, eatin
and drinking such things as they have
»• for the labourer is worthy of his hir
Remove not from house to house.

8 And into what city soever you ente
and they receive you, eat such things s
are set before you.

9 And heal the sick that are thereii
and say to them: The kingdom of God
come nigh unto you.

— pMatt. 10. 10; Mark 6. 8.-0' 4 Kings 4. 29.
r Deut. 24. 14 ; Matt. 10. 10 ; 1 Tim. 5. 18.

Jesus' charge to the seventy-two ST. LUKE Parable of the good Samaritan

10 But into whatsoever city you enter,
and they receive you not, going forth
into the streets thereof, say:

11 s Even the very dust of your city
that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against
you. Yet know this, that the kingdom
of God is at hand.

12 I say to you, it shall be more toler-
able at that day for Sodom, than for that
city.

13 * Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee,
Bethsaida. For if in Tyre and Sidon had
been wrought the mighty works that
have been wrought in you, they would
have done penance long ago, sitting in
sackcloth and ashes.

f4~But it shall be more tolerable for
Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than
for you.

15 And thou, Caphamaum, which art
exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust
down to hell.

16 «He that heareth you, heareth me;
and he that despiseth you, despiseth me;
and he that despiseth me, despiseth him
that sent me.

17 And the seventy-two returned with
joy, saying: Lord, the devils also are
subject to us in thy name.

18 And he said to them: I saw Satan
like lightning falling from heaven.

19 Behold, I have given you power to
tread upon serpents and scorpions, and
upon all tho power of the enemy: and
nothing shall hurt you.

20 But yet rejoice not in this, that
spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice
in this, that your names are written in
heaven.

21 V In that same hour, he rejoiced in
the Holy Ghost, and said: I confess to
thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, because thou hast hidden these
things from the wise and prudent, and
hast revealed them to little ones. Yea,
Father, for so it hath seemed good in
thy sight.

22 All things are delivered to me by my
Father; and no one knoweth who the
Son is, but the Father; and who the Fa-
ther is, but the Son, and to whom the
Son will reveal him.

23 And turnin;j to his disciples, ^he

s Acts 13. 51.— f Mntt. 11. 21
u Matt. 10. 40 ; John 13. 20 — v Matt. 11. 25.

said: Blessed are the eyes that see the
things which you see.

24 For I say to you, that many prophets
and kings have desired to see the things
that you see, and have not seen them;
and to hear the things that you hear, and
have not heard them.

25 « And behold a certain lawyer stood
up, tempting him, and saying, Master,
what must I do to possess eternal life?

26 But he said to him: What is written
in the law? how readest thou?

27 He answering said : v Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with thy whole heart,
and with thy whole soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind: and thy
neighbour as thyself.

28 And he said to him: Thou hast an-
swered right: this do, and thou shalt
live.

29 But he willing to justify himself, said
to Jesus: And who is my neighbour?

30 And Jesus answering, said : A certain
man went down from Jerusalem to Jeri-
cho, and fell among robbers, who also
stripped him, and having wounded him
went away, leaving him half dead.

31 And it chanced, that a certain priest
went down the same way: and seeing
him, passed by.

32 In like manner also a Levite, when
he was near the place and saw him,
passed by.

33 But a certain Samaritan being on his
journey, came near him; and seeing him,
was moved with compassion.

34 And going up to him, bound up his
wounds, pouring in oil and wine : and set-
ting him upon his own beast, brought
him to an inn, and took care of him.

35 And the next day he took out two
pence, and gave to the host, and said:
Take care of him; and whatsoever thou
shalt spend over and above, I, at my re-
turn, will repay thee.

36 Which of these three, in thy opinion,
was neighbour to him that fell among
the robbers?

37 But he said: He that shewed mercy
to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and
do thou in like manner.

38 Now it came to pass as they went,
that he entered into a certain town: and

w Matt. 13.

16— X Matt. 22. 35 ; Mark 12. 28.
y Deut. 6. 5.

Chap. 10. Ver. 21.

He rejoiced in the Holy Ghost. That is, according to his humanity he rejoiced in
the Holy Ghost, and save thanks to his eternal Father.

The Lord*s prayer

ST. LUKE. Jesus casts out a dumb devil

a certain woman named Martha, received
him into her house.

39 And she had a sister called Mary,
who sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard
his word.

40 But Martha was busy about much
serving. Who stood and said : Lord, hast
thou no care that my sister hath left me
alone to serve ? speak to her therefore,
that she help me.

41 And the Lord answering, said to her :
Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and
art troubled about many things :

42 But one thing is necessary. Mary
hath chosen the best part, which shall
not be taken awav from her.

CHAPTER 11.

Christ teaches his disciples to pray. Casts out a
dumb devil. Confutes the Pharisees ; av/d pro-
nounces woes against them for their hypocrisy.

AND it came to pass, that as he was in
jLjL a certain place praying, when he
ceased, one of his disciples said to him :
Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught
his disciples.

2 And he said to them : When you pray,
say : ^ Father, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.

3 Give us this day our daily bread.

4 And forgive us our sins, for we also
forgive every one that is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.

5 And he said to them: Which of you
shall have a friend, and shall go to him at
midnight, and shalJ say to him : Friend,
lend me three loaves,

6 Because a friend of mine is come off
his journey to me, and I have not what
to set before him.

7 And he from within should answer,
and say : Trouble me not, the door is now
shut, and my children are with me in
bed ; I cannot rise and give thee.

8 Yet if he shall continue knocking, I
say to you, although he will not rise and
give him, because he is his friend ; yet,
because of his importunity, he will rise,
and give him as many as he needeth

9 ^ And I say to you. Ask, and it shall
be given you : seek, and you shall find :
knock, and it shall be opened to you.

10 For every one that asketh, receiveth;
and he that seeketh, findethj and to
him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

11 ^ And which of you. if he ask his fa-

s Matt. G. 9. — a Matt. 7. 7, and 21. 22; Mark
U. Mi Jolm 14. 13; Jame» Ui,

ther bread, will he give him a stone? Or
a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ?

12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he
reach him a scorpion?

13 If you then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts to your children, how
much more will your Father from hea-
ven give the good Spirit to them that ask
him?

14 cAnd he was casting out a devil, and
the same was dumb: and when he had
cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and
the multitudes were in admiration at it:

15 But some of them said: He casteth
out devils <^by Beelzebub, the prince of
devils.

16 And others tempting, asked of him a
sign from heaven.

17 But he seeing their thoughts, said to
them: Every kingdom divided against
itself, shall be brought to desolation, and
house upon house shall fall.

18 And if Satan also be divided against
himself, how shall his kingdom stand?
because you say, that through Beelzebub
I cast out devils.

19 Now if I cast out devils by Beelze-
bub; by whom do your children cast
them out? Therefore they shall be your
judges.

20 But if I by the finger of God cast out
devils; doubtless the kingdom of God is
come upon you.

21 When a strong man armed keepeth
his court, those things are in peace which
he possesseth.

22 But if a stronger than he come upon
him, and overcome him; he will take
away all his armour wherein he trusted,
and will distribute his spoils.

23 He that is not with me, is against
me; and he that gathereth not with me,
scattereth.

24 When the unclean spirit is gone out
of a man, he walketh through places
without water, seeking rest; and not
finding, he saith: I will return into my
house whence I came out.

25 And when he is come, he findeth it
swept and garnished.

26 Then he goeth and taketh with him
seven other spirits more wicked than
himself, and entering in they dwell there.
And the last state of that man becomes
worse than the first.

b Matt. 7. 9.—C Matt. 9. 32, and 12. 22.
dM^tL 9.34; Mark 3. 22.

«2

The sign of Jonas the prophet ST. LUKE

Jesus rebukes the Pharisees

27 And it came to pass, as he spoke
these things, a certain woman from the
crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him :
■Rlessed is the womb that bore thee, and
fcht. paps that gave thee suck.

2b But he said : Yea rather, blessed are
they who hear the word of God, and
keep it.

29 And the multitudes running together,
he began to say: ^This generation is a
wicked generation : it asketh a sign, and
a sign shall not be given it, but the sign
of Jonas the prophet.

30-^ For as Jonas was a sign to the Nini-
vites ; so shall the Son of man also be to
this generation.

31 s' The queen of the south shall rise in
the judgment with the men of this gen-
eration, and shall condemn them: be-
cause she came from the ends of the
earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ;
and behold more than Solomon here.

32 The men of Ninive shall rise in the
judgment with this generation, and shall
condemn it ; ^ because they did penance
at the preaching of Jonas ; and behold
more than Jonas here.

33 * No man Hghteth a candle, and put-
teth it in a hidden place, nor under a
bushel ; but upon a candlestick, that they
that come in, may see the lightc

34 •'The Hght of thy body is thy eye.
If thy eye be single, thy whole body will
be lightsome : but if it be evil, thy body
also will be darksome.

35 Take heed therefore, that the light
which is in thee, be not darkness.

36 If then thy whole body be lightsome,
having no part of darkness ; the whole
shall be lightsome ; and as a bright lamp,
shall enlighten thee.

37 And as he was speaking, a certain
Pharisee prayed him, that he would dine
with him. And he going in, sat down to
eat.

38 And the Pharisee began to say, think-
ing \vithin himself, why he was not
washed before dinner.

39 And the Lord said to him: '^ Now you
Pharisees make clean the outside of the

e IVIatt. 12. 39. — / Jonas 2. 1.

g 3 Kings 10. 1 ; 2 Par. 9. 1. — /i Jonas 3. 5.

i Matt. 5. 15 ; Mark 4. 21. — j Matt. 6. 22.

Chap. 11. Ver. 46. Woe to you lawyers. He speaks
of the doctors of the law of Moses, commonly called
the scribes.

Ver. 47. Woe to you who build, &c. Not that the
building of the monuments ol the prophets was in

cup and of the platter ; but your inside
is full of rapine and iniquity.

40 Ye fools, did not he that made that
which is without, make also that which is
within?

41 But yet that which remaineth, give
alms; and behold, all things are clean
unto you.

42 But woe to you, Pharisees, because
you tithe mint and rue and every herb;
and pass over judgment, and the charity
of God. Now these things you ought to
have done, and not to leave the other
undone.

43 * Woe to you, Pharisees, because you
love the uppermost seats in the syna-
gogues, and salutations in the market-
place.

44 Woe to you, because you are as sep-
ulchres that appear not, and men that
walk over are not aware.

45 And one of the lawyers answering,
saith to him : Master, in saying these
things, thou reproachest us also.

46 But he said : "* Woe to you lawyers
also, because you load men with burdens
which they cannot bear, and you your-
selves touch not the packs with one of
your fingers.

47 Woe to you who build the monu-
ments of the prophets : and your fathers
killed them.

48 Truly you bear witness that you con-
sent to the doings of your fathers : for
they indeed killed them, and you build
their sepulchres.

49 For this cause also the wisdom of
God said : I will send to them prophets
and apostles ; and some of them they will
kill and persecute.

50 That the blood of all the prophets
which was shed from the foundation of
the world, may be required of this gen-
eration,

51 ^ From the blood of Abel unto the
blood of ° Zacharias, who was slain be-
tween the altar and the temple : Yea I
say to you. It shall be required of this
generation.

52 Woe to you lawyers, for you have

k Matt. 23. 25.

I Matt. 23. 6 ; Mark 12." 39 j Infra 20. 46.

m Matt 23. 4. — ?i Gen. 4. 8. — o 2 Par. 24. 22.

itself blameworthy, bnt only the intention of these
nnhapi)y men, wlio made use of this outward shew
of religion and piety, as a means to carry on theil
wicked designs against the prince of prophets.

Hypocrisy and worldly fear

ST. LUKE

Covetousness and solicitiide

taken away the key of knowledge : you
yourselves have not entered in, and those
that were entering in, you have hin-
dered.

53 And as he was saying these things
to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers
began violently to urge him, and to
P oppress his mouth about many things,

54 Lying in wait for him, and seeking to
catch something from his mouth, that
they might accuse him.

CHAPTER 12.

Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the
world, and covetotisness : and admonishes all to
watch.

A ND when great multitudes stood about
x\. him, so that they trod one upon
another, he began to say to his disciples:
9 Beware ye of the leaven of the Phari-
sees, which is hypocrisy.

2 *" For there is nothing covered, that
shall not be revealed : nor hidden, that
shall not be known.

3 For Arhatsoever ehings you have
spoken in darkness, shall be published
in the light : and that which you have
spoken in the ear in the chambers, shall
be preached on the housetops.

4 And I say to you, my friends : Be not
afraid of them who kill the body, and
after that have no more that they can
do.

5 But I will shew you whom you shall
fear : fear ye him, who after he hath
killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea,
I say to you, fear him.

6 Are not fi\e sparrows sold for two
farthings, and not one of them is forgot-
ten before God ?

7 Yea, the \ery hairs of your head are
all numbered, ^ear not therefore : you
are of more vahve than many sparrows.

8 And I say to you, * Whosoever shall
confess me before men, him shall the Son
of man also confei^ before the angels of
God.

9 But he that shaP deny me before men,
ahall be denied before the angels of God.

10 * And whosoever speaketh a word
against the Son of ncan, it shall be for-
given him : but to him that shall blas-
pheme against the B »ly Ghost, it shall
not be forgiven.

11 And when they shaW bring you into
the synagogues, and to raagistrates and

p That is, stop. — q Matt. 10. 6; Ai -irk 8. 15. — r Matt.
10. 26; Mark 4. 22.—« Matt. 10. 32; Mark 8. 38; 2 Tim.

powers, be not solicitous how or what
you shall answer, or what you shall say;

12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in
the same hour what you must say.

13 And one of the multitude said to
him : Master, speak to my brother that
he divide the inheritance with me.

14 But he said to him: Man, who hath
appointed me judge, or divider, over you ?

15 And he said to them: Take heed,
and beware of all covetousness; for a
man's life doth not consist in the abun-
dance of things which he possesseth.

16 And he spoke a simihtude to them,
saying : ^ The land of a certain rich man
brought forth plenty of fruits.

17 And he thought within himself, say-
ing : What shall I do, because I have no
room where to bestow my fruits ?

18 And he said: This will I do: I will
pull down my barns, and will build
greater ; and into them will I gather all
things that are grown to me, and my
goods.

19 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou
hast much goods laid up for many years,
take thy rest; eat, drink, make good
cheer.

20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this
night do they require thy soul of thee:
and whose shall those things be which
thou hast provided ?

21 So is he that layeth up treasure for
himself, and is not rich towards God.

22 And he said to his disciples : There-
fore I say to you, ^ be not solicitous for
your life, what you shall eat; nor for
your body, what you shall put on.

23 The life is more than the meat, and
the body is more than the raiment.

24 Consider the ravens, for they sow
not, neither do they reap, neither have
they storehouse nor barn, and God feed-
eth them. How much are you more
valuable than they ?

25 And which of you, by taking thought,
can add to his stature one cubit?

26 If then ye be not able to do so much
as the least thing, why are you sohcitous
for the rest ?

27 Consider the lilies, how they grow :
they labour not, neither do they spin.
But I say to you, not even Solomon in
all his glory was clothed like one of
these.

2. 12. — t Matt. 12. 32; Mark 3. 29. — u Eccli. 11. 19. —
V Pa. 64. 23; Matt. 6. 23; 1 Peter 5. 7.

Exhortation to be watchful

ST. LUKE

Persecution foretold

28 Now if God clothe in this maDner
the grass that is to day in the field, and
to morrow is cast into the oven; how
much more you, O ye of little faith ?

29 And seek not you what you shall eat,
or what you shall drink: and be not lifted
Dp on high.

30 For all these things do the nations of
the world seek. But your Father know-
eth that you have need of these things.

31 But seek ye first the kingdom of
God and his justice, and all these things
shall be added unto you.

32 Fear not, little flock, for it hath
pleased your Father to give you a king-
dom.

33 "'Sell what you possess and give
alms. Make to yourselves bags which
grow not old, *a treasure in heaven
which faileth not: where no thief ap-
proacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

34 For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also.

35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps
burning in your hands.

36 And you yourselves like to men who
wait for their lord, when he shall return
from the wedding; that when he com-
eth and knocketh, they may open to him
immediately.

37 Blessed are those servants, whom
the Lord when he cometh, shall find
watching. Amen I say to you, that he
will gird himself, and make them sit
down to meat, and passing will minister
unto them.

38 And if he shall come in the second
watch, or come in the third watch, and
find them so, blessed are those servants.

39 y But this know ye, that if the house-
holder did know at what hour the thief
would come, he would surely watch, and
would not suffer his house to be broken
open.

40 Be you then also ready : ^ for at what
hour you think not, the Son of man will
come.

41 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost
thou speak this parable to us, or likewise
to all?

42 And the Lord said: Who (thinkest
thou) is the faithful and wise steward,
whom his lord setteth over his family, to
give them their measure of wheat in due
season ?

*« Matt. 19. 21.— a; Matt. 6. 20.— y Matt. 24. 43.

43 Blessed is that servant, whom when
his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.

44 Verily I say to you, he will set him
over all that he possesseth.

45 But if that servant shall say in his
heart: My lord is long a coming; and
shall begin to strike the menservants
and maidservants, and to eat and to
drink and be drunk :

46 The lord of that servant will come
in the day that he hopeth not, and at
the hour that he knoweth not, and shall
separate him, and shall appoint him his
portion with unbelievers.

47 And that servant who knew the
will of his lord, and prepared not himself,
and did not according to his will, shall
be beaten with many stripes.

48 But he that knew not, and did things
worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with
few stripes. And unto whomsoever much
is given, of him much shall be required :
and to whom they have committed much,
of him they will demand the more.

49 I am come to cast fire on the earth:
and what will I, but that it be kindled ?

50 And I have a baptism wherewith
I am to be baptized : and how am I
straitened until it be accomplished?

51 ** Think ye, that I am come to give
peace on earth? I tell you, no; but
separation.

52 For there shall be from henceforth
five in one house divided: three against
two, and two against three.

53 The father shall be divided against
the son, and the son against his father,
the mother against the daughter, and
the daughter against the mother, the
mother in law against her daughter in
law, and the daughter in law against her
mother in law.

54 ^ And he said also to the multitudes :
When you see a cloud rising from the
west, presently you say: A shower is
coming: and so it happeneth:

55 And when ye see the south wind
blow, you say: There will be heat: and
it cometh to pass.

56 You hypocrites, you know how to
discern the face of the heaven and of the
earth: but how is it that you do not dis-
cern this time ?

57 And why even of yourselves, do you
not judge that which is just ?

t Apoc. 16. 15.— a Matt. 10. 34.-6 Matt. 16 .2.

Necessity of penance

ST. LUKE The mustard seed and the leaven

58 ^ And when thou goest with thy ad-
versary to the prince, whilst thou art in
the way, endeavour to be delivered from |
him : lest perhaps he draw thee to the !
judge, and the judge deliver thee to the
exactor, and the exactor cast thee into i
prison.

59 I say to thee, thou shalb not go out
thence, until thou pay the very last
mite.

CHAPTER 13.

The necessity of penance. TJie barren fig tree. The
cure of the infirm woman, etc.

A ND there were present, at that very
J\. time, some that told him of the
Galileans, whose blood Pilate had min-
gled with their sacrifices.

2 And he answering, said to them:
Think you that these Galileans were sin-
ners above all the men of Galilee, be-
cause they suffereu such things ?

3 No, I say to you : but unless you shall
do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen upon whom the
tower fell in Siloe, and slew them : think
you, that they also were debtors above
all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem ?

5 No, I say to you ; but except you do
penance, you shall all likewise perish.

6 He spoke also this parable : A certain
man had a fig tree planted in his vine-
yard, and he came seeking fruit on it,
and found none.

7 And he said to the dresser of the
vineyard : Behold, for these three years
I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and
I find none. Cut it down therefoi -. :
why cumbereth it the ground ?

8 But he answering, said to him : Lore,
let it alone this year also, until I dir;
about it, and dung it.

9 And if happily it bear fruit : but if not,
then after that thou shalt cut it down.

10 And he was teaching in their syna-
gogue on their sabbath.

11 And behold there was a woman, who
had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years :
and she was bowed together, neither
could she look upwards at all.

12 Whom when Jesus saw, he called her
unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou
art delivered from thy infirmity.

13 And ho laid his hands upon her, and

c Matt. 5. 25. — d Matt. 13. 31 ; Mark 4. 31.

Chap. 13. Ver. 24. Shall seek, &c. Shall desire

immediately she was made straight, and
glorified God.

14 And the ruler of the synagogue (be-
ing angry that Jesus had healed on the
sabbath) answering, said to the multi-
tude: Six days there are wherein you
ought to work. In them therefore come,
and be healed ; and not on the sabbath
day.

15 And the Lord answering him, said :
Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of
you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or
his ass from the manger, and lead them
to water?

16 And ought not this daughter of Abra-
ham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these
eighteen years, be loosed from this bond
on the sabbath day?

17 And when he said these things, all
his adversaries were ashamed: and all
the people rejoiced for all the things
that were gloriously done by him.

18 He said therefore: To what is the
kingdom of God like, and whereunto
shall I resemble it ?

19 ^ It is like to a grain of mustard
seed, which a man took and cast into
his garden, and it grew and became a
great tree, and the birds of the air
lodged in the branches thereof.

20 And again he said : Whereunto shall
I esteem the kingdom of God to be like?

21 ^ It is like to leaven, which a woman
took and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened.

22 And he went through the cities and
towns terohing, and making his journey
to Jerusalem.

23 And a corcaii. man said to him:
Lord, arc they few that are saved ? But
he said to them :

24 -^Strive to enter by the narrow gate ;
for many, I say to you, shall seek to
enter, and shall not be able.

25 S' But when the master of the house
shall be gone in, and shall shut the door,
you shall begin to stand without, and
knock at the door, saying : Lord, open to
us. And he answering, shall say to you :
I know you not, whence you are.

26 Then you shall begin to say : We
have eaten and drunk in thy presence,
and thou hast taught in our streets.

e Matt. 13. 33. — / Matt. 7. 13. —gr Matt. 25. 10.

to be saved; but for want of taking sufficient pains [ to it.

8«

and being thoroughly Id earnest, shall net attaia

Jesus* lament over Jerusalem

ST. LUKE

Lesson on humility

27 And he shall say to you: *I know
you not, whence you are : * depart from
me, all ye workers of iniquity.

28 There shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth, when you shall see Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob, and all the pro-
phets, in the kingdom of God, and you
yourselves thrust out.

29 And there shall come from the east
and the wesfc, and the north and the
south ; and shall sit down in the king-
dom of God.

30 ^ And behold, they are last that shall
be first ; and they are first that shall be
last.

31 The same day, there came some of
the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart,
and get thee hence, for Herod hath a
mind to kill thee.

32 And he said to them: Go and tell
that fox. Behold, I cast out devils, and
do cures to day and to morrow, and the
third day I am consummated.

33 Nevertheless I must walk to day and
to morrow, and the day following, be-
cause it cannot be that a prophet per-
ish, out of Jerusalem.

34 ''Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest
the prophets, and stonest them that are
sent to thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children as the bird doth
her brood under her wings, and thou
wouldest not?

35 Behold your house shall be left to
you desolate. And I say to you, that
you shall not see me till the time come,
when you shall say: Blessed is he that
Cometh in the name of the Lord.

CHAPTER 14.

Christ heals the dropsical man. The parable of
the supper. The necessity of renouncing all to
follow Christ.

AND it came to pass, when Jesus went
^ into the house of one of the chief
of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to
eat bread, that they watched him.

2 And behold, there was a certain man
before him that had the dropsy.

3 And Jesus answering, spoke to the
lawyers and Pharisees, saying : Is it law-
ful to heal on the sabbath day ?

4 But they held their peace. But he
taking him, healed him, and sent him
away.

5 And answering them, he said : Which

h Matt. 7. 23. — i Ps. 6. 9 ; Matt. 25. 41.— j Matt. 19.
•0, and 20. 16; Mark 10. 31. —k Matt 23. 37. — i Prov.

of you shall have an ^ss or an ox fall
into a pit, and will not immediately draw
him out, on the sabbath day ?

6 And they could not answer him to
these things.

7 And he spoke a parable also to them
that were invited, marking how they
chose the first seats at the table, saying
to them :

8 When thou art invited to a wedding,
sit not down in the first place, lest per-
haps one more honourable than thou be
invited by him :

9 And he that invited thee and him,
come and say to thee, Give this man
place : and then thoa begin with shame
to take the lowest place.

10 But when thou art invited, go, sit
down in the lowest place ; that when he
who invited thee, cometh, he may say t^
thee : ^Friend, go up higher. Then shalt
thou have glory before them that sit at
table with thee.

11 "* Because every one that exalte th
himself, shall be humbled; and he that
humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

12 And he said to him also that had in-
vited him : " When thou makest a dinner
or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy
brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy neigh-
bours who are rich ; lest perhaps they
also invite thee again, and a recompense
be made to thee.

13 But when thou makest a feast, call
the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the
blind ;

14 And thou shalt be blessed, because
they have not wherewith to make thee
recompense: for recompense shall be
made thee at the resurrection of the just.

15 When one of them that sat at table
with him, had heard these things, he said
to him : Blessed is he that shall eat bread
in the kingdom of God.

16 But he said to him : ^ A certain man
made a great supper, and invited many.

17 And he sent his servant at the hour
of supper to say to them that were in-
vited, that they should come, for now
all things are ready.

18 And they began all at once to make
excuse. The first said to him : I .^.ve
bought a farm, and I must needs go out
and see it : I pray thee, hold me excused.

19 And another said : I have bought

25. 7. — m Matt. 23. 12 ; Infra 18. 14. — n Tobias 4. 7;
PrOT. a. 9. — o Matt 22. 2 ; Apoc. 19. 9.

Follozving Christ

ST. LUKE The lost sheep and the groat

five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them:
I pray thee, hold me excused.

20 And another said: I have married a
wife, and therefore I cannot come.

21 And the servant returning, told these
things to his lord. Then the master of
the house, being angry, said to his ser-
vant: Go out quickly into the streets
and lanes of the city, and bring in hither
the poor, and the feeble, and the blind,
and the lame.

22 And the servant said : Lord, it is done
as thou hast commanded, and yet there
is room.

23 And the Lord said to the servant:
Go out into the highways and hedges, and
compel them to come in, that my house
may be filled.

24 But I say unto you, that none of
those men that were invited, shall taste
of my supper.

25 And there went great multitudes
with him. And turning, he said to them:

26 p If any man come to me, and hate
not his father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, yea
and his own life also, he cannot be my
disciple.

27 « And whosoever doth not carry his
cross and come after me, cannot be my
disciple.

28 For which of you having a mind to
build a tower, doth not first sit down,
and reckon the charges that are neces-
sary, whether he have wherewithal to
finish it:

29 Lest, after he hath laid the founda-
tion, and is not able to finish it, all that
see it begin to mock him,

30 Saying: This man began to build,
and was not able to finish.

31 Or what king, about to go to make
war against another king, doth not first
sit down, and think whether he be able,
with ten thousand, to meet him that,
with twenty thousand, cometh against
him?

32 Or else, whilst the other is yet afar
off, sending an embassy, he desireth con-
ditions of peace.

p Matt. 10. 37.
q Matt. 10. 38, and 16. 24 ; Mark 8. 34.

Chap. 14. Ver. 26. Hate not, &c. The law of
Christ does not allow us to hate even our enemies,
much less our parents : but the meaning of the text
is, that we must be in that disposition of soul, as to
be willing to renounce, and part with every thing.

33 So likewise every one of you that
doth not renounce all that he possesseth
cannot be my disciple.

34 r Salt is good. But if the salt shall
lose its savour, wherewith shall it be^
seasoned?

35 It is neither profitable for the land
nor for the dunghill, but shall be cast
out. He that hath ears to hear, let him
hear.

CHAPTER 15.

The parables of the lost sheep, and of the prodigai
son.

NOW the publicans and sinners drewj
near unto him to hear him. i

2 And the Pharisees and the scribes
murmured, saying: This man receiveth
sinners, and eateth with them.

3 And he spoke to them this parable,
saying:

4 s What man of you that hath an hun-
dred sheep: and if he shall lose one of I
them, doth he not leave the ninety ninej
in the desert, and go after that whichj
was lost, until he find it?

5 And when he hath found it, lay it
upon his shoulders, rejoicing:

6 And coming home, call together hisl
friends and neighbours, saying to them:
Rejoice with me, because I have found
my sheep that was lost?

7 I say to you, that even so there shall
be joy in heaven upon one sinner that
doth penance, more than upon ninety-
nine just who need not penance.

8 Or what woman having ten groats;
if she lose one groat, doth not light a
candle, and sweep the house, and seek
diligently until she find it?

9 And when she hath found it, call to-
gether her friends and neighbours, say-
ing: Rejoice with me, because I have
found the groat which I had lost.

10 So I say to you, there shall be joy
before the angels of God upon one sinner
doing penance.

11 And he said: A certain man had two
sons:

12 And the younger of them said to his
father: Father, give me the portion of

r Matt. 5. 13 ; Mark 9. 49.
s Matt. 18. 12.

how near or dear soever it may be to us, that would
keep us from following Christ.

Chap. 15. Ver. 10. Before the angels. By this it
is plain that the spirits in heaven have a concern for
us below, and a joy at our repentance and conse-
quently a knowledge of it.

The prodigal son

ST.

substance that falleth to me. And he
divided unto them his substance.

13 And not many days after, the younger
son, gathering all together, went abroad
into a far country : and there wasted his
substance, living riotously.

14 And after he had spent all, there
came a mighty famine in that country ;
and he began to be in want.

15 And he went and cleaved to one of
the citizens of that country. And he
sent him into his farm to feed swine.

16 And he would fain have filled his
belly with the husks the swine did eat ;
and no man gave unto him.

17 And returning to himself, he said:
How many hired servants in my father's
house abound with bread, and I here
perish with hunger?

18 I wiU arise, and will go to my father,
and say to him: Father, I have sinned
against heaven, and before thee :

19 I am not worthy to be called thy
son : make me as one of thy hired ser-
vants.

20 And rising up he came to his father.
And when he was yet a great way off, his
father saw him, and was moved with
compassion, and running to him fell upon
his neck, and kissed him.

21 And the son said to him: Father, I
have sinned against heaven, and before
thee, I am not now worthy to be called
thy son.

22 And the father said to his servants :
Bring forth quickly the first robe, and
put it on him, and put a ring on his hand,
and shoes on his feet :

23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and
kill it, and let us eat and make merry :

24 Because this my son was dead, and is
come to life again: was lost, and is found.
And they began to be merry.

25 Now his elder son was in the field,
and when he came and drew nigh to the
house, he heard music and dancing :

26 And he called one of the servants,
and asked what these things meant.

27 And he said to him : Thy brother is
come, and thy father hath killed the
fatted calf, because he hath received him
safe.

28 And he was angry, and would not

LUKE

T : —

Chap. 16. Ver. 9. Mammon of iniquity. Mam-
mon signifies riches. They are here called the m,am-
mon of iniquity, because oftentimes ill gotten, ill
bestowed, or an occasion of evil ; and at the best are
but worldly, and false ; and not the true riches of a

I'lie unjust steivcird

go in. His father therefore comiiig out
began to entreat him.

29 And he answering, said to hit tather:
Behold, for so many years do I serve
thee, and I have never transgressed thy
commandment, and yet thou hast never
given me a kid to make merry with my
friends :

30 But as soon as this thy son is come,
who hath devoured his substance with
harlots, thou hast killed for him the
fatted calf.

31 But he said to him: Son, thou art
always with me, and all I have is thine.

32 But it was fit that we should make
merry and be glad, for this thy brother
was dead and is come to life again; he
was lost, and is found.

CHAPTER 16.

The parable of the unjust steward : of the rich man
and Lazarus.

ND he said also to his disciples : There

steward : and the same was accused unto
him, that he had wasted his goods.

2 And he called him, and said to him :
How is it that I hear this of thee ? give
an account of thy stewardship : for now
thou canst be steward no longer.

3 And the steward said within himself:
What shall I do, because my lord taketh
away from me the stewardship ? To dig
I am not able ; to beg I am ashamed.

4 I know what I will do, that when I
shall be removed from the stewardship,
they may receive me into their houses.

5 Therefore calling together every one
of his lord's debtors, he said to the first:
How much dost thou owe my lord ?

6 But he said : An hundred barrels of
oil. And he said to him : Take thy bill
and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

7 Then he said to another : And h ""^
much dost thou owe ? Who said : An
hundred quarters of wheat. He said to
him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.

8 And the lord commended the unjust
steward, forasmuch as he had done
wisely: for the children of this world are
wiser in their generation than the chil-
dren of light.

9 And I say to you : Make unto you

Christian. — Ibid. They may receive. By this we
see, that the poor servants of God, whom we have
relieved by our alms, may hereafter, by their inter
cession, bring our souls to heaven.

Marriage is indissoluble

ST. LUKE

il-iends of the mammon of iniquity ; that
when you shall fail, they may receive
you into everlasting dwellings.

10 He that is faithful in that which is
least, is faithful also in that which is
greater: and he that is unjust in that
which is Uttle, is unjust also in that
which is greater.

11 If then you have not been faithful in
the unjust mammon ; who will trust you
With that which is the true ?

12 And if you have not been faithful in
that which is another's ; who will give
you that which is your own ?

13 * No servant can serve two masters :
Jor either he will hate the one, and love
the other ; or he will hold to thfe one, and
despise the other. You cannot serve God
and mammon.

14 Now the Pharisees, who were covet-
ous, heard all these things : and they de-
rided him.

15 And he said to them : You are they
who justify yourselves before men, but
God knoweth your hearts ; for that which
is high to men, is an abomination before
God.

16 " The law and the prophets were until
John ; from that time the kingdom of
God is preached, and every one useth
violence towards it.

17 ''And it is easier for heaven and earth
to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.

18^ Every one that putteth away his
Wife, and marrieth another, committeth
adultery: and he that marrieth her that
is put away from her husband, commit-
teth adultery.

19 There was a certain rich man, who
was clothed in pm-ple and fine linen;
and feasted sumptuously every day.

20 And there was a certain beggar,
named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full

<ores,

21 Desiring to be filled with the crumbs
that fell from the rich man's table, and
no one did give him ; moreover the dogs
came, and licked his sores.

22 And it came to pass, that the beggar
died, and was carried by the angels into
Abraham's bosom. And the rich man
also died: and he was buried in hell.

23 And lifting up his eyes when he was

Lazarus and the rich man

t Matt. 6. 24. — M Matt. 11. 12. — v Matt. 5. 18.—
w Matt. 5. 32; Mark 10. li; i Cor. 7. 10 and 11.—

m torments, he saw Abraham afar ol^
and Lazarus in his bosom:

24 And he cried, and said: Father Abra-
ham, have mercy on me, and send Laza-
rus, that he may dip the tip of his finger
in water, to cool my tongue: for I am
tormented in this flame.

25 And Abraham said to him : Son, re-
member that thou didst receive goot_
things in thy lifetime, and likewise Laza-
rus evil things, but now he is comforted
and thou art tormented.

26 And besides all this, between us and
you, there is fixed a great chaos : so that
they who would pass from hence to you^
cannot, nor from thence come hither.

27 And he said : Then, father, I beseech
thee, that thou wouldst send him to my
father's house, for I have five brethren,

28 That he may testify unto them, lest
they also come into this place of tor-
ments.

29 And Abraham said to him: They
have Moses and the prophets ; let them
hear them.

30 But he said : No, father Abraham i
but if one went to them from the dead,
they will do penance.

31 And he said to him: If they hear not
Moses and the prophets, neither will they
believe, if one rise again from the dead.

CHAPTER 17.

Lessons of avoiding scandal : of the efficacy offaith^
3tr. The *en lepers. The manner of the coming
of Christ,

AND *he said to his disciples: It is im-
l\ possible that scandals should not
come: but woe to him through whom
they come.

2 It were better for him, that a mill-
stone were hanged about his neck, and
he cast into the sea, than that he should
scandalize one of these little ones.

3 Take heed to yourselves. ^ If thy bro-
ther sin against thee, reprove him : and
if he do penance, forgive him.

4 And if he sin against thee seven times
in a day, and seven times in a day be
converted unto thee, saying, I repent;
forgive him.

5 And the apostles said to the Lord
Increase our faith.

6 ^ And the Lord said : If you had faith

X Matt. 18. 7 ; Mark 9. 41. — y Lev. 19. 17 ; Eccli. 19. 13;
Matt 18. 15. — z Matt. 17. 19.

Ver. 22. Abraham' s bosom

The place of rest, where the souls of the saints resided, till Christ had
opened heaven by his death.

The ten lepers

ST. LUKE The coming of the Son of man

like to a grain of mustard seed, you
might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou
rooted up, and be thou transplanted into
the sea: and it would obey you.

7 But which of you having a servant
ploughing, or feeding cattle, will say to
him, when he is come from the field:
Immediately go, sit down to meat :

8 And will not rather say to him: Make
ready my supper, and gird thyself, and
serve me, whilst I eat and drink, and
afterwards thou shalt eat and drink?

9 Doth he thank that servant, for doing
the things which he commanded him ?

10 I think not. So you also, when you
shall have done all these things that are
commanded you, say : We are unprofit-
able servants ; we have done that which
we ought to do.

11 And it came to pass, as he was going
to Jerusalem, he passed through the
midst of Samaria and Galilee.

12 And as he entered into a certain
town, there met him ten men that were
lepers, who stood afar off;

13 And lifted up their voice, saying:
Jesus, master, have mercy on us.

14 Whom when he saw, he said: "Go,
shew yourselves to the priests. And it
came to pass, as they went, they were
made clean.

15 And one of them, when he saw that
lie was made clean, went back, with a
loud voice glorifying God.

16 And he fell on his face before his
feet, giving thanks: and this was a
Samaritan.

17 And Jesus answering, said. Were not
ten made clean ? and where are the nine ?

18 There is no one found to return and
give glory to God, but this stranger.

19 And he said to him: Arise, go thy
way; for thy faith hath made thee whole.

20 And being asked by the Pharisees,
when the kingdom of God should come ?
he answered them, and said: The king-
dom of God Cometh not with observa-
tion:

21 Neither shall they say: Behold here,
or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of
God is within you.

22 And he said to his disciples: The

a Lev. 14. 2. — h Matt. 24. 23 ; Mark 13. 21.
c Gen, 7. 7 : Matt. 24. 37.

Chap. 17. Ver. 10. Unprofitable servants. Be-
cause our service is of no profit to our master; and
he justly claims it as our bounden duty. But though
we arp iimyrnHtnhJfi to him^ on'" <aor\'ina' him ip not

days will come, when you shall desire to
see one day of the Son of man ; and you
shall not see it.

23 ^And they will say to you: See here,
and sc? there. Go ye not after, nor fol-
low them:

24 For as the lightning that lighteneth
from under heaven, shineth unto the
parts that are under heaven, so shall the
Son of man be in his day.

25 But first he must suffer many things,
and be rejected by this generation.

26 ^ And as it came to pass in the days
of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of
the Son of man.

27 They did eat and drink, they married
wives, and were given in marriage, until
the day that Noe entered into the ark:
and the flood came and destroyed them
all.

28 ^Likewise as it came to pass, in the
days of Lot: they did eat and drink,
they bought and sold, they planted and
built.

29 And in the day that Lot went out of
Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from
heaven, and destroyed them all.

30 Even thus shall it be in the day
when the Son of man shall be revealed.

31 In that hour, he that shall be on the
housetop, and his goods in the house, let
him not go down to take them away:
and he that shall be in the field, in like
manner, let him not return back.

32 Remember Lot's wife.

33 ^ Whosoever shall seek to save his
life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall
lose it, shall preserve it.

34 I say to you: -^in that night there
shall be two men in one bed; the one
shall be taken, and the other shall be
left.

35 Two women shall be grinding to-
gether : the one shall be taken, and the
other shall be left: two men shall be in
the field ; the one shall be taken, and the
other shall be left.

36 They answering, say to him: Where,
Lord?

37 Who said to them : Wheresoever the
body shall be, thither will the eagles also
be gathered together.

d Gen. 19. 25. — e Matt. in. 39 ; Mark 8. 35.
/ Supra 9. 24 ; John 12. 25 ; Matt. 24. 40.

unprofitable to us; for he is pleased to give by tii>
grace a value to our good works, which, in conse-
quence of his promise, entitles them to an eterna'
rewa.rrl

The Pharisee and the publican ST. LUKE

The rich ruler

CHAPTER 18.

We must pray always. The Pharisee and the pub-
lican. The danger of riches. The blind man is
restored to sight.

A ND ^ he spoke also a parable to them,
j\, that we ought always to pray, and
not to faint,

2 Saying: There was a judge in a cer-
tain city, who feared not God, nor re-
garded man.

3 And there was a certain widow in
that city, and she came to him, saying :
Avenge me of my adversary.

4 And he would not for a long time.
But afterwards he said within himself:
Although I fear not God, nor regard
man,

6 Yet because this widow is trouble-
some to me, I will avenge her, lest con-
tinually coming she weary me,

6 And the Lord said: Hear what the
unjust judge saith.

7 And will not God revenge his elect
who cry to him day and night : and will
he have patience in their regard?

8 I say to you, that he will quickly re-
venge them. But yet the Son of man,
when he cometh, shall he find, think
you, faith on earth?

9 And to some who trusted In them-
selves as just, and despised others, he
spoke also this parable :

10 Two men went up into the temple to
pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other
a publican.

11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus
with himself: O God, I give thee thanks
that I am not as the rest of men, extor-
tioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this
publican.

12 I fast twice in a week: I give tithes
of all that I possess.

13 And the publican, standing afar off,
would not so much as lift up his eyes
towards heaven; but struck his breast,
saying : O God, be merciful to me a sin-
ner.

14 I say to you, this man went down
into his house justified rather than the
other : ^ because every one that exalteth
himself, shall be humbled: and he that
humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

15 * And they brought unto him also in-
fants, that he might touch them. Which

g Eccli. 18. 22; 1 Thess. 6. 17.
A- Matt. 23. 12 ; Supra 14. 11.

when the disciples saw, they rebuked
them.

16 But Jesus, calling them together,
said : Suffer children to come to me, and
forbid them not : for of such is the king-
dom of God.

17 Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall
not receive the kingdom of God as a
child, shall not enter into it.

18 «^ And a certain ruler asked him, say-
ing : Good master, what shall I do to
possess everlasting life ?

19 And Jesus said to him: Why dost
thou call me good? None is good but
God alone.

20 Thou knowest the commandments:
* Thou shall not kill : Thou shalt not com'
rmt adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou
shalt not bear false vntness : Honour thjf
father and mother,

21 Who said: All these things have I
kept from my youth.

22 Which when Jesus had heard, he said
to him : Yet one thing is wanting to thee:
sell all whatever thou hast, and give to
the poor, and thou shalt have treasure
in heaven : and come, follow me.

23 He having heard these things, be-
came sorrowful ; for he was very rich.

24 And Jesus seeing him become sor-
rowful, said: How hardly shall they that
have riches enter into the kingdom of
God.

25 For it is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God.

26 And they that heard it, said: Who
then can be saved ?

27 He said to them : The things that are
impossible with men, are possible with
God.

28 Then Peter said: Behold, we have
left all things, and have followed thee.

29 Who said to them: Amen, I say to
you, there is no man that hath left house,
or parents, or brethren, or wife, or chil-
dren, for the kingdom of God's sake,

30 Who shall not receive much more in
this present time, and in the world to
come life everlasting.

31 ^Then Jesus took unto him the
twelve, and said to them: Behold, we go
up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be

i Matt. 19. 13 ; Mark 10. 13. —j Matt 19. 16.
k Ex. 20. 13. —^ Matt. 20. 17 ; Mark 10. 32.

Chap. 18. Ver. 3. Avenge.

That ia, do me justice.

It is a Hebraism.

The blind man of Jericho

ST. LUKE

Parable of the pounds

accomplished which were written by the
prophets concerning the Son of man.

32 For he shall be delivered to the Gen-
tiles, and shall be mocked, and scourged,
and spit upon:

33 And after they have scourged him,
they will put him to death ; and the third
day he shall rise again.

34 And they understood none of these
things, and this word was hid from them,
and they understood not the things that
were said.

35 "* Now it came to pass, when he drew
nigh to Jericho, that a certain blind man
sat by the way side, begging.

36 And when he heard the multitude
passing by, he asked what this meant.

37 And they told him, that Jesus of
Kazareth was passing by.

38 And he cried out, saying: Jesus, son
of David, have mercy on me.

39 And they that went before, rebuked
him, that he should hold his peace : but
be cried out much more: Son of David,
have mercy on mo.

40 And Jesus standing, commanded him
to be brought unto him. And when he
was come near, he asked him,

41 Saying: What wilt thou that I do to
4hee ? But he said : Lord, that I may see.

42 And Jesus said to him : Receive thy
Bight : thy faith hath made thee whole.

43 And immediately he saw, and fol-
lowed him, glorifying God. And all the
people, when they saw it, gave praise to
God.

CHAPTER 19.

Zacheua entertains Christ. The parable of the
pounds. Christ rides upon an ass^ and weeps
over Jerusalem,

AND entering in, he walked through
. Jericho.

2 And behold, there was a man named
Zacheus, who was the chief of the publi-
cans, and he was rich

3 And he sought to see Jesus who he
was, and he could not for the crowd, be-
cause he was low of stature.

4 And running before, he climbed up
into a sycamore tree, that he might see
him ; for he was to pass that way.

5 And when Jesus was come to the
place, looking up, he saw him, and said
to him : Zacheus, make haste and come

m Matt. 20. 29 ; Mark 10. 46. — n Matt. 18. 12.
Chap. 19. Ver. 13. He gave them ten pounds. , fJ-vd, or in Latin mtna, in value of our coin, threi;
In the origizuil, what is here translated a pound i.- pounds two shillings and six pence.

down ; for this day I must abide in thy
house.

6 And he made haste and came down;
and received him with joy.

7 And when all saw it, they murmured,
saying, that he was gone to be a guest
with a man that was a sinner.

8 But Zacheus standing, said to the
Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods
I give to the poor ; and if I have wronged
any man of any thing, I restore him four-
fold.

9 Jesus said to him: This day is salva-
tion come to this house, because he also
is a son of Abraham.

10 "For the Son of man is come to seek
and to save that which was lost.

11 As they were hearing these things,
he added and spoke a parable, because he
was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they
thought that the kingdom of God should
immediately be manifested.

12 He said therefore: ° A certain noble*
man went into a far country, to receive
for himself a kingdom, and to return.

13 And calling his ten servants, he gave
them ten pounds, and said to them:
Trade till I come.

14 But his citizens hated him : and they
sent an embassage after him, saying : We
will not have this man to reign over us.

15 And it came to pass, that he returned,
having received the kingdom: and he
commanded his servants to be called, to
whom he had given the money, that he
might know how much every man had
gained by trading.

16 And the first came, saying: Lord, thy
pound hath gained ten pounds.

17 And he said to him: Well done, thou
good servant, because thou hast been
faithful in a little, thou shalt have power
over ten cities.

18 And the second came, saying : Lord,
thy pound hath gained five pounds.

19 And he said to him: Be thou also
over five cities.

20 And another came, saying: Lord, be-
hold here is thy pound, which I have
kept laid up in a napkin ;

21 For I feared thee, because thou art
an austere man: thou takest up what
thou didst not lay down, and thou reap-
est that which thou didst not sow.

o Matt. 25. 14.

Jesus* entry into Jerusalem

ST. LUKE

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem

22 Hc> ijaith to him : Out of thy own mouth
I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou
knewest that I was an austere man, tak-
ing up what I laid not down, and reaping
that which I did not sow :

23 And why then didst thou not give
my money into the bank, that at my
coming, I might have exacted it with
usury?

24 And he said to them that stood by :
Take the pound away from him, and give
it to him that hath ten pounds.

25 And they said to him: Lord, he hath
ten pounds.

26 P But I say to you, that to every one
that hath shall be given, and he shall
abound: and from him that hath not, even
that which he hath, shall be taken from
him.

27 But as for those my enemies, who
would not have me reign over them,
bring them hither, and kill them before
me.

28 And having said these things, he
went before, going up to Jerusalem.

29 5 And it came to pass, when he was
cume nigh to Bethphage and Bethania,
unto the mount called Olivet, he sent two
of his disciples,

30 Saying: Go into the town which is
over against you, at your entering into
which you shall find the colt of an ass
tied, on which no man ever hath sitten:
loose him, and bring him hither.

31 And if any man shall ask you : Why
do you loose him ? you shall say thus unto
him : Because the Lord hath need of his
service.

32 And they that were sent, went their
way, and found the colt standing, as he
had said unto them.

33 And as they were loosing the colt,
the owners thereof said to them: Why
loose you the colt ?

34 But they said : Because the Lord hath
need of him.

35 ''And they brought him to Jesus.
And casting their garments on the colt,
they set Jesus thereon.

36 And as he went, they spread their
clothes underneath in the way.

37 And when he was now coming near
the descent of mount Olivet, the whole
multitude of his disciples began with joy

p Matt. 13. 12, and 25. 29; Mark 4. 25; Supra 8. 18,

d Matt. 21. 1; Mark 11. 1. — r John 12. 14.

« Mfttt. 24. 2; Mark 13. 2; Infra 21. 6.

to praise God with a loud voice, for all
the mighty works they had seen,

38 Saying: Blessed be the king who
Cometh in the name of the Lord, peace
in heaven, and glory on high !

39 And some of the Pharisees, from
amongst the multitude, said to him:
Master, rebuke thy disciples.

40 To whom he said : I say to you, that
if these shall hold their peace, the stones
will cry out.

41 And when he drew near, seeing the
city, he wept over it, saying:

42 If thou also hadst known, and that in
this thy day, the things that are to thy
peace ; but now they are hidden from thy
eyes.

43 For the days shall come upon tLte r
and thy enemies shall cast a trench about
thee, and compass thee round, and straiten
thee on every side,

44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and
thy children who are in thee: *and they
shall not leave in thee a stone upon a
stone : because thou hast not known the
time of thy visitation.

45 *And entering into the temple, he
began to cast out them that sold therein,
and them that bought.

46 Saying to them: It is written: "ikfj/
house is the house of prayer. But you have
made it a den of thieves.

47 And he was teaching daily in the
temple. And the chief priests and the
scribes and the rulers of the people
sought to destroy him :

48 And they found not what to do to
him: for all the people were very at-
tentive to hear him,

CHAPTER 20.

The parable of the husbandmen. Of paying tribute
to Ccesar ; and of the resurrection of the dead.

A ND ^ it came to pass, that on one of
l\ the days, as he was teaching the
people in the temple, and preaching the
gospel, the chief priests and the scribes,
with the ancients, met together,

2 And spoke to him, saying : Tell us, by
what authority dost thou these things?
or, Who is he that hath given thee this
authority ?

3 And Jesus answering, said to them : I
will also ask you one thing. Answer me?

t Matt. 21. 12; Mark 11. 15.

u I»a. 66. 7; Jer. 7. 11.
V Matt. 21. 29; Mark 14. 27.

Parable of the husbandmen

ST. LUKE

Paying tribute to Caesar

4 The baptism of John, was it from hea-
ven, or of men ?

5 But they thought within themselves,
saying : If we shall say, From heaven: he
will say: Why then did you not believe
him?

6 But if we say. Of men, the whole peo-
ple will stone us: for they are persuaded
that John was a prophet.

7 And they answered, that they knew
not whence it was.

8 And Jesus said to them: Neither do I
tell thee by what authority I do these
things.

9 And he began to speak to the people
this parable: ^ A certain man planted a
vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen:
and he was abroad for a long time.

10 And at the season he sent a servant
to the husbandmen, that they should
give him of the fruit of the vineyard.
Who, beating him, sent him away empty.

11 And again he sent another servant.
But they beat him also, and treating
him reproachfully, sent him away empty.

12 And again he sent the third: and
they wounded him also, and cast him
out.

13 Then the lord of the vineyard said :
What shall I do ? I will send my beloved
son: it may be, when they see him, they
will reverence him.

14 Whom when the husbandmen saw,
they thought within themselves, saying :
This it the heir, let us kill him, that the
inheritance may be ours.

15 So casting him out of the vineyard,
they killed him. What therefore will
the lord of the vineyard do to them?

le He will come, and will destroy these
huobandmen, and will give the vineyard
to others. Which they hearing, said to
him : God forbid.

17 But he looking on them, said : What
is this then that is written, ^ The stone,
which the builders r^ected, the same is be-
come the head of the corner ?

18 Whosoever shall fall upon that
stone, shall be bruised : and upon whom-
soever it shall fall, it will grind him to
powder.

19 And the chief priests and the scribes
sought to lay hands on him the same
hour: but they feared the people, for

w Isa. 5. 1 ; Jer. 2. 21 ; Matt. 21. 3 ; Mark 12. 1.
X Ps. 117. 22 ; Isa. 28. 16; Matt. 21. 42:

▲fitsi. Us Horn. 9. 83 tl Peter 8. 7.

they knew that he spoke this parable to
them.

20 ^And being upon the watch, they
sent spies, who should feign themselveo
just, that they might take hold of him in
his words, that they might deliver him
up to the authority and power of the
governor.

21 And they asked him, saying: Master,
we know that thou speakest and teach-
est rightly : and thou dost not respect
any person, but teachest the way of God
in truth.

22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to
Caesar, or no ?

23 But he, considering their guile, said
to them : Why tempt you me ?

24 Shew me a penny. Whose image
and inscription hath it? They answer-
ing, said to him, Caesar's.

25 And he said to them: ^Render
therefore to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's: and to God the things that are
God's.

26 And they could not reprehend his
word before the people: and wondering
at his answer, they held their peace.

27 **And there came to him some of
the Sadducees, who deny that there is
any resurrection, and they asked him,

28 Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto
us, ^ If any man's brother die, having a
wife, and he leave no children, that his
brother should take her to wife, and
raise up seed unto his brother.

29 There were therefore seven bre-
thren : and the first took a wife, and died
without children. •

30 And the next took her to wife, and
he also died childless.

31 And the third took her. And in like
manner all the seven, and they left no
children, and died.

32 Last of all the woman died also.

33 In the resurrection therefore, whose
wife of them shall she be ? For all the
seven had her to wife.

34 And Jesus said to them : The chil-
dren of this world marry, and are given
in marriage:

35 But they that shall be accounted
worthy of that world, and of the resur-
rection from the dead, shall neither be
married, nor take wives.

y Matt. 2. 15 ; Mark 12. 13.

2 Rom. 13. 7.

a Matt. 22. 23{ Mark 12. 1&— 6 Deut 25. 6b

The resurrection of the dead ST. LUKE Signs before destruction of terrfple

36 Neither can they die any more : for
they are equal to the angels, and are the
"•hildren of God, being the children of
the resurrection.

37 Now that the dead rise again, Moses
also shewed, at the bush, ^ when he called
the Lord, The God of Abraham^ and the
God of Isaac^ and the God of Jacob;

38 For he is not the God of the dead,
but of the living : for all live to him.

39 And some of the scribes answering,
said to him: Master, thou hast said well.

40 And after that they durst not ask
him any more questions.

41 But he said to them : How say they
that Christ is the son of David ?

42 And David himself saith in the book
of Psalms : *^ The Lord said to my Lord^
3ii thou on my right hand,

43 Till I make thy eriemies thy footstool,

44 David then calleth him Lord: and
now is he his son ?

45 And in the hearing of all the people,
he said to his disciples :

46 ^ Beware of the scribes, who desire to
walk in long robes, and love salutations
in the marketplace, and the first chairs
in the synagogues, and the chief rooms
at feasts :

47 Who devour the houses of widows,
feigning long prayer. These shall re-
ceive greater damnation.

CHAPTER 21.

The widow* s mites. The signs that should forerun
the destruction of Jerusalem, and the end of the
world.

AND «^looking on, he saw the rich men
S\. cast their gifts into the treasury.

j And he saw also a certain poor widow
casting in two brass mites.

3 And he said : Verily I say to you, that
this poor widow hath cast in more than
they all :

4 For all these have of their abundance
cast into the offerings of God : but she
of her want, hath cast in all the living
that she had.

5 And some saying of the temple, that
It was adorned with goodly stones and
gifts, he said:

6 These things which you see, ^ the days
will come in which there shall not be
left a stone upon a stone that shall not
06 thrown down.

7 And tiiey asked him, saying: Master,

c Ex. 3. 6. — d Vs. 109. 1; Matt. 22. 44; Mark 12. 30.

e Matt. 23. 6; Mark 12. 38; Supra 1. 43.

/ L^ark 12.41.

when shall these things be? and what
shall be the sign when they shall begin
to come to pass ?

8 Who said : Take heed you be not se-
duced ; for many will come in my name,
saying, I am he ; and the time is at hand:
go ye not therefore after them.

r And when you shall hear of wars and
seditions, be not terrified: these things
must first come to pass ; but the end is
not yet presently.

10 Then he said to them : Nation shall
rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom.

11 And there shall be great earthquakes
in divers places, and pestilences, and
famines, and terrors from heaven; and
there shall be great signs.

12 But before all these things, they will
lay their hands on you, and persecute
you, delivering you up to the synagogues
and into prisons, dragging you before
kings and governors, for my name's sake,

13 And it shall happen unto you for a
testimony.

14 Lay it up therefore in your hearts,
not to meditate before how you shall
answer :

15 For I will give you a mouth and wis-
dom, which all your adversaries shall not
be able to resist and gainsay.

16 And you shall be betrayed by your
parents and brethren, and kinsmen and
friends ; and some of you they will put
to death.

17 And you shall be hated by all men
for my name's sake.

18 But a hair of your head shall not
perish.

19 In your patience you shall possess
your souls.

20 ^ And when you shall see Jerusalem
compassed about with an army; then
know that the desolation thereof is at
hand.

21 Then let those who are in Judea, flee
to the mountains; and those who are in
the midst thereof, depart out : and those
who are in the countries, not enter into
it.

22 For these are the days of vengeance,
that all things may be fulfilled, that are
written.

23 But woe to them that are with child,
and give suck in those days ; for there

g Matt. 24. 2; Mark 13. 2; Supra 19. 44.
h Dan. 9. 27; Matt. 24. 15; Mark 13. 14.

Signs preceding end of the world ST. LUKE

The last supper

shall be great distress in the land, and
wrath upon this people.

24 And they shall fall by the edge of
the sword; and shall be led away cap-
tives into all nations; and Jerusalem
shall be trodden down by the Gentiles;
till the times of the nations be fulfilled.

25 t And there shall be signs in the sun,
and in the moon, and in the stars; and
upon the earth distress of nations, by
reason of the confusion of the roaring of
the sea and of the waves;

26 Men withering away for fear, and
expectation of what shall come upon the
whole world. For the powers of heaven
shall be moved;

27 And then they shall see the Son of
man coming in a cloud, with great power
and majesty.

28 But when these things begin to come
to pass, look up, and lift up your heads,
J because your redemption is at hand.

29 And he spoke to them a similitude.
See the fig tree, and all the trees :

30 When they now shoot forth their
fruit, you know that summer is nigh;

31 So you also, when you shall see these
things come to pass, know that the king-
dom of God is at hand.

32 Amen, I say to you, this generation
shall not pass away, till all things be ful-
filled.

33 Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.

34 And take heed to yourselves, lest
perhaps your hearts be overcharged with
surfeiting and drunkenness, and the
cares of this life, and that day come upon
you suddenly.

35 For as a snare shall it come upon
all that sit upon the face of the whole
earth.

36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all
times, that you may be accounted worthy
to escape all these things that are to
come, and to stand before the Son of
man.

^ 37 And in the daytime, he was teaching
in the temple; but at night, going out,
he abode in the mount that is called
Olivet.

38 And all the people came early in the
morning to him in the temple, to hear
him.

» Isa. 13. 19 ; Ezech. 32. 7 ; Joel 2. 10, and 3. 7 ;
Matt. 24. 29 ; Mark 13. 24.
3 Rom. 8. 23.
75

CHAPTER 22.

The treason of Judas. The last supper. The first
part of the history of the passion.

NOW ^ the feast of unleavened bread,
which is called the pasch, was at
hand.

2 And the chief priests and the scribes
sought how they might put Jesus to
death: but they feared the people.

3 ^ And Satan entered into Judas, who
was surnamed Iscariot, one of the twelve.

4 And he went, and discoursed with the
chief priests and the magistrates, how he
might betray him to them.

5 And they were glad, and covenanted
to give him money.

6 And he promised. And he sought op-
portunity to betray him in the absence
of the multitude.

7 And the day of the unleavened bread
came, on which it was necessary that the
pasch should be killed.

8 And he sent Peter and John, saying:
Go, and prepare for us the pasch, that
we may eat.

9 But they said: Where wilt thou that
we prepare?

10 And he said to them: Behold, as you
go into the city, there shall meet you a
man carrying a pitcher of water: follow
him into the house where he entereth in.

11 And you shall say to the goodman of
the house: The master saith to thee.
Where is the guest chamber, where I may
eat the pasch with my disciples?

12 And he will shew you a large dining
room, furnished; and there prepare.

13 And they going, found as he had said
to them, and made ready the pasch.

14 wi And when the hour was come, he
sat down, and the twelve apostles with
him.

15 And he said to them: With desire I
have desired to eat this pasch with you,
before I suffer.

16 For I say to you, that from this time
I will not eat it, till it be fulfilled in the
kingdom of God.

17 And having taken the chalice, he
gave thanks, and said: Take, and divide
it among you:

18 For I say to you, that I will not drink
of the fruit of the vine, till the kingdom
of God come.

k Matt. 26. 2 ; Mark 14. 1. A. D. 33.

I Matt. 26. 14 ; Mark 14. 10.

m Matt. 26. 20 ; Mark 14. 17.

Instiiution of the Holy Eucharist ST. LUKE

The agony in the gardei

19 " And taMng bread, he gave thanks,
and brake; and gave to them, saying;
This is my body, which is given for you.
Do this for a commemoration of me.

20 In hke manner the chaUce also, after
he had supped, saying: This is the chalice,
the new testament in my blood, which
shall be shed for you.

21 ^£ut yet behold, the hand of him
that betrayeth me is with me on the
table.

22 And the Son of man indeed goeth,
P according to that which is determined:
but yet, woe to that man by whom he
shall be betrayed.

23 And they began to inquire among
themselves, which of them it was that
should do this thing.

24 And there was also a strife amongst
them, which of them should seem to be
the greater.

25 And he said to them : ^The kings of
the Gentiles lord it over them j and they
that have power over them, are called
beneficent.

26 But you not so : but he that is the
greater among you, let him become as the
younger ; and he that is the leader, as he
that serveth.

27 For which is greater, he that sitteth
at table, or he that serveth ? Is not he
that sitteth at table ? But I am in the
midst of you, as he that serveth;

28 And you are they who have contin-
ued with me in my temptations :

29 And I dispose to you, as my Father
hath disposed to me, a kingdom ;

30 That you may eat and drink at my
table, in my kingdom : and may sit upon
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.

31 And the Lord said : Simon, Simon, be-
hold Satan hath desired to have you, that
he may sift you as wheat :

32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy
faith fail not : and thou, being once con-
verted, confirm thy brethren.

33 Who said to him : Lord, I am ready
to go with thee, both into prison, and to
death.

n 1 Cor. 11. 24. — o Matt. 26. 21 ; Mark 14. 20 ; John
13. 18.— p Ps. 40. 9. — gMatt. 20. 25; Mark 10.42.—
r Matt. 26. 34 ; Mark 14. 30. — s Matt, lo. 9. — t Isa. 53.

Chap. 22. Ver. 19. Dothis for a commemoration
of rae. This sacrifice and sacrament is to be con-
tinued in the church, to the end of the world, to shew
forth the death of Christ, until he cometh. But this
commemoration, or remembrance, is by no means
iQeoQ3isteQ& witb the real presence of bis body and

34 *" And he said : I say to thee, Petf^i
the cock shall not crow this day, till oh ji
thrice deniest that thou knowest mc
And he said to them:

35 * When I sent you without purse, am
scrip, and shoes, did you want any tning

36 But they said : Nothing. Then sai^
he unto them: But now he that hath
purse, let him take it, and likewise
scrip ; and he that hath not, let him seJ
his coat, and buy a sword.

37 For I say to you, that this that
written must yet be fulfilled in me : ' An
with the wi'iked was he reckoned. For th
things concerain^ me have an end.

38 But they saic' Lord, behold here ai
two swords. And he ^aid to them, It i
enough.

39 ^ And going out, he went, accordin
to his custom, to the mount of Olivei
And his iisciplee also followed him.

40 And when he was come to the piac<
he said to them : Pray, lest ye enter int
temptation.

41 ^ And he was withdrawn away froi
them a stone's cast ; and kneeling dowi
he prayed,

42 Saying: Father, if thou wilt, remov
this chaUce from me: but yet not m
will, but thine be done.

43 And there appeared to him an ang<
from heaven, strengthening him. Ar
being in an agony, he prayed the longe

44 And his sweat became at drops <
blood, trickling down upon the ground.

45 And when he rose up from praye
and was come to his disciples, he four
them sleeping for sorrow.

46 And he said to them : Why sleep yoi
arise, pray, lest you enter into tempt,
tion.

47 ^ As he was yet speaking, behold
multitude ; and he that was called Juda
one of the twelve, went before them, ai
drew near to Jesus, for to kiss him.

48 And Jesus said to him : Judas, do
thou betray the Son of man with a kisf

49 And they that were about him, 86'
ing what would follow, said to hin
Lord, shall we strike with the sword?

12, — u Matt. 26. 30, Mark 14. 32 ; John 18. 1. — v Ma
26. 39 ; Mark 14. 35. - w Matt 26. 47 ; Mark 14. 4
John 18. 3.

blood, under these sacramental veils, which repi
sent his death; on tht contrary, it is the mann
that he himself hath commanded, of commemoratii
and celebrating; his death, by offering in sacrifl<
and receiving in the sacrament, that body and blo«
by which wa were redeemed.

Peter denies his Master

ST. LUKE Jesus before Pilate and Herod

60 And one of them struck the servant
of the high priest, and cut off his right
ear.

51 But Jesus answering, said : Suffer ye
thus far. And when he had touched his
ear, he healed him.

62 And Jesus saM to the chief priests,
and magistrates of the temple, and the
ancients, that were come unto him : Are
ye come out, as it were against a thief,
with swords and clubs ?

63 When I was daily with you in the
temple, you did not stretch forth your
hands against me : but this is your hour,
and the power of darkness.

64 * And apprehending him, they led
him to the high priest's house. But Peter
followed afar off.

55 V And when they had kindled a fire
in the midst of the hall, and were sit-
ting about it, Peter was in the midst of
them.

56 Whom when a certain servant maid
had seen sitting at the light, and had ear-
Destly beheld him, she said: This man
also was with him.

57 But he denied him, saying : Woman,
[ know him not.

68 And after a little while, another see-
hig him, said : Thou also art one of them.
But Peter said : O man, I am not.

59 ^ And after the space, as it were of
one hour, another certain man aflBrmed,
saying : Of a truth, this man was also
with, him ; for he is also a Galilean.

60 And Peter said : Man, I know not
«That thou sayest. And immediately, as
he was yet speaking, the cock crew.

61 And the Lord turning looked on
Peter. And Peter remembered the word
Df the Lord, as he had said: "^ Before the
3ock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

I 62 And Peter going out, wept bitterly.
I 63 And the men that held him, mocked
aim, and struck him.

I 64 And they blindfolded him, and smote
lis face. And they asked him, saying:
Prophesy, who is it that struck thee ?

X Matt. 26. 57 ; Mark 14. 53 ; John 18. 24. — ?/ Matt.
». 69 ; Mark 14. 66 ; John 18. 25. — 2 John 18. 26. —
[X Matt 26. 34 ; Mark 14. 30 ; John 13. 38.-6 Matt.

' Ver. 58. Another, &c. Observe here, in order to
[•econcile the four Evangelists, that divers persons
.Joncurred in charging Peter with being Christ's dis-
tiiple; till at length they brought him to deny him
|hrice. l. The porteress that let him in, and after-
t^ards seeing him at the fire, first put the question
\fO him; and then positively affirmed that he was
niXXx Christ. 2. Another maid accuscU him to the

65 And blaspheming, many other things
they said against him.

66 ^ And as soon as it was day, the an-
cients of the people, and the chief priests
and scribes, came together; and they
brought him into their council, 8ayin[j :
If thou be the Christ, tell us.

67 And he saith to them : If I shall tell
you, you will not believe me.

68 And if I shall also ask you, you will
not answer me, nor let me go.

69 But hereafter the Son of man shall be
sitting on the right hand of the power of
God.

70 Then said they all: Art thou then the
Son of God? Who said : You say that I
am.

71 And they said: What need we any
further testimony? for we ourselves have
heard it from his own mouth.

CHAPTER 23.
The continuation of the history of the passion.

A ND the whole multitude of them ris-
J\. ing up, led him to Pilate.

2 And they began to accuse him, saying :
We have found this man perverting our
nation, ^ and forbidding to give tribute
to Caesar, and saying that he is Christ
the king.

3 ^ And Pilate asked him, saying: Art
thou the kinf of the Jews? But he an-
swering, said : Thou sayest it.

4 And Pilate said to the chief priests
and to the multitudes : I find no cause in
this man.

6 But they were more earnest, saying :
He stirreth up the people, teaching
throughout all Judea, beginning from
Galilee to this place.

6 But Pilate hearing Galilee, asked if
the man were of Galilee ?

7 And when he understood that he was
of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him away
to Herod, who was also himself at Jeru-
salem, in those days.

8 And Herod seeing Jesus, was A^ery
glad ; for he was desirous of a long time

27. 1 ; Mark 15. 1 ; John 18. 28. — c Matt. 22. 21 ; Mark
12. 17. — d Matt. 27. 11 ; Mark 15. 2 ; John 18. 33.

standers by; and gave occasion to the man here
mentioned to renew the charge against liim, which
caused the second denial. 3. Others of the company
took not'ce of his being a Galilean; and were sec-
onded by the kinsman of Malchiis, who affirmed he
had seen him in the garden. And this drew oa t^f
tbird deniai

Pilate condemns Jesus to death ST. LUKE

The crucifixion

to see him, bgcause he had heard many
tilings of him ; and he hoped bo see some
sign wrought by him.

9 And he questioned him in many words.
But he answered him nothing.

10 And the chief priests and the scribes
stood by^ earnestly accusing him.

11 And Herod with his army set him at
nought, and mocked him, putting on him
a white garment, and sent him back to
Pilate.

12 And Herod and Pilate were made
fenends, that same day ; for before they
were enemies one to another.

13 And Pilate, calling together the chief
priests, and the magistrates, and the
people,

14 Said to them : You have presented
unto me this man, as one that perverteth
the people ; and behold I, having exam-
ined him before you, * find no cause in
this man, in those things wherein you
accuse him.

15 No, nor Herod neither. For I sent
you to him, and behold, nothing worthy
of death is done to him.

16 I will chastise him therefore, and
release him.

17 Now of necessity he was to release
unto them one upon the feast day.

18 But the whole multitude together
eried out, saying: Away with this man,
and release unto us Barabbas :

19 Who, for a certain sedition made in
the city, and for a murder, was cast into
prison.

21 But they cried again, saying; Crucify
him, crucify him.

22 And he said to them the third time :
^Why, what evil hath this man done? I
find no cause of death in him. I will
chastise him therefore, and let him go.

23 But they were instant with loud
voices, requiring that he might be cruci-
fied ; and their voices prevailed.

24 And Pilate ga-ve sentence that it
should be as they required.

25 And he released unto them him who
for murder and sedition, had been cast
into prison, whom they had desired ; but
Jesus he delivered up to their will.

26 ^ And as they led him away, they laid
hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming

from the country ; and they laid the cross
on him to carry after Jesus.

27 And there followed him a great mul-
titude of people, and of women, who
bewailed and lamented him.

28 But Jesus turning to them, said
Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over
me ; but weep for yourselves, and for
your children.

29 For behold, the days shall come,
wherein they will say : Blessed are the
barren, and the wombs that have no
borne, and the paps that have not given
suck.

30 Then shall they begin to say to the
mountains: ^Fall upon us; and to the
hills : Cover us.

31 For if in the green wood they do
these things, what shall be done in the
dry?

32 And there were also two other male
factors led with him to be put to death.

33 *And when they were come to the
place which is called Calvary, they cru-
cified him there; and the robbers, one
on the right hand, and the other on the
left.

34 And Jesus said: Father, forgive them
for they know not what they do. Bu
they, dividing his garments, cast lots.

35 And the people stood beholding, and
the rulers with them derided him, say-
ing : He saved others ; let him save him-
self, if he be Christ, the elect of God.

36 And the soldiers also mocked him,
coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

37 And saying: If thou be the king oi
the Jews, save thyself.

38 And there was also a superscriptior
written over him in letters of Greek, an<
Latin, and Hebrew : This is the King oi
THE Jews.

39 And one of those robbers who wen
hanged, blasphemed him saying : If thoi
be Christ, save thyself and us.

40 But the other answering, rebukei
him, saying : Neither dost thou fei
God, seeing thou art under the 8am<
condemnation ?

41 And we indeed justly, for we receiv*
the due reward of our deeds ; but thi
man hath done no evil.

42 And he said to Jesus : Lord, remei
ber me when thou shalt come into th;
kingdom.

« John 18. 38, and 19. 4.—/ Matt. 27. 23; Mark 15.
4. — a Matt. 27 32; Mark 15. 21. — h Isa. 2. 19; Osee

10. 8; Apoc. 6. 16.
19. 17.

Matt. 27. 33; Mark 15. 22; Job

100

The death and burial of Jesus ST. LUKE

The resurrection

43 And Jesus said to him: Amen I say
to thee, this day thou shalt be with me
in paradise.

44 And it was almost the sixth hour;
and there was darkness over all the
earth until the ninth hour.

45 And the sun was darkened, and the
veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

46 And Jesus crying with a loud voice,
said : ^ Father, into thy hands I commend
my spirit. And saying this, he gave up
the ghost.

47 Now the centurion, seeing what was
done, glorified God, saying : Indeed this
was a just man.

48 And all the multitude of them that
were come together to that sight, and
saw the things that were done, returned
striking their breasts.

49 And all his acquaintance, and the
women that had followed him from Gali-
lee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

50 ^ And behold there was a man named
Joseph, who was a counsellor, a good
and a just man,

51 (The same had not consented to their
counsel and doings;) of Arimathea, a
city of Judea; who also himself looked
for the kingdom of God.

52 This man went to Pilate, and begged
the body of Jesus.

53 And taking him down, he wrapped
him in fine linen, and laid him in a sep-
ulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein
never yet any man had been laid.

54 And it was the day of the Parasceve,
and the sabbath drew on.

65 And the women that were come with
him from Galilee, following after, saw
the sepulchre, and how his body was
laid.

56 And returning, they prepared spices
and ointments ; and on the sabbath day
they rested, according to the command-
ment.

CHAPTER 24.

ChrisVs resurrection, and manifestation of himself
to his disciples.

' AND ^ on the first day of the week, very
XTX. early in the morning, they came to

I j Ps. 30. 6. — k Matt. 27. 57 ; Mark 15. 43; John 19.
38. — I Matt. 28. 1 ; Mark 16. 2 ; John 20. 1. — m Matt.

Chap. 23. Ver. 43. In paradise. That is, in the
happy state of rest, joy, and peace everlasting.
'Christ was pleased, by a special privilege, to reward
the faith and confession of the penitent thjef, with
.a full discharge of all his sins, both as to the guilt
and punishment; and to introduce him immediately

the sepulchre, bringing the spices which
they had prepared.

2 And they found the stone rolled back
from the sepulchre.

3 And going in, they found not the body
of the Lord Jesus.

4 And it came to pass, as they were as-
tonished in their mind at this, behold,
two men stood by them, in shining ap-
parel.

5 And as they were afraid, and bowed
down their countenance towards the
ground, they said unto them : Why seek
you the living with the dead ?

6 He is not here, but is risen. Remem-
ber how he spoke unto you, when he wag
yet in Galilee,

7 Saying : "* The Son of man must be
delivered into the hands of sinful men,
and be crucified, and the third day rise
again.

8 And they remembered his words.

9 And going back from the sepulchre,
they told all these things to the eleven,
and to all the rest.

10 And it was Mary Magdalen, and Jo-
anna, and Mary of James, and the other
women that were with them, who told
these things to the apostles.

11 And these words seemed to them as
idle tales ; and they did not believe them.

12 But Peter rising up, ran to the sepul-
chre, and stooping down, he saw the
linen cloths laid by themselves ; and
went away wondering in himself at that
which was come to pass.

13 '^ And behold, two of them went, the
same day, to a town which was sixty fur-
longs from Jerusalem, named Emmaus.

14 And they talked together of all these
things which had happened.

15 And it came to pass, that while they
talked and reasoned with themselves,
Jesus himself also drawing near, went
with them.

16 But their eyes were held, that they
should not know him.

17 And he said to them: What are these
discourses that you hold one with an-
other as you walk, and are sad ?

16. 21, and 17. 21; Mark 8. 31, and 9. 30; Supra 9. 22.
— n Mark 16. 12.

after death into the happy society of the s;nnts,
whose limbo, that is, the place of their confinement,
was now made a paradise by our Lord's going
thither.

Ver. 54. Parasceve. That is, the eve, or day of
preparation for the sabbath.

Disciples on the way to Emmaus ST. LUKE

■ '^

18 And the one of them, whose name
was Cleophas, answering, said to him :
Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem,
and hast not known the things that have
been done there in these days?

19 To whom he said: What things?
And they said : Concerning Jesus of
Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in
work and word before God and all the
people ;

20 And how our chief priests and
princes delivered him to be condemned
to death, and crucified him.

21 But we hoped, that it was he that
should have redeemed Israel : and now
besides all this, to day is the third day
since these things were done.

22 Yea and certain women also of our
company affrighted us, who before it
was light, were at the sepulchre,

23 And not finding his body, came, say-
ing, that they had also seen a vision of
angels, who say that he is alive.

24 And some of our people went to the
sepulchre, and found it so as the women
had said, but him they found not.

25 Then he said to them : O foolish, and
slow of heart to believe in all things
which the prophets have spoken.

26 Ought not Christ to have suffered
these things, and so to enter into his
glory?

27 And beginning at Moses and all the
prophets, he expounded to them in all
the scriptures, the things that were con-
cerning him.

28 And they drew nigh to the town,
whither they were going : and he made
as though he would go farther.

29 But they constrained him; saying:
Stay with us, because it is towards even-
ing, and the day is now far spent. And
he went in with them.

30 And it came to pass, whilst he was
at table with them, he took bread, and
blessed, and brake, and gave to them.

31 And their eyes were opened, and
they knew him : and he vanished out of
their sight.

32 And they said one to the other : Was
not our heart burning within us, whilst he
spoke in the way, and opened to us the
scriptures ?

o Mark 16. 14; John 20. 19.
p Ps. 18. 6.

Chap. 24. Ver. 49. The promise of my Father,
that is, the Holy Ghost, whom Christ had promised

33 And rising up, the same hour, the,^
went back to Jerusalem : and they foum
the eleven gathered together, and thos
that were with them,

34 Saying : The Lord is risen indeed
and hath appeared to Simon.

35 And they told what things wen
done in the way ; and how they knev
him in the breaking of bread.

36 ° Now whilst they were speakin|
these things, Jesus stood in the midst o
them, and saith to them : Peace be t<
you ; it is I, fear not.

37 But they being troubled and fright
ed, supposed that they saw a spirit.

38 And he said to them : Why are yoi
troubled, and why do thoughts arise ii
your hearts ?

39 See my hands and feet, that it is
myself ; handle, and see : for a spiri
hath not flesh and bones, as you see m^
to have.

40 And when he had said this, b
shewed them his hands and feet.

41 But while they yet believed not, am
wondered for joy, he said: Have yoi
here any thing to eat ?

42 And they offered him a piece of i
broiled fish, and a honeycomb.

43 And when he had eaten befor»
them, taking the remains, he gave t<
them.

44 And he said to them : These are th
words which I spoke to you, while I wa
yet with you, that all things must need
be fulfilled, which are written in the la^
of Moses, and in the prophets, and in tb
psalms, concerning me.

45 Then he opened their understanding
that they might understand the scrip
tures.

46 And he said to them : P Thus it i
written, and thus it behoved Christ t<
suffer, and to rise again from the dead
the third day:

47 And that penance and remission o
sins should be preached in his namtj"
unto all nations, beginning at Jeruss
lem.

48 9 And you are witnesses of thes
things.

49 ^ And I send the promise of my Fa
ther upon you • but stay you in the citj

g Acts 1. 8.
r John 14. 26.

that his Father and he would send, John 14. 26. an
17.7.

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The ascension into heaven

ST. JOHN

ill you be endued with power from on
ligh.

60 And he led them out as far as Betha-
lia : and lifting up his hands, he blessed
/hem.

61 ^* And it came to pass, whilst he

The Word made flesh

blessed them, he departed from them,
and was carried up to heaven.

52 And they adoring went back into
Jerusalem with great joy.

53 And they were always in the tem-
pie, praising and blessing God. Amen.

THE

HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,

ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.

3t. John tTie Apostle and Evangelist, was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother to Jamet
the Greater. He was called the Beloved disciple of Christ, and stood by at his cruci-

' Jionoa. He wrote the Gospel after the other Evangelists, about sixty-three years after our
Lord's Ascension. Many things tfuit they rtad omitted, were supplied by him. The original
was written in Greek, and by the Greeks he is titled The Divine. St. Jerome relates, that
when he was earnestly requested by the brethren to write the Gospel, he answered he would do
it, if by ordering a common fast, they would all put up their prayers together to the Almighty
God ; which being ended, replenished with the clearest and fullest revelation coming frorr.
Heaven^ he burst forth into that pi^eface : In the beginning was the Word, etc.

CHAPTER 1.

The divinity and incarnation of Christ. John bears
witness of him. He begins to call his disciples.

IN the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with
3od.

3 All things were made by him: and
;vithout him was made nothing that was
nade.

4 In him was hfe, and the life was the
ight of men.

6 And the light shineth in darkness,
md the darkness did not comprehend it.

6 "There was a man sent from God,
^hose name was John.

7 This man came for a witness, to give
testimony of the light, that all men
night believe through him.

8 He was not the light, but was to give
lestimony of the light.

9 ^That was the true lights which en-
iighteneth every man that cometh into
bhis world.

10 He was in the world, ^and the world
was made by him, and the world knew
bim not.

I 11 He came unto his own, and his own
I received him not.

12 But as many as received him, he
I gave them power to be made the sons

of God, to them that believe in his
name.

13 Who are born, not of blood, nor o.
the will of the flesh, nor of the- will ol
man, but of God.

14 ^ And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory,
the glory as it were of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

15 John beareth witness of him, and
crieth out, saying : This was he of whom
I spoke : He that shall come after me, is
preferred before me : because he was
before me

16 ^ And of his fulness we all have re-
ceived, and grace for grace.

17 For the law was given by Moses;
grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

18 -^No man hath seen God at any time:
the only begotten Son who is in the
bosom of the Father, he hath declared
him.

19 And this is the testimony of John,
when the Jews sent from Jerusalem

• Mark 16. 19 ; Acts i. 9, — a Matt. 3. i ; Mark 1. 2.
b lofra 3. 19. — c Hetx 11. 3.

d Matt. 1. 16 ; Luke 2. 7. — e l Tim. 6. 17.
/ 1 TiJU. 6. 16; 1 John 4. 12.

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The testimony of the Baptist ST. JOHN Calling of the first disciple

priests and Levites to him, to ask him:
Who art thou?

20 And he confessed, and did not deny ;
and he confessed: I am not the Christ.

21 And they asked him: What then?
Art thou Elias ? And he said : I am not.
Art thou the prophet ? And he answered :
No.

22 They said therefore unto him: Who
art thou, that we may give an answer to
them that sent us ? What sayest thou of
thyself?

23 He said: ^ I am the voice of one crying
in the wilderness^ make straight the way of
the Lord^ as said the prophet Isaias.

24 And they that were sent, were of
the Pharisees.

25 And they asked him, and said to
him: Why then dost thou baptize, if
thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the
prophet?

26 John answered them, saying: ^ I bap-
tize with water ; but there hath stood one
in the midst of you, whom you know not.

27 * The same is he that shall come
after me, who is preferred before me:
the latchet of whose shoe I am not
worthy to loose.

28 These things were done in Bethania,
beyond the Jordan, where John was
baptizing.

29 The next day, John saw Jesus com-
ing to him, and he saith: Behold the
Lamb of God, behold him who taketh
away the sin of the world.

30 This is he, of whom I said : After me
there cometh a man, who is preferred
before me : because he was before me.

31 And I knew him not, but that he
may be made manifest in Israel, there-
fore am I come baptizing with water.

32 And John gave testimony, saying: •?!
saw the Spirit coming down, as a dove
from heaven, and he remained upon him.

33 And I knew him not; but he who
sent me to baptize with water, said to
me: He upon whom thou shalt see the
Spirit descending, and remaining upon
him, he it is that baptizeth with the
Holy Ghost.

34 And I saw, and I gave testimony,
that this is the Son of God.

35 The next day again John stood, and
^o of his disciples.

ff Isa. 40. 3; Matt. 3. 3; Mark 1. 3; Luke 3. 4.—
h Matt. 3. 11. — i Mark 1. 7, Luke 3. 16; Acts 1. 5,
and 11 16, and id. <L->j Matta. 16, Mark 1. lO; Luke

104

36 And beholding Jesus walking,
saith : Behold the Lamb of God.

37 And the two disciples heard hii
speak, and they followed Jesus.

38 And Jesus turning, and seeing thei
following him, saith to them : What see
you? Who said to him. Rabbi, (which
to say, being interpreted. Master,) whei
dwellest thou?

39 He saith to them: Come and se<
They came, and saw where he abode, an
they stayed with him that day: now
was about the tenth hour.

40 And Andrew, the brother of Simo
Peter, was one of the two who had heai
of John, and followed him.

41 He findeth first his brother Simoi
and saith to him: We have found tt
Messias, which is, being interpreted, tt
Christ.

42 And he brought him to Jesus. Ar
Jesus looking upon him, said : Thou a
Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt I
called Cephas, which is interpreted Pete

43 On the following day, he would %
forth into Galilee, and he findeth Phili
And Jesus saith to him : Follow me.

44 Now PhiUp was of Bethsaida, tl
city of Andrew and Peter.

45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and sail
to him: We have found him of who
'^ Moses in the law, ^and the prophe
did write, Jesus the son of Joseph
Nazareth.

46 And Nathanael said to him : Can ai
thing of good come from Nazaretll
Philip saith to him : Come and see. j

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to hir'
and he saith of him: Behold an Israeli
indeed, in whom there is no guile.

48 Nathanael saith to him: When,
knowest thou me ? Jesus answered, ail
said to him: Before that Philip calLi
thee, when thou wast under the fig trc
I saw thee.

49 Nathanael answered him, and sai
Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou m
the king of Israel.

50 Jesus answered, and said to him : E
cause I said unto thee, I saw thee und
the fig tree, thou believest : greater thin
than thepe shalt thou see.

51 And he saith to him: Amen, amei
say to you, you shall see the heav

3. 22.— k Gea 49. lO; Deut. 18. 18.— i Isa. 40. 10, a
45. 8 ; Jer. 23. 6 j Ezech. 34. 23, and 37. 24; Dan. 9
and2&.

rhe miracle at Cana

ST. JOHN Sellers driven from the temple

opened, and the angels of God ascending
md descending upon the Son of man.

CHAPTER 2.

(^rist changes water into wine. He casts the sellers
out of the temple.

AND the third day, there was a mar-
- riage in Cana of Galilee : and the
mother of Jesus was there.

2 And Jesus also was invited, and his
Sisciples, to the marriage.

3 And the wine failing, the mother of
Fesus saith to him : They have no wine.

4 And Jesus saith to her : Woman, what
s that to me and to thee ? my hour is not
jret come.

5 His mother saith to the waiters : What-
loever he shall say to you, do ye.

6 Now there were set there six water-
30ts of stone, according to the manner of
ihe purifying of the Jews, containing two
)r three measures apiece.

7 Jesus saith to them: Fill the water-
)ots with water. And they filled them
ip to the brim.

8 And Jesus saith to them: Draw out
low, and carry to the chief steward of
ihe feast. And they carried it.

9 And when the chief steward had tasted
jhe water made wine, and knew not
;^hence it was, but the waiters knew who
lad drawn the water ; the chief steward
jalleth the bridegroom,

10 And saith to him : Every man at first
letteth forth good wine, and when men
[lave well drunk, then that which is
ivorse. But thou hast kept the good
mnQ until now.

11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus
ii Cana of Galilee; and manifested his
'lory, and his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Caphar-
aaum, he and his mother, and his bre-
ihren, and his disciples: and they re-
mained there not many days.

13 And the pasch of the Jews was at
[land, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

14 And he found in the temple them
bhat sold oxen and sheep and doves, and
the changers of money sitting.

m Ps. 68. 10. — n Mai. 26. 61, and 27. 40 ;

Chap. 2. Ver. 4. What is that to me, &c. These
words of our Saviour, spoken to his mother, have
been understood by some commentators as harsh,
they not considering the next following verse :
Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye, which plainly
Jhows that his mother knew of the miracle that he
iras to perform, and that it was at her request ae

16 And when he had made, as it were, a
scourge of little cords, he drove them all
out of the temple, the sheep also and the
oxen, and the money of the changers he
poured out, and the tables he overthrew.

16 And to them that sold doves he said:
Take these things hence, and make not
the house of my Father a house of traffic.

17 And his disciples remembered, that
it was written : "^ The zeal of thy house
hath eaten me up.

18 The Jews, therefore, answered, and
said to him : What sign dost thou shew
unto us, seeing thou dost these things?

19 Jesus answered, and said to them.
** Destroy this temple, and in three days
I will raise it up.

20 The Jews then said : Six and forty
years was this temple in building; and
wilt thou raise it up in three days?

21 But he spoke of the temple of his
body.

22 When therefore he was risen again
from the dead, his disciples remembered,
that he had said this, ^ and they believed
the scripture, and the word that Jesus
had said.

23 Now when he was at Jerusalem, at
the pasch, upon the festival day, many
believed in his name, seeing his signs
which he did.

24 But Jesus did not trust himself unto
them, for that he knew all men,

25 And because he needed not that any
should give testimony of man: for he
knew what was in man.

CHAPTER 3.

Christ's discourse with Nicodemus. John's testi-
mony.

^ND there was a man of the Pharisees,
named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
Jews.

2 This man came to Jesus by night, and
said to him : Rabbi, we know that thou
art come a teacher from God; for no
man can do these signs which thou dost,
unless God be with him.

3 Jesus answered, and said to him:
Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man

Mark 14. 58, and 15. 29. — o Ps. 3. 6, and 56. 9.

wrought it; besides the manner of speaking the
words as to the tone, and the countenance shown at
tlie same time, which could only be known to those
who were present, or from what had followed : for
words indicating anger in one tone of voice, would
be understood quite the reverse in another.
Ver. 13. Probably the Pasch of A. D. 27.

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Jesus* discourse with Nicodemus ST. JOHN

John^s testimony to Chris

be bom again, he cannot see the king-
dom of Gk)d.

4 Nicodemus saith to him: How can a
man be born when he is old ? can he enter
a second time into iiis mother's womb,
and be born again ?

5 Jesus answered : Amen, amen I say
to thee, unless a man be born again of
water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh, is
flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit, is spirit.

7 Wonder not, that 1 said to thee, you
must be ^orn again.

8 The Spirit breatheth where he will ;
and thou hearest his voice, ^but thou
knowest not whence he cometh, and
whither he goeth : so is every one that
is born of the Spirit.

9 Nicodemus answered, and said to him:
How can these things be done ?

10 Jesus answered, and said to him: Art
thou a master in Israel, and knowest not
these things ?

11 Amen, amen I say to thee, that we
speak what we know, and we testify
what we have seen, and you receive not
our testimony.

12 If I have spoken to you earthly
things, and you beUeve not; how will
you believe, if I shall speak to you hea-
venly things ?

13 And no man hath ascended into hea-
ven, but he that descended from heaven,
the Son ot man who is in heaven.

14 9 And as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the desert, so must the Son of man be
lifted up :

15 That whosoever believetb in him,
may not perish ; but may have life ever-
lasting.

16 ^ Foi God so loved the world, as to
give his only begotten Son ; that whoso-
ever believetb in him, may not perish,
but may have life everlasting.

17 For God sent not bis Son into the
world, to iudge the world, but that the
world may oe saved by him.

p Ps. 134. 7.-7 Num. 21. 9.
_ y 1 John 4. 9. — s Supra 1. 9.

Chap. 3. Ver, 5. Unless a man be bom again,
&c. By these words our Saviour hath declared the
necessity of baptism; and by the word water it is
evident that the application of it is necessary with
the words. Matt. 28. 19.

Ver. 18. Is not judged. He that believeth, viz.,
by a faith working through charity, is not judged,
tbat is, is not condemned; but the obstiBaite unbe^

18 He that believeth in him is no
judged. But he that doth not believe
is aheady judged: because he believetl
not in the name of the only begottei
Son of God.

19 And this is the ludgment : * becausi
the light is come into the world, and mei
loved darkness rather than the light : fo
their works were eviL

20 For every one that doth evil hatetl
the light, and cometh not to the Ughl
that his works may not be reproved.

21 But he that doth truth, cometh t
the light, that his works may be mad
manifest, because they are done in God.

22 After these things Jesus and his dig
ciples came into the land of Judea : an»
there he abode with them, * and baptizec

23 And John also was baptizing in Er
non near Salim ; because there was muc
water there ; and they came and wer
baptized.

24 For John was not yet cast int
prison.

25 And there arose a question betwee
some of John's disciples and the Jew
concerning purification :

26 And they came to John, and said t
him: Rabbi, he that was with thee b<
yond the Jordan, ^ to whom thou gavet
testimony, behold he baptizeth, and a
men come to him.

27 John answered and said : A man cai
not receive any thing, unless it be give
him from heaven.

28 You yourselves do bear me witnes
^' that I said, I am not Christ, but that
am sent before him.

29 He that hath the bride, is the brid<
groom : but the friend of the bridegrooD
who standeth and heareth him, rejoicet
with joy because of the bridegroom
voice. This my joy therefore is fulfille»

30 He must increase, but I must d«
crease.

31 He that cometh from above, is aboD
all. He that is of the earth, of the eart
he is, and of the earth he speaketh.
that cometh from heaven, is above all.

- Infra 4. l. — u Supra 1. 19
V Supra 1. 20.

liever is judged, that is, condemned already, by
trenching himself from the society of Christ and t
church.

Ver. 19. The judgment. That is, the cause of t
condemnation.

Ver. 21. He that doth truth, that is, he that ac
eth according to truth, which here signifies the La
of God. Thy Um w trtUh. Paa. 113. 142.

]0i

fesus passes through Samaria ST. JOHN

The Samaritan woman

32 And what he hath seen and heard,
ohat he testifieth : and no man receiveth
tiis testimony.

33 He that hath received his testimony,
hath set to his seal that ^ God is true.

34 For he whom God hath sent, speak-
Bth the words of God : for God doth not
give the Spirit by measure.

35 The Father loveth the Son : and he
bath given all things into his hand.

36 *He that believeth in the Son, hath
life everlasting; but he that believeth
not the Son, shall not see life ; but the
WT&th of God abideth on him.

CHAPTER 4.

Christ talks with the Samaritan woman. He heals
the rulei-^s son.

WHEN Jesus therefore understood
that the Pharisees had heard that
lesus maketh more disciples, ^ and bap-
tizeth more than John,

2 (Though Jesus himself did not baptize,
t)ut his disciples,)

3 He left Judea, and went again into
[JaUlee.

4 And he was of necessity to pass
bhrough Samaria.

5 He Cometh therefore to a city of Sa-
oaaria, which is called Sichar, near the
land * which Jacob gave to his son Jo-
seph.

6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus
therefore being wearied with his journey,
jat thus on the well. It was about the
rixth hour.

7 There cometh a woman of Samaria, to
iraw water. Jesus saith to her: Give
me to drink.

8 For his disciples were gone into the
3ity to buy meats.

9 Then that Samaritan woman saith to
tiim : How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of
me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman ?
Per the Jews do not communicate with
the Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered, and said to her : If
bhou didst know the gift of God, and
svho he is that saith to thee, Give me to
irink ; thou perhaps wouldst have asked
3f him, and he would have given thee
living water.

11 The woman saith to him: Sir, thou
bast nothing wherein to draw, and the

w Rom. 3. 4. — a; 1 John 5. 10.
y Supra 3. 22.

Chap. 4. Ver. 20. Thit mountain. Garizim, where the Samaritans had their sehismatical temple.

M 107

well is deep ; from whence then hast thou
living water ?

12 Art thou greater than our father
Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank
thereof himself, and his children, and his
cattle ?

13 Jesus answered, and said to her :
Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall
thirst again ; but he that shall drink of
the water that I will give him, shall not
thirst for ever:

14 But the water that I will give him,,
shall become in him a fountain of water,
springing up into life everlastingc

15 The woman saith to him: Sir, give
me this water, that I may not thirst, nor
come hither to draw.

16 Jesus saith to her : Go, call thy hus-
band, and come hither.

17 The woman answered, and said: Z
have no husband. Jesus said to her :
Thou hast said well, I have no hus-
band:

18 For thou hast had five husbands :
and he whom thou now hast, is not thy
husband. This thou hast said truly.

19 The woman saith to him : Sir, I per-
ceive that thou art a prophet.

20 Our fathers adored on this mountain,
and you say, " that at Jerusalem is the
place where men must adore.

21 Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe
me, that the hour cometh, when you shall
neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusa-
lem, adore the Father,

22 ^ You adore that which you know
not : we adore that which we know ; for
salvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true adorers shall adore the
Father in spirit and in truth. For the
Father also seeketh such to adore him.

24 ^ God is a spirit ; and they that adore
him, must adore him in spirit and in
truth.

25 The woman saith to him: I know
that the Messias cometh (who is called
Christ); therefore, when he is come, he
will tell us all things.

26 Jesus saith to her: I am he, who ara
speaking with thee.

27 And immediately his disciples came ;
and they wondered that he talked with
the woman. Yet no man said : What

2 Gen. 33. 19, and 48. 22 ; Jos. 24. 32.
a Deut, 12. 5. — 6 4 Kings 17. 41. — c 1 Cor. 3. 17.

Many Samaritans believe in

ST. JOHN

Jesus heals the ruler's son

seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with
her?

28 The woman therefore left her water-
pot, and went her way into the city, and
saith to the men there:

29 Come, and see a man who has told
me all things whatsoever I have done.
Is not he the Christ?

30 They went therefore out of the city,
and came unto him.

31 In the mean time the disciples prayed
him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

32 But he said to them: I have meat to
eat, which you know not.

33 The disciples therefore said one to
another: Hath any man brought him to
eat?

34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to
do the will of him that sent me, that I
may perfect his work.

35 Do not you say. There are yet four
months, and then the harvest cometh?
Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes,
and see the countries ; <^for they are white
already to harvest.

36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages,
and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting:
that both he that soweth, and he that
reapeth, may rejoice together.

37 For in this is the saying true: That
it is one man that soweth, and it is an-
other that reapeth.

38 I have sent you to reap that in which
you did not labour: others have laboured,
and you have entered into their labours.

39 Now of that city many of the Samari-
tans believed in him, for the word of the
woman giving testimony: He told me all
things whatsoever I have done.

40 So when the Samaritans were come
to him, they desired that he would tarry
there. And he abode there two days.

41 And many more believed in him be-
cause of his own word.

42 And they said to the woman: We
now believe, not for thy saying: for we
ourselves have heard him, and know that
this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

43 Now after two days, he departed
thence, and went into Galilee.

d Matt. 9. 37 ; Luke 10. 2.
e Matt. 13. 57 ; Mark 6 4. ; Luke 4. 24.

Chap. 5. Ver. 2. Probatica. That is, the sheep
pond ; either so called, because the sheep were
washed therein, that were to be offered up in sacri-
fice in the temple, or because it was near the sheep-
gate. That this was a pond where miracles were
wrought is evident from the sacred text ; and also

44 For e Jesus himself gave testimonj
that a prophet hath no honour in his owr
country.

45 / And when he was come into Galilee
the Galileans received him, having seer
all the things he had done at Jerusalen
on the festival day; for they also weni
to the festival day.

46 He came again therefore into Can
of Galilee, ^ where he made the watei
wine. And there was a certain ruler
whose son was sick at Capharnaum.

47 He having heard that Jesus was com*
from Judea into Galilee, went to him, anc
prayed him to come down, and heal hif
son; for he was at the point of death.

48 Jesus therefore said to him: Unles
you see signs and wonders, you believ«
not.

49 The ruler saith to him: Lord, comi
down before that my son die.

50 Jesus saith to him: Go thy way; thj
son liveth. The man believed the wore
which Jesus said to him, and went hij
way.

51 And as he was going down, his ser
vants met him; and they brought word
saying, that his son lived.

52 He asked therefore of them the hou]
wherein he grew better. And they saic
to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour
the fever left him.

53 The father therefore knew, that i
was at the same hour that Jesus said t(
him, Thy son liveth; and himself be
lieved, and his whole house.

54 This is again the second miracle tha
Jesus did, when he was come out of Judej
into Galilee.

CHAPTER 5.

Christ heals on the sabbath the man languishin
thirty-eight years; his discourse upon this occa
sion.

AFTER these things was a f estiva
day of the Jews, and Jesus went U;
to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is at Jerusalem a pond
called Probatica, which in Hebrew i
named Bethsaida, having five porches.

3 In these lay a great multitude of sick

/ Matt. 4. 12 ; Mark 1. 14 ; Luke 4. 14.
g Supra 2. 9.

that the water had no natural virtue to heal, as on
only of those put in after the motion of the wate
was restored to health ; for if the water had th
healing quality, the others would have the like bene
fit, being put into it about the same time.

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The pond of Probatica

ST. JOHN

Jesus* discourse

of blind, of lame, of withered; waiting
for the moving of the water.

4 And an angel of the Lord descended
at certain times into the pond ; and the
water was moved. And he that went
down first into the pond after the mo-
tion of the water, was made whole, of
whatsoever infirmity he lay under.

5 And there was a certain man there,
that had been eight and thirty years
under his infirmity.

6 Him when Jesus had seen lying, and
knew that he had been now a long time,
he saith to him: Wilt thou be made
whole ?

7 The infirm man answered him : Sir, I
have no man, when the water is trou-
bled, to put me into the pond. For
whilst I am coming, another goeth down
before me.

8 Jesus saith to him : Arise, take up thy
bed, and walk.

9 And immediately the man was made
whole : and he took up his bed, and
walked. And it was the sabbath that day.

10 The Jews therefore said to him that
was healed : * It is the sabbath ; it is not
lawful for thee to take up thy bed.

11 He answered them : He that made
me whole, ho said to me. Take up thy
bed, and walk.

12 They asked him therefore : Who is
that man who said to thee. Take up thy
bed, and walk ?

13 But he who was healed, knew not
who it was ; for Jesus went aside from
the multitude standing in the place.

14 Afterwards, Jesus findeth him in the
temple, and saith to him: Behold thou
art made whole : sin no more, lest some
worse thing happen to thee.

15 The man went his way, and told the
Jews, that it was Jesus who had made
him whole.

16 Therefore did the Jews persecute
Jesus, because he did these things on
the sabbath,

17 But Jesus answered them : My Father
worketh until now ; and I work.

18 Hereupon therefore the Jews sought
the more to kill him, because he did not
only break the sabbath, but also said God
was his Father, making himself equal to
God.

i Ex. 20. 11 ; Jer. 17. 24.— j Matt. 25. 46.

19 Then Jesus answered, and said to
them : Amen, amen, I say unto you, the
Son cannot do any thing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father doing: for what
things soever he doth, these the Son also
doth in like manner.

20 For the Father loveth the Son, and
sheweth him all things which himself
doth : and greater works than these will
he shew him, that you may wonder.

21 For as the Father raiseth up the
dead, and giveth life: so the Son also
giveth life to whom he will.

22 For neither doth the Father judge
any man, but hath given all judgment to
the Son.

23 That all men may honour the Son, as
they honour the Father. He who hon-
oureth not the Son, honoureth not the
Father, who hath sent him.

24 Amen, amen I say unto you, that he
who heareth my word, anc! believeth him
that sent me, hath life everlasting ; and
Cometh not into judgment, but is passed
from death to life.

25 Amen, amen I say unto you, that the
hour cometh, and now is, when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God,
and they that hear shall live.

26 For as the Father hath life in him-
self, so he hath given to the Son also to
have life in himself:

27 And he hath given him power to do
judgment, because he is the Son of man.

28 Wonder not at this; for the hour
cometh, wherein all that are in the
graves shall hear the voice of the Son of
God.,

29 «^And they that have done good
things, shall come forth unto the resur-
rection of life ; but they that have done
evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.

30 I cannot of myself do any thing. As
I hear, so I judge : and my judgment is
just ; because I seek not my own will,
but the will of him that sent me.

31 If I bear witness of myself, my wit-
ness is not terue.

32 '^ There is another that beareth wit-
ness of me ; and I know that the witness
which he witnesseth of me is true.

33 You sent to John, and he gave testi-
mony to the truth.

34 But I receive not testimony from

k Matt. 3. 17 J Supra 1. 15.

Ver. 29. Unto the resurrection of judgment. That is, eondemnation.

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Testimony of the Scripture

man : but I say these things, that you
may be saved.

36 Hf was a burning and a shining
light: and you were willing for a time
to rejoice to his light.

36 But I have a greater testimony than
that of John: for the works which the
Father hath given me to perfect ; the
works themselves., which I do, give testi-
mony of me, that the Father hath sent
me.

37 And the Father himself who hath
sent me, ^hath given testimony of me:
neither have you heard his voice at any
time, "* nor seen his shape.

38 And you have not his word abiding
In you : for whom he hath sent, him you
beUeve not.

39 Search the scriptures, for you think
in them to have life everlasting ; and the
same are they that give testimony of
me.

40 And yor wil not come to me that
you may heve life

41 T receive not glory from men.

42 But I know yen, that you have not
the love of God in you.

43 I am come in the name rf my Fa-
ther, and you receive me not: if another
shall come in his own name, him you will
receive.

44 How car you believe, who receive
glory one from another : ^ and the glory
which is from God alone, you do not
seek?

45 Think not that I will accuse you to
the Father. There is one that accuseth
you, Moses, in whom you trust.

46 For if you did believe Moses, you
would perhaps believe me also ; ^ for he
wrote of me.

47 But if you do not believe his writings,
how will you believe my words ?

CHAPTER 6.

Christ feeds five thousand with five loaves : he
walks upon the sea^ and discourses of the bread
of life.

AFTER P these things Jesus went over
. the sea of Galilee, which is that of
Tiberias.
2 And a great multitude followed him,

I Matt. 3. 17, and 17. 5. ~m Deut 4. 12.

n 1 Cor. 4. 3.

o Gen. 3. 15, and 22. 18, and 49. 10; Deut. 18. 15.

Ver. 39. Or, You search the scriptures. Scruta-
mini, epevvaTe. It is not a command for all to read
the scriptures ; but a reproach to the Pharisees, that
readiog the scriptures as they did, and thinking to Uie.

ST. JOHN Jesus feeds the multitude

because they saw the miracles which he
did on them that were diseased.

3 Jesus therefore went up into a moan-
tain, and there he sat with his disci-
ples.

4 Now the pasch, the festival day ^ of
the Jews, was near at hand.

5 When Jesus therefore had lifted up his
eyes, and seen that a very great multi-
tude Cometh to him, he said to Philip :
Whence shall we buy bread, that these
may eat ?

6 And this he said to try him ; for he
himself knew what he would do.

7 Philip answered him : Two hundred
pennyworth of bread is not suflacient
for them, that every one may take a
httle.

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the bro-
ther of Simon Peter, saith to him :

9 There is a boy here that hath five
barley loaves, and two fishes ; but what
are these among so many?

10 Then Jesus said : Make the men sit
down. Now there was much grass in the
place. The men therefore sat down, in
number about five thousand.

11 And Jesus took the loaves : and when
he had given thanks, he distributed to
them that were set down. In like man-
ner also of the fishes, as much as they
would.

12 And when they were filled, he said to
his disciples: Gather up the fragments
that remain, lest they be lost.

13 They gathered up therefore, and filled
twelve baskets with the fragments of the
five barley loaves, which remained over
and above to them that had eaten.

14 Now those men, when they had seen
what a miracle Jesus had done, said : This
is of a truth the prophet, that is to come
into the world.

15 Jesus therefore, when he knew that
they would come to take him by force,
and make him king, *" fled again into the
mountain himself alone.

16 And when evening was come, his dis-
ciples went down to the sea.

17 And when they had gone up into a
ship, they went over the sea to Caphar-

o Matt 14. 13 ; Mark 6. 32 ; Luke 9. 10.
q A. D. 28.
r Matt. 14. 23 ; Mark 6.

46.

find everlasting: life in them, they would not receive
him to whom all those scriptures gave testimony,
and through whom aloue they could have that true

Jesus walks on the water ST. JOHN

naum; and it was now dark, and Jesus
was come unto them.

18 And the sea arose, by reason of a
great wind that blew.

19 When they had rowed therefore
about five and twenty or thirty furlongs,
they see Jesus walking upon the sea, and
drawing nigh to the ship, and they were
afraid.

20 But he saith to them: It is I; be not
afraid.

21 They were willing therefore to take
him into the ship ; and presently the ship
was at the land to which they were go-
ing.

22 The nexf day, the multitude that
stood on the other side of the sea, saw
that there was no other ship there but
one, and that Jesus had not entered into
the ship with his disciples, but that his
disciples were gone away alone.

23 But other ships came in from Ti-
berias; nigh unto the place where they
had eaten the bread, the Lord giving
thanks.

24 When therefore the multitude saw
that Jesus was not there, nor his disci-
ples, they took shipping, and came to
Capharnaum, seeking for Jesus.

25 And when they had found him on
the other side of the sea, they said to
him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither?

26 Jesus answ^ered them, and said:
Amen, amen I say to you, you seek me,
not because you have seen miracles, but
because you did eat of the loaves, and
were filled.

27 Labour not for the meat which per-
isheth, but for that which endureth unto
life everlasting, which the Son of man
will give you. s For him hath God, the
Father, sealed.

28 They said therefore unto him: What
shall we do, that we may work the works
of God?

29 Jesus answered, and said to them:
*This is the work of God, that you be-
lieve in him whom he hath sent.

30 They said therefore to liim: What
sign therefore dost thou shew, that we
may see, and may believe thee? What
dost thou work?

8 Matt. 3. 17, and 17. 5 ; Supra 1. 32.

t 1 John 3. 23.

u Ex. 16. 14 ; Num. 11. 7 ; Ps. 77. 24 ; Wisd. 16. 20.

Chap. 6. Ver. 4. Draw him. Not by compul-
■ion, nor by laying the free will under any necessity.

The bread of life

31 Our fathers did eat manna in the
desert, as it is written : " He gave them
bread from heaven to eat.

32 Then Jesus said to them: Amen,
amen I say to you; Moses gave you not
bread from heaven, but my Father giveth
you the true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is that which
Cometh down from heaven, and giveth
life to the world.

34 They said therefore unto him: Lord,
give us always this bread.

35 And Jesus said to them: I am the
bread of life: ^he that cometh to me
shall not hunger: and he that believeth
in me shall never thirst.

36 But I said unto you, that you also
have seen me, and you believe not.

37 All that the Father giveth to me shall
come to me; and him that cometh to me,
I will not cast out.

38 Because I came down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of
him that sent me.

39 Now this is the will of the Father
who sent me: that of all that he hath
given me, I should lose nothing; but
should raise it up again in the last day.

40 And this is the will of my Father
that sent me: that every one who seeth
the Son, and believeth in him, may have
life everlasting, and I will raise him up
in the last day.

41 The Jews therefore murmured at him,
because he had said: I am the living
bread which came down from heaven.

42 And they said : «^ Is not this Jesus,
the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know? How then saith he, I
came down from heaven?

43 Jesus therefore answered, and said to
them: Murmur not among yourselves.

44 No man can come to me, except the
Father, who hath sent me, draw him;
and I will raise him up in the last day.

45 It is written in the prophets : ^ And
they shall all be taught of God. Every one
that hath heard of the Father, and hath
learned, cometh to me.

46 a/ Not that any man hath seen the
Father; but he who is of God, he hath
seen the Father.

V Eccli. 24. 29.

w Matt. 13. 55 ; Mark 6. 3.

X Isa. 54. 13.— 1/ Matt. 11. 27.

but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly
grace.

Ill

The promise of the Eucharist ST. JOHN

Peter s confession of faith

47 Amen, amen I say unto you: He that
belie veth in me, bath everlasting life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 ^ Your fathers did eat manna in the
desert, and are dead.

60 This is the bread which cometh
down from heaven ; that if any man eat
of it, he may not die.

51 I am the living bread which came
down from heaven.

52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall
live for ever ; and the bread that I will
give, is my flesh, for the life of the
world.

63 The Jews therefore strove among
themselves, saying: How can this man
give us his flesh to eat ?

64 Then Jesus said to them: Amen,
amen I say unto you : Except you eat
the flesh of the Son of man, and drink
his blood, you shall not have life in you.

65 He that eateth my flesh, and drink-
eth my blood, hath everlasting life: and
I will raise him up in jhe last day.

^6 " For my flesh is meat indeed : and
my blood is drink indeed.

67 He that eateth my flesh, and drink-
eth my blood, abide th in me, and I in
uim.

58 As the living Father hath sent me,
and I live by the Father; so he that
eateth me, the same also shall live by
me.

59 This is the bread that came down
from heaven. Not as your fathers did
eat manna, and are dead. He that eat-
eth this bread, shall live for ever.

60 These things he said, teaching in the
synagogue, in Capharnaum.

61 Many therefore of his disciples, hear-
ing it, said: This saying is hard, and
who can hear it ?

2 Ex. 16. 13. — a 1 Cor. 11. 27. — b Supra 3. 13.

62 But Jesus, kn iwing in himself, that
his disciples murmured at this, said to
them : Doth this scandalize you ?

63 If then you shall see ° the Son of
man ascend up where he was before ?

64 It is the spirit that quickeneth : the
flesh profiteth nothing. The words that
I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

65 But there are some ot you that be-
lieve not. For Jesus knew from the
beginning, who they were tha did not
believe, and who he was, that vould be-
tray him.

66 And he said : Therefore did I say to
you, that no man can come to me, unless
it be given him by my Father.

67 After this many of his disciples went
back ; and walked no more with him.

68 Then Jesus said to the twelve ; Will
you also go away ?

69 And Simon Peter answered him
Lord, to whom shall we go V thou aast
the words of eternal life.

70 ^And we have believed and hav
known, that thou art the Christ, the Son
of God.

71 Jesus answered them : Have not I
chosen you twelve ; and one of you if
a devil?

72 Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the
sor of Simon: for this same was about
to betray him, whereas he was one of the
twelve.

CHAPTER 7.

Christ goes up to the feast of the tahemaelea: he
teaches in the temple.

After these things Jesus walked in
x\. Galilee; for he would not walk in
Judea, because the Jews sought to kill
him.

2 Now the Jews' feast of ** tabernacles
was at hand.

Ver. 54. Except you eat — and drinks &c. To re-
ceive the body and blood of Christ, is a divine pre-
cept, insinuated in this text ; which the faithful fulfil,
though they receive but in one kind ; because in one
kind they receive both body and blood, which cannot
be separated from each other. Hence, life eternal
is here promised to the worthy receiving, though but
Id one kind. Ver. 52. If any man eat of this bread,
hs sheM ll^e /or ever; and the bread that I will

r!, it wy flesh for the life of the roorld. Ver. 58.
txiat «caeth me, the 8am,e also shall live by me.
Ver. 59. He that eateth this breads shall liveftyr ever,
Ver. 63. ff then you shaZl see, &C. iThrist by men-
tioning his asceiasioa, by this instance af his power
and divinfty, wo»ld eoBfirra tbe truth of what he had
before asserted ; ami at the same time correct their

gross apprehension of eating his flesh, and drinking
is blood, in a vulgar and carnal manner, by letting
Umn know he sbouM take his whole boOy liviog with

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c Matt. 16. n ; Mark 8. 29 ; Luke 9. 20. — d Lev. 23. 34.

him to heaven ; and consequently not suffer it to be,
as they supposed, divided, mangled, and consumed
upon earth.

Ver. 64. The flesh profiteth nothing. Dead flesh
separated from the spirit, in the gross manner they
supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit no-
thing. Neither doth man's flesh, that is to say, man's
natm-al and carnal apprehension, (which refuses to
be subject to the spirit, and words of Christ,) profit
any thing. But it would be the height of blasphemy,
to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive m
the blessed sacrament, with his spirit, that Is, with
his soul and divinity) profiteth nothhig. For if
Christ^ flesh had profited us nothing, he would nev^ r
have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us.
•— Ibid. Are spirit and life. By proposing to you a
heavenly sacrament, in which you shall receive, in a
wonderful maouer, spirit» graces and life, in its very
lloimtaiD.

Jesus goes up to Jerusalem

ST. JOHN

Jesus teaches in the temple

3 And his brethren said to him: Pass
from hence, and go into Judea; that thy
disciples also may see thy works which
thou dost.

4 For there is no man that doth any
thing in secret, and he himself seeketh
to be known openly. If thou do these
things, manifest thyself to the world.

5 For neither did his brethren believe
in him.

6 Then Jesus said to them: My time is
not yet come; but your time is always
ready.

7 The world cannot hate you; but me
it hateth : because I give testimony of it,
that the works thereof are evil.

8 Go you up to this festival day, but I
go not up to this festival day: because
my time is not accomplished.

9 When he had said these things, he
himself stayed in Galilee.

10 But after his brethren were gone up,
then he also went up to the feast, not
openly but, as it were, in secret.

11. The Jev/s therefore sought him on
the festival day, and said: Where is he?

12 And there was much murmuring
among the multitude concerning him.
For some said: He is a good man. And
others said: No, but he seduceth the
people.

13 Yet no man spoke openly of him,
for fear of the Jews.

14 Now about the midst of the feast,
Jesus went up into the temple, and
taught.

15 And the Jews wondered, saying: How
doth this man know letters, having never
learned ?

16 Jesus answered them, and said: My
doctrine is not mine, but his that sent
me.

17 If any man will do the will of him;
he shall know of the doctrine, whether it
be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

18 He that speaketh of himself, seeketh
his own glory: but he that seeketh the
glory of him that sent him, he is true,
and there is no injustice in him.

19 « Did not Moses give you the law, and
yet none of you keepeth the law?

20 /Why seek you to kill me? The mul-
titude answered, and said: Thou hast v.
devil; who seeketh to kill thee?

21 Jesus answered, and said to them:

e Ex. 24. 3—/ Sunra 5. 18.
g Lev. 12. S.—h Gen. 17. 10.

One work I have done; and you all
wonder:

22 Therefore, o Moses gave you circum-
cision, (not because it is of Moses, ^ but
of the fathers;) and on the sabbath day
you circumcise a man.

23 If a man receive circumcision on the
sabbath day, that the law of Moses may
not be broken; are you angry at me be-
cause I have healed the whole man on
the sabbath day?

zA * Judge not according to the appear-
ance, but judge just judgment.

25 Some therefore of Jerusalem said : Is
not this he whom they seek to kill?

26 And behold, he speaketh openly, and
they say nothing to him. Have the
rulers known for a truth, that this is the
Christ?

27 But we know this man, whence he is:
but when the Christ cometh, no man
knoweth whence he is.

Jesus therefore cried out in the tem-
ple, teaching, and saying: You both
know me, and you know whence I am and
I am not come of myself, but he that sent
me is true, whom you know not.

29 I know him, because I am from him,
and he hath sent me.

30 They sought therefore to apprehend
him: and no man laid hands on him, be-
cause his hour was not yet come.

31 But of the people many believed in
him, and said: When the Christ cometh,
shall he do more miracles, than these
which this man doth?

32 The Pharisees heard the people mur-
muring these things concerning him : and
the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers
to apprehend him.

33 Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a
little while I am with you: and then I go
to him that sent me.

34 3 You shall seek me, and shall not find
me: and where I am, thither you cannot
come.

35 The Jews therefore said among them-
selves : Whither will he go, that we shall
not find him? will he go unto the dis-
persed among the Gentiles, and teach the
Gentiles?

36 What is this saying that he hath said :
You shall seek me, and shall not find me;
and where I am, you cannot come?

37 And on the last, ^ and great day of

i Deut. 1. 16.— i Infra 13. 33.
k Lev. 23. 27.

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The contention among tlie people ST. JOHN The woman taken in adultery

the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, say-
ing: If any man thirst, let him come to
me, and drink.

38 ^ He that believeth in me, as the scrip-
ture saith, Out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water.

39 Now this he said of the Spirit which
they should receive, who believed in him :
for as yet the Spirit was not given, be-
cause Jesus was not yet glorified.

40 Of that multitude therefore, when
they had heard these words of his, some
said: This is the prophet indeed.

41 Others said: This is the Christ. But
some said: Doth the Christ come out of
Galilee?

42 w Doth not the scripture say: That
Christ cometh of the seed of David, and
from Bethlehem the town where David
was?

43 So there arose a dissension among
the people because of him.

44 And some of them would have appre-
hended him: but no man laid hands upon
him.

45 The ministers therefore came to the
chief priests and the Pharisees. And
they said to them: Why have you not
brought him?

46 The ministers answered: Never did
man speak like this man.

47 The Pharisees therefore answered
them: Are you also seduced?

48 Hath any one of the rulers believed
in him, or of the Pharisees?

49 But this multitude, that knoweth not
the law, are accursed.

50 Nicodemus said to them, («he that
came to him by night, who was one of
them : )

51 Doth our law judge any man, unless
it first hear him, « and know what he
doth?

52 They answered, and said to him: Art
thou also a Galilean? Search the scrip-
tures, and see, that out of Galilee a pro-
phet riseth not.

53 And every man returned to his own
house.

CHAPTER 8.

The woman taken in adultery. Christ justifies his
doctrine.

ND Jesus went unto mount Olivet.
2 And early in the morning he came

I Deut. 18. 15 : Joel 2. 28 ; Acts 2. 17.

m Mich. 5. 2 ; Matt. 2. 6,— w Supra 3. 2.

o Deut. 17. 8, and 19. 15.— p Lev. 20. 10.

again into the temple, and all the people
came to him, and sitting down he taught
them.

3 And the scribes and Pharisees bring
unto him a woman taken in adultery:
and they set her in the midst,

4 And said to him: Master, this woman
was even now taken in adultery.

5 P Now Moses in the law commanded
us to stone such a one. But what sayest
thou?

6 And this they said tempting him, that
they might accuse him. But Jesus bow-
ing himself down, wrote with his finger
on the ground.

7 When therefore they continued asking
him, he lifted up himself, and said to
them : <? He that is without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone at her.

8 And again stooping down, he wrote on
the ground.

9 But they hearing this, went out one by
one, beginning at the eldest. And Jesuit
alone remained, and the woman standing
in the midst.

10 Then Jesus lifting up himself, said to
her: Woman, where are they that ac-
cused thee? Hath no man condemned
thee?

11 Who said: No man. Lord. And Je-
sus said: Neither will I condemn thee.
Go, and now sin no more.

12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to
them, saying: »"1 am the light of the
world: he that followeth me, walketh not
in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

13 The Pharisees therefore said to him:
Thou givest testimony of thyself: thy
testimony is not true.

14 Jesus answered, and said to them:
Although I give testimony of myself, my
testimony is true: for I know whence I
came, and whither I go: but you know
not whence I come, or whither I go.

15 You judge according to the flesh: I
judge not any man.

16 And if I do judge, my judgment is
true: because I am not alone, but I and
the Father that sent me.

17 And in your law it is written, «that
the testimony of two men is true.

18 I am one that give testimony of my-
self: and the Father that sent me giveth
testimony of me.

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g Deut. 17. 7.— r 1 John 1. 3.

« Deut. 17. 6, and 19. 15 ; Matt. 18. 16 ;

2 Cor. 13. 1 ; Heb. 10. 28.

Punishment of toilful blindness ST. JOHN

Jesus reproves the Jews

19 They said therefore to him Where
is thy Father? Jesus answered: Neither
me do you know, nor my Father • if you
lid kn&w *ne, perhaps you would know
jiy Father also.

20 These words Jesus spoke in the trea-
sury, teaching in the temple : and no
man laid hands on him, because his hour
was not yet come.

21 Again therefore Jesus said to them :
I go, and you shall seek me, and you
shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you
cannot come.

22 The Jews therefore said : Will he kill
himself, because he said: Whither I go,
you cannot come ?

23 And he said to them : You are from
beneath, I am from above. You are of
this world, I am not of this world.

>,24 Therefore I said to you, that you
shall die in your sins. For if you believe
not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

25 They said therefore to him : Who art
thou? Jesus said to them: The begin-
ning, who also speak unto you.

26 Many things I have to speak and to
judge of you. But he that sent me, is
* true : and the things 1 have heard of
him, these same I speak in the world.

27 And they understood not, that he
called God his Father.

28 Jesus therefore said to them: When
you shall have lifted up the Son of man,
then shall you know, that I am he, and
that I do nothing of myself, but as the
Father hath taught me, these things I
speak :

29 And he that sent me, is with me, and
he hath not left me alone: for I do al-
ways the things that please him.

80 When he spoke these things, many
believed in him.

31 Then Jesus said to those Jews, who
believed him : If you continue in my
word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

32 And you shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free.

33 They answered him : We are the seed
of Abraham, and we have never been
slaves to any man: how say est thou : you
shall be free ?

34 Jesus answered them : Amen, amen
I say unto you : ** that whosoever com-
niitteth sin, is the servant of sin.

86 Now the servant abide th not in the

t Koaou a. i. -> u iiwtt. & 16 iuia It» i ;6 ii'eter 2. 18l

house for ever ; but the son abideth for
ever

36 If therefore the son shall make you
free, you shall be free indeed.

37 I know that you are the children of
Abraham: but you seek to kill me, be-
cause my word hath no place In you.

38 I speak that which I have seen with
my Father: and you do the thingc that
you have seen with your father.

39 They answered, and said to him:
Abraham is our father. Jesus saith to
them : If you be the children of Abra-
ham, do the works of Abraham.

40 But now you seek to kill me, a man
who have spoken the truth to you, which
I have heard of God. This Abraham did
not.

41 You do the works of your father.
They said therefore to him: We are not
born of fornication: we have one Father,
even God.

42 Jesus therefore said to them: If God
were your Father, you would indeed love
me. For from God I proceeded, and
came ; for I came not of myself, but he
sent me :

43 Why do you not know my speech?
Because you cannot hear my word.

44 ^You are of your father the devil,
and the desires of your father you will
do. He was a murderer from the begin-
ning, and he stood not in the truth ; be-
cause truth is not in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own :
for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

45 But if I say the truth, you believe me
not.

46 Which of you shall convince me of
sin? If I say the truth to you, why do
you not believe me ?

47 «'He that is of God, heareth the
words of Godo Therefore you hear them
not, because you are not of God.

48 The Jews therefore answered, and
said to him : Do not we say well that
thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

49 Jesus answered : I have not a devil :
but I honour my Father, and you have
dishonoured me.

50 But I seek not my own glory : there
is one that seeketh and judgeth.

51 Amen, amen I say to you : If any
man keep my word, he shall not see
death for ever.

V iJolm ^. & ^ ti. ^ Join ^ &

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The Jews seek to kill Jesus

ST. JOHN

The man horn hlin

52 The Jews therefore said: Now we
know that thou hast a devil. Abraham
is dead, and the prophets ; and thou say-
est : If any man keep my word, he shall
not taste death for ever.

53 Art thou greater than our father
Abraham, who is dead ? and the pro-
phets are dead. Whom dost thou make
thyself ?

54 Jesus answered : If I glorify myself,
my glory is nothing. It is my Father
that glorifieth me, of whom you say that
he is your God.

55 And you have not known him, but I
know him. And if I shall say that I
know him not, I shall be like to you, a
liar. But I do know him, and do keep
his word.

56 Abraham your father rejoiced that
he might see my day : he saw it, and was
glad.

57 The Jews therefore said to him :
Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast
thou seen Abraham?

58 Jesus said to them : Amen, amen I say
to you, before Abraham was made, I am.

59 They took up stones therefore to
cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and
;^ent out of the temple.

CHAPTER 9.

He gives sight to the man bom blind.

AND Jesus passing by, saw a man, who
Xjl was blind from his birth :

2 And his disciples asked him: Rabbi,
who hath sinned, this man, or his par-
ents, that he should be born blind ?

3 Jesus answered : Neither hath this
man sinned, nor his parents; but that
the works of God should be made mani-
fest in him.

4 I must work the works of him that
sent me, whilst it is day : the night com-
eth, when no man can work.

5 As long as I am in the world, I am
the light of the world.

6 When he had said these things, he
spat on the ground, and made clay of the
spittle, and spread the clay upon his eyes,

7 And said to him: Go, wash in the
pool of Siloe, which is interpreted. Sent.
He went therefore, and washed, and he
came seeing,

8 The neighbours therefore, and they
who had seen him before that he was a
beggar, said : Is not this be that sat and
begged? Some said: This is he.

9 But others said: No, but he is lik
him. But he said : I am he.

10 They said therefore to him: Ho^
were thy eyes opened ?

1 1 He answered : That man that is calls
Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyei
and said to me : Go to the pool of Silo<
and wash. And I went, I washed, and
see»

12 And they said to him: Where is he
He saith : I know not.

13 They bring him that had been blin
to the Pharisees.

14 Now it was the sabbath, when Jesi
made the clay, and opened his eyes.

15 Again therefore the Pharisees aske
him, how he had received his sight. Bi
he said to them : He put clay upon m
eyes, and I washed, and I see.

16 Some therefore of the Pharisees sale
This man is not of God, who keepeth n<
the sabbath. But others said: How oa
a man that is a sinner do such mipi
cles ? And there was a division amoii
them.

17 They say therefore to the blind ma
again: What sayest thou of him thi
hath opened thy eyes? And he said: E
is a prophet.

18 The Jews then did not believe coi
corning him, that he had been blind, an
had received his sight, until they oalk
the parents of him that had received h
sight,

19 And asked them, saying: Is this yoi
son, who you say was born blind ? Ho
then doth he now see ?

20 His parents answered them, and sai(
We know that this is our son, and thj
he was born blind :

21 But how he nowseeth,we know no
or who hath opened his eyes, we kno
not: ask himself: he is of age, let hi:
speak for himself.

22 These things his parents said, becauf
they feared the Jews : for the Jews hs
already agreed among themselves, th;
if any man should confess him to \
Christ, he should be put out of the syn
gogue.

23 Therefore did his parents say : He
of age, ask himself.

24 They therefore called the man aga:
that had been blind, and said to bin
Give glory to God. We know that th
man is a sinner.

25 Qe said tiierefore to them : If be I

The man horn blind

ST. JOHN The door, and the good shepherd

a sinner, I know not: one thing I know,
that whereas I was blind, now I see.

26 They said then to him : What did he
to thee ? How did he open thy eyes ?

27 He answered them : I have told you
already, and you have heard : why would
you hear it again ? will you also become
his disciples?

28 They reviled him therefore, and said:
Be thou his disciple ; but we are the dis-
ciples of Moses.

29 We know that God spoke to Moses :
but as to this man, we know not from
whence he is.

30 The man answered, and said to them:
Why, herein is a wonderful thing, that
you know not from whence he is, and he
hath opened my eyes.

31 Now we know that God doth not
hear sinners: but if a man be a server
of God, and doth his will, him he hear-
eth.

32 From the beginning of the world it
hath not been heard, that any man hath
opened the eyes of one born blind.

33 Unless this man were of God, he
could not do any thing.

34 They answered, and said to him :
Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost
thou teach us? And they cast him
out.

35 Jesus heard that they had cast him
out : and when he had found him, he said
to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of
God?

36 He answered, and said: Who is he,
Lord, that I may believe in him ?

37 And Jesus said to him : Thou hast
both seen him ; and it is he that talketh
with thee.

38 And he said : I believe. Lord, And
falling down, he adored him.

39 And Jesus said : For judgment I am
come into this world ; that they who see
not, may see ; and they who see, may
become blind.

40 And some of the Pharisees, who were
with him, heard: and they said unto him :
Are we also blind ?

41 Jesus said to them: If you were
blind, you should not have sin : but now
you say : We see. Your sin remaineth.

Be an^

X Isa. 40. 11 ; Ezecli. 34. 23, and 37. 24.

Chap. 9. Ver, 39. / am come, &c. Not that
Christ came for that end, that any one should be
made hlind: but that the Jews, by the abuse of his
coming, and hy their not receiving him, brought
upoD themselves this judgment ot blindness.

CHAPTER 10.

Christ is the door and the good shepherd,
his Father are one.

AMEN, amen I say to you: He that.
J\. entereth not by the door into the
sheepfold, but climbeth up another way,
the same is a thief and a robber.

2 But he that entereth in by the door is
the shepherd of the sheep.

3 To him the porter openeth ; and the
sheep hear his voice : and he calleth his
own sheep by name, and leadeth them
out.

4 And when he hath let out his own
sheep, he goeth before them : and the
sheep follow him, because they know his
voice.

6 But a stranger they follow not, but fly
from him, because they know not the
voice of strangers.

6 Thic proverb 7.^<=!Ut= spoke to them.
But they understood Ov^- what he spoke
to them.

7 Jesus therefore said to them again:
Amen, amen I say to you, I am the door
of the sheep.

8 All others, as many as have come, are
thieves and robbers : and the sheep heard
them not.

9 I am the door. By me, if any man
enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall
go in, and go out, and shall find pas-
tures.

10 The thief cometh not, but for to
steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am
come that they may have life, and may
have it more abundantly.

11 I am the good shepherd. ^The good
shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

12 But the hireling, and he that is not
the shepherd, whose own the sheep are
not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth
the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catch-
eth, and scattereth the sheep:

13 And the hireling flieth, because he is
a hireling : and he hath no care for the
sheep.

14 1 am the good shepherd ; and I know
mine, and mine know me.

15 y As the Father knoweth me, and I
know the Father : and I lay down my life
for my sheep.

ij Matt. 1 1. 27 ; Luke 10. 22.

Ver. 41. If you vere blind, &c. If you were in-
vincibly ignorant, and had neither read the scrip,
tures, nor seen my miracles, you would not be guiltj
of the sin of infidelity : but now, as you boast of youi
knowledge of the scriptures, you are inexcusable.

117

' Jesus proclaims His divinity ST. JOHN His works give testimony to Him

16 And other sheep I have, that are not
of this fold; them also I must bring, and
fchey shall hear my voice, and there shall
be one fold and one shepherd.

17 Therefore doth the Father love me :
* because I lay down my life, that I may
take it again.

18 No man taketh it away from me : but
I lay it down of myself, and I have power
to lay it down: and I have power to take
it up again. This commandment have I
received of my Father.

19 A dissension rose again among the
Jews for these words.

20 And many of them said: He hath a
devil, and is mad: why hear you him?

21 Others said: These are not the words
of one that hath a devil : Can a devil open
the eyes of the blind ?

22 °' And it was the feast of the dedica-
tion at Jerusalem : and it was winter.

23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in
Solomon's porch.

24 The Jews therefore came round about
nira, and said to him : How long dost
thou hold our souls in suspense ? If thou
oe the Christ, tell us plainly.

25 Jesus answered them : I speak to you,
and you believe not : the works that I do
in the name of my Father, they give tes-
timony of me.

26 But you do not believe, because you
are not of my sheep.

27 My sheep hear my voice and I know
them, and they follow me.

23 And I give them hfe everlasting;
and they shall not perish for ever, and
no man shall pluck them out of my
hand.

29 That which my Father hath given
me, is greater than all : and no one can
snatch them out of the hand of my'
Father.

30 I and the Father are one.

31 The Jews then took up stones to
stone him.

32 Jesus answered them: Many good
works I have shewed you from my Fa-
ther ; for which of those works do you
stone me?

33 The Jews answered him : For a good
work we stone thee not, but for blas-
phemy; and because that thou, being a
man, makest thyself God.

z Isa. 53. Y. — a 1 Mac. 4. 66 and 59.

34 Jesus answered them: Is it not writ-
ten in your law; ^ / said you are gods ?

35 If he called them gods, to whom the
word of God was spoken, and the scrip-
ture cannot be broken ;

36 Do you say of him whom the Father
hath sanctified and sent into the world :
Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am
the Son of God ?

37 If I do not the works of my Father,
believe me not.

38 But if I do, though you will not be-
lieve me, believe the works : that you
may know and believe that the Father
*s in me, and I in the Father.

39 They sought therefore to take him;
and he escaped out of their hands.

40 And he went again beyond the Jor-
dan, into that place where John was
baptizing first ; and there he abode.

41 And many resorted to him, and they
said : John indeed did no sign.

42 But all things whatsoever John said of
this man, were true. And many believed
in him.

CHAPTER 11.

Christ raises Lazarus to life. The rulers resolve to
put him to death.

l^OW there was a certain man sick,
JLi named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the
town of Mary and of Martha her sister.

2 (And Mary was she ^ that anointed the
Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet
with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was
sick.)

3 His sisters therefore sent to him, say-
ing : Lord, behold, he whom thou lovesil
is sick.

4 And Jesus hearing it, said to them:
This sickness is not unto death, but for
the glory of God : that the Son of God
may be glorified by it.

6 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sis-
ter Mary, and Lazarus.

6 When he had heard therefore that he
was sick, he still remained in the same
place two days.

7 Then after that, he said to his disci-
ples : Let us go into Judea again.

8 The disciples say to him : Rabbi, the
Jews but now sought to stone thee i and
goest thou thither again?

9 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve
hours of the day ? If fi. man walk in the

b Ps. 81. 6. — c Matt. 26. 7-, Luke 7. 37 ; Infra 12. 3.

Chap. 10. Ver 30. I and the Father are one.

That is, one divine nature, but two distinct persons.

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Jesus goes to Bethania ST. JOHN

day, he sturableth not. because he seeth
the light of tms worlu :

10 But if he walk in tne night, he stum-
bleth, because the hght is not in him.

11 These things he said ; and after that
he said to them : Lazarus our friend
sleepeth ; but I go that I may awake him
out of sleep.

12 His disciples therefore said: Lord, if
he sleep, he shall do welL

13 But Jesus spoke of his death ; and
they thought that he spoke of the repose
of sleep.

14 Then therefore Jesus said to them
plainly : Lazarus is dead.

15 And I am glad, for your sakes, that I
was not there, that you may believe : but
let us go to him.

16 Thomas therefore, who is called Did-
ymus, said to his fellow disciples: Let
us also go, that we may die with him.

17 Jesus therefore came, and found
that he had been four days already in
the grave.

18 (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem,
about fifteen furlongs off.)

19 And many of the Jews were come
to Martha and Mary, to comfort them
concerning their brother.

20 Martha therefore, as soon as she
heard that Jesus was come, went to
meet him : but Mary sat at home.

21 Martha therefore said to Jesus:
Lord, if thou hadst been here, my bro-
ther had not died.

22 But now also I know that whatso-
ever thou wilt ask of God, God will give
it thee.

23 Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall
rise again.

24 Martha saith to him: 1 know that
he shall rise again, ^ in the resurrection
at the last day.

25 Jesus said to her : I am the resurrec-
tion and the life : ^ he that believeth in
me, although he be dead, shall live:

26 And every one that liveth, and be-
lieveth in me, shall not die for ever.
Be lie vest thou this?

27 She saith to him : Yea, Lord, I have
believed that thou art Christ the Son of
the living God, who art come into ohis
world.

28 And when she had said these things,
ihe went, and ealled her jistei Mary se-

Ht raises Lazarus to life

4 iL.uke A*. i«. ttopn 9. jst». « bupi» «b Mi

cretly, saying: Th® master is come, and
calleth for thee.

29 She, as soon as she heard t/iis, riseth
quickly, and cometh to him.

30 For Jesus was not yet come into the
town: but he was still in that place
where Martha had met him.

31 The Jews therefore, who were with
hei in the house, and comforted her,
when they saw Mary that she rose up
speedily and went out, followed her, say-
ing: She gortth to the grave to weep
there.

32 When Mary therefore was come
where Jesus vas, seeing him, she fell
down at his feet, and saith to him: Lord,
if thou hadst been here, my brother had
not died

33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her
weeping, and the Jews that were come
with her, weeping, groaned in the spirit,
and troubled himself,

34 And said: Where have you laid him?
They say to him ; Lord, come and see.

35 And Jesus wept.

36 The Jews therefore said: Behold
how he loved him.

37 But some of them said: -^ Could not
he that opened the eyes of the man born
blind, have caused that this man should
not die ?

38 Jesus therefore again groaning in
himself, cometh tt the sepulchre. Now
it was a cave and a stone was laid over
it.

39 Jesus saith: Take away the stone.
Martha, the sister of him that was dead,
saith to him: Lord, by this time he
stinketh, for he is now of four days.

40 Jesus saith to her : Did not I say to
thee, that it thou believe, thou shalt see
the glory of God ?

41 They took therefore the stone away.
And Jesus lifting up his eyes said Fa-
ther. I give bhee thanks that thou hast
heard me

42 And I knew that thou hearest me
always, but oecause of the people who
stand about have ' said It, that they
may believe iihat thou hast sent me.

43 Wlien he had said these things, he
cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come
forth.

44 And presently be that had been
dead came {orth, tK>aDd feet and hande

» %.

lift

The prophecy of Caiphas

ST. JOHN Mary anoints the feet of Christ

with winding bands; and his face was
bound about with a napkin. Jesus said
to them : Loose him, and let him go.

45 Many therefore of the Jews, who
were come to Mary and Martha, and had
seen the things that Jesus did, believed
in him.

46 But some of them went to the Phari-
sees, and told them the things that Jesus
had done.

47 The chief priests therefore, and the
Pharisees, gathered a council, and said :
What do we, for this man doth many
miracles ?

48 If we let him alone so, all will be-
lieve in him ; and the Romans will come,
and take away our place and nation.

49 fl'But one of them, named Caiphas,
being the high priest that year, said to
them : You know nothing.

60 Neither do you consider that it is
expedient for you that one man should
die for the people, and that the whole
nation perish not.

51 And this he spoke not of himself :
but being the high priest of that year,
he prophesied that Jesus should die for
the nation.

52 And not only for the nation, but to
gather together in one the children of
God, that were dispersed.

53 From that day therefore they de-
vised to put him to death.

54 Wherefore Jesus walked no more
openly among the Jews; but he went
into a country near the desert, unto a
city that is called Ephrem, and there he
abode with his disciples.

55 And the pasch of the Jews was at
hand ; and many from the country went
up to Jerusalem, before the pasch to pu-
rify themselves.

56 They sought therefore for Jesus;
and they discoursed one with another,
standing in the temple : What think you
that he is not come to the festival day ?
And the chief priests and Pharisees had
given a commandment, that if any man
knew where he was, he should tell, that
they might apprehend him.

CHAPTER 12.

The anointing of Christ's feet. His riding into Je-
rusalem upon an ass. A voice from heaven.

g Infra 18. 14.— /i Matt. 26. 6 ; Mark 14. 3 ; A. D, 29.

JESUS ^ therefore, six days before the
pasch, came to Bethania, where Laz-
arus had been dead, whom Jesus raised
to hfe.

2 And they made him a supper there :
and Martha served : but Lazarus was one
of them that were at table with him.

3 Mary therefore took a pound of oint-
ment of right spikenard, of great price,
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped
his feet with her hair; and the house
was filled with the odour of the oint-
ment.

4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscar-
iot, he that was about to betray him,
said :

5 Why was not this ointment sold for
three hundi*ed pence, and given to the
poor?

6 Now he said this, not because he
cared for the poor ; but because he was
a thief, and having the purse, carried
the things that were put therein.

7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone,
that she may keep it against the day of
my burial.

8 For the poor you have always with
you ; but me you have not always.

9 A great multitude therefore of the
Jews knew that he was there ; and they
came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that
they might see Lazarus, whom he had
raised from the dead,

10 But the chief priests thought to kill
Lazarus also :

11 Because many of the Jews, by reason
of him, went away, and believed in Jesus.

12 And on the next day, a great multi-
tude that was come to the festival day,
when they had heard that Jesus was com-
ing to Jerusalem,

13 Took branches of palm trees, and
went forth to meet him, and cried:
Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord, the king of IsraeL

14 * And Jesus found a young ass, and
sat upon it, as it is written:

15 Fear not^ daughter of Sion: behold,
thy king cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.

16 These things his disciples did not
know at the first ; but when Jesus was
glorified, then they remembered that
these things were written of him, and
that they had done these things to him.

/ Zach. 9. 9; Mark 11. 7; Luke 19. 35.

Chap. 12. Ver. 8. See the annotatioD on St. Matt 26. U.

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The voice from heaven

ST. JOHN

Jesus, the light of the world

17 The multitude therefore gave testi-
mony, which was with him, when he
called Lazarus out of the grave, and
raised him from the dead.

18 For which reason also the people
came to meet him, because they heard
that he had done this miracle.

19 The Pharisees therefore said among
themselves : Do you see that we prevail
nothing ? behold, the whole world is gone
after him.

20 Now there were certain Gentiles
among them, who came up to adore on
the festival day.

21 These therefore came to Philip, who
was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired
him, saying: Sir, we would see Jesus.

22 Philip Cometh, and telleth Andrew.
Again Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

23 But Jesus answered them, saying:
The hour is come, that the Son of man
should be glorified.

24 Amen, amen I say to you, unless the
rp'ain of wheat falling into the ground die,

25 Itself remaineth alone. But if it die,
it bringeth forth much fruit. ^ He that
loveth his life shall lose it ; and he that
hateth his life in this world, keepeth it
unto life eternaL

26 If any man minister to me, let him
follow me ; and where I am, there also
shall my minister be. If any man min-
ister to me, him will my Father honour.

27 Now is my soul troubled. And what
shall I say? Father, save me from this
hour. But for this cause I came unto
this hour.

28 Father, glorify thy name. A voice
therefore came from heaven: I have
both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

29 The multitude therefore that stood
and heard, said that it thundered. Others
said: An angel spoke to him.

30 Jesus answered, and said: This voice
came not because of me, but for your
Bakes.

31 Now is the judgment of the world:
now shall the prince of this world be
cast out.

32 And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all things to myself.

33 (Now this he said, signifying what
death he should die.)

j Matt 10. 39, and 16, 25 ; Mark 8. 35 ; Luke 9. 24^
and 17. 33. —Aj Ps. 109. 4, and lie. 2 ; Isa. 40. 8 ; £zecb.

34 The multitude answered him : We
have heard ^ out of the law, that Christ
abideth for ever ; and how sayest thou:
The Son of man must be lifted up ? Who
is this Son of man ?

35 Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a
little while, the light is among you.
Walk whilst you have the light, that the
darkness overtake you not. And he
that walketh in darkness, knoweth not
whither he goeth.

36 Whilst you have the light, believe in
the light, that you may be the children
of light. These things Jesus spoke ; and
he went away, and hid himself from
them.

37 And whereas he had done so many
miracles before them, they believed not
in him:

38 That the saying of Isaias the prophet
might be fulfilled, which he said ; ^ Lord^
who hath believed our hearing ? and to
whom hath the o/rm of the Lord been re
vealed ?

39 Therefore they could not believe,
because Isaias said again:

40 ^He hath blinxied their eyes, and hard'
ened their heart, that they should not see
with their eyes, nor understand with their
heart, and be converted, and I should heal
them,

41 These things said Isaias, when he saw
his glory, and spoke of him.

42 However, many of the chief men also
believed in him ; but because of the Phari-
sees they did not confess him, that they
might not be cast out of the synagogue.

43 For they loved the glory of men
more than the glory of God.

44 But Jesus cried, and said: He that
believeth in me, doth not believe in me,
but in him that sent me.

45 And he that seeth me, seeth him that
sent me.

46 I am come a light into the world ;
that whosoever believeth in me, may not
remain in darkness.

47 And if any man hear my words, and
keep them not, I do not judge him : for I
came not to judge the world, but to save
the world.

48 He that despiseth me, and receiveth
not my words, hath one that judgeth

37. 25. — I Isa. 53. 1 ; Rom. 10. 16. — m Isa. 6. 9 ; Matt
13. 14 : Mark <!» 12 ; Luke 8. 10 ; Acts 28. 26 ; Rom. Ih 6,

Ver. 39. They could not believe.

Because they would not, saith St. Augustine, Tract. 33, iu Joan. See
the annotation, St Mark 4, 12.

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Jesus washes feet of the apostles

him ; the word that T nave spoken, the
same shall judge nim in the last day.

49 For I have not spoken of myself ; but
the Father who sent me, he gave me
commandment what 1 should say, and
what I should speak.

50 And I know that his commandment
is life everlasting. The things therefore
that I speak, even as tho Father said unto
me, so do I speak.

CHAPTER 13.

Christ washes his disciples^ feet • the treason of
fudas : the new commandment of love

BEFORE " the festival day of the pasch,
Jesus knowing that his hour was
come, that he should pass out ol this
world to the Father, having loved iiis
own who were in the world, he loved
them unto the end.

2 And when supper was done, ( the devil
having now put into the heart of Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray
him,)

3 Knowing that the Fafchex' had «riven
him all things into his hands, anC that
he came from God, and goeth jO Goa ,

4 He riseth from supper '^nd layeth
aside his garments, and having taken a
towel, girded himself.

5 After that, he puttcul water int a
basin, and began to wash the feet of the
disciples, -ind to wipe them with the
towel wherewith he was girded.

6 He Cometh therefore to jimon Peter.
And Peter saith to him : Lore, dost thou
wash my feet?

7 Jesus answered, and said to him: What
I do thou knowest not now; but thou
shalt know hereafter.

8 Peter saith U him: Thou shalt never
wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I
wash thee not, thou shalt have no part
with me.

9 Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not
only my feet, but also my hands and my
head.

10 Jesus saith to him : He that is washed,
needeth not but to wash his feet, but is
clean wholly. And you are clean, but
not all.

n A. D. 29. Matt. 26. 2 ; Mark 14. 1 ; Luke 22. 1.
o Matt. 10. 24 ; Luke 6. 40 ; Infra 1.5. 20.

ST. JOHN
I

Jesus foretells His betrayal

Chap. 13. Ver. l. liefore the festival day of the
pn.inh. This was the f()urth and last pasch of the
ministry of Christ, and according to the common
computation, was in the thirty-third year of our
Lord : and iu the year of the world 4036. Some chro-

11 For he knew who he was that would
betray him; therefore he said: You are
not all clean.

12 Then after he had washed their feet,
and taken his garments, being set down
again, he said to them: Know you what
I have done to you?

13 You call me Master, and Lord; an<3
you say well, for so I am.

14 If then I being your Lord and Master,
have washed your feet ; you also ought
to wash one another's feet.

15 For I have given you an example,
that as I have done to you, so you do also.

16 ° Amen, amen I say to you: The ser-
vant is not greater than his lord ; neither
is the apostle greater than he that sent
him.

1 7 If you know these things, you shall
be blessed if you do them.

18 I speak not of you all: I know whom
T nave chosen. But that the scripture
may be fulfilled: PHe that eateth bread
with me, shall lift up his heel against me.

19 A present I tell you, before it come
to pass: that when it shall come to pass,
you may believe that I am he.

20 '-Amen, amen I say to you, he that
receive th whomsoever I send receive th
me ; and he that receive th me, receiveth
him that sent me.

^1 When Jes s hac" said these things,
he was jroubled in "pirit ; and he testi-
tied, n.nd aid • ' Amen, amen I say to
you, one of you shall b^-tra^ me

22 Th^ disciple, thereiore ^ooked one
upon .nother, doubting if whom he
spoke.

23 Now there was leaning on Jesus'
bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus
loved.

24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to
him, and said to him : Who is it of whom
he speaketh?

25 He therefore, leaning on the breast
of Jesus, saith to him : Lord, who is it?

26 Jesus answered: He it is to whom I
shall reach bread dipped. And when he
had dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon.

27 And after the morsel, Satan entered

p Ps. 40. 10. — f/ Matt. 10. 40 ; Luke 10. 16.
r Matt. 26. 21 ; Mark 14. 18; Luke 22. 21.

nologers are of opinion tl)at our Saviour suffered in
the thirty-seventh year of his age : hut these differ-
ent opinions on this subject are of no consequence.
Ver. 27. That which thoti dost, rin quickly. It ia
not a license, much less a couuuaud. to go about U*

122

The new commandment

ST. JOHN The way, the truth and the life

into him. And Jesus said to him : That
which thou dost, do quickly.

28 Now no man at the table knew to
what purpose he said this unto him.

29 For some thought, because Judas had
the purse, that Jesus had said to him:
Buy those things which we have need of
for the festival day: or that he should
give something to the poor.

30 He therefore having received the
morsel, went out immediately. And it
was night.

31 When he therefore was gone out,
Jesus said : Now is the Son of man glori-
fied, and God is glorified in him.

32 If God be glorified in him, God also
will glorify him in himself ; and immedi-
ately will he glorify him.

33 Little children, yet a little while I
am with you. * You shall seek me ; and
as I said to the Jews : Whither I go you
cannot come ; so I say to you now.

34 * A new commandment I give unto
you : That you love one another, as I
have loved you, that you also love one
another.

35 By this shall all men know that you
are my disciples, if you have love one
for another.

36 Simon Peter saith to him: Lord,
whither goest thou? Jesus answered:
Whither I go, thou canst not follow me
now ; but thou shalt follow hereafter.

37 Peter saith to him: Why cannot I
follow thee now? ^I will lay down my
life for thee.

38 Jesus answered him : Wilt thou lay
down thy life for me? Amen, amen I
say to thee, the cock shall not crow, till
thou deny me thrice.

CHAPTER 14.

Christ* 8 discourse after his last shipper.

LET not your heart be troubled. You
believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house there are many
mansions. If not, I would have told
you : because I go to prepare a place for
you.

3 And if I shall go, and prepare a place

s Supra 7. 34.
t Lev. 19. 18 ; Matt 22. 39 ; Infra 15. 12.

treason : but a signification to him that Christ wonlrl
not hinder or resist what he was about, do it as soon
as be pleased : but was both ready and desirous to
suffer for our redemption.

Chap. 14. Ver. 16. Paraclete. That is, a com-
forter ; or also au adyocate i inasmucti as by iuspir-

for you, I will come again, and will take
you to myself; that where I am, you
also may be.

4 And whither I go you knoWj and the
way you know.

5 Thomas saith to him : Lord, we know
not whither thou goest ; and how can we
know the way?

6 Jesus saith to him : I am the way, and
the truth, and the life. No man cometh
to the Father, but by me.

7 If you had known me, you would
without doubt have known my Father
also: and from henceforth you shall know
him, and you have seen him.

8 Philip saith to him : Lord, shew us the
Father, and it is enough for us.

9 Jesus saith to him : Have I been sc
long a time with you ; and have you not»
known me ? Philip, he that seeth me
seeth the Father also. How sayest thou,
Shew us the Father ?

10 Do you not believe, that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me? The
words that I speak to you, I speak not
of myself. But the Father who abideth
in me, he doth the works.

11 Believe you not that I am in the Fa-
ther, and the Father in me ?

12 Otherwise believe for the very works'
sake. Amen, amen I say to you, he
that believeth in me, the works that I do,
he also shall do ; and greater than these
shall he do.

13 Because I go to the Father : ^ and
whatsoever you shall ask the Father in
my name, that will I do : that the Father
may be glorified in the Son.

14 If you shall ask me any thing in my
name, that I will do.

15 If you love me, keep my command-
ments.

16 And I will ask the Father, and he
shall give you another Paraclete, that he
may abide with you for ever.

17 The spirit of truth, whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not,
nor knoweth him : but you shall know
him ; because he shall abide with you,
and shall be in you.

V Matt. 26. 35 ; Mark 14. 29 ; Luke 22. 33.
V Matt 7. 7, and 21. 22 ; Mark 11. 24 ; Infra 16. 23.

ing prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for
us. — Ibid. For ever. Hence it is evident that this
Spirit of truth was not only promised to the persons
of the apostles, but also to tiieir successors througb
all geuerations.

123

Jesus comforts His disciples

ST. JOHN

Jesus the true vine

18 I will not leave you orphans, I will
come to you.

19 Yet a little while : and the world
eeeth me no more. But you see me:
because I live, and you shall live.

20 In that day you shall know, that I
am in my Father, and you in me, and I
in you.

21 He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them ; he it is that loveth
me. And he that loveth me, shall be
loved of my Father : and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him.

22 Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot :
Lord, how is it, that thou wilt manifest
thyself to us, and not to the world?

23 Jesus answered, and said to him : If
any one love me, he will keep my word,
and my Father will love him, and we will
come to him, and will make our abode
with him.

24 He that loveth me not, keepeth not
my words. And the word which you
have heard, is not mine ; but the Father's
who sent me.

25 These things have I spoken to you,
abiding with you.

26 But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name,
he will teach you all things, and bring all
things to your mind, whatsoever I shall
have said to you.

27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I
give unto you : not as the world giveth,
do I give unto you. Let not your heart
be troubled, nor let it be afraid.

28 You have heard that I said to you :
I go away, and I come unto you. If you
loved me, you would indeed be glad, be-
cause I go to the Father : for the Father
is greater than I.

29 And now I have told you before it
come to pass : that when it shall come to
pass, you may believe.

30 I will not now speak many things
with you. For the prince of this world
Cometh, and in me he hath not any thing.

31 But that the world may know, that I

7/' Acts 2. 23. — X Supra 13. 10.

Ver. 26. Teach you all things. Here the Holy
Ghost is promised to the apostles and their succes-
sors, particularly, in order to teach them all truth,
and to preserve them from error.

Ver. 28. For the Father is greater than T. It is
evident, that Christ our Lord speaks here of himself
as lie is made man : for as God he is equal to the
Father. (See Phil. 2.) Any difficulty of understand-
ing the meaning of these words will vanish, when the
relative circumstances of the text here are consid*

love the Father : ^and as the Father
hath given me commandment, so do It
Arise, let us go hence.

CHAPTER 15.

A continuation of ChrisVs discourse to his disciples,

I AM the true vine ; and my Father is
the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me, that beareth not
fruit, he will take away : and every one
that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that
it may bring forth more fruit.

3 * Now you are clean by reason of the
word, which I have spoken to you.

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless
it abide in the vine, so neither can you,
unless you abide in me.

5 I am the vine ; you the branches : he
that abideth in me, and I in him, the
same beareth much fruit: for without
me you can do nothing.

6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be
cast forth as a branch, and shall wither,
and they shall gather him up, and cast
him into the fire, and he burneth.

7 If you abide in me, and my words
abide in you, you shall ask whatever you
will, and it shall be done unto you.

8 In this is my Father glorified ; that
you bring forth very much fruit, and be-
come my disciples.

9 As the Father hath loved me, I also
have loved you. Abide in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments, you
shall abide in my love ; as I also have
kept my Father's commandments, and do
abide in his love.

11 These things I have spoken to you,
that my joy may be in you, and your joy
may be filled.

12 y This is my commandment, that you
love one another, as I have loved you.

13 Greater love than this no man hath,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends.

14 You are my friends, if you do the
things that I command you.

y Supra 13. 34 ; Eph. 5. 2 ; 1 Thess. 4. 9.

ered : for Christ being at this time shortly to suffer
death, signified to his apostles his human nature by
these very words : for as God he could not die. And
therefore as he was both God and man, it must follow
that according to his humanity he was to die, which
the apostles were soon to see and believe, as he ex.
presses, ver. 29. And now I have told you before it
come to pass : that when it shall come to pass, you
may believe.

124

The disciples will he persecuted ST. JOHN The promise of the Holy Ghost

15 I will not now call you servants : for
the servant knoweth not what his lord
doth. But I have called you friends : be-
cause all things whatsoever I have heard
of my Father, I have made known to you.

16 You have not chosen me : but I have
chosen you; and have appointed you,
*that you should go, and should bring
forth fruit ; and your fruit should remain :
that whatsoever you shall ask of the
Father in my name, he may give it you.

17 °' These things I command you, that
you love one another.

18 If the world hate you, know ye, that
it hath hated me before you.

19 If you had been of the world, the
world would love its own : but because
you are not of the world, but I have
chosen you out of the world, therefore
the world hateth you.

20 Remember my word that I said to
you : ^ The servant is not greater than
Jus master. If they have persecuted me,
* they will also persecute you: if they have
kept my word, they will keep yours also.

21 But all these things they will do to
you for my name's sake ; because they
know not him that sent me.

22 If I had not come, and spoken to
them, they would not have sin ; but now
they have no excuse for their sin.

23 He that hateth me, hateth my Fa-
ther also.

24 If I had not done among them the
works that no other man hath done, they
would not have sin ; but now they have
both seen and hated both me and my
Father.

25 But that the word may be fulfilled
which is written in their law : ^ They
hated me without cause,

26 ^ But when the Paraclete cometh,
whom I will send you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from
the Father, he shall give testimony of me.

27 And you shall give testimony, because
you are with me from the beginning.

CHAPTER 16.

The conclusion of Christ's last discourse to his dis-
^ ciples.

z Matt. 28. 19. — a 1 John 3. 11, and 4. 7.
b Supra 13. 16 ; Matt. 10. 24.

Chap. 15. Ver. 26. Whom J will send. This
proves, against the modern Greeks, that the Holy
Ghost proceedeth from the Son, as well as from the
Father : otherwise he could not be sent by the Son.

Chap. 16. Ver. 8. He will convince the vmrld of
Sin, &c. The Holy Ghost, by his coming, brought
over majiy thousands, first, to a sense of their sin in

THESE things have I spoken to you,
that you may not be scandalized.

2 They will put you out of the syna
gogues: yea, the hour cometh, that who
soever killeth you, will think that he doth
a service to God.

3 And these things will they do to you ;
because they have not known the Father,
nor me.

4 But these things I have told you, that
when the hour shall come, you may
remember that I told you of them.

5 But I told you not these things from
the beginning, because I was with you.
And now I go to him that sent me, and
none of you asketh me : Whither goest
thou?

6 But because I have spoken these things
to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

7 But I tell you the truth : it is expe-
dient to you that I go: for if I go not,
the Paraclete will not come to you ; but
if I go, I will send him to you.

8 And when he is come, he will convince
the world of sin, and of justice, and of
judgment.

9 Of sin : because they believed not in
me.

10 And of justice: because I go to the
Father ; and you shall see me no longer»

11 And of judgment : because the prince
of this world is already judged.

12 I have yet many things to say to you :
but you cannot bear them now.

13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, is
come, he will teach you all truth. For he
shall not speak of himself ; but what
things soever he shall hear, he shall
speak ; and the things that are to come,
he shall shew you.

14 He shall glorify me ; because he shall
receive of mine, and shall shew it to you.

15 All things whatsoever the Father
hath, are mine. Therefore I said, that he
shall receive of mine, and shew it to you.

16 A little while, and now you shall not
see me ; and again a little while, and you
shall see me : because I go to the Father.

17 Then some of his disciples said one to
another : What is this that he saith to us :

c Matt. 24. 9. — d Ps. 24. 19.
e Luke 24. 49.

not believing in Christ. Secondly, to a conviction of
the justice of Christ, now sitting at the right hand
of his Father. And thirdly, to a right apprehension
of the judgment prepared for them that choose to
follow Satan, who is already judged and condemned.
Ver. 13. Will teach you all truth. See the anno-
tatioQ on chap. 14. ver. 26.

125

Sorrow shall be turned to joy ST. JOHN

A little while, and you shall not see me ;
»nd again a little while, and you shall see
ftie, and, because I go to the Father ?

18 They said therefore: What is this
that he saith, A httle while? we know
not what he speaketh.

19 And Jesus knew that they had a mind
to ask him ; and he said to them: Of this
do you inquire among yourselves, because
I said: A little while, and you shall not
see me ; and again a little while, and you
shall see me ?

20 Amen, amen I say to you, that you
shall lament and weep, but the world
shall rejoice ; and you shall be made sor-
rowful, but your sorrow shall be turned
into joy.

21 A woman, when she is in labour, hath
sorrow, because her hour is come ; but
when she hath brought forth the child,
she remembereth no more the anguish,
for joy that a man is born into the world.

22 So also you now indeed have sorrow ;
but I will see you again, and your heart
shall rejoice ; and your joy no man shall
take from you.

23 And in that day you shall not ask me
any thing. «^Amen, amen I say to you:
if you ask the Father any thing in my
name, he will give it you.

24 Hitherto you have not asked any
thing in my name. Ask, and you shall
receive ; that your joy may be f ulL

25 These things I have spoken to yoi» !n
proverbs. The hour cometh, when I will
no more speak to you in proverbs, but
will shew you plainly of the Father.

26 In that day you shall ask in my name ;
and I say not to you, that I will ask the
Father for you:

27 For the Father himself loveth you,
because you have loved me, and have
believed that I came out from God.

28 I came forth from the Father, and am
come into the world : again I leave the
world, and I go to the Father.

29 His disciples say to him: Behold, now
thou speakest plainly, and speakest no
proverb.

30 Now we know that thou knowest all
things, and thou needest not that any
man should ask thee. By this we believe
that thou camest forth from God.

31 Jesus answered them : Do you now
believe ?

/Matt. 7. 7 and 21. 22; Mark 11. 24; Luke 11. 9;
Supra 14. 13; James 1. 5.

Jesus* prayer to the Fat

32 ^ Behoid, the hour cometh, and it Is
now come, that you shall be scattered
every man to his own, and shall leave me
alone ; and yet I am not alone, because
the Father is with me.

33 These things I have spoken to you, ,
that in me you may have peace. In the
world you shall have distress : but have
confidence, I have overcome the world.

CHAPTER 17.
Christ's prayer for his disciples.
rriHESE things Jesus spoke, and lifting
X up his eyes to heaven, he said : Fa-
ther, the hour is come, glorify thy Son,
that thy Son may glorify thee.

2 '^ As thou hast given him power over
all flesh, that he may give eternal Ufe to
all whom thou hast given him.

3 Now this is eternal life : That they
may know thee, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

4 I have glorified thee on the earth ; I
have finished the work which thou gavest
me to do.

5 And now glorify thou me, O Father,
with thyself, with the glory which I had,
before the world was, with thee.

6 I have manifested thy name to the
men whom thou hast given me out of the
world. Thine they were, and to me thou
gavest them; and they have kept thy
word.

7 Now they have known, that all things
which thou hast given me, are from
thee :

8 Because the words which thou gavest
me, I have given to them ; and they have
received them, and have known in very
deed that I came out from thee, and they
have beheved that thou didst send me.

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the
world, but for them whom thou hast
given me : because they are thine:

10 And all my things are thine, and
thine are mine ; and I am glorified in
them.

11 And now I am not in the world, and
these are in the world, and I come to
thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy
name whom thou hast given me; that
they may be one, as we also are.

12 While I was with them, I kept them
in thy name. * Those whom thou gavest
me have I kept ; and none of them is lost,

g Matt. 26. 31; Mark 14. 27.
h Matt. 28. 18. — i Infra 18. 9.

I2i

Jesus prays for the apostles

but the son of perdition, •* that the scrip-
ture may be fulfilled.

13 And now I come to thee ; and these
things I speak in the world, that they
may have my joy filled in themselves.

14 1 have given them thy word, and the
world hath hated them, because they are
not of the world ; as I also am not of the
world.

15 I pray not that thou shouldst take
them out of the world, but that thou
dhouldst keep them from evil.

16 They are not of the world, as I also
am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them in truth. Thy word
is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world,
I also have sent them into the world.

19 And for them do I sanctify myself,
that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20 \nd not for them only do I pray, but
foi ohem also who through their word
«hall believe in me ;

21 Th''. they all may be one, as thou,
Father, in me, and I in thee ; that they
also may be one in us ; that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me.

22 And the glory which thou hast given
me, I have given to them ; that they may
be one, as we also are one :

23 I in them, and thou in me ; that they
may be made perfect in one; and the
world may know that thou hast sent me,
and hast loved them, as tbou hast also
loved me.

24 Father, I will that where I am, they
also whom thou hast given me may be
with me ; that they may see my glory
which thou hast given me, because thou
hast loved me before the creation of the
world.

25 Just Father, the world hath no+
known thee ; but I have known thee :
and these have known that thou hast
sent me.

26 And I have made known thy name to
them, and will make it known ; that the
love wherewith thou hast loved me, may
be in them, and I in them.

CHAPTER 18.

The history of the passion of Christ.

WHEN ^ Jesus had said these things,
he went forth with his disciples
over the brook Cedron, where there was

j Ps. 108. 8. — A; 2 Kings 15. 23; Matt. 26. 3«; Mark
14. 32 ; Luke 22. 39.— I Matt 26. 47 • Mark 14.43 i Luke

ST. JOHN Jesus arrested in the garden

a gj-rden, into which he entered with his
disciples.

2 And Judas also, who betrayed him,
knew the place ; because Jesus had often
resorted thither together with his dis-
ciples.

3 ^ Judas therefore having received a
band of soldiers and servants from the
chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh
thither with lanterns and torches and
weapons.

4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things
that should come upon him, went forth,
and said to them : Whom seek ye ?

5 They answered him : Jesus of Naza-
reth. Jesus saith to them : I am he. And
Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with
them.

6 As soon therefore as he had said to
them : I am he ; they went backward, and
fell to the ground.

7 Again therefore he asked them : Whom
seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Naza-
reth,

8 Jesus answered, I have told you that
I am he. If therefore you seek me, let
these go their way,

9 That the word might be fulfilled which
he said : *" Of them whom thou hast given
me, I have not lost any one.

10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword,
drew it, and struck the servant of the
high priest, and cut off his right ear. And
the name of the servant was Malchas.

11 Jesus therefore said to Peter : Put up
thy sword into the scabbard. The chal-
ice which my Father hath given me,
shall I not drink it ?

12 Then the band and the tribune, and
the servants of the Jews, took Jesus, and
bound him :

13 And they led him away to ** Annas
first, for he was father in law to Caiphas,
who was the high priest of that year.

14 Now Caiphas was he ^ who had given
the counsel to the Jews : That it was ex-
pedient that one man should die for the
people.

15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and
so did another disciple. And that disci-
ple was known to the high priest, and
went in with Jesus into the court of the
high priest.

16 But Peter stood at the door without.
P The other disciple therefore, who was

22. 47. — m Supra 17. 12. — n Liike 3. 2. — o Supra IL
49.~-j3 Matt. 36. 58; Mark 14. 54; Luke 22. 6&

127

Jesus before Annas and C alphas ST. JOHN

Jesus before Pilot»

known to the high priest, went out, and
spoke to the portress, and brought in
Peter.

17 The maid therefore that was por-
tress, saith to Peter: Art not thou also
one of this man's disciples ? He saith : I
am not»

18 Now the servants and ministers stood
at a fire of coals, because it was cold,
and warmed themselves. And with them
was Peter also, standing, and warming
himself.

19 The high priest therefore asked Je-
sus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.

20 Jesus answered him : I have spoken
openly to the world : I have always taught
in the synagogue, and in the temple,
whither all the Jews resort ; and in secret
I have spoken nothing.

21 Why askest thou me? ask them who
have heard what I have spoken unto
them : behold they know what things I
have said.

22 And when he had said these things,
one of the servants standing by, gave
Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou
the high priest so ?

23 Jesus answered him : If I have spoken
evil, give testimony of the evil; but if
well, why strikest thou me ?

24 9 And Annas sent him bound to Cai-
phas the high priest.

25 And Simon Peter was standing, and
warming himself. *" They said therefore
to him : Art not thou also one of his dis-
ciples? He denied it, and said: I am
not.

26 One of the servants of the high priest
.a kinsman to him whose ear Peter cut
off) saith to him : Did not I see thee in
the garden with him ?

27 Again therefore Peter denied; and
immediately the cock crew.

28 ®Then they led Jesus from Caiphas
to the governor's hall. And it was morn-
ing; and they went not into the hall,
* that they might not be defiled, but that
they might eat the pasch.

29 Pilate therefore went out to them,
and said: What accusation bring you
against this man ?

30 They answered, and said to him: If
he were not a malefactor, we would not
have delivered him up to thee.

q Matt. 26. 57; Mark 14. 53; I. tike 22. 54. — r Matt.
26. 69 ; Mark 14. 67 ; Luke 22. 56. — s Matt. 27. 2 ; Mark
\b. I ; Luke 23. 1. — t Acts 10. -M, and 11. 3. — ti Matt

31 Pilate therefore said to them: Take
him you, and judge him according to
your law. The Jews therefore said to
him: It is not lawful for us to put any
man to death;

32 ** That the word of Jesus might be
fulfilled, which he said, signifying wba*
death he should die.

33 ^ Pilate therefore went into the hall
again, and called Jesus, and said to hims
Art thou the king of the Jews?

34 Jesus answered: Sayest thou this
thing of thyself, or have others told il
thee of me ?

36 Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy
own nation, and the chief priests, have
delivered thee up to me : what hast thou
done?

36 Jesub answered : My kingdom is noi
of this world. If my kingdom were of
this world, my servants would certainly
strive tha* I should not be delivered to
the Jews : but now my kingdom ie not
from hence.

37 Pilate therefore said to him : Art thou
a king then ? Jesus answered : Thou say-
est that I am a king. For this was I
born, and for this came I into the world ;
that I should give testimony to the truth.
Every one that is of the truth, heareth
my voice.

38 Pilate saith to him: What is truth?
And when he said this, he went out again
to the Jews, and saith to them : I find no
cause in him.

39 ^ But you have a custom that I shoald
release one unto you at the pasch : will
you, therefore, that I release unto you
the king of the Jews ?

40 Then cried they all again, saying: Not
this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas
was a robber.

CHAPTER 19.

The continuation of the history of the passion of

Christ.

THEN * therefore, Pilate took Jesus,
and scourged him.

2 And the soldiers platting a crown of
thorns, put it upon his head; and they
put on him a purple garment.

3 And they came to him, and said : Hail,
king of the Jews; and they gave him
blows.

4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and

20. 19. — V Ma*t. 27. Hi Mark 15. 2; Luke 2a 3.—
w Matt. 27. 15; Mark 1& 6i Luke 22.17.— s MaU.
27. 26 : Mark l& l&

IJ8

esTis before the people ST.

ait> to them : Behold, I bring him forth
nto you, that you may know that I find
.0 cause in him.

5 (Jesus therefore came forth, bearing
be crown of thorns and the purple gar-
icnt.) And he saith to them: Behold
be Man.

G When the chief priests, therefore, and
he servants, had seen him, they cried
ut, saying: Crucify him, crucify him.
Ilate saith to them : Take him you, and
rucify him : for I find no cause in him.

7 The Jews answered him: We have a
iw ; and according to the law he ought

6 die, because he made himself the Son
f God.

8 When Pilate therefore had heard this
aying, he feared the more.

9 And He entered into the hall again,
nd he said to Jesus : Whence art thou ?
lut Jesus gave him no answer.

10 Pilate therefore saith to him : Speak-
st thou not to me ? knowest thou not
hat I have power to crucify thee, and I
lave power to release thee ?

11 Jesus answered : Thou shouldst not
lave any power against me, unless it were
iven thee from above. Therefore, he
hat hath delivered me to thee, hath the
;r eater sin.

12 And from henceforth Pilate sought to
elease him. But the Jews cried out, say-
Qg : If thou release this man, thou art
lot Caesar's friend. Forwhosoevei mak-
th himself a king, speaketh against
/sesar.

13 Now when Pilate had heard these
^ords, he brought Jesus forth, and sat
[own in the judgment seat, in the place
hat is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew
Jabbatha.

14 And it was the parasceve of the
►asch, about the sixth hour, and he saith
o the Jews : Behold your king.

16 But they cried out : Away with him ;
.way with him ; crucify him. Pilate
aith to them : Shall I crucify your king ?
^'he chief priests answered : We have no
:ing but Caesar.

16 Then therefore he delivered him to
hem to be crucified. And they took
fesus, and led him forth.

y Matt. 27. 33 ; Mark 15. 22 ; Luke 23. 33.
t Matt 27. 35; Mark 15. 24; Luke 23. 34.

JOHN

The crucifixion

17 y And bearing his own cross, he went
forth to that place which is called Cal-
vary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

18 Where they crucified him, and with
him two others, one on each side, and
Jesus in the midst.

19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and he
put it upon the cross. And the writing
was : Jesus of Nazareth, the King of
THE Jews.

20 This title therefore many of the Jews
did read : because the place where Jesujs
was crucified was nigh to the city : ana
it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, and
in Latin,

21 Then the chief priests of the Jews
said to Pilate : Write not, The King of
the Jews ; but that he said, I am the King
of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered : What I have writ-
ten, I have written.

23 The soldiers therefore, when they
had crucified him, ^took his garments,
(and they made four parts, to every sol-
dier a part,) and also his coat. Now the
coat was without seam, woven from the
top throughout.

24 They said then one to another : Let
us not cut it, but let us cast lots for it,
whose it shall be ; that the scripture
might be fulfilled, saying : * They have
parted my gar^aents among them^^ and upon
my vesture they have cast lot. And the
soldiers indeed did these things.

25 Now there stood by the cross of
Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sis-
ter, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magda*
len.

26 When Jesus therefore had seen his
mother end the disciple standing whom
he lovec*:, he saith to his mother : Woman,
behold thy «on.

27 After that, he saith to the disciple:
Behold thy mother. And from that
hour, the disciple took her to his own.

28 Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all
things were no\n 'ccoraplished, * that the
scripture might fulfilled, said : I thirst.

29 Now there wt.^ a vessel set there full
of vinegar. And they, putting a sponge
full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to
his mouth.

Chap. 19. Ver. 14. The parasceve of the pasch.
Chat is- the day before the paschal sabbath. The
iTe of every tabbatb waa ciUled tbe parasceve,

•77 1^

a Ps. 21. 19
6 Ps. 68. 22.

or day of preparation. But this was the eve of a
high sabbath. vU.. that which ihA j> lie Ti^iscba)
week.

The death and burial of Jesus ST. JOHN Jesus appears to Mary Magdalen

30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the
vinegar, said: it is consummated. And
bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.

31 Then the Jews, (because it was the
parasceve,) that the bodies might not
remain upon the cross on the sabbath
day, (for that was a great sabbath day,)
besought Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken
away.

32 The soldiers therefore came; and
they broke the legs of the first, and of
the other that was crucified with him.

33 But after they were come to Jesus»
when they saw that he was already dead,
they did not break his legs.

34 But one of the soldiers with a spear
opened his side, and immediately there
came out blood and water.

35 And he that saw it, hath given testi-
mony; and his testimony is true. And
he knoweth that he saith true; that you
also may believe.

36 For these things were done, that the
scripture might be fulfilled : c You shall
not break a bone of him.

37 And again another scripture saith:
dThey shall look on him whom they pierced.

38 «And after these things, Joseph of
Arimathea (because- he was a disciple of
Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews)
besought Pilate that he might take away
the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave
leave. He came therefore, and took
away the body of Jesus.

39 And Nicodemus also came, (/ he who
at the first came to Jesus by night,)
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about an hundred pound weight,

40 They took therefore the body of
Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with
the spices, as the manner of the Jews is
to bury.

41 Now there was in the place where he
was crucified, a garden; and in the gar-
den a new sepulchre, wherein no man
yet had been laid.

42 There, therefore, because of the para-
sceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus, be-
cause the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

CHAPTER 20.

Christ's resurrection, and manifestation to his dis-
ciples.

12.

e Ex. 12. 46 ; Num. 9.
d Zach. 12. 10.
e Matt. 27. 57 ; Mark 15. 43 ; Luke 28. 50.

AND 9 on the first day of the week
Mary Magdalen cometh early, wher
it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre; and
she saw the stone taken away from the
sepulchre.

2 She ran, therefore, and cometh tc
Simon Peter, and to the other disciph
whom Jesus loved, and saith to them:
They have taken away the Lord out oi
the sepulchre, and we know not wher€
they have laid him.

3 Peter therefore went out, and thai
other disciple, and they came to thf
sepulchre. I

4 And they both ran together, and thai
other disciple did outrun Peter, and came
first to the sepulchre.

5 And when he stooped down, he sa-v«
the linen cloths lying; but yet he went
not in.

6 Then cometh Simon Peter, following
him, and went into the sepulchre, anc
saw the linen cloths lying.

7 And the napkin that had been aboul
his head, not lying with the linen cloths
but apart, wrapped up into one place.

8 Then that other disciple also went in
who came first to the sepulchre: and he
saw, and believed.

9 For as yet they knew not the scripture
that he must rise again from the dead

10 The disciples therefore departec
again to their home.

11 ^ But Mary stood at the sepulchre
without, weeping. Now as she wa<
weeping, she stooped down, and lookec
into the sepulchre.

12 And she saw two angels in white
sitting, one at the head, and one at th(
feet, where the body of Jesus had beei
laid.

13 They say to her: Woman, why weep
est thou? She saith to them: Becaus»
they have taken away my Lord; and '
know not where they have laid him.

14 When she had thus said, she turnec
herself back, and saw Jesus standing
and she knew not that it was Jesus.

15 Jesus saith to her: Woman, wh^
weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She
thinking that it was the gardener, saitl
to him : Sir, if thou hast taken him hence
tell me where thou hast laid him, and
will take him away.

130

/ Supra 3. 2.
g Matt. 28. 1 ; Mark 16. 1 ; Luke 24. 8.
h Matt. 28.. 1 ; Mark 16. 5 ; Luke 24. 4.

The unbelief of Thomas

ST. JOHN Jesus appears to the disciples

16 Jesus 8aith to her: Mary. She turn-
ing, eaith to him: Rabboni C which is to
gay, Master).

17 Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me,
for I am not yet ascended to my Father.
But go to my brethren, and say to them:
I ascend to my Father and to your Fa-
ther, to my God and your God.

13 Mary Magdalen cometh, and telleth
the disciples : I have seen the Lord, and
these things he said to me.

19 ' Now when it was late that same
day, the first of the week, and the doors
were shut, where the disciples were gath-
ered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus
came and stood in the midst, and said to
fcLem : Peace be to you.

20 And when he had said this, he
shewed them his hands and his side.
The disciples therefore were glad, when
they saw the Lord.

21 He said therefore to them again :
Peace be to you. As the Father hath
gent me, I also send you.

22 When he had said this, he breathed
on them ; and he said to them : Receive
ye the Holy Ghost.

23 ' Whose sins ycu shall forgive, they
are forgiven them ; and whose sins you
ghall retain, they are retained.

24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who
is called Didymus, was not with them
when Jesus came.

26 The other disciples therefore said to
him: We have seen the Lord. But he
said to them : Except I shall see in his
hands the print of the nails, and put my
finger into the place of the nails, and put
my hand into his side, I will n o believe.

26 And after eight days agair .lib disci-
ples were within, and Thomas with them.
Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and
stood in the midst, and said • Peace Ibe to
you.

27 Then he saith to Thomas i Put in thy
finger hither, and see my hands i and
bring hither thy hand, and put it into
my side ; and be not faithless, but believ-
ing.

28 Thomas answered, and said to him :
My Lord, and my God.

i Mark ifi. u ; Luke 24. 36 ; i Cor. 15. 5.

Chak 20. Ver. 19. The doors vere shut Tlie
same power which could bring Christ's whole body,
entire in all its dimensions, through the doors, can
without the least question make the same bodv
really present in the sacrament i thonsh both the
one and the other b« &bov« our comprehe.osioa

Because ti>ou
'hou hast be-
ohat have ao^

29 Jesus saitfc to lira :
hast seen me. Thomas,
lieved: blessed are they
seen, and have believed.

30 * Manj other signs also did Jesus in
the sight of his disciples, which are not
written in this book.

31 But these are written, that you ma5
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Soo
of God . and that believing, you may have
life in his name.

CHAPTER 21.

Christ manifests himself to his disciples by the $96
side^ o.nd gives Peter the charge of his sheep.

4FTER this, Jesus shewed himself
JiSl. again to the disciples at the sea ol
Tiberias. And he shewed himself after
this manner.

2 There were together Simon Peter, and
Thomas, who is called Didymus, and Na^
thanael, who was of Cana of Galilee, and
the sons of Zebedee, and two others ol
his disciples.

3 Simon Peter saith to them: I go s
fishing. They say to him : We also come
with thee And they went forth, and
entered into the ship: and that aight
they caught nothing.

4 But when the morning was come, Jesus
stood on the shore: yet the disciples
knew QOt *ihat it was Jesus.

5 Jesus therefore said to them : Chil^
dren, have you any meat? They an-
swered him : No.

6 He saith to them : Cast the net on the
right side of the ship, and you shall find.
They cast therefore ; and now they were
not able to draw it, for the multitude of
fishes.

7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus
loved, said to Peter : It is the Lord. Si
mon Peter, when he heard that it was
the Lord, girt his coa*" about him, ( for he
was naked,) and oas*^ himself into the
sea.

8 But the other disciples came in the
ship, (for they were not far from the land,
but as it were two hundred cubits, ) drag-
ging the net with fishes.

9 As soon then as they came to land,

J Matt. 18. 18. — A- Infra 21. 25.

Yer ?x H'fiosfsiTi.';,&c. See here the commission,
stamped "iy he broad seal of heaven, by virtue of
whiob the pastors of Christ's church absolve repent
ing ?«iiuier6 xiMjn 'ititir x^oolessioa

Jesus' charge to Peter

ST. JOHN The disciple whom Jesus loved

they saw hot coals lying, and a fish laid
thereon, and bread.

10 Jesus saith to them : Bring hither of
the fishes which you have now caught.

11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the
net to land, full of great fishes, one hun-
dred and fifty-three. And although there
were so many, the net was not broken.

12 Jesus saith to them : Come, and dine.
And none of them who were at meat,
durst ask him: Who art thou? knowing
that it was the Lord.

13 And Jesus cometh and taketh bread,
and giveth them, and fish in like manner.

14 This is now the third time that Jesus
was manifested to his disciples, after he
was risen from the dead.

15 When therefore they had dined,
Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon, son
of John, lovest thou me more than these?
He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou know-
est that I love thee. He saith to him:
Feed my lambs.

16 He saith to him again: Simon, Bon
of John, lovest thou me? He saith to
him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I
love thee. He saith to him : Feed my
lambs.

17 He said to him the third time: Simon,
son of John, lovest thou me ? Peter was
grieved, because he had said to him the
third time : Lovest thou me ? And he
said to him: Lord, thou knowest all
things: thou knowest that I love thee.
He said to him : Feed my sheep.

18 Amen, amen I say to thee, 'when

1 2 Peter i. 14.

Chap. 21. Ver. 17. Feed my sheep. Our Lord
had promised the spiritual aupromacy to St. Peter;
St. Matt. 16. 19; and here he fulfils that promise,

thou wast younger, thou didst gird thy-
self, and didst walk where thou wouldst.
But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt
stretch forth thy hands, and another shall
gird thee, and lead thee whither thou
wouldst not.

19 And this he said, signifying by what
death he should glorify God. And when
he had said this, he saith to him : Fol-
low me.

20 Peter turning about, saw that disci-
ple whom Jesus loved following, ^ who
also leaned on his breast at supper, and
said : Lord, who is he that shall betray
thee?

21 Him therefore when Peter had seen,
he saith to Jesus: Lord, and what shaU
this man do?

22 Jesus saith to him : So I will have him
to remain till I come, what is it to thee ?
follow thou me.

23 This saying therefore went abroad
among the brethren, that that disciple
should not die. And Jesus did not say
to him : He should not die ; but, So I
will have him to remain
what is it to thee ?

24 This is that disciple who giveth tes-
timony of these things, and hath written
these things ; and wV know that his tes-
timony is true.

25 ** But there are also many othei
things which Jesus did ; which, if they
were written every one, the world itself
I think, would not be' able to contain the
books that should be written.

till

I come,

m Supra 13. 23. — w Supra 20. 30.

by charging him with the superintendency of all his
sheep, without exception; and consequently of his
whole flock, that is, of his own church.

ia»

the Holy Ghost promised

THE ACTS

The ascension into heaven

THE

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.

This Book, which, from the first ages, hath been called, The Acts OP the Apostles,
is not to he considered as a history of what was done by all the Apostles, who were
dispersed into different nations; but only a short view of the first establishment of
the Christian Church. A part of the preaching and actions of St. Peter are re-
lated in the first twelve chapters; and a particular account of St. Paul's apos-
tolical labours in the subsequent chapters. It was written by St. Luke the Evan-
gelist, and the original in Greek. Its history commences from the Ascension of

>v Christ our Lord, and ends in the year sixty-two, being a brief account of the

\jhurch for the space of about thirty years.

CHAPTER 1,

The ascension of Christ. Matthias <s chosen in
place of Judas,

THE former treatise I made, O The-
ophilus, of all things which Jesus
began to do and to teach,

2 Until the day ° on which, giving com-
mandments by the Holy Ghost to the
apostles whom he had chosen, he was
taken up.

3 To whom also he shewed himself
alive after his passion, by many proofs,
for forty days appearing to them, and
speaking of the kingdom of God.

4 And eating together with them, ^ he
commanded them, that they should not
depart from Jerusalem, but should wait
for the promise of the Father, ^ which
you have heard (saith he) by my mouth.

6 For John indeed baptized with water,
but you shall be baptized with the Holy
Ghost, not many days hence.

6 They therefore who were come to-
gether, asked him, saying: Lord, wilt
thou at this time restore again the king-
dom to Israel ?

7 But he said to them ; It is not for you
to know the times or moments, which
the Father hath put in his own power:

8 *■ But you shall receive the power of
ttie Holy Ghost coming upon you, • and
yon shall be witnesses unto me in Jeru-
salem, and m all Judea, and Samaria,
and even to the uttermost part of the
earth.

9 And when he had said these things,
While they looked on, he was raised up :
and a cloud received him out of their
light.

o A. D. 29. — p Luke 24. 49 ; John 14. 26.
q Matt. 3. 11 ; Mark 1. 8 ; Luke 3. 16 ; John 1. 26.

10 And while they were beholding him
going up to heaven, behold two men
stood by them in white garments.

11 Who also said: Ye men of Galilee,
why stand you looking up to heaven?
This Jesus who is taken up from you
into heaven, shall so come, as you have
seen him going into heaven,

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem
from the mount that is called Olivet,
which is nigh Jerusalem, within a sab-
bath day's journey.

13 And when they were come in, they
went up into an upper room, where abode
Peter and John, James and Andrew,
Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and
Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon
Zelotes, and Jude the brother of James.

14 All these were persevering with one
mind in prayer with the women, and
Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brethren.

15 In those days Peter rising up in the
midst of the brethren, said ? (now the
number of persons together was about
an hundred and twenty :)

16 Men, brethren, the scripture must
needs be fulfilled, * which the Holy Ghost
spoke before by the mouth of David con-
cerning Judas, who was the leader of
them that apprehended Jesus :

17 Who was numbered with us, and
had obtained part of this ministry.

18 "And he indeed hath possessed a
field of the reward of iniquity, and being
hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and
all his bowels gushed out.

19 And it became known to all the in-
habitants of Jerusalem < 9e that the same

r Infra 2. 2. — s Luke 24. 48.
t Ps. 40. 10; John 13. 18. — u Matt. 27. 7.

133

The coming of the Holy Ghost THE ACTS

Peter preaches to the Jews

field was called In their toagoe, Hacel-
dama, that is to say. The field of blood.

20 For it is written in the book of
Psalms: '"Let their habitation become deso-
late^ and let there be none to dwell therein.
^ And his bishopric let another take.

21 Wherefore of these men who have
companied with us all the time that the
Lord Jesus came in and went out among
us,

22 Beginning from the baptism of Jbhn,
until the day wherein he was taken up
from us, one of these must be made a
witness with us of his resurrection.

23 And they appointed two, Joseph,
called Barsabas, who was surnamed
Justus, and Matthias.

24 And praying, they said: Thou, Lord,
who knowest the hearts of all men, shew
whether of these two thou hast chosen,

25 To take the place of this ministry
and apostleship, from which Judas hath
by transgression fallen, that he might go
to his own place.

26 And they gave them lots, and the
lot fell upon Matthias, and he was uum-
bered with the eleven apostles.

CHAPTER 2.

The disciples receive the Holy Ghost. Peter's ser-
mon to the people. The piety of the first converts.

AND when the days of the Pentecost
JTX were accomplished, they wjrc all
together in one place:

2 And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven, as of a mighty wind com-
ing, and it filled the whole house where
they were sitting.

3 And there appeared to them parted
tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon
every one of them •.

4 * And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and they began to speak
with divers tongues, according as the
Holy Ghost gave them to speak.

5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem,
Jews, devout men, out of every nation
under heaven.

6 And when thiu was noised abroad, the
multitude came together, and were con-
founded in mind, because that every man
heard them speak in his own tongue.

7 And they were all amazed, and won-

V Ps. 68. 26. —i^ Ps. 108. 8.
X Matt. 3. 11 ; Mark 1. 8 ; Luke 3. 16 ; John 7. 39 ;

Chap. 2. Ver. 23, By the determinate, <fec. God
delivered up his Son; and his Son delivered up him-

dered, saying : Behold, are not all these,
that speak, Galileans ?

8 And how have we heard, every man
our own tongue wherein we were born?

9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites,
and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea,
and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and
the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and
strangers of Rome,

11 Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes,
and Arabians: we have heard them
speak in our own tonguee the wonderful
works of God.

12 And they were all astonished, and
wondered, saying one to another What
meaneth this?

13 But others mocking, said : These men
are full of new wine.

14 But Peter standing up with the eleven,
lifted up his voice, and spoke to them
Ye men of Judea, and all you that dwel
in Jerusalem, be this known to you, anc
with your ears receive my words.

15 For these are not drunk, as you sup
pose, seeing it is but the third hour of
the day:

16 But this is that which was spoken of
by the prophet Joel:

VI y And it shall come to pass, in the Uisi
days, (saith the Lord,) I will pour out of my
Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons anc
your daughters shall prophesy, and your
young men shad ee visions, and your ok
men shall dream dreams,

18 And upon my servants indeed, anct
upon my handmaids urill I pour out in thoSi
days of my spirit, and they shall prophesy.

19 And I will shew wonders in the heaver
above, and signs on the earth beneath: blooc
and fire, and vapour of smoke.

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness
and the moon into blood, before the great an(\
manifest day of the Lord come.

21 ^ And it shall come to pass, that whoso
ever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.

22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved o
God among you, by miracles, and wonden
and signs, which God did by him, in th
midst of you, as you also know:

23 This same being delivered up, by th

Supra 1. 8 ; Infra 11, 16, and 19. 6.
y Tsa. 44. 3 ; Joel 2. 28.-2 Joel 2. 32 ; Rom. 10. 13.

self, for the love of us, and for the sake of our salvi
tion; and so Christ's being delivered up was holy

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Peter preaches to the Jews

THE ACTS Many are added to the Church

ue.erminate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, you by the hands of wicked men
have crucified and slain.

24 Whom God hath raised up, having
loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was im-
possible that he should be holden by it.

25 For David saith concerning him: " I
foresaw the Lord before my face: because
he is at my right hand^ that I may not be
moved.

•if For this my heart hath been glad, and
my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover my flesh
also shall rest in hope.

27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in
hell, nor suffer thy Holy One to see corrup-
tion

28 Thou ^ust made knoum to me the ways
of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with
thy countenance.

29 Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak
to you of^he patriarch David ; ^ that he
died, and was buried ; and his sepulchre
is with us to this present day.

30 Whereas therefore he was a prophet,
and knew ^that God hath sworn to him
with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins
one shc/ald sit upon his throne.

31 Foreseeing this, he spoke of the re-
surrection of Christ. '^ For neither was
he left in hell, neither did his flesh see
corruption.

32 This Jesus hath God raised again,
whereof all we are witnesses.

33 Being exalted therefore by the right
hand of God, and having received of the
Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,
he hath poured forth this which you see
and hear.

34 For David ascended not into heaven ;
but he himself said : ^ The Lord said to
my Lord, sit thou on my right hand,

35 Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel
know most certainly, that God hath made
both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus,
whom you have crucified.

3'' Now when they had heard these
things, they had compunction in their
heart, and said to Peter, and to the rest
of the apostles . What shall we do, men
and brethren ?

a Ps. 15. 8. — 6 3 Kings 2. 10. — c Ps. 131 11.

and was God's own determination. But they who
betrayed and crucified him, did vvickedly, following
therein their own malice and the instigation of the
devil ; not the will and determination of God, who
was by no means the author of their wickedness;
tbougb be permitted it: because he could* and did

38 But Peter said to them : Do penance,
and be baptized every one of you in tho
name of Jesus Christ, for the remission
of your sins : and you shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost.

39 For the promise is to you, and to
your children, and to all that are far
off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall
call.

40 And with very many other words did
he testify and exhort them, saying : Save
yourselves from this perverse genera-
tion.

41 They therefore that received his
word, were baptized; and there were
added in that day about three thousand
souls.

42 And they were persevering in the
doctrine of the apostles, and in the com-
munication of the breaking of bread, and
in prayers.

43 And fear came upon every soul :
many wonders also and signs were done
by the apostles in Jerusalem, and there
was great fear in all.

44 And all they that believed, were to-
gether, and had all things common.

45 Their possessions and goods they
sold, and divided them to all, according
as every one had need.

46 And continuing daily with one ac-
cord in the temple, and breaking bread
from house to house, they took their
meat with gladness and simplicity of
heart;

47 Praising God, and having favour with
all the people. And the Lord increased
daily together such as should be saved.

CHAPTER 3.

The miracle upon the lame m,an, followed by the
conversion of many.

NOW Peter and John went up into the
temple at the ninth hour of prayer.
2 And a certain man who was lame from
his mother's womb, was carried : whom
they laid every day at the gate of the
temple, which is called Beautiful, that he
might ask alms of them that went into
the temple.
3-^ He, when he had seen Peter and

d Ps. 15. 10 : Infra 13. 35.— e Ps. 109. l.—f A. D. 29.

draw out of it so great a good, viz., the salvation of
man

Ver. 24. Having loosed the sorrovjs, &c. Having
overcome tne grievous pains of death and all the
power of heU.

13a

Peter cures the lame man

THE ACTS

Peter*s address to the Jews

John about to go into the temple, asked
to receive an alms.

4 But Peter with John fastening his
eyes upon him.^ said : Look upon us.

5 But he looked earnestly upon them,
hoping that he should receive something:
of them.

6 But Peter said • Silver and gol<? 1 have
none ; but what I have, i give thee : In
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
arise, and walk.

7 And taking him by the right hand, he
lifted him up, and torthwitJb his feet and
BoleF received strength

8 And he leaping up stood, and walked,
and went in with them into the temple,
walking, and leaping, and praising God.

9 And alj *ihe people saw him walking
and praising God.

10 And they knew him, that it was he
who sat begging almp at the Beautiful
gate of the temple and they were filled
with wonder and amazement at that
which had happened to him.

11 And as he held Petei and John, all
the people ran to them to the porch
which is called Solomon's, greatly won-
dering.

12 But Peter seeing, made answer to the
people : Ye men of Israel, why wonder
you at this ? or why look you upon us,
as if by our strength or power we had
made this man to walk ?

13 The God of Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of
our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus,
whom you indeed delivered up and de-
nied before the face of Pilate, when he
judged he should be released.

14 s' But you denied the Holy One and
the Just, and desired a murderer to be
granted unto you.

15 But the author of life you killed,
whom God hath raised from the dead, of
which we are witnesses.

16 And in the faith of his name, this
man, whom you have seen and known,
hath his name strengthened ; and the
faith which is by him, hath given this
perfect soundness in the sight of you all,

17 And now, brethren, I know that you
did it through ignorance, as did also your
rulers.

18 But those things which God before
had shewed by the mouth of all the pro-

# Matt 27. 20 i Mark 15. ll ; Luke 23. 18 ; JobD 18. 40.

phets, that his Christ should suffer, he
hath so fulfilled

19 Be penitent, therefore, and be con-
verted, that yo'ir sins may be blotted
out.

^C rhat when the times of refreshment
shaD come from the presence of the Lord,
and he shall send him who hath been
preached unto you, Jesus Christ,

21 Whom heaven indeed must receive,
until the times of the restitution of all
things, which God hath spoken by the
mouth of his holy prophets, from the
beginning of the world.

22 For Moses said : ^A prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you of yow,
brethren^ like unto me : him you shall hear
according to all things whatsoever he shall
speak to you.

23 And it shall 6e, that every sou) which
will no* hear that prophet^ shall be destroyed
from ainong the people.

24 Anc all the prophets, from Samuel and
afterwards, who have spoken, have told
of these days.

25 You are the children of the prophets,
and of the testament which God made to
our father's, saying to Abraham : * And in
thy seed bhall ail ^he kindreds of the earth be
blessed.

26 To you first God, raising up his Son,
hath sent him to bless you ; that every
one may convert himself fron ^. wick-
edness.

CHAPTER 4.

Peter and John are apprehended. Their coiistaney.
The church is increased.

AND -^as they were speaking to the
. people, the priests, and the officer
of the temple, and the Sadducees, came
upon them,

2 Being grieved that they taught the
people, and preached in Jesus the resur-
rection from the dead :

3 And they laid hands upon them, and
put them in hold till the next day ; for it
was now evening.

4 But many of them who had heard the
word, believed; and the number of the
men was made five thousand.

6 And it came to pass on the morrow,
that their princes, and ancients, and
scribes, were gathered together in Jeru-
salem ;

6 And Annas the high priest, and Cai*

h Deut. 18. 15.— f Gen. 12. 3.— i A. D. 29.

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Tlie power of the name of Jesus THE ACTS The prayer of the Christians

phas, and John, and Alexander, and as
many as were of the kindred of the high
priest.

7 And setting them in the midst, they
asked : By what power, or by what name,
have you done this ?

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost,
eaid to them: Ye princes of the people,
and ancients, hear :

9 If we this day are examined concern-
ing the good deed done to the infirm
man, by what means he hath been made
whole :

10 Be it known to you all, and to all
the people of Israel, that by the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom
you crucified, whom God hath raised
from the deadj even by him this man
standeth here before you whole.

11 *^This is the stone which was rejected
by you the builders^ which is become the
t id of the comer.

2 Neither is there "salvation in any
other. For there is no other name under
heaven given to men, whereby we must
be saved.

13 Now seeing the constancy of Peter
and of John, understanding that they
were illiterate and ignorant men, they
wondered; and they knew them that
they had been with Jesus.

14 Seeing the man also who had been
healed standing with them, they could
say nothing against it.

15 But they commanded them to go
aside out of the council; and they con-
ferred among themselves,

16 Saying: What shall wo do to these
men? for indeed a known miracle hath
been done by them, to all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem : it is manifest, and we can-
not deny it.

17 But that it may be no farther spread
among. the people, let us threaten them
that they speak no more in this name to
aijy man.

18 And calling them, they charged them
not to speak at all, nor teach in the name
of Jesus.

19 But Peter and John answering, said
to them: If it be just in the sight of God,
to hear you rather than God, judge ye.

20 For we cannot but speak the things
which we have seen and heard.

21 But they threatening, sent them

k Ps. 117. 22; Isa. 28. 16; Matt. 21. 42;
Mark 12. 10; Luke 20. 17;

away, not finding how they might pun-
ish them, because of the people ; for all
men glorified what had been done, in
that which had come to pass.

22 For the man was above forty years
old, in whom that miraculous cure had
been wrought.

23 And being let go, they came to their
own company, and related all that the
chief priests and ancients had said to
them.

24 Who having heard it, with one accord
lifted up their voice to God, and said:
Lord, thou art he that didst make heaven
and earth, the sea, and all things that
are in them.

25 Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the
mouth of our father David, thy servant,
hast said : ^ Why did the Gentiles rage, and
the people meditate vain things ?

26 The kings of the earth stood up, and
the princes assembled together against the
Lord and his Christ.

27 For of a truth there assembled to-
gether in this city against thy holy child
Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod,
and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and
the people of Israel,

28 To do what thy hand and thy coun-
sel decreed to be done.

29 And jnow. Lord, behold their threat-
enings, and grant unto thy servants, that
with all confidence they may speak thy
word,

30 By stretching forth thy hand to cures,
and signs, and wonders to be done by
the name of thy holy Son Jesus.

31 And when they had prayed, the place
was moved wherein they were assembled ;
and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and they spoke the word 6t God
with confidence.

32 And the multitude of believers had
but one heart and one s'oul: neither did
any one say that aught of the things
which he possessed, was his own ; but all
things were common unto them.

33 And with great power did the apostles
give testimony of the resurrection of Je-
sus Christ our Lord ; and great grace was
in them all.

34 For neither was there any one needy
among them. For as many as were owners
of lands or houses, sold them, and brought
the price of the things they sold,

««»j

Rom. 9. 32; 1 Peter 2. 7.
I Ps. 2. 1.

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Ananias and Saphira

35 And laid it down before fche feet of
the apostles. And distribution was made
to every one, according as he had need.

36 And Joseph, who, by the apostles,
was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, by in-
terpretation, The son of consolation,) a
Levite, a Cyprian born,

37 Having land, sold it, and brought
the price, and laid it at the feet of the
apostles.

CHAPTER 5.

The judgment Oj God upon Ananias and Saphira.
The apostles are cast into prison.

BUT a certain man named Ananias,
with Saphira his wife, sold a piece
df land,

2 And by fraud kept back part of the
price of the land, his wife being privy
thereunto: and bringing a certain part
of it, laid it at the feet of the apostles.

3 But Peter said: Ananias, why hath
Satan tempted thy heart, that thou
shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost, and by
fraud keep part of the price of the land ?

4 Whilst it remained, did it not remain
to thee? and after it was sold, was it not
in thy power? Why hast thou conceived
this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not
lied to men, but to God.

5 And Ananias hearing these words, fell
down, and gave up the ghost. And there
came great fear upon all that heard it.

6 And the young men rising up, removed
him, £lnd carrying him out, buried him.

7 And it was about the space of three
hours after, when his wife, not knowing

what had happened, came in.

8 And Peter said to her: Tell me, wo-
man, whether you sold the land for so
much? And she said: Yea, for so much.

9 And Peter said unto her: Why have
you agreed together to tempt the Spirit
of the Lord? Behold the feet of them
who have buried thy husband are at tne
door, and they shall carry thee out.

10 Immediately she fell down before
his feet, and gave up the ghost. And
the young men coming in, found her
dead : and carried her out, and buried
her by her husband.

11 And there came great fe^r upon the
whole church, and upon all that heard
these things.

12 And by the hands of the apostles
were many signs and wonders wrought

THE ACTS The apostles cast into prison

among the people. And they were ^11
with one accord in Solomon's porch.

13 But of the rest no man durst join
himself unto them ; but the people mag-
nified them.

14 And the multitude of men and wo-
men who believed in the Lord, was more
increased :

15 Insomuch that they brought forth
the sick into the streets, and laid them
on beds and couches, that when Peter
came, his shadow at the least, might
overshadow any of them, and they might
be delivered from their infirmities.

16 And there came also together to Je
rusalem a multitude out of the neigh-
bouring cities, bringing sick persons,
and such as were troubled with unclear
spirits ; who were all healed.

17 Then the high priest rising up, and
ail they that were with him, (which it*
the heresy of the Sadducees,) were filled
with envy.

18 And they laid hands on the apostles,
and put them in the common prison.

19 But an angel of the Lord by night
opening the doors of the prison, and
leading them out, said

20 Go and standing speak in the tem-
ple to the people all the words of this
life.

21 Who having heard this, early in the
morning, entered into the temple, and
taught. And the high priest coming,
and they that were with him, called to-
gether the council, and all the ancients
of the children of Israel; and they sent
to the prison to have them brought.

22 But when the ministers came, and
opening the prison, found them not
there, they returned and told,

23 Saying. The prison indeed we found
shut with all diligence, and the keepers
standing before the doors ; but opening
it, we found no man within.

24 Now when the officer of the temple
and the chief priests heard these words,
they were in doubt concerning them,
what would come to pass.

25 But one came and told them: Be-
hold, the men whom you put in prison,
are in the temple standing, and teaching
the people.

26 Then went tho oflBcer with the min-
isters, and brought them without vio-

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The counsel of Gamaliel

THE ACTS

The seven deacons chosen

lence; for they feared the people, lest
they should be stoned.

27 And when they had brought them,
they set them before the council. And
the high priest asked them,

28 Saying: Commanding we com-
manded you, that you should not teach
in this name; and behold, you have
filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and
you have a mind to bring the blood of
this man upon us.

29 But Peter and the apostles answer-
ing, said: We ought to obey God, rather
than men.

30 The God of our fathers hath raised
up Jesus, whom you put to death, hang-
ing him upon a tree.

31 Him hath God exalted with his right
hand, to he Prince and Saviour, to give
repentance to Israel, and remission of
sins.

32 And we are witnesses of these things
and the Holy Ghost, whom God hath
given to all that obey him.

33 When they had heard these things,
they were cut to the heart, and they
thought to put them to death.

34 But one in the council rising up, a
Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of
the law, respected by all the people, com-
manded the men to be put forth a little
while.

35 And he said to them: Ye men of Is-
rael, take heed to yourselves what you
intend to do, as touching these men.

36 For before these days rose up Theo-
das, affirming himself to be somebody,
to whom a number of men, about four
hundred, joined themselves: who was
slain; and all that believed him were
scattered, and brought to nothing.

37 After this man, rose up Judas of Gal-
ilee, in the days of the enrolling, and
drew away the people after him: he also
perished; and all, even as many as con-
sented to him, were dispersed.

38 And now, therefore, I say to you,
refrain from these men, and let them
alone; for if this council or this work
be of men, it will come to nought:

I 39 But if it be of God, you cannot over-
throw it, lest perhaps you be found even
to fight against God. And they con-
sented to him.

40 And calling in the apostles, after
they had scourged them, they charged
them that they should not speak at all
in the name of Jesus; and they dismissed
them.

41 And they indeed went from the pre-
sence of the council, rejoicing that they
were accounted worthy to suffer re-
proach for the name of Jesus.

42 And every day they ceased not in
the temple, and from house to house, to
teach and preach Christ Jesus.

CHAPTER 6.

The ordaining of the seven deacons. The zeal of
Stephen.

AND w in those days, the number of
the disciples increasing, there arose
a murmuring of the Greeks against the
Hebrews, for that their widows were
neglected in the daily ministration.

2 Then the twelve calling together the
multitude of the disciples, said: It is not
reason that we should leave the word of
God, and serve tables.

3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out
among you seven men of good reputa-
tion, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom,
whom we may appoint over this business.

4 But we will give ourselves continu-
ally to prayer, and to the ministry of
the word.

5 And the saying was liked by all the
multitude. And they chose Stephen, a
man full of faith, and of the Holy Ghost,
and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor,
and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas,
a proselyte of Antioch.

6 These they set before the apostles;
and they praying, imposed hands upon
them.

7 And the word of the Lord increased;
and the number of the disciples was mul-
tiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly: a great
multitude also of the priests obeyed the
faith.

8 And Stephen, full of grace and forti-
tude, did great wonders and signs among
the people.

9 Now there arose some of that which is
called the synagogue of the Libertines,
and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexan-
drians, and of them that were of Cilicia
and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

n A. D. 36.

Chap. 6. Ver. 1. Greeks. So they called the Jews that were born and brovisht up in Greece.

139

Stephen before the council

10 And they were not able i^c resist the
wisdom and the spirit that spoke.

11 Then they suborned men to say, they
had heard him speak words of blasphemy
against Moses and against God.

1?, And they stirred up the people, and
the ancients, and the scribes ; and rim-
ning together, they took him, and
brought him to the council.

13 And they set up false witnesses, who
saids This man ceaseth not to speak
words against the holy place and the law.

14 For we have heard him say, that this
Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place,
and shall change the traditions which
Mosep delivered unto us.

15 And all that sat in the council, look-
tog on him, saw his face as if it had been
the face of an angel.

CHAPTER 7.

Stephen's speech before the council ; his martyrdom

THEN ^ the high priest said; Are these
things CO?

2 Who said 2 Ye men, brethren, and fa-
thers, hear. The God of glory appeared
to our father Abraham, when he was in
Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan

3 And said to him : P Go fcrrth out of thy
country^ and from thy kindred^ and come
into the land which I shall shew thee,

4 Then he went out of the land of the
Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charan. And
from thence, after his father was dead,
he removed him into this land, wherein
you now dwell

5 And he gave him no inheritance in it ;
no, not the pace of a foot : but he pro-
mised to give it him m possession, and
to his seed after him, when as yet he had
no child.

6 And God said to him : ^ That his seed
should sojourn in a strange country, and
that they should bring them under bondage^
and treat them evil four hundred years.

7 And the nation which they shall serve will
I judge^ said the Lord ; and after these
things they shall go out, and shall serve me
in this place.

8 *■ And he gave him the covenant of
circumcision, * and so he begot Isaac, and
circumcised him the eighth day ; and
* Isaac begot Jacob ; '^ and Jacob the
twelve patriarchs.

THE ACTS

History of the Jews

9 And the patriarchs, through envy.
^ sold Joseph into Egypt ; and God war
with him,

10 And delivered him out of all hit
tribulations, ^and he gave him favoui
and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the
king of Egypt ; and he appointed hin.
governor over Egypt, and over all his
house.

11 New there came a famine upor all
Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribula
tion ; and our fathers found no tood.

12 * But when Jacob had heard that
there was corn in Egypt, he sent our
fathers first:

13 2/ And at the second time, Joseph was
known by his brethren^ and his kindred
was made known to Pharao.

14 And Joseph sending, called thither
Jacob, his father, and all his kindred^
seventy-five souls.

15 ^ So Jacob went down into Egypt;
and " he died, and our fathers.

16 And they were translated int:> Si
chem, and were laid in the sepulchre,
''that Abraham bought for a sum o*
money of the sons of Hemox. th^ ::or cl
Sichemo

17 And when the time Oi tho promise
drew near, which God had promised to
Abraham, ^the people increased, and
were multiplied in Egypt;

18 Till auv^ther king arose in Egypt, who
knew not Josepjii.

19 Thio same dealing craftily with our
race, aflOisted cui fathers, that they

; should expose theii children, to the end
they might not be kept alive.

20 ^ At the same time was Moses born,
and he was acceptable to God : who was
nourished three months in his father's
house.

21 And when he was exposed, Pharao's
daughter took him up, and nourished him
for her own son.

22 And Moses was instructed in all
the wisdom of the Egyptians ; and he
was mighty in his words and in his
deeds.

23 And when he was full forty years old,
it came into his heart to visit his bre-
thren, the children of Israel.

24 * And when he had seen one of them
suffer wrong, he defended him ; and strik-

o A. D. 36. — p Gen. 12. 2. — q Gen. 15. 13. — r Gen.
17. 10.— 8 Gen. 21. 2.— t Gen. 25. 25. — u Gen. 29. 32.
and 86. 22. — v Gen. 37. 28. — w Gen. 41. 87.— a; Gen.

140

42. 2. — y Gen. 45. 3. — z Gen. 46. 5. — a Gen. 49. 32.
—6 Gen. 23. 16, and 50. 5 and 13 ; Joe. 24. 82.— c
Ex. 1. 7.— d Ex. 2. 2 ; Heb. 11. 23.— e Ex. 2. 12.

Moses

THE ACTS

25 And he thought tnat his brethren
understood that Gofl by his hand would
8av3 them; but they tmderstood it not.

20^ And the day following, he shewed
himself to them when they were at strife ;
and would have reconciled them in peace,
saying : Men, ye are brethren ; why hurt
you one another ?

27 But he that did the injury to hisneigh-
bour thrust him away, saying : Who hath
appointed thee prince and judge over us ?

28 What, wilt thou kill me, as thou didst
yesterday kill the Egyptian ?

29 And Moses fled upon this word, and
was a stranger in the land of Madian,
where he begot two sons.

30 And when forty years were expired,
^ there appeared to him in the desert of
mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in
a bush.

31 And Moses seeing it, wondered at the
Bight. And as he drew near to view it,
the voice of the Lord came unto him,
saying:

32 I am the God oy thy fathers; the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, And Moses being terrified,
durst not behold

33 And the Lord said to him : Loos cue
tihoes from, thy feet, for the place wherein
thou standest^ is holy ground

34 Seeing I have seen the affliction of my
people which is in Egypt, and I have heard
their groaning, and am come down to de-
liver them. And now come, and I will send
thee into Egypt.

35 This Moses, whom they refused, say-
ing : Who hath appointed thee prince and
judge? him God sent to be prince and
redeemer by the hand of the angel who
appeared to him in the bush.

36 ^ He brought them out, doing won-
ders and signs in the land of Egypt, and
in the Bed Sea, and in the desert forty
years.

37 This is that Moses who said to the
children of Israel : * A prophet shall God
raise up to you of your own brethren^ as
myself: him shall you hear.

f Ex. 2. 13. — (7 Ex. 3.2. — h Ex. 7. 8, and 9. 10, and
11. 4. — i Deut. 18. 15.— j Ex. 19. 3.— A; Ex. 32. 1.—
I Amos 5. 25. — m Ex. 25. 40. —n Jos 3. 14 ; Heb. 8. 9.

Chap. 7. Ver. 45. Jesics. That is Josue, so called
in Greek.

Ver. 48. Dwelleth not in houses, &c. That Is, so
M to fftaod io oeed of eartlUy dweUiogs, or to be

^ Infidelity of the Jev)6

38 •'This is he that wa* In the churcl: ^yj,
the wilderness. \^ith the angel who spoiie
to him on mount Sina, and with our fa-
thers ; who received the words of life to
give unto us.

39 Whom our fathers would not obey:
but thrust him away, and in their hearts
turned back into Egypt,

40 Saying to Aaron: ^ Make us gods to go
before us. For as for this Moses, who
brought vs out of the land of Egypt^ we
know not what i becofme of him.

41 And they n.ade a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifices to the idol, and
rejoiced in the works of their own
hands.

42 And God turned, and gave them up
to serve the host of heaven, as it is writ-
ten in the books of the prophets: ^Did
you offer victims and sacrifices to me for
forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

43 And you took unto you the tabernacle
of Moloch, and the star of your god Rem-
pham, figures which you made to adore
them. And I will carry you away beyond
Babylon,

44 The tabernacle of the testimony was
with oui fathers in the desert, as God or-
dained for them, "^speaking co Moses,
that he should make it according to the form
which he had seen.

45 '''Which also our fathers receiving,
brought in with Jesus, into the possession
of the Gentiles, whom God drove out be-
fore the face of our fathers, unto the
days of David.

46 Who found grace before God, P and
desired to find a tabernacle for the God
of Jacob.

47 9 But Solomon built him a house.

48 '"Yet the most High dwelleth not in
houses made by hands, as the prophet
saith:

49 * Heaven is my throne, and the earth my
footstool. What house will you build met
saith the Lord; or what is the place of m,y
resting f

50 Hath not my hand made all these
things f

51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised
in heart and ears, you always resist the

— o 1 Kings 16. 13.— p Ps. 131. B. — q 3 Kings 6. 1;
1 Par. 17. 12. — r Infra 17. 24. — « Isa. 66. l,

contained, or circumscribed by them. Though, other-
wise by his immense divinity, he is in our houses;
and every where else ; and Clirist in his humaoity
dwelt in bouse»; aud i? now oo our altaxa.

14J

The martyrdom of Stephen

Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you
also.

62 Which of the prophets have not your
fathers persecuted? And they have slain
them who foretold of the coming of the
Just One ; of whom you have been now
^e betrayers and murderers:

53 Who have received the law by the
disposition of angels, and have not kept
it.

54 Now hearing these things, they were
cut to the heart, and they gnashed with
their teeth at him.

55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost,
looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the
^lory of God, and Jesus standing on the
right hand of God. And he said : Behold,
1 see the heavens opened, and the Son
Of man standing on the right hand of
God.

56 And they crying out with a loud
voice, stopped their ears, and with one
accord ran violently upon him.

57 And casting him forth without the
city, they stoned him ; and the witnesses
laid down their garments at the feet of a
young man, whose name was Saul.

58 And they stoned Stephen, invoking,
ind saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

59 And falling on his knees, he cried
with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not
this sin to their charge. And when he
had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord.
And Saul was consenting to his death.

CHAPTER 8.

Philit) converts the Samaritans, and baptizes the
eunuch.

AND ' at that time there was raised a
great persecution against the church
which was at Jerusalem ; and they were
all dispersed through the countries of
Judea, and Samaria, except the apostles.

2 And devout men took order for Ste-
phen's funeral, and made great mourning
over him,

3 But Saul made havock of the church,
entering in from house to house, and
dragging away men and women, com-
mitted them to prison.

4 They therefore that were dispersed,
j^ent about preaching the word of God.

THE ACTS The Samaritans are converted

t A. D. 36

Chap. b. Ver. 17. They laid their hands upon
them., &c. The apostles acltninistered the sacrament
of confirmation, by imf>osition of hands, and prayer:
and the faithful thereby received the Holy Ghost.
No' but Ibey h&d received the grace ol dae Qoly

5 And Philip going down do the city ot
Samaria, preached Christ unto them.

6 And the people with one accord were
attentive to those things which were
said by Philip, hearing, and seeing the
miracles which he did.

7 For many of thtm who had unclean
spirits, crying with a loud voice, went
out.

8 And many, taken with the palsy, and
that were lame, were healed.

9 There was therefore great joy in that
city. Now there was a certain man named
Simon, who before had been a magician
in that city, seducing the people of Sa-
maria, giving out that he was some great
one:

10 To whom they all gave ear, from the
least to the greatest, saying : This man is
the power of God, which is called great.

11 And they were attentive to him, be-
cause, for a long time, he had bewitched
them with his magical practices.

12 But when they had believed Philip
preaching of the kingdom of God, in the
name of Jesus Christ, they were bap-
tized, both men and women.

13 Then Simon himself believed also :,
and being baptized, he adhered to Philip.
A *id being astonished, wondered to tee
tne signs and exceeding great miracles
which were done.

14 Now when the apostles, who were in
Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria had
received the word of God, they sent unto
them Peter and John.

15 Who, when they were come, prayed
for them, that they might receive the
Holy Ghost.

16 For he was not as yet come upon any
of them ; but they were only baptized in
the name of the Lord Jesus.

17 Then they laid their hands upon
them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

18 And when Simon saw, that by the
imposition of the hands of the apostles,
the Holy Ghost was given, he offered
them money,

19 Saying: Give me also this power,
that on whomsoever I shall lay my hands,
he may receive the Holy Ghost. But
Peter said to him:

Ghost at their nuptism: yet not that plenitude of
grace and those spiritual gifts which they afterwards
received from Ijishops in the sacrament of confirma
tion, which strengtbeued them to profess tbeir faitb
publicly.

14^

The sin of Simon the magician THE ACTS

Philip baptizes the eunuch

20 Keep thy money to thyself, to perish
with thee, because thou hast thought
that the gift of God may be purchased
with money.

21 Thou hast no part nor lot in this
matter. For thy heart is not right in the
sight of God.

22 Do penance therefore for this thy
wickedness ; and pray to God, that per-
haps this thought of thy heart may be
forgiven thee.

23 For I see thou art in the gall of bit-
terness, and in the bonds of iniquity.

24 Then Simon answering, said : Pray
you for me to the Lord, that none of these
things which you have spoken may come
upon me.

25 A.nd they indeed having testified and
preached the word of the Lord, returned
to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to
many countries of the Samaritans.

26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to
Philip, saying: Arise, go towards the
south, to the way that goeth down from
Jerusalem into Gaza: this is desert.

27 And rising up, he went. And behold
a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, of great
authority under Candace the queen of
the Ethiopians, who had charge over all
her treasures, had come to Jerusalem to
adore.

28 And he was returning, sitting in his
chariot, and reading Isaias the prophet.

29 And the Spirit said to Philip: Go
near, and join thyself to this 3hariot.

30 And Philip running ohither, heard
him reading the prophet Isaiai». And he
said: Thinkest thou that thou under-
standest what thou readest?

31 Who said: And how can 1, unless
some man shew me? And he desired
Philip that he would come up and sit
with him.

32 And the place of the scripture which
he was reading was this : ** He was led as
a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb
Without voice before his shearer, so openeth
he not his mouth.

33 In humility his judgment tvas taken
away. His generation who shall declare^
for his life shall be taken from the earth ?

34 And the eunuch answering Philip,

u Isa. 53. 7.
V A. D. 36. Gal. 1. 13.

Ver. 37. If thou believest with all thy heart. The
scripture many times mentions only one disposition,
as here belief, when others equally necessary are not
«xpressed, viz., a sorrow for sins, a firm hope, and

said : 1 oeseecb fchee, of whom doth the
prophet speak this? of himself, or o<
some other man?

35 Then Philip, opening his mouth, and
beginning at this scripture, preached unto
him Jesus.

36 And as they went on their way, they
came to a certain water ; and the eunuch
said : See, here is water: what doth hin»
der me from being baptized?

37 And Philip said: If thou believest
with all thy heart, thou may est. And he
answering, said : I believe that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God.

38 And he commanded the chariot to
stand still ; and they went down into the
water, both Philip and the eunuch : and
he baptized him.

39 And when they were come up out of
the water, the Spirit of the Lord took
away Philip j and the eunuch saw him no
more. And he went on his way rejoi-
cing.

40 But Philip was found in Azotus ; and
passing through, he preached the gospel
to all the cities, till he came to CsBsarea.

CHAPTER 9.

PauVs conversion and zeal. Peter heals Bn^as^and
raises up Tabitha to life.

A ND " Saul, as yet breathing out threat-
XJL enings and slaughter against the
disciples of the Lord, went to the high
priest,

2 And asked of him letters to Damascus,
to the synagogues ; that if he found any
men ind women of this way, he might
bring fchera bound to Jerusalem.

3 ^ And as he went on hie iourney,it came
to pass that he drew nigh to Damascus ;
and suddenly a light from heaven shined
round about him.

4 And falling on the ground, he heard
a voice saying to him : Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me ?

6 Who said: Who art thou. Lord? And
he : I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
It is hard for thee to kick against the
goad.

6 And he trembling and astonished,
said : Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do?

w Infra 22. 6, anrl 22. 10, and 26. 12;
1 Cor. 15. c 2 Cor. 12. 2.

the love of God. Moreover, belie^'^ing with the whole
heart signifies a belief of every ohing necessarr. f«t
salvation.

i4a

The conversion of Saul

THE ACTS

*l[Tie Jews try to kill Said

7 And the Lord said to him : Arise, and
go into the city, and there it shall be told
thee what thou must do. Now the men
who went in company with him, stood
amazed, hearing indeed a voice, but pee-
ing no man.

8 And Saul arose from the ground ; and
when his eyes were opened, he saw no-
thing. But they leading him by the
hands, brought him to Damascus.

9 And he was there three days, with-
out sight, and he did neither eat nor
drink.

10 Now there was a certain disciple at
Damascus, named Ananias*^ ^And the
Lord said to him in a vision : Ananias.
And he said : Behold I am here. Lord.

11 And the Lord said to him: Arise, and
go into the street that is called Strait,
and seek in the house of Judas, one
named Saul of Tarsus. For behold he
prayeth.

12 (And he saw a man named Ananias
coming in, and putting his hands upon
him, that he might receive his sight.)

13 But Ananias answered : Lord, I have
heard by many of this man, how much
evil he hath done to ^hy saints in Jeru-
salem.

14 And here he hath authority from the
chief priests to bind all that invoke thy
name.

15 And the Lord said to him : Go thy
way ; for this man is to mo r. vessel of
election, to carry my namo before the
Gentiles, and kings, and the children of
Israel.

16 For I\^ill shew him h^w great things
he must suffer for my name's sake.

17 And Ananias went his way, and en-
tered into the house. And laying his
hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul,
the Loird Jesus hath sent me, he that ap-
peared to thee in the way as thou cam-
est ; that thou may^st receive thy sight,
and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

18 And immediately there fell from his
eyes as it were scales, and he received
his sight ; ^nd rising up, he was bap-
tized.

19 And when he had taken meat, he
was strengthened. And he was with the
disciples that were at Damascus, for some
days.

20 And immediately he prea;ched Jesus

in the synagogues, that he is the Son of
God.

21 And all that heard him, were aston-
ished, and said : Is not Uiis he who per-
secuted in Jerusalem those that called
upon this name : and came hither for
that intent, that he might carry them
bound to the chief priests?

22 But Saul increased much more in
strength, and confounded the Jews who
dwelt at Damascus, affirming that this is
the Christ.

23 And when many days were passed,
the Jews consulted together to kill him.

24 But their laying in wait was made
known to Saul. ^ And they watched the
gates also day and night, that they might
kill him.

25 But the disciples taking him in the
night, conveyed him away by the wall,
letting him down in a basket.

26 And when he was come into Jerusa-
lem, he essayed to join himself to the
disciples; and they all were afraid of
him, not believing that he was a disciple.

27 But Barnabas took him, and brought
him to the apostles, and told them how
he had seen the Lord, and that he had
spoken to him; and how in Damascus he
had dealt confidently in the name of
Jesus.

28 And he was with them coming in
and going out in Jerusalem, and dealing
confidently in the name of the Lord.

29 He spoke also to the Gentiles, and
disputed with the Greeks ; but they
sought to kill him.

30 Which when the brethren had known,
they brought him down to Csesarea, and
sent him away to Tarsus.

'31 Now the church had peace through-
out all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria;
and was edified, walking in the fear of
the Lord, and was filled with the conso-
lation of the Holy Ghost.

32 And it came to pass that Peter, as he
passed through, visiting all, came to the
saints who dwelt at Lydda.

33 And he found there a certaiir man
named Eneas, who -had kept his bed for
eight years, who was ill of the palsy,

34 And Peter said to him: Eneas, the
Lord Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise,
and make thy bed. And immediately h«
arose.

X Infra 22. 12.

144.

y2CocU.3?.

Peter raises Tabitha to life

THE ACTS'

Peter*s vision

35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and
Saron, saw him: ,who were converted to
the Lord.

36 And in Joppe there was a certain
disciple named Tabitha, which by inter-
pretation is called Dorcas. This woman
Was full of good works and almsdeeds
which she did.

37 And it came to pass in those days
that she was sick, and died. Whom when
they had washed, they laid her in an
upper chamber.

38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to
Joppe, the disciples hearing that Peter
was there, sent unto him two men, desir-
ing him that he would not be slack to
come unto them.

39 And Peter rising up, went with them.
And when he was come, they brought
him into the upper chamber. And all
the widows stood about him weeping,
and shewing him the coats and garments
which Dorcas made them.

40 And they all being put forth, Peter
kneeling down prayed, and turning to
the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And
she opened her eyes ; and seeing Peter,
she sat up.

41 And giving her his hand, he lifted
her up. And when he had called the
saints and the widows, he presented her
alive.

42 And it was made known throughout
all Joppe ; and many believed in the Lord.

43 And it came to pass, that he abode
many days in Joppe, with one Simon a
tanner.

CHAPTER 10.
Cornelius is received into the church. Peter^s vision.

AND there was a certain man in Cass-
XJL area, named Cornelius, a centurion
of that which is called the Italian band ;

2 A religious man, and fearing God with
all his house, giving much alms to the
people, and always praying to God.

3 This man saw in a vision manifestly,
about the ninth hour of the day, an
angel of God coming in unto him, and
saying to him: Cornelius.

4 And he, beholding him, being seized
with fear, said: What is it, Lord? And
he said to him : Thy prayers and thy
alms are ascended for a memorial in the
sight of God.

5 And now send men to Joppe, and
call hither one Simon, who is surnamed
Peter :

6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner,
whose house is by the sea side. He will
tell thee what thou must do.

7 And when the angel wljio spoke to
him was departed, he called two of his
household servants, and a soldier who
feared the Lord, of them that were un-
der him.

8 To whom when he had related all, he
sent them to Joppe.

9 And on the next day, whilst they were
going on their journey, and drawing nigh
to the city, Peter went up to the higher
parts of the house to pray, about the
sixth hour.

10 And being hungry, he was desirous
to taste somewhat. And as they were
preparing, there came upon him an ec-
stasy of mind.

11 And he saw the heaven opened, and
a certain vessel descending, as it Were a
great linen sheet let down by the four
corners from heaven to the earth:

12 Wherein were all manner of four-
footed beasts, and creeping things of the
earth, and fowls of the air.

13 And there came a voice to him/
Arise, Peter ; kill and eat.

14 But Peter said: Far be it from me;
for I never did eat any thing that ia
common and unclean.

15 And the voice spoke to him again
the second time : That which God hath
cleansed, do not thou call common.

16 And this was done thrice ; and pre-
sently the vessel was taken up into hea-
ven.

17 Now, whilst Peter was doubting within
himself, what the vision that he had seen
should mean, behold the men who were
sent from Cornelius, inquiring for Si-
mon's houfee, stood at the gate.

18 And when they had- called, they
asked, if Simon, who is surnamed Peter,
were lodged there.

19 And as Peter was thinking of the
vision, the Spirit said to him: Behold
three men seek thee.

20 Arise, therefore, get thee down and
go with them, doubting nothing: for I
have sent them.

21 Then Peter, going down to the men,

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Peter goes to Cornelius

THE ACTS

Peter'' s address

said : Behold, I am he whom you seek ;
what is the cause for which you are
come ?

22 Who said : Cornelius, a centurion, a
just man, and one that feareth God, and
having good testimony from all the na-
tion of the Jews, received an answer of
an holy angel, to send for thee into his
house, and to hear words of thee.

23 Then bringing them in, he lodged
fchera. And the day following he arose,
and went with them: and some of the
brethren from Joppe accompanied him.

24 And the morrow after, he entered
into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for
them, having called together his kinsmen
and special friends.

25 And it came to pass, that when Peter
was come in, Cornelius came to meet
him, and falling at his feet adored.

26 But Peter lifted him up, saying:
Arise, I myself also am a man.

27 And talking with him, he went in,
and found many that were come to-
gether.

28 And he said to them : You know how
abominable it is for a man that is a Jew,
to keep company or to come unto one of
another nation : but God hath shewed to
me, to call no man common or unclean.

29 For which cause, making no doubt, I
came when I was sent for. T ask, there-
fore, for what cause you have sent for me ?

30 And -"Cornelius said : Four days ago,
ante this hour, I was praying in my
bouse, at the ninth hour, and behold a
man stood before me in white apparel,
and said:

J^l Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and
♦•<hy alms are had in remembrance in the
«light of God.

32 Send therefore to Joppe, and call
hither Simon, who is surnamed Peter:
hb lodge th in the house of Simon a tan-
ner, by the sea side.

33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee:
and thou hast done well in coming. Now
therefore all we are present in thy sight,
to hear all things whatsoever are com-
manded thee by the Lord.

a Deut. 10. 17 ; 2 Par. 19. 7 ; Job 34. 19 ;
Wisd. 6. 8; Eccli. 35, 15 • Rom. 2. 11 ; Gal. 2. 6 ;

Chap. 10. Ver. 35. In every nation, &c. That is
to say, not only Jews, but Gentiles also, of what
nation soever, are aaceptable to God, if they fear
him and work justice. But then true faith is always
to be presupposed, without which (saith St. Paul,
Eeb. U. fj w i< impossible to i>iea$* GoA Beware

34 And Peter opening his mouth, said.
In very deed I perceive, ** that God is
not a respecter of persons.

35 But in every nation, he that feareth
him, and worketh justice, is acceptable
to him.

36 God sent the word to the children of
Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ:
(he io Lord of all.)

37 You know the word which hath been
published through all Judea : ^ for it be-
gan from Galilee, after the baptism
which John preached,

38 Jesus of Nazareth : how God anointed
him with the Holy Ghost, and witl
power, who went about doing good, and
healing all that were oppressed by the
devil, for God was with him.

39 And we are witnesses of all things
that he did in the land of the Jews and
in Jerusalem, whom they killed, hanging
him upon a tree.

40 Him God raised up the third day, and
gave him to be made manifest,

11 Not to all vhe people, but to wit-
nesses preordained by God, even to us,
who did eat and drink with him after he
arose again from the dead ;

42 And he commanded us to preach to
the people, and to testify that it is he
who was appointed by God, to be judge
of the living and of the dead.

43 ^ To him all the prophets give testi-
mony, that by his name all receive re-
mission of sins, who believe in him.

44 While Peter was yet speaking these
words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them
that heard the word.

45 And the faithful of the circumcision,
who came with ^eter, were astonished,
for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was
poured out apon the Gentiles also.

46 For they heard them speaking with
tongues, and magnifying God.

47 Then Peter answered: Can any man
forbid water, that ^hese should not o«
baptized, who have received the Holy
Ghost, as well as we ?

48 And he command e«^ them U> be bap-
tized in the name of the Lord Jesus

Eph. 6. 9 CoL 3. 25 ; 1 Petej 1. 17
b Luke 4. 14. — c Jer. 31. 34 ; Mich. 7. 18.

then of the error of those, who would infei from this
passage, that men of all religions may be pleasing
to God. For since none but the true relieion can be
from God, all other religions must « from the
father of lies; and therefore highly displeasing to
Ktie God of tratb.

14(<

Peter defends his action

THE ACTS Many are converted at Antioch

(Jurist. Then they desired him to tarry
with them some days.

CHAPTER 11.

Peter defends his having received the Gentiles into
the church. Many are converted at Antioch.

AND the apostles and brethren, who
x\- were in Judea, heard that the Gen-
tiles also had received the word of God.

2 And when Peter was come up to Jeru-
salem, they that were of the circumcision
contended with him,

3 Saying : Why didst thou go in to men
uncircumcised, and didst eat with them?

4 But Peter began and declared to them
the matter in order, saying:

5 I was in the city of Joppe praying,
and I saw in an ecstasy of mind a vision,
a certain vessel descending, as it were
a great sheet let down from heaven by
four corners, and it came even unto me.

6 Into which looking, I considered, and
saw fourfooted creatures of the earth,
and beasts, and creeping things, and
fowls of the air:

7 And I heard also a voice saying to
me : Arise, Peter ; kill and eat.

8 And I said : Not so. Lord ; for nothing
common or unclean hath ever entered
into my mouth.

9 And the voice answered again from
heaven: What God hath made clean, do
not thou call common.

10 And this was done three times: and
all were taken up again into heaven.

11 And behold, immediately there were
three men come to the house wherein I
was, sent to me from Csesarea.

12 And the Spirit said to me, that I
should go with them, nothing doubting.
And these six brethren went with me also :
and we entered into the man's house.

13 And he told us how he had seen an
angel in his house, standing, and saying
to him: Send to Joppe, and call hither
Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

14 Who shall speak to thee words, where-
by thou shalt be saved, and all thy house.

15 And when I had begun to speak, the
Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us
also in the beginning.

16 And I remembered the word of the
Lord, how that he said : ^ John indeed bap-
tized with water, but you shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost.

d MutU a. 11 . M i.o- Luke 3. 16 : John 1. 26 ;

17 If then God gave them the same
grace, as to us also who beUeved in the
Lord Jesus Christ ; who was I, that could
withstand God ?

18 Having heard these things, they held
their peace, and glorified God, saying :
God then hath also to the Gentiles given
repentance unto life.

19 Now they who had been dispersed by
the persecution that arose on occasion of
Stephen, went about as far as Phenice and
Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word
to none, but to the Jews only.

20 But some of them were men of Cy-
prus and Cyrene, who, when they were
entered into Antioch, spoke also to the
Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus.

21 And the hand of the Lord was with
them : and a great number behoving,
were converted to the Lord.

22 And the tidings came to the ears of
the church that was at Jerusalem, touch-
ing these things : and they sent Barnabas
as far as Antioch.

23 Who, when he was come, and had
seen the grace of God, rejoiced : and he
exhorted them all with purpose of heart
to continue in the Lord.

24 For he was a good man, and full of
the Holy Ghost and of faith. And a
great multitude was added to the Lord.

25 And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek
Saul : whom, when he had found, he
brought to Antioch. *

26 And they conversed there In th'5
church a whole year ; and they taught a
great multitude, so that at Antioch the
disciples were first named Christians.

27 And in these days there came pro-
phets from Jerusalem to Antioch .

28 And one of them named Agabus,
rising up, signified by the Spirit, that
there should be a great famine over
the whole world, which came to pass
under Claudius.

29 And the disciples, every man accord-
ing to his ability, purposed to send re-
lief to the brethren who dwelt in Ju-
dea :

30 Which also they did, sending it to
the ancients, by the hands of Barnabas
and Saul.-^

CHAPTER 12.

Herod's persecittion. Peter^s deliverance by cm
angel. Herod's punishment.

Supra 1. 5 ; Infra 19. 4.— e A. D. 41.—/ A. D. 46.

147

Peter delivered from prison THE ACTS The terrible death of Herod

AND 9 at the same time, Herod the king
stretched forth his hands, to afflict
some of the church.

2 And he killed James, the brother of
John, with the sword.

3 And seeing that it pleased the Jews,
he proceeded to take up Peter also.
Now it was in the days of the Azymes.

4 And when he had apprehended him,
he cast him into prison, delivering him to
four files of soldiers to be kept, intend-
ing, after the pasch, to bring him forth to
the people.

5 Peter therefore was kept in prison.
But prayer was made without ceasing by
the church unto God for him.

6 And when Herod would have brought
him forth, the same night Peter Was
sleeping between two soldiers, bound
with two chains : and the keepers before
the door kept the prison.

7 And behold an angel of the Lord stood
by him: and a light shined in the room:
and he striking Peter on the side, raised
him up, saying: Arise quickly. And the
chains fell off from his hands.

8 And the angel said to him: Gird thy-
self and put on thy sandals. And he
did so. And he said to him: Cast thy
garment about thee, and follow me.

9 And going out, he followed him, and
he knew not that it was true which was
done by the angel: but thought he saw
a vision.

10 And passing through the first and
the second ward, they came to the iron
gate that leadeth to the city, which of
itself opened to them. And going out,
they passed on through one street: and
immediately the angel departed from
him.

11 And Peter coming to himself, said:
Now I know in very deed, that the Lord
hath sent his angel, and hath delivered
me out of the hand of Herod, and from
all the expectation of the people of the
Jews.

12 And considering, he came to the
house of Mary the mother of John, who
was surnamed Mark, where many were
gathered together and praying.

13 And when he knocked at the door
of the gate, a damsel came to hearken,
v/hose name was Rhode.

g A. D. 42.— /i A. D. 44.

14 And as soon as she knew Peter's
voice, she opened not the gate for joy,
but running in she told that Peter stood
before the gate.

15 But they said to her : Thou art mad.
But she affirmed that it was so. Then
said they : It is his angel.

16 But Peter continued knocking. And
when they had opened they saw him,
and were astonished.

17 But he beckoning to them with his
hand to hold their peace, told how the
Lord had brought him out of prison, and
he said: Tell these things to James, and
to the brethren. And going out, he went
into another place.

18 Now when day was come, there was
no small stir among the soldiers, what
was become of Peter.

19 And when Herod had sought for him,
and found him not; having examined
the keepers, he commanded they should
be put to death; and going down from
Judea to Cffisarea, he abode there.

20 And he was angry with the Tyrians
and the Sidonians. But they with one
accord came to him, and having gained
Blastus, who was the king's chamberlain,
they desired peace, because their coun-
tries were nourished by him.

21 And upon a day appointed, Herod
being arrayed in kingly apparel, sat in
the judgment seat, and made an oration
to them.

22 And the people made acclamation,
saying: It is the voice of a god, and not
of a man.

23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord
struck him, because he had not given the
honour to God: and being eaten up by
worms, he gave up the ghost.'^

24 But the word of the Lord increased
and multiplied.

25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from
Jerusalem, » having fulfilled their minis-
try, taking with them John, who was
surnamed Mark.

CHAPTER 13.

Saul and Barnabas are sent forth by the Holy Ghost
They preach in Cyprus and in Antioch of Pisidia.

NOW 3 there were in the church which
was at Antioch, prophets and doc-
tors, among whom was Barnabas, and

i Supra 11. 30.— i A. D. 47.

Chap. 12. Ver. 3. Azymes. The festival of the unleavened bread, or the pasch, which answers to

our Easter.

148

Mission of Saul and Barnabas THE ACTS

Paul's address at Antioch

Simon who was called Niger, and Lucius
of Cyrene, and Manahen, who was the
foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and
Saul.

2 And as they were ministering to the
Lord, and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to
them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas,
for the work whereunto I have taken
them.

3 Then they, fasting and praying, and
imposing their hands upon them, sent
them away.

4 So they being sent by the Holy Ghost,
went to Seleucia: and from thence they
sailed to Cyprus.

5 And when they were come to Sala-
mina they preached the word of God in
the synagogues of the Jews. And they
had John also in the ministry.

6 And when they had gone through the
whole island, as far as Paphos they found
a certain man, a magician, a false pro-
phet, a Jew whose name was Bar-jesu.

7 Who was with the proconsul Sergius
Paulus, a prudent man. He sending for
Barnabas and Saul, desired to hear the
word of God.

8 But Elymas the magician (for so his
name is interpreted) withstood them,
seeking to turn away the proconsul from
the faith.

9 Then Saul, otherwise Paul, filled with
the Holy Ghost, looking upon him,

10 Said: O full of all guile and of all
deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all
justice, thou ceasest not to pervert the
right ways of the Lord.

11 And now behold, the hand of the
Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be
blind, not seeing the sun for a time. And
immediately there fell a mist and dark-
ness upon him, and going about, he
sought some one to lead him by the
hand.

12 Then the proconsul, when he had
seen what was done, believed, admiring
at the doctrine of the Lord.

13 Now when Paul and they that were
with him had sailed from Paphos, they
came to Perge in Pamphylia. ^ And John
departing from them, returned to Jeru-
salem.

14 But they passing through Perge,
came to Antioch in Pisidia : and entering

k A. D. 47.— Z Ex. 1. 1. — m Ex. 13. 21 and 22.—
n Ex. 16. 3. — oJos. 14. 2. — p Judges 3. 9. — q1
Kings 8. 5, and 9. 16, and 10. l.—r 1 Kings 13. 14.

149

into the synagogue on the sabbath day,
they sat down.

15 And after the reading of the law and
the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue
sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren,
if you have any word of exhortation to
make to the people, speak.

16 Then Paul rising up, and with his
hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men
of Israel, and you that fear God, give ear.

17 The God of the people of Israel chose
our fathers, and exalted the people when
they were sojourners ^ in the land of
Egypt, ^ and with an high arm brought
them out from thence,

18 «And for the space of forty years
endured their manners in the desert.

19 And destroying seven nations in the
land of Chanaan, o divided their land
among them by lot,

20 As it were, after four hundred and
fifty years : p and after these things, he
gave unto them judges, until Samuel the
prophet.

21 And after that «they desired a king:
and God gave them Saul the son of Cis,
a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty
years.

22 »■ And when he had removed him, he
raised them up David to be king: to
whom giving testimony, he said: »/
have found David, the son of Jesse, a man
according to my own heart, who shall do
all my wills.

23 Of this man^s seed God < according
to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a
Saviour, Jesus:

24 « John first preaching, before his
coming, the baptism of penance to all
the people of Israel.

25 And when John was fulfilling his
course, he said : ■" I am not he, whom you
think me to be: but behold, there cometh
one after me, whose shoes of his feet I
am not worthy to loose.

26 Men, brethren, children of the stock
of Abraham, and whosoever among you
fear God, to you the word of this salva-
tion is sent.

27 For they that inhabited Jerusalem,
and the rulers thereof, not knowing him,
nor the voices of the prophets, which are
read every sabbath, judging him have
fulfilled them.

and 16. 3. — sPs. 88. 21 — tisa. 11. 1.— u Matt. 3,
1 ; Mark 1. 4 ; Luke 3. Z.—v Matt. 3. 11 ; Mark 1.

7; John 1. 27.

PauVs address at Antioch

THE ACTS

28 And finding no cause of death in him,
^ they desired of Pilate, that they might
kill him.

29 And when they had fulfilled all
things that were written oj: him, taking
him down from the tree, they laid hiln in
a sepulchre.

30 '^But God raised him up from the
dead the third day :

31 Who was seen for many days, by
them who came up with him from Gali-
lee to Jerusalem, who to this present are
his witnesses to the people.

32 And we declare unto you, that the
promise which was made to our fathers,

33 This same God hath fulfilled to our
children, raising up Jesus, as in the sec-
ond psalm also is written : ^ Thou art my
Son^ this day have I begotten thee.

34 And to shew that he raised him up
from the dead, not to return now any
more to corruption, he said thus: ^ I will
give you the holy things of David faithful.

35 And therefore, in another place also,
he saith : " Thou shall not suffer thy holy
one to see corruption.

36 For David, when he had served in his
generation, according to the will of God,
° slept : and was laid unto his fathers, and
saw corruption.

37 But he whom God hath raised from
the dead, saw no corruption.

38 Be it known therefore to you, men,
brethren, that through him forgiveness
of sins is preached to you : and from all
the things, from which you could not be
justified by the law of Moses.

39 In him every one that believeth, is
justified.

40 Beware, therefore, lest that come
upon you which is spoken in the pro-
phets :

41 ^ Behold^ ye despisers^ and wonder^ and
perish : for I work a work in your days, a
work which you will not believe, if any man
shall tell it you.

42 And as they went out, they desired
them, that on the next sabbath, they
woulc^. speak unto them these words.

43 And vhen the synagogue was broken
up, many of the Jews, and of the stran-
gers who served God, followed Paul and

w Matt. 27. 20 and 23 ; Mark 15. 1.3 ; Luke 23. 21 and
~3; John 19, 15.— JC Matt. 28 : Mark 16. ; Luke 24..
John 20« «»y P.':.2f7.— z Isa. 55. 3. — a Ps. 15. 10.—

/ iiifl gii^e you the holy, &C.
* rhe prophet Isaias, 55. 3.

The Gentiles believe

Barnabas: who speaking to them, per-
suaded them to continue in the grace of
God.

44 But the next sabbath day, the whole
city almost came together, to hear the
word of God.

45 And the Jews seeing the multitudes,
were filled with envy, and contradicted
those things which were said by Paul,
blaspheming.

46 Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly :
To you it behoved us first to speak the
word of God : but because you reject it,
and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal
life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.

47 For so the Lord hath commanded us:
^ I have set thee to be the light of the Gentiles;
that thou tnayesi be for salvation unto the
utmost part of. the earth.

48 And the Gentiles hearing it, were
glad, and glorified the word of the Lord:
and as many as were ordained to life
everlasting, believed.

49 And the word of the L-tird was pub-
lished throughout the whole country.

50 But the Jews stirred up religious and
honourable women, and the chief men of
the city, and raised persecution against
Paul and Barnabas : and cast them out of
their coasts.

51 ^But they, shaking off the dust of
their feet against them, came to Iconium.-^

52 And the disciples were filled with joy
and with the Holy Ghost.

CHAPTER 14.

Paul and Barnabas preach in Iconiiim and Lystra :
Paul heals a cripple : they are taken for gods.
Paul is stoned. They preach in Derbe and Perge.

AND it came to pass in Iconium, that
XJL they entered together into the syn-
agogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a
very great multitude both of the Jews
and of the Greeks did believe.

2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up
and incensed the minds of the Gentiles
against the brethren.

3 A long time therefore they abode
there, dealing confidently in the Lord,

I who gave testimony to the word of his
' grace, granting signs and wonders to be
I done by their hands.

4 And the multitude of the city was

6 3 Kings 2.
Matt. 10. 14

10. — c Hab.
Mark 6. 11 ;

1. g. — d Isa. 49. 6.— e
Luke 9. 5.—/ A. D. 47.

CT7J-T.1?. Vt^r. 34

According to the Septuagint, the sense is : / wiU
faithfully fulfil the promises I made to David.

150

Paul heals the cripple at Lystra THE ACTS

The return to Antioch

divided ; and some of them indeed held
with the Jews, but some with the apos-
tles.

5 And when there wae an assault made
by the Gentiles and the Jews with their
rulers, to use them contumeliously, and
to stone them :

6 3 They understanding it, fled to Lystra,
and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the
whole country round about, and were
there preaching the gospel.

7 And there sat a certain man at Lystra,
impotent in his feet, a cripple from his
mother's womb, who never had walked.

8 This same heard Paul speaking. Who
looking upon him, and seeing that he had
faith to be healed,

9 Said with a loud voice : Stand upright
on thy feet. And he leaped up, and
walked.

10 And when the multitudes had seen
what Paul had dene, they lifted up their
voice in the Lycaonian tongue, saying :
The gods are come down to us in the
likeness of men ;

11 And they called Barnabafe. Jupiter :
but Paul, Mercury ; bf^cause be wae chief
speaker.

12 The priest als: oi lupitei that was
Defore the city, bringing oxen and gar-
lands before the gace, would have offered
sacrifice with the people.

13 Which, when the apostles Barnabas
and Paul had heard, rending their clothes,
they leaped out among the people., cry-
ing,

14 And saying : Ye men, why do ye
these things? We also are mortals, men
like unto you, preaching to you to be
converted from these vain things, to the
living God, ^ who made the heaven, and
the earth, and the sea, and all things
that are in them :

15 Who in times past suffered all nations
to walk in their own ways.

16 Nevertheless he left not himself with-
out testimony, doing good from heaven,
giving rains and fruitful seasons, filling
our hearts with food and gladness.

17 And speaking these things, they
scarce restrained the people from sacri-
ficing to them.

18 Now there came thither certain Jews
from Antioch, and Iconium : and persuad-
ing the multitude, and stoning Paul, drew

g A. D. 47.— fc Gen. 1. 1 ; Pa. 146. 6 ; Apoc. 14. 7. I

151

him out of the city, thinking him to be
dead.

19 But as the disciples stood round about
him, he rose up and entered into the
city, and the next day he departed with
Barnabas to Derbe.

20 And when they had preached the gos-
pel to that city, and had taught many,
they returned again to Lystra, and to
Iconium, and to Antioch :

21 Confirming the souls of the disciples,
and exhorting them to continue in the
faith: and that through many tribula-
tions we must enter into the kingdom
of God,

22 And when they had ordained to them
priests in every church, and had prayed
with fasting, they commended them to
the Lord, in whom they believed.

23 And passing through Pisidia, they
came into Pamphylia.

24 And having spoken the word of the
Lord in Perge, they went down into At-
talia;

25 * And thence they sailed to Antioch,
from whence they had been delivered to
the grace of God, unto the work which
they accomphshed.

26 And when they were come, and had
assembled the church, they related what
great things God had done with them,
and how he had opened the door of faith
to the Gentiles.

27 And they abode no small time with
the disciples.

CHAPTER 16.

A dissension about circumcision. The decision and
letter of the council of Jerusalem.

AND ^ some coming down from Judea,
XX taught the brethren : That except
you be circumcised after the manner of
Moses, you cannot be saved.

2 And when Paul and Barnabas had no
small contest with them, they determined
that Paul and Barnabas, and certain
others of the other side, should go up to
the apostles and priests to Jerusalem
about this question.

3 They therefore being brought on their
way by the church, passed through Phe-
nice, and Samaria, relating the conver-
sion of the Gentiles ; and they caused
great joy to all the brethren.

4 And when they were come to Jerusa-

i A. D. 48.-^" A. D. 49. Gal. 2.2.

The council of Jerusalem

THE ACTS

The decision of the council

lem, they were received by the church,
and by the apostles and ancients, declar-
ing how great things God had done with
them.

6 But there arose same of the sect of
the Pharisees that believed, saying: They
must be circumcised, and be commanded
to observe the law of Moses.

6 And the apostles and ancients assem-
bled to consider of this matter.

7 And when there had been much dis-
puting, Peter, rising up, said to them :
^ Men, brethren, you know, that in for-
mer days God made choice among us,
that by my mouth the Gentiles should
hear the word of the gospel, and beheve.

8 And God, who knoweth the hearts,
gave testimony, * giving unto them the
Holy Ghost, as well as to us ;

9 And put no difference between us and
them, purifying their hearts by faith.

10 Now therefore, why tempt you God
to put a yoke upon the necks of the dis-
ciples, which neither our fathers nor we
have been able to bear ?

11 But by the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, we believe to be savedj in like
manner as they also.

12.-And all the multitude held their
peace ; and they heard Barnabas and Paul
telling what great signs and wonders
God had wrought among the Gentiles by
them.

13 And after they had held their peace,
James answered, saying : Men, brethren,
hear me.

14 Simon hath related how God first
vipited to take of the Gentiles a people
to his name,

15 And to this agree the words of the
prophets, as it is written :

16 ^ After these things I will return^ and
vrill rebuild the tabernacle of David, which
is fallen down; and the ruins thereof I will
rdmildy and I will set it up :

17 That the residue of men may seek after
the Lord, and all nations upon whom my
name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth
these things.

18 To the Lord was his own work known
from the beginning of the world.

19 For which cause I judge that they,

k Supra 10. 20. — / Supra 10. 45.

Chap. 15. Ver.29. From hldo^, and from things
sirangled. The use of these things, though of their
own nature Indifferent, was here prohibited, to bring
the Jews more easily to admit of the society of the

who from among the Gentiles are con-
verted to God, are not to be disquieted.

20 But that we write unto them, that
they refrain themselves from the pollu-
tions of idols, and from fornication, and
from things strangled, and from blood.

21 For Moses of old time hath in every
city them that preach him in the syna-
gogues, ^ where he is read every sab-
bath.

22 Then it pleased the apostles and an-
cients, with the whole church, to choose
men of their own company, and to send
to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas,
namely^ Judae, who was surnamed Bar-
sabas, an^ Silas, chief men among the
brethren.

23 Writing by their hands : The apostles
and ancients, brethren, to the brethren
of the Gentiles that are at Antioch, and
in Sjrria and Cilicia, greeting.

24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that
some going out from us have troubled
you with words, subverting your souls ;
to whom we gave no commandment :

25 It hath seemed good to us, being as-
sembled together, to choose out men, and
to send them unto you, with our well
beloved Barnabas and Paul :

26 Men that have given their lives for
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27 We have sent therefore Judas and
Silas, who themselves also will, by word
of mouth, tell you the same things.

28 For it hath seemed good to the Holy
Ghost and to us, to lay no further bur-
den upon you than these necessary
things :

29 That you abstain from things sac-
rificed to idols, and from blood, and from
things strangled, and from fornication;
from which things keeping yourselves,
you shall do well. Fare ye well.

30 They therefore being dismissed, went
down to Antioch ; and gathering together
the multitude, delivered the epistle.

31 Which when they had read, they re-
joiced for the consolation.

32 But Judas and Silas, being prophets
also themselves, with many words com-
forted the brethren, and confirmed them.

33 And after they had spent some time

m Amos 9. 11. — n Supra 13. 27.

Gentiles ; and to exercise the latter in obedience.
But this prohibition was but temporary, and has
long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the
western cburclies. -

Paul and Bamahac separate THE ACTS

Paul is called to Macedonia

there, they were let go with peace by
the brethren, unto them that had sent
them.

34 But It seemed good unto Silas to re-
main there : and Judas alone departed to
Jerusalem.

35 And Paul and T<arnaba8 continued at
Antioch, teaciiing md preaching, with
many others, the word Jt the Lord.

36 ^ And after some days, Paul said to
Barnabas: Let us return and visit our
brethren ^^ all the cities wherein we have
preached the word of the Lord, to see
how they do.

37 And Barnabas would have taken with
them John also, that was surnamed
Mark ;

38 But Paul desired that he (as having
departed from them out of Pamphylia,
J' and not gone with them to the work)
might not be received.

3£ And there arose a dissension, so that
they departed one from another; and
Barnabas indeed taking Mark, sailed to
Cyprus.

40 But Paul choosing Silas, departed,
being delivered by the brethren to the
grace of God.

41 And he went through Syria and
Cilicia, confirming the churches, com-
manding them to keep the precepts of
the apostles and the ancients.

CHAPTER 16.

Paul visits the churches. He is called to preach in
Macedonia. He is scourged at Fhilippi.

AND ^ he came to Derbe and Lystra.
. And behold, there was a certain
disciple there named Timothy, the son
of a Jewish woman that believed; but
his father was a Gentile.

2 To this man the brethren that were
in Lystra and Iconium, gave a good tes-
timony.

3 Him Paul would have to go along
with him: and taking him he circum-
cised him, because of the Jews who were
in tihose places. For they all knew that
his father was a Gentile.

4 And as they passed through the cities,
they delivered unto them the decrees
for to keep, that were decreed by the
apostles and ancients who were at Jeru-
salem.

o A. D. 60.— i> Supra 13. 13. — q A. D. 50.

5 And the churches were confirmed -j
faith, and increased in number "aily.

6 And when they had passed through
Phrygia, and the country of Galatia, they
were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to
preach the word in Asia.

7 And when they were come Into My-
sia, they attempted to go into Bithynia,
and the Spirit of Jesm.i suffered then"
not.

8 And when they had passed through
Mysia. fchey went down to Troas.

9 And a vision was shewed to Paul in
the night, which was a man of Macedo-
nia standing and beseeching him, and
saying: Pass over into Macedonia, and
help us.

10 And as soon as he had seen the vi-
sion, immediately we sought to go into
Macedonia, being assured that God had
called us to preach the gospel to them.

11 And sailing from Troas, we came
with a straight course to Samothracia,
and the day following to Neapolis ;

12 And from thence to Philippi, which
is the chief city of part of Macedonia, a
colony. And we were in this city some
days conferring together.

13 And upon the sabbath day, we went
forth without the gate by a river side,
where it seemed that there was prayer;
and sitting down, we spoke to the wo-
men that were assembled.

14 And a certain woman named Lydia,
a seller of purple, of the city of Thva-
tira, one that worshipped God, did hear
whose heart the Lord opened to attend
to those things which were said by Paul.

15 And when she was baptized, and her
household, she besought us, saying: If
you have judged me to be faithful to the
Lord, come into my house, and abide
there. And she constrained us.

16 And it came to pass, as we went to
prayer, a certain girl, having a python-
ical spirit, met us, who brought to her
masters much gain by divining.

17 This same following Paul and us,
cried out, saying : These men are the
servants of the most high God, who
preach unto you the way of salvation.

18 And this she did many days. But
Paul being grieved, turned, and said to
the spirit : I command thee, in the name

Chap. 16. Ver. 16. A pythonical spirit. That is, a spirit pretending to divine, and tell fortunes.

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Paul and Silas released

of Jesus Christ, to go out from her. And
he went out the same hour

19 But her masters, seeing that the
hope of their gain was gone, apprehend-
ing Paul and Silas, brought them into the
marketDlacF to the rulers.

20 Anr p'-esenting them to the magis-
trates, thev said: These men disturb our
city, being Jews ;

21 And preach a fashion which it is not
lawful for us to receive nor observe, be-
ing Romans.

22 And the people ran together against

34 And wher he had brought ohem into
his own house, he laid the table for them,
and rejoiced with all his house, believing
God.

35 And when the day was come, the
magistrates sent the serieants, saying,
Let those men go.

36 And the keeper of the prison told
these «vordf oc Paul : The magistrates
have sent to let you go ; now therefore
depart, and go in peace.

37 But Paul said to them : They have
beaten us publicly, uncondemned. mei

them ; and ^" the magistrates r*»nding o& : mat are Romans, and have cast as into

their clothes, commanded chem to be
beaten with rods

•^3 And when thev !iad laid many stripes
upon tHem. .r»e> cast them into prison,
charging the araoler to keep them dih-
gently

24 Who having received such a charge,
thrust them into the inner prison, and
made their feet fast in the stocks.

25 And at midnight, Paul and Silas

prison: and now do they thrust us
out privately ? Not so . but let them
come,

38 And let us out themselves. And the
Serjeants told these words to the magis-
trates. And they were afraid bearint
that they were Romans

39 And coming, they besought them,
and bringing them out, they desired

I then. CO depart out of the city.

praying, praised God. And ^he\ that i 4U And they went out of the prison, and

were in prison, heard them

26 And suddenly there was a great
earthquake, so that the foundations of
the prison were shaken. And immedi-
ately all the doors were opened, and the
bands of all were loosed.

27 And the keeper of the prison, awak-
ing out of his sleep, and seeing the doors
of the prison open, drawing his sword,
would have killed himself, supposing
that the prisoners had been fled.

28 But Paul cried with a loud voice,
paying: Do thyself no harm, for we all
are here.

29 Then calling for a light, he went in
and trembling, fell down at the feet of
Paul and Silas.

30 And bringing them out, be said:
Masters, what must I do, that I may be
saved ?

31 But they said: Believe in the Lord
Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, and thy
house.

32 And they preached the word of the
Lord to him and to all that were in his
house.

33 And he, taking them the same hour
of the night, washed their stripes, and
himself was baptized, and all his house
Immediately.

rtCor.u.a6i riuLLU; iTbes&SL^

entered into the house ot Lydia; and
having seen the brethren, they com-
forted them, and departed.

CHAPTER 17.

Paid vreaches to tht^ Thessaioniana and Bereans.
His discourse to the Athenians.

AND ' when they had passed through
. Amphipolis and Apollonia, they
came to Thessalonica, where there was
a synagogue of the Jews.

2 And Paul, according to his custom,
went in unto them ; and for three sab-
bath days he reasoned with them out of
the scriptures •

3 Declaring and insinuating that the
Christ was to suffer, and to rise again
from the dead ; and that this is Jesus
Christ, whom I preach to you.

4 And some of them believed, and were
associated to Paul and Silas; and of
those that served God, and of the Gen-
tiles a great multitude, and of noble
women not a few.

5 But the Jews, moved with envy, and
taking unto them some wicked men of
the vulgar sort, and making a tumult,
set the city in an uproar ; and besetting
Jason's house, sought to bring them out
unto the people.

154

g A. D. 50.

Many are converfed at Serea THE ACTS PauVs discourse in the Areopagus

6 And not finding ^hem they drew Ja-
son and certain brethren co the rulers of
the city, crying : They that set the citv
in an uproar, are come hither also •

7 Whom Jason hath receiver! ind
these all do contrary to the 1e«^reeE. of
Caesar, saying that there is another king,
Jesus.

8 And they stirired up the people, and
the rulers of the city hearing these
things,

9 And having taken satisfaction of Ja-
son and of the rest, they let them go.

10 But the brethren immediately sent
away Paul and Silas by night unto Be-
rea. Who, when they were come thi-
ther, went into the synagogue of the
Jews.

11 Now these were more noble than
those in Thessalonica, who received the
word with all eagerness, daily search-
ing the scriptures, whether these things
were so.

12 And many indeed of them beheved,
and of honourable women that were Gen-
tiles, and of men not a few.

13 And when the Jews of Thessalonica
had knowledge that the word of God
was also preached by Paul at Berea,
they came thither also, stirring up and
troubling the multitude.

14 And then immediately the brethren
sent away Paul, to go unto the sea ; but
Silas and Timothy remained there.

15 And they that conducted Paul,
brought him as far as Athens; and re-
ceiving a commandment from him to
Silas and Timothy, that they should
come to him with all speed, they de-
parted.

16 *Now whilst Paul waited for them
at Athens, his spirit was stirred within
him, seeing the city wholly given to idol-
atry.

17 He disputed, therefore, in the syna-
gogue with the Jews, and with them
that served God, and in the market-
place, every day with them that were
there.

18 And certain philosophers of the Epi-

tA.jy. 50.

Chap. 17. Ver. 8. City. Urbem. In the Greek
oiKovfiivrjp, the world.

Ver. 11. More noble. The Jews of Berea are
Justly commended, for their eagerly embracing the
truth, and searching the scriptures, to find out the
texts alleged by the apostle: which was a far more
generous proceeding than that of their countrymen
at Thessalonica» who persecuted the preachers of

cureans and of the Stoics disputed with
him; and some said: What is it, that
^;his word sower would say ? But others :
Je seemeth to be a setter forth of new
gods because he preached to them Je-
sus and the resurrection.

19 And taking him, they brought him
to the Areopagus, saying : May we know
what this new doctrine is, which thou
speakest of?

20 For thou bringest in certain new
things to our ears. We would know
therefore what these things mean.

21 (Now all the Athenians, and stran-
gers that were there, employed them
selves in nothing else, but either in tell-
ing or in hearing some new thing.)

22 But Paul standing in the midst of
the Areopagus, said: Ye men of Athens,
I perceive that in all things you are too
superstitious.

23 For passing by, and seeing your
idols, I found an altar also, on which
was written: To the unknown God. What
therefore you worship, without knowing
it, that I preach to you:

24 " God, who made the world, and all
things therein ; he, being Lord of heaven
and earth, dwelleth ^ not in temples made
with hands ;

25 Neither is he served with men's
hands, as though he needed any thing;
seeing it is he who giveth to all life, and
breath, and all things:

26 And hath made of one, all mankind,
to dwell upon the whole face of the
earth, determining appointed times, and
the limits of their habitation.

27 That they should seek God, if hap-
pily they may feel after him or find him,
although he be not far from every one
of us:

28 For in him we live, and move, and
are; as some also of your own poets
said : For we are also his offspring.

29 Being therefore the offspring of God,
we must not suppose the divinity to be
like unto gold, or silver, or stone, the
graving of art, and device of man.

30 And God indeed having winked at

u Gen. 1. l. — v Supra 7. 48.

the gospel, without examining the grounds they al-
leged for what they taught.

Ver. 24. Dwelleth not in temples. God is not
contained in temples; so as to need them for his
dwelling, or anv other uses, as the heathens im-
agined. Yet by his omnipresence, he is both there
and every where.

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Paul preaches to the Corinthians THE ACTS

Paul before Gallio

the times of this ignorance, now declar-
eth unto men, that all should every-
where do penance.

31 Because he hath appointed a day
wherein he will judge the world in equity,
by the man whom he hath appointed ;
giving faith to all, by raising him up
from the dead.

32 And when they had heard of the
resunsction of the dead, some indeed
mocked, but others said : We will hear
thee again concerning this matter.

33 So Paul went out from among them.

34 But certain men adhering to him, did
believe ; among whom was also Diony-
Bius, the Areopagite, and a woman named
Damaris, and others with them.

CHAPTER 18.

Paid founds the church of Corinth; andpreaehe»
at Ephesus. etc. Apollo goes to Corinth.

AFTER "'these things, departing from
J\. Athens, he came to Corinth.

2 And finding a certain Jew, named
Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from
Italy, with Priscilla his wife, (because
that Claudius had commanded all Jews
to depart from Rome,) he came to them.

3 And because he was of the same trade,
he remained with them, and wrought;
(now they were tentmakers by trade.)

4 And he reasoned in the synagogue
every sabbath, bringing in the name of
the Lord Jesus ; and he perpuaded the
Jews and the Greeks.

5 And when Silas and Timothy were
come from Macedonia, Paul was earnest
in preaching, testifying to the Jews, that
Jesus is the Christ.

6 But they gainsaying and blaspheming,
he shook his garments, and said to them :
Your blood be upon your own heads ; I
am clean : from henceforth I will go
unto the Gentiles.

7 And departing thence, he entered into
tho house of a certain man, named Titus
Justus, one that worshipped God, whose
house was adjoining to the synagogue.

8 And Crispus, the ruler of the syna-
gogue, believed in the Lord, with all his
house ; and many of the Corinthians
hearing, believed, and were baptized.

9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night,
by a vision : Do not fear, but speak ; and
hold not thy peace,

w A. D. 51.

A. D. 52.

10 Because I am with thee : and no man
shall set upon thee, to hurt thee ; for I
have much people in this city.

11 And he stayed there a year and six
months, teaching among them the word
of God.

12 But when Gallio was proconsul of
Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose
up against Paul, and brought him to the
judgment seat,

13 Saying : This man persuade th men to
worship God contrary to the law.

14 And when Paul was beginning to
open his mouth, Gallio said to the lews :
If it were some matter of injustice, or
an heinous deed, O Jews, I should wi\l;h
reason bear with you.

15 But if they be questions of word and
names, and of your law, look you to it : I
will not be judge of such things.

16 And he drove them from the judg-
ment seat

17 And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the
ruler of the synagogue, beat him before
the judgment seat ; and Gallio cared or
none of those things.

Ih But Paul, when he had stayed ret
many days, taking his leave of the bre-
thren, sailed thence into ^ Syria and
with him Priscilla and Aquila), ^ having
shorn his head in Cenchrae : for he had a
vow.

19 And he came to Ephesus. and left
them there. But he himself entering
into the synagogue, disputed with the
Jews.

20 And when they desired him, that he
would tarry a longer time, he consented
not;

21 But taking his leave, and saying: I
will return to you again, God willing, he
departed from Ephesus.

22 And going down to Caesarea, he went
up to Jerusalem^ and saluted the church,
and so came down to Antioch.

23 And after he had spent some time
there, he departed, and went through
the country of Galatia and Phrygia, id
order, confirming all the disciples

24 Now a certain Jew, named Apollo,
born at Alexandria, an eloquent man.
came to Ephesus. one mighty in che
scriptures.

25 This man was instructed in the way
of the Lord : and being fervent in spirit.

y Num. 6. 18 ; Infra 21. 24.

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PauVs ministry at Ephesus

THE ACTS

The sons of Sceva

spoke, and taught diligently the things
that are of Jesus, knowing only the bap-
tism of John.

26 This man therefore began to speak
boldly in the synagogue. Whom when
Priscilla and Aquila had heard, they took
him to them, and expounded to him the
way of the Lord more dihgently.

27 And whereas he was desirous to go to
Achaia, the brethren exhorting, wrote to
the disciples to receive him. Who, when
he was come, helped them much who had
believed.

28 For with much vigour he convinced
the Jews openly, shewing by the scrip-
tures, that Jesus is the Christ.

CHAPTER 19.

Paul establishes the church at Ephes^is. The tu-
mult of the silversmiths.

A ND * it came to pass, while Apollo was
XX at Corinth, that Paul having passed
through the upper coasts, came to Ephe-
sus, and found certain disciples.

2 And he said to them: Have you re-
ceived the Holy Ghost since ye believed ?
But they said to him : We have not so
much as heard whether there be a Holy
Ghost.

3 And he said : In what then were you
baptized? Who said : In John's baptism.

4 Then Paul said : ^ John baptized the
people with the baptism of penance, say-
ing: That they should belie\ 3 in him who
was to come after him, that is to say, in
Jesus.

6 Having heard these things, they were
baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 And when Paul had imposed his
hands on them, the Holy Ghost came
upon them, and they spoke with tongues
and prophesied.

7 And all the men were about twelve.

8 And entering into the synagogue, he
spoke boldly for the space of three
months, disputing and exhorting con-
cerning the kingdom of God.

9 But when some were hardened, and
believed not, speaking evil of the way of
the Lord, before the multitude, departing
from them, he separated the disciples,
disputing daily in the school of one
Tyrannus. ^

10 And this continued for the space of
two years, so that all they who dwelt in

z A. D. 53.
a Matt. 8. 11 ; Mark 1. 8 ; Luke 8. 16 ; John 3. 26 ;

Asia, heard the word of ehe Lord, both
Jews and Gentiles.

11 And God wrought by the hand of
Paul more than common miracles.

12 So that even there were brought
from his body to the sick, handkerchiefs
and aprons, and the diseases departed
from them, and the wicked spirits went
out of them.

13 Now some also of the Jewish exor-
cists who went about, attempted to in-
voke over them that had evil spirits, the
name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I con-
jure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.

14 And there were certain men, seven
sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, that
did this.

15 But the wicked spirit, answering, said
to them : Jesus I know, and Paul I know ;
but who are you ?

16 Aiid the man in whom the wicked
spirit w as, leaping upon them, and mas-
tering them both, prevailed against them,
so that they ded out of that house naked
and wotmded.

17 And this became known to all the
Jews and the Gentiles that dwelt at Ephe-
sus ; and fear fell on them all, and the
name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

18 And many of them that believed,
came confessing and declaring their
deeds.

19 And many of them who had followed
curious arts, brought together their books,
and burnt them before all; and counting
the price of them, they found the money
to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

20 So mightily g^-ew the word of God,
and was confirmed.

21 And when these things were ended,
Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had
passed through Macedonia and Achaia,
to go to Jerusalem, saying : After I have
been there, I must see Rome also.

22 And sending into Macedonia two of
them that ministered to him, Timothy
and Erastus, he himself remained for a
time in Asia.

23 Now at that time there arose no small
disturbance about the way of the Lord. ^

24 For a certain man named Demetrius,
a silversmith, who made silver temples
for Diana, brought no small gain to the
craftsmen ;

25 Whom he calling together, with the

Supra 1. 5, and 11. 16.
h A. D. 53.— d A. D. 56.

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The tumult of the silversmiths THE ACTS Paul returns through Macedonia

workmen of like occupation, said : Sirs,
you know that our gain is by this
trade ;

26 And you see and hear, that this Paul
by persuasion hath drawn away a great
multitude, not only of Ephesus, but al-
most of all Asia, saying: They are not
gods which are made by hands.

27 So that not only this our craft is in
danger to be set at nought, but also the
temple of great Diana shall be reputed
for nothing ; yea, and her majesty shall
begin to be destroyed, whom all Asia and
the world worshippeth.

28 Having heard these things, they were
full of anger, and cried out, saying: Great
is Diana of the Ephesians.

29 And the whole city was filled with
confusion ; and having caught Gains and
Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's
companions, they rushed with one accord
into the theatre.

30 And when Paul would have entered
in unto the people, the disciples suffered
him not.

31 And some also of the rulers of Asia,
who were his friends, sent unto him, de-
siring that he would not venture himself
into the theatre.

32 Now some cried one thing, some an-
other. For the assembly was confused,
and the greater part knew not for what
cause they were come together.

33 And they drew forth Alexander out
of the multitude, the Jews thrusting him
forward. And Alexander beckoning with
his hand for silence, would have given
the people satisfaction.

34 But as soon as they perceived him
to be a Jew, all with one voice, for the
space of about two hours, cried out: Great
is Diana of the Ephesians.

35 And when the town clerk had ap-
peased the multitudes, he said : Ye men
of Ephesus, what man is there that know-
eth not that the city of the Ephesians is
a worshipper of the great Diana, and cf
Jupiter's offspring.

36 For as much therefore as these things
cannot be contradicted, you ought to be
quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

37 For you have brought hither these

Chap. 20. Ver. 7. And on the first day of the
week. Here St. Chrysostom and many other inter-
preters of the scripture explain, that the Christians,
even at this time, must have changed the sabbath
iDto the first day of the week, (the Lord's day.) as

men, who are neither guilty of sacrilege,
nor of blasphemy against your goddess.

38 But if Demetrius and the craftsmen
that are with him, have a matter against
any man, the courts of justice are open,
and there are proconsuls: let them ac-
cuse one another.

39 And if you inquire after any other
matter, it may be decided in a lawful
assembly.

40 For we are even In danger to be called
in question for this day's uproar, there
being no man guilty (of whom we may
give account) of this concourse. And
when he had said these things, he dis-
missed the assembly.

CHAPTER 20.

Paid passes through Macedonia and Greece. Ht
raises a dead man to life at Troas. His discourse
to the clergy of Ephesus.

A ND after the tumult was ceased, Paul
J\. calling to him the disciples, and ex-
horting them, took his leave, and set for-
ward to go into Macedonia.

2 And when he had gone over those
parts, and had exhorted them with many
words, he came into Greece ;

3 Where, when he had spent three
months, the Jews laid wait for him, as
he was about to sail into Syria ; * so he
took a resolution to return through Mace-
donia.

4 And there accompanied him Sopatei
the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea ; and of the
Thessalonians, Aristarchus, andSecundus,
and Gains of Derbe, and Timothy ; and
of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

5 These going before, stayed for us at
Troas.

6 But we sailed from Philippi after the
days of the Azymes, and came to them to
Troas in five days, where we abode seven
days.

7 And on the first day of the week, when
we were assembled to break bread, Paul
discoursed with them, being to depart on
the morrow: and he continued his speech
until midnight.

8 And there were a great number of
lamps in the upper chamber where we
were assembled.

9 And a certain young man named Euty-

6 A. D. 57.

all Christians now keep it. This change was un-
doubtedly made by the authority of the church:
hence the exercise of tlie power, which Christ had
given to her ; for he is Lord of the sabbath.

158

Paul restore^ a young man to lift THE ACTS PauVs discourse to the ancients

chus. sitting on the v^indow, being op-
pressed with a deep sleep, as Pau. was
long preacinng,; by occasion of his sieep
fell from the third loft down, and wae
taken ap dead.

10 To whom, when Paul had gone down,
ne laid himself upon him, and embra-
cing him, said : Be not troubled, for his
soul is in him.

11 Then going up, and breaking bread
and tasting, and having talked a long
time to them, until daylight, so he de-
parted.

12 And they brought the youth alive,
*»nd were not a little comforted.

13 But we, going aboard the ship, sailed
to Assos, being there to take in Paul ; for
BO he had appointed, himself purposing
to travel by land.

14 And when he had met with us ti-t
Aesos, we took him in, and came to
Mitylene.

15 And sailing thence, the day following
W^e came over against Chios; and the
next day we arrived at Samos; and the
day following we came to Miletus.

16 For Paul Lad determined to sail by
Ephesus, lest he should be stayed any
time in Asia. For he hasted, if it were
possible for him, to keep the day of Pen-
tecost at Jerusalem.

17 And sending from Miletus to Ephesus,
he called the ancients of the church.

18 And when they were come to him,
and were together, he said to them : You
know from the first day that I came into
Asia, in what manner I have been with
you, for all the tim3,

19 Serving the Lord with all humility,
and with tears, and temptations which
befell me by the conspiracies of the
Jews;

20 How I have kept back nothing that
was profitable to you, but have preached
it to you, and taught you publicly, and
from house to house,

21 Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles
penance towards God, and faith in our
L:rd Jesus Christ.

22 And now, behold, being bound in the
spirit, I go to Jerusalem: not knowing
the things which shall befall me there :

23 Save that the Holy Ghost in every
city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands
and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem.

24 But I feai aone of these things, nei-
ther do T count my life more precious
than myself, so that I may consummate

; m^ oourse and the ministry of the word
, which I received from the Lord Jesus, to
I testify the gospel of the grace of God.

25 And now behold. 1 know that all
you, among whom I nave gone preach-
ing the kingdom ot God, shali set my
face no more.

26 Wherefore i oake you to witness this
day, that I am clear from the blood or
all men ;

27 For I have not spared to declare unto
you all the counsel of God.

28 Take heed to yourselves, and to the
whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath
placed you bishops, to rule the church of
God, which he hath purchased with his
own blood.

29 1 know that, after my departure, rav-
ening wolves will enter in among you,
not sparing tne flock.

30 And of your own selves shall arise
men speaking perverse things, to draw
away disciples after them.

31 Therefore watch, keeping in memory,
that for three years I ceased not, with
tears to admonish every one of you night
and day.

32 And now I commend you to God,
and to the word of his grace, who is able
to build up, and to give an inheritance
among all the sanctified.

33 I have not coveted any man's silver,
gold, or apparel, as

34 You yourselves know: «^for such
things as were needful for me and them
that are with me, these hands have fur-
nished.

35 I have shewed you all things, how
that so labouring you ought to support
the weak, and to remember the word of
the Lord Jesus, how he said : It is a more
blessed thing to give, rather than to re-
ceive.

36 And when he had said these things,
kneeling down, he prayed with them all.

37 And there was much weeping among
them all ; and falling on the neck of Paul,
they kissed him,

38 Being grieved most of all for the
word which he had said, that they should
see his face no more. And they brought
him on his way to the ship.

/lCk)r.4.i2; 2Thesa.3.8.
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The 'prophecy of Agahus

THE ACTS

CHAPTER 21.

Paul goes up to Jerusalem. He is apprehended by

the Jews in the temple.

A ND ^ when it came to pass that, being
j\. parted from them, we set sail, we
came with a straight course to Coos, and
the day following to Rhodes, and from
thence to Patara.

2 And when we had found a ship sailing
over to Phenice, we went aboard, and
set forth.

3 And when we had discovered Cyprus,
leaving it on the left hand, we sailed into
Syria, and came to Tyre; for there the
ship was to unlade her burden.

4 And finding disciples, we tarried there
seven days: who said to Paul through
the Spirit, that he should not go up to
Jerusalem.

6 And the days being expired, departing
we went forward, they all bringing us on
eur way, with their wives and children,
till we were out of the city; and we
kneeled down on the shore, and we
prayed.

6 And when we had bid one another
farewell, we took ship ; and they returned
home.

7 But we having finished the voyage by
sea, from Tjrre came down to Ptolemais:
and saluting the brethren, we abode one
day with them.

8 And the next day departing, we came
to CsBsarea. And entering into the house
of Philip the evangelist, '^who was one
of the seven, we abode with him.

9 And he had four daughters, virgins,
who did prophesy.

10 And as we tarried there for some
days, there came from Judea a certain
prophet, named Agabus.

11 Who, when he was come to us, took
Paul's girdle; and binding his own feet
and hands, he said : Thus saith the Holy
Ghost : The man whose girdle this is, the
Jews shall bind in this manner in Jeru-
salem, and shall deliver him into the
hands of the Gentiles.

12 Which when we had heard, both we
and they that were of that place, desired
him that he would not go up to Jerusa-
lem.

g A. D. 57. — h Supra 6. 5, and 8. 5.

Paul returns to Jerusalem

13 Then Paul answered, and said ; What
do you mean weeping and aflOlicting my
heart? For I am ready not only to be
bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for
the name of the Lord Jesus.

14 And when we could not persuade
him, we ceased, saying: The will of the
Lord be done.

15 And after those days, being prepared,
we went up to Jerusalem.

16 And there went also with us some Oi
the disciples from Caesarea, bringing with
them one Mnason a Cyprian, an old dis-
ciple, with whom we should lodge.

17 And when we were come to Jerusa-
lem, the brethren received us gladly.

18 And the day following, Paul went in
with us unto James ; and all the ancients
were assembled.

19 Whom when he had saluted, he re-
lated particularly what things God had
wrought among the Gentiles by his min-
istry.

20 But they hearing it, glorified God,
and said to him ; Thou seest, brother,
how many thousands there are among
the Jews that have believed: and they
are all zealous for the law.

21 Now they have heard of thee that
thou teachest those Jews, who are
among the Gentiles, to depart from
Moses : saying, that they ought not to
circumcise their children, nor walk ac-
cording to the custom.

22 What is it therefore? the multitude
must needs come together: for they will
hear that thou art come.

23 Do therefore this that we say to
thee. We have four men, who have a
vow on them.

24 Take these, and sanctify thyself with
them : and bestow on them, * that they
may shave their neads ; and all will know
that the things which they have heard of
thee, are false ; but that thou thyself also
walkest keeping the law.

25 But as touching the Gentiles that be-
lieve, •'wo have written, decreeing that
they should only refrain themselves from
that which has been offered to idols, and
from blood, and from things strangled,
and from fornication.

i Num. 6. 18: Supra 18. 18.— j Supra 15. 20 and 29.

Chap. 21. Ver. 8. The evanqelist. That is. the i Ver. 24. Keepinr/ the law. The law, though now

prea oher of the irospel ; the same that before con-
verted the Samaritans, and baptized the eunuch,
cliap. 8.. belns oue ot the tirst sevw deacoQ»

no lonp^er obligatory, was for a time observed by
the Christian Jews: to bury, as it were, the syna-
gogue witli liouour.

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'^aul arrested in the temple THE ACTS PauVs address to the people

26 Then Paul took the men, and the
lext day being purified with them, en-
ered into the temple, giving notice of
-he accomplishment of the days of puri-
ication, until an oblation should be of-
'ered for every one of them.

27 But v^^hen the seven days were draw-
ng to an end, those Jews that were of
^sia, when they saw him in the temple,
stirred up all the people, and laid hands
ipon him, crying out:

28 Men of Israel, help: This is the man
hat teacheth all men every where against
he people, and the law, and this place;
ind moreover hath brought in Gentiles
nto the temple, and hath violated this
loly place.

29 (For they had seen Trophimus the
Sphesian in the city with him, whom
hey supposed that Paul had brought
nto the temple.)

30 And the whole city was in an up-
oar: and the people ran together. And
aking Paul, they drew him out of the
emple, and immediately the doors were
hut.

31 And as they went about to kill him,
t was told the tribune of the band, That
,11 Jerusalem was in confusion.

32 Who, forthwith taking with him sol-
iers and centurions, ran down to them.
Lnd when they saw the tribune and the
oldiers they left off beating Paul.

33 Then the tribune coming near, took
im, and commanded him to be bound
nth two chains: and demanded who he
^as, and what he had done.

34 And some cried one thing, some an-
ther, among the multitude. And when
e could not know the certainty for the
iimult, he commanded him to be carried
ito the castle.

35 And when he was come to the stairs,
: fell out that he was carried by the
oldiers, because of the violence of the
eople.

36 For the multitude of the people fol-
)wed after, crying: Away with him.

37 And as Paul was about to be brought
ito the castle, he saith to the tribune:
lay I speak something to thee? Who
aid: Canst thou speak Greek?

38 Art not thou that Egyptian who be-
ore these days didst raise a tumult, and

IK. D. 57.

EN, ^brethren, and fathers, hear ye
the account which I now give unto

didst lead forth into the desert four thou-
sand men that were murderers?

39 But Paul said to him: I am a Jew of
Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean
city. And I beseech thee suffer me to
speak to the people.

40 And when he had given him leave,
Paul standing on the stairs, beckoned
with his hand to the people. And a
great silence being made, he spoke unto
them in the Hebrew tongue, saying:

CHAPTER 22.

Paul declares to the people the history of his con-
version. He escapes scourging by claiming the
privilege of a Roinan citizen.

you.

2 (And when they heard that he spoke
to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept
the more silence.)

3 And he saith: I am a Jew, bom at
Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this
city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught ac-
cording to the truth of the law of the
fathers, zealous for the law, as also all
you are this day:

4 «^Who persecuted this way unto death,
binding and delivering into prisons both
men and women.

5 As the high priest doth bear me wit-
ness, and all the ancients: «from whom
also receiving letters to the brethren, I
went to Damascus, that I might bring
them bound from thence to Jerusalem to
be punished.

6 And it came to pass, as I was going,
and drawing nigh to Damascus at mid-
day, that suddenly from heaven there
shone round about me a great light:

7 And falling on the ground, I heard a
voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why per-
secutest thou me?

8 And I answered : Who art thou. Lord ?
And he said to me: I am Jesus of Naz-
areth, whom thou persecutest.

9 And they that were with me, saw in-
deed the light, but they heard not the
voice of him that spoke with me.

10 And I said: What shall I do, Lord?
And the Lord said to me: Arise, and go
to Damascus; and there it shall be told
thee of all things that thou must do.

11 And whereas I did not see for the

m Supra 8. 3. — w Supra 9. 2.

Chap. 22.

Ver. 9. Heard not the voice. That is, they distinguished not the words : though they heard

the voice. Acts 9. 7.

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Paul narrates call to Gentiles THE ACTS

brightness of that light, being led by the
hand by my companions, I came to Da-
mascus.

12 And one Ananias, a man according
to the law, having testimony of all the
Jews who dwelt there,

13 Coming to me, and standing by me,
said to me; Brother Saul, look up. And
I the same hour looked upon him.

14 But he said : The God of our fathers
hath preordained thee that thou shouldst
know his will, and see the Just One, and
shouldst hear the voice from his mouth.

15 For thou shalt be his witness to all
men, of those things which thou hast
seen and heard.

16 And now why tarriest thou? Rise up,
and be baptized, and wash away thy
sins, invoking his name.

17 And it came to pass, when I was
come again to Jerusalem, ° and was
praying in the temple, that I was in a
trance,

18 And saw him saying unto me : Make
baste, and get thee quickly out of Jeru-
salem ; because they will not receive thy
testimony concerning me.

19 And I said : Lord, they know P that
I cast into prison, and beat in every syn-
agogue, them that believed in :hee.

20 And when the blood or Stephen thy
witness was shed. ^ I stood by and con-
sented, and kept the garments of them
that killed him.

21 And he said to me : Go, for imto tho
Gentiles afar off, will I send thee.

22 And they heard him until this word,
and then lifted up their voice, saying :
Away witn such an one from the earth ;
for it is not fit that he should live.

23 And as they cried out and threw off
their garments, and cast dust into the
air,

24 The tribune ''commanded him to be
brought into the castle, and that he
should be scourged and tortured : to
know for what cause they did so cry out
against him.

25 And when they had bound him with
thongs, Paul saith to the centurion that
stood by him : Is it lawful for you to
scourge a man that is a Roman, and un-
condemned?

26 Which the centurion hearing, went

Paul before the council

to the tribune, and told him, saying:
What art thou about to do? For this
man is a Roman citizen.

27 And the tribune coming, said to him:
Tell me, art thou a Roman? But he said:
Yea.

28 And the tribune answered: I ob-
tained the being free of this city with a
gre^t sum. And Paul said : But I was
born so.

29 Immediately therefore they departed
from him that were about to torture him.
The tribune also was afraid after he un-
derstood that he was a Roman citizen,
and because he had bound him.

30 But on the next day, meaning to
know more diligently for what cause he
was accused by the Jews, he loosed him,
and commanded the priests to come to-
gether, and all the co'ancil : and bringing
forth Paul, he set him before them.

CHAPTER 23.

Paul stands before the council : the Jews conspir$
his death. He is sent away to Ccesarea.

AND *Paul looking upon the council,
XJL caid; Men, brethren, I have con-
versed with all good conscience before
God until this present day.

2 And the high priest Ananias com-
manded them that stood by him to strike
him on the mouth.

3 Then Paul said to him : God shall
strike thee, thou whited wall. For sit-
ter, t thou to judge me according to the
law, and contrary to the law commandest
mc to be struck ?

4 And they that stood by said : Dost
thou revile the high priest of God ?

5 And Paul said : I knew not, brethren,
that he is the high priest. For it is writ-
ten: ' Thou shalt not speak evil of the prince
of thy people.

6 And Paul knowing that the one part
were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees,
cried out in the council: Men, brethren,
** I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees :
concerning the hope and resurrection of
the dead I am called in question.

7 And when he had so said, there arose
a dissension between the Pharisees and
the Sadducees ; and the multitude was
divided.

8 * For the Sadducees say that there is

o A. D. 89. — p Supra 8. 8.-^ Supra 7. 67.
r That is, Lysias.

8 A. D. 57.— t Ex. 22. 28.
u Phil. 3. 6. — V Matt. 22. 23.

Y«r. li. Jutt One. Our Saviour, who appeared to St. Paul, Acts 9. 17.

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The conspiracy against Paul THE ACTS

Paul is sent to Caesarea

no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit :
but the Pharisees confess both.

9 And there arose a great cry. And
some of the Pharisees rising up, strove,
saying: We find no evil in this man.
What if a spirit hath spoken to him, or
an angel ?

10 And when there arose a great dis-
sension, the tribune fearing lest Paul
should be pulled in pieces by them, com-
manded the soldiers to go down, and to
take him by force from among them, and
to bring him into the castle.

11 And the night fc Hewing the Lord
standing by him, said : Be constant ; for
as thou hast testified of me in Jerusa-
lem, so must thou bear witness also at
Rome.

12 And when day was come, some of
the Jews gathered together, and bound
themselves under a curse, saying, that
they would neither eat, nor drink, till
they killed Paul.

13 And they were more than forty men
that had made this conspiracy.

14 Who came to the chief priests and
the ancients, and said: We have bound
ourselves under a great curse that we
will eat nothing till we have slain Paul.

15 Now therefore do you with the coun-
cil signify to uhe tribune, that he bring
him forth to you, as if you meant oo
know something moro certain touching
him. And we, before he come near, are
ready to kill him.

16 Which when Panl'r: sister^s son had
heard, of their lyir:; in wait, he came
and entered into the castle and told
Paul.

17 And Paul, calling to him one of the
centurions, said: Bring this young man
to the tribune, for he hath some thing to
tell him.

18 And he taking him, brought him to
the tribune, and said: Paul, the prisoner,
desired me to bring th'B young man unto
thee, who hath some thing to say to thee.

19 And the tribune taking him by the
hand, went aside with him privately, and
asked him : What is it that thou hast to
tell me ?

20 And he said: The Jews have agreed
to desire thee, that thou wouldst bring
forth Paul to morrow into the council,
as if they meant to inquire Bome thing
more certain touching him.

21 But do not thou give credit to them ;

for there lie in wait for him more than
forty men of them, who have bound
themselves by oath neither to eat, nor
to drink, till they have killed him : and
they are now ready, looking for a promise
from thee.

22 The tribune therefore dismissed the
young man, charging him that lie should
tell no man, that he had made known
these things unto him.

23 Then having called two centurions,
he said to them : Make ready two hun-
dred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea,
and seventy horsemen, and two hun-
dred spearmen for the third hour of the
night:

24 And provide beasts, that they may
set Paul on, and bring him safe to Felix
the governor.

25 (For he feared lest perhaps the Jews
might take him away by force and kill
him, and he should afterwards be slan-
dered, as if he was to take money.) And
he wrote a letter after this manner :

26 Claudius Lysias to the most excel-
lent governor, Felix, greeting.

27 This man being taken by the Jews,
and ready to be killed by them, I rescued
coming in with an army, understanding
that h3 is a Roman :

28 And meaning to know the cause
which they objected unto him, I brought
him Jorth into their council.

20 Whom I found to be accused con-
cerning questions of their law ; but hav-
ing nothing laid to his charge worthy of
death or of bands.

30 And when I was told of ambushes
that they had prepared for him, I sent
him to thee, signifying also to his accus-
ers to plead before thee. Farewell.

31 Then the soldiers, according as it was
commanded them, taking Paul, brought
him by night to Antipatris.

32 And the next day, leaving the horse-
men to go with him, they returned to the
castle.

33 Who, when they were come to Caesa-
rea, and had delivered the letter to the
governor, did also present Paul before
him.

34 And when he had read it, and had
asked of what province he was, and un-
derstood that he was of Cilicia ;

35 I will hear thee, said he, when thy
accusers come. And he commanded him
to be kept in Heroa's judgment hall.

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The charge against Paul

THE ACTS

PauVs defense before Felix

CHAFrER 24.

PatU defends his innocence before Felix the gox>-
emor. He preaches the faith to him,

A ND after five days the high priest
xV. Ananias came down, with some of
the ancients, and one TertuUus an orator,
who went to the governor against Paul.

2 And Paul being called for, Tertullus
began to accuse him, saying: Whereas
through thee we live in much peace, and
many things are rectified by thy provi-
dence,

3 We accept it always and in all places,
most excellent Felix, with all thanksgiv-
ing.

4 But that I be no further tedious to
thee, I desire thee of thy clemency to
hear us in few words.

5 We have found this to be a pestilent
man, and raising seditions among all the
Jews throughout the world, and author
of the sedition of the sect of the Naza-
renes.

6 Who also hath gone about to profane
the temple : whom, we having appre-
hended, would also have judged accord-
ing to our law.

7 But Lysias the tribune coming upon
as, with great violence took him away
out of our hands ;

8 Commanding his accusers to come to
thee : of whom thou mayest thyself, by
examination, have knowledge of all these
things, whereof we accuse him.

9 And the Jews also added, and said
that these things were so.

10 Then Paul answered, (the governor
making a sign to him to speak ; ) Know-
ing that for many years thou hast been
judge over this nation, I will with good
courage answer for myself,

11 For thou mayest understand, that
there are yet but twelve days, since I
went up to adore in Jerusalem :

12 And neither in the temple did they
find me disputing with any man, or caus-
ing any concourse of the people, neither
in the synagogues, nor in the city :

13 Neither can they prove unto thee
the things whereof they now accuse me.

14 But this I confess to thee, that ac-
cording to the way, which they call a
heresy, so do I serve the Father and my
God, believing all things which are writ-
ten in the law and the prophets :

*o Supra 21. 26.— X Supni 23^ &

15 Having hope in God, which these
also themselves look for, that there shall
be a resurrection of the just and un-
just.

16 And herein do I endeavour to have
always a conscience without offence
towards God, and towards men.

17 Now after many years, I came to
bring alms to my nation, and offerings,
and vows.

18 ^ In which I was found purified in
the temple : neither with multitude, nor
with tumult.

19 But certain Jews of Asia, who ought
to be present before thee, and to accuse,
if they had any thing against me ;

20 Or let these men themselves say, if
they found in me any iniquity, when
standing before the council,

21 Except it be for this one voice only
that I cried, standing among them, ^ Con-
cerning the resurrection of the dead am
I judged this day by you.

22 And Felix put them off, having most
certain knowledge of this way, saying
When Lysias the tribune shall comedown
I will hear you.

23 And he commanded a centurion to
keep him, and that he should be easy
and that he should not prohibit any ol
his friends to minister unto him.

24 And after some days, Felix, coming
with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jew
sent for Paul, and heard of him the faith
that is in Christ Jesus.

26 And as he treated of justice, anc
chastity, and of the judgment to come
Felix being terrified, answered : For thi<
time, go thy way: but when I have
convenient time, I will send for thee.

26 Hoping also withal, that money shoul(
be given him by Paul ; for which caus«
also oftentimes sending for him, he spok
with him.

27 But ^when two years were ended
Felix had for successor Fortius Festue
And Felix being willing to shew the Jew
a pleasure, left Paul bound.

CHAPTER 26.

Paul appeals to Ccesar. King Agrippa desires i
hear him.

NOW * when Festus was come into tb
province, after three days, he wei
up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

y A. D. 59.—« A. D. 59.

164

Paul appeals to Caesar

THE ACTS

Paul before King Agrippa

2 And the chief priests, and principal
men of the Jews, went unto him against
Paul : and they besought him,

3 Requesting favour against him, that
he would command him to be brought to
Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the
way.

4 But Festus answered : That Paul was
kept in Caesarea, and that he himself
«rould very shortly depart thither.

5 Let them, therefore, saith he, among
fou that are able, go down with me, and
accuse him, if there be any crime in the
man.

6 And having tarried among them no
more than eight or ten days, he went
iown to Caesarea, and the next day he
jat in the judgment seat ; and commanded
Paul to be brought.

7 Who being brought, the Jews stood
ibout him, who were come down from
Jerusalem, objecting many and grievous
uauses, which they could not prove ;

8 Paul making answer for himself : Nei-
ther against the law of the Jews, nor
igainst the temple, nor against Caesar,
bave I offended in any thing.

9 But Festus, willing to shew the Jews
\ pleasure, answering Paul, said: Wilt
bhou go up to Jerusalem, and there be
judged of these things before me ?

10 Then Paul said : I stand at Caesar^s
judgment seat, where I ought to be
judged. To the Jews I have done no in-
jury, as thou very well knowest.

11 For if I have injured them, or have
sommitted any thing worthy of death, I
refuse not to die. But if there be none
[)f these things whereof they accuse me,
Qo man may deliver me to them : I appeal
bo Caesar.

12 Then Festus having conferred with
bhe council, answered: Hast thou ap-
pealed to Caesar ? To Caesar shalt thou
%o.

13 And after some days, king Agrippa
md Bernice came down to Caesarea to
lalute Festus.

14 And as they tarried there many
Jays, Festus told the king of Paul, say-
ing : A certain man was left prisoner by
Felix.

15 About whom, when I was at Jerusa-
lem, the chief priests, and the ancients of
the Jews, came unto me, desiring con-
demnation against him.

16 To whom I answered: It is not the

custom of the Romans to condemn any
man, before that he who is accused have
his accusers present, and have liberty to
make his answer, to clear himself of the
things laid to his charge.

17 When therefore they were come
hither, without any delay, on the day
following, sitting in the judgment seat, I
commanded the man to be brought.

18 Against whom, when the accusers
stood up, they brought no accusation of
things which I thought ill of :

19 But had certain questions of their
own superstition against him, and of one
Jesus deceased, whom Paul aflBrmed to
be alive.

20 I therefore being in a doubt of this
manner of question, asked him whether
he would go to Jerusalem, and there be
judged of these things.

21 But Paul appealing to be reserved
unto the hearing of Augustus, I com-
manded him to be kept, till I might send
him to Caesar.

22 And Agrippa said to Festus : I would
also hear the man, myself. To morrow,
said he, thou shalt hear him.

23 And on the next day, when Agrippa
and Bernice were come with great pomp,
and had entered into the hall of audience,
with the tribunes, and principal men of
the city, at Festus' commandment, Paul
was brought forth.

24 And Festus saith : King Agrippa, and
all ye men who are here present with us,
you see this man, about whom all the
multitude of the Jews dealt with me at
Jerusalem, requesting and crying out
that he ought not to live any longer.

25 Yet have I found nothing that he
hath committed worthy of death. But
forasmuch as he himself hath appealed
to Augustus, I have determined to send
him.

26 Of whom I have nothing certain to
write to my lord. For which cause I
have brought him forth before you, and
especially before thee, O king Agrippa,
that examination being made, I may have
what to write.

27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable
to send a prisoner, and not to signify the
things laid to his charge.

CHAPTER 26.
Panlgive»an account to Agrippa c^ hU i^e.co»

lfi6

Paul narrates his conversion

THE ACTS

Paul narrates Ms conversion

rpHEN "Agrippa said to Paul: Thou
X art permitted to speak for thyself.
Then Paul stretching forth his hand, be-
gan to make his answer.

2 I think myself happy, O king Agrippa,
that I am to answer for myself this day
before thee, touching all the things
whereof I am accused by the Jews.

3 Especially as thou knowest all, both
' lustoms and questions that are among
the Jews : Wherefore I beseech thee to
hear me patiently.

4 And my life indeed from my youth,
which was from the beginning among my
own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews do
know:

5 Having known me from the beginning
(if they will give testimony) that accord-
ing to the most sure sect of our religion
I lived a Pharisee.

6 And now for the hope of the promise
that was made by God to the fathers, do
I stand subject to judgment;

7 Unto which, our twelve tribes, serv-
ing night and day, hope to come. For
which hope, O king, I am accused by the
Jews.

8 Why should it be thought a thing
incredible, that God should raise the
dead?

9 And I indeed did formerly think, that I
ought to do many things contrary to the
name of Jesus of Nazareth.

10 ^ Which also I did at Jerusalem, and
many of the saints did I shut up in prison,
having received authority of the chief
priests : and when they were put to death,
I brought the sentence.

11 And oftentimes punishing them, in
every synagogue, I compelled them to
blaspheme: and being yet more mad
against them, I persecuted them even
unto foreign cities.

12 ^Whereupon when I was going to
Damascus with authority and permission
of the chief priest,

13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way
a light from heaven above the brightness
of the sun, shining round about me, and
them that were in company with me.

14 And when we were all fallen down
on the ground, I heard a voice speaking
to me in the Hebrew tongue : Saul, Saul,
why persecutest thou me? It is hard for
thee to kick against the goad.

a A. D. 59. — 6 Supra 8. 3. — c Supra 9. 2.

15 And I said : Who art thou. Lord ? And
the Lord answered : 1 am Jesus whom
thou persecutest.

16 But rise up, and stand upon thy feet:
for to this end have I appeared to thee,
that I may make thee a minister, and a
witness of those things which thou hast
seen, and of those things wherein I will
appear to thee,

17 Delivering thee from the people, and
from the nations, unto which now I send
thee:

18 To op6n their eyes, that they may be
converted from darkness to light, and
from the power of Satan to God, that
they may receive forgiveness of sins, and
a lot among the saints, by the faith thai
is in me.

19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was
not incredulous to the heavenly vision:

20 ** But to them first that are at Damas-
cus, and at Jerusalem, and unto all the
country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did
I preach, that they should do penance,
and turn to God, doing works worthy ol
penance.

21 For this cause the Jews, when I wag
in the temple, ® having apprehended me.
went about to kill me.

22 But being aided by the help of God
I stand unto this day, witnessing both U.
small and great, saying no other thing
than those which the prophets, anc
Moses did say should come to pass:

23 That Christ should suffer, and thai|
he should be the first that should rist
from the dead, and should shew light U
the people, and to the Gentiles.

24 As he spoke these things, and madif
his answer, Festus said with a loud voice
Paul, thou 9rt beside thyself: much learn
ing doth make thee mad.

25 And Paul said: I am not mad, mosj
excellent Festus, but I speak words d
truth and soberness.

26 For the kingknoweth of these things,
to whom also I speak with confidence'
For I am persuaded that none of thee
things are hidden from him. For neithe
was any of these things done in a corne

27 Believest thou the prophets, O kin
Agrippa ? I know that thou believest.

28 And Agrippa said to Paul : In
little thou persuadest me to become
Christian.

«I Supr» & 2a — « Supra 21. SL

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'^aul is sent to Rome

29 And Paul eatid : T would to God, that
►oth in a little and in much, not only
hou, but also all that hear me, this day,
hould become such as I also am, except
hese bands.

30 And the king rose up, and the gov-
rnor, and Bernice, and they that sat
7ith them.

31 And when they were gone aside, they
poke among themselves, saying: This
Qan hath done nothing worthy of death
»r of bands.

32 And Agrippa said to Festus: This
Qan might have been set at liberty, if he
lad not appealed to CsBsar.

CHAPTER 27.

*aul is shipped for Rome. His voyage and ship-
wreck»

AND -^when it was determined that he
. should sail into Italy, and that Paul,
i^ith the other prisoners, should be de-
Ivered to a centurion, named Julius, of
he band Augusta,

2 ^ Going on board a ship of Adrume-
um, we launched, meaning to sail by the
oasts of Asia, Aristarchus, the Macedo-
lian of Thessalonica, continuing with us.

3 And the day following we came to
lidon. And Julius treating Paul courte-
ously, permitted him to go to his friends,
ind to take care of himself.

4 And when we had launched from
hence, we sailed under Cyprus, because
he winds were contrary.

5 And sailing over the sea of Cilicia, and
'amphylia, we came to Lystra, which is
n Lycia:

6 And there the centurion finding a ship
►f Alexandria sailing into Italy, removed
Ls into it.

7 And when for many days we had sailed
lowly, and were scarce come over against
Jnidus, the wind not suffering us, we
ailed near Crete by Salmone :

8 And with much ado sailing by it, we
same into a certain place, which is called
Jood- havens, nigh to which was the city
)f Thalassa.

9 And when much time was spent, and
vhen sailing nowwas dangerous, because
ihe fast was now past, Paul comforted
ihem,

10 Saying to them : Ye men, I see that
ihe voyage beginneth to be with injury

THE ACTS

The tempest

f A. D. 59.

and much damage, not only 3f the lading
and ship, but also of our lives.

1.1 But the centurion believed the piloV
and the master of the ship, more than
those things which were said by Paul.

12 And whereas it was not a commodi-
ous haven to winter in, the greatest part
gave counsel to sail thence, if by any means
they might reach Phenice to winter there,
which is a haven of Crete, looking to-
wards the southwest and northwest.

13 And the south wind gently blowing,
thinking that they had obtained their
purpose, when they had loosed from
Asson, they sailed close by Crete.

14 But not long after, there arose against
it a tempestuous wind, called Euro-
aquilo.

15 And when the ship was caught, and
could not bear up against the wind, giv-
ing up the ship to the winds, we were
driven.

16 And running under a certain island,
that is called Cauda, we had much work
to come by the boat.

17 Which being taken up, they used
helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing
lest they should fall into the quicksands,
they let down the sail yard, and so were
driven.

18 And we being mightily tossed with
the tempest, the next day they light-
ened the ship.

19 And the third day they cast out with
their own hands the tackling of the
ship.

20 And when neither sun nor stars ap-
peared for many days, and no small
storm lay on us, all hope of our being
saved was now taken away.

21 And after they had fasted a long
time, Paul standing forth in the midst of
them, said : You should indeed, O ye
men, have hearkened unto me, and not
have loosed from Crete, and have gained
this harm and loss.

22 And now I exhort you to be of good
cheer. For there shall be no loss of any
man^s life among you, but only of the
ship.

23 For an angel of God, whose I am,
and whom I serve, stood by me this
night,

24 Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must
be brought before Caesar; and behold,

g%Gat,u»vk

Paul encourages the sailors

THE ACTS

Paul bitten by the vipe'i

(jrod hath given thee all them that sail
with thee.

25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer;
for I believe God that it shall so be, as
it hath been told me.

26 And we must come unto a certain
island.

27 But after the fourteenth night was
come, as we were sailing in Adria, about
midnight, the shipmen deemed that they
discovered some country.

28 Who ^-Iso sounding, found twenty
fathoms; and going on a little further,
they found fifteen fathoms.

29 Then fearing lest we should fall upon
rough places, they cast four anchors out
of the stern, and wished for the day.

30 But as the shipmen sought to fly out
of the ship, having let down the boat
into the sea, under colour, as though they
would have cast anchors out of the fore-
part of the ship,

31 Paul said to the centurion, and to
the soldiers: Except these stay in the
ship, you cannot be saved.

32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes
of the boat, and let her fall off.

33 And when it began to be light, Paul
besought them all to take meat, saying :
This day is the fourteenth day that you
have waited, and continued fasting, tak-
ing nothing.

34 Wherefore I pray you to take some
meat for your health's sake; for there
shall not an hair of the head of any of
you perish.

35 And when he had said these things,
taking bread, he gave thanks to God in
the sight of them all ; and when he had
broken it, he began to eat.

36 Then were they all of better cheer,
and they also took some meat.

37 And we were in all in the ship, two
hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

38 And when they had eaten enough,
they lightened the ship, casting the
wheat into the sea.

39 And when it was day, they knew
not the land ; but they discovered a cer-
tain creek that had a shore, into which
they minded, if they could, to thrust in
the ship,

40 And when they had taken up the
anchors, they committed themselves to
the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands ;
and hoisting up the mainsail to the wind,
they mado towards shore.

41 And when we were fallen into a
place where two seas met, they run the
ship aground ; and the forepart indeed
sticking fast, remained unmoveable: but
the hinder part was broken with the vio-
lence of the sea.

42 And the soldiers' counsel was, thai
they should kill the prisoners, lest anj
of them, swimming out, should escape.

43 But the centurion, willing to save
Paul, forbade it to be done ; and he com-
manded, that they who could swim, shoulc
cast themselves first into the sea, anc
save themselves, and get to land.

44 And the rest, some they carried oi
boards, and some on those things tha
belonged to the ship. And so it cami
to pass, that every soul got safe to land

CHAPTER 28.

Paul, after three months* stay in Mellta, eontimu
his voyage, and arrives at Borne, Hia conferenc
there with the Jews.

A KD when we had escaped, then w<
Jl\. knew that the island was calle«
Melita. But the barbarians shewed u
no small courtesy.

2 For kindling a fire, they refreshed u
all, because of the present rain, and c
the cold.

3 And when Paul had gathered togethe
a bundle of sticks, and had laid them o
the fire, a viper coming out of the hea
fastened on his hand.

4 And when the barbarians saw th
beast hanging on his hand, they said od
to another: Undoubtedly this man is
murderer, who though he hath escape
the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffc
him to live,

5 And he indeed shaking off the beai
into the fire, suffered no harm.

6 But they supposed that he would b«
gin to swell up, and that he would su<
denly fall down and die. But expectii
long, and seeing that there came i
harm to him, changing their minds, the
said, that he was a god.

7 Now in these places were possessioi
of the chief man of the island, nam*
Publius, who receiving us, for three daj
entertained us courteously.

8 And it happened that the father
Publius lay sick of a fever, and of
bloody fiux. To whom Paul entered h
and when he had prayed, and laid t
hands on him, he healed him.

9 Which being done* all that had dir

Paul in Rome

THE ACTS Paul remains two years in Rome

eases in the island, came and were
healed:

10 Who also honoured us with manj»^
honours, and when we w6re to set sail,
they laded us with such things as were
necessary.

11 '* And after three months, we sailed
in a ship of Alexandria, that had win-
tered in the island, whose sign was the
Castors.

12 And when we were come to Syra-
cusa, we tarried there three days.

13 . From thenco, compassing by the
shore, we came to Rhegium : and after
one day, the south wind blowing, we
came the second day to Puteoli ;

14 Where, finding brethren, we were
desired to tarry with them seven days:
and so we went to Rome.

15 And from thence, when the bre-
thren had heard of us, they came to meet
us as far aB Appii Forum, and the Three
Taverns : Whom when Paul saw, he gave
thanks to God, and took courage.

16 And when we were come to Rome,
Paul was suffered to dwell by Tiimself,
with a soldier that kept him.

17 And after the third day, he called
together the chief of the Jews. And
when they were assembled, he said to
them : Men, brethren, I, having done
nothing against the people, or the cus-
tom of our fathers, was delivered pris'
oner from Jerusalem into the hands of
the Romans;

18 Who, when they had examined me,
would have released me, for that there
was no cause of death in me ;

19 But the Jews contradicting it, I was
constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not
that I had any thing to accuse my na-
tion of.

20 For this cause therefore I desired to
see you, and to speak to you. Because
that for the hope of Israel, I am bound
with this chain.

h A. D. 60.
i Isa. 6. 9; Matt. 13. 14; Mark 4. 12: Luke 8. 10;

21 But they said to him; We neither re-
ceived letters concerning thee from Judea,
neither did any of the brethren that came
hither, relate or speak any evil of thee.

22 But we desire to hear of thee what
thou thinkest; for as concerning this*
sect, we know that it is every where
contradicted.

23 And when they had appointed him a
day, there came very many to him unto
his lodgings ; to whom he expounded,
testifying the kingdom of God, and per-
suading them concerning Jesus, out of
the -law of Moses and the prophets, from
morning until evening.

24 And some believed the things that
were said ; but some believed not.

25 And when they agreed not among
themselves, they departed, Paul speaking
this one word : Well did the Holy Ghost
speak to our fathers by Isaias the pro-
phet,

26 Saying: ^Go to this people^ and say to
them: With the ear you shall hear, and shcM
not understand; and seeing you shall see,
and shall not perceive,

27 For the heart of this people is grown
grosSy and with their ears have they heard
heavily, and their eyes they have shut ; lest
perhaps they should see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and understand with
their heart, and should be converted, and I
should heal them.

28 Be it known therefore to you, that
this salvation of God is sent to the Gen-
tiles, and they will hear it.

29 And whea he had said these things,
the Jews went out from him, having
much reasoning among themselves.

30 And he remained two whole years
•^in his own hired lodging ; and he re-
ceived all that came in to him,

31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and
teaching the things which concern the
Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence,
without prohibition.

John 12.40; Rom. 11.8.
3 Until A. D. 62.

The faith of the Romans

PauVs zeal for the Gospel

THE

EPISTLE OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE

TO THE ROMANS«

St. Paul wrote this Epistle at Corinth, when he was preparing to go to Jerusalem^
with the charitable contributions collected in Achaia and Macedonia for the relief
of the Christians in Judea; which was about twenty-eight years after our Lord's
Ascension. It was written in Greek. And though it is not the first of his Epistles
in the order of time, yet it is first placed on account of the sublimity of the matter
contained in it, of the pre-eminence of the place to which it was sent, and in
veneration of the Church.

CHAPTER 1.

He commends the faith of the Romans, whom he
longs to see. The philosophy of the heathens, 6e-
ing void of faith and hiim,Uity, betrayed them
into sham.ef'UL sins.

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called
to be an apostle, separated unto the
gospel of God,

2 Which he had promised before, by his
prophets, in the holy scriptures,

3 Concerning his Son, who was made to
him of the seed of David, according to
the flesh,

4 Who was predestinated the Son of
God in power, according to the spirit of
sanctification, by the resurrection of our
Lord Jesus Christ from the dead;

5 By whom we have received grace and
apostleship for obedience to the faith, iu
ail nations, for his name ;

6 Among whom are you also the called
of Jesus Christ :

7 To all that are at Rome, the beloved
of God, called to be saints. Grace to you,
and peace from God our Father, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ.

8 First I give thanks to my God, through
Jesus Christ, for you all, because your
faith is spoken of in the whole world.

9 For God is my witness, whom I serve
in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that
without ceasing I make a commemora-
tion of you ;

10 Always in my prayers making re-
quest, if by any means now at length I

Chap. l. Ver. 4. Predestinated, &c. Christ as
man, was predestinated to be the Srn of God : and
declared to be so (as the apostle here signifies) first,
"ky power, that is, by kit working stupendous mira-

may have a prosperous journey, by the
wV\ of God, to come into you. [

11 For I long to see you, that I may im '
part anto you seme spiritual grace, to
strengthen you:

12 That is to say, that I may be com-
forted together in you, by that which is
common to us both, your faith and mine

13 And I would not have you ignorant,
brethreri that I have often purposed to
come unto you, (and have been hindered
hitherto,) that I might have some fruit
among you also, even as among other
Gentiles.

14 To the Greeks and to the barbarians,
to the wise and to the unwise, I am a
debtor j

15 So (as much as is in me) I am ready
to preach the gospel to you also that are
at Rome.

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel.
For it is the power of God unto salvation
to every one that believeth, to the Jew
first, and to the Greek.

17 For the justice of God is revealec^
therein, from faith unto faith, as it is
written : ^ The just man liveth by faith.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and
injustice of those men that detain the
truth of God in injustice :

19 Because that which is known of God
is manifest in them. For God hath man-
ifested it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him, from

k Hab. 2, 4 ; Gal. 3. 11 ; Heb 10. 38.

rles ; secondly, by the spirit of sanctification. that is,
by his infinite sanctity ; thirdly, by his resurrection,
or raising himself from the dead.

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Vickedness of the heathen TO THE ROMANS The sinner shall not escape

the creation of the world, are clearly-
seen, being understood by the things that
ire made ; his eternal power also, and
iivinity : so that they are inexcusable.
21 ^ Because that, when they knew God,
bhey have not glorified him as God, or

given thanks ;
and

but became vain in their
their foolish heart was

thoughts,
darkened.

22 For professing themselves to be wise,
bhey became fools.

23 "* And they changed the glory of the
incorruptible God into the likeness of the
image of a corruptible man, and of birds,
and of fourfooted beasts, and of creep-
ing things.

24 Wherefore God gave them up to the
flesires of their heart, ** unto uncleanness,
bo dishonour their own bodies among
themselves.

25 Who changed the truth of God into
a. lie ; and worshipped and served the
cjreature rather than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God delivered them up
to shameful affections. For their women
have changed the natural use into that
ase which is against nature.

27 And, in like manner, the men also,
leaving the natural use of the women,
have burned in their lusts one towards
another, men with men working that
^hich is filthy, and receiving in them-
selves the recompense which was due to
their error.

28 And as they liked not to have God
in their knowledge, God delivered them
Qp to a reprobate sense, to do those
things which are not convenient ;

29 Being filled with all iniquity, malice,
fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of
Bnvy, murder, contention, deceit, malig-
nity, whisperers,

30 Detractors, hateful to God, contume-
lious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,

31 Foolish, dissolute, without affection,
«without fidelity, without mercy.

32 Who, having known the justice of
Rod, did not understand that they who
io such things, are worthy of death;
and not only they that do them, but they

I Eph. 4. 11. — m Ps. 105. 20; Jer, ii. lo. — nGal.
J. 19 ; Eph. 4. 19, and 5. 3 ; Col. 3. 5 ; 1 Thess. 2. 3, and
I. 7, — o Matt. 7. 2. — P Wisd. 9. 24; 2 Peter 3, 9.—

Ver. 26. God (Ifilivered them. vp. Not by being
Mithor of their sins, but by withdrawing his grace,

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also that
them.

consent to them that do

CHAPTER 2.

7%e Jews are censured, who make their boast of the
law, and keep it not. He declares who are the true
Jews.

WHEREFORE thou art inexcusable,
O man, whosoever thou art that
judgest. °For wherein thou judgest an-
other, thou condemnest thyself. For
thou dost the same things which thou
judgest.

2 For we know that the judgment of
God is, according to truth, against them
that do such things.

3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that
judgest them who do such things, and
dost the same, that thou shalt escape the
judgment of God?

4 Or despisest thou the riches of his
goodness, and patience, and longsuffer-
ing? i^Knowest thou not, that the be-
nignity of God leadeth thee to penance ?

5 But according to thy hardness and im-
penitent heart, thou treasurest up to thy-
self wrath, against the day of wrath, and
revelation of the just judgment of God.

6 ^ Who will render to every man accord-
ing to his works.

7 To them indeed, who according to
patience in good work, seek glory and
honour and incorruption, eternal life:

8 But to them that are contentious, and
who obey not the truth, but give credit
to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

9 Tribulation and anguish upon every
soul of man that worketh evil, of the
Jew first, and also of the Greek:

10 But glory, and honour, and peace to
every one that worketh good, to the
Jew first, and also to the Greek.

11 '"For there is no respect of persons
with God.

12 For whosoever have sinned without
the law, shall perish without the law ;
and whosoever have sinned in the law,
shall be judged by the law.

13 * For not the hearers of the law are
just before God, but the doers of the law
shall be justified.

14 For when the Gentiles, who have not
the law, do by nature those things thai

q Matt. 16. 27.— r Deut. 10. 17; 2 Par. 19. 7 : Job 34.
19; Wisd. 6. 8; Eccli. 35. 15; Acts 10.34; Eph. 6. 9,
Col. 3. 25 ; 1 Peter 1. 17. — s Matt. 7. 21 ; James l. 22.

and so per itting them, in punishment of their prida
to fall uto chose shameful sins.

Mere profession insufficient TO THE ROMANS

All men are sinners

are of the law ; these having not the law
are a law to themselves :

15 Who shew the work of the law writ-
ten in their hearts, their conscience bear-
ing witness to them, and their thoughts
between themselves accusing, or also
defending one another,

16 In the day when God shall judge the
secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according
to my gospel.

17 * But if thou art called a Jew and rest-
est in the law, and makest thy boast of
God,

18 And kno west his will, ** and appro vest
the more profitable tilings, being in-
structed by the law,

19 Art confident that thou thyself art a
guide of the blind, a light of them that
are in darkness,

20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher
of infants, having the form of knowledge
and of truth in the law.

21 Thou therefore that teaches t another,
teachest not thyself: thou that preach-
est that men should not steal, stealest:

22 Thou that sayest, men should not
commit adultery, committest adultery :
thou that abhorrest idols, committest
sacrilege :

23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law,
by transgression of the law dishonourest
God.

24 ""{For the name of God through you is
blasphemed among the Gentiles^ as it is
written.)

25 Circumcision profiteth indeed, if
thou keep the law ; but if thou be a trans-
gressor of the law, thy circumcision is
made uncircumcision.

26 If, then, the uncircumcised keep the
justices of the law, shall not this uncir-
cumcision be counted for circumcision ?

27 ^ And shall not that which by nature
is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law,
judge thee, who by the letter and cir-
cumcision art a transgressor of the law ?

28 * For it is not he is a Jew, who is
so outwardly ; nor is that circumcision
which is outwardly in the flesh :

29 But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly ;

t Apoc.il. 9. — w Phil. 1.10. — V Isa. 52. 5; Ezech.
36. 20.-11; Matt. 12. 42. — x Isa. 48. — y Infra 9. 4.—
z 2 Tim. 2. 13. — a Jolin 3. 33 ; Ps. 115. 11. — b Ps. 50, 0.

Chap. 3. Ver. 4. God only is essentially true.
All men in their own capacity are liable to lies at»f^
errors : nevertheless God, who is the truth, will make
good his promise of keeping bis cimrcii in all truth.
ieeSLJotoli&lS.

and the circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit, not in the letter j
whose praise is not of men, but of God.

CHAPTER 3.

The advantages of the Jews. All men are sinners,
and none can be justified by the works of the
law : but only by the grace of Christ.

WHAT advantage then bath the Jew,
or what is the profit of circumci'
sion ?

2 Much every way. First indeed, y be-
cause the words of God were committed
to them.

3 For what if some of them have not
believed ? ^ shall their unbehef make the
faith of God without effect ? God for-
bid.

4 " But God is true ; and every man a
liar, as it is written, ^ That thou mayeat
be justified in thy words^ and mayest over'
come when thou art judged.

5 But if our injustice commend the jus-
tice of God, what shall we say ? Is God
unjust, who executeth wrath ?

6(1 speak according to man.) God for-
bid: otherwise how shall God judge this
world ?

7 For if the truth of God hath more
abounded through my lie, unto his glory,
why am I also yet judged as a sinner ?

8 And not rather (as we are slandered,
and as some affirm that we say) let us
do evil, that there may come good?
whose damnation is just.

9 What then ? Do we excel them ? No,
not so. ^'For we have charged both
Jews, and Greeks, that they are all under
sin.

10 As it is written: ^ There w not any
man just.

11 There is none that understandeth^ there
is none that seeketh after God.

12 All have turned out of the way ; they
are become unprofitable together: there is
none that doth good^ there is not so much as
one.

13 ^ Their throat is an open sepulchre;
with their tcmgues they have dealt deceit'
fully. ^ The venom, of asps is under their
lips.

— c Gal. 3. 22 ; Supra 1. 17 ; Infra 11. 9. — d Ps. 13. 8.

— e Ps. 5. 11 ; James 3. 8.—/ Ps. 139. 4.

Ver. 10. There is not any man just^ viz., by vir»
tue either of the law of nature, or of the law of
Moses ; but only by faith and grace.

Man is justified by grace TO THE ROMANS

Justification

14 9 Whose mouth ia full of cursing and
bitterness :

15 ^ Their feet swift to shed blood:

16 Destruction and misery in their ways:

17 And the way of peace they have not
known :

18 * There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19-^ Now we know, that what things

soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to
them that are in the law; that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the
world may be made subject to God.

20 Because by the works of the law no
flesh shall be justified before him. For
by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now without the law the justice
of God is made manifest, being witnessed
by the law and the prophets.

22 Even the justice of God, by faith of
Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them
that believe in him: for there is no dis-
tinction:

23 For all have sinned, and do need the
glory of God.

24 Being justified freely by his grace,
through the redemption, that is in Christ
Jesus,

25 Whom God hath proposed to be a
propitiation, through faith in his blood,
to the shewing of his justice, for the re-
mission of former sins,

26 Through the forbearance of God, for
the shewing of his justice in this time; that
he himself may be just, and the justifier
of him, who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.

27 Where is then thy boasting? It is
excluded. By what law? Of works?
No, but by the law of faith.

flr Ps. 9. 7. — /i Isa. 59. 7 : Prov. L 16.
<Ps.35.2.— jGal.2. 16.

Ver. 28. By faith, &c. The faith, to which the
apostle here attributes man's Justification, is not a
presumptuous assurance of our being justified ; but
a firm and lively belief of all that God has revealed
or promised. Heb. 11. A faith working through
charity in Jesus Christ. Gal. 5. 6. In short, a faith
which takes in hope, love, repentance, and the use
of the sacraments. And the works which he here
excludes, are only the works of the law : that is,
such as are done by the law of nature, or that of
Moses, antecedent to the faith of Christ : but by no
means, such as follow faith, and proceed from It.

Chap. 4. Ver. 2. By works. Done by his own
•trength, without the grace of God, and faith in him.
-" Ibid, ^ot before God. Whatever glory or ap.
plause such works might procure from men, they
would be of no value 'n the sight of God.

Ver. 3. Reputed, &c. By God, who reputeth
nothing otherwise than it is. However, we may
gather from this word, that when we are justified,
our justification proeeedeth from God's free grace
and bounty ; and not from any efficacy which any
act of ours could have of its own nature, abstracting
tnm God's grace.

28 For we account a man to be justified
by faith, without the works of the law.

29 Is he the God of the Jews only ? Is
he not also of the Gentiles ? Yes, of the
Gentiles also.

30 For it is one God, that justifieth cir-
cumcision by faith, and uncircumcision
through faith.

31 Do we, then, destroy the law through
faith ? God forbid : but we establish the
law.

CHAPTER 4.
Abraham was not justified by works done, as of
himself; but by grace, and by faith / and that
before he wa^ circumcised. Gentiles, by faith,
are his children.

WHAT shall we say then thf.t Abra-
ham hath found, who is our father
according to the flesh.

2 For if Abraham were justified by
works, he hath whereof to glory, but not
before God.

3 For what saith the scripture ? * Abra-
ham believed God^ and it was reputed fjo
him unto justice,

4 Now to him that worketh, the re-
ward is not reckoned according to gractj^
but according to debt.

6 But to him that worketh not, yet se-
lieveth in him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is reputed to justice, according
to the purpose of the grace of God.

6 As David also termeth the blessedness
of a man, to whom God reputeth justice
without works :

7 Blessed are they whose ^iniquities are
forgiven, and whose sins are ccwered,

8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord
hath not imputed sin.

k Gen. 16. 6 ; Gal. 3. 6 ; James 2. 23.
I Ps. 31. 1.

Ver. 4. To him that worketh. Viz., as of his own
fund, or by his own strength. Such a man, says the
apostle, challenges his reward as a debt due to bis
own performances ; whereas he who worketh not^
that is, who presumeth not upon any works done by
his own strength, but seeketh justice through faith
and grace, is freely justified by God's grace.

Ver. 7. Blessed, are they whose iniquities are for
given, and whose sins are covered. That is, blessed
are those who, by doing penance, have obtained
pardon and remission of their sins, and also are
covered; that is, newly clothed with the habit ot
grace, and vested with the stole of charity.

Ver. 8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath
not imputed sin. That is, blessed is the man who
hath retained his baptismal innocence, that no
grievous sin can be imputed to him. And, likewise,
blessed is the man, who after falling into sin, hath
done penance and leads a virtuous life, by frequentp
ing the sacraments nef^essary for obtaining the grace
to prevent a relapse, that sin is no more imputed to
him.

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Abraham jusUfied hy faith TO THE ROMANS

Peace with God

9 Thii blessedness then, doth it remain
in the circumcision only, or in the iincir-
cumcision also ? For we say that unto
Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

10 How then was it reputed ? When he
was in circumcision, or in uncircumci-
iion ? Not in circumcision, but in uncir-
cumcision.

11 '^And he received the sign of cir-
cumcision, a seal of the justice of the
faith, which he had, being uncircum-
cised; that he might be the father of
all them that believe, being uncircum-
cised, that unto them also it may be re-
puted to justice :

12 AnO might be the father of circum-
cision ; not to them only, that are of the
circumcision, but to them also that fol-
low the steps of the faithful, that is in
the uncircumcision of our father Abra-
ham.

13 '*For not through the law was the
promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that
he should be heir of the world; but
through the justice of faith.

14 For if they who are of the law be
heirs, faith is made void, the promise is
made of no effect.

15 For the law worketh wrath. For
where there is no law, neither is there
transgression.

16 Therefore is it of faith, that accord-
ing to grace the promise might be firm
to all the seed ; not to that only which
is of the law, but to that also which is of
the faith of Abraham, who is the father
of us all,

17 (As it is written : ® / have made thee a
father of many nations,) before God, whom
he believed, who quickeneth the dead ;
and calleth those things that are not, as
those that are.

18 Who against hope believed in hope ;
that he might be made the father of
many nations, according to that which
was said to him : P So shall thy seed be.

19 And he was not weak in faith ; nei-
ther did he consider his own body now^

m Gen. 17. 10 and 11. — n Gal. 3. 18 ; Heb. 11. 9.
o Gen. 17. 4. — p Gen. 15. 5. — ql Peter 1. 21.

Ver. 9. In the circumcision, &c. That Is, is it
only for the Jews that are circumcised ? No, says
the apostle, but also for the uncircumcised Gentiles :
who, by faith and grace, may come to justice ; as
Abraham did before he was circumcised.

Ver. 14. Be heirs. That is, if they alone, who
follow the ceremonies of the law, be heirs of the
blessings promised to Abraham ; then that faith
wlucb WM «oiQucb praised in Mm. will be found to

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dead, whereas he was almost an hundred
years old, nor the dead womb of Sara.

20 In the promise also of God he stag-
gered not by distrust ; but was strength-
ened in faith, giving glory to God :

21 Most fully knowing, that whatsoever
he has promised, he is able also to per-
form.

22 And therefore it was reputed to him
unto justice.

23 Now it is not written only for him,
that it was reputed to him unto justice,

24 But also for us, to whom it shall be
reputed, if we believe in him, ^that
raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from
the dead,

25 *" Who was delivered up for our sins,
and rose again for our justification.

CHAPTER 5.

The grounds we have for hope in Christ. Sin and
death came by Adam : grace and life by Christ.

BEING justified therefore by faith, let
us have peace with God, through
our Lord Jesus Christ :

2 * By whom also we have access through
faith into this grace, wherein we stand,
and glory in the hope of the glory of the
sons of God.

3 And not only so ; but we glory also in
tribulations, 'knowing that tribulation
worketh patience ;

4 And patience trial ; and trial hope ;
6 " And hope confoundeth not : because

the charity of God is poured forth in our
hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given
to us.

6 For why did Christ, when as yet we
were weak, according to the time, ^ die
for the ungodly ?

7 For scarce for a just man will one die ;
yet perhaps for a good man some one
would dare to die.

8 But God commendeth his charity to-
wards us ; because when as yet we were
sinners, according to the time,

9 Christ died for us ; much more there-
fore, being now justified by his blood.

r Isa. 53. 6 ; 1 Peter 1. 3. — s Eph. 2. 18.
t James l. 3. — w Ps. 22. 6. — v Heb. 9. 14 ; 1 Peter 3. 18.

be of little value. And the very promise will be
made void, by which he was promised to be the
father, not of the Jews only, but of all nations of
believers.

Ver. 15. The law worketh wrath. The law, aN
stracting from faith and grace, worketh wrath oc-
casionally, by being an occasion of many transgres-
sions, which provoke God's wratlL

Sin and death came by Adam TO THE ROMANS We must be dead to sin

shall we be saved from wrath through
him.

10 For if, when we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God by the death of
his Son; much more, being reconciled,
shall we be saved by his life.

11 And not only so; but also we glory
in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received recon-
ciliation.

12 Wherefore as by one man sin en-
tered into this world, and by sin death ;
and so death passed upon all men, in
whom all have sinned.

13 For until the law sin was in the
world ; but sin was not imputed, when
the law was not.

14 But death reigned from Adam unto
Moses, even over them also who have
not sinned after the similitude of the
transgression of Adam, who is a figure of
him who was to come.

15 But not as the offence, so also the
gift. For if by the offence of one, many
died ; much more the grace of God,
and the gift, by the grace of one man,
Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

16 And not as it was by one sin, so also
is the gift. For judgment indeed was by
one unto condemnation ; but grace is of
many offences, unto justification.

17 For if by one man's offence dearth
reigned through one ; much more they
who receive abundance of grace, and of
the gift, and of justice, shall reign in life
through one, Jesus Christ.

18 Therefore, as by the offence of one,
unto all men to condemnation ; so also by
the justice of one, unto all men to justi-
fication of life.

19 w For as by the disobedience of one
man, many were made sinners; so also
by the obedience of one, many shall be
made just.

20 Now the law entered in, that sin
might abound. And where sin abounded,
grace did more abound.

21 That as sin hath reigned to death ; so
also grace might reign by justice unto

w Phil. 2. 8 and 9. — x 2 Peter 2. 22.
^^^ y Gal. 3. 27 ; Col. 2. 12.

Chap. 5. Ver. 12. By one man. Adam, from
Whom we all contracted original sin.

Ver. 13. J^ot imputed. That is, men knew not,
or made no account of sin ; neither was it imputed
to them, in the manner it was afterwards, when they
transgressed the known written law of God.

Ver 2G^ That sin might ahovnd. Not as if the law
w«r0 givan on purpose for sin to abound i but tbat it

life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our
Lord.

CJHAPTER 6.

The Christian m,ust die to aiUt and live to God.

WHAT shall we say, then ? shall we
continue in sin, that grace may
abound ?

2 God forbid. For we that are dead to
sin, * how shall we live any longer there*
in?

3 Know you not that all we, who are
baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in
his death?

4 y For we are buried together with him
by baptism into death ; that as Christ is
risen from the dead by the glory of the
Father, ^so we also may walk in new-
ness of life.

6 For if we have been planted together
in the likeness of hio death, we shall be
also in the likeness of his resurrection.

6 Knowing this, that our old man is
crucified with him, that the body of sin
may be destroyed, to the end that we may
serve sin no longer.

7 For he that is dead is justified from
sin.

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we be-
lieve that we shall live also together with
Christ:

9 Knowing that Christ rising again from
the dead, dieth now no more, death shall
no more have dominion over him.

10 For in that he died to sin, he died
once ; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto
God:

11 So do you also reckon, that you are
dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your
mortal body, so as to obey the lusts
thereof.

13 "Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of iniquity unto sin ; but pre-
sent yourselves to God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members
as instruments of justice unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over

2 Eph. 4. 13 ; Heb. 12. 1 ; 1 Peter 2. 1, and 4. 2.
a Col. 3. 5.

so happened through man's perversity, taking occa*
sion of sinning more, from the prohibition of sin.

Chap. 6. Ver. 6. Old man — body of sin. Our
corrupt state, subject to sin and concupiscence, com'
ing to us from Adam, is called our old. man, as oui
state, reformed in and by Christ, is called the rteu
man. And the vices and sin», wtiicb tbeu (Ukia «Zi
US, aiv named the tMMty oj situ

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The wages of sin

TO THE ROMANS We are freed from the law

you ; for you are not under the law, but
under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin, because
we are not under the law, but under
grace ? God forbid.

16 ^ Know you not, that to whom you
yield yourselves servants to obey, his
servants you are whom you obey, whe-
ther it be of sin unto death, or of obedi-
ence unto justice.

17 But thanks be to God, that you were
the servants of sin, but have obeyed from
the heart, unto that form of doctrine,
into which you have been delivered.

18 Being then freed from sin, we have
been made servants of justice.

19 I speak an human thing, because of
the infirmity of your flesh. For as you
have yielded your members to serve un-
cleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity ; so
now yield your members to serve justice,
onto sanctification.

20 For when you were the servants of
sin, you were free men to justice.

21 What fruit therefore had you then
in those things, of which you are now
ashamed? For the end of them is death.

22 But now being made free from sin,
and become servants to God, you have
your fruit unto sanctification, and the
end life everlasting.

23 For the wages of sin is death. But
the grace of God, life everlasting, in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

CHAPTER 7.

We are released by Christ from the law, and from
the guilt of sin; though the inclination to it still
tempts us.

KNOW you not, brethren, (for I speak
to them that know the law,) that
the law hath dominion over a man, as
long as it liveth ?

2 ^ For the woman that hath an hus-
band, whilst her husband liveth is bound
to the law. But if her husband be dead,
she is loosed from the law of her hus-
band.

3 Therefore, whilst her husband liveth,

ft John 8. 34 ; 2 Peter 2. 19. — c 1 Cor. 7. 39.

Chap. 7. Ver. 1 As long a^ it liveth; or, &s long
as he liveth.

Ver. 8. Sin taking occasion. Sin, or concupis-
cence, which is called sin, because it is from sin, and
leads to sin, which was asleep before, was weakened
by the prohibition : the law not being the cause there-
of, nor properly giving occasion to it : but occasion
being taken by our corrupt nature to resist the com-
aiaii<3tnent laid upon us.

Vor. Id. That U may appear tin, or that sin may

she shall be called an adulteress, if she
be with another man: but if her husband
be dead, she is delivered from the law of
her husband ; so that she is not an adul*
teress, if she be with another man.

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also are
become dead to the law, by the body of
Christ ; that you may belong to another,
who is risen again from the dead, that
we may bring forth fruit to God.

5 For when we were in the flesh, the
«passions of sins, which were by the law,
did work in our members, to bring forth
fruit unto death.

6 But now we are loosed from the law
of death, wherein we were detained ; so
that we should serve in newness of spirit,
and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say, then ? Is the law
sin? God forbid. But I do not know
sin, but by the law ; for I had not known
concupiscence, if the law did not say:
^ Thou shalt not covet»

8 But sin taking occasion by the com-
mandment, wrought in me all manner of
concupiscence. For without the law sin
was dead.

9 And I lived some time without the
law. But when the commandment came,
sin revived,

10 And I died. And the commandment
that was ordained to life, the same was
found to be unto death to me.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the com-
mandment, seduced me, and by it killed
me.

12 * Wherefore the law indeed is holy,
and the commandment holy, and just,
and good.

13 Was that then which is good, made
death unto me? God forbid. But sin,
that it may appear sin, by that which is
good, wrought death in me ; that sin, by
the commandment, might become sinful
above measure.

14 For we know that the law is spirit-
ual ; but I am carnal, sold under sin.

15 For that which I work, I understand

d Ex. 20. 17 ; Dent. 5. 21. — e 1 Tim. 1. 8.

appear, viz., to be the monster it is, which is even
capable to take occasion from that which is good, to
work death.

Ver. 15. / do not that good which I will, &c. The
apostle here describes the disorderly motions of pas-
sion and concupiscence ; which oftentimes in us get
the start of reason: and by means of which even
good men suffer in the inferior appetite what their
will abhors : and are much hindered in the accom-
plisbmeat ol the desires of their spirit «ud mind

The evil inclinations in man TO THE ROMANS The flesh and the spirit

not. For I do not that good which I
will ; but the evil which I hate, that I do.

16 If then I do that which I will not, I
consent to the law, that it is good.
v^? Now then it is no more I that do it,
but sin that dwelleth in me.

18 For I know that there dwelleth not
in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that
which is good. For to will, is present
with me ; but to accomplish that which
is good, I find not.

' 19 For the good which I will, I do not ;
but the evil which I will not, that I do.

20 Now if I do that which I will not,
it is no more I that do it, but Bin that
dwelleth in me.

21 I find then a law, that when I have
a will to do good, evil is present with me.

22 For I am delighted with the law of
<jod, -^according to the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my mem-
bers, fighting against the law of my
mind, and captivating me in the law of
sin, that is in my members.

24 Unhappy man that I am, • who shall
deliver me from the body of this death ?

25 The grace of God, hf Jesus Christ
our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the
mind serve the law of God ; but with the
flesh, the law of sin.

CHAPTER 8.

There is no condernnation to them that, being jus-
tified by Christ, walk not according to the flesh,
but according to the spirit. Their strong hope
and love of God.

THERE is now therefore no condem-
nation to them that are in Christ Je-
sus, who walk not according to /the flesh.

2 For the law of thfe spirit of life, in
Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from
the law of sin and of death.

3 3 For what the law Could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh ; God
sending his own Son, in the likeness of
sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned
sin in the flesh ;

4 Thai the justification of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not

/ 1 Peter 3.4. — g Acts 15. 10 ; 13. 38 ; Heb. 9. 15.
h Acts S. 15, and 4. 18, and 5. 30 ;

But these evil motions, (though they are called the
inrv of sin, because they come from original sin, and
Violentlytempt and incline to sin,) as long as the will
does not consent to them, are not sins, because they
are not voluntary.

Chap. 8. Ver. 16. The Spirit .himself, &c. By
the inward motions of divine love, and the peace of
conscience, which the children of God experience,
they have a kind of testimony of God's favour ; by

according to the flesh, but according to
the spirit.

5 For they that are according to the
flesh, mind the things that are of the
flesh; but they that are according tQ
the spirit, mind the things that are of
the spirit.

6 For the wisdom of the flesh is death ;.
but the wisdom of the spirit is life and
peace.

7 Because the wisdom of the ftesh is an
enemy to God ; for it is not subject, to
the law of God, neither can it be.

8 And they who are in the flesh, can-
not please God.

9 But you are not in the flesh, but in
the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Now if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

10 And if Christ be in you, the body in-
deed is dead, because of sin; but the
spirit liveth, because of justification.

11 '^ And if the Spirit of him that raised
up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you;
he that raised up Jesus Christ from the
dead, shall quicken also your mortal
bodies, because of his Spirit that dwell-
eth in you.

12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors^-
not to the flesh, to live according to the
flesh.

13 For if you live according to the
flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit
you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you
shall live.

14 For whosoever are led by the Spirit
of God, they are the sons 6f God.

15 * For you have not received the spirit
of bondage again in fear ; but you have
received the' spirit of •? adoption of sons,
whereby we Ory: Abba (Father).

16 For the Spirit himself /giveth testi-
mony to bur spirit, that ^e are the sons
of God.

17 And if sons, heirs also'; heirs indeed
of God, and joint heirs with Christ: yet
so, if we suffer with him, that we. may
be also glorified with him.

Supra 4. 24; iCor. 6. 14.
i2Tim. 1.7.— jGal. 4.5.

which they are much strengthened in their hope of
their justification and salvation': but yet not so as
to pretend to an a(bsolute assurance: which is not
\isually granted in this mortal life: during which
we are taucht to v;otk out our salvation with fear
and fremUing, PhM. 2. 12. And that he that think,
e.th himself to stand, must take heed lest he/aiL
1 Cor. 10. 12. Seo also. Bom. IL 20, 21, 22.

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HopCy and love for God

TO THE ROMANS

Chrisfs love for us

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of
this time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory to come, that shall be re-
vealed in us.

19 For the expectation of the creature
«vaiteth for the revelation of the sons of
God.

20 For the creature was made subject
to vanity, not willingly, but by reason
of him that made it subject, in hope :

21 Because the creature also itself shall
be delivered from the servitude of cor-
ruption, into the liberty of the glory of
the children of God.

22 For we know that every creature
groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till
now.

23 And not only it, but ourselves also,
who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within our-
selves, waiting for the adoption of the
Bons of God, the redemption of our
body.

24 For we are saved by hope. But hope
that is seen, is not hope. For what a
man seeth, why doth he hope for ?

25 But if we hope for that wtiich we see
not, we wait for it with patience.

26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmity. For we know not what we
should pray for as we ought; but the
Spirit himself asketh for us with un-
speakable groanings.

, 27 And he that searcheth the hearts,
knoweth what the Spirit desire th; be-
cause he asketh for the saints according
to God.

28 And we know that to them that love
God, all things work together unto good,
to such as, according to his purpose, are
called to be saints.

29 For whom ho foreknew, he also pre-
destinated to bo made conformable to
the image of his Son ; that he might be
the firstborn amongct many brethren.

k Gen. 22. 12, — I Ps. 43. 22.

Ver. 19. The expectation of the creature, &c. He
speaks of the corporeal creation, made for the use
and service of man ; and, by occasion of his sin, made
subject to vanity, that is, to a perpetual instability,
tending to corruption and other defects : so that by
a figure of speech it is here said to groan and be in
labour, and to long for its deliverance, which is then
to come, when sin shall reign no more; and God
shall raise the bodies and unite them to their souls
never more to separate, and to be in everlasting
happiness in heaven.

Ver. 26. Asketh for vs. The Spirit is said to ask.
and desire for the saints, and to pray in us ; inasmuch
M be inspiretb prayer, and teacb«Uk us to pray.

30 And whom he predestinated, them he
also called. And whom he called, them
he also justified. And whom he justified,
them he also glorified.

31 What shall we then say to these
things ? If God be for us, who is against
us?

32 '^ He that spared not even his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all, how
hath he not also, with him, given us all
things ?

33 Who shall accuse against the elect of
God? God that justifieth.

34 Who is he that shall condemn ? Christ
Jesus that died, yea that is risen also
again ; who is at the right hand of God,
who also maketh intercession for us.

35 Who then shall separate us from the
love of Christ ? Shall tribulation ? or dis-
tress ? or famine ? or nakedness ? or dan-
ger ? or persecution ? or the sword ?

36 (As it is written: ^ For thy sake we are
put to death all the day long. We are ac-
counted as sheep for the slaughter,)

37 But in all these things we overcome^
because of him that hath loved us.

38 For I am sure that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor might,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

CHAPTER 9.

The apostle^s concern for the Jews. God's election
is free, and not confined to their nation.

I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not,
my conscience bearing me witness in
the Holy Ghost :

2 That I have great sadness, and con-
tinual sorrow in my heart.

3 "* For I wished myself to be an ana-
thema from Christ, for my brethren, who
are my kinsmen according to the flesh,

m Acts 9. 2 ; 1 Cor. 15. 9.

Ver. 29. He also predestinated, &c. That is, God
hath preordained that all his elect should be con-
formable to the image of his Son. We must not here
offer to pry into the secrets of God's eternal elec
tion : only firmly believe that all our good, in time,
and eternity, flows originally from God's free good-
ness ; and all our evil from man's free will.

Ver. 38. / am sure. That is, / am persuaded: as
it is in the Greek, ir^irttatiai.

Chap. 9. Ver. 3. Anathema.; a curse. The
apostle's concern and love for his countrymen the
Jews was so great, that he was willing to suffer even
an anathema, or curse, for their sake ; or any evil
that could come upon bim, without his ofiencling Goo*

U«

God chose Jacob, not Esau TO THE ROMANS

God*s choice is free

4 Who are Israelites, to whom belong-
eth the adoption as of children, and the
glory, and the testament, and the giving
of the law, and the service of God, and
the promises :

5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom
is Christ, according to the flesh, who is
over all things, God blessed for ever.
Amen.

6 Not as though the word of God hath
miscarried. For all are not Israelites that
are of Israel :

7 Neither are all they that are the seed
of Abraham, children ; ** but in Isaac shall
thy seed be called:

8 That is to say, not they that are the
children of the flesh, are the children of
God; but they, ^'that are the children
of the promise, are accounted for the
seed.

9 For this is the word of promise : P Ac-
cording to this time tuill I come ; and Sara
shall have a son.

10 And not only she. ^But when Re-
becca also had conceived at once, of
Isaac our father.

11 For when the children were not yet
born, nor had done any good or evil (that
the purpose of God, according to elec-
tion, might stand,)

12 Not of works, but of him that calleth,
it was said to her ; ^ The elder shall serve
the younger,

13 As it is written : * Jax:ob I have loved,
but Esau I have hated,

14 What shall we say then? Is there
injustice with God? God forbid.

n Gen. 21. 12. — o Gal. 4. 28. —p Gen. 18. 10.

q Gen. 25. 24. — r Gen. 25. 23. — s MaL 1. 2.

t Ex. 33. 19.

Ver. 6. All are not Israelites, &c. Not all, who
are the carnal seed of Israel, are true Israelites in
God's account: who, as by his free grace, he hereto-
fore preferred Isaac before Ismael, and Jacob before
Esau, so he could, and did by the like free grace,
election and mercy, raise up spiritual children by
faith to Abraham and Israel, from among the Gen-
tiles, and prefer them before the carnal Jews.

Ver. 11. ^ot yet bom, &c. By this example of
these twins, and the preference of the younger to
the elder, the drift of the apostle is, to shew that.
God, in his election, mercy and grace, is not tied to
any particular nation, as the Jews imagined ; nor to
any prerogative of birtAi, or any foregoing merits.
For as, antecedently to his grace, he sees no merits
in any, but finds all involved in sin, in the common
mass of condemnation; and all children of wrath:
there is no one whom he might not justly leave in
that mass ; so that whomsoever he delivers from it,
he delivers in his mercy; and whomsoever he leaves
Jn it, he leaves in his justice. As when, of two
equally criminal, the king is pleased out of pure
mercy to pardon one, whilst he suffers justice to take
place iu the execution of the other.

15 For he saith to Moses: *I toill have
mercy on whom I urill have mercy; and I
will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.

16 So then it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that
sheweth mercy.

17 For the scripture saith to Pharao:
" To this purpose have I raised thee, that 1
may shew my power in thee, and that my
name may be declared throughout all the
earth.

18 Therefore he hath mercy on whom
he will ; and whom he will, he hardeneth.

19 Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why
doth he then find fault ? for who resist-
eth his will?

20 O man, who art thou that replies t
against God ? Shall the thing formed say
to him that formed it : Why hast thou
made me thus?

21 ^Or hath not the potter power over
the clay, of the same lump, to make one
vessel unto honour, and another unto
dishonour ?

22 What if God, willing to shew his
wrath, and to make hi-s power known,
endured with much patience vessels of
wrath, fitted for destruction,

23 That he might shew the riches of his
glory on the vessels of mercy, which he
hath prepared unto glory ?

24 Even us, whom also he hath called,
not only of the Jews, but also of the Gen-
tiles.

25 As in Osee he saith : ^ I vnll call that
which was not my people, my people; and
her that was not beloved, beloved; and her

u Ex. 9. 16.

V Wisd. 15. 7 ; Isa. 45. 9 ; Jer. 18. 6.

w Osee 2. 24 ; 1 Peter 2. lo.

Ver. 16. Not of him that willeth., &c. That is, by
any power or strength of his own, abstracting from
the grace of God.

Ver. 17. To this purpose, &c. Not that God made
him on purpose that he should sin, and so be damned :
but foreseeing his obstinacy in sin, and the abuse of
his own free will, he raised him up to be a mighty
king, to make a more remarkable example of him :
and that his power might be better known, and his
justice in punishing him, published throughout the
earth.

Ver. 18. He hardeneth. Not by being the cause
or author of his sin, but by withholding his grace,
and so leaving him in his sin, in punishment of his
past dements.

Ver. 21. The potter. This similitude is used only
to shew that we are not to dispute with our Maker,
nor to reason with him why he does not give as much
grace to one as to another ; for since the whole lump
of our clay is vitiated by sin, it is owing to his good-
ness and mercy, that he makes out of it so many
vessels of honour ; and it is no more than just, that
others, in punishment of their unrepented of sins,
should be given up to be vessels of dishouour.

179

The Gentiles are called

TO THE ROMANS

The 'power offaitl

that had not obtained mercy, one that hath
obtained mercy.

26 '^ And it shall be, in the place where it was
said unto them, You are not my people;
there they shall be called the sons of the liv-
ing God.

27 And Isaias crieth out concerning Is-
rael : ^ If the number of the children of Israel
be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be
saved.

28 For he shall finish his word, and cut it
short in justice; because a short word shall
the Lord make upon the earth.

29 And as Isaias foretold: * Unless the
Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had
been made as Sodom, and we had been like
unto Gomorrha.

30 What then shall we say ? That the
Gentiles, who followed not after justice,
have attained to justice, even the justice
that is of faith.

31 But Israel, by following after the law
of justice, is not come unto the law of
justice.

82 Why so ? Because they sought It not
by faith, but as it were of work: For
they stumbled at the stumblingstone.

33 As it is written : " Behold I lay in Sion
a stumblingstone and a rock oy scandal ^^
and whosoever believeth in him shall noi be
confounded,

CHAPTER 10.

The end of the law is faith in Christ,- which the
Jews ref vising to submit to, cannot be justified.

BRETHREN, the will of my heart, in-
deed, and my prayer to God, is for
them unto salvation.

2 For I bear them witness, that they
have a zeal of God, but not according to
knowledge.

3 For they, not knowing the justice of
God, and seeking to establish their own,
have not submitted themselves to the
justice of God.

X Osee 1. 10. — y Isa. 10. 22.-2 Isa. 1. 9.

a Isa. 8. 14, and 28. 16 ; 1 Peter 2. 6.

b Lev. 18. 5 ; Ezech. 20. 11. — c Deut 30. 12.

Ver. 27. A remnant. That is, a small number
only of the children of Israel shall be converted and
saved. How perversely is this text quoted for the
salvation of men of all reli^ons, when it speaks only
of the converts of the children of Israel !

Chap. 10. Ver. 3. T?ie justice of God. That is,
the justice which God giveth us through Christ ; as
on the other hand, the Jews' own justice is, that
which they pretended to by their own strength, or by
the observance of the law, witiiout faith in Christ

Ver. 9. Thou shalt be saved. To confess the Lord
Jesus, and to call upon the oame o£ tbe Lord (ver. 13J

4 For the end of the law is Christ, unto
justice to every one that believeth.

6 For Moses wrote, that the justice which
is of the law, ^ the man that shall do it,
shall live by it.

6 But the justice which is of faith, speak-
eth thus : ^ Say not in thy heart, Who shall
ascend into heaven? that is, to bring Christ
down ;

7 Or who shall descend into the deep ? tLttt
is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.

8 But what saith the scripture ? ^ The
word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and
in thy heart. This is the word of faith,
which we preach.

9 For if thou confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart
that God hath raised him up from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For, with the heart, we believe unto
justice ; but, with the mouth, confession
is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith: * Whosoever
believeth in himy shall not be confounded.

12 For there is no distinction of the Jew
zjnz!. the Greek : for the same is Lord over
all^ rich unto all that call upon him.

13 ^ For whosoever shall call upon the
'lame of the Lord, shall be saved,

14 How then shall they call on him, in
whom they have not believed ? Or how
shall they beheve him, of whom they
have not heard? And how shall they
hear, without a preacher?

15 And how shall they preach unless
they be sent, as it is written : ^ How beau-
tiful are the feet of them, that preach the
gospel of peace, of them that bring glad
tidings of good things!

16 But all do not obey the gospel. For
Isaias saith : ^ Lord^ who hath believed our
report f

17 Faith then cometh by hearing; and
hearing by the word of Christ.

18 But I say: Have they not heard? *

d Deut. 30. 14. — e Isa. 28. 16.

/ Joel 2. 32 ; Acts 2. 21. — g Isa. 52. 7 i Nah. 1. 15.

h Isa. 53. 1 ; John 12. 38. — t Ps. 18. 5.

is not barely the professing a belief in the person of
Christ; but moreover, implies a belief of his whole
doctrine, and an obedience to his law ; without which,
the calling him Lord will save no man. St. Matt.

7. 21. . . , .

Ver. 15. Unleffs they be sent. Here is an evident
proof against all new teachers, who have all usurped
to themselves tiie ministry without any lawful mis-
cion, derived by succession fiom the apostles^ to
whom Christ said, John 20. 21, .<^ my Father hath
setU mCf I also send you.

180

All Israel not cast off

TO THE ROMANS The Gentiles must not boast

Yes, verily, their sound hath gone forth
into all the earthy and their words unto the
ends of the whole world.

19 But I say: Hath not Israel known?
First, Moses saith: J I will provoke you to
jealousy by that which is not a nation; by
a foolish nation I will anger you.

20 But Isaias is bold, and saith: ^ I was
found by them that did not seek me; I ap-
peared openly to them that asked not after
me.

21 But to Israel he saith : * All the day
long have I spread my hands to a people
that believeth not^ and contradicteth me,

CHAPTER 11.

God hath not cast off all IsraeL The Gentiles must
not be proud but stand in faith and fear.

I SAY then: Hath God cast away his
people? God forbid. For I also am
an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of
the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God hath not cast away his people,
which he foreknew. Know you not what
the scripture saith of Elias ; how he call-
eth on God against Israel ?

3 "* Lord^ they have slain thy prophets,
they have dug down thy altars; and I am
left alone, and they seek my life.

4 But what saith the divine answer to
him ? ^ J have left me seven thousand men,
that have not bowed their knees to Baal,

5 Even so then at this present time also,
there is a remnant saved according to
the election of grace.

6 And if by grace, it is not now by
works : otherwise grace is no more grace.

7 What then ? That which Israel sought,
he hath not obtained: but the election
hath obtained it ; and the rest have been
blinded.

8 As it is written* ^ God hath given them
the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they

j Deut 32. 21. — k Isa. 65. 1. — I Isa. 65. 2.
m 3 Kings 19. 10. — n 3 Kings 19. 18.

Chap. ll. Ver. 4. Seven thousand. Sic. This is
very ill alleged by some, against the perpetual visi-
bility of the church of Christ; the more, because,
however the number of the faithful might be
abridged by the persecution of Jezabel in the king-
dom of the ten tribes, tiie church was at the same
time in a most flourishing condition (under Asa and
Josaphat) in the kingdom of Judah.

Ver. 6. It is not now by works, &c. If salvation
were to come by vjorks, done by nature, without faith
and grace, salvation would not be a grace or favour,
but a debt ; but such dead works are indeed of no
value in the sight of God towards salvation. It is
not the same with regard to works done with, and
by, God's grace ; for to such works as these, he has
Ijvomised eteriial salvation.

should not see; and ears that they should
not hear, until this present day.

9 And David saith : P Let their table be
made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-
block, and a recompense unto them. \

10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they
may not see: and bow down their back
always.

11 I say then, have they so stumbled,
that they should fall? God forbid. But
by their offence, salvation is come to the
Gentiles, that they may be emulous of
them.

12 Now if the offence of them be the
riches of the world, and the diminution
of them, the riches of tho Gentiles ; how
much more the fulness of them ?

13 For I say to you. Gentiles: ^as long
indeed as I am the apostle of the Gen-
tiles, I will honour my ministry,

14 If, by any means, I may provoke to
emulation them who are my flesh, and
may save some of them.

15 For if the loss of them be the recon-
ciliation of the world, what shall the re-
ceiving of them be, but life from the dead ?

lb b^or if the firstfruit be holy, so is the
lumn also: and if the root be holy, so
are the branches.

1'? And if some of the branches bo
broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art
ingrafted in them, and art made partaker
of the root, and of the fatness of the
olive tree,

18 Boast not against the branches. But
if thou boast, thou bearest not the root,
but the root thee.

19 Thou wilt say then: The branches
were broken off, that I might be grafted
in.

20 Well : because of unbelief they were
broken off. But thou standest by faith :
be not highminded, but fear.

o Isa. 6. 9 and 10 ; 29. 10 ; Matt. 13. 14 • John 12. 40;
Acts 28. 2&.—P Ps. 68. 23. — q ActS 9. 15 ; Gal. 2. 7.

Ver. 8. God hath given them, &c. Not by his
working or acting in them ; but by his permission,
and by withdrawing his grace in punishment of their
obstinacy.

Ver. 11. That they should fall. The nation of the
Jews is not absolutely and without remedy cast off
for ever; but in part only, (many thousands of them
having been at first converted,) and for a time ; which
fall of theirs, God has been pleased to turn to the
good of the Gentiles.

Ver. 20. Thou standest by faith : be not high-
minded, but fear. We see here that he who standeth
by faith may fall from it; and therefore must live in ,
fear, and not in the vain presumption and security ■
of modern sectaries.

l»V

God would receive Jews also TO THE ROMANS

^i For if God hath not spared the nat-
ural branches, fear lest perhaps he also
spare not thee.

22 See then the goodness and the sever-
ity of God: towards them indeed that
are fallen, the severity ; but towards
thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide
in goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be
cut off.

23 And they also, if they abide not still
in unbelief, shall be grafted in : for God
is able to graft them in again.

24 For if thou wert cut out of the wild
olive tree, which is natural to thee ; and,
contrary to nature, were grafted into the
good olive tree ; how much more shall
they that are the natural branches, be
grafted into their own olive tree ?

25 For I would not have you ignorant,
brethren, of this mystery, *■ (lest you
should be wise in your own conceits),
that blindness in part has happened in
Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles
should come in.

26 And so all Israel should be saved,
as it is written : * There shall come out of
Sion, he that shall deliver, and shall turn
away ungodliness from Jacob.

27 And this is to them my covenant: when
I shall take away their sins.

28 As concerning the gospel, indeed,
they are enemies for your sake: but as
touching the election, they are most dear
for the sake of the fathers.

29 For the gifts and the calling of God
are without repentance.

30 For as you also in times past did
not believe God, but now have obtained
mercy, through their unbelief ;

31 So these also now have not believed,
for your mercy, that they also may ob-
tain mercy.

32 For God hath concluded all in un-
belief, that he may have mercy on
all.

33 O the depth of the riches of the wis-
dom and of the knowledge of God ! How

r Prov. 3. 7 ; Isa. 5. 21. — s Isa. 59. 20.
t Wisd. 9. 13 ; Isa. 40. 13 ; 1 Cor. 2. 16. — w Phil. 4. 18.

Ver. 22. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. The
Gentiles are here admonished not to be proud, nor to
glory against tlie Jews : bvit to take occasion rather
from their fall to fear and to be humble, lest they be
cast off. Not that the whole church of Christ can
ever fall from him ; having been secured by so many
divine promises in holy writ; but that each one in
particular may fall ; and therefore all in general are
to be admonished to beware of that» which may hap-
pen to any one iu particular

One body in Christ

incomprehensible are his judgments, an<l
how unsearchable his ways !

34 *For who hath known the mind of
the Lord ? Or who hath been his coun-
sellor ?

35 Or who hath first given to him, and
recompense shall be made him?

36 For of him, and by him, and in him,
are all things : to him be glory for ever.
Amen.

CHAPTER 12.

Lessons of Christian virtues.

I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by
the mercy of God, " that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleas-
ing unto God, your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world ;
but be reformed in the newness of your
mind, '" that you may prove what is the
good, and the acceptable, and the perfect
will of God.

3 For I say, by the grace that is given
me, to all that are among you, not to be
more wise than it behoveth to be wise,
but to be wise unto sobriety, "' and accord-
ing as God hath divided to every one the
measure of faith.

4 For as in one body we have many
members, but all the members have not
the same office :

5 So we being many, are one body in
Christ, and every one members one of
another.

6 And having different gifts, according
to the grace that is given us, either pro-
phecy, to he used according to the rule of
faith ;

7 Or ministry, in ministering; or he
that teacheth, in doctrine ;

8 He that exhorteth, in exhorting ; he
that giveth, with simplicity ; he that rul-
eth, with carefulness; he that sheweth
mercy, with cheerfulness.

9 Let love be without dissimulation.
^ Hating that which is evil, cleaving to
that which is good.

V Eph. 5. 17 ; 1 Thess. 4. 3. — v ■) Cor. 12. 11 ; Eph. 4. 7.
X Amos 5, 15.

Ver. 29. For the gifts and the calling of God are
without his repenting himself of them ; for the pro-
mises of God are unchangeable, nor can he repent of
conferring his gifts.

Ver. 32. Concluded all in unbelief. He hath found
all nations, both Jews and Gentiles, in unbelief and
sin ; not by his causing, but by the abuse of their
own free will ; so that their calling and election is
purely owing to his mercy.

182

Various exhortations

TO THE KOMANS

Love of our neighbour

10 1/ Loving one another with the charity
of brotherhood, with honour preventing
one another.

11 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit
fervent. Serving the Lord.

12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribu-
lation. Instant in prayer.

13 Communicating to the necessities of
the saints. « Pursuing hospitality.

14 Bless them that persecute you : bless,
and curse not.

15 Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep
with them that weep.

16 Being of one mind one towards
another. Not minding high things,^ but
consenting to the humble. Be not *wise
in your own conceits.

17 To no man rendering evil for evil.
«Providing good things, not only in the
sight of God, but also in the sight of all
men.

18 ^lf it be possible, as much as is in
you, have peace with all men.

19 c Revenge not yourselves, my dearly
beloved; but give place unto wrath, for
it is written : ^ Revenge is mine, I will re-
pay, saith the Lord.

20 «But if thy enemy be hungry, give him,
to eat; if he thirst, give him, to drink. For,
doing this, thou shalt heapcoals of fire upon
his head.

21 Be not overcome by evil, but over-
come evil by good.

CHAPTER 13.

Lessons of obedience to superiors, and mutual
charity.

LET / every soul be subject to higher
powers: for there is no power but
from God: and those that are, are or-
dained of God.

2 Therefore he that resisteth the power,
resisteth the ordinance of God. And
they that resist, purchase to themselves
damnation.

3 For princes are not a terror to the
good work, but to the evil. Wilt thou
then not be afraid of the power? Do that
which is good : and thou shalt have praise
from the same.

4 For he is God's minister to thee, for

y Eph. 4. 3 ; 1 Peter 2. 17 — z Heb. 13. 2 ; 1 Peter
4. 9— a 2 Cor. 8. 21. — 6 Heb. 12. 14. — c Eccli. 28. 1,
and 2. 3. — d Matt. 5. 39 ; Deut. 32. 35 ; Heb. 10. 30.—
«Prov. 25. 21.—/ Wisd. 6. 4 ; 1 Peter 2, 13. — flr Matt.

Chap. 14. Ver. 2. Eat all things. Viz., without
observing the distinction of clean and unclean meats,
prescribed b^ the law of Moses : which was xiQw no

good. But if thou do that which is evil,
fear: for he beareth not the sword in
vain. For he is God's minister: an
avenger to execute wrath upon him that
doth evil.

5 Wherefore be subject of necessity, not
only for wrath, bu/ also for conscience'
sake.

6 For therefore^ also you pay tribute.
For they are the ministers of God, serv-
ing unto this purpose.

7 «'Render therefore to all men their
dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due:
custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom
fear: honour, to whom honour.

8 Owe no man any thing, but to love
one another. For he that loveth his
neighbour, hath fulfilled the law.

9 ^For Thou shalt not commit adultery :
Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou
shalt not covet: and if there be any other
commandment, it is comprised in this
word, * Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.

10 The love of our neighbor worketh
no evil. Love therefore is the fulfilling
of the law.

11 And that knowing the season; that
it is now the hour for us to rise from
sleep. For now our salvation is nearer
than when we believed.

12 The night is passed, and the day is at
hand. Let us therefore cast off the works
of darkness, and put on the armour of
light.

13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day:
inot in rioting and drunkenness, not in
chambering and impurities, not in con-
tention and envy:

14 'cBut put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh in
its concupiscences.

CHAPTER 14.

The strong must bear with the weak. Cautions
against judging; and giving scandai.

NOW him that is weak in faith, take
unto you: not in disputes about
thoughts.
2 For one believeth that he may eat all

22. 21.— ^lEx. 20. 14; Deut. 5. 18.— i Lev. 19. 18;
Matt. 22. 39 ; Mark. 12. 31 ; Gal. 5. 14 ; James 2. 8.—
iLuke 21. 34. — fcGal. 5. 16 ; 1 Peter 2. 11.

longer obligatory. Some weak Christians, converted
from among the Jewa, as we here gather from the
apostle^ made a scruple of eating such meats as were

183

We must not judge

TO THE ROMANS

Against giving scandal

things : but he that is weak, let him eat
herbs.

3 Let not him that eateth, despise him
that eateth not : and he that eateth not,
let him not judge him that eateth. For
God hath taken him to him.

4 ' Who art thou that judgest another
man's servant ? To his own lord he
standeth or falleth. And he shall stand :
for God is able to make him stand.

6 For one judgeth between day and
day: and another judgeth every day: let
every man abound in his own sense.

6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth
it unto the Lord. And he that eateth,
eateth to the Lord : for he giveth thanks
to God. And he that eateth not, to the
Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks
to God.

7 For none of us liveth to himself ; and
no man dieth to himself.

8 For whether we live, we live unto the
Lord; or whether we die, we die unto
the Lord. Therefore, whether we live,
or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

9 For to this end Christ died and rose
again; that he might be Lord both of
the dead and of the living.

10 But thoUj why judgest thou thy
brother? or thou, why dost thou despise
thy brother? '^For we shall all stand
before the judgment seat of Christ.

11 For it is written: "^As I live, saith
the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and
every tongue shall confess to God.

12 Therefore every one. of us shall ren-
der account to God for himself.

13 Let us not therefore judge one an-
other any more. But judge this rather,
that you put not a stumblingblock or a
scandal in your brother's way.

14 I know, and am confident in the
Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of
itself; but to him that esteemeth any
thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

15 For if, because of thy meat, thy
brother be grieved, thou walkest not
now according to charity. ° Destroy not

I James 4. 13. —m 2 Cor. 5. 10.
n Isa. 45. 24 : Phil. 2.10. — o 1 Cor. 8. 11.

deemed unclean by the law; such as swine's flesh, &c.,
which the stronger sort of Christians did eat without
scruple. Now the apostle, to reconcile them together,
exhorts the former not to judge or condemn the lat-
ter, using their Christian liberty; and the latter, to
take care not to depise or scandalize their weaker
brethren, either by bringing them to eat what in
dieir conscience they think they should not, or by

him with thy meat, for whom Christ
died.

16 Let not then our good be evil spo-
ken of.

17 For the kingdom of God is not meat
aud drink ; but justice, and peace, and
joy in the Holy Ghost.

18 For he that in this serveth Christ,
pleaseth God, and is approved of men.

19 Therefore let us follow after the
things that are of peace ; and keep the
things that are of edification one to-
wards another.

20 Destroy not the work of God for
meat. ^All things indeed are clean:
but it is evil for that man who eateth
with offence.

21 ^It is good not to eat flesh, and not
to drink wine, nor any thing whereby
thy brother is offended, or scandalized,
or made weak.

22 Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself
before God. Blessed is he that con-
demneth not himself in that which he
alloweth.

23 But he that discerneth, if he eat, is
condemned; because not of faith. For
all that is not of faith is sin.

CHAPTER 15.

He exhorts them to be all of one mind: and pro»
mises to come and see them..

NOW we that are stronger, ought
to bear the infirmities of the weak,
and not to please ourselves. ^.

2 Let every one of you please his neigh-
bour unto good, to edification.

3 For Christ did not please himself, but
as it is written: '''The reproaches of fhem
that reproached thee, fell upon me,

4 For what things soever were written,
were written for our learning : that
through patience and the comfort of the
scriptures, we might have hope.

5 Now the God of patience and ot
comfort * grant you to be of one mind
one towards another, according to Jesus
Christ :

p Titus 1. 15. — g 1 Cor. 8. 13.
r Ps. 68. 10. — s 1 Cor. 1. 10.

giving them such ofTence, as to endanger the driving
them thereby from the Christian religion.

Ver. 5. Between day, &c. Still observing the sab»
baths and festivals of the law.

Ver. 23. Discerneth.% That is, distinguisheth be-
tween meats, and eateth a-gainst his consdience, what
he deems unclean. — Ibid. Of faith. By faith ia
here understood judgment and conscience; lo Mt
Against which ia always a ein.

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The Gentiles to glorify God TO THE ROMANS

6 That with one mind, and with one
mouth, you may glorify God and the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

7 Wherefore receive one another, as
Christ also hath received you unto the
honour of God.

8 For I say that Christ Jesus was min-
ister of the circumcision for the truth of
God, to confirm the promises made unto
the fathers.

9 But that the Gentiles are to glorify
God for his mercy, as it is written:
* Therefore will I confess to thee^ 0 Lord,
among the Gentiles^ and vnll sing to thy
name,

10 And again he saith : Rejoice, ye Gen-
tiles, vnth his people,

11 And again : •* Praise the Lord, aU ye
Gentiles; and magnify him, all ye people,

12 And again Isaias saith: '''There shall
be a root of Jesse; and he that shall rise
up to rule the Gentiles, in him, the Gentiles
ihall hope,

13 Now the God ol hope fill vou w'th
all joy and peace in believing , that you
may abound in hope, and in the power
of the Holy Ghosu

14 And I myself also, my brethren, am
assured of you, that you also are full of
love, replenished with all knowledge, 30
that you are able to admonish one an-
other.

15 But 1 have written to you, brethren,
more boldly in some sort, as it were put-
ting you in mind: because of the grace
which is given me from God.

16 That I should be the minister of
Christ Jesus among the Gentiles ; sanc-
tifying the gospel of God, that the ob-
lation of the Gentiles may be made
acceptable and sanctified in the Holy
Ghost.

17 I have therefore glory in Christ
Jesus towards God.

18 For I dare not to speak of any of
those things which Christ worketh not
by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles,
by word and deed,

19 By the virtue of signs and wonders,
in the power of the Holy Ghost, so that
from Jerusalem round about as far as unto
Illyricum, I have replenished the gospel
of Christ.

20 And I have so preached this gospel.

1 2 Kings 22.60; Ps. 17. 60. — m Ps. 116. 1.

The apostle* s prrrmise

not where Christ was named, lest I
should build upon another man'e foun-
dation,

21 But as it is written • ^ They to whom
he was not spoken of, shall see, and they
that have not heard shall understand.

22 For which cause also I was hindered
very much from coming to you, and
have been kept away till now.

23 But now having no more place in
these countries, and having a great desire
these many years past to come unto you,

24 When I shall begin to take my jour-
ney into Spain, I hope that as I pass, I
shall see you, and be brought on my
way thither by you, if first, in part, I
shall have enjoyed you:

25 But now I shall go to Jerusalem; to
minister unto the saints.

26 For it hath pleased them of Macedo-
nia and Achaia to make a contribution
for the poor of the saints that are in
Jerusalem.

27 For it hath pleased them : and they
are their debtors. * Foi it the Gentiles
have been made partakers :>x their spir-
itual things, they ought alsc in carnal
things tc minister to them.

28 When therefore I shall have accom-
plished this, and consigned to them this
fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

29 And I know, that when I come to
you, I shall come in the abundance of
the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

30 I beseech you therefore, brethren,
through our Lord Jesus Christ, and by
the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you
help me in your prayers for me to God,

31 That I may be delivered from the
unbelievers that are in Judea, and that
the oblation of my service may be ac-
ceptable in Jerusalem to the saints.

32 That I may come to you with joy, by
the will of God, and may be refreshed
with you.

33 Now the God of peace be with you
all. Amen.

CHAPTER 16.

He concJvdps vifh sahitationa^ hicfdinf) them be-
irare of nil that should oppose the doctrine they
had learned.

A ND I commend to you Phebe, our
x\ sister, who is in the ministry of the
church, that is in CenchrsB :

V Ism. 11. \o.~7v Isa.. 52. 15. —2r 1 Cor. 9. 11.

Chap. 15. Ver. 8.

Minister of the circumcision. That is, executed his office and ministry towards
the Jews, the people of the circumcision.

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Greetings to the 'brethren TO THE KOMANS Warning against disturbers

2 That you receive her in the Lord as
becometh saints; and that you assist her
in whatsoever business she shall have
need of you. For she also hath assisted
many, and myself also.

3 y Salute Prisca and Aquila, my help-
ers in Christ Jesus,

4 (Who have for my life laid down their
own necks: to whom not I only give
thanks, but also all the churches of the
Gentiles,)

5 And the church which is in their
house. Salute Epenetus, my beloved:
who is the first fruits of Asia in Christ.

6 Salute Mary, who hath laboured much
among you.

7 Salute Andronicus and Junias, my
kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are
of note among the apostles, who also
were in Christ before me.

8 Salute Ampliatus, most beloved to me
in the Lord.

9 Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ
Jesus, and Stachys, my beloved.

10 Salute Apelles, approved in Christ.

11 Salute them that are of Aristobulus'
household. Salute Herodian, my kins-
man. Salute them that are of Narcis-
sus' household, who are in the Lord.

12 Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who
labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the
dearly beloved, who hath much laboured
in the Lord.

13 Salute Rufus, elect in the Lord, and
his mother and mine.

14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas,
Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren that
are with them.

15 Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus
and his sister, and Olympias ; and all the
saints that are with them.

y Acts 18. 2 and 26.

16 Salute one another with an holy kiss.
All the churches of Christ salute you.

17 Now I beseech you, brethren, to
mark them who make dissensions and
offences contrary to the doctrine which
you have learned, and avoid them.

18 For they that are such, serve not
Christ our Lord, but their own belly;
and by pleasing speeches and good words,
seduce the hearts of the innocent.

19 For your obedience is published in
every place. I rejoice therefore in you.
But I would have you to be wise in good,
and simple in evil.

20 And the God of peace crush Satan
under your feet speedily. The grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

21 z Timothy, my fellow labourer, sa-
luteth you, and Lucius, and Jason, and
Sosipater, my kinsmen.

22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle,
salute you in the Lord.

23 Caius, my host, and the whole church,
salute th you. Erastus, the treasurer of
the city, saluteth you, and Quartus, a
brother.

24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Chirst
be with you all. Amen.

25 Now to him that is able to establish
you, according to my gospel, and the
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to
the revelation of the mystery, which
was kept secret from eternity;

26 (Which now is made manifest by the
scriptures of the prophets, according to
the precept of the eternal God, for the
obedience of faith,) known among all
nations ;

27 To God the only wise, through Jesus
Christ, to whom be honour and glory for
ever and ever. Amen.

z Acts 16. 1.

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The apostle thanks God

He reproves dissensions

TTTR

FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

CORINTHIANS.

St. Paul, having planted the faith in Corinth, where he had preached a year and
a half and converted a great many, went to Ephesus. After being there two
years, he wrote this first Epistle to the Corinthians, and sent it by the same per-
sons; Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, who had brought their letter to him.
It was written about twenty-seven years after our Lord's Ascension, and contains
several matters appertaining to faith and morals, and also to ecclesiastical dis-
cipline.

CHAPTER 1,

ffe reproveth their dissensions about their teachers.

Thp. world was to be saved by preaching of the
cross, and not by human tvisdoni or eloquence.

PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ by the will of God, and Sos-
thenes a brother,

2 To the church of God that is at Cor-
inth, to them that are sanctified in Christ
Jesus, called to he saints, with all that
invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
in every place of theirs and ours.

3 Grace to you, and peace from God our
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

4 I give thanks to my God always for
you, for the grace of God that in given
you in Christ Jesus,

5 That in all things you are made rich in
him, in all utterance, and in all know-
ledge ;

6 As the testimony of Christ was con-
firmed in you,

7 So that nothing is wanting to you in
any grace^ waiting for the manifestation
of our Lord Jesus Christ.

8 Who also will confirm you unto the
end without crime, in the day of the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 ** God is faithful: by whom you are
called unto the fellowship of his Son
Jesus Christ our Lord.

10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you
all speak the same thing, and that there
be no schisms among you ; but that you
be perfect in the same mind, and in the
same judgment.

11 For it hath been signified unto me,
my brethren, of you, by them that are of

O I Thess. 5. 24. — b Acts 18. 14. — c Acts 18. 8.
il2 Peter 1.16} Infr» 2. l, 4, and 13.

the house of Chloe, that there are conten-
tions among you.

12 Now this I say, that everyone of you
saitb : I indeed am of Paul ; and I am ^ ol
/ Dollo ; and I of Cephas ; and I of Christ.

13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul ther
crucified for you ? or were you baptized
in the name of Paul?

14 I give God thanks, that I baptized
none of you ^ but Crispus and Caius ;

16 Lest any should say that you were
baptized in my name.

IZ And I baptized also the household oi
Stephanus ; besides, I know not whethei
I baptized any other.

17 For Christ sent me not to baptize,
but to preach the gospel : ^ not in wisdom
of speech, lest the cross of Christ shou'd
be made void.

18 For the word of the cross, to them
indeed that perish, is foolishness • but tc
them that are saved, that is, to us^ * it i*
the power of God.

19 For it is written: ^ Iwill destroy tJu
vnsdom of the wise, and the prudence of the
prudent I will reject,

20 9 Where is the wise f Where is tht
scribe f Where is the disputer of this world f
Hath not God made foolish the wisdom ol
this world ?

21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God
the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it
pleased God, by the foolishness of oui
preaching, to save them that believe.

22 For both the Jews require signs, anc
the Greeks seek after wisdom :

23 But we preach Christ crucified, untc
the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, anc
unto the Gentiles foolishness:

e Rom. 1. 16. — / Isa. 29c 14.
9l8a.a9.lt.

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Spiritual things not knownl TO THE CORINTHIANS by worldly wisdom

24 But unto them that are called, both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of
God, and the wisdom of God.

25 For the foolishness of God is wiser
than men ; and the weakness of God is
stronger than men.

26 For see your vocation, brethren, that
there are not many wise according to the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble :

27 But the fooHsh things of the world
hath God chosen, that he may confound
the wise; and the weak things of the
world hath God chosen, that he may con-
found the strong.

28 And the base things of the world, and
the things that are contemptible, hath
God chosen, and things that are not, that
he might bring to nought things that are ;

29 That no flesh shonld gloryin his sight.

30 But of him are j/ ou in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom,
^ and justice, and sanctification, and re-
demption:

31 That, as it is written : * He that glori-
eth, may glory in the Lord,

CHAPTER 2.

Jr?s preaching was not in loftiness of words^ hut in
spirit and potver. And the ivisdom he tavf/ht, was
not to be vnderstood by the worldly wise or sen-
stial mant but only by the spiritual man.

AND I, brethren, when I came to you,

J\. ^ came not in loftiness of speech or of

wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony

of Christ.

2 For I judged not myself to know any
thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and
him crucifled.

3 '^ And I was with you in weakness, and
in fear, and in much trembling.

4 ' And my speech and my preaching
was not in the persuasive words of hu-
man wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit
and power ;

5 That your faith might not stand on the
wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among the
perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world,

h Jer. 25, 5. — i Jer. 9. 23 and 24 ; 2 Cor. la 17.

j Supra 1. 17. — A: Acts 18. 3.

1 2 Peter 1. 16.

Chap. 1. Ver. 25. 77ie foolishness, &c. That Is to
say, what appears foolish to the world in the ways
of God, is indeed most wise ; and what appears ivenk
is Indeed above all the strength and comprehension
of man.

Chap. 2. Ver. 14, 15. The sensual man — the
epiritital m,an. The sensual man is either he who
is taken up with sensual pleasnres, with carnal and
worldly affectious ; or he who measureth divioe mys-

18S

neither of the princes of this world that
come to nought ;

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in *»
mystery, a vnsdom which is hidden, which
God ordained before the world, unto our
glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this
world knew; for if they had known it,
they would never have crucified the
Lord of glory.

9 But, as it is written: *** That eye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it eu'
tered into the heart of man, what things God
hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But to us God hath revealed them, by
his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of
a man, but the spirit of a man that is in
himV So the things also that are of God
no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received not the spirit
of this world; but the Spirit that is of
God ; that we may know the things that
are given us from God.

13 ** Which things also we speak, not in
the learned words of human wisdom ; but
in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing
spiritual things with spiritual.

14 But the sensual man perceiveth not
these things that are of the Spirit of God ;
for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot
understand, because it is spiritually ex-
amined.

16 But the spiritual man judgeth all
things; and he himself is judged of no
man.

16 *^For who hath known the mind of
the Lord, that he may instruct him ? But
we have the mind of Christ.

CHAPTER 3.

They must not contend about their teachers, who
are but God^s ministers, and accountable to him.
Their works shall be tried by fire.

AND I, brethren, could not speak to
/jL you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal. As unto little ones in Christ.

m Isa. 64. 4.

K Supra 1. 17, and 2. 1 and 4 ; 2 Peter 1. 16.

o Wisd. 9. 13; Isa. 40. 13 ; Rom. 11. 34.

teries by natural reason, sense, and human wisdom
only. Now such a man has little or no notion of the
things of God. Whereas the spiritual man is he
who, in the mysteries of religion, takes not human
sense for his guide : hut submits his judgment to the
decisions of the church, which he is commanded to
hear and obey. Foi Christ hath promised to remain
to the end of the world with his church, and to direct
her in all tilings by the Spirit of truth.

God gives the increase 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS We are the temple of God

2 I gave you milk to drink, not meat;
for you were not able as yet. But neither
Indeed are you now able; for you are
yet carnal.

3 For, whereas there is among you envy-
ing and contention, are you not carnal,
and walk according to man ?

4 For while one saith, I indeed am of
Paul ; and another, I am of Apollo ; are
you not men? What ihea is Apollo, and
what is Paul ?

6 The ministers of him whom you have
believed ; and to every one as the Lord
hath given.

6 I have planted, ApoUo watered, but
God gave the increase.

7 Therefore, neither he that planteth is
any thing, nor he that watereth ; but God
that giveth the increase.

8 Now he that planteth, and he that
watereth, are one. P And every man shall
receive his own reward, according to his
own labour.

9 For we are God's coadjutors : you are
God's husbandry; you are God's build-
hig.

10 According to the grace of God that is
given to me, as a wise architect, I have
laid the foundation and another build-
eth thereon. But let every man take
heed how he buildeth thereupon.

11 For other foundation no man can lay,
but that which is laid; which is Christ
Jesus.

12 Now if any man build upon this foun-
dation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood,
hay, stubble :

13 Every man's work shall be manifest ;
for thu day of the Lord shall declare if,
because it shall be revealed in fire ; and
the fire shall try every man's work, of
what sort it is.

14 If any man's work abide, which he
hath built thereupon, he shall receive a
reward.

15 If any man's work burn, he shall

p Ps. 6L 13 ; Matt 16. 27 ; Rom. 2. 6 ; Gal.
9 Infra 6. 19; 2 Cor. 6. 16.

6.5.

Chap. 3. Ver. 12. Upon this fovndafion. The
foundation Is Christ and his doctrine: or the true
faith in him, worlting throug:h charity. The build-
ing upon this foundation gold, silver^ and preciovs
stones, signifies the more perfect preaching and
practice of the gospel; the wood, hay, and f^tvhbie,
such preaching as that of the Corinthian teachers
(who affected the pomp of words and human elo-
quence) and such practice as is mixed with much
Imperfection, and many lesser sins. Now the day of
the Lord^ and his ftery trial, (in the particular judf^-
tueol iimuediately after deatb.) sliaU make manifest

suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved,
yet so as by fire.

16 Know you not, that you are the tem-
ple of God, and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you?

17 But if any man violate the temple of
God, him shall God destroy. ^For the
temple of God is holy, which you are.

18 Let no man deceive himself: if any
man among you seem to be wise in this
world, let him become a fool, that he
may be wise.

19 For the wisdom of this world is fool-
ishness with God. For it is written: *"/
will catch the vylse in their own craftiness,

20 And again : • The Lcyrd knoweth the
thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

21 Let no man therefore glory in men.

22 For all things are yours, whether it
be Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present,
or things to come ; for all are yours ;

23 And you are Christ's ; and Christ is
God'a

CHAPTER 4.

Ood*8 ministers are not to be judged. He reprehends
their boasting of their preachers ; and describes
the treatment the apostles every where met with.

LET * a man so account of us as of the
ministers of Christ, and the dispens-
ers of the mysteries of God.

2 Here now it is required among the
dispensers, that a man be found faithful,

3 But to me it is a very^mall thing to
be judged by you, or by man's day; but
neither do I judge my own self.

4 For I am not conscious to myself of
any thing, yet am I not hereby justified ;
but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.

6 Therefore judge not before the time ;
until the Lord come, who both will bring
to light the hidden things of darkness,
and will make manifest the counsels of
the hearts ; and then shall every man
have praise from God.

6 But these things, brethren, 1 have in

r Job5. 13. — « Ps. 93. IL
t 2 Cor. 6. 4.

of what sort every man's work has been : of which,
during this life, it is hard to make a judgment. For
then the fire of God's judgment shall try every man's
work. And they, whose works, like wood, hoy, and
sfuhhle, cannot abide the fire, shall suffer loss • these
works being found to be of no value;" yet they them-
selves, having built upon the right foundation, (by
living and dying in the true faith and in the state of
grace, though with some imperfection,) shall be saved
yet so as by fire, being liable to this punishment,
by reason of the ivood, hay and stubble^ wbich was
n}ixed ^^ith their buildiog.

189

Trials of the apostles 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS The incestuous man

a figure transferred to myself and to
Apollo, for your sakes ; that in us you
may learn, that one be not puffed up
against the other for another, above that
which is written.

7 For who distinguisheth thee? Or
what hast thou that thou hast not re-
ceived ? And if thou hast received, why
dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not re-
ceived it ?

8 You are now full ; you are now become
rich ; you reign without us ; and I would
to God you did reign, that we also might
reign with you.

9 For I think that God hath set forth
us apostles, the last, as it were men ap-
pointed to death : we are made a spectacle
to the world, and to angels, and to men.

10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but
you are wise in Christ ; we are weak, but
you are strong ; you are honourable, but
wc without honour.

11 Even unto this hour we both hunger
and thirst, and are naked, and are buf-
feted, and have no fixed abode ;

12 ** And we laboui, working with our
own hands : we are reviled, and we bless ;
we are persecuted, and we suffer it.

13 We are blasphemed, and we entreat ;
we are made as the refuse of thig world,
the oflscouring of all even until now.

14 I write not those things to confound
you ; but I admonish you as my dearest
children.

15 For if you have ten thousand instruct-
ors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For
In Christ Jesus, by the gospel I have be-
gotten you.

16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye fol-
lowers of me, as I also am of Christ.

17 For this cause have 1 sent to you
Timothy, who is my dearest son and faith-
ful in the Lord ; who will put you in mind
of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus ;
as I teach every where in every church.

18 As if I would not come to you, so
some are puffed up.

19 But I will come to you shortly, if the
Lord will : and will know, not the speech
of them that are puffed up, but the power.

20 For the kingdom of God is not in
speech, but in power.

21 What will yout shall I come to you
with a rod; or in charity, and in the
spirit of meekness?

IT
f

u Acta 20. 34; 1 Thess. 2. 9; 2 TbMS. 3. 8.
V Lev. 18. 7, 8, and 20. 11.

CHAPTER 5.

He excommunicates the incestuous adulterer^ ana
adm,onishes them, *o purge j-'t the old leaven.

"is absolutely heard, that there is
fornication among you, and such for-
nication as the like is not among the
heathens ; that one should have his fa-
ther's wife.

2 And you are puffed up i and have not
rather mourned, that he might be taken
away from among you, that hath done
this deed.

3^1 indeed, absent in body, but present
in spirit, have already judged, as though
I were present, him that hath so done,

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
you being gathered together, and my
spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus ;

5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, that the spirit
may be saved in the day of our Lord Je-
sus Christ.

6 Your glorying is not good. * Know
you not that a little leaven corrupteth
the whole lump ?

7 Purge out the old leaven, that you may
be a new paste, as you are unleavened.
For Christ our pascb is :jacrificed.

8 Therefore let us feast, not with the
old leaven, nor with the leaven of mahce
and wickedness ; but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I w^ote to von in an epistle, not to
keep company with fornicators.

10 I mean not with the fornicators of
this world, or with the covetous, or the
extortioners, or the servers of idols;
otherwise you must needs go out of this
world.

11 But now I have written to you, not to
keep company, if any man that is named
a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or
a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunk-
ard, or an extortioner : with such a one,
not so much as to eat.

12 For what have I to do to judge them
that are without? Do not you judge them
that are within ?

13 For them that are without, Ood will
judge. Put away the evil one from among
yourselves.

CHAPTER 6.

ffe hlomes them, for going to law before uvbelieven
Of sins that exclude from the kingdom of heaven
The evil of fornication.

w Col. 2. 5.
X Gal. 5. 9.

10»

Lawsuits before heathens 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS

DARE any of yora. having a matter
against another, go to be judged be-
fore the unjust, and not before the saints ?

2 Know you not that the saints shall
judge this world ? And if the world shall
be judged by you, are you unworthy to
judge the smallest matters ?

3 Know you not that we shall judge
angels ? how much more things of this
world ?

4 If therefore you have judgments of
things pertaining to this world, set them
to judge, who are the most despised in
the church.

6 I speak to your shame. Is it so that
there is not among you any one wise man,
that is able to judge between his brethren?

6 But brother goeth to law with bro-
ther, and that before unbehevers.

7 2/ Already indeed there is plainly a
fault among you, that you have lawsuits
one with anothei . Why do you not rather
take wrong? Why do you not rather suf-
fer yourselves to be defrauded ?

8 But you do wrong and defraud, and
that to your biethren.

0 Know you not that the unjust shall
Dot possess the kingdom of God? Do not
err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
oor adulterers,

10 Nor the effeminate, nor liers with
mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners,
shall possess the kingdom of God.

11 Ajid such some of you were; but you
«re washed, but you are sanctified, but
yon are justified in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful to me, but all
things are not expedient. All things are
lawful to me, but I will not be brought
nnder the power of any.

13 Meat for the belly, and the belly for
the meats; but God shall destroy both
it and them : but the body is not for for-
nication, but for the Lord, and the Lord
for the body.

y Matt 6. 39 ; Luke 6. 29 ; Rom. 12. 17 ; 1 Thess. 4. 6.
« Gea 2. 24 ; Matt 19. 6 : Mark 10. 8 ; Epb. 5. 31.

Chap. 6. Ver, 7. A fault. Lawsuits can hardly
ever be without a fault, on the one side or the other:
and oftentimes on both sides.

Ver. 12. All things are lawful, &c. That is, all in-
different things are indeed lawful, inasmuch as they
»ro not prohibited : but oftentimes they are not ex-
pedient; as in the ease of lawsuits, &c. And much
less woald It be expedient to be enslaved by an
IrrtgQlar •Utottoo to any tbiog» bow iudiSerent

Against fornication

14 Now God hath both raised up the
Lord, and will raise us up also by his
power.

15 Know you not that your bodies are
the members of Christ? Shall I then
take the members of Christ, and make
them the members of an harlot? God
forbid.

16 Or know you not, that he who is
joined to a harlot, is made one body?
* For they ahull be, saith he, two in one flesK

17 But he who is joined to the Lord, is
one spirit.

18 Fly fornication. Every sin that a
man doth, is without the body ; but
he that committeth fornication, sinneth
against his own body.

19 Or know you not, " that your mem-
bers are the temple of the Holy Ghost,
who is in you, whom you have from God ;
and you are not your own ?

20 ^ For you are bought with a great
price. Glorify and bear God in your
body.

CHAPTER 7.

Lessons relating to marriage ana celibacy, Vir^
ginity is preferable to a married state.

l^OW concerning the things whereof
-L^ you wrote to me : It is good for a
man not to touch a woman.

2 Bui for fear of fornication, let everj
man hrve his own wife, and let every
woman have her own husband.

3 ^ Let the husband render the debt tt
his wife, and the wife also in like man-
ner to the husband.

4 The wife hath not power of her own
body, but the husband. And in like
manner the husband also hath not power
of his own body, but the wife.

6 Defraud not one another, except, per-
haps, by consent, for a time, that you
may give yourselves to prayer ; and re-
turn together again, lest Satan tempt
you for your incontinency,

6 But I speak this by indulgence, not
by commandment.

a Supra 3. 17 ; 2 Cor. 6. 16.
6 Infra 7. 23 ; I Peter L 18. — c l Peter 3. r.

Chap. 7. Ver. 2, Have his oum wife. That is,
keep to his wife, which he hath. His meaning is not
to exhort the unmarried to marry: on the contrary,
he would have them rather continue as they are.
(Ver. 8.) But he speaks here to them that are al-
ready married ; who must not depart from one
another, but live together as they ought to do in the
marriage state.

Ver. 6. By indulgence. That Is, by a eondescen-
sioQ to your weakness.

Laws for the married 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS Content with one's lot

7 For I would that all men were even
as myself ; but every one hath his proper
gift from God; one after this manner,
and another after that.

8 But I saji to the unmarried, and to the
widows: It is good for them if they so
continue, even as I.

9 But if they do not contain them-
selves, let them marry. For it is better to
marry than to be burnt.

10 But to them that are married, not I
but the Lord commandeth, ^ that the wife
depart not from her husband.

11 And if she depart, that she remain
unmarried, or be reconciled to her hus-
band. And let not the husband put away
his wife.

12 For to the rest I speak, not the Lord.
If any brother hath a wife that believeth
not, and she consent to dwell with him,
let him not put her away.

13 And if any woman hath a husband
that believeth not, and he consent to
dwell with her, let her not put away her
husband.

14 For the unbelieving husband is sanc-
tified by the believing wife ; and the un-
believing wife is sanctified by the believ-
ing husband : otherwise your children
should be unclean j but now they are
holy.

15 But if the unbeliever depart, let him
depart. For a brother or sister is not
ander servitude in such cases. But God
hath called us in peace.

16 For how knowest thou, O wife, whe-
ther thou shalt save thy husband ? Or
how knowest thou, O man, whether thou
shalt save thy wife ?

17 But as the Lord hath distributed to
every one, as God hath called every one,
so let him walk : and so in all churches
I teach.

18 Is any man called, being circumcised ?
let him not procure uncircumcision. Is
any man called in uncircumcision? let
him not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is jiothing, and uncir-
cumcision is nothing: but the observance
of the commandments of God.

d Matt 5. 32, and 19. 9 ; Mark 10. 0 ; Luke 16. 18.

Ver. 9. If they do not contain, &c. This is spoken
of such as are free, and not of such as, by vow, have
given their first faith to God ; to whom if they will
use proper means to obtain it, God will never refuse
the gift of continency. Some translators have cor-
rupted this text, by rendering it, if they cannot
contain.

20 ^Let every man abide in the same
calling in which he was called.

21 Wast thou called, being a bondman?
care not for it; but if thou mayest be
made free, use it rather.

22 For he that is called in the Lord,
being a bondman, is the freeman of the
Lord. Likewise he that is called, being
free, is the bondman of Christ.

23 -^ You are bought with a price ; be not
made the bondslavec of men.

24 Brethren, let every man, wherein lie
was called, therein ?.bide with God.

25 Now concerning "irgins, I have no
commandment of thu Lord; but I giv*
counsel, as having obtained mercy of th«i
Lord, to be faithful.

26 I think therefore that this is goo&
for the present necessity, that it is gooc'
for a man so to be.

27 Art thou bound to a wife? seek not
to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a
wife ? seek not a wife.

28 But if thou take a wife, thou hast
not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she
hath not sinned : nevertheless, such shall
have tribulation of the flesh. But J
spare you.

29 This therefore I say, brethren ; th<
time is short; it remaineth, that the
also who have wives, be as if they ha
none ;

30 And they that weep, r.s though they
wept not; and they that rejoice, as if
they rejoiced not ; and they that buy, as
though they possessed not ;

31 And they that use this world, as if
they used it not : for the fashion of this
world passe th away.

32 But I would have you to be without
solicitude. He that is without a wife,
is solicitous for the things that belong to
the Lord, how he may please God.

33 But he that is with a wife, is solicit-
ous for the things of the world, how he
may please his wife : and Le is divided.

34 And the unmarried woman and the
virgin thinketh on the things of the
Lord, that she may be holy both in body
and in spirit. But she that is married

e Eph. 4. 1.—/ Supra 6. 20 ; 1 Peter 1. 18.

Ver. 12. / speak, not the Lord. Viz., by any ex-
press commandment, or ordinance.

Ver. 14. Is sanctiped. The meaning is not, that
the faith of the husband or the wife is of itself suffi-
cient to put the unbelieving party, or their children,
in the state of grace and salvation ; but that it is vei-y
often an occasion of their sanctiflcation, by bringing
tbem to the true faitb.

Ittc

Virginity preferable 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS Against giving scandal

6 Yet to us there is but one God, ths
Father, of whom are all things, and we

thinketh on the things of the world,
how she may please her husband.

35 And this I speak for yonr profit: not
tc cast a snare upon you; but for that
which is decent, and which may give
you power to attend upon the Lord,
without impediment.

36 But if any man think that he seem-
eth dishonoured, with regard to his vir-
gin, for that she is above the age, and it
must so be : let him do what he will ; he
dinneth not, if she marry.

37 For he that hath determined being
steadfast in his heart, having no neces-
sity, but having power of his own will ;
and hath judged this in his heart, to
keep his virgin, doth well.

38 Therefore, both he that giveth his
Virgin in marriage, doth well; and he
hat giveth her not, doth better.

39 s' A woman is bound by the law as
ong as her husband liveth; but if her
husband die, she is at liberty : let her
marry to whom she will ; only in the Lord.

40 But more blessed shall she be, if she
BO remain^ according to my counsel ; and
I think that I also have the spirit of
God.

CHAPTER 8.

Though an idol he nothing, yet things offered up to
idols are not to be eaten^ for fear of scandal,

NOW concerning thoso things that
are sacrificed to idols, we know that
we all have knowledge. Knowledge
puffeth up ; but charity edifieth.

2 And if any man think that he know-
eth any thing, he hath not yet known as
he ought to know.

3 But if any man love God, the same is
known by him.

4 But as for the meats that are sacri-
ficed to idols, we know that an idol is
nothing in the world, and that there is
no God but one.

5 For although there be that are called
gods, either in heaven or on earth (for
there be gods many, and lords many) ;

g Rom. 7. 2.

Ver. 36. Let hint, do what he unit ; he sinneth not,
«&c. The meaning is not, as libertines woulc^ have it,
that persons may do what they will and not sin, pro-
vided they afterwards marry; but that the father,
with regard to the giving his virgin in marriage, may
do as he pleaseth ; and that It will be no sin to him
if she marry.

Chap. 8. Ver 1. Knowledge puffeth up, &c.
Knowledge, without charity and humility, serveth
only to pufE persons up.

Ver. 5. Oods many^ &c. Keputed for such among
the heathens.

all

unto him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom are all things, and we by him.

7 But there is not knowledge in every
one. For some until this present, with
conscience of the idol: eat as a thing
sacriticed to an idol, and their con'
science, being weak, is dehled.

8 But meat doth not commend us to
God. For neither, if we eat, shall we
have the more ; nor, if we eat not, shall
we have the less.

9 But take heed lest perhaps this your
hberty become a stumbhngblock to the
weak.

10 For if a man see him that hath
knowledge sit at meat in the idol's tem-
ple, shall not his conscience, being weak,
be emboldened to eat those things which
are sacrificed to idols ?

11 '^And through thy knowledge shall
the weak brother perish for whom
Christ hath died?

12 Now when you sin thus against the
brethren, and wound their weak con-
science, you sin against Christ.

13 * Wherefore, if meat scandalize my
brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I
should scandalize my brother.

CHAPTER 9.

The apostle did not make use of his power, of being
maintained at the charges of those to whom, he
preached, that he might give no hindrance to the
gospel. Of running in the race, and striving f 01
the mastery

M not I free ? Am not 1 an apostle ?
Have not I seen Christ Jesus our
Lord ? Are not j'^ou my work in the Lord ?

2 And if unto others I be not an apostle,
but yet to you I am. For you are the
seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

3 My defence with them that do ex-
amine me is this.

4 Have not we power to eat and to
drink?

5 Have we not powei to carry about a

h Rom. 14. 15. — i Rom. 14. 21.

Ver. 13. If went scandalize.. That is, if my eating
cause my brother to sin.

Chap. 9. Ver. 5. A woman, a sister. Some er
roneous translators have corrupted this text by
rendering it, a sister, a urife: whereas, it is certain
St. Paul had no wife (chajj. 7. ver. 7, 8"» and that h?
only speaks of such devout women, as, according t
the custom of the .Jewish nation, waited upon th
preachers of the gospel, ami supplied them with ae
cessaries.

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Support of the clergy 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS Running in the race

woman, a sister, as weW as the rest of
the apostles, and the brethren of the
Lord, and Cephas?

6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we
power to do this ?

7 Who serveth as a soldier at any time,
at his own charges ? Who planteth a
vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit
thereof ? Who feedeth the flock, and eat-
eth not of the milk of the flock ?

8 Speak I these things according to
man ? Or doth not the law also say these
things?

9 For it is written in the law of Moses :
* Thou shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox
that treadeth out the com. Doth God take
care for oxen ?

10 Or doth he say this indeed for our
sakes? For these things are written for
our sakes: that he that plougheth, should
plough in hope ; and he that thrasheth,
in hope to receive fruit,

11 '^ If we have sown unto you spiritual
things, is it a great matter if we reap
your carnal things "

12 If others be partakers of this power
over you, why not we rather? Never-
theless, we have not used this power:
but we bear all things, lest we should
give any hindrance to the gospel of
Christ.

13 ^Know you not, ihat they who work
in the holy olace, eat the things that are
Ot the holy place ; and they that serve
the altar, partake with the altar?

14 So also the Lord ordained that they
who preach the gospel, should live by the
gospel.

15 But I have used none of these things.
Neither have I written ohese things, that
they should be so done onto me ? fcir It
is good for me to die. rather than that
any man should make my erlory void.

16 For if I preach the gospel, it is no
glory to me, for a necessity lieth upon
me: for woe is unto me »f I preach not
the gospel.

17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have
a reward : but if against my will, a dis-
pensation is committed to me:

j Deut. 25. 4; 1 Tim. 5. 18.-
l Deut. 18. 1.

k Rom. 1.5. 27.

18 What is ray reward then? Thct
preaching the gospel, I may deliver the
gospel without charge, that I abuse not
my power in the gospel.

19 For whereas I was free as to all, I
made myself the servant of all, that I
might gain the more.

20 And I became to the Jews, a Jew,
that I might gain the Jews:

21 To them that are under the law, as
if I were under the law, (whereas myself
W8.S not under the law,) that I might
gain them that were under the law. To
them that were without the law, as if I
were without the law, (whereas I was not
without the law of God, but was in the
law of Christ,) that I raight gain them
that were without the law.

22 To the weak I became weak, that I
might gain the weak. I became all things
to all men, that I might save all.

23 And I do all things for the gospel's
sake : that I may be made partaker
thereof.

24 Know you not that they that run in
the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth
tho prize ? So run that you may obtain.

25 And every one that striveth for the
mastery refraineth himselx from all
things : and they indeed that they may
receive a corruptible crown ; but we an
incorruptible one.

26 I therefore so run, not as at an un-
certainty: I so fight^ not as one beating
the air :

27 But I chastise my body, and bring it
into subjection : lest perhaps, when I
have preached to others, I myself should
become a castaway.

CHAPTEK 10.

By the example of the Israelites, he shews that w«
are not to build too much upon favours received i
but avoid their sins, and fly from the service of
idols and from things offered to idols.

FOR I would not have you ignorant,
brethren, that our fathers were all
^ under the cloud, and all passed through
^ the sea.

2 And all in Moses were baptized, in the
cloud, and in the sea:

m Ex. 13. 21 ; Num. 9. 21.
n Ex. 14. 22.

It is no glory. That is, I have nothing [ under the cloud, and through the sea; and they par-
took of the body and blood of Christ in figure, by
eating of the manna (called here a spiritual food
because it was a figure of the true bread which comes
clown from heaven), and drinking the water, miracu-
lously brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual
Tock, because it was also a figure of Christ.

Ver. 16.
to glory of.

Ver. 27. I chastise, &c. Here St. Paul shews the
necessity of self-denial and mortification, to .subdue
the flesh, and its inoidinate desires.

Ch»p. 10. Ver. 2. In Moses. Under the conduct
of Moees, they received baptism in figure, by o-io.sin>?

Holy Communion

1 TO THE CORINTHIANS Things offered to idols

3 " And did all eat the same spiritual
food,

4 ^ And all drank the same spiritual
drink; (and they drank of the spiritual
rock that followed them, and the rock
was Christ.)

5 But with most of them God was not
well pleased: ^ for they were overthrown
in the desert.

6 Now these things were done in a figure
of us, that we should not covet evil
things *" as they also coveted.

7 Neither become ye idolaters, as some
of them, as it is written: ^ The people sat
down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8 Neither let us commit fornication, * as
some of them committed fornication, and
there fell in one day three and twenty
thousand.

9 Neither let us tempt Christ: as some
of them tempted, and perished by the
serpents.

10 " Neither do you murmur : as some
of them murmured, and were destroyed
by the destroyer.

11 Now all these things happened to
them in figure : and they are written for
our correction, upon whom the ends of
the world are come.

12 Wherefore he that thinketh himself
to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

13 Let no temptation take hold on you,
but such as ij human. And God is faith-
ful, who will not suffer you to be tempted
above that which you are able : but will
make also with temptation issue, that
you may be able to bear it.

14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly
from the service of idols.

16 I speak as to wise men: Judge ye
yourselves what I say.

16 The chalice of benediction, which we
bless, is It not the communion of the
blood of Christ ? And the bread, which
we break, is it not the partaking of the
body of the Lord ?

o Ex. 16. 15.— p Ex. 17. 6; Num. 20. 11.

q Num. 26. 64 and 65.— r Ps. ins. 14.

s Ex. 32. e. — t Num. 21. 5 and 6.

Ver. 11. The ends of the world. That is, the last
ages.

Ver. 13. Or, no temptation h ath taken hold of yoii.,
or come upon you as yet, but what is human, or inci-
dent to man. — Ibid. Issue, or a way to escape.

Ver. 16. Which ive bless. Here the apostle pnts
them in mind of their partaking of the body and
blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries, and becom-
ing thereby one mvstical body with Christ. From
whence he infers, ver. 21, that they who are )wu\e
partakers with Clirist, by tbe eucharistic sacritice

17 For we, being many, are one bread,
one body, all that partake of one bread.

18 Behold Israel according to the flesh :
are not they, that eat of the sacrifices,
partakers of the aitar?

19 What then? Do I say, that what is
offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing?
Or, that the idol is any thing ?

20 But the things which the heathens
sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not
to God. And I would not that you
should be made partakers with devils.

21 You cannot drink the chalice of the
Lord, and the chalice of devils : you can-
not be partakers of the table of the Lord,
and of the table of devils.

22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ?
Are we stronger than he ? '^ All things
are lawful for me, but all things are not»
expedient. i

23 All things are lawful for me, but all
things do not edify.

24 Let no man seek his own, but that
which is another's.

25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles,
eat ; asking no question for conscience*
sake.

26 ^ The earth is the Lord's^ and the ful-
ness thereof,

27 If any of them that believe not, in-
vite you, and you be willing to go ; eat
of any thing that is set before you, ask-
ing no question for conscience' sake.

28 But if any man say: This has been
sacrificed to idols, do not eat of it for his
sake that told it, and for conscience*
sake.

29 Conscience, I say, not thy own, but
the other's. For why is my liberty
judged by another man's conscience?

30 If I partake with thanksgiving, why
am I evil spoken of, for that for which I
give thanks ?

31 '^ Therefore, whether you eat or
drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all
to the glory of God.

u Num. 11. 1, and 14. 1. — v Supra 6. 12.

w Ps. 23. 1 ; Eccli. 17. 31.

X Col. 3. 17.

and sacrament, must not be made partakers with
devils by eating of the meats sacrificed to them.

Ver. 17. One bread; or, as it may be rendered,
agreeably both to the Latin and Greek, because the
bread is one, all ?/'«, being many, are one body^ u'ho
partake of that one bread. For it is by our commu-
nicating with Christ, anfl with one another, in this
blessed sacrHuuMit. thut we are formed into one
mystical body; and made, as it were, one bre^d,
('omi)ounded of many grains oi oura, closely united
togetner

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Women in church

32 Be without offence to the Jews, and
to the Gentiles, and to the church of
God:

33 As 1 also in all things please all men,
not seeking that which is profitable to
myself, but to many, that they may be
saved

CHAPTER 11.

Women must have a covering over their heads, He
blamet.h the abuses of their love feasts ; and upon
that occasion, treats of the blessed sacrament.

BE ve followers of me, as I also am of
Christ

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all
things you are mindful of me : and keep
my ordinances as I have delivered them
to you.

3 Bu* I would have you know, "that
the head of every man is Christ ; and the
bead of the woman is the man ; and the
head of Christ is God.

4 Every man praying or prophesying
with his head covered, disgrace th his
head.

6 But every woman praying or prophe-
sying with her head not covered, dis-
graceth her head : for it is all one as if
she were shaven.

6 For if a woman be not covered, let
her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a
woman to be shorn or made bald, let her
cover her head.

7 The man indeed ought not to cover
his head, because he is the * image and
glory of God; but the woman is the
glory of the man.

8 For the man is not of the woman, but
the woman of the man.

9 " For the man was not created for the
woman, but the woman for the man

10 Therefore ought the woman to have
a power over her head, because of the
angels.

11 But yet neither is the man without
the woman, nor the woman without the
man, in the Lord.

12 For as the woman is of the man, so
also is the man by the woman: but all
things of God.

1 TO THE CORINTHIANS The Holy Eucharist

y Eph. 5. 23.-2 (Jen. 1. 26. — a Gen. 2. 23.

Chap. 11. Ver. lO A 'power that is, a veil or
covering, as a sign that slie is under the jioirer of her
husband: and this, the apostle adds, bpmin^p. of the
arirjels, who are present in the assemblies of the
faithful.

Ver. 19. There m,ust be also heresies. By reason
of the pride and perversity of man's heart; not oy
God's will or appointment ; who nevertholess firaws
good out ot this evil, mauifertiug. by that occasioQt

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13 You yourselves judge: doth it become
a woman, to pray unto God uncovered ?

14 Doth not even nature itself teach you,
that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair,
it is a shame unto him ?

15 But if a woman nourish her hair, it
is a glory to her ; for her hair is given to
her for a covering.

16 But if any man seem to be conten-
tious, we have no such custom, nor the
church of God.

17 Now this I ordain: not praising you,
that you come together not for the bet-
ter, but for the worse.

18 For first of all I hear that when you
come together in the church, there are
schisms among you; and in part I be-
lieve it.

19 For there must be also heresies : that
they also, who are approved, may be made
manifest among you.

20 When you come therefore together
into one place, it is not now to eat the
Lord's supper.

21 For every one taketh before his own
supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry
and another is drunk.

22 What, have you not houses to eat and
to drink in ? Or despise ye the church of
God ; and put them to shame that have
not ? What shall I say to you ? Do I
praise you? In this I praise you not.

23 For I have received of the Lord that
which also I delivered unto you, that the
Lord Jesus, the same night in which he
was betrayed, took bread,

24 And giving thanks, broke, and said :
*Take ye, and eat: this is my body,
which shall be delivered for you: this do
for the commemoration of me.

25 In like manner also the chalice, after
he had supped, saying: This chalice is
the new testament in my blood: this do
ye, as often as you shall drink, for the
commemoration of me.

26 For as often as you shall eat this
bread, and drink the chalice, you shall
shew the death of the Lord, until he
come.

b Matt. 26. 26; Mark 14. 22; Luke 22. 17.

who are the good and firm Christians, and making
their faith more remarkable.

Ver. 20. The Lord's supper. So the apostle here
calls the charity feasts observed by the primitive
Christians ; and" reprehends the abuses of the Co-
rinthians, on these occasions; which were the more
criminal, because these feasts were accompanied
with the celebrating the eucharistic sacrifice and
sacranieut.

Unworthy communion 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS The diversity of gifts

27 ^Therefore whosoever shall eat this
bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body
and of the blood of the Lord.

28 ^But let a man prove himself: and
so let him eat of that bread, and drink of
the chalice.

29 For he that eateth and drinketh un-
worthily, eateth and drinketh judgment
to himself, not discerning the body of
the Lord.

30 Therefore are there many infirm and
weak among you, and many sleep.

31 But if we would judge ourselves, we
should not be judged.

32 But whilst we are judged, we are
chastised by the Lord, that we be not
condemned with this world.

33 Wherefore, my brethren, when you
come together to eat, wait for one an-
other,

34 If any man be hungry, let him eat at
home ; that you come not together unto
judgment. And the rest I will set in
order, when I come.

CHAPTER 12.

Of the diversity of spiritual gifts. The members of
the mystical body, like those of the natural body,
must m,utually cherish one another.

I^OW concerning spiritual things, my
Xi brethren, I would not have you ig-
norant.

2 You know that when you were hea-
thens, you went to dumb idols, according
as you were led.

3 Wherefore I give you to understand,
• that no man, speaking by the Spirit of
God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no
man can say the Lord Jesus, but by the
Holy Ghost.

4 Now there are diversities of graces,
but the same Spirit ;

6 And there are diversities of ministries,
but the same Lord ;

6 And there are diversities of opera-
tions, but the same God, who worketh
all in all.

7 And the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to every man unto profit.

8 To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given

c John 6. 59. — f? 2 Cor. 13. 5.

Ver. 27. Or drink. Here erroneous translators
corrupted the text, by putting and drink (contrary
to the original, ij xriVyj ) instead of or drink.

Ver. 27, 29. Guilty of the body, &c., not discerning
the body^ &c. This demonstrates the real presencie
of the body and blood of Christ, even to the unworthy
eommuQicaati who otherwise could not be guiUy of

the word of wisdom : and to another, the
word of knowledge, according to the
same Spirit ;

9 To another, faith in the same spirit ;
to another, the grace of heaUng in one
Spirit :

10 To another, the working of miracles ;
to another, prophecy; to another, the
discerning of spirits ; to another, diverse
kinds of tongues ; to another, interpreta-
tion of speeches.

11 -^But all these things one and the
same Spirit worketh, dividing to every
one according as he will.

12 For as the body is one, and hath
many members ; and all the members of
the body, whereas they are many, yet
are one body, so also is Christ.

13 For in one Spirit were we all bap-
tized into one body, whether Jews or
Gentiles, whether bond or free ; and in
one Spirit we have all been made to
drink.

14 For the body also is not one mem-
ber, but many.

15 If the foot should say, because I am
not the hand, I am not of the body ; is it
therefore not of the body ?

16 And if the ear should say, because I
am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is
it therefore not of the body ?

17 If the whole body were the eye,
where would be the hearing? If the
whole were hearing, where would be the
smelling ?

18 But now God hath set the members
every one of them in the body as it hath
pleased him.

19 And if they all were one member,
where would be the body ?

20 But now there are many members in^
deed, yet one body.

21 And the eye cannot say to the hand:
I need not thy help ; nor again the head
to the feet: I have no need of you.

22 Yea, much more those that seem to
be the more feeble members of the body,
are more necessary.

23 And such as we think to be the less
honourable members of the body, about

e Mark 9. 38. -—/ Rom. 12. 3 and 6 ; Eph. 4. t.

the body and blood of Christ, or justly condemned
for not discerning the Lord''s body.

Ver. 28. Drink of the chalice. This is not said by
way of command, but by way of allowance, viz., where
and when it is agreeable to the practice and discipline
of the church.

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Members of one body 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS

Charity

these we put more abundant honour;
and those that are our uncomely parts,
have more abundant comeliness.

24 But our comely parts have no need:
but God hath tempered the body to-
gether, giving to that which wanted the
more abundant honour,

26 That there might be no schism in the
body ; but the members might be mutu-
ally careful one for another.

26 And if one member suffer any thing,
all the members suffer with it ; or if one
member glory, all the members rejoice
with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and
members of member.

28 s'And God indeed hath set some in
the church ; first apostles, secondly
prophets, thirdly doctors ; after that
miracles ; then the graces of healings,
helps, governments, kinds of tongues,
interpretations of speeches.

29 Are all apostles ? Are all prophets ?
Are all doctors ?

30 Are all workers o/ miracles ? Have all
the grace of healing ? Do all speak with
tongues ? Do all interpret ?

31 But be zealous for the better gifts.
A.nd I shew unto you yet a more excel-
lent way.

CHAPTER 13.

Charity is to be preferred before all other gifts.

IF I speak with the tongues of men,
and of angels, and have not charity,
I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal.y

2 And if I sh6uld have prophecy and
should know all mysteries, and all know-
ledge, and if I should have all faith, so
that I could remove mountains, and have
not charity, I am nothing.

3 And if I should distribute all my goods
to feed the poor, and if I should deliver
my body to be burned, and have not
charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity is patient, is kind : charity
envieth not, dealeth not perversely ; is
not puffed up ;

5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own,
is not provoked to anger, thinketh no
evil ;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoice th
with the truth ;

(7 Eph. 4. 11.

Chap. 14. Ver. 1. Prophesy.
expound the mysteries o£ faith.

That is, declare or

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never falleth away : whether
prophecies shall be made void, or tongues
shall cease, or knowledge shall be de-
stroyed.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy
in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is
come, that which is in part shall be done
away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a
child, I understood as a child, I thought
as a child. But, when I became a man, I
put away the things of a child.

12 We see now through a glass in a dark
manner ; but then face to face. Now I
know in part ; but then I shall know even
as I am known.

13 And now there remain faith, hope,
and charity, these three : but the great-
est of these is charity.

CHAPTER 14.

The gift of prophesying is to be preferred before
that of speaking strange tongues.

FOLLOW after charity, be zealous for
spiritual gifts ; but rather that you
may prophesy.

2 For he that speaketh in a tongue,
speaketh not unto men, but unto God :
for no man heareth. Yet by the Spirit he
speaketh mysteries.

3 But he that prophesieth, speaketh to
men unto edification, and exhortation,
and comfort.

4 He that speaketh in a tongue, edifie h
himself : but he that prophesieth, edifieth
the church.

5 And I would have you all to speak
with tongues, but rather to prophesy.
For greater is he that prophesieth, than
he that speaketh with tongues : unless
perhaps he interpret, that the church may
receive edification. ,

6 But now, brethren, if I come to you
speaking with tongues, what shall I pro-
fit you, unless I speak to you either in
revelation, or in knowledge, or in pro-
phecy, or in doctrine ?

7 Even things without life that give
sound, whether pipe or harp, except they
give a distinction of sounds, how shall
it be known what is piped or harped ?

Ver. 2. Not unto men. Viz., so as to be heard,
that is, so as to be understood by them.

198

Prophecy and tongues 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS Women not to preach

8 For if the tnimpet give an uncertain
sound, who shall prepare himself to the
battle ?

9 So likewise you, except you utter by
the tongue plain speech, how shall it be
known what is said ? For you shall be
speaking into the air.

10 There are, for example, so many kinds
of tongues in this world; and none is
without voice.

11 If then I know not the power of the
voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak
a barbarian ; and he that speaketh, a bar-
barian to me.

12 So you also, forasmuch as you are
zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto
the edifying of the church.

13 And therefore he that speaketh by a
tongue, let him pray that he may inter-
pret.

14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit
prayeth, but my understanding is without
fruit.

15 What is it then ? I will pray with the
spirit, I will pray also with the under-
standing; I will sing with the spirit, I
will sing also with the understanding.

16 Else if thou shalt bless with the spirit,
how shall he that holdeth the place of the
unlearned say. Amen, to thy blessing?
because he knoweth not what thou say-
est.

17 For thou indeed givest thanks well,
but the other is not edified.

18 1 thank my God I speak with all your
tongues.

19 But in the church I had rather speak
five words with my understanding, that I
may instruct others also ; than ten thou-
sand words in a tongue.

20 Brethren, do not become children in
sense : but in mahce be children, and in
sense be perfect.

21 In the law it is written : ^ In other
tongues and other lips I will speak to this
people ; and neither so will they hear me,
8aith the Loi'd.

22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not
to believers, but to unbeUevers ; but pro-

h Isa. 28. 11.

Ver. 12. Of spirits. Of spiritual gifts.

Ver. 16. Amen. The unlearned, not knowing that
you are then blessing, will not be qualified to join
with you by saying Amen to your blessing. The use
or al)use of strange tongues, of which the apostle here
speaks, does not regard the public liturgy of the
church, (in which strange tongues were never used,)
but certain conferences of the faithful, ver. 26, &c.,
la wlucb, meeting togetlier, they (liAco¥ere4 to one

phecies not to unbelievers, but to believ-
ers.

23 If therefore the whole church come
together into one place, and all speak
with tongues, and there come in unlearn-
ed persons or infidels, will they not say
that you are mad ?

24 But if all prophesy, and there com*
in one that beheveth not, or an unlearned
person, he is convinced of uil, he is
judged of all.

25 The secrets of his heart are made
manifest; and so, falhng down on his
face, he will adore God, aflarming that
God is among you indeed.

26 How is it then, brethren ? When you
come together, every one of you hath a
psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation,
hath a tongue, hath an interpretation:
let all things be done to edification.

27 If any speak with a tongue, let it be
by two, or at the most by three, and in
course, and let one interpret.

28 But if there be no interpreter, let him
hold his peace in the church, and speak
to himself and to God.

29 And let the prophets speak, two or
three ; and let the rest judge.

30 But if any thing be revealed to an-
other sitting, let the first hold his peace.

31 For you may all prophesy one by
one ; that all may learn, and all may be
exhorted :

32 And the spirits of the prophets are
subject to the prophets.

33 For God is not the God of dissension,
but of peace : as also I teach in all the
churches of the saints.

34 Let women keep silence in the
churches: for it is not permitted them
to speak, but to be subject, * as also the
law saith.

35 But if they would learn any thing, let
them ask their husbands at home. For
it is a shame for a woman to speak in the
church.

36 Or did the word of God come out
from you? Or came it only unto you?

37 If any seem to be a prophet, or

i Gen. 3. 16.

another their various miraculous gifts of the Spirit^
common in those primitive times; amongst whico
the apostle prefers that of prophesying before that
of speaking strange tongues, because it was more to
the public edification. Where also note, that the
Latin, used In our liturgy, is so far from being a
strange or imknown tongue, that it is perhaps the
best kuowQ toQgue in the world.

ido

Christ's resurrection 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS Resurrection of the dead

spiritual, let him know the things that 1
write to you, that they are the command-
ments of the Lord.

38 But if any man know not, he shall
not be known.

39 Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to
prophesy ; and forbid not to speak with
tongues.

40 But let all things be done decently,
and according to order.

CHAPTER 15.

ChrisVs resurrection and ours : the manner of our
resurrection.

"VTOW ^ I make known unto you, bre-
X\ thren, the gospel which I preached
to you, which also you have received,
and wherein you stand ;

2 By which also you are saved, if you
hold fast after what manner I preached
unto you, unless you have believed in
vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all,
which I also received: how that Christ
died for our sins, ^ according to the
scriptures :

4 ^ And that he was buried, and that he
rose again the third day, according to the
scriptures ;

5 And that he was seen by Cephas ;
^ and after that by the eleven.

6 Then was he seen by more than five
hundred brethren at once: of whom
many remain until this present, and
some are fallen asleep.

7 After that, he was seen by James, then
by all the apostles.

8 And last of all, he was seen also by
me, as by one born out of due time.

9 ^* For I am the least of the apostles,
who am not worthy to be called an
apostle, because I persecuted the church
of God.

10 But by the grace of God, I am what
I am ; and his grace in me hath not been
void, but I have laboured more abun-
dantly than all they: yet not I, but the
grace of God with me :

11 For whether I, or they, so we preach,
and so you have believed.

12 Now if Christ be preached, that he

jGal. 1. 11. — fc Isa. 53. 5.

I Jonas 2. 1. — m Jolm 20. 19.

n Acts 9. 3 ; Eph. 3. 8. — o Col. 1. 18 ; Apoc. 1. 5.

Ohap. 15. Ver. 28. The Son also himself shall
be subject unto him. That is, the Son will he suhject
to the Father, according to his human nature, even
after tbe general resurrection : and also Uie whole

arose again from the dead, how do some
among you say, that there is no resurrec-
tion of the dead ?

13 But if there be no resurrection of
the dead, then Christ is not risen again.

14 And if Christ be not risen again,
then is our preaching vain, and your
faith is also vain.

15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses
of God : because we have given testimony
against God, that he hath raised up
Christ ; whom he hath not raised up, if
the dead rise not again.

16 For if the dead rise not again, neither
is Christ risen again.

17 And if Christ be not risen again,
your faith is vain, for you are yet in
your sins.

18 Then they also that are fallen asleep
in Christ, are perished.

19 If in this life only we have hope in
Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

20 But now Christ is risen from the
dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep :

21 ° For by a man came death, and by a
man the resurrection of the dead.

22 And as in Adam all die, so also in
Christ all shall be made alive.

23 P But every one in his own order ;
the firstfruits Christ, then they that are
of Christ, who have believed in his
coming.

24 Afterwards the end, when he shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God
and the Father, when he shall have
brought to nought all principality, and
power, and virtue.

25 For he must reign, ^ until he hath put
all his enemies under his feet.

26 And the enemy death shall be Q«r
stroyed last : *" For he hath put all things
under his feet. And whereas he saith,

27 All things are put under him; un-
doubtedly, he is excepted, who put all
things under him.

28 And when all things shall be subdued
unto him, then the Son also himself shall
be subject unto him that put all things
under him, that God may be all in all.

29 Otherwise what shall they do that
are baptized for the dead, if the dead

p 1 Thess. 4. 15.

q Ps. 109. 1 ; Heb. 1. 13, and 10. 13.

r Ps. 8. 8 ; Heb. 2. 8.

mystical body of Christ will be entirely subject to
God, obeying him in every thing.

Ver. 29. That are baptized for the dead. Some
think tbe apostle here alludes to a ceremony tbeo

200

Qualities of risen body 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS

Immortality

rise not again at all ? why are they then
baptized for them ?

30 Why also are we in danger every
hour?

31 I die daily, I protest by your glory,
brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

32 If (according to man) I fought with
beasts at Ephesus, what dcth it profit
me, if the dead rise not again ? * Let us
eat and drink^ for to morrow we shall die,

33 Be not seduced : Evil communications
lormpt good manners.

34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For
some have not the knowledge of God, I
speak it to your shame.

35 But some man will say : How do the
dead rise again ? or with what manner of
body shall they come ?

36 Senseless man, that which thou sow-
est is not quickened, except it die first.

37 And that which thou sowest, thou
sowest not the body that shall be ; but
bare grain, as of wheat, or of some of the
rest.

38 But God giveth it a body as he will:
and to every seed its proper body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but
one is the flesh of men, another of beasts,
another of birds, another of fishes.

40 And tJiere are bodies celestial, and
bodies terrestrial: but, one is the glory of
the celestial, and another of the terres-
trial.

41 One 18 the glory of the sun, another
the glory of the moon, and another the
glory of the stars. For star differeth
from star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in
incorruption.

43 It is sown in dishonour, it shall rise
in glory. It is sown in weakness, it shall
rise in power.

44 It is sown a natural body, it shall rise
a spiritual body. If there be a natural
body, there is also a spiritual body, as it
is written:

45 ' The first man Adam was made into a
living soul; the last Adam into a quicken-
ing spirit.

46 Yet that was not first whicn is spirit-
s Wisd. 2. 6 ; Isa. 22. 13, and 56. 12. — t Gen. 2. 7.

in use ; but others, more probably, to the prayers
and penitential labours, performed by the primitive
Christians for the souls of the faithful departed; or
to the baptism of afflictions and suHerings UQdergODe
for sinners spiritually dead.

ual, but that which is natural ; afterwards
that which is spiritual.

47 The first man was of the earth,
earthly: the second man, from heaven,
heavenly.

48 Such as is the earthly, such also are
the earthly: and such as is the heavenly,
such also are they that are heavenly.

49 Therefore as we have borne the
image of the earthly, let us bear also the
image of the heavenly.

60 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh
and blood cannot possess the kingdom of
God: neither shall corruption possess in-
corruption.

61 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We
shall all indeed rise again: but we shall
not all be changed.

62 In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet: for the trum-
pet shall sound, and the dead shall rise
again incorruptible : and we shall be
changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on in-
corruption ; and this mortal must put on
immortality.

54 And when this mortal hath put on
immortality, then shall come to pass the
saying that is written: "Deat/i is swal-
lowed up in victory.

55 0 death^ where is thy victory ? 0 death,
where is thy sting f

56 Now the sting of death is sin : and
the power of sin is the law.

57 ^ But thanks be to God, who hath
given us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be
ye steadfast and unmoveable ; always
abounding in the work of the Lord, know-
ing that your labour is not in vain in the
Lord.

CHAPTER 16.

Of collection of alms: admonitions and salute-
tions.

"VTOW concerning the collections that
iS are made for the saints, as I have
given order to the churches of Galatia, so
do ye also.

2 On the first day of the week let every
one of you put apart with himself, laying
up what it shall well please him; that

M Osee 13. 14 ; Heb. 2. 14. — v 1 John 5. 5.

Ver. 32. Let its eat and drink, &c. That is, if we
did not believe that we were to rise again from the
dead, we might live like the impious and wicked,
who have no belief in the resurrection.

201

The apodle's yromise 1 TO THE CORINTHIANS

A&tfwnitions

when I come, the collections be not then
to be made.

3 And when I shall be with yoa, whom-
soever you shall approve by letters, them
will I send to carry your grace to Jeru-
salem.

4 And if it be meet that I also go, they
ihall go with me.

5 Now I will come to you, when I shall
have passed through Macedonia. For I
shall pass through Macedonia.

6 And with you perhaps I shall abide, or
even spend the winter: that you may
bring me on my way whithersoever I
shall go.

7 For I will not see you now by the
Way, for I trust that I shall abide with
you some time, if the Lord permit.

8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pen-
tecost.

9 For a great door and evident is opened
unto me : and many adversaries.

10 Now if Timothy come, see that he be
with you without fear, for he worketh
the work of the Lord, as I also do.

11 Let no man therefore despise him,
but conduct ye him on his way in peace :
that he may come to me. For I look for
him with the brethren.

12 And touching our brother Apollo, I
give you to understand, that I much en-
treated him to come unto you with the
brethren: and indeed it was not his will
at all to come at this time. But he will
come when he shall have leisure.

Chap. 16. Ver. 22. Let him he anathema, maran-
atha. Anathema signifies here a thing accursed.
Maran-atha, which, according to St. Jerome and St.
Chrysostom, signify, The Lord is come ah-eady. and
therefore is to be taken as an admonition to those
who doubted ot the resurrectiou, and to put them la

13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, do
manfully, and be strengthened.

14 Let all your things be done in char-
ity.

15 And I beseech you, brethren, you
know the house of Stephanas, and of
Fortunatus, and of Achaicus, that they
are the firstfruits of Achaia, and have
dedicated themselves to the ministry of
the saints:

16 That you also be subject to such, and
to every one that worketh with us, and
laboureth.

17 And I rejoice in the presence of Ste-
phanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus,
because that which was wanting on your
part, they have supplied.

18 For they have refreshed both my
spirit and yours. Know them, therefore,
that are such.

19 The churches of Asia salute you.
Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in
the Lord, with the church that is in their
house, with whom I also lodge.

20 All the brethren salute you. Salute
one another with a holy kiss.

21 The salutation of me Paul, with my
own hand.

22 If any man love not our Lord Jesus
Christ, let him be anathema, maran-
atha.

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you.

24 My charity be with you all in Christ
Jesus. Amen.

mind that Christ, the judge of the living and the
dead, is come already. Others explain Maran-atha :
Mav ovr Lord come, that is, to judge and punish
those with exemplary judgments and punishments,
that do not love the Lord Jesus Christ

Our comfort is in God

The apostle's glory

THE

SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

CORINTHIANS

In this Epistle St. Paul expresses his joy in that the Corinthians have manifested
their loyalty to him and punished an offender. He speaks of his sincerity and his
dignity as a minister of the New Testament. He cautions the faithful against
false teachers and the society of infidels. He gives an account of his sufferings,
and also of the favours and graces which God hath bestowed on him. This second
Epistle was written iri the same year with the first, and sent by Titus from some
place in Macedonia.

CHAPTER 1.

Bespeaks of his troubles in Asia. His not coming
to them was not out of levity. The constancy and
sincerity of his doctrine.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by
the will of God, and Timothy our
brother : to the church of God that is at
Corinth, with all the saints that are in all
Achaia:

2 Grace unto you and peace from God our
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 " Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies,
and the God of all comfort.

4 Who comforteth us in all our tribula-
tion ; that we also may be able to comfort
them who are in all distress, by the ex-
hortation wherewith we also are exhorted
by God.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound
in us : so also by Christ doth our comfort
abound.

6 Now whether we be in tribulation, it
is for your exhortation and salvation: or
whether we be comforted, it is for your
consolation: or whether we be exhorted,
it is for your exhortation and salvation,
which worketh the enduring of the same
sufferings which we also suffer.

7 That our hope for you may be stead-
fast: knowing that as you are partakers
of the sufferings, so shall you be also of
the consolation.

8 For we would not have you ignorant,
brethren, of our tribulation, which came
to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of
measure above our strength, so that we
were weary even of life.

9 But we had in ourselves the answer of
death, that we should not trust in our-
selves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

10 Who hath delivered and doth deliver
us out of so great dangers : in whom we
trust that he will yet also deliver us.

11 You helping withal in prayer for us :
that for this gift obtained for us, by the
means of many persons, thanks may be
given by many in our behalf.

12 For our glory is this, the testimony
of our conscience, that in simplicity of
heart ar^d sincerity of God, and not in
carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God,
we have conversed in this world: and
more abundantly towards you.

13 For we write no other things to you
than what you have read and known.
And I hope that you shall know unto the
end:

14 As also you ha"ve known us in part,
that we are your glory, as you also are
ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 And in this confidence I had a mind
to come to you before, that you might
have a second grace :

16 And to pass by you into Macedonia,
and again from Macedonia to come to
you, and by you to be brought on my way
towards Judea.

17 Whereas then I was thus minded, did
I use lightness ? Or, the things that I
purpose, do I purpose according to the
flesh, that there should be with me, It is,
and It is not ?

18 But God is faithful, for our preaching
which was to you, was not, It is, and It is
not.

a£pb.L3; 1 Peter 1.&
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The apostle's grief 2 TO THE CORINTHIANS The apostle's pardon

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who
was preached among you by us, by me,
and Sylvanus, and Timothy, was not, It
is and It is not^ but, It is, was in him.

20 For all the promises of God are in
him, It is ; therefore also by him, amen
to God, unto our glory.

21 Now he that confirmeth us with you in
Christ, and that hath anointed us, is God :

22 Who also hath sealed us, and given
the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 But I call God to witness upon my
soul, that to spare you, I came not any
more to Corinth: not because we exer-
cise dominion over your faith: but we
are helpers of your joy : for in faith you
«tand.

CHAPTER 2.

He grants a pardon to cm offender upon his doing
penance.

BUT I determined this with myself,
not to come to you again in sorrow.

2 For if I make you sorrowful, who is he
then that can make me glad, but the same
who is made sorrowful by me ?

3 And I wrote this same to you ; that I
may not, when I come, have sorrow upon
sorrow, from them of whom I ought to
rejoice: having confidence in you all,
that my joy is the joy of you all.

4 For out of much affliction and anguish
of heart, I wrote to you with many tears :
not that you should be made sorrowful :
but that you might know the charity I
have more abundantly towards you.

5 And if any one have caused grief, he
hath not grieved me ; but in part, that I
may not burden you all.

6 To him who is such a one, this rebuke
is sufficient, which is given by many :

7 So that on the contrary, you should
rather forgive him and comfort him, lest
perhaps such a one be swallowed up with
overmuch sorrow.

8 Wherefore, I beseech you, that you
would confirm your charity towards
him.

9 For to this end also did I write, that
I may know the experiment of you, whe-
ther you be obedient in all things.

Chap. 1. Ver. 19. It is, was in him. There was
no inconstancy in the doctrine of the apostles, some-
times, like modern sectaries, saying, /t is, and at.
other times saying. It is not. But their doctrine was
ever the same, one uniform yea, in Jesus Christ, one
Amen, that is, one truth in him.

Chap. 2. Ver. 10. / also. The apostle here
granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the person and
by the authority of ChrisU to the ioceatuous Co>

10 And to whom you have pardoned
any thing, I also. For, what I have par-
doned, if I have pardoned any thing, for
your sakes have I done it in the person
of Christ.

11 That we be not overreached by
Satan. For we are not ignorant of his
devices.

12 And when I was come to Troas for
the gospel of Christ, and a door was
opened unto me in the Lord,

13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I
found not Titus my brother ; but bidding
them farewell, I went into Macedonia.

14 Now thanks be to God, who always
maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus,
and manifesteth the odour of his know-
ledge by us in every place.

16 For we are the good odour of Christ
unto God, in them that are saved, and in
them that perish.

16 To the one indeed the odour of death
unto death : but to the others the odour
of life unto life. And for these things
who is so sufficient?

17 For we are not as many, adulterat-
ing the word of God ; but with sincerity,
jut as from God, before God, in Christ
we speak.

CHAPTER 3.

He needs no commendatory letters. The glory of
the ministry of the Kew Testament.

DO we begin again to commend our-
selves? Or do we need (as some do)
epistles of commendation to you, or from
you?

2 You are our epistle, written in our
hearts, which is known and read by all
men:

3 Being manifested, that you are the
epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and
written not with ink, but with the Spirit
of the living God ; not in tables of
stone, but in the fleshly tables of the
heart.

4 And such confidence we have, through
Christ, towards God.

5 Not that we are sufficient to think
any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves:
but our sufficiency is from God.

rinthian, whom before he had put under penance:
which pardon consisted in a releasing of part of the
temporal punishment due to his sin.

Ver. If). The odnnr of death, &c. The preaching
of the apostle, which, by its fragrant odour, brought
many to life, was to others, through their own fault,
the occasion of death ; by their wiliuUy opposing and
resisting Uiat divine caU.

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2 TO THE CORINTHIANS The apostle's comfoH

6 Who also hath made us fit ministers
of the new testament, not in the letter,
but in the spirit. For the letter killeth,
but the spirit quickeneth,

7 Now if the ministration of death, en-
graven with letters upon stones, was
glorious ; so that the children of Israel
could not steadfastly behold the face of
Moses, for the glory of his countenance,
which is made void :

8 How shall not the ministration of the
spirit be rather in glory?

9 For if the ministration of condemna-
tion be glory, much more the ministra-
tion of justice aboundeth in glory.

10 For even that which was glorious in
this part was not glorified, by reason of
the glory that excelleth.

11 For if that which is done away was
glorious, much more that which remain-
eth is in glory.

12 Having therefore such hope, we use
much confidence :

13 ^And not as Moses put a veil upon
his face, that the children of Israel might
not steadfastly look on the face of that
which is made void.

14 But their senses were made dull.
For, until this present day, the selfsame
veil, in the reading of the old testament,
remaineth not taken away (because in
Christ it is made void).

15 But even until this day, when Moses
is read, the veil is upon their heart.

16 But when they shall be converted to
the Lord, the veil shall be taken away,

17 ''Now the Lord Is a Spirit. And
where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty.

18 But we all beholding the glory of the
Lord with open face, are transformed
into the same image from glory to glory,
as by the Spirit of the Lord.

CHAPTER 4.

The sineerity of his preaching : his comfort in his
afflictions,

THEREFORE, seeing we have this
ministration, according as we have
obtained mercy, we faint not ;

2 But we renounce the hidden things of
dishonesty, not walking in craftiness,
nor adulterating the word of God ; but
by manifestation of the truth commend-

6 Ex. 34. 33. — c John 4. 24.

ing ourselves to every man's conscience,
in the sight of God.

3 And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid
to them that are lost,

4 In whom the god of this world hath
blinded the minds of unbelievers, that
the light of the gospel of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God, should
not shine unto them.

6 For we preach not ourselves, but
Jesus Christ our Lord; and ourselves
your servants through Jesus.

6 For God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God, in the face of Christ
Jesus.

7 But we have this treasure in earthen
vessels, that the excellency may be of
the power of God, and not of us.

8 In all things we suffer tribulation, but
are not distressed ; we are straitened,
but are not destitute ;

9 We suffer persecution, but are not
forsaken; we are cast down, but we per»
ish not:

10 Always bearing about in our body
the mortification of Jesus, that the life
also of Jesus may be made manifest in
our bodies.

11 For we who live are always delivered
unto death for Jesus' sake ; that the life
also of Jesus may be made manifest in
our mortal flesh.

12 So then death worketh in us, bub life
in you.

13 But having the same spirit of faith,
as it is written: ^ I believed^ for which
cause I have spoken; we also believe, for
which cause we speak also :

14 Knowing that he who raised up Je-
sus, will raise us up also with Jesus, and
place us with you,

15 For all things are for your sakes;
that the grace abounding through many,
may abound in thanksgiving unto the
glory of God.

16 For which cause we faint not; but
though our outward man is corrupted, yet
the inward man is renewed day by day.

17 For that which is at present momen*
tary and light of our tribulation, work-
eth for us above measure exceedingly an
eternal weight of glory.

d Ps. 115. 10.

Chap. 3. Ver.6. TheieUm^,

mot rlgbtly understood, and taken without tbe spirit.
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Desire of death

2 TO THE CORINTHIANS

Christ died for all

18 White ^9^ kutik not at the things] to answer them whr glory in face, and

which are «©en, but «t the things which
are not eeen. For the things which are
seen, are temporal ; but the things which
are not seen, are eteruaL

CHi?rTER 5.

J9e *ip tvUling to leave his ".arthly mansion to be with
the LorcL Mis charity for the Corinthians,

FOR we know, if our earthly house of
this habitation be dissolved, that we
have a building of God, a house not
made with hands, eternal in heaven

2 For in this also we groan, desiring to
be clothed upon with our habitation that
Ib from heaven.
8 * Yet so that we be found clothed, not
naked.

4 For we also, who are in this taber-
nacle, do groan, being burthened; be-
cause we would not be unclothed, but
clothed upon, that tnat which is mortal
may be swallowed up by life.

5 Now he that maketh us for this very
thing, is God, who hath given us the
pledge of the Spirit.

6 Thereforo having always confidence,
knowing that, while we are in Che body,
we are absent from the Lord.

7 (For we walk by faith, and not by
sight.)

8 But we are confident, and have a
good will to be absent rather from the
body, and to be present with the Lord.

0 And therefore we labour, whether ab
sent or present, to please him.

lO-^For we must all be manifested be
fore the judgment seat of Christ, that
every one may receive the proper things
of the body, according as he hath done,
Whether it be good or evil.

11 Knowing therefore the fear of the
Lord, we use persuasion to men ; but to
God we are manifest. And I trust also
that in your consciences we are mani-
fest.

12 We commend not ourselves again to
you, but give you occasion to glory in
our behalf ; that you may have somewhat

t Apoc. 16. 15.—/ Rom. 14. 10.
g Isa. 43. 19 ; Apoc. 21. 5.

Chap. 5. Ver. lO. The proper thinc/s of the body.
tnthe particular judgment, immediately after death,
the soul is rewarded or punished according to what
it has done in the body.

Ver. 16. We knoiu no man according to the flesh.
That is, we consider not any man with regard to
his nation, family, kindred, or other natural qualities
fM'advantiageSi butoiUy witb relation to Christ, and

not in heart.

13 For whether we be transported in
mind, it is to God; or whether we be
sober, it is for you.

14 For the charity of Christ presseth
us : judging this, that if one died for all,
then ail were dead.

16 And Christ died for all; that they
also who live, may not now live to them-
selves, but unto him who died for them,
and rose again.

16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no
man according to the flesh. And if we
have known Christ according to the
flesh; but now we know him so no
longer-

1 7 If then any be In Christ a new crea-
ture, the old things are passed away,,
^ behold all things are made new.

1 8 But all things are of God, who hath
reconciled us to himself by Christ ; and
hath given to us the ministry of recon-
ciliation.

19 For God indeed was in Christ, recon-
ciling the world to himself, not imputing
to them their sins; and he hath placed
in us the word of reconciliation.

20 For Christ therefore we are ambas-
sadors, God as it were exhorting bj' us.
For Christ, we beseech you, be recon-
ciled to God.

21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made
sin for us, that we might be made the
justice of God in him.

CHAPTER 6.

He exhorts them to a correspondence with God*B
grace, and not to associate with unbelievers,

AND we helping do exhort you, that
vain.

you receive not the grace of God in

2 For he saith: ^In an accepted time
have T heard thee; and in the day of salva-
tion have I helped thee. Behold, now is
the acceptable time ; behold, now is the
day of salvation.

3 * Giving no offence to any man, that
our ministry be not blamed ;

h Isa. 49. 8.
i 1 Cor. 10. 32.

according to the order of divine charity, in God, and
for God. The apostle adds, that even with respect
to Christ himself, he now no longer considers hiin
according to the flesli, by taking a satisfaction in hii
being his countryman ; his altection being now pun
fied from all such earthly considerations.

Ver. 21. Sin for us. That is, to be a sin offering^
a victim for sin

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Evil atisociatixms

2 TO THE CORINTHIANS

Proper sorrow

4 But in all tbinp^ let us exhibit our-
selves ^ ae the ministers of God, in much
patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in
distresses,

5 In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in
labours, in watchings, in fastings,

6 In chastity, in knowledge, in long
Buffering, in sweetness, in the Holy
Ghost, in charity unfeigned,

7 In the word of truth, in the power of
God; by the armour of justice on the
right hand and on the left ;

8 By honour and dishonour, by evil re-
port and good report ; afe deceivers, and
yet true ; as unknown, and yet known ;

8 As dying, and behold we live; as
chastised, and not Killed j

10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
as needy, yet enriching many; as hav-
ing nothing, and possessing all things.

11 Our mouth is open to you, O ye Co-
rinthians, our heart is enlarged.

12 You are not straitened in us, but in
youA' own bowels you are straitened.

1?> But having the same recompense, (I
speak as to my children,) be you also
enlarged.

14 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers.
For what participation hath justice with
injustice? Or what fellowship hath
light with darkness ?

15 And what concord hath Christ with
Belial? Or what part hath the faithful
with the unbeliever?

IC Anc vhat agreement hath the temple
of Goo with idols? '^ For you are the
temple of the living God; as God saith:
^ I will dwell in them, and walk among them;
and I will bt their God, and they shall be
my people.

11 ^ Whereforf . Oo out from among them,
and be ye sevarate. saith the Lord, and
touch not the unclean, thing:

18 Am? I will receive, you; * and I will

be a h other to you] and you shall be my

sons ^nd daughter c, saith the Lcn-d Ah

^/ighty.

CHAPTER 7.

The apostle^s affection for the Corinthians : his
comfort and joy on their accovnt.

HAVING therefore these promises,
dearly beloved, let us cleanse our-
selves from all defilement of the flesh
and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification
in the fear of God.

j 1 Cor. 4. i — kl Cor. 3. 16. 17. «ad «. 1«

2 Receive us. We have injored so man,
we have corrupted no man, we have
overreached no man.

3 I speak not this to your condemnation.
For we have said before, that you are in
our hearts, tc die together, and to Uve
together.

4 Great is my confidence for you, great
is my glorying for you. I am filled with
comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy
in all cur tribulation.

6 For also when we were come into
Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but W6
suffered all tribulation ; combats without,
fears within.

6 But God, who comforteth the humble,
comforted us by the coming of Titus.

7 And not by his coming only, but also
by the consolation, wherewith he was
comforted in you, relating to us your
desire, your mourning, your zeal for me,
so that I rejoiced the more.

8 For although I made you sorrowful
by my epistle, I do not repent ; and if I
did repent, seeing that the same epistle
(although but for a time) did make yoa
sorrowful ;

9 Now I am glad : not because you were
made sorrowful ^ but because you were
made sorrowful unto penance. For you
were made sorrowful according to God,
that you might suffer damage by us in
nothing.

10 ** For the sorrow that is according to
God worketh penance, steadfast unto
salvation ; but th3 sorrow of the world
worketh death.

11 For behold this selfsame thing, that
you were made sorrowful according t<j
God, how great carefulness it worketh in
you; yea defence, yea indignation, yea
fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge:
in all things you have shewed yourselves
to be undefiled in the matter.

12 Wherefore although I wrote to yon,
it was not for his sake that did the wrong,
nor for him that suffered it; but tj
manifest our carefulness that we have f ojp
you

13 Before God : therefore we were com»
forted. But in our consolation, we did
the more abundantly rejoice for the joy
of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed
by you aU.

14 And if I have boasted any thing t»

m isa. 52. 11. — n Jer 3i. d
4 <\ irvSor %. \at.

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Generosity of faithful 2 TO THE CORINTHIANS Plea for generosity

him of you, I have not been put to shame ;
but as we have spoken all things to you
in truth, so also our boasting that was
made to Titus is found a truth.

15 And his P bowels are more abundantly
towards you; remembering the obedi-
ence of you all, how with fear and trem-
bling you received him.

16 I rejoice that in all things I have
confidence in you.

CHAPTER 8.

Be 9xh(Kft» them to contribute bountifuUy to telieve
the poor of Jerasalem,

TWTOW we make known unto you» bre-
iS thren, the grace of God, that hath
been given in the churches of Macedonia.

2 That in much experience of tribulation,
they have liad abundance of joy ; and
their very deep poverty hath abounded
unto the riches of their simplicity.

8 For according to their power (I bear
them witness), and beyond their power,
they were willing.

4 With much entreaty begging of us the
grace and communication of the ministry
that is done toward the saints.

5 And not as we hoped, but they gave
their own selves first to the Lord, then
to us by the will of God:

6 Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that
as he had begun, so also he would finish
smong you this same grace.

7 That as in all things you abound hi
faith, and word, and knowledge, and all
carefulness; moreover also in your char-
ity towards as, so In this grace also you
may abound,

tt For yon know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that being rich he became
poor, for your sakes} that through his
poverty you might be rich.

10 And herein i give my advice ; ftor
this is profitable for you, who have be-
gun not only to do, but also to be willing,
a year ago.

11 Now therefore perform ye it aJso in
deed \ that as your mind is forward to be
willing, 80 it may be also to perform, out
of that which you have.

12 For if the will be forward, it is ai)-

p That Is, affectloa

cepted according to that which a man
hath, not according to that which he
hath not.

13 For J mean not that others should be
eased, and you burthened, but by an
equality.

14 In this present time let your abun-
dance supply their want, that their
abundance also may supply your want,
that there may be an equality,

16 As it is written: ^ He that had muc\
had nothing over; and he that had little^
had no want,

16 And thanks be to God, who hath
given the same carefulness for you in the
heart of Titus.

17 For indeed he accepted the exhorta-
tion ; but being more careful, of his own
will he went unto you.

18 We have sent also with him the
brother, whose praise is in the gospel
through all the churches.

19 And not that only, but he was also
ordained by the churches companion of
our travels, for this grace, which is ad-
ministered by us, to the glory of the
Lord, and our determined will :

20 Avoiding this, lest any man should
blame us in this abundance which is ad-
ministered by us.

21 •'For we forecast what may be good
not only before God, but also before
men*

22 And we have sent with them our
brother also, whom we have often proved
diligent in many things ; but now much
more diligent, with much confidence in
yoti,

23 Either for Titus, who is my compan-
ion and fellow labourer towards you, or
our brethren, the apostles of the churches,
the glory of Christ.

24 Wherefore shew ye to them, in the
sight of the churches, the evidence of
your charity, and of our boasting on your
behalf.

CHAPTER 0.

A iwfther exhortation to almsgiving : the fruiti
Qfit.

FOR concerning the ministry that is
done towards the saints. It *s super-
fluous for me to write unto you.

2 For I know your forward mind; for
which 1 boast of you to the Macedonians.

q Ex. 16. la— r Rom. 12. M.

CUAF. & Ver. 2. SimpUdty. That is, sincere bounty and oharity.

Plea for generosity 2 TO THE CORINTHIANS The Christian's weapons

liiat Aciiaia also is ready from the year
past, and your emulation hath provoked
very many,

3 Now I have sent the brethren, that
the thing which we boast of concerning
you, be not made void in this behalf, that
(as I have said) you may be ready:

4 Lest, when the Macedonians shall come
with me, and lind you unprepared, we
(not to say ye) should be ashamed in
this matter.

6 Therefore I thought it necessary to
desire the brethren that they would go
to you before, and prepare this blessing
before promised, to be ready, so as a
blessing, not as covetousness.

6 Now this I say : He who soweth spar-
ingly, shall also reap sparingly and he
who soweth in blessings, shall also reap
blessings.

7 Every one as he hath determined in
his heart, not with sadness, or of aeces-
Bity: ^for God loveth a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make alJ grace
abound in you; that ye always, having
all sufficiency in all things, may abound
to every good work,

9 As it is written: *He hath dispersed
abroad, he hath given to Vie poor: hie' jus-
tice remaineth for ever,

10 And he that ministereth seed to the
sower, will both give you bread to eat,
and will multiply your seed, and increase
the growth of the fruits of your justice:

11 That being enriched in all things,
you may abound unto all simpUcity,
which worketh through us thanksgiving
to God.

12 Because the administration of this
office doth not only supply the want of
the saints, but aboundeth also by many
thanksgivings in the Lord,

13 By the proof of this ministry, glorify-
ing God for the obedience of your con-
fession unto the gospel of Christ, and for
the simplicity of your communicating
unto them, and unto alL

14 And in their praying for you, being
desirous of you, because of the excellent
grace of God in you.

16 Thanks be to God for his onspeak-
able gift.

CHAPTER 10.

To stop the cahnnny and hoasttng offaJbtt apos^tlP!'.
ht aetajorth the power oj hi* apostteship.

s EccU. 35. 11.— f Ps. 111. 9.

*VrOW I Paul myself beseech you, by
J^ the mildness and modesty of Christ,
who in presence indeed am lowly among
you, but being absent, am bold toward
you.

2 But I beseech you, that I may not be
bold when I am present, with that con-
fidence wherewith I am thought to be
bold, against some, who reckon us as if
we walked according to the flesh.

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we
do not war according to the flesh.

4 For the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, but mighty to God unto the
pulling down of fortifications, destroy-
ing counsels,

5 And every height that exalteth itself
against the knowledge of God, and bring-
ing into captivity every understanding
unto the obedience of Christ j

6 And having in readiness to revenge
all disobedience, when your obedience
shall be fulfilled.

7 See th«3 things that are according to
outward appearance. If any man trust
to himself, that he is Christ's, let him
think this again with himself, that r.s he
is Christ^s, so are we also.

8 For if also I should boast somewhat
more of our power, which the Lord hath
given us unto edification, and not for
your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

9 But that I may not be thought as it
were to terrify you by epistles,

10 (For his epistles indeed, say they, are
weighty and strong ; but his bodily pre-
sence is weak, and his speech contempti-
ble,)

11 Let such a one think this, that such as
we are in ^ord by epistles, when absent,
such also we will be indeed when present.

12 For we dare not match, or compare
ourselves with some, that commend them-
selves ; but we measure ourselves by our-
selves, and compare ourselves with our-
selves.

13 •* But we will not glory beyond our
measure ; but according to the measure
of the rule, which God hath measured to
us, a measure to reach even unto you.

14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond
our measure, as if we reached not unto
you. For we are come as far as to you
in the gospel of Christ.

16 Not glorying beyond measure in other

u Eph. 4. 7.

^09

The apostle^s fear

2 TO THE CORINTHIANS He commends himself

men's labours ; but having hope of your
\ucreasing faith, to be magnified in you
according to our rule abundantly ;

16 Yea, unto those places that are be-
yond you, to preach the gospel, not to
glory in another man's rule, in those
things that are made ready to our hand.

17 ^ But he that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord.

18 For not he who commendeth him-
self, is approved, but he, whom God
commendeth.

CHAPTER 11.

He is forced to commend himself and his labours,
le$i the Corinthians should be imposed upon by
the false apostles.

WOULD to God you could bear with
some little of my folly: but do bear
with me.

2 For I am jealous of you with the jeal-
ousy of God. For I have espoused you
to one husband that I may present you
as a chaste virgin to Christ.

this glorying shall not be broken off in
me in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? Because I love you not?
God knoweth it.

12 But what I do, that I will do, that I
may cut off the occasion from them that
desire occasion, that wherein they glory,
they may be found even as we.

13 For such false apostles are deceitful
workmen, transforming themselves into
the apostles of Christ.

14 And no wonder: for Satan himself
transformeth himself into an angel of
hght.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if hi*
ministers be transformed as the ministers
of justice, whose end shall be according
to their works.

16 I say again, (let no man think me to
be foohsh, otherwise take me as one fool-
ish, that I also may glory a little.)

17 That which I speak, I speak not ac-
cording to God, but as it were in foolish*

3 But I fear lest, ^ as the serpent seduced j ness, in this matter of glorying.

Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should
be corrupted, and fall from the simplicity
that is in Christ.

4 For if he that cometh preacheth an-
other Christ, whom we have not preached ;
or if you receive another Spirit, whom
you have not received ; or another gospel
which you have not received ; you might
well bear vnth him,

5 For I suppose that I have done no-
thing less than the great apostles.

6 For although I be rude in speech, yet
not in knowledge ; but in all things we
have been made manifest to you.

7 Or did I commit a fault, humbling
myself, that j^ou might be exalted ? Be-
cause» I preached unto you the gospel of
God freely?

8 I have taken from other churches, re-
ceiving wages of them for your ministry.

9 And, when I was present with you,
and wanted, I was chargeable to no man :
for that which was wanting to me, the
brethren supplied who came from Mace-
donia ; and in all things I have kept my-
self from being burthensome to you, and
so I will keep myself.

10 The truth of Christ is in me, that

V Jew 9. 23 ; 1 Cor. 1. 31.
w Gen, 3. 4. — cr Dent. 25, 3.

Chap. ll. Ver. 1. My folly. So he calls his re-
citing his own praises, which, commonly speaking, is
ISQiEed upoo a» a piece of SoUy aod vanity ; Uiough

21Q

18 Seeing that many glory according to
the flesh, I will glory also.

19 For you gladly suffer the foolish;
whereas yourselves are wise.

20 For you suffer if a man bring you
into bondage, if a man devour you^ if a
man take from you^ if a man be lifted up,
if a man strike you on the face.

21 I speak according to dishonour, as if
we had been weak in this part. Wherein
if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I
dare also.

22 They are Hebrews : so am L They
are Israelites: so am L They are the
seed of Abraham: so am L

23 They are the ministers of Christ (I
speak as one less wise): 1 am more; in
many more labours, in prisons more fre-
quently, in stripes above measure, in
deaths o^ten.

24 Of the Jews '^ five times did I receive
forty stripes^ save one.

25 y Thrice was I beaten with rods, * once
I was stoned, ^ thrice I suffered shipwreck,
a night and a day I was in the depth of
the sea.

26 In journeying often, in perils of wt
ters, in perils of robbers, in perils from

y Acts 16, 22.-3 Acts 14. 18.
a Acts 27. 41.

the apostle was constrained to do It, for tbe goodof
the souls committed to his charge.

His tribulations

2 TO THE CORINTHIANS He glomes in infirmity

my own nation, in perils from the Gen-
tiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the
wilderness, iu perils in the sea, in perils
from false brethren.

27 In labour and painfulness, in much
watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fast-
ings often, in cold and nakedness.

28 Besides those things which are with-
out: my daily instance, the solicitude for
all the churches.

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak?
Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire ?

30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of
the things that concern my infirmity.

31 The God and Tath. -• of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever,
knoweth that I lie not.

32 ^At Damascus, the governor of the
nation under Aretas the king, guarded
the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend
me.

33 And through a window in a basket
was I let down by the wall, and so es-
caped his hands.

CHAPTER 12.

His raptures and revelations. His being buffeted
by Satan. His fear for the Corinthians.

IF I must glory (it is not expedient in-
deed): but I will come to visions and
revelations of the Lord.

2 ^' I know a man in Christ above four-
teen years ago (whether in the body, I
know not, or out of the body, I know
not; God knoweth), such a one caught
up to the third heaven.

3 And I know such a man (whether in
the body, or out of the body, I know
not : God knoweth) :

4 That he was caught up into paradise,
and heard secret words, which it is not
granted to man to utter.

6 For such an one I will glory ; but for
myself I will glory nothing, but in my
infirmities.

6 For though I should have a mind to
glory, I shall not be foolish; for I will
say the truth. But I forbear, lest any
man should think of me above that which
he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth
from me.

7 And lest the greatness of the revela-

b Acts 9. 24.

Ver. 28. My daily instance. The labours that
oome in, and press upon me every clay.

Chap. 12. Ver, 9. Power is made perfect. The
■troogttl aad power of GrOd more perfectly shines

tions should exalt me, there was given
me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan,
to buffet me.

8 For which thing thrice I besought the
Lord, that it might depart from me.

9 And he said to me : My grace is suffi-
cient for thee : for power is made perfect
in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory
in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
may dwell in me.

10 For which cause I please myself in
my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessi-
ties, in persecutions, in distresses, for
Christ. For when I am weak, then am I
powerful.

11 I am become foolish: you have com-
pelled me. For I ought to have been
commended by you : for I have no way
come short of them that are above mea*
sure apostles, although I be nothing.

12 Yet the signs of my apostleship have
been wrought on you, in all patience, in
signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

13 For what is there that you have had
less than the other churches, but that I
myself was not burthensome to you?
Pardon me this injury.

14 Behold now the third time I am
ready to come to you; and I will not be
burthensome unto you. For I seek not
the things that are yours, but you. For
neither ought the children to lay up for
the parents, but the parents for the chil-
dren.

15 But I most gladly will spend and be
spent myself for your souls; although
loving you more, I be loved less.

16 But be it so: I did not burthen you:
but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

17 Did I overreach you by any of them
whom I sent to you ?

18 I desired Titus, and I sent with him
a brother. Did Titus overreach you?
Did we not walk with the same spirit ?
did we not in the same steps ?

19 Of old, think you that we excuse
ourselves to you ? We speak before God
in Christ ; but all things, my dearly be-
loved, for your edification.

20 For I fear lest perhaps when I come
I shall not find you such as I would, and
that I shall be found by you such as

c Acts 9, 3.

forth iu our weakness and infirmity; as the more
weak we are of ourselves, the more ilhistrious is hia
grace in supporting us, and giving us the victory
under all trials and conflicts.

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The apostle threatens

TO THE GALATIANS He prays for Corinthians

you would not. Lest perhaps couten-
tions, envyings, animosities, dissensions,
detractions, whisperings, swellings, sedi-
tions, be among you.

21 Lest again, when I come, God hum-
ble me among you: and I mourn many
of them that sinned before, and have
not done penance for the uncleanness,
and fornication, and lasciviousness, that
they have committed.

CHAPTER 13.

Be threatens the impenitent, to provoke them to

penance.

BEHOLD, this is the third time I am
coming to you: *^In the mouth of
two or three witnesses shall every word
stand.

-— a^t have told before, and foretell, as pre-
sent, and now absent, to them that sinned
before, and to all the rest, that if I come
again, I will not spare.

3 Do you seek a proof of Christ that
speaketh in me, who towards you is not
weak, but is mighty in you ?

4 For although he was crucified through
weakness, yet he liveth by the power of
God. For we also are wea^k in him : but
we shall live with him by the power of
God towards you.

5 Try your own selves if you be in the
faith ; prove ye yourselves. Know you
not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is
in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates ?

6 But I trust that you shall know that
we are not reprobates.

7 Now we pray God, that you may do no
evil, not that we may appear approved,
but that you may do that which is good,
and that we may be as reprobates.

8 For we can do nothing against the
truth ; but for the truth.

9 For we rejoice that we are weak, and
you are strong. This also we pray for,
your perfection.

10 Therefore I write these things, being
absent, that, being present, I may not
deal more severely, according to the
power which the Lord hath given me
unto edification, and not unto destruction

11 For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be
perfect, take exhortation, be of one
mind, have peace ; and the God of peace
and of love shall be with you.

1 2 Salute one another with a holy kiss.
All the saints salute you.

13 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the charity of God, and the com-
munication of the Holy Ghost be with
you alL Amen.

THE

EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

GALATIANS.

The GalatianSf soon after St. Paul had preached the Gospel to them, were seduced
by some false teachers, who had been Jews, and who were for obliging all Chris-
tians, even those who had been Gentiles, to observe circumcision and the other
ceremonies of the Mosaical law. In this Epistle, he refutes the pernicious doctrine
of those teachers, and also their calumny against his mission and apostleship.
The subject matter of this Epistle is much the same as in that to the Romans.
It was probably written at Ephesus about twenty-five years after our Lord's
Ascension.

CHAPTER 1.

He blam,es the Galatians for suffering them,selves
to be imposed upon by new teachers • the apos'
tie's calling.

d Dent. 19. 15 ; Matt. 18. 16 ;

PAUL, an apostle, not of men, neither
by man, but by Jesus Christ, and
God the Father, who raised him from
the dead,

John 8. 17 ; Hcb. 10. 28.

Chap. 13. Ver. 7.

Reprobates: that is, without proof, by having no occasion of shewing our power
in punishing you.

218

The apostle's ministry TO THE GALATIANS

He goes to Jerusaterfii

2 And all the brethren who are with into Arabia, and again I returned to Da-
me, to the churches of Galatia. mascus.

3 Grace be to you, and peace from God , 18 Then, s' after three years, I went to
foe Father, and from our Lord Jesus I Jerusalem, to see Peter, and I tarried with

Christ,

4 Who gave himself for our sins, that
he might deliver us from this present
wicked world, according to the will of
God and our Father :

6 To whom is glory for ever and ever,
^men.

6 I wonder that you are so soon remov-
ed from him that called you into the grace
of Christ, unto another gospel.

7 Which is not another, only there are
some that trouble you, and would pervert
the gospel of Christ.

8 But though we, or an angel from hea-
ven, preach a gospel to you besides that
which we have preached to you, let him
be anathema.

9 As we said before, so now I say again :
If any one preach to you a gospel, besides
that which you have received, let him
be anathema.

10 For do I now persuade men, or God?
Or do I seek to please men ? If I yet
pleased men, I should not be the servant
of Christ.

11^ For I give you to understand, bre-
thren, that the gospel which was preached
by me is not according to man.

12 -^For neither did I receive it of man,
nor did I learn it ; but by the revelation
of Jesus Christ.

13 For you have heard of my conversa-
tion in time past in the Jews' religion:
how that, beyond measure, I persecuted
the church of God, and wasted it.

14 And I made progress in the Jews'
religion above many of my equals in my
own nation, being more abundantly zeal-
ous for the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when it pleased him, who sepa-
rated me from my mother's womb, and
called me by his grace,

16 To reveal his Son in me, that I
might preach him among the Gentiles,
Immediately I condescended not to flesh
and blood.

17 Neither went I to Jerusalem, to the
apostles who were before me: but I went

e 1 Cor. 15. 1.—/ Eph. 3. Z.—g A. D. 39.
h A. D. 49.— I Deut. 10. 17 ; Job 34. 19 ; Wisd. 6. 8 ;

CH.A.P. 2, Ver. 7. The gospel of the uncircum.
dsion. The preaching of the gospel to the uncircum-
cised, that is, to the Gentiles. St. Paul was called
Ip VD extraordinary manner tc be tbd iipostle of tlie

him fifteen days.

19 But other of the apostles I saw none,
saving James the brother of the Lord.

20 Now the things which I write to you,
behold, before God, I lie not.

21 Afterwards I came into the regions
of Syria and Cilicia.

22 And I was unknown by face to the
churches of Judea, which were in Christ :

23 But they had heard only: He, who
persecuted us in times past, doth now
preach the faith which once he impugned :

24 And they glorified God in me.

CHAPTER 2.

The apostWs preaching was approved of by the
other apostles. The Gentiles were not to be con-
strained to the observance of the law.

rriHEN, ^ after fourteen years, I went
X up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas,
taking Titus also with me.

2 And I went up according to revela-
tion ; and communicated to them the
gospel, which I preach among the Gen-
tiles, but apart to them who seemed to be
some thing: lest perhaps I should run,
or had run in vain.

3 But neither Titus, who was with me,
being a Gentile, was compelled to be cir-
cumcised.

4 But because of false brethren una-
wares brought in, who came in privately
to spy our liberty, which we have in
Christ Jesus, that they might bring us
into servitude.

6 To whom we yielded not by subjection,
no not for an hour, that the truth of the
gospel might continue with you.

6 But of them who seemed to be some
thing, (what they were some time, it is
nothing to me, • God accepteth not the
person of man,) for to me they that
seemed to be some thing added nothing.

7 But contrariwise, when they had seen
that to me was committed the gospel of
the uncircumcision, as to Peter was that
of the circumcision.

8 (For he who wrought in Peter to the

Eccli. 35. 15; Acts 10. 34; Rom. 2. 11; Eph. 6. 9;
CoL 3. 25 ; 1 Peter 1. 17.

Gentiles; St. Peter, besides his general commission
over the whole flock, (John 21. 15, &c.,) had a peculiar
charge of the people of the circumcisioa, that '9, ol
the Jews.

213

Paul rebukes Peter

TO THE GALATIANS The spirit comes by faith

apostleship of the circumcision, wrought
in me also among the Gentiles.)

9 And when they had known the grace
that was given to me, James and Cephas
and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave
to me and Barnabas the right hands of
fellowship: that we should go unto the
Gentiles, and they unto uhe circumcision:

10 Only that we should be mindful of
the poor : which same thing also I was
careful to do.

11 But when Cephas was come to An-
tioch, I withstood him to the face, be-
cause he was to be blamed.

12 For before that some came from
James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but
when they were come, he withdrew and
separated himself, fearing them who
were of the circumcision.

13 And to his dissimulation the rest of
the Jews consented, so that Barnabas
also was led by them into that dissimula-
tion.

14 But when I saw that they walked not
uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I
said to Cephas before them all : If thou,
being a Jew, livest after the manner of
tne Gentiles, and not as the Jews do, how
dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as
do the Jews ?

15 We by nature are Jews, and not of
the Gentiles sinners.

16 But knowing that man is not justified
by the works of the law, but by the faith
of Jesus Christ ; we also believe in Christ
Jesus, that we may be justified by the
faith of Christ, and not by the works of
the law: -^because by the works of the
law no flesh shall be justified.

17 But if while we seek to be justified
in Christ, we ourselves also are found
sinners; is Christ then the minister of
sin ? God forbid.

18 For if I build up again the things
which I have destroyed, I make myself a
prevaricator.

19 For I, through the law, am dead to
the law, that I may live to God : with
Christ I am nailed to the cross.

20 And I live, now not I; but Christ

J Rom. 3. 20. — k Gen. 15. 6 ; Rom. 4. 3 ; James 2. 23.
I Gen. 12. 3 ; Eccli. 44. 20.

Ver. 11. / rrithstood^ &c. The fault that is here
noted in the conduct of St. Peter, was only a certain
imprudence, in withdrawing himself from the table
of the Gentiles, for fear of giving offence to the Jew-
ish converts : but this, in such circumstances, when
bis so doing might be of ill consequence to the Gen-
tUes, who might be induced thereby to t^iak them-

214

liveth in me. And that I live now in
the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son
of God, who loved me, and delivered
himself for me.

21 I cast not away the grace of God.
For if justice be by the law, then Christ
died in vain.

CHAPTER 3.

The Spirit, and the blessing promised to Abraham^
Cometh not by the law, but by faith.

SENSELESS Galatians, who hath be-
witched you that you should not
obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ hath been set forth, crucified
among you ?

2 This only would I learn of you: Did
you receive the Spirit by the works of
the law, or by the hearing of faith ?

3 Are you so foolish, that, whereas you
began in the Spirit, you would now be
made perfect by the flesh ?

4 Have you suffered so great things in
vain ? Ji itbe yet in vain.

5 He therefore who giveth to you the
Spirit, and worketh miracles among you ;
doth he do it by the works of the law, or
by the hearing of the faith?

6 As it is written : '^ Abraham believed
God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

7 Know ye therefore, that they who are
of faith, the same are the children of
Abraham.

8 And the scripture, foreseeing, that
God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told
unto Abraham before: ''In thee shall all
nations be blessed,

9 Therefore they that are of faith, shall
be blessed with faithful Abraham.

10 For as many as are of the works of
the law, are under a curse. For it is
written: "' Cursed is every one, that a^ideth
not in all things, which are written in the
book of the law to do them.

11 But that in the law no man is justi-
fied with God, it is manifest: ** because
the just man liveth by faith.

12 But the law is not of faith : but, ^He
that doth those things, shall live in them.

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for

m Deut. 27. 26.— » Hnb. 2.
o Lev. iH. 5.

4 . Rom. 1. 17.

selves obliged to conform to the Jewish way of living,
to the prejudice of their Christian liberty. Neither
was St. Paul's reprehending him any argument
against his supremacy; for in such cases an inferior
may, and sometimes ought, with respect, to admonish
his superior.

The law our first teacher TO THE GALATIANS

The adoption of sons

us : for it is written : P Cursed is every one
that hangeth on a tree:

14 That the blessing of Abraham might
come on the Gentiles through Christ
Jesus : that we may receive the promise
of the Spirit by faith.

15 Brethren (I speak after the manner
of man, ) ^ yet a man's testament, if it be
confirmed, no man despiseth, nor addeth
to it.

16 To Abraham were the promises made
and to his seed. He saith not. And to his
seeds, as of many: but as of one, And to
thy seed, which is Christ.

17 Now this I say, that the testament
which was confirmed by God, the law
which was made after four hundred and
thirty years, doth not disannul, to make
the promise of no effect.

18 For if the inheritance be of the law,
it is no more of promise. But God gave
it to Abraham by promise.

19 Why then was the law? It was set
because of transgressions, until the seed
should come, to whom he made the pro-
mise, being ordained by angels in the
hand of a mediator.

20 Now a mediator is not of one: but
God is one.

21 Was the law then against the pro-
mises of God ? God forbid. For if there
had been a law given which could give
life, verily justice should have been by
the law.

22 ^'But the scripture hath concluded all
under sin, that the promise, by the faith
of Jesus Christ, might be given to them
that believe.

23 But before the faith came, we were
kept under the law shut up, unto that
faith which was to be revealed.

24 Wherefore the law was our peda-
gogue in Christ, that we might be justi-
fied by faith.

25 But after the faith is come, we are
no longer under a pedagogue.

p Deut. 21. 23. — q Heb. 9. 17.

Chap. 3. Ver. 19. Because of transgressions.
To restrain them from sin, by fear and threats, —
Ibid. Ordained by angels. The law was delivered
by angels, speaking in the name and person of God
to Moses, who was the mediator, on this occasion,
between God and the people.

Ver. 22. Hath concluded all under sin, that is,
hath declared all to be under sin, from which they
could not be delivered but by faith in Jesus Christ,
the promised seed.

Ver. 24. Pedagogue. That is, schoohnaster, con-
ductor, or instructor.

26 For you are all thp» children of God
by faith, in Christ Jesus.

27 * For as many of you as have been
baptized in Christ, have put on Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there
is neither bond nor free : there is neither
male nor female. For you are all one in
Christ Jesus.

29 And if you be Christ's, then are you
the seed of Abraham, heirs according to
the promise.

CHAPTER 4.

Christ has freed us from, the servitude of the law t
we are thefreeborn sons of Abraham.

NOW I say, as long as the heir is a
child, he differeth nothing from a
servant, though he be lord of all;

2 But is under tutors and governors un-
til the time appointed by the father :

3 So we also, when we were children,
were serving under the elements of the
world.

4 But when the fulness of the time wa?
come, God sent his Son, made of a wo-
man, made under the law :

5 That he might redeem them who were
under the law: that we might receive
the adoption of sons.

6 And because you are sons, God hath
sent the Spirit of his Son into your
hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

7 Therefore now he is not a servant,
but a son. And if a son, an heir also
through God.

8 But tben indeed, not knowing God,
you served them, who, by nature, are not
gods.

9 But now, after that you have known
God, or rather are known by God : how
turn you again to the weak and needy
elements, which you desire to serve
again?

10 You observe days, and months, and
times, and years.

11 I am afraid of you, lest perhaps I
have laboured in vain among you.

r Rom. 3. 9. — s Rom. 6. 3.

Ver. 28. Neither Jew^ Sic. That is. no distinction
of Jew, &c.

Chap. 4. Ver. 3. Under the elements, &c. That
is, under the first rudiments of religion, in which the
carnal Jews were trained up : or under those cor-
poreal creatures, used in their manifold rites, sacri-
fices, and sacraments.

Ver. 10. You observe days, &c. He speaks not of
the observation of the Lord's day, or other Christian
festivals ; but either of the superstitious observation
of days lucky and unlucky; or else of the Jewish
festivals, to the observance of which, certaia Jewish
teachers sought to mduee the GAiaiiaoik.

ZVk

Abraham* s two sons

TO THE GALATIANS

Christian liberty

12 Be ye as I, because I also am as you:
brethren, I beseech you: you have not
injured me at all.

13 And you know, how through infirm-
ity of the flesh, I preached the gospel to
you heretofore: and your temptation in
my flesh,

14 You despised not, nor rejected: but
received me as an angel of God, even as
Christ Jesus.

15 Where is then your blessedness? For
I bear you witness, that, if it could be
done, you would have plucked out your
own eyes, and would have given them
to me.

16 Am I then become your enemy, be-
cause I tell you the truth?

17 They are zealous in your regard not
well: but they would exclude you, that
you might be zealous for them.

18 But be zealous for that which is good
in a good thing always : and not only
when I am present with you.

19 My little children, of whom I am in
labour again, until Christ be formed in
you.

20 And I would willingly be present
with you now, and change my voice : be-
«ause I am ashamed for you.

21 Tell me, you that desire to be under
the law, have you not read the law ?

22 For it is written that Abraham had
two sons : ' the one by a bondwoman, "
and the other by a free woman.

23 But he who was of the bondwoman,
was born according to the flesh: but he
of the free woman, was by promise.

24 Which things are said by an allegory.
For these are the two testaments. The
one from mount Sina, engendering unto
bondage ; which is Agar:

25 For Sina is a mountain in Arabia,
which hath affinity to that Jerusalem
which now is, and is in bondage with her
children.

26 But that Jerusalem, which is above,
is free : which is our mother.

27 For it is written : ^ Rejoice, thou bar-
ren, that hearest not: break forth and cry,
thou that travailest not: for many are the
children of the desolate, more than of her
that hath a husband.

28^ Now we, brethren, as Isaac was,
are the children of promise.
29 But as then he, that was born accord-

t Gen. 16. 15. — u Gen. 21. 2.
V Isa. 64. 1. ~u; Bom. fi. &

ing to the flesh, persecuted him that was
after the spirit ; so also it is now.

30 But what saith the scripture ? Cast
out the bondwoman and her son; for the
son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with
the son of the free woman»

31 So then, brethren, we are not the
children of the bondwoman, but of the
free: by the freedom wherewith Christ
has made us free.

CHAPTER 5.

He exhorts them to stand to their Christian liberty.
Of the fruits of the flesh, and of the spirit.

STAND fast, and be not held again
under the yoke of bondage.

2 «= Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you
be circumcised, Christ shall profit you
nothing.

3 And I testify again to every man cir-
cumcising himself, that he is a debtor to
do the whole law.

4 You are made void of Christ, you who
are justified in the law: you are fallen
from grace.

6 For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the
hope of justice.

6 For in Christ Jesus neither circum-
cision availeth any thing, nor uncir-
cumcision : but faith that worketh by
charity.

7 You did run well, who hath hindered
you, that you should not obej' the truth ?

8 This persuasion is not from him that
calleth you.

9 ^ A little leaven corrupteth the whole
lump.

10 I have confidence in youii the Lord:
that you will not be of another mind : but
he that troubleth you, shall bear the
judgment, whosoever he be.

11 And I, brethren, if I yet pi each cir-
cumcision, why do I yet suffer persecu-
tion ? Then is the scandal of the cross
made void.

12 I would they were even cut off, who
trouble you.

13 For you, brethren, have been called
unto liberty: only make not liberty an
occasion to the flesh, but by charity of
the spirit serve one another.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one
word : ^ Thou shalt love thy neighbour a8
thyself,

15 But if you bite and devour one an-

X Acts 15. 1. — y 1 Cor. 6. 6.
• Lev. ia.l8i Matt. 22.39; £om.l3.t.

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The flesh and the spirit TO THE GALATIANS Exhortation to good worlcs

other ; take heed you be not consumed
one of another.

16 1 say then, " walk in the spirit, and
you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the
spirit : and the spirit against the flesh ;
for these are contrary one to another : so
that you do not the things that you would.

18 But if you are led by the spirit, you
are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are mani-
fest, which are fornication, uncleanness,
immodesty, luxury,

20 Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, con-
tentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels,
dissensions, sects,

21 Envies, murders, drunkenness, revel-
lings, and such like. Of the which I fore-
tell you, as I have foretold to you, that
they who do such things shall not obtain
the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity,
joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness,
longanimity,

23 JVIildness, faith, modesty, continency,
chastity. Against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's, have cru-
cified their flesh, with the vices and con-
cupiscences.

25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also
walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be made desirous of vain
glory, provoking one another, envying
one another.

CHAPTER 6.

He exhorts to charity, humility, etc. He glories in
nothing but in the cross of Christ.

BRETHREN, and if a man be over-
taken in any fault, you, who are
spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit
of meekness, considering thyself, lest
thou als/o be tempted.

2 Bear ye one another's burdens ; and
80 you shall fulfil the law of Christ.

3 For if any man think himself to be
some thing, whereas he is nothing, he
deceiveth himself.

a 1 feter 2. IL

4 But let every one prove his own
work, and so he shall have glory in him-
seK only, and not in another.

5 ^For every one shall bear his own
burden.

6 And let him that is instructed in the
word, communicate to him that instruct-
eth him, in all good things.

7 Be not deceived, God is not mocked.

8 For what things a man shall sow,
those also shall he reap. For he that
soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall
reap corruption. But he that soweth in
the spirit, of the spirit shaU reap life
everlasting.

9 ^And in doing good, let us not fail.
For in due time we shall reap, not fail-
ing.

10 Therefore, whilst we have time, let
us work good to all men, but especially
to those who are of the household of the
faith.

11 See what a letter I have written to
you with my own hand.

12 For as many as desire to please in
the flesh, they constrain you to be cir-
cumcised, only that they may not suffer
the persecution of the cross of Christ.

13 For neither they themselves who are
circumcised, keep the law ; but they will
have you to be circumcised, that they
may glory in your flesh.

14 But God forbid that I should glory,
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ ; by whom the world is crucified
to me, and I to the world.

15 For in Christ Jesus neither circum-
cision availeth any thing, nor uncircum-
cision, but a new creature.

16 And whosoever shall follov; this
rule, peace on them, and mercy, and
upon the Israel of God.

17 From henceforth let no man be
troublesome to me ; for I bear the marks
of the Lord Jesus in my body.

18 The grace of our Lord Jesue Christ
be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

b 1 Cor. 3. &— c ii Thess. 3. 13.

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Blessings through Christ

The apostle^s prayer

THE

EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

EPHESIANS.

The words "at Ephesus'' of the first verse of this Epistle are lacking in many
ancient authorities; and the contents are such as to show that it was a circular
letter to several churches. The fact that it deals with the same errors and singu-
lar practices as the Epistle to the Colossians indicates that it was written for
churches in Asia, probably including the church of Ephesu^ founded by St. Paul
during his third missionary journey in 53-57 A. D, It was probably written from
Rome during St. Paul's first captivity, 60-62 A. D. It deals with the church, con^
sidered as the mystical body of Christ.

CHAPTER 1.

The great blessings we have received through Christ.
He is the head of all the church.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by
the will of God, to all the saints who
are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in
Christ Jesus.

2 Grace be to you, and peace from God
the Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ.

3 ^Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed
us with spiritual blessings in heavenly
places, in Christ:

4 As he chose us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and unspotted in his sight in
charity.

5 Who hath predestinated us unto the
adoption of children through Jesus Christ
unto himself : according to the purpose
of his will :

6 Unto the praise of the glory of his
grace, in which he hath graced us in his
beloved son.

7 In whom we have redemption through
his blood, the remission of sins, accord-
ing to the riches of his grace,

8 Which hath superabounded in us in
all wisdom and prudence,

9 That he might make known unto us
the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure, which he hath purposed
in him,

10 In the dispensation of the fulness of

d 2 Cor. 1. 3 ; 1 Peter 1. 3.

Chap. 1. Ver. 3. In heavenly plactn, or, lu hea-
venly things. In oaeleatibua.

times, to re-establish all things in Christ,
that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

11 In whom we also are called by lot,
being predestinated according to the
purpose of him who worketh all things
according to the counsel of his will.

12 That we may be unto the praise of
his glory, we who before hoped in
Christ :

13 In whom you also, after you had
heard the word of truth, (the gospel of
your salvation;) in whom also believing,
you were signed with the holy Spirit of
promise,

14 Who is the pledge of our inherit-
ance, unto the redemption of acquisition,
unto the praise of his glory.

15 Wherefore I also, hearing of your
faith that is in the Lord Jesus, and of
your love towards all the saints,

16 Cease not to give thanks for you,
making commemoration of you in my
prayers,

17 That the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and of
revelation, in the knowledge of him:

18 The eyes of your heart enlightened,
that you may know what the hope is of
his calling, and what are the riches of
the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

19 And what is the exceeding greatness
of his power towards us, who believe*
according to the operation of the might
of his power.

e Infra 3.

Ver.
sion.

14. Acquisition, that is, a purchased posses-

218

We are saved by grace TO THE EPHESIANS

Christ our peace

20 w ixich he wrought in Christ, raising
him up from the dead, and setting him
on his right hand in the heavenly places.

21 Above all principality, and power,
and virtue, and dominion, and every
name that is named, not only in this
world, but also in that which is to come.

22-^ And he hath subjected all things
under his feet, and hath made him head
over all the church,

23 Which is his body, and the fulness of
him who ic filled all in all.

CHAPTER 2,

All our good comes

He is our

dead in

through Christ,
-peace.

AND ^you, when you were
j\ your offences, and sins,

2 Wherein in time past you walked ac-
cording to the course of this world, ac-
cording to the prince of the power of
this air, of the spirit that now worketh
on the children of unbelief :

3 In which also we all conversed in time
past, in the desires of 3ur flesh, fulfilling
the will of the flesh and of our thoughts,
and were by nature children of wrath,
even as the reet?

4 But God, (who is rich in mercy,) for
his exceeding charity wherewith he loved
us,

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together in Christ, (by
whose grace you are saved,)

6 And hath raised us up together, and
hath made us sit together in the heavenly
places, through Christ Jesus.

7 That he might shew in the ages to
come the abundant riches of his grace, in
his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you are saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is
the gift of God ;

9 Not of works, that no man may glory.

10 For we are his workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus in good works, which
God hath prepared that we should walk"
in them.

11 For which cause be mindful that you,
being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh,
who are called uncircumcision hy that
which is called circumcision in the flesh,
made by hands ;

12 That you were at that time without

" / Ps. S.8. — g Col. 2. 13.

Christ, being aliens from the conversa-
tion of Israel, and strangers to the testa-
ment, having no hope of the promise,
and without God in this world.

13 But now in Christ Jesus, you, who
some time were afar off, are made nigh
by the blood of Christ.

14 For he is our peace, who hath made
both one, and breaking down the middle
wall of partition, the enmities in his
flesh:

15 Making void the law of command-
ments contained in decrees ; that he might
make the two in himself into one new
man, making peace ;

16 And might reconcile both to God in
one body by the cross, killing the^ enmi-
ties in himself.

17 And coming, he preached peace to
you that-were afar off, and peace to them
that were nigh.

18 '^ For by him we have access both in
one Spirit to the Father.

19 Now therefore you are no more
strangers and foreigners; but you are
fellow citizens with the saints, and the
domestics of God,

20 Built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ him-
self being the chief corner stone :

21 In whom all the building, being framed
together, groweth up into an holy temple
in the Lord.

23 In whom you also are built together
into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

CHAPTER 3.

The mystery hidden from former ages, vms discov-
ered to the apostle, to be imparted to the Gentiles,
He prays that they may be strengthened in God.

FOR this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of
Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles ;

2 If yet you have heard of the dispen-
sation of the grace of God which is given
me towards you:

3 How that, according to revelation, the
mystery has been made known to me, as
I have written above in a few words ;

4 As you reading, may understand my
knowledge in the mystery of Christ,

5 Which in other generations was not
known to the sons of men, as it is now
revealed to his holy apostles and pro-
phets in the Spirit ^

6 That the Gentiles should be fellow

h Rom. 5. 2.

Chap. 2. Ver. 9. Not of works, as of our own growth, or from ourselves; but as from the grace of

God.

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The charity of Christ

TO THE EPHESIANS

Exhortation to unity

heirs, and of the same body, and co-
partners of his promise in Christ Jesus,
by the gospel:

7 Oi which I am made a minister, accord-
ing to the ^ift of the grace of God, which
is given tc me * according to the opera-
tior of his power :

8-^ To me, the least of all the saints, is
given this grace, to preach &,mong the
Gentiles, the unsearchable 'iches of
Christ,

9 And to enlighten all men, that they
Eiay see what is the dispensation of the
mystery which hath been hidden from
eternity in God, who created all things :

10 That the manifold wisdom of God may
be made known to the principalities and
powers in heavenly "places through the
church,

11 According to the eternal purpose,
which he made, in Christ Jesus our Lord :

12 In whom we have boldness and access
with confidence by the faith of him.

13 Wherefore I pray you not to faint at
my tribulations for you, which is your
glory.

14 For this cause I bow my knees to the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15 Of whom all paternity in heaven and
earth is named,

16 That he would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be strength-
ened by his Spirit with might unto the
inward man,

17 That Christ may dwell by faith in
your hearts; that being rooted and
founded in charity,

18 You may be able to comprehend,
with all the saints, what is the breadth,
and length, and height, and depth:

19 To know also the charity of Christ,
which surpasseth all knowledge, that
you may be filled unto all the fulness of
God.

20 Now to him who is able to do all
things more abundantly than we desire
or understand, according to the power
that worketh in us ;

21 To him be glory in the church, and
in Christ Jesus unto all generations,
world without end. Amen.

i Supra 1. 19. — j 1 Cor. 15. 9. — A; 1 Cor. 7. 17 ; Phil. 1. 27.
I Rom. 12. 10. — m Mai. 2. 10.

Chap. 3. Ver. 15. All paternity. Or, the whole
family, narpia. God is the Father both of angels
and nien : whosoever besides is named father, is so
named with subordination to him.

Chap. 4. Ver. ll, 13. Gave aome apostle»'^ Until

CHAFTER 4.

He exhorts them to unity ; to put on the neu man;
and to fly sin.

T THEREFORE, a prisoner in the Lord,
beseech you ^ that you walk worthy
of the vocation in which you are called,

2 With all humility and mildness, with
patience, supporting one another in
charity.

3 ^ Careful to keep the unity of the
Spirit in the bond of peace,

4 One body and one Spirit ; as you are
called in one hope of your calling.

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

6 ^ One God and Father of all, who is
above all, and through all, and in us all.

7 "^But to every one of us is given
grace, according to the measure of the
giving of Christ.

8 Wherefore he saith : ® Ascending on
high, he led captivity captive; he gave gifts
to men.

9 Now that he ascended, what is it, but
because he also descended first into the
lower parts of the earth ?

10 He that descended is the same also
that ascended above all the heavens, that
he might fill all things.

11 And he gave some ^apostles, and
some prophets, and other some evangel-
ists, and other some pastors and doctors,

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for
the work of the ministry, for the edify-
ing of the body of Christ:

13 Until we all meet into the unity of
faith, and of the knowledge of the Son
of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the age of the fulness of
Christ ;

14 That henceforth we be no more
children tossed to and fro, and carried
about with every wind of doctrine by
the wickedness of men, by cunning crafti-
ness, by which they lie in wait to de-
ceive.

15 But doing the truth in charity, we
may in all things grow up in him who is
the head, even Christ:

16 From whom the whole body, being
compacted and fitly joined together, by
what every joint supplieth, according to

n Rom. 12. 3 ; 1 Cor. 12, 11 ; 2 Cor. 10. 13.
o Ps. 67. 19. — p 1 Cor. 12. 28.

ire all meet, &c. Here it is plainly expressed, that
Christ has left in his church a pcrpetuol succession
of orthodox pastors and teachers, to preserve the
faithful in unity and truth.

220

Putting on the new man TO THE EPHESIANS Exhortation to avoid evil

the operation in the measure of every
part, maketh increase of the body, unto
the edifying of itself in charity.

17 9 This then I say and testify in the
Lord: That henceforward you walk not
as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity
of their mind,

18 Having their understanding dark-
ened, being alienated from the life of
God through the ignorance that is in
them, because of the blindness of their
hearts.

19 Who despairing, have given them-
selves up to lasciviousness, unto the
working of all uncleanness, unto covet-
ousness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ ;

21 If so be that you have heard him,
and have been taught in him, as the
truth is in Jesus :

22 *■ To put off, according to former con-
versation, the old man, who is corrupted
according to the desire of error.

23 * And be renewed in the spirit of
your mind :

24 * And put on the new man, who ac-
cording to God is created in justice and
holiness of truth.

25 ^ Wherefore putting away lying,
speak ye the truth every man with his
neighbour ; for we are members one of
another.

26 ^ Be angry, and sin not. Let not the
sun go down upon your anger.

27 ^ Give not place to the devil.

28 He that stole, let him now steal no
more; but rather let him labour, work-
ing with his hands the thing which is
good, that he may have something to
give to him that suffereth need.

29 Let no evil speech proceed from
your mouth ; but that which is good, to
the edification of faith, that it may ad-
minister grace to the hearers.

30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God :
whereb}^ you are sealed unto the day of
redemption.

31 Let all bitterness, and anger, and
indignation, and clamour, and blas-
phemy, be put away from you, with all
malice.

32 ^ And be ye kind one to another ;
merciful, forgiving one another, even as
God hath forgiven you in Christ.

q Rom. 1. 21. — r Col. 3. 8. — s Rom. (;. 4
t CoL 3 12. — M 1 Peter 2. 1. ; Zach. 8. 16.
V P». 4. 6w — ««r James 4. l,—x CoL 3. 13.

CHAPTER 5.

Exhortations to a virtuous life. The mutual duties
of man and wife, by the example of Christ, and
of the church.

BE ye therefore followers of God, as
most dear children ;

2 y And walk in love, as Christ also hath
loved us, and hath dehvered himself for
us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God
for an odour of sweetness.

3 * But fornication, and all uncleanness,
or covetousness, let it not so much as be
named among you, as become th saints:

4 Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or
scurrility, which is to no purpose; but
rather giving of thanks.

5 For know you this and understand,
that no fornicator, or unclean, or covet-
ous person (which is a serving of idols),
hath inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God.

6 ** Let no man deceive you with vain
words. For because of these thingj
Cometh the anger of God upon the
children of unbelief.

7 Be ye not therefore partakers with
them.

8 For you were heretofore darknesSi
but now light in the Lord. Walk then
as children of the light.

9 For the fruit of the light is in all
goodness, and justice, and truth;

10 Proving what is well pleasing to God:

11 And have no fellowship with the un-
fruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them.

12 For the things that are done by them
in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.

13 But all things that are reproved, are
made manifest by the light ; for all that
is made manifest is light.

14 Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that
sleepest, and arise from the dead: and
Christ shall enlighten thee.

15 See therefore, brethren, how yoa
walk circumspectly: ^not as unwise^

16 But as wise: redeeming the time, be-
cause the days are evil.

17 ^' Wherefore become not unwise, but
understanding what is the will of God.

18 And be not drunk with wine, whereii?
is luxury ; but be ye filled with the holy
Spirit,

19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms.

y John 13. 34, and 15. 12 ; l John 4. 21. — z Col. 3. 6

a Matt. 24. 4 ; Mark l.J. 5 ; Luke 21. 8 ; 2 Thess. ^. 3.

b Col *. > — c fiom. n.2: I Thess. 4. 3.

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Duty of husband and wife TO THE EPHESIANS Of servants and masters

and hymns, and spiritual canticles, sing-
ing and making melody in your hearts
to the Lord ;

20 Giving thanks always for all things,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to
God and the Father :

21 Being subject one to another, in the
fear of Christ.

22 ^ Let women be subject to their hus-
bands, as to the Lord :

23 ^ Because the huRband is the head of
the wife, as Christ is the head of the
church. He is the saviour of his body.

24 Therefore as the church is subject to
Christ, so also let the wives be to their
husbands in all things.

25 -^Husbands, love your wives, as Christ
also loved the church, and dehvered him-
self up for it :

26 That he might sanctify it, cleansing
it by the laver of water in the word of
Ufa:

27 That he might present it to himself
a glorious church, not having spot or
wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy, and without blemish.

28 So also ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth his
wife, loveth himself.

29 For no man ever hated his own flesh :
but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also
Christ doth the church :

30 Because we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 ^ For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother, and shall cleave to his
vnfe, ^ and they shall be two in one flesh.

32 This is a great sacrament ; but I speak
in Christ and in the church.

S? Nevertheless let every one of you in
particular love his wife as himself : and
let the wife fear her husband.

CHAPTER 6.

Duties of children and servants. The Christianas
armour.

CHILDREN, obey your parents in the
Lord, for this is just.
2 ^Honour thy father and thy mother^

dGen.

o. 16;

Col. 3. 18 ; 1 Peter 3. 1. —

5 1 Cor. 11

/CoL

3. 19. -

- g Gen. 2. 24 ; Matt. 19. 5 ;

Mark 10.

h 1 Cor. 6. 16.

iEx.

20. 12 : Deut. 5. 16 ;

Eccli.

3.9;

Matt. 15. 4 ; Mark 7. 10 ;

Col. 3

20.

Chap. 5. Ver. 24. As the church is subject to
Christ. The church then, according to St. Paul, is
ever obedient to Christ, and can never fall from
him, but remain faithful to him, unspotted and ud>
cbaDged to tbe end ol tbe world.

222

which is the first commandment with a
promise :

3 That it may be well with thee, and thou
mayest be long lived upon earth.

4 And you, fathers, provoke not your
children to anger ; but bring them up in
the discipline and correction of the Lord.

6 ^ Servants, be obedient to them that
are your lords according to the flesh,
with fear and trembling, in the simplicity
of your heart, as to Christ:

6 Not serving to the eye, as it were
pleasing men, but, as the servants of
Christ doing the will of God from the
heart,

7 With a good will serving, as to the
Lord, and not to men.

8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing
any man shall do, the same shall he
receivf; from the Lord whether he be
bond, or free.

9 And you, masters, do the >ame things
to them, forbearing threatenings. know-
ing that the Lord both of them and you
is in heaven ; ^ and there is no respect of
persons with him.

10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in
the Lord, and in the might of his power.

11 Put you on the armour of God, that
you may be able to stand against the de-
ceits of the devil.

12 For our wrestling is not against flesh
and blood ; but against principalities and
powers, against the rulers of the world
of this darkness, against the spirits of
wickedness in the high places.

13 Therefor«r; take unto you the armour
of God, that you may be able to resist in
the evil day, and to stand in all things
perfect.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins
girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of justice,

15 And your feet shod with the prepa-
ration of the gospel of peace :

16 In all things taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ^'^ou may be able to extinguish
all the fiery dartt of the most wicked
one.

j CoL 3. 22 ; Titus 2.9:1 Peter 2. 18.

k Deut 10. 17 ; 2 Par. 19. 7 . Job 34. 19 j

Wisd. 6. 8; Eccli. 35. 15;

Acts 10. 34 ; Rom. 2. 11 ;

Col. 3. 25 ; 1 Peter 1. 17.

Chap. 6. Ver. 12. High places,or heavenly places.
That is to say, in the air, the lowest of the celestial
regions ; in which God permits these wicked spirits
or fallen angels to wander.

Exhortation to pray

TO THE PHILIPPIANS

17 'And take unto you the helmet of
Balvation, and the sword of the Spirit
(which is the word of God).

18 By all prayer and supplication pray-
ing at all times in the spirit; "*and in
the same watching with all instance and
supplication for all the saints :

19 And for me, that speech may be given
me, that I may open my mouth with con-
fidence, to make known the mystery of
the gospel.

20 For which I am an ambassador in ?
chain, so that therein I may be bold to
speak according as I ought.

The apostte*s prayer

21 But that you also may know the
things that concern me, and what I am
doing, Tychicus, my dearest brother and
faithful minister in the Lord, will make
known to you all things :

22 Whom I have sent to you for this
same purpose, that you may know the
things concerning us, and that he may
comfort your hearts.

23 Peace be to the brethren and charity
with faith, from God the Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Grace be with all them that love our
Lord Jesus Ghrist in incorruption. Amen.

TH£

EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

PHILIPPIANS.

The PHILIPPIANS were the first among the Macedonians converted to the faith.
They had a great veneration for St. Paul, and supplied his wants when he was
a prisoner in Rome, sending to him by Epaphroditus, by whom he sent this
Epistle; in which he recommends charity, unity, and humility, and warns them
against false teachers, whom he calls dogs, and enemies of the cross of Christ.
He also returns thanks for their benefactions. It was written about thirty-two
years after our Lord's Ascension.

CHAPTER 1.

The apostle*s affection for the Philippians,

PAUL and Timothy, the servants of
Jesus Christ; to all the saints in
Christ Jesus, who are at Philippi, with
the bishops and deacons.

2 Grace be unto you. i ad peace from God
our Father, and fri»iE the Lord Jesus
Christ.

3 I give thanks bo my God in every
remembrance of you,

4 Always in all my prayers making sup
plication for you all, with joy ;

5 For your communication in the gos-
pel of Christ from the first day until now.

6 Being confident of cnis very thing,
that he, who hath begun a good work in
you, will perfect it unto the day of Christ
Jesus.

7 As it is meet for me to think this for
you all, for that I have you in my heart ;
and that in my bands, and in the defence

I Isa, 59. 17 ; 1 Thess. 5. 8.

and confirmation of the gospel, you all
are partakers of my joy.

8 For God is my witness, how I long
after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

9 And this I pray, that your charity may
more and more abound in knowledge,
and in all understanding :

10 That you may approve the bettei
things, that you may be sincere and with-
out offence unt* jhe day of Christ,

11 Filled witi] &he fruit of justice,
through Jesus Christ, unto the glory
and praise of God.

12 Now, brethren, I desire you should
know, that the things which have hap-
pened to me, have fallen out rathei' to
the furtherance of the gospel :

13 So that my bands are made manifest
in Christ, in all the court, and in all
other places :

14 And many of the brethren in the
Lord, growing confident by my b?ndS;are

m Col. 4. 2 and 3 ; 2 Thess, 3. 1.

Ver. Sii In incorruption ; tliat is, witb a pure and perfect love.

22^

Readiness to live or die TO THE PHILIPPIANS Christ humbled himselj

much more bold to speak the word of
God without fear.

15 Some indeed, even out of envy and
contention ; but some also for good will
preach Christ.

16 Some out of charity, knowing that I
am set for the defence of the gospel.

17 And some out of contention preach
Christ not sincerely: supposing that they
raise affliction to my bands.

18 But what then ? So that by all means,
whether by occasion, or by truth, Christ
be preached : in this also I rejoice, yea,
and will rejoice.

19 For I know that this shall fall out to
me unto salvation, through your prayer,
and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus
Christ,

20 According to my expectation and
hope ; that in nothing I shall be con-
founded, but with all confidence, as
always, so now also shall Christ be mag-
nified in my body, whether U he by life,
or by death.

21 For to me, to live is Christ: and to
die is gain.

22 And if to live in the flesh, this is to
me the fruit of labour, and what I shall
choose I know not.

23 But I am straitened between two:
Having a desire to be dissolved and to be
with Christ, a thing by far the better.

24 But to abide still in the flesh, is need-
ful for you.

25 And having this confidence, I know
that I shall abide, and continue with
you all, for your futherance and joy of
faith:

26 That your rejoicing may abound in
Christ Jesus for me, by my coming to
you again.

27 "^ Only let your conversation be
worthy of the gospel of Christ: that,
whethci- I come and see you, or, being
absent, may hear of you, that you stand
fast in one spirit, with one mind labour-
ing together for the faith of the gospel.

28 And in nothing be ye terrified by the
adversaries: which to them is a cause of
perdition, but to you of salvation, and
this from God :

nEph. 4. 1 ; Col. 1. 10 ; 1 Thess. 2. 12.

Chap. 1. Ver. 22. Thisistorne,&c. His meaning
Is, that althoutih his dying immediately for Christ
would be his gain, by putting him presently in pos-
session of heaven ; yet he is doubtful what he should
elu>ose» because by staying longer id the flesh, he

29 For unto you it is given for Chris b,
not only to beUeve in him, but also to
suffer for him.

30 Having the same conflict as that
which you have seen in me, and now
have heard of me.

CHAPTER 2.
He recommends them to unity aiid humility : and
to work out their salvation uith fear and trem»
bling.

IF there be therefore any consolation
in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if
any society of the spirit, if any bowels
of commiseration:

2 Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one
mind, having the same charity, being of
one accord, agreeing in sentiment.

3 Let nothing be done through conten-
tion, neither by vain glory : but in hu-
mihty, let each esteem others better than
themselves :

4 Each one not considering the things
that are his own, but those that are other
men's.

6 For let this mind be in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus :

6 Who being in the form of God, thought
it not robbery to be equal with God:

7 But emptied himself, taking the form
of a servant, being made in the likeness
of men, and in habit found as a man.

8 ° He humbled himself, becoming obedi-
ent unto death, even to the death of the
cross.

9 For which cause God also hath exalted
him, and hath given him a name which
is above all names :

10 PThat in the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of those that are in
heaven, on earth, and under the earth:

11 And that every tongue should con-
fess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the
glory of God the Father.

12 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as
you have always obeyed, not as in my
presence only, but much more now in my
absence,) with fear and trembling work
out your salvation.

13 For it is God who worketh in you,
both to will and to accompUsh, according
to /lis good wilL

o Heb. 2. 9. — p Isa. 45. 24 ; Kom. 14. IL

should be more beneficial to the souls of his neigh
hours.

CiTAP. 2. Ver. 7. Emptied himself, exinanivH,
made himself as of no account.

^>r. 12. With ff'f'r, Sio,. This is against the false
faith.and presumptuous security of modern sectaries.

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Timothy

TO THE PHILIPPIANS To gain Christ %s all

14 ^ And do ye all things without mur-
murings and hesitations ;

16 That you may be blameless, and sin-
cere children of God, without reproof, in
the midst of a crooked and perverse gen-
eration ; among whom you shine as lights
in the world.

16 Holding forth the word of life to
my glory in the day of Christ, because I
have not run in vain, nor laboured in
vain.

17 Yea, and if I be made a victim upon
the sacrifice and service of your faith, I
rejoice, and congratulate with you all.

18 And for the selfsame thing do you
also rejoice, and congratulate with me.

19 And I hope in the Lord Jesus *"to
send Timothy unto you shortly, that I
also may be of good comfort, when I
know the things concerning you.

20 For I have no man so of the same
mind, who with sincere affection is soli-
citous for you.

21 * For all seek the things that are
their own ; not the things that are Jesus
Christ's.

22 Now know ye the proof of him, that
as a son with the father, so hath he
served with me in the gospel.

23 Him therefore I hope to send unto
you immediately, so soon as I shall see
how it will go with me.

24 And I trust in the Lord, that I my-
self also shall come to you shortly,

25 But I have thought it necessary to
send to you Epaphroditus, my brother
and fellow labourer, and fellow soldier,
but your apostle, and he that hath min-
istered to my wants.

26 For indeed he longed after you all :
and was sad, for that you had heard that
he was sick.

27 For indeed he was sick, nigh unto
death ; but God had mercy on him ; and
not only on him, but on me also, lest I
should have sorrow upon sorrow.

28 Therefore I sent him the more speed-
ily: that seeing him again, you may re-
joice, and I may be without sorrow.

29 Receive him therefore with all joy in
the Lord ; and treat with honour such as
he is.

30 Because for the work of Christ he
came to the point of death: delivering
his life, that he might fulfil that which

q 1 Peter 5. 6. — r Acts 16. 1. — s 1 Cor. 13. 5.

on your part was wanting towards my
service.

CHAPTER 3.

He warneth them against false teachers. He counts
all other things loss^ that he rnay gain Christ.

S to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in
the Lord. To write the same things
to you, to me indeed is not wearisome,
but to you is necessary.

2 Beware of dogs, ' beware of evil work-
ers, beware of the concision.

3 For we are the circumcision, who in
spirit serve God; and glory in Christ
Jesus, not having confidence in the flesh.

4 Though I might also have confidence
in the flesh. If any other thinketh he
may have confidence in the flesh, I more,

5 Being circumcised the eighth day, of
the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Ben-
jamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews j ^ ac-
cording to the law, a Pharisee :

6 According to zeal, persecuting the
church of God ; according to the justice
that is in the law, conversing without
blame.

7 But the things that were gain to me,
the same I have counted loss for Christ.

8 Furthermore I count all things to be
but loss for the excellent knowledge of
Jesus Christ my Lord ; for whom I have
suffered the loss of all things, and count
them but as dung, that I may gain Christ :

9 And may be found in him, not having
my justice, which is of the law, but that
which is of the faith of Christ Jesus,
which is of God, justice in faith :

10 That I may know him, and the power
of his resurrection, and the fellowship of
his sufferings, being made conformable
to his death,

11 If by any means I may attain to the
resurrection which is from the dead.

12 Not as though I had already attained,
or were already perfect; but I follow
after, if I may by any means apprehend,
wherein I am also apprehended by Christ
Jesus.

13 Brethren, I do not count myself to
have apprehended. But one thing / do:
forgetting the things that ar«^ behind, and
stretching forth myself to tn >se that are
before,

14 I press towards the mark, to the
prize of the supernal vocation of God in
Christ Jesus.

i; That is, false teachers. — u Acts 23. 6

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Enemies of the cross

TO THE PHDLIPPIANS

15 Let us therefore, as many as are per-
fect, be thus minded ; and if in any
thing you. be otherwise minded, this also
God will reveal to you.

16 Nevertheless whereunto we are
come, that we be of the same mind, let
as also continue in the same rule.

17 Be ye followers of me, brethren, and
observe them who walk so as you have
our model.

18 "For many walk, of whom I have
fcold you often (and now tell you weep-
ing), thctt they are enemies of the cross
of Christ ;

19 Whose end is destruction; whose
God is their belly ; and whose glory is in
Sheir shame ; who mind earthly things.

20 But our conversation is in heaven ;
from whence also we look for the Sav-
iour, our Lord Jesus Christ

21 Who will reform the body of our
iowness, made like to the body of his
5lory, according to the operation where-
by also he is able to subdue all things
unto himself.

CHAPTER 4.

Be exhorts them to perseverance in all good; and
acknowledges their charitable contributions to
him.

THEREFORE, my dearly beloved
brethren, and most desired, my joy
and my crown; so stand fast in the
Lord, my dearly beloved.

2 I beg of Evodia, and I beseech Syn-
tyche, to be of one mind in the Lord.

3 And I entreat thee also, my sincere
companion, help those women who have
laboured with me in the gospel, with
Clement and the rest of my fellow la-
bourers, whose names are in the book of
life.

4 Rejoice in the Lord always ; again, 7
say, rejoice.

5 Let your modesty be known to all
men. The Lord is nigh.

Philvpjnans praist

V Rom. 16. 17.

Chap. 4. Ver. " For the rest, brethren, whatso-
ever things arr ■' n, % ,^o. Here the apostle enumer-
ates general precepts of morality, which they ought
to practise. lVhatsoev>.r things are true: in words,
in promises, in lawful oaths, &c., he commands recti-
tude of mind, : na sincerity of heart. Whatsoever
modest : by thes words he prescribes gravity in
manners, modesty \ dress, and decency in conversa-
tion. Whatsoever juflt : that is, ir dealing with others,
to buying or selling, in trade or business, to be fair
ind honest. Whatsoever holy: by these words may
be understood, thrt those who are in a ^eligious state
professed, or in holy orders, should lead a life of
sanctity and chastity, according to the \.->ws they
ov^ce -. out these words being al^o applied to those in

6 Be nothing solicitous; but in every
thing, by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your petitions be made
known to God.

7 And the peace of God, which surpass-
eth all understanding, keep your hearts
and minds in Christ Jesus.

8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever modest,
whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, what-
soever lovely, whatsoever of good fame,
if there be any virtue, if any praise of
discipline, think on these things.

9 The things which you have both
learned, and received, and heard, and
seen in me, these do ye, and the God of
peace shall be with you.

10 Now I rejoice in the Lord exceed-
ingly, that now at length your thought
for me hath flourished again, as you did
also think ; but you were busied.

11 I speak not as it were for want. For
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
to be content therewith.

12 I know both how to be brought low,
and I know how to abound: (every
where, and in all things I am instructed)
both to be full, and to be hungry ; both
to abound, and to suffer need.

13 I can do all things in him who
strengtheneth me.

14 Nevertheless you have done well in
communicating to my tribulation.

15 And you also know, O Philippians,
that in the beginning of the gospel,
when I departed from Macedonia, no
church communicated with me as con-
<jerning giving and receiving, but you
only :

16 For unto Thessalonica also you sent
once and again for my use.

17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the
fruit that may abound to your account.

18 But I have all, and abound: I am
filled, having received from Epaphro-

the world. Indicate the virtuous life they are bound
by the divine commandments to follow. Whatsoever
lovely: that is, to practise those good offices la
society, that procure us the esteem and good will of
our neighbours. Whatsoever of good fame : that is,
that; l)y our conduct and behaviour we should edify
our neighbours, and givo them good example by oui
actions. // there be any virtue, if any praise of dis-
cipline: that those in error, by seeing the morality
and good discipline of the true religion, may be con»
verted. And finally, the apostle commands, not only
the Philippians, but all Christians, to think on them
fhinrrs: that is, to make it their study and concent
that the peace qf God miglU be tvith them.

22&

The apostle prays

TO THE COLOSSIANS

for th$ Colossians

ditus the things you sent, an odour of
sweetness, *^an acceptable sacrifice,
pleasing to God.

19 And may my God supply all your
want, according to his riches in glory in
Christ Jesus.

20 Now to God and our Father be glory
world without end. Amen.

21 Salute ye every saint in Christ Je
sus.

22 The brethren who are with me, sa-
lute you. All the saints salute you:,
especially they that are of Caesar'd
household.

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with your spirit. Amen.

THE

EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

COLOSSIANS.

Colossa was a city of Ph'nfgia, nea/r Laodicea. It does not appear that St. Paul had preached

there himself, hut that the Colossians were converted by Epaphras, a disciple of the Apostles.
Hotcever, as St. Paul was the great Apostle of the Gentiles, he wrote this Epistle to the
CoLossiAi!is when he was in prison, and about the same time that he wrote to the Ephesiaris
and Philipvians. ^ The exhortations and doctrine it contains are similar to that uhich is set
forth in his Epistle to the Ephesians. St. Paul emphasizes the preeminence of
Christ and the need of close union with Christ, the head of the mystical body, the
Church.

beloved fellow servant, who is for you a

CHAPTER 1.

ffe gives thanks for the grace bestoived upon the Co-
lossians ; and prays for them. Christ is the head
of the church, and the peacemaker through his
blood. Paul is his minister.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by
the will of God, and Timothy, a bro-
ther,

2 To the saints and faithful brethren in
Christ Jesus, who are at Colossa.

3 Grace be to you and peace from God
our Father and from the Lord Jesus
Christ. We ajive thanks to God, and the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying
always for you.

4 Hearing your faith in Christ Jesus,
and the love which you have towards all
the saints.

5 For the hope that is laid up for you
in heaven, which you have heard in the
word of the truth of the gospel,

6 Which is come unto you, as also it is
in the whole world, and bringeth forth
fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you,
since the day you heard and knew the
grace of God in truth.

7 As you learned of Epaphras, our most

w Rom. 12. 1.

Chap. l. Ver. 15. The flrstbom. That is, first
begotten ; as the Evangelist declares, the only begot-
ten of his Father: hence, St. Chrysostom explains

faithful minister of Christ Jesus ;

8 Who also hath manifested to us your
love in the spirit.

9 Therefore we also, from the day that
we heard it. cease not to pray for you,
and to beg that you may be filled with
the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom,
and spiritual understanding:

10 That you may walk worthy ot God,
in all things pleasing; being fruitful in
every good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God :

11 Strengthened with all might, accord-
ing to the power of his glory, in all pa-
tience and longsuffering with joy,

12 Giving thankc to God the Father,
who hath made us worthy to be partak-
ers of th3 lot of the saints in light :

13 Wh^. hath dolivered us from the
power 01 darkness, and hath translated
us into the kingdom oi the Son of his
love,

14 In whom we have redemption
through his blood, the remission of sinsi

15 Who is the image ot the invisible
God, the firstborn of every creature :

firstborn, not first created, as he was not creatPfl %
all, but born of his Father before aH ajres ; ^]y.\\ is
coeval with the Father and with the Holy Gho^i

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False teachers

16 ^" For in him were all things created in
heaven and on earth, visible and invisi-
ble, whether thrones, or dominations, or
principalities, or powers : all things were
created by him and in him.

17 And he is before all, and by him all
things consist.

18 And he is the head of the body, the
church, y who is the beginning, the first-
born from the dead ; that in all things
he may hold the primacy :

19 Because in him, it hath well pleased
the Father^ that all fulness should dwell ;

20 And through him to reconcile all
things unto himself, making peace
through the blood of his cross, both as
to the things that are on earth, and the
things that are in heaven.

21 And you, whereas you were some
time alienated and enemies in mind in
evil works :

22 Yet now he hath reconciled in the
body of his flesh through death, to pre-
sent you holy and unspotted, and blame-
less before him :

23 If so ye continue in the faith,
grounded and settled, and immoveable
from the hope of the gospel which you
have heard, which is preached in all the
creation that is under heaven, whereof I
Paul am made a minister.

24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings
for you, and fill up those things that
are wanting of the sufferings of Christ,
in my flesh, for his body, which is the
church :

25 Whereof I am made a minister ac-
cording to the dispensation of God, which
is given me towards you, that I may ful-
fil the word of God :

26 The mystery which hath been hidden
from ages and generations, but now is
manifested to his saints,

27 To whom God would make known
the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in
you the hope of glory.

28 Whom we preach, admonishing every
man, and teaching every man in all wis-
dom, that we may present every man
perfect in Christ Jesus.

29 Wherein also I labour, striving ac-
cording to his working which he work-
fith in me in power.

X John 1. 3. — 1/ 1 Cor. 15. 20 ; Apoc. 1. 5.

Ver. 24. Wantinfj. There is no vayrf in the suf-

CHAPTER 2.

He warns them against the impostures of the phi-
losophers and the Jewish teachers^ that would
withdraw them from Christ.

FOR I would have you know, what
manner of care I have for you and
for them that are at Laodicea, and who-
soever have not seen my face in the
flesh:

2 That their hearts may be comforted,
being instructed in charity, and unto all
riches of fulness of understanding, unto
the knowledge of the mystery of God
the Father and of Christ Jesus :

3 In whom are hid all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge.

4 Now this I say, that no man may de-
ceive you by loftiness of words.

5 ^ For though I be absent in body, yet
in spirit I am with you ; rejoicing, and
beholding your order, and the steadfast-
ness of your faith which is in Christ.

6 As therefore you have received Jesus
Christ the Lord, walk ye in him ;

7 Rooted and built up in him, and con-
firmed in the faith, as also you have
learned, abounding in him in thanks-
giving.

8 Beware lest any man cheat you by
philosophy, and vain deceit; according
to the tradition of men, according to he
elements of the world, and not according
to Christ:

9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of
the Godhead corporeally ;

10 And you are filled in him, who is the
head of all principality and power *

11 In whom also you are circumcised
with circumcision not made by hand, in
despoiling of the body of the flesh, but
in the circumcision of Christ :

12 Buriod with him in baptism, in whom
also you are risen again by the faith ot
the operation of God, who hath raised
him up from the dead.

13 ^* And you, when you wert icacl in
your sins, and the uncircumcision of your
flesh ; he hath quickened together with
him, forgiving you all offences :

14 Blotting out the handwriting of the
decree that was against us, which was
contrary to us. And he hath taken the
same out of the way, fastening It to the
cross :

2 1 Cor. 5. 3. - a Eph. 2. 1.

ferings are still wanting, or are still to come, in hia

ferings of Christ in himself as head ; but many suf- body the church, and his members the f aithfuL

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TO THE COLOSSIANS

Exhortations

15 And despoiling the principalities and
powers, he hath exposed them confi-
dently in open shew, triumphing over
them in himself.

16 Let no man therefore judge you in
meat or in drink, or in respect of a festi-
val day, or of the new moon, or of the
sabbaths,

17 Which are a shadow of things to
come, but the body is of Christ.

18 ^ Let no man seduce you, willing in
humihty, and religion of angels, walking
in the things which he hath not seen, in
vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh,

19 And not holding the head, from which
the whole body, by joints and bands, be-
ing supplied with nourishment and com-
pacted, groweth unto the increase of
God.

20 If then you be dead with Christ from
the elements of this world, why do 3^ou
yet decree as though living in the world ?

21 Touch not, taste not, handle not :

22 Which all are unto destruction by
the very use, according to the precepts
and doctrines of men.

23 Which things have indeed a shew of
wisdom in superstition and humility, and
not sparing the body ; not in any honour
to the filling of the flesh.

CHAPTER 3.

Be exhorts them to put off the old man, and to put
on the new. The duties of wives and husbands,
children and servants.

THEREFORE, if you be risen with
Christ, seek the things that are
above ; where Christ is sitting at the
right hand of God :

2 Mind the things that are above, not
the things that are upon the earth.

3 For you are dead ; and your life is hid
with Christ in God.

b Matt. 24. 4. — c Eph. 5. 3.
d Kom. 6. 4 ; Eph. 4. 22 ; Heb. 12. 1 ;

Chap. 2. Ver. 16. In meat, &c. He means with
regard to the Jewish observations of the distinction
of clean and unclean meats ; and of their festivals,
new moons, and sabbaths, as being no longer obli-
gatory.

Ver. 18. Willing, &c. That is, by a self willed,
self invented, superstitious worship, falsely pretend-
ing humility, but really proceeding from pride. Such
was the worship, that many of the philosophers
(against whom St. Paul speaks, ver. 8) paid to angels
or demons, by sacrificing to them, as carriers of in-
telligence betwixt God and men ; ))retending humility
in so doing, as if God was too great to be addressed
by men; and setting aside the mediatorship of
Jesus Christ, who is the head both of angels and
men. Such also was the worship paid by the ancient
heretics, disciples of Simon and Menander, to the
angels» whom they believed to be makers and lords

4 When Christ shall appear, who is your
life, then you also shall appear with him
in glory.

5 Mortify therefore your members which
are upon the earth ; ^ fornication, un-
cleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and
covetousness, which is the service of
idols.

6 For which things the wrath of God
Cometh upon the children of unbelief,

7 In which you also walked some time,
when you lived in them.

8 ^ But now put you also all away : an-
ger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy
speech out of your mouth.

9 Lie not one to another : stripping
yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

10 And putting on the new, him who is
renewed unto knowledge, ^ according to
the image of him that created him.

11 Where there is neither Gentile nor
Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision.
Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free
But Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put ye on therefore, as the elect of
God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of
mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, pa-
tience :

13 Bearing with one another, and for-
giving one another, if any have a com-
plaint against another: even as the Lord
hath forgiven you, so do you also.

14 But above all these things have
charity, which is the bond of perfection:

15 And let the peace of Christ rejoice in
your hearts, wherein also you are called
in one body: and be ye thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you
abundantly, in all wisdcm: teaching and
admonishing one another -^in psalms,
hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in
grace in your hearts to God.

1 Peter 2. 1, and 4. 2.
c Gen. 1. 26. — / Eph. 5. 19.

of this lower world. This is certain, that they whom
the apostle here condemns, did not hold the head,
(ver. 19,) that is, Jesus Christ, and his mediatorship ;
and therefore what he writes here no way touches
the Catholic doctrine and practice, of desiring our
good angels to pray to God for us, through Jesus
Christ. St. Jerome [Epist. ad AlgasJ] understands by
the religion or service of angels, the Jewish religion
given by angels ; and shews all that is here said, to
be directed afrainstthe Jewish teachers, who sought
to subject the new Christians to the observance of
the Mosaic law.

Ver. 21. Touch not, &c. The meaning is, that
Christians should not subject themselves, either to
the ordinances of the old law, forbidding touching or
tasting things unclean; or to the superstitious in-
vention of heretics, imposing such restraints, under
pretence of wisdom, bumilit^f ox mortification.

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Exhortations

TO THE COLOSSIANS

17^ All whatsoever you do in word or
in work, do all in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and
the Father by him.

18 ^ Wives, be subject to your husbands,
as it behoveth in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love your wives, and be
not bitter towards them.

20 * Children, obey your parents in all
things: for this is well pleasing to the
Lord.

21 -^ Fathers, provoke not your children
to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

22 '^ Servants, obey in all things your
masters according to the flesh, not serv-
ing to the eye, as pleasing men, but in
simplicity of heart, fearing God.

23 Whatsoever you do, do it from the
heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:

24 Knowing that you shall receive of
the Lord the reward of inheritance.
Serve ye the Lord Christ.

25 ^ For he that doth wrong, shall re-
ceive for that which he hath done wrong-
fully : and there is no respect of persons
with God.

CHAPTER 4.

ffe recommends constant prayer, and tvisdom.
Various salutations.

MASTERS, do to your servants that
which is just and equal: knowing
that you also have a master in heaven.

2 "* Be instant in prayer ; watching in
it with thanksgiving:

3 ^* Praying withal for us also, that God
may open unto us a door of speech to
speak the mystery of Christ (for which
also I am bound;)

4 That I may make it manifest as I
ought to speak.

5 ° Walk with wisdom towards them
that are without, redeeming the time.

6 Let your speech be always in grace
seasoned with salt : that you may know
how you ought to answer every man.

g 1 Cor. 10. 31. — h Eph. 5. 22 ; 1 Peter .3. 1.

i Eph. f). 1. — ; Eph. 6. 4.

k Titus 2. 9 ; 1 Peter 2. 18. — I Rom. 2. 6.

Chap. 4. Ver. 16. And that yoii read that irhirh
is of the Laodiceans. What this epistle was is un-
certain, and annotators have given different opinions
concerning it. Some expound these words of an
epistle which St. Paul wrote to the Laodiceans, and
is since lost, for that now extant is no more than a
collection of sentences out of the other epistles of
St. Paul; therefore it cannot be considered even as
a part of that epistle. Others explain that the text
means a letter sent to St. Paul by the Laodiceans,
which he sends to the Colossians to be read by them.
How^ever, this opinion does not seem well founded.
Hence it is more probable tbat St. Paul wrote ao

Greetings

7 All the things that concern me, Tychi-
cus, our dearest brother, and faithful
minister and fellow servant in the Lord,
will make known to you,

8 Whom I have sent to you for this
same purpose, that he may know the
things that concern you, and comfort
your hearts,

9 With Onesimus, a most beloved and
faithful brother, who is one of you. All
things that are done here, they shall
make known to you.

10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sa-
luteth you, and Mark, the cousin german
of Barnabas, touching whom you have
received commandments ; if he come
unto you, receive him;

11 And Jesus, that is called Justus: who
are of the circumcision: these only are
my helpers in the kingdom of God ; wha
have been a comfort to me.

12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of
you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is
always solicitous for you in prayers, that
you may stand perfect, and full in all the
will of God.

13 For I bear him testimony that he hath
much labour for you, and for them that
are at Laodicea, and them at Hierapolis.

14 ^'Luke, the most dear physician,
saluteth you ; and Demas.

15 Salute the brethren who are at
Laodicea, and Nymph as, and the church
that is in his house.

16 And when this epistle shall have
been read with you, cause that it be read
also in the church of the Laodiceans.
and that you read that which is of the
Laodiceans.

17 And say to Archippus : Take heed
to the ministry which thou hast received
in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

18 The salutation of Paul with my own
hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace
be with you. Amen.

m Luke 18. 1 ; 1 Thess. 5. 17.

n Eph. G. 19 ; 2 Thess. 3. 1 , Col. 4. 3.

o Eph. 5. 15. — ?j 2 Tim. 4. 11.

epistle from Rome to the Laodiceans, about the san e
thne that he wrote to the Colossians, as he had then
both equally at heart, and that he ordered that epis-
tle to be read by the Colossians for then- instructions ;
and being neighbouring cities, thoy might communi-
cate to each other what they had received from him %
as one epistle might contain some matters not re-
lated in the other, and would be equally useful for
their concern; and more particularly as they were
equally disturbed by intruders and false teachers,
against w.lich the apostle was anxious to warn them,
lest they should be infected by their pernicious doc-
trine.

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Thessalomans commended

Sincerity of the apostte

THE

FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

THESSALONIANS.

Thessalonica was the capital of Macedonia, in which St. Paul having preached the Gospel,
converted some Jews, an,d a great number of the Gentiles : but the unbelieving Jews, envying
his success, raised such a commotion ayainst Mm, that he, and his companion, Sylvanus,
were obliged to quit the city. Afterwards he went to Athens, where he had heard that the
converts in Thessalonica were under a seriere persecution ever since his departure ; and, lest
they should lose their fortitude, he sent Timothy to strengthen and comfort them in their suf-
ferings. In the mean time St. Paul came to Corinth, where he wrote this first Epistle, and
also the second to the Thessalonians, both in the same year, being the twenty-
second after our Lord's Ascension. These are the first of his Epistles in the order
of time.

you ; and how you turned to God from

bestowed on the

CHAPTER 1.

He gives thanks for the graces
Thessalonians.

PAUL and Sylvanus and Timothy ; to
the church of the Thessalonians, In
God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus
Christ.

2 Grace be to you and peace. We
give thanks to God always for you all;
making a remembrance of you in our
prayers without ceasing,

3 Being mindful of the work of your
faith, and labour, and charity, and of the
enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus
Christ before God and our Father :

4 Knowing, brethren beloved of God,
vour election :

5 For our gospel hath not been unto
you in word only, but in power also, and
in the Holy Ghost, and in much fulness,
as you know what manner of men we
have been among you for your sakes.

6 And you became followers of us, and
of the Lord ; receiving the word in much
tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost :

7 So that you were made a pattern to
all that believe in Macedonia and in
Achaia.

8 For from you was spread abroad the
word of the Lord, not only in Mace-
donia, and in Achaia, but also in every
place, yoar faith which is towards God,
is gone forth, so that we need not to
speak any thing.

9 For they themselves relate of us,
what manner of entering in we had unto

Idols, to serve the living and true God.

10 And to wait for his Son from heaven
(whom he raised up from the dead,) Je-
sus, who hath delivered us from the
wrath to come.

CHAPTER 2.

The sincerity of the apostle's preaching the gospel
to them : and of their receiviitg it.

FOR yourselves know, brethren, our
entrance in unto you, that it was
not in vain :

2 But having suffered many things be-
fore, and been shamefully treated (as
you know) at Philippi, ^we had confi-
dence in our God, to speak unto you the
gospel of God in much carefulness.

3 For our exhortation was not of error,
nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit :

4 But as we were approved by God that
the gospel should be committed to us:
even so we speak, not as pleasing men,
but God, who proveth our hearts.

5 For neither have we used, at any
time, the speech of flattery, as you know ;
nor taken an occasion of covetousness,
God is witness :

6 Nor sought we glory of men, neither
of you, nor of others.

7 Whereas we might have been burden-
some to you, as the apostles of Christ:
but we became little ones in the midst
of you, as if a nurse should cherish her
children :

8 So desirous of you, we would gladly

q Acts 16. 19.
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His disinterestedness 1 TO THE THESSALONIANS The apostle's comfort

FOR which cause, forbearing no longer,
we thought it good to remain at

impart unto you not only the gospel of
God, but also our own souls: because
yon were become most dear unto us.

9 For you remember, brethren, our la-
bour and toil : *" working night and day,
lest we should be chargeable to any of
yc a, \7e preached among you the gospel
Oi. (jfod.

10 You are witnesses, and God also^ how
bolily, and justly, and without blame, we
have been to you that have believed :

11 As you know in what manner, en-
treating and comforting you, (as a father
doth his children,)

12 We testified to every one of you,
that you would walk worthy of God,
who hath called you unto his kingdom
and glory.

13 Therefore, we also give thanks to
God without ceasing: because, that when
you had received of us the word of the
hearing of God, you received it not as
the word of men, but (as it is indeed)
the word of God, who worketh in you
that have believed.

14 For you, brethren, are become fol-
lowers of the churches of God which are
in Judea, in Christ Jesus : for you also
have suffered the same things from your
own countrymen, even as they have
from the Jews,

15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and
the prophets, and have persecuted us,
and please not God, and are adversaries
to all men ;

16 Prohibiting us to speak to the Gen-
tiles, that they may be saved, to fill up
their sins always : for the wrath of God
is come upon them to the end,

17 But we, brethren, being taken away
from you for a short time, in sight, not
in heart, have hastened the more abun-
dantly to see your face with great desire.

18 For we would have come unto you,
I Paul indeed, once and again: but Satan
hath hindered us.

19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown
of glory ? Are not you, in the presence
of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ?

20 For you are our glory and joy.

CHAPTER 3.

The apostle^s concern and love for the Thessalonians.

r Acts 20. 24 ; 1 Cor. 4. 12 ; 2 Tliess. 3. 8.

Chap. 2. Ver. 16. To fill up their sins. That is,
to fill up the measure of their sins, after which God's
justice would punish them. — Ibid. For the wrath

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Athens alone :

2 * And we sent Timothy, our brother,
and the minister of God in the gospel of
Christ, to confirm you and exhort you
concerning your faith:

3 That no man should be moved in these
tribulations: for yourselves know, that
we are appointed thereunto.

4 For even when we were with you, we
foretold you that we should suffer tribu-
lations, as also it is come to pass, and
you know.

5 For this cause also, I, forbearing no
longer, sent to know your faith : lest
perhaps he that tempteth should have
tempted you, and our labour should be
made vain.

6 But now when Timothy came to us
from you, and related to us your faith
and charity, and that you have a good
remembrance of us always, desiring to
see us as we also to see you ;

7 Therefore we were comforted, bre-
thren, in you, in all our necessity and
tribulation, by your faith,

8 Because now we live, if you stand in
the Lord.

9 For what thanks can we return to
God for you, in all the joy wherewith we
rejoice for you before our God,

10 Night and day more abundantly pray-
ing that we may see your face, and may
accomplish those things that are wanting
to your faith ?

11 Now God himself and our Father, and
our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way
unto you.

12 And may the Lord multiply you, and
make you abound in charity towards one
another, and towards all men: as we do
also towards you,

13 To confirm your hearts without
blame, in holiness, before God and our
Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

CHAPTER 4.

He exhorts them to purity and mutual charity :
treats of the resurrection of the dead.

lOR the rest therefore, brethren, we
pray and beseech you in the Lord

s Acts 16. 1.

of God is come upon them to the end.
continue on them to the end.

That is, to

Resurrection of the dead 1 TO THE THESSALONIANS The day of judgment

Jesus, that as yon have received from us, | 16 Then we who are alive, who are left,
how you ought to walk, and to please shall be taken up together with them in

God, so also you would walk, that you
may abound the more.

2 For you know what precepts I have
given to you by the Lord Jesus.

3 * For this is the will of God, your
eanctification ; that you should abstain
from fornication ;

4 That every one of you should know
how to possess his vessel in sanctification
and honour :

6 Not in the passion of lust, like the
Gentiles that know not God :

6 And that no man overreach, nor cir-
cumvent hisbrother in business: because
the Lord is the avenger of all these things,
as we have told you before, and have
testified.

7 For God hath not called us unto un-
cleanness, but unto sanctification.

8 Therefore, he that despiseth these
things, despiseth not man, but God, who
also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

9 But as touching the charity of brother-
hood, we have no need to write to you:
•* for yourselves have learned of God to
love one another.

10 For indeed you do it towards all the
brethren in all Macedonia. But we entreat
you, brethren, that you abound more:

11 And that you use your endeavour to
be quiet, and that you do your own busi-
ness, and work with your own hands, as
we commanded you : and that you walk
honestly towards them that are without ;
and that you want nothing of any man's.

12 And we will not have you ignorant,
brethren, concerning them that are
asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even
as others who have no hope.

13 For if we believe that Jesus died, and
rose again ; even so them who have slept
through Jesus, will God bring with him.

14 For this we say unto you in the word
of the Lord, ^ that we who are alive, who
'•«^main unto the coming of the Lord, shall
not prevent them who have slept.

15 For the Lord himself shall come
down from heaven with commandment,
and with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of God : and the
dead who are in Christ, shall rise first.

t Rom. 12. 2 ; Eph. 5. 17.

« John 13. 34, and 15. 12 and 17 ;

1 John 2. 10, and 4. 12.

the clouds to meet Christ, into the air,
and so shall we be always with the Lord.
17 Wherefore, comfort ye one another
with these words.

CHAPTER 6.

The day of the Lord shall come, when least expected.
Exhortations to several duties.

BUT of the times and moments, bre-
thren, you need not, that we should
write to you;

2 ^ For yourselves know perfectly, that
the day of the Lord shall so come, as a
thief in the night.

3 For when they shall say, peace and
security ; then shall sudden destruction
come upon them, as the pains upon her
that is with child, and they shall not es-
cape.

4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness,
that that day should overtake you as a
thief.

5 For all you are the children of light,
and children of the day: we are not qt
the night, nor of darkness.

6 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others
do ; but let us watch, and be 3ober.

7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night ;
and they that are drunk, are drunk in
the night.

8 But let us, who are of the day, be
sober, ^having on the breastplate of
faith and charity, and for a helmet the
hope of salvation.

9 For God hath not appointed us unto
wrath, but unto the purchasing of salva-
tion by our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 Who died for us; that, whether we
watch or sleep, we may live together
with him.

11 For which cause comfort one an-
other; and edify one another, as you
also do.

12 And we beseech you, brethren, to
know them who labour among you, and
are over you in the Lord, and admonish
you:

13 That you esteem them more abun-
dantly in charity, for their work's sake.
Have peace with them.

14 And we beseech you, brethren, re-

V 1 Cor. 15. 23.

w 2 Peter 3. 10; Apoc. 3, 3, and 16. 16.

X Isa. 59. 17 ; Enh. 6 14 and 17-

CBAr.&. Ver. 14.

The unquiet. That is, such a& are irregular and disorderly.
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Various exhortations ^ TO THE THESSALONIANS Their faith praised

buke the unquiet, comfort the feeble
minded, support the weak, be patient to-
wards all men.

15 ^ See that none render evil for evil
to any man ; but ever follow that which
is good towards each other, and towards
all men.

16 Always rejoice.

17 ^ Pray without ceasing.

18 In all things give thanks ; for this is
the will of God in Christ Jesus concern-
^g you all.

19 Extinguish not the spirit.

20 Despise not prophecies.

21 But prove all things ; hold fast that
which is good.

22 From all appearance of evil refrain
yourselves.

23 And may the God of peace himself
sanctify you in all things; that your
whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be
preserved blameless in the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.

24 " He is faithful who hath called you,
who also will do it.

25 Brethren, pray for us.

26 Salute all the brethren with a holy
kiss.

27 I charge you by the Lord, that this
epistle be read to all the holy brethren.

28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Amen.

THE

SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

THESSALONIANS.

In this Epistle St. Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be constant in the faith of Christ,
and not to be terrified by the insinuations of false teachers telling them thatphe day of judg-
ment was near at hand, as there must come many signs and wonders before it. He bids them
to hold firm the traditions received from him, whether by word, or by epistle ; and shews
them how they may be certain of his letters by the manner lie writes.

CHAPTER 1.

Be gives thanks to God for their faith and con-
stancy , and prays for their advancement in all
good.

PAUL, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, to
the church of the Thessalonians in
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

2 Grace unto you, and peace from God
our Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ.

3 We are bound to give thanks always
to God for you, brethren, as it is fitting,
because your faith groweth exceedingly,
and the charity of every one of you to-
wards each other, aboundeth :

4 So that we ourselves also glory in you
in the churches of God, for your patience
and faith, and in all your persecutions
and tribulations, which you endure,

5 For an example of the just judgment
of God, that you may be counted worthy

of the kingdom of God, for which also
you suffer.

6 Seeing it is a just thing with God to
repay tribulation to them that trouble
you:

7 And to you who are troubled, rest
with us when the Lord Jesus shall be re-
vealed from heaven, with the angels of
his power :

8 In a flame of fire, giving vengeance
to them who know not God, and who
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

9 Who shall suffer eternal punishment
in destruction, from the face of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power :

10 When he shall come to be glorified
in his saints, and to be made wonderful
in all them who have believed ; because
our testimony was believed upon you in
that day.

11 Wherefore also we pray always for

tf Prov. 17. 13,aDd 20. 22: Eom. 12. 17; 1 Peter 3. 9. » z Eccli. J8. 22j Luke 18. l; CoL 4. 2.— a I Cor. 1. Ai

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The man of sin

2 TO THE THESSALONIANS

The traditions

you; that our God would make you
worthy of his vocation, and fulfil all the
good pleasure of his goodness and the
work of faith in power ;

12 That the name of our Lord Jesus
may be glorified in you, and you in him,
according to the grace of our God, and
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER 2.

The day of the Lord is not to come, till the man of
sin be revealed. The apostle's traditions are to
be observed.

AND we beseech you, brethren, by the
. coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and of our gathering together unto him:

2 That you be not easily moved from
your sense, nor be terrified, neither by
spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle, as
Bent from us, as if the day of the Lord
were at hand.

3 ^ Let no man deceive you by any
means, for unless there come a revolt
first, and the man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition,

4 Who opposeth, and is lifted up above
all that is called God, or that is wor-
shipped, so that he sitteth in the temple
of God, shewing himself as if he were
God.

5 Remember you not, that when I was
yet with you, I told you these things ?

6 And now you know what withholdeth,
that he may be revealed in his time.

7 For the mystery of iniquity already
worketh ; only that he who now holdeth,
do hold, until he be taken out of the
way.

8 And then that wicked one shall be re-
vealed*' whom the Lord Jesus shall kill
with the spirit of his mouth ; and shall
destroy with the brightness of his com-
ing, him,

9 Whose coming is according to the
working of Satan, in all power, and
signs, and lying wonders,

b Eph. 5. 6. — c Isa. 11.4.

Chap. 2. Ver. 3. A revolt. This revolt, or fall-
ing ojf, is generally understood, by the ancient fa-
thers, of a revolt from the Roman empire, which was
first to be destroyed, before the coming of Antichrist.
It may, perhaps, be understood also of a revolt of
many nations from the Catholic Church ; which has,
in part, happened already, by the means of Maho-
met, Luther, &c., and It may oe supposed, will be
more general in the days of Antichrist. ~ Ibid. The
man of sin. Here must be meant some particular
man, as is evident from the frequent repetition of
the Greek article 6, the man of sin, the son of per-
dition, the adversary or opposer, 6 ai/TiKet>ei/o?. It
agrees to the wicked and great Antichrist, who will
eome before the ead of tlie world.

10 And in all seduction of iniquity to
them that perish ; because they receive
not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved. Therefore God shall
send them the operation of error, to be-
lieve lying:

11 That all may be judged who have not
believed the truth, but have consented
to iniquity.

12 But we ought to give thanks to God
always for you, brethren, beloved of God,
for that God hath chosen you firstfruits
unto salvation, in sanctification of the
spirit, and faith of the truth:

13 Whereunto also he hath called you
by our gospel, unto the purchasing of
the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

14 Therefore, brethren, stand fast ; and
hold the traditions which you have
learned, whether by word, or by our
epistle.

15 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself,
and God and our Father, who hath loved
us, and hath given us everlasting conso-
lation, and good hope in grace,

16 Exhort your hearts, and confirm you
in every good work and word.

CHAPTER 3.

He begs their prayers, and warns them against
idleness.

FOR ** the rest, brethren, pray for us,
that the word of God may run,
and may be glorified, even as among
you;

2 And that we may be delivered from
importunate and evil men; for all men
have not faith.

3 But God is faithful, who will strength-
en and keep you from evil.

4 And we have confidence concerning
you in the Lord, that the things which
we command, you both do, and will
do.

6 And the Lord direct your hearts, iD

d Eph. 6. 19 ; Col. 4. 3.

Ver. 4. In the temple. Either that of Jerusalem
which some think he will rebuild ; or in some Chris-
tian church, which he will pervert to his own wor
ship: as Mahomet has done by the churches of the

poet"

Ver. 10. God shall send ; that is, God shall suffer
them to be deceived by lying wonders, and false mir-
acles, in punishment of their not entertaining th^
love of truth. /

Ver. 14. Traditions. See here that the unwrittOT
traditions of the apostles are no less to be receiwd
than their epistles.

Chap. 3. Ver. 1. May run, that is, may spread
itself, and have free course.

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Idleness

1 TO TIMOTHY Timothy* s charge at Ephesus

the charity of God, and the tiatience of

Christ.

6 And we charge you, brethren, In the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you
withdraw yourselves from every brother
walking disorderly, and not according to
the tradition which they have received
of us.

7 For yourselves know how you ought
to imitate us: for we were not disor-
derly among you ;

8 * Neither did we eat any man's bread
for nothing, but in labour and in toil we
worked night and day, lest we should be
chargeable to any of you.

9 Not as if we had not power: but that
lee might give ourselves a pattern unto
you, to imitate us.

10 For also when we were with you, this
we declared to you: that, if any man will
not work, neither let him eat.

11 For we have heard there are some

among you who walk disorderly, working
not at all, but curiously meddling.

12 Now we charge them that are such,
and beseech them by the Lord Jesus
Christ, that, working with silence, they
would eat their own bread.

13-^ But you, brethren, be not weary in
well doing.

14 And if any man obey not our word by
this epistle, note that man, and do not
keep company with him, that he may be
ashamed :

15 Yet do not esteem him as an enemy,
but admonish him as a brother.

16 Now the Lord of peace himself give
you everlasting peace in every place.
The Lord be with you all.

17 The salutation of Paul with my own
hand ; which is the sign in every epistle.
So I write.

18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you alL Amen.

THE

FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO

TIMOTHY.

St. Paul writes this Epistle to his beloved Timothy, being then bishop of Ephesus,
to instruct him in the duties of a bishop, both in respect to himself and to his
charge; and that he ought to be well informed of the good morals of those on
whom he was to impose hands : Impose not hands lightly upon any man. He tells
him also how he should behave towards his clergy. This Epistle was written
about thirty-five years after our Lord's Ascension; but where it was written is
uncertain: the more general opinion is, that it was in Macedonia,

4 ^ Not to give heed to fables and end-

CHAPTER 1.

He puts Timothy in mind of his charge: and blesses
God for the mercy he himself had received,

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, ac-
cording to the commandment of
God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our
hope :

2 9 To Timothy, his beloved son in faith.
Grace, mercy, and peace from God the
Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 As I desired thee to remain at Ephe-
sus when I went into Macedonia, that
thou mightest charge some not to teach
otherwise.

• Acts 20. 34 ; 1 Cor. 4. 12; 1 Thess. 2. 9.
/ GaL & 9,—g Acto 16. 1.

less genealogies : which furnish questions
rather than the edification of God, which
is in faith.
6 Now the end of the commandment is
charity, from a pure heart, and a good
conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

6 From which things some going astray,
are turned aside unto vain babbling :

7 Desiring to be teachers of the law, un-
derstanding neither the things they say,
nor whereof they affirm.

8 * But we know that the law is good, if
a man use it lawfully :

h Infra 4. 7 ; 2 Tim. 2. 16; Titus S. 9.
iAoiU.7.13.

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The apostle thanks God

9 Knowing this, that the
made for the just man, but
just and disobedient,
and for sinners, for

1 TO TIMOTHY Exhortation to pray for all

law is not

for the un-

for the ungodly,

the wicked and de-

filed, for murderers of fathers, and mur-
derers of mothers, for manslayers,

10 For fornicators, for them who defile
themselves with mankind, for men-
stealers, for liars, for perjured persons,
and whatever other thing is contrary to
sound doctrine,

11 Which is according to the gospel of
the glory of the blessed God, which hath
been committed to my trust.

12 I give him thanks who hath strength-
ened me, 2ven to Christ Jesus our Lord,
for that he hath counted me faithful, put-
ting me in the ministry ;

13 Who before was a blasphemer, and a
persecutor, and contumelious. But I ob-
tained the mercy of God, because I did
it ignorantly in unbelief.

14 Now the grace of our Lord hath
abounded exceedingly with faith and
love, which is in Christ Jesus.

15 A faithful saying, and worthy of all
acceptation,"^ that Christ Jesus came into
this world to save sinners, of whom I am
the chief.

16 But for this cause have I obtained
mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus
might shew forth all patience, for the
information of them that shall believe
in him unto life everlasting.

17 Now to the king of ages, immortal,
invisible, the only God, be honour and
glory for ever and ever. Amen.

18 This precept I commend to thee, O
son Timothy ; according to the prophe-
cies going before on thee, that thou war
in them a good warfare,

19 Having faith and a good conscience,
which some rejecting have made ship-
wreck concerning the faith.

20 Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexan-
der, whom I have delivered up to Sa-
tan, that they may learn not to blas-
pheme.

) Matt 9. 13 ; Mark 2. 17.
k 1 Peter 3. 3. — ^ 1 Cor. 14. 34.

Chap. 1. Ver. 9. The law is not, &c. He means,
that the just man doth good, and avoideth evil, not
as compelled by the law, and merely tor fear of the
punishment appointed for transgressors ; but volun-
tarily, and out of the love of God and virtue ; and
would do so, though there were no law.

Chap. 2. Ver. 6. One mediator. Christ is the
©oe and only mediator of redemption, who gave
UmseU, M Ibe apostle writes in tbe following verse,

CHAPTER 2.

Prayers are to be said for all men ; because God
wills the salvation of all. Women are not to
teach.

I DESIRE therefore, first of all, that
supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and thanksgivings be made for all men :

2 For kings, and for all that are in high
station : that we may lead a quiet and a
peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

3 For this is good and acceptable in the
sight of God our Saviour,

4 Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come to the knowledge of the
truth.

6 For there is one God, and one mediator
of God and men, the man Christ Jesus ;

6 Who gave himself a redemption for
all, a testimony in due times.

7 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher
and an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not,)
a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

8 I will therefore that men pray in
every place, lifting up pure hands, with-
out anger and contention.

9 ^" In like manner women also in decent
apparel: adorning themselves with mod-
esty and sobriety, not with plaited hair,
or gold, or pearls, or costly attire,

10 But as it becometh women professing
godliness, with good works.

11 Let the woman learn in silence, with
all subjection.

12 ^ But I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor to use authority over the man . but
to be in silence.

13 "* For Adam was first formed ; then
Eve.

14 ** And Adam was not seduced ; but
the woman being seduced, was in the
transgression.

15 Yet she shall be saved through child-
bearing; if she continue in faith, and
love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

CHAPTER 3.

WTiat sort qfm,en are to be admitted into the clergy i
the church is the pillar of truth.

m Gen. 1. 26.
n Gen. 3. 6.

a redemption for all. He is also the only mediator^
who stands in need of no other to recommend his
petitions to the Father. But this is not against our
seeking the prayers and intercession, as well of the
faithful upon earth, as of the saints and angels in
heaven, for obtaining mercy, grace, and salvation,
through Jesns Christ. As St. Paul himself often de.
sired the help of the prayers of the faithful, without
any Injury to the mediatorship of Jesus Christ.

Bishop and deacon

1 TO TIMOTHY

Warning against heretics

A FAITHFUL saying: if a man desire
the office of a bishop, he desireth a
good work.

2 ° It behoveth therefore a bishop to be
blameless, the husband of one wife, sober,
prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given
to hospitality, a teacher,

3 Not given to wine, no striker, but
modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous,
but

4 One that ruleth well his own house,
having his children in subjection with
all chastity.

5 But if a man know not how to rule
his own house, how shall he take care of
the church of God?

6 Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up
^ith pride, he fall into the judgment of
the deviL

7 Moreover he must have a good testi-
mony ot them who are without : lest he
fall into reproach and the snare of the
devil.

8 Deacons in like manner chaste, not
double tongued, not given to much wine,
not greedy of filthy lucre :

9 Holding the mystery of faith in a
pure conscience.

10 And let these also first be proved : and
BO let them minister, having no crime.

11 The women in like manner chaste,
not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all
things.

12 Let deacons be the husbands of one
wife : who rule well their children, and
their own houses.

13 For they that have ministered well,
shall purchase to themselves a good de-
gree, and much confidence in the faith
which is in Christ Jesus,

14 These things I write to thee, hoping
that T shall come to thee shortly.

15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest
know how thou oughtest to behave thy-
self in the house of God, which is the
church of the living God, the pillar and
ground of the truth.

o Titus 1.7. — p 2 Tim. 3. 1; 2 Peter 3. 3; Jiule 1. 18.

Chap. 3. Ver. 2. Of one wife. The meaning is
not that every bishop should have a wife (for St.
Paul himself had none), but that no one should be
admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or
deacon, who had been married more than once.

Ver. 6. A neophyte. That is, one lately baptized,
a young convert

Ver. 15. The pillar and ground of the tr^ith.
Therefore the church of the living God can never
uphold error, nor brine: in corruptions, superstition,
or idolatry.

Chap. 4. Ver. 3. Forbiddittg to marry to fUatwkn

16 And evidently great is the mystery
of godliness, which was manifested in
the flesh, was justified in the spirit, ap-
peared unto angels, hath been preached
unto the Gentiles, is believed in tae
world, is taken up in glory.

CHAPTER 4.

He warns him against heretics, atid exhorts him to
the exercise of piety.

1^ O W the Spirit manifestly saith, p that
jL 1 in the last times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to spirits of
error, and doctrines of devils,

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having
their conscience seared,

3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from
meats, which God hath created to be re-
ceived with thanksgiving by the faithful,
and by them that have known the truth.

4 For every creature of God is good,
and nothing to be rejected that is re-
ceived with thanksgiving :

6 For it is sanctified by the word of
God and prayer.

6 These things proposing to the bre-
thren, thou shalt be a good minister of
Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words
of faith, and of the good doctrine which
thou hast attained unto.

7 ^But avoid foolish and old wives' fa-
bles : and exercise thyself unto godliness.

8 For bodily exercise is profitable to
little: but godhness is profitable to all
things, having promise of the Ufe that
now is, and of that which is to come.

9 A faithful saying and worthy of aL
acceptation.

10 For therefore we labour and are re-
viled, because we hope in the living God,
who is the Saviour of all men, especially
of the faithful.

11 These things command and teach.

12 Let no man despise thy youth : but
be thou an example of the faithful in
word, in conversation, in charity, in faith,
in chastity.

q Supra 1. 4; 2 Tim. 2. 23 ; Titus 3. 9.

from, meats, &c. He speaks of the Gnostics, the Mar
cionites, the Encratites, the Manicheans, and othei
ancient heretics, who absolutely condemned mar-
riage, and the use of all kind of meat; because they
pretended that 2d\ flesh was from an evil principle.
Whereas the church of God, so far from condemning
marriage, holds it a holy sacrament ; and forbids it
to none but such as by vow have chosen the better
part : and prohibits not the use of any meats what,
soever in proper times and seasons ; though she does
not judge all kind of diet proper for days of fasting
and peuauoa

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Concerning vndows

1 TO TIMOTHY

Concerning priests

13 Till I come, attend unto reading, to
exhortation, and to doctrine.

14 Neglect not the grace that is in thee,
which was given thee by prophecy, with
imposition of the hands of the priest-
hood.

15 Meditate upon these things, be wholly
in these things : that thy profiting may
be manifest to all.

16 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine :
be earnest in them. For in doing this
thou shalt both save thyself and them
that hear thee.

CHAPTER 6.

Be givee him lessons concerning widows: and how
he is to behave to his clergy,

AN ancient man rebuke not, but entreat
. him as a father: young men, as
brethren :

2 Old women, as mothers; young wo-
men, as sisters, in all chastity.

3 Honour widows, that are widows in-
deed.

4 But if any widow have children, or
grandchildren, let her learn first to gov-
ern her own house, and to make a return
of duty to her parents: for this is accept-
able before God.

6 But she that is a widow indeed, and
desolate, let her trust in God, and con-
tinue in supplications and prayers night
and day.

6 For she that liveth in pleasures, is
dead while she is living.

7 And this give in charge, that they
may be blameless.

8 But if any man have not care of his
own, and especially of those of his house,
he hath denied the faith, and is worse
than an infidel.

9 Let a widow be chosen of no less than
threescore years of age, who hath been
the wife of one husband.

10 Having testimony for her good
works, if she have brought up children,
if she have received to harbour, if she
have washed the saints' feet, if she have
ministered to them that suffer tribulation,
if she have diligently followed every
good work.

11 But the younger widows avoid. For
When they have grown wanton in Christ,
they will marry:

r Deut 25. 4 ; 1 Cor. 9. 9.

12 Having damnation, because they have
made void their first faith.

13 And withal being idle they learn to
go about from house to house: and are
not only idle, but tattlers also, and busy-
bodies, speaking things which they ought
not.

14 I will therefore that the younger
should marry, bear children, be mistresses
of families, give no occasion to the ad-
versary to speak evil.

15 For some are already turned aside
after Satan.

16 If any of the faithful have widows,
let him minister to them, and let not the
church be charged: that there may be
sufficient for them that are widows in-
deed.

17 Let the priests that rule well, be es-
teemed worthy of double honour : espe-
cially they who labour in the word and
doctrine :

18 For the scripture saith: ^Thou shalt
not muzzle the ox that treadethout the com:
and, * The labourer is worthy of his reward.

19 Against a priest receive not an accu-
sation, but under two or three witnesses.

20 Them that sin reprove before all :
that the rest ilso may have fear.

21 I charge thee before God, and Christ
Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou ob-
serve these things without prejudice, do-
ing nothing by declining to either side.

22 Impose not hands lightly upon any
man, neither be partaker of other men's
sins. Keep thyself chaste.

23 Do not still drink water, but use a
little wine for thy stomach's sake, and
thy frequent infirmities.

24 Some men's sins are manifest, going
before to judgment : and some men they
follow after.

25 In like manner also good deeds are
manifest: and they that are otherwise
cannot be hid.

CHAPTER 6.

Duties of servants. The danger of covetousnesM.
Lessons for the rich.

WHOSOEVER are servants under the
yoke, let them count their masters
worthy of all honour ; lest the name ot
the Lord and /iis doctrine be blasphemed,
2 But they that have believing masters.

$ Matt. 10. 10 ; Luke 10. 7.

GHiJr. jr Ver. 12. Their first faith, Tbeir tow. by which tbey had ftfttr^ ttxr^uelfet U> GtUMl»

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Against covefoiisness

let them not despise them, because they
are brethren ; but serve them the rather,
because they are faithful and beloved,
*^ho are partakers of the benefit. These
things teach and exhort.

3 If any man teach otherwise, and con-
Bent not to the sound words of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which
is according to godliness,

4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but
sick about questions and strifes of words ;
from which arise envies, contentions,
blasphemies, evil suspicions,

5 Conflicts of men corrupted in mind,
and who are destitute of the truth, sup-
posing gain to be godliness.

8 But godliness with contentment is
great gain

7 *For we brought nothing into this
world : and certainly we can carry nothing
out.

8 " But having food, and wherewith to
be covered, with these we are content.

9 For they that will become rich, fall
into temptation, and into the snare of
the devil, and into many unprofitable
and hurtful desires, which drown men
into destruction and perdition.

10 For the desire of money is the root
of all evils; which some coveting have
erred from the faith, and have entangled
themselves in many sorrows.

11 But thou, O man of God, fly these
things : and pursue justice, godliness,
faith, charity, patience, mildness.

( Job 1. 21 ; Eccl. 5. 14. — n Prov. 21. a&
V Matt il. 11 i John 1& 33, 37.

1 TO TIMOTHY

Admonition to the rick

12 Fight the good fight of faith : lay
hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art
called, and hast confessed a good con-
fession before many witnesses.

13 I charge thee before God, who quick-
eneth all things, and before Christ Jesus,
who gave testimony " under Pontius Pi-
late, a good confession,

14 That thou keep the commandment J
without spot, blameless, unto the coming l|
of our Lord Jesus Christ,

16 Which in his times he shall shew j
^who is the Blessed and only Mighty, J
the King of kings, and Lord of lords ;

16 Who only hath immortality, and in*
habiteth light inaccessible, *whom no
man hath seen, nor can see : to whom bt
honour and empire everlasting. Amen,

17 Charge the rich of this world not
to be highminded, ^nor to trust in the
uncertainty of riches, but in the living
God, (who giveth us abundantly all
things to enjoy, ,

18 To do good, to be rich in good works,
to give easily, to communicate to others,

19 To lay up in store for themselves a
good foundation against the time to come,
that they may lay hold on the true life.

20 O Timothy, keep that which is com-
mitted to thy trust, avoiding the profane
novelties of words, and oppositions of
knowledge falsely so called.

21 Which some promising, have erred
concerning the faith. Grace be with
f^-e*^ Amen.

w Apoc. 17. 14, and 19. 16.
X JoboLlSs 1J01U14.12.—V Luke 12.21.

IMt

The apostle exhorts Timothy

Exhortation to perseverance

THE

SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO

TIMOTHY.

fn this Epistle the Apostle again instructs and admonishes Timothy in what belonged to hit
office^ as in theforrner; and also warns him to shun tJie conversation of those wJto had erreo
from Tihe truth, describing at the same time their character. He tells him of his approaching,
death, and desires him to come speedily to him. It appears from this circurastance, that ht
wrote this se&>nd Epistle in the time of his last imprisonment at Rome, and not long before
his martyrdom.

CHAPTER 1.

He admonishes him, to stir up the grace he received
by his ordination, and not to be discouraged at his
sufferings, but to hold firm the sound doctrine of
the gospel.

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by
the will of God, according to the
promise of life, which is in Christ Jesus.

2 To Timothy my dearly beloved son,
grace, mercy, and peace, from God the
Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 I give thanks to God, whom 1 serve
from my forefathers with a pure con-
science, that without ceasing, I have a
remembrance of thee in my prayers,
night and day.

4 Desiring to see thee, being mindful of
thy tears, that I may be filled with joy,

5 Calling to mind that faith which is in
thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in
thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother
Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also.

C For which cause I admonish thee, that
thou stir up the grace of God which is in
thee, by the imposition of my hands.

7 ^ For God hath not given us the spirit
of fear: but of power, and of love, and of
sobriety,

8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the
testimony of our Lord, nor of me his
prisoner: but labour with the gospel, ac~
cording to the power of God,

9 Who hath delivered us and called us
by his holy calling, **not according to
our works, but according to his own pur-
pose and grace, which was given us in
Christ Jesus before the times *of the
world.

s Rom. 8. 15. — a Titus 3. 5.
k That 18, The beginning.

10 But is now made manifest by the
illumination of our Saviour Jesus Christ
who hath destroyed death, and hatl
brought to light hfe and incorruption bj
the gospel :

11 Wherein *^I am appointed a preacher
and an apostle, and teacher of the Gentiles

12 For which cause I also suffer these
things : but I am not ashamed. For ]
know whom I have believed, and I am
certain that he is able to keep that which
I have committed unto him, against thai
day.

13 Hold the form of sound words, whici
thou hast heard of me in faith, and in the
love which is in Christ Jesus.

14 Keep the good thing committed tc
thy trust by the Holy Ghost, who dwell
eth in us.

15 Thou knowest this, that all they whc
are in Asia, are turned away from me : ol
whom are Phigellus and Hermogenes.

16 The Lord give mercy to the ^ house
of Onesiphorus: because he hath oftei
refreshed me, and hath not been ashamec
of my chain :

17 But when he was come to Rome, he
carefully sought me, and found me.

18 The Lord grant unto him to fine
mercy of the Lord in that day: and ii
how many things he ministered unto me
at Ephesus, thou very well knowest.

CHAFTER 2.

He exhorts him, to diligence in his office, and pa
tience in suffering. The danger of the delusion
of heretics.

THOU therefore, my son. be strong ii
the grace which is in Christ Jesus :

c 1 Tim. 2. 7.
d Infra 4. 19,

Chap. 1. Ver. 10. By the illumination; that is, by the bright coining and appearing of our Saviour

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Exhortation to diligence

2 And the things which thou hast heard
)f me by many witnesses, the same com-
nend to faithful men, who shall be fit to
each others also.

3 Labour as a good soldier of Christ
resus.

4 No man, being a soldier to God, en-
angleth himself with secular businesses ;
hat he may please him to whom he hath
engaged himself.

5 For he also that striveth for the mas-
ery, is not crowned, except he strive
awfully.

6 The husbandman, that laboureth, must
irst partake of the fruits.

7 Understand what I say: for the Lord
vill give thee in all things understanding.

8 Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ
s risen again from the dead, of the seed
)f David, according to my gospel.

9 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as
m evildoer ; but the word of God is not
)ound.

10 Therefore I endure all things for the
jake of the elect, that they also may ob-
tain the salvation, which is in Christ
Fesus, with heavenly glory.

11 A faithful saying: for if we be dead
tvith him, we shall hve also with him.

12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with
tiim. * If we deny him, he will also deny us.

13 -^If we believe not, he continueth
faithful, he can not deny himself.

14 Of these things put them in mind,
charging them before the Lord. Con-
bend not in words, for it is to no profit,
but to the subverting of the hearers.

15 Carefully study to present thyself
approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly hand-
ling the word of truth.

16 But shun profane and vain babblings:
for they grow much towards ungodliness.

17 And their speech spreadeth like a
canker: of whom are Hymeneus and
Philetus :

18 Who have erred from the truth, say-
ing, that the resurrection is past already,
and have subverted the faith of some.

19 But the sure foundation of God
standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord
knoweth who are his ; and let every one
depart from iniquity who nameth the
name of the Lord.

2 TO TIMOTHY Wickedness in the last days

e Matt. 10. 33 ; Mark 8. 38. — / Rom. 3. 3.
g 1 Tim. 1. 4 and 7; Titus 3. 9.

20 But in a great house there are not
only vessels of gold and of silver, but also
of wood and of earth : and some indeed
unto honour, but some unto dishonour.

21 If any man therefore shall cleanse
himself from these, he shall be a vessel
unto honour, sanctified and profitable to
the Lord, prepared unto every good
work.

22 But flee thou youthful desires, and
pursue justice, faith, charity, and peace,
with them that call on the Lord out of a
pure heart.

23 ^ And avoid foolish and unlearned
questions, knowing that they beget
strifes.

24 But the servant of the Lord must
not wrangle : but be mild towards all
men, apt to teach, patient,

25 With modesty admonishing them
that resist the truth : if per ad venture
God may give them repentance to know
the truth,

26 And they may recover themselves
from the snares of the devil, by whom
they are held captive at his wilL

CHAPTER 3.

The character of heretics of latter days .- he exhorts
Timothy to constancy. Of the great profit of the
knowledge of the scriptures.

NOW also this, that, '^in the last
days, shall come dangerous times.

2 Men shall be lovers of themselves,
covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, ungrateful,
wicked,

3 Without affection, without peace,
slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, with-
out kindness,

4 Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and
lovers of pleasures more than of God:

5 Having an appearance indeed of god-
liness, but denying the power iihereof.
Now these avoid.

6 For of these sort are they who creep
into houses, and lead captive silly wo-
men laden with sins, who are led away
with divers desires :

7 Ever learning, and never attaining to
the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as * Jannes and Mambres resisted
Moses, so these also resist the truth, men
corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning
the faith.

h I Tim. 4. 1 ; 2 Peter 3. 3 ; Jude 1. 18.
i Ex. 7. 11.

Chap. 3. Ver. 8.

Jannes and Mambres.

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The magicians of king Pharao.

The just vnll he persecuted 2 TO TIMOTHY Sundry directions to Timothy

9 But they shall proceed no farther ; for
their folly shall be manifest to all men,
as theirs also was.

10 But thou hast fully known my doc-
trine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-
sufifering, love, patience,

11 Persecutions, afflictions: ^such as
came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium,
and at Lystra : what persecutions I en-
dured, and out of them all the Lord de-
livered me.

12 And all that will live godly in Christ
Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

13 But evil men and seducers shall grow
worse and worse: erring, and driving
into error.

14 But continue thou in those things
which thou hast learned, and which
have been committed to thee: knowing
of whom thou hast learned them;

15 And because from thy infancy thou
hast known the holy scriptures, which
can instruct thee to salvation, by the
faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 * All ejoripture, inspired of God, is
profitable to teach, to reprove, to cor-
rect, to instruct in justice,

17 That the man of God may be perfect,
furnished to every good work.

CHAPTER 4.

}Hs charge to Timothy: he tells him of his ap-
proaching deaths and desires him to come to him.

1 CHARGE thee, before God and Jesus
Christ, who shall judge the living and
the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom :

2 Preach the word : be instant in sea-
eon, out of season: reprove, entreat, re-
buke in all patience and doctrine.

3 For there shall be a time, when they
will not endure sound doctrine ; but, ac-
cording to their own desires, they will
heap to themselves teachers, having itch-
ing ears :

4 And will indeed turn away their hear-
ing from the truth, but will be turned
unto fables.

5 But be thou vigilant, labour in all
things, do the work of an evangelist, ful-
fil thy ministry. Be sober.

i Acts 14. 1, et seq. — k 2 Peter 1. 20.

Ver. 16. AU scripture, &c. Every part of divine
scripture is certainly profitable for all these ends.
But, if we would have the whole rule of Christian
faith and practice, we must not be content with
those Scriptures, which Timothy knew from his in-
fancy, that is, with the Old Testament alone: nor

6 For I am even now ready to be sacri-
ficed : and the time of my dissolution
is at hand.

7 I have fought a good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept the
faith.

8 As to the rest, there is laid up for me
a crown of justice, which the Lord the
just judge will render to me in that day:
and not only to me, but to them also
that love his coming. Make haste to
come to me quickly.

9 For Demas hath left me, loving this
world, and is gone to Thessalonica :

10 Crescens into Galatia, Titus intoDal-
matia.

11 * Only Luke is with me. Take Mark,
and bring him with thee : for he is profit-
able to me for the ministry.

12 But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

13 The cloak that I left at Troas, with
Carpus, when thou comest, bring with
thee, and the books, especially the
parchments.

14 Alexander the coppersmith hath
done me much evil: the Lord will re-
ward him according to his works :

15 Whom do thou also avoid, for he
hath greatly withstood our words.

16 At my first answer no man stood
with me, but all forsook me : may it not
be laid to their charge.

17 But the Lord stood by me, and
strengthened me, that by me the preach-
ing may be accomplished, and that all
the Gentiles may hear : and I was deliv-
ered out of the mouth of the Hon.

18 The Lord hath delivered me from
every evil work: and will preserve me
unto his heavenly kingdom, to whom be
glory for ever and ever. Amen.

19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, "*and the
household of Onesiphorus.

20 Erastus remained at Corinth. And
Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

21 Make haste to come before winter,
Eubulus and Pudens, and Linus and
Claudia, and all the brethren, salute thee.

22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy
spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

I Col. 4. 14. — m Supra 1. 16.

yet with the New Testament, without taking along
with it the traditions of the apostles, and the inter-
pretation of the church, to which the apostles de-
livered both the book, and the true meaning of it.

Chap. 4. Ver. 6. An evangelist, a diligent
preacher of the gospel.

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Qualities required in a bishop

Some men to be reproved

THE

EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO

TITUS.

St. Paul having preached the faith in the island of Crete, he ordained his beloved
disciple and companion, Titus, bishop, and left him there to finish the work which
he had begun. Afterwards the Apostle on a journey to Nicopolis, a city in Mace-
donia, wrote this Epistle to Titus, in which he directs him to ordain bishops and
priests for the different cities, shewing him the principal qualities necessary for
a bishop, also gives him particular advice for his own conduct to his flock, exhort-
ing him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with lenity. It was written
about thirty-five years after our Lord's Ascension.

10 For there are also many disobedient,
vain talkers, and seducers : especially
they who are of the circumcision ;

11 Who must be reproved, who subvert
whole houses, teaching things which they
ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

12 One of them a prophet of their own,
said, TTie Cretians are always liars^ evil
beasts, slothful bellies.

13 This testimony is true. Wherefore
rebuke them sharply, that they may be
sound in the faith ;

14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables
and commandments of r^.en, who tur^
themselves away from the truth.

15 ° All things are clean to the clean :
but to them that are defiled, and to un-
believers, nothing is clean : but both
their mind and their conscience are de-
filed.

16 They profess that they know God:
but in their works they deny him ; being
abominable, and incredulous, and to
every good work reprobate.

CHAPTER 1.

What kind of men he is to ordain priests. Some
men are to be sharply rebuked.

PAUL, a servant of God, and an apos-
tle of Jesus Christ, according to the
faith of the elect of God and the acknow-
ledging of the truth, which is according
to godliness:

2 Unto the hope of life everlasting,
which God, who lieth not, hath promised
before the times of the world :

3 But hath in due times manifested his
word in preaching, which is committed
to me according to the commandment
of God our Saviour :

4 To Titus my beloved son, according
to the common faith, grace and peace
from God the Father, and from Christ
Jesus our Saviour.

5 For this cause I left thee in Crete,
that thou shouldest set in order the
things that are wanting, and shouldest
ordain priests in every city, as I also
appointed thee :

6 ^If any be without crime, the hus-
band of one wife, having faithful chil-
dren, not accused of riot, or unruly.

7 For a bishop must be without crime,
as the steward of God: not proud, not
subject to anger, not given to wine, no
striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

8 But given to hospitality, gentle, so-
ber, just, holy, continent:

9 Embracing that faithful word which
is according to doctrine, that he may be
able to exhort in sound doctrine, and
to convince the gainsayers.

n 1 Tim. 3. '2.

CHAPTER 2.

How he is to instruct both old and young. The
duty of servants. The Christian's rule of life.

BUT speak thou the things that be-
come sound doctrine:

2 That the aged men be sober, chaste,
prudent, sound in faith, in love, in pa-
tience.

3 The aged women, in like manner, iij
holy attire, not false accusers, not givea
to much wine, teaching well :

4 That they may teach the young wo-

o Rom. 14. 20.

Chap. 1. V«r.6. Osftmewife. SeeUieooteupooi Tiin.3.3.

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The apostle's charge to Titus TO TITUS

Heretics to be avoided

men to be wise, to love their husbands,
to love their children,

5 To be discreet, chaste, sober, having
a care of the house, gentle, obedient to
their husbands, that the word of God be
not blasphemed.

6 Young men, in like manner, exhort
that they be sober.

7 In all things shew thyself an example
of good works, in doctrine, in integrity,
in gravity,

8 The sound word that can not be
blamed: that he, who is on the contrary
part, may be afraid, having no evil to
say of us.

9 P Exhort servants to be obedient to
their masters, in all things pleasing, not
gainsaying :

10 Not defrauding, but in all things
shewing good fidelity, that they may
adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour
in all things :

11 ^ For the grace of God our Saviour
hath appeared to all men ;

12 Instructing us, that, denying ungod-
liness and worldly desires, we should live
soberly, and justly, and godly in this
world,

13 Looking for the blessed hope and
coming of the glory of the great God and
our Saviour Jesus Christ,

14 Who gave himself for us, that he
might redeem us from all iniquity, and
might cleanse to himself a people accept-
able, a pursuer of good works.

15 These things speak, and exhort and
rebuke with all authority. Let no man
despise thee.

CHAPTER 3.

other instructions and directions for life and doc-
trine.

ADMONISH them to be subject to
XX princes and powers, to obey at
a word, to be ready to every good
work.

2 To speak evil of no man, not to be

p Eph. 6. 5 ; Col. 3. 22 ; 1 Peter 2. 18, — g Infra 3. 4.

Chap. 3. Ver. ll. By his own judgment. Other
offenders are judged, and cast out of the chnroh, by
the sentence o£ the pastors ol the same church.

litigious, but gentle : shewing all mild-
ness towards all men.

3 For we ourselves also were some time
unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to
divers desires and pleasures, living in
malice and envy, hateful, and hating one
another,

4 But when the goodness and kindness
of God our Saviour appeared :

6 ' Not by the works of justice, which
we have done, but according to his mercy,
he saved us, by the laver of regeneration,
^nd renovation of the Holy Ghost;

6 Whom he hath poured forth upon us
abundantly, through Jesus Christ our
Saviour :

7 That, being justified by his grace, we
may be heirs, according to hope of life
everlasting.

8 It is a faithful saying: and these
things I will have thee affirm constantly:
that they, who believe in God, may be
careful to excel in good works. These
things are good and profitable unto men.

9 * But avoid foolish questions, and ge-
nealogies, and contentions, and strivings
about the law. For they are unprofitable
and vain.

10 A man that is a heretic, after the first
and second admonition, avoid :

11 Knowing that he, that is such an one,
is subverted, and sinneth, being con-
demned by his own judgment.

12 When I shall send to thee Artemas
or Tychicus, make haste to come unto
me to Nicopolis. For there I have deter-
mined to winter,

13 Send forward Zenas, the lawyer, and
Apollo, with care, that nothing be want-
ing to them.

14 And let our men also learn to excel
in good works for necessary uses: that
they be not unfruitful.

15 All that are with me salute thee:
salute them that love us in the faith. The
grace of God be with you all. Amen.

r 2 Tim. 1. 9.— s 1 Tim. 1. 4, and 4, 7 ; 2 Tim. 2. 23.

Heretics, more unhappy, run out of the church of
their own accord, and by doing so, give judgment
and sentence against their own souls.

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The apostle prays Philemon

to receive Onesimus

THE

EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO

PHILEMON.

Philemon, a noble citizen ofUolossa, had a servant named Onesimus, who robbed him and fled to
Borne, where he met St. Paul, who was then a prisoner there the first time. 2 he Apostle
took compassion on him, and received him with tenderness, and converted him to the faith ;
for he was a Gentile before. St. Paul sends him back to his master with this Epistle in his
favour : and though he beseeches Philemon to pardon him, yet the Apostle writes with becom-
ing dignity and authority. It contains divers profitable instructions, and points out the
charity and humanity that masters should have for their servants. It was written
at the same time as the Epistle to the Colossians.

CHAPTER 1.

Pe commends the faith and charity of Philemon ;
and sends back to him, his fugitive servant^ whom
he had converted in ■prison.

PAUL, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and
Timothy, a brother: to Philemon,
our beloved and fellow labourer ;

2 And to Appia, our dearest sister, and
to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to
the church which is in thy house :

3 Grace to you and peace from God
our Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ.

4 1 give thanks to my God, always
making a remembrance of thee in my
prayers.

5 Hearing of thy charity and faith,
which thou hast in the Lord Jesus, and
towards all the saints :

6 That the communication of thy faith
may be made evident in the acknowledg-
ment of every good work, that is in you
in Christ Jesus.

7 For I have had great joy and consola-
tion in thy charity, because the bowels
of the saints have been refreshed by thee,
brother.

8 Wherefore though I have much confi-
dence in Christ Jesus, to command thee
that which is to the purpose :

9 For charity sake I rather beseech,
whereas thou art such a one, as Paul an
old man, and now a prisoner also of Je-
sus Christ.

10 I beseech thee for my son, whom I
have begotten in my bands, Onesimus,

11 Who hath been heretofore unprofit-
able to thee, but now is profitable both
to me and thee,

12 Whom I have sent back to thee.

And do thou receive him as my own
bowels.

13 Whom I would have retained with
me, that in thy stead he might have
ministered to me in the bands of the
gospel:

14 But without thy counsel I would do
nothing: that thy good deed might not
be as it were of necessity, but volun-
tary.

15 For perhaps he therefore departed
for a season from thee, that thou might-
est receive him again for ever:

16 Not now as a servant, but instead of
a servant, a most dear brother, especially
to me: but how much more to thee both
in the flesh and in the Lord ?

17 If therefore thou count me a partner,
receive him as myself.

18 And if he hath wronged thee in any
thing, or is in thy debt, put that to my
account.

19 I Paul have written it with my own
hand : I will repay it : not to say to thee,
that thou owest me thy own self also.

20 Yea, brother. May I enjoy thee in
the Lord. Refresh my bowels in the
Lord.

21 Trusting in thy obedience, I have
written to thee : knowing that thou wilt
also do more than I say.

22 But withal prepare me also a lodg-
ing. For I hope that through your
prayers I shall be given unto you.

23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fel-
low prisoner in Christ Jesus ;

24 Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke
my fellow labourers.

25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Chris*
be with your spirit. Amen.

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God speaks by His Son

Son greater than the angels

THE

EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE

HEBREWS.

St. Paul tprote this Epistle to tTie Christians in Palestine, tlie most part ofwTiom being Jewt
before their conversion, they wer^i called Hcbrewa. He exhorts them to be thoroughly converted
and confirmed in tJie faith of Ghriat, clearly shewing tliem the pre-errdnence of Christ's priest-
hood above the Levitical, and aho tJie excellence of tJie new law above the old. He commends
faith by the example of the ancient fathers : and exhorts them to patience and perseverance,
and to remain in fraternal cliarity. It appears, from chap. 13, that this Epistle was written
in Italy, and probably at Rome, in the last years of St. Paul's life.

anointed thee with the oil of gladness above
thy fellows.

10 And : ^ Thou in the beginning, O Lord^
didst found the earth: and the works of thy
hands are the heavens.

11 Uiey shall perish, but thou shalt con-
tinue, and they shall all grow old as a gar-
ment.

12 And as i vesture shalt thou change
them, and they shall be changed: but thou
art the selfsame, and thy years shall not
fail.

13 But to which of the angels said he at
any time : ^ Sit on my right hand, until 1
make thy enemies thy footstool f

14 Are they not all ministering spirits,
sent to minister for them, who shall re-
ceive the inheritance of salvation ?

CHAPTER 2.

The transgression of the precepts of the Son of God
is far more conde^nnable, than of those of the Old
Testament given by angels.

THEREFORE ought wp more diligently
to observe the things which we have
heard, lest perhaps we should let them
slip.

2 For if the word, spoken by angels, be-
came steadfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just recom-
pense of reward:

3 How shall we escape if we neglect so
great salvation ? which having begun to
be declared by the Lord, was confirmed
unto us by them that heard him.

4 ^ God also bearing them witness by
signs, and wonders, and divers miracles,

X Ps. 103. 4. — J/ Ps. 44. 7. — 2 Ps. 110. 26.
a Ps. 109. 1 : 1 Cor. 15. 25.-6 Mark 16. 20.

Chap. 1. Ver. 3. Th^ figure, x<v<i^'^f>; that is, Ibid. Making jmrgation. That is, having purged
tbe express image, and most perfect resemblance.— i away our sins by his passioa

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CHAPTER 1.

God spoke of old by the prophets^ but now by his
Son, ivho is incomparably greater than the
angels.

GOD, who, at sundry times and in
divers manners, spoke in times past
to the fathers by the prophets, last of all,

2 In these days hath spoken to us by
his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of
all things, by whom also he made the
world.

3 *Who being the brightness of his
glory, and the figure of his substance^
and upholding all things by the word oT
his power, making purgation of sins, sit-
teth on the right hand of the majesty on
high.

4 Being made so much better than the
angels, as he hath inherited a more ex-
cellent name than they.

5 Foi- to which of the angels hath he
said at any time, ** Thou art my Son, to
day have I begotten thee ? And again, ^ I
unll be to him a Father, and he shall be to
me a Son f

6 And again, when he bringeth in the
first begotten into the world, he saith:
*" And let all the angels of God adore him.

7 And to the angels indeed he saith :
* He that maketh his angels spirits, and his
ministers a flame of fire.

8 But to the Son : ^ Thy throne, 0 God, is
for ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the
sceptre of thy kingdom.

9 TTiou hast loved justice, and hated
iniquity : therefore God, thy God, hath

< Wisd. 7. 26. — M Ps. 2. 7.
V 2 Kings 7. 14. — w Ps. 96. 7.

Christ has taken our nature TO THE HEBREWS

Christ excels Moses

md distributions of the Holy Ghost,
Iccording to his own will.

5 For God hath not subjected unto an-
gels the world to come, whereof we speak.

6 But one in a certain place hath testi-
fied, saying: ^ What is man, that thou art
mindful of him: or the son of man, that thou
visitest him ?

7 Thou hast mode him a little lower than
the angels: thou hast crowned him with
glory and honour^ and hast set him over the
works of thy hands:

8 ^ Thou hast subjected all things under
his feet. For in that he hath subjected
all things to him, he left nothing not
subject to him. But now we see not as
yet all things subject to him.

9 ^ But we see Jesus, who was made a
little lower than the angels, for the suf-
fering of death, crowned with glory and
honour: that, through the grace of God,
he might taste death for all.

10 For it became him, for whom are all
things, and by whom are all things, who
had brought many children into glory, to
perfect the author of their salvation, by
his passion.

11 For both he that sanctifieth, and they
who are sanctified, are all of one. For
which cause he is not ashamed to call
them brethren, saying:

12-^ J vnll declare thy name to my bre-
thren; in the midst of the church will I praise
thee.

13 And again: ^ I will put my trust in
him. And again: '^Behold I and my chil-
dren^ whom God hath given me.

14 Therefore because the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also him-
self in like manner hath been partaker
of the same : that, * through death, he
might destroy him who had the empire
of death, that Is to say, the devil :

15 And might deliver them, who through
the fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to servitude.

16 For no where doth he take hold of the
angels: but of the seed of Abraham he
fcaketh hold.

J 7 Wherefore it behoved him in all
tii3ng6 to be made like unto his brethren,
that he might become a merciful and

c Ps. 8.

«Phil

5. — d Matt. 28. 18 ; 1 Cor. 15. 26.
2. 8. — / Ps. 21. 23. — g Ps. 17. 3.

Chap. 2. Ver. 10. Perfect by his paftsion. By
suffering, Christ was to enter into his glory, Luke
24. 26, which the apostle here calls being made per-
fect

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faithful high priest before God, that he
might be a propitiation for the sins of
the people.

18 For in that, wherein he himself hath
suffered and been tempted, he is able to
succour them also that are tempted.

CHAPTER 3.

Christ is more excellent than Moses ; and therefore
we must adhere to him by faith and obedience.

WHEREFORE, holy brethren, par-
takers of the heavenly vocation,
consider the apostle and high priest of
our confession, Jesus ;

2 Who is faithful to him that made him,
as was also ^ Moses in all his house.

3 For this man was counted worthy of
greater glory than Moses, by so much as
he that hath built the house, hath greater
honour than the house.

4 For every house is built by some man:
but he that created all things, is God.

5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all
his house as a servant, for a testimony
of those things which were to be said :

6 But Christ as the Son in his own
house: which house are we, if we hold
fast the confidence and glory of hope
unto the end.

7 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith :
^ To day if you shall hear his voice,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the pro-
vocation; in the day of temptation in the
desert,

9 Where your fathers tempted me, proved
and saw my works,

10 Forty years • for which cause I was
offended with this generation, and I said:
They always err in heart. And they have
not known my ways,

11 As I have sworn in my wrath: If they
shall enter into my rest.

12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps
there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, to depart from the living God.

13 But exhort one another every day,
whilst it is called to day, that none of you
be hardened through the deceitfulness of
sin.

14 For we are made partakers of Christ:
yet so, if we hold the beginning of hia
substance firm unto the end.

h Isa. 8. 18.-— i Osee 13. 14 ; 1 Cor. 15. 54.
j Num. 12. 7. — /c Ps. 94. 8 ; Infra 4. 7.

Ver. 16. No where doth he, &c. That is, he never
took upon him the nature of angels, but that of the
seed of Abraham.

The Christianas rest

TO THE HEBREWS The office of the high priest

16 While it is said, To day if you shall
hear his voice, harden not your hearts^ as
in that provocation.

16 For some who heard did provoke :
but not all that came out of Egypt by
Moses.

17 And with whom was he offended
forty years ? Was it not with them that
sinned, ^ whose carcasses were over-
thrown in the desert ?

18 And to whom did he swear, that they
should not enter into his rest : but to
them that were incredulous?

19 And we see that they could not enter
in, because of unbelief.

CHAPTER 4.

The Christian's rest : we are to enter into it, through
Jesus Christ.

LET us fear therefore lest the promise
being left of entering into his rest,
any of you should be thought to be
wanting.

2 For unto us also it hath been declared,
in like manner as unto them. But the
word of hearing did not profit them, not
being mixed with faith of those things
they heard.

3 For we, who have believed, shall enter
into rest ; as he said : '^ As I have sworn in
my wrath; If they shall enter into my rest;
and this indeed when the works from the
foundation of the world were finished.

4 For in a certain' place he spoke of the
seventh day thus : " And God rested the
seventh day from all his works.

5 And in this place again: If they shall
tnter into my rest.

6 Seeing then it remaineth that some
are to enter into it, and they, to whom it
was first preached, did not enter because
of unbelief:

7 Again he limiteth a certain day, saying
in David, To day, after so long a time, as
it is above said : ° To day if you shall hear
his voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, he
would never have afterwards spoken of
another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a day of
rest for the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest,
the same also hath rested from his works,
as God did from his.

I Num. 14. 37. — m Ps. 94. 11.
n Gen. 2. 2. — o Supra 3. 7.

11 Let us hasten therefore to enter into
that rest ; lest any man fall into the same
example of unbelief.

12 For the word of God is living and
effectual, and more piercing than any
two edged sword ; and reaching unto the
division of the soul and the spirit, of the
joints also and the marrow, and is a dis-
cerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart.

13 2^ Neither is there any creature invis-
ible in his sight : but all things are naked
and open to his eyes, to whom our
speech is.

14 Having therefore a great high priest
that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus
the Son of God: let us hold fast our con-
fession.

15 For we have not a high priest, who
can not have compassion on our infirmi-
ties : but one tempted in all things like
as we are, without sin.

16 Let us go therefore with confidence
to the throne of grace : that we may ob-
tain mercy, and find grace in seasonable
aid.

CHAPTER 6.

The office of a high priest Christ is our high priest.

IjlOR every high priest taken from
) among men, is ordained for men in
the things that appertain to God, that
he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for
sins:

2 Who can have compassion on them
that are ignorant and that err: because
he himself also is compassed with in-
firmity.

3 And therefore he ought, as for the
people, so also for himself, to offer for
sins.

4 5 Neither doth any man take the hon-
oiu: to himself, but he that is called by
God, as Aaron was.

5 So Christ also did not glorify himself,
that he might be made a high priest:
but he that said unto him : ^ Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.

6 As he saith also in another place :
® Thou art a priest for ever, according to
the order of Melchisedech.

7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a
strong cry and tears, offering up prayers
and supplications to him that was able

p Ps. 33. 16 ; Eccli. 15. 20. — q Ex. 28. 1 ; 2 Par. 26 18.
r Ps. 2. 7. — s Ps. 109. 4.

Chap. 4. Yer. 8. Jesus.

Josue, wbo in Greek is called Jesus.
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Christ our high priest

TO THE HEBREWS Faith in God's promise

CO save him from death, was heard for
his reverence.

8 And whereas indeed he was the Son
of God, he learned obedience by the
things which he suffered :

9 And being consummated, he became,
to all that obey him, the cause of eternal
salvation.

10 Called by God a high priest according
to the order of Melchisedech.

11 Of whom we have much to say, and
hard to be intelligibly uttered: because
you are become weak to hear.

12 For whereas for the time you ought
to be masters, you have need to be taught
again what are the first elements of the
words of God : and you are become such
as have need of milk, and not of strong
meat.

13 For every one that is a partaker of
milk, is unskilful in the word of justice :
for he is a little child.

14 But strong meat is for the perfect ;
for them who by custom have their
senses exercised to the discerning of
good and eviL

CHAPTER 6.

He warns them of the danger offclHvjg by apostasy ;
and exhorts them to patience and perseverance,

WHEREFORE leaving the word of
the beginning of Christ, let us go
on to things more perfect, not laying
again the foundation of penance from
dead works, and of faith towards God,

2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and im-
position of hands, and of the resurrec-
tion of the dead, and of eternal judg-
ment.

3 And this will we do, if God permit.

4 * For it is impossible for those who
were once illuminated, have tasted also
the heavenly gift, and were made par-
takers of the Holy Ghost,

5 Have moreover tasted the good word
of God, and the powers of the world to
come

6 Ana are fallen away : to be renewed
again to penance, crucifying again to
themselves the Son of God, and making
him a mockery.

7 For the earth that drinketh in the

t Matt 12. 45 ; Infra 10. 26 ; 2 Peter 2. 20.

Chap. 6. Ver. l. The vjord of the beginning.
The first rudiments of the Christian doctrine.

Ver. 4. It is impossible^ &c. The meaning is, that
It bi impossible for sucb as bave fallen after bap

rain which cometh often upon it, and
bringeth forth herbs meet for them by
whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from
God.

8 But that which bringeth forth thorns
and briers, is reprobate, and very near
unto a curse, whose end is to be burnt.

9 But, my dearly beloved, we trust bet-
ter things of you, and nearer to salva-
tion ; though we speak thus.

10 For God is not unjust, that he should
forget your work, and* the love which
you have shewn in his name, you who
have ministered, and do minister to the
saints.

11 And we desire that every one of you
shew forth the same carefulness to the
accomplishing of hope unto the end :

12 That you become not slothful, but
followers of them, who through faith
and patience shall inherit the promises.

13 For God making promise to Abra-
ham, because he had no one greater by
whom he might swear, swore by himself,

14 Saying: '"'Unless blessing I shall bless
thee^ and multiplying I shall multiply thee.

15 And so patiently enduring he ob-
tained the promise.

16 For men swear by one greater than
themselves: and an oath for confirmation
is the end of all their controversy.

17 Wherein God, meaning more abun-
dantly to shew to the heirs of the pro-
mise the immutability of his counsel, in-
terposed an oath:

18 That by two immutable things, in
which it is impossible for God to lie, we
may have the strongest comfort, who
have fled for refuge to hold fast the
hope set before us.

19 Which we have as an anchor of the
soul, sure and firm, and which entereth
in even within the veil;

20 Where the forerunner Jesus is en-
tered for us, made a high priest for ever
according to the order of Melchisedech.

CHAPTER 7.

The priesthood of Christ, according to the order of
Melchisedech, excels the Levitical priesthood, and
pids an end both to that, and to the law.

FOR ^this Melchisedech was king of
Salem, priest of the most high God,

u Gen. 22. 16. — V Gen. 14. 18.

tism, to be again baptized; and very hard for such
as have apostatized from the faith, after having re»
ceived many graces, to return again to the bappy
state from wluiob tbey felL

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Melchisedech

TO THE HEBREWS

The eternal priesthood

who met Abraham returning from the
slaughter of the kings, and blessed him:

2 To whom also Abraham divided the
tithes of all : who first indeed by Inter-
pretation, is king of justice : and then
also king of Salem, that is, king of
peace :

3 Without father, without mother, with-
out genealogy, having neither beginning
of days nor end of life, but likened unto
the Son of God, continueth a priest for
ever.

4 Now consider how great this man is,
to whom also Abraham the patriarch
gave tithes out of the principal things.

5 And indeed they that are of the sons
of Levi, who receive the priesthood,
"^ have a commandment to take tithes
of the people according to the law, that
is to say, of their brethren: though they
themselves also came out of the loins of
Abraham.

6 But he, whose pedigree is not num-
bered among them, received tithes of
Abraham, and blessed him that had the
promises.

7 And without all contradiction, that
which is less, is blessed by the better.

8 And here indeed, men that die, re-
ceive tithes: but there he hath witness,
that he liveth.

9 And (as it may be said) even Levi who
received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham:

10 For he was yet in the loins of his fa-
ther, when Melchisedech met him,

11 If then perfection was by the Levitical
priesthood, (for under it the people re-
ceived the law,) what further need was
there that another priest should rise ac-
cording to the order of Melchisedech,
and not be called according to the order
of Aaron?

12 For the priesthood being translated,
it is necessary that a translation also be
made of the law.

13 For he, of whom those things are
spoken, is of another tribe, of which no
one attended on the altar.

w Deut. 18. 3 ; Jos. 14. 4.— x Ps. 109. 4.

Chap. 7. Ver. 3. With ovt father, &c. Not that
he had no father, &c., but that neither his father, nor
his pedigree, nor his birth, nor his death, are set
down in scripture.

Ver. 23. Many pripf^ta, &c. The apostle notes this
difference between the higli priests of tlie law, and
our high priest Jesus Christ -, that they being re-
moved by death, made way for their successors:
whereas our Lord Jesus is a priest for ever, and
bath no successor ; but iivetb and concurretb for

14 For it is evident that our Lord
sprung out of Juda : in which tribe Mo-
ses spoke nothing concerning priests.

15 And it is yet far more evident: if
according to the similitude of Melchise-
dech there ariseth another priest,

16 Who is made not according to the
law of a carnal commandment, but accord-
ing to the power of an indissoluble life :

17 For he testifieth : ^ Thou art a priest
for ever, according to the order of Melchise-
dech,

18 There is indeed a setting aside of
the former commandment, because of
the weakness and unprofitableness there-
of:

19 (For the law brought nothing to per-
fection,) but a bringing in of a better
hope, by which we draw nigh to God.

20 And inasmuch as it is not without
an oath, (for the others indeed were
made priests without an oath ;

21 But this with an oath, by him that
said unto him: ^The Lord hath sworUf
and he ivill not repent, Thou art a priest for
ever.)

22 By so much is Jesus made a surety
of a better testament.

23 And the others indeed were made
many priests, because by reason of death
they were not suffered to continue:

24 But this, for that he continueth for
ever, hath an everlasting priesthood,

25 Whereby he is able also to save for
ever them that come to God by him ; al-
ways living to make intercession for us.

26 For it was fitting that we should
have such a high priest, holy, innocent,
undefiled, separated from sinners, and
made higher than the heavens ;

27 Who needeth not daily (as the other
priests) ^to offer sacrifices first for his
own sins, and then for the people's : for
this he did once, in offering himself.

28 For the law maketh men priests,
who have infirmity: but the word of the
oath, which was since the law, the Son
who is perfected for evermore.

y Ps, 109. 4.-2 Lev. 16. 6,

ever with his ministers, the priests of the new testa-
ment, in all their functions. Also, that no one priest
of the law, nor all of them together, could offer that
absolute sacrifice of everlasting redemption, which
our one high priest Jesus Christ has offered once,
and for ever.

Ver. 25. Make interceasion. Christ, as man, con-
tinually maketh intercession for us, by representiiig
his passion to his Father.

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Christ the high priest of a TO THE HEBREWS

better testament

CHAPTER 8.

More of the excellence of the priesthood of Christy
and of the New Testament.

n^OW of the things which we have
JJM spoken, this is the sum: We have
such an high priest, who is set on the
right hand of the throne of majesty in
the heavens,

2 A minister of the holies, and of the
true tabernacle, which the Lord hath
pitched, and not man.

3 For every high priest is appointed to
offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it
is necessary that he also should have
some thing to offer.

4 If then he were on earth, he would
not be a priest : seeing that tliere would
be others to offer gifts according to the law,

5 Who serve unto the example and
shadow of heavenly things. As it was
answered to Moses, when he was to fin-
ish the tabernacle: "See (saith he) that
thou make all things according to the
pattern which was shewn thee on the
mount.

6 But now he hath obtained a better
ministry, by how much also he is a medi-
ator of a better testament, which is es-
tablished on better promises.

7 For if that former had been faultless,
there should not indeed a place have
been sought for a second.

8 For finding fault with them, he saith:
^Behold, the days shall come, saith the
Lord: and I will perfect unto the house of
Israel, and unto the house of Juda, a new
testament :

9 Not according to the testament which I
made to their fathers, on the day when I
took them by the hand to lead them, out of
the land of Egypt: because they continued
not in my testament : and I regarded them
not, saith the Lord.

10 For this is the testament which I unll
make to the house of Israel after those days,
saith the Lord: I will give my laws into
their mind, and in their heart will I write

a Ex. 25. 40 ; Acts 7. 44. — h Jer. 31. 31.
e Ex. 26. 1, and 36. 8. — rf Lev. 16. ; Num. 16.

Chap. 8. Ver, 2. The holies: that is, the sane-
tuary.

Ver. 4. Tf then he were on earth, &c. That is, if
he were not of a higher condition tlian tlie Levitical
order of eartlily priests, and had not another kind of
sacrifice to offer, he should be exchided by them from
the priesthood, and its functions, which by the law
were appropriated to their tribe.

Ver. 5. Who serve vnto, &c. The priesthood of
the law aDd its functions were a kind of an example

them: and I will be their God^ and tJiey
shall be my people:

11 And they shall not teach every man his
neighbour and every man his brother, say-
ing, Know the Lord: for all shall know me
from the least to the greatest of them:

12 Because I will be merciful to their ini-
quities, and their sins I will remember no
more.

13 Now in saying a new, he hath made
the former old. And that which decay-
eth and groweth old, is near its end.

CHAPTER 9.

The sacrifices of the law were far inferior to that of
Christ.

THE former indeed had also justifica-
tions of divine service, and a worldly
sanctuary.

2 ^ For there was a tabernacle made the
first, wherein were the candlesticks, and
the table, and the setting forth of loaves,
which is called the holy.

3 And after the second veil, the taber*
nacle, which is called the holy of holies:

4 Having a golden ^ censer, and the ark
of the testament covered about on every
part with gold, in which was a golden
pot that had manna, and the rod of
Aaron, that had blossomed, and the *
tables of the testament.

6 And over it were the cherubims of
glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of
which it is not needful to speak now
particularly.

6 Now these things being thus ordered,
into the first tabernacle the priests in-
deed always entered, accomplishing the
offices of sacrifices.

7 But into the second, the high priest
alone, -^ once a year : not without blood,
which he offereth for his own, and the
people's ignorance :

8 The Holy Ghost signifying this, that
the way into the holies was not yet
made manifest, whilst the former taber-
nacle was yet standing.

e 3 Kings 8. 9 ; 2 Par. 5. 10.
/ Ex. .30. 10 • Lev. 16. 2.

and shadow of what is done by Christ in his church
militant and triumphant, of which the tabernacle
was a pattern.

Ver. 11. T/iey shall not teach, &c. So great shall
be the light and grace of the new testament, that it
shall not be necessary to inculcate to the faithful the
belief and knowledge of the true God, for they shall
all know him.

Ver. 13. A new : supply covenant.

2SZ

Power of ChrisVs blood TO THE HEBREWS Christ offered Himself once

9 Which is a parable of the time pre- ' 20 Saying: -^ This is the blood of the testa-
sent: according to which gifts and sacri- ment, which God hath enjoined unto you.
fices are offered, which can not, as to the 21 The tabernacle also and all the ves-
conscience, make him perfect that serv- sels of the ministry, in like manner, he
eth, only in merits and in drinks, sprinkled with blood.

10 And divers washings, and justices of 22 And almost all things, according to
the flesh laid on them until the time of the law, are cleansed with blood; and
correction. | without shedding of blood there is nore-

11 But Christ, being come an high priest mission.

of the good things to come, by a greater 23 It is necessary therefore that the

and more perfect tabernacle not made patterns of heavenly things should be

with hand, that is, not of this creation : cleansed with these : but the heavenly

12 Neither by the blood of goats, or of things themselves with better sacrifices
calves, but by his own blood, entered than these.

once into the holies, having obtained
eternal redemption.

13 ^ For if the blood of goats and of
oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being
sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to
the cleansing of the flesh:

14 ^ How much more shall the blood of

24 For Jesus is not entered into the
holies made with hands, the patterns of
the true : but into heaven itself, that he
may appear now in the presence of God
for us.

25 Nor yet that he should ofl'er himself
often, as the high priest entereth into

Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered [ the holies, every year with the blood ot
himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our ! others :

conscience from dead works, to serve the
living God ?

16 And therefore he is the mediator of
the new testament: *that by means of
his death, for the redemption of those
transgressions, which were under the
former testament, they that are called
may receive the promise of eternal in-
heritance.

16 For where there is a testament, the
death of the testator must of necessity
come in.

17 For a testament is of force, after men
are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no
strength, whilst the testator liveth.

18 Whereupon neither was the first in-
deed dedicated without blood.

19 For when every commandment of
the law had been read by Moses to all
the people, he took the blood of calves
and goats, with water, and scarlet wool
and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book
itself and all the people,

7 Lev. If5. 15.
h 1 Peter 1. 19 ; l John 1. 7 , Apoc. 1. 5.

Chap. 9. Ver. 10. Of correction. Viz., when
Christ should correct and settle all things.

Ver. 12. Eternal redemption. By that one sr ori-
fice of his blood, once offered on the cross, Christ our
Lord paid and exhibited, once for all, the general
price and ransom of all mankind: which no other
priest could do.

Ver. 25. Offer himself often. Christ shall never
more offer himself in sacrifice, m that violent, pain-
ful, and bloody manner, nor can there be any occa-
sion for it : since by that one sacrifice upon the cross,
he has furnished the full ransom^ redemption, and

26 For then he ought to have sufifereO
often from the beginning of the world:
but now once at the end of ages, he hath
appeared for the destruction of sin, by
the sacrifice of himself.

27 And as it is appointed unto men once
to die, and after this the judgment:

28 '^ So also Christ was offered once to
exhaust the sins of many ; the second
time he shall appear without sin to them
that expect him unto salvation.

CHAPTER 10.

Becanse of the insufficiency of the sacrifices of the
laiVt ChHst our high priest sherj his own blood for
n.% offering vp once for all the sacrifice of oiir re-
demptio7i. He exhorts them to perseverance.

FOR the law having a shadow of the
good things to come, not the very
image of the things; by the selfsame
sacrifices which they offer continually
every year, can never make the comers
thereunto perfect:
2 For then they would have ceased to

i Gal. 3. 1.5. — ? Ex. '24. 8.
k Rom. 5. 9 : 1 Peter .3. 18.

remedy for all the sins of the world. But this hin-
ders not that be may offer himself daily in the sacred
mysteries in an unbloody manner, for the daily aiv
plication of that one sacrifice of redemption to our
souls.

Ver. 28. To exhaust. That is, to empty, or draw
out to the very bottom, by a plentiful and perfect
redemption.

Chap. lo. Ver. 2. They vw^iJd have ceased. It
they had been of themselves perfect to all the intents
of redemption and remission, as Christ's death is,
there would have been no occasion of so often r&

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Sacrifices of the old Law TO THE HEBREWS Exhortation to perseverance

be offered : because the worshippers once
cleansed should have no conscience of
sin any longer :

3 But in them there is made a com-
memoration of sins every year.

4 For it is impossible that with the
blood of oxen and goats sin should be
taken away.

6 Wherefore when he cometh into the
world, he saith: ^Sacrifice and oblation
thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast
fitted to me:

6 Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

7 Then said I: Behold I come: ^ in the
head of the book it is written of me: that I
should do thy will^ 0 God.

8 In saying before, Sacrifices^ and obla-
tions, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest
not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which
are offered according to the law.

9 Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy
will, 0 God: he taketh away the first,
that he may establish that which follow-
eth.

10 In the which will, we are sanctified
by the oblation of the body of Jesus
Christ once.

11 And every priest indeed standeth
daily ministering, and often offering the
same sacrifices, which can never take
away sins.

12 But this man offering one sacrifice
for sins, for ever sitteth on the right
hand of God,

13 From henceforth expecting, ** until
his enemies be made his footstool.

14 For by one oblation he hath per-
fected for ever them that are sanctified.

15 And the Holy Ghost also doth testify
this to us. For after that he said :

16 ** And this is the testament which I will
make unto them after those days, saith the
Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts,
and on their minds will I write them :

17 And their sins and iniquities I will re-
member no more.

18 Now where there is a remission of

iPs. 39. 7. — m Ps. 39. 8.

n Ps. 109. 1 ; 1 Cor. 15. 25.

o Jer. 31. 33 ; Supra 8. 8.

peating them: as there is no occasion for Christ's
dying any more for our sins.

Ver. 18. There is no more an oblation for sin.
Where there is a full remission of sins, as In bap-
tism, there is no more occasion for a sin offering to
he made for such sins already remitted ; and as for
sins committed afterwards, they can only be remitted
in virtue of the one oblation of Christ's death.

Ver. 26. If we sin wilfully. He speaks of the sin

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these, there is no more an oblation for
sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, a confi-
dence in the entering into the holies by
the blood of Christ ;

20 A new and living way which he hatlL
dedicated for us through the veil, that is
to say, his flesh,

21 And a high priest over the house of
God:

22 Let us draw near with a true heart
in fulness of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with clean water.

23 Let us hold fast the confession ot
our hope without wavering (for he is
faithful that hath promised),

24 And let us consider one another,
to provoke unto charity and to good
works:

25 Not forsaking our assembly, as some
are accustomed ; but comforting one an-
other, and so much the more as you see
the day approaching.

26 ^ For if we sin wilfully after having
the knowledge of the trutli, there is nov
left no sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain dreadVtii trxpecoution
of judgment, and the rage of a fire which
shall consume the adversaries.

28 A man making void the law of Moses,
dieth without any mercy under two ^ oi
three witnesses:

29 How much more, do you think he
deserveth worse punishments, who hath
trodden under foot the Son of God, and
hath esteemed the blood of the testa-
ment unclean, by which he was sancti-
fied, and hath offered an affront to the
Spirit of grace ?

30 For we know him that hath said :
^" Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will re-
pay. And again : The Lord shall judge
his people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God.

32 But call to mind the former dajd.

p Supra 6. 4.

q Deut. 17. 6 ; Matt. 18. 16 ; John 8. 17 ; 2 Cor. 13. 1.

r Deut. 32. 35 ; Kom. 12. 19.

of wilful apostasy from tbe known truth ; after
which, as we can not be baptized again, we can not
expect to have that abundant remission of sins,
which Christ purchased by his death, applied to our
souls in that ample manner as it is in baptism : but
we have rather all manner of reason to look for a
dreadful judgment ; the more because apostates from
the known truth, seldom or never have the grace to
return to it.

Patience and faith

TO THE HEBREWS

wherein, being illuminated, you endured
a great fight of afflictions.

33 And on the one hand indeed, by re-
proaches and tribulations, were made a
gazingstock ; and on the other, became
companions of them that were used in
such sort.

34 For you both had compassion on
them that were in bands, and took with
joy the being stripped of your own goods,
knowing that you have a better and a
lasting substance.

35 Do not therefore lose your confi-
dence, which hath a great reward.

36 For patience is necessary for you ;
that, doing the will of God, you may re-
ceive the promise.

37 For yet a little and a very little
while, and he that is to come, will come,
and wiU not delay.

38 *But my just man liveth by faith;
but if he withdraw himself, he shall not
please my soul.

39 But we are not the children of with-
drawing unto perdition, but of faith to
the saving of the souL

CHAPTER 11.

What faith is: its wonderful /mi ts and efficacy
demonstrated in the fathers.

NOW faith is the substance of things
to be hoped for, the evidence of
things that appear not.

2 For by this the ancients obtained a
testimony.

3 * By faith we understand that the
world was framed by the word of God ;
that from invisible things visible things
might be made.

4 " By faith Abel offered to God a sacri-
fice exceeding that of Cain, ^ by which he
obtained a testimony that he was just,
God giving testimony to his gifts; and
by it he being dead yet speaketh.

5 "^ By faith Henoch was translated,
that he should not see death; and he
was not found, because God had trans-
lated him : for before his translation
he had testimony that he pleased
God.

6 But without faith it is impossible to
please God. For he that cometh to God,

8 Hab. 2. 4 ; Rom. 1. 17 ; Gal. 3. 11.

t Gen. 1. 4. — M Gen. 4. 4.

V Matt 23. 35. — w Gen. 5. 24 ; Eccli. 44. 16.

Chap. ll. Ver 8. He that is called Abraham
or, Abraham being called.

The power of faith

must believe that he is, and is a re-
warder to them that seek him,

7 ^ By faith Noe, having received an an-
swer concerning those things which as
yet were not seen, moved with fear,
framed the ark for the saving of his
house, by the which he condemned the
world; and was ins^-ituted heir of the
justice which is by faj "^h.

8 ^ By faith he that s called Abraham,
obeyed to go out into a place which he
was to receive for an inheritance ; and he
went out, not knowing whither he went.

9 By faith he abode in the land, dwell-
ing in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob»
the co-heirs of the same promise.

10 For he looked for a city that hath
foundations ; whose builder and maker
is God.

11 ® By faith also Sara herself, being
barren, received strength to conceive
seed, even past the time of age ; because
she believed that he was faithful who
had promised,

12 For which cause there sprung even
from one (and him as good as dead) as
the stars of heaven in multitude, and as
the sand which is by the sea shore in-
numerable.

13 All these died according to faith, not
having received the promises, but behold-
ing them afar off, and saluting them, and
confessing that they are pilgrims and
strangers on the earth.

14 For they that say these things, do
signify that they seek a country.

15 And truly if they had been mindful
of that from whence they came out, they
had doubtless time to return.

16 But now they desire a better, that is
to say, a heavenly country. Therefore
God is not ashamed to be called their God ;
for he hath prepared for them a city.

17 "By faith Abraham, when he was
tried, offered Isaac : and he that had re-
ceived the promises, offered up his only
begotten son ;

18 (To whom it was said: ^ In Isaac
shall thy seed be called. )

19 Accounting that God is able to raise
up even from the dead. Whereupon
also he received him for a parable.

X Gen. 6. 14; Eccli. 44. 17. — y Gen. 12. 1.

g Gen. 17. 19. — a Gen. 22. 1 ; Eccli. 44. 21.

6 Gen. 21. 12 ; Rom. 9. 7.

Ver. 19. For a parable • that is, as a figure oi
Christ, slain and coming to life again.

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The power of faith

20 ^ By faith also of things to come,
Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

21 ^ By faith Jacob dying, blessed each
of the sons of Joseph, ^ and adored the
top of his rod.

22 -^By faith Joseph, when he was dying,
made mention of the going out of the
children of Israel ; and gave command-
ment concerning his bones.

23 ^ By faith Moses, when he was born,
was hid thre^ months by his parents ;
because they saw he was a comely babe,
* and they feared not the king's edict.

24 * By faith Moses, when he was gr twn
up, denied himself to be the so a of
Pharao's daughter ;

25 Rather choosing to be afflicted with
the people of God, than to have the
pleasure of sin for a time,

26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ
greater riches than the treasure of the
Egyptians. For he looked unto the
reward.

27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing
the fierceness of the king : for he en-
dured as seeing him that is invisible.

28 «^ By faith he celebrated the pasch, and
the shedding of the blood ; that he, who
destroyed the firstborn, might not touch
them.

29 ^By faith they passed through the
Red Sea, as by dry land: which the
Egyptians attempting, were swallowed
up.

30 *By faith the walls of Jericho fell
down, by the going round them seven
days.

31 ^ By faith Rahab the harlot perished
not with the unbelievers, receiving the
«pies with peace.

32 And what shall I j^^et say? For the
time would fail me to tell of Gedeon,
Barac, Samson. Jephthe, David, Samuel,
and the prophets:

33 Who by faith conquered kingdoms,
wrought justice, obtained promises,
stopped the mouths of lions,

34 Quenched the violence of fire, es-
caped the edge of the sword, recovered

c GftU. 2'^. 27, 39. — rf Gen. 48. 15. — e Gen. 47. 31.
f Gen. 60. 1'5. — g Ex. 1.2. — h Ex. 1. 17.
i Kx. 2. 11.— j Ex. 12. 21. — A; Ex. 14. 22.

Ver. 21. Arlored the top of h is rod. The apostle
here follows the ancient Greek Bible of the seventy
interpreters, (which translates in this manner, Gen.
47. 31,) and allefjes this fact of Jacob, In paying a
"^lative hononr and veneration to the top of the rod
^r sceptre of Joseph, as to a fignre of Christ's seep-
iie and kingdom, as an instance and argument of bis

TO THE HEBREWS

Courage in tribulation

strength from weakness, became valiant
in battle, put to flight the armies of
foreigners :

35 Women received their dead raised
to life again. But others were racked,
not accepting deliverance, that they
might find a better resurrection.

36 And others had trial of mockeries
and stripes, moreover also of bands and
prisons.

37 They were stoned, they were cut
asunder, they were tempted, they were
put to death by the sword, they wandered
about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being
in want, distressed, afflicted:

38 Of whom the world was not worthy;
wandering in deserts, in mountains, and
in dens, and in caves of the earth.

39 And all these being approved by the
testimony of faith, received not the pro-
mise;

40 God providing some better thing for
us, that they should not be perfected
without us.

CHAPTER 12.

Exportation to constancy under their crosses. The
danger of abusing the grace of the Neic Testament.

AND therefore we also having so great
L a cloud of witnesses over our head,
''*' laying aside every weight and sin which
surrounds us, let us run by patience to
the fight proposed to us:

2 Looking on Jesus, the author and fin-
isher of faith, who having joy set before
him, endured the cross, despising the
shame^ and now sitteth on the right hand
of the throne of God.

3 For think diligently upon him that
endured such opposition from sinners
against himself ; that you be not wearied,
fainting in your minds.

4 For you have not yet resisted unto
blood, striving against sin :

5 And you have forgotten the consola-
tion, which speaketh to you, as unto chil-
dren, saying: ° My scm, neglect not the dis-
cipline of the Lord ; neither he thou wearied
whilst thou art rebuked by him.

6 For whom the Lord loveth^ he chastiseth;

I Jos. 6. 20. — m Jos. 2. 3 ; James 2. 25.

n Rom. 6. 4 ; Eph. 4. 22 ; Col. 3. 8 ;

1 Peter 2. 1, and 4. 2. — o Prov. 3. 11 ; Apoc. 3. IP

faith. But some translators, who are no friends co
this relative honour, have corrupted the text, by
translating it, /le v^nrshipped, leaning vpon the top
of his staff; as if this circumstance of leaning upon
his staff were any argument of Jacob's faith, or
worthy tbe being thus particularly taken notice of
by the Holy Ghost.

25a

Correction is from God TO THE HEBREWS Danger of abusing yract

and he scourgeth every son whom, he receiv-
eth.

7 Persevere under discipline. God deal-
eth with you as with his sons ; for what son
is ihere^ whom the father doth not correct ?

8 But if you be without chastisement,
whereof all are made partakers, then are
you bastards, and not sons.

9 Moreover we have had fathers of our
flesh, for instructors, and we reverenced
them : shall we not much more obey the
Father of spirits, and live ?

10 And they indeed for a few days, ac-
cording to their own pleasure, instructed
'18 : but he, for our profit, that we might
receive his sanctification.

11 Now all chastisement for the present
indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy,
uut sorrow: but afterwards it will yield,
ijo them that are exercised by it, the
most peaceable fruit of justice.

12 Wherefore lift up the hands which
nang down, and the feeble knees,

13 And make straight steps with your
feet: that no one, halting, may go out of
the way ; but rather be healed.

14 ^ Follow peace with all men, and
holiness: without which no man shall
see God.

15 Looking diligently, lest any man be
wanting to the grace of God ; lest any
root of bitterness springing up do hinder,
and by it many be defiled.

16 Lest there be any fornicator, or pro-
fane person, ^ as Eeau ; who for one mess,
sold his first birthright.

17 For know ye that ^ afterwards, when
he desired to inherit the benediction, he
was rejected ; for he found no place of
repentance, although with tears he had
sought it.

18 * For you are not come to a mountain
that might be touched, and a burning fire,
and a whirlwind, and darkness, and storm,

19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the
voice of words, which they that heard
excused themselves, that the word might
not be spoken to them :

p Rom. 12, 18. — g Gen. 25. 33. — r Gen. 27. 38.
s Ex. 19. 12, and 20. 21. — t Ex. 19. 13.

Chap. 12. Ver. 17. he found, &c. That Is, he
found no way to bring his father to repert, or change
his mind, with relation to his having given the bless-
!ng to his younger brother Jajob.

Chap. 13. Ver. 4. Or, let marriof/e be honoitr-
able in all. That is, in all things belonging to the
marriage state. This is a warning to married peo-

Ble, not to abuse the sanctity of their state, by any
bertlo3 or irregularities cuutxary thereunto. I^ow

20 For they did not endure that which
was said : *^ And if so much as a beast shall
touch the mounts it shall be stoned.

21 And so terrible was that which was
seen, Moses said : I am frighted^ and
tremble,

22 But you are come to mount Sion, and
to the city of the living God, the hea-
venly Jerusalem, and to the company of
many thousands of angels,

23 And to the church ot the firstborn,
who are written in the heavens, and to
God the judge of all, and to the spirits of
the just made perfect,

24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new
testament, and to the sprinkling of blood
which speaketh better than that of Abel.

25 See that you refuse him not that
speaketh. For if they escaped not w^ho
refused him that spoke upon earth, much
more shall not we, that turn away from
him that speaketh to us from heaven.

26 Whose voice then moved the earth;
but now he promiseth, saying : " Yet once
more^ and I vnll move not only the earth,
but heaven also.

27 And in that he saith, Yet once more,
he signifieth the translation of the move-
able things as made, that those things
may remain which are immoveable.

28 Therefore receiving an immoveable
kingdom, we have grace ; whereby let us
serve, pleasing God, with fear and rever-
ence.

29 " For our God is a consuming fire.

CHAPTER 13.

Divers aii'monHions and exhortations.

LET the charity of the brotherhood
abide in you.

2 ^ And hospittility do not forget ; for
by this some, * being not aware of it,
have entertained angels.

3 Remember them that are in bands, as
if you were bound w'th them ; and them
that labour, as being yourselves also in
the bod}^

4 Marriage honourable in all, and the

i( AcK. 2. 7. — V Dent. 4. 2-i.
v Rom. 12. 13; 1 reter 4. 9. — 3- Gen. 18. 3, and 19. 2.

it does not follow from this text that all persons are
obliged to marry, even if the word oynnihns were
rendered, in all persons, instead of iti all things : for
if it was a precept. St. Paul himself would have
transgressed it, as he never married. Moreover,
those who have already made a vow to God to lead
a single life, should they attempt to marry, thej
would incur their owu damnation. 1 Tim. 5. 12.

Admonitions and

TO THE HEBKEWS

Exhortations

bed undefiled. For fornicators and adul-
terers God will judge.

5 Let your manners be without covet-
ousness, contented -with such things as
you have; for he hath said: vl will not
leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

6 So that we may confidently say : « The
Lord is my helper: I will not fear what
man shall do to me,

7 Remember your prelates who have
spoken the word of God to you; whose
faith follow, considering the end of their
conversation,

8 Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day;
and the same for ever.

9 Be not led away with various and
strange doctrines. For it is best that the
heart be established with grace, not with
meats; which have not profited those
that walk in them.

10 We have an altar, whereof they have
no power to eat who serve the taber-
nacle.

11 «For the bodies of those beasts,
whose blood is brought into the holies
by the high priest for sin, are burned
without the camp.

12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might
sanctify the people by his own blood,
suffered without the gate.

13 Let us go forth therefore to him with-
out the camp, bearing his reproach.

14 ^For we have not here a lasting city,
but we seek one that is to come.

15 By him therefore let us offer the sac-
rifice of praise always to God, that is to

2/ Jos. 2. 5.— zPs. 117. 6.

Ver. 13. Let us go forth therefore to him without
the camp, bearing his reproach. That is, bearing
his cross. It is an exhortation to them to be willing

say, the fruit of lips confessing to his
name.

16 And do not forget to do good, and to
impart; for by such sacrifices God's fa-
vour is obtained.

17 Obey your prelates, and be subject to
them. For they watch as being to ren-
der an account of your souls; that they
may do this with joy, and not with grief.
For this is not expedient for you.

18 Pray for us. For we trust we have a
good conscience, being willing to behave
ourselves well in all things.

19 And I beseech you the more to do
this, that I may be restored to you the
sooner.

20 And may the God of peace, who
brought again from the dead the great
pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the blood of the everlasting testa-
ment,

21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may
do his will; doing in you that which is
well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus
Christ, to whom is glory for ever and
ever. Amen.

22 And I beseech you, brethren, that you
suffer this word of consolation. For I
have written to you in a few words.

23 Know ye that our brother Timothy
is set at liberty: with whom (if he come
shortly) I will see you.

24 Salute all your prelates, and all the
saints. The brethren from Italy salute
you.

25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

aLev. 16. 27. — & Mich. 2. 10.

to suffer with Christ, reproaches, persecutions, and
even death, if they desire to partake of the benefit of
his suffering for man's redemption.

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Patience

Temptation

THE

CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES THE

APOSTLE.

This Epistle is called Catholic or Universal, as formerly were also the two
Epistles of St. Peter, the first of St. John, and that of St. Judb, because they
were not written to any peculiar people or particular person, but to the faithful
in general. It was written by the apostle St. James, called the less, who was
also called the brother op our Lord, being his kinsman (for cousins german
with the Hebrews were called brothers). He was the first bishop of Jerusalem,
In this Epistle are set forth many precepts appertaining to faith and morals;
and particularly, that faith without good works will not save a man, that true
wisdom is given only from above. In the fifth chapter he publishes the sacrament
of anointing the sick. It was written a short time before his martyrdom^ which
took place in A. D. 62.

CHAPTER 1.

The benefit of tribulations. Prayer with faith. God
is the author of all good, but not of evil. We must
be slow to anger; and not hearers only, but doers
of the word. Of bridling the tongues, and of pure
religion.

JAMES the servant of God, and of our
Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes
which are scattered abroad, greeting.

2 My brethren, count it all joy, when
you shall fall into divers temptations;

3 c Knowing that the trying of your faith
worketh patience.

4 And patience hath a perfect work;
that you may be perfect and entire, fail-
ing in nothing.

5 But if any of you want wisdom, let
him ask of God, who giveth to all men
abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.

6 ^ But let him ask in faith, nothing
wavering. For he that wavereth is like
a wave of the sea, which is moved and
carried about by the wind.

7 Therefore let not that man think that
he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8 A double minded man is inconstant in
all his ways.

9 But let the brother of low condition
glory in his exaltation:

10 And the rich, in his being low; «be-
cause as the flower of the grass shall he
pass away.

cRom. 5. 3. — d Matt. 7. 7. and 21. 22 ; Mark 11. 24 ;
Luke 11.9 ; John 14. 13 and 16.

Chap. 1. Ver. 2. Into divers temptations. The
word temptation, in this epistle, is sometimes taken
for trials by afflictions or persecutions, aa in this

11 For the sun rose with a burning heat,
and parched the grass, and the flower
thereof fell off, and the beauty of the
shape thereof perished: so also shall the
rich man fade away in his ways.

12 /Blessed is the man that endureth
temptation; for when he hath been
proved, he shall receive the crown of
life, which God hath promised to them
that love him,

13 Let no man, when he is tempted, say
that he is tempted by God. For God is
not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth
no man.

14 But every man is tempted by his
own concupiscence, being drawn away
and allured.

15 Then when concupiscence hath con-
ceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin,
when it is completed, begetteth death.

16 Do not err, therefore, my dearest
brethren.

17 Every best gift, and every perfect
gift, is from above, coming down from
the Father of lights, with whom there is
no change, nor shadow of alteration.

18 For of his own will hath he begotten
us by the word of truth, that we might
be some beginning of his creature.

19 You know, my dearest brethren.
9 And let every man be swift to hear,
but slow to speak, and slow to anger.

eEccli. 14. 18 ; Isa. 40. 6 ; 1 Peter 1. 24.
/Job 5. 17.— flrProv. 17. 27.

place : at other times, it is to be understood, tempt-
ing, enticing, or drawing others into sin.

Ver. 18. Some beginning. That is, a kind of firsi
fruits of his creatures.

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Doers of the word

20 For the anger of man worketh not
the justice of God.

21 Wherefore casting away all unclean-
ness, and abundance of naughtiness, with
meekness receive the ingrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.

22 ^" But be ye doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if a man be a hearer of the
word, and not a doer, he shall be com-
pared to a man beholding his own coun-
tenance in a glass.

24 For he beheld himself, and went his
way, and presently forgot what manner
of man he was.

25 But he that hath looked into the per-
fect law of liberty, and hath continued
therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer,
but a doer of the work; this man shall
be blessed in his deed.

26 And if any man think himself to be
religious, not bridling his tongue, but
deceiving his own heart, this man's re-
ligion is vain.

27 Religion clean and undefiled before
God and the Father, is this: to visit the
fatherless and widows in their tribula-
tion: and to keep one's self unspotted
from this world.

CHA.PTER 2.

Against respect ■>) persons. The danger of trans-
gressing one paitU of the law. Faith U dead vnth-
out works,

MY * brethren, have not the faith of
our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with
respect of persons.

2 For if there shall come into your as-
sembly a man having a golden ring, in
fine apparel, and there shall come in
also a poor man in mean attire,

3 A lid you have respect to him that is
clot aed with the fine apparel, and shall
say to him: Sit thou here well; but say
to t le poor man : Stand thou there, or sit
und3r my footstool:

h Matt. 7. 21 and 24 , Rom. 2. 13.

i Lev. 19. 15 ; Deut. 1. 17, and 16. 19 ,

Prov. 24. 23 ; Eccli. 42. 1.

Chap. 2. Ver. 1. With respect of persons. The
meaning is, that in matters relating to faith, the ;id-
ministering of the sacraments, and other spiritual
functions in God's church, there should be no respect
of persons; but that the souls of Uie poor should he
as much regarded as those of the rich. See Deut. 1.
17.

Ver. 10. duiltyofoll; that is, he becomes a trans-
gressor of the law in such a manner, that the observ-
mg of all other points will not avail him to salvation ;
for he despises tlie lawgiver, and breaks through the
^eat and general commandment of charity, even by

ST. JAMES Against respect of j^ersens

4 Do you not judge within yourselves,
and are become judges of unjust
thoughts ?

5 Hearken, my dearest brethren : hath
not God chosen the poor in this world,
rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom
which God hath promised to them that
love him?

6 But you have dishonoured the poor
man. Do not the rich oppress you by
might? and do not they draw you before
the judgment seats ?

7 Do not they blaspheme the gooc^ name
that is invoked upon you ?

8 If then you fulfil the royal law, ac-
cording to the scriptures, ^ Thou shall love
thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

9 ^ But if you have respect to persons,
you commit sin, being reproved by the
law as transgressors.

10 ' And whosoever shall keep the whole
law, but offend in one pointy is become
guilty of all.

11 For he that said. Thou shalt not com-
mit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not
kill. Now if thou do not commit adul-
tery, but; shalt kill, thou art become a
transgressor of the law

12 So speak ye, and so do, as being to
be judged by ohe law of liberty.

13 For judgment without mercy to him
that hath not done mercy. And mercy
exalteth itself above judgment.

14 What shall it profit, my brethren, if
a man say he hath faith, but hath not
works ? Shall faith be able to save him ?

15 "* And if a brothei or sister be naked,
and want daily food:

16 And one of you say V> them: Go in
peace, be ye warmed and filled ; yet give
them not those things that are neces-
sary for the body, what shall it profit ?

17 So faith also, if it have not works, is
dead in itself.

18 But some man will say: Thou hast

j Lev. 19. 18 ; Matt. 22. 39 ; Mark 12. 31 ;

Rom. 13. 9 ; Gal. 5. 14. — k Supra 1 ; Lev. 19. 15.

I Deut. 1. 18; Matt. 5. 19. — m 1 John 3. 17.

one mortal sin. For all the precepts of the law are
to be considered as one total and entire law, and as
it were a chain of precepts, where, by breaking one
link of this cliain, the whole chain is broken, or the
integrity of the law consisting of a collection of pre-
cepts. A sinner, therefore, by a grievous offence
against any one precept, incurs eternal punishment:
yet the punishment in hell shall be greater for those
who have been greater sinners, as a greater reward
shall be for those in heaven who have lived with
greater sanctity and perfection.

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Faith without works is dead ST. JAMES Earthly and heavenly wisdom

faith, and I have works: shew me thy
faith without works; and I will shew
thee, by works, my faith.

19 Thou believest that there is one God.
Thou dost well : the deviis also believe
and tremble.

20 But wilt thou know, O vain man,
that faith without works is dead ?

21 ** Was not Abraham our father justi-
fied by works, offering up Isaac his son
upon the altar ?

22 Seest thou, that faith did co-operate
with his works ; and by works faith was
made perfect ?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled, say-
ing: ° Abraham believed God^ and it was
reputed to him to justice, and he was
called the friend of God.

24 Do you see that by works a man is
justified ; and not by faith only ?

25 P And in like manner also Rahab the
harlot, was not she justified by works,
receiving the messengers, and sending
them out another way?

26 For even as the body without the
spirit is dead ; so also faith without
works is dead.

CHAPTER 3.

Cf the evils of the tongve. Of the difference between
the earthly and heavenly vnsdom.

BE 9 ye not many masters, my bre-
thren, knowing that you receive
the greater judgment.

2 For in many things we all offend. If
any man offend not in word, the same is
a perfect man. He is able also with a
bridle to lead about the whole body.

3 For if we put bits into the mouths of
horses, that they may obey us, and we
turn about their whole body.

4 Behold also ships, whereas they are
great, and are driven by strong winds,
yet are they turned about with a small
helm, whithersoever the force of the
governor willeth.

6 Even so the tongue is inde-^d a little
member, and boasteth great things. Be-
hold how small a fire kindleth a great
wood.

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of
iniquity. The tongue is placed among
our members, which defileth the whole
body, and inflameth the wheel of our
nativity, being set on fire by hell.

7 For every nature of beasts, and of

n Gen. 22. 9. «oo Gen. l& 6; Bom. 4. 3 GaL3.6.

birds, and of serpents, and of the rest, is
tamed, and hath been tamed, by the
nature of man:

8 But the tongue no man can tame, an
unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

9 By it we bless God and the Father,
and by it we curse men, who are made
after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth
blessing and cursing. My brethren,
these things ought not so to be.

11 Doth a fountain send forth, out of
the same hole, sweet and bitter water ?

12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear
grapes ; or the vine, figs ? So neither
can the salt water yield sweet.

13 Who is a wise man, and endued with
knowledge among you? Let him shew,
by a good conversation, his work in the
meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter zeal, and there
be contentions in your hearts ; glory not,
and be not liars against the truth.

15 For this is not wisdom, descending
from above: but earthly, sensual, dev-
ilish.

16 For where envying and contention
is, there is inconstancy, and every evil
work.

17 But the wisdom, that is from above,
first indeed is chaste, then peaceable,
modest, easy to be persuaded, consent-
ing to the good, full of mercy and good
fruits, without judging, without dissimu-
lation.

18 And the fruit of justice is sown in
peace, to them that make peace.

CHAPTER 4.

The evils that flow from yielding to concupiscence,
and being friends to this world. Admonitions
against pride, detraction, etc.

FROM whence are wars and conten-
tions among you? Are they not
hence, from your concupiscences, whic>>
war in your members ?

2 You covet, and have not : you kill,
and envy, and can not obtain. You
contend and war, and you have not,
because you ask not.

3 You ask, and receive not ; because you
ask amiss: that you may consume it on
your concupiscences.

4 Adulterers, know you not that the
friendship of this world is the enemy of
God? Whosoever therefore will be a

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p Jos. 2. 4; Heb. U. 3L— 9 Matt 23. K

Various admonitions

ST. JAMES

Extreme unction

friend of this world, becometh an enemy
of God.

5 Or do you think that the scripture
saith in vain : To envy doth the spirit
covet which dwelleth in you ?

6 But he giveth greater grace. Where-
fore he saith: ^ God resisteth the proud^
and giveth grace to the humble.

7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist
the devil, and he will fly from you.

8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw
nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye
sinners: and purify your hearts, ye
double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
let your laughter be turned into mourn-
ing, and your joy into sorrow.

10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord,
and he will exalt you.

11 Detract not one another, my bre-
thren. He that detracteth his brother,
or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth
the law, and judgeth the law. But if
thou judge the law, thou art not a doer
of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, and judge,
that is able to destroy and to deliver,

13 * But who art thou that judges t thy
neighbour? Behold, now you that say:
To day or to morrow we will go into such
a city, and there we will spend a year,
and will traffic, and make our gain.

14 Whereas you know not what shall
be on the morrow.

15 For what is your life ? It is a vapour
which appeareth for a little while, and
afterwards shall vanish away. For that
you should say : If the Lord will, and if
we shall live, we will do this or that.

16 But now you rejoice in your arrogan-
cies. All such rejoicing is wicked.

17 To him therefore who knoweth to
do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.

CHAPTER 5.

A woe to the rich that oppress the poor. Exhorta-
tions to patience, and to avoid sivearinr/. Of the
anointing the sick, confession of sins and fervour
in prayer.

GO to now, ye rich men, weep and
howl in your miseries, which shall
come upon you.

2 Your riches are corrupted: and your
garments are motheaten.

r Prov. 3, 34 ; 1 Peter 5. 5.

Chap. 5. Ver. 14. Let him brine/ in, &c. See
here a plain warran*; of scripture for the sacrament
of extieme uuction, tbat any coutroversy against its

3 Your gold and silver is cankered: and
the rust of them shall be for a testimony
against you, and shall eat your flesh like
fire. You have stored up to yourselves
wrath against the last days.

4 Behold the hire of the labourers, who
have reaped down your fields, which by
fraud has been kept back by you, crieth:
and the cry of them hath entered into
the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

5 You have feasted upon earth: and in
riotousness you have nourished your
hearts, in the day of slaughter.

6 You have condemned and put to
death the Just One, and he resisted you
not.

7 Be patien-t therefore, brethren, until
the coming of the Lord. Behold, the
husbandman waiteth for the precious
fruit of the earth : patiently bearing till
he receive the early and latter rain.

8 Be you therefore also patient, and
strengthen your hearts: for the coming
of the Lord is at hand.

9 Grudge not, brethren, one against
another, that you may not be judged
Behold the judge standeth before the
door.

10 Take, my brethren, for an example
of suffering evil, of labour and patience,
the prophets, who spoke in the name of
the Lord.

11 Behold, we account them blessed
who have endured. You have heard of
the patience of Job, and you have seen
the end of the Lord, that the Lord is
merciful and compassionate.

12 But above all things, my brethren,
* swear not, neither by heaven, nor by
the earth, nor by any other oath. But
let your speech be, yea, yea: no, no:
that you fall not under judgment.

13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray.
Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

14 Is any man sick among you? Let
him bring in the priests of the church,
and let them pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the name of the Lord.

15 And the prayer of faith shall save
the sick man: and the Lord shall raise
him up: and if he be in sins, they shall
be forgiven him.

16 Confess therefore your sins one to

s Rom. 14. A. — t Matt. 5.34.

institution would be against the express words of
the sacred text in the plainest terms.
Ver. 16. Confess your sins one to another. That

2S^

Tlie efficacy of prayer

1 OF ST. PETER The reward of constancy

another : and pray one for another, that
you may be saved. For the continual
prayer of a just man availeth much.

17 "Ehas was a man passible like unto
us : and with prayer he prayed that it
might not rain upon the earth, and it
rained not for three years and six
months.

18 And he prayed again: and the hea-

ven gave rain, and the earth brought
forth her fruit.

19 My brethren, if any of you err from
the truth, and one convert him :

20 He must know that he who causeth
a sinner to be converted from the error
of his way, shall save his soul from
death, and shall cover a multitude of
sins.

THE

FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE

APOSTLE.

The first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine concerning
Faith, Hope, and Charity, with divers instructions to all persons of what state
or condition soever. The Apostle commands submission to rulers and superiors,
and exhorts all to the practice of a virtuous life in imitation of Christ. This
Epistle is written with such apostolical dignity, as to manifest the supreme
authority with which its writer, the prince of the Apostles, had been vested by
his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively he
calls Babylon, about thirty-five years after our Lord's Ascension.

CHAPTER 1.

He gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being
called to the true faith, and to eternal life; into
which ive are to enter by tnany tribulations. He
exhorts to Iiollness of life; considering the holi-
ness of God, and our redemption by the blood of
Christ.

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to
the strangers dispersed through Pon-
tus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bi-
lihynia, elect,

2 According to the foreknowledge of
God the Father, unto the sanctification
of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprin-
kling of the blood of Jesus Christ : Grace
unto you and peace be multiplied.

3 ^Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to
his great mercy hath regenerated us
unto a lively hope, by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 Unto an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that can not fade, re-
served in heaven for you,

5 Who, by the power of God, are kept

u 3 Kings 17. 1 ; Luke 4. 25.

is, to the priests of the cliurch, whom (ver. 14) he
bad ordered to be called for, and brought in to the
lick; moreover, to confess to persons who had no
power to forgive sins, would be useless. Hence the

by faith unto salvation, ready to be re-
vealed in the last time.

6 Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if
now you must be for a little time made
sorrowful in divers temptations:

7 That the trial of your faith (much
more precious than gold which is tried
by the fire) may be found unto praise
and glory and honour at the appearing
of Jesus Christ:

8 Whom having not seen, you love : in
whom also now, though you see him not,
you believe : and believing shall rejoice
with joy unspeakable and glorified ;

9 Receiving the end of your faith, even
the salvation of your souls.

10 Of which salvation the prophets have
inquired and diligently searched, wb'
prophesied of the grace to come in you.

11 Searching what or what manner d
time the Spirit of Christ in them did sig-
nify: when it foretold those sufferings
that are in Christ, and the glories that
should follow :

V 2 Cor. I. 3 ; Eph. 1. 3.

precept here means, that we must confess to men
whom God hath appointed, and who, by their ordi-
nation and jurisdiction, have received the power ol
remitting sins in his name.

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Exhortation to holiness of life 1 OF ST. PETER Christ the chief corner stone

12 To whom it was revealed, that not
to themselves, but to you they minis-
tered those things which are now de-
clared to you by them that have preached
the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost being
sent down from heaven, on whom the
angels desire to look.

13 Wherefore having the loins of your
mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly
in the grace which is offered you in the
revelation of Jesus Christ,

14 As children of obedience, not fash-
ioned according to the former desires of
your ignorance :

15 But according to him that hath called
you, who is holy, be you also in all man-
ner of conversation holy :

16 Because it is written : ^ You shall be
holy^ for I am holy.

17 And if you invoke as Father him
who, * without respect of persons, judge th
according to every one's work : converse
in fear during the time of your sojourn-
ing here.

18 Knowing that you were not redeemed
with corruptible things as gold or silver,
from your vain conversation of the tra-
dition of your fathers :

19 ^But with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and un-
deflled,

20 Foreknown indeed before the founda-
tion of the world, but manifested in the
last times for you,

21 Who through him are faithful in
God, who raised him up from the dead,
and hath given him glory, that your faith
and hope might be in God.

22 Purifying your souls in the obedi-
ence of charity, with a brotherly love,
from a sincere heart love one another
earnestly :

23 Being born again not of corrupti-
ble seed, but incorruptible, by the word
of God who liveth and remaineth for
ever.

24 ^ For all flesh is as grass; and all the
glory thereof as the flower of grass. The
grass is withered^ and the flower thereof is
fallen away.

25 But the word of the Lord endureth for
ever. And this is the word which by the
gospel hath been preached unto you.

w Lev. 11. 44, and 19. 2, and 20. l. — x Deut. lo. 17 -,
Rom. 2. 11 ; GaL 2.6. — y 1 Cor. 6. 20, and 7. 23 ; Heb.
9. 14; 1 John 1.7; Apof. L 6, — 8 EcclL 14. 18; Isa.
40. 6; Jamest ia~a Kom.&«t£cib.4.22;CoL8w8;

CHAPTER 2.

We are to lay aside all gjiile, and go to Christ the
living stone: and as being now his people, walk
worthily of him, with submission to superiors,
and patience under sufferings.

WHEREFORE " laying away all mal-
ice, and all guile, and dissimula-
tions, and envies, and all detractions,

2 As newborn babes, desire the rational
milk without guile, that thereby you may
grow unto salvation:

3 If so be you have tasted that the Lord
is sweet.

4 Unto whom coming, as to a living
stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen
and made honourable by God :

6 Be you also as living stones built up,
a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to
offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to
God by Jesus Christ.

6 Wherefore it is said in the scripture :
^ Behold, I lay in Sion a chief comer stone^
elect, precious. And he that shall believe in
hint, shall not be confounded.

7 To you therefore that believe, he is
honour: but to them that believe not,
^the stone which the builders rejected, the
same is made the head of the comer:

8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock
of scandal, to them who stumble at the
word, neither do believe, whereunto also
they are set.

9 But you are a chosen generation, a
kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a pur-
chased people : that you may declare his
virtues, who hath called you out of dark-
ness into his marvellous light :

10 ^ Who in time past were not a people:
but are now the people of God. Who had not
obtained mercy; but nowhaveobtainedmercy.

11 ^Dearly beloved, I beseech you as
strangers and pilgrims, to refrain your-
selves from carnal desires which war
against the soul,

12 Having your conversation good
among the Gentiles: that whereas they
speak against you as evildoers, they
may, by the good works, which they shall
behold in you, glorify God in the day of
visitation.

13 -^Be ye subject therefore to every
human creature for God's sake : whether
it be to the king as excelling ;

Heb. 12. 1. — 6 Isa. 28. 16; Rom. 9.33. — r Ps. 117. 22;
Isa. 8. 14; Matt. 21. 42; Acts 4. 11. — t/ Osee 2. 24;
Rom. 9. 26. — e Rom. 13. 14 ; GaL 5. Hi. — / Rom.
13.L

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Obedience and patience

1 OF ST. PETER Duties of wives and husbands

14 Or to governors as sent by him for
the punishment of evildoers, and for the
praise of the good :

15 For so is the will of God, that by do-
ing well you may put to silence the
ignorance of foolish men :

16 As free, and not as making liberty a
cloak for malice, but as the servants of
God.

17 Honour all men. ^ Love the brother-
hood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18 ^* Servants, be subject to your mas-
ters with all fear, not only to the good
and gentle, but also to the froward.

19 For this is thankworthy, if for con-
science towards God, a man endure sor-
rows, suffering wrongfully.

20 For what glory is it, if committing
sin, and being buffeted /or if, you endure?
But if doing well you suffer patiently ;
this is thankworthy before God.

21 For unto this are you called: because
Christ also suffered for us, leaving you
an example that you should follow his
steps.

22 * Who did no sin^ neither was guile
found in his mouth.

23 Who, when he was reviled, did not
revile: when he suffered, he threatened
not: but delivered himself to him that
judged him unjustly.

24 ^ Who his own self bore our sins in
his body upon the tree : that we, being
dead to sins, should live to justice : by
whose stripes you were healed.

25 For you were as sheep going astray ;
but you are now converted to the shep-
herd and bishop of your souls.

CHAPTER 3.

How wives are to behave to their htisbands: what
ornaments they are to seek. Exhortations to
divers virtues.

IN ^ like manner also let wives be sub-
ject to their husbands: that if any
believe not the word, they may be won
without the word, by the conversation
of the wives.

2 Considering your chaste conversation
with fear.

3 ^ Whose adorning let it not be the
outward plaiting of the hair, or the
wearing of gold, or the putting on of
apparel:

g Eom. 12. 10. — h Eph. 6. 5 : Col. 3. 22 ; Titus 2. 9.

i Isa. 53. 9.—J Isa. 53. 5; 1 John 3. 5.

k Eph. 5. 22 ; Col. 3. 18. — i 1 Tim. 2. 9.

m Geu. l& 12.— nl Cor. 7.3.

4 But the hidden man of the heart in
the incorruptibility of a quiet and a
meek spirit, which is rich in the sight ol
God.

5 For after this manner heretofore the
holy women also, who trusted in God,
adorned themselves, being in subjection
to their own husbands :

6 '"As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling
him lord: whose daughters you are, do-
ing well, and not fearing any disturbance.

7 "Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with
them according to knowledge, giving
honour to the female as to the weaker
vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace
of life : that your prayers be not hindered.

8 And in fine, be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of another, being
lovers of the brotherhood, merciful
modest, humble:

9 ° Not rendering evil for evil, nor rail-
ing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing:
for unto this are you called, that you
may inherit a blessing.

10 'P For he that will love life^ and se-e good
days^ let him refrain his tongue from evU^
and his lips that they speak no guile.

11 ^Let him decline from evil, and do
good: let him seek after peace and pursue
it:

12 Because the eyes of the Lord are upon
the just, and his ears unto their prayers:
hut the countenance of the Lord upon them
that do evil things.

13 And who is he that can hurt you, if
you be zealous of good ?

14 ''But if also you suffer any thing for
justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not
afra'd of their fear, and be not troubled.

15 But sanctify the Lord Christ in your
hearts, being ready always to satisfy
every one that asketh you a reason of
that hope which is in you.

16 *But with modesty and fear, having
a good conscience: that whereas they
speak evil of you, they may be ashamed
who falsely accuse your good conversa-
tion in Christ.

17 For it is better doing well (if such be
the will of God) to suffer, than doing ill.

18 'Because Christ also died once for
our sins, the just for the unjust: that he
might offer us to God, being put to death

o Prov. 17. 13 ; Rom. 12. 17; 1 Thess. 5. 15.

p Ps. 33. 13.— q Isa. 1. 16.

r Matt. 5. 10. — s Supra 2. 12.

t Bom. 6. 6 ; Heb. 9. 28.

Exhcyrtation to cease from sin 1 OF ST. PETER

Charity and constancy

indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the
spirit,

19 In which also coming he preached to
those spirits that were in prison:

20 Which had been some time incredu-
lous, " when they waited for the patience
of God in the days of Noe, when the ark
was a building: wherein a few, that is,
eight souls, were saved by water.

21 Whereunto baptism being of the like
form, now saveth you also : not the put-
ting away of the filth of the flesh, but
the examination of a good conscience
towards God by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.

22 Who is on the right hand of God,
swallowing down death, that we might
be made heirs of life everlasting : being
gone into heaven, the angels and powers
and virtues being made subject to him.

CHAPTER 4.

Exhortations to cease from sin : to mutual charity :
*.o do all for the glory of God : to be willing to suf-
fer for Christ.

CHRIST therefore having suffered in
the flesh, be you also armed with
the same thought : for he that hath suf-
fered in the flesh, hath ceased from sins :

2 ^ That now he may live the rest of his
time in the flesh, not after the desires of
men, but according to the will of God.

3 For the time past is sufficient to have
fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them
who have walked in riotousness, lusts,
excess of wine, revellings, banquetings,
and unlawful worshipping of idols.

4 Wherein they think it strange, that
you run not with them into the same con-
fusion of riotousness, speaking evil of you.

5 Who shall render account to him, who
is ready to judge the living and the dead.

6 For, for this cause was the gospel
preached also to the dead: that they
might be judged indeed according to
toen, in the flesh ; but may live according
to God, in the Spirit.

u Gen. 7. 7 ; Matt. 24. 37 ; Luke 17. 26.
V Eph. 4. 23. — w Prov. 10. 12.

Chap. 3. Ver. 19. Spirits that icere in prison'
See here a proof of a third place, or mirtdle state of
souls : for these spirits in prison, to whom Clirist
went to preach, after his death, were not in heaven ;
nor yet in the hell of the damned : because heaven
is no prison : and Christ did not go to preach to the
damned.

Ver. 21. Whereunto baptism, &c. Baptism is said
to be of the like form with the wafer by which Noe
Was saved, because the one was a figure of the other.
— Ibid. Not the putting away, &c. As much as to
say, that baptism lias not its efficacy, iu order to sal*

7 But the end of all is at hand. Be pru-
dent therefore, and watch in prayers.

8 But before all things have a constant
mutual charity among yourselves : ^ for
charity covereth a multitude of sins.

9 ^ Using hospitality one towards an-
other, y without murmuring,

10 ^ As every man hath received grace,
ministering the same one to another:
^ as good stewards of the manifold grace
of God.

11 If any man speak, let him speak, as
the words of God. If any man minister,
let him do it, as of the power, which God
administereth : that in all things God
may be honoured through Jesus Christ:
to whom is glory and empire for ever
and ever. Amen.

12 Dearly beloved, think not strange
the burning heat which is to try you,
as if some new thing happened to
you;

13 But if you partake of the sufferings
of Christ, rejoice that when his glory
shall be revealed, you may also be glad
with exceeding joy.

14 If you be reproached for the name
of Christ, you shall be blessed : for that
which is of the honour, glory, and power
of God, and that which is his Spirit, rest-
eth upon you.

15 But let none of you suffer as a mur-
derer, or a thief, or a railer, or a coveter
of other men's things.

16 But if as a Christian, let him not be
ashamed, but let him glorify God in that
name.

17 For the time is, that judgment should
begin at the house of God. And if first
at us, what shall be the end of them that
believe not the gospel of God?

18 ^ And if the just man shall scarcely
be saved, where shall the ungodly and
the sinner appear?

19 Wherefore let them also that suffer
according to the will of God, commend

T Rom. 12. 13 ; Heb. 13. 2. — y Phil. 2. 14.
2 Rom. 12. 6. — a 1 Cor. 4. 2. — 6 Prov. 11. 31.

vation, from its washing away any bodily filth or
dirt ; but from its purging the conscience from sin,
when accompanied with suitable dispositions in the
party, to answer the interrogations made at that
time, with relation to faith, the renouncing of Satan
with all his works; and the obedience to God's com-
mandments.

Chap. 4. Ver. 18. Srarcely. That is, not with-
out much labour and difficulty; and because of the
dangers which constantly surround, the temptations
of the world, of the devil, and of our own corrupt
nature.

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Exhortation to priests

2 OF ST. PETER

Resisting the devil

their souls in good deeds to the faithful
Creator.

CHAPTER 5.

ffe exhorts both priests and laity, to their respective
duties, and reconiinends to all humility and
watchfulness,

niHE ancients ^ therefore that are

1 among you, I beseech, who am my-
self also an ancient, and a witness of
the sufferings of Christ: as also a par-
taker of that glory which is to be re-
vealed in time to come :

2 Feed the flock of God which is among
you, taking care of it, not by constraint,
but willingly, according to God : not for
filthy lucre's sake, but voluntarily:

3 Neither as lording it over the clergy,
but being made a pattern of the flock
from the heart.

4 And when the prince of pastors shall
appear, you shall receive a never fading
crown of glory.

6 In like manner, ye young men, be
subject to the ancients. ** And do you
all insinuate humility one to another,
^ for God resisteth the proud, but to the hum,'
ble he giveth grace.

3 -^Be you humbled therefore under the

mighty hand of God, that he may exalt
you in the time of visitation :

7 ^ Casting all your care upon him, for
he hath care of you.

8 Be sober and watch: because your
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
goeth about seeking whom he may de-
vour.

9 Whom resist ye, strong in faith : know-
ing that the same aflfliction befalls your
brethren who are in the world.

10 But the God of all grace, who hath
called us unto his eternal glory in Christ
Jesus, after you have suffered a little,
will himself perfect you, and confirm you,
and establish you.

11 To him be glory and empire for ever
and ever. Amen.

12 By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto
you, as I think, I have written briefly:
beseeching and testifying that this is the
true grace of God, wherein you stand.

13 The church that is in ^ Babylon,
elected together with you, saluteth you:
and fo doth my son Mark.

14 Salute one another with a holy kiss.
Grace be to all you, who are in Christ
Jesus. Amen.

THE

SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE

APOSTLR

In this Epistle St. Peter says, (chap. 8.), Behold this second Epistle I write to
you, and before, (chap. 1. 14,) Being assured that the laying away of this my
tabernacle is at hand. This shews, that it was written a very short time before
his martyrdom, which was about thirty -six years after our Lord's Ascension. In
this Epistle he admonishes the faithful to be mindful of the great gifts they re-
ceived from God, and to join all other virtues with their faith. He warns them
against false teachers, by describing their practices, and foretelling their punish-
ments. He describes the dissolution of this world by fire, and the day of judgment.

CHAPTER 1.

He exhorts them to join all other virtues with their
faith : in order to sectire their salvation.

SIMON Peter, servant and apostle of
Jesus Christ, to them that have ob-
tained equal faith with us in the justice
of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2 Grace to you and peace be accom-

c Tliat is, Senior Priests, — d Rom. Vz \0.
3 James 4. 6 —f James 4, 10

plished in the knowledge of God and of
Christ Jesus our Lord :

3 As all things of his divine power which
appertain to life and godliness, are given
us, through the knowledge of him who
hath called ua by his own proper glory
and virtue.

4 By whom be hath given us most great

ff Ps. 54 23 ; Matt 6. 25 ; Luke 12. 22.

A, Figuratively, Rome.

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Good works united to faith 9> OF ST. PETER tnterpretation of Scripture

and precious promises: that by these you
may be made partakers of the divine na-
ture : flying the corruption of that con-
cupiscence which is in the world.

5 And you, employing all care, minister
in your faith, virtue ; and in virtue, know-
ledge ;

6 And in knowledge, abstinence ; and in
abstinence, patience; and in patience,
godliness ;

7 And in godliness, love of brotherhood j
and in love of brotherhood, charity.

8 For if these things be with you and
abound, they will make you to be nei-
ther empty nor unfruitful in the know-
ledge of our Lord Jesus Ohrist.

9 For he that hath not these things with
him, is blind, and groping, having for-
gotten that he was purged from his old
eins.

10 Wherefore, brethren, labour the
more, that by good works you may
make sure your calling and election. For
doing these things, you shall not sin at
any time.

11 For 80 an entrance shall be minis-
tered to you abundantly into the ever-
lasting kingdom of our Lord and Sav-
iour Jesus Christ.

12 For which cause I will begin to put
you always in remembrance of these
things: though indeed you know them,
and are confirmed in the present truth.

13 But I think it meet as long as I am
In this tabernacle, to stir you up by put-
ting you in remembrance.

14 Being assured that the laying away
of this my tabernacle is at hand, accord-
ing as our Lord Jesus Christ also ^ hath
signified to me.

15 And I will endeavour, that you fre-
quently have after my decease, where-
by you may keep a memory of these
things.

16 •'For we have not by following arti-
ficial fables, made known to you the
power, and presence of our Lord Jesus
Christ ; but we were eyewitnesses of his
greatness.

i John 21. 19. —j 1 Cor. 1. 17.
k Matt. 17. 6. — 12 Tim. 3. 16.

Chap. l. Ver. 20 No prophecy of scripture is
made by pHvate interpretation. This shows plainly
that the scriptures are not to be expounded by any
one's private judgment or private spirit, because
every part of the holy scriptures were written by
men inspired by the Holy Ghost, and declared as
such, by the Church ; therefore they are not to be In-
terpreted but by the Spirit ot God, whieh be batb

17 For he received from God the Father,
honour and glory: this voice coming
down to him from the excellent glory:
^ This is my beloved Son^ in whom I am well
pleased; hear ye him.

18 And this voice we heard brought
from heaven, when we were with him in
the holy mount.

19 And we have the more firm prophet-
ical word : whereunto you do well to at-
tend, as to a hght that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the day
star arise in your hearts:

20 'Understanding this first, that no
prophecy of scripture is made by private
interpretation.

21 For prophecy came not by the will
of man at any time : but the holy men
of God spoke, inspired by the Holy
Ghost.

CHAPTER 2.

He warns them against false teachers, and foretells
their punishment.

BUT there were also false prophets
among the people, even as there
shall be among you lying teachers, who
shall bring in sects of perdition, and
deny the Lord who bought them : bring-
ing upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many shall follow their riotous-
nesses, through whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.

3 And through covetousness shall they
with feigned words make merchandise
of you. Whose judgment now of a long
time lingereth not, and their perdition
slumbereth not.

4 "* For if God spared not the angels
that sinned, but delivered them, drawn
down by infernal ropes to the lower hell,
unto torments, to be reserved unto judg-
ment:

5 And spared not the original world, "
bi t preserved Noe, the eighth person,
th< preacher of justice, bringing in the
floc d upon the world of the ungodly.

6 *■ And reducing the cities of the Sod-
omites, and of the Gomorrhites, into
ashes, condemned them to be over-

m Job 4. 18 i Jude l. 6. — n Gen. 7. 1.
o Gen. 19. 25.

left, and promised to remain with his Church to guide
her In all truth to the end of the world. Some may
tell us, that many of our divines interpret the scrip-
tures : they may do so, but they do it always with a
submission to the judgment of the Church» and not
otherwise.

Chap. 2. Ver. 1. Sects of perdition, Tbat i»
heresies destruetive ml salvation.

268

False teachers punished

8 OP ST. PETER Warning against unbeliever^

thrown, making them an example to
those that should after act wickedly.

7 And delivered just Lot, oppressed by
the injustice and lewd conversation of
ohe wicked.

8 For in sight and hearing he was just :
dwelling among them, who from day to
day vexed the just soul with unjust
works.

9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the
godly from temptation, but to reserve
the unjust unto the day of judgment to
be tormented.

10 And especially them who walk after
the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and
despise government, audacious, self
willed, they fear not to bring in sects,
blaspheming.

11 Whereas angels who are greater in
strength and power, bring not against
themselves a railing judgment.

12 But these men, as irrational beasts,
naturally tending to the snare and to
destruction, blaspheming those things
which they know not, shall perish in
their corruption,

13 Receiving the reward of their injus-
tice, counting for a pleasure the delights
of a day : stains and spots, sporting
themselves to excess, rioting in their
faasts with you :

14 Having eyes full of adultery and of
sin that ceaseth not : alluring unstable
souls, having their heart exercised with
covetousness, children of malediction :

16 Leaving the right way they have
gone astray, ^ having followed the way
of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages
of iniquity,

16 But had a check of his madness, the
dumb beast used to the yoke, which ^
speaking with man's voice, forbade the
folly of the prophet.

17 *" These are fountains without water,
and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to
whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

18 For, speaking proud words of van-
ity, they allure by the desires of fleshly
fiotousness, those who for a little while
escape, such as converse in error :

19 Promising them liberty, whereas they
themselves are the slaves of corruption.

p Jude IL — 9 Num. 9S. %.
r Jttde 12.->» John 8. 34; Bom. 6. 16 and 26.

Ver. IL Britng not a railing judfrnMvt, &e. That
Is, they use no railing, oor cursing sentenoa ; not even
ic their «Mifiicti wttik tte eTU «agsis. 8se St JFu«le.
ret.?».

* For by whom a T^an is overcome, of the
same also he is the slave.

20 For if, flying from the pollutions of
the world, through the knowledge of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, ^ they be
again entangled in them and overcome:
** their latter state is become unto them
worse than the former,

21 For it had been better for them not
to have known the way of justice, than
after they have known it, to turn back
from that holy commandment which was
delivered to them.

22 For, that of the true proverb has hap-
pened to them : ^' The dog is returned to
his vomit : and. The sow that was washed,
to her wallowing in the mire.

CHAPTER 3.

Against «eoffers denying the second coming qf Christ.
He declares the sudden dissolution of this worlds
and exhorts to holiness of life.

BEHOLD this second epistle I write to
you, my dearly beloved, in which I
stir up by way of admonition your sincere
mind:

2 That you may be mindful of those
words which I told you before from the
holy prophets, and of your apostles, of
the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.

3 Knowing this first, '^ that in the last
days there shall come deceitful scoffers,
walking after their own lusts,

4 Saying: * Where is his promise or hie
coming? for since the time that the fa-
thers slept, all things continue as they
were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they are wilfully ignorant of,
that the heavens were before, and the
earth out of water, and through water,
consisting by the word of God,

6 Whereby the world that then was, be-
ing overflowed with water, perished.

7 But the heavens and the earth which
are now, by the same word are kept in
store, reserved unto fire against the day
of judgment and perdition of the un-
godly men,

8 But of this one thing be not ignorant,
my beloved, that one day with the Lord
is as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.

9 The Lord delayeth not his promise, as

e Heb. 6. 4. — M Matt 12. 45. - v Prov. 26. 11.
w 1 Thn. 4. 1 ; 2 Tim. 3. 1 ; Jude 18. — x Ezeeh. 12. 27.

Ver. 13. The delights of a day: that is, the sbor^
delights of t^as world, in wbiob ithey place all ttiuii

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1 OF ST. JOHN

The epistles of Paul

some ima^ne, but dealeth patiently for
your sake, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should return to
penance.

10 2/ But the day of the Lord shall come
as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass
away with great violence, and the ele-
ments shall be melted with heat, and the
earth and the works which are in it, shall
be burnt up.

11 Seeing then that all these things are
to be dissolved, what manner of people
ought you to be in holy conversation and
godliness?

12 Looking for and hasting unto the
coming of the day of the Lord, by which
the heavens being on fire shall be dis-
solved, and the elements shall melt with
the burning heat?

13 ^ But we look for new heavens and a
new earth according to his promises, in
which justice dwelleth.

14 Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting
for these things, be diligent that you
may be found before him unspotted and
blameless in peace,

15 «And account the longsuffering of
our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear
brother Paul, according to the wisdom
given him, hath written to you :

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things; in which are cer-
tain things hard to be understood, which
the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they
do also the other scriptures, to their own
destruction.

17 You therefore, brethren, knowing
these things before, take heed, lest be-
ing led aside by the error of the unwise,
you fall from your own steadfastness.

18 But grow in grace, and in the know-
ledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. To him be glory both now and
unto the day of eternity. Amen.

THE

FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE

APOSTLE.

The same vein of divine love and charity towards our neighbour, which runs
throughout the Gospel wHtten by the beloved disciple and Evangelist, St. John,
is found also in his Epistles. He confirms the incarnation of Jesus Christ the
Son of God. The sublimity and excellence of the evangelical doctrine he declares:
And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his
brother (chap. 4. 21); and again: For this is the charity of God, that we keep
his commandments; and his commandments are not heavy (chap. 5. 3). He shews
how to distinguish the children of God from those of the devil: marks^ out those
who should be called Antichrists: describes the turpitude and gravity of sin.
Finally, he shews how the sinner may hope for pardon. It was written, according
to Baronius' account, sixty-six years after our Lord's Ascension.

CHAPTER 1.

He declares what he haa seen and heard of Christ,
(who is the life eternal,) to the end that we may
have fellowship with God, and all good through
him: yet so if we confess our sins.

THAT which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we
have seen with our eyes, which we have
looked upon, and our hands have han-
dled, of the word of life:
2 For the life was manifested; and we

y 1 Thess. 6. 2 ; Apoc. 3. 3 ; and 16. 16.

have seen and do bear witness, and de-
clare unto you the life eternal, which
was with the Father, and hath appeared
to us:

3 That which we have seen and have
heard, we declare unto you, that you
also may have fellowship with us, and
our fellowship may be with the Father,
and with his Son Jesus Christ.

4 And these things we write to you, that
you may rejoice, and your joy may be full.

zJs&. 65. 17, and 66. 22 ; Apoc. 21. 1.— aRom 2. 6.

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God is light

1 OF ST. JOHN Against the love of the world

5 And this is the declaration which we
have heard from him and declare unto
you : & That God is light, and in him
there is no darkness.

6 If we say that we have fellowship
with him, and walk in darkness, we lie,
and do not the truth.

7 But if we walk in the light, as he also
is in the light, we have fellowship one
with another, ^and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

8 <^If we say that we have no sin, we de-
ceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he Is faithful
and just, to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all iniquity.

10 If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar, and his word is not
in us.

CHAPTER 2.

Christ is our advocate: we miLst keep his command-
ments, and love one another. We must not love
the world, nor give ear to new teachers: but abide
by the spirit of God in the Church.

MY little children, these things I write
to you, that you may not sin. But
if any man sin, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:

2 And he is the propitiation for our
sins: and not for ours only, but also for
those of the whole world.

3 And by this we know that we have
known him, if we keep his command-
ments.

4 He who saith tl^t he knoweth him,
and keepeth not his commandments, is
a liar, and the truth is not in him.

5 But he that keepeth his word, in him
in very deed the charity of God is per-
fected; and by this we know that we
are in him.

6 He that saith he abideth in him, ought
himself also to walk, even as he walked.

7 Dearly beloved, I write not a new
commandment to you, but an old com-
mandment which you had from the be-
ginning. The old commandment is the
word which you have heard.

6 John 8. 12.
cHeb. 9. 14 ; 1 Peter 1. 19, Apoc. 1. 5.

Chap. 2. Ver. 3. We have known him, if we
keep his commandments. He speaks of that prac-
tical knowledge by love and affection, which can only
be proved by our keeping his commandments ; and
without which we can not be said to know God, as
we should do.

Ver. 8. A new commandment. Viz., the com-
mandment of love, which was first given in the old

8 «Again a new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true both in
him and in you; because the darkness
is passed, and the true light now shineth.

9 He that saith he is in the light, and
hateth his brother, is in darkness even
until now.

10 /He that loveth his brother, abideth
in the light, and there is no scandal in him.

11 But he that hateth his brother, is in
darkness, and walketh in darkness, and
knoweth not whither he goeth; because
the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

12 I write unto you, little children, be-
cause your sins are forgiven you for his
name's sake.

13 I write unto you, fathers, because
you have known him, who is from the
beginning. I write unto you, young
men, because you have overcome the
wicked one.

14 I write unto you, babes, because you
have known the Father. I write unto
you, young men, because you are strong,
and the word of God abideth in you, and
you have overcome the wicked one.

15 Love not the world, nor the things
which are in the world. If any man
love the world, the charity of the Father
is not in him.

16 For ail that is in the world, is the
concupiscence of the flesh, and the con-
cupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of
life, which is not of the Father, but is of
the world.

17 And the world passeth away, and
the concupiscence thereof: but he that
doth the will of God, abideth for ever.

18 Little children, it is the last hour:
and as you have heard that Antichrist
Cometh, even now there are become
many Antichrists: whereby we know
that it is the last hour.

19 They went out from us, but they
were not of us. For if they had been of
us, they would no doubt have remained
with us; but that they may be manifest,
that they are not all of us.

d 3 kings 8. 46 ; 2 Par. 6. 36 ; Prov. 20. 9 ; Eccl. 7. 21.
eJohn 18. 34, and 15. 12.— /Infra 3. 14.

law, but was renewed and extended by Christ. See
John 13. 34.

Ver. 18. It is the last hour. That is, it is the last
age of the world. — Ibid. Many Antichrists ; that is,
many heretics, enemies of Christ and his church, and
forerunners of the great Antichrist.

Ver. 19. They were not of us. That is, they were
not solid, steadfast, genuine Christians ; otherwise
they would have remained in the church.

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The children of God

20 But you have the unction from the
Holy One, and know all things.

211 have not written to you as to them
that know not the truth, but as to them
that know it : and that no li*3 is of the
truth.

22 Who is a liar, but he who denieth
that Jesus is the Christ ? This is Anti-
christ, who denieth the Father, and the
Son.

23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the
same hath not the Father. He that con-
fesseth the Son, hath the Father also.

24 As for you, let that which you have
heard from the beginning, abide in you.
If that abide in you, which you have
heard from the beginning, you also shall
abide in the Son, and in the Father.

26 And this is che promise which he
hath promised us, life everlasting.

26 These things have I written to you,
concerning them that seduce you.

27 And as for you, let the unction,
which you have received from him, abide
in you. And you have no need that any
man teach you ; but as his unction teach-
eth you of all things, and is truth, and is
no lie. And as it hath taught you, abide
in him.

28 And now, little children, abide in
him, that when he shall appear, we may
have confidence, and not be 'ionfounded
by him at his coming.

29 If you know, that he is just, know
ye, that every one also, who doth justice.
Is born of him.

CHAPTER 8.

Qf the love of God to us : how we may distinguish
the children of God^ and those of the devil. Of
loving one another^ and of purity of conscience.

BEHOLD what manner of charity the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called, and should be the
sons of God. Therefore the world know-
eth not as, because it knew not him.

0 Isa. 5a 9 ; 1 Peter 2. 22.~h John 8. 44.
i John 13. 34, and 15. 12,

Ver.20. The unction f7-om the Holy One. That is,
grace and wisdom from the Holy Ghost. — Ibid.
Know all things. The true children of God's church,
remaining In unity, under the guidance of their law-
fa} pastors, partake of the grace of the Holy Ghost,
womised to the church and her pastors ; and have
m the church all necessary knowledge and instruc
fcloo ; so as to have no need to seek li elsewhere,
since it can be only fouod iu tbat soe^ty of whioii
tiiey are anembers.

Ver. 27. Yon have no ne«d, &c. You want aol lo
bo twbgtH by any of tbese meD, who, ander pratonw
ef itopftrttug man kM>wled^ lo fon, seek to sednoe
f Ott ( v«. a»> atoM yott an tuffloieDtiy taugtit already.

2 Dearly beloved, we are now the sons
of God ; and it hath not yet appeared
what we shall be. We know, that, when
he shall appear, we shall be hke to him :
because we shall see him as he is.

3 And every one that hath this hope in
him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is
holy.

4 Whosoever committeth sin commit-
teth also iniquity ; and sin is iniquity.

6 And you know that he appeared to
take away our sins, ^ and in him there is
no sin.

6 Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth
not; and whosoever sinneth, hath not
seen him, nor known him.

7 Little children, let no man deceive
you. He that doth justice is just, even
as he is just.

8 '^He that committeth sin is of the
devil: for the devil sinneth from the be-
ginning. For this purpose, the Son of
God appeared, that he might destroy the
works of the devil.

9 Whosoever is born of God, commit-
teth not sin: for his seed abideth in him,
and he can not sin, because he is born of
God.

10 In this the children of God are mani-
fest, and the children of the devil. Who-
soever is not just, is not of God, nor he
that loveth not his brother.

11 For this ffl the declaration, which you
have heard t>^jm the beginning, * that you
should love one another.

12 Not as"^ Cain, who was of the wicked
one, and killed his brother. And where-
fore did he kill him ? Because his own
works were wicked : and his brother's just.

13 Wonder not, brethren, if the world
hate you.

14 We know that we have passed from
death to life, because we love the bre-
thren. '^ He that loveth not, abideth in
death.

j Gen. 4. 8.
k Lev. 19. 17 ; Supra 2. 10.

and have all knowledge and grace in the church,
with the unction of the Holy Ghost; which these
new teachers have no share in.

Chap. 3. Ver. 4. Iniquity, avofjua, transgression
of the law.

Ver. 6. Sinneth not. Viz., mortally. See chap.
19.

Ver. 9. Committeth not sin. That is, as long as
be keepeth In himself this seed of grace, and this
divine generation, by which he is born of God. But
t^n be may fall from this happy state, by the abuse
of bis free will, as appears from Eom. 11. 20-22 ; 1 Cos
ft. «9; awl 10. 12: PluL8.t2; AP0C.8.1L

3?2

Love of our neighbour

1 OF ST. JOHN

God is charity

15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a
murderero And you know that no mur-
derer hath eternal hfe abiding in himself.

16 * In this we have known the charity
of God, because he hath laid down his
life for ue : and we ough+j to lay down
our lives for the brethren.

17 "* He that hath the substance of this
world, and shall see his brother in need,
and shall shut up his bowels from him :
how doth the charity of God abide in him ?

18 My Uttle children, let us not love in
word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in
truth.

19 In this we know that we are of the
truth: and in his sight shall persuade
our hearts

20 For ii our Heart reprehend us, God is
greater than our heart, and knoweth all
things

21 Dearly beloved, if our heart do not
reprehend us, we have confidence to-
wards God ;

22 '^And whatsoever we shall ask, we
shall receive of him: because we keep
his commandments, and do those things
which are pleasing in his sight.

23 ° And this is his commandment, that
we should believe in the name of his Son
Jesus Christ: and love one another, as
he hath given commandment unto us.

24 P And he that keepeth his command-
ments, abideth in him, and he in him.
And in this we know that he abideth in
us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

CHAPTER 4.

What svirita are of Ood^ and what «re not. We
must love one another, because God has loved us.

DEARLY beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try the spirits if they be
of God: because many false prophets are
gone out into the world.

2 By this is the spirit of God known.
Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:

3 And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus,
is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of

I John 5. 13. — m Luke 3. 11 ; James 2. 15,
n Matt 21o 22. — Q John 6. 29, and 17. 3.

•Chap. 4. Ver. l. Try the spirits. Viz., by ex-
amining whether their teaching be agreeable to the
rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the
church. For as he says, (ver. 6,) He that knoweth
God, heareth ue [the pastors of the church]. By
this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit «/
error.

Ver. 2. Every spirit which confesseth, &c. Not
that the confession of this point of faith alone, Is, at
all times, and in all cases, sufficient : but that wltb

whom you have heard that he cometh,
and he is n^w aheady in the world.

4 You are of God, little children, and
have overcome him. Because greater is
he that is in you, than he that is in the
world.

6 9 They are of the world : therefore of
the world they speak, and the world
heareth them.

6 We are of God. He that knoweth
God, heareth us. He that is not of God,
heareth us not. By this we know the
spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Dearly beloved, let us love one an-
other, for charity is of God. And every
one that loveth, is born of God, and
knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God:
for God is charity,

9 ' By this hath the charity of God ap-
peared towards us, because God hath
sent his only begotten Son into the
world, that we may live by him.

10 In this is charity : not as though we
had loved God, but because he hath first
loved us, and sent his Son to be a propiti-
ation for our sins.

11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us ;
we also ought to love one another.

12 ** No man hath seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God abideth in
us, and his charity is perfected in us.

13 In this we know that we abide in
him, and he in us : because he hath given
us of his spirito

14 And we have seen, and do testify,
that the Father hath sent his Son io hi
the Saviour of the world.

16 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus
is the Son of God, God abideth in him,
and he in God.

16 And we have known, and have be-
lieved the charity, which God hath to
us. God is charity : and he that abideth
in charity, abideth in God, and God in
him.

17 In this is the charity of God per-
fected with us, that we may have con-

p John 13. 34, and 15. 12. ~ q John 8. 47.
r John 3. 16. ~s John 1. 18; 1 Tim. 6. 16.

relation to that time, and for that part of the Chris-
tian doctrine, which was then particularly to be con.
fessed, taught, and maintained against the heretics
of those days, this was the most proper token, by
which the true teachers might be distinguished from
the false.

Ver. 3. That dissolveth Jesus. Viz., either by de.
nylag his humanity, or his divinity. — Ibid. He i^
now already in the world. Not iQ bis person, but iB
bis spirit, and in bis preoursers.

Faith

1 OF ST. JOHN

The three vntnesses

fidence in the day of judgment: because
as he is, we also are in this world.

18 Fear is not in charity: but perfect
charity casteth out fear, because fear
hath pain. And he that feareth, is not
perfected in charity,

19 Let us therefore love God, because
God first hath loved us.

20 If any man say, I love God, and
hateth his brother ; he is a liar. For he
that loveth not his brother, whom he
3eeth, how can he love God whom he
seeth not?

21 *And this commandmfcnt we lave
from God, that he, who lOveth God. love
also his brother.

CHIFIER 5.

0/ them that are born qj <J^oa %nd Qf t/tue charity.
Faith overcomes the vjorld Three ihat bear wit-
ness to Christ. Off%ith Va, his inaiA<if (iiioi of sin
that iSf and is not to death.

HOSl EVER believefch bhat Jesus is
the Christ, is born of God. And
every one that loveth hin) who begot,
loveth him also who is born of him.

2 In thif we know that we love the
children ji God : when we love God, and
keep his commandments.

3 For this is the charity of God, that we
keep his commandments: and his com-
mandments are not heavy.

4 For whatsoever is born of God, over-
cometh the world: and this is the victory
which overcometh the world, our faith.

6 ''*Who is he that overcometh the
world, but he that believeth that Jesus is
the Son of God?

6 This is he that came by water and
blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only,

t John 13. 34, and 15. 12 ; Eph. 5. 2.

Ver. 18. Fear is not in charity, &c. Perfect char-
ity, or love, banisheth hxtman fear, that is, the fear
of men ; as also all perplexing fear, which makes
men mistrust or despair of God's mercy; and that
kind of servile fear, yNh\Q\v makes them fear the pun-
ishment of sin more than the offence offered to God.
But it no way excludes the wholesome /ear of God's
fudgments, so often recommended in holy writ ; nor
thai fear and trembling, with which we are told to
work out our salvation. Phil. 2. 12.

Chap. 6. Ver. 1. Is born of God. That is, Is
justified, and become a child of God by baptism:
which is also to be understood ; provided the belief
of this fundamental article of the Christian faith be
accompanied with all the other conditions, which,
by the word of God, and his appointment, are also
required to justification; such as a general belief of
all that God has revealed and promised : hope, love,
repentance, and a sincere disposition to keep God's
holy law and commandments.

Ver. 4. Our faith. Not a bare, speculative, or
iflead faith; but a /aith that worketh by charity.

874

but by water and blood. And it is the
Spirit which testifieth, that Christ is the
truth.

7 And there are three who give tes-
timony in heaven, the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Irhost. And these three
are one.

8 And there are three that give testi-
mony on earth : the spirit, and the water,
and the blood : and these three are one.

9 If we receive the testimony of men,
the testimony of God is greater. For
this is the testimony of God, which is
greater, because he hath testified of his
Son.

10 He that believeth in the Son of God,
hath the testimony of God in himself.
^ He that believeth not the Son, maketh
him a liar: because he believeth not in
the testimony which God hath testified
of his Son.

11 And this is the testimony, that God
hath given to us eternal life. And this
Hfe is in his Son,

12 He that hath the Son, hath life. He
that hath not the Son, hath not life.

13 These things I write to you, that
you may know that you have eternal
life, you who believe in the name of the
Son of God.

14 And this is the confidence which we
have towards him : That, whatsoever we
shall ask according to his will, hs hear-
eth us.

15 And we know that he heareth us
whatsoever we ask: we loiow that we
have the petitions which 9fQ request of
him.

16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a

u 1 John 4. 15. — V John 3. 36.

Ver. 6. Came by water and blood. Not only to
wash away our sins by the water of baptism, but by
his own blood.

Ver. 8. The spirit, and the water, and the blood
As the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, all
bear witness to Christ's divinity ; so the spirit, which
he yielded up, crying out with a loud voice upon the
cross ; and the water and blood that issued from his
side, bear witness to his humanity, and are one;
that is, all agree in one testimony.

Ver. 10. He that believeth not the Son, &c. By
refusing to believe the testimonies given by the
three divine persons, that Jesus was the Messias,
and the true Son of God, by whom eternal life is
ol)tained and promised to all that comply with his
doctrine. In him we have also this lively confidence,
that we shall obtain whatever we ask, according to
his will, when wa ask what is for our good, with per-
severance, and in the manner we ought. And this
we know,'a.vn\ have experience of, by having obtained
the petitions that we have made.

Ver. 16. A sin which is not to death, &e. It is
hakr. trt determiuft what S* Joim bere caUs a sli\

The sin unto death

% OF ST. JOHN

The Son is true God

sin which is not to death, let him ask, and
life shall be given to him, who sinneth
not to death. There is a sin unto death :
for that I say not that any man ask.

17 All iniquity is sin. And there is a
sin unto death.

18 We know that whosoever is born of
God, sinneth not : but the generation of
God preserveth him, and the wicked one
toucheth him not.

19 We know that we are of God, and
the whole world is seated in wicked-
ness.

20 And we know that the Son of God is
come: ^and he hath given us under-
standing that we may know the true
God, and may be in his true Son. This
is the true God and life eternal.

21 Little children, keep yourselves from
idols. Amen.

THE

SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE

APOSTLE.

The Apostle commends Electa and her family for their steadfastness in the true
faith, and exhorts them to persevere, lest they lose the reward of their labours.
He exhorts them to love one another, hut with heretics to have no society, even
not to salute them. Under the name Elect, St. John writes to some particular
church; the same name is given the church from which he writes.

CHAPTER 1.

ffe recommends walking in truths loving one an-
other, and to beware of false teachers.

THE ancient to the lady Elect, and her
children, whom I love in the truth,

T.'hich is not to death, and a sin which is unto death.
The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins
that are called venial and moHal: for he says, that
if a man pray for his brother, who commits a sin
that is not to death, life shall be given him : there-
fore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and
^een guilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin.
And when he speaks of a sin that is unto death, and
adds these words, /or that I say not that any man
ask, it cannot be supposed that St. John would say
this of every mortal sin, but only of some heinous
sins, which are very seldom remitted, because such
sinners very seldom repent. By a sin therefore
which is unto death, interpreters commonly under-
stand a wilful apostasy from the faith, and from the
known truth, when a sinner, hardened bv his own
ingratitude, becomes deaf to all admonitions, will do
nothing for himself, but runs on to a final impeni.
tence. Nor yet does St John say, that such a sin is
never remitted, or can not be remitted, but only has
these words, /or that I say not that any man ask
the remission : that is, though we must pray for all
sinners whatsoever, yet men can not pray for such
sinners with such a confidence of obtaining always
their petitions, as St. John said before, ver. 14.

Whatever exposition we follow on this verse, our
faith teacheth us from the holy scriptures, that God
desires not the death of any sinner, but that he be
converted and live, Ezech, 33. 11. Though men's si7is
be as red as scarlet, they shall become as white as
tnow, Isa. 3. 18. It is the will of God that every one
Tome to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved.
There is no sin so great but which God is willing to
turgiveo and has left a power in bis cliurch to remit

and not I only, but also all they that
have known the truth,

2 For the sake of the truth which dwell-
eth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace

7/' Luke 24. 45.

the most enormous sins ; so that no sinner need de-
spair of pardon, nor will any sinner perish, but by
his own fault. — Ibid. A sin uyito death. Some un-
derstand this of final impenitence, or of dying in
mortal sin; which is the only sin that never can be
remitted. But, it is probable, he may also comprise
under this name, the sin of apostasy from the faith,
and some other such heinous isins as are seldom and
hardly remitted : and therefore he gives little en.
oouragement, to such as pray for these sinners, to
expect what they ask.

Ver. 19. And the whole world is seated in wicked^
ness : that is, a great part of the world. It may also
signify, is xaider the wicked one, meaning the devil,
who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, that
is, of all the wicked. John 12. 31.

Ver. 20. And may be in his true Son. He is, or
this is the true God, and life eternal. Which words
are a clear proof of Christ's divinity, and as such
made use of by the ancient fathers.

Ver. 21. Keep yourselves from idols. An admoni.
tion to the newly converted Christians, lest convers-
ing with heathens and idolaters, they might fall back
into tlie sin of idolatry, which may be the sin unto
death here mentioned by St. John.

Chap. l. Ver. l. The ancient, that is, the ancient
bishop St. John, being the only one of the twelve
apostles then living.

27S

Exhortation to love one another 3 OF ST. JOHN The apostle commends Gams

from God the Father, and from Christ
Jesus the Son of the Father; in truth
and charity.

4 I was exceeding glad, that I found of
thy children walking in truth, as we
have received a commandment from the
Father.

5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as
writing a new commandment to thee,
but that which we have had from the
beginning, ^ that we love one another.

6 And this is charity, that we walk ac-
cording to his commandments. For this
is the commandment, that, as you have
heard from the beginning, you should
walk in the same :

7 For many seducers are gone out into
the world, who confess not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh: this is a
seducer and an antichrist.

8 Look to yourselyes, that you lose not

the things which you have wrought : but
that you may receive a full reward.

9 Whosoever revolteth, and continueth
not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not
God. He that continueth in the doctrine,
the same hath both the Father and the
Son.

10 If any man come to you, and bring
not this doctrine, receive him not into
the house nor say to him, God speed
you.

11 For he that saith unto him, God speed
you, communicateth with his wicked
works.

12 Having more things to write unto
you, I would not by paper and ink : for I
hope that I shall be with you, and speak
face to face : that your joy may be
full.

13 The children of thy sister Elect salute
thee.

THE

THIRD EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE

APOSTLE.

St. John praises Gains for his walking in truth, and for his charity : complains of the bad
conduct of Diotrephes, and gives a good testimony to Demetrius.

CHAPTER 1.

THE ancient to the dearly beloved
Gains, whom I love in truth.

2 Dearly beloved, concerning all things
I make it my prayer that thou may est
proceed prosperously, and fare well as
thy soul doth prosperously.

3 I was exceedingly glad when the bre-
thren came and gave testimony to the
truth in thee, even as thou walkest in
the truth.

4 I have no greater grace than this, to
hear that my children walk in truth.

X John 13. 34, and 15. 12.

Ver. 10. Nor say to him, God speed you. This
admonition is in general, to forewarn the faitliful of
the dangers which may arise from a familiarity with
those who have prevaricated and gone from the true
faith, and with such as teach false doctrine. But
this is not forbidding a charity for all men, by which
we ought to wish and pray for the eternal salvation
©f every one, even of our enemies.

Chap. l. Ver. 4. No greater grace : that Is, no-
Cbing that gives me greater joy and satisfacUoo.

5 Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully
whatever thou dost for the brethren,
and that for strangers,

6 Who have given testimony to thy
charity in the sight of the church : whom
thou Shalt do well to bring forward
on their way in a manner worthy of
God.

7 Because, for his name they went out,
taking nothing of the Gentiles.

8 We therefore ought to receive such,
that we may be fellow helpers of the
truth.

9 I had written perhaps to the church:

Ver. 7. Taking nothing of the Gentiles. These
ministers of the gospel are commended by St. John,
who took nothing from the Gentiles, lest they should
seem to preach in order to get money by it.

Ver. 9. Diotrephes, who loveth, &c. This man
seemeth to be in power, but not a friend to the faith-
ful ; therefore this part of the letter might be an ad*
monition to him from the apostle.

Diotrephes and Demetrius

ST. JUDE Exhortation to he firm in the faith

but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the
pre-esBBeBce among them, doth not re-
ceive BS.

16 For tiiis cause, if I come, I will adver-
tise tiis works which he doth, with mali-
cious words prating against us. And as if
these things were not enough for him,
neither doth he himself receive the bre-
thren, and them that do receive them
he forbiddeth, and caste th out of the
church.

11 Dearly beloved, follow not that which
is evil, but that which is good. He that

doth good, is of God: he that doth evil,
hath not seen God.

12 To Demetrius tesrimony is given by
all, and by the truth itself, yea and we
also give testimony : and thou knowest
that our testimony is true.

13 I had many things to write unto thee:
but I would not by ink and pen write to
thee.

14 But I hope speedily to see thee, and
we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace
be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Sa-
lute the friends by name.

THE

CATHOLIC EPISTLE OF ST. JUDE THE

APOSTLE.

St. Jude, who wrote this Epistle, was one of the twelve Apostles, and brother to
St. James the Less. The time it was written is uncertain, only it may be in-
ferred from ver. 17, that few or none of the Apostles were then living, except St.
John. He inveighs against heretics and their wicked practices with strong
epithets and similes. He exhorts the faithful to contend earnestly for the faith
first delivered t# them, mnd te beware of heretics.

CHAPTER 1.

He exhorts them to stand to the faith first delivered
to them • and to beware of heretics.

JUDE, the servant of Jesus Christ, and
brother of James : to them that are
beloved in God the Father, and preserved
in Jesus Christ, and called.

2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and charity
be fulfilled.

3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write
unto you concerning your common salva-
tion, I was under a necessity to write unto
you : to beseech you to contend earnestly
for the faith once delivered to the saints.

4 For certain men are secretly entered
in, (who were written of long ago unto
this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the
grace of our Lord God into riotousness,
and denying the only sovereign Ruler,
and our Lord Jesus Christ.

y Num. 14. 37.

^— ^^^— ^.^-^^— — -^— ^^— ^

Chap. l. Ver. 6. Principality. That is, the state
In which they were first created, their original dig-
nity.

Ver. 8. Blaspheme majesty. Speak evil of them
that are in dignity; and even utter blasphemies
against tbe divine majesty.

Yev. tc OentmuieA about the body^ die. Tliis OOB-

5 I will therefore admonish you, though
ye once knew all things, that Jesus, hav-
ing saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, ^did afterwards destroy them
tkat believed not:

6 And the angels who kept not their
principality, but forsook their own habi-
tation, ^ he hath reserved under darkness
in everlasting chains, unto the judgment
of the great day.

7 As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the
neighbouring cities, in like manner, hav-
ing given themselves to fornication, and
going after other flesh, were made an
example, suffering the punishment of
eternal fire.

8 In like manner these men also defile
the flesh, and despise dominion, and blas-
pheme majesty.

9 " When Michael the archangel, dis-

c 2 Peter 2. 4 ; Gen. 19. 20. — a Zach. 3. 2.

tention, which is no where else mentioned in holy
writ, was originally known by revelation, and trans,
mitted by tradition. It is thought the occasion of it
was, that the devil would have had the body buried
in such a place and manner, as to be worshipped by
the Jews with divine beuours. — • IMd. Command
thm i Qi rebuke thee.

"IT

Punishment of the ungodly

ST. JXJDE Exhortation to reprove and to save

puting with the devil, contended about
the body of Moses, he durst not bring
against him the judgment of railing
speech, but said: The Lord command
thee.

10 But these men blaspheme whatever
things they know not : and what things
soever they naturally know, like dumb
beasts, in these they are corrupted.

11 Woe unto them, for they have gone
in the way of * Cain : and after the ^ error
of Balaam they have for reward poured
out themselves, '^and have perished in
the contradiction of Core.

12 These are spots in their banquets,
feasting together without fear, feeding
themselves, ^ clouds without water, which
are carried about by winds, trees of the
autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked
up by the roots,

13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming
out their own confusion; wandering
stars, to whom the storm of darkness is
reserved for ever.

14 Now of these Enoch also, the seventh
from Adam, prophesied, saying: -^Behold,
the Lord cometh with thousands of his
saints,

15 To execute judgment upon all, and
to reprove all the ungodly for all the
works of their ungodliness, whereby
they have done ungodly, and of all the
hard things which ungodly sinners have
spoken against God.

16 These are murmurers, full of com-

b Gen. 4. 8.— c Num. 22. 23.
d Num. 16. 32.— e 2 Peter 2. 17,

Ver. 11. Gone in the way^ &c. Heretics follow
the way of Cain, by murdering the souls of their
brethren ; the way of Balaam, by putting a scandal
before the people of God, for their own private ends ;
and the way of Core or Korah, by their opposition
to the church governors of divine appointment.

Ver, 14. Prophesied. This prophecy was either
known by tradition, or from some book that is since
lost.

Ver. 17. But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful^
&c. He now exhorts the faithful to remain stead-
fast in the belief and practice of what they had heard
from the apostles, who had also foretold that in after-
times (lit. in the last time) there should be false
teachers, scoffing and ridiculing all revealed truths,
abandoning themselves to their passions and lusts ;
^ho separate themselves from the Catholic commun-
ion by heresies and schisms. Sensual men, carried
away and enslaved by the pleasures of the senses,

Ver. 20, 21. BniJdinc/ yourselves upon your most
holy faith. Raising by your actions, a spiritual
building, founded, 1st, xx\>ox\ faith ; 2d, on the love
of God ; 3d, upon hope, whilst you are waiting for
the mercies of God, ana the reward of eternal life;
♦th, joined with the great duty of prayer.

Ver. 22, 23. And some indeed reprove being judged.

plaints, walking according to their own
desires, ^ and their mouth speaketh proud
things, admiring persons for gain's sake.

17 But you, my dearly beloved, be
mindful of the words ^ which have been
spoken before by the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ,

18 Who told you, that in the last time
there should come mockers, walking ac-
cording to their own desires in ungodli-
nesses.

19 These are they, who separate them-
selves, sensual men, having not the Spirit.

20 But you, my beloved, building your-
selves upon your most holy faith, pray-
ing in the Holy Ghost,

21 Keep yourselves in the love of God,
waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ, unto life everlasting.

22 And some indeed reprove, being
judged:

23 But others save, pulling them out of
the fire. And on others have mercy, in
fear, hating also the spotted garment
which is carnal.

24 Now to him who is able to preserve
you without sin, and to present you
spotless before the presence of his glory
with exceeding joy, in the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ,

25 To the only God our Saviour through
Jesus Christ our Lord, be glorj^ and mag-
nihcence, empire and power, before all
ages, and now, and for all ages of ages.
Amen.

/ Apoc. 1. 7.— S' Ps. 16. 10.
h 1 Tim. 4. 1 ; 2 Tim. 3. 1 ; 2 Peter 3. 3.

He gives them another Instruction to practice char-
ity in endeavouring to convert their neighbour, where
they will meet with three sorts of persons : 1st, With
persons obstinate in their errors and sins ; these may
be said to be already judged and condemned : they
are to be sharply reprehended, reproved, and if pos-
sible convinced of their error. 2d, As to others you
must endeavour to save them, by jjulling them, as it
were,otit of the fire, from the ruin they stand in great
danger of. 3d, You must have mercy on others in
fear, when you see them through ignorance or frailty,
in danger of being drawn into the snares of these
heretics ; with these you must deal more gently and
mildly, with a charitable compassion, hating always,
and teaching others to hate the carnal garment
which is spotted, their sensual and corrupt manners,
that defile both the soul and body.

Ver. 24, 25. Now to him, &c. St. Jude concludes
his epistle with this doxology of praising God, and
praying to the only God. our Saviour, which may
either signify God the Father, or God as equally
agreeing to all the three persons, who are equally
the cause of Christ's incarnation, and man's salva
tion,t/irot*^/i Jesus Christ our Lord, who, being God
from eternity, took upon him our human nature, that
be might become our Kedeemer.

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John ordered to write

to the seven churches

THE

APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE
APOSTLE.

In the first, second, and third chapters of this Book are contained instructions and
admonitions which St. John was commanded to write to the seven bishops of the
churches in Asia. And in the following chapters, to the end, are contained prophe-
cies of things that are to come to pass in the church of Christ, particularly to-
wards the end of the world, in the time of Antichrist. It was written in Greek,
in the island of Patmos, where St. John was in banishment by order of the cruel
emperor Domitian, about sixty-five years after our Lord's Ascension.

CHAPTER 1.

St. Johnis ordered to write to the seven chiirches in
Asia : the manner of Christ's appearing to him.

rnHE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which
JL God gave unto hini, to make known
to his servants the things which must
shortly come to pass : and signified, send-
ing by his angel to his servant John,

2 Who hath given testimony to the word
of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ,
what things soever he hath seen.

3 Blessed is he, thatreadeth and heareth
the words of this prophecy ; and keepeth
those things which are written in it ; for
the time is at hand.

4 John to the seven churches which are
in Asia. Grace be unto you and peace
from him * that is, and that was, and that
is to come, and from the seven spirits
which are before his throne,

5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the
faithful witness,-^ the first begotten of the
dead, and the prince of the kings of the
earth, who hath loved us, and washed us
from our sins ^ in his own blood,

6 And hath made us a kingdom, and
priests to God and his Father, to him be
glory and empire for ever and ever.
Amen.

7 ' Behold, he cometh with the clouds,

i Ex. 3. 14. — n Cor. 15. 20 ; Col. 1. 18.
k Heb. 9. 14; 1 Peter 1. 19; 1 John 1. 7.

Chap. 1. Ver. l. The things which must shortly
ootne; and again it is said, ver. 3, The fit/ip is at
hand. This can not be meant of all the thinjrs pro-
phesied in the Apocalypse, where mention is made
also of the day of judgment, and of the glory of hea-
ven at the end of *he world. That some things were
to come to pass shortly, is evident, by what is said
to the Se.en Churches, chap. 2 and 3, Or that the
persecutions foretold should begin shortly. Or that
these words s^^ified, that all time is short, and that

and every eye shall see him, and they
also that pierced him. And all the tribes
of the earth shall bewail themselves be-
cause of him. Even so. Amen.

8 "^ I am Alpha and Omega, the begin-
ning and the end, saith the Lord God, who
is, and who was, and who is to come, the
Almighty.

9 I John, your brother and your partner
in tribulation, and in the Idngdom, and
patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island,
which is called Patmos, for the word of
God, and for the testimony of Jesus.

10 I was in the spirit on the Lord's day,
and heard behind me a great voice, as of
a trumpet,

11 Saying: What thou seest, write in a
book, and send to the seven churchea
which are in Asia, to Ephesus, and to
Smyrna, and to Pergamus, and to Thya-
tira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia,
and to Laodicea.

12 And I turned to see the voice that
spoke with me. And being turned, I saw
seven golden candlesticks:

13 And in the midst of the seven golden
candlesticks, one like to the Son of man,
clothed with a garment down to the feet,
and girt about the paps with a golden
girdle.

I ISH. 3 13; Matt. 24. 30 ; Jude 1. 14. — m Isa. 41. 4,
and 44. 6, and 48. 12 ; Infra 21. 6, and 22. 13.

from the coming of Christ, we are now in the last
ige or last hour. See 1 John 2. 18.

Ver. 8. / arn Alpha and Omega. These are the
names of the first and last letters of the Greek al-
phabet, and signify the same as what follows: The
beginning and the end: the first cause and last end
of all beings: who is, and who was, and who is to
come, the Almighty. These words signify the true
God only, and are here applied to our Lord and Sav-
iour Jesus Christ, who is to come again to judge tbe
I living and Uie dead.

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Vision of the Son of man THE APOCALYPSE To the church of Smyrna

14 And his head and his hairs were
(vhite, as white wool, and as snow, and his
eyes were as a flame of fire,

15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as
in a burning furnace. And his voice as
the sound of many waters.

16 And he had in his right hand seven
stars. And from his mouth came out a
sharp two edged sword : and his face was
as the sun sbineth in his power.

17 And when I had seen him, I fell at
his feet as dead. And he laid his right
hand upon me, saying: Fear not. ** I am
the First and the I^ast,

18 And alive, and was dead, and behold
I am living for ever and ever, and have
the keys of death and of hell.

19 Write therefore the things which
thou hast seen, and which are. and which
must be done hereafter.

20 The mystery of the se'^en stars, which
thou sawest in my right hand, and the
seven golden candlesticks. The seven
stars are the angels of the seven churches.
And the seven candlesticks are the seven
chiTches.

OHAPTER 2.

Directioru what to write to the angels or bishops of
Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergarrms, and Thyatira.

UNTO the angel of the church of Ephe-
sus write: These things saith he,
who holdeth the seven stars in his right
hand, who walketh in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks :

2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and
thy patience, and how thou canst not
bear them that are evil, and thou hast
tried them, who say they are apostles,
and are not, and hast found them liars:

3 And thou hast patience, and hast en-
dured for ray name, and hast not fainted.

4 But I have somewhat against thee,
because thou hast left thy first charity.

5 Be mindful therefore from whence
thou art fallen : and do penance, and do
the first works. Or else I come to thee,
and will move thy candlestick out of its
place, except thou do penance.

6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the
deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate.

7 He, that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith to the churches:
To him, that overcometh, I will give to
eat of th* tree of life, which is in the
paradise of my God.

n l3a. 41. 4, aod 44. 6. aaU 4& 12;

8 And to the angel of the church of
Smyrna write: These things saith the
First and the Last, who was dead, and is
alive :

9 I know thy tribulation and thy pov-
erty, but thou art rich: and thou art
blasphemed by them that say they are
Jews and are not, but are the synagogue
of Satan.

10 Fear none of those things which thou
shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast
some of you into prison that you may be
tried : and you shall have tribulation ten
days. Be thou faithful until death: and
I will give thee the crown of life.

11 He, that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith to the churches:
He that shall overcome, shall not be hurt
by the second death.

12 And to the angel of the church of
Per gam us write : These things, saith he,
that hath the sharp two edged sword :

13 I know where thou dwellest, where
the seat of Satan is: and thou boldest
fast my name, and hast not denied my
faith. Even in those days when Antipas
wa% my faithful witness, who was slain
among you, where Satan dwelleth.

14 But I have against thee a few things :
because thou hast there them that hold
the doctrine °of Balaam, who taught
Balac to cast a stumblingblock before
the children of Israel, to eat, and to com-
mit fornication :

1^ So hast thou also them that hold the
doctrine of the Nicolaites

16 In like manner do penance : if not, I
will come to thee quickly, and will fight
against them with the sword of my mouth.

17 He, that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith to the churches : To
him that overcometh, I will give the
hidden manna, and will give him a white
counter, and in the counter, a new name
written, which no man knoweth, but he
that receiveth it.

18 And to the angel of the church of
Thyatira write : These things saith the Son
of God, who hath his eyes like to a flame
of fire, and his feet like to fine brass.

19 I know thy works, and thy faith, and
thy charity, and thy ministry, and thy
patience, and thy last works which are
more than the former.

20 But I have against thee a few things?

Infra 21. 5, and 22. 13. — o Num. 24. 3, and 26. %

^80

To the church of Thyatira THE APOCALYPSE Of Sardis and Philadelphia

because thon eufferest the woman Jeza-
bel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to
teach, and to seduce my servants, to
commit fornication, and to eat of things
sacrificed to idols.

21 And I gave her a time that she might
do penance, and she will not repent of
her fornication.

22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed :
and they that commit adultery with her
shall be in very great tribulation, except
they do penance from their deeds.

23 And I will kill her children with
death, and all the churches shall know
^that I am he that searcheth the reins
and hearts, and I will give to every one
of you according to your works. But to
you I say,

24 And to the rest who are at Thyatira :
Whosoever have not this doctrine, and
who have not known the depths of Satan,
as they say, I will not put upon you any
other burthen.

26 Yet that, which you have, hold fast
till I corns.

26 And he that shall overcome, and keep
my works unto the end, I will give him
power over the nations.

27 And he shall rule them with a rod of
iron, and as the vessel of a potter they
shall be broken,

28 As I also have received of my Father:
and I will give him the morning star.

29 He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith to the churches.

CHAPTER 8.

Directions what to write to SardiSy Philadelphia^
and Laodicea.

A ND to the angel of the church of Sar-
XjL dis, write: These things saith he,
that hath the seven spirits of God, and
the seven stars: I know thy works, that
thou ist the name of being alive : and
thou art dead.

2 Be watchful and strengthen the things
*hat remain, which are ready to die. For
i find not thy works full before my God.

3 Have in mind therefore in what man-
ner thou hast received and heard : and

p 1 Kings 16. 7 ; Ps. 7. 10; Jer. 11. 20,
and 17. 10, and 20. 12.

Chap. 2. Ver. 26. Power over the nations. This
shews, that the saints, who are with Christ our
Lord in heaven, receive power from him to preside
over nations and provinces, as patrons ; and shall
come with him at the end of the world to execute
bis vill against those who have not kept his com-
nftaflrtwifiiti

observe, and do penance. If tben thoa
Shalt not watch, 9 1 will come to thee as a
thief, and thou shalt not know at what
hour I will come to thee.

4 But thou hast a few names In Sardis,
which have not defiled their garments :
and they shall walk with me in white,
because they are worthy.

6 He that shall overcome, shall thus be
clothed in white garments, and I will not
blot out his name out of the book o*
life, and I will confeus his name before
my Father, and before his angels.

6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what
the Spirit saith to the churches.

7 And to the angel of the church ol
Philadelphia, write : These things saith
the Holy One and the true one, ** he that
hath the key of David ; he that openeth,
and no man shutteth ; shutteth, and no
man openeth:

8 I know thy works. Behold, I have
given before thee a door opened, whic!
no man can shut : because thou hast -^.
little strength, and hast kept my word
and hast not denied my name.

9 Behold, I will bring of the synagogue
of Satan, who say they are Jews, and
are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make
them to come and adore before thy feet>
And they shall know that I have loved
theCo

10 Because thou hast kept the word «f
my patience, I will also keep thee from
the hour of temptation, which shall
come upon the whole world to try them
that dwell upon the earth.

11 Behold, I come quickly: hold fast
that which thou hast, that no man t^ke
thy crown.

12 He that shall overcome, I will make
him a pillar in the temple of my God ;
and he shall go out no more ; and I will
write upon him the name of my God,
and the name of the city of my God, the
new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of
heaven from my God, and my new name.

13 He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith to the churches.

14 And to the angel of the church of

q I Thess. 5. 2 ; 2 Peter 3. 10 ; Infra 16. 15.
r Isa. 22. 22 ; Job 12. 14.

Chap. 3. Ver. 14. The Amen^ that is, the true
one, the Truth itself ; the Word and Son of God. —
Ibid, The beginning, i» «px^, that is, tnfe principle,
the source, and the efficient cause of the whole crea

tiOB.

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To the church of Laodicea THE APOCALYPSE The four living creatures

Laodicea, write: ® These things saith the
Ameu, the faithful and true witness, who
is the beginning of the creation of God :

15 I know thy works, that thou art nei-
ther cold, nor hot I would thou wert
eold, or hot.

16 But because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold, nor hot, I will begin to
vomit thee out of my mouth.

17 Because thou say est : I am rich, and
made wealthy, and have need of no-
thing: and knowest not, that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and
blind, and naked.

18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold fire
\ried, that thou mayest be made rich;
md mayest be clothed in white gar-
ments, and that the shame of thy naked-
ness may not appear ; and anoint thy
eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest
see.

19 ^ Such as I love, I rebuke and chas-
tise. Be zealous therefore, and do pen-
a. e.

20 Beho-.u, ". «tand at the gate, and
knock. If any niAn shall hear my voice,
and open to me the door, I will come in
to him, and will sup with him, and he
with me.

21 To him that shall over^^Txie, I will
give to sit with me in my throve: as I
also have overcome, and am set \)wn
vdth my Father in his throne.

22 He that hath an ear, let him ht,»-*
what the Spirit saith to the churches.

CHAPTER 4.

The vision of the throne of God, the twenty-fmir
ancients, and thefotir living creatures.

A PTER these things I looked, and be-
XV hold a door was opened in heaven,
and the first \oice which I heard, as it
were, of a trumpet speaking with me,
«aid: Come up hither, and I will shew
thee the things which must be done
hereafter.

2 And immediately I was in the spirit:
and behold there was a throne set in
heaven, and upon the throne one sitting.

3 And he that sat, was to the sight like
the jasper and the sardine stone; and
there was a rainbow round about the
throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

4 And round about the throne were
four and twenty seats; and upon the

• J«ta 14. 6. — e Prov. 8. 12t Heb. 1& 6.

seats, four and twenty ancients e'tting,
clothed in white garments, and on their
heads were crowns of gold.

5 And from the throne proceeded light-
nings, and voices, and thunders; and
there were seven lamps burning before
the throne, which are the seven spirits
of God.

6 And in the sight of the throne was, as
it were, a sea of glass like to crystal;
and in the midst of the throne, and
round about the throne, were four living
creatures, full of eyes before and behind.

7 And the first living creature was like
a lion: and the second living creature
like a calf: and the third living creature,
having the face, as it were, of a man:
and the fourth living creature was like
an eagle flying.

8 And the four living creatures had
each of them six wings ; and round
about and within they are full of eyes.
And they rested not day and night, say-
ing: ^Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Al«
mighty, who was, and who is, and who
is to come.

9 And when those living creatures gave
glory, and honour, and benediction to
him that sitteth on the throne, who liv-
eth for ever and ever;

10 The four and twenty ancients fell
down before him that sitteth on the
throne, and adored him that liveth for
ever and ever, and cast their crowns be-
fore the throne, saying :

11 Thou art worthy, O Lord our God,
to receive glory, and honour, and power:
because thou hast created all things;
and for thy will they were, and have
been created.

CHAPTER 5.

The book sealed with seven seals is opened by the
Lamb^ who thereupon receives adoration and
praise from all.

A NT) I saw in the right hand of him
x\ that sat on the throne, a book writ-
ten within and without, sealed with
seven seals.

2 And I saw a strong angel, proclaiming
with a loud voice: Who is worthy to
open the book, and to loose the seals
thereof?

3 And no man was able, neither in hea-
ven, nor on earth, nor under the earth,
to open the book, nor to look on it.

ul8a.6. 3.

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Canticle of the Spirits

THE APOCALYPSE The opening of the seals

4 And 1 wGpt much, because no man 14 And the four living creatures said :

was found worthy to open the book, nor
to see it.

5 And one of the ancients said to me:
Weep not; behold the lion of the tribe
of Juda, the root of David, hath pre-
vailed to open the book, and to loose
the seven seals thereof.

6 And I saw; and behold in the midst
of the throne and of the four living crea-
tures, and in the midst of the ancients,
a Lamb standing as it were slain, having
seven horns and seven eyes : which are
the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into
all the earth.

7 And he came and took the book out
of the right hand of him that sat on the
throne.

8 And when he had opened the book,
the four living creatures, and the four
and twenty ancients fell down before
the Lamb, having every one of them
harps, and golden vials full of odours,
which are the prayers of saints:

9 And they sung a new canticle, saying:
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the
book, and to open the seals thereof ; be-
cause thou wast slain, and hast redeemed
us to God, in thy blood, out of every
tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

10 And hast made us to our God a king-
dom and priests, and we shall reign on
the earth.

11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice
of many angels round about the throne,
and the living creatures, and the an-
cients; and the number of them was
" thousands of thousands,

12 Saying with a loud voice: The Lamb
that was slain is worthy to receive
power, and divinity, and wisdom, and
strength, and honour, and glory, and
benediction.

13 And every creature, which is in hea-
ven, and on the earth, and under the
earth, and such as are in the sea, and all
that are in them: I heard all saying: To
him that sitteth on the throne, and to
the Lamb, benediction, and honour, and
glory, and power, for ever and ever.

1' Dan. 7. 10.

Chap. 5. Ver. 8. The ])rayprs of aaints. Here
we see that the saints in heaven offer up to Christ
the prayers of the faithful upon earth.

Chap. 6. Ver. 2. IFhite horse. He that sitteth
on the white horse is Christ, going forth to subdue
the world by his gospel. The other horses that fol-
low represent the judgments and punishment that
were to f^ll on the eDemies of Christ and Ms cliurc^

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Amen. And the four and twenty an-
cients fell down on their faces, and
adored him that liveth for ever and
ever.

CHAPTER 6.
What followed upon opening six of the seals.

ND I saw that the Lamb had opened
one of the seven seals, and I heard
one of the four living creatures, as it
were the voice of thunder, saying : Come,
and see.

2 And I saw : and behold a white horse,
and he that sat on him had a bow, and
there was a crown given him, and he
went forth conquering that he might
conquer.

3 And when he had opened the second
seal, I heard the second living creature,
saying : Come, and see.

4 And there went out another horse that
was red : and to him that sat thereon, it
was given that he should take peace from
the earth, and that they should kill one
another, and a great sword was given to
him.

5 And when he had opened the third
seal, I heard the third living creature
saying: Come, and see. And behold a
black horse, and he that sat on him had
a pair of scales in his hand.

6 And I heard as it were a voice in the
midst of the four living creatures, say-
ing : Two pounds of wheat for a penny,
and thrice two pounds of barley for a
penny, and see thou hurt not the wine
and the oil.

7 And when he had opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth liv
ing creature, saying: Come, and see.

8 And behold a pale horse, and he that
sat upon him, his name was Death, and
hell followed him. And power was
given to him over the four parts of the
earth, to kill with sword, with famine,
and with death, and with the beasts of
the earth.

9 And when he had opened the fifth
seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
them that were slain for the word of

The red horse signifies war ; the black horse, famine j
and the pale horse (which has Death for its rider),
plagues or pestilence.

Ver, 9. UnrUr the aJtar. Christ, as man, is this
altar, under wiiich the souls of the martyrs live in
heaver., as their bodies are here deposited uuder our
altars.

The opening of the sixth seal THE APOCALYPSE The number oj the dgned

God, and for the testimony which they
held.

10 And they cried with a loud voice,
saying: How long, O Lord (holy and
true) dost thou not judge and revenge
our blood on them that dwell on the
earth ?

11 And white robes were given to every
one of them one; and it was said to
them, that they should rest for a little
time, till their fellow servants, and their
brethren, who are to be slain, even as
they, should be filled up.

12 And I saw, when he had opened the
sixth seal, and behold there was a great
earthquake, and the sun became black
as sackcloth of hair: and the whole
moon became as blood :

13 And the stars from heaven fell upon
the earth, as the fig tree caste th its
green figs when it is shaken by a great
wind :

14 And the heaven departed as a book
folded up : and every mountain, and the
islands were moved out of their places.

15 And the kings of the earth, and the
princes, and tribunes, and the rich, and
the strong, and every bondman, and

'every freeman, hid themselves in the
dens and in the rocks of mountains :

16 And they say to the mountains and
the rocks : ^ Fall upon us, and hide us
from the face of him that sitteth upon
the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb:

17 For the great day of their wrath is
come, and who shall be able to stand ?

CHAPTER 7.

The numhpr of them that were marked with the
seal of the living God, and clothed in white
robes.

4 FTER these things, I saw four angels
x\ standing on the four corners of the
earth, holding the four winds of the
earth, that they should not blow upon
the earth, nor upon the sea, nor on any
tree.

2 And I saw another angel ascending
from the rising of the sun, having the
sign of the living God ; and he cried with
a loud voice to the four angels, to whom
it was given to hurt the earth and the
sea.

w Tsa. 2. 19 ; Osee 10, 8 ; Luke 23. 30.

Ver. 10. Revenge our blood. They ask not this
t)\\t of hatred to their enemies, but out of zeal for
the glory of God, and a desire that the Lord would

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3 Saying : Hurt not the earth, nor the
sea, nor the trees, till we sign the ser-
vants of our God in their foreheads.

4 And I heard the number of them that
were signed, an hundred forty-four thou-
sand were signed, of every tribe of the
children of Israel.

5 Of the tribe of Juda, were twelve thou-
sand signed : Of the tribe of Ruben,
twelve thousand signed : Of the tribe of
Gad, twelve thousand signed :

6 Of the tribe of Aser, twelve thousand
signed : Of the tribe of Nephthali, twelve
thousand signed : Of the tribe of Manas-
ses, twelve thousand signed :

7 Of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thou-
sand signed : Of the tribe of Levi, twelve
thousand signed: Of the tribe of Issachar,
twelve thousand signed:

8 Of the tribe of Zabulon, twelve thou-
sand signed : Of the tribe of Joseph,
twelve thousand signed : Of the tribe of
Benjamin, twelve thousand signed.

9 After this I saw a great multitude,
which no man could number, of all
nations, and tribes, and peoples, and
tongues, standing before the throne, and
in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white
robes, and palms in their hands :

10 And they cried with a loud voice,
saying: Salvation to our God, who sit-
teth upon the throne, and to the Lamb.

11 And all the angels stood round about
the throne, and the ancients, and the
four living creatures ; and they fell down
before the throne upon their faces, and
adored God,

12 Saying: Amen. Benediction, and
glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving,
honour, and power, and strength to our
God for ever and ever. Amen.

13 And one of the ancients answered,
and said to me : These that are clothed ia
white robes, who are they? and whence
came they?

14 And I said to him: My Lord, thou
knowest. And he said to me : These are
they who are come out of great tribula-
tion, and have washed their robes, and
have made them white in the blood of
the Lamb.

15 Therefore they are before the throne
of God, and they serve him day arid T\\^hi

accelerate the general judgment, and the complete
beatitude oi all ius elect

Opening of the seventh seal THE APOCALYPSE Third and fourth trumpet

iu his temple i and he, that sitteth on the
throne, shall dwell over them.

16 ^They shall no more hunger nor
thirst, neither shall the sun fall on them,
nor any heat.

17 For the Lamb, which is in the midst of
the throne, shall rule them, and shall lead
them to the fountains of the waters of life,
^ and God shall wipe away ail tears from
their eyes.

CHAPTER 8.

ITie seventh seal is opened: the angels with the
seven trumpets.

A ND when he had opened the seventh

XX seal, there was silence in heaven, as

it were for half an hour.

2 And I saw seven angels standing in
the presence of God; and there were
given to them seven trumpets.

3 And another angel came, and stood
before the altar, having a golden censer ;
and there was given to him much in-
cense, that he should offer of the prayers
of all saints upon the golden altar, which
is before the throne of God.

4 And the smoke of the incense of the
prayers of the saints ascended up before
God from the hand of the angel.

5 And the angel took the censer, and
filled it with the fire of the altar, and
cast it on the earth, and there were
thunders and voices and lightnings, and
a great earthquake.

6 And the seven angels, who had the
seven trumpets, prepared themselves to
sound the trumpet.

7 And the first angel sounded the
trumpet, and there followed hail and
fire, mingled with blood, and it was cast
on the earth, and the third part of the
earth was burnt up, and the third part
of the trees was burnt up, and all green
grass was burnt up.

8 And the second angel sounded the
trumpet : and as it were a great moun-

X Isa. 49. 10.

Chap. 9. Ver. l. A star fall. This may mean
[ tlie fall and apostasy of great and learned men from
the true faith. Or a whole nation falling into error
and separating from the church, not having the sign
of God in their foreheads. — Ibid. And there tins
given to him the key of the bottomless pit. That is,
to the angel, not to the fallen star. To this angel
was given the power, which is here signified by a
key, of opening hell.

Ver. 3. There came out locusts. These may be
devils in Antichrist's time, having the appearance of
locusts, but large and monstrous, as here d'^scribed.
Or they may be real locusts, but of an extraordinary
size and monstrous shape, such as were never before
9660 on the earth, sent to torment those who have

tain, burning with fire, was cast into the
sea, and the third part of the sea became
blood :

9 And the third part of those creatures
died, which had life in the sea, and the
third part of the ships was destroyed.

10 And the third angel sounded the
trumpet, and a great star fell from hea-
ven, burning as it were a torch, and it
fell on the third part of the rivers, and
upon the fountains of waters :

11 And the name of the star is called
Wormwood. And the third part of the
waters became wormwood ; and many
men died of the waters, because they
were made bitter.

12 And the fourth angel sounded the
trumpet, and the third part of the sun
was smitten, and the third part of the
moon, and the third part of the stars, so
that the third part of them was dark-
ened, and the day did not shine for a
third part of it, and the night in like
manner.

13 And I beheld, and heard the voice of
one eagle flying through the midst of
heaven, saying with a loud voice: Woe,
woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth :
by reason of the rest of the voices of the
three angels, who are yet to sound the
trumpet.

CHAPTER 9.

Locusts come forth from the bottomless pit : tl •
vision of the army of horseme?u

AND the fifth angel sounded the

J\. trumpet, and I saw a star fall from

heaven upon the earth, and there was

given to him the key of the bottomless

i pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit:
I and the smoke of the pit arose, as the

smoke of a great furnace ; and the sun
and the air were darkened wHh the
smoke of the pit.

3 And from the smoke of the pit there

y Isa. 25. 8 ; Infra 21. 4.

not the siffn (or seal) of God on their foreheads.
Some commentators by these locusts understand
heretics, and especially those heretics, that sprung
from Jews, and with them denied the divinity of
Jesus CiiTist ; as Theodotus, Praxeas, Noetus, Paul
of Samosata, Sabellius, Arius, &c. These were great
enemies of the Christian religion ; they tormented
and infected the souls of men, stinging them like
scorpions, with the poison of their heresies. Others
have explained these lociists, and other animals,
mentioned in different places throughout this sacred
and mystical book, in a most absurd, fanciful, and
ridiculous manner: they make Abaddon the Pope,
and the locusts to be friars mendicant, &c. Here it
is thought proper, not to enter into any controversy

28d

The locusts

THE APOCALYPSE The army of horsemen

came out locusts upon the earth. And
power was given to them, as the scor-
pions of the earth have power :

4 And it was commanded them that
they should not hurt the grass of the
earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree :
but only the men who have not the sign
of God on their foreheads.

5 And it was given unto them that they
should not kill them; but that they
should torment them five months: and
their torment was as the torment of a
scorpion when he striketh a man.

6 ^ And in those days men shall seek
death, and shall not find it : and they
shall desire to die, and death shall fly
from them.

7 " And the shapes of the locusts were
like unto horses prepared unto battle:
and on their heads lyere, as it were,
crowns like gold : and their faces were as
the faces of men.

8 And they had hair as the hair of
women ; and their teeth were as lions :

9 And they had breastplates as breast-
plates of iron, and the noise of their
wings was as the noise of chariots and
many horses running to battle.

10 And they had tails like to scorpions,
and there were stings in their tails ; and
their power was to hurt men five months.
And they had over them

11 A king, the angel of the bottomless
pit ; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon,
and in Greek Apollyon ; ^ in Latin Exter-
minans.

12 One woe is past, and behold there
come yet two woes more hereafter.

13 And the sixth angel sounded the
trumpet : and I heard a voice from the
four horns of the golden altar, which is
before the eyes of God,

14 Saying to the sixth angel, who had
the trumpet: Loose the four angels, who
are bound in the great river Euphrates.

15 And the four angels were loosed, who
were prepared for an hour, and a day,
and a month, and a year : for to kill the
third part of men.

16 And the number of the army of
horsemen was twenty thousand times
ten thousand. And I heard the number
of them.

2 Isa. 2. 19; Osee 10. 8; Luke 23. 30. — a Wisd. 6. 9.

upon that subject, as the inventors of these fancies
have been already answered, and fully refuted by
maDy controvertists : besides, those who might be

17 And thus I saw the horses ij: the
vision : and they that sat on them, had
breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and
of brimstone, and the heads of the horses
were as the heads of lions : and irom
their mouths proceeded fire, and smoke,
and brimstone.

18 And by these three plagues was slain
the third part of men, by the fire and by
the smoke and by the brimstone, which
issued out of their mouths.

19 For the power of the horses is in
their mouths, and in their tails. For,
their tails are like to serpents, and have
heads: and with them they hurt.

20 And the rest of the men, who were
not slain by these plagues, did not do
penance from the works of their hands,
that they should not adore devils, and
idols of gold, and silver, and brass^ and
stone, and wood, which neither can see,
nor hear, nor walk:

21 Neither did they penance from their
murders, nor from their sorceries, nor
from their fornication, nor from thaii
thefts.

CHAPTER 10.

The cry of a mighty angel : he gives John a hook 'a
eat.

A ND I saw another mighty angel come
jt\. down from heaven, clothed with a
cloud, and a rainbow was on his head,
and his face was as the sun, and his fe^f;
as pillars of fire.

2 And he had in his hand a little book
open: and he set his right foot upon the
sea, and his left foot upon the earth.

3 And he cried with a loud voice as when
a Hon roareth. And when he had cried,
seven thunders uttered their voices.

4 And when the seven thunders had ut-
tered their voices, I was about to writer
and I heard a voice from heaven saying
to me: Seal up the things which the
seven thunders have spoken ; and write
them not.

5 ^ And the angel, whom I saw standing
upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted
up his hand to heaven,

6 And he swore by him that liveth for
ever and ever, who created heaven, and
the things which are therein ; and the
earth, and the things which are in it;

b That Is, the destroyer. — c Dan. 12. 7.

imposed on by such chimerical writers, are in thes«
days mucu f)etter informed.

2dd

John ordered to eat the

THE APOCALYPSE

The two witnesses

and the sea, and the things which are
therein : That time shall be no longer.

7 But in the days of the voice of the
seventh angel, when he shall begin to
sound the trumpet, the mystery of God
shall be finished, as he hafch declared by
his servants the prophets.

8 And I heard a voice from heaven
again speaking to me, and saying : Go,
and take the book that is open, from the
hand of the angel who standeth upon the
sea, and upon the earth.

9 And I went to the angel, saying unto
him, that he should give me the book.
And he said to me : ^ Take the book, and
eat it up : and it shall make thy belly bit-
ter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as
honey.

10 And I took the book from the hand
of the angel, and ate it up : and it was in
my mouth, sweet as honey : and when 1
had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

11 And he said to me : Thou must pro-
phesy again to many nations, and peo-
ples, and tongues, and kings.

CHAPTER 11.

He is ordered to measure the temple: the two

witnesses.

A ND there was given me a reed like unto
X\: a rod : and it was said to me : Arise,
and measure the temple of God, and the
altar and them that adore therein.

2 But the court, which is without the
temple, cast out, and measure it not : be-
cause it is given unto the Gentiles, and
the holy city they shall tread under foot
two and forty months:

3 And I will give unto my two wit-
nesses, and they shall prophesy a thou-
sand two hundred sixty days, clothed in
sackcloth.

4 These are the two olive trees, and the
two candlesticks, that stand before the
Lord of the earth.

6 And if any man will hurt them, fire
shall come out of their mouths, and shall
devour their enemies. And if any man
will hurt them, in this manner must he
be slain.

6 These have power to shut heaven, that
it rain not in the days of their prophecy :

d Ezech. 3. 1.

Chap. 10. Ver.7. Declared: Wt^vdMy evangelized,
to signify the good tidings, agreeable to the Gos-
pel, of the final victory of Christ, and of that eternal
Ufe^ wbicb should be the rewaxd of the temporal

and they have power over waters to turn
them into blood, and to strike the earth
with all plagues as often as they will.

7 And when they shall have finished
their testimony, the beast, that ascend-
eth out of the abyss, shall make war'
against them, and shall overcome them,
and kill them.

8 And their bodies shall lie in the streets
of the great city, which is called spirit'
ually, Sodom and Egypt, where their
Lord also was crucified.

9 And they of the tribes, and peoples,
and tongues, and nations, shall see their
bodies for three days and a half: and
they shall not suffer thdir bodies to be
laid in sepulchres.

10 And they that dwell upon the earth
shall rejoice over them, and make merry:
and shall send gifts one to another, be-
cause these two prophets tormented
them that dwelt upon the earth.

11 And after three days and a half, the
spirit of life from God entered into them.
And they stood upon their feet, and great
fear fell upon them that saw them. ^

12 And they heard a great voice from
heaven, saying to them: Come up hither.
And they went up to heaven in a cloud :
and their enemies saw them.

13 And at that hour there was made a
great earthquake, and the tenth part of
the city fell : and there were slain in the
earthquake names of men seven thou-
sand: and the rest were cast into a fear,
and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe is past : and behold
the third woe will come quickly.

15 And the seventh angel sounded the
trumpet: and there were great voices in
heaven, saying: The kingdom of this
world is become our Lord's and his
Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and
ever. Amen.

16 And the four and twenty ancients,
who sit on their seats in the sight of God,
fell on their faces and adored God, saying :

17 We give thee thanks, O Lord God
Almighty, who art, and who wast, and
who art to come: because thou hast
taken to thee thy great power, and thou
hast reigned.

sufferings of the martyrs and faithful servants ol
God.

Chap. 11. Ver. 3. My tvo witnesses. It iS
moQly understood ol Henoch and Elias.

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The woman and

THE APOCALYPSE

the dragon

18 And the nations were angry, and thy
wrath is come, and the time of the dead,
that they should be judged, and that
thou shouldest render reward to thy ser-
vants the prophets and the saints, and
to them that fear thy name, little and
great, and shouldest destroy them who
have corrupted the earth.

19 And the temple of God was opened
in heaven: and the ark of his testament
was seen in his temple, and there were
lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake,
and great hail.

CHAPTER 12. ^

The vision of the woman clothed with fhe sun • and
of the great dragon her perstcu&or.

AND a great sign appeared in heaven :
J\. A woman clothed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and on her
head a crown of twelve stars :

2 And being with child, she cried trav-
ailing In birth, and was in pain to be
delivered.

3 And there was seen another sign in
heaven : and behold a great red dragon,
having seven heads, and ten horns : and
on his heads seven diadems :

4 And his tail drew the third part of
the stars of heaven, and cast them to
the earth: and the dragon stood before
the woman who was ready to be deliv-
ered ; that, when she should be delivered,
he might devour her son.

5 And she brought forth a man child,
who was to rule all nations with an iron
rod : and her son was taken up to God,
and to his throne.

6 And the woman fled into the wilder-
ness, where she had a place prepared by
God, that there they should feed her a
thousand two hundred sixty days.

7 And there was a great battle in hea-
ven, Michael and his angels fought with
the dragon, and the dragon fought and
his angels:

8 And they prevailed not, neither was
their place found any more in heaven.

9 And that great dragon was cast out,
that old serpent, who is called the devil

Chap. 12. Ver. l. J woman. The church of
God. It may also, by allusion, be applied to our
blessed Lady. The church is clothed with the sun.
that is, with Christ : she hath the moon, that is, the
changeable things of the world, under her feet : and
the twelve stars with whicl» she is crowned, are the
twelve apostles : she is in laboiu' and pain, whilst she

and Satan, who seduceth the whole
world; and he was cast unto the earth, and
his angels were thrown down with him.

10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven,
sajdng: Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the kingdom of our God,
and the power of his Christ : because the
accuser of our brethren is cast forth,
who accused them before our God day
and night.

11 And they overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb, and by the word of the tes-
timony, and they loved not their lives
unto death.

12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and
you that dwell therein. Woe to the
earth, and to the sea, because the devil
is come down unto you, having great
wrath, knowing that he hath but a short
time.

13 And when the dragon saw that he
was cast unto the earth, he persecuted
the woman, who brought forth the man
child:

14 And there were given to the woman
two wings of a great eagle, that she
might fly into the desert unto her place,
where she is nourished for a time anc*
times, and half a time, from the face of
the serpent,

15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth
after the woman, water as it were a river;
^that he might cause her to be carried
away by the river.

16 And the earth helped the woman,
and the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed up the river, which the dragon
cast out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon was angry against
the woman: and went to make war with
the rest of her seed, who keep the com-
mandments of God, and have the testi-
mony of Jesus Christ.

18 And he stood upon the sand of the sea.

CHAPTER 13.

Of the beast with seven heads: and of a secona
beast.

ND I saw a beast coming up out ot
the sea, having seven heads and

« Or, flood.

brings forth her children, and Christ in them. In the
midst of afflictions and persecutions.

Chap. 13. Ver. 1. A beast. This first beast with
seven heads and ten horns, is probably the whole
company of infidels, enemies and persecutors of the
people of God. from the beginning to the end of the
world. The seven heads are seven kiogs« that itk

288

The beast with seven heads THE APOCALYPSE The beast with two horns

Den horns, and upon his horns ten dia-
dems, and upon his heads names of blas-
phemy.

2 And the beast, which I saw, was like
to a leopard, and his feet were as the
feet of a bear, and his mouth as the
mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave
him his own strength, and great power.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were

slain to death : and his death's

wound
was in

was healed. And all the earth
admiration after the beast.

4 And they adored the dragon, which
gave power to the beast : and they
adored the beast, saying : Who is like to
the beast? and who shall be able to
fight with him ?

5 And thei'e was given to him a mouth
speaking grea: things, and blasphemies:
and power was given to him to do two
and forty months.

6 And he opened his mouth unto blas-
phemies against God, to blaspheme his
name, and his tabernacle, and them that
dwell in heaven.

7 And it was given unto him to make
war with the saints, and to overcome
them. And power was given him over
every tribe, and people, and tongue, and
nation.

8 And all that dwell upon the earth
adored him, whose names are not written
in the book of life O' the Lamb, which
was slain from the beginning of the world.

9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

10 He that shall lead into captivity, shall
go into captivity :-^he that shall kill by the
sword, must be killed by the sword. Here
is the patience and the faith of the saints.

11 And I saw another beast coming up
out of the earth, and he had two horns,
like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.

12 And he executed all the power of
the former beast in his sight ; and he
caused the earth, and them that dwell

/ Gen. 9. 6 ; Matt. 26. 52.

seven principal kingdoms or empires, which have
exercised, or shall exercise, tyrannical power over
the people of God; of these, five were then fallen,
viz.: the Egyptian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian,
and Grecian monarchies : one was present, viz., tlie
empire of Rome : and the seventh and chiefest was
to come, viz., the great Antichrist and his empire.
The tea horns may be understood of ten lesser per-
secutors.

Ver. 3. One of 7iis heads, &c. Some imderstand
this of the mortal wound, which the idolatry of the
Roman empire (signified by the sixth head) received
from Constantine; which was, as it were, tiealed
again by Julian the Apostate.

therein, to adore the first beast, whose
wound to death was healed.

13 And he did great signs, so that he
made also fire to come down from hea-
ven unto the earth in the sight of men.

14 And he seduced them that dwell
on the earth, for the signs, which were
given him to do in the sight of the beast,
saying to them that dwell on the earth,
that they should make the image of the
beast, which had the wound by the
sword, and lived.

15 And it was given him to give life to
the image of the beast, and that the
image of the beast should speak ; and
should cause, that whosoever will not
adore the image of the beast, should be
slain.

16 And he shall make all, both little
and great, rich and poor, freemen and
bondmen, to have a character in their
right hand, or on their foreheads.

17 And that no man might buy or sell,
but he that hath the character, or the
name of the beast, or the number of his
name.

18 Here is wisdom. He that hath under-
standing, let him count the number o"
the beast. For it is the number of a
man : and the number of him is six hun-
dred sixty-six.

CHAPTER 14.

Of the Lamb, and of the virgins that follow him.
Of thejiidgtnents t/iat shall fall upon the wicked.

A ND I beheld, and lo a lamb stood
J\. upon mount Sion, and with him an
hundred forty-four thousand, having his
name, and the name of his Father, writ-
ten on their foreheads.

2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as
the noise of many waters, and as the
voice of great thunder ; and the voice
which I heard, was as the voice of harp-
ers, harping on their harps.

Ver. 6. His tabernacle, &c. That is, his church
and his saints.

Ver. 8. Slain from the beginning, &c. In th«
foreknowledge oif God ; and inasmucn as all mercy
and grace, from the beginning, was given in view of
his deatli and passion.

Ver. 11. Another beast. This second beast with
two liorns, may be understood of the heathenish
l)riests and magicians ; the principal promoters botU
of idolatry and persecution.

Ver. 18. Six hundred sixty-six. The numeral l«t
ters of bis name shall make up this number.

280

The virgins

THE APOCALYPSE

The angel with the sickle

3 And they sung as it were a new can-
ticle, before the throne, and before the
four Uving creatures, and the ancients ;
and no man could say the canticle, but
those hundred forty-four thousand, who
were purchased from the earth.

4 These are they who were not defiled
with women : for they are virgins.
These follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth. These were purchased from
among men, the firstfruits to God and
to the Lamb:

6 And in their mouth there was found
no lie ; for they are without spot before
the throne of God.

6 And I saw another angel flying
through the midst of heaven, having the
eternal gospel, to preach unto them that
sit upon the earth, and over every nation,
and tribe, and tongue, and people;

7 Saying with a loud voice : Fear the
Lord, and give him honour, because the
hour of his judgment is come ; and adore
ye him, ^ that made heaven and earth,
the sea, and the fountains of waters.

8 And another angel followed, saying:
^ That great Babylon is fallen, is fallen ;
which made all nations to drink of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication.

9 And the third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice: If any man
shall adore the beast and his image, and
receive his character in his forehead, or
in his hand ;

10 He also shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God, which is mingled with
pure wine in the cup of his wrath, and
shall be tormented with fire and brim-
stone in the sight of the holy angels,
and in the sight of the Lamb.

11 And the smoke of their torments
shall ascend up for ever and ever :
neither have they rest day nor night, who
have adored the beast, and his image,
and whoever receiveth the character of
his name.

12 Here is the patience of the saints,
Who keep the commandments of God,
and the faith of Jesus.

13 And I heard a voice from heaven,

if Ps. 145. 6 ; Acts 14. 14. — h Isa. 21. 9 ; Jer. 51. 8.

Chap. 14. Ver. 8. Babylon. By Babylon may
be very probably signified all the wicked world in
general, which God will punish, and destroy after
the short time of this mortal life : or it may signify
every great city wherein enormous sins and abomi-
nations are daily committed; and that when tlie
measure of its iniquities is full, the punishments due

saying to me: Write: Blessed are the
dead, who die in the Lord. From hence-
forth now, saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labours ; for their works
follow them.

14 And I saw, and behold a white cloud ;
and upon the cloud one sitting like to
the Son of man, having on his head a
crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp
sickle.

15 And another angel came out from
the temple crying with a loud voice to
him that sat upon the cloud : * Thrust in
thy sickle, and reap, because the hour is
come to reap : for the harvest of the
earth is ripe.

16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust
his sickle into the earth, and the earth
was reaped.

17 And another angel came out of the
temple which is in heaven, he also hav-
ing a sharp sickle.

18 And another angel came out from
the altar, who had power over fire ; and
he cried with a loud voice to him that
had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in
thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters
of the vineyard of the earth; because
the grapes thereof are ripe.

19 And the angel thrust in his sharp
sickle into the earth, and gathered the
vineyard of the earth, and cast it into
the great pr^s of the wrath of God:

20 And th? press was trodden without
the city, and blood came out of the press,
up to the horses' bridles, for a thousand
and six hundred furlongs.

CHAPTER 15.

They that have overcome the beast, glorify God.
the seven angels with the seven vials.

,ND I saw another sign in heaven,
great and wonderful : seven angels
having the seven last plagues. For in
them is filled up the wrath of God.

2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass
mingled with fire, and them that had
overcome the beast, and his image, and
the number of his name, standing on the
sea of glass, having the harps of God:

i Joel 3. 13 ; Matt. 13. 39.

to its crimes are poured on it. It may also be some
city of the description in the text, that will exist,
and be destroyed, as here described, towards the end
of the world.

Ver. 13. Die in the Lord. It is understood of tlM
martyrs who die for the Lord.

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The seven vials

THE APOCALYPSE The vials are poured out

6 And singing the canticle of Moses, the
servant of God, and the canticle of the
Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are
thy works O Lord God Almighty; just
and true are thy ways, O King of ages.

4 ^ Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and
magnify thy name? For thou only art
holy : for all nations shall come, and
shall adore in thy sight, because thy
judgments are manifest.

5 And after these things I looked ; and
behold, the temple of the tabernacle of
the testimony in heaven was opened :

6 And the seven angels came out of the
temple, having the seven plagues, clothed
with clean and white linen, and girt
about the breasts with golden girdles.

7 And one of the four li;ring creatures
gave to the seven angels seven golden
vials, full of the wrath of God, who liv-
eth for ever and ever.

8 And the temple was filled with smoke
from the majesty of God, and from his
power ; and no man was able to enter
into the temple, till the seven plagues of
the seven angels were fulfilled.

CHAPTER la.

The seven v'lala are lyoured out: the plagues that
ensue.

AND I heard a great voice out of the
u temple, saying to the seven angels :
Go, and pour out the seven vials of the
wrath of God upon the earth.

2 And the first went, and poured out
his vial upon the earth, and there fell a
sore and grievous wound upon men, who
had the character of the beast ; and upon
them that adored the image thereof.

3 And the second angel poured out his
vial upon the sea, and there came blood
as it were of a dead man ; and every liv-
ing soul died in the sea.

4 And the third poured out his vial
upon the rivers and the fountains of
waters ; and there was made blood.

5 And I heard the angel of the waters
saying : Thou art just, O Lord, who art,
and who wast, the Holy One, because
thou hast judged these things :

6 For they have shed the blood of saints
and prophets, and thou hast given them
blood to drink ; for they are worthy.

7 And I heard another, from the altar.

j Jer. 10. 7.

saying: Yea, O Lord God Almighty, true
and just are thy judgments.

8 And the fourth angel poured out his
vial upon the sun, and it was given unto
him to afflict men with heat and Are :

9 And men were scorched with great
heat, and they blasphemed the name of
God, who hath power over these plagues,
neither did they penance to give him
glory.

10 And the fifth angel poured out his
vial upon the seat of the beast ; and his
kingdom became dark, and they gnawed
their tongues for pain :

11 And they blasphemed the God of
heaven, because of their pains and
wounds, and did not penance for their
works.

12 And the sixth angel poured out his
vial upon that great river Euphrates ;
and dried up the water thereof, that a
way might be prepared for the kings
from the rising of the sun.

13 And I saw from the mouth of the
dragon, and from the mouth of the beast,
and from the mouth of the false prophet,
three unclean spirits like frogs.

14 For they are the spirits of devils
working signs, and they go forth unto
the kings of the whole earth, to gather
them to battle against the great day of
the Almighty God.

15 '^ Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed
is he that watcheth, and keepeth his gar-
ments, lest he walk naked, and they see
his shame.

16 And he shall gather them together
into a place, which in Hebrew ^" called
Armagedon.

17 And the seventh angel poured out
his vial upon the air, and there came a
great voice out of the temple from the
throne, saying : It is done.

18 And there were lightnings, and
voices, and thunders, and there was a
great earthquake, such an one as never
had been since men were upoi? the earth,
such an earthquake, so great

19 And the great city was divided into
three parts; and the cities of the Gen-
tiles fell. And great Babylon came in
remembrance before 3od, to give her
the cup of the wine of the indignation of
his wrath.

k Matt. 24. 43 • Luke 12. 39 • Supra 3. 3.

Chap, le, Ver. 16. Annagedon. That i", the hill of robbers.

291

The great harlot

THE APOCALYPSE The beast with seven heads

20 And every island fled away, and the
mountains were not found.

21 And great hail, like a talent, came
down from heaven upon men: and men
blasphemed God for the plague of the
bail: because it was exceeding great.

CHAPTER 17.

The description of the great harlot, and of the beast
upon which she sits.

A ND there came one of the seven an-
XX gels, who had the seven vials, and
spoke with me, saying : Come, I will
shew thee the condemnation of the great
harlot, w4k> siHeth upon many waters,

2 With whom the kings of the earth
have committed fornication; and they
who inhabit the earth, have been made
drunk with the wine of her whoredom.

3 And h3 took me away in spirit into
the desert. And I saw a woman sitting
upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of
names of blasphemy, having seven heads
and ten horns.

4 And the woman was clothed round
about with purple and scarlet, and gilt
with gold, and precious stones and
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand,
full of the abomination and filthiness of
her fornication.

6 And on her forehead a name was
written : A mystery ; Babylon the great,
the mother of the fornications, and the
abominations of the earth.

6 And I saw the woman drunk with the
blood of the saints, and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus. And I won-
dered, when I had seen her, with great
admiration.

7 And the angel said to me : Why dost
thou wonder ? I will tell thee the mys-
tery of the woman, and of the beast
which carrieth her, which hath the seven
heads and ten horns.

8 The beast, which thou sawest, was,
jj^ndis not, and shall come up out of the

Chap. 17. Ver, 5. A mystery. Thi^* is, a secret;
because what follows of the name and title of the
great harlot is to be taken in a mystical sense. —
Ibid. Babylon. Either the city of the devil in gen-
eral; or, if this placf» be to be understood of any
particular city, paga>., Rome, tvhich then and for
three hundred years persecuted the church; and
was the principal seat both of empire and idolatry.

Ver. 8. The beast which thou sawest. This beast
which supports Babylon, may signify the power of
the devil: which was ind, is not, being much limited
by the coming of 'Christ, but shall again exert itself
nnder AntiobrMO^ The seven heads of thia beast are

botto'-iless pit, and go into destruction
and the inhabitants on the earth (whose
names are not written in the book of
life from the foundation of the world)
shall wonder, seeing the beas^; that was,
and is not.

9 And here is the understanding that
hath wisdom. The seven heads are
seven mountains, upon which the woman
sitteth, and they are seven kings :

10 Five are fallen, one is, and the other
is not yet come : and when he is come,
he must remain a short time.

11 And the beast which was, and is not:
the same also is the eighth, and is of the
seven, and goeth into destruction.

12 And the ten horns which thou saw-
est, are ten kings, who have not yet re-
ceived a kingdom, but shall receive
power as kings one hour after the beast.

13 These have one design : and their
strength and power they shall deliver to
the beast.

14 These shall fight with the Lamb, and
the Lamb shall overcome them, ^ because
he is Lord of lords, and King of kings,
and they that are with him are called,
and elect, and faithful.

15 And he said to me: The waters which
thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth,
are peoples, and nations, and tongues.

16 And the ten horns which thou saw-
est in the beast: these shall hate the
harlot, and shall make her desolate and
naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall
burn her with fire.

17 For God hath given into their hearts
to do that which pleaseth him: that
they give their kingdom to the beast,
till the words of God be fulfilled.

18 And the woman which thou sawest,
is the great city, which hath kingdom
over the kings of the earth.

CHAPTER 18.

The fall of liabylon. K'dkjs and merchants lament
orer Upv.

1 1 Tim 6. 15 ; Infra 19. 16.

seven mountains or empires, instruments of his
tyranny; of which five were then fallen. (See chap.
13. 1, and below, ver. 10.) The beast itself is said to
be the eighth, and is of the seven; because they all
act under the devil, and by his instigation, so that
his power is in them all, yet so as to make up, as it
were, an eighth empire, distinct from them all.

Ver. 12. Ten kings. Ten lesser kingdoms, ene-
mies also of the church of Christ: which, neverthe-
less, shall be made instruments of the justice of God
for the punishment of Babylon. Some understand
this c* the Goths, Vandals, Huns, and other barba*
rous u^i'ions, that destroyed the empire of Rome.

The fall of Babylon

THE APOCALYPSE Lament of the merchants

AND after these things, I saw another
. angel come down from heaven,
having great power : and the earth was
enlightened with his glory.

2 And he cried out with a strong voice,
Baying : "* Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen ; and is become the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every unclean
spirit, and the hold of every uncleaD and
hateful bird:

3 Because all nations have drunk of the
wine of the wrath of her fornication;
and the kings of the earth have com-
mitted fornication with her; and the
merchants of the earth have been made
rich by the power of her delicacies.

4 And I heard another voice from hea-
ven, saying : Go out from her, my peo-
ple ; that you be not partakers of her
sins, and that you receive not of her
plagues.

5 For her sins have reached unto hea-
ven, and the Lord hath remembered her
iniquities.

6 Render to her as she also hath ren-
dered to you ; and double unto her dou-
ble according to her works : in the cup
Wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye
double unto her.

7 As much as she hath glorified herself,
and lived in delicacies, so much torment
and sorrow give ye to her ; because she
saith in her heart : '^ I sit a queen, and
am no widow; and sorrow I shall not
see.

8 Therefore shall her plagues come in
one day, death, and mourning, and famine,
and she shall be burnt with the fire ; be-
cause God is strong, who shall judge her.

9 And the kings of the earth, who have
committed fornication, and lived in deli-
cacies with her, shall weep, and bewail
themselves over her, when they shall
see the smoke of her burning:

10 Standing afar off for fear of her tor-
ments, saying : Alas ! alas ! that great
city Babylon, that mighty city: for in
one hour is thy judgment come.

11 And the merchants of the earth shall
weep, and momm over her : for no man
shall buy their merchamdise any more.

12 Merchandise of gold and silver, and
precious stones ; and of pearls, and fine
linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet,
and all thyine wood, and all manner of

m Isa. 21. 9 ; Jer. 51. 8 ; Supra 14. 8.

vessels of ivory, and all manner of vessels
of precious stone, and of brass, and of
iron, and of marble,

13 And cinnamon, and odours, and oint-
ment, and frankincense, and wine, and
oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts,
and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and
slaves, and souls of men.

14 And the fruits of the desire of thy
soul are departed from thee, and all fat
and goodly things are perished from thee,
and they shall find them no more at all.

15 The merchants of these things, who
were made rich, shall stand afar off from
her, for fear of her torments, weeping
and mourning,

16 And saying ; Alas ! alas ! that great
city, which was clothed with fine linen,
and purple, and scarlet, and was gilt with
gold, and precious stones, and pearls.

17 For in one hour are so great riches
come to nought ; and every shipmaster,
and all that sail into the lake, and mari-
ners, and as many as work in the sea,
stood afar off,

18 And cried, seeing the place of her
burning, saying: What city is like to this
great city ?

19 And they cast dust upon their heads,
and cried, weeping and mourning, say
ing : Alas ! alas ! that great city, wherein
all were made rich, that had ships at sea,
by reason of her prices ; for in one hour
she is made desolate.

20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and
ye holy apostles and prophets ; for God
hath judged your judgment on her.

21 And a mighty angel took up a stone,
as it were a great mJllstone, and cast it
into the sea, saying : With such violence
as this shall Babylon, that great city, be
thrown down, and shall be found no
more at all.

22 And the voice of harpers, and of
musicians, and of them that play on the
pipe, and on the trumpet, shall no more
be heard at all in thee ; and no craftsman
of any art whatsoever shall be found any
more at all in thee ; and the sound of the
mill shall be heard no more at all in thee ;

23 And the light of the lamp shall shine
no more at all in thee ; and the voice of
the bridegroom and the bride shall be
heard no more at all in thee : for thy
merchants were the great men of the

n Isa. 4,1. &

2&9

God's judgments glorified THE APOC^ALYPSE Christ overcomes the beast

of Jesus. Adore God. For the testimony
of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

1 1 And I saw heaven opened, and behold
a white horse ; and he that sat upon him
was called faithful and true, and with
justice doth he judge and fight.

12 And his eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many diadems, and
he had a name written, which no man
knoweth but himself.

13 P And he was clothed with a garment
sprinkled with blood ; and his name is
called, The Word of God.

14 And the armies that are in heaven
followed him on white horses, clothed
in fine linen, white and clean.

15 And out of his mouth proceedeth a
sharp two edged sword ; that with it he
may strike the nations. ^And he shall
rule them with a rod of iron; and he
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness
of the wrath of God the Almighty.

16 And he hath on his garment, and on
his thigh written : •* King of kings, and
Lord of lords.

17 And I saw an angel standing in the
sun, and he cried with a loud voice, say-
ing to all the birds that did fly through
the midst of heaven : Come, gather your-
selves together to the great supper of
God:

18 That you may eat the flesh of kings,
and the flesh of tribunes, and the flesh of
mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and
of them that sit on them, and the flesh
of all freemen and bondmen, and of little
and of great.

19 And I saw the beast, and the kings
of the earth, and their armies gathered
together to make war with him that sat
upon the horse, and with his army.

20 And the beast was taken, and with
him the false prophet, who wrought
signs before him, wherewith he seduced
them who received the character of the
beast, and who adored his image. These
two were cast alive into the pool of fire,
burning with brimstone.

21 And the rest were slain by the sword
of him that sitteth upon the horse, which

earth, for all nations have been deceived
by thy enchantments.

24 And in her was found the blood of
prophets and of saints, and of all that
were slain upon the earth.

CHAPTER 19.

The saints glorify God for his judgments on the
great harlot. ChrisVs victory over the beasts and
the kings of the earth.

AFTER these things I heard as it were
J_\ the voice of much people in hea-
ven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation, and
glory, and power is to our God.

2 For true and just are his judgments,
who hath judged the great harlot which
corrupted the earth with her fornication,
and hath revenged the blood of his ser-
vants, at her hands.

3 And again they said: Alleluia. And
her smoke ascendeth for ever and ever.

4 And the four and twenty ancients,
and the four living creatures fell down
and adored God that sitteth upon the
throne, saying : Amen ; Alleluia.

5 And a voice came out from the throne,
saying: Give praise to our God, all ye his
servants; and you that fear him, little
and great.

6 And I heard as it were the voice of a
great multitude, and as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of great thun-
ders, saying. Alleluia : for the Lord our
God the Almighty hath reigned.

7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give
glory to him ; for the marriage of the
Lamb is come, and his wife hath prepared
herselfc

8 And it is granted to her that she
should clothe herself wi jh fine linen, glit-
tering and white. For the fine linen are
the justifications of saints.

9 And he said to me : Write : ° Blessed
are they that are called to the marriage
supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me :
These words of God are true.

10 And I fell down before his feet, to
adore him. And he saith to me : See thou
do it not : I am thy fellow servant, and
of thy brethren, who have the testimony

o Matt. 22. 2 ; Luke 14. 16. — jy Isa. 63. 1.

Chap. 19. Ver. 10. T fell doivn before, &c. St, An-
gustine (lib. 20, contra Faust, c, 21) is of opinion, that
this angel appeared in so glorious a manner, that St.
John took him to be God ; and therefore would have
given him divine honour had not the angel stopped
him, by telling him he was but his fellow servant.
St Gregory (Horn. 8, in Evang.) rather thinks that

q Ps. 2. 9. — r 1 Tim. 6. 15 ; Supra 17. 14,

the veneration offered by St. John, was not divine
honour, or indeed any other than what might law-
fully be given; but was nevertheless refused by the
angel, in consideration of the dignity to which our
human nature had been raised, by the incarnation of
the Son of God, and the dignity of St John, an apos-
tle, prophet, and martyr.

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Satan bound

THE APOCALYPSE

The last judgment

proceedeth out of his mouth ; and all the
birds were filled with their iiesh.

CHAPTER 20.

Satan is bound for a thousand years; the souls of
the 171 arty rs reign with Chinst in the first resur-
rection. The last attempts of Satan against the
chnrrh • the last judgment.

A ND I saw an angel coming down from
Jt\. heaven, having the key of the bot-
tomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

2 And he laid hold on the dragon the
old serpent, which is the devil and Satan,
and bound him for a thousand years.

3 And he cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon
him, that he should no more seduce the
nations, till the thousand years be fin-
ished. And after that, he must be loosed
a little time.

4 And I saw seats ; and they sat upon
them ; and judgment was given unto
them ; and the souls of them that were
beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and
for the word of God, and who had not
adored the beast nor his image, nor re-
ceived his character on their foreheads,
or in their hands; and they lived and
reigned with Christ a thousand years.

5 The rest of the dead lived not, till the
thousand years were finished. This is
the first resurrection.

6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in the first resurrection. In these the
second death hath no power; but they
shall be priests of God and of Christ ;
and shall reign with him a thousand
years.

7 And when the thousand years shall
be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of
his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce
the nations, which are over the four
quarters of the earth, * Gog, and Magog,
and shall gather them together to battle,
the number of whom is as the sand of
the sea.

8 And they came upon the breadth of
the earth, and encompassed the camp of
the saints, and the beloved city.

9 And there came down fire from God
out of heaven, and devoured them ; and

s Ezech. 38. 14. — ^ Isa. (i5. 17, and 66. 22 ; 2 Peter 3. 13.

Chap. 20. Ver. 2, Bonnd him,, «fee. The power
of Satan lias been very much Umited by the passion
of Christ: for a thousand years; that is, for the
whole time of the New Testament: but especially
from the time of the destruction of Babylon or pa-
gan Rome, till the new efforts of Ong and Magog
against the church, towards the end of the world.
During wbicb time tlM souls of the martyrs and

the devil, who seduced them, was cast
into the pool of fire tind brimstone, where
both the beast

10 And the false prophet shall be tor-
mented day and night for ever and ever.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and
one sitting upon it, from whose face the
earth and heaven fled away, and there
was no place found for them.

12 And I saw the dead, great and small,
standing in the presence of the throne,
and the books were opened ; and an-
other book was opened, which is the
book of life ; and the dead were judged
by those things which were written in
the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead that
were in it, and death and hell gave up
their dead that were in them ; and they
were judged every one according to their
works.

14 And hell and death were cast into
the pool of fire. This is the second
death.

15 And whosoever was not found writ-
ten in the book of life, was cast into
the pool of fire.

CHAPTER 21.

The new Jernsaleni described.

AND 'I saw a new heaven and a new
^ earth. For the first heaven and the
first earth was gone, and the sea is now
no more.

2 And I John saw the holy city, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice from the
throne, saying; Behold the tabernacle of
God with men, and he will dwell with
them. And they shall be his people;
and God himself with them shall be their
God.

4 " And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes: and death shall be no
more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sor-
row shall be any more, for the former
things are passed away.

5 And he that sat on the fchrone, said;

11 Isa. 25. 8 ; Supra 7. 17.

saints live and reign with Christ in heaven, in the
frst resurrection, which is that of the soul to the life
of glory ; as the second, resurrection will be that of
the body, at the day of the general judgment.

Chap. 21. Ver. 1. The first heaven and the first
earth vas gone, being chaheed, not as to their sub-
stance, but in their qualities.

The new Jerusalem

THE APOCALYPSE

The new Jerusalem

*' Behold, I make all things new. And he
said to me : Write, for these words are
most faithful and true.

6 And he said to me : It is done. I am
Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the
end. To him that thirsteth, I will gi\ e of
the fountain of the water of life, freely.

7 He that shall overcome shall possess
these things, and I will be his God ; and
he shall be my son.

8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and
the abominable, and murderers, and
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idola-
ters, and all liars, they shall have their
portion in the pool burning with fire and
brimstone, which is the second death.

9 And there came one of the seven an-
gels, who had the vials full of the seven
last plagues, and spoke with me, saying:
Come, and I will shew thee the bride, the
wife of the Lamb.

10 And he took me up in spirit to a
great and high mountain : and he shewed
me the holy city Jerusalem coming down
out of heaven from God,

11 Having the glory of God, and the
light thereof was like to a precious stone,
as to the jasper stone, even as crystal.

12 And it had a wall great and high,
having twelve gates, and in the gates
twelve angels, and names written there-
on, which are the names of the twelve
tribes of the children of Israel.

13 On the east, three gates : and on the
north, three gates : and on the south,
three gates : and on the west, three gates.

14 And the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and in them, the twelve
names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb.

15 And he that spoke with me, had a
measure of a reed of gold, to measure
the city and the gates thereof, and the
wall.

16 And the city lieth in a foursquare.
And the length thereof is as great as the
breadth : and he measured the city with
the golden reed for twelve thousand fur-
longs, and the length and the height and
the breadth thereof are equal.

17 And he measured the wall thereof
an hundred forty-four cubits, the mea-
sure of a man, which is of an angel.

18 And the building of the wall thereof

was of jasper stone: but the city itself
pure gold, like to clear glass.

19 And the foundations of the wall of
the city were adorned with all manner of
precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper : the second, sapphire : the
third, a chalcedony : the fourth, an em-
erald :

20 The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sar-
dius: the seventh, chrysolite: the eighth,
beryl : the ninth, a topaz : the tenth, a
chrysoprasus : the eleventh, a jacinth:
the twelfth, an amethyst.

21 And the twelve gates are twelve
pearls, one to each: and every several
gate was of one several pearl. And the
street of the city was pure gold, as it
were transparent glass.

22 And I saw no temple therein. For
the Lord God Almighty is the temple
thereof, and the Lamb.

23 "' And the city hath no need of the
sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For
the glory of God hath enlightened it,
and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

24 And the nations shall walk in the
light of it : and the kings of the earth
shall bring their glory and honour into it.

25 ^ And the gates thereof shall not be
shut by day : for there shall be no night
there.

26 And they shall bring the glory and
honour of the nations into it.

27 There shall not enter into it any
thing defiled, or that worketh abomina-
tion or maketh a lie, but they that are
written in the book of life of the Lamb.

V Isa. 43. 19; 2Cjx.5. 17.

CHAPTER 22.

The icater and tree of life. The conclusion.

ND he showed me a river of water of
life, clear as crystal, proceeding
from the throne of God and of the
Lamb.

2 In the midst of the street thereof,
and on both sides of the river, was the
tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yield-
ing its fruits every month, and the leaves
of the tree were for the healing of the
nations.

3 And there shall be no curse any more ;
but the throne of God and of the Lamb
shall be in it, and his servants shall serve
him.

w Isa. 60. 19. — X Isa. 60. 11.

Ver. 17. The measure of a man, i. e., According to the measure of men, and used hy the angle.
This seems to be the true meaning of these wacds.

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God the light of heaven

4 And they shall see his face: and bis
name shall be on their foreheads.

6 y And night shall be no more : and
they shall not need the light of the lamp,
nor the light of the sun, because the
Lord God shall enlighten them, and they
shall reign for ever and ever.

6 And he said to me : These words are
most faithful and true. And the Lord
God of the spirits of the prophets sent
his angel to shew his servants the things
which must be done shortly.

7 And, Behold I come quickly. Blessed
is he that keepeth the words of the pro-
phecy of this book.

8 And I, John, who have heard and
seen these things. And after I had
heard and seen, I fell down to adore be-
fore the feet of the angel, who shewed
me these things.

9 And he said to me : See thou do it
not : for I am thy fellow servant, and of
thy brethren the prophets, and of them
that keep the words of the prophecy of
this book. Adore God.

10 And he saith to me : Seal not the
words of the prophecy of this book : for
the time is at hand.

11 He that hurteth, let him hurt still :
and he that is filthy, let him be filthy
still : and he that is just, let him be jus-
tified still: and he that is holy, let him
be sanctified still.

12 Behold, I come quickly ; and my re-
ward is with me to render to every man
according to his works.

y Tsa S(' 20-
2 Isa. 41. 4, and 44. 6, and 48. 12 ;

Chap. 22. Ver. 10. For the thne is at hand.
That is, when compared to eternity, all time and
temporal things vanish, and are but of short dura-
tion. As to the time when tlie chief predictions
should come to pass, we have no certainty, as ap-
pears by the different opinions, both of the ancient
fatliers and late interpreters. Many think that most
things set down from the 4th chapter to the end, will
not be fulfilled till a little time before the end of the
world. Others are of opinion, that a great part of
them, and particularly the fall of the wicked Baby.
Ion, happened at the destruction of paganism, by the
destruction of heathen Rome, and its persecuting
heathen emperors. Of these interpretations, see
Alcazar, in his long commentary; see the learned
Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, iji his treatise on this
Book; and P. Alleman, in his notes on the same
Apocalypse, tom. 12, who in his Preface says, that
this, in a great measure, may be now looked iipon as
the opinion followed by the learned men. In fine,
others think that St. John's design was in a mystical
way, by metaphors and allegories, to represent the

IHE APOCALYPSE

The conclusion

13^1 am Alpha and Omega, the first
and the last, the beginning and the end.

14 Blessed are they that wash their
robes in the blood of the Lamb: that
they may have a right to the tree of Ufe,
and may enter in by the gates into the
city.

15 Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and
unchaste, and murderers, and servers of
idols, and every one that loveth and
maketh a lie.

16 I Jesus have sent my angel, to tes-
tify to you these things in the churches.
I am the root and stock of David, the
bright and morning star.

17 And the spirit and the bride say:
Come. And he that heareth, let him
say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let
him come: "and he that will, let him
take the water of life, freely.

18 For I testify to every one that heareth
the words of the prophecy of this book •
12 any man shall add to these thingt-
God shall add unto him the plagueb
written in this book.

19 And if any man shall take away from
the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the
book of life, and out of the holy city,
and from these things that are written
in this book.

20 He that) giveth testimony of these
things, saith, Surely 1 come quickly:
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen.

Supra 1. 8 and 17, and 21. 6
a Isa. 55. 1.

attempts and persecutions of the wicked against the
servants of God, the punishments that should in a
short time fall upon Babylon, that is, upon all the
wicked in general: the eternal happiness and re.
ward, which God had reserved for the pious inhabit
ants of Jerusalem, that is, for his faithful servants,
after their short trials and the tribulations of this
mortal life. In the mean time wo meet with many
profitable instructions and admonitions, which wo
may easily enough understand: but we have no cer.
tainty, when we apply these predictions to particulai
events : for as St. Jerome takes notice, the Apoca-
lypse has as many mysteries as words, or rather mys-
teries in every word. Apocalypsis Joannis tot habet
Sacramenta quot verba — paruvi dixi, in verbis
singulis multiplices latent intelligentice. Ep. ad
Paulin. i. 4. p. 574. Edit. Benedict.

Ver. 11. Let him hurt still. It is not an exhorta-
tion, or license to go on in sin ; but an intimation,
that how far soever the wicked may proceed, theii
progress shall quickly end, and then they must ex-
pect to meet with proportionable punishments.

THE END OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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THE INSPIRA^iTON OF THE BIBLE

God is the author of all the books which make up the Bible, in the sense that
He caused men to write them. The action of God on the sacred writers is called
inspiration. It is different from that action by which the Creator is the primary
cause of every human action; inspiration is a supernatural, special action by
which He so prompted and moved men to write, and so assisted them in writing,
that the result of their activity is not ascribed to them, as in the case of actions
performed with God's ordinary concurrence, but to God Who inspires them. He
is the principal cause; men are but His instruments.

The inspired writers were, however, the free agents of God. He did not use
them in such a way as to suspend the normal exercises of their will, their intel-
lect, their imagination and other faculties. Their natural powers may have been
heightened under the influence of inspiration, but they were not essentially
changed. Each book of the Bible has its own special character. And the variety
is not merely that which might be found in the writings of one and the same man,
resulting from the different surroundings in which he wrote, the different purposes
he had in view and the different subject-matters with which he had to deal. The
Divine Author used His human instruments in such a way that their works reflect
their special character, culture, literary ability, research and efforts of compo-
sition. Amos uses images impressed upon his mind when he was a shepherd of
Thecua; Saint Paul's epistles manifest influences brought to bear on him at
Tarsus and Jerusalem. God's human instruments have left in their books the
marks of their time and country, and of all the influences which had affected
them; while Divine their books are also human. And as might be expected in
human works, there are imperfections in them; God in using men to communicate
ideas to their fellow men might suffer such imperfections to appear as were not
contrary to the end He had in mind.

There is one imperfection which inspiration excludes as light excludes dark-
ness, and that is error. God may be the author of beings which are not as perfect
as they might be; but He cannot conceivably use a man as an instrument of
erroneous teaching. Every proposition of an inspired writer, whether expressed
in a book, a paragraph, or a single sentence, has in consequence of God's influence
upon him the authority of God. When controversies have arisen in the Church
concerning doctrine, the Sacred Scriptures have been studied ; once their meaning
was clear, controversy ceased. What Moses, Isaias, or St. John said has been
accepted as the word of God. The Fathers and Councils of the Church have
treated the Bible as an infallible doctrinal authority, a Divine authority. The
Church's teaching concerning the inerrancy of the Bible is unmistakable.

The meaning of the Bible is not always easily ascertained. Truth is affirmed
in one way in poetry, in another in prose; in one way in an allegory like the
Canticle of Canticles, in another in a history like the Book of Kings; in one way
in a history which aims at exact statement, in another in history which admits of
a certain freedom in narration. . There is difficulty in the Interpretation of any

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ancient literature ; it is particularly great in the case of the ancient books of the
Bible, which frequently deal with mysterious subjects. But once a person knows
what an inspired writer meant to affirm he is bound to believe him.

The interpretation of the Bible is not left free in the Catholic Church as it is,
theoretically, in Protestant sects. The Church tells us that the Bible is infallible ;
consequently a faithful Catholic may not ascribe to any particular passage a
meaning which would be in conflict with another passage. The Church is infal-
lible; consequently any interpretation which would contradict the Church's teach-
ing would be a wrong interpretation. She has defined the exact meaning of a
certain number of texts; and she bids us not to go counter to the unanimous
teachings of the Fathers in matters of faith and morals. But within these limits
there is a great field for the labor of the Catholic exegete; the notes and ex-
planations found in our Bibles represent his work as an historian and theologian.
They are worthy of respectful consideration, though they do not profess to give,
in most cases, the infallible teaching of the Church.

There are in the Old Testament of Catholic Bibles books which are omitted
in the Bibles used by Jews and Protestants. They are Tobias, Judith, Wisdom,
Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and the two books of Machabees; there are also parts of
Daniel (3. 24-90; 13. 7-14. 42) and of Esther (10. 4-16. 24). These books and
passages were considered as inspired by many Jews in the time of Our Lord; and;
His Church, by her practice first, and then by her explicit teaching, accepted them
as such. Were one to rely merely on history, and disregard the tradition of the
infallible Church, he might entertain doubts about the inspiration not only of the
books mentioned but of other books of the Bible. No one, not even the inspired
writer, can know with certainty that a book is inspired unless God has revealed
the fact; and the knowledge of this revelation, like that of all supernatural
revelation, is very insecure in the minds of men unless it is preserved by an in-
fallible Church.

God inspired the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts of the Bible; in
the translations, such as the present version, one has not the very words of the
inspired authors. However the Church has seen to it that the translations which
conveyed to her children the message of God contained in the Sacred Books were
kept free from doctrinal errors; and the reverence which she always inculcated
for the Bible secured such care in transcribing and translating it that the versions
which Catholics use are even in other respects substantially faithful to the
original. The Latin Vulgate, for so many centuries the Bible of the Western
Church, is particularly depended on by Catholics. The Douay Bible is a very
faithful translation of the Vulgate by English exiles at the Seminary of Douay,
who published the New Testament at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament at
Douay in 1609 and 1610. Its form has been changed by successive revisions; but
much that is most distinctive from a literary point of view, as well as practically
all its interpretations of doctrinal texts, remains a monument of the zeal and
solid scholarship of Gregory Martin and his fellow-workers. They were masters
of the Latin and English languages and made good use of the original texts.

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HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

TO THE

OLD TESTAMEIT.

No dates can be assigned to the events narrated in the first eleven chapters of
Genesis, that is, from the Creation to Abraham. The period covered is certainly
much longer than v^^as thought when it used to be reckoned as 2023 years. This
figure was obtained by adding together the years at which the patriarchs of the
genealogies of chapters 5 and 11 were said to have begotten their sons. But history
has made it perfectly clear that man was upon the earth, and that there were
great and diversified civilizations for a long time before the date thus arrived at.
One would have to admit a manifest conflict between the Bible and science, if he
regarded the Biblical genealogies as intended to give certain dates. That the sacred
writer did not intend to furnish us with such a chronology is maintained by all the
Catholic scholars, who have recently dealt with the subject.

Father J. Brucker, S. J., in his UEglise et la Critique Biblique, Paris, 1907,
suggested that we have in the genealogies a case of implicit quotation ; that the in-
spired writer does not intend to give his lists as strictly historical documents. They
are, he argued, the titles of nobility of Israel: on the one hand, therefore, Moses
could hardly change their tenor, which was fixed by tradition; on the other hand,
he might reproduce them such as they were, without assuming responsibility for
all that was in them. The liberty with which the Hebrew text of the genealogies
was changed by the Greek translators would indicate that they had not, for the
Jews themselves, an indisputable sacred character.

The same writer gives in 1911, in the article on Genesis in the Dictionnaire
Apologetique de la Foi Catholique, another solution of the difficulty, which he re-
gards as sufficient and which has met with more favor with other Catholic scholars.
He says, that it cannot be proved that the genealogies are continuous : "The rigor
with which the links of the genealogical chain appear united together, each patriarch
being said to have been 'begotten' by his predecessor, does not exclude the hypothe-
sis that the filiation is only mediate, between the consecutive patriarchs. In other
words, when we read, *Enos at 90 years (at 190 according to the Septuagint) begot
Cainan,' we may understand that Enos, at the age given, begot a son, unnamed,
from whom Cainan later descended. Cases in which one must explain in this way
the formula: *N. begot N.' are not lacking in the Bible. In Matt. 1, 9-11, we read,
*Joram begot Ozias' and, ^Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren.* Now there were
four generations from Joram to Ozias and Jechonias was the grandson of Josias;
the Evangelist, therefore, omitted five generations; doubtless, as he intimates (verse
17), in order to reduce to three series of fourteen the generations from Abraham to
Joseph. The redactor of Gen. 5 and 11 may likewise have omitted generations, to
reduce his genealogies to two series of ten names. He may have done so to make it
easier to remember them, or for other reasons."

The Rev. E. Ruffini, Professor at the Pontifical Seminaries of Rome and of the
Propaganda, does not think there is sufficient reason to look upon the genealogies
as quoted documents, for which the inspired author did not assume full responsi-
bility; he subscribes to the second solution, which we have given in the words of
Father Brucker, in his Chronologia Veteris et Novi Testamenti, Rome, 1924.

The time of Abraham is considered by many scholars to coincide with that of
the famous Babylonian king Hammurabi, whose date is given by Father Franz
Xavier Kugler, S. J., in his Von Moses zu Paulus as 1947-1905 B. C. Hammurabi
is identified by them with Amraphel of Gen. 14. 1.

1445 The date of the Exodus from Egypt is a much discussed matter. While many scholars regard
Ramses II as the Pharao of the oppression and his son Menephta (1234-1214 B. C. ) as the
Pharao of the Exodus, others adhere to the older view that the Pharao of the oppression was
Thutmosis III and the Pharao of the Exodus, Amenophis II (1447-1420). This latter date is
more in keeping with subsequent chronological data. The dates we shall give in the margin
down to the time of Solomon are approximate, and based on the view that the children of
Israel came out of Egypt about 480 years before Solomon began to build the Temple (III
Kings. 6. 11).

800

1405

1040

1012
1006
972
969

914
911
870
854
846
846
841
802
775
735
731
727
698
643
641
610
610
598
598
587

The conquest of Canaan was begun by Josue forty years after the Exodiu.

Some of the periods mentioned in the Book of Judges were simultaneous and not successive.
We have not the date of the beginning of Saul's reign ; but he reigned a long time. He died

about the year 1012 and was succeeded by David in Juda.
David, king of Juda.
David, king of all the Israelites.
Solomon ascends the throne of united Israel and in the fourth year of his reign, 969. he begint^

to build the Temple.

KINGS OF JUDA AFTER THE SCHISM

Roboam succeeds Solomon in the southern
part of Western Palestine, with Jerusalem
as capital. The northern part of Western
Palestine and all Eastern Palestine are de-
tached from the House of David under
Jeroboam.

Abiam succeeds Roboam.

Asa succeeds Abiam.

Josaphat succeeds Asa.

Joram succeeds Josaphat.

Ochozias succeeds Joram.

Athalia, queen of Ochozias, begins her rule.

Joas succeeds his mother Athalia.

Amasias succeeds Joas.

Ozias or Azarias succeeds Amasias.

Joathan succeeds Ozias.

Achaz succeeds Joathan.

Ezechias succeeds Achaz.

Manasses succeeds Ezechias.

Amon succeeds Manasses.

Josias succeeds Amon.

Joachaz succeeds Josias. .

Joakim succeeds Joachaz.

Joakin or Jechonias succeeds Joakim.

Sedecias succeeds Joakin.

Destruction of Jerusalem by Nabuchodonasor,
king of Babylon.

the year 854, a
Assyrian inscrip-

KINGS OF ISRAEL AFTER THE SCHISM

932 Jeroboam I, first king of the northern king-
dom, Israel.

910 Nadab succeeds Jeroboam I.

909 Baasa succeeds Nadab.

^86 Ela succeeds Baasa.

8S5 Zambri succeeds Ela.

886 Amri succeeds Zambri.

874 Achab succeeds Amri. In

date well attested by an _

tion, Achab of Israel fought against Shal-
menaser II of Assyria at Karkar in Syria,
in alliance with Syria. The inscription say.s
he contributed 2,000 chariots and 10,000
men. The confederacy was overcome by
the Assyrians.

853 Ochozias succeeds Achab.

S52 Joram succeeds Ochozias.

846 Jehu succeeds Joram.

820 Joachaz succeeds Jehu.

804 Joas succeeds Joachaz.

789 Jeroboam II succeeds Joas.

749 Zacharias succeeds Jeroboam ii.

749 Sellum succeeds Zacharias.

747 Menahem succeeds Sellum.

737 Phaceia succeeds Menahem.

736 Phacee succeeds Phaceia.

730 Osee succeeds Phaceia.

721 Destruction of Samaria, capital of Israel, by
Sargon, King of Assyria, and end of tht;
Kingdom.

538-
536

520
515
459-

458
446-
445

434

332

312

202
187-
175
175

166
165
161
142

135

104

103

40-

4B.C

FROM THE CAPTIVITY OF BABYLON TO THE DEATH OF HEROD

End of the Captivity. Cyrus the Persian king (558-529), authorized the Jews to return. Rela-
tively few at first availed themselves of the permission. The building of the Temple was begun,
but it was hindered by the Samaritans.

Temple-building resumed. Aggeus and Zacharias, the prophets, encourage the workers.

Dedication of the Second Temple.

Esdras, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes I (465-425), led back 6,000 Jews from exile.

The twentieth year of the same reign, Nehemias came into Judea as prefect of the province and

co-operated with Esdras in the restoration of worship. Esdras read the Law to the people at

the feast of Tabernacles.
The thirty-second year of the same reign Nehemias came for a second time to the Holy Land

and extirpated many abuses.
It may be noted here that there is a considerable divergency of views among Catholic

scholars about the dates of Esdras and Nehemias. Some, rearranging the Books of Esdras and

Nehemias, would put the first mission of Nehemias in 444-432 ; and the mission of Esdras in

398. We have indicated the more generally received dates in the margin.
Alexander the Great (336-323), who inaugurated the Greek rule in the East, honored Jaddus the

high priest Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 11, Chapter 8. Alexander respected the

religion and customs of the Jews.
Beginning of the Seleucid era, under Seleuchus I. Nicator (312-280), who founded Antioch

about 300. Palestine was successively under the dominion of the Seleucids of Syria and the

Ptolomies of Egypt, and suffered much from war.
Palestine was finally conquered by Antiochus III of Syria, surnamed the Great (223-187).
Under Seleucus III (187-175), his chancellor Heliodorus attempted to rob the Temple. II Macha-

bees 3.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-154) withdrew the privileges hitherto granted the Jews in regard

to the practice of their religion and brought about the uprising of the best elements of the

Jewish nation headed by Mathathias, a priest, and by his sons. They freed the country. This

is related in the Books of Machabees.
Death of Mathathias.

Judas Machabaeus, third son of Mathathias becomes the leader of the Jews.
Jonathan, fifth son of Mathathias, succeeds Judas.
Simon, second son of Mathathias, successor of Jonathan, is recognized by the Syrians as "Prince

of the Jews" and allowed to coin money. The people made him civil governor, military chief

and high priest.
John Hyrcanus I succeeds Simon.
Aristobulus I reigns for a short time.
Alexander Jannaeus succeeds Aristobulus I.

Alexandra Salome, wife of Alexander, becomes queen. Hyrcanus her son acted as high priest.
Aristobulus II succeeds as civil ruler and high priest.
Hjrrcanus II agrain high priest by the favor of Pompey.
Pompey entered Jerusalem.

:. Herod, king by the favor of Rome.

^01

HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

TO THE

NEW TESTAMENT

B.C.

8-5 Birth of Christ at Bethlehem. Denis the Little, a Scythian monk of the sixth century origi-
nated, at Rome, our present method of dating from the year of Our Lord's birth. Un-
fortunately he placed that birth from five to eight years too late, in the year of Rome 754.
This is now generally admitted. It is known from the Jewish historian Josephus that Herod
the Great, under whose reign Jesus was born, died early in the year of Rome 750. So that is
the latest date for the birth of Christ. The facts known about the last sickness of Herod
make it unlikely that the events related in Matt. 2, can have taken place in 750, so the termi-
nus ad quern is, from these considerations alone, 749, or 5 Before the Christian era. On the
other hand 8 B. C. seems to be the year of the census spoken of by St. Luke 2. 1-8, which
occasioned the journey to Bethlehem.

A.D.

25-26 Beginning of the ministry of John the Baptist, in the fifteenth year of Tiberius. Tiberius' prede-
cessor, Augustus, died August 19, 14 A. D. If one began to count at that date the fifteenth of
Tiberius would be from August 19, 28, to August 19, 29. But St. Luke would probably count
from August 19 to October 1 as the first year, so the fifteenth would be October 1, 27, to
October 1, 28. As Our Lord was about thirty when He began His public ministry, some time
after John has begun his, this date would seem to exclude the most probable date 8 B. C, as
the date of His birth.

We may, however, count the years of Tiberius from the time he was associated with Augus-
tus, with equal power over the provinces and the legions, at the end of 11 or the beginning of
12 A. D., and so count the year 25-26 as the fifteenth of Tiberius, and that of the beginning
of John's ministry.

According to the view one takes of the duration of Our Lord's ministry and the date of
His death, one will put His first Passover at Jerusalem, spoken of by John 2, in 26 or 27.

A.D.

27-29 Duration of Our Lord's public life. St. John's Gospel mentions three paschal feasts during the
public life: the first took place after the miracle of Cana (2. 13), the second shortly after
the multiplication of the loaves (6. 4), the third when Our Lord died. So there were at
least two years and some months between the Baptism and the Passion. A longer period is
not excluded by the data of the Gospels ; but nothing proves that it lasted longer. There is no
decisive tradition in the matter.

A.D.

29 Date of the Passion. Our Lord was crucified under Pontius Pilate, procurator from 26 to 36
A. D. His death took place between 26 and 36, on Friday, the 14th or 16th Nisan. There are,
it is thought, only three dates which fulfill these conditions, March 18, 29, April 7, 30, and
April 3, 33. This last date should be put aside since St. Luke says Our Lord was about thirty
years of age at the beginning of the ministry. Between 29 and 30 the choice is more difficult ;
but there is a fairly good historical tradition, attested by Tertullian, Hippolytus, Lactantius
and the Acts of Pilate, that Our Lord died under the consuls L. Rubellius Geminus and C.
Fufius Geminus, that is, in the year 29. Finally, March 18, 29, was very probably on the 14th
Nisan, while April 7, 30, probably fell on the 15th Nisan ; and St. John's Gospel makes the
14th Nisan practically certain.

PERIOD COVERED BY THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

The following dates for the events of the Acts of the Apostles are fairly well established
and probably in no case wrong by more than a year or two.

36 Death of St. Stephen (Acts 7) and Conversion of St. Paul, probably after the departure of
Pilate in 36.

38-39 First visit of St. Paul to Jerusalem three years after his conversion. Gal. 1. 18.

42 Martyrdom of James the brother of John and departure of Peter for "another place," probably
Rome. Acts 12.

44 Death of Herod Agrippa I. Acts 12.

46 Second visit of St. Paul to Jerusalem, in company of St. Barnabas, followed by the First Mis-
sionary Journey of St. Paul.

49-50 Council of Jervisalem. Acts 15.

50 Second missionary journey of St. Paul begins.

52 Meeting of St. Paul and Gallio. The consulship of GalHo, according to an inscription found at

Delphi, began most probably in 52.

53 Departure of St. Paul for the third mission and arrival at Ephesus. Acts 19.

56 Departure from Ephesus and journey to Greece. Acts 19.

57 Beginning of the captivity of St. Paul at Caesarea after Pentacost. Acts 23.

59 Festus replaces Felix as procurator and St. Paul starts for Rome. Acts 25^27.

60 Arrival at Rome and beginning of the two years of the first Roman captivity. Acts 28. .

AFTER THE PERIOD COVERED BY THE ACTS

62 Martyrdom of St. James the Minor at Jerusalem.

67 Martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul. Some authors place their death shortly after the outbreak

of the persecution of Nero in 64.
70 Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.

After ™ . . , . t • fto

98 St. John, the last surviving Apostle, died in the reifirn of Trajan which began m 98.

802

T^j^ :b i^ E; s

HEBREW MEASURES OF LENGTH

CUBIT: — Genesis 6. 15 and very frequently in the
Bible, represents the length from elbow to the
tip of the fingers, that is, about 18 inches.

FINGER: — Jeremias 52. 21, the breadth of a
finger, % inch.

HAND-BREADTH: — III Kings 7. 26, about 3
inches.

SABBATH-DAY'S JOURNEY :— Acts 1. 10, 2000
cubits, 7/10 of the Roman mile.

SPAN: — I Kings 17-4, probably half a cubit or 9
inches.

GREEK OR ROMAN MEASURES OF LENGTH

FATHOM:— Acts 27. 28, 6 Greek feet, the length
of the outstretched arms. The Greek foot was
shorter than ours by 5 millimeters, that is,
about 1/20 of an inch.

FURLONG :— Luke 24. 13 ; John 6. 19 ; 11, 18, 600
Greek feet, % of a mile.

MILE:— M&tt. 5. 41, 5,000 Greek feet. Our mile is
5,280 feet.

REED:— Ez. 11. 5; and Apoc. 11. 1, 9 to 10 feet.

MEASURES OF AREA

ACRE: — ^Is. 5. 10, approximate rendering of the
Hebrew Sevied. The Semed (lit. yoke) ap-
pears to have meant originally the extent of
land which a yoke of oxen could plow in a
day.

The Semed is the only square measure used
in the Bible. In Lev. 27. 16 the size of a piece
of land is defined by calling it "the sewing of
a homer of barley" i. e., its area is estimated
by the amount of barley which would usually
be sown on it.

LIQUID MEASURES

BATE:— Heh. Bath, Ez. 46. 10 ; Is. 5. 10, contained

6 hins, i. e., about 9 gallons.
HIN: — Ez. 29. 40 and elsewhere, contained 12 sex-

taries, i. e., about 12 pints.

SEXTARY :—'H.eh. Log, Lev. 14. 10, 12, 21, 24, con-
tained about 1 pint.

DRY MEASURES

BARREL:— 0£ Luke 16. 6, is the "bate" or bath,

about 9 gallons.
BUSHEL:— In Matt. 5.15; Mark 4.21; Luke 11.

33, is the Latin Modius, which contained two

gallons. In Deut. 25. 14, 15, it stands for the

ephi.
CABS;— Heb. Kab, 4 Kings 6. 25, 2 quarts.

CORE: — Heb. Kor, Ez. 45. 14 and elsewhere, 10
ephis or bates, i. e., about 10 bushels.

EPHI: — ^Heb. Ephah: bate, contained about .9 gal-
lons.

HOMER: — Like the Core, 10 ephis, about 10 bush-
els.

GOMER: — Heb. 'Omer, Ex. 16. 36, 1/10 of the
ephi, something less than a gallon.

MEASURE: — A generic term used for the Heb.
Se'ah in Gen. 18. 6, and elsewhere. The Se'ah
contained % of an ephi, i. e,, 3 gallons. In
John 2. 6, it translates the Greek metretes,
which contained about 9 gallons.

POT: — Mark 7. 4, Gr. Xestes, a measure contain-
ing a Httle over a pint.

POUND: — Apoc. 6. 6, Gr. Choenix, about 1 quart.

"QUARTER" .—Luke 16. 6 is for core.

WEIGHTS

BEKA':— (Heb.) i^ side. In Gen. 24. 22 "two
sides" should be "half a side."

OBOL: — Heb. Gerah, Ex. 30. 13 and Ez. 45. 20,
1/20 of a side.

The MNA and the POUND: — Heh. Maneh, 50
sides. The "pound" of John 12. 3, is the Ro-
man pound, equivalent to 5,053 grains Troy.
There are 5,760 grains Troy in our pound.

SICLE: — Heb. Shekel (which means weight) only
in late Hebrew designated a coin. It was the
Hebrew unit of weight. It probably weighed
roughly 310 grains.

TALENT: — 3,000 sides. The talent of Apoc. 16.
21, was probably equivalent to 125 Roman
pounds.

MONEY

Gold, silver and bronze were used as media of
exchange during Biblical times. Until a rather
late period the metal was simply weighed ; the
Jews did not coin any gold themselves and they
coined silver only at a very late period. Some
authorities maintain that Simon Maccabeus ( 142-
135 B. C.) did so; but it seems more probable that
the Hebrew coins which have come down were
struck during the insurrection against Rome in
66-70 A. D.

During the period which began with Abraham
and ended with the return from the Babylonian
exile, transactions frequently required the use of
the balance and of weights. These weights were
stones kept in a bag. Proverbs 16. 11, speaks of
■'stones of the bag." The Law forbade falsifying
the balance and weights ; and the Prophets fre-
quently denounced such crimes. It should be re-
marked, however, that though there was at that
time no legal coinage, involving a guarantee of
the State as regards the quantity and the quality
of a piece of metal, gold and silver were frequent-
ly kept in the form of ingots, rings, etc., of
known weight. This facilitated exchange.

The moneys mentioned in the history of the
period before the Exile are spoken of in terms of
the weights mentioned above: —

OBOL;— (Gerah) 1/20 of a side. f

BEKA':—y2 side.

SICLE: — (Shekel) sometimes measures gold, A
gold side was worth about $100 in our money,
if we count gold compared to silver as did the
Romans, 1 to 12.5. Usually, the Bible speaks of
silver. This is to be understood when no metal
is mentioned. Josephus (Ant. 3. 8, 10) says
that the Hebrew side was worth four Attic
drachmas, that is, about 80 cents. Those which
have been preserved weigh on an average 310
grains. Since a dollar has 371.25 of pure sil-
ver, this fact confirms Josephus' statement.
The "pieces of silver" of Matt. 24. 15 ; 27. 3,
designate sides.

MNA: — (Ez. 14.12 and elsewhere, Heb. Maneh),
50 sides.

TALENT: — 3,000 sides, about $2,400 silver or
$30,000 gold.

DARIC: — After the exile the Jews used the Per-
sian Daric. The gold daric was equivalent to
about $5.50 ; the silver to 1/20 of the gold
daric, $0.275.

Other Coins Mentioned in the Bible:
"PENNY" : — Latin, Denarius, about 20 cents, 1/25
of the Roman Aureus ($5.00).

"GROAT" :—L,uke 15.8-9, the Drachtna, Greek or

Phoenician, about 20 cents. Didrachma (Matt.

17. 23) two drachmas, % side.
STATER: — Matt. 17. 23, four drachmas, one side.
"FARTHING" :— Latin, As, 1/16 of a denarius.

It was in copper.
"FARTHING": — Latin, Quadrans, % of an oa.

Also copper.

MITE: — Latin, Minutum, Vh of an as. Also copper.
The purchasing power of money was much
greater than at present. A dena/rius was the wage
of a workman (Matt. 20. 2-13). In Cicero's time,
the Roman soldier only received % a denarius ;
Domitian raised it to a denarius. Soldiers, how-
ever, had free wheat over and above this wage.

303

A TABLE OF REFERENCES.

ABSOLUTION. The power promised and given to the
pastors of the church, St. Matt. 16. 19 ; chap. 18. IS ;
St. John 20. 22, 23.

Angels. They have a charge over us, St. Matt. 18. 10 ;
Heb. 1. 14. See also Exod. 23. 20, 21 ; Psalm 90. 11, 12, &c.
They oflfer up our prayers, Apoc. 8. 4, and pray for us, Zach.
1. 12. We have a communion with them. Heb. 12. 22. They
have been honoured by the servants of God, Josue 5. 14, 16,
and invocated, Gen. 48. 15, 16 ; Osee 12. 4 : Apoc. 1. 4.

Baptism. Ordained by Christ. St. Matt. 28. 19. Neces-
sary to salvation, St. John 3. 5. Administered by the Apos-
tles in water, Acts 8. 36, 38 ; chap. 10. 47, 48 ; also Eph. 5.
26 ; Heb. 10. 22 ; 1 St. Peter 3. 20, 21. For the baptism of in-
fants, St. Luke 18. 16, compared with St. John 3. 5.

Christ. He is the only begotten, the true, and natural
Son of God, St. Matt. 16. 16 ; St. John 1. 14 ; chap. 3. 16, 18 ;
Rom. 8. 32 ; 1 St. John 4. 9. The same God with his Father,
and eqzial to him, St. John 5. 18, 19, 23 ; chap. 10. 30 ; chap.
14. 1, 9, &c. ; chap. 16. 14, 15 ; chap. 17. 10 ; Phil. 2. 5, 6. True
God, St. John 1. 1 : chap. 20. 28, 29 ; Acts 20. 25 ; Rom. 9. 5 ;
Titus 2. 13 ; 1 St. John 3. 16 ; chap. 5. 20. Also Isa. 9. 6; chap.
35. 4, 5 ; St. Matt. 1. 23 ; St. Luke, 1. 16, 17 ; Heb. 1. 8. He is
the Creator of all thmgs, St. John 1. 3, 10, 11; Col. 1. 5, 16,
17 ; Heb. 1. 2, 10-12 ; chap. 3. 4. The Lord of Glory, 1 Cor. 2.
8. The King of kings, and Lord of lords, Apoc. 17. 14 ;
chap. 19. 16. The first and the last ; Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end, the Almighty^ Apoc. 1. 7, 8, 17, 18 ;
chap. 2. 8 ; chap. 22. 12, 13. He died for all, John 3. 16, 17 ;
Rom. 5, 18 ; 2 Cor. 5, 14, 15 ; 1 Tim. 2. 3, 4, 5, 6 ; chap. 4. 10 ;
Meb. 2. 9 ; 1 John 2. 1, 2. Even for the reprobate, Kom. 14.
15 ; 1 Cor. 8. 11 ; 2 Pet. 2, 1.

The church of Christ stands for ever, St. Matt. 16. 18 ; 28.
20 ; St. John 14, 16, 17 ; Psalm 47. 9 ; Psalm 71. 5, 7 ; Psalm 88.
3, 4, 29, 36, 37; Psalm 131. 13, 14; Isa. 9. 7: chap- 54. 9, 10;
chap. 59, 20, 21 ; chap. 60. 15, 18, &c. ; chap. 62. 6 ; Jer, 31, 35,
36 ; chap. 33. 17, &c. ; Ezech. 37. 24, 26 ; Dan. 2. 44. The church
is the kingdom of Christ, St. Luke 1. 33 ; Dan 2. 44. The city
of the great King. Psalm 47. 2, his re.^t, and his habitation
for ever. Psalm 131. 13. 14. The, house of the living God,
I Tim. 3. 15. The fold of which Christ is the shepherd, John
10, 16. The body, of which Christ is the head: Col. 1. 18 ;
Eph. 5. 23. The spouse, of which he is the bridegroom,
Eph. 5, 31. 32, Ever subject to him and ever faithful to him,
chap. 5. 24, ever loved and cherished by him, chap. 5. 25, 29,
and joined to him by an indissoluble union, chap. 5. 31, 32.
The church is the pillar and ground (or strong foundation)
of the truth, 1 Tim. 3. 15. God's covenant with her is an
everlasting cox'enant of peace, Ezech. 37. 26, confirmed by a
solemn oath, never to be altered ; like that made to Noe,
Isa. 64. 9. A covenant like that of the day and night to
stand for all generations, Jer. 33. 20, 21. God shall be her
everlasting light, Isa, 60. 18, 19. Whosoever shall gather to-
gether against her shall fall ; and the nation that will not
serve her, shall perish, Isa. 60. 12, 15, 17. The church is al-
ways one. Cant. 6. 8 ; John 10. 16 ; Eph. 4. 4, 6. Always visi-
ble, Isa. 2. 2, 3 ; Mich. 4. 1, 2 ; Matt. 5. 14. Spread far and
near, and teaching many nations, Psalm 2. 8 ; Psalm 21. 28 ;
Isa. 49. 6 ; chap. 54. 1-3 ; Dan. 2. 35. 44 : Mai. 1. 11, &c. The
church is infallible in matters of faith. This follows from
the premises : particularly see St. Matt. 16. 18 ; chap. 28. 19,
20 ; St. John 14. 16, 17, 26 ; chap. 16. 13 ; 1 Tim. 3. 14, 15 ; Isa.
35, 8 ; chap. 54. 9, 10 : chap. 59. 19-21, &c.

Church Guides, and their authority, Deut. 17. 8, 9, &c. ;
St, Matt. 18. 17, 18 ; chap. 28. 18-20 ; St. Luke 10. 16 ; St. John
14. 16, 17, 26 ; chap, 16. 13 ; chap. 20. 21, &c. ; Eph, 4. 11, 12,
&c. ; Heb. 13. 7, 17 ; 1 John 4. 6.

Communion in one kind sufficient to salvation, St. John
6, 51, 57, 58. Body and blood of Christ now inseparable,
Rom. 6. 9. Mention of one kind alone, Luke 24. 30, 31 ; Acts
2. 42, 46 ; chap. 20. 7 ; 1 Cor, 10. 17,

Confession of sins. Num. 5. 6, 7 ; St. Matt, 3, 6 ; Acts 19.
18 ; St. James 5. 16. The obligation of confession is gathered
from the judiciary power of binding and loosing, forgiving
and retaining sins, given to the pastors of Christ's Church,
St. Matt. 18. 13 ; St. John 20. 22, 23.

Confirmation, administered by the Apostles, Acts 8. 15,
17 ; chap. 19. 6, See also 2 Cor. 1. 21, 22 ; Heb. 6. 2,

Continency : possible, Matt. 19. 11, 12. The vow binding,
Deut. 23. 21. The breach of that vow damnable, 1 Tim. 5. 12.
The practice commended, 1 Cor. 7. 7, 8, 27, 37, 38, 40. For
reasons which particularly have place in the clergy, ver,
32, 33, 35.

Councils of the church, gathered in Christ's name, are
assisted by Christ, St. Matt. 18. 20. And by the Holy Ghost,
Acts 15. 28. Their decrees are diligently to be observed by
the faithful. Acts 15, 41 ; chap. 16. 4. See Church Guides.

Eucharist. The real presence of the body and blood of
Christ, and Transubstantiation^ proved from Matt. 26, 26 ;

Mark 14. 22, 24 ; Luke 22. 19 ; John 6. 51, 52, &c, ; 1 Cor. 10.
16 ; chap. 11. 24, 25, 27, 29.

Eternity of HeWs torments. Matt. 3. 12; chap. 25. 41, 46;
Mark 9. 43-46, 48 ; Luke 3. 17 ; 2 Thess. 1. 7-9 ; Jude 6, 7 :
Apoc. 14. 10, 11 ; chap. 20. 10. See also Isa. 33. 14.

Extreme Unction, James 5. 14, 15.

Faith. True faith necessary to salvation, Mark 16. 16;
Acts 2. 47 ; chap. 4. 12 ; Heb. 11. 6. Faith without good
works is dead, James 2. 14, 17, 20, &c. Faith alone doth not
justify, ver. 24. But faith working by charity. Gal. 5. 6.
Faith doth not imply an absolute assiirance of our being in
grace; much less of our eternal salvation, Rom. 11, 20-22;
1 Cor. 9. 27 ; chap. 10. 12 ; Phil. 2. 12 ; Apoc. 3. 11.

Fasting commended in Scripture, Joel 2. 12. Practised by
God's servants, 1 Esdras 8. 23 ; 2 Esdr.^is 1. 4 ; Dan. 10. 3, 7,
12, &c. Moves God to mercy, Jonas 3. 5, &c. Is of great
efficacy against the devil, Mark 9. 28. And is to be observed
by all the children of Christ, Matt. 9. 15 ; Mark 2. 20 ; Luke
5. 35, See also Acts 13. 3 ; chap. 14, 22 ; 2 Cor. 6. 5 ; chap. 11.
27. Christ's fast of forty days, Matt. 4. 2.

Free will. Gen. 4. 7 ; Deut. 30. 19 ; Eccli. 15. 14, &c. Often
resists the grace of God ; Prov. 1. 24, &c. ; Isa. 5. 4 ; Ezech.

18. 23, 31, 32 ; chap. 33. 11 ; Matt. 23. 37 ; Luke 13. 34 ; Acts 7.
51 : Heb. 12. 15 ; 2 Pet. 3. 9 : Apoc. 20. 4.

The Holy Ghost. His Divinity, Acts 5. 3, 4 ; chap. 28. 25,
26 ; 1 Cor. 2, 10, 11 ; chap. 6. 11, 19, 20. See also Matt. 12. 31,
32; Acts 13. 2: chap. 20. 28, &c. ; 2 Cor. 13, 13, And the
solemn form of Baptism, Matt. 28, 19, 20. He proceeds from
the Father and the Son, John 15. 26.

Images commanded by God, Exod. 25. 18, &c. ; Numb. 21.
8, 9. And placed on each side of the mercy seat, in the
sanctuary, Exod. 37. 7. And in the temple of Solomon, 2
Paralipomenon 3. 1(1, 11 ; 3 Kings 6. 23, 32, 35. And this by
divine ordinance, 1 Paralipomenon 28. 18, 19. Relative hon-
our to the images of Christ and the saints authorized, Heb.

11. 21. See also 2 Kings 6. 12-16 ; 2 Paralipomenon 5. 2, &c. ;
Psalm 98. 5 ; Phil. 2. 10,

Indulgences. The power of granting them. Matt, 16. 18,

19. The use of this power, 2 Cor. 2. 6-8, 10.

Mass. The sacrifice prefigured. Gen. 14, 18. Foretold,
Mai. 1. 10, 11. Instituted and celebrated by Christ himself,
Luke 22. 19, 20. Attested, 1 Cor. 10, 16, 18-21; Heb, 13. 10.
See Eucharist, &c.

Matrimony. A sacrament representmg the indissoluble
union of Christ and the church, Eph. 5. 32. See also 1
Thess. 4. 3-5. Marriage not to be dissolved but by death.
Gen. 2. 24 ; Matt. 19. 6 ; Mark 10. 11, 12 ; Luke 16. 18 ; Rom. 7.
2, 3 ; 1 Cor. 7. 10, 11, 39.

Holy orders instituted by Christ. Luke 22. 19 ; John 20. 22,
23. Conferred by imposition of hands. Acts 6. 6 ; chap. 13.
3 ; chap. 14. 22. Give grace, 1 Tim. 4. 14 ; 2 Tim. 1. 6.

Oriqinal sin. Job 14. 4 ; Psalm 50, 7 ; Rom. 5. 12, 15-19 ; 1
Cor. 15. 21, 22 ; Eph. 2. 3,

Penance, a sacrament. See Absolution. Confession.

Pope, or chief bishop. St. Peter by Christ's ordinance,
was raised to this dignity. Matt. 16. 18, 19 ; Luke 22. 31, 32;
John 21. 15, 17, &c. See also Matt. 10, 2 ; Acts 5. 29 ; Gal. 2,
7,8.

Prayers for the dead, 2 Mach. 12. 43, &c.

Purgatory, or a middle state of souls, suffering for a time,
on account of their sins, is proved by those many texts of
Scripture which affirm that God will render to every man
according to his works: so that such as die in lesser sins
shall not escape without punishment : for which also see
Matt. 12. 36 ; Apoc. 21. 27. Likewise Matt. 5. 25, 26 ; chap.

12, 32 ; Luke 12. 58, 59 ; 1 Cor. 3. 13-15 ; 1 Pet. 3. 18-20.
Relics, miraculous, 4 Kings 13. 21 ; Matt. 9. 20, 21 ; Acta 19.

11, 12.

Saints departed assist us by their prayers, Luke 16. 9 ; 1
Cor. 12. 8 ; Apoc. 5. 8. We have a communion with them,
Heb. 12. 22, 23. They have power over nations, Apoc. 2. 26,
27 ; chap, 5. 10. They know what passes amongst us, Luke
15. 10 ; 1 Cor. 13. 12 ; 1 John 3. 2. They are with Christ in
heaven, before the general resurrection, 2 Cor. 5. 1, 6-8;
Phil. 1. 23, 24 ; Apoc. 4. 4 ; chap. 6. 9 ; chap. 7. 9. 14, 15, «!fec. ;
chap. 14. 1, 3, 4 ; chap. 19. 1, 4-6 ; chap. 20. 4. For their in-
vocation, consult the texts quoted aoove with relation to
Angels : and such as testify the great power which the
prayers of God's servants have with nim j and which
authorize us to call for their prayers. For which see Exod.
32. 11, 14 ; 1 Kings 7. 8-10 : Job 42, 7, 8 ; Rom. 15. 30 ; Eph. «i.
18, 19 ; 1 Thess. 5. 25 ; Heb. 13. 18 ; James 5. 16.

Holy Scriptures hard to be understood, and wrested by
many to their own destruction, 2 Pet. 3. 16. Not of private
interpretation, 2 Pet. 1. 20. Corrupted by Heretics, St.
Matt. 19, 11 ; 1 Cor, 7. 9 ; chap. 9. 5 ; chap, 11. 27 ; Gal. 5. 17 ;
Heb. 11. 21.

Apofttolical Traditions^ I Cor. 11. 2 ; 2 Thess. 2. 14 ; chap.

A TABLE OF EPISTLES AND GOSPELS

3. 6; 2 Tim. 1. 13; chap. 2. 2 ; chap. 3. 14. See also Deut. 32.
7 ; Paalm'ia. 5-7.

Tr<fnsuhstantiation. See Eucharist.

Trinity of pereons iu God, Matt. 28. 19 ; 2 Cor. 13. 13 ;
i John h. 7.

The Blessed Virgin Mary. Her dignity, Luke 1. 28, 42, 43.
All geueratious of true Christians shall call her blessed,

Luke 1. 48. See for her veneration and invocation, what ib
said above of Angels and saints.

Wumen must not preach nor teach, 1 Cor. 14. 34, 35, 37,
1 Tim. 2. 11, 12.

Good works, meritorious. Gen. 4. 7 ; chap. 22. 16, 18 ; Psalm
17. 21, 23, 24 ; Psalm 18. 8, 11 ; Matt. 5, 11, 12; chap. 10. 42;
chap. 16. 27 i 1 Cor. 3. 8 ; 2 Tim. 4. 8.

A TABLE OF ALL THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS

FOR ALL SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR : AND ALSO, OF THE
MOST NOTABLE FEASTS IN THE ROMAN CALENDAR.

It must be observed, that the Verses at which the Epistle or Gospel begin and end are set down after

the Chapter.

Sundays and Holidays Epistles Gospels

Advent, 1 Sunday Romans 13. 11, 14 Luke 21, 25, 33

2 Sunday Romans 15. 4, 13 Matthevvr 11. 2, 10

3 Sunday Philippians 4. 4, 7 John 1. 19, 28

4 Sunday Corinthians 4. 1, 5 Luke 3. 1, 6

Christmas, 1 Mass Titus 2. 11, 15 Luke 2. 1, 14

2 Mass Titus 3. 4, 8 Luke 2. 15, 20

3 Mass Hebrews 1. 1, 12 John 1. 1, 14

St. Stephen Acts 6 and 7. 54, 59 Matthew 23. 34, 39

St. John Ecclesiasticus 15. 1, 7 John 21. 20, 24

Holy Innocents Apocalypse 14. 1,6 Matthew 2. 13, 18

St. Thomas Hebrews 5. 1, 7 John 10. 11, 16

St. Silvester 2 Timothy 4. 1, 9 Luke 12. 35, 40

New Year Titus 2. 11, 15 Luke 2. 21

Epiphany Isaias 60. 1, 7 Matthew 2. 1, 12

1 Sunday Romans 12. 1, 6 Luke 2. 42, 52

2 Sunday Romans 12. 6, 16 John 2. 1, 11

Name of Jesus Acts 4. 8, 12 Luke 2. 21

3 Sunday Romans 12. 16, 21 Matthew 8. 1, 13

4 Sunday Romans 13. 8, 11 Matthew 8. 23, 27

5 Sunday Colossians 3. 12, 18 Matthew 13. 24, 30

6 Sunday 1 Thessalonians 1.2, 10 Matthew 13. 31. 35

Septuagresima 1 Corinthians 9. 24 ; 10. 5 Matthew 20. 1, 16

Sexagesima 2 Corinthians 11. 19 ; 12. 10 Luke 8. 4, 15

Quinquagesima 1 Corinthians 13. 1, 13 Luke 18. 31, 34

Ash Wednesday Joel 2. 12, 20 Matthew 6. 16, 21

Lent, 1 Sunday 2 Corinthians 6. 11 Matthew 4. 1, 11

2 Sunday 1 Thessalonians 4. 1, 8 Matthew 17. 1. 9

3 Sunday Ephesians 5. 1, 9 Luke 11. 14, 28

4 Sunday Galatians 4. 22. 31 John 6. 1, 15

Passion Sunday Hebrews 9. 11, 15 John 8. 46, 59

Palm-Sunday Philippians 2. 5. 11 Matthew 21. 1, 9 anr

Chap. 26. 27

Maunday-Thursday 1 Corinthians 11. 20, 33 John 13. 1, 15

Good-Friday Exodus 12. 12 John 18. 19

Holy Saturday Colossians 3. 1, 4 Matthew 28. 1, 7

Easter Sunday I Corinthians 5. 7, 8 Mark 16. 1, 7

Easter Monday Acts 20. 37, 43 Luke 24. 13, 35

Easter Tuesday Acts 13. 26, 33 Luke 24. 36, 47

Low Sunday . . . _^ 1 John 5. 4. 10 John 20. 19, 31

11, 16
16. 22
5, 14
16. 28, 30
16. 14. 20

2 Sunday after Easter 1 Peter 2. 21, 25 John

3 Sunday after Easter 1 Peter 2. 11, 18 John 16.

4 Sunday after Easter James 1. 17, 21 John 16.

5 Sunday after Easter James 1. 22, 27 John

Ascension Acts 1. 11, 11 Mark

6 Sunday after Easter 1 Peter 4. 7, 12 John 15. 26 ; 16. _

Whitsuntide Sunday Acts 2. 1, 11 John 14. 23. 31

Whitsuntide Monday Acts 12. 42, 48 John 3. 16, 21

Tuesday '\cts 8. 14, 17 John 10. 1, 10

Trinity Sunday Romans 11. 33, 36 Matthew 28. 18, 1^-

Corpus Chn.sti 1 Corinthians 11. 23, 29 John 6. 56, 59

2 Sunday after Pentecost 1 John 3. 13, 18 Luke 14. 16, 24

3 Sunday 1 Peter 5. ' "

4 Sunday Romans 8.

5 Sunday 1 Peter 3.

6 Sunday Romans 6.

7 Sunday Romans 6.

8 Sunday Romans 8.

9 Sunday 1 Corinthians 10. 6, 14 Luke 19

10 Sundav 1 Corinthians 12. 2, 11 Luke 18

11 Sundav 1 Corinthians 15. 1, 10 Mark 7. 31. 37

12 Sunday 2 Corinthians 3. 4, 9 Luke 10. 23, 37

6, 11 Luke 15. 1, 10

18, 23 Luke 5. 1, 11

8, 15 Matthew 5. 20, 24

3. 11 Mark 8. 1. 9

19, 23 Matthew 7. 15. 2^

12. 17 Luke 16. 1. 9

41. 4"
9. 14

305

SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS EPISTLES 9^ 1 7 11 1Q

iQ Q„«H«v Galatians 3. 16. 22 i;;"^fu JSl ^^

15 l^nH^v Galatians 5. 16.24 Matthew 6 24. 33

]i l^^^Z : Galatians 5. 25 : 6. 11 i^"bMk i' n

16 Sunday Trr.hp<;ians 3 13 21 Luke 14. 1, 11

16 Sunday iShSilnl 4 16 Matthew 22. 35. 46

\l Sunday ;;; f ^Corinthians 1- 4. 9 JJ^^t"^ ^.o S ^ .

18 |^"^^y : Ephesians 4. 23. 28 ?^l"^rJ%^ ^^

19 Sunday Fnhpsians 5 15 21 John 4. 46, 53

20 Sunday Fnh2 aJ2 6 lo' 17 Matthew 18. 23. 35

21 Sunday ?hil?^nTns 1 6 11 Matthew 22. 15. 21

22 Sunday ?M iSSI 3 17 2i Matthew 9. 18. 26

23 Sunday SlossfaS^ 1 9. 14. Matthew 24. 15.35

24 Sunday Lolossians i. y. i'*..-.

ON THE FEASTS OF THE SAINTS

TTpissTr FS GOSPELS

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St. Andrew v;;.--V^; ??Sbs s' 2?' 35 " '. '. '. '. i • • • Matthew 1. 1. 16

Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary .... ^XsiaL 2 19 22 John 20. 24. 29

St. Thomas w»; 9? 22 Matthew 19. 27. 29

Conversion of St. Paul Malarhii' 3 1 * 5 ' ' Luke 2. 22. 32

Candlemas A?ts 1 15 26 Matthew 11. 25. 30

St. Matthias FpHesiJticus 44 45 Matthew 25. 14.23

St Patrick ••■; l^c fsiSticus Is! 1.' 6 • ] ^^X^tVe 38' ''

St. Joseph Isaias 7 10 15 ^^}^^ }r .' n

Annunciation 2 Timothy 2. 8, 10 ; 3. 10, 12 ^^*?'^ ^n i q

Is. Sp and James KfHnSans^ 5 ^ ii' ! ! . ! ! ! ! ! i : '. • John 3. 1. 15

Inv. Cross a!^!^ n 21 "27 Matthew 10. 16. 22

St Barnaby f^*- 7qi8 . Luke 1. 57, 68

St*. Join Baptist ^loTll I'll ! ! ". ! i '. i '• • ^ ^ ^ • Matthew 16. 13. 19

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St. Mary Magdalen ?-c",^Si?hianh^9V ihW Mattjie- 20 20. 2

St. James Proverbs 31. 10, &c ^^.Zu i -7 " i q

St. Ann..... 2 pIter 1. 16, 19 ^t"^?^ ll Vr

it^Ta'^rencr •.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.••.:::::::::::::: |cf%thians'9 6 lo a^e ils:!'

i'ssumTtiorBiessed Virgin Mary f gSSs 'li'li'si! ! i : : i i : : ^uke 6. 12 19

St. Bartholomew ..... . • . • • Proverbs 8 22, 36 Matthew 1 Ij^ 16

Nativity Blessed Virgm Mary PhSppians 2.' 5, 11. •

?^^lV^Vfu" ^"""^^ Ezechiel 1. 10. 15

St. Matthew Apocalypse 1. 1, 5. . . .

St. Michael Exodus 23. 20. 23....

Angel Guardians 2 Corinthians 8. 15, 24

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Exaltation Cross Ezechiel 11 o' 15 ^^1 t^"^ ?b ^ ^?n

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All Souls • • • : • • - Fccf^i^ticus 24. 14. 16 L^e 11. 27. 28.

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